The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘The Key West Citizen THE CETIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P, ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The C.tizen Building Corner Gr@ene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key We , Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press “dispatches credited to this paper and also FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \, “ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 2) SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2CIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Conaolidation of County and City Goy- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. The Poinciana is painting Key West a flaming red. Maybe the German leaders not crazy—just power drunk, are Love and a cough, it is said, are two things that cannot be hidden. - The average man will be enthusias- tieally patriotic if it means a fifty per cent ingrease in income. , “ Presenting! ~ Modest Town, Va., and Superior, Ariz., Col., Iowa, Mont., Neb., Ohio, W. Va., Wise and Wyo. = In times of peace we pay little atten. tien to a cannon but in times of war we af- fégtionately Pat a Cannon as a guardian of of safety, “. How is it we do not hear that Hitler h&$ designs on Canada, or does he expect tifat country to be thrown in as “lagniappe” when he conquers England. . The graduates, now out in the world, will find making a living is a different | proposition, though they will not find it as hard as those of a previous generation. Our generation has been softened up a bit. itors are coming to Florida in larger numbers than ever. Miami Beach If they are remembered for nothing else, Governor Holland and the 1941 legis- | lature will deserve a place in Flovida’s | memory for enacting laws actually de- | signed to assess property and collect taxes. | From a point where the state and | county goverrments made almost no effort | to put reasonable assessments on property, and where the person who paid taxes om the | line was regarded sympathetically as an | imbecile or as a philanthropist, Florida now | is ready to enforce laws similar to those of | other, and less lenient, states. | By providing that all property shall be assessed at its actual cash value, and by | further providing that millage must be re- | duced in proportion to the increase in as- sessment, the state is setting up a system which will be based on a reasonable, rather | than a guess-work foundation. As a further protection, the state will | supervise all county assessments, and the assessors and collectors now are subject to removal by the governor. Thus the state, as an impartial referee, will be a constant supervisor of tax assess- ment and collection, giving the taxpayer the assurance that his money will be col- lected as nearly as possible on a basis of his | actual possessions. Florida, or any other state’s, taxpayers y are not going to cheer for any new | levies on their already tax-ridden purses, but measures setting up the system on a fair basis and providing for collection ought to win the support of everyone. By repeatedly setting up a precedent | which made taxpayers certain they could | get away with non-payment, Florida and | the separate counties and municipalities have robbed themselves and the citizens who did pay. Knowing he would become eligible for ; reductions later, the citizen naturally has | refused to make prompt payment and the subdivisions of government have suffered accordingly. GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK From the earliest times the governors of the state of New York have included among their number personages of national as well as state importance. Four of them, | Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theo- | dore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, | became Presidents of the United States. Two others, Samuel J. Tilden and | Charles E. Hughes, missed the presidency by the narrowest of margins. Many be- lieve that Tilden was defrauded of the | presidency by the electoral commission of 1876. Horatio Seymour and Alfred E. | Smith were also candidates for President, both being decisively defeated. George Clinton, who was the state’s | first governor, became Vice-President of | the United States, as did also Governors | Daniel D. Tompkins and Levi P. Morton. Other New York governors who at- | tained high national prominence include John Jay, first chief justice of the United States; DeWitt Clinton, senator; William L. | Marcy, senator and Secretary of War; W. | H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lin- coln; and Charles E, Hughes, Secretary of reports that 187 of the 282 hotels of that watering place have announced that they | will be open this summer for the accom- | modation of guests. Key West will gain to | some extent from this situation since many of the visitors will want tomake the side trip over the Overseas Highway dowr to | this unique island city. Evidently, Judge Raymond Lord did not tie the knot as elegantly or as secure as she wished, for the former Lucy Cotton- | THiomas-Ament-Hann-Magraw-Eristavi will all over again this month (the brides) to her latest find, Prince Vindimir Eristavi-Tehitcherine. Married by a Lord, she now desires to be married by a Bishop to make it stick for once and pos- sibly avoid a sixth trip to the altar. b€® marric 4 nyonth « Harbormaster S. he C. Singleton’s stip- ends which will receive from his new job will not be what might be called lucra- tive, and ce it will not approximate some $10,000 reputed to be the intake of the hatbormaster of Miami. Mr. Singleton has an apt Biblical quotation for every mutation im life, and the writer has wondered what i tainly State under Harding and Coolidge, and now | chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. So, while all governors of the Empire! state have not reached the ultimate goal of | their ambitions, it appears that that office is a very desirable stepping stone to higher | political preferment. CAUSES OF CRIME In their efforts to find an explanation for the increasing prevalence of crime, many thoughtful persons have concluded that the tendency to burden the public with a multiplicity of laws may account for much of the lawlessness which now prevails. Speaking before an international con- vention of police chiefs, Dr. Carlton Simon said: “We can limit and harass human freedom to such an extent that even the rormally balanced individual feels that he is oppressed and will seek unlawful means of expressing his personality.” Through the operation of innumerable jaws and the activities of government agencies employed thereunder we are re- stricted, inspected, spied upon, investigated and caused many unnecessary annoyances : citement, “Because crazy chances | biggest excitement of theif times, | the fight up through industry. My | son in the world liked him, not | the whisper of the lone guitar off YESTERDAY: Martin and Eileen are married, and it seems to Eileen that this fact should be enough for all the rest of her life. But Martin seems only to be the exciting, thrilling person she had expected when under the stimulus of some great phys- ical danger. They are in Hawaii on their honeymoon when Eileen asks him why this is so. Chapter 24 Too Much Money EILEEN only said, “I don't un- derstand . . .” Martin said sharply, his face and eyes still brilliant with ex- are the only adventures I have left to me. My father and grand- father spent their lives in the money’s carefully canned in a sound trust, turn the handle and the income pours out. They want- ed to save me trouble! “My mother took one of the few ways a high-powered execu- tive’s wife had to keep from being swept under by his sheer drive. She went is for causes. She’s copped 'em all off, suffrage, pacifism. I could trai’ round as her lieutenant, but I’m like the man in the musical comedy, I don’t take orders well. “I had a vague idea once about philanthropy, but Lewis Delevan. is a professional, he handles my charities much better than I pos- sibly could. My money’s robbed me even of—” He cheeked himself in the mid- dle of his angry speech, suddenly changing to his usual self. “Of even the chance of courting your wife,” Eileen said bitterly. He came over and kissed her neck. “Don’t look for trouble,” he said. “You said it, I didn’t.” “But you think it’s true.” He said composedly, “With any- one who has all my money it has to be true, Eileen. I learned by the time I was six years old that people thought of my money first and me afterwards. I don’t bear malice; it’s just a trait of human nature.” “With—everybody?” she almost whispered it. “Come on, darling: time we dressed.” She was being walled out again. She wouldn’t take it. “You_ shan’t believe it, you shan’t. It isn’t true. ’'l show you it isn’t true,” she said passionate- ly. She ran over to him, gripping his arm, almost. shaking him in her intensity. But he only dropped another kiss on her hair. “You're a sweet kid,” he said, and went to dress. But she would show him. She would. Sooner or later she’d get it through his head that one per- his money. They were dining and dancing at somebody’s sugar plantation, out under the sky in the moon- light to the inevitable Hawaiian guitars. Friends of Martin's, of course, She dressed with special care. Martin mustn’t be ashamed of the little outsider he'd found on a sidewalk outside a flower shop. She really liked her hostess, un- expectedly; a gentle dark girl, friendly and half-asleep, who didn’t exclaim over her or say how thrilled she was about the marriage. The tropical night, the stars on the veranda after dinner, somewhere, Martin's shoulder, below her, white in his mess/| jacket where he lounged on the| Steps, almost touching her knee, | made her feel safe, languish, re- Jaxed at last And then sne heard the crack- ling swish of wheels on gravel, | and her hostess’ soft lazy voiee| saying, “Surprise, everybody! Look what got in on this after-| noon's boat!” Bad Penny 1 AROLINE DEMPSTER. Of course. Caroline... Well, she and not Caroline was married to Martin. Nothing Caroline could do. And yet the old antagonism, and the old fear, crept through her under her flowered ninon frock, of her freshly done curls. rickling up to the roots ie at chy to be said, i being @ sport. and had them married, or Even Winchell, you searcely ever hope, fea mt oe (n emet) age Tike you Detter,” | in her flat child's voice, tae d'you know? Good joke on Caro- line’ Caroline was apparently ¢ the joke well. As arty streamed its reluctant way home she said, “You and I must get together, Childhood friend of bridegroom, you know. Hasn't lost she’ | a Martin but gained an Eileen, all | igiked that, I’m all tied up ahead eae for ages... . Breakfast, my hotel tomorrow morning round nine thirty?” Eilen said, “Swell!” Not that she wanted to. _Martin only said when she told him next morning where she was bound, “Be back by eleven, we're swimming with the Delands. Meet you on the beach.” She nodded, one white-shod foot on the ear step, smiling at him through the rosy transparent brim or her big sun hat. “Word of honor!” (And sooner than that, if she could manage!) “Good kid. You always do keep your word.” And she always must. Because to her knowledge of Martin, built up watchfully piece by piece, she had added along with his pleasure in wild chances his sense of the importanee of a given word. And she clung to that. Because if he | had that value he must have others. He must be the man she had always wanted, the man she | had known at sight. Caroline, like a fair tall page in | her white slacks, ran eal! out. down the hotel steps, and carried her off, and laughing, to a group of little outdoor tables | under an awning “It’s too wonderful out here to drag you into the dining room,” she said. “And we're more alone, at this hour.” Bitter Attack : ‘HEY talked conventionalities over the coffee and pineapple slices, Neither girl actually ate. Presently a silence fell which Eileen did not 'break. Caroline's face quieted to a pleasant hard- ness. She said, across the cleared table, “And now, let's talk busi- ness.” Her voice was ni amiable, like, a saleswoman’s. “I don’t know of any there is | to discuss.” “Martin's my business. He has | been since we went to kinder- garten, He practically jilted me, when he went haywire and mar- | ried you on one of those fool playboy impulses. I know Martin right through. I'm seeii him through this. I hope you'll save us both time and nervous strain by talking straight. What are your plans about the marriage?” Eileen stood up and said, “I have none except to make my | husband as pd, a wife as I know how. Good-by, : Caroline said, “Sit or Pl shriek the place down. you want some more stuff in the pa- fer Y'll-spoil things, you dumb- ell. Sit down!” For Martin’s sake she mustn't make a scene. et it over and go. | She sat down. j “You can’t plan to waste much time on Martin,” Caroline pur- | sued quietly, “you must want to | get back to that Greek florist who's your sweetie.” Eileen said, “If you know Aris- tides liked me, you must know too that I didn’t like him.” “That's very thin, Eileen. Mar- | tin took a chance with you, and | lost. You began, being bright, by picking up what { said, that a woman has a chance to court a man and have him take it, just | like the other way about. Id | heard Edith Will i say it a dozen times, of course. Martin fell | for it. Just one more crazy sport- ing proposition to amiise the poor little rich boy. He's a aver | for them, however you knew it. And dumb luck, and being small enough to be able to, made you | take the only other line he was a; pushover for. You took the kind | of risk he takes himself. And 1, Caroline’s cool angelic fairness | ing hadn't changed. She ran up the steps in a swirl of white lace skirts, her curve of fair hair dane- ing against her narrow shoulders, laughing, kissing, greeting. Mak- ing. § particular fuss over Eileen. resently shé was something, as usual. Dragging them all off to the Hawaiian Vil- lage—“The only thing I really came down here for!” The hostess and host were no match for her. Presently the were all at tables under colored lights. The place was netted against the sky, palms at the corners. The steel renin whined swing instead of aving Benny Goodman play it. That was all the difference be- tween here and New York. These people of Martin's car- ried their own world around with them and never got outside it. She was up and dancing with Roly. She felt safer with the Perrines than anyone else. the earnest worker, Roly said, ing: “it we Starting | at z } oil, Along the Mississippi Sroxe at Goodwin institute i Memyhis, Tenn. Goodwin was founded by William A. Goodwin, phi- janthropist, in 1808, and has been ever sina, In addie teins a large free reference Mbrary and is noted throughout the South for its lectures. Yearly they provide &n authoritative system of continued edueation for adults and youths who quarts and 443. pints. destroyed. | | whiskey and other liquors in large and small quantities went down the drain yesterday at the | Mon to the fire suditerium, it com, 8488a, deputy collector, on. ‘ | Whiskey made up the greatest part of the seized liquor, with 401 | 615 Elizabeth St. are not otherwise sble tw hear Other beverages were 43 bottles’ speakers. William Jennings Bryan here often; siso of cordials, 69. quarts of gin, 21 ‘POR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS Roosevelt, Speakers this year ine Vermouth, 22 champagne, 29) Davilla, the former provisional pres- ident of Chile, Dr. Robert Lester of the FBI, and many others. Drove on afterwards to Vicksburg, tles and 31 one-gallon jugs of Bacardi, three ron cana, one pint _ of wine, one quart of anisette, one | Cluded James B, Pond, Dr. Carols brandy, 24 beer, two wine, 56 bot-/ FOR SALE or Exchange—Cabin | Cruiser, 28-ft., 6-ft. beam; 40 | hp. Gray Marine Engine, Will | exchange for lot, full payment. Box BR, Miss.,-245 miles. ‘The last 15 miles Cognac, one and a half pints of! zen, were bad on account of fog along the banks of the Mississippi. Before the Civil war, Vicksburg was in its heyday and many of the fine old houses of this period still remain.| Miss Mary Trevor honored her “eet. It was jt established as a fort 151 years and in 1825 w: tered as a city, Its court house was Columbia, S. C., yesterday after-! built by slaves in 1858, and is stil! noon with a bridge party at her! oceupied. The Vicksburg National Military park is under government supervi- sion. it are 32 miles of high- way, tablets authentically locat- ed on the sites of battle engage- ments, 468 bust portraits, statues, | monuments and memorials. The Il- linois memorial contains the names of more than 35,000 individual sol- diers. It cost over a quarter of a million dollars. al also has thousands of names and cost over $150,000, and so it goes. One could spend weeks wandering through this tragic site of our yester- years and ponder over the where and what of our tomorrows! es % Crossed the mighty Father of the Waters on a huge steel bridge dou- ble-tracked for trains—but no foot walk. Individuals who haven’t the | fare to ride across must take their chances in fast moving traffic. Sped across northern Louisiana to Monroe, a pulp and paper center of note. It has more telephones than any other city of its size in this eountry today. The town’s pdpula- tion is about 30,000. A military school at its outskirts resembles Bernarr Macfadden’s near Lebanon, Tenn, Raced 383 miles down across Lou- isiana to Galveston on the Gulf of Mexico—the last 100 miles directly | on the Gulf—longest, straightest, flat~ test piece of road along the coast on | which I have ever travelled. On one side lies the Macfadden ranch with its famed long-horn steers. Six | hundred miles away across the oth« er Side, lies South America, Short, | muddy, choppy waves lapped the shore. At Port Arthur saw tankers with flags of many nations, loading Soon they will be running blockades. Drove through one of the largest refineries in the world. | Took a ferry across Galveston bay. While waiting, chatted with Florida | National Guardsmen on duty with place here. Three to twelve inch babies jut their noses into the air. For miles along the Gulf coast to~ | day, army eantonments are going up. Selectees and regulars from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Ar- kansas, Iowa and Nebraska swarm- ing in. Thousands of British and Allied sailors are in Galveston also —four-fifths of them off torpedoed ships. They are awaiting new car- goes to take back “‘across the pond.”* I asked one of them how it felt to “Just a thump, and the old tub, she keels over. I like the excitement Us runnin’ like rats to git off. If we misses the dinghies, we gits a barf." Spent two nights at the Buccaneer hotel on the very edge of Galves- ton's famed seawall. Am beginning to be a bit worn out from the stren- but as IT am it doesn’t leok for a rest until grandly abed the | Gomez as one of the J HT i from Maryland; tel : fit The Iowa memori- | t a rum and one package of liquor i candy. ' house guest, ‘Miss Helen Wise of home, 1227 Division street. . Prize | winners. were Mirs. Chester Curry, | Mrs. Harry C. Galey, Mrs. Edwin _ Phillips, consolation, and Mrs. J. Fogarty, booby. Mrs. John Wells, 900 Southard | street, yesterday broke her left | arm in two places when she fell at | her home. Persenals—Homer Dickey, sec- tion. foreman with the F. E. C. jseilwey, who was away on a busi- ness visit, returned yesterday. Dave novitz and his grandson, Sidney, were outgoing passengers yesterday to Miami for a_ visit with relatives. . Allan B. Cleare, Jv., judge of the municipal court, who was in Miami for several | days, has returned here, . .William | _Mendell, local merchant, left yes- iterday afternoon for Miami, where he will consult with repre- |sentatives of several shoe manu- facturing concerns. The Citizen, in an editorial | shooting up our citizens some time | | back.” i | arrived yesterday afternoon for a ‘visit of 10 days, after which he | will return to. Tallahassee, where | he is employed in the state tag de- | partment, ~ ' LEGALS 1N THE CIRO ELMVENTH i No | passing”. ARTMAN apras-it | as i of J oor coast defense guns being moved into, | ; : : TRUCK TRAILER. Good engine, good tires. $50. 110 Simonton junT-3tx CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! BARGAINS Used Plumbing, tubs, sinks, toil ets, pipes, fittings, pumps, etc. | We want your business. Gray's Fishery, Ojus, Fla. jun9-lwk FOR SALE—Ice Box, practically | new. 906 Grinnell street. | PERSONAL CARDS, $1.25 per | 100, ae 14-FOOT OUTBOARD BOAT, 4 i / | { Ren:”, “Rooms For j | S1GNS— “For Rent”, | Rent”, “Apartment For “Private PRESS. | | Sereened | Call 440. | OF THE STATE OF PLOREDA, IN| AND MONROK COUNTY, EN | caanenny, | Cane No. 7-579 | RUTH SUTPHIN, | Plaintife, Dev va. FERMAN. SUTPHIN, Defendant. ' ORDER OF PUBLICATION THE STATE OF FLORIDA: 20 FERMAN SUTEMIN, STEPHENSON, WEST VIRGINIA. It is hereby ordered that you are | required to appear on the 7th day jof July 1941, before the above en- | titled court to the bill of complaint filed against you in the on | titled cause, and The Key West Citi- jzen in hereby ited as the | Rewspaper in which this order shal! be published once a week for four consecutive weeks. WISNESS the Honorable Arthur of this Court and the Seal of thin Court the City of Key West, Monroe Coun- ty, this tnd day of June | ALD. 1941. (SEAL) Ross ¢ Sawyer | Clerk, Circuit Court, Monroe County. Florida. | JOUN G RAWYER, Solicitor for Piatntitt. i June3-10-17-24; jukyi,1041 fish-food eating places. The lob. "TMM COUNTY su DGarE count IN AND FOR MONHOK COUNTY. FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. In re Eatate of ROSA LEVINE, see DTTINGHER, Deceaned. NOTICE To CHEDETORS To all creditors and &if bersons hav~- ing claims or againet Tou, Co sa om req) claims 204 demande re, oF Hher of vom, may have aguinet late of Roma Levine. mee Btt! neonsed, inte of Monroe jerida, to the Honorable Lord, County + oft foanty. at Bin are ia hereby ene AF lSICTURE FRAMING, Disleeee antique frames refinished. Pic- | fares, matted. Paul DiNegro, a aprié-tt | LOST — Yesterday t I i : é : 1 it we'd have S reunion, You seriptural excerpt would be applicable in this case. “A good servant makes a good (harbor) master,” but that quotation fram a secular source. In Job xxxviii. 2 the lihe reads “Fair weather cometh out of the north,” and in Psalm xxiii, 2, “He maketh mé lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.” is which are resented by a people who love freedom. If more attention were paid to appre- hending and punishing real criminals, while allowing greater freedom from harassment to respectable citizens, we should doubtless have a more law-abiding | and happier citizenship. if had ion for ee if we some E going. Bolted for in, somedody said, when Mar- tin beat him to it.* She and Robina were at the SECURE BIG LOOT LOS ANGELES—Edward Flanz ‘of this city reported to police that (Cotwight, burglars had looted his stolen $13, a box of white Pats it ral | : if | r f i : i i | i i fe e § rH t) i i