The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1941, Page 2

j + PAGE TWO | Che Key West Citizen | Published Dally Except Sunday By & P. ALTMAN, President avd Publisher 408 ALLEN, Buxiness Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greens ond Ana Streets Oxly Daily Newspaper in Key West and f Monroe County -ntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter = Member of the Associated Press Ss | Mies sculieation Ut afl news, dlapatches credited f0 | ise credited im this paper and also lishe¢ bere. One sear Six Months Three Months *9n@ Month Weekly — ADVERTISING RATES Made known on lication. : SPECIAL NOTICE Ail reading notices, cards of thank resolutions of | respect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line, svn Netices for entertainment by churches from which »@veoue is to be derived are § cents a line. - fhe Citizen ts an open forum and invites discus- sion ef public issues and subjects of local or general by cd but it will not publish anonymous communi- tien IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Auperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation sf County and City Gov- ernments, _ A Modern City Hospital. Ce ad Active natures are rarely melancholy; “the two are incompatible. Possibly the reason speeches are made after dinner is that it might be spoiled if | _made before. - Many councilmanic candidates have volunteered to serve the people, but few «will:be chosen, In the upbringing of children it is not Rgcessary to apply the golden rule; a plain ‘Wooden one will do as well. According to the Eskimo, a man with | ‘three wives in this world is certain of heaven | vin the next—he ought to have peace some- where. = eS = 3 = a a to | avoid having fraud? about the automobile accidents in which more than a hundred Americans are killed | each day. Seawees—sSe | Actually there is no difference in a girl | marrying for more or less now than she for- | “merly did for better or worse. It's a dis- | tirction without a difference. “Newspaper advertising is increasing, | according to reports, and the trend is visible in Key West where business men are using | The Key West Citizen more than ever io réach potential customers, } “~The Citizen does not. publish straw | votes because it thinks the publication un- | fair to all those candidates who do not head | the list. Otherwise it would have its own | straw election and make it city-wide in its Scope. Most candidates agree with this | policy of The Citizen. In a speech recently, Mussolini said | that “in spite of all coalitions WE will smash | very obstacle.” Hitler won't like that | #we”’ business at all. Il Duce, being a dic- tator himself, although a phoney one, | knows that the boss dictator don’t like to | hare credit with anyone. A columnis . in speaking of the uke of Windsor’s v in the United States, | It’s almost unbelievable that a man who es once the head of millions of people has | little understanding of human nature as make of his trip what he has made of it.” | columnist forgets that the duke is a 4narried man now, and under a different in- | peal war or no war. | The Sanford Herald has issued an eight-page tourist edition, 64 in all, = > - which is a credit to the man- | the business peope of the lit- | ‘responded wholeheartedly to | f@success. Not knowing | anyone would think | pf the publication, | of at least a quarter SPEAKING OF DIVORCES South Floridians, particularly those | who make their homes in the shadow of Miami's skyscraper city hall, awoke with a start one day this week to learn that what | | they had nurtured so long as a tourist at- | traction was, of all things, a “divorce mill.” Breathed into life in the days to-hold its place in the lucrative new trade, | Miami's “‘hello-and-goodbye-parting sys- tem” turned out to be a “divorce mill.” And what, we can’t help wondering, did the good citizens think it was they asked for it and the legislature started it? Florida’s Actually, periodic then learned with wounded amazement that you could smell it. Certainly there is fraud in the divorce business, and certainly it is rushed to the | point where there can be no real investiga- tion, but we fail to see the grounds for any | surprise about it. The judicial district of which Monroe | and Dade counties are a part has five circuit | judgés. It has untold lawyers devoting most, or all of their time to divorces, and only the official seorekeepers ‘kno how | many people it has clamoring for a quick divorce. With a setup like that, how could you | Obviously, it is impos- | | sible for the five judges to study carefully all of the cases which are rushed before them, and it is equally impossible to enforce such rules as the one requiring the prospec- | tive divorcee to come to Florida with the honest intention of remaining here. Even the 90-day residence requirement really can’t be checked, and neither can the | provisions which are supposed to protect a | person from being divorced without know- | ing it. Small newspapers in Miami are estab- lished for no other purpose than to publish legal advertisements that won’t be read, making it possible to get a divorce on a de- | sertion charge when the plaintiff is sitting quietly at the family home and doesn’t even know a divorce is in the offing. The divorce business in Florida isn’t so old that most residents of the state can- not remember when and why it was started. They know it was started to get people into Florida so they would spend their money | here, and they know the gradual process of supplanting Reno as the nation’s divorce center was greeted with glad cries by most of the resort cities involved. If some of the jawyers have been caught overstepping the bounds, that’s too bad for them and the courts will punish them—but don’t be surprised about the divorce mill. It’s nothing new. SOLID BUILDINGS COMING A “solid” building, without windows, is being considered in connection with the new structure to be erected at the national capital for the War, Department. In this day of improved artificial light- ing and air conditioning there is little or no reason for a building to have hundreds of windows. The President, it is said, points that a “solid” building would be economical because wings and courtyards would be un- | necessary to provide air and light and be- cause it would require less space. Modern lighting often produces better lighting than the natural light that filters into large edifices. The time is coming when practically all buildings will be without windows, re- lying upon tube lights and air conditioning. | Of course, it will take years to accustom human beings to this modernized structure but its economy will prevail. F. B. . OUTWITTED THE GESTAPO eral BureauSof Investigation, challenges Hitler to “twist his lying tongue” to claim that the Battle of America is going “accord- ing to plan.” ; Mr. Hoover is pleased with the fact that American agents have “used his de- vices in hoodwinking the overpublicized ef- forts of the Gestapo.” ican plants have been serveyed by the FBI and there has been no major disaster at the hands of saboteurs. — Hitler, it is said, once boasted that “America would be too soft to resist a fifth- column attack.’ The evidence to date, however, suggests that, for once, Der Fuehrer was wrong in his calculations. J. reat ine director of the Fed- when | Reno was the divorce capital of the nation, | brought slowly to maturity as Reno fought | when | shocks j . | oyer its divorce business are about as logical as if the citizenry built itself an oil refinery, | out | Nearly 2,000 Amer- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | oe ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Qn This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen Neen ncn nena | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Menen- idez, 1605 Flagler avenue, have | announced the birth of a daugh- ter yesterday. The baby was named Nellie Corrine. Mrs. Menendez is the former | Miss Kittie Knight. KEY WEST A A stranger said that the pirates were the settlers of Key West, If so, said I, then pirates must exceptionally be blessed. And I think that I would up and join the jolly Roger Clan, If I could find another place more suitable to man. The breeze is ever present, and the storm wind seldom blows; In Christmas time the gar- dens bicom e bearing rose. with ever- Beginning Monday afternoon |The hurricanes come somesime, at 4 o'clock and continuing and they make them lower x ls, j through the ri e| = A must take notice of the Society of the Fleming Street gales. Methodist church will observe ‘It's boarded by the Gulf Stream that is known in tale and song, A polyglot of people go to make a Key West throng. Brave gold marine and sailor clean, and coast artillery man, | Negroes from stormy Nassau, many of the Cuban clan. 'Fair Anglo-Saxuns from _ the North, and Spanish grandee} fine, Make up the people of Key West, who live South of frost line. It’s the last link that is welded to the national defense chain, And once it stood a bulwark against the legion fierce of Spain. its annual week of prayer. Leaders are Mrs. C. M. Sam- ford, Mrs. Agnes Pritchard and | Mrs. C. J. Peat. | The Citizen, in editcrial para- | graphs, said: | “Sam Small of the Atlanta | Constitution, himself a staunch Democrat, appears to be ‘unim- | pressed with the political saga- |city of his fellow southerners. |He refers to the south as the backbone, the breastbone and | the bonehead of the Democratic party”. PERSONALS—Sidney Arono- | vitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles And Uncle Sam is building here, | Aronovitz, left yesterday for a Garrison of might, Miami to spend the weekend with To help protect the nation, | relatives. . .Bethel Phillips, who in the swiftly coming |accompanied his uncle, Harry fight. And he has planted mighty guns, | and planes and fighters fine, Bethel, to Tallahassee, returned to Key West yesterday aboard the SS. Cuba. . Attorney J. To help protect this little Lancelot Lester, who was on a town, that lies south of | business visit to Miami and oth- frost line. Our National Guard is drilling and preparing for the fray That is as sure to come as dawn, should Hitler have his way. ’ jAnd we are swiftly lining up in case of fell invasion, And every Key West man will fight, for God and State and Nation. STUART DEWITT. Key West, Fla. Oct. 31, 1941. er points in the state, returned yesterday. . .Bill Turner, repre- sentative of T. Jenkins Curry at | Key Largo, came here yesterday for a ‘visit ‘with relatives. | Today Tn History 1687—Historic attempt of Gov. Andros to secure the Connecti- j} cut Charter. Todav’s Bi-thdays 1766—Sons of Liberty organi-| zations formed in almost every jcolony as a result of the Stamp Act. 1803—U.S. frigate Philadel-| Paul Knabenshue, U. S. Min- jphia, aground off Tripoli, then ter to Bagdad, Iraa, born in To- jat war with us, and crew of some ledo, Ohio, 58 years ago. 300 Americans surrenders. Al-! a gerians were fitting out ship to! Prof. Mary D. S. Rose of Co- use against us when Decatur | lumbia University, nutrition ex- | 5 4. dd dnd d.dndndndndndndntndndndntedndndntntndntntntedntndantndndndrtndnd burned her in Tripoli’s own har- pert, born in Newark, Ohio, 67 bor. years ago. 1864—Nevada admitted to Julia M Peterkin of South Statehood. Carolina, novelist, born in Lau- See es rens Co., S.C. 61 years ago. 1873 — International Bridge) rd across the Niagara River com-' Ethel Waters of New York, pleted. {singer, born in Chester, Pa, 41 —_ years ago. 1917—Brazilian Army mobi- lized to suppress threatened re- | volt of Germans in Brazil. i Nelson Harding, cartooni , born in New York, 62 years 8 1918—Turkey unconditionally Eugene Meyer of Washington, |surrenders and dropped out of D. C., newspaper publisher, born | the war. in Los Angeles, 66 years ago. 1930—Revealed that a boot-| legger active in US. Senate SKINNY GIRLS | 1939—President Roosevelt pro-| Boy friends don’t like that “un- claims Thanksgi' @ week) peppy” look. So, if you need the janeed of customary date. | Vitamin Ba and Iron of Vinol in es | your diet to improve appetite, to 1939—Soviet spegks| Silt du those hollows and add of Britain and Frapce as “fo- lovely Farias, ges anal Oriental Observation taken at 7:30 a 75th Mer. Tune (city office) Temperetures m. Wind Direction and Velocity E—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today 7 & Sea level, 30.03 (1016.9 millibar ui Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:35 a.m om Sunset 5:47 5 Moonrise 4:36 & Moonset 4:25 a . Tomorrow's Tides a (Naval Base) Depart AM. PM ‘every ex a High 8:20 8:14 , « Low 11:48 1:45 5 c ur ve 2 FORECAST t € x Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers Satur- ts day; moderate southeast and south winds. possibly fresh at times. Florida: Considerable cloudi- ness with scattered showers Saturday, and possibly im ex- ,) treme north portion and near , Fer Ce: Coumcumes east coast tonight; cooler north- = — - west portion Saturday. ALBERT = Lae Jacksonville to Florida Straits Moderate to fresh eastesly southerly winds; partly cloudy weather tonight and Saturday with a few light showers. East Gulf: Fresh southeast and south winds, becoming rather Fe Ce; Cogeco BR AED SE POO to Fer Ce, Cocos strong and squally over extreme Tes north portion, and shifting to JORATHAS CATES westerly Saturday; mostly cloudy — r weather tonight and Saturday with occasional showers over north asd central portions. Today indicates intensity, =F thusiasm and nonchalance. The | disposition is restless, always4 trying new experiments and ef- fecting operations without de- sign. 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