The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1941, Page 2

A WATERWAY TO KEY WEST Extension of the inland waterway to | | inland waterways began, had two more powerful allies this week, | Congress, meeting for the second time in | a matier | history outside of Washington, @nd the At- | f the totees is os | lantic Deéper Waterways Association had Bows dispiches cocaine to | gta SH Pagg oo eased to | taken time out in their Miami conventioris to recommend deepening the waterway fror or 9 aS r MEMBER | Jacksonville soiith, and extending it from Re Se ) bescmeteepemiel-t cae cae 1041 Re For the little group of men who have ——* tubs dca RATES striven for a waterway to this city from the ee ee north, approval of the two organizations if | pe Month 85 | meant another important victory, but it was = 30 | still a long way to the final victory of seeing se ADVERTISING RATES | the waterway actualy in existence. “oiadé knéwa on application. | ¥é “a | Engineers and divisions of government me ye ‘ SPECIAL NOTICE reading notices, cards of than! Oblthary Gotiess, ete, will Ue charged 208 sf cents @ line. Netices for entertainment Fe Be aeestnes from which st | turned down the waterway extension. At | times the project has had strong support, at times it has been almost forgotten, r a be abtic ink at- y West. } / | been conti uing.the struggle, and at the | | present ti bein atways seek the truth and prin it. | | mendously imp without ‘fear and without favor; never be | big waterway powers is a welcome lift. afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; | | For purposes of comparison, backers always fight for progress; never be the of- | of the waterway might almost have reason @an or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, || to be pleased that the administration again Seetion or class; always do its utmost for the || hs brought forward its plan for a cross- Ribs welfare; never tolerate corruption of {/ jiorida barge (or ship- canal. initiee; Getiotnce vice end praist virtue, The cross-state canal, askenes ee Gere be Setieiton) ce organ | preliminary estimates, would cost ‘ation; tolerant of others’ rights, views and || G99 909. Should it be deepened for ships, opinions; print only news that will elevate 11 it would cost $200,000,000, in addition to and not contaminate the reader; never com- | / $5 999 909 which already has been spent i ies oe — | on the abandoned excavation | Ocala. oar remo eee ON nM MH | would cost a fraction of that amount. More Hotels and Apartments. | of discussion. During the depression, it at | least had the value of putting thousands of Airperts—Land and Sea. } | idle men to work as ditch-diggers, but that Consolidation of County and City Gov- || isn’t an objective now. orcas | ‘The waterway, on the other hand, has a A Modern City Hospital. | very definite place in defense, aside from ~ the advantages it would have for Key West. (We are ruling the obvious advantages to Key West out of this discussion, because | cities near the canal would have a justified Ties ince t; ie sah ah kek bs retort that the canal would aid them.) ay be a right of the wisest, but | $ Both the navy and the army. have a | Rever of the strongest—might does not | stake in the waterway to Key West, and ~ make right. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. You ean do something about the high- Sheed “fatalities; drive carefully all the time. | ptetas LAER TARA APO RS OS OLENA TEE TORR AR | interest of the entire nation. The power of money, and its in-| With the waterway in action, ‘tons of ; fluence, is never better illustrated than | heavy material now brought . laboriously } when it is illustrated. | over the highway could be brought here in | safety via barges. Operators of the barges Intelligent boys and girls aré already | | repeatedly have stressed the need for an 7 prepared to tell their parents what. they.|./mside route to avoid the necessity for the want Santa Claus to bring them. } dangerous outside passage. % population of the United States have in- l-vested millions of doffars in ~ Key * West: They have built a powerful bastion here | | for the defense of the Caribbean Sea and Sap ae Raat | the Panama Canal. With the abolishment of the war-sav- | And to supply that bastion there is « ing Neutrality Act by Congress after pres- | now one narrow road, one frail chain of : sure from the White House, American blood | bridges. The waterway would furnish « will begin to flow freely. another, and virtually indestructible, route of supply. We think the choice between the wa- terway and the Florida canal is obvious. No one can have or has a right to hope for respect from others who does not first learn to respect himself. Verbum sap. The private lives of public officials are subject to comment, and if they cause scan- | . dal they should be censured by those in eee es « authority with impeachment as the final ATTACKING U. S. SHIPS : remedy or resourse. See : Se It is a strange interlude in the At- : Success in war nowadays requires | lantic, with American warships openly at- more than army, navy and air fleets; the | tacked and destroyed and the nation, which + organization of the nation comés even be- | went to war with Spain when the battleship + fore then, but the unity: that is required is | Maine was destroyed, constituting the most + not existing, there are too many divergent | remarkable debating society in human ex+ ) opinions and opposing pressures. istence. ee American mérchant ships have been Labor policies of the United States | attacked in the South Atlantic, where they » Government are more out of line with the | had a right to be, and in the water west of sentiment of the people of the United States | Iceland, where they also had a right to be. » than any other Administration stand. The | They have been destroyed by German sub- * Gallup poll indicates that 80 per cent of the | marines, in a mad effort to persuade the » voters in the United States are in favor of | people of this country that it is dangerous to ‘having defense strikes prohibited. | be friendly with the foes of the Nazi re- gime. Repeated attacks upon our ships em- “Sistah Jon Jones, P’se takin’ up a collec- | : tit fo’ de benefit of our worthy pastah,” phasize that Hitler regards the United exclaimed one of the brethren. “You know, States as an enemy nation. He is not yet he’s leavin’ us fo’ to take a church down in | reddy to declare war upon us, or to chal- ‘ Mobile, an’ we thought we'd get together lenge us to a full accounting but the day a little momentum!" — _«> | te this country. Key West, sought and battled for ever since | Both the National Rivers and Harbors | repeatedly in the past have approved, then | t is who could see Yeralue have | }eir chances are tre- | Approval of the two | according to | $20,- | near } The waterway from Bahia Honda | In the: matter of usefulness, the pur- | | pose to which the cross-state canal would | | be put still is a mystery after some 10 years ; | their interests, in turn, are a real part of the | The navy department ‘and the general ' j commanding THE KEY WEST If You’re Handy With Your Hands | AP Feature. Setvice FE THE high price of gloves is getting you down, let your own hands be helping. You can make }your own—in leather, too! No, you won't need to prick | your fingers, for the gloves Proper and dil the pieces you sew are perforated. The sewing jsilk, the needle and the leather come all together, complete with instructions and peitures to guide ? you. The needle seems a little short to us—but be Uncle Sam dictated to the creators on that score. The cal seems well- tanned and softly pliable. At the glove counter, where these “sdve yotr money by making your own” affairs may be purchased, you may. Select sewing silk im coftrasting color. An@ remember—Christmas is feoming and yeu might try mak- ing your own gifts this way. CITIZEN You Can Make Your Own Gloves RS 3. ALL SET and they're ready to go places. a LOOK AT jer tag Japanc oe ass JAP CRISIS AHEAD? a angers TOKYO OPPORTUNIST = - oun se Sapa “s US. STANDS FIRM ais Relations between the United — States and Japan are to reach @ gy cee oo Jape — crisis tomorrow, when tie extre rdinary session of the Japanese Diet assembles, accordimg to m ports from Tokyo s While the implied wern May constitute Japanese sure upon the United States concessions im order to Japan from positive action. is much evidence that the anese Government is the people of the Empire inevitable clash im the Pac: preverr n, there se ss tom tee nap am like purpose and, of course Je- m4 ee pan is presented as the cham *s > pion of a New Order which is 1 ==OS® “mer Newemaer include world peace FE ean - — ie caeiteds seece Gam 2b <s Regardiess of the absurdity of. the Japanese official the people of t —Heien Forrist Hall DAYS GONE BY. Happenings ‘On Thi This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen Senator Duncan U. Fletcher has notified Mayor Leslie A. Curry and the chamber of com- merce that permission has been granted for an oral hearing be- fore United States engineers on the advisability of deepening the “inside waterway” from Bahia Honda to Key West. Mayor Curry said he alse has been notified by Ruth Bryan ;Owen..that the hearing has: been granted. Miamiccity commissioners an the Miami chaniber of com | Fécetitiy'announced ‘they would aid this city in its efforts to win approval for the waterway ex- tension. Key West barracks have been removed from the list of army posts scheduled for abandon- ment, Lieut. M H Zwicker, icer at the post, has_been notified. The action removing Key West facilities from the list to be abandoned came on orders of the secretary of war. with the recom- mendation of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, chief of staff. City bonds held by the First National Bank .and the Key West Electric company. were re- newed Saturday in a: resolution adopted: By City council at a special session. “The Cifizen, in editorial para- ‘graphs, said: Wall | that he conquefs Gréat Britain, if he ever Another a | to speed the does, will be the octasion for an ultimatum } “The community will rejoice with the Presbyterians over the fact that they have moved into their har me new home on White st The building is a credit. not only to the congrega- tion, but to the city as a whole. A city is judged by an outsider more by its churches and its schoo} buildings than almost ahy other evidence”. Six recent works of fiction, each a “Book-of ——— Club” selection, have been nated to the public library by Mrs. Julia Brooks. They are: “Father” by Elizabeth: “Swords. - Today’ $s Anniversaries 1791—(150 years ago) George Croghan, noted soldiers of the War of 1812, born near Louis- ville, Ky. Died in New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1849. 1807—Peter H. Burnett, Mis- souri lawyer, Oregon-California Pioneer, first State governor of California, born. in Nashville, Tenn. Died May 17, 1895. 1815—Edward L. Davenport, scholarly actor and J/aHtr “ot noted actors and act COS =e igBesn. yea Sept. Re 2 <> 1833-—William F. Dares ch gineer, who superintended mak- ing of the country’s first Besse- mer steel in 1864. born in New Bedford, Mass. , Died Nov. 14 1899. 1849—Louis F. Post, vigorous New York-Chicago journalist, re- former, assistant Secretary of labor, born in Vienna, N. J. Died Jan. 10, 1928. 1875—Bertha M. Bower (“B. M_ Bower”), prolific writer of West- ern novels, born in Cleveland; Today In History 763—John Mason and Jgre- Dixon of England arrive in delphia to survey disputed between Maryland and Pennsylvania—later to become historic Mason-Dixon line. 1777—Arucles of “Confedera- tion and perpeiual union” sign- ed. 3 ' NATE BAUER HERMAN WRONKER 1806—Lt. ion M. Pike, = who, with party of 23 soldiers, was exploring Colorado, catches first slimpse-ef Pike's Peak. 1864—Sherman’s army of some §2,000.moves"OGt SP uiglanta aft- | ef breaking communications with | lL onteide fo \ @igappear. for 4 month—beginning of “March } Through: Georgie”: 1867—Founders of 41 Grange first meet. the Nation- | Harry Peacock, Mer. 210 Duval Street 1881—The American tion of Labor organized. Federa- 1918—New German govern-j ment appeals to America to save it from starvation. ; ; Today’s s Horoscope! Let--- Today bestows strong attach- Minn. Died in Los Angeles, July ment to home and parents. The 23, 1940. life may be narrow, perhaps ,circumscribed, but not, on the Bice Moon” by Howard W. twhole, unhappy. The mind is Odum; “Quiet Street” by Michael | tless and a little too .impul- Ossorgina, and: Adghy, Dick” “by. five and not quite enough fore- Herman Melville. ~ ‘ight may be used for great suc- fs - eSS; with reasonable “ t PERSONALS — Wil Sket ui ie faeities of modern ‘was an arrival on Hhe Havana iom.should “prevent any Feooial yesterday frém Miami... failure. ~~ Miss Edith Felton of Rock Har- bor arrived here Saturday for a? visit with her brother-in-law= SPEED BOAT RIDES and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon” Lowe. . Joe Plummer, son of Mr. | and Mrs. Lionei Plummer, left; “MARY E” Saturd: afternoon for a two 7 et ae Porter Dock—Foct Duval Street weeks’ visit in Miami . Ben- PHONE 9168 jamin Sawyer, manager of thed {Lopez undertaking parlors, left” Saturday for Miami. * ROLLER SKATE. | Keep Your Weight In Shape } oe ee We Teach You { | a : i TRY IT TODAY— The Fevorite im Key West a es Mev ted presto vererevevrses ve be si dn ti aia tin tin ie din tintin tintin din tintin tin tind THE ARTMAN PRESS Print. Your