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STljc sKcy IHcct Citizen
Published Daily Except Sunday By
“ the crrikEV rrmasinxc co., iwc.
I„ P. AIITMAX, President and Publisher
JOE AI.bK.V, Assistant Business Manager
From The Citizen Building
Corner Greene and Ann Streets
Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe
County
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a revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line.
The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus*
sion of public issues and subjects of local or general
interest but it will not publish anonymous communi
cations.
Spring is the logical time to beautify
Key West. Let’s start making plans to
ward that end.
Out of the ashes of the past, why
should not Key West rise Phoenix-like and
regain its pristine glory as “the cigar
city.”
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If interest in skiing continues to
vance in the United States, a famoug
slogan may he changed to “Ski America
First!”
It was the irony of fate or something
that the California Golden Gate Exposi
tion was “opened” in Florida. President
Roosevelt also put in a plug for the DeSoto
Exposition at Tampa and that was a
“natural”.
Charles W. Ward, brother of State
Senator Elmer Ward, has been named by
Governor Cone to he judge for Lee County.
Elmer to Charles, a nice double play.
Politicians will find it difficult to Ward off
these hoys. Watch their smoke!
Governor Cone is quoted as saying he
must have concrete evidence to show him
that gambling exists before he will stop
them. Now how is that going to be
brought about? The only concrete way
we know is that the governor go to one of
the joints and see for himself, possibly
take a flinger to make sure. He needn’t
be afraid that he will be arrested for
gambling as that is not being done in this
reck of the woods.
“Miami is unquestionably the best lo
cation for a naval base in this section of
the country, not only from the standpoint
of flying conditions, but in its stragetic im
portance, too.” Such was the opinion ex
pressed by H. V. Kaltenborn, the columnist,
to the Miami Daily News. Well, it is only
an opinion, but far from the facts. Key
West, being nearest to the Panama Canal,
gives it THE stragetic importance, and the
flying conditions are unquestionably the
best, flying men who do know, state em
phatically.
Some years ago one R. C. Perky arose
upon the scene in Monroe County, and pro
ceeded to make his presence felt. First lte
asked the County Commissioners to buii&i
a road to his 'holdings at Chase, Florida,
which he immediately called “Perky.” Al
though the County Commissioners had no
legal right to construct this road they built
it ir. the hope that the county would
eventually be benefited once the artificial
sponge project was developed and made
profitable. In the meantime his taxes be
came delinquent and now amount to the
staggering delinquency of SIOO,OOO, which
could be wiped off the slate through the
operation of the Murphy Act, costing less
than $4,000. Not satisfied with this manna
from heaven, he asked the County Com
missioners to pay for the Murphyization
besides, if they wanted the right of way
so necessary to the county. Art arrange
ment was made whereby this requests
could be granted, and all thought there
would be no further difficulties in. thq*
way, but cupidity has no bounds. Mr.
Perky now has asked the patient County
Commissioners to repair the road, which
they had no right to build in the first place
since it is private property and, as Mr.
Perky cites in his telegram, leads to the
“finest accommodations and dining room
in the Florida Keys.” The County Com
missioners aptly replied to his telegram
denying the request: “Your transporta
tion difficulties will be solved when the
new state road is completed through your
front yard.”
A FEW FOG FACTS
In the same edition carrying news of
the death of two pilots and the wreck of
eight navy training planes in a fog that
suddenly enveloped Pensacola Monday
| night, the Miami Herald yesterday ran a
short story under the heading, “Dade
Head?; Eir.phmize Absence of Fog Here.”
i The story in pr.rt reads as follows:
“Miami’s freedom from fog was cited
Tuesday by county commissioners as an
j, asset in this section’s efforts to obtain the
; ptfo|jiifced Florida naval air base.
“Discussing the wreck of eight navy
training planes trapped in fog at Pen
sacola, the commissioners expressed re
gret over the accident, but pointed out
' that Miami has no fog problem, whereas
Jacksonville, rival applicant for the new
air base, is in virtually the same latitude
as Pensacola.”
Why didn’t the Miami Herald men
tion that other rival for the new air base
—Key West? This city has not given up
the fight to obtain the navy air base, for
the people of Key West know this city is
more stragetically located than either Mi
ami or Jacksonville, know that this city
has ideal climatic and flying conditions ,
and know that the proposed naval estab
lishment can be built here at a fraction of
the cost estimated’at Miami and Jackson
ville.
Now regarding this fog business — j
let’s study the facts on record at the Key
West weather bureau: The last dense fog
in Key West was in 1936. A dense fog is
one in which aviators do not have suffL
cient visibility to maneuver and land their
planes with safety. In 1934 there was
another dense fog here. You have to go
back to 1928 to find record of a previous
foggy day. The fact is that Key West
averages less than one fog a year, having
had approximately 20 fogs in 50 years.
The weather bureau records show
that Jacksonville averages 12 dense fogs
every year, while Miami averages two
dense fogs every 12 months. The Dade
county commissioners, as quoted in the
Miami Herald, are right about the fact
Jacksonville, as they implied, has a seri
ous fog problem that should be considered
by Congress in fixing upon a location for
the navy air base. In short, the chances
of such accidents as occurred at Pensacola
by reason of fog would be considerably
greater at Jacksonville than at Miami.
However, where do the Dade commis
sioners get the idea that Miami is free
from fogs? An average of two dense fogs
a year, any one of which might result in the
same kind of accident as that at Pen
sacola, is just about two fogs too many for
the maximum safety in the training of
navy aviators.
During 1938 and 1937 Key West did
not have a single dense fog, as the weather
bureau records will prove. In the previous
seven years there were just two that
would have made flying unsafe. If
climate, lack of fog and stragetic loca
tion are the deciding factors in the strug
gle to bring a navy air base to Florida,
certainly Key West has the edge on either
Miami or Jacksonville —and if the Con
gress is seriously in earnest about invoking
an economy program Key West can pro
duce figures to prove that it would be
cheaper to bring the air base to this city.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION IMPORTANT
School officials should not overlook
the importance of adequate physical educa
tion in their school programs.
It is a fine thing to train a mind and
make a child mentally alert but it is just I
as important to teach the pupil how to 1
take proger care of the body and to main
tain good health.
There can be no divorcement of the
mental and physical development of the (
individual. “A sound mind in a sound
body” is a sensible goal for educational
efforts.
; ’ , * •
So far as we know, no medicine has
<been discovered to cure a virulent case of
the “swell head.” It is an incurable dis
ease.
The human race is so constituted that
there are certain individuals who cannot
get along in peace—they are happy only
when they scrap.
The only way we know of to get out
of debt is to pay the money you owd.
That’s no magic formula, but it works. Of
! course, you could repudiate the debt, but
I you would owe it, nevertheless.
THE tit? WEST CITIZEN
HOLDING THE RUNAWAY
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By HUGO S. SIMS, Spfctiat Washington Correspondent of The Citizen
Party Cleavage Worries Democrats;
Roosevelt Holds The Key To 1940
Speculation as to 1940 inevit- (
ably leads to discussion o t a pos- i
sible thrid term for President 1
Roosevelt, who says nothing and |
continues to work for liberal leg
islation. Just now the President!
is engaged in what might be call- 1
ed “mopping up”, being some- 1
what anxious to complete the;
work of reform that he has in- 1
augurated.
j
The idea that the Chief Execu- !
tive has his eye on another term!
is not as strong as it waff some I
months back. In fact, we believe !
the consensus of opinion today,
would be that he does not have
I any idea, as things stand now, of
becoming a candidate. „ Mr. i
Roosevelt has said nothing in ac
| cordance with the theory that a
President, in his second term,!
might lose power if he openly an
nounces that his tenure of office;
is about to end.
The Democrats, however, are
: not in the same position as the
President. They are anxious to
score a success in 1940 and to!
have their candidate succeed Mr.!
Roosevelt. The party is looking
toward the next election. So arc j
many, if not all, of the Congress- j
men who belong to the majority i
party. They are more inclined to
coast along, to compromise differ- i
ences and to adopt a policy of re
conciliation. The Demcrats, by
the large, want harmony and they
are willing to fight the President
himself in an effort to present a
united front.
The dilemma in which party j
leaders find themselves is that
President Roosevelt, seemingly i
as determined as fever that the
party shall be controlled for lib
erals, is not as anxious for har
mony. He occupies the driver’s
seat and unless he choOSes to co
operate the only way the Con
servatives can secure the much
desired harmony is by cooperat
ing with the President. This, it
seems, is a bitter pill to some of
the party stalwarts, who have
not yet made up their minds
whether to fall in line or not.
Thus, we find the Democratic
party facing the 1940 elections j
with the realization that its only
hope of success lies in the atti
tude and activity of the Presi- j
dent. This is recognized by ex
perienced political leaders who
know that the party must en
dorse the President’s record dur
ing the next campaign. They
know, also, which is much more;
important, that the nominee of
the party, if he is to Win, must
have the whole-hearted support!
of Mr. Roosevelt. This is the sit-;
uation. The politicians fear that;
unless they “play ball” with the
President he will let them run
the next campaign as best they
can. They even suspect that, if
an anti-New Dealer gets the nom
ination, the President might let j
the public know just what he
thinks.
Several political writers have
advanced the idea that Mr. ;
Roosevelt, after all, is not par-,
ticuiarly interested in the 1940
nomination but that he has his
eye on 1944. The reasoning is
that economists look for a se
rious slump after 1940, for which
the President-in-office will bear
i the blame. Mr. Roosevelt, assert
1 these theorists, counts on a popu
| lar demand for his return to of
fice in such a contingency. More
t over, there is a chance that the
international situation will de
! velop a crisis involving this coun
; try and, under some circum
stances, there might be a swing
back to Franklin D.
—\ —
Of course, there are so many
writers on political events in the
United States that one can find
almost any opinion expressed.
Very often, through the force of
repetition, these ideas are accept
ed as if they had a substantial
I background of fact. So, in calling
attention fo the* ideas outlined in
the preceeding paragraph, we
caution readers that there is noth
ing tangible upon which they are
based. In fact, to express an hon
est opinion, they are probably
nothing but speculation, pure
and simple.
The Democrats are divided,
with Congress and the President
fighting a real battle for control
of the party’s policies. The Dem
ocratic conservative group seems
to have determined to curb Mr.
Roosevelt, regardless of conse
quences. Bad feeling undoubt
edly exists. Partly as a result of
the purge, partly as a result of
patronage rows and partly be
cause of conflict of opinion that
is sincere and deep-seated, a
group of Democrats are inclined
to oppose the President and to
trim his wings. What will be the
final result, or what effect this
cleavage will have on the party’s
ijuture, is hot .yet apparent.
t . r ~i J
i In the face of the Democratic
troubles the Republicans are, on
the surface, hopeful and anxious
ly waiting for 1940 to give them
a chance to name the next Presi
dent. In public expressions the
opposition is united in, opposition
to the President and his policies,,
particularly the fiscal and relief
programs. The unity that ex
presses itself in condemning the
Administration is bolstered by
recent political gains and the be
lief that the current continues to
run against the party in power.
Republicans are getting • the
idea that cleavage in the Demo
cratic ranks is too deep-seated to
be healed. They look for recruits
regardless of the Democratic nom
inee reasoning that if the Demo
crats put up a conservative can
didate the liberals will not go to
the polls and that if a liberal
New Dealer gets the call, many
conservatives will stay at home
on election day or vote for the
Republican nominee. Republican
strategists do not discount the
popularity of President Roosevelt
but they do not believe he can
transfer it to any disciple and,
they feel certain that the election
last fall demonstrated that his 1
strength among the people has
not been inherited by the Demo
cratic party as an organization.
Of course, the Republican'
party is not without its division, j
It has a conservative faction and
a liberal wing. They do not see
eye to eye and never will. The
chance exists that they may pull;
together in 1940 and take posses-!
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happrahfega Hera Juat Tan Years Ago Today As Taken
From The Files Of The Citizen
Coming to Key West especially;
for the thrill of enjoying the
, beauty and the thrill of a drive
over the Overseas Highway, a
party of professional and busi
' r.ess women, 20 in all, from Lake
Worth, will arrive in Key West}
on Saturday, March 9, and after
spending the night here will on
the following morning leave on
the return trip. The trip is being
sponsored by Miss Ellen Green T
leaf, secretary of the Lake Worth
Chamber of Commerce, who has
informed the local chamber’s sec
retary of the movement decided
upon. Entertainment for the vis
iting women is being planned and
, will include an elaborate dinner
| on the evening of their arrival, a
monlight sightseeing trip, a visit
to curio shops and other places of
interest. Due to the prposed
brief stay of the party the enter
tainment will necessarily be lim- i
j ited.
The Casa Marina Hotel chauf
feurs are today offering a reward
of S2OO for the guilty parties who
! damaged the autmobile tires of
the machines parked in front of
and near the hotel on the evening
of the Rotary Ann celebration.!
James H. Pinder, foreman of the
chauffeurs’ lineup at the hotel,
stated today that there has been
circulated a report by some j
jealous person, which would in
i criminate the hotel chauffeurs,
i These statements are absolutely
denied and as conclusive proof of
their innocence the chauffeurs
have raised the sum of S2OO,
which they are offering as a re
ward for the punishment of the
guilty parties. This reward will
stand up until the hotel closes for
i the present season. The men
who operates the taxis at the ho
tel are selected by Mr. Pinder,
and he feels it incumbent upon
himself to start the activity in the
effort to bring the guilty parties
to justice.
Editorial comment: The Red
Men and the Degree of Poca
hontas are to be congratulated
on their signal success in putting
over the most elaborate celebra
tion of Washington’s Birthday in
the history of the city.
.1 .
sion of the White House but the
inevitable schism that now
1 plagues the party in power will,
in time rise up to unseat the Re
publicans. This will be true, in
our opinion, regardless of which
party wins any election unless
and until the division of voters is
based upon two parties, one es
sentially liberal and the other es
sentially conservative.
GET UP NIGHTS?
It’s Nature’s Danger Signal
This 4-day test must stop it
when due to functional kidney
disorders or your 25c back. Must
help eliminate excess acids and
other waste or your 25c back.
Must thereby help soothe the ir
ritation that may cause getting
up nights, frequent or scanty
flow, burning or backache or
your 25c back. Say Bukets (25c)
to any druggist. Locally at
Olivieri’s Drug Store.
Mfr’s. Note: Our business with
Olivieri’s Drug Store has been
I pleasant and strictly reliable for
I many years.—(advt.)
Greetings
KEY WEST
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J. L. Winters, one of the two
men who attempted the holdup
at the Matecumbe ferry slip yes-'
terday afternoon, was brought to
the city today and is in Monroe
county jail in default of $2,000
i bond. At the hearing, which was
before Marvin Thompson at Tav
ernier, Wniters is said to have
entered a plea of not guilty,
claiming to have experienced a
lapse of memory and having no
knowledge of his whereabuts or
his actions from the time he left
his home in Miami until he awoke
i to find himself tied to the Mate
! cumbe ferry slip. Both Winters
and his companion were under
; the influence of liquor when
> caught, it is said.
A party of U. S. customs of
ficials spent the day in Key
, West yesterday and this morning
took the boat for Havana where
they will remain for a short time
on business. Among the officers
were several from Washington
and other cities.
! A son was born Thursday
morning to Mr. and Mrs. Emer
, son Archer at their home, 1108
Southard street.
A daughter was born yester
day afternoon to Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Spencer at their home, 522
Margaret street. Mrs. Spencer
was formerly Miss Sarah Sterling.
A son was born this morning
: to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thomp
i son at their home, 1016 James
i street.
Subscribe to The Citizen—2oc
weekly.
|| announces their annual |j^
Tropical Flower Show §
Formal Opening 3 P. M. Saturday, Feb. 25th,
Continuing Through Sunday and Monday k
|| at the Rear of the Lighthouse Building
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J THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST k
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation J
fin”" IN FO RM ATI 6 N in j
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t :
• Entertainment Fishing Accommodations •
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The 3 Mesquitecrs
RED RIVER RANGE
also
COMEDY SERIAL
![ CASA MARINA ‘
| • y Key West's
Hotel De Luxe
AMERICAN PLAN
200 Delightful Rooms, Each
j , With Private Bath
Beautiful Cocktail Lounge
DANCING NIGHTLY
Dave Garson’s Orchestra
PETER SCHUTT, Manager
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Deepsea and Key West
Reef Fishing
on the
Charter Boat
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LA CONCHA HOTEL
In the Center of the Business
and Theater District
Open The Year Around
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Uniform, Delicious—Always
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1939
NEW ARRIVAL IN
JOHNSON FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Johnson an
nounce the arrival of a son
weighing eight pounds yesterday
morning 5 o’clock at their home,
1100 Fleming street.
Mother and boy are both re
ported as doing nicely and the
new arrival is to be given the
name of Jay Allan.
The family is awaiting the
return of the grandfather. Cleve
land Johnson, to witness his ex
pression upen the sight of his first
grandson.
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Simcnton and Petronia Sts.
PHONE 444
OVERSEAS
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“The Best in Food and Rooms'’
Beiw** n Key West and Miami
COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE
Charley Toppino, Prop.
aa mini iii—Hn
TROPICAL SAILINGS
on the
‘BALMY DAYS’
DE LUXE MOTOR SAILER
DAILY TRIPS
Leave 9:30 A. M. and 2 P. M.
from PORTER DOCK
Delightful 2>/a Hour Trip
See Key West From The Seal
MONROE THEATER
Glenda Farrell—B. McLane
TORCHY GETS HER MAN
and
MEET THE GIRLS
Matinee— Balcony 10c, Or
chestra 15-20 c; Night— ls- 25c
NO NAME LODGE
Famous Bahia Honda Fishing
Reef - Tarpon - Permit -
Bone Fishing
Cottages—sl per person and up
Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty
Phone No Name Key No. 1
For Information
1 PIRATES COVE ,
FISHING CAMP
Pirates Cove, Sugar Loaf Key
BEST FISHING IN FLORIDA
Individual CABINS with
Appointments for the
Discriminating
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