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IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN
1 Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartment*.
4. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports—Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
Don’t forget: Trade in Key West.
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Germany of today, under the maniac
Hitler, follows closely the medieval im
perialism and reliance on brute force so
characteristic of medieval times.
The editor of the Times of Cuba says
Miami’s claim that it is nearer to the
Panama Canal than Key West is pre
posterous. It is not only that but also not
true.
Senator Gerald P. Nye says: “I do
not believe the dictatorships want war any
more than the democracies do.” Certainly
not so long as they can get what they want
without fighting.
The Fort Myers News-Press is the
only Florida paper coming into The Citi
zen’s sanctum that got the right slant on
WPA payroll cuts. They are to go into
effect on April 1.
While travelers tell us that the waters
of “the beautiful Danube” are yellow in
color, they look blue on a moonlight night
when, it is said, John Straus composed
his beautiful “An der schoenen blauen
Donau.”
Key West keeps adding one world’s
record after another, to its list of angling
laurels.—Times-Union. Soon there will
be no more worlds to conquer and then
we’ll rely on record catches in the mass—
always to be had in Key West waters.
Social security in all its phases—for
babies, hired girls, the unemployed, sick
and disabled, hospitalization, pension sys
tems, and for retirement plans. That’s all
they can think of now—more anon. A
check for everything, but no check on
economy.
Why isn’t Congress smart by being
economical? Place the southeastern air
base here in Key West and then the gov
ernment will not be required to spend
another penny for relief in this com
munity, and save millions in the construc
tion of the base, besides. This is no
specious reasoning, but just ordinary com
mon sense, and good business acumen.
According to press reports, the Jap
anese have erected an airport within 300
miles of the Panama Canal. Darn clever
these Japs; they get as near the scene of
possible activities as they can. The United
States should have the prospective south
ern airbase as near to the Panama Canal
as feasible. Even further south than Key
West if arrangements can be made to place
it there.
Parole of prisoners has long been a
controversial question. Attorney General
Murphy calls a conference to help
straighten out the matter, to meet in
Washington next month. Social service
experts differ widely upon this subject.
Paroles are in effect merely bargains with
good prisoners through which they are
loose, with strings tied to them to bring
them back to the pen if they don’t behave.
BRING CONVENTIONS HERE!
Plans to bringrthe 1940 convention of
the Florida State Department of the Am
erican Legion to Key West have been
launched by members of Arthur Sawyer
Post 28. Questionnaires are to be sent
merchants, civic organizations and other
groups and individuals to determine their
attitude toward bringing the state conven
tion of the Legion to this city.
The convention would attract at least
3,000 persons to Key West, it is con
servatively estimated by Arthur Sawyer
post. It is safe to assume the delegates,
their wives and families would spend up
wards of SIOO,OOO, possibly more, during
the period of the convention. The ex
penditures would be pretty generally dis
tributed throughout the city. Every line
of business, every roominghouse, hotel and
apartment operator, and scores of persons
employed by them, would benefit to some
extent. Such a distribution would in
crease the community prosperity at a
time when business usually is slack, for the
convention would be held in the spring of
the year.
Bringing the convention to Key West
will involve a lot of effort on the part of
Arthur Sawyer Post members and the ac
tive and wholehearted cooperation of citi
zens generally. Arrangements for the
business sessions, decorations, entertain
ment, music and other adjuncts are not
made without work—and some money.
Few Legionnaires are wealthy. They will
need financial assistance to match their
willingness in making the 1940 state con
vention of the American Legion a suc
cess.
Local Legionnaires are faced with
one problem that money and work cannot
provide—a suitable convention hall. It is
probable they can use the armory or one
of the lighthouse department building3
and make satisfactory makeshift arrange
ments for the business sessions of the dele
gates. It is just too bad that Key West
has no real convention hall. Such an as
sembly place would be of immense value
in attracting conventions. Some communi
ties cater to conventions. They make a
business of that activity usually through
a convention bureau tied in with the local
Chamber of Commerce. Key West has an
enviable chance to land many conventions,
both state and national. Present avail
able facilities would limit the city’s effort
in this direction to state conventions.
The Citizen believes that some effort
should be put forward to procure a suit
able convention hall through the WPA or
one of the other federal spending agencies.
Other cities have acquired such halls at
comparatively little local expense. The
idea is worth further investigation and
concrete action if it is practicable.
MYSTERIOUS BUT PROFITABLE
Advertising is a mysterious but none
the-less potent force in modern business.
Whether the advertising be done in
the columns of The Citizen or in some
other medium there is, it seems, an in
definite benefit that flows to the intelligent
user of this modern business developer.
There are business men in Key West
who believe that everybody knows them
and what they have to sell and that, con
sequently, they do not need to advertise.
It would seem logical to draw such a con
clusion but the fact remains that people
often lose sight of the obvious and that
repetition is the only way to assure per
manent supremacy in any field.
Every reader can instantly name pro
ducts that are known from one end of the
United States to the other. A little re
flection will reveal that every one of them
is a well-advertised product and a little
observation will reveal that the advertis
ing is being continued by the wise men
that operate the business.
COOGAN GETS A LITTLE
Jackie Coogan, who as a juvenile star
of the silent screen, is reported to have
earned millions of dollars, will receive
about $150,000 as a result of a settlement
of his accounting suit against his mother.
We feel sure that most people will
conclude that this is not much for a young
man, who, as a youth, was able to amass
a fortune. That his earnings were legally
those of his parents does not prevent the
attachment of a strong moral claim in be
half of the young man. Surely, he was
tntilled to share substantially in the profits
that his work developed.
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
PEOPLE’S FORUM '
A BOOST—RESULT
OF KNOCKS
Editor, The Citizen:
’ I enclose copy of part of a let
ter sent to friends in Winnipeg.
Janada, which may perhaps in
terest your readers.
For your information I might
say that I am supposed to know
something abouf public resorts. If
I don’t, my employers who have
been paying me for twenty years
to manage and develop a large
summer resort of Victoria Beach,
on Lake Winnipeg, have been
badly fooled. During that twen
ty years, in order to keep up to
date. I have visited pretty well
every important resort in Canada,
the United States and Mexico
; with trips to Nassau, Bermuda,
Barbadoes, Honolulu, Suva of the
Feji Islands (which is a favorite
place for the residents of Austra
lia) and with this knowledge I
have no hesitation in saying that
Key West has a wonderful future
ahead of it.
The people of Key West have
been so darned decent to me that
I just feel like giving them a pat
on the back.
FRANK E. SPRAGUE.
Copy Of Letter
The favorite pastime of the
people of Florida appears to be to
knock Key West. All the way
down at Jacksonville, Daytona
Beach, Hollywood and Miami I
was told, ‘‘You won’t like it at
Key West”. However, being one
of the few places in the world I
had not visited I decided to give
it the once over. That was two
months ago and I am getting
more in love with the place every
day. It has almost everything to
make an enjoyable and interest
ing place in which to spend the
winter months. There can be no
argument about the climate;
there is no place in America that
can equal it. The bathing is ex
cellent—and the fishing? Well it
is just the kind of place good fish
i ermen hope to go to when they
die. I am kept poor buying films
as there is no end to the interest
ing pictures that can be taken.
The palm-shaded streets, the
i tropical flowers, the sunsets over
the water, the old houses and the
older colored people with the
passing oi time etched deep in
their faces —they are all Worth
taking. These moving pictures,
I all taken in color, will be of great
1 interest to you people in Canada,
and will recall to me one of the
I pleasantest holidays of my life.
I was particularly fortunate in
making the acquaintance of Mr.
Joe Cramer, better known as
“Suicide Zorsky”. Joe has a small
skiff and kindly offered to intro
duce me into the mysteries of
fishing. He did not promise any
fish but he did promise that I
would get wet. I got wet alright
and decided after the first day
that a bathing suit was the prop
er costume. We got fish, too, lots
of them —as many as 135 in an aft
ernoon. True, not being accus
tomed to the rocking of a small
boat I accumulated callused spots
on that portion of my anatomy
which points North when I am
walking south, but it has been a
wonderful experience. A swim in j
the morning, a mile or so walk 1
taking photographs and an after
noon’s fishing; at the same time!
getting a good sun tan—how;
could one spend a more pleasant
or healthier day. Joe just madej
the different between a pleasant
holiday and a ho%fc tqjje.j
forgotten. Without him, I doubt’
if I should have stayed so long
and I certainly would not have!
had such memories to take back
with me to Canada.
Perhaps the best feature of Key l
West is the people themselves.;
They are the nicest people one
could wish to meet. Always smil
ing, a pleasant word or a nod;
they just make you feel that they
arq glad to have you with them.
When the storekeepers bid you
goodbye you do not feel that they
are adding the word “sucker” as
is so often the case in resort
towns. The members of the po
lice force, contrary to the usual
custom, are courteous and the
numerous vendors of alcoholic
beverages for the necessary irri
gation of one’s tonsils are invari
ably genial gentlemen.
Put it in your note book for fu
ture reference that you are go
ing to hear a lot about Key West
in the future. Up to a year or
so ago it was pretty much the
“forgotten man” of the United
States but it has all the essen
tials of a successful resort. First
and foremost it is at the end of
the road, and anyone who has
been in the driver’s seat knows
the irresistible urge to go to the
end of the trail; it has the clim
ate, the fishing, the natural beau
ty and it is one of the few re
maining spots that have not al
ready exploited. Possibly
the local people are too close to
the scene to be able properly to
gauge its possibilities in which
case wide-awake visitors will
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of the finest aromatic Turkish tobacco and the
choicest* of several American varieties blended
in the correct proportion to bring out the finer
qualities of each tobacco.”
When you try them you will know why
Chesterfields give millions of men and women
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reap the benefit of increased
realty values, which is bound to
take place with the development
of the district.
In case you are not already
convfhced that I like Key West
let me tell you something: I am
coming back here again. Yes, for .
the first time in thirty years of:
traveling l have found a spot that i
I want to visit a second time.
li FRANK E. SPRAGUE.
K>y;YfcsL f)q.,
March 25, 1939.
ABOUT TAX PROBLEM
Editor, The Citizen:
This is the last of my series of
letters about the tax situation and
I wish to emphasize some general;
points that must not be lost sight!
of.
The tax problem in Florida is!
purely a business problem—the
same as every business large or
small has to face.
First—Do our tax laws fit into
and conform to the economic life
of the people? Do they furnish
the best protection to property
and foster the constructive indus
tries of the state?
Second —Are they equitable
and justly enforced?
Third—Are the expenses of the
different governmental units—
state, counties, cities and munici
palities—properly adjusted as to
income and service rendered?
These BMsstions must be con
sidered as a whole and are de
pendent cn each other, and the
adjustment of one or two of them
would only partially help the sit
uation. I want to emphasize the
fact that the majority of people
view the tax problem not as a
balanced whole, but from one or
more angles, usually their own
special interests. Intelligent peo
ple and many newspapers con
tinually say, “Everything would
be all right if we had a just and
equitable assessment of proper
ty”; or, “If we collected taxes
when assessed”; or, “If we reduc
ed expenses”. A little thought
shows that these views are nar
row and lose sight of the broad
problem as a whole.
Taxation is a great problem,
not only on account of the im-,
mense amount of money involved
i —in Florida approximately SIOO,-
! 000,000 —but, also, because it di
! rectly affects the value of all
j property in the state—every busi
( ness and profession, and the wel
fare of all the people.
Every kind of business profes
sion and industry changes its
methods and policies to meet
; changed conditions, and Florida
i Da* not Gone this, but has the
| same methods it had fifty years
j ago.
j A state tax and finance com-j
mission would study the tax
I problem to meet economic ehang- j
j es and how to equitable and just
ly crary out the tax laws and,
finally bring about economy in
government—and at the same
, time give to the people such gov
-1 ernmental service as a progres
! sive people are entitled to. In ad
dition to all this, the Commission j
j w ould publish to the people the
results of its studies and make ,
recommendations for changes in
the law -and thereby help to edu
cate the people in public affairs.
There can be no question about
the good such a commission can j
and will do. The legislature
should establish a state tax and
finance commission.
PERRY G. WALL.
, March 22. 1939.
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TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn to
Page 6 for the answers
1. Name the Secretary of State
in the Harding cabinet.
2. What event does the ballad
“Marching Through Geor
gia” commemorate?
3. Where is the Juba River?
4. What is the correct pronun
ciation of the word main
tenance?
5. What mountain range did
the Spanish refugees cross
to enter France?
f>. Name the state flower of
Pennsylvania.
7. Under which branch of the
government is the U. . S.
Bureau of Fisheries?
8. In units of length, how
many chains are in one
mile?
9. Which is the saltiest body of
water in the world?
10. Who was President of the
U. S. at the time of the
“Missouri Compromise”?
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aged for two or more years in huge
wooden casks. Here they gradu
ally acquire that true Chesterfield
mildness and better taste which give
millions of smokers more pleasure.
STEMMING—"AImo.I W
is what they say about the inter
esting stemming machines, whose
fingers pick up the tobacco, leaf
by leaf and take out the stem,
leaving only the mild, tender,
good-tasting part of the leaf to go
into the making of Chesterfields.
BLENMMG—Tfcerei. only on.
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that can’t be copied ... a happy
combination of the world’s best
American and Turkish tobaccos.
Just the right proportions to make
Chesterfield a milder, better-tast
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PAPER—Every Chesterfield you
smoke is wrapped in parr cigarette
paper...the finest cigarette paper
made. That’s another reason why
Chesterfields are milder and bet
ter-tasting.
MAKING —Almott taster the.
the eye can follow, Chesterfields
come rolling out of the marvel
ous cigarette making machines.
Chesterfields are always round, firm
and well’filled.
PACKAGING
are the packaging machines which
wrap and seal Chesterfields in
their air-tight, moisture-proof
packages. Regardless of where
you buy them, Chesterfields reach
you as fresh as the day they were
made.
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which aroused Mrs. Marie Anti
bech in her home in this city
where she was taking a nap,
proved to be an automobile
which had crashed into her
parlor. •
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