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®if* 2Cejj JEfiit Citizen
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cations
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN
1 Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments.
4. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports—Land and Sea.
G. Consolidation of County and City
, Governments.
The daily grind seems harder when it
is devoted to sharpening someone else’s ax.
Why should Congress abdicate in
favor of one man? Did the people elect
Congress to do that?
Judge Lindsay says that 6,000,000
young American men are too poor to get
married. So poverty has its recompense.
There is no malady more insidious
than that which afflicts a man out of pub
lic life who thinks he ought to be in public
life.
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The man who wants but little here
below is usually too lazy to go after more, 1
but is usually quite eager to get all he can
get for nothing. * ,
Going after business is one way to get
it, but it Is not the only way. Repeated
advertising is the best way and the easiest .
way. Customers go where they are in- |
vited.
Telephone, telegraph and soon tele
vision. Far-hearing, far-writing, far-see
ir.g. In the past only exceptional persons
were far-seeing, soon all will have these
powers.
The Citizen has stated before that the
bribe giver is as bad as the bribe taker.
Bribes are seldom given directly and there
are devious way in which this is done.
Those guilty of bribery know what this
column means.
Io Europe the question is who will
bell the cat. England would like to have
the United States do it and we chumps in
the United States may be just gullible
enough to fall for her wiles. Beware of i
Terfidious Albion.
Wonder what the three applicants
for the postmastership were asked in their
examination last week! Questionnaires
generally have some tricky questions like:
What is the highest denomination of U. ;
S. postage stamps now used?
We have seen so many advertise
ments, in out-of-town papers, lauding
grape-fruit bread that it has created a de
sire to have some. Are local bakers bak
ing that sort of bread? If they are, it is
being kept a secret by them.
“If your memory is faulty, become a
money borrower.”—Key West Citizen. By
the way, what’s your street address,
Brother Artman?—Times-Union. Around
the Ides of March, Uncle Sam got all we
had left, and our pockets are empty now.
Let’s stick to the advice of Washing- 1
ton (the Administration is not meant) and
keep free from European entanglements.
Minding our own business in the present
imbroglio on the other side of the pond
is reminiscent of the story of the China
man at the time of rioting between
Catholics and Orangemen in Britain. He
decked his window with a large sign read
ing: “Me no religion at all—me only
wash clothes.”
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD
City Council has formally approved
the proposed zoning ordinance for Key
West. The measure now goes to State
Representative Bernie C. Papy who is
scheduled to introduce an act in the Legis
lature to validate it under state law.
There is every reason to expect tnat the or
dinance will soon become law, for State
Senator David Elmer Ward has indicated
he will give Representative Papy every as
sistance in the passage of the act.
Last week Senator Ward was in Key
West interviewing local interests regard
ing legislative matters in which they are
interested. At the end of several such
conferences, Senator Ward said:
“I will give every assistance to the
city cf Key West in bringing about effec
tive action in procuring a fresh water sup
ply from the mainland, in extension of
Overseas Highway via the old railroad
right of way and in creating an adequate
zoning ordinance. I believe that a zoning
law will be of the greatest good to Key
West. Lack of proper zoning regulations
undoubtedly has delayed a broad con
struction program in Key West, so that the
proposed ordinances have my unqualified
support.”
The zoning ordinance was prepared
by the Zoning Board after months of study.
Copies of it have been displayed at County
Courthouse and at City Hall. Several sug
gestions advanced by private citizens have
beer, incorporated in the measure, so that
today it is believed to contain provisions
which protect present properties and give
prospective builders legal assurance their
homes will not be depreciated by con
struction of objectionable adjacent struc
tures.
Key West needs new homes, apart
ments and other structures. Demand for
such buildings is increasing. Many per
sons who wanted to spend the winter here
were unable to find the kind of facilities
they desired. A substantial number of in
dividuals expressed their willingness to
build homes to satisfy those desires as
soon as the city set up zoning regulations
that would hold water in court.
The present proposed zoning ordi
nance provides those regulations. The
State Legislature should lose no time mak
ing it a law. That accomplished, Key
West seems assured of a sizable building
program this summer and fall. Such a
program will reduce unemployment and
create a large amount of profitable busi
ness and commercial activity. It will be a
long step forward in our economic re
habilitation.
THE TOMB OF COLUMBUS
The recent visit of American dig
nitaries to the Dominican Republic, in con
nection with the proposed erection of an
immense memorial and lighthouse to the
glory of Christopher Columbus, has re
vived the old argument over the tomb of
the great navigator.
Dominicans showed their visitors the
supposed coffin and remains of Columbus,
which were photographed, it is said, for
►the first time. These are to rest in the
base of the five million dollar memorial, to
which various nu.ions of the New World
will contribute.
According to most authorities, Colum
bus died at Valladolid, Spain, in 1506; his
body being deposited in a monastery at
Seville, but in 1542 removed to the cathe
dral of San Domingo. In 1795, w r hen San
Domingo was ceded to France, the body
was transferred to the cathedral of Ha
vara, and finally, after Spain’s loss of
Cuba in 1898, it w*as taken back to Seville,
where it now reposes.
But the Dominicans deny that the dis
coverer’s body was ever removed from
their island, and assert that in 1877, or 82
years after the supposed removal to Ha
vana. a lead coffin bearing an inscription
saying it contained the bones of Columbus
was discovered near the altar of the San
Domingo cathedral. They believe the
Spaniards took the wrong coffin to Ha
vana.
In any event, the remains now in the
Dominican Republic will be given the
place of honor in the new memorial. Per
haps it doesn’t matter if the Dominicans
are mistaken. What Columbus did in
life is more important than the identifica
tion of his bones.
Every situation, no matter how dis
, t cui aging, has its bright spots, if you have
, the patience to look for them.
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
! KEY WEST IN
i DAYS GONE BY
Hcppeßisgt Here Just 10 Years
Aco Today As Taken Froas
The Files of The Citizea
Advices received in Key West
are to the effect that United
States Congressman M. Alfred
Michaelson, of the Seventh Illin
ois District, was indicted on three
separate counts charging viola
tion of the federal prohibition
laws. The indictments were re
tnrned by a federal grand jury
i sitting in Jacksonville, the rec
‘ ords of the district cuort clerk’s
office revealed today. The counts
charged possession, importation
and transportation of a quantity
of liquor into this country from
Cuba on January 3, 1928. The in
dictment charges that Michaelson
landed at Key West from Cuba,
his baggage being put through on
an expedite order from Washing
ton and that one bottle breaking
in a trunk at the railway station
at Jacksonville led to the seizure
of the trunk by state authorities
who reported to federal officers.
Ernest and Jack Pinder,' chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Pinder, were struck by an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon on
South Beach under the picnic
trees while the youngsters were
playing in the grass and
der was swimming in the pool
with another child, according to
the statement made by the
mother today. Ernest received l
an injured ankle and Jack a cut
on the back of the head. Mrs.
Pinder said she had no idea an
automobile would traverse that
part of the ground, which is a
long distance from the roadway,
saying that the driver of the car
i never stopped to see what had
happened. The children were
taken to a local hospital and giv
en the propert attention. Every
effort is being made to run down
•the drive: of the car, who, Mrs. (
Pinder said, made a quick get
away directly after the accident
and was soon out of sight. There
is not the slightest clue to his ’
identity. , j
Editorial Comment: Recent
, scientific experiments show that i
kissing is a healthy form of exer-|
cise and stimulates the heart ac
tion. With the proper environ
ment we wouldn’t object to doing
our daily dozen.
The fire department was again
called out last night to the scene
of the recent fires at the Ruy ,
Lopez Cigar factory, where the
smouldering debris had rekindled
into flames. Half of this fine old
structure burned Wednesday, an
other blaze started yesterday and
the remaining portion was de
troy ed.
F. B. Dillon, superintendent of
lighthouses at large, of the bu
reau in Washington, arrived in
Key West at noon today on the
Tender Ivy. Mr. Dillon is leav
ing on the evening train for Mo
bile for an inspection trip to the
different lights in that section.
H. B. Haskins, assistant super
intendent of lighthouses in this
district, who had' been In Miami
after an extended trip to naviga
* tion aids in the district, returned
to the city yesterday and is leav-
I ing again this evening on the Sun- 1
dew to supervise the construction
I of three aids in Hawks Channel.
Mrs. Grace Phillips, executive
secretary of the local Red Cross
Chapter, announces that a contri
bution of $27 has been received
from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea
Catholic church for the benefit of
J flood sufferers of Florida and
other sections.
News has been received in the
city announcing the marriage of
Walter J. Kemp and Mrs. Louise
Dußreuil of this city. The wed
ding tcok place in Miami a 'few
days ago. It is understood they
, will return and make their home
in Key West.
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--j Boston, New York, Miami
Jacksonville, Galveston
! New Orleans and Beyond
Fsoaa Kay Wad alternate Nob
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From Now York every Thors
\*hm Boston every Tuesday.
Fiona Jacksonville,
How Orleans every two iraalri
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TENT SERVICES ;
HERECONTINDE
Large crowds continue to at
tend the tent revival, which is
being held under the auspices of
Methodist Churches of the city.
On Monday night, Dr. Tyler used
for his subject, ‘‘God's Loneli
ness”, and last night, “The Gos
pe , the Power of God”. The
speaker thanked the people for
their attention during the
services. •-•** ••' j
On Monday night a solo was
rendered by Mrs. Watts, who is
a deaconess of the Methodist
Church. Her home is in Nash
ville. Tennessee. Mr. Rankin,
song leader for the revival, stated
that he had rarely seen so much
musical talent as is found in Key
West.
Prayer meetings are being held
each evening at 7:30 o’clock at
the Fleming Street Church. Chris
tian people are asked to attend
this prayer service in preparation
for the preaching service under
the tent at the comer of Eliza
beth and Fleming streets.
CUBA BRINGS IN I
86 PASSENGERS
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Steamship Cuba, of the P. and
O. S. S. Cos., arrived yesterday
afternoon from Havana with 86
passenger'. Of this number there
were 44 first cabin and two sec
ond cabin passengers' for Key
West; 30 first cabin and five sec
ond cabin passengers for Tampa.
Shown on the manifest of the
ship were the following items:
For Key West, five tons of
freight, ore automobile and six <
sacks of mail, and for Tampa, 56
tqns of freight and six sacks of;
mail.
The ship sailed for Tampa at
5 o’clock with four first cabin pas
sengers and one automobile from
this port.
MARAUDING LIONS
South Africa
—Driven by starvation, five or
six packs of man-eating lions
have carried off natives and live
stock in the Namib desert re
gion. ’ ! *
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SENTIMENTAL SONGS
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barns and he turns it on every
day at milking time. The musi
cally contented bossies don’t kick
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which more than pays for the ex
pense of the radio. Sutherland
said.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1939
MAYAN RUINS FOUND
VERA CRUZ. Mexico—Ruts
that the National Geographic
Society has announced are un
mistakably Mayan have been
discovered at Tres Zapotos. m
Vera Cruz state. The nuns are
much more accessible to visitors
from the United States than the
famed ones of Yucatan.
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bunding oootnptionethrt won't ra and
making plans that worft work.
Wasting time? Not at all! These
youngsters are showing os ham to look
facts and fate right in the eye. Fsihiw
can't squelch true courage. Today’s er
rors are the ABC's that spell Tomorrow’s
success for all at us. Uisrmirsgrmrnt
can't undercut confidence when we see
life as an inviting 1 ■ Famous
spirit of youth! It America! Isn't
it more precious than ever when the
calendar says, "Look how old yon are!"
in spirit”?
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