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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
TWO ARRACNED
in COURT HERE
BOTH OF PRISONERS ENTER
ED PLEAS OF GUILTY
TO CHARGES

Two county prisoners were ar
raigned this morning before Judge
William V. AIbury in eriminal
court to answer to charges and
enter pIaas cfiRSlsy MI =
u One Or the prisoners rs Roy
o'Leary. who was brought 70 Key
West this week after being given
hearing before Peace Justice 4.
r. lowe at Tavernier. charged
with reckless driving on the pub
lie roads of Monroe county.
The judge sentenced the offend
err to pay a fine Of $25 and costs
or be confined to the county Jail
for a period of 80 days at hard
labor.
The other defendant was John
Sands, middle aged native Of Key
West, who entered a plea Of gull
ty to wandering around intoxi-
Gated. He was sentenced 20 pay
a fine of $25 and costs or be con-
fined for 60 days in the county
Jail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
new PROJECT AT
SCHOOL GROUNDS
IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
UNDER SUPERVISION OF
MISS PARKER

Another WPA Identification
project, under the expert direc-
ton. of Miss Molly Parker, with a
group of capable workmen, has
been launched this week at the
Harris School grounds.
Miss Parker's plans include a
banking of hibiscus against the
background of green palms and
green shrubs close to the build-
ing.
Already a line of sea=grape
trees has been planted in the back
of the school yard. They are to
be kept trimmed back in the form
of shrubs.
A group of Elders has been
transplanted in one clump at the
back of the yard to flaunt their
profuse yellow blooms.
Spathodias vii form a line near
the sidewalk for shade and beau
ty. The beautiful, flame-colored,
tulip-shaped flower of this tree
will undoubtedly make Harris
School beauty spot to compare
with no other pace in the city.
The pupils have displayed much
enthusiasm for the project and will
endeavor to refrain from disturb
mig the new plants and trees in any
way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
WEATHER FORECAST

(Till 7:30 p. m, Wednesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Wedl esday
not much change in temperature;
moderate winds, mostly southeast
and south.
Florida: Partly cloudy in south
and mostly cloudy in north por-
ton with occasional rain in ex-
IRENE north portion tonight and
in north portion Wednesday 1;
somewhat colder in extreme north
portion tonight.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits /:
Moderate southeast and south
winds, becoming northeast near
the coast over extreme north por-
ton and partly overcast weather
tonight and Wednesday with occa-
sional showers over north portion
tonight, and over north and CEN
trail portions Wednesday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
Junior Club To
Hold Meeting

Members of the Junior Woman's
Club have again completed plans
for another of their entertaining
and unusually interesting social
meetings which will be held Fri
day afternoon. January 20.
Bridge and Michigan will be
played in the rooms of Key West
Hospitality House, and delicious
refreshments served by the hos
tesses Miss Elinor Warren and
Miss Louise Delaney.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
Announce Receipts
From Concert

Members of the Board Of So
eial Welfare in Key West have
just made public the total of re-
ceipts from the concert given by
the Key West Light Opera COM
pany some time ago in the audi
forum of the Key West High
School.
The concert was sponsored by
the Key West Woman's Club and
Mrs. William R. Warren, head of
the Social Welfare Board. gives
thanks TO those who attended for
the sum OF $5S.65.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
THREE MARRIAGE
LICENSES ISSUED

Marriage lincenses issued from
the office of County Judge Ray
mond Lord during the past 10
days and recorded in the office
are as follows:
Edgar L. Patterson and Cath
crime Saunders; Joe B. Smith AMI
Helen Gates; George Carey ana
Isabel johnson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
School Circle To
Hold Meeting

Room Representatives of Key
West JuniOr-Senior High School
viii meet tomorrow afternoon at
4 90 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Menendez Key. No. z loves
Lane.
A full attendance of the men,
bership is requested by the chair.
man Of this group.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
DEMOLAYS To
MEET TONIGHT

There viii be a meeting of Rob-
ert ]. Perry Chapter, Order of De-
Moley, held tonight, beginning at
Z 80 o'clock.
Joe Richardson, master coun-
sel.or, requests all members to be
in attendance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26
, eeessssSssessssssssesss
TOOTHPICK TOPICS
(By C. C. FLINT)
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

We don't know his name, call
him "Pirriot," the happiest man
in Key West. To be the happiest
man in the Island City, where so
many are happy, is a large order
for any man. Especially for "Pir-
riot" with his affection.
But we hold to it, "Pirriot,"
is happy and his twinkling feet,
and eye tell it to all the world.
The girls seem to like his 'step-
ping, too. 1t was something.
that Halloween Eve at the Socie-
da Cuba, to see the bellies of old
Key West dance! You don't see
such dancing in Miami.
The senorita in the Mexican cos
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

tune won the coveted prize, but
the judges were not as blind as
Justice and perhaps the charming
girl in the Spanish mantilla de-
served prize, too?
Certainly ''Pirriot" deserved
distinction for his tireless, nimble
pirouetting. He put us to shame.
1t made one happy just to watch
him at RauPs.
Yor couldn't help envying a
man as gay and CHEEKY as "Pir-
riot" And that is why it is easy
to remember him, without even
knowing his name.
He's just ''the happiest man in
Key West" to us.
Miami, Fla,
Jan. %, 1887.
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PERSONAL MENTION

E. P. johnson, keeper at Son.
brero reef lighthouse, left today
to resume his duties after enjoy
ing his regular quarterly vacation
with his family.
Lame Dobbs. of Key West, vet
eran Of the World War who sus-
tanned serious wounds during his
period of service, left this morn
ing over the highway for Bay
Pines, Fla, to undergo examina-
ton at the veterans hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Cockfighting was legalized by
the Puerto Rico legislature in 1893
after being outlawed 20 years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Travel to Lassen volcanic Ma
tional park increased AZ percent
n 1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

The celpmbine. which blooms on
lofty m4shtain peaks. Is the state
flower of Colorado. ADff
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Wyoming. pioneer in woman
suffrage. has been nieknamed the
Equality State"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Safety council tests show only
Is per cent Of the naiioE's meier
car drivers have perfect vision.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Semi-solid buttermilk is manu-
featured IS a hog and poultry
feed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

Containing sin kinds Of Itch klll-
Ing medicines, Imperial Lotion
flows freely into skin folds and
pores TO reach and Kin itchlng Of
eczema, rash, letter. ringwoFIn and
common itch. Two ixes, sc aud 81.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-26

A wren built her home in the
center of a wasp's nest in an oak
tree at Kerrville, Tex.
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Barometer 1880 A. NJ. today:
Sea level, 30.07.
Evening star., 1937-02-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Wagner. include MesSrs. Robinson, Ash
urst, Black, Minton, Wheeler, Barkley
and George. Representative Summers,
chairman of the House Judiciary Com
nittee, is another congressional dark
horse. Others on whom White House
favor may light are Tom Corcoran of
R. F. c., former Federal Trade Chair
man Huston Thompson, Judge Harold
M. Stephens, Tom Eliot of Social Sc
curity, Solicitor General Stanley Reed
and young President Robert M. Hutchins
of the University of Chicago. One or two
of these distinguished and deserving
Democrats would be barred from the
eligible list should Mr.. Roosevelt adhere
to his policy of appointing no Federal
judge over so. If woman is considered,
Judge Florence E. Allen, already men,
ber of the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, is a fair certainty. She con-
fesses to being SO.
William II. Hastie, believed to be the
first Negro ever named to the Federal
bench, has just been appointed United
States judge for the Virgin Islands.
Nearly 95 per cent of the island popula-
ton is entirely or partially colored. The
HASTE appointment is one of the earliest
signs of Roosevelt recognition of the
Negro support the Democratic national
ticket received in 1886. Honor graduate
of Amherst and holder of Harvard law
degree, the new judge is a native Ten
nesseean and only 80 years old. He is now
in the legal division of the Interior
Department.
Il 4 4
Despite certain sings and arrows of
the moment, Postmaster General Farley
went out of his way on Saturday to toss
a bouquet at Chief Justice Hughes. The
occasion was the opening of a new post
Office at Hamilton, N. Y, seat of Colgate
University. Sunny Jim took opportunity
to remark in his dedicatory speech that
lone of the most illustrious of those
honored by Colgate degree is the
present Chief Justice of the United
States, the distinguished Charles Evans
Hughes"
There was a noteworthy incident at
a recent White House press conference,
when flood relief was under discussion.
Fred w. Perkins of the Pittsburgh Press
wanted to know If the President would
exercise his right Of priority in approval
of projects under the omnibus flood
control law, comprehending expenditure
Of $310,00O,000 on some 200 reservoirs.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated that he didn't
think he has any priority discretion.
His reportorial questioner rejoined: "Mr.
President, hope I'm wrong" but politely
persisted in his query. There were a
couple of minutes of good-humored pro
and con banter, until it was finally and
magnanimously acknowledged that
Perkins had the dope. European CORE
spondents at the conference remarked
that such a demonstration of an un-
shackled press is probably unthinkable
anywhere except in Washington. Perkins
is being "kidded" by his colleagues on
being the only man who ever won an
argument with the President.
II X
Rear Admiral Cook, chief OF the
Navys Bureau Of AeronattacAL an
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Senator Borah on Purposes
And Functions of Court
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Senator Borah is entitled to the graft
tude of the American people for his
timely exposition Of the purpose and
functions Of the Supreme Court. And
The Star Is also entitled to gratitude for
its enlightening editorials on the Con-
stitution and the Supreme Court.
Every one who believes in government
by law rather than by men, who believes
that he should have certain rights which
the legislative and executive branches
cannot take away, cannot but feel CRATE
full for the position taken by the Senator
and by your paper.
Any one who has observed how estab-
nshed governments have been over
thrown by demagogues with talents for
mob leadership cannot but be alarmed
at the direction of events in this country
If the Constitution is ever emasculated
by judicial interpretations and the
judges become mere puppets Of executive
and legislative departments the end of
our government as we know it will not
be far off. Let us hope that the Amer
ican people will see the light before it
is too late. F. WILSON.
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Correction as to the
Shaving of Mr.. Lincoln

To the Editor Of The Star:
In your article on "Lincoln's Blood
stained Cuff" by Jessie FAINT Evans, in
The Sunday Star of February z, the
authors facts are wrong. She states:
Laura Keene in Our American Cousin
had supporting cast including Joe JEFF
ferson, the older Sothern and Mrs.
Sothern" These are not the facts. None
Of the above was in the cast.
The author also states: "All eyes
turned toward Miss Keene following the
sentence uttered by Mr.. Sothern, as Lord
Dundreary, as the shot came" All wrong
again. Miss Keene was not on the stage
at all. Mr.. Sothern was not playing the
part. Two entirely different characters
occupied the stage alone. Harry Hawk,
as Asa Trenchard, and my grandmother,
Helen Muzzy, as Mrs. Mountchesington,
were on the stage. The last words
President Lincoln ever heard were spoken
by Harry Hawk and were addressed to
Helen Muzzy. They were: you darned
old sock-dologing man trap!"
The part of Lord Dundreary was played
by E. A. Emerson, not Mr.. Sothern.
The Star is so accurate most Of the
time that hate to let an error like that
I have noted pass uncorrected.
ALBERT E. MUZZY.
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Gives Example of Elihu
Roots Sense of HumOr

To the Editor of The Star:
In your very excellent account OF the
remarkable life of Elihu Root looked
in vain for some reference to his sense
of humor" as among his other splendid
qualifications.
I have in my possession, in Gen.
Sniffens autograph letter collection, a
note from Gen. A. E. Bates, Paymaster
General of the Army, dated December
10, 1902, informing Secretary Root that
it will be impossible for him to comply
with instructions regarding the funeral
of Mrs. Grant (widow of President
Grant,, because the tailor cannot COM
plete his uniform in time.
The Secretary returned the letter to
Gen. Bates with the following indorse-
ment in his own handwriting:
Ordered, that Brig. Gen. A. E. Bates
be sent to the gun foundry at Watervliet
and turned down about the waist so that
he can get his uniform on. Elihu Root,
Secretary Of War"
MRS. c. G. SNIFFEN.
Evening star., 1937-02-08

Revolutionary" and "dictatorial" are
some of the critical comments evoked in
staggered political quarters by the Presi-
dents plan to overhaul the Supreme
Court. Friendly observations acclaim the
program variously as courageous"
candid" and constructive" This wide
divergence of reaction to the most SEN
saticnal Rooseveltian project yet sub
mitted to Congress betokens the violent
struggle that will be waged at the Capitol
before action enSueS. The adminiStra-
ton possibly has votes enough in both
houses to assure eventual adoption of
the scheme, but not until after one OF
the grimmest legislative combats in
Washington's history. The contest will
find regular party lines broken right and
left. Future liberal and conservative
political alignments are more than likely
to, be determined by the outcome. Sen
ators Borah and Glass are expected to
be in the forefront of the drive to thwart
any packing" of the Supreme Court.
under cover of judiciary reforms ad-
mittedly required in many directions.
X X \
It was to startled White House press
conference that the first news of the far
flung proposition was confided. For the
better part of an hour, twice as long as
the usual session, the President held his
big newspaper audience spellbound with
the breath-taking details. He reeled
them off with unmistakable gusto, DEM
onstrating afresh his unequaled talent
as maestro of political publicity. Every
now and then he interpolated wise
crack-like the remark that it was in
the "pre-horse and buggy era" that
Federal judges literally rode" circuit.
The boldness and breadth of the Presi-
dents plan left the scribes fairly fab
bergasted. Eschewing their usual heck
ling, they dashed at breakneck speed to
typewriters and wires, to dispatch one
of the biggest stories of the New Deal
period. Mr. Roosevelt seemed thoroughly
to enjoy the complete surprise he had
sprung on the vigilant newshawks.
~
There Is good deal Of wonder why
the administration timed the Supreme
Court bombshell for this particular
moment, with flood and strike news still
competing for front page and radio
space. Mr.. Roosevelt rightly reckoned
that the project would detonate in Con-
greSs and in the county with roar
that would drown out almost any other
conceivable national event, even a major
disaster or a crisis in industry. Friend
and foe agree that the President did an
adroit job in sandwiching the idea of an
augmented court among multiplicity
of minor judicial reforms. But when the
bill is on the congressional chopping
block thereTl be no lack of emphasis on
the contention that F. D. RS chief
yearning is for court more kindly dis
posed toward New Deal objectiveS.
\ X
For some time to come the woods will
be full of suggestions of ideal timber for
new Supreme Court Justices If such
there are to be. - Popular report tab
ulates, among outstanding possibilities,
Felix Frankfurter, Senator Wagner,
Donald Richberg, John Dickinson and
James M Lands. If the President
raids the Senate for material, the hon.
orably mentaonsd. IN addition to Bob
Evening star., 1937-02-08

Mediterranean power and is therefore
without status in the maritime region
now In question falls to the ground be-
cause the same reasoning applies to Ger
many, whose fleet has been perniciously
active In Spanish and North African
waters. The British, who are promoting
the blockade program, acknowledge that
1t is impossible to bar the Russians from
it If the Germans are admitted. Neither
Britain nor France bankers for Soviet
Intervention in an already sufficiently
complicated Mediterranean situation, but
the Franco-Russian alliance projects an
angle which both London and Paris find
1t difficult to circumvent.
Thus one more delicate snarl sud-
denly intrudes itself into the tortuous
business Of ending the Spanish war. AS
far as the blockade is concerned, 1t is
plainly a case Of either putting the
Russians in or keeping the Germans out.
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Elihu Root.

Certainly, 1t Is as yet too early to
appraise the career and the services Of
Elihu Root. But 1t is q natural instinct
to notice the story Of his life at the
moment Of its termination. He was one
Of the most important If not one of the
greatest Americans of his time. The age
to which he belonged, it may be, perishes
with him. Few of his admirers will fail
to connect his departure with the revo-
lutionary changes in the Federal State
which were proposed as he lay i'll and
helpless. 1t is not unlikely that his death
will be identified in the public imagina-
ton with the projected reorganization of
the Government, especially with the de-
sign to provide political control for the
Supreme Court. He was out of place in
a period when experimental reform domi-
mates the national scene.
But the sponsors of the current pas
sion for radical democracy would be well
advised to remember the lessons which
Mr.. Root perforce was obliged to learn
in the hardest of all possible schools. His
constitution for New York, for example,
was motivated by a patriotism as richly
ardent as that of the authors of the
New Deal. The people, however, re-
jected it. So, too, his World Court
scheme was refused by the masses He
was distrusted by some of his country
men-because they recognized in him an
intelligence superior to their own. The
presidency was denied him; appointment
to the highest tribunal in the land was
never seriously considered for him; his
own party neglected him; the country at
large pretended to fear him. His fate
resembled that of the Duke of Yelling
ton. The London mob made it hobby
to hate the Victor of Waterloo.
Yet Mr.. Root was undiscouraged. De-
spite repeated disappointment, he con-
tinued to labor for the common good
throughout the better part of his ninety
years. That he was isolated from the
PoySAAO1OSANd4 VI lllS UODuldCG
was an advantage to the Nation on
numerous occasions. His position was
Olympian. Even those who Knocked at
him were in his debt when he opposed
their extravaganza. He was the archi-
tect Of much Of the progress which dis
tinguished the United States during the
first quarter of the twentieth century.
If the people did not make more COM
prehensive use of him. the fault was
theirs.
AS lawyer, he was immensely sue
cessful; in politics, he comforted him
self for his defeats in the philosophy of
hope-later generations, he believed,
would understand. Meanwhile, the
chances of trial and error could be relied
upon to educate the electorate. So, Mr..
Root finished his pilgrimage with the
cheerful optimism which prompted his
best effort. Those who knew him inti-
mately loved and respected him, and that
was enough.
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Singing.

Singing once upon time was nom
professional affair. People during un-
counted centuries sang as amateurs,
without any pretense of being trained
or disciplined artists. Then, perhaps
originally in Egypt, choral music was
institutionalized as ritualistic adjunct
OF religion. In ancient Greece both
choruses and individual singers were
educated to the highest proficiency in
the service of the Olympian deities and
the cities supposed to enjoy their pro-
lection. The gods Of Rome likewise
were offered hymns of praise by temple
chanters. Also from the Hebrew syna-
gogue, as well as from pagan sources, the
Christian church received a tradition
which, especially in the Middle Ages,
resulted in the organization Of cathedral
choirs throughout Europe.
But America, settled in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries by Puritans,
who distrusted nturgical forms of wor-
ship. imported little of its natural mu-
sical heritage. Singing was taboo in
New England congregations, neglected
in Virginia. It was not until John Wes-
ley's missionary visit to Georgia, in 1735,
that Colonial communities began to ap-
preciate choral enterprise. And even
the great Methodist reformer could not
work the necessary miracle. His example,
however, inspired the efforts OF Dwight
L. Moody and Ira d. sankey, twelve
decades later, and he, therefore, is en-
titled to some credit in the circum-
stances.
Yet it is rather to Stephen Collins
Foster that the United States owes the
most popular folk songs and folk sing
ing it possesses. Certainly one Of the
rarest geniuses Of his kind who ever
has lived, he composed between 1910 and
1884 the only American melodies which
Evening star., 1937-02-08
Russia on the Sea.

One day last week Italy and Turkey
patched up diplomatic deal, one of the
purposes of which is reputed to be the
isolation Of Soviet naval power within
the Black Sea, as far as the Dardanelles
are concerned. Russia has promptly
taken occasion to let interested powers
know that she does not intend to be
excluded from international arrange
ments. Tecting immediate problems in
the Me "rranean. Moscow's opportu-
with plans of the London International
Committee for Intervention in
Spain, whereby it is proposed to throw
a naval blockade around the coasts of
the peninsula, in order to prevent arms
and volunteers for the belligerents from
arriving by sea. This arrangement pro-
vides for establishment of separate zones,
which would be intrusted to British,
French, German and Italian fleets, act
ing independently. The U. S. s. R. noti-
fies the London committee that while it
accepts in principle an embargo on armed
aid to either warning force in Spain, 1t
cannot consent to being shut out of the
blockade. The Russians demand that
naval control shall be unified, with their
participation. Unless their claim is met,
the most effective plan yet devised for
starving the Spanish combatants of war
sinews is doomed to collapse.
Russia is especially determined to
thwart any discrimination against her,
in light of avowed Italo-G German efforts
to checkmate communism and by every
recourse at the command Of the Fascist
relationships to have the Soviet Union
treated as pariah in European affairs.
The argument that Russia is not a