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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
MOTOR BOATING
GIVES KEY WEST
ANOTHER BOOST
CARRIES ARTICLE CONCERN
ING ORGANIZATION OF LO-
CAL YACHT CLUB IN APRIL
ISSUE

"All we have to do is to get
that thoroughfare from Bahia
Honda to Key West SO that a
yacht can get through it, and if
we do not have our harbor crowd
ed with yachts, it certainly won't
be the fault of that good friend of
Key West, MOTOR BOATING"
said Secretary S. c. Singleton
when The Citizen made its call
this morning at the office.
Here is "A Survey of Harbor
Facilities, from Manasquan, N. j.,
to New Orleans, and Key West
gets Write-up that would bring
any yatchsman miles out of his
way.
A copy of the April number of
MOTOR BOATING contains this
paragraph about the Key West
Yacht Club:
THE boys in the Key West
Yacht Club some time ago went
high hat and christened their
club Cayo Hueso, which is Span
ish for Key West, but due to the
difficulty of visitors in remem-
bering this name, decided to go
back to their former name and
now again will be known as the
Key West Yacht Club. This club
has been organized only short
time and the election of officers
resulted in Major James d. Mac
Mullen being selected for the
office of Commodore. Other of
ficers will be Melvin Russell,
Vice-Commodore; DR.. j. Y. Por-
ter, Rear Commodore; Stephen c.
Singleton, Secretary Treasurer,
and DR.. Armando Cobo and
Stephen c. Singleton, III, repre-
sentatives for the associate and
junior members.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
HAVE $325 FOR
CITY ART CENTER

Funding az the rehabilitation
program for the building OF the
city Art Center, located opposite
the Aquarium. has advanced To
S325. Or. Vim. r. Warren. treaSur-
er, said today.
Collections are indeed slow.
the treasurer reports. and may be
due 10 the fact that personal So
llcitation has not been begun as
yet. although letters asking for
donations have been sent the or
carnations Of the city,
Largest donation thus far IS
BAT Of the County Commission
Is, which voted $500.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
KEY WEST ART
SCENES WILL BE-
SHOWN in MIAMI
EIGHTY THREE WATER COL
ORS. OIL PAINTINGS. MET
AL CRAFTS. ETCHINGS.
DRAWINGS SHIPPED

Eighty three water ColorS, oil
paintings, drawings. etchingS and
some metal crafts of Key West
sights and scenes have been for
warded to the MiamIS Woman's
Club for two weeks exhibition
beginning Monday and continuing
until May Ia.
Request was made through
Adam Empie, director of the Mi
ami Federal Art Galleries,
through the sponsoring Miami
Woman's Club. Townsend Nor
gan, local Federal Art Center di-
rector, suggested to the Key West
Art Association, an independent
group. which had two exhibitions
at the Art Center here during the
winter. that they send a repre-
sentative group of scenes, The
80 were selected by jury from
the Association.
Mr.. Empie states in the request
that if more pictures are sent
them than their galleries can &C
commodate he has arranged for
exhibition in the Miami Chamber
Of Commerce, American Automo-
bile Association offices and other
places i'm the downtown section
of Miami.
A great demand has been felt
in Miami for things of interest
about Key West, and a large
number of requests have been
for art subjects, Mr. Empie states.
The present exhibition is design
ed to supply this demand in some
measure, he concluded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
Government Action

Naturally, the question arises,
did the Government do anything
about the situation then? The
answer is three-fold: In Deem
Der. 1886. the Treasury began to
"Sterilize" incoming gold from
abroad to keep it from initiating
the credit structure of the nation;
in April, 1887, the Government
issued warnings against the prac-
tice of over-production and high
prices; in May, 1887, the Federal
Reserve increased its require
ments in order to curtail banking
credit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
AROUND MIAMI
(By CONTRIBUTION

sssssOsSssssSsssssssssss
The late Col. E. H. r. Green's
inheritance tax to his ''home
state" will be around $4,000, 900.
But CONSERVATION and confusion
is rife because the colonel absent
mindedly failed to say which of
his four residences was "home-
sweet-home". When in Texas,
the colonel talked HOSES, chaw-
ed quid and wore a ten-gal-
Ion hat. In New York, he was
the debonaire man-about-town.
And in Massachusetts, he was a
"bluenose Yankey" by right of
birth. But in Miami, here he
really was a Cracker" who well
coined celebrities to his mansion
on Star Island and hobnobbed
with traffic cops and grocer men.
l remember him sitting, double
parked in his huge black limou-
sine with its glass top and writing
desk. The 300-pound colonel had
stack of crisp $40 bills before
him as he fondled his pet Boston
bull. with a red ribbon. AS I
watched, a Miami police sergeant
came up TO greet him and he
gave him a cigar and one of the
bills. Then his chauffeur, who
acted for many years as his COM
panion and bodyguard. climbed
aloft and the big car with it's
Massachusetts, tags, skinned
away. Pretty generous for a
dam Yankey". somebody remark
ed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

The Presidents new recovery
program, outlined to Congress
two weeks ago and explained to
the people in radio address, is
derisively referred to as "the cam
paign fund for 1898" by the OPP
position, which includes a num-
Der of Democratic members of
Congress as well as most of the
Republicans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

While Congress may do conSid-
cradle car-marking of funds, the
prospects are that the program
will proceed. 1t is important,
therefore, for the people of this
country to understand the back
ground, the intended results and
the consequences of the Presi-
dents proposal. Briefly, the
President argues:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

Last autumn. says the PreSi-
dent, lin a sincere effort to bring
Government expenditures and
Government income into closer
balance the budget worked out
called for sharp increases in Gov
eminent spending. In January,
the Treasury estimate of the bud
get for the fiscal year beginning
July LIST, 1887. reflected consider
able curtailment. These estimates.
says Mr. Roosevelt, in the light of
present conditions. are "far too
low.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

Six Florida aces are buSily at
work in Reading. Pa, preparing
for the AAA auto races being
held there this week. They are
Jimmie Malone. who handled
publicity for the Florida State
Fair at Tampa; Big Bilr Breiten-
stlcn, who was manager of the
Orange Belt Fair at DeLand;
Jake Marks. who conducts racing
at Ormond Beach: George Kinum,
gcncralissimo of Orange City Ho-
tel; Ralph Hankinson, who has
charge of the AAA racing pro
gram, and Charlie Williams. his
secretary
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

In discussing possible increase
in the national income, Mr.. Roose-
welt continued: Il want to make
it clear that we do not believe
that we can get an adequate rise
in national income merely by in
vesting, lending or spending pub
lie funds. 1t is essential in our
economy that private funds be
put to work and all of us recog-
nizc that such funds are entitled
to fair profit. The Government
cannot and should not act alone.
Business must help. I am sure
business will help.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

BY the end of 1886, he said,
both the business community and
the Government felt that a large
measure of the Governments
spending activities could be re-
duced. During the winter and
spring of 1887, cotton factories,
automobile plants and other in
dustries. for various causes, pro-
duced goods faster than the con-
sumers could buy them, and by
the autumn of 1887 had surplus
stocks on hand. During the same
period prices of some products
rose faster than was warranted
and many commodities were pric-
ed to consumers above the "infla-
tionary boom prices of 1922.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
Finance and Credit

This new program, says the
President, adds $2,062,0O0,00 to
direct Treasury expenditures and
another $3.50, 000,0 900 to Govern
ment loans. Mr.. Roosevelt con-
tinues, "The net effect on the
debt of the Government is this
between now and July /, 1889,
fifteen months aWay-the. Treas
ury will have to raise less than
81 500, 100000 of new money.
Naturally, the reader wonders
how the Treasury will raise near
~ three billion dollars for direct
raising more than half the sum.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
The National Income

The national income, which
was $8O,O0O,O 100000 in 1923, drop
ped to less than $4O,0O0,00O,0O0 in
1882, but rose to $68,OO0,000,00
in 1887 as a result of the Admin
istration's acts to reestabliSh res
ervoirs of credit, to put purchas-
ing power in the hands of the
consuming public, and to secure
a more equitable distribution of
the national income.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

Mr. Roosevelt recalls that, in
his message to Congress. he stated
that if private enterprise did not
provide jobs this spring. the
Government would take up the
slack" For four and half years,
recovery proceeded apace. but
"the course of our economies has
run adversely for half a year.
Moreover. only within the past
two months. as we have waited
patiently to see whether the fore
es of business itself would coun-
teract it (the economic setback
has il become apparent that Gov
eminent itself could not longer
safely fail to take aggressive Gov
eminent steps TO meet it,.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

Readers will recall that in De
cember. 1896, when large quaint
ties of gold were coming into this
country from abroad. the credit
structure of the nation was
threatened with initiation. AT that
time, the Treasury began acquir-
ing the gold in order to prevent
its use as the base of excessive
credit This was done TO prevent
excessive initiation: it was called
sterilization" of gold The pres
ent "deSterilization" reverscs the
process because initiation of credit
is now demced desirable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

sor of a Banyan Tree, one of the
finest of this species to be found
anywhere. Recently. the Lake
land News, a bi-weekly pub
lication, part owner of which is
Frank w. Lowering, who former
ly published the Florida Keys
Sun in this city, had very in
teresting story about the Banyan
Tree, which readers of The Citi-
gen will find interesting. Column
list Lowering devoted an entire
column to this subject in his Zone
Line After Another" with which
most Key Westers are familiar.
The article follows:
At DANA, few miles south of
Fort Lauderdale. a tropical gar
den features "the 100000 Ban
yam Tree. Tradition dating back
in the boom days" says the inn
mense tree was thus nicknamed
when one developer, looking at
the tree with another said. I'D
give two million dollars to have
that tree on my property. But he
didn't buy it.
Few trees in the world have so
much background in history as
the banyan. To botanists it is
known as Ficus Indica, but Time
has developed several aliases:
the pagoda tree, the bo-tree. the
grove tree, and, from an India
tribe of tradesmen, the Banjans,
came the name, Banyan, which
seems most favored. Usually
Baian is Hindu, and that cast
of Hindu merchants utilities the
great and columned spaces shell
tered by the far-Spreading tree as
market places. The one especial
tree which gives the name to the
classification was on the Persian
Gulf, and as a spot for worship
some of the merchants once built
a pagoda there.
In Calcutta, India, the name
"Banian" was generally applied
to native broker or a head clerk
in any business or private house,
known as "Sircar". In Bengal
Bantam means a dealer in grain.
The word is Anglo-Indian for
undershirt, in reference to the
body garment of the Hindus, es-
pecially the Banians. In the Brit
ish Navy, "banyan days" were
formerly the two days each week
on which meat was excluded from
the menu. this an allusion to the
vegetarian diet of the Hindu
merchants-the BanianS.
The Bantam caste numbers be-
tween three and four million hui
man beings and carries on extern
sive trade by means of caravans
with the interior of Asia and to
the borders of China and Russia.
Travelling much the Banians have
established counting houses wide
ly in Asia. In Africa they were at
one time Unidentified with the ne
farious slave trade Those of the
caste with enough capital live
generally by money-lending at
luxurious interest rates. The poor
er Banians hawk their goods
about the rural villages.
And now to the botanical side
of the picture. Of plants that at
tain the dignity of trees none
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
Cn Legislation to stabilize al

(n Legislation to stabilize ag-
riculture.
(3) Legislation to end loop
holes in personal income tax laws
(Sl Legislation 10 put a floor
under wages and a ceiling over
hours Of labor in industry And
ca Tax legislation to remove
ineQuiiies from the Undlstributed
Profits tax, especially as they af-
feet the smaller types OF business
Legislation for items On and
~ have been approved by the
President. item (3l is under con-
sideration and congressional &C
ton on item ca is in the final
stages Of free conference. The
record speaks for itself. says the
President. adding. No other
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

This brings us to two steps
recommended by the President
for the expansion of bank re-
sources. which were taken imme-
diately without congressional &C
ton. The first was the desterili-
cation of gold which placed ST.
39l 100000 to the Treasury's &C
count in the Federal Reserve
Banks to be used in helping to
finance the new appropriations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
Complaints of Business

Evidently, to answer the COM
plants of business that Govern
ment interference has retarded
recovery. the President said. 1T
should ha noted in fairness that
since January list, 1897. the Presi-
dent has recommended to Con-
greSS only four measures of ma
jor Importance to business of the
country. These include;
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

General Butler. aSSailing Navy
Bill calls IT a grand bluff and
urges military isolation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
BY HUGO SIMS Special Washington Correspondent The
Is This the Campaign Fund for 1898"
Or the Logical Road to Full Recovery?

measures affecting business have
been proposed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28
RECENT issue OF LAKELAND NEWS
HAS ARTICLE ABOUT BANYAN TREE

shows such prodigious growth of
air roots as the banyan, concern
ing which the poet, Milton, wrote:
THE Bonded twigs take root, and
daughters grow
About the mother tree; a pillar'd
shade
High over-arched. the echoing
walks between.
There oft the Indian herdmar,
stunning heat.
Shelters in cool and tends his pas
turing herds
At loopholes cut through thickest
shade.
The verse describes the banyan
accurately. The parent tree. a
tropical parasite, (Hemi-epiphy-
tes) terminates from seeds
dropped by birds, or carried on
the wind to other trees, quite pre-
ferably the crown of palm. AS
it develops. the aerial growth
drops roots from its branches and
the small, tender fiberS like loose
cords dangle toward the earth, in
creasing in length and thickness
as they pierce their way into it.
The parts above ground con-
tinue to thicken and tighten till
they grow as big as large tree
trunks. More and more branches
send out more and more roots;
the original tree becomes a VERT
able grove, and meantime kills
the parent tree into the top of
which the seeds were deposited.
In this extraordinary process of
evolution the banyan builds an
immense and heavily columned
canopy of leaves with numberless
stem-like props,
At first the young banyan lives
on its host tree. but finally ex-
tinguishes it entirely, so one
would never know it existed. The
heart-shaped leaves. five and six
inches long. are produced in pairs,
and develop a fig no bigger than
cherry. One tree in India is ex-
panSive enough to shelter 1000
people. The wood of the banyan is
porous and of no use; the tree
furnishes gum-lac and the milk
and bark are sometimes used in
Hindu medicinal work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-28

And now TO the botanical side
of the picture. Of plants that at
tain the dignity of trees none
Montana labor news., 1938-11-24
Roster of Anaconda Unions

Central Labor Council of Anaconda. Meets
first and third Mondays of each month
in Mill and Smeltermen's Hall, Ana
conda, Mont. President, c. B.. Askelock,
Hammil, Piasterers Union; recording
secretary, Walter Healy, Hold Carriers
Union; treasurer, Dan s.. Lyons, Plumb
ers ana Steamfitters Union; trustees,
James Gardiner, Teachers Union; Tim
Donohue, Operating Engineers Union;
Martin. Scanlon, Anaconda Topographic
cal Union.
international Brotherhood of Transfers,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of
America, Local No. l01. Floyd Braun,
Pres; Tom O'Brien, Vice Pres; Jack
Anderson, Sec. Treas; II. ]. Villeneaue,
Rec. Sec.; A. Anderson, Conductor and
Warden; John Mogus, Business Agent;
j. c.. Sestrich, John Monohan, Tom
OBrien, Trustees; j. G. Sestrich, Tom
OBrlen, VIM. Howard, Delegates to
Central Labor. Meets LIST and 3rd
Thursday, l09 Main St, M. & S. Hall.
United Association of Journeymen Plumb
erS and Steamfitters, Local Union No,
6f3. President, Dan L. Sullivan; vice.
President. Fred Conger; Recording Sec
rotary, Forest Saltemberger; Treasurer,
Dan S. Lyons. Meets first and third
Tuesdays at Carpenters Hall.
International Hod Carriers, Building and
Common Laborers' Union OF America,
Mondays at A. o. H. hall On East Com
mercial Ave. Ronald Mcdonald, Pres;
Glenn McPhail, Vice Pres; Frank Healy,
S~ec'y-Treas. and Business Agent.
Officers OF Local 927 of the International
Union Of Operating Engineers are as
follows: President, NJ. B. Mcdonald; vice
president, Rudy B~laskovich; financial
secretary, Chas. Sawyer; recording sec
rotary, j. r. Booth; guard, Chester
HugheSi conductor, Eugene Smith,
Montana labor news., 1938-11-24

In the District Court of the Second Ju-
dicial District of the State of Montana,
In and for b County of Silver Bow.
CARL L. RASMUSSEN, Plaintiff,
JUANITA VIOLET RASMUSSEN, Defend
ant.
The State of Montana Sends Greetings
to the Above Named Defendant.
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action, which is filed
in the office OF theC Clerk of this Court, a
copy of which is herewith served upon
you, n to file your answer and serve a
copy thereof upon the plaintiffs attorney
within twenty days after the service Of
this summons, exclusive of the day OF
service; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the relief de-
handle in the complaint.
The plaintiff complains of you, the de-
PENDANT, and alleges: That this plaintiff
has been a bona flde resident of Montana
for more than n year; that you and
she intermarried on or about the 7th day
Of July, 1887, at Anaconda, Montana, and
ever since have been husband and wife;
that no children nave been born as issue
year last past and Immediately preceding
the commencement Of this action, to-Wit:
the 18th day of August, 1888; that the
defendant has Wilfully and voluntarily
and without any cause therefore whatso-
ever on the part of this plaintiff, deserted
and abandoned the plaintiff with the in
tent in her, the said defendant, to desert
and abandon the plaintiff and to live
separate and apart from him and de-
PENDANT does now so continue to Wilfully
and voluntarily and without any cause
whatever IN the part of the plaintiff de-
sert and abandon the plaintiff and to live
apart Il separate from him, against his
will and wish n without his consent.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays that the bonds
of matrimony heretofore n now existing
between the plaintiff and the defendant
be dissolved and forever set aside; that
plaintiff be given and granted a decree
Of absolute divorce from the defendant;
that the said parties be placed in the
status of single persons and that plaintiff
AVE UGH other and further relief, as to
the court seems meet and agreeable to
equity; and that the defendant be re-
stored her maiden name of Juanita Violet
Kennedy.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said
Court this 10th day of November, A. D.
1888.
ELMER SHEA, Clerk.
By D. F. HOLLAND, Deputy Clerk,
court SeaD
WILLIAM B. FRAME,
1903 OWsley Bldg, Butte, Montana,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication November II, 1938.-4T.
Montana labor news., 1938-11-24
No. 37631

AAltAD DONlAAON1
In the District Court of the Second Ju-
dicial District Of the State of Montana,
In and for the County OF Silver Bow.
WINNIFRED TOUT, Plaintiff,
ERNEST TOUT, Defendant.
The State OF Montana Sends Greetings
to the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action, which is filed
in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a
0 of which is herewith served upon
you, n to file your answer n serve a
copy thereof upon the plaintiffs attorney
within twenty days after the service Of
this summons, exclusive of the day of
service; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the relief de-
anded in the complaint.
TIT plaintiff complains of you, he de-
PENDANT, and alleges: That this plaintiff
has been a bona fide resident Of Montana
for more than one year; that you and
day of November, 1884, at Butte, Mon
tana, and ever since have been husband
n wife; that no children nave been
born as issue of this marriage; that for
more than one year last past and imme-
diately preceding the date of he COM
mencement of this action, to-Wit. the 10th
day of November, 1888, in this, that you,
the defendant, nave failed and neglected
necessarles OF life, you having the ability
to do so.
WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays for a de-
cree of absolute divorce and for such
other relief as to the Court may seem
meet n agreeable to equity.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said
Court this 10th day of November, A. D.
1888.
ELMER SHEA, Clerk.
By D. F. HOLLAND, Deputy Clerk.
court Seal)
WILLIAM B. FRAME,
1903 Owsley Bldg, Butte, Montana,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication November II, 1938.-T.