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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
A HELP TO KEY WEST

The announcement yesterday by State
Representative Bernie C. Papy that con-
ference of state senators and representa-
tives of the Fourth Congressional District
had approved of an allotment of 100000
to Monroe county for extension of the
Overseas Highway over the old railroad
right of way and viaducts between Big
Pine and Ramrod keys is of immense i'm
portance to Key West.
Completion of that stretch of new
highway will eliminate three wooden
bridges, thus substantially reducing the
fire hazard, cut five miles from the dis
lance and do away with several danger
Gus curves and some rough road. Instead
of curving around through Big Pine and
Torch keys, the highway will proceed on a
direct line from the toll gate at Big Pine
to Ramrod where it will rejoin the old
county roadway now in use. It will be
fine improvement and cut down the rum
ming time between the mainland and Key
West
Another appropriation approved by
the conference, Representative Papy and
B. M. Duncan, engineer and manager of
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge district re-
port, was one of $4,000 for resurfacing
the highway between Tavernier and Snake
Creek. That stretch is VIGOROUSLY rough
and dangerous and has been in sore need
Of resurfacing for some time. This job
further will reduce the distance, or the
running time, between Key West and the
mainland.
These jobs are scheduled to get start
ed right after January l under the super
vision of the State Highway Department.
1t is to be hoped that by the time this work
have come to some agreement with R. C..
Perky to acquire some 10000 feet of old
railroad right of way he controls between
Ramrod Key and Key West. Failure to
get this right of way is blocking the effort
to get appropriations from the state and
the U. S. Bureau of Roads to complete the
Overseas Highway all the way to this city.
The commission should renew it's effort to
settle this matter with Perky or else bring
action in the courts to acquire the required
property.
Representative Papy and Road Man.
ager Duncan are to be congratulated for
their successful effort to get appropria-
tons from the state for the highway. Since
the state appropriations are matched by
similar allotments by the U. S. Bureau of
Roads it means that some $4,000 will
be available for this vital work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
Even the greatest can EN- at times, es.

Even the greatest can err at times, es-
peeially when defining anything. Man"
said Plato, addressing his scholars. "is a
two-legged thing without feathers" BE
hold" interrupted Diogenes, holding up a
fowl which he had plucked clean. behold
Plato's man." Once the French Academy
was asked to give definition of crab. 1t
replied that it was a red fish that ran
backwards. erring three times in its re-
ply. crab is not a fish but erustacean.
il is not red until cooked. and it does not
run backwards but sideways.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
The United States should ask the be-

I The United States should ask the be-
nighted Filipinos to come over here and
show US how to run our country eco
nomically. We have q deficit of almost
$4,000. 100000. while the Philippine
commonwealth had a surplus so great that
all the islands outstanding bonds were
retired. After paying all expenses to run
the government last year, s49,295,727 re-
NAMED in the tiller.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Thursday at the regular meeting,
with members presenting novel
ty gifts to designated members
as drawn by lots at the meeting
last evening.
Guest present was Jack De-
laney.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Women are becoming more masculine
every day. First they emitted little coughs
when they attempted to smoke cigarette,
now some of them smoke cigars without
even a grimace. If this thing keeps up it
will eventually change our sex at will
like the oyster.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Deaths from malaria fever in the
United States have decreased 81 per cent
since 1900, according to U. S. Census
Bureau reports. This is pleasant news
item, but it does not affect Key West, as
malaria fever is foreign to this island.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

A Key West woman informed her
husband that a certain married man kissed
his wife every day, and added that he
didn't. The negligent husbands reply is
mot known to this column, but he might
have replied that he didn't know the other
woman we'll enough.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
WOULD AFFECT
PHONE SERVICE

OCALA, Dec. 16 FNS).-Many
of the small town telephone ex-
changes will have to be closed,
and residents of the areas depriv-
ed of vital phone service if pro-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

An interesting relic of early Spaniards
in Florida was found sticking out of the
ground near his home by Wilbur Smith of
Daytona Beach. 1t was sword, declared
by the Smithsonian Institution to be of
type used by Spanish officers in the 10th
century, and was fairly well preserved.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Articles for publication in The Citi-
zen must be signed by the author. If you
do not want your name published in con-
nection, tell us so, and we will not print
1t, but you must sign everything submit
ted. This rule is strictly adhered to by
the editor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

On gravestone in a cemetery in Bur
lington. VT. is the following ambiguous
tribute to a woman of that city who died
in 1888: She lived with her husband so
years. and died in the confident hope Of
= better life
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Ladies of the First = Methodist
church will serve supper tomor-
row night from A until 10 o'clock.
The supper will be served on the
church lawn and Santa Claus is
sure to visit the supper and par
take of the refreshments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
Comprehensive City Plan (zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments.
4. Bathing Pavilion.
8. Airports--Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Editorial comment: A street of
well-kept homes is defaced by a
blot of ugliness if one house on
that street is allowed to run down
and look badly. That one place
stands out like a sore thumb.
People are always conscious of it.
A slovenly-looking home or bust
ness building on a pretty street
is as much out of place as tramp
in the society of ladies and gen.
tlemen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Another deer was bagged yes
terday by the Tertulino hunting
party, which is composed of
more than a dozen members, and
has been hunting on the Keys for
the past several days. Some time
ago the group got deer weigh
ing 80 pounds. The one bagged
yesterday weighed 10 pounds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
somethinu 10 Worry About

And now we hear the people say
That winters gone and lost it's
way.
If so, / hope that lost twill stay
And not come raging round IN
May.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

The Dies committee is doing a fine
job, even if it has been handicapped by
the higher-ups. It is uncovering spies and
sending them to Jail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

What used to be called the silent
vote" now appears to have a feminine
voice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

No mother-in-law thinks that the
mother-in-law jokes were aimed at her
kind of mother-in-laws.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ismael
Calleja, 400 Southland street, on
Sunday, December 16, daughter
weighing nine pounds. Mother
and baby are doing nicely.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Many public speakers do not know
what to do with their hands. A lot of
bridge players are like that. too.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
A Tonque-Ta ngler

Wife-Did the doctor tell you
that you had some pronounced
disease?
Hub-Yes, but I'm hanged if ]
can pronounce it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16
Happenings Here just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken
- From The Files OF The Citizen

were brought in yesterday by
Garnault Agassiz, widely known
newspaper man and popular
writer. Mr.. Agassiz has angled
the world over, but was very en-
thusiastic over the success met
in these waters. He has happily
joined, he says, that great num-
Der of sportsmen who claim the
finest fishing to be found is in
the waters adjacent to Key West,
which he found to be the great
est producers of fish to be found
anywhere. With the visitors on
the trip were Lewis Pierce,
George Parks, Herman Albury,
Walter and Jack Maloney. They
had two boats, the Dot and the
Baker Boy.
Editorial comment: This sea-
son, for the first time, travellers
will run up against Cuba's So
tax. This tax is on tickets. They
cannot leave without paying it.
At Key West it's entirely differ
ent. Tourists are welcomed and
not unjustly taxed on their de-
parture.
Troop Four Girl Scouts have
announced a change in their
meeting time and will assemble
tomorrow in their headquarters
at the Scottish Rite Hall. The
meeting is being held at that
time because of the basketball
game to be played on their regu-
lar Thursday meeting night.
Mrs. Grace Phillips announces
that efforts are being made to
provide all patients in local hos
pitfalls with Christmas boxes. AS
executive of the local Red Cross
chapter, Mrs. Phillips each year
makes this provision and this
year will be no exception, if pos
sible, she said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Forty-five giant haTracssdaS.
soEae az them six feet long and
weighing more than IS pounds
each, and hundreds OF ether fish
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

The third game of the Little
Worlds Series between the
Pirates and the Sluggers, which
will be played Sunday to determ-
inc the city championship, will
bring out large crowd of fans,
it is said. The grounds at Fort
Taylor are said to be in excellent
shape for the contest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

Christmas Carnival and speed
writing contest, which started
yesterday afternoon, is reported
to have been a success so far and
is still in progress this afternoon
at the La Concha Hotel, expect
ing to end late tonight with gala
program. The event is being
sponsored by the Commercial De-
pertinent of the Junior-Senior
High School.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-16

En5oy The EondeFfnI tone
and performanee of the
Pkileo zSNFs, ah~Se. Amer-
iean and Fereign broadcast.
Electric Pash-Bafton Tanins.
Important new features Sea-
saiisnai Thsnksgiviag Yslasl
Evening star., 1938-09-30
MUNICH |SKN0WN
AS NAZ| CAPITAL
Peace Conference City, 4th
Largest in Germany, Has
Shrines of Party.

m Q dramatic moment when Eu-
ropes armed forces stood on the brink
Of war, the German city of Munich
(Munchen), as the result of Chancel-
lor Hitler's invitations to four-poWer
conference, was spotlighted IS the
center Of the worlds hopes for settle
ment of the Sudeten- German issue in
C1echoslovakia. Thus Munich, Ger
many's fourth largest city, became an
arena for the views Of Germany, Italy,
Great Britain and France.
Munich, the scene Of this memoir
able conference Of international i'm
portanoe, already claims German ma
tional prominence as the capital Of
tho NaN movement" says bulletin
from the National Geographic So
ciety. This title was conferred on the
Bavarian metropolis in 1885 by Chan
cellor Hitler. Since then the official
center Of the Nazi party (National
Socialist German Workers. has been,
not in Berlin, but in Munich's historic
four-story Brown House. now ac-
claimed as the city's leading land
mark.
The building chosen as scene of the
, conference was the long and severely
plain Fuhrer Building, q new structure
put up to house an assembly hall and
corridor after corridor Of workrooms
for the Nazi party.
THE Fuhrer Building dominates the
broad paved square of the Konigs-
Platz. or Kings Square, which is lined
with buildings, old and new, of special
Evening star., 1938-09-30

When 1t was the Barlow Palace, 1t was
. private residence. It housed for =
time the italian Embassy to the former
Kingdom Of Bavaria. As the present
NaA center, 1t is the climax Of q
series Of moves into progressively larger
and more impressive headquarters,
starting, in 1920. with the Sternecker
Brewery.
Room Preserves Party Banners.
THE Brown House has been remod-
eled to make space for the Nazi flag
room on the first floor, where the flags
and banners Of the party are preserved.
The second floor holds the Senators
Hall and study set aside for Chan
cellor Hitler. Ofnces Of Hitler's deputy
party leader and the Reich's treasurer
and their STATS are in the same build
ing, while other party activities are
Evening star., 1938-09-30

housed elsewhere throughout the city.
The Nazi buildings give . new
aspect to the Konigs- Platz, which typi-
f1es the old as well as the modern
Munich. On the north side OF the
square stands the Sculpture Gallery,
known as the first museum building in
Germany. On the south is the CEN
tury-old Neue Stats -Galerie New
State Gallery, built in 1838-48 for art
exhibitions. The same 18th century
wave Of building gave the Konigs-
Platz its west gateway, the Propylaea,
modelled faithfully after the ancient
Propylaea 1T Athens.
"on May II, 1898. Chancellor Hit
Ter gave the signal for the begin
ming Of construction Of q subway for
Munich This is part Of q build
ing program which Is to provide the
Evening star., 1938-09-30

significance to the National Socialist
Party. Just beyond stands the Brown
House, a dignified structure, formerly
the Barlow Palace. At the other end
of the square is the Administrative
Building. whose ofaces are a center Of
party activity. In line with the
Fuhrer and Administrative Buildings
are the two squares, roofless colon
nades known as the Temples of Honor,
surrounding the bronze sarcophagi Of
the l6 men killed on November 8,
1923, in the Naz party's first fight for
power, known now as the Feldherrn-
halle putsch.
Behind this imposing Nazi array
stands the Brown House, built in
1928, now well launched on its second
century of service to the successive
governments of that part Of Germany.
Evening star., 1938-09-30

Of transportation, INDUSTRY, asricul-
ture, mining. building, etc.
"On the opposite bank Of the River
Isar, and northwest Of the museum,
lies the beautiful English Garden, .
large park Of 500 acres laid out in
1789g by an American, Benjamin
Thompson, later known as Count
Rumford. This park. like Central
Park and Hyde Park, Is a quiet refuge
OF shaded pathways, rustic benches.
magnificent trees. colorful flowers and
quiet streams. Modernity has intrud-
ed only In the buses which whiz
Evening star., 1938-09-30

through its many miles Of roads.
Another familiar sight Is the great
goddesslike statue Of Bavaria on the
outskirts Of the city, overlooking the
Exhibition Grounds. This majestic
monument, representing all Of Bavaria,
stands regally against q background
Of the Bavarian Alps. On clear days
sightseers climb into the hand of
the goddess for . panoramic view Of
Munich and glimpse OF the distant
mountains.
THE nearby Exhibition Grounds
come to joyous life at this time of
Evening star., 1938-09-30

city with additional oAlces for the
Nazt party, new central railroad
station. new opera house, new the
aters, hotels, schools and museums.
Surrounded by the new, the men,
bers OF the four-power conference also
saw much Of old Munich, 80 familiar
to all visitors to this ancient capital
Of Bavaria. The Deutsches Museum
has 8 miles Of halls and rooms. Here
are housed the largest and some OF
the most important scientific and
technical exhibits in the world, ex-
hibitS which give a complete picture
Evening star., 1938-09-30

the year for the famous Oktoberfest
October FestivaD, which has been
held regularly for the last century
and . half. A city Of tents and
stalls, fantastic buildings and beer
halls, merry-go-rounds and roller
coasters, all filled with swarms Of
people, arises on the plain known "a
Theresian Wiese. This ground Is 80
called because Of . festival held, in
1910. in honor Of the wedding of the
Bavariap Crown Prince, later King
Ludwig I, and Princess Therese Of
Sachsen- n-Hildburghausen."
Evening star., 1938-09-30

hence incorrect, How is it possible,
these objectors ask, to pay no money?
Paying implies payment. They would
say Jack is not paid any money"
Since these objectors are in the mi
nority. current good use favors Jack
is paid no money" He paid me no
money" etc.
Evening star., 1938-09-30
jolly Polly

BY JOS. ]. FRISCH.
s. T.-Although constructions like
Jack is paid no money" are established
beyond question, some objection is
made to them that they are illogical,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-15
80 YEARS OF SERVICE

Frank Brett Moves, for 38 years President of the
Associated Press that he going to retire
from the position he has filled ably the years
as head of the greatest gathering agency in the
world Members OF the AP, OF which The Empire is
one will regret Mr. Noyes step down due to the
excellent job he has done. At the time it must
be conceded that after 38 years of continuous
ice the newspaper man certainly has won respite
the duties of President if he desires and with
him will go the best wishes the newspaper frater
nifty the country
During his long regime President Mr. Moves
has seen the Associated Press grow until there is
not of the globe today which it does not
in word and picture. Not many years ago the
taking of pictures left TO picture agencies but
today the AP picture service is among the best In
fact there is virtually phase of and feature
gathering in which the Associated Press does not
excel.
Above all, it is accurate. If it's an APP dispatch,
as readers of The Empire have come to learn they
can depend it, 1t isn't wild rumor which has to
be retracted later In the AP and among its members
accuracy is the first consideration
That is the kind of news gathering agency Mr.
Noyes has headed for 38 years The fact that has
maintained its supremacy and grown to become all
sweeping in its scope of newspaper service is due in
large to its fine leadership under MI Noyes
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-15
Spare the Rod?
Philadelphia Record

philadelphia Record
1t would seem-if we may be forgiven so undgni-
fled expression about dgnified body-that Ihe
Supreme Court has been chastened by Its session III
the Roosevelt woodshed
We want to call attention to unnouced put
illuminating aspect of the decision on overlapping
by Government agents. This decision was complete
about-face from the Courts decision on the same
subject in 1928
In 1928 the Court held that the provision of the
Radio Act of 1927 declaring that person may tap
telephone wires, did not apply to Government agents
The Court now holds that the provision in the
Communications Act of 1884 does apply to Govern
ment agents.
In order to understand the tactics adopted by the
Court in this reversal it is necessary to understand
the argument made in defense of overlapping. 1t
was argued that Congress intended to permit wire
tapping by Government agents. 1t was pointed out
that bills to forbid Government wire tapping were
introduced in Congress after the 1928 decision but
that the bills were defeated. Also pointed out
the fact that in enactng the 1894 act Congress re-
enacted substantially the same overlapping pro-
vision as in the 1927 act, and did not change words
which the Supreme Court said permitted Government
wire tapping.
That seems to be pretty sound argument. 1t is
made all the sounder by the fact that the Supreme
Court 1923 said that Congress might protect the
secrecy of telephone messages by making them ,
inadmissble in evidence in Federal criminal trials
Obviously Congress did not care to do
The Supreme Court could have accepted this
line of argument, could have admitted that Congress
did not intend to make Government e-tappng il
legal. The Court could then have made grandsand
play as defender of liberty by declaring that wire
tapping by Government agents is unconstitutional.
We think it is unconstitutional. The dissenters in
1923, Brandeis, Holmes Butler and Stone, thought it
was unconstitutional.
But if the Supreme Court had done this it would
have been again in the position of overruling Congress
and it could have been criticized for exercising veto
over Congress- veto which many people-ourseves
incuded-think of dubious constitutionality
The Court chose instead to say that in declaring
wire tapping illegal it merely enforcing the plain
words OF the law passed by Congress- 1t thus put
itself in the position of obeying rather than
ruling Congress.
It happens that the plain words to which the
Court refers plain enough to layman, but
obviously aren't plain to a lawyer because in 1928
the Court said that these plain words allowed
Government wire-tapping
Palmer to us than the words is the fact that the
Court has decided thai had better take the liberal
course.
Mr.. Roosevelt's hairbrush to have helped
Finand's way of preserving her national honor is
simple. She pays her debts.-Toedo Blade
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-15
Mae Goes West

cleveland Plain Dealer)
The human race date its woes from Adam
and Eve and so can Mae West The actress troubles
start much from the original pair as from their
mpersonators in recent radio skit. Mae, it seems,
was Eve and some of the things she said didn't sit
so well with the radio audience. Now her name is
taboo on the National Broadcasting chain, except in
bulletins
all started when listeners protested to the Fed
eral Communications Commission, the broadcasting
company and the sponsor Apologies have flown back
and forth since but that seemed not to be enough.
Hence the ban Miss West
That angud voice that has made Miss West
famous the come up and me sometime sort of
thing, is really to blame The script for the sketch
was inoffensive, it is said. 1t was the way it was
read which carried meaning than the lines
intended.
OF course if movie tradition were followed, and
Miss West could have been seen as she spoke, it all
might have passed The star of the pictures is
always able to hypnotic her way out of difficult
situations through her half-shut But over the
air waves that personable quality lacking. Mae
West has gone west the radio.