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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
NO MORE scRAPPING OF SHIPS

When the World War came to an end
the United States was building the might
lest navy in the world. If the program had
been carried to its completion, this country
would have possessed navy equalled by
no other nation.
Later, as result of treaties arranged
at Washington and London, and in the
hope of ending naval race, the United
States voluntarily scrapped $4,000 tons
at cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
You can get an idea of the sacrifice by re-
calling that modern battleship is $4,000
tons and cruiser 10000 tons.
While the people of the United States
may be divided about the necessity of en-
larging the present navy of the United
States. it is safe to say, in the light of past
experience, that there is no division of SEN
timent as to scrapping the ships that we
construct. If the peace and security of the
United States demands the construction of
warships at this time, less than twenty
years after the junking of almost COM
plete navy, there should be no future scrap
ping of the ships constructed at enormous
costs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
SERVICE CLUB

This is the little club which
first started all this business
about politics which have struck
the other clubs: Rotary getting
ready to extend its bounds to in
clude a city cleanup campaign;
the Lions Club City Charter Re-
vision commencement; Junior
Chamber of Commerce persistent
querying of city conditions; City
Council and County Commission
ers hearkening to the voices in
the wind. You can trace the new
ideas to members who originally
were enrolled in the Service
Club. The Club itself, which is
sponsored by the First Methodist
church, started quite a few ideas.
Unprecedently it smacked a
liquor law-violating shop and
by a long series of talks on city
conditions began the first eek
pose" of what has been happen
ing locally. So doth the voice of
the people proclaim itself. Mean
while, STANTON COOPER, who
attained notoriety in this column
by being a Methodist and prais-
ing Catholic priest; HASTINGS
SMITH, who could do nothing
better than fall off a chair in
laughing out loud, that this col
umnist, L. p. ARTMAN, JR., full
ly record the lulls and iouds of
the songs he first invited him
self to sing and then was en-
cored by the club. No alibiS,
sometimes we knew the notes
and sometimes we didn't. The
club voted TO erase an old debt
of its sponsoring body's Sunday
School by means of an enter
tainment. JOE TOLLE'S hands
were shaking like a leaf in hold
ing the glass when the RATHER
was MIXED at the last meeting.
The king snake persisently stuck
its head into eveTybody'S pocket.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
L E C AIS
NOTICE OF SALE OF TAX
CERTIFICATES
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Notice is hereby given that
Charles Saunders Est. has filed with
me written request that the
tax certificates together with all
subsequent omitted or levied taxes
held by the State of Florida be
advertised and sold to the highest
bidder for cash as provided by
House Bill $50 of the 1881 acts or
the Legislature, upon the following
described real estate in the County
of Monroe, State of Florida, to-wtt;
Lot !, Blk. 4, TT 8. as recorded IN
Monroe County Records, Deed BOOK
AS, Page sea.
The taxes TO be sold are evidenced
by certificate No. 27T of 1929, and
represent taxes for the years 1873
to 1888, both inclusive.
Also, Lot Z, Blk. %, Sands sub,
Big Pine Key, Plat Book ], Page
Go. as recorded in Monroe County
Records, Deed Book - Page -.
The taxes to be sold are evidenced
by certificate No. 1877 of 1929, and
represent taxes for the gears 1923
to 1898. both inclusive.
Said tax certificates together with
all subsequent omitted or levied
taxes will be sold To the highest
bidder at the Court House Door in
Key West, on the Sth day of De-
cember, 1888, at $500 o'clock II. NJ.
Dated this the 22nd day of No
vember, 1888.
(SEAL) Ross G sawyer
Clerk Circuit Court, Monroe County,
nova9- %. dece. I93S-I34S
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
LIBELING KEY WEST

Everyone there is interested in WPA,
and no wonder because to live in Key
West means that you either are working
on the WPA payroll or you are doing
thriving business with the people who are
collecting their weekly checks from that
source"
This is one of the statements appear
ing in recent article written by re-
porter for the st. Petersburg Times after
brief visit to Key West. The reporter
further said that the gambling houses of
Key West catered almost entirely to WPA
workers and their money seemed to keep
the wheels of chance rolling.
When these statements were brought
to attention of Works Progress Admins
traticn officials at Washington, The Citi-
zens correspondent wires that they said
they didn't see chow very much profit
could come to anyone from the minimum
wages the government is paying relief
workers.
"They probably don't raise much ex-
element with the checks they get" WPA
officials are quoted as having declared in
commenting on the st. Petersburg allega-
tions that the people of Key West reap
harvest of profits from WPA workers.
The Citizen knows that great many
families in this community depend for
a living on WPA and other federal
- hot 4ha
paid these workers barely enables !. those
families to survive. Some of the WPA or
relief income may find it's way to the
gambling tables to be found here, as else
where throughout the state, but it is doubt
full if it is more than small percentage of
the income those families require to live
upon. It is obvious no man can support
himself and his family on a weekly wage
of from 81 to SIS, which is about the pay
of the majority, and then have very
large surplus for gambling and carrousing.
Although circumstances have COM
PEELED the heads of many families to seek
WPA employment or other forms of re-
lief, the majority of our citizens so en-
gagged are honest and decent. They care
for their families as best they can from the
little they get and they don't, as gen.
eral rule, have any money to throw away.
Some of the single men on WPA may oc-
casionally have a few dollars to wager,
but they, too, find the going pretty tough
on what they make.
On the whole, then, the ST. Petersburg
Times article was entirely unfair to the
people of Key West. 1t is likely that if
the same reporter made the same kind of
investigation of conditions among WPA
workers in his own home town he would
find the same abuses exist there as else
where. Relief workers form a cross-sec-
ton of American life and among them will
be found fools and gamblers and MASTERS,
Just as there are fools and MASTERS and
gamblers among other working groups of
the country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
TODAY'S COMMON
ERROR
Do not say. THE snow
still continues to fall;
omit sill.
T E s T 20 u r
KIN OW L E ID G E
Can YOU answer seven OF these
test questions? Turn TO
Pace 4 for the answers

/. Name the two principal rlv-
ers of Georgia.
2. What is the hydrosphere OF
the globe?
3. For what government agen-
cy do the initials FILA
stand?
4. What is an autoclave?
5. What proportion of the land
area of the earth belongs
to the British Empire?
6. Is it correct to say, Leave
go of the stick?"
7. On what river is Nashville,
Tenn?
8. In which war was the Bat
tie of Spottsylvania Court
House?
9. Name the capital of Sweden.
10. What is a depilatory?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
LIONS CLUB

Captain of the '+Sitdowners" is
EVERETT RIVAS. captain of
the Hope to-sitdowners' is JOE
ALLEN. And there you have the
lead IN the story concerning
Membership Activities Contest
which the Llons Institute next
week Thursday. Its going 10
fSc d rip-roaring contest with no
quarter given by either side.
The titles have something to do
with the winning banquet at the
conclusion Of the contest--and
the privilege, as winners. to sit
down" while the losers serve
them More Of that as events
proceed. Tail twister 'sNEVYF'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
In his anxiety to be a friendly neigh

In his anxiety to be friendly neigh
Dor, President Roosevelt has reduced the
tariff rates on sugar from Cuba to the
detriment of the suger growers in Florida,
who are restricted to $4,000 tons annually,
while the Everglades area alone could pro-
duce 100000. The Citizen said in an edi-
torial on November 10. that it is estimated
that $4,000 workmen could be employed
either directly in this industry or indirectly
in lines or activities serving the sugar it,
dustry. Take $4,000 men off the relief
rolls and Florida would have the unem-
ployment problem pretty nearly whipped.
Charity is commendahle, but It should be-
gin at home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Man is always forgetting; so that if
he does not continually keep on learning,
he knows less and less as he goes along.
And this thought brings to our mind the
ditty: Il had roommate named Guesser.
whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser;
it at last got so small. he know nothing at
all, and now he's college professor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

A Tennessee preacher announced that
on the following Sunday he would preach
on Liars" and requested all his flock to
read the 18th chapter of Mark in the mean
time, The next Sunday he asked all who
had read the chapter to raise their hands.
and about half the congregation did so.
You are the ones will preach to-" he
said. There is no 18th chapter Of MARI"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

The Principally of Monaco, the seat
of Monte Carlo. has population of some
$4,000, but annually receives million and
a half of visitors. The Municipality of
Key West, the seat of Monroe County, has
a population of 10000, and hopes to enter
tain in the next few months, hundred
thousand visitors.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
THE
KEY WET ELECTRIC COMPANY

TO HOLDERS OF FIRST MORT
GAGE FIVE PER CENT FIFTY
YEAR GOLD BONDS OF THE
KEY WEST ELECTRIC COM
PANY
Under the sinking Fund provi-
sion Of the Mortgage or Deed OF
Trust. dated August !. 1906. be-
tween the above Company and
State Street Trust Company. OF
Boston, the undersigned Trustee
hereby gives notice that until DEE
eember 20. 1888, At twelve o'clock
noon. IL viii receive sealed pro-
posals for the sale 81 the above
named bonds TO absorb the sum OF
-Four Thousand Eight Hundred and
Nine Dollars and Ninety Cents 49,
sos. s9b or any part thereof in~
faFest on bonds purchased viii
cease on December 81 The right
H. reserved 10 reject any and ali
proposals
STATE STREET TRUST COMPANY
ny. = H Whic0tt. vice President.
Boston. Massachusetts,. December
1. 1883. 1888
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

U. S. May Have to Hold the Fort if
Rest of World Goes to Pot, says The Key
West Citizen And the United States can
do that little thing if we all pull together.
Sanford Herald. It may not be little
thing even if we all pull together, but we
can do the job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Too many want competence with
out earning or deserving one. The Adj
ministration has contributed to this condi-
ton, unintentionally, of course.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
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-I4and and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

There is always something to be
thankful for; we are thankful we haven't
got job that demands the remission of
an undated resignation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files of The Citizen

Ten tourist automobiles, after
arriving at Key West over the
Overseas Highway yesterday,
were this morning checked to
Havana on the SIS. Northland. A
Cuban car in which a party had
been touring America was also
checked on the vessel. Two 9TH
er cars, which arrived later in
the day, remained over in order
that the travellers may see the
city. This, officials state, is a
record number of cars to be
checked on one boat, though the
traffic has been increasing from
time to time. There is every in
dication that the highway ferry
system will be taxed to capacity
during the approaching tourist
season.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Money isn't everything, but every
thing is nothing without it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Roger Babson predicts 1889 will be
the best business year since 1929. We
know it will be the best year since 1888
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Fat girls are at disadvantage; the
boys can't put their arms around them,
but they can reach part of the way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

The early shopper not only gets bar
gains, but what is more to the point she
gets first choice in selecting purchases.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Safety rules can be summarized by
don't take chance"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

ARMAYOR pulled a good one.
Without a word of warning he
announced that he would use his
big shears in tie-snipping opera
tions (crazy idea, wasn't ite). He
started on LION GRAHAM-and
ruined a pretty yellow tie ED
was wearing. To escape similar
destruction-all members prompt
ly shed their ties--which, ac-
cording to rule, brought on a
dime fine all around. And
there you discover the whole
stunt--especially when it devel-
oped that LION GRAHAM didn't
wear a tie on his polo shirt and
the tie was planted on him at the
start of the meeting. The new
highway sign was much admired
by the membership en-toto. i.
Lions HINSON, SAUNDERS and
PRITCHARD are supposed to
erect il. Another committee was
appointed Ton the side) 10 see
that they do. Wei see.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Bids on the construction of the
proposed steel boat for the Mon
roe County Ferry System will be
opened at the meeting tonight.
They were to be opened at a
meeting hid this forenoon, but
after some discussion it was de-
cided to postpone the opening of
the bids until tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Scout traffic officers will be
under the supervision of c. c.
Symonette, who has been APP
pointed civic traffic officer by
the mayor. Each scout traffic of
ficer will be provided with a
whistle so that il any one should
need assistance. a call viii bring
the aid. About 20 members of
Troop One Boy Scouts have been
named by Mayor Leslie Curry.
There were Is automobiles
owned by tourists coming to Key
West for transportation to Cuba,
taken to Havana on steamers of
the P. and o. s. s. Co. today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Officers for the ensuing year
were elected at the meeting of
Isle of the Sea Lodge No. 104,
Knights of Pythias, last night.
The officers elected last night will
be installed on the first Wednes-
day night in January.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06
I'oday's Horoscope
s~sssaesoaeesssssssssss

Today's degree favors a writ
er. The mind is inclined to lit
erature and probably studious
along scientific lines. The MEM
ory is retentive, with a facile
power of words combined with
scientific analysis, which should
bring a certain reward of success
and probably also money. Today
should produce strong person
atty
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

Editorial comment: Cooperate,
quit knocking and go to boosting
and promote the cooperative
spirit" was suggested as pledge
for the Boosters Club, and it ap-
pears to be wonderfully appro
pirate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

A special express train COM
posed of 10 cars of race horses
arrived this morning, the stock
having come from the tracks of
Louisville enroute TO Havana.
Owners and managers of the
stables arrived on the passenger
train and went over to Havana.
The horses will leave in one of
the ferries tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-06

We'll, see the, women of Key
West are beginning to make the
town wake up, said a visitor to
the city. Il used to come here
twice year for the past 20 years,
and l can already see signs GI an
awakened Key West. l have
been here only three days. The
visitor attended the Boosters
meeting last Tuesday night. He
said that no doubt in many cases
it is a case of Let Georg Do 1t" I,
and that kind of attitude never
got anything for any town. Il
am frank to say that / like Key
West and always did. am
spending some of my time in
looking up some of my old
friends. l frequently meet Key
Westers in other cities and am
glad to hear their news when
ever it is good.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
That was where Connie's happiness lay -
though she did not guess it till that
dov on the Nile when she said four words
to the wrong man
by HUGH WALP0LE

expression, eloquent with vitality that
nothing else in him seemed to have.
But she found conversation with him i'm
possible. On that first Nile morning. when
they were sitting side by side at the end OF
the boat, she spoke eagerly about her delight
in being here. how wonderful the sun and the
color, how thrilling after all this time, to see
at last the Sphinx and the Pyramids.
All he said was. not looking at her but
gazing at the deck: Every tourist says those
things - Why not think of something for
YOURSELF" He was so rude. the only thing was
to laugh. When she laughed he suddenly
looked up at her and smiled. the straneest,
most confused and timid s1nile. Il suppose
I've been rude again." he said; "Andrew's
always telling me-"
you've been friends long time?"
Evening star., 1938-03-20

They resembled very closely the description
given of them. Mr.. Clynes in his dark-blue
coat and his white trousers seemed to radiate
good will and kindness. Connie felt m five
minutes as though she had known him all her
life. With Mr. Terry. on the other hand, she
could not get on at ALL What an odd man!
And yet he was not perhaps quite so plain
as she had been led to expect; his mouth was
ugly, his chin negative, he was untidy and
shabby, wearing a ridiculous dark suit OF
some stiff cloth with a high pointed white
collar so exactly the wrong thing for
Egypt; but his eyes gave her pause.
Itwas because she was kind, not because she
was clever, that she noticed his eyes; old
Mr. Burgess was the only other person on the
boat who noticed them. They were beautiful
eyes, large and full of an odd imprisoned
Evening star., 1938-03-20

brilliantly together very happyindeed.
Connie Prendergast was especially success
full; there was nice girl if ever there was
one. Mabel was not quite sure whether you
could call her girl any longer because she
was certainly thirty and perhaps a little
more, but she made no pretense of youth. She
was not odlool1mg but old Mr.. Burgess,
who loved her from the first, said that he
would 30 any distance to see her smile.
The Hasketts were nice too: their only
fault was, perhaps, that they thought one
another so wonderful.
The Hasketts and Miss Prendergast were
of course extremely curious about the other
two members of the party. They had seen
neither Mr.. Cynes nor Mr.. Terry. These two
gentlemen were fully discussed on the journey
to Cairo and it was very soon made clear
that the only way to make Egbert Terry
possible was to turn him into the clown of the
party. There is always some one who falls
into that role naturally either because he likes
it or because he doesn't like it - the second
reason is often the more amusing of the two.
On the other hand nothing could be said
sufficiently about the jolliness of Andrew.
You can imagine" said Mabel to Connie
Prendergast, that there must be something
especially attractive about him to carry the
burden of such an addition as Egbert."
1t was not until the daha6iywh had started
its gentle course up the river that Connie
realized the two additions to the party.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

0HEN one is confined for six weeks
on private dsha6tyeh with six
other human beings, forever at
their mercy and they forever at
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-15

Six remen crushed DEATH several others seriously injured whom
trapped alley behind this warehouse NJ J. w
collapsed crushed them All remen and apparatus the
at the battling the spectacular blaze which caused dma
estimated at a quarter Of a million dollars. s'
(CentrolPrss)
Evening star., 1938-06-25


secret documents. The book was
never published.
Mr.. Yardley's bureau had been dis
continued by Secretary Stimson, to
whom such eavesdropping was dis
tasteful, and Mr.. Yardley said he felt
free to tell the story, partly to warn
the country Of the continued activity
of other nations in DECIDING and
espionage. The State Department,
and many editorial writers were angry
with Mr.. Yardley, but there was quite
an overhauling Of the freedom to
print issue, as there is now in the cass
Of Mr.. Turrou, with quite . close
parallel in the two cases.
Mr.. Turrou was the highest paid
agent Of the Federal bureau, with a
pre- eminent" ranking, engaged in
every important bureau case In recent
years. In his work on the German
spy case, he worked 16l2 hours a day
for nearly four months, Sundays and
holidays, without seeing his family.
receiving the highest commendation
from Federal District General Lamar
Hardy after the roundup. He joined
the bureau April /, 1928.
He was one of the three men who
dug up the Lindbergh ransom money
in Bruno Hauptmann's garage: he in
vestigated election frauds in Indiana,
chased white slavers in Connecticut,
Atlantic City and Baltimore and had
a hand in all the class A melodrama
s. 81 lt,,.1 ln st-r
massacre to the major kdnapings. He
says j. Edgar Hoover writes, and he
claims the same privilege.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

q 'nberar'-some one who Is liberal
with other peoples money or some
one who really cares about the enor-
nous debt that is being piled up? And
what can we call one who is concerned
about the effect Of taxes on the opera
tons of an economic system which
must inevitably break down if ex-
changes of goods are made more in
stead of less difficult? Mr.. RooSevelt's
message is typical Of those in which
he quite naturally puts his best foot
forward. But those of us who watch
the scene from day to day cannot as
easily be prompted to forget that the
fiscal affairs Of the National Govern
ment are in the worst shape ever and
that not line has come from the
President himself as to what new
remedies" he proposes for these sen.
sationally new conditions"
tCopyright. 1850