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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
PURCHASE USED TRUCKS FOR CITY
For the first time in blue moon the

For the first time in blue moon the
city has fund for sponsorship of WPA
projects. At last accounting $2,774 was
in the fund. When the city gets around
to collection of occupational taxes due and
enforcement of the automobile tax ord-
nance, the sponsorship fund will be con-
siderably larger.
Naturally this fund is attracting at
tention. but none of the money should be
diverted to any other purpose. 1t is
work relief sponsorship fund and the
money must be used for needed public i'm
provements The Garrison Blight basin de-
velopment is of pressing Importance, while
the project for sewer laterals is advancing
through the WPA treadmill toward
eventual approval
Both of these projects will require
lot of hauling. Since the city's sponsor
ship does not have to be in cash, the city
would be doing a smart thing if it pro-
cured trucks with which to handle the
rock and earth on these jobs. The city
would be credited with approximately 81
an hour for each truck used on the jobs,
Jobs were done the city would own the
trucks.
At special meeting of city council to
be held next Thursday night, the proposal
to buy number of trucks will come up for
consideration. The proposal should be ap-
proved. However, it would NOT appear
to be necessary to buy new trucks. 1t is
reported by WPA officials that some good
used trucks that would pass government
inspection and be declared fit for WPA
work are available here. These should be
surveyed by city council with WPA Off
Gals before any action is taken toward
purchase of new trucks. The fund avail
able for purchase of such trucks would go
lot further if good used dump trucks can
be obtained.
The Citizen is glad to learn that the
sponsorship fund has grown to substantial
proportions, but hopes the fund will not be
dissipated on fool projects or for unwise
purchase of new trucks. The outgoing
city council can give final demonstration
that will be worthy of public approval by
acting judiciously in this matter.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
WHAT Ais US

All diseases have scientific names,
most of which would not be recognized by
the layman. If your doctor asked you if
you were troubled with anorexia, you prob
ably wouldn't know. But anorexia is
merely the scientific term for loss of ap-
petite.
Similarly, otalgia is earache notalgia
is backache, nostalgia is home-sickness,
cephalgia is headache, odontalgia is tooth
ache, variola is smallpox, varicella is
chckenpox, pertussis is whooping cough,
and so on throughout the long list of ills to
which human flesh is heir.
And if your physician suggests that
you are cacoethic, he is merely using a
scientific way of saying you have rotten
disposition. If he tells you you are in
clined to atony, he means you are just
plain lazy. An unscientific wag once de-
scribed laziness as voluntary inertia.
But whatever ails US, the doctors, like
the Greeks, have strange name for it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
49, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

and the fish were caught faster
than they could multiply. There
fore, in subsequent years the
supply was greatly decreased.
Most of the fish were taken dur
ing the spawning season. Only
recently has the supply begun to
build up but it is still far below
what it was ten or fifteen years
ago.
Concerning pitchers and sar-
dimes: These minnows are con-
slant rovers. 1t is next to i'm
possible to predict where they
will be from one day to another.
They 'pay visits" to the docks
and shores of one side of the is.
land and the next day they may
leave for the other side or go to
surrounding keys.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
MRS. c. D. HARRINGTON,
THE PIDDLE CLUB: Key West

and many other cities all have
quite a number of Fiddle Clubs.
Sometimes the membership meets
in offices, in bars, on street cor
ners or cafes to piddle. They
piddle away life's golden hours,
killing time. Poor time, forever
being killed. Arthur Brisbane
wrote, 1.-TWO hours a day in five
years will make an educated man,
one able to seize an opportunity
when he sees it. The man who
stops blaming conditions, blam-
ing government, blaming others,
his relatives, his employers, his
friends, ard who blames himself
is the man that will seize and
use the next opportunity that
comes. Mr.. Brisbane also said.
"When men sigh for money and
power let them remember that
those things are net found on the
streets or in good luck but in
side of each persons skull.
Don't waste time, in time we live
and do our work. Wasted time
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
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FINDS WATCH THAT
Tucked INSIDE FISH

ST. CLOUD. Nov. 6 (FNS).
If your hobby is collecting
queer or unusual fish stories.
here's one for your scrap
book:
Claude Padgett of ST. Cloud
recently caught a three
pound black bass and found
a woman's gold. ls-jewel
wrist watch in its stomach.
Padgett says when the watch
was removed and shaken il
began to tick.
An Associated Press story
of the find brought an in
quiry from a lady in Railway.
N. j. requesting a full de-
scription of the watch. Il is
believed she may have lost il
when touring the state.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

it true that pitchers and sardines
considered the best of bait
locally-cannot be found in GER
tain sections one day when they
were plentiful the day before?
Well, oldtime fishermen of Key
West have explanations for these
mysteries.
They claim bottom" fish are
definitely of the warm water"
type. Cold water is their enemy,
and therefore they must seek wa
ter suited to their requirements.
The "norther" Key West has just
experienced, the fishermen claim,
has driven these members of the
finny tribe somewhere in the vi
cinity of Cuba or in the deeper
waters of the Gulf. Friday, one
commercial fisherman, who must
supply SIS. Cuba with fish ac-
cording to contract, ventured out
into the choppy waters Just off
Key West and returned with but
ten pounds of yellowtail, one
grcuper and one snapper. Which
seems to prove this fact.
Another Interpretation adj
vanced is that after spawning the
fish are slowly exhausted until
roeing season comes again.
Spawning time occurs during the
months of March to July, inclu-
sive. At that time they are plen-
tiful, preferring to school to-
gether, and. naturally, they are
more easily caught as hunger is
intensified during roeing. After
spawning the fish separate, form
ing number of small schools"
Fishermen claim that during
the years when Key Vests fish
ing industry was at its peak there
were a great number of CONNER
cial vessels plying these waters
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

President Roosevelt, unlike President
Wilson, does not ask the people of this
country to remain neutral in thought, so
we hope something will happen to knock
the stuffing out of Hitler.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Straw votes only show how the wind
blows at the particular time the vote is
taken; sometimes the wind veers in the OPP
posite direction little later, often be-
cause those left in the cold are irked and
put on extra steam to buck the line and
cross the goal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Before the invention of printing and
the insertion of advertisements in news
papers, business was always in a rut, and
mostly of the peddler sort like Key West
had before occupational licenses drove
such merchants into stores.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Hitler can't lose. If Germany does
not win the war and Hitler is exiled, he
win live off the fat of the land, like the
German kaiser; if the German people fail
to pension him, they needn't, for Adolf has
some nice deposits in foreign banks,
awaiting the inevitable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
CRIME

Says Rebecca McCANN: Some
people speak of killing time,
1 don't know any greater
crime.
With work and beauty they might
fill it =.
And yet they sit around and
kill it,.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
ABOUT TOWN: A cruel mot

"~'' - - Sa~A AiASNAA~A
almost created a scene at the
corner of Duval and Fleming
streets yesterday, slapping small
boy of perhaps three or four
years of age in the face so hard
that blood spurted from his nose
and ran on to his clothes and
feet. In a few seconds there were
several women at her side ready
to give her some of her own
cruel medicine, judging by their
expressions. Beating a child is
teaching a lesson in brutality.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

mo Third Term" says the President.
That would be welcome news; but it re-
fers TO the statement made by George
Washington in 1896, when he announced
his intention not to accept third term as
chief executive of the United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

THE CITY works under a
handicap as far as payrolls 60
and the Mosquito Project, which
has been in operation for some
time, has caused a little dis
gruntlement. However, the city
has kept cisterns of Key West
we'll, stocked with fish, but has
insisted that residents get rid OF
other artificial containers, such
as tin cans, by paying the city
scavenger service to haul them
away. Many claim they cannot
afford this.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
ZZNAZIWIWIA

is great desert its presiding
genius a silent, cold, heartless
sphinx of death. On the sands of
that desert of wasted time are
scattered the bones of failures
and the footsteps that lead no
where. Resign from the Fiddle
Club.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

There are three ways to read war
news: (1) Believe all Allied communi-
ques; (2) believe all German communi-
ques, and 60 believe no communicates.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
DNZLNlNl
SUBSTITUTE GOES.
IN FOR FIRST TENOR
tny Associated Pres.)

BEtDEN. Neb.. Nov. g.
The first tenor got sick but
that didn't stop a Belden
Methodist church program.
Mrs. A. E. Fowler. ~, wife
of the pastor. filled in to COM
pleie the male quartet. While
she sang first tenor. her hus-
band. chimed in on the Sec.
ond tenor's part.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Japan will do in the Far East exactly
what she did during the Word War; she
will take advantage of the situation to
push her own aims.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Key West again centers a substantial
sector of naval activity-as we tighten up
q bit on our watch-care over coastal
waters.-Times-U Union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
BUTTERFLY

The butterfly just floats through
life
AS careless as a bubble.
! walk a stern and moral path. >.
A soul is lots of trouble.
CHEERFUL CHERUB).
Adios,
FLORIDA CRACKER.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

1. Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
g. Hotels and Apartments. d.
g. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports--Llnd and Sea-
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
REPORTS FROM WIN. a. PoR.

TER and Norberg Thompson are
very cheering: Both are leaving
Hot Springs Saturday feeling
greatly refreshed from a three
weeks vacation in the Arkansas
Spa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
A VERY NICE YOUNG MAN.

A. L. Lynn, is rejoicing over the
Navy Yard reopening and being
back on his old job of radio work
after several years of this and
that.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Praising the towns ladies for having
the cemetery cleaned up, an exchange de-
clares that 'the graveyard is most invit-
ing"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Cooperation on the part of citizens is
worth more than money to community.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
ssssssssssssssssssssssss
CRACKS and COMMENTS
By a
FLORIDA CRACKER
, esssssssssssSsssss

THE WoMAN'S CLUB of Key
West will hold its regular meeting
Tuesday afternoon. One of the
main features of interest will be
the Food Sale, SO bring your
pocketbooks, ladies! Another
feature and, lots of fun, will be
the Kitchen Shower, when man.
useful things and few do-dads
will be contributed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

The thoughtful parent is sending The
Citizen to his boy or girl away from home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

TROUBLE has been found with
use of the discarded airplane oil
in sraying. 1t is too heavy to
go through the sprayer and can
be distributed only by hand or
diluted if used in the sprayer
More expense both ways. Cheap
est way in the long run is to
have a truck with hose and
pump. 1t would eliminate many
scores of workmen. Diesel oil is
the best mosquito killer found
here. Miami experts here on a
visit said it was the best they had
run across.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Germany, it seems. from what We
read, finds the world against her again
after less than Is years of peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Teachers who think that their job is
to suppress differences of opinions among
students ought to find other work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

Just for fun, when you have nothing
else to do, see if you can name five UNI
selfish citizens in Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

This is supposed to be a war Of
nerves. 1t requires nerve" to lie like
Hitler,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
CHARLES EsTcoURT. JR..

columnist with the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance, Inc,
writes at great length about the
$4,000 rug (the largest in the
world, being nearly sixty feet
long, in the lobby of the Roxy
Theater in New York City. Mr..
Estcourt comments regretfully
that the rug has worn out in just
one rut because right-handed
people will walk to the right
and left-handed people to the
left. The right-handers being in
such a majority the rug is only
worn on one side but any good
Key West housekeeper could tell
that theater manager had he
turned the rug around ever so
often it would have worn out
evenly and lasted years longer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
A good thing to remember

A good thing to remember
And a better thing to do
Is work with the Key West con-
struction gang,
And not with the wrecking
crew.
MRS. c. D. HARRINGTON.
who gave us the above lines, dis
claims the originality of the idea
but Mrs. Harrington is quite cap
able of many clever ideas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

ALONG THE WATERFRONT:
What causes a scarcity of bot
tom" fish in the water? Why is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

ALL of the larger ponds in Key
West will soon be ditched, thus
allowing live water and fish to
enter them. But many other low
spots remain in the city. Stock
Island and Boca Chica will also
be ditched but many small ponds
will remain. These must be
sprayed. 1t is believed that if the
area for IL miles or so north of
Key West is effectively treated
we will be largely free of mos
quitoes. The city plans use of
voluntary committee labor, but
doesn't know just how hard it is
working in mosquito infested
lowlands under a hot sun. T
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06

AROUND TOWN: One teacher
at the educational conference in
Miami recently wanted to have
children taught to distinguish be-
tween true facts and propaganda
There was an objection: many
adults do not even know this.
How can children be taught it?
Charles Johnson matches
Howard Overlin's two at one
time story. He cast with a plug
in a school of jacks and brought
in two, one on one series of
hooks and another on another
series. Key West Chamber of
Commerce advertises Key West
in PAR. of Havana this month.
THERE rs SOME AGITATION
to turning the Mercedes Hospital
over to the county and city to-
gether and have it run as hos
pital for those without family
and those too poor to afford
medical service. There is an en-.
tire floor in the present building
already furnished with beds,
which is not in use, yet it is very
difficult to get a patient in the
hospital at present. 1t costs about
u cents a day for each patient
Doctors could be secured through
Clinic work. What no one ha.
looked into is securing of a nurse
from the Works Progress Nurses
Aid Project for the hospital
These nurses are available free
of charge. There are many in the
city who greatly need interment
at the hospital.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20

tip to the wise is sufficient, if
you have husband who is losing
interest. SIR NORMAN
Light has gone into the furni-
ture business these days. You
should see the lovely radio stand
ne made. my, my, girls, what a
manly Whoever snatches Norm.
off won't have to buy any furni-
ture because he just manufac-
lures it himself. ROBERT
LEWIS WILLIAMS, JR., of Los
Angeles, Calf, who is studying
out at the Univ. of MINI. sorta
caught a case of hay fever and
spent this last week out at the
University Hospital. Robert said
that he almost felt like throwing
his books away after spending
such delightful week at the hos
pital among the attentive nurses
and doctors. Especially the
nurses. Hall :. Have you ever
seen JIMMIE LEE, THEODORE
ALLEN, JIMMIE SLEMMONS
and CECIL E. NEWMAN when
they weren't busy and in hurry
over some business matter?
Those four gentlemen would get
my vote any day for the busiest
men about town.
Well, I guess that's enough news
for this week but I'll be looking
your way again next week.
YOUR PAL,
SAL.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20

M. C.-Does my husband know
the truth? Can keep it hid from
him completely?
Ans: There is but one way you
can hide the truth that is to
stop going with this fellow this
very day and not do a thing like
this again. Your husband hasn't
found out yet -. but if he did ;. :.
you would get put out without any
explanation.
D. L. WY niece and ] have
a home together. l want to know
if I should sign my rights away so
that / can draw the pension?
Ans: If you did =. your niece
would probably lose out. A ques7
ton of this kind should be carried
before an attorney in your state,
but / feel sure that you must make
up your mind one way or the other.
You either sign the home away for
the pension or you don't draw the
money any longer.
L. E. There is a boy that is
an undertaken and he told my
cousin that he really did love me
and am excited and don't know
what to do. / didn't love him at
first but / am beginning to love
him now.
Ans: You're working yourself
up into a pitch over nothing +. /.
if the boy was in love with you
:. he would have told you and not
your cousin. Control your emo
tons for you are in for a big let
down. Look around for another
boy friend as you and the under
taker are about through.
o. WI have been married for
three years and / want to know
what l can do to make my hus-
band want to buy furniture as
other people do?
Ans: He prefers to spend his
money on good times. The logical
thing for you to do is to get work
and take your money and buy fur
niture for the house. Make him
support you and pay the rent, food
bill and other incidentals around
the house.
B. B.-Have been a reader of
this paper for years and enjoy
your column fine. Now I am 45
years old and there are two men
in my life and I only love one of
them. Tell me which one to give
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our kind
neighbors and friends for their
thoughtful sympathy, beautiful
floral offerings, cards of condol-
ence and the use of their cars dur
ing our recent bereavement in the
loss of our beloved husband and
father.
We also wish to thank Rev. C. F.
Stewart, Rev. Jace Clayburn, Rev.
G. L. Hayden, Rev. and Mrs. H.
w. Bolts and Mrs. Halle Batrum
for their kind words of comfort,
and Mrs. Alyce Stewart, Mrs.
Dorothy Sims, the St. Peters A..
M. E. choir and Miss Anne Pearl
Horris for the beautiful singing
and music.
Mrs. Francis PEBBLES and
Daughter, Marionne.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20

up?
Ans: The man you love !.
doesn't love you, so / am afraid
that you are in for a little disap-
poiptment. He only gives you one
evening with him every two weeks
-. stop going with him. In the
meantime, show more attention to
your new friend for he is quite
sincere.
S. A.-Please let me know if my
sister is ever going to settle down
and get married so that she can
help me with her baby or win she
continue to live the life she lives
now?
Ans: She has no intention of
providing for the baby unless
someone like yourself make her do
it. Insist that she set aside a sum
of money each week to pay the
baby's board and buy clothing for
it. just as long as you sit tight
and do not mention it to her /.
she will let you shoulder her whole
responsibility.
C. O. My first husband and
/ have been separated for several
years and we both have been mar
ried since. He is unhappy and so
am I and we are thinking about
going back together. Do you adj
wise it?
Ans: He still cares for you +. +.
and since you have this little girl
it might be better for all concerned.
However, don't think that life is
going to be one dream after an
other some of the old trouble
will be bound to arise at times, but
since you are older, you won't take
it so seriously.
H. E. WY husband and I
love each otherIvery much indeed
and for the past year we have
longed for family. Will we ever
have any children?
Ans: Yes =. J. no doubt you will.
Both of you seem to be rushing
it a bit. Talk to your family physi-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20
DONALD BRADY ELECTED
COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The Council of Negro Students
on the University campus elected
Donald Brady as president at
their first meeting. Mr.. Brady,
who is a senior in the arts college,
is also active in fraternity and
campus affairs. Other Council
officers elected at this meeting
were Walter Robinson, vice presi-
dent; Pauline Alexander, secre-
tary; Harriette Lane, treasurer,
and Samuel A. Reed, public rela-
tons counsel.
Social activities began with a
get-acquainted party on the cam
pus Friday afternoon at which
the new officers were presented
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20
Examination
Notice

Examination for judges and
clerks of election were announced
this week by City of st. Paul. APP
plications may be secured at Room
33 in the City Hall and must be
filed before p. m. on November
8.
Applicants were warned to get
a receipt card stamped with the
place of the examination when
they file. This card will admit
them to the examination.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-10-20

clan about your problem and he
may have some ideas to offer on
the subject.
H. CT would be very happy
to know these two things. Is it the
right thing for me to continue with
this woman? Will this other bust
ness that I have do better?
Ans: You realize perfectly that
you do not care for the woman that
you are going with there is
nothing to gain by continuing to
see her. The business that you
have on the side will not progress
very rapidly, but it will get some
what better this winter.