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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23
CAGE TEAMS WILL
PERFORM TONIGHT
SCHOOL vARSITIES MEET IN
NfCHTcAP. GIRLS I'M
OPENER

For the first time this season,
two girl basketball teams viii
compete for victory honors. The
clubs will meet tomorrw night at
the High School Gym in a dou-
bleheader, beginning at 7:3O
o'clock.
Andrew jackson High five of
Miami will tangle with Monroe
County High School varsity five
in the nightcap. The locals de-
feated the Cavaliers on the for
mer's road trip recently.
Conchs have confidence that
tomorrow on their own court
they will add another victory to
their slim win honors. However,
the Cavaliers are coming with
blood in their eyes and will not
60 down in defeat without offer
ing a stiff battle.
Sergeant Solt and J. v. Wood
son will referee the Conch- Cava-
lier fracas and it promises to be
a hard-fought affair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23

Grill are slated to cross bats in
the curtain-raiser, and Blue Sox
will meet Key West Conchs in
the nightcap.
First game will get underway
at p. m. sharp.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23
BASEBALL TWIN
BILL SUNDAY

A regular Monroe County Base
ball League doubleheader will be
played Sunday at Navy Field.
Roadside Pirates and Seafood
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23

FOR SALE-Cabin Cruiser, fully
equipped, engine and hull, in
very good condition. Newly
renovated. Reasonable for cash.
Apply SOC South street. dec10s
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FOR SALE-Lot on Stock Is
land, waterfront. Also. lot cor
ner 5th and Patterson Avenues
near Boulevard. Apply Box
re, The Citizen. aug31-s
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FOR SALE-Lot 8, block S, Mar
tello Towers, $4,000. P. L. Will
son, phone 500, Key West.
feb15-1mo
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SPANISH INSTRUCTION

BENILDES REMOND, Ph.D., In
structor. Graduate of Havana,
Cuba, University. Private les
sons. For particulars, apply
1112 Varela street.
es-thurs-sat-t
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CORNER LOT, 50x100 feet. Cor
rler 5th and Staple Avenue.
Apply Box D, The Citizen.
nov2-tf
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NEAT OLD AT 40! GET PEP.
|VtEtv New Ostrex Tonic Tab
lets contain raw oyster invigo-
rators and other stimulants.
One dose starts new pep. Value
$1.00. Special price 89c. Call,
write Gardeners Pharmacy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23

WILL SELL LEASE on Island
City Hotel, 81 rooms, All Will
liam ST., remodel to suit.
George L. Fuller, 1923 Watson
ST. feb16-s
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FOR SALE--Lot, 48'x50', corner
Duval and Louisa streets; two
lots, corner Bertha street and
Roosevelt Boulevard; two lots
on Pine Key, 100'x10G, good
location. Apply 1912 Olivia
street. dec14-S
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MODERN BRICK BUNGALOW.
Two bedrooms, enclosed sleep
ing porch, bath, iving-room,
dining room, breakfast room,
kitchen. All conveniences.
Bargain, reasonable terms. lit
South street. feb15-S
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FOR SALE lots. each 50x1OO..
Run from Washington to Won
Phister street. $1,000. APP
ply Rear 1917 Petronia street.
aug9-tfs
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Subscribe to The Citizen-2Oc
weekly.
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FOURTEEN-FOOT BOAT, with
four-horse cupboard johnson
motor, fully equipped. $3.50.
1917 Petronia street, rear.
janis
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FOR SALE-111s acres Planta-
ton Key, 314 acres on ocean.
8A acres ON Bay, on Highway /,
all high land, beach front on
both sides. p. o. Box %. Key
West. sept7-s
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FOR SALE-80 acres on Big Pine
Key; A-mile frontage on high
way. Centrally located. High
land and fresh spring water.
Write or see B. E. CALKINS,
Ramrod Key, Pc. feb2-s
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FOR SALE-O One lot. 100 by so
feet, on Big Pine Key, $3.50
Answer, Box AK, clio Citizen.
feb21-s
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The Characters
) BY GRACE ELuOT TAYLOR

The Characters
Peter Malone: A potential
netDspdpern1n.
Petronefia: His sister. and
stdHneh supporter.
Yesterday: The young Mdllones
dTriue in Burma t1heTe Peter Dill
irork for a rice company, and
Petronelld lcill be introduced to
society By her father.
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LOST

LOST-Bunch of Keys on de-
signed Key Ring. Kindly re-
turn to 725 Duval street and
receive reward. feb21-3t
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HELP WANTED

WAITRESS for two days. Phone
Big Pine Inn and reverse charg-
es. feb22-3t
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FURNISHED COTTAGE, 623
Division Street. Automatic hot
water, Frigidaire, newly furn-
ished. Apply 625 Division
Street. feb7-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23

TWO LOTS on Washington
street, 90 feet front, liz feet
deep. $1,000. Apply 1919
Pearl street. nov11-s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-23

FOR SALE-Double Corner Lot
Desirable section. win divide
Apply box DOM, The Citizen.
feb1-s
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FolJRTEEN-FOoT SAILBOAT,
with, well. $35. 1877 Petronia
street, rear. janis
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FOR SALE-Double house on
I Charles Street, $4,000. Apply
625 Division Street. feb7-s
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
A Thought for Today
Business Good-In Munitions

So much thought-and so many words --are being given in Washington to what the United States should do about selling munitions during a war, that almost mo- body pays any attention to the fact that right now, not waiting for any war but the one in Asia, we have quite muni- tions trade on our hands. This isn't hypothetical, something that is going to happen, or might happen some time in an indefinite future. This is happen ing, right now.
 Tn the first five months of 1889, the United States sold $50,000,000 worth of actual munitions, war planes, machine guns, shells, explosives and bullets. The trade is moving briskly along at rate above $10000,000 a month. Sales for 1889 are now expected to be $130,000,000. We have never before or since the World War sold any such armory of the weapons of death in single year. Such figures, of course, do not include scrap-iron and other equipment and materials destined for war no less definitely, though less directly. This is only the finished pro- duct, ready for the pull of the trigger.
 France ordered 20 millions worth, Bri- tain IA. Canada has ordered million and quarter, and far Australia just placed an order for four million and over in new planes. The Netherlands took two and half millions, and ordered five mill Hons more for their East Indian posses sions. Rumania sent for million and quarter. China, which took seven mill lions last year, has fallen to only about half million thus far this year. But, of course, what is going on in China is not . war.
 In any event, some thought ought to be given, not only to a war trade that may some time develop, but to the war trade that is now going on. While senators debate and quibble about hypothetical future things, the United States is rapidly getting into the position of armorer to the world. Such trade, while welcome in a sense, is not the most solid foundation on which to build prosperity. We found that out in 1920. Must we find it out all over again?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
China Wins A Trick

The Japanese plan to seize the silver casket containing the remains of Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, and take it into the conquered area of China has been foiled. The Chinese themselves have taken it to an undisclosed hiding place in westernmost China. Thus the venerated dust that is still to millions of Chinese a symbol of past Chinese glory and power, has been saved. It may prove to have been a valuable trick in the game.
 A Chinese business man, in Cleveland for the convention of International Ro- tary, was quoted as saying that China will win in only few more years" In Japan, the population is being prepared for two more years of war, already nearly two years old. With both sides grimly preparing for a finish fight that looks years ahead, the symbol of the 70O-year- old bones of the Mongol conqueror may in the end prove to have been mighty factor. So potent are the intangible and immaterial factors in that most material of all proceedings, war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

Missouri has its Boys Town and Litchfeld, Connecticut, has its Junior Republic. And one might add at this time, the England of MT. Chips has its Brookfield School For Boys. So while on this boy-ish subject we were pleased to note an editorial comment in the New York Herald on our nearby Connecticut Junior Republic, just outside of the town of Litchfield. In this locality one is more or less familiar with the purpose and rou- tine of this school whose aim as so aptly expressed in this paper is ito bring to the fullest usefulness boys who have lacked in their own communities opportunities and privileges that lead to success" Citi- zenship training was never more import ant than it is right now, and character building of boys cannot be begun too soon, for as we all know it is just as easy to turn loose group of little hoodlums as it is a group of little gentlemen who are not, necessarily, "sissies". This editorial con- cluded: "There should be more schools of this character that can equip young men with knowledge born of experience, and fewer that turn loose confused and star eyed graduates who wonder why the world is so unappreciative."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City is once more up against it. Even though it's worth anybody's life to get good seat for performance the opera cannot be maintained unless there is money produced somewhere. True, it is a gigantic enterprise and, as we all know, there is no stinting on salaries, production and so on. The owners, The Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, have pro- posed the sale of the opera house to the producing association, and then with the general public rallying to it's support opera might be continued and the Metropolitan Opera House would become large musi- cal center. No one wants to see the Metropolitan Opera disappear from the country's cultural life, so it looks like good old general public would have to lend helping hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
Don't Be Hasty

The prevailing controversy over the excellence or ignorance of Waterburys high school students in the subject of English is one that might we'll cause some very hard feelings if it were allowed to run rampant through the city. Whether or not some sort of check-up should be made in our schools on the basis of evil dence submitted recently at Board of Education meeting is up to this depart ment to settle.
 We. don't believe, though, a majority of citizens would say any such probe was warranted by the facts that are at hand. Certainly no one of us would lay claim to such knowledge that we could swear that every graduate of our local high schools is possessed of the finest vocabulary ex- tant or could recite at will, and perhaps <ather glibly, long passages from favorite works of English prose and poetry or yet again pen piece of literature that would Dow along both beautifully and sym vertically.
 But most of us have confidence that fl1e present system of English instruc- ton Is beyond reproach. We arc con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
Views of The Press

dropped from 50 cents to 25 cents, in the eight official parking fields. The eight parking fields can accom- modate 36,000 cars. They have not been rushed with business, by any means. 4 misunderstanding" arose between the fair management and the city department of parks, ac- cording to Grover Whalen, impress ario of the fair, over this drop. The city announced the reduction on the one parking field 1t owns and operates. This accommodates i1,O0O cars. The fair management said 1t wouldn't drop its price, yet 1t did after a conference, and Whalen finally announced that 1t was his idea in the first place, but he hadn't intended to do it so soon.
 The fact seems to be that the fair needs to be advertised. It has depended on free publicity for its patronage, for the most part, and tried, through high-pressure pub licity men, to keep interest in the exhibition at fever heat. Actually however, interest seems to have fallen off; disgust over the labor difficulties, prices originally charg- ed, etc., have contributed to this situation. And now Whalen. to en- tice visitors to the fair, persuasively announces that there isn't any "overcrowding;" that the fair is SC immense no one need stay away be- cause of that fear, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
Selected Poem
WOMAN WASHING

Geona Ames Hill in the Christian Science Monitor) She is the oracle, the high priestess, Of little girls with shining yellow tresses, That play their solemn games on summer mornings Decked out in crisp dephinium- -coored dresses. She is goddess bent above bright water Trailing her hands through tubs of fragile pearls And opals luminous with the rosy coors Of pinafores for little dark-eyed girls. She is the patron saint of boys that wander Through shady August woods to find a brook Dappled with sun, then come home mud-bespattered With strings of speckled fish for her to cook. She is the queen within summer household Where curtains blow in light fresh-scented pillows In dim rooms cool with bowls of dark petunias In bedrooms sweet with clean blue quilts and
 pillows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
Wears No Hat

According to all reports Haywood Broun, well known newspaper columniSt, president of the American Newspaper Guild, manager of a weekly newspaper, the Connecticut Nutmeg, etc., etc., has thrown his hat into the congressional ring down in Fairfield County. He aspires to be the Democratic candidate in the fourth congressional district and said as much to delegates attending the county convention of the Young Democrats this past weekend.
 From all reports MT. Brown is usually to be found hatless, but that certainly didn't prevent him from making an early bid for Democratic nomination. Noth- ing has as yet been heard from the camp of Alfred N. Phillips who held the office prior to his defeat in 1938 We don't imagine that the Stamford politician will step gracefully out of the way for MT. Broun if he feels that 1940 is going to find the Democrats again retaining Con- necticut as lost territory.
 Still it can't be denied but what Broun would add color to the fight. We don't know what sort of campaigner he would prove to be for his nettle hasn't as yet been tested in this respect here in Con- necticut. But if allowed to conduct his campaign on paper he probably would be elected hands-down. He'll find, if he should be fortunate enough to secure the desired nomination, that he has chosen the very best way in the world to meet all the neighbors he's been anxious to get around and see for so many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

vinced that the instructors assigned to this department are capable, industrious, and concerned that their charges acquire sound training. Other than that the case of the individual student is bit difficult to treat. Every boy or girl coming out of a public school is given the opportunity to improve his knowledge. Failure to do so often is the boys or girls fault, not the teachers or the systems.
 Before Waterbury concludes it is par tially educating groups of stuttering and illiterate youths, much more proof, than that brought to the fore, is required
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

Give it to them! It remained for a House member at Washington recently to read the riot act to numerous federal employees. Rep. Caldwell, chairman of the House Patronage Committee, told so- called patronage employees that even be- cause they knew certain Congressman didn't give them the right to loaf on their jobs During working hours he said they were supposed to work and not indulge in other pastimes. Good advice for any one on government job, we'd say.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
THE PLIGHT OF THE FAIR
(New London Day)

Paid admissions to the New York Worlds Fair, to date, suggest a total paid attendance for the year of only about 25.000,000 persons, or about half what the ofiicials figur- ed would be the case, in advance. The officials, in fact, originally es- timated a 1889 attendance at the fair of 60,000, 900, but later boosted the figure most enthusiastically to CO.,
 GOO 900. Up to the middle of July
 the total attendance at the fair has
 been about l3.O00.000 and of that figure about one-third As free-per- sons admitted on passes. A net paid
 attendance in the first two and half months of the exhibition, in other words, of only about 5000 900 has gotten the fair officials defi-
 nitely worried. It is only about c couple of million larger than the population of greater New York.
 Tn various ways this situation is bringing the management . head.
 ache. The amusement section ex.
 hibitorg have been complaining
 bitterly. and imploring tho fair
 management to reduce the admis-
 sion fee at the fair to SO cents. from | the present 7b cent level. Just the
 other day the ofiiciai parking fee ' for automobiles at the fair was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

is associated with Caldwell Broth- CTS, related to George Caldwell, now indicted for WPA building scandals. Hart was also revealed by the Baton Rouge grand jury as having been 8 packer of J. M. Smith.
 YET THE PWA INvESTIGA- TORS wHITE-wAsHED THE WHOLE THING.
 HOT HOT OIL
 So naturally the folks in Louis- jana also are keeping their fingers crossed regarding the impending investigation of oil. Just on the face of 1t, this looks as if 1t could be the juiciest of all Investigations. Governor Long recently removed Dr. J. A. Shaw, head of the min- erals division of the State Con- servation Department, but did nothing about William Rankin, head of the Department.
 Shaw was charged with selling materials used by oil companies. MT. Rankin, it happens, sells boats. He is the owner, while his son, William Rankin, Jr, is president of Boats, Inc, a concern which has been stocking Gar Wood boats, made in Michigan; boats built by the Robinson Marine Manufacturing Company of Ben- ton Harbor, Mich, and by Wheel CT of Brooklyn. Many of these boats, previously in the possession of Boats, Inc, now are in the service of the Department of Conservation. No Louisiana boat manufacturers were given an op-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
In Today's Mail
WRITER OFFERS THE NAME OJ JUDGE JOHN L. GAFFNEY AS DEMOCRATIC STANDARD
 BEARER THIS YEAR
July 20. 1889.

July 20. 1899. Editor of The Democrat:-
 Your recent editorial '"rhc Pol Simmers" stating that the presence of such a number of tick. cts on the official ballots could esq. fly throw the election to an inde- pendent faction or racial group should prompt fair minded mem~ bers of the Democratic party (ths party of majority of Waterbury vot. ers) to unite behind a Democrat rnayoralty nominee far above fac- tionalism, race prejudice or group provincialism. May I make bold to suggest 8 standard bearer?
 The universal esteem in which one of our outstanding Democrats is held has been evidenced by the comment about the men recently appointed judge of our city court, John L. Gaffney. Enthusiastic praise of his character and integrity has come from the Democrat and Re- publican press of the city, from citi- zens irrespective of faction. race, creed or economic cirumstances and from persons who habitually lean backward in bestowing favorable comment on public officials. He comes to the bench firmly ground- ed by a solid legal education and three decades of practice at the bar and with 0 mind matured in evaluating human nature by nearly three score years of walking with kings without losing the common touch. He is always bigger than his fellows because he is never afraid of seeming smaller. His are qualities Cardinal Newman requires of the gentleman-"the carriage. gait. address, gestures. voice; the ease, the seif-possession, the cour- tesy. the power of conversing. the talent of not offending the lofty principles. the delicacy Of thought. the happiness of expression, the taste and propriety. the generosity and forbearance. the carsdor and consideration. the openness Of hand.
 Yours for fewer factions. groups. etc.--a united front and victory at the polls.
 4 RArRAxrNDED DEMOCRAT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

portunity to quote competitive bids to the Department of Conserva- ton.
 The Rankins have secured a 25- year lease from the New Basin Canal Board, though other com- panies were unable to lease except on Q year-to-year basis. There they have erected a new building with funds reported to have been borrowed from Mayor Maestri.
 It was Maestri who preceded Rankin as head of the Conser- vation Department, and when he retired from the job he was one of the biggest oil producers In the state.
 Last but not least, the Conserva- ton Department which Rankin heads, developed a pretentious park adjacent to a new mansion which Rankin has been erecting for himself with a potpourri of workmen, materials, and motor trucks, some from WPA, some fromState Conservation Depart ment and even some from the Municipal Repair Department of the city of New Orleans, all scrambled together until news of Baton Rouge scandals broke. Then suddenly the workmen were un- scrambled, and construction work practically ceased.
 So 1t IS safe bet that if the federal government really goes to town, 1t will have plenty to do for @ long time in Louisiana.
 Copyright, 1889, by United
 Feature 9vndicata Ync
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
LOVE OF TRAVEL
(Boston Post)


 A study made by the department of commerce shows that in the 20- year period ending in 1888, Ameri- can tourists spent $5,400 O00 ,000 abroad. This is an average of $270,- 100000 year, but some years the annual expenditure abroad reached well over $5o0,0O0. .000. In the same two decades the aggregate outlays by foreign visitors to the United States reached 5000, 900 900. / Of course, some foreign countries were favored by travellers, and the ex- penditure of money in them by tour iSts formed one of their major sources of revenue. Even before the depression, the tourist trade started to drop somewhat because of unwise attitudes on the part of foreign countries, but tourist expenditures still run high. Americans love to travel and consider that a good way to spend money and foreign nations benefit heavily by this love of travel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20
Daily Almanac

Moon rises l0:37 D. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:36 a. n.; sets 8:2o ?. m. tday- light time).
 High water at Milford Friday, July 2i, 3:64; low water. i0:ao daylight time).
 July to date is proving chillier than June. At the rate it's going nov the months mean temperature will probably average several de- grees lower than that in June. which is very unusual. Now # rainfall would only figure in the averages