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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
oUIcK-MosoUITo PROJECT!

Residents of Key West were reminded
as they were never reminded before this
week of a need for concentrated drive
against those little pests commonly known
as mosquitoes. Never mind the scientific
name for the pests-what Key Westers
want to know iG when will the big push"
from these disturDers of our collective
frames of mind can be expected
Natives say that this week has been
one of the worst for mosquitoes in their
recollection. New residents here can we'll
hope that this is the worst siege-they
lions of mosquitoes would swarm in this
otherwise peaceful and highly desirable
place to live.
Good news is in the offing. It's a
project-another mosquito project. One
that will really bear down on the little
pests and go far towards permanent eradi-
cation. At least, that is the news con-
tanned in a WPA release about three
weeks ago. The trouble is-the release
stated that funds would be available in
from ''ten days to two weeks. More than
that time has elapsed and in the meantime
Key West is in the midst of one of the
worst epidemics of mosquito infestations
that it has ever experienced.
Luckily, the season will soon be out
for mosquitoes. Cooler weather is just
around the corner and we can expect some
relief from those pests. But memory of
the current and other epidemics will re-
main with most of us for long, long time
and it is for the future seasons that we
look forward to for relief
Work done now - ditch digging,
draining, oiling and other means contem-
plated to erase the pests from this island,
will show up definitely on the profit side
later. By next year-even when tourists
are still with us in late winter months-it
is hoped that mosquitoes will be thing
of the past.
Hurry up-W.PA. Let's get that
project under way right away. We can
stand the bites, scratchings and general
nuisance better if we know that relief is in
sight
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
LEGALS

IN THE COURT of THE COUNTY
JUDGE, MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA. IN PROBATE.
In re Estate of
ANNIE NJ. COTTER,
Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
To all creditors and all persons
having claims or demands against
said estate:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified and required to present
any claims and demands which you,
or either of you, may have against
the estate of Annie NJ. Cotter, de-
ceased. late of Monroe County,
Florida, to the Hon. Raymond r.
Lord, County Judge of Monroe
County, at his office in the County
Courthouse in Monroe County,
Florida, within eight months from
the date of the first publication
hereof. All claims and demands
not presented within the time and
in the manner prescribed herein
shall be barred as provided by
law.
Dated October Bird, A d. 1889.
BEN S. GROSS,
AS Executor of the Last Will and
Testament of Annie M. Cotter,
Deceased.
oct4-I1-Is-25, 1899
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

A name in the news heard and read
most frequently in the past few months on
account of the part it is playing in the
present European war is Danzig. Another
name known to everybody in the United
States, as we'll as in most countries, is
Fahrenheit. You got to know him by de-
grees, and he was born in Danzig in 1886
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was the inven-
tor. of the mercury thermometer with
which most everyone is acquainted, be-
cause the Fahrenheit scale is the one gen.
orally used for ordinary purposes in the
United States and in England, while Cen
tigrade is adopted for scientific research
and on the European Continent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

To be really neutral there should be
an embargo on all goods to all belligerents
and not only on the implements of war.
Lifting the embargo on the latter is the
purpose of President Roosevelt in calling
the special session of Congress and that is
not neutrality in the honest sense of the
word, and will eventually lead US into what
every right-thinking citizen of the United
States hopes to avoid.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan OF the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; Always do its utmost for the
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
commead good done by individual or organ
izs. on; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
CRACKS and COMMENTS
BY A
FLORIDA CRACKER
FATHER A. B. DIMMIcK


pastor of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, pointed out to the young
people of his congregation Sum
day that conditions now existing
are such that no wellbred boy or
girl would want to be identified
with the hoodlum element that
are community scandal of eve
nings on the walls of st. Paul's
Church at Duval and Eaton
streets. No doubt that Father
Dimmick is quite right. Good
parents may not be aware that
nooting, bowling, loud profanity,
vulgarity and indecent behavior
are not unusual. CCC boys and
the sailors as a whole are a fine
lot of young men, most of them
coming from good American
homes, and it's too bad that now
and then some rotter will give
the whole group a black eye.
Saturday night at midnight a
lady living near St. PauPs Church
went to the CCC truck parked
on Eaton street and pleaded with
CCC boy to quit his vulgar, OBJ
scene and profane language un-
der the very caves of the church.
Such rotten fifth as had flown
from his mouth for half an hour
was fit food for buzzards and in
justice to the manly, decent boys
who were present it must be
said that they were deeply en-
barrassed by the behavior of their
camp brother.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

Boy Scouts, municipal band and
detachments of firemen and traf-
fic police.
A great deal of complaint by
careful drivers is being made
against the drivers who speed
along the county road at night.
Activity of local police about six
weeks ago put a stop to this
speeding but it has been resumed
and is now far worse than when
the arrests were made. Some of
the cars make as muc h as forty
miles an hour. Drivers get the
|right-of-way, which they seem
TO think belongs to them, and
keep footing their horns. A cou-
pie of live policemen would have
fine chance of cleaning up any
night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Nobody grows old merely by living a
number of years; people grow old only by
deserving their ideals. Years wrinkle the
skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles
the SOUL Worry, doubt, self-distrust,
fear, and despair-these are long. long
years that bow the head and turn the
growing spirit back to dust.
You are as young as your faith, as
old as your fear; as young as your hope,
as old as your despair
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

Evidently Hitler had the mistaken
idea that he could repeat in Poland what
be had done to Czechoslovakia, and that
would not have happened, followed by
Austria and Memel, had England and
France not shown the white feather at
Munich. But who can tell? Everything
may turn out for the best, after all.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
Mr.. AND MRS. J. ]. TREvoR

and B. D. Trevor have returned
from AN interesting vacation, go
ing to Blowing Rock, N. C., and
from there to Nashville, Tenn /,
where they were the guests of
Mrs. Trevor's sister, Mrs. ]. E.
Pomfert, and DR.. Pomfert, who is
dean of senior college and gradu-
alton school at Vanderbilt Uni
versity. Mrs. Trevor's mother,
Mrs. John Wise, accompanied
them home for a visit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

'-' A town is judged by its newspaper
and justly so, because a newspaper is the
printed reflection of its people.-Key
West Citizen. If there is no business in
the newspaper, a stranger is apt to con-
clude that there is no business in the town.
Sanford Herald.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

$3.50 Now that Hitler and Stain have
smoked the pipe of peace it will be tough
for some of their protagonists to swallow
the. truth that there wasn't much differ
ence between them after all.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESl
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

/. Water and Sewerage.
Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
g. Hotels and Apartments
e. Bathing Pavilion.
B. Airports---L1nd and Sea.
g. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
STEP LADDERS. PLEASE.

According to the new fashions,
there will be no chance for a
shy little child to cling to its
mothers skirts. At least not un-
til it grows pretty tall.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

POLITICS: "Peddlers of plati-
tudes and ponderous piffle''
usually beset the voters just be-
fore elections. Let us hope we
will be able to select men of ac-
ton in the coming city election
that will give us a creditable adj
miniStration.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
A SUCCESSFUL MAN in mo

any community is the old meany
who works hard to make an hon.
est success but cannot afford to
carry more than half of the fail
ures who claim his friendship.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
ABOUT TOWN: Baby M,

ABOUT TOWN: Baby Mary
Theodore Sweeting, looking like
a pretty doll in a polka dotted
dress and red shoes. Large
crowds greeting the SIS. Cuba. i.
David Gill, who owns the old
Fogarty home, out getting the
lawn cleaned up and looking
smart for the winter. Look out,
David, before you cut that tall
weed-better ask the Garden
Club, it might be a tree. There
is Eddie Hall, master of cere-
monies at Peppers, reading the
war news. and there's that mar
ried man that ogles the pretty
girls all day-oh, well, lets go
home.
Adios,
FLORIDA CRACKER.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

Victor Hugo had an explanation for
Napoleon's downfall. He said, God was
bored with him." Maybe Gods annui
will also ultimately be Hitler's downfall.
though for the present he is keeping his
enemies awake.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

LIVE WIRES: Wonder if mer-
chants realize how much women
depend on advertisements in their
buying? So many things one
neglects to get that are wanted
and needed until an advertise
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
WOMEN ARE NOT LIKE

THAT: Cracker received a most
amusing letter from a friend in
a certain southern city telling of
meeting held by group of men
to elect new president in a ia
nous and aristocratic southern
club. There were twelve men
present, secret ballot was taken
with written nominations dropped
into a hat. All twelve men were
nominated for president and each
nominee got one vote-so there
you are, old human ego.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

There are men on the street corner
of every city, Key West included, who can
tell the French general staff how to win
the war in three weeks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

General Advance and Major Often
sive are once more in the limelight of the
days news.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

ment reminds one where it can
be bought the cheapest and best.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

A butcher in a northern city put
up this notice in his window
This business has been com
PEELED to close owing to bad
debts. A list of the names and
amount owing will shortly be
shown" Needless to say money
rolled in, the shop is open again
and business is flourishing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

WHAT IS HE'LL? Hell is the
burning fires of, petty hatred in
the hearts of small souls who
make their own help'.-Dr. Hen
ry Edmonds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04
SIDE II T S
BY MARCY B. DARNALL
Former Editor Of The Citizen

NGWSWeGk Reports d. great
boom being experienced by
plants manufacturing wood type,
used for extra large headlines in
newspapers and for posters. The
orders of one such firm is said
to have increased 300 per cent
during the first week of the war.
One World War hero still &C.
cupies the same position he held
in 1914. He is Adolphe Max,
burgomaster (mayor) of Brus-
sells, Belgium, who was i'm
prisoned for defying the Ger
mans when they entered his city.
He is now 70 years old and still
active.
At the recent international
convention of the Loyal Order
of Moose, held in Philadelphia,
the title of dictator was
abolished and governor" SUBJ
istituted. The change was made
because the word dictator "has
fallen into disrepute," according
to resolution unanimously
adopted.
Paul Gurtler, who was a SER
geant in the company of Cor
poral Adolf Hitler during the
World War, has enlisted in the
Canadian Army. Gurtler is now
a naturalized Canadian, whose
home is in the province of AL
berta.
While shaving a customer,
Frank Dugan of Philadelphia
saw an automobile hit a man in
front of his barber shop, and
start to speed away. Dugan
dashed after the hit-and-run
driver, jumped on the running
board razor in hand, caused him
to stop, and turned him over to
a policeman.
John Lindsey of New Jersey
has attended a theatrical per-
Torrance once in his 95 years.
That was on the night of April
IA, 1865, at the Ford theater in
Washington, where he, witnessed
the shooting of President Linz
Colin. TIE tragedy so shocked
Lindsey that he never went to a
show again. -
Recruiting some feats OF wo-
men aviators, writer reminds
us that the first woman airplane
pilot in the world was Harriet
Ouimby, who obtained her
license in 1912. She met the
fate of most pioneer Flyers, peins
killed in crash while giving a
stunt exhibition in Boston.
Expressing skepticism about
the value of strenuous exercise,
George Jean Nathan, the author
and critic points out that the
LATEST animals live longest. He
cites the tortoise and elephant,
which sometimes reach the age
of 200 years, while the dog,
squirrel and other active ami
mails die at a relatively early
age.
Bow Scouts, municipal band and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-04

Paul Gurtler, who was a SER
geant in the company of Cor
poral Adolf Hitler during the
World War, has enlisted in the
Canadian Army. Gurtler is now
a naturalized Canadian, whose
home is in the province of AL
berta.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
BestSnapshots
Of the week in
The Stars
Amateur Contest

Contestants receive 81 for
each photo published with the
weekly S. prize winner. All
photos published will be con-
sidered at the end of the con-
test for The Stor's four SIS
grond owords. Winners of the
grond owords will compete in
the notionoI awards poyine
$4,000, including erond prize
worth 81, 500. Photos must
have been taken since Moy Is,
1889, to be eligible.
Next Friday, August Is, is
lost doy for submitting pictures
in contest, which closes with
selections for September 8.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

In the year 1920, a newspaper
IN Portland, Me, carried a poem
written by a 13-year-old boy. 1t
was a good poem for boy of that
age, but it was not destined to be
published "far and wide"
The boy, however, was on the road
to fame. He was Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
If any one had asked the boy
what he was going to do when he
grew up, he probably would have
said, Il am going to be a lawyer!"
His father was lawyer, and for a
long time the son planned to follow
the same profession.
Henry became a student in a
small Maine college known as Bow
doin. Three years later, at the age
of 18, he was graduated. One of
his classmates was Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, who later was to become
q writer of great note.
Longfellow had done so we'll in
his studies that he was offered
place teaching foreign languages
at Bowdoin. He liked the idea bet
ter than to study law, but decided
to 60 abroad to learn more about
languages. Sailing for Europe, he
spent three years in France, Spain
and Italy. He was % when he
Joined the Bowdoin faculty.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
-LongfeIIow Taught at Harvard

Upon his return from abroad,
Longfellow became q professor at
Harvard. He taught foreign Ian
guages at Harvard for II years.
He was favorite among the STU
dents, and worked TO- give them
knowledge of the life and spirit of
nations in Europe.
In his spare time Longfellow
wrote poems. For time, the writ
ing seemed little more than a
hobby" but later it proved the
greatest part of his life work.
While teaching at Harvard, Long
fellow married again. His second
wife was Frances Appleton. They
lived in a home which was old but
well-built. It had been used by
George Washington as q headouar-
ters and was known as Craigie
House.
book) '~'
The leaflet, "Cites Of Europe" !"
may be had by sending . 3c stamp
ed, return envelop to me In care Of
The Evening Star.
I"eAe Raa
TOMORROW: More About LonotellotD.
Evening star., 1939-11-20

Cd With high card value of 13
and eight honors South is too strong
for a one no-trump opening.
CD South does not know exactly
what to bid. Hence, he becomes
fancy.
90 Correct.
ca Continuing to be fancy.
90 North is willing to play four
spades even though his partner may
be void in that suit.
(6) South would have bid six
spades in rubber bridge.
% South's bidding has clearly
marked him with the ace of spades
and probably the queen also. Hence,
North realizes that his ace-jack of
diamonds should be enough to in
sure the grand slam.
X xAx
Saturday Howard Schenken was
your partner and you held:
A 10xx
vX
= AxXxx
Kxxx
The bidding:
Schenken. Burnstone. You. Jacoby.
IA Pass CD
Answer-Your correct bid is two
spades. If you happen to bid two
diamonds and your partner rebids
to two spades, you do not know
whether to raise or not
Score 100 per cent for two spades,
30 per cent for two diamonds, moth
ing for other bids.
Question No. 295.
You are David Bruce Burnstones
partner today and hold:
AK
VA kXXX
<x
*KQxxx
The bidding:
Burnstone. Maier. You. Jacoby.
~ Pass ~ Pass
INT Pass CD
What do you bid? Answer to-
morrow
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CRAlGlE HOUSE,
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS,

Longfellow was married to a play
mate of his childhood, Mary Pot
ter. A few years later he went to
Europe again. This time he Wis
tied England, Sweden, Denmark,
Germany and Holland. His wife
travelled with him, and their tour
was happy, until they reached Hol-
land-in that little country Mrs.
Longfellow fell sick and died.
Thinking Of that sadness, we may
remember a line in one of Long
fellows later poems, Unto each life
some rain must fall" The young
professor bore his loss bravely, in
the same way he was to meet other
deep sorrows Of his life.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Fred Neher

its existence the College Of William
and Mary consisted Of a president,
a grammer master, an usher, and
a writing master, and when the
first professor of mathematics was
appointed in the year 1712, it was
an event indeed.
Evening star., 1939-11-20
College Has Grown

Nowadays a university's courses
include so many subjects that a
course in cooking for men, the art
of marriage, or on how to use
telephone hardly raises a ripple,
but, in the first Is or so years of
Evening star., 1939-11-20
The Maximum Score

We're not sure whether or not we
like Souths bidding of today's hand.
Nevertheless, North brilliantly put
him in the right final contract and
he secured a top score in the recent
metropolitan championships.
South, dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
A K ] 10 97 60
20 54
= A j
K876 N VISA
1854 WE 1878
4 QJS72 S = K 10 9
4 A O.
y A 10 3
= K @ 1062
J. A 5
The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
100 Pass IA Pass
~ (2) Pass 3A 90 Pass
- a. Pass 4A(5) Pass
6NT go Pass INT! CD Pass
Pass Pass
Evening star., 1939-11-20

Boys and Girls, Read the Junior Stor Every Sundoy
Evening star., 1939-11-20
Winning Contract
By THE FOUR ACES.
LISTENER

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D.
Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard
Schenken. worlds leading team OF
four, inventors of the system that
has beaten every other system in
existence)
Milford chronicle., 1939-11-10
FLAWS IN THE LAWS

Southern states continue their OBJ
jectiOns to standardized wages and
hours. because those States produce
more cheaply than the North-On ac-
count of climatic advantages.
There are many complaints, most
ly from the South. about inequalities
Of railroad rates. The claim is that
some sections of the country can be
served by the railroads cheaper than
other parts.
Those are visible flaws in the
above laws. There is a growing de-
mand in favor or patching-up the
punctures and blOw-outs, in order
that collective bargaining between
employers and unions may become
workable.
The National Labor Relations Ad-
ministration mas shown a very un-
reasonable attitude toward industries
and its employers and employees.
Nevertheless, nothing more than
plain commonsense changes are
needed in that Administration TO
make the law a valuable agency of
the Government. as,-
Undoubtedly some OF the members
OF the Labor Board should be reliev-