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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
RELIEF WORKERS HOLIDAY

More than 400 relief workers are now
idle in Key West. They may be seen sit
ting disconsolately in all sections Of the
city. A few of them have found jobs else
where, or are trying to find work here.
Some of them are doing the best they can
to get along without assistance. But the
plight of the majority is pretty des-
perate.
These men were laid off under an act
of Congress requiring 30-day vacations"
for those employed continuously for 18
months by WPA The act was aimed at
the WPA career men. Career men are
generally those who never did work, will
not work on private jobs if they were of
fered and who believe the government
owes them living. This small group of
men usually are the worst agitators within
the WPA ranks. They are often identified
with wont-work radical and screwball or
CARNATIONS and activities. These warped
individuals are not worth boot in a
hOosegow to themselves or anyone else
However, the law had broad gen.
eral application. While aiming at these
lazy and tongue-wagging undesirables, the
law included many honest and hard-work-
ing men and women. These people have
always given the WPA all they could and
spent their relief earnings on their families.
They earn the small federal pay checks
md 60, +hox,
can for food, clothing and shelter. These
people are up against cruel fate. They
have been unable to save anything for this
rainy day. The enforced holidays granted
them by WPA found them empty-handed
and helpless to face this cash-and-carry
world. They have pulled their belts up to
the last notch. Their children are under
nourished, often hungry. They live in
tumbledown shacks, uhscreened against
mosquitoes and often are without decent
sanitary facilities and water. These con-
ditions can't be laughed off-they are
serious.
Yet, in the face of all this misery the
state has not got around to setting up
machinery for recertifying these unfor-
Inmates for relief. When these men and
women were laid off they were auto
matically dropped from the relief rolls.
Their need for relief must be certified
again.
Key West Chamber of Commerce and
other groups have offered to set up this
machinery locally. Officials of WPA have
written their regulations will not permit
this kind of service. They state that the
governor is moving toward setting up
statewide recertification service.
The 80 days vacations" will be up
Sept Is for number of the men now idle
here. By Oct 1 the entire group will be
looking for jobs, for food, for homes, for
light, for hope. Gov. Fred Cone must act
at once to solve this problem.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
ROBERTS GOING,
BACK TO SCHOOL

Allen Neil Roberts, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Percy Roberts, will
leave tomorrow morning over
the highway for Gainesville,
Fla. where he will enter for his
freshman year at the University
of Florida. He was a graduate
of the 1899 class of Key West
High School.
Accompanying Allen Neil will
be his parents and aunt, Mrs.
Sidney N. Thompson, who will GO
with him to Gainesville and aft
erward visit in Jacksonville and
other points in the state before
returning to Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
The New York Worlds Fair

The New York Worlds Fair, in its
creative efforts to amuse the visitors, is
making fun of the ills of man. Hay fever
victims were enticed into a sneezing con-
lest in which 18 victims participated.
Monroe Scholar, strangely enough of Mi
ami, Florida, won the title of "Chief Ker-
Chooer." Odder still it would have been
# Scholar, whose cognomen has familiar
Key Westian sound, had come from our
island city, where never a case of hay
fever has been known. 1t will be remem-
bered that an article in a recent issue of
the magazine Life" stated that Key West
was the only place where hay fever vic
Tins would find immediate relief from this
aggravating i'll, unlesh they decided
20 undergo polarization treatment with
only palliative results instead of cure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
A GOOD EDITOR

(From the Abba, Iowa, Union
Republican,
A good editor is one who has
never made a mistake; who has
never offended any one; who is
always right; who can ride two
horses at the same time he is
straddling fence with both ears
to the ground; who always says
the right thing at the right time;
who always picks the right horse
as well as the right politician to
win; who never has to apologize:
who has no enemies and who has
worlds of prestige with all classes.
creeds and races. There has new
er been a good editor,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
CASUALTIES

During the World War, as E. Guy
Talbot, of San Francisco points out, there
were 39,362 Americans killed in battle /;
90,766 died of wounds, disease, accidents
and other causes, and 192,369 were
wounded.
From 1920 to 1888 1858, 289 veterans
were admitted to government hospitals, at
a cost of 1921 ,290,417. In 1888 alone,
1929 veterans were hospitalized.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

According to the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Experiment Station at Rutgers
University there are forty kinds of mos
auitoes in that state. Most of the various
species are not migratory, many not flying
away more than 800 yards; they are the
kind that breed in rain water. The salt
water mosquitoes, however, have been
known to fly 10 miles. When you are
bitten by mosquito, it may be interesting
to know, that the bite comes from the
female of the species which in this, like in
most insect and animal life is more dead
L. than the male
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
WHAT MAKES THE
WHEELS GO AROUND: News


papermen seem fanatically mod
est about their names appearing
in print but at least we can talk
about the machinery of a daily
paper. Often times one Won
ders how such institutions can af-
ford to contribute daily, yards
and yards of high-priced white
paper space given month after
month, year after year, as must
be given for the upbuilding of a
community.
You will say advertising does
it. Yes; but how often does one
advertise and how small a part
of the paper really is filled with
advertising matter. Upbuilding
a community means culture, pro-
gress, and increased values in
investments. Where one good
citizen will give generously for
civic advancement that helps
every home and business in the
community, there are hundreds
of citizens Tor should we call
them just folks who do nothing,
but who are benefited by that
given by others.
Not only the great amount of
white space that is given is amaz-
ing but there are many other
things to be considered The pay
rolls to be met. Many families
dependent on that institution.
There is the expense of collect
ing news, and worse still, the
enemies that a publisher must
inevitably make when he oppos-
es forces that to him seem detri-
mental to a city's welfare.
A woman visitor, walking into
the mechanical department of
The Key West Citizen, hearing
the clankety clank of machinery.
seeing the busy but cheerful,
Woodworking men, great blur
of wheels, smell of ink and whir
of linotype machines, huge print
ing presses and another big black
noisy thing neatly cutting your
daily Citizen. Then there is Jo-
nah, the printers devil, with his
infectious smile and glistening
colored face. Groups of news
boys with eager, young faces
were waiting for the fresh edi-
ton to be distributed over the
city. So, the writer, pretending
to look intelligent and well-in-
formed about machinery, says
good bye and thank you but, be-
ing a woman, she keeps wonder
ing what makes the wheels go
around?"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
TO COMMANDER
HOWARD HARTLEY

I'd rather be mean to a person
Than mean to a dog or a cat;
For people can call policeman
And animals cannot do that.
Commander Hartley, whose
great sympathy for helpless,
homeless animals keeps him busy
doctoring and feeding the little
waits of the alleys. has his own
pet cat, Peter. Peter is a world
traveller. having circled the globe
with Commander and Mrs. Hart
ley and is most snooty in his
choice of friends. In the Orient,
Peter took a shine to Cinnamon
but detested Japs.
Be kind to all dumb animals
And give small birds crumb;
Be kind to human beings, too
They're sometimes pretty dumb
Mccain.
Adios,
FLORIDA CRACKER.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

ated Press)
men and didn't want to hear
about Christianity"
When he began his missionary
work, the priest said here, the
south Florida mission territory
extended from Tarpon Springs to
Key West.
AT that time there were few
settlements in south Florida with
a permanent Catholic church." he
recalled. Many of my parish
toner's at Key West were sponge
fishermen who since have moved
to Tarpon Springs"
The Jesuit order sent priests to
Tampa when the three resident
priests died from yellow fever.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
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.
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not cohtaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08


TAMPA, Fla, Sept. Gun
successful efforts were made 40
years ago to convert the Semi
mole Indians to Christianity.
The Rev. A. Latiolas, a Jesuit
priest from Louisiana. told of be-
ginning his missionary career in
Key West soon after the turn of
the century.
Every effort was made to
reach the Seminoles with reli-
gion," Father Latiolas said, ''but
they had been so illtreated in the
10Th century that their chief
wanted nothing to do with white
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

- This column has always advocated
That all aliens or relief or in other govern
mental jobs be eliminated. Senator Cap
per, of Kansas, goes step farther and adj
Vocates the expulsion of 100000 aliens
I. now in this country, unless they become
American citizens within a year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
EXTRA

May I print kiss on your lips,
he asked?
She nodded her sweet permits
sion.
So they went to press and l rather
guess
They printed large edition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

If used for living quarters the overhead would
certainly give this cottage something most houses lack
ample storage space.
Both bedrooms have crossvenation guaranteeing cool
breezes the nights of The porch could
easily be screened making third bedroom for those who
enjoy sleeping out"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
CRACKS and COMMENTS
BY a
FLORIDA CRACKER

Items under this head will
appear from time to fine in
The Citi:en-from the pen
Of a local lady-columnist.
Naturally. she assumes full
responsibility for all state,
menfs made.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

Fashion has it that the wasp waist is
coming back. Possibly to accentuate the
hustle which is also reported to be COM
ing back.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning)
g. Hotels and Apartments.
T. Bathing Pavilion.
S. Airports--Ll md and Sea.
g. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

- Somebody lost $4,000 in Wall Street.
lin the street, not in the market,-that's
the news.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

When all the nations of the world sign
-nOn-aggression pacts we will have peace,
maybe!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

Miss Rose D. Petty, 514 South
ard street, who left recently for
an extended western tour and
sailed from Miami, was taken off
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

THIS plan represents most of
Il the ideas now popular in
small cottages and includes the
good points of the Cape Cod and
Williamsburg Colonial.
1t is a one-story house, al
though the roof has a suf.
ficiently high pitch to allow for
the finishing of at least one
room i'm the ample space above.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

The United States has large army,
tOo-the army of unemployed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today AS Taken
From The Files OF The Citizen

! S. P. Vecker, formerly mana
ger of the local gas plant and
now in a similar line in Havana,
arrived this morning from a
brief stay with his family in
Hendersonville, N. c., where
they spent the summer. He sail
ed Immediately for Havana. Mrs.
Vecker and mother, Mrs. Nellie
Williams, of 522 Elizabeth street,
will leave Hendersonville Satur-
day with Paul Vecker, Jr., en-
route to New York and a point
in Connecticut, where the son
will enter for his second year in
school. Mrs. Vecker and mother
expect to reach Key West about
October /. Esf
Mrs. Pearl Shields, clerk for
the State Organization Of Re-
bekkahs, who had been in the
city on an official visit, left yes
terday afternoon on the P. and
o. boat for Tampa enroute to
her home in Tarpon Springs. A
reception Friday night and an
elaborate dinner were among the
many pleasant affairs arranged
for the visiting guests entertain
ment during her visit. Mrs.
Shields cnoducted a school of in
struction at Rebekah hall on Sat-
urday and most all of the local
classes attended.
Curry Harris is reported to
have left Hendersonville, N. c.,
this morning by automobile and
is enroute to Key West. His
mother, Mrs. w. Hunt Harris,
and sister. Miss Minnie Porter
Harris, left here August is for
Hendersonville, after which they
were TO go On q railroad tour of
the Pacific Coast. They proposed
travelling the continental route,
which will take them through
Canadian Rockies with stops at
Banff and Lake Louise, They
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

will be in Key West again Octo-
Der /.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

Editorial Comment: Miamians
speak well of Key West when
they want to pick up little
easy money down this way. 9th
erwise-well, you know how it is.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

I. N. Meltzer, head of the Melt
ger Motor Co., and his bride, who
was Miss Margaret Curtis of this
city until they got married in Mi
ami last Friday, arrived in the
city this morning and were ex-
tended tremendous welcome by
their many friends. They are
now at home to their friends and
will reside here permanently.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

Following recess of Criminal
Court this morning there was
organized fishing party, which
consisted of state officials, county
and city officials and they left
on the William of Key West"
fishing boat of Chief Ralph B.
Pinder, who acted as guide. In
addition to the chief, members
of the party were: Assistant State
Auditor E. G. Houselt, County
Judge Hugh Gum, County Clerk
Ross c. Sawyer, Sheriff Cleve-
land Niles, Judge ]. Vining Har-
ris, Judge Uly G. Thompson,
Criminal Court Clerk c. Sam B.
Curry and others.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08

P. and o. Steamer Cuba arrived
this morning from Tampa with 80
first cabin and five second cabin
passengers for Key West and left
$3.50 o'clock for Havana with lis
first cabin passengers and United
States mail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-08
PRIEST OF LOUISIANA TELLS OF
Not Successful; Began Missionary Career In Key West
WORK AMONG SEMINOLE INDIANS

(By Associated Press)
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Star District League
Teams Put Snap in
Pinettes' Tourney

Two Of the city's strongest woman
duckpin aggregations, the pennant-
winning Lucky Strike and the third
place Chevy Chase teams of the
Ladies District League, will add snap
to the Washington Women's Duckpfn
Association championship which
swing into the third night of compe-
tition at Arcadia tonight. Red Cir
Gle Food Shop and Rendezvous, two
other quints of the all-star woman,s
bowling circuit will share the drives
at 7:30.
Paced by Evelyn Windsor's 351,
Arcadia's Ladies District League
entry featured last nights rolling
with a 1881 count that gained first
place in Glass A. Florence Sabearl,
with 331, was the leader as West
Washington moved to the front ID
Glass D, with 1923. The Shrimps
took over the leadership of Glass E
with 1852.
Virginia Haight was the only sim
giles leader to be displaced in the
second night of rolling as M. YOU
mans charged to the front of Glass
D with BOT.
Daisy Allen and Frances Cooper
sparkled in Glass D doubles taking
first place with 622 A SGT gave M.
Shaffer and V. Stockley the lead in
Glass E.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
458 Entries Received
For 7erps' Cinder
Meet Saturday
Tech Leeds District
Schools With 81;
Central Strong

Byrd Stadium at College Park will
be alive with flying spikes Saturday
when the 22d annual University of
Maryland field day is held. Geary
Eppley, Terp athletic director, an
nounced today that 458 entries had
been received for the scholastic
events. These will be supplemented
on the field by the crack squads of
Maryland and Washington and Lee,
out to smear each others clean
states in a dual meet.
Tech, with at least three men
in each event and total of 81,
leads the Washington public schools
in entries, followed by Central, with
20; Eastern, 25; Roosevelt. 10; Will
son, 8: Western, 8, and Anacostia,
2. Genzaga has IL entries, includ-
ing Theodore Merkle, who won the
mile title in '38.
Baltimore Schools Strong.
All the big Baltimore schools are
in strong led by Mount st. Joseph's,
with 20. Bethesda Chevy Chase will
defend the county schools cham
pionship with II men.
Montgomery Blair, featuring a
sensational high jumper in Bill
Fitzpatrick, has 20 entries. Hyatts-
vile will be represented in all the
county schools events. Bel Air has
13 entries.
Westinghouse, which won the
open championship last year, is en-
tered in every contest, its squad
numbering II.
Evening Star Meet Attracts.
The bulk of the entries from
Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia schools will go to post
again a week from Saturday in the
first annual Evening Star games at
College Park, in which the Metro
politan public school and the Dis
trict A. A. U. championships will be
decided.
Tuning up for the Maryland meet,
Tech, Central and Westinghouse
were to hold triangular meet this
afternoon at Central, starting at
3:15. Toulotte of WI. and AL
Hayden of Central were expected to
supply the feature in the quarter
mile.
Eastern bowed yesterday to the
Maryland freshmen, 1874 to 41M. in
meet at College Park. A 26-second
performance by Hooe of Eastern in
the 220-yard hurdles and II pound
shotput Of So feet 5A inches by
Lane Of the Terp frosh were the high
lights. Eastern's showing was far
better than expected.
Evening star., 1939-05-03

CQAC SOTL Ol uSIllIlk JuSL COulOu
happen. It couldn't be that good.
But 1t was. 1t was q week Of whole
sale murder that first week of May,
1885. 1t might happen again, and
the fishermen are going down there
again in the hopes that they will
be there when it does, and that in
the face of two successive years
of just $3.50 fishing.
The moon was on the wane,
the sea was calm and with just
= light breeze lazily stirring the
surf.
But on two successive days right
at sundown with an ebb tide run
ming through the inlet. the sea
stirred and fish began 70 spew up
on the beach. They were herring.
chased there by the blueflsh, and.
piscatorially speaking, hell broke
loose.
It's Hard to Believe.
Behind the herring within easy
casting distance were blues. more
and larger blues than have been
seen before or since. They hit any
thing on every cast. Spoons, her
ring tails, adhesive tape, old rags
and even bare hooks. You could
kick them ashore with your feet. A
party of six rods caught 500 pounds
the first night.
The second night was the
same. Fish bluefish - were
thicker there than herring are
in the Potomac during the
spring run.
They swan between the legs Of
anglers standing in the surf, and
they even jumped on the beach
without being kicked there. 1t was
a repetition of the first night. and
the same party of six rods caught
another $500 pounds.
That was four years ago. 1t hasn't
happened since, but it might again
And that's why anglers will be
headed for Oregon Inlet this month
Solomons, North Beach. Ridge.
And for those anglers who haven't
the time or the necessary scratch to
visit the Carolinas, things are open
ing around here. From Capt. Harry
Woodburn of Solomons: Il sent out
two boats yesterday. One left at
$50 am. and brought back 124
hardhead. The other left at 2 pm.
and brought in At, most of them 2lz
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Intentional FouIing
Curb Seen in New
Basket Code
Out-of-Bounds Possession
Of Boil to Partially
Replace Free Throws
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May Sin an effort
to out think the players and coaches,
the National Basket Ball Rules Com
mittee has altered the regulations
concerning free throws in order to
make intentional fouling unprofit-
able.
The new rule provides that after
a free throw on a technical foul, the
ball shall be put In play by the
offended side from out-of-bounds
at midcourt. On q personal foul,
the offended team can either make
the free toss or put the ball in play
the same way. If two free throws
are awarded, there is the option Of
taking one and passing up the
second.
Other new regulations are the
award of two free throws when a
player in the act of shooting is
fouled from behind or roughed,
whether or not the goal is made,
and permission for any player, in
stead of the captain alone, to ask
the referee for time out.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Basket Boil Officials
Will Hold MEETING

A special meeting of local basket
ball officials has been called for
7:30 o'clock tonight by Artie Boyd
president of the District Approved
Basket Ball Oflcials' Association. 1t
will be held in the auditorium of
Gonzaga High School.
A revised constitution and plans
for next season will be presented for
discussion. All members are urged
to attend.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
Crashes Tenpins for $500
Wimon Of Chicago, Apparent A. B. c. AII-Events
Victor, Gets Coin in Three Glasses

festival" for IL years. His 2,028
total is fourth highest in the
affairs history. The all-events
prize is 5000. A formidable 7O8
in his three-game singles is worth
$l95 on the basis of last years
payments. His 1881 doubles total
is valued at $500. And there's a
5000 diamond studded all-events
medal, too, If he wants to count
that.
The checks will come from a
Sl84 ,389 purse-richest prize list
since the A. B. c. was formed.
nearly 1000 checks will be dis
tributed among 16,8O9 contestants.
Evening star., 1939-05-03
College Sports

Baseball.
Duke. 5; Princeton. 3.
Dartmouth, 3; Yale, 3.
Minnesota. 8; St. Johns. o.
Wisconsin, g; Illinois Normal 3.
Missouri. Z; Iowa State. 2.
River Falls Teachers, l3: Eau Claire
Teachers. 2.
Bowling Green Teachers. 8: Hills-
Michigan, Z: Western State Teach
ers q.
Macalester. 3; Carleton. 4.
St. Mary's II; St. Olaf, 5.
Indiana Central. g; Hanover, B.
Butler. 15; Franklin. 5.
Tennis.
American o.. 5: Wake Forest, 2.
Georgetown Frosh. s. Roosevelt. 3.
Duke. 8; St. Johns tBrooklyn), 4.
Miami. :; Harvard. 2.
Catholic q. Az: Western Mary
Macalester, 10; St. Olaf. s.
Duke. 5; Princeton. 4.
Track
Virginia 81: William and Mary. 80.
Princeton FroSh. rs; Lawrenceville.
80.
Albion, SO aL1O: Kalamazoo. 40 7/1O:
Ollvet. 70 4/10.
Oklahoma 10; Iowa State, 3.