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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
(By ROSE cAMERO. Sodality
Secretary

Secretary
The honor of being Queen of
May in Convent of Mary I'M
maculate which is given each
year to the Senior who attains
the highest average in Christian
Doctrine was awarded Sunday to
Miss Mabel Perez. The cere-
monies began in the morning
with a Mass of the Angels sung
in Gregorian Chant by the Chill
dren of Mary Sodality. In the
evening, the Queen and her Court
assembled in st Cecilia's Hall
with parents and friends for the
browning. The maids of honor
were those who had received the
highest average in the remaining
eleven grades of the school.
These were: Catherine Ybar-
mea, eleventh grade; Mary N.
Cato, tenth grade; Sylvia Gwynn,
ninth grade; Migdalia Solano,
eighth grade; Olive c. Cato,
seventh grade; Elizabeth Russell,
sixth grade; Ida Soriano, fifth
grade; Helen Crusoe, fourth
grade; Muried L. Albury, third
grade, and Joyce Ann Parks,
second grade.
The browning of the Queen
and the Maids was performed by
Rev. P. J. Kelleher and this cere-
mony was closed by hymn sung
by the entire school. The pro-
cession to the church was then
formed beginning with the BAN
ner of the Children of Mary
Sodality carried by Antonio Mar
tinez. Behind this came all the
members of the Infant Jesus
Sodality and the Holy Angels
Sodality made up of the. eight
grades of grammar school. The
next section of the procession
was composed of the Children of
Mary Sodality followed by their
officers, Mary Agnes Kelly, Rose
Camera, and Celina Bethencourt.
After these came the Statue of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
School Group
Meets Tomorrow

The last regular meeting of the
Division Street School PIT. A.
for the season will be held to-
morrow afternoon o'clock.
The following program will be
given:
Orchestra selection.
Mandolin Quartette.
One number from the operetta
which will be given Thursday
night.
All parents are urged to at
tend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
Within the past two weeks two emf

Within the past two weeks two emf
nent columnists, Westbrook Pegler and
Boake Carter, paid The Citizen office
welcome visits. Both are hefty hombres
and rertind one forcibly of our own fell
low townsman, Ernest Hemingway, the
internationally known writer, who dis
plays Hike mental and physical virility. In
a speech recently Harold Ickes, secretary
CT the interior, characterized columnists as
"cal1mnists" indicating low, despicable
and spineless individual, but on the con-
trary.both Pegler and Carter are pair of
fine fellows whom it is good to have the
FORTUNE to know. They exude pep, health
and happiness.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

1t is really wiser to choose wife who
is handy. with the kitchen rather than
around the automobile, for you have more
appetite than you have tire trouble. Oddly
enough there are wives who are always
ready to drive an automobile but too indis-
posed to brew a cup of coffee for their
husbands.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
Mrs. Benjamin Lopez
Has House Guest

Mrs. Bnejamin Lopez of Ba-
hama street has as her house
guest, Mrs. May Hunt, who was
before marriage Miss May Rid
lon of Key West
Mrs. Hunt, who is now making
her home in Jacksonville, states
that she is greatly delighted to
be back in the Island City again
meeting so many old friends and
acouaintances.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

If tax lodging continues now that the
slate is wiped clean by the operation of the
Murphy Act, tax dodgers will not fare as
well in the future as in the past, for there
are determined men with money to stop
the tacit sabotage of the public treasury.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

Trade to the south of the United
States is rich in prospect and should be
cultivated by us and held, before the Euro
pean countries make inroads on the trade
that is a natural for Uncle Sam.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

This week being National Music
Week, it may not be amiss to state that
many husband in Key West who has no
music sense, plays good second fiddle in
his own home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
TO PAY WITH INTEREST

LINCOLN, Neb.--A thief who
stole SIS from a grocery store in
this city following a hold-up,
promised to pay it back with in
terest within thirty days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
Comprehensive City Plan tZoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments
4. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports--Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08
Times Reversal

AS Grandma Wayback remarks
lin the Pathfinder: "The hand that
used to darn the husbands socks.
TODAY socks the darned husband.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

You never see an ad in the Classified
Column of The Citizen by anyone looking
for trouble" That is one thing for
which you don't have to advertise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

This is Music Week, and the thought
that music forms one of the finest and most
delicate means of sympathy, comes to
mind
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

The chain stores are among the ma
TONS biggest advertisers, also it's biggest
dividend-earners. Reckon that's only a
coincidence?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

A political machine, too, runs smooth
er when it has a plentiful supply of
grease"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

BY MARCY B. DARNALL /
Former Editor of The Citizen
,essssssseasAa

Oeeeooseeea . q . o0So00
o. o. Mcintyre, reputed to
have been the highest paid writer
in the world at the time of his
death, left a net estate of only
S72,456, or less than a single
years income. But the small
town reporter who became a
noted columnist packed a lot of
fun and rich experience into his
81 years of life.
According to the Kelly In
stitute, which for 60 years has
been treating habitual drunk
ards with its cure" women al
coholic patients have increased
AZ per cent in the last five years,
and 80 per cent of these are mar
ried.
Three applicants for police
jobs at Newark, N. j., who had
been rejected because of flat feet,
protested that the flat-foot test
was the ''flooey." In support of
their argument they brought be-
fore the board Eulace Peacock,
star sprinter and twice winner of
the national penthalon, whose
feet are flat as a pancake.
Alabama has no Jones county,
but at different times has had
two. The present Lamar county
was called Jones prior to 1867,
while Covington county was
designated as Jones for short
time in 1868.
In a recent article on famed
San Quentin prison it was re-
vealed that CALIFORNIA; first jail
was located in that vicinity in
1852. 1t was a small ship, an
chored off Point San Quentin,
which could take care of about
SO men, and was used to incarce-
rate unruly old-timers of the
early gold rush days.
A rural jury in Coosa county,
Alabama, returned a verdict
which was anything but model,
but it was upheld by the state
court of appeals. 1t reads: I'VE
as joury find the defendant guilty
of an tempt to commit pettey
larncy and fix the fine at one
cent"
The name of Calvin McVey
meant nothing to the present
generation of American boys I'M
der so. But his death in San
Francisco at the age of 76, re-
called the fact that he was the
Babe Ruth of his day, a great
slugger of the National League in
the late '70's. He was captain
and manager of the Cincinnati
| Reds in 1879, later playing with
| Boston and Chicago. He was
given a life pension by the Ma
tional League in 1922.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

Alabama has no Jones county,
but at different times has had
two. The present Lamar county
was called Jones prior to 1867,
while Covington county was
designated as Jones for a short
time in 1868.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-08

According to the Kelly In
stitute, which for 60 years has
been treating habitual drunk
ards with its cure" women al
coholic patients have increased
AZ per cent in the last five years,
and 80 per cent of these are mar
ried.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
Covers The Situation

The State Highway Safety Commission has recommended to Governor Raymond E. Baldwin the reopening of motor vehicle inspection lanes throughout the state. We hope that the commissions report, just presented, will be favorably acted upon and every effort made to revive this practice which was dropped early this year with the advent of the present COP administration in Connecticut. Although Republicans campaigned last fall on the promise of elimination of the motor vehicle inspections, time has proved that those who promised such action didn't guage public opinion correctly.
 There were and still are many motor iStS who don't believe in the inspection plan. There are great many who do be- lieve in it. And then there is a large croSS-Section of motorists who were led astray on the subject and who now realize that we were better off when we had the compulsory tests than we are without them. Therefore we feel pretty sure that our state officials will probably clear the decks so that by the spring of 1940 the first of the Semi-annual inspections may be launched.
 Under the revised set-up, as proposed by the safety council many objection able features of the inspections as orig inally held would be eliminated. Primary among such would be speeding up the tests so that motorists would not be obliged to wait hours in line. This will be done through establishment of num-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23

department, who pleaded with him. "If you fellows think you can shelve me like that, you're badly mistaken. I'm sticking and the convention will re-elect me over your opposition"
 But Morrison quickly discovered that the personal popularity he was counting on to save him wasn't enough. Faced with the certainty of being retired, he then rushed to accept the Coefield- Rivers offer. But it was too late. Coefield curtly informed him that the convention bosses had decided to give him a pension of only 5000 year.
 MORRISON'a OBDURACY COST HIM $4,00O PER ANNUM. ANTI-ORNBURN
 A majority of the big delega- tion had been pledged to vote for Ornburn when the convention got under way, and his election appeared certain until Bates, at the crucial last minute, took the floor and tossed a bombshell.
 He accused Ornburn of aiding the fight of "big business" against the Patman chain store tax bill. Naming names and citing ca-es, Bates charged that Ornburn and Chester Wright, wealthy labor publicist, were playing cheek to jowl with the chain stores in an undercover campaign against the legislation.
 Ornburn made an impassioined
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
Replace The Signs

It remained for Mayor Patrick M. Per riello to put an official finger on a sit uation that has long existed in Water bury and to which attention has been called often and repeatedly. We refer to the general condition of the city'S street signs. They are not in the best of con- dition. They do not advertise the fact that Waterbury is an up-to-date and modern community, abreast of the times, and de- sirous of making every neighborhood a worthwhile one in which to live.
 There are, to be sure, street signs that are perfectly legible and which have not been knocked out of direction. When you get around the town you are apt to find that the number of signs in good work ing order is quite large. But you will also find that the number of those that are of no practical use is also large. There shouldn't be any when you come right down to it. We have both the facilities and the man-power by which the neces- sary repairs could be made when any street sign is damaged or becomes use less through age and wear.
 We sincerely hope that the present city officials will do something about the street signs this fall We might recom- mend many ideas, such as adopting uniform type of sign, instead of having two or three different kinds. The same might be said of the lettering. However, all that most of us ask is that the signs be lettered so that they can be read from some distance and that they point in the right direction. Also signs for the un- marked streets would be appreciated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23

Travellers who like to use the road from Thomaston to Litchfield by way of North field will be pleased to learn that the State Highway Department is finally go- ing to do something about the bridge at the foot of the so-called "gulf-road" A new 30-foot span is to be built across Humaston Brook replacing the one that was swept out late in the summer when sudden cloudburst struck Thomaston and vicinity. The road has been impass- able since that time and traffic had to go by way of the knife-shop road in order to get to Northfield. The route is an ex- tremely scenic one and leads to North field Hill one of the finest spots in the state for long-range views
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23

The tiny but arty village of Kent has another claim to distinction. It is 200 years old On October 28 the town will celebrate it's 200th anniversary of incor- poration as a township. There will be great doings in Kent for the occasion as the Litchf1eld County hamlet is quite proud of it's history as it is today of it's stately homes and beautiful countryside. Kent today is one of those quiet towns which attract to it's borders a galaxy of summer residents Of course there are many year-round residents, but in sum- mer Kent teens with artistry as those from worlds of art, music, literature, etc., gather from all parts of the globe. We presume that there will be much visiting and displaying of Kent antiquities in the next week or so. Certainly there will be much inspection, by the outlanders, of Rents still-famous 100-year old covered bridge. Those of us who know Kent only by it's famous falls nearby will be pleased to learn that the town itself is quite as delightful as it's setting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23

defense of himself in a 26-page brief, but Bates load of TINT had found its mark. Ornburn's pledged supporters melted away like hot butter. Bates and hss building tradese bloc, the strongest voting unit in the AFL, had cinch in electing George Meany, head of the New York State AFL.
 | MERRY-GO-ROUND
 It's just one battle after an- other inside the National Labor Relations Board. Latest is the att tempt of recently appointed Com missioner William Leisersan to oust Matt Witt, able secretary of the Board. Chairman J. w. Mad- den and Commissioner Ed Smith blocked Leiserson and they have been having a merry row among themselves. A number of Ad- ministrationites are up in arms over statements made about them in "The Pressure Boys, lob- by expose written by Kenneth Crawford, correspondent of The New York Post. Two mosS indig- nant are former Attorney General Cummings and ex-NRA Adminis- trator Don Richberg. The three-hour pro-embargo speech made by Bob LaFollette in the Senate was largely written by a Washington newsman, author of several books on international af- fairs.
 Copyright, 1889, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23

Der of permanent lanes and additional movable ones. The ''repeaters" will also be eliminated. In short if car fails to meet specifications in some minor point, it will not be necessary to bring the car back again, so long as satisfactory evi- dence of complying with the demand is given.
 There are other points, too, being met by the proposed new arrangement. It seems to meet the general objections and promises that perfect state of affairs so desired in operation of good, safe motor vehicles on our highways.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
Selected Poem
DANCE OF THE BOUGHs

(By Jean M. Crayke, R. N, in the Boston PosU The bare boughs dance to the winds wild tune On a sullent gray winters day; But not as they dance in the light of the moon
 When springs soft breezes play. And not as they dance dressed in green in June With summer winds strumming the lay; For the gayest dance where a Sunlt dune
 Meets blue waves in the bay. Not as they danced in Octobers gale,
 With swish and a roundelay; Just as they dance when the wind Ill the vale Croons Jack Frost is on the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
KNOWLEDGE FOR DEFENSE.
 (New Haven Register)

One of the Sidelights on the war games now under way in the Lake Champlai1l area concerns the &C., curacy of the maps available for the maneuverS.
 Headquarters for one, of the par ticipating units was designated as the Town of Disco, which was prop erly shown on the maps. Officers on the ground were unable to locate the town, and natives agreed that they had never heard of it. In due time 1t was established that a single house well hidden on wooded ridge was the Town of Disco"
 This incident would have been highly confusing in the time of actual conflict and illustrates anew the fact that good maps are an in- dispensable instrument of war either for cffense or defense.
 One of the peculiarities of the now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
WHAT IS so RARE? (New York TimeS)

Against all corners we are always prepared to maintain that October is the queen of months and paragon of the calendar. She is clothed with bright air. She is bland and benign, yet with a zip and accent of her own. Usually her sun soaks into you gradually and thoroughly, pleas ant warmth without burning Whether that sunshine be some sub- tilized chartreuse or mere brown October ale, it contents body and soul. Sometimes as yesterday she of the mellow fruitfulness outdoes her. self, seems almost mellow" in an- other sense and challenges the pro- fessional producers of Summer heat.
 Oct. 10, 1889, won the record for the high jump. Eighty-six, 87, 89, enthusiastic readers of the thermo- meter read it variously. Treasure the date in your memory, happy you in the April years. Keep it to astound or bore your grandchildren. Deco rate, embroider, exaggerate as you
 will the hottest 10th of October known to the weather shops. Yet no matter how much the degrees pile up, October heat has a softness un- known to the raw savagery of July and August It is more like warmth
 than heat. Those who were dressed for the day and not the slaves of thick clothes could be comfortable enough. October is always thought
 ful. She is of an epicurean habit. It is as cat goddess, blinking in
 the softened sunshine, that we see her. If she should go to the other extreme and dive for low record, be sure that the coldest cold she would permit herself would taste to her subjects like the best spumone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
Views of The Press

historic fight in and around the Argonne Forest in France was the fact that many of the senior staff officers were more familiar with the topography of battlefield than they were of the topography of the Lake Champlain area.
 This paradox came about first, because the French and German military maps of Europe were ex- act to the last detail, and second because the 1870 battle for Sedan had been studied for years in American army staff work.
 The making of elaborate maps, and maintaining them up to date is another item in the cost of pre- paredness in war worried Europe which this nation. because of its neighbors and geographical location, has been able to omit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-23
Where Draw the Line?

Colonel LindberghS most recent
 radio speech, whether you agree With US wisdom or not, is serviceable in drawing
 attention to the promised American de- } fense of Canada. Thoughtless concern < has arisen from the possibility that the $ United States might be drawn into war because Canada is at war. It has been said that any sort of attack on Canada, by nations against whom she has declared war, would be considered an act of war against the United States Colonel Lind bergh apparently felt this so strongly that he suggested that Canada ought to have asked our permission before de- claring war on Germany; that is, she should string along either with the United States or with Britain.
 This seems entirely unreasonable. The Canadians are free people, as proud as any people of their independence of : action They have the same right as any sovereign people to declare war on whom they choose. They are much too proud . people to expect to be shielded by any one from the consequences of their own acts. This we can readily understand. The Monroe Doctrine, once the policy Of the United States alone, but now becom- ; ing the united policy of all the countries south of the Great Lakes, is in essence very simple. It is that the Americas are closed to colonization from Europe or Asia and united in resistance to conquest from abroad.
 What President Roosevelt said on August 13 1888, at Kingston, Ontario, was entirely in' line with this traditional policy: "I give you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if the domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire" Any threat to Canadian sovereignty-in short, any military invasion of sort which threatens establishment of Euro
 pean power on permanent basis - is
 threat to the United States, and vii be
 so treated.
 But that does not apply to blockade of
 the Canadian coast, or even necessarily
 to bombardment of it's cities by sea or air
 Canada is rapidly becoming the center
 and heart of British air defense, both as
 to the building of planes and the train
 ing of flyers. Should those planes and
 flyers hold the balance of power in
 widespread European air war, the Ger
 mans would be more than human if they
 did not try to strike at their source.
 Technically, it could be done. Von
 Gronau flew three times to North Amer
 ica from the North Sea - in 1880 to New
 York, 4,67O miles, 47 hours flying time;
 in 1881, to Chicago via northern Ontario;
 and in 1882 around the world, through
 Detroit and Chicago and north to Win
 nipeg. The northern Great Circle route, over Iceland and Greenland, pioneered by Lindbergh himself, is a shortcut" into
 Canada from the northeast.
 Such bombing attack on Canada, while
 a long shot, is by no means impossible
 But there is no present reason to think
 that it could threaten the sovereignty of
 Canada, or result in any permanent oc-
 cupation of the kind with which the
 Monroe Doctrine is concerned. Canada
 understands this distinction. If this be
 true estimate of American policy, there
 would be no harm in everybody's under
 standing it.