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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
ALL ARE LOSERS

After "a days of idleness an agree
ment was reached last week whereby
nearly $4,000 workers in Chrysler auto
mobile factories ended the longest and
most costly labor dispute in the history of
the industry
It is estimated that total of fully
100000 men were thrown out of work
during the period, including those en-
ployed in plants which furnish materials
and supplies for the automobile company.
The amount lost in wages reached a stag
gering sum, and the output of cars was re-
duced by about 100000.
AS is always the case in disputes of
this kind, all concerned were losers. The
company lost the sale of these thousands
of cars, and their dealers also were hard
hit. The workers lost pay for a period of
eight weeks and many of them were re-
duced to restitution. The public, par
ticularly the business community, suffered
through loss of trade.
The settlement finally came around a
conference table, where the differences
between the contending parties might
have been settled in the beginning.
1t is unfortunate that some means of
averting such disastrous labor disputes
can not be found, but in spite of all efforts
to devise such means, little progress has
been made.
Although nearly everyone agrees that
the real interests of employer and em-
ployee can be best served by intelligent
cooperation, the spirit necessary to attain
this end is too often lacking on both
sides.
Should future legislation point to-
wards compulsory mediation of differences
between labor and capital? A partial
rove towards that goal has been attained.
Perhaps stronger gesture should be
/ made.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ
Can you answer seven of these
ten Test Question? Turn to
Page A for Answers

/. What is the littoral of a
country?
2. In golf, what is the lowest
number of strokes assign
ed as par on any one hole?
3. Name the state flower OF
New York. - >~,'~
4. Which state is represented in
Congress by Senator James
J. Davis?
5. What is a photometer?
6. What is the correct pronun-
citation of the word fis-
lula?
Z. Name the capital of Bull
garia.
8. What is the chemical SYM
Dol for radium?
9. With what sport is w. L.
Brann associated?
10. Name the colors in the flag
of Switzerland.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
AMBASSADOR GIBSON
ON SPAIN
Editor. The Citizen:

Editor, The Citizen:
Hugh Gibson, former ambassa-
dor to Belgium, in his broadcast
CT Spain said that he disposed of
the myth of the excessive hold
ings of the landed gentry in
Spain by pointing out that the
estate of one English duke has a
larger acreage than the whole
property of the Spanish grandees,
and that after the Church was
dispossessed by the State in 1853
she acquired no property. That
was an outrage on social justice.
After motoring 5000 miles in
Spain he found how impossible
it would be to make Fascists out
of the Spaniards. He poked some
! fun at these who had said the
Italian and German auxiliaries
would reenact the fable of the
deer and the horse, that is, OBJ
tain and keep control of the
house.
| He found that there was no
evidence to prove the charge
that Franco Systematically bomb
ed civilian populations and was
indifferent to the fate of women
and children. He reported that
the victorious Nationalist were
bent on the urgent tasks of re-
lieving distress and re-establish-
ing civil life.
Reprinted from "Salve Re-
gina, Nov, 1899, Washington,
D. c.
AN OBSERVER.
Key West, Fla,
Dec. 6, 1889.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
PROVIDE FOR KIDDIES

EQltor, Inc CltlZen:
Our policemen are doing a
swell job so far as / can see in
keeping peace and order in Key
West but believe me they GER
tainly have their hands full
some nights trying to keep the
traffic moving on our main
thorougnfare and why?
Kids, mere youngsters. There
are times when Duval street is
practically overrun with them,
so much so that person wishing
to do some shopping must lit
orally push through them in or
der to get from one store to an
other.
There is a reason for our chill
dren crowding up on the streets
this way. And I'm sure that il
any one of them is asked why
the answer will invariably be
There's no place else to go.
We will have to admit, fathers
and mothers, that this is sad
state of affairs. Our children
shouldn't be on the streets be.
cause of no place else to GO
Something can be done, I'm sure
in the way of providing place
a sort of Community Center
where they may go and enjoy
themselves as children should.
recall as a boy what a bless
ing it was for us kids when the
city fathers back in my home
town got together and planned
and built for us a recreation hall
We had games, we had a piano
and we could dance and sing tc
our hearts content.
1t was a nice, decent place
where. we could meet old friend:
and make new ones and it wa.
good, clean fun.
Say what you will parents, oui
children are going to have fur
regardless, and whether or not
they have it in the right way is
the big responsibility that lies
upon our shoulders. Lets don't
"stymie" their emotions and put
them on the wrong track. Lets
give them some place to 60 be-
sides the streets.
SAM GOBLE.
Key West, Fla,
Dec. 5, 1899.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
HITTING THE NAIL

Quietly behind the scenes, the mem
bers of the finance and taxation committees
of City Council are working on financial
and tax program that may have an i'm
portant bearing on getting this city out of
the red ink of municipal Importance.
Already our citizens have seen and
approved the new councils 1910 budget.
1t calls for rather drastic reductions in the
salary and maintenance accounts and for
adequate provision for debt and bond re-
quiremertS.
Now a new source of income is being
studied to make up any possible deficit in
city employees may be paid in cash twice
each month and so that current bills may
be met in full when due.
The source of income is pretty certain
to be in the collection of delinquent taxes.
For years certain of our officials and civic
interests have dallied with the idea of col
lecting such taxes. Always some monkey
wrench was thrown into the machinery.
For some mysterious reason Key West be-
came virtually the only city in Florida
where it was safe to refuse to pay texes>
where the honest taxpayer was penalized
by being compelled to support bond and
operating costs that should have been
borne equally by all taxpayers.
Council is planning to collect some of
those delinquent taxes. The councilmen
are repeatedly planning to present the
city's tax bills to the larger property
owners first Their theory is that the
larger property owners are better able to
pay their back taxes than the man with a
small income.
Council is planning to compromise
the old tax bills on some fair basis to en-
able the larger property owners to pay at
least portion of their bills. Details of the
plan have not been fully revealed, but the
council is preparing to exert pressure on
such delinquent property owners to pay
the back taxes. Councilmen feel confident
their campaign along this line can be pro-
ductive of results.
The Citizen believes the majority of
the taxpayers of the community will laud
CnlS pTOgTdt1. lie CITY HcSuS CASH W pay
up old bills, wipe out salary warrants is
sued to city employees in lieu of cash and to
meet current operating expenses. Business
is picking up in Key West. Demand for
real estate is increasing. There seems no
longer any excuse why all property owners
should not be forced into bearing some of
the expense of running the city. If coun-
- %1o
900 in back taxes owing the city it will go
a long way toward restoring the credit and
financial standing of Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
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Today's Birthdays
sssssese eeossssssss

. = . : . ~
DR.. Herbert E. Hawkes. of Co.
1umbia, noted educator, born at
Templeton, Mass. 81 years ago.
Robert w. Woodruff, president
of Coca Cola, born at Columbus,
Ga so years ago.
Most Rev. Thomas ]. Walsh,
Catholic archbishop of Newark,
N. j., born in Butler Co, Pa,
66 years ago
William S. Hart of Newhall,
Cal, oldtime movie star, born at
Newburgh, N. Y, 81 years ago.
ELISA Landhi. actress. born in
Vienna. 80 years ago.
Roger D. Lapham, board chair
man of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Company. San Fran
cisco, born in New York City, Sc
years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

A Photographer in Miami paper cites
the complaint made by city employees who
were paid only portion of their wages
while the city council took all they had
coming since they were indicted into Of
lice two weeks ago. Evidently being an
honest council and having no extraneous
means of obtaining funds, they paid them
eelVoS OFF in full. Devious methods of get
ting hold of the coin of the realm, of which
some councilmen of the past have availed
themselves, apparently arc distasteful to
this council. More power to them!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
CUT BRICK WALLS
TO SET CAT FREE

PHILADELPHIA.-In order to
free a cat which had become i'm
prisoned in a narrow crevice, it
was necessary for S.P.C.A.
agents to cut through two brick
hotel walls.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

The Citizen is delighted to have so
mary readers write in their comments on
various matters affecting the city. but few
adhere to the restriction of 200 words.
Please confine your articles to approx
mately that number of words, and read
the editors note under the caption. It will
save many a communication from meeting
its fate in the waste-basket, regrettable as
that will be-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
Today's Horoscope

Today's degree favors the birth
of a writer. The mind j.. in
clined to literature and probably
studious on scientific lines. The
memory is retentive with a
facile power of words combined
with scientific analysis. which
should bring sure reward of
success and probably also money.
1t is a strong day and should
produce strong personality.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

That Florida is the fishermans para
disc is indicated to some extent by the 2S,-
2S5 fishing licenses issued last year. 1t
naturally requires lot of fish to satisfy
the angler, and if all fish would have the
productivity of the ling which produces
$4,000 900 eggs in a single season, there
would be a superabundance. But that
would take the thrill away from the eager
angler, who must be kept in state of ex-
pectancy to make the sport worthwhile
Bringing oysters in large numbers to the
surface, for instance, is not sport but a
job. Nature seems to use good judgment
in all of her works.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
PEOPLES FORUM

The Citizen welcomes express
siOns Of the views OF its read
ers, but the editor reserves the
right TO delete any items
which are considered libelous
or unwarranted. The writer's
should be fair and confiae the
letters to 200 words. and write
ON one side OF the paper only.
Signature OF the writer's must
accompany the letters and will
he published unless requested
otherwise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
BY KENNETH FRIEDMAN

signs were not painted on the
streets. BY the way, it is a pleas
ure to appear before Judge Arch
er in City Court. He is very
kindly and understanding. He
handled all well, from license
ordinance violators to traffic Of
tenders. He became very strict
when several persons did not
show up.
STEAMSHIP LINES planning
service between Havana and Key
West this winter are speeding
up negotiations fast. Many of
them are checking back and
forth travelling almost every day
to keep in close contact with va
rious agents. Clark Steamship
Lines and Pan American Link
Transportation Company are two
principal contenders. Pan Ameri-
can has stronger Cuban backing,
which is very necessary. Also
Clark Steamship plans only win
ter service, Pan American prom
Used year-around because OF
freight contracts.
ISLAND CITY POPULATION:
CYRIL MARSHALL ''blond
handsome" of the artists colony
in Key West, is easy going enough
to do his sigrs work without con-
tracts, but no more. BEN
TREVOR, "old man" of the
Trevor family, is a product of
the old school and enjoys, exud-
ing personal, sincere friendliness.
He will compromise if the bust
ness situation becomes too harsh
rather than break up friendships
CHARLES TAYLOR, who
came here many years. asp from
up north Florida way and mar
ried Key West girl, is the ex-
pert on marine affairs locally at
Porter Dock, He knows all the
psychology from tough old
tramp freighter captain to a
yacht owner in his silks, and
Panama hat to a young. fellow
cruising round the world, /.
Wrecking Master PETERSEN is
the "big fellow" in charge of all
wrecking activities of the tug
Warbler. He is especially secre-
tive in regard to all publicity
concerning fault of sea captains
in wrecks and running aagrounds
WILLIE" SMITH, oldest
pilot in the Key West1 service,
has contract from KY West
pilots association for naainten.-
ance of his old pilot schooner as
long as he lives. WILLIE is the
old-type skipper of Key West.
"SMITTY'' at Porter Dock is an
other character well-known to
yaehtsmen. Others who handle
yachting trade are ALLEN E..
CURRY at Gulf Dock. EVERETT
RUSSELL at Standard Oil, L. w.
ROGERS at Craig's Docks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

AS soon as the present restrictions are
removed from the sugar production in the
Everglades, Florida will be able to fill her
Sugar Bowl to the brim, and everything
will be just too sweet for anything. Cuba
viii not like this turn of events, but Uncle
Sam must look after his own first.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

Only fool will refrain from paying
off an Understanding note when he has
mOrey in the bank even if paying the note
almost strips him clean, for should neces-
sity arise he can use the same collateral
and secure the funds he requires.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

!. Water and Sewerage.
q Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
g. Hotels and Apartments.
T. Beach and Bathing Pavilion
5. Airports-Land and Sea.
g. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
7 A Modern City Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

'The right to vote is the American
badge of freedom and liberty. THE Key
West Citizen. But too many fail to make
Use OF the badge.-Times-U Union,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

Finland's winter tourist season has
lately been growing in Importance, but the
Russian unannounced guests certainly are
not welcome.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

One thing can be said for those who
predict the end of the world-they are
getting closer to it every time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

If everything else fails, one can still
count on his fingers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
CRACK NEWSPAPERMAN

connected with a national press
service was kind enough to
praise The Citizen very warmly.
We have been puzzled why the
best newspapermen of the coun-
try who have seen the best news
papers everywhere like the The
Citizen so very much that they
all claim they read, it from, cover
to cover and every little article.
This newspaperman says it is be-
cause The Citizen becomes very
much a part of the island and its
stories carry all the atmosphere
of Key West, all the friendliness
and international import of the
city. Spawn O. the islands.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

Subscribe to The Citizen-20
weekly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

A merchant advises: "Do your shop
ping early; any day now may be Christ
mas"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

POLICE are starting to paint
the white stop" signs at inter-
sections in preparation for hand
ling winter traffic Arrests win
soon follow. No arrests could
be made before because the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

RETIREMENT of Captain
James e. Ward, of P. & o. line.
at Fort Lauderdale, was an
nouneed this week. Key West
highlights in his career: Third
man at meeting of Henry Flagler
and H. B. Plant in 1900 when
they met on bridge of old City
of Kew West to form one shipping
company between Key West and
Havana. Ward started his career
| in Key West in 1888. He came
up from deckhand to quarter
master and first mate on City of
Key West. Then to SIS. Miami
and for SO years has captained P.
& o. ships. Most of his time was
| on the Estrada Palma. we'll known
ferry. which was once here.
Ward also ran supply boat dur
ing building of Overseas Rail
road. He often made the Key
West Havana trip in 'sblackouts'
during World War days for fear
of subs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06

on natlOnal deVelopmentS: WASH
ington newspapermen are still
puzzled about Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace's ''boner' on
Roosevelt's third term aspira-
tons. Some think it is because
the President is feeling out the
nation and is doing so through a
member of his cabinet. .Roose-
welt handles sometimes 100 re-
porters in his White House re-
ception room. FDR is confident
of himself and rarely asks that
he be allowed to give written
answer. The President can never
be quoted directly, however. He
handles all sharp analytic ques-
tons with dexterity. National
press services cover the various
national governmental buildings
and get the local Washington
news from the newspapers. All
Washington newspapers date
their national articles with a
Washington dateline, strangely. !.
Key West published more news
of the neutrality patrol and sub
marines seen in these waters than
the UP. or AP. handled, be-
cause naval sources were very
secretive. Steve Early, presi-
Dental secretary, handles the re-
porters in the White House. !.
Key West was very much in the
national limelight during last
springs negotiations for major
air base here and is also in the
limetight during the present neu-
trality patrol.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-06
How To Relieve
Bronchitis

lnfiammatory condition OF the mu-
cous membranes lining the bronchial
tubes. Creomulsion goes right to the
seat Of the trouble to loosen germ
laden phlegm, increase secretion and
aid nature to soothe and heal raw,
tender, inf1amed bronchial mucous
membranes. Tell your druggist 10 sell
you a bottle OF Creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way 1t quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CIRCUMCISION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-06
Norway Used Dragons

China is not the only country in
which dragons are used as deco
rative motif. The old "stavkirker"
or wooden churches, built centuries
ago when Christianity was young,
are forming one of few links be-
tween modern Norway and the
Viking past, still show dragon heads
on gable ends. For centuries the
dragon was one of the favorite en-
blems of pagan Norway, especially
as a figurehead for the prows of her
Viking ships. The men who built
the ships and decorated them with
dragon heads also built the nations
first churches. The church struc-
ture allowing them more exercise
of imagination, Viking carpenters
not only put dragons on the gables
but also carved those emblems into
the columns, the capitals and even
the door frames of the buildings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-06
Brain Found to Control
Three Phases of Energy

The all embracing law of energy
is that it runs in cycles, declares
Joseph Jastrow in his article, 'The
Story of Human Energies" appear
ing in a recent issue of Hygeia.
Life is series of rhythms. The
energy cycle presents the three
phases of energizing, fatigue, and
rest. In the core of the brain is a
mechanism that sets your program
from the cradle to the grave. Day
in and day out, with allowance
for emergencies and. holidays, that
portion of the brain has served you
as monitor of the energy cycle.
Conditioning the energy cycle is
a chemical traffic system called
metabolism. The feelings of energy
and fatigue set up the go, caution
and stop signs. The body needs
more than rest to keep it going;
it also needs food. Sticking goes on
to supply nourishment; food is
metabolized into energy.
It is true that muscles tire and
that nerve fibers do not, any more
than do the wires of an electric cir
cult over which the current runs.
But it is still truer that the entire
neuromuscular set-up is the focus of
fatigue; the nerve battery runs
down.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-06

George Washington wrote Of
Mount Vernon: mo estate in the
United States is more pleasantly
situated than this. 1t lies in high,
dry and healthy country, 300 miles
by water from the sea, and on one
of the finest rivers in the world.
/ can truly say that I had
rather be at Mount Vernon with
friend or two about me than to
be attended at the seat of govern
ment by the officers of state and
the representatives of every power
in Europe"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-06
William Tyndale Is Called
Father of English Bible

William Tyndale has been called
''The Father of the English Bible"
1t was he who first printed parts of
the Bible in English and sent them
broadcast through the land. There
was a law forbidding anyone to
translate the Scriptures into English
without authority, and when Tyn-
dale applied to the bishop of Lon
don for permission he was refused.
To him the translator made his
famous declaration: eff God spare
my life, I will cause a boy that
driveth a pillow to know more of the
Scripture than thou dost.''
While at Cambridge, Tyndale had
been under the influence of Eras-
mus, the greatest Greek scholar Of
his day, and it was there that he
made himself familiar with the
Greek testament. He was deter
mined that the people of England
should have the advantage of read
ing for themselves the Word of God
through the new invention of print
ing, and, when he found that this
could not be accomplished at home,
he left for the continent. That was
in 1924. In Hamburg he worked in
much the same way as Jerome had
done nearly a century before and a
year after he was at Cologne with
the sheets of his quarto New Testa-
ment ready for the printer.
One day a message came that he
was being watched, so with his pre-
cious sheets he escaped to Worms.
It was there that he succeeded in
publishing the first edition of the
New Testament in English. The
volumes were taken secretly into
his own country hidden in cases, in
barrels, in bales of cloth, and wher-
ever they could be slowed away
and before long they were in many
homes throughout the land. To
make the shipping Of them cas-
Ter Tyndale also printed an edition
in a smaller size.
Thousands of copies were seized
and burnt, but when the translator
heard of this his comment was:
"In burning the book they did none
other than / looked for; no more
shall they do if they burn me also,
if it be Gods will that it should be
done" Tyndale also translated
parts Of the Old Testament, but for
his efforts he was thrown into pris-
on. His last prayer was" Lord,
open the king of England's eyes"
He was eventually strangled and
his body burnt at the stake. All
this was done in the name of re-
igion.