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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
go TO CHURCH SUNDAY"

Editor, The Citizen:
May we take this opportunity
to express the sincere apprecia-
ton of the entire membership of
our organization to you and your
entire staff for your generous
cooperation in assisting us in
putting over our recent go To
Church Sunday" program. The
success of this program has
proven a great blessing to our
entire community and we at
tribute the greater part of this
success to your wholehearted
support.
Allow us also the privilege of
using this means as a medium
of expressing our thanks to the
other civic organizations for their
moral support. Especially grate-
full are we to our Mayor for his
proclamation, to the Boy and
Girl Scouts for their aid in get
ting out the auto stickers, to
those civic leaders who very
graciously responded with the
inspiring articles appearing in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
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Today's Birthdays

Maj. Gen. Frank W. Rowell,
U.S.A., born at Fl. Occur d'Alene,
Ida,. go years ago
Elizabeth McCracken, associate
editor of THE Living Church.
born in New Orleans, "a years
ago.
Russell Forbes of New York,
NOTED governmental researcher,
born at West Middlesex, Pa, A
years ago, q YHH. tsty
Ernest E. Howard of Kansas
City, Mo, noted designer of
bridges the world over, born in
Toronto, 60 years ago.
! George w. Holmes of Lincoln,
Nebr,, banker, born there, 60
vars ago.
George E. Allen, insurance
company vice-preSident, former
commissioner of the District OF
Columbia, born at Bonneville
Miss, A years ago.
Curtis F. Bryan of Tulsa, noted
oil company head, born Sapulpa
Okla, A years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
PEOPLES FORUM

The Citizen throughout the
week, our local theaters for the
use of their public address sys-
TENS, and to those merchants
and individuals who made pos
sible the special edition of The
Citizen on Saturday. In short
we take this means to thank each
and every one who contributed
in any way toward the success
of this laudable undertaking.
We have been prevailed upon
by citizens throughout the COM
munity to make this at least an
annual affair and to this end we
ask if possible a fuller co-opera-
ton from our entire citizenry in
making our next Go To Church
Sunday" an even greater success
than the one just concluded.
Gratefully yours,
Stone Church Service Club
BY Gerald Saunders,
Secretary.
Key West, Fla,
February %, 1910.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
WHAT CHILDREN NEED

The White House Conference on Chill
dren in Democracy estimates that half
of the nations children belong to families
unable to live decently and declares that
the child's greatest need is real job at
real wages for his father and work OPP
portunities for himself when he grows
up.
The conclusions will be derided. of
course, by the he-men who profess great
admiration for the American way" and
laud the old-fashioned virtues of self-re-
lance and individual initiative.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ
Can you answer seven of these
ten Test Questions? Turn TO
Page 4 for Answers

l. Where are the Ten Com
mandments found in the
Bible?
2. In what war was the Battle
of Charlottesville?
3. Was the 18th Amendment to
the Constitution in effect
five years ago?
4. Who was Confucius?
5. Are moles blind?
6. With what sport is Eddie
Arcaro associated?
Z. Of the five U. S. Supreme
Court Justices appointed
by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, which was APP
pointed first-S t a n e y
Reed, Hugo Black, Felix
Frankfurter, Will m
Douglas or Frank Muir
ply?
8. Name the country in which
citizens are not permitted
to accept a Nobel Prize?
9. Is the Christ of the Andes
statue in Chile or Argen-
tina?
10. Retractable landing gear is
a feature of submarines,
airplanes or dirigibles?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

One of the major projects listed on
the "Put Key West Ahead" program of
Key West Chamber of Commerce is mos
quito control. When a scourge of mos
quitoes wings into Key West, our citizens
are annoyed and complain with great heat
because nothing is done to control the
pests. They point out that during the
world war the army and navy controlled
ficials should do something along the same
line.
Recently our public health officials
pointed a way to the fulfillment of this
dream. They said that if the freeholders
of Monroe county would petition for a spe-
cial county election they had it in their
power to make the county a special anti
mosquito district under the state health
authorities.
Consequently two petitions were set
up for the signatures of the freeholders,
one in The Citizen office and the other at
the Chamber of Commerce. 1t requires 10
per cent of the property holders must sign
the petitions before the county commission
may call a special election. If the voters
decide the county shall be made an anti
mosquito district, the governor may create
a special board to act to eradicate the mos
quito, or at least to control their develop
ment.
Like everything else that takes lit
tie effort, the signing of the petitions has
been neglected by the good citizens of Key
West. They don't like mosquitoes. They
drive visitors out of the city when they
come out in full force at certain periods of
the year. They are detriment to peace,
to prosperity and to comfort. Yet the
petitions that might eliminate the pests
from the local scene go unsigned!
Obviously, the thing for our property
owners to do is to sign those petitions. The
sooner 10 per cent of the freeholders do
attach their signatures to the petitions, the
sooner the county commission can act, the
sooner the people can vote on the project
and the sooner special board can get
busy on this important work.
How about the appointment by one
of our civic groups of committee to cir
culate the petitions among the property
owners until the required number of sig
natures has been obtained? This might
even be a good project for the Boy Scouts
to tackle some Saturday. A little civic
service please!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
TtE KEY WEST CITIZEN

,lways seek the truth and print it
.A...n. tear 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
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; dcnounce vice and praise virtue
commend good done by individual or organ
izstion; tolerant of others rights, views and
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
TODAY'S
COMMON ERROR

Dc you say. Five times
six is thirty. or are thirtY?"
The use of singular or plu-
raj depends upon whether
you consider the subject of
the verb six" as a singu-
lar noun. the name of a
quantity. or as a plural ad- :
jective agreeing with a
Suppressed noun. As a mat
ter cf fact. both forms are
sanctioned by dictionaries
ard have been in constant
use since the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

The Citizen welcomes express
SiOnS of the views of its read
ers. hut the editor reserves the
right to delete any items
which are considered libeIOus
or unwarranted. The writer's
should he fair and cOnfine 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
be published unless requested
otherwise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
g. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning)
3. More Hotels and Apartments.
T. Beach and Bathing Pavilion
s. Airports-Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City Gov
ernmentS.
T. A Modern City Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
NOTES
Reprinted From Port AlleganY iPenna.)
Reporter and Argus
BY J. C. GALLOWAY

And pet birds, as we very well
know, can bring much innocent
pleasure. Conservation we must
have, and the Cubans and others
should not be denied their bird
pets. The obvious solution would
appear to be shift over to ca
naries, parrakeets and other do
mesticated cage birds that may
be bred in captivity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
Today's Horoscope
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Because Leap Year is intro
duced arbitrarily to equalize the
fractional excess over the 365
days of the normal year, exact
astrological computation can only
be made by considering the ten
denotes of the preceding day with
the indications of the first day
of March.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

When the people repudiate candi-
date at the polls who happens to have the
Roosevelt blessing, he figuratively thumbs
his nose at the electorate by appointing the
ore cast aside by its will to government
position-a form of reprisal which can
nave the approval only of New Dealers
holding New Deal jobs. In Louisiana,
Governor Earl X. Long, recently ousted by
the voters of Louisiana, has succeeded in
being named by the lame ducks as can
didate for secretary OF. state in place of
the incumbent who died the day before
the runoff primary. Naturally, the newly
nominated governor, Sam Houston Jones
thinks, since Long has been rejected by
the people, he should accept their verdict.
We will now see if the expressed will of
the voters will be thwarted by a political
machine which has long been thorn in
the side of the people of Louisiana. Their
mandate should be respected and the re-
iected candidate should not be rewarded
with a lucrative salary-cOncretely a
thambing of the nose at the electorate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

Walter Winehell would have been
the ideal person to have sent to Europe
to get the lowdown on European matters,
apparently unobtainabe by our constituted
foreign representatives. He would have
obtained what is desired in one way or
another-if necessary through the key
hole.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

President Roosevelt is leaning heavier
on the third-term proposition as the time
-nears to make the decision. Clothed in
more power than any president ever pos
Eessed, he is loathe to relinquish the reins
Of authority.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

What, rooms are at a premium in
Key West? We told you that town would
fill up just as soon as folks discovered it
offered something new under the sum-
Miami Friday Night. What is it? We're
curious
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

Dollars are worth more to the Chinese
and the Firms than congratulations and
good wishes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

And then there are those fas-
cinating toy forests out by the
salt ponds, ten feet tall mostly,
the trees an inch or two in diane
ter and almost as hard as iron;
several species of shoppers;
strong-back with tiny white ro-
settles of bloom and orange ber-
ries; spiny ones with white ber-
ries, bay cedar with yellow
bloom, black beads with white
pompons and twisted pods, lead
trees, low and spreading, of gum
DO limbo; dark Jamaica dog
wood; poison-wood, and others
we cannot name as yet. In one
of these. tiny forests clean little
paths like mouse runs wander in
dark tunnels under the dense in
terlaced tops, hither and yon, so
following them is true explora-
ton. So many species grow
mingled here their mysteries are
not to be solved in a moment.
''Nor can we tell you much of
the roadsides, or of the seaside
golden rod that borders some of
them with sunny glory all win
ter; of the yard-tall cactuses with
their crimson pears; or red and
yellow gaillardias alongside, and
sand-Spur grasses and gray egg
plant weeds with red berries,
blue ageratums and-well, you
have to hunt the rest out for your
selves at present, with novelties
and surprises all along the way.
And as to the sea gardens, with
their sponges and sea-fans and
corals and shell fish and wander
ing willies of batfish and rays
and trunk fish, shovel-noSe sharks
and what-have-you, in those
green and orange, purple and yell
low pathways on shining sands in
crystal waters, these too must
wait another year.
"And we wish we might tell
you Of that little Photographic
shop in Duval street, where we
looked through the back door in
to what might elsewhere have
been a barren little city back
yard, and saw tiny patio instead
agloW with gayly colored crotons
and acalyphas, with a shower of
Clerodendron vines pouring over
the fence with a multitude of lit
tie hearts, pendant and snow
white, and tipped each with a
drop of crimson blood. And we
will never forget that prayer
at the colored church,
where our own hearts were
warmed and stirred by one of the
most comforting services we have
in many years, where
we found a spirit and devotion
far too often lacking in white
congregations, but which it would
bring them untold blessings to re-
gain. In that service we were
truly 'one in Christ; and the
friends we met there for a few
only. will long remain
in our hearts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

Another in this series Of ma
ture Notes" will be presented in
The Citizen in an early issue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

The one great desire of Socrates was
to be useful-and Socrates was a wise
man. We can safely initiate that wisdom.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

Old Father Time mas declared an ex-
TIA dividend today, February 29-the
quadrennial Leap Year Day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29
DON'T THROW ONIONS!

PRIMO ETON, Text is
against the law in this city to
throw an onion at anyone or any
thing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

The Citizen presents herewith
another in the series entitled.
Mature Notes, from the pen of
y. c. Galloway.
These articles appear regularly
in the Port Allegany Penna.)
Reporter and Argus, and were
composed during Mr.. and Mrs.
Galloway's visit in the city re-
Gently.
Following is the latest article:
key West, as we have already
said, is a diamond rejecting from
many facets, revealing many
things. Of some of those we have
tried to tell you in recent weeks:
of some others we can only speak
briefly in this concluding story of
this interesting city, and above
all its people, we have found so
delightful Much, of necessity,
we must leave untold.
about the birds, for instance.
We would like to tell you of the
catbirds in the shrub jungles; the
robins in the chinaberry trees, the
little Water-thrushes that take the
place of song SparroWS at home,
the flocks of myrtle warblers that
worked end played about the
back yards for days; the whip
poorwill that sat on top of the
pole after sunset and circled out
after insects as a flycatcher
would. Of the sparrow hawks
all about town, and big hawks
sitting in the trees on vacant lots;
of the great companies of herring
gulls about the harbor, and the
pelicans that mingle with the
crowd at the fishing dock, and
compel the fish dealers to put
screens over their crates of live
fish. And there are the Great
White Herons that stand like
marble statues in the shoals along
the mangrove shores, and the
Wards herons, paler than our
own Great Blues. And there are
the Red-breasted Mergansers or
fish ducks that sleep in the man.
grove inlets and fish the ocean
shoals in the daytime; several
species of fitting sandpipers on
tide rocks. and hundreds working
together far out on the mud
flats at low tide. BuzzardS and
man-o'-war birds sailing high
overhead; and the pirate Sooty
Tern that chased the gull and
stole its fish and made away with
it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-02-29

Folks here are very fond of
birds; and have big cages in the
yard with canaries or doves, or
miscellaneous birds in them; and
in one we saw a cardinal, and
one of the lovely Nonpariels that
are related to the indigo buntings
at home, but have more colors.
The Cubans are especially fond
of cage birds, and are expert at
trapping them, having elaborate
cage traps with a decoy bird in
the middle, and trap ends beside
it. They have used these for gen.
erationS; and hence find it hard
to understand the Federal laws
prohibiting the trapping of many
species of song-birds, and some
times ran afoul of the law. The
law is all right, for birds of all
kinds have been all but EXTERN
mated down here in years past;
and now are increasing, due to
the enforcement of conservation
laws. Still we have lot of SYM
pathy for the Cubans, many of
whom do not seem to have many
luxuries or pleasures, and who do
find much happiness in their pets.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22
Census Nose Count
Begins April End
In Valley Areas
EnumeratOrs Needed to
Conduct Survey Here;
Headquarters at SD.

Federal census takers will
start counting noses in I'M
perial Valley April 2.
Forrest Heat, supervisor
of census in the twentieth
district of California, will arrive in
Ell Centre March 26 to complete
arrangements for the population
and agricultural census.
His greatest need at present is
a long list of applicants from which
to select the IS enumeratorS to be
used in the valley. Those inter-
ested in applying for the positions
may write Heat at Box 1865 in San
Diego
Applicants must be between 10
and IS years of age and must
have had at least high school
education. He said he wished appli-
cants to have been interested in
agriculture or to be graduates o.
agricultural courses. He declared
he needed between 80 and 100 ap-
plicantS to draw from because the
applicants had to pass an exami-
nation before they could be ap-
pointed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22
Confidence Vote
Backfires Against
Reynaud Cabinet
Troubles Stalk Premier
Because of Anti-Red
Government Policy

PARIS, March %. (UP)-
The new government Of Pre-
mi2r Paul Reynaud. formed
only yesterday, appeared to
be in difficulty today after
tho official count in the chamber
of deputies gave him only 269 sup
porterS against 1856 on a vote of
confidence. There were ITO absen-
tons,
Political observers regarded most
81 the deputies who abstained from
voting as opponents who remained
unmoved despite the premier's as
5ertion that his government wishes
only to fight
The previous government of Pre-
mier Edouard Daladier resigned
after failing to get the support of
a full majority of the chamber.
Tho vote gave Reynaud the sup
port of a bare majority. Had the
Ill abStainlne voted against the
government the vote would have
been 268 for Reynaud to 267 against
RightiStS and mOderateS said Rey-
Continued on Page 8; Col. -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22

Townsend, Prohibition. Socialist,
Communist, and other party men,
bers will be unable to vote May 7.
They can, however, vote at the
general election in the fall
In order to qualify, political par
ties must inform the secretary of
state as to the number of delegates
to represent the state at the ma
tional conventions. Only the DEM
ocratS and Republicans did so. The
Democrats will have 10 delegates
and the Republicans will have "A.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22

waters at the entrance to the Baltic
Sea-a hell of a place to go" naval
men said-and sank the German
steamship Heddernheim.
The 4947 ton Nazi merchantmen
was the first such vessel destroyed
Dy British torpedo and the sink
Ing aroused belief that the Allied
towers might be opening a drive to
3reak German supply lines to the
north as they did in 1918 and 1916
In II days of the World war. Brit
ISh submarines operating off the
coast of Denmark sank IA German
ships loaded with iron ore en- route
from Swedish mines, via Norway.
to the Reich and delayed many
other ore Ships.
The Heddernhcim sank eight
miles cast of Skagen, on the north
tip of Denmark. just inside the
Kattegat entrance to the Baltic
The crew of SO men landed safely
in Denmark
The German ship was sunk in i'll
tcrnational waters but the British
HPioio ioiiOWCo "di lllIl}5S ny ID IL
lSh government leaders, including
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain, that the Allies would take a
atern stand toward the neutrals and
would enter neutral waters il nee
cSsary to offset Illegal enemy opcr-
atoms there.
The Germans pressed the war at
sea with greater vigor, too. sinking
1eVen neutral merchantmen. All
were reported to have been tor
pedoed by U-boats without warn
ing, according to the British &C
counts, which insisted that the He'd
dc' nhelm was given ample warn
ing.
The Danes lost six of the seven
ships sunk by what naval sources
Saiu was new wave of Nazi sub
marines sent out from German
waters in the last week. In Berlin.
the high command announced that
81 G94 tons of Allied or neutral Ship
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22
Controller Bans
Travel Expenses

SACRAMENTO, March %. tUP)--
The state controllers office today
rejected expense claims of II state
officials totaling $3482 for out-of-
state travel, on grounds the trips
were not made in connection with
state business.
The claims were denied on the
basis of an opinion by Attorney
General Earl Warren giving the con-
troller'S office power to reject them
regardless OF specific authorization
of the trips by Gov. Culbert Olson.
Eight of the claims were filed by
officials of the state highway de-
partment who attended a meeting
of the American Association of State
Highway Officials in Richmond, Va,
last October
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-22

Los Angeles. admitted breaking IN
to two homes in Belvedere Gardens,
two in Holtville and two in Ell Gen.
tro. Only one of the Holtville bur-
glaries was reported to police.
Ell Centre homes into which the
boys forced an entrance through
screen windows. were the Walter
Johnson residence at 1926 Euclid
and the Arno Yaeckel home at 1884
Euclid. Ted Kipf, 425 Sixth street
in Holtville, reported a burglary.
Loot in each case amounted to
nothing more valuable than loose
jewelry, foodstuffs and clothing. A
watch and clothing was taken from
the Yaeckel home, a baby bank
containing ST and other articles ly-
ing about the house we're stolen
from the Johnson home, and an
electric razor was missing from the
Kipf home.
In each case the youngsters pre-
pared an impromptu meal and car
ried foodStuffs to make sandwiches
while travelling. Two dozen cup
cakes, bread, meat and two frozen
steaks were taken from the Kipf
home. Two bottles of beer were
opened but only a few sips we're
taken from each. The boys con-
Numed bottle of ginger ale and
one of soda water, however.
Burglary of the kipf home was
not all cup cakes and coffee for
the youngsters. investigators dis
covered. The lads found a package
Of chewing gum in the home, and
put it to its intended use. 1t was,
however, a trick package. The gun
became hotter and hotter as it
was chewed. It's remains were found
IL many parts Of the house, where
u had been discarded hastily.
All items reported missing in the
three homes were recovered by po-
nee in BraWley.
The boys, according to Pete Klein
ana Herbert Hughes of the Sheriff
Office. who questioned the young
Sters, will be certified over to the
juvenile court and returned to
LOS Angeles.