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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
Spiritual Food
BY ]. w. r.
TRUE TREASURES
BY ]. w. r.

Lay not up for yourselves treas
ures upon earth, where moth ard
rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal:
but lay up for yourselves treas
ures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break
through nor steal: for where your
treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
The light of the body is the eye:
if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of
light. But if thine eye be evil,
thy whole body shall be full of
darkness. If therefore the light
that is in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the son,
and love the other: or else he will
hold to the one, and despite the
other. Ye cannot serve God and
manmon.
Therefore / say unto you, Take
no thought for your life, what we
shall eat, or what we shall drinl,;
nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more
than meat, and the body than
raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for
they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedetn
them. Are We not much better
than they?
Which of you by taking thought
can add one eubit unto his sta
ture? And why take We thought
for raiment? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow, they
toll not, neither do they spin: and
yet, I say unto you, That. even
Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the
grass of the field, which to day is,
and to morrow is cast into the
oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, o we of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, say
ing, What shall we eat? or, What
shall we drink? or, Wherewithal
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
BATTLE OF THE B1GHT

Take the case of the battle of
Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, trustee
of North Beach Inn, and George
Gomez of North Beach. These
two young people were once close
friends and were brought UP as
children together. Yet now there
is great deal of agitation be-
tween them. First of all North
Beach Inn placed a beach right
smack against Mr.. Gomez home
which is built out on the water
This was not amenable to Mr..
Gomez. This year Mr.. Gomez de-
cided to place a marine lift rail-
way in his back yard which
fronts on the water and which
was once a boathouse area for
the late Judge Harris large boat.
This was not arnenable to Mrs.
Mitchell. Now up at city COM
mission meeting last night Mrs.
Mitchell in a letter to the city
commission asks that coming
laws on the beach be amended
so that she can erect a restaurant
on the beach. Thus we go on and
on. Apparently there is no logic
of coming applied anywhere along
the line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
Traffic Cases
Heard Tuesday
SENTENCES IMPOSED IN
CRIMINAL COURT IN
SIX CASES

Judge Thomas S. Caro- imposed
sentences yesterday afternoon in
six traffic cases that came up in
criminal court. The defendants
were:
John M. Christian was fined
$40 and costs, with the alterna-
tive of spending so days in Jail
on a charge of selling an auto
mobile without a license.
Alberto Sherouse, no drivers
license; SIS and costs, or 80 days
in Jail.
Glen L. Rogers, failing to de-
liver proper title certificate, $40
and costs, or 80 days.
Jack Ryer Vented, reckless
driving, $25 and costs or go days.
Elmer Louise Eaton, driving on
rim on a public highway, $50
and costs, or 80 days.
Andrew Milton Hot, improper
parking, $25 and costs, or go
days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
Elliot Heard By
Investigators
fBy Associates Psesa,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The
senate Pearl Harbor disaster
committee decided today to call
Sergeant George E. Elliott, the
man who spotted the Jap planes,
on their way to attack Pearl
Harbor on December z, 1941,
when they were 1872 miles from
that base.
Elliott detected the approach
ing planes by radar, and reported
his discovery to an inexperienced
officer, who is reported to have
told him to forget it,.
AT the conclusion of Elliott's
testimony, the committee will adj
journ. 1t has been given till June
l to make the report of its find.
ings to congress.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
Possibility
Of Oil Near
Barnes Sound

Possibility that black gold
may yet be discovered in
Monroe County is seen in a
statement made Monday
night by an official of the
Republic Oil Company now
drilling a well at Barnes
Sound.
Cautioning that oil has not
yet been found. the official
disclosed drilling operations
Monday had struck IAN oil
show. This means. he ex-
planned. that I'VE are getting
into zone where we have to
look pretty closely to see
what's just ahead"
The official. who would not
allow his name to be used.
said that the "oil show" was
found at l0.ls0 feet. The
Citizen reported in its issue
yesterday that as of Friday
the Barnes Sound well had
attained a depth of 10.053
feet.
The 10.300-foot depth will
probably be reached today.
Just how much deeper the
well will have to be drilled
before it becomes a gusher
was not disclosed. The Hum
BILE Oil Company struck oil at
lls627 feet at its Sunniland
Well No. in Collier County.
The Barnes Sound well is
being drilled near the Over
seas Highway in that local
ity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
Tactics On
Union Fees
Are Related
CHARGES HURLED AGAINST
PETRILLO. PRESIDENT OF
FEDERATION OF MUSICI.
ANS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -
Such terms as "pernicious" and
"un-American" were applied to-
day to the tactics of James C..
Petrillo, president of the Fedora
ton of American Musicians, in
compelling broadcasting stations
to pay the union fees when using
mechanical music and to compel
them to have standby orchestras
in some broadcasts that do not
use music.
The bill before the house
makes it illegal for the union to
continue those practices, and it
was said the measure will be
passed by large majority.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
REsURFAcED BOULEVARD

The State Road Department
has done much for Key West in
recent years such as resurfacing
Roosevelt Boulevard on the gulf
side as Highway No. l. Other pro-
jects are on the pan. right now
but they must be pushed at effec-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
ALBERT BASTIAN
RETURNING HOME
tspecIar to The Citinen)

NSpecInI 10 The C7tfxem)
PEARL HARBoR. T. H., Feb.
20.-Pfc. Albert Bastian, son of
Mrs. Rosetta Bastian, of 727
Whitehead street, Key West, Fla,
is one of many Army veterans re-
turning to the States aboard the
U.S.S. Drew, an attack transport
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
OVERALL PICTURE

Soon, very soon, the city COM
mission should sit as a planning
board and take the over all pic
ture of zoning into consideration
A nice new chart of coming laws
has been placed up in city COM
mission meeting hall by the city
manager at the request of the
city commission and there the
areas such as residence, CONNER
cial, etc. are all marked off in
various colors. So that when a
commissioner votes for a change
of zoning laws the picture is
right there before him of just
what he is doing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20

of the Magic Carpet" fleet. This
ship left Saipan on January 80,
and was scheduled to arrive at
San Pedro, Calf, about Febru-
airy Is.
/ The Drew is one of the attack
transports, which, with cargo
ships and landing craft, maintain
ed continuous supply lines to
fighting forces across the Pa :
cific. 4
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
LAUNDRY zoN1Nc QUESTION

ahead.
LAUNDRY ZONING QUESTION
Sometime ago the city COM
mission permitted by ordinance
the building of a place of bust
ness addition at the White Laun-
dry in violation of the coming
laws. At the time the thought
went through many of our minds
as to what would come of such
an action. Well it is here now.
The City has received petition
by 81 residents objecting to the
smoke situation at the Laundry.
City Manager has informed the
management to correct the nuis-
ance and also to have. insurance
placed on boiler in the plant to
take care of any damage.
ZONING UP IN THE AIR
The present city commission
has not taken very good stand
on zoning. When they first came
into office commissioners pro-
tested the past coming laws as
favoring a few and as not well
thought out. Which is largely
true. But instead of meeting for
complete revision of the coming
laws and bringing everything up
to date and at the same time
keeping the limits of certain Sec
tions as sacred why they have
been granting all kinds of
changes by ordinances which
amend the zoning laws.
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The Weather
REPORT

Key West and vicinity: Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight
and Thursday. Little change in
temperature. Moderate variable
winds, mostly north and north
east.
Florida: Fair, cooler in north
and central, portions and partly
cloudy and mild over the ex-
treme south portion today and
tonight. Thursday partly cloudy
with little change in temperature.
Jacksonville through the Flor
ida Straits and East Gulf of Mex
leo: Moderate winds, northerly
over the north portion and vari-
able over the south portion, be-
coming northeasterly tonight.
Moderate northeasterly winds
Thursday. Partly cloudy weather.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warnings
have been issued.
WEATHER REPORT
Key West, Fla, Feb. 20, 1916
Observation taken at 7:30 am.
Eastern Standard Time
Getty Office
Temperatures
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
GIVE US BACK KEY WEST

&4NE I'd bAGh AEI WILD
Hear there is an organization
planned to "Give Us Back Key
West" This organization believes
that Key West was better the
old way. It's a reflection they
say on the public schools of Key
West to have an outsider come
here to run our city. Can't the
public schools produce someone
among local residents capable of
doing the same job. Of course all
this is forgetting that the city
charter calls for an outsider dur
ing the first two years and that
this charter also states that he
must have no relatives in Key
West. The big stopper in Key
West in the past is that we have
been too friendly" l know that
time and time again in an i'm
portant civic step, we Key West
ers, because of personal friend
ship handicapped the city. Now
there is a more logical age COM
ing on, where the test of a pro-
ject is its truth. We hope though
that another test too will be
added in some degree and this is
a test of the heart. Because we
can swing the pendulum too far
back the other way.
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS
Today feel good. In going
ahead on the good line" some
times you take some pretty stiff
punches and while this does not
stop you why nevertheless it does
slow you down. Today Alexander
Barmine, famous author of Zone
Who Survived, a brigadier gen
eral in the Russian Army, indus
trialist and soldier under the
Red Star and during the past war
connected with the American
army in the Office of Strategic
Services told me that Coral
Rockets" was good and that it
gave much life to The Citizen.
SRD BUDGET APPROVED
Far as / know there was no
county commissioner present at
the State Road Department bud
get meeting held Monday night
at Tampa where delegations
from all over the state appeared
TO ask for building and repair
programs. What comes to mind
is the project to make the Boule-
ward an alternate road and place
il back in shape by repairing
hurricane damage. Lakeland
delegate renewed a plea for a
Decline highway from Tampa to
Palm Beach and Miami but this
was shelved after it was consid-
cred more important to make re-
pairs on existing roads first.
Budget for the State Road of
$31. 456,276, an increase of ST.
416,272 over the tentative budget
was adopted. Wonder if the al
ternate Boulevard highway was
on the budget Broward and
Dade counties incorporated funds
from the 80 per cent surplus gas
oline tax revenues to permit
scheduling of local work in those
cernties.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
ESTIMATE MADE

BROOKLYN.-It is estimated
that American women will spend
more than two billion dollars for
cosmetics in 1916.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20

Your church-.your school-your newspaper
they ALL are spark plugs Of your city. They
make go.
The veteran is seeking to move back into
civilian life in backfire of industrial strife. but
a smooth running city is vital to his welfare. and
it is up to us to give it to him.
So let's work together to this end-that no
man nor woman who went to war may be disap-
pointed in this. his home town.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20
CORAL ROCKETS
BY L. P. ARTMAN. JR.

tive moments if we are to G
ahead.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20

shall we be clothed? (for after all
these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your heavenly Father know.
eth that ye have need of all these
things. But seek We first the
kingdom of God, and his right
eousness and all these things
shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought FOR
the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of it
self. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:19-34)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20

Scripture Quotation: 30 death,
where is thy sting? o grave,
where is thy victory? The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of
sin is the law. But thanks be to
God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be we steadfast, unmoveable, al
ways Astounding in the work of
the Lord, forasmuch as We know
that your labour is not in vain in
the Lord Corinthians 1856
SO.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-20

Pizarro invaded Bolivia in 1914.
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NATIONAL eDITO
Ilhc ASSOCIATION
IJW " ,7Ez5ae INsc.5ee.-
SEX RATIO ABOUT EVEN

taAssgHl EEIssrls sgfEs t.sgsf. 811 - 4ki
Concern over the sex
ratio of the population of
the United States as deter
mining PROSPECTS in the
marriage 3fnarket is without
foundation, q according to
DR.. Hope T. Eldridge, analy-
list of the Bureau of the Cen
sus.
The moderate decrease in
the proportion of males to
females has Every little to
do with the hunt for hus-
bands, except in the mag
nation" declares the lady,
who points out that there
was an excess of 100000
females as of July l, 1915.
1t is interesting to note
that the population of the
world, thanks to the ar
rangement of nature, main
tains a practical balance be-
tween the sexes. This seems
TO be regardless of wars but
Thea proportion of the sexes
iP ahpartIeular area is. often
ihflueneed BY Immigration
on the scale that brought
millions to this Country some
decades ago.
Figures afpr the United
States, Erelating to 1940,
81 how that there were $780,
0D0 more single males than
single females among the
population fifteen years old
or older. The excess was off
set by one of about the
same size among widowed
and divorced females.
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The Weather
FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and
Thursday; with showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon and
tonight. Moderate to fresh east
and southeast winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy today,
tonight and Thursday. Local aft
erhoon thundershowers, mostly
over interior and west portions.
jacksonville through the Flor
ida Straits and East Gulf of Mex
leo: Moderate east to southeast
winds today, tonight and Thurs
day. except velocity occasionally
fresh over extreme south portion.
Partly cloudy with widely scat
tered showers.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warnings
have been issued.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
FRENCH DOCTORS

Something new in the
way of strikes is revealed in
a news dispatch from Paris,
France, which says that the
doctors in eighteen depart
ments had refused to sign
birth or death certificates in
a Strike, protesting the
governments failure to pro-
vide them with automobiles.
The strike, it is report
ed, threatens to spread over
the whole of France, where
doctors denounce the failure
of the government to allot
them sufficient automobiles
since the beginning of the
year. Of 5000 requested,
only 200 have been received.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
Birth Rate Up, But
Family Size ShriIlks

NEW YORK. - AP - The
American birth rate is going up
but the size of families is going
down, says the Population Ref
erence Bureau. The birth rate
rose 80 percent from 1880 to
1912, but families became more
and more restricted to one or
two children. @
American babies are coming
from younger women. Long ago
good proportion of babies were
born of mothers over 40, says the
bulletin of the bureau. Now the
over-40 mothers supply only half
the proportion of babies that they
did'in 1918. The bulletin says the
rapid drop in infant and mater
nal death rates is partly due to
the youthfulness of the mothers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
"TN THE NEXT 80 DAYS"

Secretary of War Robert
p. Patterson says that the
Army's 1aanpower situation
is deplorable, because Con-
gress exempted teenagers
from the draft and warned
the Governors Conference
that "all that has been &C
c0mplished by four years of
fighting can be jeopardized
I'M the next thirty days"
las near as we can under
stand the International sit
uations tletSecretary of War
is somewhat conservative in
estimating that the nation
has thirt7 days leeway. It
looks to us very much as if
policies already put into
effect have seriously jeop-
ardized he great victories
that this nation only recent
ly won.
1t is a striking common
tary on the inability of de-
mocracieH to defend them
selves that this nation, after
such a super-human exer-
ton in It's own defense, is
unwilling to make the re-
latively insignificant effort
that is needed to maintain
the prestige and protect the
interests of. the Unit e d
States. Gs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
THE YELLOW AND
THE RED FLAG

Man has performed many
wonders since he has been
on Earth, yet, despite his in
tellectuality, he is, impotent
in facing many dangers of
Nature or scourges that be-
siege man.
Many of the scourges
have been conquered. Key
Westers,t particularly those
who, have children, are a
prey to dread over the pres
ence of polio in our city; as
recently as so years ago, the
diseases that terrorized Key
Westers were yellow fever
and smallpox.
But those scourges have
been wiped out, so far as we
are concerned, and a Key
Wester, the late DR.. Joseph
Y. Porter, was foremost in
the ranks of physicians that
fought and conquered those
diseases.
Fomes, in those days, was
thought to be the major
cause in transmitting yellow
fever. Whenever anybody
died from that disease, the
bed, on which he slept, and
the bedelothes he used, as
we'll as the clothes he wore
when he died, were burned.
But DR.. Porter poohpoohed
that theory. To demonstrate
that fomes had, nothing to
do with transmitting yellow
fever, DR.. Porter, I'M 1892,
slept for three successive
nights on a bed in the Key
West Marine Hospital, in
which a man had died of
yellow fever.
Before it was discovered
that the mosquito trans
mitted yellow fever, the dis
ease was considered as vic
ious and as insidious as
polio is today. N o b o d y
knows the cause of polio
nobody knows where it will
strike. AS was the case in
yellow fever, we must wait
now till polio strikes, then
fight to save its victim.
But, as medical science
progresses, the day will
come when physicians will
learn what is the cause OF
polio, the nature of it's virus
and stamp it out, as yellow
fever was stamped oht.
Polio is a dreadful dis
ease, but not nearly as
dreadful as yellow fever
used to be, because. where
polio strikes one person
now, yellow fever, when al
its height, struck 100.
1t has been many a year
since a, yellow flag has beer
seen nailed to a residence il
Key West, and the day viii
come when the red flag OF
polio will have disappeared
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
There is very little hope

There is very little hope
Of the Zig Four" achieving
success. But the United
Sthtessis proud of Secretary
Byrnes because he has de-
tended the rights and high
est traditions of the human
race, and he has debated
every issue with the bull
h e a d e d Russians, even
though they do not seem to
be convinced by American
common sense. Apparently
our Milton is very much
alone in its efforts to estab-
lish a strong and effective
form of International Gov
eminent to preserve the
peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
BRITISH IGNORANCE?

The British Government
continues to induct eighteen
year old youths into the
armed forces for a two-year
period of service.
What's the matter with
the British? Haven't they
heard about the end of the
war?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12

We may be facing the
greatest age in our history,
as President Truman as
serts, but it will be realized
only if every American
makes something of an UNI
selfish contribution to life
in general.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12

To Russians there is no
democracy but inside Rus
STA and no possibility of real
peace until all nations fol-
low the Russian example.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
HelnOrrhoids! Hurt
Like Sin! Now | Grin

Thousands change groans to grins. Use
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
CHILD KILLED
by ROACH POISON

A seven year old boy accidentally kicked
his football on the top of the kitchen cabi-
net. When he went after it he noticed
cracker, spread with what he thought was
peanut butter. He ate it, and died the fol-
lowing day because the spread was poison
GUS roach killer. Any bug Killer that bears
Caution or the word Poison on the label
is dangerous to have around the house.
Now you can buy bug killer that is
absolutely non-poisonous. This new dis
covery is called Dil-Kil. Children, birds,
pets and humans can accidentally eat the
new non-poisonous Dil-Kil without harm.
poisoning; instead, it kills by smothering
cockroaches, ants, bedbugs and other crawl
ing bugs. just blow new non-poisonous
Dil-Kil Powder deep into the cracks with
a Dil-Kil blow gun. The results are arnaz-
ing. Dil-Kil remains effective for long
time when kept dry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-06-12
CANCELS ACCOUNTS

COLUMBUS, O.-The viii OF
the late DR.. Herman L. Harris,
who died last December, wiped
out all unpaid accounts owed
him by his patients.