The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1932, Page 2

PAGE TWO __ Che Key Wiest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, L. P. ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Buildiug, Corner Greene and Ann Streets , —_—— Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-THIRD YEAR Member of the Associated Preas The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othefwise ere ited in this paper and also the local news published here. MEM Mpy, ceux R 1932 RATES 10.00 00 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary horices, ete., wil be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous com- munications. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESE.\ PROST, Lae & KORN ae 2 rk Ave. New York; 35 East Wacker Drive, 260 CaCO: ‘Ggneral Motors Bidg., DETROIT; Walton Bidg,, ATLANTA. \TATIVES PNR TT OVS TAT | ‘IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN perenne Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Mais land. Comprehensive City Vises. Hotels and Apartwents, Bathing Pavilion. — Aquarium. Airports—Land and Sea. Nobody is perfect—not even you. _ The chief use of tact consists in per- suading others to accept one’s own opin- ions. The critical faculty of the practical man is liable to be aroused if he thinks he is being reasoned with. A note of business depression which is not depressive: “The coffin business has fallen off during 1932.” About the time the price of everything went down, the government upped the price of stamps from 2c to 3c, with the re- sult that Jonah, The Citizen porter, has but one waste busket to empty where for- merly there were two. ee ee eee That University of California-Florida football game last Friday was a “natural” for the fans who wanted a real scrap. Just imagine a team from California and one representing Florida battling it out for intersectional honors. ae Edueators are apt to estimate the success of the education they give by the number of scholarships gained by their pupils at the end of their school career— but apparently make no effort to discover what happens to these successful pupils in after life. Back in the old days Henry Clay lost his chance for the presidency because of his disposition to straddle. issues. Modern politicians have converted “straddling” to a science and the best straddler is the one who usually is on the top of the heap when the last vote is counted. Florida has the greatest variety of crops in the country and the most fertile soil and yet in revenue obtained as a state from agriculture it ranks with the last. Anyone offering a good reason for this con- dition might be a logical candidate for the next award of the Nobel prize. Seeing how everyone, including the newspapers, are forever lambasting the “politicians” for their crookedness, it might be well to wonder if one can suc- cessfully hold down an office dependent on the public vote without being involved in at least a few shady dealings. Over in Tampa a large part of the student body at Plant High is protesting against having only one week for the Christmas holidays, and even went so far as not te attend classes for an extra week. CHRISTMAS AND THE TAG TAX (The Arcadia Arcadian) | Most peopie find a great pleasure, in buying gifts for the members of their fami- lies and their intimate friends, provided | | they have the money to do it with, but fee biggest fly in the ointment in recent years. has been the auto tag license fee which has had to be found along about the time that the Christmas bills come in. There will be no increase in the tag tax this year over last year, because there has been no session of the legislature in the meantime, but we all recalled that it was plenty high and then some last year. It was so high that countless thousands of fairly road-worthy cars have rotted down in their garages during the year because | the owners did not have the money to pay license on them. What with the tag license fee and the extortionate gasoline tax the operation of a motor car has been put in the class of a luxury, and expense has made it impossible for many people who need to use them as a matter of prosecuting their every-day tasks to do so. Governor-elect Dave Sholtz outlined a number of important reforms in the way of reducing expense for the people of the state, but there probably was none among the lot which was remembered more vivid- ly and will be looked forward to; . more earnestly than his: promise of a reduction in tag tax fees. It was his idea that $10 was enough to pay for a tag for any car, and that $5 was enough for the small cars. The result of the elections makes it obvious that a vast majority of the people of the state agreed with him in these conclusions. It is now up to the legislature, when it meets again, to translate these desires of the people into law, and make it possible in 1934 for people to operate cars without having to go hungry and half naked to do so. That auto license tag costs, and other state government costs, can be reduced is evidenced by the fact that until the people went hog-wild a few years ago and dis- regarded expense the state was operated for a mere fraction of what it costs today. To cut government expense means that a lot of political parasites will have to be jarred loose from the public payroll. FALSE ECONOMY True economy is entirely praise- worthy, particularly for those who have difficulty in making ends meet, but there is a petty sort of skimping which is not economy, and which is really wasteful in the long run. Time and effort expended to effect the saving of a penny here and a_ nickel there often is a source of loss instead of gain. Shopping around for an hour in the hope of saving a few cents on a trivial pur- chase is one example of this. Another is to buy an inferior article when a good one would cost but a little more. The same principle applies in business management. To deny oneself the use of a reasonable amount of up-to-date equip- ment in an effort to curtail expenditures is not economy because such equipment will usually pay for itself many times over in time and labor saving. Spending money wisely is one “of the surest means of making more money. Skimping is not always economy, and stinginess is not always thrift. Too many of us are “penny wise and pound fodlish.” TRAGEDY AS TEACHER Tt seems that it often takes an ap- palling tragedy to impress mankind with the necessity for ordinary safety pre- cautions, and even tragedy fails to teach its lesson in most cases. The first systematic efforts to make theaters fireproof followed the Iroquoise fire in Chicago in 1903, when 574 persons | lost their lives, although 600 had died in a theater fire in Trenton, N. J., as far back as 1872, and 283 had met a similar fate in Brooklyn in 1876. A new policy of constructing muni- tions depots in unsettled areas followed the | explosion of the Lake Denmark arsenal in | 1926. The sinking of the Vestris has brought about the adoption of a new code of safety at sea, just framed -by represen- tatives of 18 nations. The explosion of X-ray films in the Cleveland Clinic, caus- ing the loss of more than 200 lives, has re- jeulted in a survey of conditions in hospitals Yet later on in life that same bunch will | throughout the country in an effort to pre- most likely become employees and protest against being “layed off” for & certain! vent similar disasters in future. Thus great tragedies sometimes serve period during the year by a depressionj{o teach their costly lessons; too late, how- bounded “boss.” ee ever to do their victims any good. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 200000007 60ccesoccevecgoeceeeoccccooeoocooeecce | Daily Cross-word Puzzle 1. First name of the author of “Ben Yur" 4. Pronoun 7. Muse of poetry 12. Anger 13. Mouths ta ‘ne TAR] the air, 15. Thles to heat -shaped i B Genus of the maple tree 19. Scotch griddle eake 21, South Ameri« can Indian 23, Workshop 27, Of greater height 29. American hecnorist 30. Rigorous 33. Torturea 50. Inctining the head 52. Went up 53. Self. iL Grow ont 53. Teri 3%. Best in ‘nae 40, Obliterate i Test metal 6, Assaz acne ee ait IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings. Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen If you were born on this date 10 years ago, your birth. ° day fell om Saturday. ; Plans were completed last night at a meeting of the American Le-' gion post for a drive to be started} for a new clubhouse, The a of obtaining the former Y. M. C. A. building at the Fort Taylor reservation from the war depart- ment will be taken up at once. Let- ters from Mayor Ladd, Chas. H, Ketchum and other leading citi zens have gone to Washington on this matter. a The Fleming Street Church was crowded to capacity last night by members and relatives who assem- bled for the annual celebration of the Christmas season. Oranges, apples and candy were given in abundance to the little ones while presents from the tree were distri+ buted. A big Christmas tree and Christ- mas dinner will be part of the cele- bration by the marine contingent stationed here. The body of Mrs. J. B. Pitts will arrive in the city this after- noon from Homestead. Funeral services will be condueted tomor- row afternoon from the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson on Whitehead street, Rev. C. N. | Walker, of Homestead will accompany the body and have charge of the ser- vices, assisted by Rev. M, C, Luns- ford. The lilt of a song, the bright sunshine of laughter and the wreath of a smile will shine on far more than two score of kid- dies in Key West, who, one week ago, faeed a Christmas without the prospect of new toys, clothes, candy or the many things that de- light the hearts of children. The response to the plan of The Citi- more than gratifying. From all parts of the city have come gifts fer the children and so ge have the donors been that there a surplus on hand that will vide for a greater number was at first anticipated. Now all is set for the series basketball games between Jacksonville Boy Seouts and local quintet. The Jacksonvi aggregation is the champion team g Tf fies He IIPIZTILILILE LILLIE COLL LL Ew <“ Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle aes ae, eae [Ele lOiRIYZAZAIG| 7. Clear of. suspicioa 8. Take creat delight . aed, ments 19, Littlercnia 16. Hackneyed 20. County in* New Mexico EILIO lels} 22, Attorney 24. Writing fluid 25. Organ. of aL Plant She genus Vicia = Loree tub it More -Yenoble 39, Litt 41, Elaborate solos 42. Burn supers fictaliy 43. Anxious 45. Hindu ascetic 47. Statute 48. Masculine DOWN 1. Flowering shrub 2% Heather 3. German name 49. Light bea 51, Fo! persistently ee || V7 aaa and have a number of eaneiional wins to their credit. Miss Elinor Miller, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Miller, stu- dent at Stewart’s Hall in .Staun- ton, Va., will arrive in Key West tomorrow and spend the Christ- mas holidays with her parents. Piggy Wiggly has Santa Claus {| presents all, day today for cus- tomers. Santa is there in all hi: benevolence handing out the pres- ents from an elaborately deorat- ed. tree. Earl V. Weatherford, of _ Key West, is now a member of a quartette in the play ‘“Cireum- stantial Evidenee.” “Troop 5, Boy Scouts, are plan- ning to leave Tuesday morning for Big Pine Key where they will re- main in camp for five days. About 25 boys will assemble for the out- ing. Ringworm—One bottle Imperial ‘Benema Remedy is guaranteed enough for any case. 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Lowest P.M, 6:41 12:05 today. Highest Last night Yesterday Abilene 42° 46 34 34 20 28 26 22 28 36 44 10 34 74 46 40 12 36 60 82 30 28 16 30 40 2 Atlanta Chicago Denver Detroit Dodge City . Duluth .... Eastport . El Paso Hatteras - Huron .. Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Louisville Miami ... New York . Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Paul Salt Lake City . Sault Ste, Marie Seattle Tampa Washington Williston — 60 Be 50 42 42 34 4g 38 42 58 48 38 42 80 64 50 76 52 66 48 42 42 80 84 46 80 42 32 WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m, Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly ‘STEAMSHIP Co. P& tion tonight and in north portion Saturday. Slightly warmer in ex- treme. northwest portion tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Fresh northeast and east winds; tonight East Gulf: Fresh east and south- east winds becoming strong over * north portion. WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance is central tis morning over Texas, Corpus Chris- ti and Abilene, 29.80 inches, and anéther disturbance is moving in over. the far Northwest, Seattle, Wash., 29.56 inches; while high pressure covers most of the re- mainder of the country. Pre- cipitation, mostly in the form of rain, has occurred during the last 24 hours from Texas northeast- ward over Michigan, being heavy in central Texas, Oklahoma, and western Missouri. Rain also oc- curred. in. southern Florida, Ari- zona.and on the ‘Pacific coast from San Francisco northward. ‘Temperatures have risen in most sections east of the Plains States except in the Middle and North Atlantic States, and also in por- tions of the Rocky Mountain re- gion, and readings are well above normal throughout most of the country this morning except in portions. of the Rocky Mountain region and far West, G. S. KENNEDY, Official in charge, BEARUP’S DRY CLEANING WORKS. 514 MARGARET ST. 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