The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 7, 1933, Page 2

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SPECIAL NOTICE eading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of bared fiotices, ete., will be charged for at of 10 éents a lin Notices for entertainments by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. e Citizen fx an open forum and invites discus- sion of public prone, and ub4 cts of local or general interest bat it will not’ publish anonymous com- Hunledtions. | + oat SEIS Ce ER Ree a Se BATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 260 Park Ave. New York; 35 Hast CHICAGO; ‘General Motors Bldg. ‘Walton Bldg., ATLANTA, facker Drive, ETROIT, - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it witnout fear and without favor; never be sfraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progréds; nevér be the or- ah of thé mouthpiece of aiiy person, clique, faction or class; always do ita utmost fot the public welfare; never tolerste corruption or inj~stice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done py individual or organ- tention; tolerant of othets’ rights, views and opinions; ptint only news that will elevate ana not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with prineiple. IMPROVEMENTS For KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to toinplete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotela and Apartinents. Bathing Pavilion, Aquarium. Airports—Land and Sea, at will soon be summer. Then our frozen assets will thaw out, —_— The name of the next president means “a field of roses.” But his job is not going to be a bed of roses, Astronomers are of the opinion that the platet Mars is dry. The planet Karth also is stipposed to be dry, but is it? Lots of folks here arid elsewhere should learn to pronounce the future presi- dent’s name coftectly. It is Rose-e-velt, three syllables, though spelléd Roosevelt. George Allan England, the writer, and Soptributing editor of The Citizen, has a very interesting article about the Turtle Sotip Industry of Key West in the AGWI Steamship News, published by the At- lantic, Gulf and West Indies S, 8. Lines. Mr. England has the happy faculty of as- sembling a lot of facts into a short article and serving it in a delectable and satisty- ing style. pS The newly ofganized Boys’ Club of Key West, under the leadership of W. L. Pike, would find interest and profit from the reading of a series of articles on the machinery of government now being pub- lished in The Citizen. Pupils in the schools of this city ate also urged to read the articles, after which they will have a better understanding of the many ram- ifteations of the machinery of our govern- ment, Florida is the chief attraction for the angler, high and low. President Hoover fished here both as president-elect and as president. Now President-elect Roosevelt is enjoying a pre-term vacation with an eye to snaring denizens of the deep; he will probably do likewise after his eoming term and before the next. Grover Cleve- land, the fisherman president, sought the finny tribe off Stuatt, several times. It would be interesting to know just how many former presidents spent, vacations fishing in Florida waters. eS SINGLE TERM FOR PRESIDENT Senator Norris’ long fight against the so-called “lame duck” session was won in congress last year and has been ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the United States and will become law. The next constitutional amendment will probably be the limiting of the presi- dency to one term of six years. This change was advocated two weeks ago by Senator Pittman of Nevada, and many legislators have expressed their advocacy of this change. The senator himself thinks that it will become law within two years, but as constitutional amendments in the past have taken much longer than that, this change will very likely not come about in so short a time. Arguments for such a teform are many, chief of which are that a president would have two years to formulate poli- ciés, four years to execute them without the distraction of seeking re-election as was evidenced in the recent undignified campaign of President Hoover; he would be freed from political considerations as to his future, and the period of anxious un- certainty incident to presidential elections would be eliminated. Other arguments for a single, lengthened term for the presi- deney are that it would be less of a strain on the president’s health; less control of the preident by his party; more freedom of presidential leadership; more prestige and party freedom from the tradition of renominating its president, for if not re- nominated, it would be tantamount to an adinission by the party in power that the administration of its standard-bearer was a failure or undesirable to be continued,— fine campaign fodder for the opposition. Against such a change is the need for a second term in tite of national ‘emmer- gency, like war or depression, and the in- ereased irresponsibility of the president to the people, in the knowledge that no second term were possible uhder any cir- cumstances. In rebuttal to the arguments against one long term, it may be stated that the electorate changed the president during the wofst depression the country has ever experienced, and there is no reason why a change should not be made in time of war if the incumbent’s administration does not meet with the approval of a people. It is unthinkable that a president would be guilty of irresponsible acts with a congress on the job even if possible/impeachment were not threatening. There is no consecutive second term for the governor of Florida and it has worked well; it would undoubtedly work equally as well if a law were en- acted to limit the presidency of the United States to a single term of six years. AGAIN FARM RELIEF Congress again wrestles with the pfoblem of farm relief, and a new scheme, known as the “domestic allotment” plan has been embodied in a bill whieh has passed the house. It is not likely to be- come a law during the present lame duck session, but some bill of a sweeping nature will doubtless be enacted by the forth- coming special session, It must appear to anyone who reads and tties to understand the bill in its pres- ent form that it is a most complicated measure, and one that would require an army of federal inspectors and other agents to administer. How it eoud be made effective without an enormous cost to the goverfiment and to the consuming public is hard to understand. The main idea of the plan is to give farmers a bonus from the government in the form of an inerease over the market price for certain products, provided they eut their production 20 per cent. This bonus would be 42 cents a bushel on wheat, about 5 cents a pound on cotton, and similar advances on other products covered by the bill. This difference is supposed to be collected from millers, manufacturers and others who convert these raw farm | materials into finished products, and} would in turn be paid by consumefs of} these products through increased retail | prices. The bill is too complicated for de- tailed explanation here, but the foregoing ' will indicate that it is another tremendous | experiment in trying to overcome the law of supply and demand. ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Our Government —How 1 Opetates mewmnccncnnennncecnncene OUR CURRENCY { | | | { rt HERE is ample reason, in my | opinion, why people generally j fall to understand money. First, | treasury figures show on the basis | of income taxes that most of us: have very little of it, so little, in-j deed, that it fails to register, and second, because the processes of government in connection with money, are, or appear to be, some- what complicated. Money for circulation purposes, of course, has its base in the Con- stitution. That instrument reposed | certain obligations on the treasury | in this connection, and the produc- { tion and distribution of money con- ; stitutes one of the two major jobs | of the treasury, In the management of the money, however, the treasury has the as- sistance of the Federal Reserve board and the Federal Reserve banks, Creation of this auxiliary agency did not come about until re- cent years—some 18 years ago—and its part in money matters may be described as ineidenta) to its main Purpose of aiding business. In the big underground vaults of the treasury in Washington, in | equally great vaults of several of the Federal Reserve banks in cities like New York and elsewhere and in the vaults of the assay offices, which operate with the United States mints, there is a vast store of gold bullion, It amounts to well over } $4,000,000,000 in value. ‘That gold {s the basis of our cur- reney; that is why we are said to { be on the gold standard. Theo- retically, every dollar in paper cur- rency that is outstanding or “in cir- culation” may be converted into gold at the demand of the holder of that currency, Theoretically, also, the gold standard keeps the dollar at same value year in and year out, but there is one school of thought in the country who prefer to meas- ure the yalue of the dollar on the basis of prices of wheat*and corn and cotton and other commodities; All of the paper currency in ¢éir- culation is produced—actualty print- ed—in one great establishment in Washington, a plant known as the bureau of engraving and printing. It prints your postage stamps, too, but money-making is its main job. The coins that you have were pro- | | ! or ci | t Daily Crogs-word Puzzle Ses ccccvcedccdocddsoce ory PPecccnvecccccecovcesoesosece jenccrcceededodootocedad ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle =} 1, Deep hole ns this more 4 Nothing 8, Stitch Not 3, as of the “ollve tree 4. Wings 15. Unchanging 11: For fear that 18, Musical sound 19. Pitches one’s tent 20. Protective 23, Hollow stone lined with cryst 25. Portal 26. Transmit endl KEY WEst IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen duced under the direction of the treasury, also, but in the United States mints. They “strike off” the coins from gold or silver or nickel or copper which is acquired and tested for them by the assay offices, tested closely that each bit of metal will be of exactly the same purity, or fineness, as it is called. Whether in the mints or in the printing bu- reau, almost inconceivable scrutiny is exercised, the most rigid manage- ment observed, and that is obvious. ly necessary for if money could be made by everybody, it would not be worth anything to anybody. The bureau of engraving ané printing keeps its great presses in operation constantly, using a dis- tinctive paper that is hardly pos- sible of being counterfeited. Piles upon piles of bills, ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties and up to $100,000 are the result. They are stored in vaults, every bill numbered and every one accounted for. They are kept there for “ageing.” To the uninitiated, this process May seem unnecessary. To the gov- ernment, however, it means saving money for the taxpayers, The cost of circulation, that is, the expense of printing the money and keeping it in circulation runs into millions each year as you may realize when you know that a bill ¢osts about two-thirds of a cent to manufacture, and there are hundreds of millions of them put out every year. An idea of this cost is provided | also from knowledge that the aver- age one-dollar and the five-dollar bill fs fit for cireulation only about ten months. So it behooves the treasury to have very “good” money, as well as sound nioney, ahd its experts ate constantly studying scientific sub- Jects to find ways to prolong the life of the bill. Numerous kinds of paper have been tried, and countless “treatments” have been given the bills in the experimentation by the experts to find means of making the life of a bill last longer. The max- imum, however, seems to be about | ten months for the bills that are in | constant use like the ones and fives, | The two-dollar bill sti has super- | stition attached to ft, 80 It does not | went out so soon. Attention might be invited in this connection to the effect of modern business development on currency, Take the gasoline filling station, for example. The attendants have grease on their hands, not from choice, of course, but that is not conducive to longer life for the | bi you hand him to pay for gas. The currency distribution begins after the bills are aged. Each bill bears fts individual number. Each bi has to be signed by the sec. ‘eter of the United States. Each one From a letter just reeeived by F. R. Maloney from his brother, W. W. Maloney, of Washington, 'D. C., The Citizen is complimented as being a much bétter paper’ “than its patronage justifies. It is quite a fine paper, well edited and would be a erédit to any community of double the population of Key West,” William Jennings Bryan, noted lecturer, politician and prominent in church, prohibition and educa- tional lines, will be a visitor in Key West tomorrow. He will deliver a lecture in the Strand Theater in the afternoon, He is one of the foremost speakers of the day and all Key West should hear him. That the fishing grounds in the vicinity of Key West ate amorig the best in the world is the verdict of Dr. G, L. Clarke, of Elliott City Md., and K, G, Zoller, of Daven- port, Iowa, who gathered in about 250 pounds of edible fish during a short trip. Miss Ruth Mettinger, a nurse employed by the State Board of Health, is coming to arrange a se- ries of meetings to be held with local organizations. One of ,these meetings has already been arrang- ed with the midwives of the coun- ty. Police court proceedings yester- day enriched the city by $130 paid in fines by four persons arraigned and found guilty. Mrs. Harry Prindle of East Orange, N. J., was the guest of honor at a party given yesterday by her sister, Miss Etta Patterson at the home, 522 Caroiine street. “tL have decided to make petmanent home in Key West, it is good enough for mé,” said P. M. | Crews, former chief yeoman in the S. Navy when he and Mrs. jU. C six months’ trip te points in Ken- tucky and other places. Mrs. Jennie Knowles beeame the ‘bride of Joseph Fianagan last my| | i i iL { rews returned yesterday from a| legislation in night at 7:30 o'clock when Rev. S.} A. Wilson, of church pronounced the words that united the happy couple for life. The ceremony was performed at the church. They will be home to their friends at 713 Southard street. First Methodist }the time was extended until the jgreater part of his more than two Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation -... “This record covers 01 | Sun rises Sea level. 30.12. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1933, ings 3 arson portions tonight and in central and .73| north portiofis Wednesday. .69|__ Jacksonville to Florida Straits: 1| Fresh: southeast shifting to south 9, to strong south shifting to south- .winds over south portion, and fresh west ovet north portion; wéather 0. Ins.| somewhat overcast with occasion- 05 Ins,'al rain tonight and probably Wed- ing at S o'clock thin morning. agen! porning. & cciheiae " " ic asi ult: esh southeas' Tomorrow's Almac [south winds o¥et south —poftion; iy [and strong south shifting to notth- Temperature® - ‘mal Mean Rainfall® é " chant 7 2 mn, West over north portion. |. Mh. 5g, eRe ey aati WEATHER CONDITIONS High Sue eat The western disturbance has Pk 9 1.59 (moved eastward to the lower Mis- Barometer at % a. a. today, —_ ; Si8sippi Valley with a trough of low pressure extending from the east- ern Lake region southwestward to the Rio Grande Valley, and pre- Last night Yesterday Lowest Highest [cipitation has been general dur- Abilene ... 64 jing the last 24 hours from the jAtlanta . 38 |southern Rocky Mountain region ' Boston 30 eastward over Texas and Okla- Buffalo . 30 ,homa, and thence northward and iChicago 38 jnortheastward over the Mississip- Denver 34 pi Valley, Great Lakes, and Ap- Detroit 34 |palachidn tegion. The notthwest- Dodge City 40 ern high pfessure area has over- a iDaluth ...... aa spread the Plains States and | Eastport 14 southward inito —— Gg SS se eausing a severe cold wave an N ae on | the lowest temperatures of the SS | Kansas City . 6 50 winter in many Western séétiotis, 7 | KEY WEST 73 jreadings ranging from 82 degrees i 72 |below zero in North Dakota to.6 es 44 ./'degrees above itt central Texas. Oklahoma Cit; 62. ..| Atlantic, Central and: ul | Sees 10 * [States ahd Onio Vallop.. Roseburg . 46 G, 8. KENNEDY, | St. Lonis 42 Official in charge. Ny St. Paul 8 Pa megeaaRionia N Salt Lake City 26 MODEL AIRPLANE SS [Sit. Ste. Marie 18 eigoesse ; Seattle ..... 44 Gordon Light, 27, of Lebanon, Washington 36 Pa., made a model airplane which Williston .. --20 set an international record’ of al- Wytheville 34 tiost 6 minutes in the ait to win wae the national contest at Atlantic WEATHER FORECAST City. foe Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy e rT tity ée tonight and Wednesday; rain to- a night; fresh southerly winds, | ge * Florida: Cloudy with rain to- Ingredients of Vicks A Seat In night and possibly in extreme east | VapoRub in Convenient Candy Form er The Cabinet? ODP PLS LLL LS MSS DS Ee CLAUDE A SWANSON Because of his wide experience in foreign and naval affairs, Claude A. Swanson, senior sena- tor from Virginia, figures prominently in speculation on the possible makeup of the Roosevelt cabinet. The No, 1 demoerat on both committees of the senate dealing with these subjects, the 70-year- old Virginian has shaped the decades of service in that el around them. He spent more than eight months of last year at Geneva as a member of the Amer- jean delegation to the world dis. armament conference. On the floor of the senate he has con- sistently championed the welfare of the navy. He served 13 yeats in the house! and four years as governor of} Virginia before he began his con- tinuous setviee in the senate start- ing in 1910. Swanson is regarded as one of the most skilfal maneuverers of the senate. His pronounced Virginia accent, pince- ILIIII IL OSI IS III ISS. portion Wednesday morning; eold- POOP PPO POCO COOOL LL ‘ in northwest and extreme north} et INVENTORY SALE cement Tei COST AND LESS THAN COST! Every Appliance Guaranteed Saving Money Is More Gratifying Than Earning Money HERE'S A CHANCE TO SAVE! 1 Universal Iron, reduced ftom $ 4.95 to § 2.97 : 1 Mixmaster, reduced from 18.75 to 12.00 1 Mixmaster, reduced from 18.75 to 10.80 1 Westinghouse Heating Pad, reduced from - 850 to 3.00 1 Sandwich Toaster, reduced 1 Electric Water Kettle, re- & duced froth 6.50 to 4.19. 2 Universal Curling Irons, re- = duced from ..........-...-. Esiepaily 1.76 to 1.06 1 Pyrex Refrigerator Set, re- : uced From .......-.--..eigesererensne 2.25 to 1.94 4 Pyrex Refrigerator Sets, re- duced from 0.000... 400t0 3.24 1 Universal Waffle Iron, re- \ duced from 13.60 to 5.00 q 1 Universal Water Kettle, re- AY duced from ...........::-s:s1e 750 ta 6,00 Q The Key West Electric Co. . A. F. AYALA, Sales Manager & COTTTITTIOLIILOLLHY nez and “southern colonel’s” mus- tache make him stand out. His hobby is collecting reminders of the days of the Confederacy. pet first of February. | There were 330 passengers ar-} riving on the steamer Cuba from Havana yesterday afternoon. A Ford ear driven by Arnol¢ The Key West Rotary Club en-| Henson collided with the Mallory | tetary of the treasury and the treas. jtertained the Rotary Anns at a din-| warehouse today. jner banquet last night at the Casa! and radius rod of the Those who have | js registered by the register of the!| Marina. There were about 70 at-|broken. The dtiver eseaped with- Front fenders! car were! observed the disastrous effects of other | treasury. Then an armored ear, @ |teriding aid they enjoyed the eve-jout serious injury. government experiments in this line can| hardly be blamed if they are skeptical of | this latest proposal for artificially fixing prices, re eee regular steel safe in itself, backs up to @ guarded door for a load of) meney. Subscribe for The Citizen—20e} & week. [ning thoroughly. ea Deputy sheriffs are rounding up) for the construction of the owners of cars who have not -paid|/sthool building at the corner their licenses for the year. These | White, were due the first of January but! streets. Ground was broken yesterday new of} Seminary | United and We pay 3 Per Cent on Savings THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK KEY WEST, FLORIDA Member Federal Reserve System