The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1933, Page 2

Dplig, Beart ta tg if _ From ding, Corner Greene and Ann Streets Newspaper mot a ‘West and Monroe Fl tg as second class matter ” URTH YEAR ia " Aggociated Press aaa les ff ed in Paper and also URSCRIPTIOY RATES here, iSG RATER known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE eaing notices, cards of thi ituary notices, etc., wil ks, resolutions of e charged for at 10 cents a line. ag churches from which 5 ae a ling. rom ang, invites discus: s of local or fences t will eee ee anonymous ¢omi- i MATIONAL ADVERTISING <i mt it cHicAaa: enerel Mo IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST’ ADVOQCATED BY THE CITIZEN ‘Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. ~ Savarinm. Airports—Land and Sea. ‘SIDELIGHTS _ By MARCY B. PARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen When Ed Peacock, negro head porter of the National Life and Accident Insur- ance Co. of Nashville, died a few days ago, a delegation of pany accompanie and i = & publi¢ tribyte ta the faithf ployee, who had been with the National more'than 80 years. This again illpstrates that a deserving negro is not without honor in the south. * hgh officials of the com- the body to Columbia _ Among the recent eyidences of re- souxesfulness displayed by country editors ‘is this.one, related of a Mipnesota weekly. Accompanying a news item to the effect that bustles are coming back, the editor reminds his fair readers that “old papers are for sale at this office.at 10 cents per bundle." Remarkable is a record made by Methodist Hospital of Memphis, where 1,- 483 babies were born during a period of more than 26 months, without the death of a single mother. Writing of the matter Superintendent Hedden states that the at- tending doctors were not especially trained immost cases, but that among the 116 dif- ferent-ones who contributed to this record a_large number were just “old-fashioned family physicians.” . The news magazine Time tells us that the custom of saying ‘God bless you” after someone sneezes is supposed to have originated with Pope Gregory during a pestilence in which sneezing was a threatening symptom. Many savage tribes believe sneezing is caused by the presence of evil spirits, wAn odd alicia’ appearing in a Seattle newspaper reads: “Neighbors hos- tile; will trade silver cornet for revolver, ic pistel or shotgun.” Perhaps if the gentleman gets rid of his cornet the y rs will abate their hostility, even withaut his resorting to firearms. auto} Members of congress may in speeches charge their fellowmen with every sort of miseonduct without legal responsibility. Not so newspapers, When certain radical senators charged F. E. Bonney, then sec- retary of the Federal Power Commission, with being partial to the power interests some three years ago, the Hearst pews: papers took up and elaborated on the idea. Recently Bonner was given a verdict for $59,000 damages against the Boston Amer- ican and gases against 13 other Hearst papers are still to be tried. aeraan ae Jocal ia ik fH i - ee oe ‘obi “3 3 1 POE ANS, & tna sinful em ee 35 YEARS AGO Thirty-fiye years ago this month events were moving rapidly toward that; short but spirited struggle known to his- tory as the Spanish-American War, which | freed Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines from Spanish misrule. American feeling was running high against Spanish atrocities in Cuba, when the battleship Maine was blown up in Ha- vana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 266 officers and men. On Ajpril 11 Presi- dent McKinley told congress that in the name of humanity and.civilization the war- being waged against the Cubans by the Spaniards myst stop. On April 19 con- gress demanded that Spain withdraw from €uba, and authorized the use of American Jand and sea forces to accom- plish this result. War officially began on April 21. Regular Army and National Guard troops were mobilized at Key West, Tampa, Mobile and other soythern points; Dewey’s fleet was ordered from Hong Kong to de- stroy the Spanish fleet at Manila; Samp- son and Schley prepared to meet Cervera’s Spanish fleet which was on its way to West Indian waters from Cape Verde Isiands. The end of April thus saw the stage ‘set for action. On May 1 Dewey easily flefeated the Spanish fleet in Manila. Bay; on July 1 the main assault on Santiago by Shafter’s Army began;.on July. 3 Cervera’s fleet was destroyed while trying to escape from Santiago harbor, and the Spanish land forces at Santiago surrendered to Shafter on July 17. Aside from minor en- gagements in Porto Rico, the fall of San- tiago surrendered to Shafter on July 17. Aside from minor engagements in Porto Rico, the fall of Santiago virtually ended Spain’s resistance, hostilities being for- nally ended by the protocol of August 13. Peace was Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, and later ratified by both nations, whereby Spain acknowledged Cuba’s in- dependence, ceded Porto Rigo te the United States and received twenty million dollars for the Philippines. These are the high spots in a brief but dramatic war which had far-reaching consequences for many millions of people and established the United States as a great world power. PGOR BUSINESS MANAGEMENT When a business fails with no ap- parent direct’ cause for the failure, its col- lapse is blamed on poor management. The executive officers and the board of diree- tors are held responsible. In the case of a nation, the same con- clusions must be reached. In a business corporation, the man- agement is supposed to see and recognize the danger signals as they appear. In the nation, the same alertness is to he ex- nected. A lack of foresight on the part of the administration of a nation’s affairs must be blamed for such a collapse as we have experienced. " Tt is no excuse, that the rest of the world has experienced a similar collapse. There were reasons for the failure of other nations. Qur own country need not have been dragged down in the. world depression had sufficient foresight been exercised. A government that was not a govern- ment, a government that could not or would not read the warning signs, a gov- ernment that hearkened to the demands of both selfish and ignorant advisers, brought on our troubles. DICTATOR HITLER The following from the Havana Post, gagged and throttled under the Machado regime, may be interpreted as an expres- sion against the Cuban dictator under the guise of a thrust at Hitler: Adolf Hitler, in his new role as Ger- man chancellor, immediately proceeds to} four years. Dictatorships, place, are never maintained by public} tolerance. They must be enforced at the | point of the bayonet, and with the sting of | lead. appropriate for the Nazi leader to beg the | people for & four year trial, when he has heen the severest obstacle in the path of | a stable German government. Present in- | dications are that his reign will be short. It is some consolation that cold waves are not permanent waves, declared through the | throughout the world, a world cen- | other people to give his government a trial of in the first | tinned, ‘a week. | Our Government —How ke Operates By. William B Bruckart— CLEARING HOUSE FOR FACTS AND FIGURES HE Department of Commerce ac- tually is a national. clearing | house for facts and figures, and it; one may Judge feom the demands *. upon it, commerce and’ industry of | the nation are fully aware of its! potentialities and make the fullest | use of its facilities and its services. It has been demonstrated how the } bureau, of foreign and. domestic | commerce gathers its information, but that is only half of the story. Those facts are worse than useless unless they are available, and quick- ly so, to those who have use for thei Dissemination of facts is never easy. Ask the advertising manager of any store or manufacturing es- tablishment! So the department has } slowly built up what thig same ad- vertising manager would describe as 01 te caverage. To accomplish this end, the mails, the newspapers, the radio, all are employed. The bureau publishes a weekly maga- zine, known as Commerce Reports, and hundreds of other documents and periodicals. Even thep, it has Some difficulty in getting the vast } store of facts thoroughly: distrib. uted. Ip order to gain the fullest use of newspaper space—no begging is necessary, for business news in these days is as likely to find a place on the front page as is a police scan- day—the bureau's staff seeq to ft that the latest cable-and radio mes- sages are made available to the | newspaper correspondents in Wash- ington. The facts that are of imme- diate Import are made public as quickly as it is humanly possible to do so. The correspondents, trained to recognize what is of value from a_news standpoint, do the rest. Let us examine one day’s grist of those press releases: The number of automobiles owned | sus; an expert analysis of a section of the new revenue act; a summary of reports from trade commission- ers‘ in every South and Central American country, showing economic conditions there; statistics on Cana- dian gold production; a cable from Vienna that the Austrian National bank had suspended all sales of for- eign exchange temporarily; trade figures from Greece, Hungary, Tur- key and Rumania, for the last month; radio advices that Great Britain would require marks of the sounfry of origin on imports of rub ber footwear and certain tron and, ates} products; official notice thal’ the Polish government had es tablished bonded or free zones with in customs territory, permitting man ufacture or storage of foreign goods therein; cables announcing that Prance had reduced and that {taly had increased the amount of foreign wheat permitted to be used in do mestic milling in those countries; compilations of credit conditions and data concerning collections in u dozen nations; a detailed analysis of Netherland India tire market. Even a casnal reading of that list will reveal what widespread inter- est the department’s Pandora’s box of facts can develop. How .impor- tant it is for exporters of wheat to know that France will use a little more, that Italy will use a little less, than heretofore, and how necessary it Is for the producer of rubber foot. wear and other enumerated prod. ucts to know before the next order ig sent to the seaboard that the ar. tices must bear the name of the country of origin or they will not be admitted through the British cus. toms houses! And from the re- ports on credit and collection con- ditions, every exporting agent can glean what may prove to his firm to be the difference between profit and loss, Tt is quite obvious that on single day's reports at the department are going to be of interest to every line of trade in this farflung nation of varied commercial effort. It is equally obvious, however, to those whose function is that of observers of government operations, that there are valuable facts for every line within yery brief periods of time. There has been much: comment during the last year or so, especially im congress, that the government | was spending too much money in the type of work that shows no di- rect return to the treasury, such for example as that which has just been outlined. One group has maintained steadfastly that such expenses onght to be eliminated entirely, while an- school of thought argnes j against that course. The latter main- | tained those expenses could be re- gag the press, after urging the (German | duced in accordance with other re |and one daughter. ductions in the cost of government, but that the function should be con- | j I find myself aligned with the lat. | ter whose argument is that by pro- {moting trade the whole country gains, assuming that conditions are | In the second place, it is most in- | 2ermal or near normal When the | oi, } country is doing business, it is pro- ducing wealth and when wealth is | produced, men have income which the government can and does tax. So im the end, ald by the govern- ment in this direction appears tore sult tp a net increage to the treas- ury in its revenue receipts. Subscribe for The Citizen—20¢ i | ik aie Daily Cross-word Puzzle eagocccccccgsagocoggegcosages==ccccccegegeg pees? across continent 5. Moves sligbuy 9 sdidator uu. ort 16. vemining 2, Co} i oi as 5 eo 20; oon corn 21. Writing fluid 3 Eom ES Bred orn bos IRTA} [SIL | RITE A] 48. 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Ae Lowest Ilighest | ast night a 38 42 34 30 Abilene .. Atlanta . i Boston . Buffalo .. Chicago . Denver . Detroit ..... Dodge City, {Duluth - Eastport | Galveston Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami -..... New Orleans New York Oklahoma Phoenix ... Pittsburgh St. Louis St. Pau Salt Lake City Sit. Ste. Marie Seattle . Williston . WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 $. m. Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair tonight; Wednesday partly sosas'| ener gentle to moderate winds, mostly, southeast. Florida: Partly cloudy to- night and Wednesday; slightly KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Jyst 10: Years ‘Ago oe y As Taken From The Fi ind Of The Citizen Senator Duncan ue: writing to The Citizen, shows that} the senate bill recently introduc- ed-by him for. the, preliminary survey of Key West harbor . has been read twice and referred to; the committee of commerce, He further states that he is unable to predict what action will be taken on the bill before March 4, Edward C. Bostock, president of the Gas Service company of Key West is in the city, arriving from his home in Philadelphia _ this morning, and will spend several days as guest of S. F. Bonnett, local manager, and Mrs. Bonnett. Commemorating the 25th anni- versary of the sinking of the bat- tleship Maine in Havana Harbor, B. H. McCalla Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, will hold; suitable exercises in the Maine plot in the cemetery Thursday afternoon, February 15. A parade will start from the corner of Flem- ing and Grinnell streets at 4 o'clock and.march direct to the plot. Mrs. A. Schneider, of Plant City, Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Florida, is here} for the purpose of holding a school of instruction for the members of the order. in the Scottish Rite hall at corner of Eaton streets. The marine corps basketball} jteam has been reorganized and will now play under the name of the Naval Station Quintet. The first game under the new name will be! played tonight with the Athletic iClub team for opponents, S. M. Spivey, 65, died today at his home, The S. S. Gabe, of the P. and O. S. S. company, was loaded to jpassenger capacity on her return) from Havana last night, bringing 425 gers. She left for |Tampa ut night with practically the number. Virgil Lowe, superintendent of! public instruction, Millard Gibson and Charles Curtis, pener of; the school board, left rday for a trip to the keys PA ‘select! sites for the new schools recently authorized. The wrecking tag Relief sailed! yesterday going to the aid of the Fletcher, This school will meet j the and Simonton/ 1210 Johnson street. He} jis survived by his widow, one son} ongenerensne Today’ * Anniversaries ath aed Osgood, 8. Treasury Commissioner, firs . Postmaster-General, born Andover, Mass. Died in York, Aug. 12, 1813. 1817—Frederick Douglass, born a negro slave, who beame a noted abolitionist, orator and newspaper editor, born near Easton, Md. Died Feb. 20, 1895. 1824—Winfield Scott Hancock, {Union general, Democratic candi- date for the Presidency in 1880, iborn near Montgomery, Pa. Died in New York, Feb. 9, 1886. 1833—William W. Folwell, Uni- versity of .Minnesota’s first pre: dent, historian, born at Romulus, N.Y. Died Sept. 18, 1929. 1842—Juliet Corson, pioneer | American teacher of cooking, born jin Boston. Died in New York, . June 18, 1897. | 1847—Anna Howard Shaw, |preacher, lecturer and leader in the cause of woman suffrage, born in England. Died at Moylan, Pa., July 2, i919. 1856—Frank Harris, {free lance author, born in jland. Died in France, Aug. 1931. famous Tre- 26, | 1864—Israel Zangwill, famous ‘English author and Jewish leader, born. Died Aug. 1, 1926. e LEARNED FROM BOOKS FORT LEAVENWORTH. — Brick Leslie Newton told a guard lat the prison here that he learned |counterfeiting from books in the library of an Ohio reformatory. U. S. Shipping Board steamer | Carolinas, reported in trouble jabout three miles from Jupiter] oo light station. The Carolinas is en- route from New York to Mobile. The take in fines in police court | yesterday amounted to $68. | Mr. and Mrs. W. Floyd Bowery, of 1126 Olivia street, the birth of a boy weighing 11% |pounds, borp yesterday. ie imperial Eczema Remedy. Ail druggists are authorized to refund bend money if it fails —Advt. Water Blisters om Hands or Feet isappear after @ few applications ——PRITCHARR'S— FUNERAL HOME i | | ASAE: Rid.jid Ironing Price A. F. AYALA, . N N) \) .) \ \ X) N & N A N 4 4 \) , N h N \ % \ N & N N N N & N 5 . w Ey riog | Sout. juss. “| tion - fresh squtheast and over north portion. TWO FOR ONE! ‘Lander’s Electric Iron, $2.95 BOTH For-- “4° KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. colder in northwest portion Wed~ nesday afternoon. a Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate southeast winds south portion, and <a over north portion; weather fai tonight and Wednesday. t Gulf: Moderate gast and east winds over sopth PQF- south WEATHER COND]TJONS — Pressure is xglatively Jow this morning oyep the Rio Grande Valley; while high pressure areas, erested over the Plateau regitn, central Plains States, and off the Atlanti¢ coast, coyer most of the remainder of the country. Since Monday morning rains have oc- ‘curred from Arkansas northeast- ward over the Ohio Yall {ramen ‘ee thern Geo $2 0 se Bootes Virginia, and in Soatent of eastern xas, and snow, mostly, light, jn the Lake region, and in portions of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Utah. Tem- peratures have risen in most see- tions east of the Mississippi River, | wth readings 20 degrees above normal this morning in the Caro- [nor and it is also warmer in the northern Rockies; while colder weather prevails throughout =o lof the Plains. States, yd ‘tem peratures are below zero “from the Dakotas easteaay te Upper Michigan. G. 8. KENNDD! Oficial in. share: NOT sO ae aa TACOMA, Wash_Jewelry in the. purse of Mrs. A. abst, em- loye in the police UO ee in the city, was taken thi who entered the public building. for Fr «gone Tas a Board, Original $4.05 75 Cents Down, $1 a Month j a | | Sales Manager ahahaha dachaaddatacheah —— oe We pay 3 Per Cent on Seyings announce | THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Member Feders! KEY WEST, FLORIDA Designated Public Depositary