The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1933, Page 2

The Key Wiest Citisen FA sae ed craee pe ricarad Sunday By PUBLISHING ©O., INC. LP. vite pei The Citizen Buil comer Greene aid: Anh 4 Only Daily Rowapaneg in Bex West and Monroe TO REET SG TRE els LD EE Entered at Key ae Florida, as second class matter FOURTH YEAR TER a eth nerdy Sera fdr et ea Member of the Associated Press The Associated Pres exclusively entitled to use for republication of a}l news dispatches credited to it or not otherWise credited in iS Paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ireote NATIONAL EDITORIAL Made known on application. SPECIAL gotta rebuect, Ublteary Waticss! Sten Will be charged tor et the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments. © reventie ts fo be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- ston of ed issues and subjects of local or general Baperest be it win hot publish anonymous com- NATIONAL Cage REPRESENTATIVES LANDIS & KOHN ae ae New, ‘ beeed} 35 Lo ey ive: ; “General Motors . ‘Walton Bldg., CATLANEA, bic THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WELL always seek the trath and print it witnopt fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injrstice; denounce yice and praise vittue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate gna not contaminate the reader; never com- promise ‘with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage, Bridges to complete Road to Main- lgnd. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments, , Bathing Pavilion. Aquarium, + sae and Sea. ‘Tetks ax. Shott wounded John ‘in a pistol duel. In other words the ‘Bhott shot shot Knott. _ To an onlooker delusions of grandeur ‘appear as a delightful sensation, yet it is’ ‘said one “suffers” from them. . “Give us this day our daily bread,” Means, of course, the opportunity to earn ‘it. Not to be doled out as a.gift but earned in the sweat of the brow. — ee 8 ~“ Another baseball pioneer, who in 1870 Sutpritr «bast Practiced the art of ya runner, died recently i ‘Newark at the age of 80. He was vf William S, Gummers, who had been chief Seal of the New Jersey Supreme Court nce-1901. In hig college days he was a ‘noted outfielder, said to be “the greatest centerfield in Princeton history.” Some of the merchants of Key West ate too complacent. The Citizen knows of ‘two instances at least. Some two months ago, a customer entered a Duval street store to purchase a hat of certain make. None in stock to fit, the customer asked ithe_merchant to secure his size, which was promised. The hat has not yet arrived. Another customer had a like experience with a pair of shoes. Business conditions are bad, it is conceded, but they should not put one in the doldrums to the neglect of service. a « The importance ot peing hatless at least under certain conditions is brought foreibly to the attention of the grandees of Spain by the republic. It will be re- qembered that it was their privilege to re- main covered in the presence of the king of Spain. But not all availed themselves of this custom, and these are thanking their stars that they did not. By a law of the republic former grandees who disre- garded this privilege of keeping their hats on in His Majesty’s presence are con- sideFed to have shown themselves ‘ suffi- ciently democratic under the monarchy to escape confiscation of their lands today, RAILROADS AND BUS LINES The railroads of the country, after giving a wonderful imitation of Rip Van! Winkle for a number of years, have at last awakened to the fact that if they are to continue in business, they must compete with the bus lines, in the matter of fares and service. With a complacence surprising in the circumstances, they have seen their pas- senger. business diminishing year after year, yet have taken no action. Quite recently some railroads have experimented by announcing excursions at | reduced rates in various sections of the will be charged for at | y churehes from which | country. The response to these announce- ments on the part of the traveling public has been both startling and_ instructive. Now the railroads are planning to extend the cheapening of the rates to a wider area, The awakening of the railroads to the situation may have come a bit too late to do much good. The public has discovered that bus transportation, even over great distances, is not as bad as it might seem. The public has also discovered that transportation by private motor-cars is not only just as cheap as railroad transporta- tion, but vastly more convenient. © Formerly the railroad offered speed and time saving. Today it is excelled in speed by the airlines and equalled by the private car. Experience teaches, and the railroads, by their adherence to wartime fares, forced the experience on the public. The railroads may come back, but they will never regain all they have lost. FOUNDATION TROUBLES The government figures for 1930 show that a total of 30,000,000 of the citi- zens of the United States live on farms. Added to this, ‘a total of more than | 23,000,000 are residents of rural districts | and as a consequence, they are dependent on farm prosperity. A total of nearly 70,000,000 people live in the cities and manufacturing cen- ters. When the farmers are prosperous, their immediate neighbors share their prosperity. The agricultural population rests up in winter. In the springtime the farmer prepares for the work of the year. In the springtime he makes his purchases. Busi- ness has always prepared for the demands and needs of the farmer in the spring- time and has depended on his purchases to | start up the manufacturing business of the year. As the farmer purchases, the manu- facturer operates his factory and the urban labor is employed. Seasonal businesses, dependent on general conditions of whether and public demand, have their part in the business and economic circle. The bankers, brokers and investment managers come last in the general scheme. They handle the finances, they carry the credits and they share in the profits. When the farmer is prosperous the circlé starts its operation. When. the farmer is hard-up, the circle just doesn’t start. INCOME TAX FIGURES An inquest is rarely a cheerful af- fair. The contemplation of the income tax returns for the years 1930 and 1931, col- lected respectively in 1931 and 1932, show to some degree the extent of the decline of earnings of the people of the United States in the past three years. The total collection for earnings in 1930 amounted to $1,368,000,000, which was the amount of income tax collected in 1931. The amount of the income tax col- lected on the earnings of 1931, which was collected in 1932, was $784,600,000, which was a bit over $583,000,000 short of the 1931 receipts. The year 1982, on which taxes will be collected during the coming year, was & much poorer business year than 1931. As a consequence there will be a fur- ther decrease in the income tax revenues. The figures not only show why the; government cannot meet its expenses, but they show to what an enormous extent the business of the country has shrunk. ’ ¥et ali this shrinkage and loss presents itself in the face of bumper crops, un- limited labor supply, increased efficiency of manufacturers, peaceful civic conditions and a high health standdrd. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Our Goveranini| —How kO Operates mueerucececnecnccucecuue DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HERE ‘is every evidence that when, in 1913, congress passed a law creating the Department of Labor, most vociferous in support of the proposal had any conception of what the new department of the government was to do. of the debates of the time indicates rather clearly that somebody want- ed to do something for labor, but they did not know exactly what that something should be. So I am prepared to say that it was the administrative officers who have filled the several posts from secretary of labor down the line of rank who have made the Depart- ment of Labor something of value. Some of those observers who watched proceedings when congress enacted the law tell me that the movement had every appearance of a “sop” to organized labor, and if their conclusion be true, it certain- ty can be said now that fhe legis- Jators builded much better than they knew. | The law which those legislators passed said the Department of La-' bor was to promote the interests of labor, of the working people of the country, that their working- condi- tions might be improved and. that their opportunities might be ad- vanced, While 1 still entertain some doubt concerning what con-; gress. thought this would mean, it’ has‘become quite evident thatit fs! possible for the great intangible thing, called government, to act in‘ a very personal capacity when oc-' casions require. It has so acted: through the Department of Labor. Here is an illustration: In a grea: textile mill of Newy England, the workers clamored for; better conditions; they wanted | shorter working hours; they want-; ed assurance that they would not! be dismissed without notice; they | wanted certain agreements with the} owners as to the rates of pay, and! they sought an agreement with their: employers to reach these under- ' standings through a committee of: their own numbers, The employers! turned a deaf ear to the proposals; and would not even discuss them. | A strike was*the alternative whieh the workers offered. One might say that was a detvats matter and that the government had! no right to mix into it. But the! Constitution’s preamble says that! the government is, among other things, “for the people.” Surely, here was an instance where some, thing could be done for the people, for workers and employers alike. The Department of Labor did mix into the controversy, It sent several men to the scene. They lis- tened to the grievances of the wdrk- ers and to the statements of the employers. They suggested ways out, one after another, until they were able.to get a committee from the workers and a committee from the owners to sit in the same room. Eyentually, these secret discussions, always with a conciliator from the Department of Labor participating, developed a compromise on which each side had yielded certain con- cessions, The terms are not material here, but suffice it to say there was no strike In that mill and there prob- ably never will be one, for the rea- son that each side learned some- thing about the fairness and the rights of the other fellow. That controversy was simple com- pared with some that ariseand with which the department has to deal in Order to do what its officials re- gard as thelr public duty that there tay be peace in commérce and in- dustry. It shows, nevertheless, how the myltiple eye of the government is upon us all. And in connection with this last reference, one must recall that in this same department there fs what has come to be known as the chii- dren's bureau. It goes beyond the working man in its course of duty. The welfare of children of all classes come within its survefllance. and throughout the country one now finds juvenile courts, orphanages and other. institutions having to do with children who are receiving constarit advice from the bureau in Washington, D. C. It Watches tn. dustry, too, that there may be no undue. dangers developed, that ¢on- ditions conducive to disease may not be continued and that every ald Within the power of the national government is extended to correct them. Another phase of the depart- ment's work gives it control of the entry into the United States of for-. eigners. Our immigration law is per- haps the most stringent in the | world, because it is our policy to conserve our racial standards, The “melting pot” is receiving no more foreign blood in quantity. The de- partment watches this closely, and } if sees to it that those who are ad- } Taltted either become American cit- izeng, swear allegiance to our fing and adopt our traditions. or else they go back home. And this job of Americanizing foreigners is one hich obviously must strengthen ‘our nation tn order that ft may live tm the future. ©. 1922, Wentern Newspaper Union, Subscribe ‘for The Citizen—20e 2 week. few of those who were: A review | Daily Créseword Puzzle {TODAY'S WEATHER)..’ Cageccdvcccgvegooadnocseesesccccceccns: Poeboocees | ® ac L Vat cistern CLARET gba Ne RoONsyy etal iE Medieval ntas- [S]O|D ZS |MIU[TBAAIRIE|Al oo. wid “of mon- ing |card 25. Sleeveless 26. Step oa ‘iad. Ny Assistant 52, Asiatic coun- Oct tr y, 58. Scheduled 66. Pronoun 57. 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Died in Lahlén: 0 Ins.} Nov. 4, 1869. z -05 Ins. 1832—Qctave eee i morning lrailway engineer al 4 this ie pioneer aerial wvinte 6:58 a. m./neer, born in nee, 6:24 p. m.}23, 1910. 3:26 a. m. 1:51 p. m.| 1848—Louis one of eos 2 te _j tists, son of the founder the famed New York jewelry house, born in New York. Died there, Jan. 17, 1933. A. M, 7:13 9:56 Barometer at % a. im. today. ern Sea level, 30.08. 1855—Jean Jules Jussera , for 22 years France’s Am jor in Highest | Washington, born. Died July 18, 32 eI EI S 38 v's mIRTHMATS “TOnAY'S me vbnenreee AYS Homer Folks, noted New York social worker, born at Hanover, Mich., 66 years ago. Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, presi- dent of the Hartford, Conn., Sem- inary Foundation, born at Glaston- bury, Conn., 43 years ago. 46 40 36 44 34 46 28 22 26 20 Rt. Rev. Robert N. Spencer, P. E. bishop of Western born at Tunnel, N. Y., 56 seers ago, Arthur Goodrich, New novelist-playwright, born at New Britain, Gonn., 55 years ago. Sir George Henschel, famous British musician, born 83 years - ago. Lt. Gen. Sir Henry Wilson. famed English soldier, ag years ago. é F ayttat Wout| husband and breaking his arm IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 16 Years Ago Today As Taken The Files Of The Citizen Three automobiles drove up to Josh’s ¢afe last night. They con- tained masked men. The entered the cafe and searched the place from top to bottom. Find- ing not that which they sought they said they were leaving but would return. What they were seeking has not been revealed. Rufus Steele, who was a great entertainer with his after by clubs and private in- dividuals as an entertainer, is now} being much more eagerly sought by his \victims in Key West, of: whom there are many. A _ dis- appearing king was one of his great tricks, Mourners are now seeking a disappearing knave. The Old Plantation show and many other of the carnival at- tractions will be at City Park Monday when the Brown and Dyer pices of Volunteer Fire ment. Abelardo Haio, who conducts a coffee shop on Duval street, will be haled into court Monday on a charge of setting up and promot- ing a game of chance. He ‘was arrested today and released on bond of $50 for appearance in police court. Despite the claim of the official | of the Texas'Oil Company © that the oil found in the well 6n the premises of Charles Curry is leak- age from the pipe. line of the company, property owners th the vicinity believe that there thay be of! fownd and are sending for bits | perts to examine the oil. The sale of the launch Jnanita,! said to have been the vessel bringing a large number of aliens to Florida, has been postponed. The Juanita was stolen from her} The following moorings in Havana by the smug- glers and the owner plans with U. S. authorities to re- cover the launch. Editorial comment: fustest with the mostest” in those! words General Nat Forrest, con-| federate cavairy genius of the/and J. B. Segal; Earl Yates and men! mystifying | ecard tricks, and was much sought; shows open under the aus-/ Depart- | is making! “Git thar) i as | Bad Pancho Pete, thej villain bold, has captured Puss and Puff. They’re guarded by bewhiskered thugs, three bandits, mean and rough, “Such whiskers I have never seen!” says Puffy, with a sigh, |“Pll bet they keep that shrubbery so they needn’t wear a tie!” Cece oocedereceweencnccce TODAY'S HOROSCOPE Cdecogecbacesaresn-sence | This day produces a lover of ; good works, and with a royal na- ture. With good powers of per- sausion, a skill of argument, there is the gronndwork for a good law- yer or military officer. You are born a leader of men, but not with good fortune for the acquisition of money. she be- command of the ship when ,enters the passenger service tween Miami and Nassau. With one “bandred tons jfreight and 44 passengers for | Key West the Mallory line steamer San Jacinto is due to ar- rive in port tonight from New ! York. of! ee Frank Alfonso died today from wounds from a safety razor blade self inflicted. Mr. Alfonso cut) his throat February 11 and started to dance around with his wife. She screamed and ran out of the house. He had recently been discharged from the state hospital for the insane. | lovers of the} game of tennis have entered the tournament to be held at the Athletic Club's court beginning Tuesday afternoon, February 27. Captain H. R. Foster and Dr. J.; ¥. Porter, Jr.; Pred Curry and Emil Russell; Frank Carbonell and Knight Johnson; Hubert Foster American civil war, is said by! Raoul Roque; George Foster and military authorities to have. stated the whole science of war- The ways at the Wm. ‘Curry's Sons Company ix being lengthened to accommodate the schooner Nassauvian that is to be hauled out and will be remodeled aid re-; Captain; paited by the company. parol Harris. J.C. OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9 to 12; 1 te Sundays: 12 to 2 A. E. Sharpley will be placed inj! KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. when he criticized her cooking. Subscribe for The Citizen. Lander’s Electric fron, $2.95 BOTH For-- $475 75 Cents Down, $1 a Month iN) A. F. AYALA, Sales Manager I IAAL ELA AA Ah hk dated, ———— We pay 3 Per Cent on Savings THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK KEY WEST, FLORIDA Member Federal Reserve System Desigasted Public Depositary