The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1933, Page 2

PAGEYWO __ Che Key West Citizen eae Tre Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, 1, P, ARTMAN, + Brom The Citizen Building, =~Corner Greene and Ann Streets 1 pian Only Deny ‘Newspaper in Key West and@ Monroe -_ County A EEE the tb 4 AE oe OE Entered at-Key West, Florida, as second class matter a tal A ha Pd sd aneesedchtaal ew: BIFTY-FQURTH YEAR The A: s0% iat d aS ie e Associate: ig exclusively entitled to ie tr’ or hor ate ig geedled tnt zoe sregledits e the local news published here,” MOPST 88a also _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES NATIONAL EDITORIAL E ASSOCIATION ER. 1933 £ ADVERTISING RATES Made x bwn on application. * SPECIAL NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of te., will be charged for at ments by churches from which Fevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen i open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general mount eal -but it wilk- no’ publish anonymous com- Oo eee NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 250 Park Ave., New York; 35 East Wacke- Drive, CHICAGO; General Motors Bldg., DETROIT; Walton Bidg.. ATLANTA, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong.or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan Or the mouthpiece of any person, ¢lique, faction or clasa; always do its utmost for the publie welfare; never tolerate corruption or injvstice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; ‘tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and Hidt contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. eet epee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. 2.- Water and Sewerage. » Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free, Port, Hotéls and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Aquarium, Airports—Land and Sea. a. 4, 5. 6, % Mérd work is the best investment a man cake make. Technocracy is really becoming im- portant:” There has been a schism among its advocates. if that farm allotment plan becomes a law there otight to be government jobs for everybody. Having found 9 way to escape from a submarine, inventors may yet devise a safe means of exit from a subway. The United States is so unethical in its foreign relations that it refuses to build enougt Warships to comply with the 5-5-3 treaty. | Professional writers were not re- spectable in their origin. Before the 18th century, gentlemen wrote, but neyer for profit. - There are things which cannot be en- joyed gregariously, the study of wild life, the balm of silence, “the quietness of thought.” In the proposal to give President Roosevelt full power to rearrange govern- ment departments congress has its greatest opportunity to indulge in its favorite pas- time of buck-passing. The Citizen again made the Literary Digest Topics in Brief, but as stated be- fore, the height of its ambition is to slip into the Slips that Pass in the Night. Per- haps this consideratum will be realized some day, we have hopes; all things come to him who waits. If thirteen states remain steadfast tol the dry cause, the twentieth n endtatto| cannot be repealed, but mass_ psychology | will weaken at least one of them and it will follow the great majority in the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. It may take some years, but what are a few years in the life of a nation, ABOUT INSANITY In a bulletin of the National Commit- tee for Mental Hygiene some enlightening information concerning insanity is given, which is not only interesting, but valuable. It mentions a great many false notions held by the public regarding mental dis- orders, and gives instead of these the re- sults of scientific research. Some of the things science teaches today concerning insanity are these: Insanity develops gradually; it is no more to be ashamed of than pneumonia or a broken leg; it is a disease and should have medical treatment; between 25 and 40 per cent of those treated are discharged recovered or improved. Shoek of mis- fortune or grief may precipitate insanity, but does not cause it unless mental dis- order already exists; there are usually symptoms which if recognized early may enable physicians to check the . malady; there are many kinds of mental disorder, just as there are many kinds of physical ailments; “nervous breakdown” is_ really a mental condition in which there is rarely anything organically wrong with the ner- vous system. In olden times an insane person was supposed to be possessed of a devil, and the poor wretch was often tortured to exorcise the evil spirit. Now we know that a crazy person is simply sick mentally and needs intelligent and humane treatment. Furthermore, insanity is more or less comparative. Most of us are a little off at times. THE 61-HOUR WEEK In these days of shorter working hours and 5-day weeks it may be surprising to learn that the largest group of workers in the country devote an average of 61 hours a week to their daily tasks. This is true, however, according to a survey by the Bureau of Home Economies, which shows that housewives put in this number of hours in performing their or- dinary daily labors. The result was ar- rived at after studying the records of more than 2,000 housewives, including those living in the country, in the small towns and in the cities. As might have been expected, it was found that farm women work longest, town women not so long, and city women the shortest hours of all, but even the lat- ter deyote more than 48 hours each week to their housekeeping, on an average. There are indications that the labors of housewives are being gradually lighten- ed, however, through the wider employ- ment of electrical and other labor saving equipment in the home. In view of the long hours which they must still give to household tasks, they should be afforded every possible device for lessening their drudgery. Every new item of labor saving equip- ment installed in the home tends to pre- serve the beauty, conserve the health, and consequently lengthen the life of the faith- ful home-maker. No_ better can be made by any family. THRIFT AND CRIME investment Encouragement of thrift as a means of reducing crime is suggested by a well- known publicist, who declares that ex- travagant habits in many cases are the direct cause of banditry. Aside from the financial gains pos- sible through economy and thrift, the habit of saving has a stabilizing effect upon one’s character. The person who is lay- ing aside something each week or each month with the idea of ultimately secur- ing financial independence is more de- pendable than the one who spends his money as fast or faster than he makes it. Many who have resorted to dishonesty in order to secure needed funds quickly are those who have been first led into ex- travagant living. Allowing themselves to indulge in luxuries in excess of what their earnings warrant, they more easily yield to temptation to dishonesty in_ its various forms. Habits of thrift should be inculeated early and should be encouraged at every turn. Those who have acquired suc habits are generally industrious, ambitious | and honest. That detective stories are real fiction is proved by the ending in which the crook | is caught. If Uncle Sam would only agree, the sentiment to make him pay the cost of the late war would be unanimous, .]| enjoying through years and years of _ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Daily Cross-word Puzzle Our Government | —How It Operates By William Brackart meee ee ewww ene e ee seee | OUR POSTAL SERVICE F ES possible that you felt you had some complaint to make last July when you had to place a three-cent stamp on your letters instead of , the red two-center that sufficed prior | to that time, but I will wager you | did not make muen noise about it [ after all 1 think that i can ‘tell | you the reasons why you complained Le so little about that increase of one: third in the postal rates; there is nothing that gives yeu so much for So little as does the postal service. Had the landlord increased your Fent a third you would bave moved right out; had the grocer ratsed any price that much, you. would haye gone immediately to his competitor, and had you been told by your bank that the interest rate you were pay- ing was te be raised 881% per cent, you would have sworn vengeance. T have wondered since that rate increase went into effect whether possibly it was not a good thing from the standpoint of patrons of the postal service as well as assuring to the federal government some- thing near the amount of funds it has to*have to pay operating ex- penses. The fact that there was an increase in rates, especially on letters, brought to the attention of all of us the benefits we had been that service which we accept as a matter ef course. Tt costs between $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 to operate that farflung system known as the postal service each 12 months, The principle was { inculeated in our governmental structure when the nation was formed that this service should be self-sustaining, though jt is run by the federal government. [t never lias been quite able to pay its own way, The reason postal rates never | have quite succeeded in producing sufficient revenue to pay all expenses of the great organization that serves, is that fundamental belief that ft should not be an agency for profit. In other words, congress always has clung to the idea of having the postal service do its job just as cheaply (for the people) as it can, tnd that it is better for it to fall just a little short of making ex- penses than to take from those who use that service more than ts need- ed. If there is a deficit at the end of the year, as there nearly always has been, congress has been willing to take care of it with an appropria- tion from funds received by gen- eral taxation. But in the last-several years when the volume of letters fell off as it slways does when there is not much business, the amount of the deficit grew to a size which congress de- cided was a little too large, So it turned to the inerease in the post- ege rate on letters to make up part of the loss, That one-cent increase probably will not be enough to off- set the anticipated deficit complete- iy, but it will reduce the difference between the income and the ex- penses to a comparatively small sum. If there had been no rate tn- grease, F am told that the deficit trom last July to the end of next Sune would have approached $200,- 000,000, And that brings another thought. As a people, Americans have al- ways stood against the government wagaging in business. Of course |there are exceptions, yet that has heen our general conception. We have always sald that government was not created for any other pur- yose than to govern. It was not @ business institution as we know bosiness. Yet, there are not many greater businesses than the postal service, and it is not an agency that governs our conduct or our relations with our neighbors except indirectly. Why, then, should not private cap- ital and private industry perform the service and enjoy the profits therefrom? The answer is simple. The rea- son is that those who conceived our form of government and envisioned the magnitude of our nation, at the same time, saw the necessity of a uniform system of handling its writ- ten communications, Those men recognized more than a century and a half ago that the individual states must not he al- lowed te control the means of com- muoleation ; that when a letter was once started on its way, it must go on, and that only one agency could be made responsible if success | were to be attained. The postmaster general occupies | the post of head of the Post Office | department, Embodied in It are doz- |S ot workers who gained ap- pointment in the service only after | meeting civil service tests. They | were promoted on merit. What I have said relative to the | machinery of the postal service does not apply, however, to several thou- | Sand postmasters who gained jobs \ by appointment from the President, j not after an examination of their qualifications, but after they have qualified with the politiciang For- | tunately fer patrons of the malls, however, the machinery runs on | soinogt mesa ens of supervisory agencies, filled | York Giants, is expected to arrive | vq H teR ping the most part by men and wom- en who have moved up through the | Subscribe for The Citizen—20c a week. ' | 32. Metric tand aa eae ACROSS 1 Ruler of Persia 5. Flavor 10. Statr 2s. Story 18. Greek theater 16. Irtsh ex- uv. sek? in New ‘ork state 19, Sea eagle 20. Ineffectual 2L Makes cloth 23. Colneiding = Pitcher Ward off Reaped > {| 701 0} Lolo) — [>| >|) AIR ual a x|7|>} a|>lON > |WICl<IN> [2 IP ICA tL lO lV a I7 </Olr El fale) 28. Fnuiorz| eo 38. Plural ending Piel Iw] 4, Di: 45. Bymbol 1 tor selenium 46. Sallor: 47. Russian pee 49, Voeal. come positions Sotution of Yesterday’s Puzzle ral™| ARTS 01> eeeceqees 18. Post ef & stairca: Oia rae Hie “i ae Be CCE eT | ZZ wane ae 7a | Y KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen tp tensors oyetaertenanerbameetrereren Five Italian deports were eheck- ed out on the boat for Cuba this morning. Wm. L. Osterhoudt, im- migration inspector in charge of { their deportation said that the | foreigners had been arrested at} Fort Myers where they had at-| tempted to slip into this country | from Cuba. Ed Pinder and Charles Carey, colored pals, were together having a good time yesterday. Today | they’ are together in the mgr, jail and not having such a good). time. They are charged with drunken. ult and battery} ind after their trial will probably! remain together serving a sen- vence in jail. The formation of a $100,000| syndicate with apparatus to begin| digging for oil was among several offers made to the owner of the property where the well was; found. It is proposed to form the syndicate and start digging within It is not #tated whether the owner will accept the propos- al. The coastguard cutter Saukee met the steamer ro bound for New Orleans in the gulf stream this afternoon near Sand Key. The | cutter took on board an injured} man who was brought to Key West } and placed in the Marine hospital. The Florida East Coast railway announces three excursions weekly between Miami. Key West and Ha- vana. The demand has become so} great that the company decided to! satisfy the many patrons of the F. . and P, and Q. 8, S. company. i Mrs. N. A, Sherman will ais! ftain a number of her friends at/ ‘bridge tomorrow afternoon in the) Casa Marina. | John McGraw, leader of the New in Key West this afternoon from Havana and will be aecompanied by Mrs. McGraw. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Hinson an- nounce the birth of a boy Friday! afternoon, 12:15 o'clock, in their} home on Olivia street. and Chief of Police Gardner two! several patrolmen raided houses on Micken’s Lane this af- ternoon in search of bolito games. Although there was the appear- ance of a bolito game being oper- ated in the places the officers failed to find any paraphernalia of any kind. No arrests were made. A citizen who was carrying an express package from a mail order house was accosted by a local merchant thus: ‘“‘Why did you not buy those goods from me? I could have saved you the express and tbesides you would have been pat- ronizing a home store, which helps} pay the taxes and build up the city.” With characteristic frank- ness the citizen replied: “Why don’t you patronize your home paper and advertise? I read it but did not know you have the goods I have here nor do I ever see your name in the paper invit- ing me to come to your store.” Quintan Lopez, Paddy Doran and Thomas Harvey, local baseball | players, are thinking about si up with the Bradenton team. While they have not said they will affix their “John Henry’s” to the con- tracts it is thought possible that they will. The double tennis bill played \Saturday afternoon on the courts of the Athletic Club resulted for a double vietory of the team of Cur- ry Harris and George Foster, Their opponents were Emil Russell and Fred Curry. “The Prairie Dog saved us,” Puff, “but just why.’ you,” says Don, with a wink of his eye, “When the Bow-Wows attack, Pancho Pete hits the trail, says SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933. —————————— TODAY’S Temperature” ‘Highest Lowest Mean .... Normal Mean Rainfa’ Yesterday’s Precipitation TT. Ins. }Normal Precipitation .. -04 Ins, *This reeerd covers 34-hour peried jending at 8 o'clnek this morning. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises ..... ~ 6:52 Sun sets . Moon rises . Moon sets 71 » mm. m, High - Low Barometer at 8 a. in. today. Sea level, 30.10, Lowest Highest Last night Yesterday 52 76 56 52 30 48 32 42 40 56 20 46 34 48 36 68 28 32 20 36 56 66 28 32 26 46 40 72 71 80 54 64 72 80 62 12 . 36 54 44 70 42 66 46. 68 34 44 12 32 28 38 42 46 42 68 24 36° 42 66 Abilene Altanta [Boston ee | Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit |Dodge City Duluth ... ; Eastport | Hatteras !Helena {Huron 'Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Nashville . iNew York ....... |Oklahoma City Phoenix | St, Louis St, Paul Salt Lake City Slt. Ste. Marie Seattle ..... Washington Williston Wytheville WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m. Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: tonight; Sunday partly cloudy; gentle towmoderate easterly winds. Florida: and Sunday; probably rain in ex-| treme north portion Sunday. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate east winds over south! portion, and moderate to fresh; south and southwest over north portion; weather fair tonight and! Sunday. East Gulf: Moderate east winds over south portion, and moderate to fresh south and southwest over north portion. WEATHER CONDITIONS The western disturbance has 80} WEATHER moved eastward to the Lake re- gion, Detroit, Mich., 29.56 inches, the Lake region and Ohio ‘Valley. Pressure is . relatively low over ~ southern Texas and Arizona, and high. over Florida, and the west- ern field of high pressure, which is crested this morning over the Plateaw region, has spread east. ward over the Plains States, Tem- -} peratures have fallen in the Rocky "| Mountain ‘and Plateau regions. in ™-| the Plains States and - southward j to central Texas, and in New Eng- land; while it is warmer on the 153 | Pacifie coast; and from the Ohio Valley southward over the’ South Atlantic: States, with readings, 30 and 82 degrees above normal ‘this morning in portions-of Kentucky and Tennessee. . G. S. KENNEDY, Official in. charge. Gvecececoveccoeveceoeose TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Judge John Burke, of the Su- preme Court of North Daketa,one- time Governor and U. S. Treasur-. er, born at Sigourney, Fowa, vied years ago. John Farrar, New York publish- er-poet, born at Burlington, Vt., 37 years ago. Hugh MaecNair Kahler, novelist, born in Philadelphia, 50 years ago. Dr. Phoebus A. Levene, noted chemist-member of the Rockefel- ler Institute, born in Russia, 64 years ago, James D. Mooney, president of General Motors Export Corp.,.borm - r Cleveland, 49 years ago. Benedetto Croce, world-famous... Italian philosopher, born 67 years: Fair, ago. ; Subseribe for The Citizen—20e Partly cloudy tonight;a week, TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you do not receive your paper by 6:00 apres wan the afternoor, use mg ing en or your ‘neighb: & call 51 and a pick iay wi be: polarons | to your heme, boy ison duty = this his affice from 6;00 to 7:15 p. m. for the,’ purpose of delivering com- plaints. Help us give you 100 percent service by, calling 51 if you do not receive Prepares the MEALS INA JIFFY , |Get yours today and save money snake diings at home ¢ sinall. vet he a good deal more. Makes labor as well. Chen peaie calla |” THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC C0. 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