The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1933, Page 2

GR TWO ~~ Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Building, _— Corner Greene and Ann Streets Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County woe etme inter@@at Key West, Morida, as second class matter Ped FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press The Heeociates Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited tb it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES NATIONAL EDITORIAL Sea Te ER. = ADVERTISING RATES Made *nown on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respectobituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rafé of 10 cents a line, Notices*for entertainments by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen i# an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will no* publish anonymous com- munications. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES wee = FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 250 Park Aye., New York: 35 Wacke- Drive, CHICAGO; ‘General Motors ide, DETROIT; ‘Walton Bldg., 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; salwsiye fight for progress; never be the or- ‘gan of the mouthpléce of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injrstice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- izati¢n; tolerant: of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and nor contaminate the reader; never com- promize With principle. Key West is still and with a vengeance. playing “bridge” We all admire the strong, silent man —we think he is listening. We continue to bank on you to bank with us. Sure, Bill, we’ll be right over. Somi folks are e finding out that banks are of considerable convenience. The same may be said about daily newspapers. The Citizen has no inkling who will get thée-coveted postmastership but it does know no Hoovererat will get the plum. the ides of March remember.’— Shakespeare. Alright, Bill, they are upon us. Let’s hope they will bring us better luck than they brought Julius Caesar. We are banking on that. With Key West chronicled by the weather man as the warmest place in the United States, some of us folk cannot un- derstand why there are any frozen assets in this sunhy spot. The old world continues topsy-turvy. In the good old days when holidays came ArOUdéheave spent our money,<but. during the present holidays we are wondering w here” to get money to alate In California dictkouake disaster, Florida extends her sincere sympathies. The wonderful climate of these beautiful states is such a blessing that nature re- minds the inhabitants thereof on occasion by ravaging its beauty, but the metamor- phosis evolves each time in- a more resplefident figure. Some one asked The Citizen where Henry:£. Doherty got his military title of colonets Governor Sholtz named Mr. Doherty as a colonel on his staff in recognition of his leadership to bring back { onomic stability and prosperity to Flor- ida. OT those who were honored REPUDIATION (Okeechobee News) Congressman Mark Wilcox who was | inaugurated on the fourth of March vir- tually pledged to support a measure per- mitting counties and municipalities to go into bankruptcy. That is just another way of repudiation of public debts, except that repudiation will be legalized. And we hope Mark Wilcox will be suecessful in the passage of such a measure. The public debt of the United States and all its political subdivisions and units today amounts to $150,000,000,000. One hundred and fifty billion dollars is half the total wealth of the nation. Such a public debt is impossible of payment. The town of Lake Worth has a tax levy of over 800 miles. That is con- fiscatory. Were that town an individual, firm or corporatien it would go into bank- ruptcy, get clear of the debts it can never pay, and begin to grow again. permitted to do so, it will dry up, and those who reside there will become mere squat- ters on their own property. The same is true of the City of West Palm Beach and seores of other towns and counties in Flor- ida, including the town of Okeechobee and the county of Okeechobee. Okeechobee city bonds are now of- fered as low as 5¢ on the dollar. Yet, due to a supreme court decision, a property owner cannot buy these cheap bonds and use them to pay his taxes, leaving the bond valueless to both the taxpayer and owner of the bonds. Everglades Drainage dis- trict could have worked itself out of its financial difficulties had it been permitted to accept bonds in payment of taxes. But the courts ruled otherwise at a time when Everglades iands were bringing 20c on the dollar. Change this law, use the same 3c per gallon gas tax to buy county bonds at market prices. Had that been done, today Okeechobee county would have had one- third of its bonded debt retired, yet it actually owes more than it did on the day the present law was enacted. To meet this situation drastic legis- lation is needed. We think Mark Wilcox is eminently correct in his positions We hope our Florida legislators will act as wisely as Mr. Wileox will attempt to do. We neéd no’ more legislation for the bene- fit of bondholders. Unless we get some for the benefit of the property owners and taxpayers we may expect such scenes as are being enacted in Iowa and Nebraska where farmers are preventing the fore- closure of mortgages. Their acts may bor- der on treason and revolution, but we con- tend any man is justified‘in saving his home where his government fails to pro- tect him in safeguarding his property rights. A FAMOUS SLAVE CASE The French people claim with pride that their country was the first in Europe to have human slavery declared by a court to be unlawful. Denmark was the first European nation to declare by legislative act that all human beings on its soil were free. That was in 1792 and the law took effect ten years later. But the legal case of John Boucaux, who was set free by a French court in the time of Louis XV, came a half- century earlier. Boucaux had been brought to France from Martinique, in the West Indies, by a Monsieur de Verdelin, whom the negro served as a cook. Remarking finally that he was in a free country, Boucaux de- manded wages. His master’s reply was to have him put in the prison of the Chate- fet, at Paris. Boucaux was liberated after ‘ three days, there being no law to fit his | ease, and he thereupon sued his master for ten years’ arrears of wages. Since he same from a French colony with { the suit had to be heard by the judges of this W&fenia, none is more deserving than | the Admiralty court, who were compelled Colonel, Henry L. Doherty. While Doherty Day came at a most inopportune time when the country was in the doldrums through the closing of the banks and as a consequence business more than usually depressed, yet a handsome sum was realized in the various communi- ties ofiserving the day. The money was subscribed from a 2 per cent sales tax of the cash sales on that day and was ane Henry Doherty—a trinity of Henrys that | mented greatly through the advertise-} ments printed in the daily papers sponsor- | ing the movement. to detain him nearly three months while they considered what their decision should | be. It was a victory for Jean Boucaux who was declared to have been “free from the moment he stepped on French soil and | | to be a free man from now on.” | —aioeeatapemenaiennenenaiihie! | Henry is a name to conjure by in} Florida, especially in the southern section. ; Henry Flagler, Henry Plant and now have made their impress in works and / deeds on Florida’s monument of achieve- | ments. If it is not} THE KEY WE: Our Government —How IO Operates By William Brackart | INTERSTATE COMMERCE ; COMMISSION MERICAN policy and traattion | always has been, not only to permit, but enforce, free and open | competition. Rightly or wrongly, it | has been considered that this poliey was responsible for the very great- ness of our nation, commercially. It seems sumething of a paradox, therefore, that we should have such an autocratic body as the Interstate Commerce commission, an agency to which has been delegated, even di- | rected to use, the most dictatorial powers. It stands almost alone in this respect, yet the records reveul very few times when sound criticism has been leveled at it. The common conception of the commission is that it rules the rail- roads, but it goes far beyund that, and the day is not far distant when its scope of power will be broadened beyond its present limitations. Con- | gress has seen fit to expand its au- thority from time. to time, and changing conditions in the transpor- | tation field now are calling for fur- ther federal control. As the faws now stand, the com- mission controls all common. car- riers engaged in transportation of commodities or passengers by rail- road in interstate operation, trans- | misston facilities of telephone, tele- graph and cable companies, express companies, sleeping car, companies, terminal facilities used by inter- state carriers, car floats, car ferries, lightérs, water trausportation when that is conducted by the same com- pany operating a railroad in inter- state traffic, Over the operations of those cor- porations, the commission rules as a monarch, backed, of course, by the Jaws which congress enacted. But congress has given powers to other agencies of the company much less broad and at some time or other, bit- ter criticism has been laid on their doorsteps and scandal has tainted their records, The commission has gone on since 1887, unscatched. In the dusty pages of United | States laws, there is a phrase which says that the commission shall te quire all railroad rates and all oth- ler rates subject to its jurisdiction to be “just and reasonable.” To that one legislative enactment, therefore, you may attribute the ba- sis of all charges which the carriers make, whether in transportation of freight or passengers. Not so many years ago it was a practice almung some raiiruuds to give rebates to shippers and to give free passes to private citizens or public officials where such individ uals might be of help to the car riers. These practices developed real evils, because discrimination among shippers became a common result and undue political influence resulted from the distribution of passes, So the commission set about putting an end to the busi ness, and, based upon commission findings, congress ended the condi tion definitely by law. In those days also, certain of the railroads resorted to other tricks to obtain business and throttle com petitors. The commission has watched these things through the years and has recommended legis: lation to congress to curb then the “interstate commerce laws” hy grown until in these days it is even impossible for stockholders of one railroad to elect a director or an official for their corporation untess the Interstate Commerce commission consents, It must be said that the commission has no concern unless the proposed selection be an indi- vidual holding office in anofier ruil- road. Then it is vitally concerned, because it i: considered that inter: locking of directorates is an unwise policy and likely to tead to difticul- ties for one or all of the roads so managed. Minority stockholders would be victims, The commission started out with five members. In 1906, its men:ber- ship was increased te seven, and the transportation act of 1920, the lat est Important plece of rail legisla } } tion, Increased the membership to | eleven, And there is work for all to do, for the commission not only may investigate and hear complaints of parties’ claiming grievance against rallroad rates or services or practices, but It bas authority to institute proceedings Itself. For example, under a law passed | in 1914, ft was made unlawful for any interstate railroad to own, op- evate, lease or have any interest in “any competing carrier by water.” In the same law, authority was | given the commission to determine what constituted competition. So, it takes little tmagination to dis- cover how far reaching this power j | was, yet the decisions made under = a never been challenged » i as anether Binptration of the broad powers avuilable to the com | mimsion, tet it be stated that it can. | and does, tell the carriers under its { | Jurisdiction how to keep their books, By far the most Intricate and com | plex of any of its functions, how j ever, is the management of rates. * freight and passenger. This subject. therefore, should be dealt with in a own discussion, \- ais js Subseribe fer The Citizen —20¢ @ week. ST CITIZEN Daily Cross-word Puzzle Decwcrcccccccnesoocatoconensscccccccoscouiesoores acROSS Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle a ‘Walked with { bee SIPIAIRZACIAN [DIS BACIAIT|s) — bi HIAIRIE| ecrer AIL OIE} measure + Sooken 10, Ivory 1L. Perched | 17. Small stream 20, Anesthetic | 22. Central portion | of an ear of corn, 24, Faucet 25, a eet | Papen ' mes: 2. Toward the sheltered Ciba: side Perfect golf Extent of surface 16. Toward 16. Vestige 18. Hypocritical . unity Erozen water 2. Stinging weea » Massachusetts 18. 14, i me whe sr sro ey Tie } 33. Small bed | 34. Moisten 38. Automobile 37. Perceived by the touch 39. Form of diversi igium . Young bear Insect Stair a Hien Aiiece i atery. pat of mk IRIAICIERZZDIR} RIEZSITIOINIEZZUIL INIA} ISMAE [EL (EIRZZMIE|E{T} 1. Orchestra conductor's stick 2, Unaccompa- nied 3. Have existence Sin Bovine animal . Professional charge . Ourselves. |. Feline i. Make stower in eca 42. Celestial body 48. Puts to flight 50. Jumbled type 51. Having an of- fensive smell 82. Stupid person 53. Grows old 5. Lairs 56. Misery 2. Crawling animal ib Balerina pe et In sonal God 44. Sufterin 45. Tolerable: colt 6. Speed contest | 1. Before 54. Depart ae @a4 Sena Het Ht nae ee rere Pt] ae PC tp een ‘aa ae P ann dann as a 1 ——a—e—e—"—= | Jetic Club. This time the club KEY WEST ffve will meet the Air Squadron. The club has a perfect slate. The IN DAYS GONE BY DeMolay outfit has a .500 per- cent record and the squadron boys Happenings Here Just 10 Years * Ago Today As Taken From have yet to win. The Files Of The Citizen Miss Gladys Russell entertained a number of her friends yester- day at her home on Southard street in honor of her twelfth birthday anniversary. Miss Rus- sell received many useful and valuable presents. The international cruiser - race which got off to a bad start yes- terday from Miami, was called off again yesterday. Arrangements are now being made to have the cruisers leave Miami and come di- eet to Key West and start the leg io Havana from this port. Rough; ; weather and damage to two of the} g, entries is given as the cause of postponement. The grammar school, recently cted by Inspector M. P. ger, was the subject of high Inspector Geiger }was the fi principal of the in- (stitution. He will leave tonight Mayor Frnak H. Ladd and State} for Islamorada to inspect the Senator Wm. H. Malone will) school there. leave tonight for Charleston, = C., to attend the meeting of the : South Atlantic Coastal Highway| Apparatus from Number 1 sta- eae | tion was called out today to ex- sisireaereb ics held in that! tinguish a blaze in a shack at the ai rear of 417 Eaton street. ‘Chemi- cals were used to extinguish the jblaze. praise tod: Miss Lettie Solomon entertain- ed at her home on White street} last night in honor of her six-) | teenth birthday —_ anniversary The infant daughter of Mr. and Dancing and games were enjoyed | Mrs. Antonio Martinez was Chris- luntil a late hour. Retréshments|tened Sunday afternoon at H were served. | @ry’s Star of the Sea church andj} | given the name of Edwina Theresa! | Martines: Sponsors were Miss Grdce Vasquez and Sabino Mar-| cine. ' With reports of one of the worst blizzards of the season rag: ing in the north and middle west the tourist travel in the direction {of Key West took on a decided in- lerease over that of the past few} 3 e daaecoaniel There were more than 500} Notice is hereby given that the in Key W last evening} Annual Election of Directors for any others are expected to|the Grief Retieve Association will) here during the next few| be held on Tuesday, March 21,| pat the Association Office, 921 | Thomas street, at 7:30 p. m. GEORGE BAXTER, President. F. A. JOHNSON, -21 NOTICE James EK. Watson, senator from , and Mrs. Watson, artiv- { Key West yesterfay aft inoon from the north and/aft@r a tay of several days will leave-Yor | | Havana where they will enjoy ® Le jvaeation of a few days. On hisi« return from Havana he will spend|eney !f bis faite some time at the Casa Marina. Ee ng Rerween quickly by ema Remedy at bedtime are authorized to refund your “Ad ! Editorial comment: Cheer up! The hope of the world is the hope | The DeMolay quintet me itheir first game of the series last) ht when they gained a victory} Squadron quintet.; played fast ball an |the game a one-sided af-! fair by any means. The fast and} j speedy work of the DeMolays at) the inning of the game, how- ever, helped them to victory. The! score Was 38 to 19, exactly two to one. MANUFACTURERS ~ HAVE FAITH IN THEIR PRODUCTS TO THE EXTENT OF ADVERTISING THEM: jot America. jus jover the |The team s not Tonight another game of bas- i kethall will be played at the Ath- ——PRITCHARD’S——_ FUNERAL HOME Good Printing is s necessity) to your business. Call 51! and tet as talk it pis, with you. THE ARTMAN PRESS | | | Highest | . iSun rises MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1933. TODAY'S WEATHER slightly ¥ warmer in north and west portions. tonight. + 68| Jacksonville to Florida traits: .74| Increasing southerly win 72! coming fresh over north aS | 804 Lowest Mean Normal Mean .- Rainf: Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation | hin record covers 24-hour ineriod | 4 at S o'clock this mourning, Tomorrow's Almanae 6:37 a. .0 Ins. | winds over south portion, .04 Ins. } generally fair tonight and day, except probably sho}ers Tuesday over extreme north jor tion. East Gulf: Fresh south . southewest winds over north. p «tion, and moderate ‘southeast ‘a ~ It. }south over south portion. H 1 {sun sets ..... 'Moon rises Moon sets - ‘Tomorrow's Tide: ~ a. M. 11:01 Low 4:41 Barometer at 8 a.m. voday. Sea level, 30.12. Pr. WEATHER CONDITIONS 5:25] A disturbance of considerable’ | intensity and wide extent is cen- {tral this morning over Towa, Kan- sas City, Mo., 29.30 inches, and rain has occurred during the last 24 hours from the middle Gulf coast northward over the lower Lake region, and snow in upper Michigan. There was also raim on jthe coasts of northern California and Orégén, rain or snow .in por- | tions of the northern Rocky Moun- |tain and Plateau . regions, and snow in Massachusetts. Pressure jis moderately high this morning over the South Atlantic States and California. Temperatures are High Lowest Highest Last night Yesterday 86 To 40 40 60 68 48 36 30 70 56 48 80 64 78 42 66 74 50 66 Abilene Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago -... Denver .... Detroit Duluth Eastport Galveston Helena Huron < 5 KEY WEST .. Los Angeles - Miami New York Pensacola Phoenix - Pittsburgh 44 St. Louis .......... 54 St. Paul Nese Salt Lake City .. 32 San Francisco . 50 Slt. Ste. Marie .. 24 Seattle ....... - 42 Tampa ..>. 64 Washington 38 Williston 34 Wytheville 38 ‘the country, except in nerthern New England and portions of the | far west, being. 22 to 28 degres above frém Kansas eastward over the lower Ohio. Valley, in the southwestern Lake region, and North Dakota. G, S. KENNEDY,, Official in charge. 48 @ecvecccasceescecvessees TODAY IN HISTORY wasecoca--creseabesbsots 1498—Columbus © returned to | Spain with news of his diseovery —reached Palos—original point of depaftureé—on 15th. 58 58 28 54 78 ; 54 54 58 WEATHER FORECAST ane tas Andrew Jackson re- ee ceived news that the sécond wat Key West and Vicinity: Fair) with England had ended and tonight and Tuesday; moderate} learned for the first time that his southeast and south winds. jvictory at New Orleans occurred Florida: Generally fair tonight! *!te? Peace had been declared. and Tuesday, except probably) 184--Staniard Time establish- showers in extreme north portion;' ed in country. [or See ESSRS Sse Oueaters P& PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective Dec, 16, 1932 ‘ Leave Key West for Havara, daily except Sunday and Wednesday, 12:15 P. M. Leave Hayes: for Key Went, daily exeept Sunday and Thursday, 9:45 A. M. set yeae Key Weet for Port Tampa, Tuesday and Saturday, 63 Tickets. ) eee and Information at Tickut Office on the Dock, "Phone 71 STEAMSHIP > £\ STEAMSHIP Co. TED STAT! iT bo Sts ron THIS AMAZING Sad rota scar ill ja tos ae THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC ne CONPANY A, F. AYALA, Sales Manager We pay 3 Per Cent on Savings THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK KEY WEST, FLORIDA Member Federal Reserve System Designated Public Depositary above normal throughout most of- «=