The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1933, Page 2

PAGE.YWO _ Bhe Key Wiest Citiser Published Daily Except Sunday By <M CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. ». ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Building, Corner Greene and Ann Streets ly Newspaper in Kéy West and Monroe County > tntered St Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR 3 Member of the Associated Press he cAusaclated Press: ig exclusively entitled to use The ‘Mepablication of all news dispatches credited to ft ogenot otherwise credited in this: paper and also the meal news published here. RATES Six Months Three Months One ONAL EDITORIAL pel 0933 R. oe ADVERTISING RATES Made -known on application. SPECIAL NOTICH v 1 eading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions o reapect, sbituary notices, ete, Will be charged for at the rate-of 10 cents a line, Notices-for entertainments by ehurches from which ® revenues to be derived are & cents a line. The Citizen iy an open forum and invites discus- ston of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous com- munications. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 250) Park Ave., New York; 35 East Wacker Drive, CHICAGO; ‘General Motors Bldg., DETROIT; Walton Bldg., ATLANTA. ea IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ‘ ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Pree Port. Hotels and Apartments Bathing Pavilion, Aquarium. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. milk of human kindness is a bit sour; it needs a little sweetening. | As an economic move we might sug- gest the adoption of kilties, which would not‘be so inconvenient in this climate. ; To get people to think for themselves, and not merely to follow what they re- gard as phony: | is amazingly difficult. : The lavéalitee fashioned a Golden Calf and worshiped it. The custom ori- ginated> several thousand years ago and we still yrarslp this fetish. So many peacle. newspaper men in- cludtad-still refer to an earthquake as a *“trémblor”’ instead of “temblor.’’ If you mugt use the Spanish word, use it right. ¢ Letting people know just how mat- ters are is a far better policy than hiding thettruth, and allowing them to make all kings ‘of wild guesses to the consternation of all. : : Did Giakcensard foresee the income tax: payments, due March 15, when he made one of his characters say, “‘heware of the ides of March,” or words: ‘to: that effept? * = Whatever the motive ot: Colonel Hetiry L. Deherty—philanthrophy® or en- ligittened selfishness—the whole state of Flogida has reaped a great harvest, and to its rredit it may be stated the people of this;commonwealth have responded whole- heartedly in acknowledgment of his ac- conplishments, }A customer went into the First Na- tioral Bank with four thousand-dollar yel- lowtbacks, Nobody wanted to change them. Then Ed Romfh eame in and saw the-gold certifieates. The manner in which Edstook these four thousand-dollar bills is hest.described as alacrity. Bystanders sayshe took them forty-four hundredths of a ond quicker than greased lightning.— Miami Post. Py * Protempore Postmaster-designate Ber- is on the job and will give us effi- cient service until the regular postmaster is appointed. It is generally known that thecassistant postmaster rans the postoffice and that the office of postmaster is a polftieal appointment, one of the spoils | that belongs to the winning political party | ang with which it repays staunch ad-| herprits and workers in its interest. Con- | gress would do well if it abolished either GOOD START MADE During the late political campaign, great stress was laid by the opposition to President Roosevelt on the fact that his speeches were far too general in their Statements, that there was a lack of decisiveness in their definition of policies and that the demoeratic candidate, if elected, would prove to be weak and vaceilating. There were citizens who were rather a bit frightened at the prospect. Those who studied the record of Franklin D. Roosevelt in public life, or who were acquainted with him personally, sturdily declared that he would prove to be a strong and fearless leader. They realized that his habit of giving consideration to every phase of every question was not a symhol of weakness, but an evidence of mental strength. He has never been in the habit of making a decision until he has heard from everyone with an idea bearing on the ques- tion at issue. In this way, his final decisions have uniformly been good decisions and all con- cerned have felt that their views have been given consideration. . The promptness with which President Roosevelt met the financial problem and acted has caught the imagination of the country. Here was no weak man, _ looking hither and thither for counsel and _ direc- tion. Here was no man frightened by the situation that confronted him. Instead, here was a man who instantly comprehended the nature of the trouble and realized just as quickly what was needed. Action followed realization, and al- most before the country realized that it was facing a crisis, the crisis had been met and remedial measures had been adopted. There can be no panic in such a coun- try as ours under such a leadership as this. There was no hesitancy, no lack of decision, no lack of courage, in the presi- dential action. The country looked on, first amazement, then with — admiration finally, with a supreme courage. Im the twinkling of a moment the situation changed, and instead of facing the future with dread and despair, the country faces it with hopefulness and optimism. with and AMERICANS ALL An interesting little study in names is presented by the list of nine New York public school boys who were awarded Pultizer four-year scholarships at Colum- bia University, they being chosen from a field of 90 of the brightest in the metropolis. Their names, in the order of the grades made in the competitive examina- tien, are as follows: Herman Kremer, Helmut Schulz, Thomas Jonaitis, Andrew Chiappe, Jerome O'Neill, Fred Tonetti, Hippocrates Apostle, John Morrisroe, and Milton Black. It will appear that German, Greek and Italian names predominate, and in fact only two of the boys were born in the United States. Among their fathers are a cook, a waiter, a construction laborer, a milkman and a janitor. But in spite of foreign names and foreign birth, these boys are now Amer- jeans all, with an opportunity to rise to whatever heights their ability and energy ean carry them, SOME HONEST BOYS Not because he among boys is uncommon, but because too much stress is placed on the recording of dishonesty in the news of the day, a little story from Humboldt, Sask., is worth repeating. Six boys were playing in a straw stack near that town when one of them found a purse containing $2.20. This caused them to search for more treasure, with the re- sult that a total of $94.20 in cash and a check for $41.49 were found in the straw. Did they divide the spoilt and proceed to use it for themselves? They did not. They promptly turned it over to the Hum- bokit chief of police, who recalled that j tlfree men i reported being robbed at this straw stack some time before, and took steps te locate them. Ineidentally, the six boys have estab- thecoffice of postmaster or that of his as-} lished a reputation for honesty which is of sistant pa. a It=wauld be a relief to the tax- yer and might wipe out much greater value to them than the the annual; money they might have easily appropriated } to their own use. THE KEY WEST CIrizEN | Our Government —How It Operates By William Brackart BUREAU OF THE BUDGET N. EFFORT hasbeen made throughout these discussions of the functions of government to show where each agency has a point of contact: with Mr, and Mrs. Public, | that is, yon and me, But there is one burean which almost never touches any of us; it does not deal with any of us, and does not con- cern itself about: individual citi- zens, except that it considérs the Welfare of all collectively as tax- Dayers. I refer to the bureau of the budget, * ‘This little-known agency is the focal point, however, of all plans and programs for expenditures of public funds, Every government de- partment, bureau or commission ts 4 spending ageney, and every one of them has to have-the approval of the bureau of the budget before they can even go before a commit- tee of congress to defend the plans they have made, Along about the first of August each year, the director of the bud- get; notifies the heads of all goy- ernmental establishments that he will receive “estimates” of expendi- tures for the fiscal year that is to | begin in July of the following year, The government budget, you will re- | member, goes to eongress when it conyenes each December, and upon it all of the appropriations for the succeeding fiscal year are based. So the budget director begins work about August 1, Although all of the spending agencies have had general” plans mapped out, they do not translate them into dollars and cents until they get the advices from the bud- get director to submit. estimates, The first step, therefore, in any establishment is to fill out the skill- fully arranged forms’ with the fig- ures necessary to show. how much money is needed or desired. Once these figures are in the hands of the budget director and his assistants, they invite a committee from each establishment for “hear- ings,” which are designed to supply the budget bureau with all informa- tion about every item and whether, for example, it is desirable or neces- sary to inerease the sum avuilable for airplines for the army. or whether conditions warrant the em- ploying of one additional stenogra- pher in the office of the “third as- sistant to the chief of section X” or somewhere equally well down the line: ef importance, it need not be stated that when these hearings aré completed, the budget officials have about all of the data available con- cerning the next year's. plans, While the budget bureau is mak- ing up its lists, however, It has to keep In mind that the President pre- yiously has made an announcement that the total of government ex- penses shall not exceed a speelfie anjount, The budget bureau starts work paring down the individual items in order that the President's command shall be obeyed. And what a@ job it is! Every establishment wants to spend as. much money as it ean get, obviously. It is natural that the individual wants to make his agency as Important and as valu- able as he can, All of which causes the heads of the spending agenciea to defend their estimates vigorously, to bring all pressure to bear that they can legitimately accomplish. The director of the budget con- fera each week with the President as the process of paring the esti- mate goes along. By and by, the director an- hounces that the budget is complete, and one look. at it is quite convine- ing a8 to the truth of his statement for it Is usually a volume of about 1,200 pages of closely set type. On the one column is a list of the pur- poses for which it is proposed to | spend money; on the opposite col- umn of the page is the amount, and every item has its corresponding figure, so you can see whether there is a provision to buy a greater or less number of airplanes for the | army in the succeeding year than was purchased in the last year, or | whether one department is going to use mere paper clips or less, It ts at this point, therefore, at the bureau of budget attracts pub- | Ue attention for the one time of! WED NESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933, seccececccccccccccccccceccescoeceucescocece se s8 8 | Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS Was victorious AP UAITIE} L lorses L. Deprivation >S | olr >Ic > I=|4 [x] >| TW r/o[-|< 82 [Z[=| vl ORR] 2) —|31>1 uu. : Great at Laxe a ; Séitedute ot inquired, th quired the cost of ike of corn Petting the head Type of foot+ pall play * Low galter DIE IT IAIt | DIE INISIE} 48, Opposite of aweather 42. Goddess of discord 50. Steep flax 51, Noxious growth 52, Auction 58. Plant of the genus Vicia Judah 0. Religious disco 43, Means ‘of transmit. ting disease KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Stephen Makowski and Harris Rustin were given a preliminary hearing before Judge Hugh Gunn today and bound over to the next term of criminal court on charges of robbing Charles Higgins of the sum of $200 in currency and a of the men were p: ngers on the Governor Cobb arriving at Key West from Havana yesterday. Miss Nina Phillips, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Phillips, of Key West, Red Cross work at Athens, Ga., was signally hanored recently in for H. said Banner work. er, praising her he Alderman J. in an address that tary and “efficiency itself.” Milton Curry, prominent mer- chant of this city, narrowly. caped serious injury this noon. A large branch of a sea- grape tree fell just as Mr. Curry street. Had he driven the car a few feet further tHe entire weight jof the branch would have fallen on the canopy, Henry H, Taylor, well attorney of this city, has been ap- pointed judge of the {the late W. Hunt Harris. jpointment was received from: Gov- fernor Cary A. Hardee today. | Judge Taylor ia also viee president | of The Citizen Publishing com- | pany. before if firemen will appear council tonight and ask city | the each year, for the budget is ready |counc il still propeses to take from | to be transmitted to congress by | the President. And when that hap- | own pena, the great appropriations com- mittee of the house of representa- the firemen the right to elect the ir] chief. From unofficial! ources it learned that the} council will stand pat on Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzie if] U}>| 0} [r|>] bork ge a e re Ht: 77 A silver watch, and gold locket, All| who has been engaged in} an article. appearing in the Athens} Miss Phillips: was a perfect secre-| after-} had driven his car on to ® Dey} known | criminal | {court to fill the unexpired term of | The. ap-| We tives gets into action. It holds an-jright to appoint the chief. other. set of hearings to which the | representatives of the spending; Three of the naval ie agencies are invited that they can | that are in Key West waters. at} speak for themselves. That is, they) present will leaye tomorrow for! ean speak for themselves up to the | \jiami to participate in the water | limit which the budget bureau fixed.) jogatta to be held at Miami Beach | There Is a law making it a criminal! gaturdiay. The tug Bayspring», | offense to ask for more. jin command of, Captain Muller, Passage of appropriation bills Is / wil} leave to act as tender for the) an annual job in congress, and the planes. i representatives and senators as- Liajehlidecon: H signed to the committees handling The meanest thief in Key West! them haye plenty of troubles for|is being sought today. Last night/ outside interests can and do get In| while 2 basketball game was being | their work, urging and even hound-/piayed the thief sneaked in ing members for increases in sums! through the rear door of the Ath-} or for additional items, Yet it has gone om year after year with reason- ably satisfactory resulta, and the’ proof is that a President bas not re- fused to sign an appropriation bilj ie yeora. - ——PRITCHARD’S— . FUNERAL HOME Sabseribe for The Citizen—20c a week. PrYe i 8. Acquire knowledge 9. Sphere 10. Yellow ocher 11, Understand i. 1, ISAILIEIS! |0| [| So iz)>Ir Ai OBE) Portable bed 22, Ushers to a ehair 23. What the raven quoth 24, Ardor 25, Bombastic talk imiz| E| Pace 27, Boy escort Places where a Q sf JE} IF | [| IN| a IR| IR] i€ | [| [4 1D) | RS | n|—la]2/ clo} FPO /my) (| ARIE|EICIY] 1, Twist out of shape 2. Smell 3. One who names for Clears over expenses office . Nota of the crow . Famous 6, School of whales . Masculine ?. Railroad ties name dee Br WY 2 yy letie Club and purloined threo pairs of shoes, socks and garters, It was a fast pace that the air squadron quintet. set last night at the Athletic the club’s five. The pace was con- tinued for a short time but gradu ally the aero boys began to weak- en and after that they were at the mercy of the Athletics, who won ithe contest by a score of 48 to 14. When Walter Thompson next -hears the fire bell he will probably bring his car to a stop. Day be- fore yesterday he was in the line lof progress of Chief Pinder’s car | while the chief was on his way to a fire. The chief’s car was forced to stop and Thompson was later arrested. Yesterday he was fined {$10 in police court. If it is not left with the volun- |teer firemen to elect their own chief that branch of the depart- ment will disband, it was learned Ruck-} 'from a group of members today. There is $3,300 in the treasury \that was collected from various sources, principally the recent car- nival. If the department is foreed to disband this will be divided among members. |ROYAL PALM |TYPEWRITING | A committee from the volunteer | 50¢ Size inate 500 SHEETS T0 BOX A PHONE CALL WILL BRING IT -- THE -- Artman Press Citizen Bidg. Club when they met| ‘ (night and Thursday; celder - in|! TODAY'S Temperature” } jHighest .... Lowest 7a! ; Mean fs: et \Normal Mean . 24 Rainfall” Yesterday’s Pree?pitation !Normal. Precipitation —.. *'Vhis record covers 34-hour 0 Ins. | - Te Sunsets 'Moon rises {Mqon sets - Tomorrow's Tides a. M... P. M. 12: il T328 High | Low : Az 1 meter at Hon. ny. today, Sea level, 30.06. Lowest Highest Last night Yesterday Abilene -........... 38 68 Atlanta 54 18 Boston a8 Buffalo 38 Chicago Denver Detroit Dodge Cit Duluth _. Eastport El Paso Helena... Huron [Kansas City |KEY WEST .... Los Angeles | Miami i Nashville New York Oklahoma City Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis .... St. Paul an \Salt Lake City jSit. Ste. Marie Seattle ............... Washington } Williston m4 34 WEATHER FORECAST SA (Till 8 p. m. Thursday) } Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; gentle. to moderate yariable winds. Florida: Generally fair to-' -__—-. P&O* Wednesday, 12:15 P. M. Thursday, 9745 A. M. 6:20 P.M tas ” | weathey partly overcast 5 TO cid Thurdday. ending at 8 e@’elock this mor ‘ ‘Tamorrow's Almanac 4 Fs ce mt m.| WEATHER SESS Sane SEY RS SSE SLES SS ° north portion tonight and in north and central portions Thursday. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: !Moderate southwest shifting _ to northwest. winds. over north. por+ j tion, and gentle to moderate-vari- able, winds over southportion, and- toning Fast: Gulf: Moderate ae and northeast winds. WEATHER CONDITIONS The northern disturbance js cen- tral ‘this morning over southeast- ern, Pennsyivania, and has capsed * }ereneral rains from eastern -Mis- | souri, Tennessee, and the interior of the East Gulf States north- eastward over the “Middle and North Atlantic States, and snow in upper Michigan and portions of New England. Rain alse: oc curred during the last 24 hours in northern, California and Kansas. Pressure continues moderately high over Florida, and the west- ern field of high pressure extends from Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas southward into’ Texas. There has been a decided fal! in temperatures in many sections between the Plains States and: the | Appalachian: region, with readings 34. degrees jawer>in portions. of the Ohio Valley, and below zero in northern Minnesota. However, temperatures continue near, or ‘above normal throughout most of the country, exeept’ from Teka® northeastward. to the Lake re- gion, G. S. KENNEDY, Officiat in, Charge, Subscribe for The Citizen. ‘TO SUBSCRIBERS If you do not receive your paper by 6:00 olelock: in the afternoon, use your telephone or your neighbor’s phone and call 5b and a paper will be sent to your home. A. complaint. boy is on duty at this office from-6:00-to.7:15. p.m. for the purpase of . delivering com- plaints. Help us give you 100 pereent service by calling 51 if you do not receive The Citizen. TEAMSHIP Co. JNITRD ‘STATES: FAST™ PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective 1932 Leave Key West for Havana, daily except Sunday and Leave Havana for Key West; daily except Sunday and ame Key West for Port Tampa, Tuesday and Saturday, Tickets. Reservations and Leal weer! = Tiexet Office on the Dock, 'Phone ‘7 THIS AMAZING CONVE NIENCE THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY A. F. AYALA, Sales Manager