The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 16, 1933, Page 2

Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. 1, P. ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Building, Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ionterea at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR Member of the Associated Presx The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year - Bix Months Three Mont! One Month Weekly tz0 NATIONAL EDITORIAL BE O33 R. 1933 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. _ SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a Mine. Notices for entertainments by churches from which ® revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen ig an open forum and invites discus- sion of public insues and subjects of local or general interest but will not publish anonymous com- municatioi NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATI FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 260 Park Ave., New York; 35 East Wacker Drive, CHICAGO; General Motors Bidg., DETROIT; 2 Walton Bidg., ATLANTA, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to ‘Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and. Apartments Bathing Pavilion. Aquarium. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, 5: Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Like many others, farmers of Good- hue county, Minnesota, are skeptical of so-called relief legislation and have peti- ~—tioned President Roosevelt and congress to abolish the Farm Board and cancel all activities being considered for farm relief. The petition closes with the admonition, “Leave us alone.” Mrs,” Ruth ;Bureham-Cufttener of Monette, Ark., is suing two husbands for divorce atthe same time. One is Lan Cur- tener, from whom she was recently sep- arated, but while she is about it she thought it best to sue her first husband, Lee Burcham, also. She thinks Burcham is divorced from her already, but wants to make sure. NATIONAL UNITY Never in our history, with the possible exception of the period of the World War, has the American people given any presi- dent such assurances of whole-hearted co- operation as has been given to President Roosevelt in his efforts to relieve the pres- ent economic distress. The loyal manner in which all ele- ments of our people have rallied to the call of the president in the present cmer- gency is most heartening and inspiring. It * | affords an example of national unity with- out a parallel in the annals of any ple. Citizens of all parties classes are displaying a peo- and of all most patriotic spirit in supporting our chief executive in his program for national rehabilitation. All seem to realize the stern necessity for courageous and determined action to end the period of fear and panie which has paralyzed business, industry and agri- culture for many months. Already the intelligent and energetic efforts of the new president and his ad- visers have produced excellent results in the direction of restoring faith and con- fidence in our institutions. The spirit of defeatism and despair is giving way in favor of a well founded optimism. While President Roosevelt, being only human, is not infallible, and while he and his administration may make some mis- takes, the vigorous manney with which he is attacking our national problems is serv- ing to inspire confidence in the wisdom of his program. Therefore, let us all, whatever our political affiliations may be, support the president in his sincere and patriotic ef- forts for economic betterment. For in national unity lies the hope for national progress and a return of prosperity. NO LACK OF WORDS How often do we find difficulty in thinking of just the right word to express a certain idea? Even the greatest writers often stop to weigh their words in order to hit upon the most appropriate one, while few speakers can observe all the niceties of expression without writing out their speeches and memorizing them before- hand. These difficulties are not due to any lack of words in the English language, however. Possibly it may be a result of our having too many to choose from. The latest unabridged dictionaries contain more than 400,000 words, and the list is in- creasing constantly. Noah Webster’s first dictionary, ‘pub- lished in 1828, contained only about 70,- 000 words, the edition of 1864 included 114,000; that of 1890 about 175,000, as compared with the 400,000 recognized words of today. A. leading lexicographer estimates THE KEY WEST CITIZEN (Ow Government | —How It Operates By William Brackart CHECKS AND DOUBLE | CHECK ~ epee is a classical story extant here about a man who was te tired after some forty years: of gov- two years later that his accounts showed an unnafned amount still due him: He made numerous trips employed and eventually was told that his claim had been approved It was a month or so later before he was paid but he surely was paid, the check being ‘or a total of poree cents. Though that may seem to be an exaggerated case, it actually is not out of the ordinary. Your Uncle Sam watches pennies closer, I dare say, than most of us. He has to do it. The governinent is upproximate- ly a five billion dollar business. [ts records ure, and have to be, exact to the penny. Had the circumstance of the three-cent incident, mentioned j above, béen favorable to Uncle Sam, the amount would have been col- to sue in court and obtain a judg ment, The necessity for maintaining such a close watch on the pennies eral accounting office. The comp- troller general of the United States, { who is head of the general account- ing office, never has the good will of all officers of the government at one time, ‘he nature of his job makes popularity impossible. He is | Péauired by law to tread on too many toes, Let me illustrate how, in doing his job, the comptroller general gains so much disfavor, He pusses upon every payment that is made out of federal funds; every penny that is appropriated by congress has to be spent according to the letter of the law, and the comptroller gen- eral’s job is to see that the several hundred disbursing officers of the | government do it that way, It takes no stretch of the imagination, there- fore, to understand that when a dfs: bursing oftiver makes a payment and then is told by the comptroller gen- eral a few weeks later that the pay- ment wis not in uccordance with law—well, it is the exception rath er than the rule when that decisicn fails to produce an argument. You probably would argue, too, if you were field liable for the government. It is not alone with the disburs- ing oflivers that the comptroller gen- eral lia’ troubles; he meets indi- viduals to whom tue disbursing out cers go to get back their overpay ments, and frequently they de reconsideration. Overpayments my result In the purchase of supplies for the gavernment, in the payment of salaries, in the settlement of gen eral claims, or in such things as ¥efund of expenditures paid by gov ernment representativ Laws require, for instance, that an individual traveling at govern ment expense, must take the most direct route. Picture then what the reaction is of an individual who informed weeks after he had a trip that if he had taken the prop: er train, or boat, the expense to gov- ernment would have been $1.66 les: and that he must pay back that sui out of his own Jeans. (You select ernment service only to be notified ! to the building where he had been j{ lected even had it been necessary | is the reason why there is a gen- ! seocceses Scoccveveccccccscsccccss ACROSS 1. High mountain 4. Moist 8. Fails behind 12. Noncomimis- ‘M4. Appellation ot Athena Iwas jeeting by appoint- ment 18. Ancient Greek shrine . Flying toy . Object of syorship Clamor Note of the scale . Pish’s organ 0: motion Famous . Angry . Part of @ ‘curve . Deep hole Devoured . Decay . Drive away |. Nuraber Forward 15. 16. 44. Crawling animals 47. Pertaining to the sense of hearing $1. Indigo plant 82. High wind 53. Taill ‘ailless 55. Additions to buildings 56. Writes : Guided 7 ian KEY WEST iN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen — a At the regular meeting of the city council held last night it was decided to hold a special meeting with a committee of the volunteer fire{department to discuss the proposed charter amendments dealing with the election of the fire ;chief by the council to dis- placé the former method whereby the volunteers elected the chief. The musical program presented | last night by pupils of the convent was attended and enjoyed by a large number of relatives. who took part in the program were: G. Lewinsky, A. Lewin, L. A. Torano, E. Russell, A. Du- Bréeuil, A. Comer, N. Yates, Grossman, E, Wolkowsky, Weintraub, C. Wolkowsky, Trout, A. Recio, M. Knight, My» Solution of Vesterday’s Puzzie 6. vr purposes 4, Perform Those |, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1988. Beecvccccccccccesces | | Daily Cross-word Puzzle See ncvsaccocccccesabeocecs Disfigure 1. Thickness ~ Fail to grip the road ). Male chila Went at an easy gait Restrain 5. Paradise . Gambling . Cayertly jiat . Motherly . Beams Statute Fit of melan- cht collog. Highway Puppet Particle or bit Vehicle for snow travel row old 0! 1, High cards 2 Ardent ‘affection 8, Division of a elty for election 45. 46, 42. @ 48. 49, Strike gently Frozen water 50. Is able You and me 5. Depiction of , the beauti- ful oo el BS Pt a | ne aon 258) ee wan wean ae va/ mE a” ! Hunt Harris as judge of the crim- inal court, writes The Citizen as follows: Please allow me space in The Citizen to thank the many people of this city who were inter- tested and so kindly endorsed me fand urged my appointment as | judge of the criminal court. I am j deeply grateful to all. | . There were 166 passengers ar- triving on the P. and O. boat Cuba from’ Tampa. Of these 59 were for Key West and 107 for Havana. The fight scheduled for Tues- | day night between Jimmie Conway and Bobby Waugh has been called joff indefinitely. Waugh suffered ja badly sprained wrist in a recent workout and does not know when he will be able to resume training. k or ivy is with Imperlal Eczema en Druggists are authorized to refund money if it fails —Advt. relieved { { | 1 | ! j | | TODAY’S WEATHER ——$_—— j this morning on the north Pacific £82; coast. Fair weather has prevailed 75] throughout most of the coutitry 78} during the last 24 hours, the only i im of consequence be- or snow in the Middle and North Atlantic States, and rain on the’ Pacific coast from San Francisco northward. Tem- peratures have fallen in the East Gulf States, the upper Ohio Val- ‘ley, and Atlantic States as far ™. | south as Georgia, and Wave risen m./in- the Plains and. West _ Gulf m.{ States, and upper Mississippi and lower. Missouri valigys. Tempera- p. M_|tures are near or above normal 12:59] thts morning over ail sections 8:40} west of the Mississippi Valley, and generally below to the eastward, except along the Gulf coast and in Florida. Temperature® Highest 4 Lowest Mean H Normal Mean . Rainfall® Yesterday’s Pregipitation .01 Ins. | Normal Precipitation... .05 Ins. *Thin record covers 21-hewe ending at 3 o’clock thin ny ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises: -..... 6:34 a. m. Sun sets . 6:37 p. Moon rises 12:13 a. 10:15 a. Tomorrow's Tides A. M. arena, FS Sea level, 30.10. eee ; KENNEDY, Lowest Highest Official in Charge. Last night Yesterday 42 64 58 » 40 cy Sas 89)5 | 50 | 32 26 16 34 44 74 - 46 70 26 48 30 62 7 74 34 24 44 26 34 46 St. Paul . 28 38 San Francisco . 50 Slt. Ste. Marie 4 Seattle .. 46 Washigton 382 Williston .«. 24 Wytheville - 26 WEATHER FORECAST Teday’s Anniversaries 1789—George Clymer, Philadel- {phia merchant, signer of the Dec- laration of Independence and a framer of the Constitution, born in Philadelphia. Died near there, Jan, 24, 1813. Abilene Atlanta Boston ... Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit Duluth Eastport El. Pas Hatter: Helena. Huron Jacksonville . KEY WEST . Miami ..... Nashville New York Oklahoma City Pittsburgh St. Loui: 42 22. 18 28 32 22 . 20 1750—Caroline L. Herschel, famed English astronomer, born. Died. Jan. 9, 1848, 1751—James Madison, Virginia statesman, one of the makers of the U.S. Constitution, Secretary of State} fourth President, born at Port Conway, Va. Died at Mont- pelier, Va,, June 28, 1836. 82 82 80 52 60 1823—Henry Hartshorne, noted Pennsy” ania physician of his day, born in Philadelphia. Died in Ja- pan, Feb. 10, 1897. 14 1825—Lucy V. S. French, Southern poet, born in Accomac Co., Va. Died at McMinnville, Tenn., March 31, 1881. 1830—Samuel A. Green, Bos- ton physician and mayor, author, {born at Groton, Mass. Died Dee. 5, 1918. (Till 8 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; mod- erate easterly ‘winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonigh' and Friday; little change in tem- perature. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate northeast and _ east winds and mostly overcast weath- er tonight and Friday. East Gulf: Moderate winds, 1830—Charles H. Fernald, New England zoologist and professor, born at Mt. Desert, Maine. Died Feb. 22, 1021. ee one ys A oe "TODAY'S HOROSCOPE. This day produces a great mind The northern disturbance} sot on high things and with moved northeastward to the! strength to withstand opposition; Canadian maritime provinces, and! aspiring and sustained by a faith pressure is high this morning} that will lead to success. If the over most sections from the! jixuries of life are given they Mississippi Valley eastward, ex-| will be well” used. If born. in cept in Minnesota, where pres-| humble station, a valuable life is sure is moderately low. A mod-'almast sure to result. Beware, erate disturbance is also central however, of partnerships. easterly WEATHER CONDITIONS We ese ens Rosenthal, D. Parks, H. Stowers. + your own languuge, and 1 will match}. Cates, R. Pinder, A. Gato and!) it with expressfons I have heard, be-|C. Rendueles. : 6 that the educated person of fair ability *ormer Congressman Lewis W. Doug- sh i id understands on an average about 50,000 lass of Arizona, the new director of the budget, is described as “a lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue.” He was cited by General Persh- ing for bravery in France, has served in his state legislature and was six years in congress. “A8 pitcher for the house-demo- crats in their basehall tilt with the repub- licans last.summer he won his game. He is 38 years old. His new job is one of the most difficult under the government. An interesting situation is seen in the faet that while Harold L. Ickes is secre- tary of the interior in a democratic cabinet, his wife is a republican member of the Il- linois legislature in which she is serving Only 12 impeachments have been or- dered by the national house of represen- tatives in its history, the 12th being that of Federal Judge Harold Louderback of California: who ts charged with malad- ministratidn of the bankruptcy laws. In the past three federal judges have been removed from office and one resigned un- der impeachment, while three have ceedings were abandoned before trial. Last year only eight lynchings occur- red in the United States, the smallest num- ber known since records have been kept. Of the negroes the The next lowest Was 10 in 1929, eight lynched in 1932, six were and two were white men. In 1892 the frightful total of 255 were put to death by mobs, 100 of them being white. So, in one respect, at least, we appear to be becoming more civilized. ] been acquitted and in the case of one the pro- H { } year her third term. | 1 j persons j | words, but uses only a small part of that number in either speaking or writing. The mass of the people know and use less than 8,000 words out of the 400,000 available. An interesting experiment is to in- spect a few pages of an unabridged dic- tionary and count how many words out of a hundred you are really familiar with, both as to spelling and meaning. Try it. HEADLINE ENGLISH Professors of English held a conven- tion in Kansas City sometime ago, and among other things discussed the in- fluence of newspapers in modifying the speech of the people. As might have been expected, some felt that this influence was good, while others thought it terrible. In their search for short words which will fit in the limited space available to them, writers of newspaper headlines have developed a peculiarly effective, though sometimes inelegant, form of expression. In the headlines, an investigation, of which tlere are many, is called a “probe,” because five letters are easier to handle than 13. Similarly, a collision is a “crash;” an agreement is a “pact,” te denounce is to “flay,” an explosion is a “blast,” an athletic contest is a “tilt,” and so on. On the sport page “journalese” does its worst. Deploring what he considers the evil effects of newspaper English, Dr. Hopkins of the University of Kansas said that teach- ers were duty-bound to take a stand against it, but significantly added: “In theory that is our stand, but it does us little good to take any stand. We might as well quit and let the language go its way. It will anyway.” cause they cover the whole category of epithets.) But all of this is necessary, or else the government wonld be the loser, not in thousands of doll: but in millions, annually. ern- ment supplies are costly. The ap propriations for them are astound: ing, If there was ‘ho check on the way the money Is spent, it is ensy to understand what would happen. The taxpayers would be called upon to| furnish more money, So congress arranged a long time ago to have an auditing system for all government accounts. It was not because It feared dishonesty among the workers. There is very little oi this in government. But the laws are intended to provide for expen. ditures, and if those laws are not carried out, chaos naturally would result. There had to be a central authority, therefore, for checking all the payments, This brings about uniformity of Interpretation of the laws and assures orderly conduct of payments by the government, No one doubts the propriety of such a course. Thos, every check that is made out by any government disbursing officer anywhere sooner or later finds Its way through the regulation channel—some call it red tape—to the scrutinizing eye of the comp troller general numbering scores, determine wheth- er the payment was proper. The } Magnitnde of this job of anditing becomes apparent when ft ts known that rolings from the general ac counting office average about thirty per week, or about five each day, and that these arise from examina tion of about two and one-half mil- Hon_checks a month. © 1992. Weeters Newspaper Union. L ious Traveli i In Maderia the tourist site back restfully while natives rush a sledge oa greased runners through the cobbly and steep stree! Subscribe for The Citizen—20¢ & week. whose assistants | } Joseph Roberts, past grand |sachem, Joseph S. Roberts, past '3} sachem, and Abclardo Lopez, delés}. gates to the state convention of| Red Men to be held at’ Palatkay} Tuésday, will leave tomorrow $92356 night on the steamer Cuba for! S06 Tampa. { Captain C. B. Wheldon, repre-] 2 [senting the Underwriters Associa ition of New York and a frequent jvisitor in Key West on salvage jeases, died at his home in Brogk jlyn, N. ¥., Monday following Fs 2 ees BOOKLETS S48 NEWSPAPERS LABELS ; LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS > OFFICE FORMS STATEMENTS BILLHEADS, ETC. NOTEHEADS | operation, | .Manuel de Castro, charged with4 j smuggling aliens into this country, | | pleaded guilty before Judge Julian | | Mack, in Tampa Monday and was | 5% |senteneced to one year in the fed-| $8 jeral penitentiary at Atlanta. | § | Judge Mack said that he would jhave given de Castro five years] 3 | but for his good war record. Thomas J. Watts, grand chan-| cellor Knights of Pythias, of Flor-| jida, arrived in the city this morn- jing for his official visit to the j local lodges. —_ Telegrams received this morn-|?3@ ling from Charleston say that the} ; Atlantic Coastal Highway Associa- tion today unanimously adogted the submitted plans for a Toad from the mainland to Key West{j as a part of their coastal highway | program H. H. Tylor, recently appointed to fill the unexpired term of W ——PRITCHARD’S-——. FUNERAL HOME Eleven Years Experience Lady Assistant | 24-Hour Ambelance Service )| Phane 548 Never Steemp|}j THIS AMAZING CONVENIENCE a genius discovered the principe that etoss coland ty Goon lectric scientists. Don't buy any electric refriger- ator until you see the New 10# General Electric. THE KEY WEST IC COMPANY ‘A. F. AYALA, Seles Manger 40 years