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

——____.. Published Daily Wxcept Sunday By * THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. ENC, L. P. ARTMAN, Presideat. ‘The Citizen Building, Gerace Groans and Ann Streets Pal¥ Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monrve : County Key West, #lorida, as second class matter FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR . Member of the Associated oe ‘Agsoc! 8 is exclusively ent to use Hee ication of all news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tte~twtal news published here. ; UBSCRIPTION RATES NATIONAL EDITORIA' ASSOCIATION BER 1933 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen 4s an open forum and invites diseus- sion ‘Of public issues and subjects of local or general intérest but it will no* publish anonymous com- miriications. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES PROST, LANDIS & KOHN. "260 Park Ave., New York; 35 Fast Wacker CHICAGO; General Motors Bldg., DETR Walton Bidg., ATLANTA. Drive, ay 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, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the publie welfare; never tolerate corruption or injratice; 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 not contaminate the reader; never com- ‘promise with principle. The Chicago Tribune asks which Dern is in the cabinet, Gol or Gosh? We must expect to work and sacrifice if we are to accumulate enough of this world’s good to live with any degree of comfort. "Horticultural note:...A. serious short- agi litical plums is threatened, and there is an increased démand for the i fruit. ; intelligent person does not know knows where he must look to be ed on the particular subject of ‘he is ignorant. ~ ' * ' ’ ‘ om :#¥own have to be content, With 3.2 per cent.”—-Tampa Tribune. ; BUt the senate now is bent, ‘o cut down this per cent. ' Lectin * *Mark Twain once remarked that everybody was talking about the weather but nobody was doing anything about it. But in Florida we are not only constantly talking about the weather but also doing sémething about it, and what is more get- tid Fasults. i. os { “How is your chimney?” asks the National Board of Fire. Underwriters, which shows that one of the principal causes of fire is defective chimneys. “We afn’t got no chimneys,” is the answer Key Westers must give, as Key West is a chimneyless city. Those few you do see are built for ornament only, Friends of Former Congressman Ruth Bryan Owen are curious to find out what her “niche” in the Roosevelt administration isgeing to be. Perhaps she doesn’t know herself, but it is not likely to be as am- bassador or minister to some foreign coun- try. Those jobs are for the ‘boys with bulging meney bags and hers is too lean ta aspire to such eminence. « Well this bank holiday business has taught us a lot of things. The importance _ ob nickels and dimes for instance. 1 used to rattle “em in my pocket and throw "em aFound like dice, but net any more. Now a‘dime to me is a “bowl of soup” and a nickel isa “cup of coffee.” I've tliat a guy don’t really have te have a halé- gtapefruit, eaimeal, two eggs, four slices of bacon, and a stack of wheat cakes for bregkfast. In fact I've been gettin’ by on tgast and coffee for over a week and ean still gallop up stairs three steps at a time, without feelin’ weak or faint—Russell Kay, found j PUT THAT DOLLAR TO WORK. A dollar spent now for construction or maintenance of property is in for a very busy time. It enters the pocket of the workman on the job. It goes to the local dealer who sells you the supplies and materials, It passes through the hands of the trans- portation companies that carry them from the factory to you. It spends a time in the coffers of the concern manufactpring them, and from there goes to its employes. It visits the related concerns ‘selling raw | bedeviled congress and one Presi- i materials and basic supplies to the manv- | dent after another, and it ts gotng pos, facturer. It goes to the government in taxes, and to the investor in the form of dividends. And, finally, it starts the cycle all over again, when someone else uses it for improving his own property. This little dollar, too, has an amazing purchasing power at this time. It will buy more lumber, more paint, more electric wiring, more of similar supplies, and em- ploy more labor than it has for several de- cades past. It will give you a chance to improve and increase the value of your property at rock-bottom bargain prices. If you keep it in hiding, it’s worthless—only by taking it out and putting it to work can: bene-' you and others gain its potential fits. So—put your spare dollars to work on your property.. Make them fix or re- new the furnace, jthe roof, the garage. Make them paint the building and repair. the steps. You'll be getting your money’s worth several times over—and you'll be providing employment in a dozen busi- nesses and doing your part to alleviate dis- tress and build purchasing power. Jobs are cheaper and. better than charity—and without jobs there won't be: any money for-charity. “SHARE THOSE JOBS” A total of 2,700,000,000 marks ($640,000,000 at current exchange) is to be mobilized by Germany during 1933 to provide jobs for as many as. possible of the nation’s 5,600,000 unemployed. The leader of the movement is to be given wide powers in order to free the program from bureaucratic red tape. A great part of the money is to be spent on major public works. : The United States’ government has also thrown its resources into the fight against unemployment and has produced some excellent results. But it is probable that Germany will discover what we have —that government relief projects can be of but temporary benefit. The solution for aggravated unemployment lies to a much greater extent in such a movement as the present “share the work’ drive. Here is an endeavor that strikes toward the root of the matter—turn ene job into two or more, To “share the work’’ costs nothing and “providing jobs is always cheaper than charity,” not to mention the social profits aceruing therefrom. Its influence on purchasing pewer is tremendous, aside from what it does to prevent and overcome distress and poverty. It is a recognition of the fact that all must cooperate to de- feat depression, and must not lose sight of the general welfare which always pre- cedes individual welfare. The fact that the movement is rapidly growing, in large businesses and small, puts America at the forefront of the nations in solving the un- employment problems of today. POWER TELLS THE STORY Consumption of electricity has long been recognized as one of the best busi- ness barometers. The volume of its sales is perhaps the most accurate of all measur- ing sticks for gauging industrial activity. It is, therefore, pleasant to record that during the last five months of 1982 the total consumption of electricity in the Uni- ted States has been constantly increasing -——and in greater proportion than the nor- mal seasonal advance. The December ad- vance last year marked a greater per- centage increase than did the same in- crease in 1930—a year of extremely high electric consumption. What, this means, of course, is, that our factories and shops and othere places of business are gradually resuming opera- tions. It will take some time for this im- provement te be reflected in the business barometers, but the change is there. It is, possibly, the best sign that occurred dur- ing the year just past. Keep your eye on the electrical statis- ties. When industry really does come back, the power curve will be the first to show it. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Our Gureriabesk! —How It Operates By William Brackart VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION Gre of. the, greatest problems which this, or any other gov- ernment, has been called upon to j sdive involves ‘the veterns dt thet World war. It isa problem that has to. beflevil more congresses, and more Presidents, for the answer is not in sight-and. in this year alone, the payments to véterans under one or another of the hundred-odd vet- eran relief acts ainounts to the as- | tounding total of $985,000,000—fust about one-fourth of the operating cost of the government, or that part paid for running expenses, All of (bis vast sum, and it has been growing year by year, is paid out through one agency, namely, the veterans’ administration. The vet- erans' administration is not in the fight ; it isnot a part of the prob- | lem, It is simply the agency through which ‘the mioney passes, never to return to the federal treasury. i Undoubtedly, there is a targe sum of this total which the taxpayers would not have returned to the! treasury, Surely, there is none who would object toa goverimental.and | public expression of gratitude in the form of compensation and care for the widows and orphans left behind by those Avho “made the supreme sacrifice, or for those men whose slives were wrecked in the service. The -care of them is recogtized:ev- erywhere as an obligation that must be met. Sut about the remainder of this sum, a real battle wages for that involves the bonus, it includes paynients in the nature of compen- sation or hospitalization arid the like for causes not remotely con- nected with the war, ‘These are the things that ‘are being questioned, and unless all signs fail, congresses of the future are ging to be con- Trented by. it, because there never has been an investigation made to disclose what share of ‘the nearly a Million dollars fatis within the recog- nized requirement. of caring for widews and orphans and war-time disabled ‘The best available figures Indicate that something like 400.000 persons are receiving payments in one forin or another under the veterans’ re lief acts, But that is net all. There is that demand, best exemplified by the bonus tinarch on Washington, for payment of the remainder of the ho. ons tn cash, Half of the sum that was inlenced origingtiy ta be pated to the veterans ‘h 1945, or prior to that thue to be pald to their bene. fick in e 7 death already has been vila te, in the form of Jews, There is ao denying, how- ever, that some of the veterans have wrgiatized powerftl groups to force legislation through to carry out their wisties, und ff they do, congress will vote a total of twe billion, four bun. dred inition dollars out of the treas: ury at one fell swoop, It has been pointed out as this bo- us question has been debuted up and down that the federal treasury 1s likely to-end the current year next Jane 30 with another deficit. It had a deficit of $983,000,000 on June 30, 1931, and more than two and a half Dillion June 30, 1982, so Imagination is not required to see what will tuep- pen if the bonus is voted. it will be either more taxes or more bend is- sues which the taxpayers of the | country eventually wil have to meet. Hut the veterans bave a claiin. They point to the fact that Afty years after the Civil war, the fed- eral government was paying peti- sions that amounted to as high as $300,000/000 ® year, and even now 65 years after the war between the states, pensions drain $125/000,000 trom the treasery. As was stated, however, the veter- | ans’ administration is not a party | to the controversy, except incldent- wily. it gees on carrying out the daws which cengress has passed and Paying out the money which con- gress has appropriated. it does the } job through some eight or ter thou- sand enrployees, seattered through- out the country, They are necessary if fuads are to be handled and if the hundred or secre hospitals te which veterans may go for treat- ment are te be supervised. The veterans’ administration has to get as near to those It serves as} can be done conveniently. Hence, the fifty-odd district offices; hence, the local physicians in se many commn- nities, hence the examining boards in so mang sections. It would ap- pear that the veterans’ administra- ; tion eats ap a tremendous sum in | slaties. The cost of handling these } payments go the reterans or their | beneficiaries is only about 5 per cent of the total. Criticism has been di- rected to the agency frem time to time, however, Indicative of some malfeasance. Undoubtedly, some of it is Justified, but the consensus of oplnios is that much of the ditticulty inte which the veterans’ administra tion falis from time to time results from the aratice of those wham con- gress has sought to benefit, They j were presented with an opportunity to get semetiiag from the govern. meet, and the goreramest lang has been eegarded as fair game. Subseribe for The Citizen—20e ‘& week 90682 2008000000000 068S 0 ODSESHSOOOUSCOLOOSCOSOSOOD Daily Cross-word Puzzle 0000C00OS COCRDODEAsaEDLA SC CROe EEO PS One ACROSS Small soft masses Lifib, Glut 8. . Ailgitted L & 2. 13. Perceive with the eyes 4 ap obstruct 5. Demolish 46. Disfiguring 18, ‘Literary Composition Lamb's sobriquet 20 22. 29. Unable to fing one’s way 31. Silkworm . Horizontal planes |. Acguiesce State positively Type of poem Billiard stick Ascended . By one’s seit 44. Outer garment . Make broader . 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Normal Precipitation ..... 05 Ins. “Thin record covers 24-hour period) ending at 8 o’ctoek thin mornings ‘Tomérrow's) Almanac Sun rises Sun sets Moon, rises Moon sets .. Pomorrow’s Tides a.M, P.M 3:34 “a 11:86 at & a ma. today. Sea level, 30.08. Lowest Jlighest Last night Yesterday 56 86 76: 60 50 48 56 56 30 44 TO: 44 Atlanta Boston .. Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit Duluth Eastport. Hatteras Hetena Huron - Kansas City .... KEY WEST .. Little Rock Miami New Orleans New York _._... Oklahoma City Pittsburgh .. St. Loui: St. Paul ........ Salt Lake City .. Sit..Ste: Marie .. Seattle Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville WEATHER FORECAST moderate southeast winds. aad 29.54 fnches; ‘while high pre: areas cover the Pacific States and upper Lake region and St. Law- renee Valley, and pressure > is moderately high in the. Atlantic -|States, Rains have occurred dur- ing the last 24 hours grom ¢ ‘Texas northeastward to: southeri ‘Michigan and‘on the north Pat east, snow in portions of the jap per ‘Mississippt Valley and ‘the .| northern Plains States, and rain Gr snow in the central’. Rackies. .| There -were: also. local: showers in northeastern Florida. Tempera- tures have risen from Oklahoma and Missouri eastward to the south and \middle Atlantic! coast, with Yeadings 32 degrees above normal in portions of the lower ‘Missouri Valley; while elsewhere changes have been generally unimportant, and ‘temperatures continue above the seasonal ayerage in most sec~ tions, ‘ G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. wensdocccnsconabocenscce ites? - = s 3 ene: 1452—Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian navigator after whom the New ‘World was called, ‘in . mis- taken belief by contemporaries that. he. was the first to discover lit, born in Florence. Died in Se- es Feb, 22, 1612, 1747—Wiltiam Duer; New York ity patyiot-of the © Revalution, merchant and financier, whose failure in 1792-cansed New York's fiyst financial panic, born in Rag~ land, Died in New York, May 7, | 1799. —s - 1782—John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina statesman, succes- sively Secretary of . War,) Vice President of the United States, U. §. Senator and Secretary of State, born at Abbeville, S.C... Died in Washington, D. C., March 31, 1850. Key West and Vicinity: Fair; 1800-—Gerard Hallock, pioneer night; Sunday partly cloudy;’ American journalist,’ born at Plainfield, Mass. Died. at .New Florida: Generally fair tonight Haven, Conn., Jan. 6, 1866. and Sunday, except showers Sun-' Happenings Here Just 10 Yeers/nounce the christening of their| {®¥ in extreme north portion Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Florida may become the great- est state in agriculture in the United States, said Roger W. Babson today. the basic natural resources.’ Fuel, shipping facilities, phosphates and climate. All the state needs is niore vision and more of the in- describable something that makes things: go, he concluded, A complete orchestra, long promised by the Athletic Club is now established ‘and will be used in’ the future at all entertain- ments given by the organization. There are seven members in the organization all of them excellent musicians, ' H. B. Bowerman, chief con- struction engineer in the light- house service is en route to Key West, accompanied by William W. Demeritt, superintendent of the district. The inspection of sites for a new lighthouse depot is to be made by Mr. Bowerman. Some time ago the depot was meved to Pensacola, and later on it was; decided that Key West was the logical point and the depot was moved back. Gory The coast guard cutter Saukee arrived in port yesterday witli the tug Petrel in tow. The Petrel, owned by the Porter Dock Com- pany, in charge of Captain Eugene Demeritt, left Key West several. weeks ago, with three barges in. tow, for Tampa. Returning’ the vessel went ashore at Gasparilla Island. The Saukee went to the rescue of the tug. Editorial comment: Spring is almost here, but no noticeable change in the weather marks the advent of spring in Key West. We | ust have nice weather right along in Key West year in and year out. * ‘Two large sailfish, caught in these waters by H. P. Shupe, of Cleveland, Ohio, have just been prepared by a well known taxi- dermist and prepared for shipment north. The fish are on display at Harris’ boat house. The body of First Mate Charles B. Stoll was shipped home to his famity in Philadelphia this after- noon. The body was taken from the steamer Atiantic San yester- day and brought to the city morgue where a verdict of heart! faflure was pronounced by . the! ———PRITCHARD’S—— FUNERAL HOME Lady Assistant i (24-tHeer Phone 548 | a tc | | one-month-old daughter, Eileen, Gardner, by the Rev. E. L. Ley. little change in temperature, , Jacksonville to Florida Straits: 3 1837-—-Grover Cleveland, 22nd land 24th President of the United 2) States, born at Caldwell; N. 3. inds | 7 Eileen Gardner Moderate to fresh southerly winds; Died at Princeton, N, 4., June 24, Ser eee ond bees over north portion and moderate! 1908. Abramson acted as God parents. vertising director, arrived in Key The. state has alli yo. yesterday. on: his. yacht] °vet extreme north. portion by, Pocantico. After staying in Key West for a few days the vessel will leave for the Everglades. The steamer Henry R. Mallory arrived in port this afternoon with 146 tens of freight and 86 passengers for Key West. She will leave tomorrow morning for Galveston, Texas. The wrecking tug Relief that left to go to the assistance of the steamer Ripen, ashore off Car- jdenas, Cuba, returned without having been needed as the steamer freed herself without the assist- ance of the tug. J. C. SANCHEZ, 0. D. OPTOMETRIST southeast over south portion, and Barron G@ Collier oted ad-| Partly overcast weather tonight 3 an. Pas! on ier, mi a a ; ine et over Sunday. night. ha . one hor “fait eh tal as East Guld: Increasing pasar and south winds becoming fresh, possibly strong at times over northwest portion Sunday. WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance is. central this) morning over Kansas, Dodge City, THIS A CONVE THE KEY MAZING NIENCE ‘WEST A. F. AYALA, Sales Manager gure;