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

ecm pn re Published Daily ‘Except Sunday By SME CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. kL, Px ARTMAN, President. From The Citizen Pe eens Corner ner Greene. ar and Ann Si Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Only Daily Newspap: ees Matared.at Key West, Florida, as second clags matter FIFPY-FOURTH YEAR Member of the Associated Prese Ascocinted Press ts exclusively entitled to use 55 ag sbitcation ‘of all news dispatches creutted to Mj OF Not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published } here. SUBSCRIPTION RASKS veadandgaar eat eran ween ADVERTISING RATES Made known on Application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ete notices, ete., Will be charged for at nts a Ime. - for entertainments by churches from ‘which jerived ure 6 cents a line. t it will net publish anonymous com- ——— NATIONAL Fema apdyent REPRESENTATIVES LANDIS & ZORN 380 Pork Aver New Yon ‘ork; 35 Hast Wael CHICAGO; General Motors, vise, we Fo ton Bid. A eS i incl cater i al nl a a "Beer won't go down until the price Beer everywhere, and it has a_ wal- loPageasoeks me pocketbook. “ews from the reforestation front has been zather meager, so far. ae z ie aabhe age of miracles is not over. A Muscle oals bill has actually become a law. ; i “Let's get the money for the bridges first, before we consider bids for building thet sh ge “President Roosevelt seems to be about the. nly man in the United States who knows what it’s all ede Things should be ibitighter this year. “ere to be'no evlipses of either sun Visible in the Unted States. ‘Wooain. is if jabireat com- should soon have inspiration for y Inflation Symphony for wind in-. are e Anyway, they don’t to explain their fool letters to a jury or an iavestizating samaelttee. ‘dectated ‘by an bbesfver: that the ot war is greater than in 1913.” We .can stand the mienace, if a way can i be tound to avert the war. York City voted 41 to 1 for re- ee believe the bitterest advocate bs “the Bighteenth Amendment will admit THAT. is decisive. . No doubt THERE of “At the people. Tr eit. ts oj maemenemememeanehen safety authority says every » dfVRFAhould learn to skid his car and then bfing tout of the skid safely, If we ever vy! ily take any lessons like that it 4 ee sotrespondence course, fue read that thane were no swear words in the languages of early American Indj@i But the aborigines never had to cqftQyh with radio crooners and automo- iteRtad hows. + "Fascism under “Mussolini with his black shirts is acknowledged as sutcessful at Teht by Hitler and his brown shirts, ab@ hw by Senhor Preto of Portugal and hisBlu® shirts. There are still other colors left in this pare rainbow. on tn® pi iA Shabiphis newspaper nap, appears in the Memphis city direc- tory, a8.a “waiter” instead of a “writer.” Moshevery writer is a waiter for a long time ‘ore he arrives. All who write know how to wait. +— JP. Morgan testifying before a senate committee admitted that neither he nor hi immediate business associates paid income taxes for the past two years. Yet the ‘House of Morgan is one of the largest financial institutions is the world with as- sets towering above $500,000,000. So by some trick of financial legerdemain mil- lionaires are enabled to dodge income taxes while the honest little fellow must part.with a portion of his pitifully small incomeearned by the sweat of his brow. , Gepe “Travis, REAL ECONOMY BSS As The Citizen has remarked before, it is in full aceord with the endeavor of the Economy League of Key West to re- duce the local expenses of government, but believes the league has not gone far enough. The proposed consolidation of several offices in the city government would save hundreds of dollars monthly, but how much more could have been saved had the lxague worked for the consolidation of municipal and county offices? is a city and a county the size of Key West and Monroe the work in three and, in some instances, four offices could be done in one at a.saving of thousands of dollars. Besides, efficiency would be pro- moted by having the work done by one directing head, ‘ One item in the affairs of the city, advocated by the league, is not economy at all because it does not save the tax- payer a penny, and that is the discon- tinuance of the publication of the delin- quent tax list. That apparent saving protects the taxdodger, not the taxpayer, for the pub- lication of the list does not cost the tax- payer anything, but the cost, instead, is paid by the taxdodger. It may be declared that the city pays for the publication in the first place and has to trust to luck to collecting the money from the delinquent taxpayer when, through the transfer of his property, or otherwise, he pays the taxes in order to give the buyer a title free of all “en- cumbrances. That view may be true ordinarily but it is not true is the case of Key West and the publication of the city delinquent tax list in The Citizen. The city has not paid The Citizen a penny for the publications of the list for five years and owes The Citizes about $12,000 on which no interest has been or will be paid. Further than that, on many a piece of property that the city, ‘when collecting delinquent taxes, has also collected for the cost of publication of the tax list, the money thus obtained has been kept by the city, instead of having been paid to The Citizen. It may be said also that The Citizen will get the money some day. In that re- gard, the best that can be done is to hope that the-money will be paid, because any- thing more substantial than a “hope’’ is not justified by the present state of the financial affairs of Key West. The only way, so far as The Citizen can see, that the money will be paid is if property owners in Key West, due to activity in the local realty market, pay thei: taxes, and should that come to pass sufficient amounts will be obtained from delinquent taxes, in the payment of pub- lication assessments, to give The Citizen the money that: has been owed it for sev- eral years, Therefore, in the final - analysis, as was remarked before, the taxdodger, not the taxpayer, pays for the publication of the delinquent tax list. In passing, it may be observed that many people heretofore have paid their taxes rather than see their names in the delinquent tax list. Aw that is true, isn’t it true also that, when the list is no longer published, some taxpayers, who have been paying heretofore, will take advantage of that condition not to pay them? Finally, The Citizen assures the Eeonomy League that it has the unstinted support of this paper in every movement not only for the reduction of the cost of local government but also in every other matter that will promote and conserve the interests of Key West. ‘The Citizen's only regret is that the league did not use its pruning knife to a far greater extent than has been the case. | FIGURE IT OUT Here js a little problem arithmetic for you: You have-two piles of dolfars, You have been spending from one of them, and it is growing alarmingly small. So you step spending from it, and take the dol- lars from the other instead. This, you say, is economy, and the reduction of expenses. Absurd as this problem is, it is. no | more absurd than the antics of our legisla- | tive bodies in the matter of taxes. They shift a tax from one class of property to another—thus taking the money from “different piles”—and cali it tax reduc- tion. For government, as for an indivi- dual, there is but one way to reduce tax- es—spend less money. in simple THE KEY WEST CITIZEN © PO CCCO Re mF eee wresasucresscrueenaeHeseseresenesaes Daily Cross-word Seda ©0000 0006000 30008000000080080000000000000)08 ACROSS S:1ution of Yesterday's Pumice one piace. & Waten pocket [PIAIC TT Ole i | WIETLIC] e Tt Ws iracies 20, Thi ra Wreetala Es 23. Point a 28. Expert" 37, Night before 38. Sieh pet ‘outer gar- ment $2. Matt bev $8. Play on we 49 ce in New Hampshire ae ae oan 208 oa IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Mere Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Rev, W. E. Bryant will preach} the commencement sermon for: the class of 1923 at the Fleming Street ghurch at 8 o’clock Sun- day night, it was announced: to- da: The graduates are pupils of the Eighth Grade, Section B., of the Harris High school. Cer-! tification exercises will be held The buzzard above the two friends ut the Harris school building ont circles down, Tuesday at 7 o’clock when the! And looks at them both with a Rev. S. A. Wilson will be speak-} —glowering frown. er of the Guerin’ He then flies away and the friends run and hide. “He'll return,” says the Puff, “and take us for a ride!” Luis Angel Hino: famous box-| er from the Argentine Republics! who will meet Johnny White, Philadelphia “White Hope” on June 2, in Havana, will arrive in} Key West tomorrow afternoon on his way to the Cuban Capital.) Cuhan Consul Domingo Milora has been chosen by the Athletic Club of Key West to meet the fighter and weleome him to the city. cove evevwouvevcece TODAY IN HISTORY Seesoeeeesa sere 1787—U. S. Constitutional Bias vention, with delegates from all the States except Rhode Island began in Philadelphia. 1871—Famous Lloyds’ of Lon- don (originated about 1688) in- corporated. 1932—Hitlerites chased Com- Deputy Sheriff Angus H. Me Innis yesterday afternoon served receivers notice on the master of the Walrus, Captain W. K. Kiay-[munist members out of Prussian roch. The Walrus was captured] Piet Building, Berlin. with a load of 300 cases of liquor | ———— RIEeD: by the coast guard cutter Saukee.| Miami in reply to which Mr. Har- ris replied no. Frank Avila was fined $50 yes- The commending officer of the Saukee charges that the vessel was within the three mile limit jterday afternoon in police court jwhen he pleaded guilty to hav- ing bolito paraphernalia in his possession. A fine of $100 and costs wis imposed by Judge H. H. Taylor on the 24 Greek spongers caught re- cently off Marquesas while violat- ing the sponge laws of Florida. All of the spongers arraigned pleaded guilty to using diving| criminal court paid the fines, will suits. ‘The suin paid by the pris panes tomorrow for Tarpon oners for the release including! Springs in the four boats they fine and costs was $3,415.82. The| were using for their sponging op- judge warned ; the defendants) erations. that if caught in the future that fine will be the full penalty of A display of the work of the $500. Boats and diving appara-| pupils at the Kindergarten school tus were ordered returned to the} can be seen at their schoolroom owners. at Eaton and Simonton streets. RE Mothers and others interested ere. Editorial comment: ‘Automo-| invited to pay PY = visit. bile drivers who wateh the scenery instead of the rond ate liable to} become a part of both. The 24 Greek spongers Who were fined $100 and costs each in More than 100 care of pineap- ples were shipped out over the East Coast this morning from Raids on three houses yester-/ this city to points of distribation day, two on Mickens Lane and) in the north. ome on Petronia street, by police! officers but no remlts were ob-| aaliaad tained. The chief of police pe File Spee F pms elared this afternoon that Sil | her son-in-law, W. D. Hearne, of doors of the places raided were) Tampa, informed her of the burn. tarred we he sffcer arivet ling af the Hearne heme tn that This, he believes, was done while: city on Wednesday. Mrs. Hearne evitence of bolito and otherlwas formerly Miss Marguerite gambling were being destroyed. Archer of Key West. Attorney J. Vining Harris, ¢am-| petece Oat @idate for Judge of the 1}th Dis-j)quietiy Impertal trict, was asked today by Gover-lic refund money if it telle--aave ner Cary Hardee if he was ap- pointed would he agree to live in Subscribe for The Citizen. THURSDAY, MAY Rie 1933. TODAY'S WEATHER | ed = 'this morning from the nofthera Highest 7 Plains States ‘eastward to the t AT north Atlantic coast, and over Mean | southwestern Aistriets, and . mod- Normal Meine erate h pressure areas cover Rainfall’. | most of. the Rocky. Mountain re- Yesterday's Precipitation T. Ins./ }gion and central Piains © States, Normal Precipitation .: .12 Ins | and: southeastern’ portions ef the “This record covers 24-hodr pertoa COUNtry.-° Showers and thander+ ending at S o'clock thix morniag, ) storms have ‘occurred ‘doring the = Tomorrow's Almai Mast 24 hours from the lower Rio’ 5:38 a. m.| Grande Valley northward ‘to west- 7:10 p. fast ern North Dakota, and from Ar- ‘7:32 @ ML) kansag nottheastward over the 9:68 p. M.| North and Middle Atlantic States, i being Reavy in’ central ‘Téxas. > P. M.{ Temperature’ changes have “been generally sli and readings are” 5:29) above nornial this morning over Harometer nt 8a. m. today: _|'most sections of the country, ex- Sea level, 29,99. cept in portions of the Rocky A : : Mountain region where they‘ “are Lowest Highest | Slightly below the ‘seasonal aver- Last Night Yesterday | #8e 58 82 ‘Temperature* BUSINESS FOLLOWS FLAG IN-| TO CAPITAL; HERETOFORE JEHOL WAS REGARDED AS' PART OF MONGOLIA By JAMES A. MILLS (ity Axnoeinted Irexa) JEHOL CITY, May 25.—Japan' rapidly is turning attention to commercial ‘development. of this newly - conquered provinee for the benefit of her own people and! of the state of Manehukuo. Heretofore Jehol was vied as a part of Mongolia, and there was scarcely a single Japanese within the 65,000 square miles that constitute the province. ‘American Bar’ Appears Now, however, Japanese mer- chantes and concession-seekers are pouring into this capital and other large cities. } The first Japanese institution to make its appearance here was an “American. Bar,” run by a former Japanese sailor. It is liberally! @) Paso patronized by soldiers. Geisha! Galveston girls, who invariably follow the] Hatteras army, also are filtering into Je-j| Helena hol. Jacksonville .. The Japanese army authorities,| KEY WEST . in cooperation with Manchukuo} Los Angeles . officials, are ‘setting up new civil} Miami - administrations in the cities, towns} New Orleans ‘and villages. The former Chin-| New York . ese Weal officials, who fled be-| Oklahoma City . fore the Japanese invasion, are] Pensacola being urged to return on promise Phoenix that they will be restored to their] Pittsburgh old positions. St Ke Summet May Bring Trouble | Salt Lake City . Except for occasional raids by| $M, Brancisco .- bandits and local tings, com- Tai plete peace and r reign in Warhiigion Jehol. With the coming of - the) winiston warm weather, however, it is ex- pected the thousands of former Chinese soldiers. and brigands: S. KENNEDY © Official in Charge, BOOS eo evevedeocureoseneeD TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS - John R. Mott, famed Y. M: GC, A, leaier, born at Livingston Man- or, N. Y., , 68 E semis ago, Col. ecko Johnson, U.S. Ay the only man to hold the four | highest awards the U.S. Army | confers, born at Charlotte, N. C.. | 59 years ago. ‘ Henry Breckinridge, of’ New York. eminent lawyer, born in Chi- cago, 47 years ago. ? Dr. J, McKeen Cattell, of New York, famed born at Easton, Pa., 73 years ago. i: Dr. Selskar M., Gann, eanitar ian-vice president of the! Rocke- feller Foundation, born in —— j land. 50 years ago. WEATHER FORECAST who scattered into the hills, will crm 8° FY a | p.m. Friday) emerge from their hiding places.|. Key ‘West and Vicinity: Partly These disbanded soldiers con- cloudy tonight and Friday; gentile! stitute a menace not only to the to moderate east and ‘so theast Japanese and Manchukuo armies, ind a suit - but also to the natives, who may be foreed to house anid feed them| nione and nee Se and supply them with money. Jacksonville to Florida Straits To cope with this danger the} Gentle to moderate enst or south-| Japanese are placing small Jap-} east winds and generally fair) anese and Manchukuo garrisons] weather tonight and Friday. } at strategic points. if: Wonuce Bards Tense East’ Gal Moderate east and The situation along the west- ern border fronting the Chahar’ area remains disturbed, Tens of thousands of Chinese troops, fearing the Japanese intend to drive for Kaigan, in Inner Mon- olia, are stationed along this rontier. Several clashes have occurred, John T: Winterieh, of New York, editor of the American Legiott | Monthly and bdibiephile, born at Middletown, Conn., 42 years ago. F publisher, born Grapswick, Cana., 54 years ago, Key Weat’s First Funeral Home Key West's First Ambulance COTTE TETEED. frets THOMPSON ICE CO. Is offering a complete line e Ae Ot COCSR OS OOTLEEEWESDeEvEDe TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Some days are well balanced:and this is one.of them. 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