The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1933, Page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN JOB-HUNTERS AT PROSPERITY AT MAKE BUSY SCENE U. S. INTEREST, APPROXIMATELY HALF oF, THIS WAS GIST OF PRESIDENT. MEMBERSHIP OF CONGRESS. ROOSEVELT’S STATEMENT ARE STILL THERE TAKING) TO ECONOMIC CONFERENCE PART IN VARIOUS ISSUES IN LONDON i \ | By BYRON PRICE | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) ital: pee: darlmed. | One thing, af least, the London t |, economic confereace has epg It has given the world n By HERBERT PLUMMER aie and hoase eham- the ca ene ly sionally " opened only o ionally aigbens a new understanding of America suring that all fur mit a curious up of tourists to peek in, but e iere on capitol iz m5 hil! there scems to be as much ac-' nationalism, , tivity as though, cotigress was still| ther discussions of economic re- in se: leovery must proceed in a greatly arrival found approxi-' changed atmostphere. i } hesmembarehib-of | yi mately half of the me mber nip o | Statesmen may differ as to the, the senate and house still in Wash ington: ‘They couldn’t, ‘or at, Wisdom of President Roosevelt's least, didn’t go home, and for one|Plain speaking to the conference,| reason—jobs, jobs, | but there is no misunderstanding {what he said. It was, in effect, Some of those who did go home! this: { at the end of the special session]! “The United States is interested | are back already. first of all in restoring prosperity | “I couldn’t stay at home,” one! at home. } member of the house confided the} “It does not subscribe to the’ other day “The pressure irom; theory that it should sacrifice those looking for jobs was Fark what has gained to a common! too great. Here I can at least! endeavor of doubtful outcome, inj; put up an appeavance of trying to|the hope that if the outside world) help ’em out.” lis made prosperous, ne ae banat) One need only visit the office, to get our share of the ben s. buildings members to realize| “When you speak to Washing-| what an rience they are hav-|ton hereafter on the subject of ing. Stenographers and clerks! tariffs, or price levels, or war; sod 'NEW FISCAL YEAR NATION'S CAPITAL | HOME IS FIRST HITS U. S. STAFFS , IN ECONOMY AXE HUNDREDS OF GOVERNMEN-) |p TAL WORKERS INCLUDED, IN BIG RETRENCHMENT; PROGRAM AS CARRIED OUT; | fz \ By HERBERT PLUMMER (ity Asmocinted Press) i WASHINGTC July 13.—) Uncle Sam’s start on the new fis-} cal year, July 1, wasn’t an oc easion for personal rejoicing by some of his employees. i The economy axe was due to fall | on that date—and they could not) look to that trusted bulwark, the | civil service, for protection against ; its downward swing. H Workers by the hundreds Washing in ton and out in the field were foreed to go. Unofficial es-| timates placed the number of dis missals in the neighborhood of 8,000. Those who had not already been | informed of their fate by June 30 (“Black Friday” was the desig-;| nation given in Washington of the; date) were still uncertain, { Uneasy Seats | For many of them who had not been told of their dismissal may have to go unless they ~ can be| transferred into the emergency; agencies, j Then, too, the a svlendid resting place. horde of job Pea time in old Jape, Visitors at A Century of Progress—the hicago World’s Fair—find Mie tea store in the Japanese Pavilion FORT WAYNE’S SOLONS OFFER RISE IS SHOWN EXPRESSION ON | PAGE FIVE. OM. 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Screen Door Hinges, per pair work at top speed an ering let-|debts, you will be speaking to 2 hunters that throng the capital! ters fram jol rep and ende ro percent edie eee | day by day using every known po- = H orinmg to send callers jin its own problems—and doing jj¢j, 2 Avice a sitio: 1 | fied. |very well with them, thank you." | makes see oe the presdat fea.|NEWS « SENTINEL'S RECENT, VARIOUS STATEMENTS MADE The Maddening Throng Upsetting a Tradition jeral workers anything but sure of/ PUBLICATION SHOWS IN-. RELATIVE TO ACCOMPLISH. | One encounters members down-| The painful surprise of the for-| where they stand. : town in the various government, eign powers is understandable, | Here was the situation at a| DIANA TOWN’S GROWTH IN| MENTS AT RECENT SPECIAL, departments pushing their claims.| The open-handed idealism of glance in the various depart- SESSION OF BODY American. diplomagy long had ments: nom to “Big Jim” Far-,;been a tradition. Europe had! In the state department 62 fice, patronage headquar-|not forgotton America’s renun-’ Washington employes and 50 con- eats eek H terg, is filled all hours of the day|ciation of war reparations: her sular officers were out. WASHINGTON. July 18— with members of congress and po-| gesture for disarmament, which| In the war department all tem-/ anaes ie =e est ds litieal leaders of all sorts. sank a squadron of first line’ porary employes were dismissed When the first issue of the Fort the conel A cabinet officer, noted for his| ships; her leadership in renounc-,and 5,000 arsenal workers were on ame punetuality in keeping his bi-' ing war. ,a short week pending a chance at weekly engagements with the} When the London conference! public.works jobs. Mewspapermen covering his de-| began, everyone took it for grant-| In the navy 293 dismissed partment, was minutes late the!ed that the nation least likely to! payless furloughs planned. other morning. The reporters! object to inclusive measures of, Inthe treasury 60 public health gathered around a big table in the|international concert was the Officials, 66 internal revenue at- conference room awaiting his ar-| United States. ,torneys and clerks dismissed in riyal. Finally he pushed in ap-| . Indeed, President Washington; about 500 public IN CENTENNIAL §— CONGRESS WORK | | | South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. Phone 598 White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best’’ LONG PERIOD OF YEARS Over at the post office department TIL IID IDL I aD OLD aT TD a pa ee By HERBERT PLUMMER (By Assoeinied Press) WASHINGTON, July 13,—At ion of the special ses- Wayne, Sentinei from: the press July 4, 18 big news of the day wa: from tepees and trading posts well as from paleface homes the frontier community. That was the start of a hundred years of publication, the comple- Indiana, i s there was no lack | ion of congre SS rin ph cern ct eee ete otto of statements from politicians 23) WS PBL LID SILI LSI ISIS LS III III DO aa wD aM. and to what had or ‘had not been s } as of complishet s. of Tennessee, ader of the house, i His statement re- ion in glowing democratic Roosevelt gentlemen decide a himself had gone a long way in asking for streng international ac- ) invariably the last one to join the question 62 etiquette for me?” he greeted them smilingly. “What} must I do when J have two sen-| ators in my office when the time arrives for my meeting with you?” “Depends on what they want, Mr, Sééretary,” someone joking- ly remarked. “Is that very hard to figure out?” Mr. Secretary replied, These Times! Old-timers in congress, who! have gone through change of ad- ministrations before, say they have experienced nothing like the; present. “Why I have been here fori years,” 2 veteran member of the, house said recently, “and the only} dob 1 have been able to get far ig a messenger at one of the tion. In his famous peace note of May 16 he urged that lesser considerations be put aside and that nothing be spared to make! the conference successful. What happened between May 16 and July 6? i As early as May 25 Associated’ Press dispatches from Washington recorded that expectations of suc- cess at London were sinking and that the United States was “arm-} ing itself for economic war if the economic conference fails.” The conference began June 12 with a speech by Premier Mae. Donald, stirring the delicate e of war debts, not on the program. | On his vacation cruise, the Pres. ident then began receiving reports of pressure for temporary curren-! * cy stabilization, the very thing he; # popeneet did not want beeause he feared it) Bas miscry loves company, and). ouia: halt rising American pric | they are ali pretty much in the pi wines ' ot \ same fix, Ww oue or more) — heme L of them get together, j ae jes the other about his with the pawers that be. Almost so Norman H. Da ‘from the recessed Geneva disarm- ament conference and made a re | | port which indicated no substan. tial progress, Both at London and} |Geneva, it appeared, the peace! But they're working at top, “g es note of May 16 had gone into the} peed and wearing > r | 5) d wearing out a lot of maabaek F shoe leather, apparently confident} that sooner or inter they'll get aj Another Cycle? break, | Probably every President. since i \the world war has passed thr LIST IN PRUSSIA [and en ° HITS ALIEN PRESS vis. came | group tells the gloomiest story. jand ending with a more or | }fiant return to nationalism. i | Has Mr, Roosevelt, in keeping | with the pace he traveled in domestic administration already assed through that cycle? | | WORKERS DISCOVE! SOLID GOLD IMAGES | (Ry Associated Pres CALCUTTA, July 1 gold im: of Buddha were founc by workmen repairing a pagoda i Shan States, Burma, believed be 1,000 years Other tiques and jewels of great val © were found, BSCRIBERS BERLIN fous feizing cellor papers Germany, accord the Prus ment of Chan-| 254) Toreign news-| barred =f ag oto figu ian minister 0: ave been the} vokia leads the vid old. nations tions ar Unite TO If you do not receive your paper hy 6:00 o'clock in the afternoon, use your telephone or your neighbor’s phone and call 51 and a paper will be sent to your home. A_ complaint boy is on duty at this office from €:00 to 7:15 p. m. for the of delive’ com- Hetp us give you 100 |} i} percent service by calling 51 if ;} you do not receive The Citizen i the papers on are there in- Sebseribe tor The Citizen—20c week i field, with furloughs for tion of which July 4 this year was marked for observance by the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel! in the cjty that grew from the fort col- ony of 800 people. The first cireuit court of the district embracing the little town that called itself the “gateway to the west” had been meeting several years when the Sentinel reporte or maybe it was just a reporter—began to print the news. health employes and 480 internal revenue employes dismissed in others. Customs Bureau reduced 1,000 by not filling jobs. Choose Your Exit In the justice department 71 in bureau of investigation arid 186 others removed, about 150 to go before July 15, In prohibition, 1,300 dismissed. In agriculture about 300 ployes out. In commerce 100. foreign ser- vice and 138 domestic trade agents removed; 100 to be retired, 300 married persons dismissed in} Washington and in field. Possibly 300 others to go. In the interior there are about 300 separations, furloughs for the rest, with several hundred em- ployes in the field to go. em- Murder By Permission Just about that time the sms outpost was upset by case, arising from a c permitted Indians to k lother, according to tribal But one murderer stretch the point too | citizens threw “Big Leg, Indian chief, into the ¢ The post office department has! It Seems that a wo placed its entire personnel on pay-| Half negro and half Inc less furloughs while the labor de-| been slipping into the home of partment expects a few staf! Peden ire psy posidane \time she did it. | She ignored some more m |to work for a ) Big Leg © |was hanging up clothe |where Clinton OF ROOSEVEL ' MEMBER OF REFORESTATION There he killed her, ; the irate citizens tha ARMY USES OLD CANVAS | anyway.” FOR PICTURE next the mily in t her out w nt He was sentenced to ed to be shot. Final! a prison sentence and la | pardoned. FORT BENNING, Ga., July 13 | Army Helped Cupid A piece of canvass, salvaged Army officers pe ned from a broken down army cot, was/of the marriage ceremonies used by a youthful amateur artist! couples got marriaie on which to paint a black and! Miami county, Ohio white portrait of President Roose-,9t Vincennes. velt. Harold H. Sims, 20, : Ala., is an cal records together with of the artist, and painting was made while he was Me. conditioning here for six months in ing a tra the civilian conservation corps Becau of = five children, eka duce dead. Jobless, ex-)—. river fro m sional sign paint- . " ¢ joined the refaeutetion the Wabash, sent here. Authari-, ‘he Ohio river ties recognized his tal - nd - when the portrait of Mr. Roosev was finished officers of the army post mailed it to Washington. Harold was graduated from shew tha high school at Geo a in 1932 of that day } «i hoped to enter Alabama Pely- ion plan, directe technic Institute at Auburn, whe man with prope he could study art, but was unable} ta do so because of the death of ' Geor- the chiefly at the GOT BAD } DETROIT Sweden has appropriated about, tell his wife b0@ for the only cial aviation company in the coun- try. comm tark ltor speeding. He sd money e¢ pationalis Never before in the history | | ! | | | | | \ f the country, said Byrns, in ef. feet, had so much been done for the common good us the ecial s on. was done in 2 po as B hi oes in the house, fol- r lowed suit with a statement in ame vein. Then came Bert Snell, the publican general of the house. ounding a note of dire warning. | ich thi The fundamental precepts on which | ihe nation was wounded have been wept aside, said Snell. McNary Silent Conspicuously absent in these to the country was that| y, republican and general- y regarded as one of the most as- tute of G, O. P. chieftains. There can be no doubt that Mc- Joe Robinson, of Arkansas, who |j ition in the sen- | 7 re-!7 1 | | ary has his own ideas about what happened in Washington since arch 4. He'll tell you, if you t in his opinion four of the ain to be threshed out on the stump in fu * ture elections are the tariff. sound ; treatment of the war vet- | i crans and nationalism v: inter- But 4 the be the resu : indust arm relief keeping ya other things wil ion of t or the cerned, he’s to himself. MeNary and the oth leaders, who f f thinking. attempting to throw h in the ne purpose vuntry back to employment. 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