The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 10, 1936, Page 2

PAGE fu) Che Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC, P. ARTMAN, N, Assistant Business Manager rom The Citizen Building Corer Greene and Ann Streets JOE AL unty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. entered at Key W florida i er of the Associated Press «he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for rept lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper an@ also the local news pub‘ished here. une Year nths ' | i j ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE { | Ail reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of , Will be charged for at s by churches from which e nts a line. nd invites discus- i of local or general Interest but it will not pubiish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. a "re Port. ficiels and Aparcments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. C<soiidation of County and City €ozernments. 2 Be yest a betier Tread a W ay to give Key ay. blonde Vera for paramour Stretzing | homicide a little too far. The acquittal of the the killing of her is justifiable Merchants; who advertise their —busi- show they have faith in the where they ing; if they haven't ness also com- } are making their liv- they should leave with their lugubrious mental attitude. munity watering the streets much of the been laid and the absence of the from the sand is a relief; it Ry dust has glare also makes for improvement in the general ap} p@a.ance. ‘Thank you so much, Mr, Orr.} : E ase | The Citizer is positive that there is omewhere in the United States a man with ample means who would glory in restoring E. C. if our | plight were properly presented to him. It! would not be entirely — philan thropic for him to obtain a piece of rail- | way construction that cost more than $26,- 000,000 — for pittance. | Where is he? the destroyed portion of the F. certainly a Let’s find him. comparative i | To obtain the small mium of 3: insurance pre- | 3,000 a Pensacola woman enter- ed into a plot to wieck the train on which | her The plot | failed and she and her accomplices are in| jail. That fiendish scheme could only] have been evolved in the brain of a crazy husband was the engineer. person, but not so crazy as to be irrespon- | sible and inculpable. Of course the eter- | nal triangle is at the bottom of the das- | tardly attempt. - | same degree as other citizens and s j rendered. st us avy of big business has! cketeering schemes to mulct | i WHY BUSINESS IS CONDEMNED favor private industry, as a general rule, to merit and retain popular support, must be so conducted as to serve the interests of j the people of the country. men, big and to the should not be condemned if they do what most-of us do, look to the protection of their busi- res interests. In so doing they deserve The majority of business little, are, we believe, patriotic ‘no censure and for doing so they have not been lambasted successfully at the bar of public opinion. called big business that exists in the nation today? Mainly, we would say, a convic- tion that some of the leaders of business, without interference or opposition from others, have used unfair methods terminate small competitors, have advartage of the power of concentrated i i financial strength to crush others and, re- | peatedly, have “gone into polities” to s cure from subservient governments favors that have enriched them beyond the just that should accompany In other in many reward word the public of huge sums without giving fair rett#rns: for the money extorted. The soonér honest leaders of big busi- this country realize that the public rigined to stop such practices and sooner they assist in wiping out repr es, the quicker will be the Whether it is pleas- ney the hensible pract return of confidence. ant to realize or not, the men who built the industrial and giants of which t country is proud have lost the esteem of the average citizen, largely because of a conviction that they have done nothing to protect the , nation worthwhile most entirely within the law but manage to :trip their victims as efficiently as any old pirate of days long gone. _ USING NEWSPAPERS tomers or prospective customers most eco- nomically and effectively a problem which still worries a great many business men, But it was really solved long ago, and the answer is this: Frint your mes- sage in the newspapers. Recently a Detroit electric company which serves 500,000 customers in nearly 200 cities and smaller communities wanted to send them a series of letters. sidering various methods of distributing these messages, it was decided to use local The first letter sent out, signed by the president of the company, began as follows: “We have a lot of things to tell you which are of interest because you are our customers. We might get your attention | by circulars delivered at your door, or by radio broadcast. But we think the waycto reach you ive letters im the vey per which this is the fitst Gs Jy, certain gpecial causes the use of cireulags or thetradio may be fairly effec- tive, but for definite results economically obtainé no advertising medium ever de- vised even approaches the family is newspapers exclusively. s by syecess of Representative J. Mark Wilcox has | secured a substantial sum for the relief of | the storw-stricken people on the keys. He | is also making strenuous endeavors to help | paper. COLLEGIANS START SOMETHING Starting around a table, where young | That the people of the United States goes without saying, but private industry, ; What then is the criticism against so-| to ex-; taken j eyes, | commercial } from modern freebooters who operate al-j How to reach a large number of cus- | After con-' best | news- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Fae Most of us do not like to face facts: It is easier to pretend—to hide our heads, ostrich-like—to avoid seeing what is going on around us. ” ‘Thus is with taxes. They must: be paid. None of 1 us can escape i a them and our contribu tion must come out of our incomes. j It would be | sensible to have i it more of our taxes levied : directly and { simply against our incomes. This would help us realize just how much government costs us and we would } then consider more carefully just what things we want governments to do. | Instead, we have taxes on tobacco, | on beer, on gasoline and on many other articles, paid by the manufac- turers or the dealers. As a result these articles cost as more. The pur- chasers pay.a higher price, thus really {| paying some or all of the tax, usu- ally without knowing it. In Phila- | delphia the company manufactur- ing and selling gas must pay the city each year’a specified amount for all the gas it sells to the public. As a result, it charges the public a higher price for gas. Consumers thus pay a part of their city taxes in- directly and in most cases do not | realize tha they are doing so. Another illustration is to be found in the sums due to the government of the United States from nineteen foreign governments. Our Secretary of the Treasury reports that last No- vember 15th the amount of this in- debtedness was $12,328,960,509. There | are agreements under which the in- | terest and some of the principal are due each six months. From January 1 to June 30, 1935, these agreements | called for the payment of $182,320,- 646. Only $165,453 was paid, all of this coming from one small country, Fin- land, which paid {ts obligations in full. No informed person believes that very much will ever be paid on this huge account, but we hesi- tate to face the facts and adjust the books of our Treasury Department so that they will be in line with the realities. In still another field we prefer to Tode ay’s Birthdays Fran Secretary of Labor, ton, 54 years ago. Henry P. Fletcher of Com e, 8 ittee, born * , 63 years ago. National i Greene Cross of | Mansfield, ; Governor Wilbur L. | Connecticut, born at Conn., 74 years ago. Charles P. Olivier of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, noted as-' tronomer, born at Charlottesville, Va., 52 years ago. Dr. Robert Huntet of Santa bara, Calif, sociologist, born Terie Haute, Ind., 62 years ago. Bar ! John D, Hertz of New ! banker, borin in 157 years ago. York, Sigmund Spaeth of Conn., musi¢ian, hori in | delphia, 51 years ago. Westport, George Arliss, famed actor, born 68 years ago. i a Kaye Don, English arto | power-boat racer, jago. English and} Perkins of New York, | born in Bos-| New! | York, chairman of the Republican | at at} Csechoslovakia, \ Phila- born 45 years; You and Your. Nation’s Affairs (Copyright Six Star Service) Facts 1 By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON { President, American Academy of Political » and Sogial Science do things indirectly. Americans be- lieve in ‘protecting many of our in- dustries. The list is a very long one. The simple, direct procedure would be to have Congress appropriate from year to year the amounts we are willing to give to the industries that we may think it wise to help, eg. steel, textiles, chemicals, farming. Then we would know just how much help we are giving. Instead we use the indirect method of the protective tariff requiring the importer of goods produced abroad to pay a duty, much of which is passed on to us through higher prices. As a result we are not aware of just how much each of us is paying. A recent case in point is found in the discussion over aiding our mer- has urged that our assistance to American vessels should be in the form of a direct grant by Congress but his proposal has been voted down. We shall probably continue our long Practice of helping vessels flying the United States flag by paying them huge sums for carrying a small amount of mail. This suggests the curious way in which we manage the finances of our Post Office Department. A favorite indoor sport is to criticize that de- partment because it spends each year more than it takes in. Every Post- master-General is blamed because his accounts show a deficit. But much of this deficit is due to failure to man- age our public affairs in a simple, straightforward manner. Think of the expense the Post Office Department must meet over which it has no real control. There are those mail contracts with Ameri- can vessels which exist because we wish to aid our merchant fleet. There are similar mail contracts to aid the corporations that carry mail by air. There is the franking privilege granted to members of Congress, an item which costs the department a great deal but brings in no revenue. There is our belief in low postage rates for second class mail matter which must be carried at rates far below the cost of handling such mail. There are many other possible il- lustrations but these are enough. If we are to be intelligent about gov- ernment activities and government expenditures, we must proceed more directly. So long as we act so indi- rectly, so long as we do not face the facts, we shall not be very effective in our criticisms. We cannot plug the gaps unless we know where they are and how large they are. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Today In ‘History | 1790—Fi ed by Congr t Patent Act enact- s—granting of pat- jents jointly vested in Secretary of State, Secretary of War and the Attorney-Gene-al. I 816—Second Bank of the ‘United States incorporated by ' Congress for 20 years. 1845—Pittspurgh almost | pletely destroyed by fire. H com- i 1866—Ame ica: » Seciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals organized in New York City, {with Henry Bergh president. | 1869—Congress fixed Supreme Court judges at nine—had been j'11 by Act of 1863 end 8 by Act lof 1866. Wirt of Gary, Ind., about famous —Dr. ells congress eee BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME! Serving Key West Half Century -~ 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embaimer Night 696-W ' | DAYS GONE BY | ae Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen { ‘The ‘water Construction company con-; Fas Key Largo with the main- land has been completed accord-'! ting to a report made by the com-| [pany and the county engineer. {The road is being surfaced and the rapidity with which this is} | being done indicates that the pro-) j mise made by the contractors that} ;the road would be in readiness in bridge built by the Tide- ° FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936. Last week was “Courtesy Week” | some and Mayor Leslie A. Curry reports “Much new ple:t active and great shou ting aside a time in which to be | especially courteous” said the mayor. Police and other city em- ployes have been cooperating with the mayor in making the week 2 {great success. Taxi drivers also exe tet adveaturee — and t did their share in making the * period 2a successful vepture im the! chant marine. President Roosevelt { |30 days may come true. checevance of the ifm. i | A picnic party numbering about 18 members of the younger set which was arranged by Garland Felton and chaperoned by Miss Leota Grillion, are spending the’ day at Boca Chica, having left the city this morning im cars for the objective point. The picnickers provided themselves with a bount:- ful supply of refreshments and will remain at the Key all day enjoying the outing. The crowd wil] return to the city 's pleasure about sun this afternoon. Key West Country Club will |not have its opening Wednesday | night as was at first announced. Judge Jefferson B. Browne went north on a vacation a few days ago and the opening has been | postponed until his return. This announcement was made today by Robert Spottswood, president of the club. ! Since the delinquent tax list was from the turned over to Chief of Police | Cleveland Niles five days ago, the ‘chief has collected $1.800. Ser- geant of Police Laurie Roberts and Police Officer Harry Sawyer are looking after the collections. They say the people cheerfully pay when they find to what use the funds are to be put. dow? _ emer o pee moo © cow tee tee tut ane snow so Chairman J. Otte Kirchheimer at of the board of county sioners, wil] leave Tuesday Tallahassee where he will meet Fons Hathaway, state read com- missioner and commissioner chat jman of Dade and Colier counties The object of the meeting is *e discuss location cf the Tamiam Trail through Monroe, Dade and Coilier ‘counties. comm? res meen ans wee Editorial comment: Be sure to get fixed up so you can vote in the June primary. The books are, open now, and so it is the oppor- tunity. 2 Se Installation of a new anil lacie lighting system at First | Methodist church has been com- | pleted at a cost of $450 and is a |source of much pleasure to the congregation and that indefati- gable worker, Rev. L. Munro. \ WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS Arrangements are being made for a card party to be given Mon- day evening beginning at 8 o’clock in Mrs. Mary McKnight’'s office in La Concha hotel for the benefit of the Catholic Daughters of* America. There will be bridge and five hundred. Prizes will be awarded and refreshments served. The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System The Narkeeta vessel which was found abandoned off Chandeleur Island several days ago is now a complete loss according to an j announcement made by Chief Pay Clerk Earl Dodge, of the Coast Guard Department. The vessel was seized by a coast guard vessel ahd 1,025 cases of expensive liquors were found. The major portion of the liquor was destroy-, Member of the Federal Deposit insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary Pe CL ZLZLAZLLLiLita American Gold Band DINNERWARE We are proud to announce that we have just re- ceived a complete line of AMERICAN GOLD BAND DINNERWARE — Dinnerware that is conservative but modern to the last line. We Will Carry Open Stock <- & ® « a 4 ) IN) % ) 4% & ® ® : “8 ACKSONVILLE FLORIDA YOUR adecus comer oe ee = bee eroe wom ee mer ee euttnaniiatingfion.comstciintihamn _ PP PPP oP PP A (Ab bbb dh AA ho dd hdd WOOO IIIIIII IS TS aaa wi. 5 SITTTTTTTITOOTIMEO TEE TE EOE “a, college men discussed the passage of the | jectives is the of the Naval| aa 5 oldies bone ou nd ormenized es “a ae eet aie: : g | Spirit of fun, the Veterans of Future Wars | Station to active status, as well as all the a ae E ' spread spontaneously to hundreds of camp- ; other governmental activities. He is ask- | 2 uses and the newspapers of the nation! ing the government either to do this printed the news of their travesty on the! give back to Key West the valuable lands | 1 - 2 : »onus hunters amid the amused laughs of} housing the various government properties milisne now in disuse with practically only a care- } Briefly, the future veterans want ihe aking status. : taking status now, while they can enjoy it, before ; i being killed. They have a national com- |? } mander and a salute for the new order—,# America’s most| right arm held out, palm up. Denounced | Mira Skat-! and derided fortheir stunt, the collegei{; bek de Norzybska, internationally known}! boys were amused to find that the idea!” portrait painter. In this coterie, the coun- | had support and, unless present signs fail, | tess also included Frances Perkins, Mrs. | the organization will continue. Already, | Calvin Coolidge, Katharine Cornell and | its officers have offered to submit all; Helen Hayes. ‘‘These women do not have} papers, telegrams, etc., to the Lobby com-' skin-deep beauty, which is the usual con-! mittee for investigation, being a patriotic ception,” she said. “Theirs is intellectual! organization with nothing to conceal! beauty, which does not fade.” To which We are for the boys—their action in- this column is pleased to add that they are} dicates, at least, an interest in life’s real- also the sort that “age cannot wither nor | ities and may have consequences which no; custom stale their infinite variety.’ one can foresee, Key West get on its feet. One of his ob- Now you can fill in those broken pieces of a set or even get a new set, as we will carry a full stock of each piece. 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