The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen xcept Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. AKTMAN, President N. Assistant Business Manager he Citizen Building Ann Streeta Published Da JOE AL From and Newspay y West and Monroe {| entered at Key V as second class matter PIPTY-SEVENT ely entitled to use ws dispatches credited to er iin this paper and also 4l news pub/ished here. f SUBSCRIPTION RATES = $10.00 | 5.00 2.50 | 85 ADVERTISING Made known on application, RATES N cE of thanks, resolutions of , will be charged for at y churches from which NTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Rridges to complete Road to Main- land =e Port. .eis ana Apariments, Bsthing Pavilion. Aicpoits—Land and Sea. s isoiidation of County and City i Co7zernments, Batter ( Good evening! Are you a registered hivom door has no lock be avoided by “Sing Conp ratulations Night Editor of thi to Friday on artival eventh birthday. of it ha. th right to be proud calied statesmen in ds te their Silence | exercise there will be no war. ominous, the baseball season of the now major until »ace hit will be heard rues opens today and from creck of the yout the land. Duval plained bitterly of the poor business done ter 1, veral street merchants com- The answer is simpie— | failed to advertise, but those who did j sot the cream of the Easter business. j The leading article of Friday Night, an independent newspaper published in Mi “Why Forget Key Although the article is a lugu- amie as West?” briou captioned illumiration of conditions in the Is and City Editor towards the evident purpose of Girton, ways kindly di-posed and picturesque is to be helpful and for which he oldest most am W. Getzer spoke in the interest | tate treasurer in Key | The incumbent is ". V. Knott who could retire a pension which is about half otf emoluments of the office. According program candidacy for $2500 annually, othe New Deal spending Sam hould get the job which would add $2500 expenditures of the state, but econ- omy, now to the somewhat out of fashion, re that Mr. Knott continue for another term and :ave the taxpayer: the pension tha or defeat at the polls | \i quires is retirem would entail. Da Chappel, candidate for governor, peech- here last week, was given ap- probation and applause when he caustie- uly condemned the nefarious practice of | Governor Sholtz in requiring the tesignation of all who by virtue signed of his into of: ads language that the incum- nt or better still the must 1 to his master’s voice on bended knee 1 the army of unemployed until he learn how to bow his head in abject ve-ted authority, he puts meats in simple beneficiary | ubmis.ion and make amends by humble { genuflexion. | ; of space will be sold for this CONCERNING THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS The editor of The Citizen, like other newspaper men, knows that a newspaper { the business of the public. When it comes to what shall be printed, what shall be played up, it is very muchly the is, more or less, what views shall be expressed and public’s business, but when it) comes paying the freight and keeping the jour- nal operating, it is much less the public in- terest. The only of thi have publishe newspaper i from selling its advertising space and sub- scriptions to The Citizen. It is extremely { rare that anybody asks us for a free sub- scription, but it is an everyday occurrence when somebody comes in, with a request for free advertising, which they naively | call a “notice.” The advertising price of this news | paper is fixed at what we believe is a fai rate. It is necessary in order that the paper may meet its demand: Of course we assume that a certain average amount purpose in of the paper_for news matter, which we print for our advertisers as well as our readers, be- a newspaper pulls for each issue, and reverve the — rest cause } when its reading matter pulls the reader. Now, we do not intend to convey the idea that our local advertisers are free space grafters. In almost every instance where a local man or a local organiz has asked for free space they have done so without understanding exactly what was involved. What The Cit plain about is the lack of local merchants and business men en does com- interest by the to in- crease their business volume and profit by the universally adopted method of adver- tisirg through the pr There is so much of the decadent town mental attitude — to- ward advertising chrystallized in the glib statement that everybody knows me and my business and when they reed anything in my line they will come to my place of They that advertising serves several useful purposes; it saves time, it i Husiness, forget a conv pective customers, and it is an invitation to visit the store for mutual profit. Apid2 from the purely selfish motive, it also en- ables the publisher to produce a_ better paper, serving as an additional accom- modation to their which the readers have come to recognize ap- customers, and preciate. Advertising pays in more ways than one, SOME BIG SALARIES As provided by the revenue act otf 1934, the Treasury Department has re- cently issued a report giving the names of more than $15,000 a year, of which there are some 18,000. are petcons drawing calaries of A few of the highest salaried one listed as follows: William Randolph Hearst heads the with $500,000, while Mae West drew $340,000, and Walter Gifford, president of the American Telephore and Telegraph Company, received $210,000. received a salary West, but some Bing Crosby re- No other movie star approaching that of M of them did very nicely. ceived to $200,000, Constance Ben nett drew $176,000, W. C. Fields was paid $155,000, Marlene Dietrich got $145,000 early $140, close and Gary Cooper received 000. Walt is listed as draw 1934, but his Mickey Mouse fame ig only $51,000 salary iv returns from royalties prob- ably netied him a very large sum in ad- dition. Disney of the avowe Col, Frank Knox, publisher of who is an candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, would j Chicago Daily News, st break even to | sources of revenue that the} come | advertisers | ation | ience to actual and pros- | if hej should happen to be elected, as he now } receives § 100 a year alary. Perhaps the highest paid person in the United States for al years ha: been George W. Hill, president of the Am- erican Tobacco Company, whose salaries and bonuses combined ran between $600,- 000 and more than a million nually. The question natu sev dollars an es to whether any man is really worth that much as | money, but Mr. Hill’s stockholders and di- rectors seem to think so, and his company has made large profits all during the de- pression, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs (Copyright Six Star Service) Killing the Silver Goose By NEIL C AROTHERS Director; College of Business Administration, : Lehigh University A brief outline of the extraordinary drama of silver in American history appeared in this column a short time ago. It is a strange and ugly story of political schem- ing by political Pirates, of a whole people being led to currency disas- ter time after time by false propaganda. In that article reference was made to the sixty-year struggle of the silver interests to get the gov- ernment to line their pockets by “d ing something for silver,” to the presi- dents who were fooled or bullied into signing bad laws, and to the complete surrender of the present administra- tion to these schemers. And they have ended up by over- doing their piracy. Here is how they did it. As you know, silver is not used as a standard money by any nation on earth except China. It is used in a great many countries, the United States included, as a cheap material for small change, like copper or nickel. But that use has nothing to do with real money or prices or trade. In the face of this plain fact, known to any sophomore in a respectable college, a little bloc of United States senators year after year told the president and the country that one- half the world’s population use silver as standard money, that if this nation would buy silver and raise its price all these imaginary nations using sil- ver would then have a more valuable |money and could buy more goods from this country. Would you believe it possible for this bare-faced fraud to work in a nation of people who can read and write? Would you believe that as fine a man as Senator Borah would join this group of Senators? In 1933 President Roosevelt signed a bill compelling the U. S. Treasury to buy all silver produced in this country at 6414 cents an ounce. The price abroad in gold standard coun- tries was about 27 cents. The price in this coutry in our devalued paper they got through another law, order- ing the Treasury to buy silver from any place until the amount piled in the Treasury equalled one-third of all the gold in the country. The government began buying, se- cretly, unknown amounts. This secret buying inflamed the speculators. The ing to the Senators, thi to help “half the world.” It was going to enable poor old China to buy more from us. What it actually did was what the economists had said it would. It em- barrassed a half dozen nations by making their small change disap- pear. And it ruined China. As the price of silver went up China began trade went sick. China begged country to stop. The silver inter- erable subsidy. And China gave up the silver standard. The last big market for silver is gone. The silver crowd killed the they still have another goose they are counting on. States Treasury. They may kill that goose too before they are done. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Today In History 1828—First edition of the fa- mous Webster Dictionary pub- ‘hed. 1865—President Lincoln shot by Booth at Ford’s Theater, Washington—Seeretary of State j Seward murderously assaulted on 3 sick bed. 1873 — Historic . Louisiana Slaughter House case decision by the U. S. Supreme Court—a five to four decision—confirmed Fed- eral activities as existing along with states’ activities but that tates in no wa! subordinate. 1912—Steamship Titanic on ose cee | Today bestows a pleasure-lov- ing nature which revels in ter and light occupation. may seem to be an antips erious thought vestigation but a car often shows an un cercurrent of a meditative nature, and that the light actions are but a desire to avoid serious thoughts that may not be pleasant her maiden vo. from Liver- pool to New York struck iceberg shortly before midnight off New- found!and—1517 lives lost. ace ! 1931—Republi: Spain. proclaimed — in In 1934 | ests said no. They wanted their mis- | goose that laid the silver egg. But ! It is the United | sc0ecee! |Today’s Horoscope! TODAY’S WEATHER Lowcst Highest + stion— ast night last 24 hours Atilene 2 nesday; not mr perature. Jacksonvi and East winds and fair Charleston _.. Wednesday ‘Chicago S i = Denver | Detroit Galveston | Havana : Huron ! Jacksonville Kansas City KEY W:ST Little Rock Los Angeles Pressure Mexico, nehe: most follows Minneapolis New Orlea: ; New York Pensacola ; Pittsburgh . Louis Sen Francisco 4 seattle Tampa } Washington j Willi ton 38 price of silver rose dizzily. Accord- | was going | Temperatures* | Highest | Lowest Mean ; Normal Mean = ’ Rainfall* t in Maximun ly Precipitation {Normal Precipitation terday’ to lose her only money. Prices went | Sun ri Sun sots Moon ri 6 a ; Moon s : - i Tomorrow's Tides A.M. Sea level, WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m.. Wednesday) Key West Vicinity: Fair } tonight and Wedne-day; not much ‘change in temperature; gentle riable winds, KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District First Class. Sensible Rates Fireproof — Garage Eleva Popular Prices Pa Maa LL EB Ba LM BM. —_—__ es II IID PIII SP IS TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936. Florida: Fair tonight a WEATHER CONDITION es I MF \ WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Depos:t insurance Curperation U. S. Government Depositary t SSSSSSSS SSS SSSSSSSSSOOED Today's . \ ALALALALALAAA AAA Ae * ) A LIGHT SMOKE OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO I smoke for pleasure, my minds at rest I smoke Luckies Each Puff Less Acid a Light Smoke of rich, ripe-bodied tobacco “ it’s toasted’ ’ Luckies are less acid Recent chemical tests show* that other popular brands have an excess of acidity over Lucky Strike of from 53% to 100%. SMPESULTS VERIFIED BY IMDEFENDENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH GROUPS Copyright 1936, The American Tobsceo Company —"IT’S TOASTED” Your throat protection — against irri