The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1936, Page 2

PAGE Eos The _ West Citizen NG CO. INC. . ARTMAN, President SN, Axwixtant Business M From The Citizen Building d Ann Streeta ager unty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. entitled to use stien of all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year Bix Months Three Months - Month ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, - se ading notice IAL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of , Will be charged for at y churches from which 5 cents a line. vrum and invites discus- ubjects of local or general } anonymous communi- | sion of 1 Interest but it will ne cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. e Fort. Flores ana Aparcments, baching Pavil: Airporis—Land and Sea. c2y Ge ion of County and City zernments, The quicker we get Pal (oth the Ritter will feel. case the better we Setting a good example for your chil dren takes all the fun out of middle age. Without the sturdy Hull in our ship of state, we would rock along worse than ever. ements in The Citi- which can be spent ia ave money on other things. Take Miller, care of your pennies, says Olin apher, and your dollars care of the boondogglers. the pare will take Americana: Nine social workers go at Daytona where only one Join the to conference or two will do all the talking. FERA and see the world. The cloud of depression that has been } vering over us for a long time, has however, so far it looks like an imitation which in turn may be the sin- cerest flattery, he a silver lining too, but after all a spurious art- icle is never the real stuff. ident Roosevelt is line toward the right. he disc of Pre swinging into} Yesterday he stated imed emphatically any intention with propositions } without the consent of cong and step, we trust, wil! be the acceptance Supreme Court with proceeding larger his | next of grace, decisions good We Pegler, returned from Europe, pendir the columnis there ¢ splurge on in England which re- the Florida boom. We do not wish merrie old England any hard luck } but unaware che is in for a rude awaken- is riding on such wave of prosperity. sterook just say: is minded him of ing, if she insecure an paragraph, Oscar the Odd Mc “illations,"” ‘“*gu-! Likes to use odd dic- | Not one read- and knows offhand the def- Small wonder In one words “obreption.” and have his readers run to the tionary, Intyre, uses the losity” and word if they are curious. er in ten thou of th: words. } | } called Odd. inition se Oscar is Both city ar so-called advertising fund as a sort of foot- ball to be used for any and all By advertising is meant just what the word | mea sive of any other | implication and does not lerd itself to any other interpretation. Advertising con- | notes to notify, to announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to publish. A matter of} which the people of Key West desire to be| informed is how can a voucher be drawn against an advertising or contingent funds! when no such fund exists. Is that high fi-| rance, prestidigitation or what? 1 county are using their) } purposes. | and it is not subve: | chologists would call the inferiority com-| | that shouts so much about what j for Key West. It is not as large as Chicago, ; to create, WHY WE LIKE KEY WEST There are any number of towns the size of Key West suffering from what ps} plex, making all sorts of ridiculous claims in order to convey the impression that they are totally devoid of hick influence. It is worth noting that the small town it has, what it expects and forever toots its horn | about growth that is not, thereby exhibits the boob complex to a fare thee well. The Citizen certainly feels no apology New York and a few other centers of mass population. It does not offer everything | that these metropolitan centers afford. It: | merchants do not rival Wannamaker, Gim- bel, Marshall Field, etc, ete. and ete. There is no reason for us to make fools of our- selves trying to create the contrary pression. There is one im-} as.et, possessed by Key West and hundreds of similar communities, | that larger cities cannot pos: That is | a union of all citize working to a com- | mon end. Larger cities are divided; their | very size prohibits concerted action by all the people. Here we can get together in neighborly good will, make our to improve Key West, and work in unison to make this town the best place in the yorld in which a family can live. That is, in our opinion, a wonderful aim for a town or city. What better serv. ice can a municipality do its citizens than plans preserve and protect the happi- ness of the families clustered in its midst? How much real joy will come into hun- dreds of hearts in Key West when every man and woman realizes that the true pur pose of city life is to improve humanity by | making life worth more? Well, we haven't said a word in this article and industry. They | have their place,, and we want all that, Key West can accommodate, but, correct- ly understood, they are the handmaidens of prosperity, whose true goal should be ! human happiness and individual content- ment. Let's resolve that we will offer the world the example of a united com- munily, one standing together in business affairs, helping each other that all may prosper, and that the end may find Key West the home of men and women who find here that life, with its friends and its troubles, i glorious adventure because we have brave hearts and human comrade- ship. about busines to a HUMAN DESIRES | rtising authority, } people are most sold something which they strongly desire, for which | such desire can be created. Mo:t persons desire to make money; } to be comfortable; to avoid effort; to re- to at tract the opposite sex; to be popular; to} have enjoyment; to be in style, and so on. for con- veniences and luxuries hardly dreamed of | a century ago. In fact, if people were sud- denly become satisfied with the mere} necessaries of life'a majority of all indus- | trial and business enterprises would have | to go out of busi The creation of new which make for a higher standard | of living has been duc largely to the! power of advertising. New devices and products which add to human satisfaction, comfort, and joyment would make slow headway with- out advertising to create a desire for them on the part of the public. According to or ceive praise; to sidestep trouble; Most modern desires are to ess. de-ires en- | WILL WE HAVE TO HUNT FOOD Little drops of water and little grains } sand, when accumulated, amount something, in faet well in jingle} verse, atid made the mighty ocean and the | land. : | During a Okla- | of to; recent dust storm in ; homa Dr. Richard L. Foster, chemistry pro- | fessor at Panhandle A. and M. College, es- timated that 39,780,000 tons 6f* top — soil were “afloat” over Texas county, where more than hes of land were re-! moved from 397,800 acres. We have not checked the good pro- fessor’s calculation, which we take from | sociated Press dispatch, but it zes the magnitude of the dust-storm . Let such storms keep up many } years and we will have a lot of desert land | in the United States. Instead of seeking | to control production, the nation will be! paying bounties for somehing good to eat peril. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your ! Buffalo | Chicago | Havana | KEY WEST | Wa em- '¢ Nation’s Affairs (Copyright Six Star Service) The Flood and Inflation By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Politicat and Social Science An cppalling disaster has swept over great areas in the eastern part of the United States. Cities, large and small, and vast stretches of country- side have been laid waste by floods. Many millions of property have been destroyed. Losses have been stagger- ing. To this catas- trophe the re- action has been prompt. Public and private re- sources were quickly mobil- ized for relief. Money and supplies were made available in large quantities. The Red Cr government agencies, private organizations and individuals hurried to the rescue. American gen- erosity has again shown itself and in large measure. But there has been one curious occurrence. The stock market at the end of the week of disaster closed ! slightly higher than a week before. At first thought one would have ex- pected to see just the opposite. Such a widespread destruction of prop- erty apparently should have spread consternation and led to a market ; decline. Instead there was a slight rise. Of course this is in part an evi- dence of the size of our country and of its resources. Even the great floods of 1936 with their property losses is a relatively small matter when viewed in perspective. This is not always easy to remember in any country, although over and over i again there have been illustrations of it both here and abroad. More important, however, is the | evidence it gives of the strength of the inflation movement. Over a year ago our stock markets started to rise and with only occasional and quite mod- erate reactions, the advance has con- tinued. How far and how high the rise will go, no one knows. We do know that there are over ten thousand million dollars of mone- tary gold in t.e United States. We know that our banks have about three thousand million dollars of excess reserves and that their unused lend- ing power is enormous. We know that many individuals and institutions are afraid of a large and uncontrollable rise in prices and that they are in- vesting more in stocks than they would under other conditions. Many are borrowing on their life insurance policies and buying stocks as a “hedge against inflation.” This is not all. Public expendi- tures are still far in excess of re- ceipts from taxation and the dif- ference is being met by borrowing Our government finds no difficulty in selling its obligations but the new issues are being taken largely by the banks instead of by private investors. The banks now have far more of their funds in the form of govern- ment obligations than is wise. A situ- ation lixe this has in the past always led to excesses both here and abroad. There is, unfortunately, no easy or simple way to check the movement. Several lines of effort are important and they should be followed, but only with the greatest of care and skill. One is to examine more and more carefully our government expendi- tures and to reduce them. Some critics demand more reduction and more rapid reduction than can rea- sonably be asked, but there is every reason ‘or an intelligent and fear- less scrutiny of all government out- lays. ‘Also our banks should gradually reduce their holdings of government securities. This means their purchase by the gen-ral public who will not invest in government bonds unless the rate of return is higher than at present. To raise the rate will in- crease the cost to the government and mean higher taxes. It must also be done skillfully and gradually for the sake of the banks themselves. If they should withdraw too rapidly the value of outstanding government bonds would suddenly fall with wide- spread difficulties for all of us. Finally may be mentioned an in- crease in taxes. This must come and as it does there will be loud complaints. No one likes to pay taxes. But critics of any proposed new tax should not merely object. They should propose other ways of taxing but should realize that there is no way that will be pleasing to the persons who must pay the tax. These three lines of effort are im- portant. A look at stock market quo- tations should be a sufficient warning The rise there is already being fol- lowed by some increase in com- modity prices. Even if commodity prices do not rise, a runaway stock market can bring disaster as we found in 1929. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) 2e weatace | TODAY’S WEATHER Lowest Highest Station. Abilene Atlanta Boston 48 46 32 . 60 34 44 - 32 60 72 28 62 36 74 50 52 . 38 68 32 60 66 Charleston Denver Detroit Galveston Huron ecksonville Konsrs City Little Rock Los Angelts Lounsville Mami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Pensacola Pitisburgh St. Louis 4 alt Lake City 5 {San Franesico 5 ttle 52 mp: «. 66 shington 42 Williston 36 Temperatures* ! Highest Lowest Mean | Normal Mean Rainfall* | Yesterday's Precipitation 1 Precipilatio So ee }Sun Moon rises = Moon sets 2 ‘Tomorrow's Tides A.M. 7 2: . m. . m. sets High . Low «---12:48 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 29.96. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p, m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embaimer Phone 135 Night 696-W ! ‘cooler in central i ! ' tered showers over | possibly showers; not much change last night last 24 hours! jin temperature; moderate north- | erty winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, possibly showers in extre: tonight and south portion, slight; northeas Saturday; and portions tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits _ East Gulf: Moderate north- i partly overcast wea- . tonight and Saturday, scat- south por- tion. WEATHER CONDITIONS The northeastern disturbance has moved northeastward to the Canadian Maritime Provinces, Eastport, Me. .30 inches, and southward along to Florida; low coast pressure is the Atlantic | while the western high pressure ‘area now oversprezds the country ; ward to the west Gulf coast, Mountain and and = south- Hu- ron, S. D., 30.46 inches. Gentle to moderate showers and thunder- storms have occurred since yester- between the Roc Appalachian regions ‘day morning throughout most of 79 | eastern Lake region, iin the west * of Atlantic coastal districts ™- Summer temperatures ‘yesterday in some 1 sections, Phoenix, Ariz., Texas, in extreme southern Flor- , and there has been light snow in the northern and extreme and moder- ,ate rain in northern New Eng- ‘land. Temperatures have fallen Gulf States, and throughout mo:t sections the Mississippi Valley eastward, jand are somewhat below normal lin this area, except in portions and the Florida peninsula; while mild weather prevails in the far West. prevailed southwestern | reporting a maximum of 100 degrees. G S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. PIRATES COVE Famous Fishing Camp on Over- sea Highway 20 Miles From Key West Will Be Open Until May 15 For Reservations Telephone Pirates Cove from] (KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Miami capital and deveiop- jers are manifesting much interest \in Key West and the Figrida | Keys is the ‘announcement made today by Harry Boyajians of the | Vie Realty company.. who metarn- jed from the Magic City ; People who were seve ‘and scorned the po: i velopment here, are now avid for tinformation he A group of \capital'sts are expe d to arrive lin the city within the next few | days to look over the reall {tion here and on the | ase | Word has been rec | West of the loss of a launch off Palm Beach. Notice the loss |was received by the coast guard. |After two coast guard ve made a thorough search of \near by waters it was decided |that the launch had down |One man is reported missing. ved in Key gone Barring none the minstrel show at San Carlos last night went over with a bang, and critics was the finest amateur _ pe: ance of its kind they ever witness. jed. Home and out of | participated. The |was in the old minstrel !the songs and end |were modern aud minute. | ! | n up jokes to the The five local lodges of the In- j dependent Order Odd ey will {unite Wednesday and celebrate {the one hundred seventh anniver- | si of the founding of the order A splendid prog of entertain- ;ment has been arranged. The en- \tertainment will be given in the Garden Theater. It will be an open meeting and families of the jmembers are invited to attend. Clean-up Week will be pro- claimed in Key West as soon as the city assumes operation of the scavenger department. This an- nouncement was made last night by Mayor Leslie Curry. The latest nounce his entr, candidates for office Victor Lowe, who desires election to the Monroe county school beard. Mr. Lowe is a cigarmaker and was recently appoint man of the E. H. Gato cigar com- pany which has resumed opera- tions with a full force of men. He candidate into the to an- list of | wid HARDWARE CL( and 8. Also 34,” 2 MESH solid ru hose wit lings, wi Lengths Nozzle } | vi Phone 598 (SUTTTD TU ov Es ba sodienaseetesasnTeertE FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1936 ‘low workers and by the citinzenry! jim general. |Today’s Horoscope John William Price, of beats | Teds: { um will leave Sunday . attend the zed, 36” mesh with slightly heavier wire. and Miss Magdalene Kaufman, whose address could not be learn-! ed, were married last night by Judge Hugh Gunn im the office at the county court heuse. Wit- nesses to the ceremony were Wil- liam F. Maloney and Joseph Roberts. Frank H. Ladd, candidate fer , the state senate, announces that the statement that he is im favor of county division is an qualified lie. “My political cord shows clearly that I have to the present time had ne interest than that ef Monree county.” un up ther Editorizi comment: The pel ticians who throw their hats imte the ring, may later pick them up and talk through them. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ames spending their honeymoon ot yacht Baboon in Key West + row en route from Miami te fornia. They will spend a Key West as guests of Roberts and Miss Helen board thei due to arrive in Roy ter. Charles K morning meeting of the Gran Lodge Masons im the Mason Home at St. Petersburg, Fk hetchum will remain there - days and then go to Tallahasse and Atlanta. Representative of manding nit JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA Ae SET eene & pee wee feegrce tome ee Nee See - © ee ce tee eee wmoee cate and coins ee ey Os SEPIA sastsLIaa iD SISAL SAS Lee eee ESS, Large shipment just received ths from 12” t bearing wire. CALL 598 FOR PRICES Protects baby chicks wide in meshes of 2 ITH: 58c Yard HARDWARE CLOTH Prices of Other Sizes On Application _ GARDEN HOSE ft. lengths of bber garden h brass coup- ithout nozzle. $1.49 25c Paint Brush 4” Paint Headquarters Brush, long bristles, extra ulcanized in rubber. $1.50 “Your hume is worthy of the best” $e4¢¢¢ AA AL AA AA AAAAAAAAAZAALALAZL 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 Deposit insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary Heavily (Lib tAdbAddhp dade de ddd m. s held in high esteem by his fel Wsrrssscrsrrrscror’ -¢ SITTTTTTOOOOTOOEEe Batis iis. wan, Poultry Netting NE ED OVP DAB ORANG HAL OAM aS. (LLAAA Add