The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 18, 1936, Page 2

PAGE Two The Key West Citizen xcept Sunday By BLISHING CO. INC. ARTMAN, Prebident JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager rom The Citizen Building and Ann Streets Published Daily THE CIT Corner Greene onty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe he Axxociated Press Press is exclusively n of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub/ished here. . RATES une Year Bix Months Three Months —. ne Month Week ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, AL NOTICE is of thanks, , will be All reading notice respect, ob tuary not the rate of 10 cents a line. otices for entertainments b evenue is to b ne Citizen 1s sion of public interest but it cations. resolutions of ete charged for at y churches from which cents a line. orum and invites discus- es and subjects of local or general will not publish anonymous communi- ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. “re Port. Hotels and Aparcments. ba-hing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. dation of County and City IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST Governments, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class ways do its utmost for the never tolerate corruption or denounce vice aud praise virtue; public welfa injustice; commend good done by individual or organ- -izgiion ; inions; toievont <£ others’ rights, views and that will elevate not contaminate the reader; nev - print only news and cop= promise wit principle. find thinks of Mussolini citrant; Anthony | Eden him as Anthony Some people love to hear themselves talk to such an extent they even talk in their sleep. An Eastern that “stupidity appears to be almost universal.” Now, how did he ever find that out? professor asserts believe anything see in the newspapers actually like to something good printed about them. People who never Before complaining that other: writers steal one’s stuff it is just as well to wait | until the real author has been forgotten. ges sing when they are excited. Some other human animals sing provocation, though often provoking their listeners. The ci harmonious ger on the stage is attuned to rains of mosic, nevertheless nothing pleases him more than the inhar- monious hand-clapping of his audito; Before Perry opened the doors of Japan to the world in the 1850's, Japan lived so hermit a life that for a Japanese to own any sea-going craft save for the pur- pove of fishing off his own coast was a capital offense. Now look at ‘em. It’s all *s fault. Arthur Brisbane has often said what aman can think he can do. We think we can lick Joe Louis but no can do. wood Broun, another columnist, not so cecksure, do, Well, we can throw up. the but we will not. sponge, | After all clothing must be the inven- tion of the devil, for when God man and later woman he_ hadn't clothes for them, and so Adam and Eve! were the first nudists. Of course so long as they were alone in the Garden of Eden it made no difference but when other folks came along, it became fashionable to cover up. entitled to use | Ad-| without | Hey- j s what a man can do he will | H created | { any j CITY PLANT REJECTED In a recent election the voters of Sioux City, Iowa, cast their ballots overwhelm- ingly against the building of a municipal electrical power plant and distribution sys- | tem, with 29 precincts voting against the: | propo: al, and only three precincts voting for i They likewise defeated a proposal to $2,500,000 in bonds to finance the project. The matter of municipal power plants has been fought over for many years, and it will no doubt be an ue in many com | munities for a long time to come. Advo-; cates of public ownership make claims ; that here and there a city or town has berefited by the operation of such plants, but such claims usually fall flat when all} the facts are revealed. In nearly every case it will be found | that where municipal plants are operated | either the electric rate is higher or the tax rate is higher. Practicallyall the great industrial citie: of the country are served | by privately owned power companies, in! spite of the organized agitation for muni- |} cipal plants which has been going on “ Manufacturers, as a rule, are inclined i to shun localities in which they must buy | power from municipalities, because the in- | | i | dustrial rate: are generally higher, issue and | | because service is more liable to interrup- i tion by storms, fires or other accidents to! isolated plants. { In spite of all the claims made for it by its advocates, political ownership in the utility field has so far failed to prove its ease. Municipally owned plants gen- erate less than 5 per cent of the electricity | used in the United States. TIME TO PROTECT CHILDREN -arents in Key West should phasize the danger of playing in the streets and caution their children to be extremely wary before attempting ti However, after doing j this, a parent must leave his child largely to the fate that lies ahead. | The very nature of children makes} many of them impulsive. Their lack experience prevents effective caution. They will, unknowingly and unintention- ally, expose themselves to grave peril. Un-; der the circumstances which are known to | all adult:, the burden of care rests upon | ihe consciences of automobile drivers. | fublic sentiment should compel motorisis to proceed slowly and carefully | when passing through school zones and by crowded playgrounds. The police power: should a:sist in making effective this pub-! lic sentiment and drivers should be severe- | ly punished for speeding in such zones. It s not enough for a driver to get by with- out an accident. The public should not stand for motorists who constantly imperil innocent children. The Citizen hardly expects that this article will revolutionize the habits of However, if every- one who reads it will begin a little propa- ganda along this line, the result. might save the lives of a few children in Key West thi r, which would be worth! while. { em- cross a highway. of | motor car operators. yea VALUABLE ADVICE FREE Whenever the editor has little | nothing on his chest for discussion in his columns he can always fill up a portion of his space by giving some advice to his} reader: Being somewhat in that situation, we “rise to remark” that one-fourth of 1936 has pas‘ed, and that those of us who made } ! up our minds, when the new year was be- | ginnirg, that this would be an epochal | year in our affairs, had better stop long | enough to review the situation and see just | | where we have come. { Every man, woman and child in Key West ought to have a goal in mind. No matter what it is that interests you, or} what you are interested in, if you intend to stay with it, get set for something def- | inite. You can’t make much progress as long as you dwell upon “glittering gen-|} eralities. The average family is interested in fi- nancial betterment. Most of them have j high hopes of the mythical “future.” geen | like to dream of what will happen, but | they seldom get down to brass tacks and | take steps that lead to it. The month of} April, being the present month, is the best | | time that we know of for doing some- i thing. or | Buffalo | Salt Lake City 52 i | esr 'SIIIIaIIIIILIDS. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs (Copyright Six Star Service) Government By ELIO’ Again Helps T JONES Professor of Transportation and Public Utilities, Stanford Since 1920 railroad passenger travel has suffered a tremendous de- cline, and since 1927 it has been con- ducted at a loss..The loss for the rail- roads as a whole exceeded $200,000,000 an- nually for the years 1931 to 1933. The de- cline in rail travel is due, in part, to the de- pression, but it is mainly due to the great in- crease in the number of pas- senger automo- biles, both pri- vately owned automobiles and buses, but principally the former. The railroads have recently been making valiant efforts to recover their lost traffic. They have intro- duced light-weight, high-speed, stream-lined, air-conditioned cars. and thereby have brought a number of passengers back to the rails. Many railroads, notably those in the South and West, have been experimenting with lower fares, and with a consid- erable degree of success. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission has been watching these ex- Fferiments with interest, and in June, 1934, it began an investigation of its own. As a result of its investigation it came to the conclusion that lower fares would increase the net reve- nues of the railroads. Ever since 1920 the basic rail passenger fare has been 3.6 cents per mile, the fare in sleep- ing cars and parlor cars being higher, of course, because of the charge for space and the Pullman surcharge. The Commission has recently issued an order requiring the railroads to University reduce their rates, by June 2, toa maximum of two cents per mile in coaches and ‘three cents per mile in Pullmans, subject to certain excep- tions in the case of de luxe trains, and the like. West do not, as a rule, object to this order, as their experiments have con- vinced them that passenger fares by the Commission if the railroads are to build up their traffic. Some of the railroads in the East, however, notably the Pennsylvania, the New | York Central, and the New Haven, object vigorously. These three roads. which handle about one-third of all the passenger-miles in the country (exclusive of commutation), and which receive about 42 per cent of all the passenger revenue, assert that the order of the Commission will re- duce their net revenues; and since their revenues are now less than they are constitutionally entitled to mission has no power to make such an order. important one, as the Commission definitely assumes the function of management. Agreeing with the Eastern railroads that their earn- ings are not excessive, the Commis- sion none the less orders them to re- duce their passenger fares, on the ground that lower fares will increase tutes its judgment for that of the managers of the railways, who be- lieve that the lower fares will have the opposite result. This assumption of managerial duties did not go un- opposed within ‘tie Commission, as there were four separate dissenting opinions, two of which specifically condemned the order as an invasion of the field of management. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) (so TODAY’S Lowest Ilighest last night last 24 hours 4 52 74 . 38 62 38 50 30 34 70 42 72 40 70 Station— Abilene Atlanta Boston Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Havana Jacksonville City 82 Vonsas | KEY WEST . 7 Little I Lo: eis Louisville Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Lou 54 - 52 - 82 40 San Francisco 54 Seattle . 56 Tampa . 60 Washington 38 Williston 40 Temperatures* Highest Lowest 4 Mean as ormal Mean Ra Yesterday's Pre 15 .06 . throughout the greater . ml. PM 8:39) ing in portions of the Lake re-| 10 gion and upper Ohio Valley, and) . N N N . \ The First National N N : N . WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary WEATHER — js ° WEATHER FORECAST ' — 1 H (Till 8 p. m.. Sunday) | Key West and Vicinity: Ge! | rally fair tonight and Sunday; 'slightly cooler tonight; gentle to northerly winds. Florida: Fair tonight and Sun- iday except partly cloudy in ex- jt me south portion; slightly feooler i reme suoth portion Jacksonville to Florida Straits nd East Gulf: Moderate north- erly winds; partly overcast wea- ither tonight and Suday WEATHER CONDITIONS | Pressure continues low over ‘northeastern sections and south- ward over Atlantic coast dis! {to Florida. Eastport, Me., 29.58 jinches, and a moderate low pres- {sure area overspreads most of |the Rocky Mountain and Plateau | States, Phoenix, Ariz., 29.76 inch- les, and Salt Lake City, Utah, ‘29.78 inches; while the wes high pressure area has i i practically stationary and still overspreads the country between the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regi Huron, 5S, D., 30.82 inches. Light rain and snow has occurred during region and upper Ohio Valley. light rain in southern New Eng: land and on the coast of Oregon. iand showers on the Florida Ke: and in portions of Arizona. Tem- peratures have fallen ‘somewhat part of the country from the Mississippi | Valley eastward, and in’'the low- ler Rio Grande Valley, with freez. and} are} in ‘heavy frost while | Tennessee; Kentucky readings Bank of Key West a N ) N) N) N NI . NY NY N N a N 5 The railroads in the South and | must be as low as those prescribed | receive, they maintain that the Com- | The decision in this case is a very | their net revenues. It thereby substi- j the | Hast 24 hours in the lower Lake: a (a hacks et oat TIPPIPT IOI I TES DAYS GONE BY | Hf ! | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen { | Captain John G. Berry, head of ; the coast grard department re- , turned last night from Fort Lau- 'derdale where he had Spreviously ! assisted in removing Base Six from Mam:. From Fort Lauderdale | Captain Berry says, he went to j Savannah where he attended | meeting of the board of | While on the trip to Sava ; Cutter Yamacraw seized the Nica- raguan Schooner Exploit which |was bound south with 4000 cases of liquor. This, it is said, was one of the largest captures of liquor made in some time. Sheriff Roland Curry and Dep- juties Cleveland Dillon Her- man Albury, swooped down on the \eock fighting arena on Stock Is jland yesterday ernoon and ar- jtived on the scene just | birds were engaged in a af ‘battle for mastery. Felo Kod: guez was arrested as promoter of jthe fight and was placed under |bond of $100 for his appearance ‘at the next term of The arrest was made | charge of violating the statut | lative to cruelty to an mals iff Curr that some ago a similar case was tried in the }erimina] court and the judge instructed the jury ;cock was a chicken ar animal and ‘not guilty. and as criminal cow on that a net an advised a verdict o The marriage of Mss Florence Cecilia Crittenden and W. E. D. | Stokes, jr., of Lennox, Mass. a m Ear! Dodge Stokes, and Mrs. Rita Her- nandez de Alba de Acosta Lydig, will take place May 10 to an announcement made by Mrs Isabel E. Crittenden, mother of Miss Crittenden, this morning The ceremony will be performed in St. Paul’s church in the morn- ing, and it is expected that a large number of the relatives © . Stokes will attend. according members Associatio Friday One hunderd seventy of the Georgia Press will arrive at Key West, en route to Havana They will remain in Key W hours, according to a_ letter ceived by L. R. Warner says preparations to entertain the itors are now under way and dur- fro: vis- generally above normal western districts. G over S. KENNEDY. Official in Charge.* SATURDAY, APRIL 18. 156 Appearing elsewhere umns of The Citizen today is the announcement ef Emery L. Poet Jor county commusmener from second district, Mr. Pierce tive born Key Wester. = duate ef Ruth Hargreve 5 and also electrical engineer graduate of the Geergm Schoo! of Technology at Atlanta ike Customs Imspecters Lune hams and Fr nigh a National autemebric contraband beer from the water's « Island. The driver o mobile abandonec near Thompson's cigar ‘acters am escaped last Edrtonal . says acrpianes deer explorer os rex emt experience two * Convent of Mm day evening. 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