The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1936, Page 2

MONDAY, APBPIL 20, 1936. GE ayo THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘The Key West Citizen. TOLL BY RACKETEERS 1 y KEY WEST IN Today’s ‘ making six in all in order to main-| | tain an efficient service. | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC, L. P, ARTMAN, President ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corier Greene and Ann Streets JOE in Key West and Monroe County. un'y Daily Newspap: cntered at Key We nd class matter ated Press xelusively entitled to use s dispatches credited to for rept dlication 1 in this paper and also it or not otberwi the local news pu credit ished h SUBSCRIPTION RATES rs Year Three Months fonth ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. All reading respect, obituary the rate of 10 cents a Notices fer enterta @ revenue The sion of puliic Interest but it will not publish cations. issues and su’ anonymous communi- | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. "re Fort. Hotels ana Aparcments, baching Pavilion. Airpo1is—Land and Sea. Cx soiidation of County and City Cozernments. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be wrong or to applaud right; afraid to attack | | | fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or cluss; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice aud praise virtue; | commend good done by individual or organ- toier: ion; nt of others’ rights, views and ons; print only news that will elevate not contaminate the reader; never com promise with priaciple, Expunged from the record. Americ: banana. na beware or you'll slip on a writer of Americana a he or a Americana is feminine isn’t it. Is the she? Well, Advertising is the art of making peo- ple know that the merchant has what they ought to have. Why beware of the Greeks bearing when this caution is applicable right at home? wift. here The writer of “Americana” i He always thanks reading his stuff. After the plain, nished truth a little blarney soothes wound he may think. sa polite sort "o cuss. you for unvar- the . perhaps, In answer io the many questions who who wrote that in The Citi- the editor publisher is responsible for everything the paper. wrote this or zen, just remember that and in f ‘*Ame- In The Citizen are making quite a congratulatory epistles may be con It is told the plain and unvarnished casionally. The exudation. of the write ricana hit if sidered a criterion, wholesome to be truth oc- he cana” is the the readers pondent ‘Ameri- ource of much speculation by of The A corres charact author identity of the author of Citizen, erized the “sweet,” ly think charine charge. but knowing the person we he could qualify as to the sae- The senate’s charges against former Judge Ritter for the first six counts were to the effect that he was innocent but he musn’t do it again; but in the seventh | count he was charged, by the actions com- plained of, with bringing his “into scandal and repute,” and convicted. Such ratiocination is beyond the ken of an ordinary newspaper man and it takes a, Philadelphia lawyer to expound it. court d ; mated to be more than a_ billion | by | perishables. { vealed that milk deliverymen | producers as comper | honest business, it would | benefit to the public. ing i es eign. | learned doctor prevalent that the individual One important reason why farmers in | { j | | the United States receive only 40 cents of ; | { | the consumer's dollar, while those in Den- | the esti- mark receive 63 cents, is because of enormous toll taken by racketeers, dollars annually, In New York City alone housewives nearly $100,000,000 a year to food in- dustries racketeers who rule fake labor and take their rakeoff by boosting pay unions ‘ trucking charges and coercing merchants. | according to William F. ! sioner of public markets of that city. Morgan, commis Unwarranted distribution costs borne farmers and consumers are seen in the! case of such products as milk and other In Chicago, report re- and route foremen received 3.4 per quart, while the sation for labor, ma- terials, interest on investment, and were paid 3.5 cents. In many cities racketeers maintain‘ their domination through an unholy alli- ance with crooked politicians and office- helders, which makes it next to impossible | to suppress them. | If the government would devote more | of its energies to wiping out these rackets, | a ris | and expend less effort in the harassing of be of greater | mil- wasted in futile investi- al purposes, racketeér- permitted to, flourish, with little ef- fort being made to put an end to it. It is notorious that while many lions of dollars ar gations for politic BRITISH HESITATION In 1914G of reached its hignest level when mans were disappoirted that did no remain neutral in the rman sarktred England 1 the Ger- the British | war which; was being inaugurated. So, now, Hitle i ith all his nationalism, hopes for a for- policy that will gradually prevent! ireat Britain taking sides with France in the event of another struggle. The Germans would not go to war if they knew the British would support the; French, it us that un-| certairty about the Britiih attitude will encourage rather than prevent war. Wh Foreign Secretary Eden completed a ro. | cent speech before the House of Commons, the Opposition, represented by Hugh Dal-| tor, formerly Labor Under-Secretary — in| the Foreign Department, this viewpoint: “Great Britain should tell the German ; people in friendship and frankness thati their political and economic equality is recogn But that does not mean that we recognize the right of any nation to an overbearirg, brutal predominance. Ger- many ~hould be told that if she returns to | the League she will have no need for over- | powering armaments because she will be collectively guaranteed as to. the inviol- ability of all her “If Germany refuses. other must organize without her Britain mu:t make it clear that Germany}! is to have no free hand to attack Poland, | Czechoslovak Au-t Rus If; Britain speaks plainly in Europe there can be no wa | | therefore, ms to see expressed Zed. frontiers. peace ia ONLY GERMS CAUSE COLDS You can't catch a cold, says Dr. J. Doull, by sitting in a draft, by stepping into a cold room after a hot bath, feet wet or by rushing outdoors without an overcoat. The doctor is director of the Depart-| ment of Hygiene and Pubiic Health at the | Western University School of} Medicire. He stresses the fact that colds | caught y by infection. | We would be the last to dispute the but the idea is generally can bring on that the} doctor says will not give you a cold. Maybe, / doing these things only tend to a condition } getting Reserve are on a cold by doing the very things inviting attack by the cold germ, which is} succes-ful because of the susceptibility of } the victim. | Anyway, it is good to emphasize readers that colds are infectious and that! any person with a cold should not contact | others and thus give them the same malady. It has been a common observation that al cold “goes through a family” and it is a} helpful sign*when people begin to take! preventive measures to prevent the spread | to | | of the common cold. | Yosterda t Normal You and Your Nation’s Affairs The Benighted British By WALTER E. SPAHR Chairman, Department of Economics, New York University It is distressing to note that the British Treasury ended its financial year, 1935-1936, with a surplus of $14,705,000. For three years now the British Treas- ury has suffer- ed the misfor- tune of having a surplus. Par- adoxical as it must seem to Americans, Great Britian has, at the same time, had what is to us the un- explainable ex- perience of working her way out of the depression. She has also had to witness the steady reduction in the number of her unemployed. Along with what some unlettered people call her sound re- covery, she has had to get along with only a very small rise in the prices of her wholesale and industrial prod- ucts during the years 1933 to date, and she has enjoyed practically no rise in her food prices. But since rela- tively old-fashioned and outmoded orthodox economic and governmental policiés were employed over there, her various shortcomings must be ap- praised in the light of those lamenta- ble facts. The United States, by way of con trast, adopted another type of pro- gram. It has been enlightened, lib- eral, progressive—a New Deal. None of that old-fashioned orthodox eco- nomics for this country! None of that letting nature get in its work; we were too smart. too advanced in our thinking, for that. We adopted the more intelligent method of curing our economic ills by legislation. In fact we soon realized that there were no economic ills that could not be cured with legislation, particularly if we were sufficiently bold and if we always attached to each act a nice preamble to the effect that “this act is to correct the past evils and to as- sure the more abundant life.” One of the greatest increases in production in this country since 1933 has been in the much neglected field of pre- | ambles to legislative acts. They have great virtues because they point out what is wrong, show how to correct the trouble, and guarantee the suc- cess of the cure. With all these progressive and sure-fire plans in hand we tore into the problems and ground out laws so rapidly that neither Congress nor the public had time to read them. But that did not matter so long as the preambles about the more abundant life and provisions for spending were in the acts. We chucked orthodox economics and conservatism out the window and gathered in the New Dealers as fast as they could be lo- cated. There was hardly a socialist or communist member left on any college faculty by the time our staff was collected together in Washington. Since prices had fallen, we decided to raise them, so we devaluated our currency, prepared the way for in- the same line hitherto not even con- sidered. Since the standard of living had fallen, we decided to raise it, and so proceeded to make goods scarce; we killed pigs, restricted crops, and did similar things. We surely gave the world an idea of what such new and progressive plans can really look like. We decided that spending rather than saving was the proper road to prosperity, so we drapped that old- fashioned word “thrift” 2ut of our vocabulary and really settled down to show the world what real spend- ing looked like. The silver interests said we needed more money. especially silver, and that the Chinese ought to be helped, so, being in the mood to help every- body, we decided to buy all the silver we could get our hands on and to pay prices for it according to what the silverites thought it ought to be worth, not those scandalously low prices prevailing in the market. And didn’t we give the private employers a good hazing for not increasing em- ployment! Then to be thoroughly modern in our methods, and to carry out our plans, which called for our char- acteristic boldness, we decided to overhaul our old-fashioned govern- mental arrangements, which be- longed to the horse and buggy days, without going through the tiresome formalities involved in changing the Constitution. What was a little thing like the Constitution amcag friends? With such really simple cures for our economic ills at hand, and with everything planned out, the mornings were devoted to passing laws, the afternoons to spending, and the eve- nings to public addresses to stimulate class conflict. Surrounded with all these great advances brought us by the New Deal, we have enjoyed the blessings of huge spending, great annual def- icits in the budget, sharply rising prices for food, and, according to the American Federation of Labor, a relatively steady number of unem- ployed people—almost as great as in March, 1933. But while we as a nation are reap- ing the benefits of this new economics we should not forget to shed a silent tear for the poor benighted Britisher who has never learned the virtues of truly liberal spending, of unbalanced budgets, of accumulating debts, of buying cheap silver at high prices, of destroying wealth, of restricting pro- maintaining unemployment at high levels, of breaking down the civil ser- vice system, of putting every bright young revolutionist and his cousin on the government payroll, of curing depressions by statute and cabalistic preambles, and by daily chanting mystic words about the more abun- dant life. The British always were a back- ward people. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) SEE EEE: recs amma TODAY’S WEATHER | Lowest —_Ilighest atio: i— ast night last 24 hours | ee WEST ithe, Reek os “Angeles Lougs¥ille. vx. Miami? ; Minneapolis York Pensacola Louis nlt Lake City 4 Wa Williston 77 H Lowest | Mean Normal Mean Rainfall* Precipitation ipitation . m. . m . mm. New Moon, April 21 saath ‘omorrow’s Tides High Low 38 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.1 3 8 WEATHER FORECAST (Till8 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicini cloudy 2nd somewhat vw 66, m-sal average. P.M! a | to e winds, mostly northeast ; ht and modera gentle and east. F.ovida: end in extreme ily fair tonight eot partly cloudy sovth rising temperature. Ja to and Gene Tuesday 3 portion; slowly Florida Genie ksonville East Gulf: Straits to mode mortly northeast and generally weather, ex- cept partly overcast over extr south j ate winds ‘east: Jackger oe H Kansas: City”. fair eme | portion, tonight and Tuc WEATHER CONDITIONS Pre wn this over sonthcastern districts, Jack. sonville,, Fis... 80.82 inehes. andl j mia-western Canadian Provinces, | | Williston, If. D., 30.24 inche: while a distur’ance centra over the upper Mississippi andj ‘ower Missouri Valleys, Minneap- jolis, Minn., 29.68 inches, and} | pressure is low from Arizona and !New Mexico northeastward over [eastern Canada. Generally fair weather has prevailed in most }sections of the country duri the last 24 hours, the only meas yeble precipitation being light rain in portions of western Te: Utah and Minnesota. Tem- atures have risen in most se itions between the Rockies and! ‘Appalachian region, and are gen- FF throughout 'the count nt in the Flor- ida peninsula, where readings are 5 to 10 degrees helow the season- re is morning | GS. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. | Subserive to The Citizen—20c} weekly. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME}: Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embaimer Night 696-W flation, and did various things along ; of duction, of raising food prices, of | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Teday As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen for the construction |of a pipe line. for bringing fresh |water from the mainland to Ke | We t were not opened at the meet- ‘ing of the Monroe County Water | Supply Board at its meeting this morning. Chairman Clark D. tearns advised The Citizen. They are being held until the arrival M. J. Coffey, vice president of the G'llespie Pipe Company, who jis expected from Havana _ this afternoon. It is the opinion of | Captain St that water and !sewerage s} shou Ye se- jcured at onc Key West and jhe believes that the time isn ant when contracts will be: r these projects. for A. Weatheriord, v elected and Grand Patriarch of the Grand En- pment Odd Fellows now on at Palatka. Fla. The Key stalled by Past Grand Patriar of Manitoba, nformation was received West this morn i bers of the At a meeting last night of the stockholders of the pre! the Hotel La Concha, it {cided that at all future ‘they will be represented by Dr. Wiliam R. Warren, Dr. J. M. Re- (nedo and Norberg Thompson, Miss ‘C. M. Larranaga was appointed president and tr the Florida Keys R owners of the hotel. ‘ment wi persons agreeing. erved, 02 was de- This made with all i Frequently White Horse has been captured in Key West. | but last evening the first time that liquor has been captured |here in a horse car. Five hundred botles of fine liquors were found hidden in the ceiling of ear which arrived from on board the Ferry Flagler | contraband was taken to the |toms house to await the claim of jits owner. liquor was horse | SPM ML LIL LD SS BES SS S. The At the conclusion of a lengthy discussion of the city’s scavenger by city council in meeting last [night, it was decided to allow Contractor Har Gwynn, con- tinue with the contract he now holds and which will expire in June, Mr. nn will be allowed the use of one additional truck, N iN N) N N N & N ‘ IN R ‘ etc. Also snakes, and 8. eA 2 MESH Lengths Nozzle 4 ‘ N \ ( IN Phone 598 N N) N IN N N N N IN) N N ‘tine and Chief meetings * widths bearing wire. HARDWARE CLOTH: Galvanized, HARDWARE CLOTH P: Application GARDEN HOSE ft. solid rubber hose with brass coup- lings, without nozzle. J. N. Fogarty, formerly mayor of Key West, prominent physician and influential citizen, who is now mayor of St. Augus- Surgeon East Coast Reailway, arrived the city yesterday and is teday Anniversaries eesece 718—Lavid Srainerd, Inc-ans, meeting hundreds of warm friends! ~° of years ago. The’ doctor expects to remain here for a few days and then return to his duties company’s hospital. According to a new time card issued by the Florida East Coast tally trains are due to arrive Key West and art as fol- lows: Train 75 arrives a. m. and Train rain 76 will leave 7 and Train 36 will leave Trains 35 and 36 are konwr The Royal Poinciana To Edtitorial I it, politicians a for 0 mands of the comment: is a shame literally 7 to satis! dear people Four young girls, have entered their names in the Queen of The May contest to be held “in Key West, Thursday, May 6 during the festival being staged at the racks. These contestants are Larche, Jewel Nelson, Mary der and Virginia Shep; other girls who wish to ente do so by giving thei Wm. R. Warren, charge of the contest as pi of the Key West Woman’s Club. names who is in ps'dent WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS Large shipment just received. from 12” to 7 Heavily in the 5 1824—A ederat and Co., Ga. ma ‘ Died The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary galva CALL 598 FOR PRICES chicks Protects baby 6” wide 58c Yard es of Other Sizes On lengths of garden $1.49 25c Paint Brush 4” Paint Headquarters Brush, long vulcanized rubber. Each extra bristles, in $1.50 in meshes of 2, ¢ mesh with slightly heavier wire. from 4 90c and $1.00 South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. White and EF-za Streets “Your hume is worthy of the best” IAP ss ss¢stste/1/12424242422£242£22Z2LAL£ mis whose = FEEL AA LAAAA Ahh ed om (LALLA AAA maw. ner ae me. € SIITMTTTTTTOTTOEES PPP Poultry Netting (Litirtttptt td dA bth ibd dod ee eee CVIDA®