The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The wey West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO. P. ARTMAN, President ; Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Coraer Greene and Ann Streets only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. untered at Key W' Sst, Florida, as se Y-SEVENTH YEAR _ Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for rept blication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otberwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year .... - = Bix Months Three Months ......... dne Month . eekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue is to be de are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is open forum and invites discus- sion of iblic issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. “roe Port. Hotels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavil sports—Land and Sea. Ce solidation of County and City Governments, Sure the $200- -a- sai? en- dowment plan works—the gullible. Townsend $ The character of a community is but the average character of the citizenry. have up, Those Roosevelt boys certainly prominent chins, and they keep ‘em too. papers everywhere should be in that the news is not manipulated for private interests. certz the “Dollar Re- us about the same way the radical sees the wealthy man. The public,” world calls us seeing You can do your part in making Key West the town you want it to be, but you | never will accomplish it by talking. | Mussolini says he’s willing to nego- tiate with the Ethiopian government on aj give-and-take basis. You give and I take; | heads I win and tails you lose. A single female fly laying eggs on April 15 will, by September 15, have living | issue to the extent of 5,000,000,000,000. So there is aburdant reason to swat the fly. Representative Wilcox will lead the | di.cussion of an interested group at the} Rivers and Harbors Congress tomorrow. | Perhaps something of value to Key West will develop. Dade County is.stepping on the gas. It consumed nearly one-fifth of the entire state’s coasumption, and some of the coun- ties like Duval and large populations proportion. have automobiles — in Hillsborough with Mark ent aid on “See the bay of Naples and paraphrase the eminent author, gest “See the Key West and! live.” That is the reaction of this writer who has seen bathe sion To one oce die.” we sug: harbor of Reversing the conviction of the Aber- deen American-News and its editor and} publisher in 1932 on a contempt of court} charge, the South Dakota supreme court declared unanimously “the need for a free} and unfettered pre: perhaps more} urgent in this country today than ever it has been before.” is Only the final settlement of legal dif-| ficulties because of the entanglement of | the F. E. C. Ry. in receivership is holding | back the allocation of sufficient funds to build bridges over the two water gaps,! completing the road to the mainland. Its ' operates on the theory | and %hospital aid which will permit | those unable to pay for them. | the blessings of modern HOSPITALIZATION FOR ALL The people of the United States are} gradually becoming aware of the need for | some method to provide adequate medical ; care and hospitalization for the average family. The socialization of medicine is a} problem that has caused considerable dis- cu:sion in the medical field, where docto and specialists wonder how it will affect! | them. Already a number of important cities in this country have in operation a system | of hospitalization insurance. The plan | that “wholesale” ; rates may be allowed if there are sufficient ; numbers enrolled. In New York, 174 hos-: pitals are affiliated with a program under | ; which a member pays three cents a day, or , ; ten dollars a year, and is entitled to treat- | ment upon proper certificate of a family physician. As we understand the plan, personal doctors are retained and paid by patients who are entitled to twenty-one | days of bed, board, and clinical treatment, without any expense except the annual payment. Dr. Thomas Farran, Jr., new surgeon | general of the United States public health | favors some method of medical! phy- sicians to continue their private practice. He thinks that medical care, free drugs, : and clinical care should be provided for! reivice, In Key West, the Cuban Club has hospitalization plan in practice for many years, that is worthy of emulation, There is hardly any way to tell where ! the new movement will lead but in the long run we are sati. fied the 167,000 doc- tors in the United States will cooperate in the execution of a program that will be fair to them and at the same time provide medical science all Americans. The history of the; medical profession is marked by the emi-} i.ent service rendered by physicians, andj there is hardly a community in the United | States which does not have in its midst un-! selfish practitioners of medicine. We do not expect any hospitalization program to be developed that does not! take into consideration the interest of the | medical profes:ion as a whole, but we have ! great confidence that a new day is dawn-| ing for the people who need hospitaliza- | i | a \ for tion and medical care. In time an ade- quate program will be in operation. It will | which is all that | either patients be f and reasonable, can be demanded by medical men. air INDIRECTION When we look back at the beginning ! or | _ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your. Nation’s Affairs | Townsendism Again By WALTER E. SPAHR Chairman, Department of Economics, New York University Sometime ago I pointed out a few of ‘the chief fallacies of the Townsend Plan, over the radio. and in two pamphlets, and, as a consequence, my letters from ar- dent Townsend- ites have been voluminous and revealing — many also yery nasty, some of them coming from ministers of the gospel! Out of the lot, how- ever, emerge some notions which seem to be rather com- monly held by the Townsend- ites and which ; Would appear to justify further com- ment. They insist that the economists who oppose the Plan are unsympathetic toward the aged. That of course is not a fact. One important thing the Townsendites seem to forget is that distress and suffering are not confined to those people who are sixty years of age and over. The problems of the suffering and needy apply to the un- employed—young and middle-aged men and women with families de- pendent upon them; to cases of sick- | Ness; to persons incapacitated by ac- cident; to widows and orphans; as well as to aged people with inade- quate income. These are problems calling for a broad program of social insurance. The Federal government has been making strenuous efforts to institute such a program. A commission of ex- perts was put to work to devise the best possible plans and the Social Se- curity Act was the result. This is probably the most difficult type of , legislation with which a government can be faced, and the very best ex- perts do not know whether the pres- ent plan is altogether wise, or will work well, or whether the taxpayers can carry the load. It is expected that changes will be made as experience ! points the way. In the face of these attempts to do the rational thing, it is both absurd and cruel for the Townsendites to take the position that such large bene- fits as they urge should go to their restricted group regardless of the fact that many in that group are not in need and regardless of needs else- where. The Townsend Plan was not worked out by competent authorities on social insurance, who would cer- would work, nor v upon any rational bi ! It was merely a fantastic inspiration. Nearly every Townsendite who wrote me challenged my statement that to pay 20 billion dollars per year required by the Townsend Plan would require 40 per cent of the na- tional income, which was estimated at about 50 billion dollars in 1934, (I used the Department of Commerce figures). Some of the writers chal- lenged ‘the income figures; some thought “national income” meant the amount of taxes received by the Fed- eral government! One of the most common statements was that I did not know the difference between a 2 per cent transactions tax and a 40 per cent tax on national income, and that 2 per cent was not 40 per cent, and so on. I tried to point out clearly that one of the difficulties of the Townsend Plan lay in the fact that the Town- sendites had confused a transactions tax with its effect on national income; but the point apparently was not un- derstood by many of them. i 1 shall try again. The National in- come is the income of all people of the nation taken collectively and cal- culated, in general, as,are incomes of individuals. It is not the income of the Federal government. No one can pay taxes except out of his income. If the income of all people in a year is 50 billion dollars and the Town- send tax requires 20 billion dollars, this equais 40 per cent of the national income. It makes no_ difference whether the tax is in the form of an income, real estate, or transactions tax. The manner in which different people and businesses would pay this tax would differ widely. If, for ex- ample, a business concern does $1,- 000,000 of business to get a net in- come of $20,000, a 2 per cent trans- actions tax would take all its net in- come if it had to pay the tax. And every business concern cannot pass it on to every other one. The selling prices of one are the costs of another, The tax might be squeezed out of an indiv-dual in the form of higher prices and the depletion ¢n the pur- chasing power of his income or by causing him to lose his job and income completely. If, for example, I had an income of $1,000 per year, I would be required, if I bore an average share of the burden, to spend $400 of it to meet the requirements of the Townsend transaction tax. The Town- sendites say 2 per cent on $1,000 means $20, not $400. The point is that were such a tax levied, prices would jump and my $1,000 then would not buy as many goods as otherwise would be the case. No one could tell how much they would jump or what all the maladjustments would be like; but each person who pays the tax will pass it on to his neighbor in higher prices if he can. Or, the resulting de- cline in production and the conse- quent relative scarcity of goods, would cause a sharp jump in costs "| and in prices. In other words, if such a tax were to be collected, my $1,000 then would not be the same as my $1,000 now. It would be then that the Townsendites would understand the meaning of the statement that “all taxes are paid out of national income”. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S Lowest Highest WEATHER jin extreme south portion Tues- of our Republic, we wonder how our fore- | SU stion— last night last 24 hours! day; slightly warmer in extreme | fathers managed to see so far ahead. They gave us one of the most pliable forms government in the world; one that withstood wars abroad and at home, and |chi that so far has stood firm against attack by Socialists, Communists and dictators. But every now and then a_ trend! creeps up that the people are forced ta strike down. one of them when he said: the con- particular | an distribution or modification of stitufional powers be in any wrong, let it be corrected by designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one in- stance, may be the instrument of good, it i: the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” Some European nations did not heed similar warnings. They have dictatorships. And unhappily in our own land there are a few who would do by indirection the things they cannot do directly. MORAL SUASION FAILS Moral suasion, or the force of world | public opinion, had a good test in the Far | sm" East when the Japanese China, and, more recently, | Abilene | Atlanta of | Boston has | Buffalo | Detroit | Galveston Ha | Huron ! Jacksonville George Washington foresaw | Kansas City | KEY WEST -_ . He ! Little Rock “If, in the opinion of the people, the | Lo Louisville ) Miami | Minneapolis amend- New | ment in the way in which the Constitution !Tampa | Weshington 1 Williston i Highest Lowest | Mean ' Normal | HN {Normal Precipitation walked into | sun rises an opportunity. } Sun sets 64 84 78 58 44 74 48 58 74 ana 7 - 60 76 rleston x0 83 84 Angeles Orleans ! New York i Pensacola -.. | Pittsburgh ist. | Salt Lake City jfan Louis Francisco attle 64 44 40 mperatures* 83 72 78 Mean Aa Rainfall* orday’s Preeipitation —.0 Ins, -94 Ins, our perk moruins. ‘Tomertew" ‘s Alma: when the Italians decided to civilize the , Moon rises | Moon sets Ethiopians. The lesson that stands out clearly ist that world public opinion cannot be -ex-| pected to keep the peace when strongly armed powers make up their minds to take | what they want. | This does not mean that joint action’ for world peace is wrong. It simply makes , clear the necessity of force to restrain} } High Low Leics! quarter Ameaanse.i6 ‘Tomorrow's Tides A.M. 3:50 8:34 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.06. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Tuesday) Gen-: | northw portion’ tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Strai’ and East Gulf: Gentle to moder-; ate northeast and east winds; gen- erally fair weather tonight and / ‘Tuecday. | WEATHER CONDITIONS | area, the Si. preads sippi Val- | pressure 18 crested Law- the} A high pressure this morning ov jrence Valley, < ‘country from the Mi ley eastward. while ‘moderately low over western dis- jtricts. Light to moderate rains have occurred since yesterday |morning over the north Pacifi ‘coast, in the central Plains States | ‘and middle Mississippi Valley, and in portions of the north and mid- die Atlantic Stat and there have been moderate showers in| southeastern Florida, Tempera- ture changes have been general-! ly unimportant, with veadings above normal throughout the! igreater part of the country, ex- j cept in northeastern sections. G S. KENNEDY, + Official in Charge. | KSONVILLE FLORIDA YOUR individual aks ol eatin ‘ia 2 matter of great importance at this modem, bire-proof, home-like hotel located in the heart jac ‘steam heat, every bed with inner- spring mattress and individual reading lamps. AIR CONDITIONED COCKTAIL LOUNGE - COFFEE SHOP Rates--Single with Private Beth 78 Rooms $2.00 - 8) Roses $2.50 j West Realty Board that the ; Val street white way will } operation within the next Jand ns KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Harry Boyajian reported | terday at the luncheon the Ki Du- be in three wee Robert H. Givens was ap- pointed chairman of the adver ing and publicity comimittee and instructed to consult L. P. Artman |relative to preparing advertising ‘for The Citizen. William R. Porter. president of the First National Bank, returned this morning from the convention of the Florida Bankers’ A*socia- tion held this week in ville, Mr. Porter said the conven- tion was successful and the !argest in the history of the association, Colonel George H. Carter, presi- dent of the Marble Falls Textile Milis of Marble F visitor in Key West. In an inter- view with The Citizen Colonel Carter said he had heard a great deal about Key West but now es that to get a clear of possibilities in this section one must do as he has and be right on the Florida Key to realize the op- portunit'es for amazing develop- ment, which are seen on every ide Colonel id, “This section is due for a healthy development, now that prices of land h been re- adjusted, and there no doubt in my mind that this se tined to become the of the world. is ion is des- play ground An old abandoned houseboat on North Beach burned 12 o'clock last night, One truck nm Num- ber 1 engine station responded to the alarm and the flames were ex- tinguis! in a short time. Th boat was owned by Frank Fishe now a resid of Miami, and has been of little or service some time, so that its destruction jis not considered any great loss. no for Joe the man = and yesterday in the € f Roland Curry, way to Brooksville. Fla., in ithe custody of Deputy Sheriff Nory Mondon, who arrived this |morning and left this afternoon Deputy Mondon said that Ringo is !a carpenter in Brooksville and has }a wife and ch‘ldren there. Mollie | Crenshaw comes of a family, although she was known to be with Ringo their disappear- to the Ringo and Dollie Crenshaw, woman arrested n Hotel by re now on ance comes as a surprise widths bearing wire. HARDWARE snakes, etc. and 8. Also #4” 2 MESH HARDWARE CLOTH Prices of Other Sizes On Application GARDEN HOSE ft. rubber garden hose with brass coup- without nozzle 2h 25 solid lings, Lengths Nozzle Paint Brush Headquarters Brush, long vulcanized rubber. Each South Florida Phone 598 CLOTH: Galvanized, : f 2. ’ mesh with slightly heavier wire. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936 citizens of Brooksville. Their] whereabouts were not known until Today In History Ringo wired a friend for money. Dr. William Deaper Leow, the American Law in- berm there Customs Inspector W. J. Lord got his automobile badly damaged — in a collision with a telegraph pole * in the F. E. C. yards last night. One front wheel was torn off, the’ poo wind shield shattered and the @@F C. jing injured in other ways. Mr. Lord Sener 6 was driving the car im the face of x « a glaring light, which blinded him to such an extent he misjudged Dr. John the distance to the pole and York « crashed into it. at rector of Philadeipa:a age Mc Ninch charm: 69% years Nort, ine Federa. - H e Work of constructing the meW Harvard Salvation Army building at the! Caisix Maine corner of Fleming and Grin- neli streets is progressing ra-~ pidly, says Christopher Knowles im eter charge of construction work. The building being constructed with material from a building at Fert Taylor reservation and when com- Canadian pleted will cost approximately Kingston, $1,700. Editorial former before comment: In d te ask, Texas, is a } borrow the money. Edwin Torres, who was wound ed in Miami some time woman who suicided sho the incident, arrive from Miami. He will while here recuperating and ther return to his home in Miam In the Center of and Theater the 5usimess age by a Metrict yesterday spend a Fiest Class—Fireprof— Semech'e Rates Subscribe to The weekly. Citisen—20c etal \ WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED & TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS LLM The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Depos:t Insurance Corporation U. S. Gowermment Depositary PML LLL LLL LM (Lh Ahh Ab hh hdd dod VISIOIOIIDIIIIS SS ae. 5 Large shipment just received from 12” to 72”. Heav CALL 598 FOR PRICES Protects baby chicks 36” wide in meshes of 58c Yard lengths of $1.49 25c 4” Paint extra bristles, in $1.50 Contracting & Engineering Co. 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