The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1936, Page 2

West Citizen hea Daily Except Sunday By N PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, Presiden, N, Assistant Business }xnager From The Citizen Building and Ann Streeta Comer Greene ly Daily Newspa West and Monroe second class matter | | i | r of the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credit his paper and also | I F rept dlicatic or not otberw ise he local news pul * Italy. j an effect on SANCTIONS HAVE EFFECT ees i} Italian troops are scampering through Ethiopia as the defense collapses with the; defeat of Emperor Haile Selassic’s soldiers, ! but the sanctions put into operation by the League of Nations are gradually having ; the internal economy of | i | Italy. A recent report to the League of} ! Nations shows that sanctions, after a slow | start, have been drastically applied. al- j though the United States, Austria, and’ Germany have iner ed their trade with | Great Britain cut her purchases from | | $1,942,000 in January of last year to $70,- ADV ORTISING RATES je known on application, IAL NOTICE is of thanks, resolutions of | will be charged for at 4 s All reading notic ca spect, obituary notices, vte., e rate of 10 ce Notices fot ent revenue is to | The Citizen is forune and invites discus- sion of public issues and ts of local or general interest ‘but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, Saat es { IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ents by churches from which cents a line. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN i: 2. Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- ‘snd. ve Fort. anu Aparcments. os. ting Pavilon. #1 ports—Land and Sea. ©: woiidation of County and City Cc vernments, Politics has ruined many a good man. There are many people who do not agree with what we say. So what? \ are usually speaker attachments. Campai whisperers equipped with loud Sentenced to kiss his wife go to: ~jail, a Brooklyn man spoiled a good story j or a Nobody is quite so pompous as a man who has the idea that he must maintain a reputation an authority or play the role of beive intelligent. isn’t much difference between life in a big city and in a small town. In the city the autos run down a lot of peo- | ple, and in the town the gossips do the same thing.—Olivia Times. There In unity there is strength. community has suffered by some cilables throwing a monkey-wrench in to the machinery and holding up and often destroying a set-up that would have mean tirancia! independence for all. Many irrecon- a There is practically no thieving in Tibet, we are told, one of the reasons ing that an ertire village can be fined for the theft as well as the thief himself. It seems to us such a rule would stop thieving everywhere for then we all would be watching one another. De- Larger towns are divided; their very size prohibits concerted action by all the people, but here in Key West we can get together in neighborly good will, make our plans to improve our condition, which | at the present time is deplorable, and work in unison to make the isiand city a more desirable place in which to live a more abundant life. Cooperation is essential to obtain this objective. United we stand. divided we fall. pea Ld ' Years ago a petition was circulated im Key West in which the hanging of an in- dividual was advocated. The joke about | the ruse was that the intended victim was} mentioned by name in the document and} he himself signed his own death warrant. There is at present being circulated a peti- tion to require the Interstate Commerce oe to restore the abandoned F. E. C. Ry. If we sign the petition it may! prove to be our death warrant, and that won't be a joke. If the petition for- warded the I. C. C. will take action, callj for a hearing at some future date, and find! Key West hopelessly divided, in which case nothing will be done, but we will be undone and may find that the allocation for the highway over the F. E. C. tracks has been diverted to other projects. Aj word to the, wise is sufficient. This is the | is ' 000 in January of this year. ‘ duced imports from $1.388,000 to | promptly applied to ar agressor nation. | SIDELIGHTS ; biccoughs. ; gree could be obtained for word. France re- $159,- | 000. Yugos'avia cut her trade from $482,- 000 to $2,000. While it is possible that the sanctions now in effect may exert enough pressure | in Italy to ameliorate her terms when the Ethiopian verture is liquidated, it seems | clear, from tne present case, that economic ; and financial sanctions could exert decisive } influence if they were universally and} i By MARCY B. DARNALL. Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Would-be robbers unwittingly Ernest Stockton, a filling station owner of San Jose, Calif., a favor recently, when they held him up. When he refused to| open his safe, the two bandits left without attempting vie!lcnce. Incidentally, the} excitemert cured Stockton of a bad case of did | Investigators discovered a mail order outfit in Los Angeles which confered ec- clesiastical degrees and dignities for rea- A “doctor of divinity’? de- $ while $30 made full-fledged It was found that Joe Penner’ duck had been given a certificate Diake Googoo.”’ onable sums. paid = for “bishop.” being a ulptor William Zorach’s prize-win- g pioneer group for the Dallas exposi- tion has aroused a storm of protest be- cause the four figures, a man, woman and two children, are nude. To make matters worse, a woman's organization made a fur- ther complaint because the lady in the group wore no wedding ring. A Nebraska newspaper suggests to} Senator Norris that he could find a suit able outlet for quite a bit of power from his pet TVA project—by using it to elec- trocute most of those hili-billy quarteties. Pur: uing an unusual hobby for one of | his calling, T. T. Womack, a banker of | Matsball, Te has built a miniature car- | nival occupying a space of 6 by 18 feet. It has 300 hand-carved figures, 563 moving parts, and 175 electric lights. Mr. Wo- mack values it at $10,000. His ratich house being located at the} intersecton of four Fred Terron calls for his mail in Colorado, votes in Utah, trades at a county seat in Arizona, ! and goes to church in New Mexico. Any- way, that is what an item in the American | Magazine says. 3 states, It is a decided disadvantage to have a shop on a street at the foot of a steep hill, according to R. J. McCann of Seattle, | . who complained to police: ‘Five parked | ears have slipped their brakes and come! crachirg downhill through the front of my ! prirting office. That's too many. There; ought to be a law.” Hold-ups and practical jokes do not go well together. At least they made a fatal combination for Ernest Fields of st. } Louis. He held up and robbed 11 persons | in a drug store and then made each drink | a soda which he served them. While play- ing his little prank, four policemen arrived ! and shot him to death when he offered re- sistance. A Brooklyn bachelor morning setting-up program is the best radio feature. Asked if he took the eae cises, he admitted he did not, but enjoyed | watching a lady across the court from his apartment who did, with window shades not drawn. thinks thei ! | Normal THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs | _ Bearing the Cross of Gold By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Political and Social Science Every economist is asked from time to time whether a particular idea or | plan is “sound economics.” Often he ; finds it very hard to reply. He cannot always know just what his questioner really means by “sound.” Forty years or more ago we heard a great deal about sound money. That was dur- ing the famous Bryan - McKin- ley campaign. Those who fa- vored remain- ing firmly on the gold stand- ard were known as advocates of “sound money.” Their critics who argued for free silver and bimetallism said their opponent: wanted to “crucify mankind upon a | cross of gold.” During the last few years this j money debate has been renewed in a new form and with new slogans. Practically all trained . economists still urge retaining the gold standard. Their critics, most of them with little or no training or experience, argue for what they call a “managed cur- ency” and call the first group “wor- ers of the golden calf.” Since ne subject is a very difficult one, the layman is likely to be persuaded by the appeal of one of the slogans or by the group making the most noise. Everyone presumably favors und economies.” But what is it? umably it is those theories and ods which will best accomplish mr. So everything depends upon mn about what we want to Go. Since so many people want to do so many very different things, there s bound to be much confusion over what is “sound.” Probably we shall never have com- plete agreement on many of these Some people will want to en- e the growth of large fortunes and the development of large corpo- ¢ rations. Others will want io restrict size and will favor helping “the littie fellow.” In every direction and on ali questions there will be this conflict of purpose. For this reason ‘ve shall never completely agree regarding “sound” procedure. It is possible, however, that we can unite on the importance of ha a monetary system that will permit as steady a price level as possible. It to the advantage of conservat liberals and radicals alike to reduce the extreme fluctuations in prices that are so disastrous in their effects. Employers and employees, debtors and creditors—will have a better chance to apply themselves to the business of making a living if our monetary system is the best and steadiest we can possibly have. If we could really “manage” the currency to bring this about, nobody would hesitate to abandon the gold indard and to use the new methods. he trouble is that no one as yet knows very much about managing money. To many laymen it seems simple but the experts in the field know how difficult this management is. A little, but only a very little, is known about it. For this reason practically trained students of money in all all gold as a basis. They realize it has defects but they know that most of are not due to these defects but to entirely different causes. The other difficulties must be con- trolled or no money system will work well. In the meantime, it is highly im- portant to cling to the gold standard In the opinion of monetary experts it any other. With it as a basis, we can argue out our differences on the countless important issues that the world is facing. Whatever we decide about them can be more easily and certainly accomplished with the gold standard than in any other way. lis retention is “sound econor for all of us, no matter what our views are about other matters. (Address questions to the axthcr, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S s Highest hit last 24 hour: 92 80 80 tation Abilene Janta Boston Buffalo | Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Gaiveston Havana Heron Jacksonville Kansas City ; KEY WEST Little Rock Lo: eles Louisville Miami Minneapolis ew Orleans New Yo Penszcola Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City ‘Temperatures* Highest Lowest Mean = Mean Rai | Yesterday's Pre WEATHER —_—_ ! Tomorrow's Tides i A.M. (iagh) = is {Low Barometer 8 a.m. today: Sea level, 30.04, ct FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) | Key West and Vicinity: Partly ; cloudy tonight and Saturday; mod- ‘erate northeast to east winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight ‘and Saturday, unsettled at times |on the east coast. | dJueksonville to Florida Straits: ; Moderate north to cast winds; ‘partly overcast weather tonight and Saturday with local showers. t Gulf: Moderate northeast {to east winds; partly overcast ‘weather tonight and Saturday. pM 8:04 1:41 ' wratt | WEATHER INDITIONS { A shallow trough of low :sure extends this mormug the upper Mississippi Valle: i westward to the Rio Grande ley, Minneapolis, Minn. 99 inches, and E! Paso, Texas, 29.86 inches. This trough separates high pressure areas crested off thc middle Atlantic coast and ove northwestern districts, New York 0.34 inches, inches. pres- from Val- Light i moderate ins and thunder- storms heve occurred during the last 24 hours in many interior lo. s and in extreme north western Florida and northern New England, and there have been .| heavy rains in portions of Minne- .|sota, Duluth, 1. 82 .. peratures have inches. Tem en from Lake region eastward over oS COTOTTTATTTIOTEN, WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS The First National N IN N ,) | WOOO IITIIIITISI IS. Member of the Federal Reserve System Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation U. S. Government Depositary Bank of Key West LAA LLLELAL LLL EL countries of the world favor keeping | our troubles with price fluctuations | will undoubtedly work better than | south- + and Wliliston, | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | ! Monroe county citizens went on | record last night as being bitterly |cpposed to the proposition of the state road department to change {the route of the Tamiami Trail. 'There was a’great crowd assembled {in the county court house to hear {the matter explained. Bascom L. ‘Grooms presided. Many joined in tthe discussion which at ler sulted in a decision that no agree- ment would be signed by Monroc county with the state road depart- ment unless the seven m a | of road in Monroe completed first in the wishes of the co formity with people. In today’s is: appears the a Harry M. Baker who will the race for member of the board from the Mr. Baker is the son of muel Baker, of F and is a young man well in Key West and at the {time is employed with the { undertaking establishment. He i ‘held in high esteem by a lar number of friends and is prom a large following in hs rac the office to which he school district Mrs. Le street, known present second ming ised aspires } Last month proved to be one o {the most lucrative experienced by the police department Key | West. This announcement was made today by Chie Cleveland | Niles when he told The © luring the Month of 0.05 had been colle and estreated bon 25 showed collectic | hence this year’s gain 1s § jos. of April ted Registration books close at , o'clock this afternoon. About people had registered today up to the noon hour and a number were waiting when the office opened uy 2 o'clock this afternoon. Anticipating the needs for a re- creational center that is sure to come with the continued growth of Key West and the ensu'ng ci jvie progress. T, H. Abbott, of New Ye now a resident of New York, will start work in a day two in converting La Brisa into a or north Atlantic States; while else- where changes have been unim- portant, with readings near above normal throughout country. or the GS. k N DISCONTINUED ULAR 60 VALUE. CLEARANCE COLORS: ORANGE— Qts. Pts. % Pts. SA ‘BASIS I LILES LIL ODM. FOR ANY E Phone 598 COLL E EEL LA AA hh hd Le ) der has issued hi (WATER PAINT) COLORS: WHILE THEY LAST— CAPRI BL <A MELED SELF-WRINGING MOPS of . Today In History! ° | 1780—Charter the of Louisville authorized | Assembly of Virginia, of | Kentucky at that time a p Town the for 1873—One first issued. 1886—Str cay the ike country over. 1893 position, World's € Chicag 1898—-Battle of Manila Ba Dewey destroys the Spanish f 1935—May Day Berlin: by Hitler's Germany wanted cow: by an airpl Paris and Le oliday—in Vienn cotting of th food—in New York arate Communist parades. Pp peac peace and irst class casino te Coral Isle Casine make a complete building. have bathing pavillion, The change a well with tea garden and other and recreational f eat Editorial comment: 1 would know m nature, either enter conduct a newspaper avout po Building inspector Ralph Pit Ss report of ing operations for the month April showing that activities construction lines during t riod called for an expend $22,000. Total for | placed at $8.000 work, $14,000 build. ong pe- rep and This is payday at the and City Clerk Wallace all smiles as he hands vouchers to city others to whom the c ed. The city of Key West each month. Though the during the Pinder out employ summer not as heavy as during the » nevertheless distribution shows that $8,600 was put circulation. Charles N rived to be presen of his sister Miss Florence, will be married May 10 t D. Stokes, jr., of Lennox. Mr. Crittenden is a e president le and Trust Critte ex COLORS OF SHERWIN W LAVENDER AND 5 Lb. Pkg. AUTO ENAMEL LE. MUST MAKE ROOM UE, CINNAMON BROWN SURFACE EXPOSE No the wetting hands, £ wrings dry— EACH 45c South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. White and Eliza Streets “Your home is worthy of the best” ISG IILIL ILD OVDOLDILDL LILI LISS. 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