The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 4, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P, ARTMAN, President JOL ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager e Citizen Building and Ann Streeta Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. antered at Key West, F Press y entitled to use dispatches credited to | ted in this paper and also | the local nows published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES te Yenr ie gix Months Three Months .. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, . ECIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of | respect, ob.tuary ni , ete, Will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. \ Nofices fer entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to b ived are 5 cents a line. The sion of public $ and subjects of local or general terest but it will not pubiish anonymous communi- tations. All reading notice IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- isnd. re Port. tetels ana Aparcments. wt hing Pavilion. ts—-Land and Sea. \soiidation of County and City poi 4. 7ernments, “Of incendiary origin”’—appears to be the veruict in the burning of the Big Pine Kpy brid In ait display., we presume, no nudes | is good nudes.—Miami Herald. What's | the matter, you gotta cold? “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” Shakespeare was right, although he did not have Key West in mind at the time. The Citizen pays very little attention either to brickbats or bouquets but if it must acknowledge a preference, it is for the latter. Mexico has deported its ex-President to the United States. Let's see, have we a reciprocal treaty with Mexico —*ort Myers News-Pri Is that Nice?—-Tampa Tribune. No; he’s governor of Maryland; it’s the other fellow. * Congratulations and approbation are welcome and gratifying, but a newspaper cannot live off them. Increased patron- age and prompt paymert of bills are sub-! stantial and concrete evidence that “ap-; probation from Sir Hubert Stanley praise indeed.” is Senators Fletcher and Trammel huve submitted two rames from which Pyesi- dent Roosevelt is to choose the successor to Judge Halstead L. Ritter, lately deposed in impeachment proceedings by the senate. An even hundred wanted the judgeship. ! May the chosen be fitter than former Judge Ritter. : Before the Board of Public Wor Admiristration in Washington there are pending $106,761,131 for Florida projects. Tai these projects are included two items for Key West—one for $3,840,000 for toll | bridges, which the President is expected to sign this week, and another of $2,369,- 191 for water mains. When these sums become available, Key West will have just cauce for rejoicing and take heart anew in putting its shouider to the wheel} to make the island city a happier and bet-; ter place in which to live. It isn’t that radio is “always wrong, though often it is, but folks ‘doesnot hear j correctly or only part of whet is being said | - when announcements are made over the! Last Friday someone thought he| heard the announcer state that President Roocevelt had signed the document grant- ing the allocation for funds to build the! bridges, although The Ctizen made it plain that the president’s signature had not been affixed, and that only the squig- gling of his name was necessary to make the funds available. This will be done, very likely, early this week, and then we air. : soldiers. | headquarters who made the decisions. No | ! one ever thought of polling the corporals, : sergeants and other minor controllers be- | can start to celebrate. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL ! j Agitators, like parrots, repeat them- | selves. Their current popular phrase is: } “The inexhaustible wealth of this great | country is controlled by 2 per cent of the; population.” Notice they now say “con-; troiled”—not “owned.” | Accepting that figure, we find that | 2,450.000 people exercise the control. | That is‘one controller for every 50 people, ; and the 50 includes men, women, children, | producers and non-producers, | In the A. E. F. there were 2,000,000 | There were only 100 officers at } fore the decisions were made. The important thing is not who con- trols the wealth but who benefits from it. More thar 3,500,000 farmers own their | farms; upward of 63,000,000 persons have life in. urance policies; more than 14,000,- j 000 families own homes; somebody owns | 20,060,000 automobiles and millions of radios, refrigerators and the like. Who got the income from the wealth | controlled by the 2 per cent? The De- rtment of Commerce says the total na- tional income in 1934 was $48,500,000,- 000. Of that, 89.6 per cent, or $43,590,- 000,000 went to persons whose income was less than $5,000. Those with incomes from $5,000 to $10,000 got 9.4 per cent less than 1 per cent went to thoce making over $100,000. Incidentally, the 89.6 per cent paid practically no income taxes while the taxes on the others ranged as high as 79 per cent. Maybe the agitators would like to split up the $48,500,000 so every man, woman ard child would get $381 a year. } That would be an exact, even distribution. But it would rob every man of the incen- | tive to get ahead, and somehow we can’t conceive of an ambitionless nation living through the ages. THE AGED PAID CLEMENTS The leaders inthe Townsend move- ment have professed to be particularly concerned with the welfare of the old people in the United States. The Town- send Plan called for paying pensions of | $200 a month to all over sixty yea of age. Club. were formed throughout the! United States and the ‘old people en-} couraged to send in their dimes and quar- | ters to permit the propaganda for the plan to be broade The facts are now showing that the| leaders in the Townsend movement were well paid for their efforts. Mr: Robert E. | Clements was the national secretary. Last } October at a Townsend convention it was stated that Mr. Clements received a salary of $50 a week plus about $74 a week for expences. Testifying before “the Con- gressional Committee Mr. Clements — said he received $100 per week in 1 salary and something over $7,000 in divi- dends from the publication company which | y ued the weckly printed to promote old age pensions. In addition to the $12,585 he received his wife drew $1,445 as cecre- tary. The Clements also had their rent, ; $130 a month, their grocery bills, the wages of their servants and all traveling expense. paid for by the organization. J EXTRAVAGANCE GALORE (The Sarasota Herald) “When the jo payers’ money is thrown to the winds, 1 cians ave not curbed the tax- | and j no greater demonstration of this sort of extravagance ha } been shown the people of Florida than in wet t cost of n’stration 0, the state beverage de- ihe state the rae'ng commission, ‘ivst_ nine months of the current | 083 in liquor taxes Zlewed_into the Flori tw But nearly ten 2 it—-$208,083—was reta ned ad- it | for far in excess of what From the tax on ra total taxes o€%$1,4 ly extra’ wz the state gathered in -205, and after deducting the ant expenses,” a ing to the! vadenton Herald, about a million dollars will be | pro rated to the 67 counties, E this the s for Bradenton Herald thinks “is as weak as wate’ gross extravagance, on the part of the} is but the squandering of mone and that the “free spendin; “annointed few” that belongs to the peorle of Florida. The latest salary list of the state beverage de- partment indicated that approximately $7,500 =) The cost scat | ministration of the beverage department for nine | months was $208,083, or $23,120 a month. Where has the remaining $15 paid out each month in salaries. 20 a month gone?” | Beffa! 1 Pensacola | Willicton THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s An Old Fallacy Crops Up By WALTER E. SPAHR Affairs Chairman, Department of Economtics, New York University For a long time economists have poked fun at an old economic fallacy regarding the labor supply and the amount of work to be done. This fallacy has been known to economists as “the lump of la- bor notion”—a silly expression and a silly no- tion. This old theory was to the effect that the amount of employment and the amount of ‘work to be done were rela- tively fixed and that if the labor supply in- creased ,or 1f more machines were introduced unemployment would in- crease and wages would decline. The President of the United States subscribed, doubtless unknowingly, to this old “lump of labor” theory in | his Baltimore address. At any mo- ment, especially during times of a business depression, that old fallacy sounds more or less plausable, and it always has the virtue of putting its expounder in the role of being sym- patheti¢ with labor. But the notion is nevertheless fallacious. In harmony with this theory the President suggested that only per- sons between the ages eighteen and sixty-five be permitted to work. Some of the aspects of such a notion should be easily understood. If the idea is sound, why is it not still better to restrict the number of | workers to those between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five? And when a man works does he not create both labor opportunities for others and more goods to con- sume? Or does he merely deprive an- other person .f work anc, by not sharing his task, lower the standard of living for all? Would anybody be willing to say | that, if all persons able to work were | fully employed, there would not be more to consume and that the stand- | ard of living would not be higher than if only half the people worked, and the other half shared the prod- ucts without producing anything? Is any thoughtful person willing to say that the income of the masses would be higher today if all tools (Address questi es ODAY’S. Low Highest Jast night hast 2! hot . 66 84 54 44 34 66 40 Slation— AlLilene Charleston Chi Deny Detroit Ge Havana Huron veston 78 88 74 83 Jacksonville Kensas City KEY WEST Little Roch Minneapotis New Orleans 66 New York .... 56 ot Pit'sburgh St. Louis Sa!t Lake C.t San Franciseo 60 40 ington ‘Temperatures* Highest | Lowest Mean « Normal Mean 2 Rainfall* torday's Precipitation pitation -0 Tus. -05 Ins. norrow’s Almanac - 6:59 High Low Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.03. 's to the author, care of this newspaper) , cisco northward, and ir? the ex and machines were abandoned and men worked barehanded? Any intelligent reader will answer these questions correctly and will realize that the seat of the trouble and the answer to it lie elsewhere. The President did not perceive the seat of the trouble and he did not give the answer. The irony of the address lay in part in the fact that he ridiculed a four- point partial program of a compe- tent economist without perceiving that the four-point program came much closer to hitting at one major source of the present difficulties in this country than did his own sug- gestions. This economist had recom- mended a return to the gold standard. the convertibility of our currency. 2 recognition of our position as a cred- itor nation, and the restoration of order in our Federal finances. The President said of these sug- gestions: “1 hope you will be as thrilled and excited by them as J was. ...1s there opportunity, is there work today, is there assurance for to- morrow, is this the practical, definite answer you are looking for? .. . No, my friends, you have a right to expect something better than that.” In reply one may ask whether, after three years of this government's diagnoses and prescriptions, the problem of unemployment has been solved in any important degree. One time a man, who suffered rheumatism in his heel, went,to his physician who, after a diagnosis, sent him to a dentist to have his tooth |extracted. Meeting a friend he said: | “What do you think! I went to a doc- tor to find out what was wrong with my heel and he tells me to have a tooth pulled! Of all the silly ideas!” He might have said with equal ap- propriateness regarding the physi- cian whose diagnosis he did not un- derstand: “It was not the answer 1 was looking for. I did not get a thrill out of that. My friends, I had expected something better than that!” Correct diagnoses of economic ills do not always He on the surface to be picked up like a stick by any casual wayfarer. And there is no reason to suppose that a politician can make a correct diagnosis more | easily than can a trained economist who has spent years in specific study of just such problems. | The answer to this problem will ‘be given in the next article. | | WEATHER WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Tue ) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Tuesday;} gentle northerly winds, becoming norti:east. Florida: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; slighly on to. moderate cooler | the northeast coast tonight. | Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to mod- jerate northerly winds becoming ; northeasterly and partly overcast; | weather tonight and Tuesday. WEATHER CONDITIONS ; Pressure is moderately low off the middle Atlantic coast and! ; over the far West, Hatteras, N.! C., 29.88 inches, and Phoenix,| : Ariz., and Seattle, Wash., 29.80 nches; while weak high pressure | overspread the northern, | Plains States, Mississippi Valley ! ;and La region, Chicago, _ Iil., | 30.22 in and Williston, N. D.;| 30.14 Rains have eccur-j ‘red during the last 24. hours, | throughout most of the Atlantic. | lend east Gulf States, except east-; ern and southern Florida, being, heavy at Washington, D. C., 2.44} inches. There have also been light to mederate rains the| Pacific coast from San Fran-| 28. on treme upper Mississippi Valley. ! ‘and thunderstorms in portions of} Kansas and western Texas. Tem peratures have fallen from the Ohio Valley and Tennessee north- eastward over the middle and: north Atlantic States; while read-} ings are generally above norma’! over western districts, th max | ‘mum temperstures ne 196 de} grees in Arizona y H G { Subscribe to The Citizen—20c : weekly, | Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company Lrfective December 22nd, 1935. S. S. CUBA Leaves Port Tampa on Sui P. M. arriving Key West 7 A. Leaves St. Petersburg on Key West 7 A. M. Monday. ndays and Wednesdays at 2:30 M. Mondays and Thursdays. Sundays at 4:15 P. M. arriving Leaves Key West Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 A. M. for Havana. Tampa, —— Key West Tuesdays and Fridays 5 P. M. for Port For further information and rates call Phone 14. J. H. COSTAR, Agent, ! Happenings Here Just 10 Years | treasured article back im his pos | aiternoon stopped | the j outside the harbor. The | County Water Supply Board to be i was } from a number of corporations. | portions, dressed onl: | of tar and feathers and his B. V-. jan open touring car in front of |The masked men “ho had him in ij W. | leave FI PIASTIVALAIAFTAILZLVAFLAIPPAPLOPLILOD D0 S MONDAY, MAY 4 eecccces eeeccsecoces CLASSIFIED COLUMN |3ohn Cates, who lives at 411 | Grinnell street, saw the ad and immediately after reading it de- j ered the watch to Mr. Webb, jWwho is happy to again have his KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen } | session. Plans for West were taken boosting Key up yesterday at {a luncheon of the Key West Steamship Artemis| Realty Board. It is propesed t Artemis {enlist all organizations of he formerly in the rum running ycity in a special boosting drive im Coast Guard Cutter yesterday and boarded Bri i business but nothing was found to. cooperation with the chamber of indicate that the vessel is at this}tommerce. Har1; R. Mallory was jtime engaged in any lawless pur-!grpointed a committee of one to suits. The Artemis was hown .to| int be in the fruit trade plying be-/ bers tween Tampa and Cuban ports. jew the ofcicer of the various organiza’ ‘in the city to put on a pu jcampaign. Ways and means of Propositions for bringing fresh|>rimgim tourists to Key West e board un : : oS" | will be devised by water from the mainland to Key|‘* West will be discussed at a meet-, 4" the direction of Mr. Mallory ing of the city council and Monroe and mem Dorothy Par, Ma>ri and Mary Johnsen entertained a rumber of friends last evening with a “k party” at the home of Misx Park on Newte Several held May 20. This announcement made yesterday and it was stated that proposals for furnish- ing the water supply are expected street selection given, and musical numbers were heard rest of the time ins: games and licious refreshments hostesses. voca oth Tr were A colored man of gigantic pro- : was spe! ina coat enjoving the D’s., was summarily dumped from REFRICERATION sfPAmin— the Monroe theater last night. Construction work wa this mornine on what will of the prettiest and mo: resicen Key West ndsome home is te be const ed by Mrs. Ida Maloney a occupy a pleasing =it street next to the corne street. the car and ejected him, told him to “dig”, and he lost no time in doing so. This was the negro who was arrested and placed in the jail, Sunday night for anno: a white woman. He was in city ja’ and was to be turned over the coufty today. He gave his name Shanon. As far learned he could not be found to- day. on Car Dr as as = Saas sassasasi sa aair, Telegraphic advices re the Porter Dock company the effect that the Wrecking Tug Warbler, now at Curacao, Dutch West Indies, where it went to the aid of the oil Tanker Chiton, wi!l for Key West, Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. N WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO MEET AND TO SERVE OUR VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Roberts announce the birth of a son last night in their home on Francis street. Mother and boy are ported as doing ricel: H. T. Webb, 620 this city. lost a watch. The trinsic value of the timepiece would not have been such a sev ere loss to the owner, but it was gift from his mother when he a mere lad of 15, hence it was a cherished treasure, and its value cannot be estimated in terms of dollars and cents. A Citizen “lost” ad was inserted yest re- The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Reserve System Dey street, in- Member of the Federal Depos# insurance Curporation U. S. 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