The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | Daily Except Sunday By EN PUBLISHING CO. INC, Publish Tun ct L. Pp. JO ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building d Ann Streets former Green vnty Daily Newspaper in y West and Monroe County. ntered at Key Ww coud class matter | f the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for r-pt dlication of all news dispatches credited to t or not otberwise credited in this paper and also che local news pub-ished here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES e Associat $10.00 5.00 2.50 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, Pa AL NOTIC ds of thanks, resolutions of . Will be charged for at SPI All reading notic cespect, ob.tuary notices, the rate of 10 a lin Notices for entertainments by @ revenue is to ‘The sion © a | churches from which a line. nvites discus- jects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to isnd. complete Road to Main- *rre Port. fieceis and Aparements. behing Pavilion, «icports—Land and Sea. \soiidation cf County and City ‘2. 7ernments, ially, peace will Tv he big 90n reign in rains failed to come in to the pessimist means but to the optimist ‘nel gain.” cane roa» ! N. G.”” means It’s a good rule to buy from a mer- chant who frankly admits that he is mak i 1 pro A Chicago man who feared to under- operation got oul of it neatly by hanging him-elf, To him that bath shall be giver. The quintuplets have a sister or brother coming, but that will only be news because of them. When a person serves without any | pay, in any capacity, he might as well ex- pect a few blows below the belt and from the rear. Mahan, the Weyerhaeuser kidnaper, is sentenced to 120 years in Federal prison. We aah for him a long life—120 years more, to be exact. Mussolini would be a good poker player; he bluffed 51 nations, including England which always was a star per- former until I] Duce hove in sight. O. O. McIntyre that a_ well- cooked plate of cookies and a cool glass of milk are an unbeatable midnight lunch. Buy why must we stay up so late; at that hour we are in the land of dreams. says The lesson to drawn Italian venture into Haile Selassie’s king- dom is epitomized to the wise if they re- member the famous saying attributed to Theodore Roosevelt — “Speak softly, but ry a big stick.” The moral is that the League stick wasn't big enough. be from the ca The Key West Citizen will swear to it! Down in the Island City the other day aman caught a jewfish too heavy for him to handle, so he used his automobile to} drag it ashore.—Times-Union. If you don’t | believe it, come down and we'll show you; the abtomobile. Regardless, it is fact; not fiction. } Dr. Horder, personal King Edward VII, now vis United States, has repeatedly “doctor: publicity.” It is unethical for doctors to advertise, but there would be howling and gnashing of teeth if the newspapers would physician to ing in said that} leave off the “Dr.” whenever the name of | a disciple of, Aesculapius is mentioned. Smith means nothing, and there is no pub- the | get mighty little prestige without | 1 sons. } | ' licity value in a mere name, but Dr. Smith calls attention to a health-preserving profession. | conclusion that European supposedly | SPENDING AND SAVING The problem of spending and saving | is as old as civilization, and in scarcely any | phase of human conduct do we find greater differences among different. per- It is unfortunate tha so few are able to strike a happy medium between stingi- | | ness and wastefulness. The type of spendthrift who wastes inherited money is well known, as is also the lazy, shiftless type who lives from hand to mouth in good times or bad. tricus worker who literaily throws away his earnings is more rare. An illustration of the latter class is seen in the late author and playwright, | Edgar Wallace, who was one of the mo prolific and successful writers of all time In the 25 years before his death he wrote some 150 full length novels and literally thousands of short besides 2¢ plays. So many of his stories, He was thought to be a wealthy man but at his death his estate was found insuf- ficien to pay his debts, and his wife was i It seems} ! incredible that a man of Wallace's intelli left without means of support. gence and tireless energy should have been so short-sighted with respect to his finan | cial affai THE ANGLER’S SAINT One of the quaint and lovable char- acters in history was Izaak Whalton, whose fame rests principally upon notable treatise on fishing, called “The Compleat Angler,” published 283 ago. It has been written of him that “there is hardly a name in our literature, even of the first rank, whose immortality is more secure, or whose personality is tne subject of a more devoted cult.” It is said of him that “multitudes have never put a worm on a_ hook have been caught and securely held by his pic-; ture of the delights of the gentle craft, and by his easy, leisurely transcript of his own simple, peaceable, lovable and amus- ing character.” ate : ” i In addition to his “Angler,” he wrote several charming volumes of biography dealing with the lives of distinguished per- sonal friends, of whom he had many, most of whom were devotees of the piscatorial art. In contrast with the vast majority of | those who have gained lasting fame through war and strife, Walton has lived to charm succeeding generations by his gentleness, kindness and love of He may well be considered the saint of fishermen. patron “OUR OWN BUSINESS” The American Federation of Labor, speaking through President Green, views with “deep concern” “great: emergency.:.in-Mexico, where ganized labor s*being “persecuted.” We have every sympathy with work- or- ers anywhere in the world when they face j persecution bw American Fe time for affairs in Mexico. If Americans insist that foreign nations mind their own business and keep out of American af- where the| diy? see f fairs, it is only right and proper that we |? make a practice of doing the same thing. i TAX REVISION “Harold Colee, The indus- | works had big sales ; that his income must have been exceed- | ingly large. ai years! who | nature. William | the | 6f Labor has much; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs Smoke Gets in Their Eyes By GUS W, DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt Radicalism as a rule is the result of stupid reasoniag from false data. The average man knows but little about the industrial tife of the country, and the social re- forme: often knows less. The most ignorant of all. perhaps, is the n an who gets all he thinks he Knows from books Added to his handicap of .gnorance is a bold pre- sumption: that is imyervious to the light of reason. The man of : little knowl- edge observes the industrial life of the nation from behind a big smoke- stack of the big industrie: in the big industrial centers. From this view- point he draws his conclusions with reference to the conditions of the American working man. A man of small mind can see only big, conspic- uous things. He can’t even see the small things that are close to him. As he sees the great crowds enter the big industries and take thei places in the great comglex productive ‘proc- ess, he deplores the destruction of the small factories by the big industries, but concludes that this is inevitable in this machine age. To the uninformed, New York, Chi- cago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and a few other big industrial centers are really America. He kncws. of course. that there are many outly:ng districts where people in considerable num bers live and work ana in some way find .heir lives. But he doesn’t con- sider these of much importance in the study of the problem of our in- justrial life. Hence the lise and the ustrial conditions and opportuni- ties in the outlying districts are ig- mored. He would be shocked and amazed to hear anyone sa) that these big cities and industrial centers are not America, that they are very far from being the most important part of this country. There are 13,638 rural towns and villages having populations of 2.500 and less that have a combined popu- lation greater than that o Chicago. St. Louis, Baltimore. Boston. New Or- jean Kansas City, Indianapolis, Des St. Paul, Dallus, Richmond Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati and San Franciscc. There are 2.789 towns and small cities having populations eecVesceeses Today’ S Anniversaries 6—David J , Bapti n the Ame chap'ain Great Val- man, chap- Army of the in the War 2 gh author and r, born in Néw Castle Co., Died Feb. 5, 1820. 76. orence Nightingale, who broke through red tape in Crimean War, de- rity and scandalized ciety, to inaugurate a new e both in nursing and in the rights and might of women, born. Died Aug. 14, 1910. } ao 1821—M P. Deady, Ore- pionce icher, lawyer, Fed- the State’s day, born near March 24, ied first citiz-n of, hi | Md. Died his | sraies is Dante Gabriel famed fngtish artist Rossetti, and. poet, president of the State} born. Died April 9, 1882, le iscosHenry Gabel. letee, chusetts’ senator and in Boston. Died Mas: born 1924, ‘acted author, [ Nov. 9, in Nordic at Fi Java, 859—Li ia an na, born Maine. Died in | do 1 jig14. 4 May 1870—Wendell C. Neville, sol Chamber of Commerce, asked the aid of! | Florida publishers in a fight for a complete | revision of the tax structure. “Whether! (PCLIOCETELOTILIOL EN FOR GRADUATION we like to admit it or not,” he told a luncheon meeting of the Associated Dailie of Florida, in convention here, “we have | 1,497 taxing agencies in state state. “The! business man the maze of we have too we must now them. There is no question many commissions and that revise the entire set up.” SHOUTS AND GOES TO JAIL We hear of a good deal about Nazi! repression of the individual and it may be news to some to hear about Louis Mouil lete, Frenchman, who shouted, “Hurrah for Hitler” in France and was sentenced to a week in jail. All of which leads to the inevitable nations pay more attention to the shouts of individuals | than we do in the United States. or woman is bewildered by | i iy | ing encourages industry i] } BANK ACCOUNT You can start with as little as one dollar PATRONIZE For remittances, travel | banking IS The First National Member of the Federal Reserve prima mington, * 10, 1 Start them off right with a savings account, Noth- University from 2,500 to 2.,000 that have a com- bined population greater than that of New York, Chicagu, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Bostun, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati. Kansas City, Columbus, Louisville, New Orleans, Richmond anc Atlanta. Here in these 16,427 small cities and towns and villages we find the Ameri- can people and American business that should be given first place in our thinking and planning for ‘he future. But here we find the forgotten man. and the forgo‘:en factory. it is not true that the big industries have driven out the small factories in the country. In 1929 there were 210,959 factories of all types in operation. In 7.426 of these ‘actories there wer. no em- ployees. The owners did all the work. There were 95,757 of ‘hese factories that worked from one to five em- ployees; 53,524 worked from six to twenty employees, and 25,022 worked from twenty-one to fifty employees. This means tha .81,739 of the 210.959 and with reference to size are of the that were in op2ration before the civil war. These small factories have more than a million and a half employees and are a big actor in our industrial l.fe. Small factories, it wculd seem, are rapidly increasing. The number of factories increased from 187.390 in 1925 to 210,959 in 1929, and the aver- age number of employee: fell from 44 and a fractivn to 41 and a fraction. Nearly 300,000 employees work in factories that have from one to five employees. More employees work in factories that work from one to ten employees than the total rumber of mechanical workers in all the auto- mobile factories, all the garages, and all the automobile repair shops in this country. Under the new industrial conditions brough: about wy the electri line revolution, the opportunities for small industries will be greatly in- creased. There are, perhaps rrore and Fetter opportunities today for men of charac.er and capacity with small capital to go .nt’ the manufacturing business under their own direction than ever before in the history of our country The small factury has a large place in our industrial life, and, with the natural decentralization of -business that is now going on, place will Brow relatively larger, if the move- ment is not reversed by the unwar- ranted centralization of, political power. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) eoe eVeov0ers Today’s Horoscope | eoresccerer~coccccccoves | foday’s is tion, a cautious disnosi factories in this country are small. | 7 same general type as the factorics ' inclined to thrift, full of in-} : | KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Ata mass mecting held night in the county court ho: iwas decided to & of the county co A. P. | Minn., ve a cor nissioners visit Turner in Minneapolis, relative to the mat of the The Dr. the ;the proposed _ bridges | water over gaps on the highway. meeting was presided ove J. Y. Porter, chamber or commerce, and was well attended, practically every- tbody agreed that it would be a ; good thing to have com- ittee appointed to Mr. Turner's invitation and , Way get it hand iniory to the Turner company well as the style of the bridges and the ultimate cost. st., president of pt in plans as proposed There was a large sembled at Bayview Park evening to hear the address de- livered by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Ower on the question oz Ser can Congressman from the congressional district. Hon. H. Ketchum introduced the er and afterward dress. He was ollowed Honorable Jefferson B. whese address was cheered Owen's talk was principally {lines of Florida ¢ loy her aims and ic or these velopments. the time of her a Mrs. jbeld the attention of the ( crowd lidacy th Chas. speak- an made ad- Browne, M alo! nfs and de- Owe crowd. First of and Alway The Key We was the reply given when end of the paper said jlike you fellows are gettin better paper thad competition.” |The Citizen goes | whether we have opposition 'not, and the recent improvement | made at the plant and the Jeven had there been | paper in the city at the time. nis now in the midst of it “Service the motto iC “Looks out a now than» when you Sure! we replix setadily paper, no ot and considered the best But inde ze and jone o iin the state. yon this way the patron — pport < BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME | Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service | Licensed Embaimer ; Phone 135 Night 696-W vention, and with good, powers of | sation. There is danger of an attack from unexpected soure-! es, which may — overturn best-laid | This condition should be carefully watched and all sides of a question carefully \ considered that a new task may be taken to aveid trouble as much as poss conv “Millions of tons troleam product called “elyeca” and described as “petroleum in 2 nescent state,” have been reported ; found in Brazil. dicr of the World W who had fought the w« commandant, born at, Portsmouth, iJuly 8, 1930, ja Va. Died KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District Garage Sensible Rates Elevator Popular Prices ad and teaches thrift like a YOUR BANK lers’ checks, commercial Bank of Key West Member of the FDIC a marine } pur | LOTTI OOTOOTTS BELA LL IN Per M U. S. Marnie Corps, ! No. 1 No. 2 “Correct Fully guaranteed. South Florida Phone 598 tsent for ernoon papers ‘ SPECIAL SALE of a new pe- 2X4 NO. 3 COMMON LUMBER. 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All wners are cord on the eral other 1 that t ion as becon Bayview Park by the lecz parade and in co! singing a other entertaint Editorial Gypsy ea th, ec By MARGARET BELL HOUSTON LINOR FLEMING cam conventional people some figure from a staimed Strange, then, that she should down from her niche to and Rupert Joris. Strange? Ye that she wouldn't go th-ox Youll have Houston's story mony. to read te sce © resulted. Starting Wednesday, May 13 THE CrlIiZEN WS SS DE ee eee FR ens— $30.00 “DURA-ZINC-ALLOY™ 70c 75c 85c CARD TABLES: Attractively pamted ==th ciled pattern on top. Subsiz=tally constructed. Each— 98c Contracting & Engineers Co. White and Eliza Streets sa oe CVMAVOOMINATAMMOMM AMA