The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen A NAVY NECESSARY the U ing the equipmer: KEY WEST IN survey expedition Happenings Here Just 10 Year> b West Ago Today As Taken From You and Your There are people in the United States who are worried about the huge appro- priation planned for the Navy this year.' They look upon warships as an unneces- Pi aily Except Sunday By THE CXTIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. P. ARTMAN, President ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building JOE Corer Greene and Ann Streeto unty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. matter AR Member of the Associated Press ne Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for rept lication of all news dispatches credited to ‘t or not otberwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub!ished here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tne Year Six Months Three Months -..... Jne Month Weekly "ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. pee er 1AL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of will be charged for at All reading notice cespect, obituary notices, ete., the rate of 10 cents a line. fer entertainments by churches from which derived are 5 cents a line. n open forum and invites discus- of publie issues and subjects of local or general rest but it Will not publish anonymous communi- rations. ROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. 2. Bridges to complete Road to Main- iend. = rc: Port. 4. Hotels and Aparcments. by, saching Pavilion. ©, Airports—Land and Sea. Cc soiidation of County and City Gezernments, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be fraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- san or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or njustice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never cop pomise with principle. ° ng friends is one way to money. Key West has many advantages; are you one of them Paying old debts ought to be a pleas ure to any honest man, Add famous last words: “My wife never comes into my private office without knocking.” We are taxed living and dead, but the latter is painless; at least that much mey be said for it. Spring® is a‘ wonderful time of the year; if yon don't-believe it, ask the pro- nective June hgneymooners, A California town puts traffic viola- tors in jail. If that custom were general pedestrians would have a clear track, Naval ensigns are not permitted to marry until two years after graduation. Why not let.‘em marry and learn to fight? We haven't lived as loug as we hope to and we are not as old as some we know but, at the same time, we find that we can leain something from almost everybody} we meet. Business men spend one-half of their time trying to scheme to get somebody else's money and the other half of their! time trying to keep somebody else from getting their money. ras ) Baron Aloisi and his Italian retinue} “took a walk” when the Ethiopian repre- sentative was recognized at the League meeting in’ Geneva. Perhaps, after all, Ethiopia has yet to be conquered. Governor Sholtz could consistently appoint Claude Pepper to the senatorship | made vacant by the death of Senator Park sary expense, not warranted by a govern- ment at peace. Aside from the fact that a navy cannot be constructed after war begins, these | eritics should remember that the present | building program will only accomplish | what was strongly demanded for many | years, ‘a Navy second to none.” Support for naval funds usually cen- ters around the coasts of the United with opposition strongest in the interior of | our country, where the people seldom see a sailor and see a ship only after a long jourrey. While this attitude is easily un- derstood, it is somewhat difficult to recon- cile it with the fact that here is practically no opposition to funds for the Army which secures about as much money each year as the Navy. We have hopes that some day it will | be unnecessary for the United States or any other government to spend huge sums for military purposes. At the same time, in the present condition of world affairs, it | would be practical suicide for the United States to permit its Navy to be out of date. It would be just as bad to have one that is too small. ae | ELECTRIC RATES i It is remarkable how an insignificant matter may be magnifield in our minds by ballyhoo and demagoguery. A case in point | is seen in the agitation concerning electric rates, which has been carried on by certain | radical politicians in recent years. j In spite of the fact that electric rates have been steadily lowered ever since the! inception of the power industry, due to improved methods of generation and greater consumption, the clamor against the industry has grown in intensity. Yet the average bill for household electricity is less per day than the price of one package of cigarettes, and in most ca: is less than the tax alone on a gallon | of gasoline. And speaking of taxes, the average family’s tax bill is about $490 a year, while its electric bill is only $35.72. If the family tax bill could be reduced only 10 per cent the saving would pay the entire electric bill and leave about $15 for other purpo: The politicians who agitate so wildly against electric rates are in most cases the very ones who are responsible for piling up | the ever increasing tax burden, And it might also be berne in mind that out of every dollar the consumer pays | for electricity the company which serves him must pay from 12 fo 15 cents in taxes of various kinds. But the radical! politician never mentions that, MASS OF MANKIND IMPROVES There are any number of people in the world today proclaiming the evils of the times and the sins of individuals. We have no quarrel with those who the human race has reached new levels of | degration, that men and women are be- coming worse as the years roll by and that the future is a dark and fearsome prospect. We have no quarrel with hose who hold to this opinion but, so far as we are: concerned, it may be briefly described as | a lot of hooey. In our opinion, the men and \ womer of today, taken the world over, are, | on the average, healthier, more intelligent ; and better than at any time in the history of the world, The human race continues to make progr upward, lifting life to high- er levels for the mass of people, and we! see no reason to doubt the continuance of ; the proces FREEDOM OF THE; PRESS The American Society of Newspaper Editors was entertained at an informal ' smoker at the White House, at which 25} pertinent questions “off the record” were’ presented to the President., What. they were, and what the answers were, will never be printed, because in such cases: “there are no reporters present.” { However, in the public meetings of | the Society there was open defiance of; certain policies in the National Administra-! tion, and Grove Fatterson, editor of the Toledo Blade, and president of the society, n j { Trammell on account of the closeness of | referred to “a national administration the senatorial race and the further fact | policy which is far less concerned with the | that the Tampa chicanery practically put; freedom of the press than an American Trammell’s opponent hors de combat. ! | Government should be.” i | Nation’s Affairs Fifth Grade By CLARENCE Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University It begins to look as if there ts a grain of truth in the old proverb that proffered services smell vad. Many economists presenting re:sonable prog-ams for recovery have discovered this anew. The politicians have turned their faces tothe windward. Their cwn the- ories, even thou,h explod- ed, seem to have a much more pleasing aroma. It is becom- ing increasing- ly eviden: that the difficulty is more with the eppraisers than with the programs. For examp.e, many careful ana- lysts have recommended a classified census of the anemployed as a basis for an intelligen: treatment of labor and retief problems. Pleas have been legion for less oppressive taxes and for the removal of inflationary threats, to encourage the investment of some $70,90°.000.000 of iong-term capital. Not a few straight-thinking men have advocated the immediate abandonment o1 public competition with private bus.ness, ana the cessa- tion of further nationalization. A real stimulation of foreign .radc has been urged in almos* every edition of the nation’s newspapers since 1933. In ali. the object has been to in- crease sales, to .ower costs, and to increase employment. But to -hose committed to ‘trial and error” plan- ning. these proposals apparently are only the nosirums of hair-brained “counsellors” who find extreme de- light in turning the “cold shower” of discouragemer.t on the already dis- Leartened and foot-weary unem rloyed. Consider instead, say the poli- ticians, the Eigh eenth Century rem edy of making “reduc.ions of hours of work per week.” keeping “at the same time the average individ- ual's pay envelope at least as large as it is today.” This is the way to (Address questions to the auti sy oday’s Anniversaries i nh empress, born. , 1780. i 1742--Manzsseh Cutler, the | chusetts Congregational! man, physician, and botan- ist who had much to do with the Oh‘o Company which settied the} Northwest, Lorn at Killin i Conn. Died at Hamilton, Ma 28, 1823. July Daniel G. Brinton, Phil ndelphia physician, pioneer Aime con cthnologist, born at Tho burg. Pa. Died July 31, 1899. 1810. novelist, Alphonse Daudet, French born. Died Dec, 17, 1842-—-Sir Arthu gifted BF h Died Noy S. Sullivan. composer, — born. 1900, | Rows, Eng-! the mosquito} Nobel pr Sept. 1857 lish source vir Ronald coverer of of 4 ia, nner, born. Died 1932. 1869 William Boyce Thomp- miner, banker. — philanthrop-| of the plant r foundation at Yonkers, torn at Virginia City, Mont. Died at Yonkers, June 27, 1930. BumsteadsWormSyrup “To children an angel of mercy.” Where followed, IT EVER moe and enormous ft contains fall dose, | Sold every wherg son, ist, donor Decpite ACKSONVIL! FLORIDA CHARLIE GRINER, M. YOUR individual comfort and entertzinment ‘ of great importance at thie medern, of, home-like hotel located im the heat ef down-town Jacksonville. Every room «oh tub and shower, soft water, steam hea’, radio and ceiling fan... every bed with inner epring mattress and individual reading laos AIR CONDITIONED COCKTAIL LOUNGE . 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The short-livec NRA recovery was Lrought to an end in 1933 because the operating expenses of business rose at a faster rate than the seliing prices of goods at retail Today. ‘ti possible that tue smouldering coals of the 1935-1936 recovery will puff out. be- cause rising operating expenses of government ay increase the tax burden or industry more rapialy than net income frum goods sold. It is in this very connection that political diplomacy at Washington has laid itself open to the charge of un- reasonableness. Business men are be- ing treated like the guests of the mythological Giant Procrustes. They are tied secure! in the iron beds by weavy taxes. their bodies where too short are stretched, where their legs are too long th2y are cut off and then they are tauntea and challenged to | arise and re-employ labor. Few cor- | porations are strong enough under such a handica. to assume the addi- | tional risk of Lorrowing funds. Con- sequently, plant expansions to in- crease production, and replacements tc lower unit cost: cannot be made on any larger scale than obtains at pres- ent. In view of these facts, and because relief expenditures are, paradoxical | ly. increasing with business revival. ar early solution of a pressing prob- lem in fifth grade economic arith- metic . sorely needed. Stated briefly the problem is this: If public money is being spent at the rate of $2.000.- 000.000 annually to bring relief to 25 million people. how many veople can be re-employed in pri-ate undertak- ings by encouraging the investment | of $70,000,000,000 of long-term idle | cay ital? thor, care of this newspaper) Be sure to attend “Station B.S. A. Amateur Hou Sir William Craibie, lexic« pher, word “back wards” in Virginia {the Key West th ;sinking of the Battleship M \ Havana harbor in 18: has always been a [avoritc faring worthy qualiti tone of th in the world on r perty of the postoffice and house to the depart merce Demeritt, Jhouses and appealed to Fletcher to take tien through such a jed | Order jconvention now West. Other to office are secretal ductor; J. j trus’ large to th { Orlando hz next city for the annual sc j the state encampment, ithe weekly |The Citizen will be 20 stead o The Citizen is far better newspaper in every wa (than it wa reduced to 15 cet \ The Files Of The Citizen Word jaas been hip Masce P. and O. received the jis coming back to Florida wate: ; this time under “British jand ‘and Nagsau. 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