The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ” Publishea Daily ‘Except Sunday By THE CiT'ZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. ©. ARTMAN, President SOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corser Greene and ann Streets on'y Daily Mawspaver in eo West and Monroe cntered at Key W for rept blication {t or not otberwis the local news pub. "SUBSCRIPTION RATES a dispatches credited to ited in this paper and also une Year 6ix Months Three Months me Month Weekly = ADVERTISING Made known o on application, RATES SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ot eespect, obituary notice: the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The ¢ an open forum and invites discus- sion of pub ssues and subjects of lo or general anterest but it will not pubiish anenymous communi- eations. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be efraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan er the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction er «‘uss; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice aud 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» promise with principle. Beans poelis not Cohen, ii name that way and During the year we have all sorts of | weeks. This is Republican week. Congratulations to all candidates who won their elections HONESTLY. After June 15, commence to trickle Key West and then for a while this money will do us good, and that’s what bonus means. have bonus into money will Che act before it became too powerful. Black Legion got caught in the The over-world characters belong in the same category as the under-world, without the law; outlaws, in other words. Pat Cannon of the same stripe as George Winneman, the Sunday Star not- withstanding. The opinion of this writer is that when Pat Cannon and George Win- neman meet on the same platform they'll shake hands. Our idea of a rat is a public official | who will charge a stated sum for the se- curement of a job, and since the job seeker generally is generally run down at the heels and bas no money, demand a month- ly stipend from the salary Mere curiosity prompts us to ask The Key West Citizen the name of the man it cays is edvoerted by The Tribune who is “diagonally opposed to Roosevelt and is a_ Republican in politics.’—Tampa Tribune. dust think little, look files. a or over your Much opposition is in evidence against the Brown-Crummer proposition made the County Commissioners recently. The Citi- zen will soon have analyzed and 1s fore the people of Key West the set-up. Study the proposition before form. ing a conclusion, will The rains of the past few days . Florida, as second class matter ete., will be charged for at | be- | entire | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN POLLUTION OF THE BALLOT ! | | { | i 1 The one thing in our recent election upon which all classes and all partisans seem willing to come to a unanimous agree- | ment, is that there were few efforts spared | {| to pollute our system of government at the fountain head—the ballot box. Key West needs no adverse publicity, { | but she is receiving it in fullmeasure as the { journals of the state jeer at the picture we are presenting. | sians, who are thought of as ski You and Your Nation’s Affairs A Lesson in Dictatorial Strategy By CLARENCE W. FACKLER Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University After more than eighteen years of untiring research the ingenious 4 | leaders in worldly wisdom and as the “One per cent of the state’s popula- i tion,” they say, ‘‘and ten per cent of the | number of absentee ballots are cast in Key i | course amid swirling currents. There is one j remain a “land of liberty.” All this offering has been a vain obla- ia. | with produce a large crop of mosquitoes. suggestion to one of the local mental agencies is that a squad sent out each day with cans of oil to pour over the troubled waters the pesky critters. ficial to the community than have men on relief pulling up weeds. A be eliminate and A recent visitor in The Citizen office commenting on the failure of so many of } the local business men to advertise their j wares, made the prophetic statement that when the bridges are built and more pro- | gressive merchants locate in Key West, the short-sighted merchants will have to adopt modern salesmanship through ad- vertising or suffer the consequences. Per- | haps then it will be too late. govern- | This would be more bene- } i newed dreams of a i West.” The time for smiling tolerantly at | smart practices” aimed at balking the will of the electorate has passed. The man who sells the design of a battle ship to an alien government, is a less | dangerous rascal than the procurer of il- | legal votes. The corruption of our electoral system | is at once the most despiccable and the | most cowardly form of treason. { We must recognize this treachery for | | | what it is. The man who has “manipulated” an election has no place among decent | | citizens. So long as the man who places him- ' elf under suspicion of being guilty of such | ; treachery can hold his head high among us, be received on equal terms in church, | lodge, social or business circles, we are tailing in our duty to our country, He may be a genial neighbor, a man?! listinguished his gentlemanly — be- haviour. Benedict Arnold was all of these, Hut his name has been anathema for more than a century; and he was no more cul- pable than the sneak-thief who the election returns. Democracy, the world over is being put on the defensive. These are not peace ! times and the ship of state holds a difficult for falsifies treatment for the disloyal in times of peace and quite another procedure when the Nation is in peril. Whether it be the theft of some petty local office, or the wholesale purchase of | block by in con-} irol of patronage at the Nation's capital, the sault on the life-principal of the United States of America is equally crimi- { nal and must be treated as such if we are to remain, “a government of the people, | for the people and by the people.” That this erd might be attained, | rivers of blood, of tears, of sacrifice have been offered up that this country might ; a of votes someone a tion if we have not the integrity to rend | fierce indignation the swine who! would pollute the temple of Liberty for | their owr sordid purposes. We would have short shifts for the man who would purloin our personal property. The man who by skulldruggery rubs our ballot its dearly purchased power to safeguard our interests. merits far sterner treatment than we accord the thief of mere | property. of Let us teach otfr children to regard as | the prostitutes they the men | would make of our elections a mockery. And let us set-eur children the example. The saretity of the ballot must be pre served at all costs! are, who ITALY TASTES BLOOD | i j » one can deny the invigorating ef- | fect of the Fascist regime on Italy. Musso- ! lini has reinvigorated the Italian people ! and his recent Ethiopian conquest has re- | Roman empire. H What this means for the world in the | future remains to be seen, Will Italy, hav- | ‘rg tasted conquest, become like a wild} animal after its first taste of blood? Does the Italian program constitute a menace to | other nations and the people of the world. Certainly, Mussolini is the apostle of force, far as Italy The. as is concerned. | action of the entire nation will be decided | by the will of this man, whether for peace | or for war. and the only answer the other | nations can prepare is to make ready to! meet force with force. | At the present time Il Duce professes : to be satisfied with the taking of Ethiopia, but this complacent mood is not apt to re- ; main unchanged. Sooner or later Italian | ambition will look to other fields, more confident now than ever, and some other nation will have to defend its life against | Italian arms, ‘a vote of W j elected twentieth cen- tury _benefat- tors of the toil- ing masses, are credited with having made the profound discovery that workers pro- duce more when employed attasks for which they are best fitted. This apparent tardi- ness in grasp- ing such a sim- ple notion as the necessity of picking the right man for the right job must come as a distinct shock to the discontented faction in America Those who have been attaching great importance to Russia's highly devel- oped dictatorial technique in~scien- tific planning must especially be irri- tated, they may even be forced to the embarrassment of drumming up some sort of an alibi for such dawdling. Be this as it may, an unpretentious coal miner, Alexei Stakanoff, was 2 - plauded and rewarded in Moscow as the originator of the idea of special- ization. By teaming up with two other comrades, selected to keep the ceil- ings propped to prevent cave-ins, Stakanoff with a capitalistically-made pneumatic drill multiplied the per- man output of coal five times. Month- ly wages for the three compatriots in- creased immediately from the aver- age of around 165 rubles to between 500 and 600 rubles. Curiously, inquir- ies on other industrial battlefronts revealed 3,000 more “heroes of labor.” equally efficient. So, the arbiters of social welfare in Russia feted, ban- ; Quetted, and entertained them. Rubles which went for publicity expenses. meal checks, and theatre tickets were taken from the tax receipts contribut- } ed by all workers collectively, who now are to be educated ir the art «f speeding up production, formerly conceived of as a detestable device of that old devil, capital. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From te Files Of The Citizen A total vote in the five of 2,922 was cast precincts of the city with the vote from the Keys yet to come. Voting started — early and by 4 o'clock in the alternoon practicaily every vote had been cast. The race for sheriff stand {out as the result of a determined and spectacular campaign, Cleve- land Niles leading the ticket with 1,931 defeating A. H. McInnis who received 710. Judge *, Busto aaimee the third largest vote for solicitor ying 1.668 as a5. 1,095 Judge Vining won over J. Lancelot r his opponent with a vote 1,244. The precincts y are from but the vote cannot make any ference in the cc yet to be b in material nt, in the city. Hon. Domingo J. Milord, has been Cuban consul at West for a number been transferred to will be rejieved here Ponce who was transf Pensacola to Miami s ago and will now come Mr. Milord si is being made und of the Cuban Re consul cannot rem more than three who Key of years, has Miami. He by Jorge do from me time to. Key this change a new ruli tblic hat n at one years, a post The Kat Club was the home of Miss L at 1400 White str : Club| the following fieers: organized at: lomon | As a practica' matter, however, the difficult trick for all planners is to get labot and capita’ em- | ployed at the right tasks, and there- after to impose upon them both, ex- actly the right amount of government intervention. Regulation too mod- | estly applied permits the enterpriser- employer class to exploit the laborer- consumer group by paying less in money wages than is earned. by set- ting long hours and high-speed pro- duction schedules, aa by raising prices unfairly through monopolistic control. On the other hand, too much control of the strong-armed sort an- nihilates private enterprise, and leaves the field to the dictators of state socialism, with the risk that the welfare of the regimented masses will similarly be undermined. Russia today is by no means a work- er’s paradise. Costs of living vary so widely in some cases that a monthly salary of 500 rubles spent at one fac- tory store will not buy as much as 125 rubles at a more modern plant. More- over, labor turnover is extremely high; frequently more than 100 per cent annually. And, due to poor farm management and to inadequate stor- | age, communication, and transporta- tion facilities, shortages of consumers’ goods are very apparent. Of conse- quence, the average factory worker does not obtain what in the United States is considered a satisfactory return for his work, and peasants re- ceive somewhat less than 70 per cent | of the value of their agricultural pro- | duction in manufactured goods. Unfortunately, the situation is none | the less real because the workers fail to appreciate that they are thus being exploited in ways quite as effective as under the Czarist’s regime. And even } though they are not plagued by the fear of unemployment, their freedom of expression and association is on many occasions suppressed, both by force and by a sneaking spy system. Probably all this is one reason why there is no unified movement in the United States to organize a Migrate- to-Russia Society. Why go to Russia | to be ridiculous when by staying at j home, and growing old quickly. one can join forces with Dr. Townsend, and squeeze $200 each month out of the taxpayers? Solomon; S Lowe; A musical; | Program. was n and exhibition} ‘of the Charleston. Miss Fannie 'Cale and Munson Johnson put on| a fine exhibition of the dance which provoked many compli- ments for these excellent dancers. Allan Hampton Dongo entertained for the mem-} bers of the graduating class of Monroe County High School last! night at the home of Mrs. J. F. | Dongo, 223 Elizabeth street. Edna Collins mad comedy songs “W Carl Nelson pleas with his comic Yellow G and Harry H id Flower” and! ed the number “M Monroe Connie yes noon and is taking ¢ new office today. The a H the office are being gotten in: hape to return over to the new of-! ficial. Joe Kemp, former city jail-| er, will be Sheriff Niles’ new deputy, until it is found necessary ; to secure the services of another deputy Mr. Kemp will also act in! the capacity of jailer. , Will leave their an- Troop 4, git tomorrow afte or nual encampment at Long Key; Fishing Camp. The girls will be] under the e of Lieu-! tenant Mrs. Milton. Sawyer and | Scoutmistress Mrs. A. H, MeInnis.! They will be accompanied by their little mascot, Lois Cosme de Cuban amb: ates a mbly of the Lea: and now secretary la Torriente,} Jor to the! | Dr. former United s fourth as "Nations, See ae ee a ; When Travelling PROTECT YOUR TRAVEL FUNDS AND GET THE MAXIMUM OF ENJOYMENT OUT OF YOUR TRIP BY CARRYING American Express Travelers Checks —Sold By— The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation j state of Cuba, wz } York where they |Home 4 ! noon with a large catch. nity Temperatures* Highest | Lowest | Mean !Normal Mean : Rainfall* | Yesterday’s Precipitation T- Ins. Normal Precipitatiox -13 Ins. 24-hour period morning. MM oon sets s Tomorrow's Tides Barometer 8 a. m. Sodas Sea level, 29.90. WEATHER FORECAST (T:11 8 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Party cloudy tonight and Wednesday, possibly occasional showers Wed- gentle variaole winds. : Partly cloudy, scattered showers in north tion ton'ght and Wendesday in south portion Wednesday Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle variable winds and partly overcast weather tonight and Wednesday with scat- tered showers Wednesday possibly over extreme north tion ton'ght. possibly por and por- visitor in Ki Wert .- yesterday. accompanied by his four daugh- ters. They are en route to New will remain for a distinguished | WEATHER Pressure over jters over | States, inches chian nches, 3 over the the inches; sure n w area rthern dD shower region CONDITIONS is low southern distric Dodge country, We make it c2s¥ io ewn the THRIFTIEST and, short time and then sail for an extended tour in Europe. Funeral services for Dillon, who died suddenly Mon- day night will be held this after noon from the Lopez Funeral o'clock. Rev. L. the First Methodist be the officiating of will pastor church, minister, Ethel, Captain yesterday The ship days absent about enc The schooner Sawyer, arrived after- leave will will and week, again in a few be K. Cold a who died fol- H. y Wester, lowing a Havana, Cuba, Saturday, arrived on the P. and O. boat yesterday Funeral services will be held thi afternoon from St. Paul’s church Members of the Masonic frater- will attend the services. Romie | Munro, | Refrigerator in the werid! Both G-E Monitor Top and G-E Flatop models give you the General Electric Sealed -in- Stee! THRIFT UNIT that saves electric current! stroke of paralysis in! Delay In Your Building Or Repairing Will Cost You Real Money Now Is:The:Time For Those Who Expect Te Avail Themselves Of The Rich Tourist Crop Next Winter, Te Repair Or Build If You Wait Nntil Later, The Added Cost May Be As Mach Or More Than The Amount You Will Obtain From Rent Of These Accomodations Visualize For A Moment What The Bridges Are Going To Mean Carpenters, Laborers, Masons, Plumbers,—Now Idle— Are Going To Be Working. If You Import Them From Miami You Will Pay Miami Scale. Anyhow, Key West Labor Now Is Going To Gradually Increase lis Pay Scale Until It Comes Up Te Other Do Your Repair Work New—And Save South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. Phone 598 White and Eliza Streets “Your home is worthy of the best” L$ eee eee Eedakdidiéiddddtééédéédéé i442 guests| x. POPPI PP PP Pe ee Ah dd hd ddd ddd Add dd ddd hd ddd ddd