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

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen xcept Sunday By ARTMAN, President N. Axsixtant Business Manager From The Citizen Building forier Greene and Ann Streets onty Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Lat Key West, ‘ty si Member of the Ansociated P he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reptblication of all news dispatches credited to {t or not otberwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub!ished here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year ..... six Months Three Months ne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of cespect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. tices for entertainments by churches from which sion of public issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- rations. _ ——_—_—<$<<—$$—_— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afreid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan er the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or Class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate sorruption or to injustice; denounce vice aud praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and nions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com promise with principle. ————$S$S $$$ IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- snd. “rie Port. Roiels and Aparcments, be:hing Pavilion. ports—Land and Sea. © solidation of County and City Governments, Cone has one advantage over - Pette- way; his name is in the dictionary. Going to church will not necessarily do aman any good, but, on the other hand, the practice has never hurt anyone. One of the best ways to have peace is to destroy the militaristic spirit. But no nation wants to make the first move. With ire in their eyes, the republi- cans will now Land On the New Deal with vim and vigor as well as giving it some terrific Knox, They will find the democrats can take it. Tracey, the crystal gazer, did not trace so well this year, but he will do bet- ter in the second primary. Given two guesses he can tell us who will be the next governor of Florida, The Citizen believes if Representative Wilcox were to decide to run for the sen- ate he would win in a walk, but we also believe he is an astute politician and will not run for the upper house until his term for which he was so overwhelmingly elected expires, and then make “assur- ance double sure.” What we need in Key West above all things is righteous indignation over all forms of immoralities. We condone too much, and exercise the attributes of di- vinity in forgiving everything and every- body to the eventual detriment of our erring brethren. We could raise our standards of morality considerably with- | out bumping our heads against the ceiling. The Mormon Church made a survey | of relief among its members in Utah, Idaho and Arizona, which showed 88,460 church members on relief. According to the report 13,455 were on relief due to »unemployment, and 11,500 to 16,500 per- | sons “received relief who either did not need it, or who had farms that might, if farmed, have kept them off relief.” If the churches had been given the opportunity and about half the money wasted on re- lief, it would. have been taken out of poli- tics, and a better job done. WOULD TAX EVERYBODY | Billions of dollars could be spent for the increased happiness of American citi- zens if the money was available. a wider educational ! tunity, proper clothing, more and food, quate homes, oppor- better a more careful attention to health and physical needs, a wider enjoyment of desired However, all these things are everybody. by almost the acquisition of these things costs money, which limits the ability of government to furnish them, even if it were desirable as a function of government. The Roosevelt Social gram Security Pro- goes along moderately towards making life more secure and safe Americans who are handicapped. Aged persons, those out of employment, de- pendent children without par blind, ents, and the would this Even in this are the groups which benefited by enactment of tion by the various states. legisla- moderate program the necessity for tax- ation to furnish the money is a major problem. The Townsend $200-per-month —pen- ease of those over sixty years of age. If | paid indiscriminately to every aged per- son, as the plan contemplates, the cost would run to billions of dollars per year, and to raise this a “transactions tax” is advocated, which economis would even make the recipients pay near- ly one-third of their pensions in taxes to keep it going. An investigating committee of the National House has been looking into the methods by which the Townsend leaders collected thousands of dollars for propa- ganda. Other relevant facts are also be- ing brought into the light—one of these being that the advocates of the plan have soft-pedalled the fact that under the Townsend plan every. farmer would have to receive a license to sell and would be taxed on the sale of every article from a dozen eggs to a bale of cotton. In the effort to improve the condition of unfortunate people the nation $ whole is endangered by two workers, a classes of First comes the idealistic the- oretical reformer who does not keep his tect on the ground of reality. Second, equally as dangerous, is a political dema- gogue who will promise anything to get | votes without any idea of how the reward | will be delivered or what this will result | if an effort is made to make the delivery. | Sensible people will have to dampen the enthusiasm of one and rebuke the hy- pocrisy of another, COLLEGE MORALS In what amounted to a defense of present-day college students against charges of immorality which are ~ often heard, Dr. Sweet of the divinity school of the Chicago University recently told of conditions in our leading colleges in the early da During Colonial times and for some} years following the Revolution — religion was at its lowest ebb, according to Dr. Sweet, and even in the universities Amer- icans were hardly touched by the church. This is asserted by some of the early presi- derts of the universities themselves. Lyman Beecher is quoted as_ saying that at Yale in 1790 most of the students were skeptics, while “rowdies were plenty and wine and liquor were kept in all the rooms.” Similar conditions were report- | ied about the same time at Harvard and | Dartmouth, at the latter it being said that | in 1799 there was only one student who! claimed to be a Christian. Ashbel Green, who was president ot ' Princeton from 1812 to 1822, writes that | there were not more than five or six students who did not use profane —— } in common conversation, ‘sometimes the most shocking kind.” Bishop Meads | | has declared that the Episcopal college of William and Mary was during this period | “a hotbed of infidelity and of the wild ; politics of France.” In spite of the conditions noted by Dr. Sweet and others, however, it seems | that most of these wild students of early days turned out fairly well and many of ; them became leaders in the building of | | the new republic. Perhaps those of the | present will do equally well after the: have their jazz fling. Ade- | the comforts and luxuries of civilization— | for | be} sion plan looks only to the comfort and; calculate } | | Moon rises ........... THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs Getting the Masses to Buy | By ELIOT JONES Professor of Transportation and Public Utilities, Stanford While there is disagreement as to the best method of bringing about in- creased mass purchasing power, there is general agreement as to its neces- sity. It must come from somewhere if ‘we are to util- ize more fully the productive facilities of the country. Labor organ- izationscontend that the best way is to raise wages. The ar- gument for higher wages has been em- phatically stated and vig- orously pressed, and made converts. There are, however, a number of objections to wage advances as a means of increasing mass purchas- ing power. An important one is the fact that higher wages, unless accom- panied by greater efficiency, add to the cost of production. Naturally, therefore, employers oppose de- mands for higher wages. Should they be forced to meet the demands, per- haps because of trade union pres- sure, they are likely to raise prices. But this reduces the purchasing power of the consumer groups whose wages are not increased. Another objection to wage ad- vances as a means of increasing mass purchasing power is the fact that the increased income goes to only a por- tion of the population. It goes only to the recipients of wz ges, and main- ly ¢ labor groups that are org: |. The number of union men is large. to be sure, but it is a small percentage of the gainfully employed workers (certainly not more than 10%). Asa rule clerks, domestic serv- ants, government employees and ag- ricultural workers are not members of labor organizations. They do not benefit from the application of the wage increase theory to the same ex- (Address questions to the author, TODAY’S Temperatures* Highest | Lowest Mean Normal 84 80; Mean 82: Rainfall” ™. lower Sun sets Moon sets om. - 6:06 11: 27 isarometer 8 a. m. Sea level, 29.86. WEATHER rORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy with showers tonight and Sunday;{ fresh to strong southeast and south winds and squalls. blorida: Cioudy with occasional sez tered showers tonight and Sunday. Jacksonville to Florida Strait sterly over ex- tveme south portion; mostly over-} cast weather with shower: po Sunday. st Gulf: Fresh to strong; southeast and south winds over} south portion and moderate fresh easterly winds over north po:tion; mostly overeast weather with show over north and rain and squalls over south and cen- tral portions tonight and Sunday. ; WEATHER CONDITIONS A tropical ecudene: of slight. intensity is central this morning 75) “|near or slightly above normal. to, | University tent as the workers that are in a position to bring pressure to bear on the employers. | The wage increase method tends \ also to increase the disparity between the income of urban and agricultural groups. This is one of the causes of | the depressed condition of the coun- | try. The industrial worker in the | cities demands higher wages, and this leads to higher prices of manufac- tured goods. Higher prices, however, | reduce the purchasing power of ag- ricultural groups. To protect them- | selves they demand government aid | in crop curtailment schemes. But ' these injure the worker by reduc- ing the supply of consumable com- modities, and by raising their price. ; The industrial worker therefore de- mands higher wages to offset the in- | crease in the cost of living. Clearly this is not the way out. | The problem is an exceedingly dif- | ficult one, but its solution certainly | does not lie in increasing the pur- | chasing power of particular groups. | Raising wages does not increase mass | purchasing power, and neither does raising the prices of agricultural | products. The way to increase mass | purchasing power is to increase the purchasing power of that group to which every one belongs—to wit, the consumers. And this is to be accom- plished through the stimulation of | output. Remove all the barriers to effi- cient production, transportation, and distribution, and do away with un- economic schemes of output curtail- ment. A flood of goods produced at low cost and sold at low prices will | do more in a few years to better the condition of mankind than artificial | measures will ever accomplish. There is a great deal of talk these days about the redistribution of in- come, and much legislation has this objective. But the country would be much better off if we gave more at- tention to the increase of the na--! tional income, and less attention to the manner in which it is distributed. Distribution means more if there is something to distribute. care of this newshaher) WEATHER | a | lowly novth-northwest- | fresh iwinds and squallg, ov i Southeast storm in the tan movi ward attended by shifting} a wide warnings displayed Key West district at :36 last night. The northern high press lis crested thi Lake re area the} morning over on and St. Law 4 Stat - | except Gulf ditviets and the Fler ida peninsula, frains have ceeurred during 24 ! southe: linches, and ovcrspreads imo {tions east of the Piains § Moderate to heavy | tne céntral and | Key West, 114) |inches, and there have been light | | last keurs in a Blonds st, |to modecate showers on the mid-| ldel Gulf coast and along the At- Hlantic coast. Temperatures ‘kave jvisen in the northern Piains | State , Williston, N reporting mum of 98 degrees 3 while elsewhere a ma i |d Rockies readings are generally 4%. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. ‘Today’ s Horoscope | epoeccvcccccccecccecosce® Tod, wecosvecce native has considerable ; {literary talent with a gentle win-| ning dispos tion, a kind heart and} a generous nature, You will’ make a happy home, having a fem-! |inine domestic feeling. Many! | friends will be made, drawn by; force of the good natare com- bined with regard for the inher- ent qualit SITIO IETTTMTTITOTS * i& to responsible persons. The First National & A) \® & N \& N N) h) IN N & N) K ,) VETERANS Safeguard Your Bonus Bonds Deeds, Jewelry and Other Valuables We have a few safety deposit boxes for rental Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation j !board of county | financiers | expected | they will favor the lis fully expected land was given the | Yulee, the fuil name of her grand- | mother, j which j Non 'near the northeastern tip of Yuea-j: 4 ‘ers within a few d “lrence Valley, Detroit, Mick, 30. 6 | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen c. P. Turner, or a_ repre- entative of the firm, will be in Key West within the next week or 10 days with a party of Louis cap-talists in the interest of the plans for financing the con- struction of the Over Bridges for the highway to the mainland, according to, a letter received from Mr. Turner | Otto Kirchheiner, chairman of comn for the enter- distinguished it is confidently the comnissi project acquainted and th produce’ the Plans wiil be made tainment of these and by er becoming thoroughly with the proposition wonderfully fine and ivestment it is sure to prove. The board of county ioners will meet in s on tonight 6 o’clock pose of passing upon submitted some time gether with spicifications of Turner Bridge company of Minn. which were cently received by the commi | sion’ The two county gineers will be presented and _ it that a definite action will be taken relative to the plans and specifications evening, commi ial or the pur- the ago plans to- the Min- re- en- The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clements H. Hudson. christened at the First Meth- church Sunday morning Emma wa odist name Mrs. Braxton B. Warren An interesting feature of the christen’ng was the dress of the baby, which had been worn by children of three generations. Sponsors were: Mrs. C. L. Peterson and Mrs. Harry N. Jones. There are only nine in the county jail at is far below the }number for the bastile. Of the nine there is only onc R. dine, who is charged with murder of the oth held for erious chars ucual ly from to this time average re There ¢ 30 pri : Sheriff Niles. Project Number 1, of the cour ty road work, started one year the Tide er Con:truc tion company now reported finished at an approximate ex- pense of $160,000. It will be in- spected by the county commission- The road ago by is z- SURPTOTOTTTOTEEESS VLDL LL EL Ed SPECIAL BARGAINS Wall Board Sale Quarter Inch Thick “Densboard”’. Wide, 9’, 10’ and 12’ Lengths. Regular $55.00 Value. Save and Labor. Special At Prezdwood Tile pered Tile Presdwood. Cannot b> beat for use im Bathrooms Kitchens. Special At Regular Lumber Bargains 1x4 No. 3 Common Flooring. Tongue and Groove. Sheathing and Rough Framing. Per Thousand Board Feet \ 4x6, and 6x6 Lumber. Warped. Ideal for Per Thousand Board Feet GET IN ON THESE LOW PRICES South Florida Phone 598 “Your IFSLISILS LID OVOP LIL L LLL IDA as. this; prisoners} Easy To Apply. 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