The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 15, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE C\T"ZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO, L ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Oni xeDally@Newabavers a Key West and Monroe inty. Untered at Key West, ne HIF PY-s “Filo! Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to (t or notyotb ited in this paper and the local n wise cr Publish SUBSCRIPTION ne Trea Bix Months Three Mont Qne Month ...... Weekly "RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reaging notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of eespect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at 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 Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anenymous communi- rations. Golfers in the rough are renewing their search for new 7uss words. This is Uncle Sam’s pay-off day, and the largest pay day in the history of the world. Some judges apply to themselves per- sonally the biblical injunction “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” Until the presidential campaign closes, the democrats will have to prepare themselves for some hard Knox. The editor of The Sunday Star says editorially, ‘‘we have oodles of water all about u That's right, Key West still an island. is Pollution of the ballot is not only a most reprehensible fraud, but a direct in- sult to the decent voters whose vote be- comes a mockery. Well, why don’t Cone and Petteway come to Key West? We are ready to look ‘em over and make our decision. The time is getting short, How different is it when we are bene- ficiaries of government largess instead of the other fellow; for us the ceiling is the limit, since the embellishment of OUR property is for the enjoyment of the pub- lic. Who ‘is the master mind that en- gineered the assault on the ballot making worthless in many instances the choice of the honest voters, and who are his ac- complices? That is the ‘question. Find him, Mr. Worley, and your investigation is solved. B. F. Paty, defeated candidate for governor, will speak in the interest of Candidate Petteway, who like Paty made his race for clean government. Yet some irresponsible people, petty _ politicians, claimed Mr. Paty’s campaign was financed by gamblers and racing people. It is alleged that no so many years ago there lived in Key West a narcotic agent, and although the government made no accusations, he was forbidden to enter the customs enclosure at this port. If this man was not guilty why did he not stand on his constitutional rights? His unpro- tested acceptance of the “verboten” rule, applicable only to him, branded him as guilty. There are rumors that others are now engaged in this illicit traffic here. G-men might investigate; perhaps rumors can be supported by facts. Culpable delinquent property owners may read with interest if not with con- trition the story, printed in The Citizen Saturday, of a poor Fort Lauderdale wi- dow who was the sole support of four chil- dren on earnings of $5.50 weekly, asking the city commission for permission to pay her taxes in installments of 50c weekly. Moved by such an effort and fine desire to be honest, the commissioners and others made up a fund and paid her tax bill, amounting to $6.68. Think of this widow | and her sacrificial offering, you tax} dodgers, when riding in fine automobile: eating the best of foods and sleeping in comfortable beds. How stands in the balance your attitude weighed, with the dutiful offer this widow made? BUNK ABOUT VITAMINS A lot of the propaganda going about concerning dieting and vitamins the bunk, according to Prof. Solomon Strouse, a well-known scientist, who declares that the normal diet of normal persons vides all the vitamins needed. is pro- All this talk about vitamins, he says, is something comparatively new, only from 1911. Much attention has been given to the subject, but even today little | is really known about it. Manufacturers . j of yeast and special foods have attempted to capitalize the popuiar idea’ that vita- mins are an all-important component one’s diet, but many of the claims made by advertisers of food fads are foolish. Prof. Strouse asserts that all nu- tritional needs will be met by a diet in- cluding a quart of milk daily, two fresh salads, two servings of leafy. vegetables, one serving of meat and liberal quantities of butter, cereals, fruit, bread and water. He adds that when the nutritional needs of people suffer because of poverty or a disturbance of the food supply, ill health can apparently be traced to the lack of something in the diet, but this does not necessarily mean a deficiency in any particular vitamins. From all of which it may be con- cluded that almost any kind of wholesome food provides a satisfactory diet, so far as maintaining health is concerned. But fad- dists must have their fads, and if follow- ing a tad makes a faddist happier, not let him (oftener her) go to it? why WAR BIBLES RETURNED There have been many instances battle flags being returned to a enemy as a gesture of good will after the passions of war had cooled. A large num- ber of Civil War flags were thus returned by both North and South, But something rather novel in the restoration of war trophies is now reported from England, where under the auspices of the Quakers a large number of Bibles are being collected and sent to their for- mer owners in South Africa. It seems that during the Boer War the British soldi got the habit of collecting faniily Bibles as souvenirs. Several thou- sand of these Bibles from Boer homes are said to have been taken to England. Now the Quakers, with the cooperation of the soldiers themselves, are gathering and re- turning these Bibles to the original own- ers or their children. Inscriptions or family records in the books make this possible in a majority of cases. A good many entries would be neces- sary to bring these family records up to date after a lapse of more than 30 years. of THE ENGLISH FASHION Many foreigners have commented up- on the English method of dealing with those who would overthrow government. It is said that one can visit Hyde Park and hear all kinds of agitators preaching their variegated doctrines. Britain lets them talk, as long as they make no definite overt | act to overthrow government. Just as entertaining and interesting is the story which came from London re- cently that the new King, Edward the Eighth, would lend his Household Trum- peters to some folk who meet each year to maintain that the “rightful king” is the Stuart pretender, who happens to be Prince Rupprecht of Bavarian. These Stuart societies postponed their treason- able meeting several months because of the death of the late king, out of con- sideration of the bereavement of the pres- ent reigning house! DISORDER IN PALESTINE The British are having difficult time in maintaining order in Palestine. | Native Arabs are showing their resentment of increased Jewish immigration by _ riot- ing, shooting and exploding bombs, most- ly directed against the Jews. The Britsih, which hold the mandate for Palestine, are committed to making this country a homeland for the Jews. by the fact that the Arabs are Moham- medans and that many Moslems in India sympathize with their co-religionists. There have been some charges that} the entire agitation has been fomented by Italian agents in retaliation for the British opposition to Italy in Ethiopia. a. dating | ot i former | League | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You an By CLARENCE One of the favorite indoor sports of Congresses is the game of trying to pass laws that will really regulate | prices. The players are aii members of the bar, or have the benefit of expert coun- sel, and there- fore should know all the le- gal loopholes, if indeed any do exist. Ap- parently from the Supreme Court decisions in the Schech- ter Poultry Case (1935) and the Guffey Coa! Case (1936), Con- gress did not study the rules carefully, or else there are no ways in which the Fed- eral Government can dictate to pri- vate industries what prices can be charged for their products. It is beginning to dawn on some of the more adept solons at Washington that if it were at all possible for a central government to set the “right” or “just” price, some ancient ruler, medieval monarch, or modern Eu- ropean dictator would long since have discovered the way. Therefore, they are just wasting time in trying to accomplish the impossible. There are other lawmakers, how- ever, who do not give up so easily. Popularizing the fallacious notion that chain stores are evil institutions by comparison with their indepen- dent brothers, some congressmen find it necessary somehow to prevent the chain stores (doing only 25 per cent of the retail business) from monop- olizing the field. To wipe out this phantom, they would prevent sellers from discriminating “in price or {| terms of sale between different pur- chasers of commodities of like grade of quality” except where differences in production costs arise in filling two or more orders. If such provisions are ever en- forced, the effect will be surprising to many people who have thus far KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY j Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From iles Of The C (Address questions to the au Members of the Key West gire. department held a meeting — last night to decide upon a_ plan of payment and distribution of — the $7,500 received in settlement of r $15,000 for the ser-: ‘tment members and in extinguishing the! s aboard the Morgan Line mship El Occidente at this | port on the night of March 24. i After paying lawyers and ph; ‘cians and settling other expe the money had dwindled to $6,- 000 it is said. This sum, it was decided, will be equally divided: among the members of the depart-, ment and six outside men who were called to the aid of the fire- men that night, This will split the $6,000 into 149 parts or just little more than $40 for each; man, vice of machines fl i Two hundred packages of liquor bearing .oreign labels were taken! at the entrance to Boca Chica this morning by two Coast Guard ves- jsels, four shots being fired at the rumboat, Three men and a boat bearing » the number V-12653 were taken at the same time.! Soon after the capture was made the Coast Guard vessels came to Key West with the: ptures and lost one of the men who jumped; {overboard and made his escape. This was done while the vessel was being warped into the dock. | i Miss Albertina Gato de- Hlightfully entertained with a [bridge party yesterday at the |home of Miss Rose and Conchita i Cobo of 1107 Duval street. An interesting game of bridge was | played during the evening and jrefreshments were served. The’ prize for the highest score was! j won by Miss Eola Pinder and the |consolation by Miss Hortense Gomez. Guests at the party were:| | Misses Rosa and Conchita Cobo,! | Albertina Gato, Claudina and Elena Lucignani, Mary Cabrera,! \ Mary Lightbourne, Lorena Givens, | Margaret Bell, Natalia Fernan- {dez, Hortense Gomez and Eola Pinder. | | | There will be a was silver social | British embarrassment is increased | iven Friday evening given under! by the Elks Club last evening was; 'the auspices of Fern Chapter 0.} E. S. The affair will start 8! o’clock in Scottish Rite hall. It; | will be for the benefit of Troop |1, Boy Scouts. Editorial comment: The girls may not hear the stern voice of} ‘their parents, but a faintly whis- _ Professor of Economics, New York University ‘orist, born at Lawrenceville, | Norwegian composer, born. |and Jack Walden. They will fur- d Your Nation’s Affairs Now the Chain-Stores W. FACKLER taken no notice of the Robinson- Patman Bill. Even the members of ! Congress who support this measure may be astonished at what the terms thereof may do to the organization of retail business in the United States. It is quite apparent that producers will be compelled to keep more mi- nute records of costs, because as sell- ers they must be able to account for any differences in prices quoted to Messrs. A, B and C. But in spite of { any real differences in costs, the Fed- eral Trade Commission, according to the bill, can restrict the amount of | any purchase—from lard to locomo- tives—for which quantity discounts can be allowed. Naturally, then, that body can fix prices—or attempt to do so at least. if anyone believes that such a law will prevent monopolies in the re- tail field, and it is not at all evident that any exist, they are laboring under false impressions. Obviously, manufacturers are placed between the upper and nether millstones. If they raise prices to the chain stores | on quantity lots, they will drive them into the manufacturing business, and thus invite competition. Besides, the consumers will suffer from rising costs of living. On the other hand, if prices are lowered to the independents on smaller lots, the net incomes of man- ufacturers will decrease, and they may have to leave the field entirely. Only in the event that prices are thus reduced will consumers benefit, and then only momentarily. So, in real- ity, the bill carries fire in one hand and water in the other. Of course, it is conceivable that producers, still having the right to sell to whom they choose, may elect to dispose of their entire output to chain stores. In this event, indepen- dent dealers will lose their source of supply, and of consequence their relative position will become more precarious when compared with that of other retailers. The problem is not how to hobble, but how to help efficient producers, and how to get their ‘uereased pro- duction better distributed. thor, care of this newspaper) Today’s Anniversaries see e 1826—Charles H. . Georgia journalist Smith (“Bill hum- Ga. Died Aug. 24, 1903. 1835 Is Menken, mvch-talked abort colorful aertess of her day, born near New Or- leans. Died in Paris, Aug. 10, nes ‘1868. 1836—George L. Shoup, stock raiser, merchant, Idaho's first State governor, U.S. senator, born at Kittanning, Died at Boise, Dec. 21, 1904. sen. Pa. 1841—Frederick K,, Freeman, teditor, with a brother, of “the press on wheels,” publish'ng the newspaper, the Frontier Index, from place to place in the Far West in the iate 1860's, born in Virgniia. Died Sept. 9, 1928. 1843—Edward Grieg, famed Died Sept. 4, 1907. 1848—Sol S. Russell, comedian of his day, born Brunswick, Maine. Died Washington, D. C., April 1922. noted at in 28, pered invitation to go out for ice! cream will be perfectly audible. | Life saving te: were con-! ducted yesterday afternoon under; the auspices of Red Cross work-; ers and a number of applicants {successfully passed, The tests a {very hard and many of those en- ; tering were disqualified for minor infractions of the rules but in the main the young men gave fine and entertaining exhibition. Those passing the tests were G bert Thompson, Murray Barker, } Gallacious Thompson, Emmie Cale, Gilbert Demeritt, Leonard Curry and neyeond Bethel. | | | The Goral Isle Casino orches- | tra boys arrived this morning from Birmingham, Ala. Member: Flack Trotter, Winston White, Carl Dupree, Withers Lockhart ish the music for the dances to ye given at the casino during the summer. The Flag Day program staged! declared a _ success by the large: number, of guests who attended; the ceremonies. Many people at-! ‘tended for the first time to wit-j jness the beautiful ceeremonial of the ritual which was given for the| j benefit of those attending. The | Flag Day oration by J. Lancelot, Lester was a masterly. aegis | | effort. i Temperatures* Highest. ... Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfall” rip tation Precipitation jing the * southeastwzr a Naples. WEATHER CONDITIONS tropical The ed inland early this m the west Florida cozst gion between For It then cr southern Florida and P: disturbance arabolic d over - ly after 8 o'clock - 29.58 * velocity Moon sets x Tomerrow Tides Eigh Low 4 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 29.60. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p.m West anc possibly Tuesday) icinity: Parth ocezsional show- cloudy tonight and Tuesday; fresh | ers, shifting winds and today and tonight, squalls diminihing Tues dey. cloudy tonight sibl Florida and Tuesdz extreme ty f south portion and % y showers in near the east coast. Jacksonville to Vlorida Straits: Fresh to sirong shifting d tonight, showers Tuesday. East Gul winds squalls scattered Fresh winds and partly overcast weather | tonight northerly and Tuesday, possibly showers in extreme south portion tonight. Even in most ‘aqqravatedcases | burning stops and Comfort follows the Resinol BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Em Phone 135 PaLacEe Walter Keily-Evalyn Knapp in LAUGHING IRISH EYES Helen Vinson in KING OF THE DAMNED Matinee: 10-15c; Night: 15-25¢ | Night 696-W The First National Bank of Key West h) owest at and pressure inches, was from the Pressure i region and is Jow ov ern Rocky Mountain Rains were last 24 hour in the Elsewhere genera COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business| sours FLORIDA CONTRACT. and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates ING & ENGINEERING CO. 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