The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO She ‘Key West Citizen t Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, FI Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively titled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publ One Year Six Months Three Months One Month Week ADVERTISING Made known on application. RATES All reading notice respect, obituary notice the rate of 10 cents a line Notices for entertainments by churc a revenue is to be derived 5 The Citizen is an open n . sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- innd. *re Port. Hotels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavilion, Airports—Land and Sea. Cxnsoiidation of County Governments. Sunday Fathers’ Day, which ~ mo:t families celebrated by forgetting all about it. was for reformed, Tampa, once a hot-bed election frauds, claims it has and ad- vises Key West to do the same thing. As you get older, time goes fast that babies seem to be born just a few weeks after the wedding.—Exchange. Sometimes they are. so r There are many white-collared gov- ernment employees receiving from $30 to $50 weekly, who could net get $10 work- ing for commercial houses. Freedom means freedom of action until one runs counter to some law set up for the common interest. Objectors to the activities of the plant board should bear this in mind. A century ago, advertising had _ be- come synonymous with claptrap and mis- representation and nobody believed that mere truth would sell goods. Many a Key West merchant still believes in the century-old fallacy. Advertising in politics, Cone got 14 votes in the first primary, ,be- cause he was unknown in Key? West and did not make himself known. Inthe second primary, Cone advertised and re- ceived an increase of nearly 4000 per centum, pays—also Dan Navarro, Cone’s Key West cam- paign manager, did a fine job in securing 536 votes for the winning candidate, in view of the determined and powerful op- pocition by the followers of Candidate Petteway, whose propaganda was that oniy through the latter could Key West expect any cooperation in Tallahassee. In its deplorable economic condition, the Is- | land City fears for the worst, and must take into account any and everything that eppears advantageous in its struggle for! existence, Governor Talmadge’s advice to Al Smith et Al not to “take-a-walk” advice. He thinks those who oppose Roosevelt and his New Deal policies should fight within the party and not outside its | pale. It takes nerve to oppose a popular man or measure, but those Democrats openly against the renomination of Frank- } lin D. Roosevelt seem to have what it takes, though defeat unquestionably is theirs, for not only will Roosevelt be nomi- } nated at the Philadelphia convention now in progress, but he will be at the head of this government for another four years— | four long years according to Republican ; calculation, | is soand | = | strangers to steal his own hogs. i! ORIGIN OF ODD PRICES We are so accustomed to articles in stores priced at 98 cents, $1.49, and other odd-penny amounts that few persons give | any thought to what once was considered a freakish idea of price-making. But G. H. Cilley, a well-known store advertising manager, tells in a recent ar- ticle that the custom arose from the solu- tion of a very practical problem by shrewd merchant. When Captain Roland If. Macy got tired of sailing the briny deep as a sea cap- : tain and started a store in New York, there were no cash registers or other means for checking up his clerks. Money received for-purchases was put in an old-fashioned cash drawer which made no records, and the practice of “knocking down,” a euphemism for plain stealing by clerks, was quite prevalent. Macy changed all prices to odd-cent amounts, established cashiers to make the required change, and kept a close watch on the shiers. His advertisements of these odd prices seemed to strike the pub- lie eye favorably, and he got a great re- sponse. What was at first only an ex pedient to keep from being robbed de- veloped into a potent psychological appeal to his customers, Thus the odd-price has survived many i years after the original adoption ceased to exist. reason for its CHILDREN AND GROWTH Health an important asset in life, 5 . i seldom appreciated by those of us who en- joy it. Hundreds of children in Key West are | growing up with the slightest instruction in matters relating to their growth and proper development. Hundreds of adults, serious minded in many things, Jook on without apparently realizing the import- ance of getting these youngsters off right. j Athletics have had a marked influence on the physical development of American young people and the recent inauguration of competitive sports for our girls has been a wonderful step in the right direction. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen According to the Literary Digest citi- zens of Decatur, Ala., pay the highest gasoline taxes in the United cents a gallon. Of the 12 cents the state gets 6, the county 8, the city 2, and the Federal government 1. The firs tax gasoline was Oregon, which imposed a tax of one cent a gallon in 19197 year gasoline taxes for the whole coun- try totalled more than 808 million dollars. Another fellow who fooled the tors is William Haas of South Carolina, who as a young man was rejected because of a weak heart when he tried to enlist in the army. He has never been able to ob- tain life insurance for the same reason. doc- ‘Yet he is still alive at the age of 88, and his wife, who was a frail girl when he married her 64 years ago, is still living. Louis Springborn of Chicago has a sensitive nature, and brooded over the fact that his family “turned up their noses at him’ when he brought home only $18 after staging a robbery. Then in-a sud- den fit of disgust he gave himself up to! the police and straight. declared he would go Lawrence Thompson, an Indiana farmer, is an obliging soul. One night re- cently two men awakened him and asked his aid in rouding up some hogs which} they said had escaped when their truck broke down. Thompson gladly helped ) them, but when he checked up next morn-} the | ing he found that he had _ assisted An English inventor says he has_ hit upon a clever plan whereby he . hopes to} effectively eliminate the back seat driver. | This laudable object is to be attained by the simple expedient of building auto- mobiles with the back seat facing the rear. Daylight saving time has messed up a New York baby’s birthday. at 12:30 a. m. June 15, according to day. light saving time, which was 11:30 p. m., June 14, Eastern Standard time. Now, is its birthday June 14 or June 15? al States—12 | state to} Last | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Did yous épetco1 @st a hay-burn- er withja gas;barnée? There is a dif- ference. It = ma ‘aifficult to apply f ¥¢ bower to farm “operations than to industrial op- erations, Farm work consists largely of scat- tered jobs, odd operations, de- pendent upon seasonal condi- tions, and oth- erwise difficult equations not met with in in- dustry to the same extent. For instance, the farm power plant in this untry consisting as it does of about 50,000,000 horsepower is divided into approximately 24.612,000 units. animal and mechanical. The average unit. therefore, is slightly more than tw rsepower. According to the Agri- tural Year Book of 1930. these units are divided into, horses and mules, 19,476,000; tractors, 853,000: electric installations from central sta- tions, 500,000; and individual electric plants, 500,000. In addition to these, there are 4,- 729,000 passenger automobiles on our farms, but no use is made of their aggregate horsepower in the above estimates. Our, farm population January 1, 1929, was 27,511,000. This means that we have one power unit for every farm inhabitant. Of these, only wind- mills and electrical equipment work without man’s attention. Hence. near- ly every single unit of power re. quires more or less of somebody's time before it is even ready for ser- vice. So. in spite of the high aggre- gate of power on the farm, time losses moving from one job to another and other peculiar and necessary lim- itations in applying power to farm work, it takes two man-hours to get one horsepower actually at work on the job. Nearly all mechanical power now used on the farm is larger than one horsepower. Hence, there is no pos- sible way to apply much of it because the jobs are too small to make it fe le. it is just here that elec- tricity can bridge the gap and supply the farm with an unlimited, always ready source of power for these small. odd, out of time, temperamental but absolutely necessary farm “chore: The manufacturing situation is d ferent, easier. In this field we find about 191,863 mills, shops, and fac- tories as against 6,371,640 farms. These mills and factories have 39,032.014 aggregate horsepower as against .the 50,000,000 for the farms. Besides, the industrial power is centrally located You and Your Nation’s Affairs What Kind of Farming? | By JAMES S. THOMAS i President, Clarkson College of Technology | Low | Mean | Normal Mean and 75.3:per ceht of it ig ¢lectrically | operated and requires very: little at- tention. Again, nearly half of this machin- ery in manufacturing plants is driven by power not made in the plants, but purchased from central utility plants This means that about half of all the machinery used in manufacturing plants is driven by.power purchased | from some 2,137 electric companies. | This gives industry a big advantage | over farm operations. The farm pow- | er plant is divided into millions of | small units, carried about hither and | | | Sun | Sun | Moo Low yon over the farm to wherever the job is to be dene. Likewise, farm production Is large- ly seasonal and, owing to climatic changes, necessarily irregular and often spasmodic. There are always | rush periods and lax periods, no mat- ter how perfectly the work is planned. If the average industrial manager had to work under the limitations that are, in the very nature of the case, im- posed upon the farmer, he would be driven to the mad house. American farmers have an invest- ment of some $3,700,000,000 in ani- mals and machinery which they can j use only a few weeks, or even days, {ly \ in the year. Plowing, for instance, is | sout very seasonal but it utilizes 15.6 per | ing cent of all power on the average |” American farm while threshing takes 75 per cent of it. Thus two very sea- | cast sonal operations on the farm require Haase for very short periods 25.1 per cent | out of the farm power for the entire |° year. There are also striking contrasts in the usability of farm power and ii dustrial power as represented in dol- I lars and cents. The farm power. bill is approximately $3,000,000.000 a year The estimated gross value of farm | war crops for 1927-28 was $12,302,000,000. | stat The products sold for cash produced | \..” approximately $9,870,000.000. The | °* power bill was, therefore, about 25 per cent of the gross value of the out- put. For 1927, the gross value of manu- factured goods in the United States was $62,719,000,000. The “value added by manufacture” was $27.585,000,000. | thur The fuel and power to produce this | ,,\,, cost only 6.87 per cent of the value | "'® added through manufacture. It is evident from these facts, that the nature of farming, the seasonal exactions on power, and the nature of the enterprise in general makes the cost and the adaptability of power a most important item in American agriculture. Labor and power consti- tute about 60 per cent of the cost of agricultural production. New sources of power, new methods of applying it. having it ready at all times, and being able to pay for it only when in use. must be very important factors in the success of the American farmer. What sort of agricultural life do we want in America? clow | mod jing KF land isoutl | Jack ! Ligh hive rn ly j and | cool | sout (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Thirt hirty KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From ‘The Files Of The Citizen ug H.C. C New Or- |leans, which has been in port sev- eral days, has just been libeled |for the sum of $1,806,59. The at- tachment papers were issued out | of United States court 1 | U. S. Clerk C. Rodney Gwynn on ‘application of Wm. R. Porter \trading under the firm style of The Porter Dock company. The claim is based on supplies, repai and advances secured by the tug jat this port. The, vessel is _ still tied *up at the Porter Dock Com- j pany’ Pier. The owners of the ves- jsel have wired here to leava the the amount of the claim charges which is taken as an evi- dence of intent to pay, adimus of A nuptial event of internatio- nai importance will be celebrated jin Key. Au est on the afternoon on |June The wedding party will) arrive Tea Havana that after-| |noon and the ceremony will be iperformed at a place yet to selected. The high rarties lextensive dealers in farm impl ments and machinery, whose pai reside in German !to be is Miss Dora Belle Nelson, | daughter of Robert Manuel Nel- ison, the manager of the Havana Eectric Plant and systems. Custom officer L car was almost completely de- \ molished in a —spectacular acei- | dent which occurred this morning C. Taylor’s j hence no arrests have been made. Deputy and, entertainment are eagerly be} contracting! With are Jukius Reese, member} of the firm of Rees and Cordovo,| daughter Olga. 'be given at Ba 1 This bride; re rowning of Americ: | cast the ar was not identifeid | ly r | 193 made; Preparations are being ‘for a Fourth of July Celebration CLIO OTTOTTTOOOO TEE EEE on an elaborate scale and the pro- | gram indicates that the day will ‘be a memorable one in the his tory of Key West. A great vari ty of sport events have been ar- ranged and other events in the! celebration which will be a fit ting one for the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Ame pendence. News from Hav: that there will be about 100 athlet tes from the National uni- versity here to participate in the events and that there will be golf players, baseball and foot-| ball players and a number of! sprinters and runners. There will be others to enter the tennis matches and still others who a good at water sports. There will) be great doings on July 4, 1926 to which all lovers of sport and look- ing forward. | Editorial comment: A Chicago! man who had been fined $25 for! beating his wife, said someone had told him the amusement tax! had been repealed, Mr. and — Samuel Kemp of 823 Eaton street, will entertain; a birthday party Friday! afternoon in honor of their little! The affair willl iew Park. On the evening of July 7 a Pa-| triotic Pageant will be presented! at the Cuban Club under the au-| spices of the Pythian Sisters. is Pageant entitled “The' and the of 30 and 15; a pa-i of the is will be | composed outs, two salior boys girls There will also be triotic drill by members ' degree staff. Highest ..........-4 Yesterday's Brecipitation Hsarometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, sibly occasional showers; i } Ja jover res i from eas | inches | Gulf ! over | Ohio V Atlantic cosas | of Columbia have designed entire- It was born , {when it collided with a larger car). jinside the P. B.C. terminal _en- National; Becialicm: hee i |The larger car was transporting! With 500 different party groups a load of liquor. Inspector Taylor! #? many lands having been orgen- {was on the lookout for rumrun-! 2e¢- | spread! . The driver of the other car}* pied Mir. Taylor, leaped from the r which, running at full speed crashed into the other. Though Ir, Taylor tried to avoid the ferash the larger car pursuing its zigzag course plunged against the ‘aylor car and came te a stop. It} pis to be marveled at that Mr. Tay-| Nor escaped injury. The driver of Biliousness, Sour Stomach, ulence, Nausea and Sick Headache, due to Constipation. CLIS ST. pied sper a eeat obo Eo bE Abe sete degre rndrdnddtiddgddédéiii/ A JUNE Ze WEDNESDA?r * + ~ THE WEATHER YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Readers by Specull Ar rangements for a Limited Time only TEN CEN Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. Temperatur ‘est 8: Rainfall™ Name -01 Ins. pitation -11 Ins. covers Zi-hour period ats odlock thix morning. > Address Pree City and State Tomorrow 's Almanac Date of Birth rises, sets n rises Write Piain—Enclosing 10c Coim and | Moon, sets Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High Over-Sea Transportation Co., Inc. REGULAR AND RELIABLE FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN Key West and Miami NOW MAKING DELIVERIES AT KEY WEST — > TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS WE FURNISH PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE 2 WEATE (Till 8 p. m., Key West and Vicinity dy tonight and Thursda gentle t Thursday) i Partly pos- erate southerly winds, t variable. ori Partly cloudy tonight Thursday, possibly showers in h portion. ksonville hecom- to Florida Stra ts East Gulf: Moderate souther- winds becoming variable over h portion, and moderate shiit-! winds becoming northerly north portion; partly —over- weather tonicht and Thur wth tered showers ove h and centra! portions. 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