The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE Cr PUBLISHIN L. P. ARTMAN, President N, Assistant Business } i From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County JOu AL tered at K’ st, Florida, second class matter _FIFTY- SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published her SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months ‘Three Months One Month Weekls $10.00 | 5.90 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. NOTICE ‘ards of thanks, resolutions of | respect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents line. i fort entertainments by churches from which enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. pen forum and invites discus- r general put it Will not publish anonymous communi- cations. All reading notice: IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete: Road to Main- isnd. eee "re Port.'~ ‘* Hotels and Apartments. Bazhihg Pavili¢ Alrports “tacit aiid Sea. Ce solidation of County and City Governments, A ithing oe. beauty has joy nidess for ever. Advertising in The Citizen is a pay- ing investment. Why not try it? Judging from the number of its citi- zens who hold the title of Sir, England is the most beknighted nation, People who are easil nocked seem to have an unfailing instinet for locating books or plays that shock ’em. Some people grumble over their in- come tax and others think how delighted they would be if they had to pay it. Polit must too ans in Florida often obviously claims of their ; upporters lie interest. as elsewhere consider the before the pub- C. B. Treadway will be replaced by Fons Hathaway—a friend of Key West ex- changed for another. Either “way” is satisfactory to us. It is said that only 11 persons can un- derstand Einstein’s theory of relativity. A | Key Wester informs us of a_relative’s theory nobody can understand. -We can easily believe a press report to the effect thata Georgia’ gentleman who is about to be confronted with five al- leged wives is “in a highly nervous con- dition.” Although the primary election is over, some folks. may worry that there is noth- ing to argue about. Don't worry. The democratic and republican campaigns are on, and they will be plenty hot. Just to get things started what do you think about the New Deal, anyhow? | One aded ine about the radio is that you can shut the blame thing off. And if the radio racket is going to supplant the newspapers of this country it might be well to consider putting a few billions of these freak taxes on instruments that are bringing ruin to home newspapers. Governor-Nominate Cone during his | campaign stated no man who is sectional is big enough to be governor, and “No; North, No South, No East, No West,” was} the slogan that was featured in all of his! advertisements. The electorate evidently | took him at his word for he led in all see- tions of the state. The male of all anal is the hand- somest, except the human animal and | ornament seems to have been the privilege | of the male alone in the early stages of | eulture, but later the female usurped this | privilege which is now unquestioned. A| “beautiful” and highly decorated man in} | that there is,a ; money balance just as vital to progre: ! less he is r | profits of desultory | pealed by the changes which | Turkish city, this age is considered a “sissy.” MERCHANTS AND TRADE If all the articles that have beert writ- | ten about trading at home were stretched, eng to end, they would reach around the | universe and back home again. The idea that it pa patronize home industry truth that some “smar citizens such people catch in it,-and they prefer to be “wise” and send off for something. that the “fodlish” This paper has heretofore urged _ its readers to buy everything possible if‘ their home town, , is simple | believe | town boosters miss. | because a town or city hasta | 3 as any individual budget. The more trading | | done in Key West the more profits there } | will be and the more prosperity, and be- sides those who have faith enough to open! j up business here are entitled to the patron- jj age of their community. However, let’s keep the argument on i a sound basis, and to do this we must con- sider the merchant's obligation. He is not entitled to the trade of local citizens un- 2ally a merchant and not a mere storekeeper, content to pluck random trade. Local chants to merit local patronage must modern in their methods, mer: be | up-to-date in | their appeals and efficient business. They cannot, and should not expect a com- munity to support incompetency through misguided home spirit. Having said so much about our mer- chants let us point out that Key West, like other places, has efficient as well as_ in efficient merchants. We have reliable | and honest business houses, and, we regret to say, a few that are not above taking the prout and forgetting the true principles of modern busines Readers are urged to be , discriminating in their patronage and to support merchants who are public spirited of known honesty and of apparent ef ciency in business. In so doing you will not luse anything. in CITIES RENAMED Those of us who got our smattering of political geography back in the nine- teenth century have seen much of it re- | have fol- towed the World War. The map of Europe as we imperfectly knew it is now something vastly different. The names of several of the world’s most | famous capitals have been changed, some | of them twice. } St. Petersburg was changed to Petro- grad early in the World War, and after the rise of Lenin to power it was called Leningrad, and so remains, although it is ! no longer the capital of Russia. Norway’s capital, Christiana, reverted to its ancient name of Oslo. Pekin or Peking changed to leiping. The old favorite spelling test, Uon- stantinople, has been abolished, and that no longer the capital, known as Istanbul, after discarding at vari ous times its former names of Stamboul, Byzance, Byzantium, etc. But there is no likelihood name of our own Washington changed for a long time to come. HEROISM IN EVERYDAY TASKS was is that will the be Newspapers recently told the story of to | two airplane pilots who brought their ship to earth, saving the lives of their passen- | gers, although seriously burned by a fire caused by a leaking gas line. Subsequently, Eugene Schacher, Houston, Texas, co-pilot, died of — his juries. Pilot Ed Hefley was seriously burned as he sat at his post and made ° in j erash landing. How many people, who read of this | incident, stop to think that these. brave? men exemplify the fidelity of«milltons: oft) men in their daily t. task Most’ of them, fo" be sure, will never face the, sanie. test of | fire, but given duty under © similar cir- | cunstances they will stick to their post | and attempt to take care of those entrusted | to their safety. Everybody regrets the suffering of ; these men and the death of Pilot Schacher ' but do we not take such heroism a little too much for granted? Or, do we assume that it is in line with what we expect, and, if this is so, isn’t the race of human beings | pre phsbly a lot better than we sometimes say it is? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘You and Your, | Nation’s Affairs Expansion Through Science By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Political and }- Business is gaining, this is shown by a larger phy output and larger earnings, but there is still much amemployment. The numbers on pay- rollsare in- creasing but quite slowly. Cohsidering this and the six years of acute depression it is not surprising that many peo- ple are pessi- mistic. Lhe jitters. suffered by many, is under- standable, when one sees so many outo! work, large ex- penditures for relief and a mounting publie debt. The very fact that these problems are serious makes it all the more im- portant that we do not err in our an- alysis. Recently two prominent per- sons, Dr. Karl Compton, of the | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President of General Motors Corporation, have called attention to a matter that is easily overlooked. Dr. Compton pointed out that the era of geographical pioneering is ending and giving way to the scien- tific pioneer. By this he means that in our own country and throughout the world most of the exploration and of the opening up of new areas have been completed. To superficial ob- servers this at once suggests that we must pass from an age of abundance to one of scarcity. This is entirely wrong. Anyone who is at all conscious of the amazing advances in the sci- entific field realizes that the possi- bilities of securing higher standards of living by the better utilization of our existing and rapidly growing knowledge are almost boundless. This has been vividly illustrated by ; Mr. Sloan. His illustrations are, of course, drawn from the fields with which he is most familiar, but similar illustrations can easily be found in many other directions. He emphasizes the vast opportunities for employ- ment in “replacing the old with the new,” and elaborates on the improve- ment in railroad transportation that is coming with the introduction of the Diesel engines and the building of stream-lined trains “with their mod- Social Science ern styling, their air-conditioned com- fort, their important savings of time and cost.” Also he refers to the “spec- tacular increase in passenger rev enues” that is coming as these new types of trains are being more widely used. All who have travelled on the mod- ern stream-lined train will appre ate what Mr. Sloan says. But not all will fully realize the vast implica- tions of such a change. Our railroad equipment will be replaced and to do this hundreds of thousands of workers must be employed. Moreover similar changes are pending in other directions. A vast number of our houses need to be rebuilt. This is ; partly because many are old and should in any case be replaced. An- other reason is that modern science is making pi le a far better type of home than we have hitherto en- joyed. Better illumination, more even heating, air conditioning and other comforts can be ours if we care to have them. In agriculture, too, science has ad- vanced to the point where one of our s is to develop the many new 's of using farm products. As this is done there will be no need to worry over many of our agricultural prob- lems as we have in the past. , Dr. Compton and Mr. Sloan are } right. There is no lack of work to be | done if we are willing to accept what | the scientific pioneer is offering us. O: course it will bring many difficult problems. Many workers will have to be trained to new and very dif- | ferent tasks. Many will have to be shifted from one occupation to an- | other. Some may have to be trans- ferred to new localities. | This wii not be easy. There will be much argument over how it should be done. We shall probably make mis- takes. Some of the new ventures will fail and those who do not appreciate the stupendous changes that are com- ing so rapidly will be sharp in their criticisms. There is no reason to talk of the impossibility of finding plenty of em- | ployment. There is a tremendous amount to be done if we care to do | it. We may, of course, prefer to work shorter hours and develop more slow- ly. That is quite another matter. The point is that we need not despair be- | cause of the false notion that there is | not enough that can be done to keep us all busy. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) I TODAY’S Highest Lowest Mean Nermal Temperatures* Mean Rainfali* rday’s Precipitation mal Precipitation Sun Moon set Tomorrow's Tides AM 3x1 10:20 ometer 8 a. m. today: pa level, 30.04, igh Low WEATH= FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vie‘nity: Partly Cloudy tenight and Seturday, pos- sbi shower sterly tl posit ly eccasional ; gentle tc mode:ate Ficrida: and § winds. tonight scattered cloudy howers in extreme south portion. Florida Straits : Moderate easterly vers sonville to winds and partly overcost weath- t and Saturday, possibly dd showers over south por- Over-Sea Transportation Co., Inc. REGULAR AND RELIABLE FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN ‘Key West NOW MAKING DELIVERIES AT KEY WEST aS TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WE FURNISH PICK- SERVICE OFFICE: 813 CAROLINE STREET TELEPHONES 68 AND 92 ; ders {continued throu ! region, | con: truction superintendent WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately low this ; morning from, southern California and Arizona nortneastward to the St. Phoey of ky Moines, 29.78 Gulf Lawrence, Ar:z., inches; Des 2¢ inches, 80 inches, lowe, Me., 2 high sections, and Eastport und moderate other Mont, 30.08 N. C., 30.24 | and thun- | ly ouvhout — mivst Helena, inches, and Charlotte, Light orms inchcs. shower have occurred since | the portions States north- of yesterday morning in ern Rockies, the Lake reg and in northern Plains and on, and showers have yout much of Florida, being heavy on portion: Miami, inches, and Titusville, 1.98 inches. the east coast, Uco.er weather prevails this morn ing in the extreme upper Mis- ssippi Valley and Lake Superior Duluth, Minn:, ‘reporting a minimum tempeiature of 42 de- grees; while ngs are some-| hout wMost oth- er with high day tem peratures yesterday in the Plains States, Huron, S. D., reporting a maximum of 108 degrees, which! is the highest ever recorded there | at this time of ycar. 13 G.S. KENNEDY, |} Official in Charge sections; and Miami §) MORNINGS UP AND DELIVERY | Citizen ti I Nies stood within thre crumpled up 2 tent cared to have | Cudjoe | highway. srr ee POLI PT 2 Today's Hor ee KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Captain J. for the p manding officer at Key West bar Florida New their racks, wll lea e ever the East Coast this evening for York with iirs) Maner three children. At N they} will e: the t St. Mihiel for tain having i2« zt Fort Randclph iy regrets the le: csteemed They wiil be sociz] and busines: tein Jack, as Fnown to his msa: he is bound to come West some day. a can't kee» him awey keep him tied. and P- cn nzma, the and progressive fan m zreatly ed he is f iends, says that ney unless they This last session of cri t wa: been convened of Key West Thy were co. one of the | ha: for EXCURSION TO PORT TAMPA a number Reead T ound Trip Solicitor J. F. Busto t t thirty-one ed at the s number “1 conviction ured. years. case Adu!» Childree between 5 and Children wede: 5 > SECOND dispc of mn and of were Adult. Children between 5 snc Children umder 5 Mf passage i» te be taken TICKETS ON SALE FROM J PENINSULAR & OCCIDENTAL 4. Cote There avas in the county ing that made in their shoes. hooting scrape jail yard this mern bystanders shake Sherit’ Cleveland feet of a man and fired a revolver at him The bullet truck the the heart ent-r the was a .38 caliber and sheriff's victim near But the bullet did net body of the It nd fell to the und a demonstration of jacket that PB. M a travelling salesman is sell ers of the He had confidence cnough jacket to allow the shoviff the gun point blank and close re, It wes a thriling ition but none of the o' the (Ssssesssrsssrrsrsen ANNOUNCEMENT TO VETERANS man It was simply a bullet Haas, ing to of proof law. his to fire at exhi- ners pres- experiment tried on them, Peopl> Key W Christmas, willbe to Big from by Lambert f th lap of the Over-Sea said today. “People have no idea of the work is progressing,” . and Sheriff Niles, ding nezr, said he iasiine over the road strides are nt several points on the before hardly realize Key Key West how he wa "The First National Bank ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposs imsuraace Corporation who had and been SFR aA DMB DL MLM LL LE aM tated t rapid being made \) i WTI IIIS III IS LISS road it and AALAAAAAAAALAAAAAA we ¢ oa. PIP PPO IP POPP Pe SLBA! VETERANS Put Some of That Adjusted Compensation Money Into Something That. You Will Enjoy Thru The Years. 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