The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 16, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO ne Key West Citizen | ly Except Bunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. J. P. ARTMAN, President ALLEN, Assistant Business Mai m The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE mer Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Only Daily matter Entered at Key West, Florida, as second cla FTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusizely entitled to use r republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also One Year Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ~ ADVERTE Made known on applica SPECIAL NOTIC rte. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- iaud. re Port. Hoiels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavili Airports—Land and Sea. Ce soiidation of County and City Gezernments. HE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afveid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or ¢ always do its utmost for the public never tolerate corruption or nj welfare; ce; denounce vice and praise virtue; d good done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never cop» ume opinions; promise wita principle, go into conference, the either very sick or very rich. When doctor patient is In the modern political game, they do not mind discarding a king, and keep- ing a joker on the job. The Triborough bridge, New York which Tresident Roosevelt dedicated last week, and which was opened to the public Sunday, July 12, for the first time, used 10,000 automobilists in one da They may not mean much to Key Wester. hut it makes our hearts throb nevertheless. We are going to have bridges, too. was hy One of the reavons-for the heavy list of unemployed, ine the restrictions create this We day sing in number, are on industry that tend st army of the unemployed. bear daily of labor strikes, but business may be foreed to strike or quit because it cannot go on, and then everyone knows what will happen, Both capital and labor have their rights, and their needs. some- The whispering campaign Roosevelt continues. Some of the preposterous. Such a campaign con- notes desperation and does not harmonize with the confident avowals of the Repub- liean party, and will react to the benefit | of the party in power, for it is a revolting form of “knocking which will only re- ult in a boost, and should be welcomed by the Democrats, if that form of vote-getting } were not so repulsive. against stories are The firmament is now putting on a cometary display. It is the comet known as Peltier’s, named after an amateur star- gazer who was first to note its approach, | and will be visible until next month, It will be found under favorable conditions between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus. The former was referred to Milton as “the rred Ethiop queen”, and the latter was her husband. Perhaps | the comet's itinerary in this Ethiopian sec- | tion of the heavens may portend the com- ing of another starred Ethiopian queen to sit triumphantly with the conquerring lion | of Judah, but we have our doubts, by : to feed itself in the future is threatened. | anties of the Constitution EROSION A NATURAL PERIL There are people in the United States | who have heard of erosion and_ believe that the term is a fairy-word, describing a , non-existent danger, even, if occasionally | some tract of land is washed away by heavy ; drainage. There are farmers in many parts of the nation who find it hard to accept the | statement that 835,000,000 acres, once fertile, have been damaged from 25 to 100) per cent at a loss that is estimated at ten billion dollars and that the nation’s ability However, this is the conclusion of ex- perts in the Soil Conservation Service after a survey that covered 1,889,000,000 acres, | j all of which was once fertile land. Count- ; ing wind and water erosion the estimate j shows that an area four times the size of Texas and 146 times the size of Massa- | chusetts have been denuded of topsoil to! an extent varying from 25 to 100 per | cent, | Viewing the nation as a whole it is: said that only the New England States and | certain widely separated areas in other sections have escaped serious damage. Of the nearly 2,000,000,000 acres surveyed ! less than one-third had suffered no erosion | damage and much of this area adapted to agriculture. H Certainly the nation faces a serious! problem in preventing the loss of valuable | top-soil through erosion. It is a fight in which millions of farmers should co- operate. They must be on the lookout for danger signals, realizing that not all soil loss comes through guilies or windstorms, but that the gradual shaving off of the top soils of unprotected farms through a is an enemy to be mas- is not) sheet washing” tered. i THE SPEED OF LIGHT Marvelous as was the discovery that sound impulses could be transmitted by telephone and radio, their mere transmis- sion would be of little value if they travel- ed only with the speed of ordinary sound. To illustrate: If one were in San Francisco and desired to talk to someone | in New York, and had a voice loud enough} to be heard that distance, it would take nearly four hours for the message to cross the continent—for sound travels only 720 miles an hour, But, fortunately, electrical and radio impulses travel with the speed of light, which for all practical. purposes is in- stantaneous for terrestrial distances, or | about 186,000 miles a second. Incidentally, it may be mentioned | that so far the longest combined telephone i and radio conservation ever carried on by} a regular toll customer was between San Diego, California, and Stockholm, Sweden, a distance of 8,630 miles. By special ar-! rangement longer distances have covered, been Many improvements in telephone and radio communication will be made in the} future, but there will be no increase in speed. Always the sounds are transmitted with the speed of light, the speediest thing in the universe. CONSTITU% IONS NEVER | SACRED The sanctity of the Constitution has largely passed out of the politi¢al scene, thanks to Gov, Landon’s declaration for an! amendment if necessary to secure social legislation and President Roosevelt’s state- ment that our problems can be solved within the framework of the historic docu- ment. It becomes fitting therefore to call at- tention to the fact that the Constitution is not now, never was and never should be, | sacred. The ideals which it espouses and} toward which it moved may be sacred to many people, but the possibility always | exists that the methods necessary to achieve the desired end may vary with the | development of the ages. For illustration, let us cite the growth of monopoly in this country. Inasmuch as both parties have declared against mo- nopolies it is apparent that they exist and nobody denies that they have been protect- ed, at times, but the Constitution of the United States. The fact is that corpora- tions have been held entitled to the guar- although ob- viously they are not persons in the sense that voters are persons. Yet, they have been given Constitutional status, as it} might be called, and claim the protection of the beneficial clauses of a document de- signed primarily to safeguard human | rights. | serious condition of soil | would make 4 states the size of Texas. | or 146 states the size of Massachu- } tion that had little attention in the j taken of the problem until the cre- : Republicans, Democrats or Socialists. were driving along and had \ Among | West, {seen hail. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You an Nation’s d Your Affairs Slipping Soil By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University The United States Soil Conservation | Service has just-issued @ report of a survey covering 1,889,000,000 acres. A wastage through erosion isdisclosed Over more than one third of this surveyed acre- age the soil loss ranges from 25 to 100 per cent Millions of acres are com- pletely de- stroyed so far as tillage and grazing are con- cerned. and vig- orous. pro- longed = effort will be required if the remainder of the badly eroded area is to be saved. The seriously damaged area or 23 states the size of New York. setts. This loss is the fruit of a long period of predatory agricultural methods. {t is an aspect of conserva- early days of the movement. for the popular interest in preserving natural resources was first centered en timber and minerals. The Department of Ag- riculture has been emphasizing the terrible wastage of soil resources for years, but no other official notice was ation, recently, of the soil conserva- tion bureau. The problem transcends politics and partisanship. Whether we are we shall be equally hungry when our great expanse of fertile topsoil has been washed away and our broad farms have been converted into piles of wind-blown dust or barren, rock- strewn gullies. No one who has seen the evidences of wind and water erosion in dif- ferent parts of the country can doubt we are fast approaching an agricul- tural catastrophe which will compel us eventually to import enormous quantities of foodstuffs and agricul- 1 ; tural raw materials, or else lower our living staridards to the level on which the people af China live. In China, incidentally, may be seen the perfect example of the ultimate results of wasteful agriculture. The Yellow River and the Yellow Sea have acquired their names from the enor- mous load of silt that they nave been carrying for centuries from the fields of China. Most unfortunately for this aspect of the conservation movement. how- ever, we have now tied it up with a scheme for paying farm subsidies that is essentially political in character After the Agricultural Adjustment Act was rejected by the Supreme urt, the farm subsidy element of that law was grafted onto the Erosion Control and Soil Conservation Act of 1935 There was great rejoicing when someone in Washington pro- posed this new method for paying the farm subsidy 11 is all glossed over by much talk about conservation. but the truth is that the fight against soil loss and depletion is utterly inconsistent with the scheme to raise per capita farm incomes. Conservation is only the shuck on the farm subsidy nubbin, and it will inevitably be subordinated to the real purposes of the present law. just as the farmer tears away the husk to get al the ear of corn within The more money that is distributed among all farmers with a view to equalizing farm and non-farm incomes, the less will there be with which to pro- mote soil conservation. In this judgment no issue is made of the propriety of the farm subsidy. although much could be said on that subject. If it is considered to be sound economics and wise public policy to pay the farmers some kind of sub- sidy, by all means let it be done in a way that will not hamper the great fight to save our remaining agricul- tural resources. At the earliest possible moment the conservation undertaking should be divorced from the politically inspired farm subsidy. {t was only a shotgun marriage that united them. and in- stead of doing right by the conserva- tion movement we have done it a great wrong by forcing it into such a strange and sordid alliance. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) ! = | street. KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen ec se cote secrete ct j A street bus and a Ford car en-| saged in a col ision late yesterday | ‘ternoon at the corner of South! nd White streets. According to the re;orts by bystanders the Ford rt the worst of the mel Noel son, Mrs. Solomon and sister just to was j | rot turned out of South street on White street when the bus in the opposite direc- met. The Ford was pushed, to the curb in Councilman Willard Al- 's home and badly damaged. ily no one was hurt. of the this who, Not much excitement with opening of criminal court morning. Two young men were before the coart charged with theft of an automobile insisted their cases be reopened. They were. The original fines were; $10 and costs of prosecution. The} with the reopening of the; were increased to $50 and Information has been received by The Citizen of a blood ess bat- tle at Gun Cay, an anchorage in the Bahama Islands, when six s robbed a British liquor took $6,500 in cash 300 cases liquor and a machine gun and de parted, oe | Real hail was falling for a brief period in Key West last night. During the thunder which — pre- vailed for a time after 7 o'clock residents of the city heard pat- terings on their roofs which did not sound like rain. In fact so heavy were the missiles they sounded like large shot falling from a great distance. Investiga- tion showed that they were hail | stones. A number of business men gathered the falling ice pellets. these was Claude Roberts. Proprietor of Rober Book Store. He said to The Citi j zen t morning that during the 63 years he has resided im Key this is the first time he had As usual The Citizen will keep , the public informed by rounds of the results of the Berlenbach-' Delaney fight this evening. Ar- rangements have been made withi the Associated Press to have the; fight by rounds received by this) paper and these will be announced] at Russell’s Cigar Store on Duval ter people may not be wiling ‘dig in the ditches but * storage ‘liquor, Everybody should attend and get the results free of charge. Editorial comment: The young- to many of them willing to drive an auto- mobile into them. U. S. Commissioner Gwynn has been adv Lake Jones, of Fed turn over to Lieutenant Thompson, U. S. A., forty of whiskey which have C. Rodney Court, to Ernest been of toms house for the past r years. The estimated value of this under present conditions. is approximately $120,000. The liquor was found in carload ship ment of molasses. The molasses is to be destroyed. The liquor will be used for treatment of veterans in hospitals, : There will be an entertainment put on tonight in the High School auditorium for the benefit of the boy scouts, AY program with excel- lent entertaining features ha been arranged. A baby boy weighing 10 pounds was born to Mr. and M Jefferson Saunders in their 310 Southard street. Mother and son are getting along nice’'y and} “Pappa” Jeff is so proud he i only touching the ground in high places. Mrs, L. L. King, educational | worker of the Florida Baptist Convention in due te arrive Mon- day and will begin services in the! First Baptist church on-the day of arrival. 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Mazecc- Temperatures* — Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfail* Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Preciy 8 81 RA 84 -0 Ins. -09 Ins jSun rises - Sun sets ine Of 472A2 2222222222222 2- =<. For Sale eecee 5 Bundles for Be THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SMILED LIL FDIS Ds | | | | 1 | | | | cwa we CUMOOKETOEMOOHD | High jLow ometer 8 a. today: level, 30.06. RE ORECAST WEATH: (Till 8 p. m., Fridav) Key West and Vicinity: udy tonight ani Friday winds, mostly easter!y. Florida: Partly cloudy and Friday att< red probable in treme north tion. Jack: onville Florida and East Gulf: Gentle shifting winds and partly overcast weather lonight and Friday. Partly he zentic tonight { por- to Straits WEATHER CONDITIONS Weak hizlt spread most the tain States, the Lake Superi region, and the cactern Gulf 'Mexico and Flord while sure is moderately through out the remanider the coun t Showers and thunderstorms have occurred dé < the last 24 hours in the Gulf States, from eastern Missouri over Virginia and North in portions ay Geor siz and north eastern Florida, and in other widely scattered being heav. Antonio, 1.04 inches, ] inches, d Nashville, inches. pmneratures b mod- erate in the Lake egion and Ohio Valley, but continve abnorm- | hort much of the < end middle and up- per Mississippi Valle,, with maxi mum read 100 degrees again yesterda’ in many localitic in this territory, Oklahoma City reporting 108 degrees; which the highest on record ther 5 KE Offic ure over- Rocky Moun CCM MLM MMM MM MOM OM ee pres- I \ low of | | | \ ) \ » \ ‘ . 4 N N 4 ty . y i } west eastward 2rolina, ANNOUNCEMENT TO VETERANS We checks issue charge Tenn., 2 “ ve aby your best The First National Bank ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposa imsurance Corporation mear NEDY, 1 in Charge Too MANY E} GAGEMENTS MINNEAPOLIS Roderics Neil of this city and sent to p: engaged to 135 gir! was caught Paaa aaa ae. 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