The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 20, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspape in Key West and Monroe County. Untered at Key West, Florida, as s 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 here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year six Months Three Months One Month Weekly $10.00 - §.00 2.50 85 +20 ADVERTISING RAT! Made known on application. PECIAL NOTICE vards of thanks, resolutions of {| ete, Will be charged for at ne. nments by churches from which ved are 5 cents a line. nis open forum and v s d sion of public 1s and subjects of local or gen interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- eations. All reading noti reapect, obituary not to be IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- aud. ™r-e Port. Hotels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Se@solidation of County and City Governments, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid 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 (lass; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or commend good done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and ‘njustice; denounce vice and praise virtue opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never cop= promise with principle. Gamblers start out as mere fool end up s and as crooks, Be wise; doen't gamble. When one writes the truth it isn’t so necessary to keep a carbon copy for refer- ence. Somehow Mrs. Boerge Rohde does not connote the charm and personality of Ruth Bryan Owen, Key West's “Adopted Daughter.” Some years back we were advised to do our “Daily Dozen.” Now we are queried if we had our “Daily Doubie.” The Daily Dozen pepped up the constitution, while the “Daily Double” tickles our epiglottis. A thief stole a total $680 from newspaper men who accompanied the Roosevelt, party to Hyde Park. If pocket change of such proportions are carried by newspaper men, their proverbial poverty will soon be a myth. of Browder, candidate of the Communist party for the presidency, stated that the Roosevelt administration has absorbed so much of the principles of his party they ied, although they hope for more absorption if the Roosevelt administration is continued in office. Is this a compliment or a detraction? | Gambling is in the blood of the human race, and the nearer you are to the primitive savage, the stronger is the hold of gambling on you. The lower the peo- ple, the worse the habit of gambling, and! savages gamble away their last posses: ! sions, clothes, wives and even children. Why should you not give up this savage | habit. The Townsend plan, known as Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., has changed its name to the Townsend Recovery Plan. | The object of this move is to catch the } young and middle-aged voters, whose dimes and quarters are equally welcome with those of the oldsters. Barnum was right—there is an inherit willingness the world to be cheated. i \ in| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN A MESSAGE TO GARCIA One of the most dramatic exploits of the Spanish-American War was_ recalled in a recent article concerning Col. An- drew S. Rowan, U.S. Army, retired. ! ‘|| Nation's In 1898, shortly after the declaration ; of war on Spain, President McKinley de- ! e with General Garcia | with his | the | sired to communi of the Cuban forces, who was revolutionary army somewhere in wilds of Cuba; just where, no one knew. Rowan, then a lieutenant, was alone on his mission, Going first to Jamaica, he crossed to : Cuba in an open boat, and after a_ nine- day search, aided by Cuban patriots, he ; found General Garcia, delivered his mes age and returned to Washington with the information desired by the President, | after several narrow escapes from capture | and death. His exploit was immortalized in EI | to million bert Hubbard's editorial “A Messe Garcia,” of which more than 40 copies have been printed in many guages. Rowan in 1923 wrote his story of “How I Carried the Message to Garcia.” Hubbard editorial and Rowan’s story are both inspiring pieces of writing which no one should fail to read. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Fifty years ago, on July 3, 1886, the! first suecessful typesetting machine, the invention of Ottmar Mergenthaler, was in- stalled by the New York Tribune, whose ; editor, Whitelaw Reid, gave it the name by which it has since been known, the! linotype. Within a few years it was in use by most daily newspapers, and now; no newspaper worthy of the name, either daily or weekly, is without one or more of these wonderful machines, Certain burglars in Rochester, N. Y., either can't read or don't believe in signs. Although the safe in a bowling alley” in that city bore a sign reading “This safe does not contain money,” they blew it open and got away with $1,100, John D. Rockefeller was 97 on July 8, but John D., Jr., was not with his father on that day. The son was | in where he received many honors in recog- nition of his large gifts for the restoration of French places of historic interest. The famed Place d’Armes, a great square in front of the Versailles Palace, is to be re- named Place John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Guy R. Hively, editor of the Republic at Mound City, Kan., claims the largest collection of elephants in the country, some 260 of them. They are miniature ones from every state in the Union and a num- ber of them were made in Japan, and he has refused an offer of $1,000 for the col- lection, Yes, Mr. Hively is a Republican. John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national chairman, has been looking for a house in Chicago to be leased until after the election. Among those which attract- ed his fancy was one owned by Mrs. James M. Houghteling, President Roosevelt's de- voted cousin. The real estate agent rep- recenting Mr. Hamilton fears he will have to look elsewhere for a suitable temporary domicile. The last word in railroad passenger service is announced by the Cedar Rapids- lowa City Railway. Upon telephone call a taxi will call to take passengers to the train without charge if a ticket is bought to some other station not less than 27 miles away. Billions of ton, ari near and flies invaded Evans- tocratic Chicago suburb recently driving the population crazy, Motorcycle cops were called off the streets } after several of them had skidded and fell | in the mass of crushed insects; street sweepers were used to clear car tracks, and lights were turned out or dimmed to avoid attracting the pests. that of Mrs, Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Min- ister to Denmark, to Captain Borge Rohde of King Christian’s bodyguard. The bride, | a daughter of the late William Jennings} | Bryan, is 50, and this is her third marriage. The groom is 42. selected | for the hazardous and seemingly impos- | : sible task of finding Garcia, and set out lan- | own | France, | | TODAY’S WEA lcloudy tonight and Tuesday I’ You and Your Affairs Coercion in the Steel Industry: By WALTER E. SPAHR Chairman, Department of Economics, New York University Practically everyone resists coer- cion. The idea of maintaining per- sonal independence in America is a tradition with roots deep in all nor- | mal individu- als. The conse- H quence is that r | coercion is hat- H ed by all ex- H cept those who { would coerce. { 4 Butina i WEE) highly indus- i trialized soci- ! ety the person- ! : alindependence | ‘ wnt of employees tends to disap- pear. The im- perative neces- sity of making a_ living, com- bined with the | great number of employees as com- pared with employers, has made the individual employee the weaker party in the labor contract. To pro- tect him, trade or labor unions of various kinds have developed. The result has been to coerce the indi- vidual employee to some degree in order to increase his strength as a bargainer. He tends to become a col- lective rather than an individual bar- gainer. Sometimes he accepts this co- ercion willingly; sometimes he does not. [t usually depends upon what he conceives to be his personal advan- tage at the moment. In the steel industry, company unions prevail in so far as unions ex- ist. The general theory of a company union is that since an industrial en- terprise is fundamentally a co-oper- ative venture in which employers and employees participate, and in which there should be mutual under- standing and co-operation, it is ap- propriate for the employees to form their own union within the company and to choose their representatives without dictation or coercion from any outside labor organizers, and presumably without any dictation from the employers, The big national unions, such as those composing the American Fed- eration of Labor or the industrial unions now being pushed by John L. Lewis, hold that company unions are weak, are at the mercy of employ- ers, and that industry is not so much a co-operative enterprise as it is a conflict between employers and em- ployees..Hence these big unions in- sist upon the desirability of a na- tional union, outside organizers, fees paid to outsiders, and outside coer- cion. The differences in view raise com- plicated and fundamental questions. Many people have labored long and best to examine facts, to look at principles, to raise questions, and to tind the answers to them if we can. For example, is an industry a co- operative enterprise in principle, or is it a common meeting place at which employers and employees are always to fight each other? If em- ployees of a company organize into a company union and apparently are satisfied with the results, is there any valid reason why these employees should be coerced from outside? If the employees of a company union are not satisfied with their union, is there any reason why they cannot voluntarily affiliate themselves with an outside union? By what right do outsiders, other than a government, enter a company and proceed to or- ganize or coerce employees? On what legitimate grounds may outside or- ganizers levy fees upon employees if the latter do not desire to join an out- side union? On what grounds may one hold that an individual must or must not join a union in order to get or hold a job? Does not outside or- ganization, whether coercive or not, destroy all prospects of co-operation and does it not lead directly to a sys- tem which insures a perpetuation of class warfare? Most readers have doubtless seen the statement issued through the Iron and Steel Institute to the effect that the steel industry intended to pro- tect its employees from outside co- ercion. Previously John L. Lewis had announced that he intended to or- ganize these employees into an in- dustrial union. He proposes to coerce, or at least to organize, them in order to protect them from what he deems to be coercion from the employer. Incidentally he will collect fees which he. is not now getting. It will be recalled that the new Re- publican platform pledges that party to “protect the right of labor to or- ganize and to bargain collectively through representatives ‘of its own choosing without interference from any source.” The Democratic plat- form provides for “his right to col- lective bargaining and self-organiza- permits coercion of employees pro- vided it does not come from em- ployers. It means the endorsement of the idea that the class struggle is an accepted and insurmountable part of our economic system and that the machinery shall be provided by which the struggle can be made bit- ter and bloody in the absence of com- plank allows labor to organize in or- der to protect itself, but allows room for co-operation and avoids the im- hard over them in an effort to find a satisfactory answer. And most an- swers are not satisfactory. People will take sides and will de- velop bitter feelings regarding the efforts of Mr. Lewis to force the in- dustrial unions into the steel and other industries. Rather than let our emotions control, we should do our warfare is an inevitable and insur- mountable characteristic of our in- dustrial system. Is not freedom from coercion “from any source” freedom from coercion from merely the employer? This is a fundamental and vital ~uestion in this country, (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) between employers and employees, ! tion free from the interference of | employers.” The latter idea clearly { pulsory arbitration, The Republican | plied acceptance of the idea that class | infinitely better than | i KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Five o’clock this afternoon is the hour set for the funeral serv- ;ices of Ossian Acherson, who died | yesterday afternoon at the home, 1618 William street, at the age of 68. The funeral wi!l be from the |residence to the Congregational 'church and be conducted by Rev {Eldridge. Friends will act a pallbearers. The deceased 'joyed the esteem and friendshiy ‘ef many persons in this city and lit is expected that a large con- gregation will assethble for the ; funeral rites. en County conanissioners met to in ion last hold a conference with W. N. Watkins representative of the Marx com | pany relative to the matter of of- j fering additional bonds of the {highway issue in order to ge funds to continue roadway work jon the highway to the mainland Nothing definite was decided upon and the matter was left in jance until the next meeting. The i plans, ations and agree- ment relative to the portion the Tamiami Trail, which | Monroe county, v Jed by Clerk D. Z. Fier, ated, but they were amined at the meeting. night is in » been receiv Mr. not ex | | Funeral services for Mrs. M Vignold, who died Sunday fore- noon at the residence, 619 Duval jstreet, will be held tomorrow aft jernoon 5 o'clock from the idence to St. Mary’s Star Sea Church, Mr rnold is sur- ‘vived by her parents, Mr. and | Mrs, Philip J. Gandolfo; a daugh- jter and son, Emily and Edward lof this city; one sister, Mrs. Ado!f j Ascher, of Jacksonville; — two brothers, William and Lawrence Gandolfo, of this city. of the *. A. Strunk, secretary and itreesurer of the South Florida {Contrecting and Engineerin jcompany, Mrs. Strunk and their chy, retured yesterday from a !vacation of five week: in the | mountains of North Carolina. cditoria! comment: Monre nty will ave the great highway bridges tke world when the road the mainland is finished. According to pres ent plans, one of the spans will be 13 miles long. in to Betty Boyden, daughter of and Mrs. Ralph 3oyden, ha been advised she Mr just ( | Highest Lowest, Mean Normal Temperatures* 91 80 86 84 Mean -0 Ts, 99 Ins. Yosterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitatio *Thix ree perio’ ending at 8 0! orning. Tomorrow’s Almanac Sun rises 149 2 Sun Moon rises Moon sets ; Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High 11:28 Low 4:42 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.00. sets WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly with! scattered showers Tuesday; gen tle to moderate winds, mostly southwest. Florida: Parly cloudy, scatter- prs Tuesday and in ex north portion tonight acksonvile to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate wind and partly over- tonight and Tues- with scattered showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS sure is moderately high! YOUR DESTIN Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, jj KEY WEST, FLA. Address - City and State ... Date of Birth .... Rainfall* ‘while week ‘of light A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Readers by Spe: rangements for a Limited Time only TEN CENTS Coin and Write Plain—Enclosing 10c Coin and Stamp See ee ee ce this morning from the north Pa- cifie over the Lake Superior region, Williston, v. D., 30.16 inches, and relative- high over southern Florida, Mi- States eastward ami and Key West, 30.00 inches; low pressure overspread most of the remainder , Oklahoma City, , 29.78 inches and Ra'eigh, N. C., 29.76 inches. Showers and thunderstorms, mostly Ight to moderate, have been quite gener- the countr Okla., al during the last 24 hours in the Mississippi Valley and — eastward ‘over the middle and south Atlan- | % tie States, there in portions of the and have been showe’ northern Plaims States, and cen- tral Rocky Mountain region. Tem- somewhat below morning throughout peratures are normal this much of thé Lake region, and are generally seasonable elsewhere over the eastern half of the coun- try, but abnormally high readings still prevail over most western distriets, with maximum bove 100 degre: J in many _ loca’i in the Plains States and in portions of the Rocky Mountain region, Oklahoma City, Okla., reporting a record-breaking reading of 110 i degrees, G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. | Y BY LE MARS Ar- areas ! Gallon } Phone 598 CMIFIISIISISITITISIMITSI ISIS | ec \with Be | | A been award OOOO OO SI OOITIS SI ILE 5 Gallon Can 150 FT. ROLLS 6 FT. HIGH. 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