The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 21, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By =N PUBLISHING CO., INC. mt JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets y West and Monroe Intered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use : republication of all news dispatches credited to it or_not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published here. 2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES » known on application. All reading notic rds of thanks, resolutions of | respect, obituary noti ete., will be charged for at the rate of 19 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which vites discus- ue: 1 or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- br d. "r-e Port. Hotels and Aparcments. Bathing Pavil: Airports—Land and Sea. “msolidation 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 cnjustice; denounce vice aud praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; toierant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com | promise wita principle. -New automobiles come while old debts remain. How is it possible for many voters in Key West who cannot read English to vote for anything except political emblems? It is difficult to expose a corrupt poli- tician, for the witnesses needed to prove the accusations, more likely than not, are part of the beneficiaries of the attempted exposure, When Dr. Townsend was asked why he was opposed to Roosevelt he replied that he considered the policies of the presi- dent unsound. That statement will make an Indian laugh out loud. There is nothing like demanding jus- French soldiers, after heated pro- tests, were given an increase in their pay of 100 per centum. Their pay was upped | from 1!4 to 3 cents per diem. tice. The death of Senator Murphy of Iowa produces the same political status as that of Florida by requiring the election of | two senators next Fall, though only one through death, the other on account of the expiration of the senior senator's term. A great European war is in the mak- ing from which the United States will find | it difficult to avoid embroilment. The | Irish Free State’s Eamon de Valera has | stated that the problems which’ distract } Europe today should not be left for sol- | diers to decide, and that they should be! tackled by statesmen. Conditions make| wars and statesmen can only avoid them | temporarily, H One of the assurances made by Mus- solini several weeks ago to the League of Nations at Geneva was that he would not raise a great Ethiopian army of blacks which might upset the balance of power in Africa, a denouement feared by England especially, but even now Marshal Graziani, | the new viceroy of conquered Ethiopia, has native moppets of tenderest age driliing as a pickaninny Balilla, to serve as cannon- | fodder should any nation in the future dis-} pute Italy’s rights in Africa, A JAPANESE SPY Almost every nation maintains some form of spy organization to ascertain what other countries are doing in the way of preparation for war. Occasionally a spy is caught and convicted but very rarely is! one definitely connected with the govern ment which engaged him. Quite unusual was the conviction ot | Henry Thomas Thompson, ex-yeoman ot | the American Navy, for selling to the Jap- i anese Government secret information about the United States Navy. The testi- mony in a Federal Court in California showed that Thompson gave _ information to and received money from a Lieutenant: | Commander of the Japanese Navy. The evidence against Thompson was! complete. Records showed that he had re- ceived between $200 and $300 a month and these sums came from a_ bank ac- count of the Japanese Navy in a New York bank, as admitted by the Japanese } teller of the Yokohama Specie Bank ot San Francisco. To make even more cer- | tain the guilt of the defendant the prosecu- | tion submitted a letter which had been written by Thompson (but not mailed) to Lieutenant-Commander Miyazaki, in which the tormer American ~ailor resigned from ‘the service of your country” and stating that it was with regret that “I ten- der this resignation to the Japanese Gov- ernment.” : In Japan it was admitted that there was an officer in the Japanese Nawy | Ly. the name of the one referred to in ° thé) Thompson case, although the Japanese de- nied any knowledge of the affair. There can be no doubt, however, it has been shown without question that a Japanese naval officer in this country has been actually engaged in spying upon the Am- erican Navy. Only one case has been dis- covered but the possibility is that there were others as well. A NEWSBOY’S RISE | Cyrus H. K. Curtis of Philadelphia, who started his business career at the age of 12 with three cents of capital as a street newsboy, and became one of the a greatest publishers, died at the age of 83. Born in Portland, Me., Mr. Curtis | ceived only a common school education. His first publishing venture was launched in Philadelphia at the age of 26, when he became publisher of a small periodical called the Tribune and Farmer. Later he established the Ladies’ Home Journal, and afterward became head of the great Cur- tis Publishing Company, whose magazines | include Saturday Evening Post, The Coun- try Gentleman and Ladies’ Home Journal. He purchased the Philadelphia Pub-} lic Ledger in 1918, and the New York Eve- ning Post in 1923, and was the active head of all these important publications until he was stricken with heart disease about a year before his death. He was widely known as a_ phil- anthropist, although his benefactions were bestowed without ostentation. His only daughter became the wife of the late famed editor, Edward Bok, who was as- sociated with Mr. Curtis for many pea Few men who started to make® way with limited education and no cap ever traveled farther than Cyrus Hermann} Kotzschmar Curtis. - THE STARS AND MAN’S DOUBT i Men have been pleased to pubble themselves over the question of other j habitable worlds. Astronomers tell us that, with the possible exception of Mars, ble star or planet can support life as ts on this earth. But, what do the astronomers know? The extent of the vast spaces beyond the Milky Way are, as yet, unexplored, and} measured by distance incomprehensible | to the mind of men. Imagine, a light-year, | the distance that light, travelling 186,173 miles per second, moves in a year, some 6,000,000,000,000 miles, which is the unit used to measure stellar space. Think of distant stars, larger than our sun, so far away that light takes a million, years to come to us. Around them, con- | jectures astronomy, may revolve innumer- able habitable globes, invisible planets. Certainly, myraids of stars exist, scat- tered through space so vast that man is} proud of wild guesses to estimate its ex-j tent and considers himself wise to have dis- covered it at all. ) The marvel of the celestial universe is not what astronomers, with wonderful -in- genuity, have found out, nor what they do not know but that men, in their hearts, have said, “There is no God.” | | Sunday night while ; Were at chu at|** KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen i No trace has been discovered of the missing trinkets and val- uables stolen from the home of B. L. Grooms, manager of the 'Key West Electric company last the family Discussing the robbery today Mr. Grooms said find that a valuable watch and one which he prized very highly, which he thougt had been among the jewelry stolen, had found wrap- j ped in a handkerchief and hidden in stuff which had been gathered from the floor, and which had been scattered about by the rob- bers, It was also lucky, he said that their silverware which is val- ued at $700 was not in the house but in the keeping of Mrs. H. B Boyer, mother of Mrs. Grooms. The recent action of the city council in authorizing legal pro- ccedings against the Key West Electric company for the forfei- ture of its fran has caused ral conament ng the citi- In the first place the council is net opposed to the op- eration of busses. The city does oppose the abandonment of the electric street railway for rea- sons which are given in another section of this paper and which is desired read by every person who is interested in the welfare of the city. ' —— ' The Citizen is in receipt of a copy of the rates effective in the hotel chain of the Florida East Coast Railway company which gives in detail the rates at the Breakers, Palm Beach, as_ the highest in that section, while the rates at the magnificent Hotel Casa Marina, Key West, will be slightly higher. = | Editorial conment: Experiment stations are studying the pests which attack trees, but apparently no one is paying any attention to the small boys. el | Sheriff Niles has arrived in Tampa from New York and is due to reach Key West Friday morn- ing on the Steantship Governor Cobb. The Sheriff has in his cus- tody Lorencio Ortero, alias A.! Dice whom he is bringing to Key West to be tried on a charge of double murder. It is alleged that’ he murdered Mercedez Carmancha and Manuel Jiminez on the even- ing of June 26 in this city. He afterwards escaped on the Mal- }lory Steamer San Jacinto and was including j arrested upon arrival of the steam- Long Island, N. Y. er at New York, | Micajah B. Hendry, 72, vener- able seathan, who died yesterday at the Marine hospital. Services will be held this afternoon by Rev. L. Munro in the Lopez Funeral Home chapel. The deceased was a native of Mississippi but was sent to Key West because of ill| health. At the time of his ar- rival he was desperately ill but wecovered and at the time of his jleath had been in Key West ‘three years, eleven months and one \v- j > Mrs. Roland Curry announces the engagement of her daughter Naomi to Earl Higgs son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Higgs. The wedding will take place in the near future. H 3 | Twelve Cuban boy scouts pass- ed through the city last night en route to Tampa where they will spend a while at the Hillsborough ‘7 boy scout encampment. “William of Key West” the new motor vessel built by Chief Ralph B, Pinder, of the Key West Fire Department, is being given; a tryout today. The chief claims! | his new boat is a marvel of speed calendar j and it surely gives evidences, his lar singer of I friends say, of substantiating his claim. = es You and Your Nation’s Affairs | Houses That | Normal “Jack” Builds | By CLARENCE W. FACKLER ; ‘Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University ‘Taking one consideration with an- other, it appeared a few months ago | in, that the government had at last dis- ; that he was very much elated to covered that talk is cheap, and that with -building costs as they are it takes money to con- struct modern- ized dwellings for the “under- privileged.” Evidence of late, however, indicates that Congressional leaders are loathe to aban- don the idea al- together. With- out ascertaining what part of the present housing shortage should be built with pri- vate and what part with public funds, they are inclined to throw good money indiscriminately after the bad. President Roosevelt seems aware that building costs are too high. He has probably been told that private enterprise might be able to build low- cost houses in quantity lots if exorbi- tant wages and inflexible prices in the building trades, graft and racketeer- ing, and antiquated building laws were eliminated. In fact, any sensible person must realize that, besides the risks of gov- ernment experimentation, if long term federal loans, outright grants, and tax exemptions are used to pro- vide low-rent houses, the investment of private capital will be discouraged, industrial expansion checked, and un- employment continued. So far, the government has only scratched the surface of slum clear- ance. Of its outlay of $300,000,000, barely 1/10 has been spent for homes built entirely under its own super- vision. The further truth is that ap- proximately 2/3 of the tenant families can pay monthly rents of no more than $6.25 per room, and half of these cannot expend in excess of $5.75. Yet, rooms in Federally-sponsored build- ings must rent for about twice these amounts to cover the costs. Hence. the slums remain. Furthermore, of the total Federal disbursements and commitments for housing, something like one per cent has been made to provide low-rent structures, and at least 99 per cent has been used for financing mortgages. The subsistence homestead experi- ments have failed completely. After spending about six million dollars it has been discovered that $2,500 is in- sufficient to erect the desired dwell- | gS. That the Administration has floun- dered in its attempt to provide cheap housing without making outright grants to private builders, may of course be due in part to its inability to charge a part of the construction | costs to some other venture, as it is | presumably doing in developing elec- | tricity at water power sites. But, no small part of the failure is attributa- ble to the severe and dictatorial terms of the contracts required of private enterprises, wishing to cooperate with the Government, and to the unex- pected municipal taxes which these concerns have in some cases been as- sessed. Supposedly, government housing plans are a compromise between pub- lic and private interests, though the extent to which this is really so is questionable. According to the Wagner Bill, low-rent dwellings can be built, as before, by limited-prof- it campanies. Demonstration proj- ects can be built by the Govern- ment when so requested by private and public interests, the Bill provid- ing for subsidies up to 45 per cent of the costs. And, inasmuch as 60- year mortgages are to finance the bal- ance, the Government would enter the real estate business for that length of time. To labor, “prevailing rates of wages” are to be paid, no matter how unreasonable they may be. Finally, of course, the Bill provides still another government bureau, four members of which will be able to eke out comfortable existences on paltry salaries of $10,000 while serving the poor. And, by spending another bil- lion dollars of the taxpayers’ money during the next four years, this Hous- ing Authority will be able to hold its own in the bureaucratic contest of public spending and boon-doggling now going on. True it is that ten million families require better quarters at the mo- ment, and about 650,000 homes will be needed annually during the next ten years. But the construction of these needed facilities does not depend upon subsidies and more loans, or upon adding another department to the al- ready numerous government housing bureaus. Rather, it depends upon keeping building costs and specifica- tions down to what people in various income groups can afford to pay, upon reconditioning second-hand homes for poorer families, upon raising personal incomes by sane recovery measures, and upon encouraging private enter- prise to enter upon a nation-wide building program in earnest. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Today’s Anniversaries 1742 Cleves Symmes, gallant New Jersey soldier of tke Revolution, N. J. tice, pioncer of the tory and founder of cities, Cineinnat’, born on Died in Cin- cinnati, Feb. 26, 1814. Northwest 1801—Theron Baldwin, _ pio- neer jionary of the West, to whom several colleges of the m'd-west are deeply indebted, born at Goshen, Conn. Died il 10, 1870. 1802—-David Hunter. note Union general of the Civil War, born at Vi i » D. C. Died there, Feb. 2 Mas in 1818—Charles Robinson, :chusetts physician, pioneer Kansas, political leader there in a stormy period, first State gov- ernor of Kansas, born at Hard wick, Mass. Died near Lawrence, Kans., Aug. 17, 1894. 1826—Mahlen Loomis, physi cian, dentist, dental inventor. pioneer inventor in the field of sa gen-ration before wire was perfected, born at Op- penheim, N. Y. Died in West Virgniia, broken-heerted at fail- ure to win recognition for his wire wireless invent ons, Oct. 13. 1886. | 1860—Chauncey Olcott, popu- balladry, born at Buffalo, } Died abroad, March 18, 1932. YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS A 1936 Rea to The Citizen Readers by Special Ar- rangements for a Limited Time only TEN CENTS Coin and Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. Date of Birth ... Write Plain—Enclosing 10¢ Coin and Stamp chief jus-; ~~~ EOS APP SPA EPDAD AAA A LA A need RAINY SEASON SPECIALS This Liquid Kills Skin Itch Quicker Containing kinds of itch kill- ing medic Imperial Lotion | flows freely into skin folds and Pores to reach and kill itching of * eczema, rash, tetter, ringworm and common itch. Two sizes, 35c and $1. CHANNELDRAI 2’ WIDE 7’, 8’, 10 OLD SHINGLES OR Fi FOR RENEWIN( ING ALL OTHER KI Gallon 1 150 FT. ROLLS AT BOTTOM WITH VIFIAIPPILGLLLLLALLLLILLALLEALLLALALAZLALLLLA LAL A Per Roll South Florida Phone 598 “Your : OPEL LL Lh hed : . . ANY ROOF THA GUARANTEED AGAINST LEAK Per Square . TODAY’S WEATHER iicnnimaanaeeaaaae Temperatures* Rocky Highest * Lowest Mean Moanta Texas ar Mean Rainfail* Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation “This recerd covers 24-hour peried © ending at 8 o'clock this morning. | Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 5 Sun Moon rises Moon sets sets 45 Tomorrow's Tides High Low Barometer Sea level, 3 WEATH=R FORECAST (Till Key West cloudy tonight 8p Wedne~da Viem and Wed Wed scattered gentle winds showers Jacksonville and East Gulf westerly winds ox xtreme partly and Wednesda showers. overcast WEATHER CONDITIONS morning througheut most . ANNOUNCEMENT TO VETERANS We will checks issued ir charge te the that you be pre be pleased Parmer vet that we are paying the fu i Your Americas your best means of sdentrfice The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Depose imsurssc< Corporation N ’ AND 12 ROOFING -: HEAVILY ¢ LENGT $6.00 Liquid Roof Cement 7 OLD ROOFIN A PEE NDS OF ROOFING- 5 Gallon Can Poultry Fence 6 FT. HIGH. G A GRADUAL INCREASE T SOLD IN FULL ROLLS— Contracting & Engineers Co. White and Eliza Streets home is worthy of the best” WwIIILPIDIIIOVIIIILIDL IPI IS SZ. Sai LL*, (LAAALAAAAAAAAAAh A 44/4/4244 2 AAA Lee" Pe rat CAAA AAA hhh dd dd ddd ddd dA dd teh dda ddidde Audadaddatdiatadadl