The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, President ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Jou \ Hotere at Key West, Florida, as _second class matter “FIPTY-SIXT sean oy Member «he Associited Pre for republicatic it or not other’ the local news published here. f the Associated Press ly entitled to: use spatches credited to. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Months One Month w $10. ered ADVERTIS! Made known on applic All reading notic: rds of thanks, resclutions of | respect, obitucry notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue is to b The Citizen i of public iss) IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- tard. "re Port. Hotels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. “isolidation of County and City Governments. See esas KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afreid 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 class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; neyer tolerate corruption or ‘njustice; 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 with principle. pod: neighbor’ lender—never a borrowe Gambol to your heart but never gamble. 's content, Advertising is what put the “chant” in merchant. Of thee I sing. Democratic drouths seem to be quite as devastating as Republican floods. It appears that by “civilized nations” we mean those best equipped for whole- sale murder. Church members, as a ruie, are not worried by what the rest of the world says about religion. Americanism: Celebrating the Fourth of July by displaying United States flags made in Japan, When a woman starts out to make a fool of a man she generally finds him will- ing to cooperate. When a fellow gets the idea that the world owes him a living it is a pretty good sign that it doesn’t. The reason that some girls are poor mathematicians is that they take their: figures for granted. Without doubt the average Socialist and Communist would soon become a Re+ publican or Democrat, were they guar. anteed nice, soft - ice, soft, wel!-paying “politica mene jobs, and some have soft jobs and are So cent foreign-born, murder rate 38.7. cialists and Communists to béot. That’? the crewd which always w: antanerm A New England poetess ‘speaks in praise of her shady, spreading elms that bravely bear the ravages of the wintry season, and makes light of the straight palms of sunny climes whose lot is sun- shine and soft breezes and devoid of all struggles. No tree shows the effect of the struggle against the elements more than the palm in its relentless effort to fight for its existence. And although twisted; and bent it is seldom conquered. | named their candidates. THE VOTERS’ RESPONSIBILITY The people of the United States are about to engage in their most responsible | duty, the selection of a President of the United States for four years. The Chief Executive of a nation responsibility and powers that, at are staggering. The man who holds high office should be a great man, the | a patriot and a wise servant of his people. The two parties have held their con- | ventions, written their platforms and It is now up to} the’ ‘people of the United States to study | the issues, understand the situation and | select the best man. It is our faith in democracy that makes us believe they will be equal to the task and we say this re- gardless of whether the people of the na- tion select Mr, Roosevelt or Mr. Landon. There will be subtle efforts during the campaign to divert the public from some! issues and strenuous efforts to appeal to blind partisanship, selfishness and sectional prejudices. Some of these attempts will come from each side. It is up to the aver- age voter to see through subterfuges, look behind curtains and understand what is going on. The success of the American system | of government’ is predicted upon the be-! lief that the voters, as a mass, are able to comprehend the issues in a campaign and that, unswayed by greed but moved by lofty patriotism, they will be able to select the best man for the presidency. Let us hope that the year 1936 will demonstrate the truth of this assumption. PROPHETS OF DOOM Luckily for humanity, it still main- i Peaink a saving sense of humor. Were this j not so, the wailings of the pessimists would drive us all crazy. For surely there is no lack of prophets of doom to harry us with their doleful warnings that the world is going to pot. Each long-faced brother solemnly as- | sures us that uniess his particular panacea | for saving the race shall be speedily adopt- ed there is no hope. Modernism, flapper- ism, automobiles, hootch, movies, dancing, bridge and cigarettes, singly or in combina- tion, constitute the outstanding menace, | according to the viewpoint of the par- ticular alarmist who happens to have the floor. Thus, after listening to these apostles of doom, with a more or less pronounced | feeling of boredom, unregenerate hu-| manity turns to the funny pages and smiles at the varying fortunes of Jiggs and Andy i does not mean that the average ; person is indifferent to the evil in the] world. It means that sensible people recognize the inherent weakness and folly of humanity, and refuse to become unduly excited about it. They realize the futility of trying to carry the world’s burden on their shoulders, though they seek to bei helpful in 4practical ways. They courag- eously face the things that are, while sane- j ly striving for Me things that ought to} be. lis lh | FOREIGNERS AND CRIME In the light of an investigation con- ducted by the New York Times, it appears that the oft-repeated assertion that our foreign-born population supplies the ma- jority of our criminals is wrong. Figures given show that so far as mur- ders are concerned the greatest number per 100,000 of population occur in cities} with the smallest number of foreign-born. Memphis, with a_ foreign-born Pop- ; wert of only 3.5 per cent, has a mee 3 5, the largest in the country. Jack- | onvi We. mith 8 per cent of foreign-born, rate of 61.7. Nashville, 2 Oty *On the other hand, New York City , PEE cent of foreign-born, has a} x eh dai of only 5.2 per 100,000; Lowell, Mass., 34 per cent foreign-born, murder rate 1.7. * Of course, the above figures do not indicate the actual number of murders; committed by foreign-born, as compared’ with native-born, but they do show that , a large foreign-born population does not} necessarily mean a high murder rate. j It appears that we must look for a dif- | ferent explanation of the prevalence of crime in the United States. { | 1 times, { ‘morning of a You and Your Nation’s Affairs the | size of the United States has a tremendous | Burn the House to Get Warm | | By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Pithlic Finance, Princeton University A catch-phfase, popular in certain circles, is that production should be for use, not for profit. This doctrine commands the allegiance-of many as a temedy for poverty and other social evils. The main difference be- tween produc- ing for use and producing for profit is sup- posed to be the profit motive, an expression which is used by the devotees of “production for use” to in- dicate the low- est depths of greed and self- Ishness. The desire for profits prompts the selfish managers of industry to stop producing when the products do not yield a profit. Under the other scheme there would be no slackening of the process simply because the goods pro- duced do not sell for enough to cover the costs of making them. As so often happens when people attempt to reduce the solution for a host of economic and social rrob- lems to a single formula, thé result is a superficial and misleading conclu- sion. It assumes, for instance, that the usefulness of the things produced is of no consequence under the profit motive. In fact, the last thing in the world that any profit-seeking person or concern wants to do is to produce a useless article. Nothing could e be clearer, even to the misguided expo- nents of the profit system, than that profits will promptly vanish if the goods produced are not useful. The theory goes turther, however, | in its implied condemnation of the role of profits as a guide to produc- tion. The desire for a return on the capital invested is supposed to be the most pernicious and corrupting form of the root of all evil. The idealists who talk of production for use believe that they are striking at this tap-root. There is an old saying about the over-zealous nurse who threw the baby out with the bath plies here, for in elimin: motive, some other things, relatively inconspicuous but in reality of the greatest importance ‘to steady and ample production. would also be dis- carded. Three such auxiliary ele- ments are the following: 1) The maintenance of the capital equipment in ample supply and in adequate operating condition; 2) The search for new and better. and therefore less costly methods of production; 3) The expansion of the produc- ment. The significance of all of these ele- ments is clear without argument. The prudent manager curtails production at a loss in order to conserve his capital; he constantly seeks better methods of operation in order to re- duce costs; and he obtains more capi- tal by offering investors a prospect of a return. If we were to succeed in abolishing entirely the criterion of profit as a guide to production. we should be obliged to discard the foregoing standards of good management, for they have their origin in that mo- tive. We should have to ignore alto- gether the costs of producing goods. Profit and loss are complementary concepts. When we become indiffer- ent to profits we are also necessarily indifferent to losses. The accounting under production for use would reject such things as maintenance, depreciation and cost profit motive. The manager who is producing for use would presently run through his capital, but he would not discover this fact until his plant was in ruins about him. He would production except by sheer accident, for the desire to reduce costs is the primary incentive to more efficient operation. He could never persuade anyone to save and invest. since he would be obliged to tell them, straight out, that they need not expect a re- turn, and further, that they would never see their principal again. Just how long production for use could continue would depend on how long the existing apparatus of pro- duction would endure. Goods might be cheap and plentiful for a time. while the existing stock of capital instruments was being used up with no regard to such fundamental mat- ters as capital maintenance, replace- ment and extension. for all of which the profit motive is essential. After- wards we should have only what we could produce with our bare hands. It would be like burning down the house to keep warm. Thc se who like to see in the world of n-.ture the evidence of a benevo- lent. divine intention should give thanks for the grasshopper, for he, better than any of God’s creatures. exemplifies this mode of life, this high-sounding, false slogan — “pro- duction for use, not for! profit.” (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S Temperatures* 91 82 Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfall” Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation hi 84 0 Ins. ried ix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets Tomorrow’s Tides A.M. High 12:40 Low - 6:19 Barometer ry a. m. today: Sea level, 30.06, WEATH FORECAST 4 (Till 8 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: | Fair tonight; Thursday partly clout possibly oceasional ; : thunder. show- ers; gentle easterly winds. Florida: Generally fair ton ght and Thursday except widely seat-; tered thundershowers Thursday afternoon. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle variable winds over north portion and gen-| tle easterly winds over south por- tion and partly overcast weather tonight and Thursday with wde- {ly scattered showers, WEATHER CONDITIONS There are indications this tropical disturbance ! of moderate intensity and small diameter a short distance north| |of Mona Passage probably moving! northwestward or west-northwest- i almost i ward. This location is -, Birmingham, Ala., } WEATHER | : 11000 miles east-southeast of Key West. Showers and thunderstorms have continued. during the last 24 jhours throughout much of the | . | southeastern portion of the coun- _try and in portions of the lower | Mississippi Valley, being heavy ' at Little Rock, Ark., 1.02 inches, 1.82 Asheville, N. C., 1.02 inches, and Charleston, S. C., 2.52 , Light to moderate showers have ! also occurred in thc Lake Su- ‘ perior regicn, and in a few scat- tered localities in the southern Rockies and P-ateau region. ‘Temperatures have moderated in | the Plains States, and are now generally seasonable throughout | the country. ches, inches. S. KENNEDY, | Official in Charge. Subs-rive to The Citizen—20c | weekly. FAST FREIGHT SERVICE from and to |Boston, New York, Miami, | Jacksonville, Galveston, New Orleans and.Beyond From Key West alternate Fridays | From New York every Tuesday | From Boston every Saturday | From Jacksonville, mi and | New Orleans every two weeks CLYDE- nee ae C. E. SMITH, Agent Key West, Fla, | | YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS A 1936 Reading to The rangements for a Li: Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. Name Address ... City and State _.. Date of Birth . Citizen Readers by Special Ar- ited Time only TEN CENTS Coin and Write Plain—Enclosing 10c Coin and rae _ tive forces by new and larger invest- | records as implements of the selfish | never learn a new and better way of | WEDNEsDA:. tenn Bishop Barry is ome of af family of twelve children Of these Ree Wee i [Sewn ers DAYS GONE BY priests or sisters The othe: brothers are firm im the Catholic faith and are im differe: busimesses im this country. Today's Birthdays Happenings Here Just 10 Years mies « Ago Teday As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen ey | “It is net generally known the looks the the feed and F drugs act im addition impora tions” said W. GC. McManus tewax The propeller of the Steamship -_ Miami when docking at this port yesterday on her arrival from Ha- vana, became entangled with one of the large hawsers of the ship {which is used in making the ves- sel fast at the dock. As soon as jthe entanglement was distovered the man on the bridge gave the signal and the engines ‘stopped {Men from the Miami took to the water and diving under the hull soon cleared the hawser. Exam- ination showed no damage to the ship and she took up the re; gular! run this morning. cust service af enforcement of ang my special mission Mr. McManw “| with the loca past few L custor dars anc T. Brage==2 Editona jis indeed a zyeat |xas not built by x The office of the local office ef} hours a day and Red Cross has been advised by! bobbed hair Acting Chairman James L. Fieser, breeches that contributions are bein; for to aid those in distress caused by the recent great explosion im! New Jersey. Authorities have quested the National Red | to take up the relief work in the vicinity of the explosion. Disaster headquarters has been established | ° at Dove The local office of the Red Cr will be glad to receive! ™ and credit contributions the} | fund. j ton called News t anneu to for som There will be interesting sale in front of the custom house pounds arrived at the tomorrow when L. T. Bragassa,) and Mrs. L deputy collector in charge auct- New street T ions off a lot of goods brought to, youngster has this port from foreign countries name of Sherwood and which have been held for more than a y A‘ goods not j properly entered are held for this length of time and then dsposed of. There are a number of ticles which will, note spirited bidding. of radio parts and other val: equipment will be sale. an a Sia I*, ANNOUNCEMENT TO VETERANS We checks issued charge to that you be ar- it is said, pre- offered The Tug Willett, E. L. Foster master, arrived at this port this morning from Kingston, Jamaica, where the ship has been for some time past. The ship to the which has been stationed at West for several rs and co here for the purpos of having new radio equipment installed. ill be pleased in payment tationed the veterar Willett Warbler Key speriy idet that we are paying the Your Americas your best means of The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit insurance Cerpeoration Rt. Rev. Father of the diocese of S Augustine, which includes the entire eastern part of Florida from Jackonville| to Key West, and one of his brothers, Rev. Father Joseph, sta- tioned in Ireland, departed terday for points on the east © coast after a pleasant visit in the | IID | Barry, bishop OUOee. (Lik dh hhh dd hd i ALAA AMAAAA AAA Ah yes mINY SEASON SPECIALS CHANNELDRAIN ROOFING: HEAVILY 2’ WIDE 7’, 8’, 9°, 10° AND 12" LENGTHS OLD SHINGLES OR ANY ROOF THAT GUARANTEED AGAINST LEAK. EASY TO Per Square . 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