The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JUE ALLEN, Ass‘stant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe unty. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIX EAR Member of the Associated Press «he Associated Press is exclusively efititléd 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 Be eee six Months __. z aa ae i Three Months ..... Ong Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES | Made known on application SPECIAL } otices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituzry 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 be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. All reading IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST /DVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road ‘to Main= "ree Port. tictels and Apercments. Bathing Pavilion, * Airports—Land and Sea. Serselidation of County and City Governments. | | eee 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 class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print oniy news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com promise with principle. aia ——<—_—______. The economists know a lot about busi- ness and finance, but each one knows it in a different w Nearly everything concerning the World War has been settled by this time, except who started it and who won it. We read that out of 16 lunatics who escaped from a Minnesota asylum, 21 have been returned. It must have been the heat. ——————EEEs A Chicago man dropped dead while mowing his lawn. This vindicates our consistent refusal to engage in such dan- gerous exercise. Nine members of a family of ten were killed by a railroad train last week... The greatest sufferer is the lone survivor of this unfortunate family. A magazine publishes letters request- ed from readers on “What I would do if I were President.” The letters go a long way toward explaining why none of the writers is President. An Alabama exchange sympathizes with a boy whose dog “met a sudden and cruel fate at the hands of an automobile.” It couldn’t have been worse if the dog had gotten under the car's feet. In a sense a birthday should be mourn- ed instead of celebrated, for each anniver- sary brings us nearer to the grave, unless we go further and contemplate at each) passing year, a happier life beyond. When the writer first came to Key West many years ago, the statement heard everywhere was that “we need about a dozen funerals in this town.” Well, we’ve had ‘em and still Key West is not the tops. Like a woman, Mussolini does not want to be reminded of his age, but the reasons are not alike. Fascism is a “youth movement” and I] Duce must remain age- less. The “happy dictator” was 53 on July 29, but no one mentioned his birth- day, and the Italian press, knowing its] onions, ignored it, WHY THE $5,000,000? One of the few signs that we have seen of anything like competition among the movie-makers is the suit of Paramount Pictures Corporation against Samuel Gold- wyn, another producer, asking $5,000,000 | | No Bite to This ee : By HARLEY L. LUTZ. 1.4 Professor of Publig Finance, Princeton Uni about to renew a contract, which expires | damages because he “stole” Gary Cooper, blue-eyed star. It is alleged that Mr. in December, when the Goldwyn " persua> sion lined him up with the Goldwyn com- pany. There is no charge mount, says Mr. Goldwyn breached good morals and ethics and violated the law. Just how, he does not specify, and we have | no means of knowing. Apparently, . i morals and ethics have their own meaning | between movie producers when it comes to | signing up stars for pictures. In case any one wonders where the | $5,000,000 damages comes in, we hasten to point out that $4,000,000 is for damages and $1,000,000 is requested as a punitive award to prevent Mr. Goldwyn from do- ing likewise in the future. Just how they igure that Mr. Cooper is worth $4,000,000 “EEL the film company in four years we have no way of learning. A PATRIOTIC COUNTY Because of its many family feuds and killings, Breathitt county, Kentucky, for many years was known as “Bloody Breathitt.” These feuds sometimes con- tinued through several generations, but finally died out, and of late marriages be-, tween young people of former rival feudist | families have been rather commonplace. Whether the fighting blood of the old- time feudists, transmitted to their de- scendants, was responsible, it is said that Breathitt was the only county in the United States to escape the operation of the draft law during the World War. All able- bodied men in the county had volunteered for service before the draft became effec- tive, and thus Breathitt was the only county whose soldiers were 100 per cent volunteers, In recognition of this record, the Ken- tucky legislature voted for the erection of a monument to commemorate the patriot- | N ism of Breathitt’s hardy mountaineers, who answered their country’s call before it be- came compulsory. COLLEGE LIFE IN 1850 Every once in a while we read the pranks of modern college students and wonder what the next generation is com- ing to. Our fears, for the most part are groundless, and in this connection let us call to your attention some of the student activities at Princeton University in the middle of the nineteenth century. One letter, written during that period, tells how tne students threw torpedoes during Jectures, stamped on the floor when disliked professors entered chapel, fester he college bell to prevent ending periods, ‘and also, how studentgsremoved (the horse of one professor from his stable ; to the third floor of his residencé#~ In some respects the college students of today do the same old things in the same old way, but there are numerous evi- dences that college life today upon a higher plane than ever before in the past. Of course, many foolish people go to college, and waste their time, but the number gets fewer and fewer every year. LIFE IS GETTING LONGER A study of statistics will show that in the last 50 years fourteen years have been added to the average expectancy of life. Today there are in Key West proportion- ately many more persons over thirty than there were in 1879. This also holds-goed: for those over the age of fifty. A diminishing birth rate’ has = noted during the same period so that to- day young people, proportionatelypate not as numerous as they were fifty years ago. Perhaps this explains the keen interest be-! ing taken in youth and the reluctance with which grandparents admit old age. It is apparent to any observer that the people of Key West, as well as_ those other sections, apparently retain their youthful outlook longer than the people of fifty years ago. As a matter of fact, the interest in old age, merely in itself, has de- creased considerably in recent years. 5 Cpoper wasi that Cooper | | broke a contract, but Mr. Zukor, of Para- | good | is pitched ; You and Your: | 1 | | | -The retirement of Mr,MeCarl, af- \ter fifteen years of service as Comp- Oller and Atuditor General of the United States, provides opportunity for considering @ much-needed: revision of the act that esta! lished this dou- ble-barreled of- fice. The act in question is the Budget and Ac- counting Act of 1921. At the time of its en- actment it may have been the best measure that could then have been passed. Its vir- tues are impor- ; tant, for it introduced an orderly fed- | eral budget procedure and it provid- e¢ for some welcome improvements in the organization of federal ac- | counting. At the same time, however, it in- augurated a serious error with re- spect to accounting and auditing that should be corrected without further delay. The error is the combination of the functions of accounting and auditing under one officer. The Comp- i troller and Auditor General is in charge of the General Accounting Of- | fice, and he is also responsible for | auditing the accounts kept by that of- fice. Consequently, such audit as may be made, after the close of any fiscal year, is conducted by the same au- thority as was responsible for 'eep- ing the accounts. With all due re- spect, it is submitted that under such circumstance’ we do not have and cannot have a rigorously impartial audit of t e federal accounts. No private business concern would think of publishing an audit of its financial affairs that had been made by the same staff that had kept the accounts. Some of the men in Con- gress and in high administrative posi- tions have large business responsibili- ties They would be offended by the suggestion that they should combine the duties of accounting and auditing in their private business affairs. This re Ptr | | (Address questions to the au || Nation’s Affairs ai persons have not the been upon federal ness oferations by the at of 1921. « The solution is sirapie. A’ separation should be made between the accounting and the p: auditing, on one hand, and the final or post audit, on the other. All account- ing operations, and the preliminary audit, otherwise known as the “con- troller” function, should be under the direction of the executive branch. ofl such ft that has examination of the accounts after the close of the fiscal period, :10uld be done by an officer who is as complete- is possible to make him. We can now realize that the authors of the act of 1921 had ar imperfect conception of what was required, al- though we cannot understand why, as practical men of affairs, they should have blundered so badly. They acted correctly in creating the post of audi- tor general with complete indepen- dence of the executive. This freedom was secured by a term of fifteen years, and by vesting the power of removal solely in Congress. They’ blundered in making th> same official also the comptroller general, in which capaci- ty he was put in charge of all account- ing and of al] preliminary auditing. As comptroller general, he is able © obstruct administrative ‘action and there have been instances of such in- terference; yet, as auditor general, he passes judgment on the validity of his own earlier interpretations of laws them. Many persons think of this part of providing for a “watchdog of the Treasury ” It is clear that we cannot have the best kind of watchdog until we separate these two functions. No watchdoj Comptroller and Auditor General, as watchdog of the Treasury, is simply barking at himself when, in his ca- pacity as auditor, he criticizes his earlier acts as comptroller general. Neither his bark nor his bite can be very significant under such circum- stances. thor, care of this newspaper) rr { All post auditing, which means the | ly independent of the executive as it ; and of administrative acts under | th Budget and Accountifig Act as : ever bites himself. The i | { \ | CLASS STRUGGLE IS PLAINLY SEEN) (Continued from Page One) ichinery designed to block any in- ease of the Moscow influence |in Europe. Just now he is report- jed to be trying to negotiate with perceived | headed in | \ | ! ‘ Czechoslovakia a pact, one pary of which would call for a cancel- lation of the Russian alliance with that country. ave been say- in go commu- jtatesmen long ing that should 5 nistjc—and they believed she was that direction—there would be a strong possibility that France might follow suit, thus es- tablishing a great new soviet bloc in Europe. Little Portugal, En- gland’s old ally, would have hard work to keep out of such a com- bination, W. CURRY HARRIS IS CITY ATTORNEY «Continued from Page One) [ceiving pay when funds are avail- | able. It was also ordered that auto- {mobile license plates to the num- ber of twelve hundred at a pricy of $47 be purchased from a Kan- sas City, Missouri, firm, which was the only bidder in the mat- ter. It was also ordered that elec- tion, commission: and = supie visor of registration be placed the ‘regular payroll along with all other employes of the city, After disposing of a few other matters of nor importance,. the ing was ordered adjourned. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Coico. scececcccccese FOR RENT ISHED HOL Garage. modern conveniences, 419 United street, one biock from beach. Apply Valdes Bakery. jly14-1mo on TODAY’S Temperature: Highest .... Lowest .... Mean Normal ‘Mean Rainfall" ’s Precipitation 2.11 Ins, -15Ins.* jour period ning. i 81 -76 18 84 westerns S o'clock thin Tomorrow's Almanac 5:57 Sun rises .. Sun sets . Moon rises Moon sets asm. pe m. Py mn. asm. | gn Low Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.00. 254 6:32 WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Friday seattered show moderate east | and southeast 3 Florida: Partly cloudy, seat-} tered showers Friday and possibly | near the southwest and extreme south coast tonight, onville to Florida Straits t Gulf: {southeast winds; partly seattered showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS Moderate high pr re !overspread most sections of areas the country this morning, except the far Southwest and northern Rocky Mountain Stat Showers and thunderstorms ive occurred since yesterday morning in portions of the north 2nd middle Atlantic KY Pay For jis to pax IN mortgage and have the it to yourself. CREDIT. The First National eas OTEEEESEELIE ‘a Moderate cast and! overcast | weather tonight and Friday with is to pay ie it as your pay rent. .The logical way iy. out of income, an installment on the principal and;the interest, etc., over a given period of years, pay oft the entire house free of all debt.-It's very much like buying a house and then rénting CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON ae Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation PEP PPP PP WEATHER ‘States, the Ohio Vailey and Ten- nessee, eastern souri the east Gulf States, and Florida, being heavy at Pittsburzh, Pa., 1.10 inches, Louisville, Ky., 1.28 |inehes, Birmingham, Ala., 1.02 inches, and Key West, Fla., 2.11 inches. There have also been light to moderate rains in the cen- ‘tral Rocky Mozntain and Plains THE MUNRO. N. E. 4th street, Miami, Florida, ROOMS: single, $2.50, $3.00 week; double, $3.5 $4.00 week aug4-1mo NOTICE WE WILL PUMP CISTERN and clean it for the water therein. State Plant Board. Phone 701. aug6-6t Subscribe to The Citizen—20c¢ States and are generally slightly | weekly. above normal throughout the country, except where rains have ,caused cooler weather. Hi G. S. KENNEDY, i Official in Charge. | i evcccsces |Today’s Birthdays Mrs, Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the President, born 75 years | ago. i y L. C. Bok of Phila- delphia, music patron, born in j Boston, 60 years ago. Helen H. Jacobs of Berkley, Cal., tennis champion, born at Globe, Ariz., 28 years ago. ¢ i Miller Reese Hutchison of New York, famed inventor-engineer, j born at Montrose, Ala.,;60 years \ Bs U. S. Senator Wallace H, White, Jr., of Maine, born at ‘Lewiston, Maine, 59 years ago. } " Dr. James T. 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