The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen 7 Pa beRed Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JUVE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper, in Key West and Monroe West, as second class matter “FIFTY. IXTH YEAR . Member of the Associated Press «he 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 ace a six Months Three Months . One Month Weekly 2.50 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. PECIAL NOTICE ces, cards of thanks, resolutions of es, etc. Will be charged for at ents a line. ntertainments by churches from which All reading no respect, obituary the rate of 1 n open forum and invites discus- sion of public es and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST j éDVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Mardges to complete Road to Main- fur. "ree Port. Hetels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Sensolidation 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 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 only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com promise with principle. A woman is only a woman, but a lady is something else. What has become of the old-fashioned gentleman who believed all females were ladies? The tired busin man’s life may be affected by the stars, but he pays little at- tention to astronomy. One reason why human nature is not better than it is, men are such poor ma-j} terial for improvement. Doctors may not be able to convince you that they know much, but they are mighty pleasant folk to have around when you are ill. As this is a_ political year, million more lies than usual will be told in the next few months. Learn to think for yourself and don't fall for all the bunk that insults your intelligence. Thomas Edison, asked to advise youth, replied: “Youth does not take advice.” This is the tragedy of life—that young people must be burned with fire to learn the truth of the experience of their elders. Unimpressed with Key West itself, O. O. McIntyre often has complimentary no- tices about Ernest Hemingway, one of its foremost citizens, and Ruth Bryan Owen, the island cit “adopted daughter”, who has recently added “Rhode”, to the trinity of her names. Lately the columnist said of her: , “For her years, Ruth-Bryan Owen is the almost perfect physical type of Am- erican womanhood. She has the statuesque dignity and charm that commands. Plus a soupcon of the oratorical flair of her dis- tinguished father. Also a keen mind for statesmanship. Too, she has been a de- voted mother. She showed her pride in America by piloting’ her Danish king’s guard husband on a honeymoon tour that included Niagara Falls, Yellowstene Na- tional Park and sundown tea in the Eucli- dean dazzle of the Empire’s aeyrie.” Such praise from Sir Hubert is approbation, in- deed. $10.00 | - 5.00 TRUE AMERICANISM In these days, when such a large num- ber of our people seem to have lost their self-reliance, and are looking to the gov- | ernment for everything, it would be well; to consider the words of Henry W. Grady, the great Southern editor, who once wrote: Exalt the citizen. As the state is the unit of government, he is the unit of the state. Teach him that his home is his cas- tle, and his sovereignty rests beneath his hat. Make him self-respecting, self-re- liant and responsible. Let him lean on the state for nothing that his own arms can do and on the gov- ernment for nothing that his state can do. Let him cultivate independence to the point of sacrifice, and learn that humble things with unbartered liberty are better than splendors bought with its price. Let him neither surrender his dividuality to government nor merge with the mob, Let him stand upright and fearless— a freeman born of freemen, sturdy in his own strength, dowering his family in the sweat of his brow, loving to his state, loyal to his republic, earnest in its allegiance wherever it rests, but building his altar in the midst of his household goods and shrin- ing in his own heart the uttermost temple of its liberty. in- it ELECTION BY COUPONS, PERHAPS Now that the presidential election is less than three months away it is inevitable that the nation will be afflicted wih a great many “polls,” which, according to their sponsors, will show the trend and tell us in advance how the election will result. It may be that, in a few decades, the business of electing a president will be a simple matter of tabulating the results of the polls and thus inducting into office the man who runs ahead in the popular tests. Possibly, by using coupons for the voting, and charging a few cents for them, the election of a president could be made a profitable venture for the government. Aside from the joking, however, one poll recently announced is that of the Bal- timore Sun, which will query the 755,000 persons registered in Maryland. This will be, so far as we know, the first occasion that any agency has attempted to include all those who have the right to vote. Maryland, be it noted, in fifty-two years has cast its ballot for the winning candidate in every election except that of 1888. Starting with the victory of Cleve- land, in 1892, Maryland has strung with the winner every time. What it will do ih 1936 may be uncertain at this time but the Sunpaper poll ought to give us a fairly ac- curate idea in advance, PRESS AND HEALTH Newspapers of the country are per- forming a splendid public service through the publication of health information, ac- cording to Dr. Bloodgood, eminent scien- tist and cancer specialist of Johns Hopkins University. He declares that because of the | spread of sound advice 70 per cent of per- Spns threatened with cancer now seek medical aid as soon as symptoms appear. Before the newspapers began to did in dis- seminating information, less than three per cent sought medical aid in time. The old notion that a doctor should not give information to the press, because of an ancient and foolish code of ethics, was criticizel by Dr. Bloodgood, who be- lieves that the public should be told in plain language whatever the doctor has to tell. Referring to the importance of giv- ing attention to the teeth, he said: “Let the press continue its work. Let it advise every man and woman over 40 to have their teeth X-rayed twice a year. Bad teeth are the most common causes of breakdown.” Through preventive measures the span of human life has been greatly length- ened in recent years, and it should be gratifying to newspaper men to have had an important part in bringing about this highly important result. s Dr. R. A. Smith of Brewton, Ala., ad- mits that he is set in his ways and never expects to have his beard shaved. He re- cently told Editor Brooks of the Standard: “I am about my beard as I am about my politics—I never change. I have been a Democrat ever since I first voted at the age of 16, and I’ll never be anything else.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs High Prices or Large Sales By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON | President, American Academy Not long ago at a luncheon I sat be- tween two business men whose argu- ments interested me greatly. One held the view that the hope of business profits and of general pros- perity liesin higher prices. His argument was not at all complicated. If his product could be sold at a higher price, he was sure that he could more easily meet his expenses with something left over. That left- over amount is profits. In reply, the other business man, a manufacturer of automobiles, pointed out that profits depend not only on the differ- ence between the price at which an article is sold and the cost of making that article, but on the volume of out- put and sales. He observed that often more money may be made by selling a large number of articles with a small profit on each than by selling a very few at a high price. Although there may be a large profit on each of the few sales, the total gain may be much less than from a small profit on a larger number. Of course the automobile manufac- turer was correct. But everything de- pends upon whether a low price will mean considerably larger sales. If it does, then the manufacturer will find that his costs per article or per unit are apt to be low, and although he makes only a small amount on each one. his total profits will increase If, on the other hand, a low price does not stimulate sales, he may lose. Everything depends upon the way the consumer reacts. If lower prices tempt him to buy in considerably larger quantities, then lowering prices is a good business policy. If not. then the manufacturer may find it wiser to maintain prices at a high level, if he can do so. Of course, this varies from one line of business to another. Lowered prices for automobiles seem clearly of Political and Social Science to have been a good thing, for the purchaser and also for the manufac- turer. But it is not so clear for all other lines of business, e.g. the price of steel rails. Our railroads do not buy rails merely because prices are low. They are influenced primarily by the volume of traffic they must carry, by the need for replacing old rails and for building new track. Only an expert in a given line of | business can be a good judge. Just now there is a controversy raging over the best price to be charged for elec- tric current. The point at issue is the one just mentioned. Will low charges | per kilowatt hour mean a consider- able increase in demand or only a slight increase? This is what the econ- omist calls “elasticity of demand.” Is the demand for electricity quite elas- tic? If so. lower rates will pay. If it is very inelastic then high rates will pay. Those of us who are consumers would like to have the rates as low as they can possibly be made. If rates are reduced we will use at least some more current, possibly a great deal more, especially if we can afford to buy the necessary equipment, Or per- haps lower rates will give us a little extra with which we can buy other things we want, Only one comment is safe for the layman who does not understand all the technical matters that are in- volved. Business men are usually very conservative. They must be so. But because they are conservative they cling very tenaciously to the idea that profits come only with high prices. Some of them seem inclined to overlook the possibility of larger profits through more sales at lower prices. While conditions differ widely, busi- ness men as a whole must remember that they cannot sell except as the public can afford to buy. In many lines lower prices and larger sales is the only way out. With our enormous capacity for production, factories can be kept go- ing only if markets can be found. More and more these must be de- veloped through the offer of goods on terms that will make larger sales pos- sible. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S Temperatures* Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainf. Normal Precipitation .... terday’s Precipitation ve 88 84 .15 Ins. Racomatcee A (Mi ftaday: Sea level, 29.9: WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with scattered showers to- night and Saturday; moderate east and southeast winds, fresh at times. : Florida: Partly cloudy, scatter- ed showers Saturday and in ~ex- treme south portion tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits , and East Gulf: Moderate east and southeast winds, fresh at over extreme south portion; ly overcast weather tonight and Saturday with scattered showers. | WEATHER CONDITIONS Weak high pressure areas over- spread eastern districts, the cen- tral Rocky Mountain States, and north Pacific coast; while pres- -24 Ins.! *, been rains, mostly light, s Rocky Mountain States. Tempera- .| tures are above normal this morn- part-| WEATHER hoa J {sure is relatively low elsewhere. Showers have occurred during the i last 24 hours in east Gulf and south Atlantic States, on the north Pacific coast, and in por- | tions of the southern Lake region, Fia., Il, also the | being heavy at Pensacola, 1.74 inches, and Chicago, 1.08 inches. There have in .ing throughout most of the Plains - | States and eastward ‘over the Ohio Valley to the north Atlantic coast, ‘and maximum readings were above 4100 degrees again yesterday in many localities in the Plains States and middle and lower Mis- | sissippi Valley. Temperatures con- \tinue seasonable throughout most lof the Gulf and south Atlantic {States, and over the far West. G. S. SNNEDY, Official in Charge Subscribe to The Citizen—20c | weakly. KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL |] In the Center of the Business times | i and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates Garage Elevator Popular Prices ‘ < PIP PP PIO PO TT OPP OD ay, Pay For it to yourself. CREDIT. The First National x. SITELTTILTLSI STEED The Easiest Way For You To is to pay for it as you pay rent. is to pay monthly, out of income, an installment on the principal and the interest, etc., over a given period of years, pay off the entire mortgage and have the house free of all debt. It’s very much like buying a house and then renting CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation errrrrrrrrrreereees OF. A Home The logical way and thus, \) N ) & \ ) N) ) N) N) N) i) & N) N 4 Bank ot Key West KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY lSilcedihiee Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen i | | | The Citizen is today publishi j the qualified list of voters fer t ———— election to be hbeid next Tuesday. The list ca 125 names and was prepar Supervisor of Registration eae Roberts who says that three four have established qualification since the list was made out. Or free-holders will be allowed j vote on this issue, it out and they must have paid poll taxes by Tuesday and } jtered according to law. is pointed Chief Deputy Sheriff Josey | Kemp, who went to New York bring back Juana Don wanted here for theft and skiy bond of $500, returned this ing over the East Coast wit the woman. Deputy Kemp the governor of New York he ed the requisition pape habeas corpus proceedi instituted by her husk says to have a witne she was not in Florida at j the alleged theft was perpet |The case was postponed | September 9 when a have to be present in court. The Velie touring c¢ was placed on sale yest j Collector of customs Lou | gassa was purchased by Knight who bid $55. The car was seized some time ago by Inspectors Taylor and Falk near the piers. The seizure was made o’clock in the morning. The « upon seing the inspectors d ; the car and left the ing. The Velie crashed Ford in which the c riding. Liquor was found in th | car and it was seized ar moto into The local Coast Guard was advised today that the ; Guard Patrol] Boat one prisoher and 600 ¢: sorted liquor last night on 2 foot motor in the St. John’ near Jacksonville. The value at $30,000. Willie Hernandez. street, was seriously injured Manuel Casado, another y Cuban, was slightly hurt result of a terrific crash between a Chevrolet brougham and a Long Furniture company truck at the corner of county road and White street yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock The young Cubans were the only persons on the truck. The Chevrolet was driven by liquor 528 Angela as a mar mamed Ed Ferbes wis Monitor Top modeis have the famous scaled- in-steel G-E THRIFT UNIT that sow pro- duces “doubie the coid™ with even less current than ever. At present terms you can buy 2 General Electric. finest and thrifties« + , and be mor ahead every mos For a limited time only we will exve 2 allowance om your OLD ICE BOK THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. GENERAL £3 ELECTRIC x. SUTMITTTETIOOEOESS. FLED EE Small lot of 1! regular price 3 Small lot of ! regular price $ About 1,500 feet of regular price 4 ,”’. Brown Structo pieces, 4°x4’, “a” and 14’, 10’, 12° special prices $45.00 to $ € FLLALLALAAAAAALAAAAA ANAL AL LL TIITTOTOODOLS. Phone 598 2x4 Pin Some 1x6 Second Hand Sheathing, Storm Shutter Material SPECIALS Present Stock Only—No More After This Is Gone x4 Pi $15.00 M $25.00 M $30.00 M $15.00 M WALL BOARD SPECIALS Present Stock Only—Will Not Be Re-Siocked We must make space for a car of Upson Board, and are pricing th material to sell quick Board, regular price $40.00, specia ” Brown Densboard, 1-8” Hardboard, brown, 1-12 $60.00, velvet finish, regular price $40.00 smooth finish. $30.00 M $30.00 M ~ $50.00 M lengths spe 2-4, regular $70.0 special South Florida Contracting & Engineerme Co. White and Eliza Streets "Tour hanes watty 6 Getar TILILITTIIISOSIIITOS TOE e ees Tae, ee Oe DAR APL ALAA A AA Ah AA hd ddedededuaied