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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. . ARTMAN, President » Ansistant Business Manager om The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. tntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH Member of the Associated Press «he Associated Press is exclusizely 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 j 5.00 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SIAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of c., Will be charged for at Ail reading notic respect, obituary notic the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue is t derived are 5 cents a line. The Citiz nd invites discus- sion of publi s of local or general interest but i cations. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST c ¢DVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Eixcdges to complete Road to Main- dae. AS free Port. , @\sbietels and Aparcments. ‘ 8 Bathing Pavilion, } 6,2 Asiports—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 come promise with principle, There will always be useless noises so long as people persist in demanding soup and celery. Some day eating will be an art in the United States, but La Belle France still en- joys that reputation. WPA workers in Key West may have a couple of strikes called on them, but al- ways wind up with hitting the ball. Notwithstanding there are countless men on the relief rolls, farmers are having a difficult time to secure adequate help, by heck. New York City is now preparing to smash another highly organized racket “windoW'larceny.” It is goinggafter the “gyp” stores of the ‘goins-outtlieuness and ‘liquidation sale” type, and has drawn up an ordinance which requires merchants who advertise they are going out of busi- ness to take out a license for 30 days and at the end of that time they must go out of business. Most people know that the usual “going-out-of-business sale” is a fraud and shun them, but there are still a lot of yokels left (one born every minute, according to Barnum) to be ensnared and to make this racket, (practised almost everywhere in- cluding Key West), a highly profitable business. Ten months ago triplets were born to a West Palm Beach mother, and two men admitted fatherhood, The Citizen said at the time if a third man claimed to be the father, one of the triplets could be given to each of the claimants, and a Solomonic decision rendered. New Judge Culling- worth announces that the trio is complete, since Aubrey Johnson, of Perry, Florida, has joined T. J. Miller, West Palm Beach barber, and Louis D. Pierre, Miami motor car mechanic in having sired the sons. While the judge could have assigned one of the boys to each of the three claimants, he had already given custody of the babies to the mother, thus avoiding further com- plications should other aspirants come forth to claim parentage, | HIGH FLYING Practical air navigation at altitudes of eight miles or more is predicted for the not very far distant future by conservative aircraft engineers, and actual plans for {| such development are being seriously con- | sidered. At least two aviators have already at- tained an altitude of approximately eight miles, at which the temperature is between | 60 and 70 degrees below zero. By means of balloons it has been determined that be- yond this altitude it does not get any cold- er, so the problem of temperature might be readily solved. Owing to the rarity of the atmosphere at such heights, an artificial supply of oxygen is necessary, and such has been carried by the pioneers in exploring the upper air. This rare atmosphere also pre- sents another problem, in that resistance to the airplane propeller is reduced, making more powerful mviors necessary in order | to keep the craft aloft. This does not ap-| pear to be an insuperable difficulty. A young German engineer proposes to build a plane to navigate these upper reaches of the air at a speed of more than 650 miles an hour. Recently the famous plane designer, Sikorski, predicted ‘ta new type of airplane with highly supercharged motors‘and an inclosed cabin with air kept under approximately normal] pressure to permit flying at high altitudes with speeds of say 400 to 500 or more miles an hour.” Incredible as it seems now, no one can say with certainty that it can not be done. ALWAYS A CANDIDATE Norman Thomas, now running for President of the United States for the third time on the Socialist ticket, is the most per- sistent and unsuccessful candidate now be- fore the public. He has never been elected to any office, and doesn’t expect to be. His “also ran” record follows: In 1924 for governor of New York; in 1925 for mayor of New York City; in 1926 for New York state senate; in 1927 for alderman; in 1928 for President; in 1929 for mayor; in 1930 for Congress; in 1931 for Manhattan borough president; in 1932 for President; in 1934 for United States Senator, and now again for Presi- dent in 1936. As Mr. Thomas will not be 52 years old until November 20 of this year, he may be a candidate for President in at least three or four more campaigns. The Social- ists seem likely to nominate him as often as he “chooses to run.” As a boy in his home town of Marion, O.; Thomas once carried newspapers for the late President Harding. He was grad-} uated from Princeton in 1905, and from Union Theological Seminary in 1911, in which year he entered the Presbyterian ministry, filling various pastorates during j the next 20 years. He is also widely known as a magazine editor and author. He admits that if his chief desire was to be President he would not be a Socialist. But his devotion to Socialistie principles en- ables him to take a beating with a smile every time he runs for something. NEGRO OLYMPIC STAR Undoubtedly the dividual star of the 1936 outstanding — in- Olympic games in Berlin is Jesse Owens, the great Negro !~ track athlete of Ohio State, who broke the Olympic 200 meters and broad jump ree- ords, equalled the 100 meters mark, and paced the record-breaking 400 meters re- lay team. Last year he broke three world rec- ords and equaled a fourth in the Big Ten championships. © Now, it is said, he will turn professional and cash in on his track record. Larry Snyder, his coach, estimates that Owens will have an opportunity to make as much as $100,000 in professional exhibitions while in his prime, and will en- courage him to do it. Owen will tour Europe. with other members of the United states Olympic team, which scored 203 points out of the total of 574 in the men’s track and field events in Berlin, and will return to Am- erica late in September. Afer his return he will probably accept some of the best offers which await him. IFIPILILPSACLLLLAAL LA N Years ago a Key West merchant called his sales, “Money Raising Sales.” No fraudulent claim there, for that is what they all are, and when a merchant wants to raise money, he generally sells cheaper for quick returns, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs’ Some Mistakes of Joseph By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University Joseph, counselor to Pharaoh, was not a good economist, according to certain modern standards. His royal master had a dream about seven fat kine that were swallowed up by-seven lean kine, which were thereafter no fatter than before. Joseph's explanation was that the land would experi- ence seven fat years, and then seven lean years. The symbol- ism of a dream and its practi- cal interpreta- tion on the basis of observation and xperience was a device used by the old chronicler to suggest the alternations of prosperity and depression in ancient Egypt. The story reveals that the cyclical varia- tions of nature’s rhythm were as ap- parent then as they are today. Egyp- tian economic conditions were gov- erned by the volume of rainfall in a remote part of the world of which the Pharaohs knew nothing. The interesting thing about this earliest recorded account of the eco- nomic cycle is the various mistakes that Joseph made, if his policy be judged in the light of our own recent handling of somewhat analogous problems. . In the first place, he failed to pooh- pooh the whole business, He might have curried favor with the king by assuring him that the economic cycle was an exploded fallacy that was still used to frighten the people by those old - fashioned, ultra - conservative economists who had some knowledge of economic history and some respect for its lessons. He might have said that he could abolish, or at least control such phenomena so as to neutralize their significance. Instead, he took the matter seriously. Secondly, he failed entirely to deal with -the crop surplus of the good years in the approved modern fash- ion, for he advised storage rather than destruction. There was probably a land boom in the first year or so o; the prosperity cycle, aud some per- sons must have bought land at fancy prices in the belief that wheat would (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Seccccce +cevcceeecee 2. i Today’s Birthdays evwccccccccercoccces Ralph Budd, president of the Burlington Railroad, born at Wa-} terloo, lowa, 57 years ago. Edgar A. Guest of Detroit, famed poet and radio star, born in | England, 55 years. ago. John S. MeGroarty of Tujunga, | Calif., congressman, California’s{ poét-laireate, born in Luzerne Co. Ba., 74 years agro. Chief Justice Arthur P. Ruge of the Supreme Judicial Court of M achusetts, born at Sterling, Mass., 74 years ago. Herbert the Secreti born at Hal ago. KE. Gaston, asistant to of the Treasury, y, Oreg., 55 years | } Florence L. Meredith of ! professor of hygiene, born | 53 years ago. | H Dr. Boston there, Herford T. Cowling, world mo-} vie producer-director and exp'or-, er, born in Virginia, 46 years MICE COCKROACHES ~~ %& usE STEARNS = ASK YOUR DEALER « GOSS SSS SSE IS SSS MSS SE Sv, The Easiest Way For You To Pay For A Home is to pay for it as you pay ren’. The logical way is to pay monthly, out of income, an installment on the principal and the interest, etc., and thus, 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 it to yourself. CREDIT. CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED never again sell for less than three shekels per bushel. But as the ensuing prosperous years piled up the surplus product, prices must have declined to abnormally low levels and the farm- ers, particularly those who had bought land at the peak, doubtless had diffi- culty in paying taxes and interest. Jo- seph’s mistake was in not advising that one third of the crop be destroyed in order to raise agricultural prices and equalize farm and non farm in- comes. He missed another opportunity, also, in failing to offer a bonus for keeping land out of use and in neglecting the Possibilities of processing taxes to finance this subsidy. When we con- sider, further, his complete neglect of farm land banks and other farm re- financing measures, this error, added to his other blunders, justifies the conclusion that he was a crude bun- gler who had wormed his way into the king’s confidence. Of course, he lacked various mod- ern aids that might otherwise have saved him from these mistakes. There were no farm politicians and other professional meddlers to camp on his doorstep and threaten his influence with the king. There were no currency experts to advise tinkering with the monetary standard. Joseph knew nothing about managed currency and other devices for manipulating the price level. There were no statisti- cians who could prove, by elaborate graphs, that black is white. He was spared, also, the horde of reformers, with their panaceas ranging all the way from old age pensions and the single tax to programs for sharing wealth and social justice, whatever that means. In view of his drawbacks and handi- caps, it is strange that Joseph did so well. He equalized conditions over the economic cycle by storing the surplus of the good years and using it in those years when part of the lower Nile valley was only a dust bowl. He thus avoided the anomaly of crop destruc- tion offset by processing taxes, but coupled with increased foodstuff im- ports to protect the consumer. He was able to export grain during the lean vears and in this way to mitigate the effects of the famine in other places, including the distant land in which his family lived. Despite these achievements, we must rate him as an inexpert economic adviser to the king, if our own methods are at all sound, Today In Hi eeevcece e story . e 1829—In Ruhs9-Turk'sh War, 100,000 Turkish soldiers in Adni- anople laid down ‘heir acms at the mere approach of 28,009 Rus- sians. 1913—20th annual on the Universal Peace Congres: of s be- gan at The Hague—less than | | | \ | t jyear before World War. 1914—Germans enter Brussels, Belgium. 1920—Rhenish Pru went through a 24-hour Soviet Repui lie. 1 of Eco- its | 1932—British _Imperi nomic Conference, first kind, ended at Ottawa. ac. a 1934- S. Government cepted invitation to become member of the International La-} bor Organization, Geneva. KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District ; First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates Garage Elevator Popular Prices house and then renting The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance . Corporation NII II III III O IIIa waa. \ \ \ \ N N N KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY ui tre w tae erry weal and Fever! Happenings Here Just 10 Yeare, ‘Ago Today As Tal The Files Of The Citi: From n ‘Returns from Tuesday’s re- ferendum have been received from the Keys polls, one at Key Largo and the other one at Matecumbe. At Key Largo there was not one} vote for the bridges and 7 against. At Matecumbe there were 14 votes! in favor of bridges and none, . They are the only votes le of the city of Key West,} making the total for bridges 775! and against, 16. As a result of electrolysis oc-, casioned by the heavy rainfall of, Wednesday afternoon, four or| five telephone cables were put on the blink, causing a number of phones in the city to go dead, Th Citizen phones included. This the third day this paper has had to get along without any phone} service whatever. Manager Rob-| ert d he has had a gang of men at work all night and expects to have the entire system in order by this evening. A cable arrived this morning and from progress made up to noon the pre- diction that working order will be established by this afternoon seems assured, SE ‘A man whose name was given as Aloma J. Knowies was found dead this morning at Rock Harbor, He was in a boat at that place. | The information was received by Sheriff Cleveland Niles from Joe Albury. The telegram advising of, jthe finding of the body did state whether the man is whit colored and gave no details o* the case. Chief Deputy Sheriff Joseph Kemp and Justice of The Peace Rogelio Gomez left for the scene by freight this afternoon to inv tigate the case and inquire into! the man’s habits. Diego Gonzalez was arrested by Deputies Kemp and Rivas on board the Steamer Governor Cobb when the vessel arrived from Tamp: this morning. The man is wanted in Hillsboro county on a charge of removing property from the county, Does Monroe county want turn over to private capital greatest of all her assets, to the; This! nN N . . . N) ; A) ; y . : . . . N . Opens Skin Pores Kills Scalp Itch | With six, itch killing medicines in liquid form, Imperial Lotion flows into pores and hair follicles and thus gets at and kills the cause of scalp itch. 35¢ and $1.00. ‘ . ; . . N . regular price $2 Small lot of regular pr About 1,500 feet of regular price $4 Some 1x6 Second Har WALL BOARD SPECIALS Present Stock Only--Will Not Be Re-Stocked Small lot of 2x4 Pine Ceiling, No. x4 Pine Ceiling, No. e $40.00, special THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936. ee bridge under the Turner company will net the county a million while it is being operated and then, at in- the repair, free and clear of any cumbrances to be held by ney plan there would be no pos- sibility of the county deriving any benefit from tolis collected. Ac- cording to this plan the county will have the opportunity at the end of 25 years of buying in the bridges at the appraised value. A'ttend the county commissioners meeting tonight and learn of these plans in al] their details. Sheriff Cleveland Niles is in Martin granting extradition of John Walker from this state te South Carolina. Walker wan- ted for the desertion of his wife and children. He was caught in Key West. He was employed in a local bake He has a woman with which he was living here. The list of 258 buildings which! S Horoscope razed, | are recommended to be was turned over last night to the city council by Chief of The Fire , Department Ralph B. Pinder. The presentation carried a note from the chief which recommended im- mediate action, The matter laid over until the next mee as Editorial comment: We learn from the experience of others that we seldom learn anything from the experience of others. Juan Calleja who grocery at the corner of El operates a abeth ‘Stop Chills | county in fee simple and operated] Rid Your System of Malaria! —n——n—new by it for all time. Under the Gaff-| |. Shivering with chit! burning wi of the eff ! the disease w | bealth. Malaria, a | for two j fection in | up the blood to « | the disease and to for attack. quinine, which k | blood, and | builds up th { } receipt of papers from Governor} Tasteless Chill | Sor Malaria | general to to take give chil store. Now two | $1 size conta | 50c size a your money. j and Caroline five pow i, \) & N N % % N \ N N N N N N \Y > For OLD PAPERS 5 Bundles for 25 in bundle \ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Sale eerecescsee 5c ‘CL LL AAALAC LALA AAA A WSMTTOTIIIFIISISSIIL= 3 Common, 5.00; special. .......... Common, 14x4 No. 1 Pine Flooring. =.00; speciat. 2... ......... nd Sheathing, special - We must make space for a car of Upson Board, 14°. Brown Structo pieces, 4’x4’, reg material to sell quick Board, smooth finish, 36 ular price $40.00, special ,” Brown Densboard, velvet finish, lengths 9’, 10’, 12’ and 14’, regular price $40.00, special 1-8” Hardboard, brown, 1-12, 2-4, regular $70.00, special Odd lots of slightly damaged wall boards, regular prices $45.00 to $60.00, special ... South Florida Contracting & Engineering Co. White and Eliza Streets “Your home is worthy of the best” IAPs bbhhddhddddddddAdddadadd dit Phone 598 Storm Shutter Material SPECIALS Present Stock Only--No More After This Is Gone $15.00 M $25.00 M $30.00 M $15.00 M and are pricing this $30.00 M $30.00 M $50.00 M $20.00 M IIAP A LALA ALA LAA, LALLA AALLLZLLLLALLL ALLA es