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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE Cr N PUBLISHING CO., INC, ARTMAN, President » Assistant Business M: From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE AL Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. FIPTY- “SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press she Associated Pi y entitled to use for republicati a ispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RAT One Year’ eae six Months Three Months . One Month Weekly . ADVERTISING RATES Made known on applicatign, s, resolutions of will be ‘charged for at the rate of 10 Notices for ente a revenue is to be derived 5 The Citizen is an open f sion of public issues and interest but it will not pub cations. cents a line. nd invites discus- of local or general h anonymous communi- | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST 4.DVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- jard. ree Port. Hetels and Aparcments, Bathing Pavilion. Anports—Land and Sea, Gersolidaiion 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. There are people in the world who think they can argue with electricity. The Weed Pullers Association (WPA) in the eastern states are demanding two weeks’ vacation with pay. There are still some doubting Thom- ases concerning the building of the bridges, With them “seeing is believing.” A writer on the scene’ in the Spanish } warfare says that anyone falling within range of the rifles of the fighters are “shot first and questioned afterward.” Dead men do not give wrong answers, Paes SS Toa eT If the actors and actresses (parti- cularly those of the screen) continue to air their dirty linen in the courts, we will have the same opinion of them we had in the “70s. In the interest of decency and the moving picture industry, Mary Astor should be barred from making any more pic- * tures. New York is like a furnace in the sum- mer months, yet millions of people from all parts of the world visit that metropolis during that torrid period. But all Gotham- ites, (those who can afford it), leave the city for seashore and mountains. In the winter, they trek to warmer climes. Never- theless, enough remain to run the city, and take care of the visitors. In business and polities, ins fact most human endeayors,.audagity, or un- controlled effort, makes for progress. Dic- tators, particularly, need this mental tonic to succeed. A great French leader once remarked that leadership required , “De l'audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de Vaudace,” “audacity, more audacity, al- Ways audacity.” Mussolini made use of that psychology when he boldly told the world to mind its own business, went in and took Ethiopia by force of arms. If he hadn’t an audacious spirit, he would have been cowed by England and the 52 nations, but in the United States we have another term for Audacity, we call it “bluffing.” ; about 200 per cent, while jobs in} MACHINES AND JOBS How is your job affected by ma- chinery? asks a dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, printed recently in the New York Times. The answer, it suggests, should be based on the cold practical fact of what is occurring. From 1900 to 1930, says the dispatch, when we had more new machinery than at any time in our history, there was a! gain of 20,000,000 new jobs. * During the last fifty years, the pop- ulation of the United States increased have in- creased about 300 per cent. That does not look as if we were going in the wrong direction. One-seventh of everybody work- ing today is making some product un- known fifty years ago. Eighteen of our biggest industries have been created by machinery and invention since 1880. One out of every four persons today owes his employment to one of these eighteen new industries produced by invention and en- gineering, says H. A. Toulmin, Jr., of the patent section of the American Bar As- sociation, This looks like a pretty good result from our twentieth century mechaniza- tion. - Occupations that have gone out of vogue have lost 800,000 jobs. The new business created by invention have given more than 2,250,000 jobs. The balance is undoubtedly on the right side of the ledger in favor of invention and engineering. CARE OF THE EYES Many persons become blind, or go through life with impaired vision, because of neglect of the most ordinary precau- tions, according to Dr. Steelsmith of Iowa, who gives some good advice in a recent ar- ticle. i He declares that the putting of a drop or two of silver solution into the eyes of an infant at birth is a most important matter, as five or six different kinds of germs which may cause partial or complete blindness are liable to gain access to the infant’s eyes at that time. It is also important to keep sharp or pointed instruments, such as scissors, pen- cils and dangefously shaped toys away from very young children, and any foreign body which happens to get into the eyes should be given immediate attention. No inflammation of the eyes, however slight, should be neglected. With respect to cross-eyes, Dr. Steel- smith advises that steps be taken to cor- rect this condition very early, and he de- clares that a child not more than a year; old may be taught to wear glasses for straightening the squint, which will in most cases effect a permanent correction. He warns against the use of ten-cent store glasses or any glasses not prescribed after expert examination of the eyes. Reading in a poor light or in a bad position strains the eyes unduly, while glare is also harmful and should be avoid- ed as much as possible. Considering what a handicap poor eyesight places upon the individual, itis really strange that the simple precautions recommended by health authorities are so | Moderate to fresh variable winds ; frequently neglected. SHAFT TO AMUNDSEN ’ San Francisco has paid tribute to a great explorer by erecting a tall granite shaft in Golden Gate park in memory of Roald Amundsen, who discovered the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen was a native of Norway, where he was-born in 1872, and became a sailor at 21. In addition to his discovery of the South Pole, he also made two trips to the North Pole, one in an airplane and the other a dirigible; he discovered the north magnetic pole; was the first to make the northwest passage from Europe to Alaska, and was the third navigator to make the northeast passage from the At- lantic to the Pacific. In 1928, after Amundsen had = an- nounced his retirement from active -ex- ploration, Nobile’s expedition to the Arc- tic in a dirigible met with disaster, Amund- sen set out by air to rescue Nobile, but perished in the attempt. The San Francisco monument will serve to remind coming generations of one of the most intrepid adventurers the world has ever seen, whose contributions to science were among the most notable that have been derived from polar explora- tion, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs Low Wages Abroad By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Political and Social Science Wages are very tow in India, in Japan, in Italy and in many other countries, compared with wages in ‘the a States. This leads many to conclude that we should have high protective tariffs to keep out the prod- ucts of those countries. Arguments ooth for and against protec- sion are very involved. One common- place fact is fre- quently forgot- ten. Wages are determined by many influ- ences. but among them is the efficiency of the worker. Frequently a factory hand is poorly paid merely because he is in- efficient and his employer cannot pay him any more. On the other hand. wages may be high because workers are efficient and their employers are willing to pay them well if necessary “High wages” therefore do not al- ways mean “high labor costs.” A few cents per day in India may be much more -costly to the employer than many. times that amount in England or in the United States The intel- ligence, the training, the experience of the worker, the kind of tools with which he wovks, are among the fac- tors that determine his output His wag #s' may be very low but the labor cost per unit of product made by an ienorant. inexperienced worker who does not use modern technique or the best tools may be very high. Also machinery is used far more in some countries than in others Where modern labor-saving ma- chinery is employed. costs of pruduc- tion may be quite low Few workers are used and even 11 wages paid them seem very high the extensive use of the best equipment and meth- ods may permit a manufacturer to make goods that can be sold at a much lower price than can those of his competitors in another country where hand labor is more general In passing judgment we should examine first “labor cost” rather than “wage payments.” Second we should con- sider “total ane rather than merely the “labor costs. This is still not enough. Let us assume that we find total costs in the manufacture of some product, for example cement, lower in the United States than in Belgium We must not take it for granted if it costs more to manufacture cement in Belgium and ship it here that Belgium cement will not be ported. It may be “dumped” on our T markets dn other words, it may be sold here at less than cost of manufacture and trans- portation. This “dumping” may be temporary or spasmodic. Or it may be done regularly. The practice is very common and as yet we do not know very much about meeting the problems it raises. Another way of defining “dumping” is to say that it occurs when goods are sold at a lower price in one mar- ket than in another. This is done on a very large scale all over the world and is more and more common as the years pass. Here, too, we have not learned how to deal satisfactorily witk the issues it raises. Such considerations do not take us very far in deciding what to do about protective’ tariffs. tt is difficult. in fact it is often quite impossible. to learn what costs of production are, even in the United States. But if a | comparison is to be made between costs here and abroad, then we must investigate the costs in foreign coun- tries also. This can be done only in the most unsatisfactory manner. Costs abroad are often even more difficult to determine than costs at home and besides. foreign producers do not want to tell their business secrets, especially to our investigators. Tariffs are not easy to impose or to administer scientifically. We have made no reference to whether they are desirable or not, That-is a most involved question. We ought not to settle it, however, merely by noticing tow wage rates in some other coun- try. Like many other matters. the pertinent facts are not easy to ascer- tain. And even when we can find them, we still must decide what to do with them. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) ee TODAY’S Temperatures* | Highest ........ es 89 | Lowest 79: Mean Normal Mean Rainf. Yesterday’s Preci, pitation T. Tan imites east of i M. | High . 208! 4 Barometer Sea level, 29.87. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) H Key West and Vicinity: Partly} cloudy tonight and Saturday, } probably showers tonight; mod- erate variable winds. Florida: Cloudy, showers to-} ight probably ending in north! rtion Saturday morning. 2 Jacksonvitié ‘to! Florida Straits:! mostly ‘squthe#ly over’ south and} shifting gales over north portion! probably whole gates near center | of tropical: storm; scattered show- ers over» .seuth’ and dangerous squalls over north portion to-; night and Saturday. | East Gulf: Moderate to fres northeasterly winds except vari- able over extreme south portion; weather partly overcast tonight , possivly scattered ‘2, Bahamas have developed +; north-northwest. 066 WEATHER it j WEATHER CONDITIONS Unsettled conditions over the into a {disturbance of moderate but creasing intensity, which was cen- tral this morning, about 150 Melbourne, Fia., moving at. present northwest or It is attended in- * by strong winds and heavy squall: “jover a wide area, Northeat storm warnings are displayed fromnorth of Fort Pierce, Fla., to Charles- ‘ton, S. C. Light to moderate showers have occurred during the last 24 hours in portions of the East Gulf and South Atlantic States, from the northern Plains castward over the Lake region, and in portions of the southern Rocky Mountain States. Temperatures continue abnormally high from the south- ern Plains States eastward over ithe lower Ohio Valley, and maxi- mum reading of 100 to 102 de- ; grees occurred. yesterday through- out much of thissdervitory; while e'sewhere temperatures are gen-} rally seasonable. GS. KENNEDY, : . Official in Charge. checks in 3 days COLDS first day Headache 30 minutes, y-Tism”-World’s Best Liniment Liquid - Tablets Salve-Nose Dro} Try “Rub- {“ccesssevsessrsssan The Easiest Way For You To Pay For is to pay for it as you pa is to pay monthly, out o III IIT TID very much like buying a it to yourself. ME CREDIT. The First National GMS SM: 4 . 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 CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation LAA AAAMAAAAA A A ddd doh A Home y rent. The logical way f income, an installment house and then renting INSURED Bank ot Key West WaT TITIIIIIIIT ISS: ,| afforded him an opportunity MALARIA) FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 193 jferings are made. This firm writeg] court of the “We have purchased a number of| Hugh Gunn o KEY WEST IN tax sales certificates in Florida) came to thi DAYS GONE BY j and propose to invest about $100,- jet marned. 000 in Key West. Some time ago) | witnessed b ‘the city clerk was instructed to and Maria ( ; write to Miami and ask for a list; bride. ‘of possible purchasers of tax sales ificates and the reply of the; 4 has bx ‘Controversial arguments which| Foster company was ore of thos®) 5 Knox have been going on for the past! received. few days over the proposed con-| tract to be awarded for the cons-| truction of the bridges on the highway to the mainland, were brought to a close last night when! the county commissioners award- ed the contract for construction to} | the C. A. P. Turner company of} Diego Gonzalez will be on his, Minneapolis, Minn. On roll call! way this evening to Tamipa where Commissioners Warren, Bervaldi,: he is wanted on charges ef comews Curry and Kirchheiner voted yes..ing Hillsboro county property. Mr. Porter voted no, and made ai Deputy C. M. Graves arrived this lengthy address as to why he! morning and presented the neces- H voted thus. Both of the proposals, sary papers to Sheriff Niles and one by the Turner company and} the prisoner will be turned over the other by H. C. Gaffney were! to the deputy when he is ready read in full before the vote w to take the train out this after- taken. According to the contr: noon, Mr. Turner will be required to} furnish a performance bond of; Pablo Garcia y Guiterrez and $2,000,000 by November 30, and! Ella Maria Antonia Godoy y Ro- must be ready at that time with] driguez, a couple from Havana, complete plans for the perform-| were married this afternoon in the: ance of the work which will enta an expenditure of approximately { $10,000,000. Happenings Here Just 10 Ye: Ago Today As Taken From The Fifes Of The Citizen —— —a— | cer jin a boat | wife and street said, Editorial comment: A dollar a word is considered high remune-! ya. ration for literary productions, but! whe. it often costs more than ‘that argue with a traffic con, } 0 | terry In the Center of the Sensible Rates (Deputy United States Mershal,' jLavalle Van Volkentargh been appointed temporary re- ceiver for the defunct keys West Morning Call, according ‘to an order issued by Judge Lake Jones 'on August 18. The court ordery ites that Samuel J. Curry. use ICE IT’S PURER! LASTS LONGER! ICE REFRIGERATORS Made of all metal—equip- ped with WATER COOLERS They’re Economical as at first appointed has declined and failed to « ve |The court deemed it advisable to j protect the interests of the bank-} ;Yupt by appointing a receiver to preserve the assets, hence the ap- pointment of Mr. Van Valken- [ieee Acting on orders the re. took charge of the s | of the Call this morning. ass | A. H. Eleazar, member of the rural police force of Richland,! South Carolina, expressed himself as delighted with this city while! discussing his visit with The Citi-} zen. He came to receive John! Walker, who had been arrested several days ago on the request of Carolina authorities. He said he! was glad he had been sent as it, of 100 Per Cent Refrigeration Satisfaction Priced at $20.00 v- EASY TERMS—10 DAYS FREE TRIAL THOMPSON’S ICE CO. seeing this delightful city. Indications are that a number of persons will be on hand Sep. tember 6 to bid on delinquent tax payers holdings. This property} will be auctioned off to the highest | bidder. A letter from the W. C.| Foster company of Chicago, in-| dicates a representative of the! firm will be on hand when the of-/ \® SURPLUS GOODS SALE “Old English” Polishing Products PASTE WAX, per pound, price ..... | | LIQUID WAX, er pint, regular price 65c, sale 35e .. 30¢ 30¢ PINT 60¢ THE BIG WEEK’S SPECIAL Buy It and Keep On Hand Until You Are Ready To Use IT WON'T LAST LONG AT THESE PRICES SHERWIN WILLIAMS “CLEAROLIN” LINOLEUM VARNISH, CRYS- TAL CLEAR—DRIES HARD IN ONE HOUR 85e 85¢ FURNITURE POLISH, per pint, regular price, 50c, sale price FLOOR POLISH, per pint, regular price 50c, sale Combination of a QUART OF FLOOR POLISH AND !2 HOLSTRY CLEANER, regular price 98c, sale | | QUARTS, regular price $1.35, sale PINTS, regular price c, sale Phone 598 “Your home is worthy of the best” WITIIIIVRIDOIIIIIIIIS IID S: \ ‘ . . . ; . . . . . . 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