The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. . ARTMAN, Pri . Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. d Press entitled to use tches credited to paper and aiso $10.00 ; 5.00 pplication, \OTICE sof thanks, resolutions of | , ete, will be charged for at a line. a vites discus- s of local or general jonymous communi- iMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water Bridges and Sewerage. to cor » Road to Main land, Free Hotels Port and Apartments. Bathin, Pavilion, ! evident to every thinking person. A WASTEFUL POLICY In the first of a series of articles just released for publication by the Farmers’ | Independence Council of America, atten- | tion is called to the tragic waste of public | funds now going on in connection with vast irrigation projects in several far west- ern states. It is stated that since March, 1933, funds aggregating 2,300 million dollars! have been allocated for these projects, de- | | signed to bring into fertility some three; million acres of arid land. During the same period approximately 1,800 million dollars have been spent for crop destruc- tion, acreage curtailment, slaughter of ; livestock and other means for reducing farm production. Thus it may be seen that billions of dollars are being spent by the government for diametrically opposite purposes—to bring arid land into productivity on the one hand, while paying to keep good lana | idle on the other, | Official figures from the Department : i of Agriculture show that in the very states j where most of these irrigation projects are located less than 60 per cent of the tillable land now available was under cultivation in 1934. Yet it is planned to provide more land at an irrigation cost running as high as $600 an acre. The inconsistency, absurdity and {| wastefulness of such a policy should bel No won- Air | and S ation of County and fines Spaniards must not have heard what Sherman said—Fort Myers News- Press. But now they know what it is. An exchange claims to have discover- ed the laziest man. His name Will Knott and he saves effort by it “Won't.” is signing Father Roosevelt Coughlin called President “liar.” Later the priest apologized, but there is no record whether the apology was accepted. a e Nothing is so bad it can’t be worse— in Italy the price of petrol is $1.3 n. Yet we, an immensely omplain of cent gasoline. 6 the gal- rich nation, Not satisfied with being full on the irst of September the Moon will fill up more on the thirtieth of September. hat is an unusual occurrence, but in these ockeyed times, nothing is usual. ree Hush. little darling, don’t you cry; ou'll be a taxpayer bye and by ».—Key West Citizen. Yes, little sue ve your ears; you'll need them wors in thirty | ye: —Lee Morris, in St. Petersburg In- * dependent. : It is predicted that nudism will be ~ practiced on the beaches not many years ence. Very likely; it isn’t far removed ‘from that condition now. Times do change, In the 18th century, even the courtesans.of France wore leather underwear and sever petticoats. There is an old superstition that left side is unlucky and that anythir pearing or observed on’ the left i auspicious. The Latin word _ sinister means “left,” “on the left hand,” hence, “awkward,” and also “unlucky,” and so forth. It was borrowed in Engli in the same form and with the same mean- ings. the Federal taxes cost motor vehicle own- ers of Florida a total of $3,971,000 in the ealendar year of 1935, upwards of $11.13 per vehicle, in addition to state taxes of $22,821,000, or upwards of $64.00 per vehicle: vehicle was that collected in the District of Columbia’ where $29.46 per vehicle was collected. or only Victor H. Schmidt, an of Kansas City, has a unique dislodging elm-borers. He electrocutes them. Driving nails a few inches apart into the trees, he turns on the juice from an old automobile magneto, and out come the borers with alacrity. Whether the experimenter method of electrification of fruit trees infested with | destructive pests could destroy them is a question, and besides it might prove too costly, but it is worth consideration any- way. The lowest average tax per | der our national debt and its consequent tax burden have reached such alarming proportions. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Mrs. Helen Fortescue Reynolds. year-old society matron of New York, thought it would be fun to “borrow” a butcher’s truck in which to ride home, which she proceeded to do, later sending the truck back to its owner. The butcher failed to see the humor of the situation, so Mrs. Reynolds paid $20 for her ride, set- tling the matter out of court. The keen understanding of a depart- ment store saleswoman in Franktort, Ind., is illustrated by the following story: A young man asked to see silk nightgowns, and when shown one for $12 and another for $15 he asked to see something less ex- pensive, confiding that he was buying the garment for his wife. The clerk then pro-| duced a nice rayon nightie priced at 59! cents. | eens Glustich of San Fran- | “left at the church” in an un- usual manner when immediately after her wedding ceremony her husband turned and kissed one of the bridesmaids, with whom he walked out and disappeared for a month. The marriage was annulled. Police called to search for four small | boys missing year Oklahoma City very, logically investigated in the vicinity of a| favorite.swimming hole. They found the boys huddled in a clump of bushes, wait- | ing for darkness to come. Some miscreant had stolen every stitch of their clothes. | One of the oddest features of current | politics is the rival candidacies of S. Leigh- ton Frooks of Queens county, and his sis- j ter, Miss Dorothy Frooks of Westchester! county, for a Republican nomination as! Congressman-at-large from New York state. There is no family feud involved, each wishing the other “the best of luck.” FIFO DDL 2 The United States Supreme Court has } been asked to pass on a case from Oregon | concerning the vessel Covena, owned by the Hammond Lumber Co. The main point! in the lawsuit is whether the second mate of the vessel contracted the itch from the | ship’s cook. Mrs. William B. Clayton of Williston | | Park, N. J., is still unconvinced that her | husband is dead, although she has been so | notified by the War Department three times—first during the World War, yer about four years ago, and finally last week. Her skepticism is due to the 30 that he returned home after the war and has been living with her ever since. | and Saturday showers Saturday on the south-' gessereess You and Your Nation’s Affairs The Over-Production Myth | By ERNEST MINOR PA Presiderit; Ameriean Acailemy of P: hearing sir 7h at song aring ‘strange and over-production. What ‘s baht gaol’ in the: period of F }, depression bee.» world- wide unem- ployment, cur- tailment of both domestic and foreign sales and general dis- organization. The common reaction has been that we have passed from a period of searcity into one of surplus | and to base upon this statement talk of over-production and restrictions. All over the world there has been curtailment of output—even the out- right destruction of many products. W2 have even paid groups not to produce. Yet this has been in @ worlo In which there are at the mos. no more then a handful of peope who do uo eagerly desire far more ‘tau they have. It was only fifteen years ago that. we were talking of scarcity not of an excess. Either there was some- ing wrong with our thinking’ then or there is something wrong with it now. Sir Arthur Saiter not long ago ex- pressed it wel) when he dosei ved tha it will be time to talk of over-nroduc “when every Hottentot is a mi lionaire.” Even in the United States where per capita production is the highest in the world there are many thousands of undernourished and poorly clothed people. A recent study by the Health Section of the League of Nations shows that in mi coun: tries there are vast numbers of peo) improperly and inadequately fed. Yet with millions still unemployed, prices of food and of other commodi- ties are definitely rising. First we should get it firmly fixed in our minds that we do not Base so0) too | much production. In the only in which the words should be "sed IN and Social Science under-production and shall jong time to’come. Pri- id public polleies should vate effort be in the direction of more output, ; not of less. Second we must realize that our troubles are due to our failure to pre- vent those ups and known as business cycles. Their causes are in- tricate and their cure difficult but until we understand them better and learn how to control them we shall have fluctuating prices and periods of unemployment. Third to be remembered is that the basic causes are not in our monetary system. It has its weaknesses and it is to be hoped that we can correct them. Crude tinkering with money, Lowever, of the sort that we have been carrying on and that many want us to continue, only serves to make ij matters worse. The basic troubles are not with money but with alarge num- ber of othc. matters. st i: not surprise ing that a business depression always brings forth many crude ideas, es- pecially monetary panaceas. are almost always urged by persons who have no training in the subject which is one of the most technical and most gimme in the whole field of econom- ics. Fortunately production in many lines is increasing. Not in all, for the drought of 1936 has sharply reduced many crop yields' But prices, es- pecially of foodstuffs, are rising. Em- ployment is lagging but may be ex- pected to grow as business continues to improve. We are gaining ground. What we have to dread ‘is not too much production but too rapid an advance. There is a real danger that the advance may get out of control anc that another reaction will come within only a few years. To repeat—we do not have and have not had over-production. What we haye had is a situation in which a great many producers have not been able to sell at prices sufficiently high to cover their costs. There is no single remedy. Most em- phatically it is not to be found in merely pushing up the level of prices. | That will give relief to none except a few limited groups and will instead create new difficulties for almost all of us. ; (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) oO TODAY’S WEATHER Ne Temperatures* Highest... Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfall” Yesterday's P » played north of Virgi ricane force from Cape Hatteras to the Virginia Capes. The storm is now moving northward and warnings have been extended up the Atlantic coast to Eastport, Me., with whole gale warnings dis- ia Capes to - Sandy Hook, N. J. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises .- 6:14 a. 6:27 p. Showers have occurred from the ‘southern Plains States southward the Florida Oklahoma r Texas, and on being heavy at ” City, 1.08 inches, Abilene, Texas, and San inches, Antonio, and ': there have been’ rains on the north and Low Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 29.99. WEATHER FORECAST (T.ll 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and’ Vicinity: tonight; Saturday Fair riable wind: Florida: Generally fair tonight except scattered west and extreme south coasts. Jacksonvil'e to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle variable winds and partly overcast weather tonight and Saturday. WEATHER CONDIT TIONS The severe ti pical storm was central at 8 a. m. this morning a short distance south-southeast of Cape Henry, Virginia. It has caused dangevous gales and high tides on the North Carolina and irgini: coasts and winds of hur- ‘north Atlantic coast, xnd in partly cloudy; with scattered showers; gentle va-; iddle Atlantic coast, being heavy in the vicinity of the tropic storm, Norfolk, Va., 2.74 inches. | Temperatures are below normal | is morning from the northern ins States eastward to the} the | Platexu region; while elsewhere readings are generally seasonable. GS. KENNEDY, Official in Charge Subserive to Tne Citizen—20c weekly. KEY. WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates Garage ‘Elevator Popular Prices SOTTTTTESTOTT TTT EY it to yourself. CREDIT. The First National 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 . : NOOO DIDIAI DL: aaa aa. The Easiest Way For You To N Pay For A Home 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., 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 house and then renting Od The logical way INSURED Bank ot Key West aI FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936 gle for liberty will be decorated Secretary Iturralde will make the! trip to Key West on the Cruiser KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY sa Happenings Here Just 10 Years’ Betancourt of the Cuban War Ago Today As Taken From | Veterans, and other veterans of The Files Of The Citizen ithe Cuban wars. Today's i The tropical storm which struck| Miami Beach this morning re-| Advisory storm warming: The sulted in great damage to prop-/hurricane is apparently central erty. A telegram from that sec- east or southeast of Miami preb- tion reads: “There is a 90 mile! ably moving slightly merth of hurricane raging. The whole city, west. Hurricane warnings are new iis under about three feet of wa-| being displayed from Titusville te ‘ter. The ocean came in over the| Key West and north of Key West window sills of the telegraph of-| to Tampa. Extreme caution ad- jfice. All city power is gone. i vised vessels on the eastern cost ;Many buildings completely blown of Florida, the Gulf of Mexice idown. Looks like no one will be and the Florida Straits. able to get here from the main- \land today. Causeway completely’ covered by the ocean.” The! iSteamer City of Fort Worth, en route from Galveston to Miami, arrived in port this morning and is tied up at the Porter Dock. The radio apparatus of the ship is out jof order and the master could not jlocate the storm center without :making port. A radio message ;from the Steamship Westerwald {received at the Jupiter radio sta- |tion stated that the crew of the ;Schooner M. S. A. Saint Pierre Miquelon which was sinking slow- ly and burning at 25 degrees north lattitude and 72 degrees 37 {minutes west longitude, had been |taken off and was safe on board jthe Westerwald. merchant. sp een: sod erat tere = Bester isey et Se Manned by more than six thes- sand officers and men eof the United States navy, the greatest aggregation ef government ve sels, aeroplanes and submarines, will assemble at Key West m " January and remain for a peried * of six weeks while maneuvers are carried on. This will be one the most imposing and patrictic demonstrations which has been scheduled for some time. The numerous friends of ter M Catherine, prefect studies and member ef the high schoo] faculty of the Convent of ; Mury: Immaculate, will be imter- Lested'to learn that she recently receiVed the award of master of arts degree by the University Pennsylvania and was the only one this year to receive the Ph Kappa Phi honor, the highest lable. Si Loca] F.,.E. ,C. officials report Ithat. the afternoon . wain north bound, which was to leave at 4 lo’clock, is being held pending ad- | Vices from Miami relative to the ‘condition of the track in that { vicinity. Reports indicate that the tracks are in bad condition and nothing has been heard of the j train from Miami which was doe 3 o'clock. Pearl Gillison. 14 year old | negro girl who was arraigned be- | fore Justice of The Peace Andr Lopez yesterday was not put in jail on default of bond, as first reported, but was turned over to the Juvenile court. It is the gen- eral belief that the girl is much! older than she says she is, and it is possible that she may be re- quired to leave the city per-; manently, YOUR DESTINY BY LE MAES A 1936 Reading to The Cities Random: by Sonu rangements for « Limited Time only TEN CENTS Com Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. ~_ aes Secretary of War and Marine Ide, of Cuba, and other of- of the Cuban government are due to arrive in Key West be- fore October 10, to take part in the imposing ceremonies when American officers who played a !conspicuous part in Cuba’s strug- altel aaa ee ee ae. Se | | ‘SPECIAL LUMBER OFFERING { i i \ \ : : : . : . . . 1X aN . \ . : : : . . : : : . : . . . : es 1x3 TONGUE AND GROOVE SHEATH- ING, can also be used for backing up $25.00 M for wall board, and many other uses Folks—A Little Personal Message For daring to speak our thoughts about the Pleat Beard oper= tions here, what we expected has happened. Im justice te the Ple=t organization, let us say that Mr. McClanahan, their bead, states thet ne such order has been given. One don’t have to see limburger to know that some i» around From rumors that reach our ear, and the way things amecll, «e would say that we have been boycotted by that organization But that isn’t all. The Yates Service Station, the building and land of which is owned by us, and rented te Mr. Yates, hes alse been put on the black list, at least that ix the way it smells. Now, for al we know, Mr. Yates does not agree with us im the wey we feel about spraying. Anyhow, Mr. Yates gets burned too. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best™ White and Eliza Streets Phone 5° ULLAL LALA ALAAAAAAAMALALLLLALLALLAAAAALAAA AAA A Fhe hed de headed ded dh hed ddd de deddedededead