The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1936. The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. THE SPREAD OF DIVORCE | power of the storm winds Three! |top stories of the McCa'ister Hotel KEY WEST IN ‘are reported blown off. The I7- DAYS GONE BY ster tecr-Kiser building war 0 !twisted that it will have te be de- You and Your Many persons still living remember r A Jong the spoils.” 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 County. 1a West, Flo FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press she Associated Press is exclusisely entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $10.00 | six Months : Three Months ..... One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known vn application. of thanks, resolutions of will be charged for at All reading notice respect. obitua sion of public 15: subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. and Consolidat'‘on of County City Govern Principles are often what read about in a book, you The best preacher wins men by _ in- spiring them; does the campaign orator. so People who speed on the highways are often the ones to hurt drivers trying to be careful. We read that about 5,000 stars are visible on a clear, dark night. If you don’t believe it, count ‘em. Here is one for the young ladies: The right age at which a girl should marry is the age at which the right man asks her to marry him. The president's powers to vary the gold content of the dollar and to fix the weight of the silver dollar expire on January 10, four months hence. Then what? | | Ask a man for advice and he will give it although believing it extremely valuable; ask him for a donation and he will run like he is going to a fire. This il- lustrates how much he thinks of his own advice. Louis Schwartz, with unsavory reputation, made a yain fight to dodge prison for income tax evasion and will be required to serve a year and one day in federal prison besides having to pay a fine of $200. Jacksonville court records reveal that five judges and a number of officials had previously asked that the original and heavier sentence be quashed. If judges of one court ask clemency for the judged in others what will become of respect for justice? In this connection we are glad to note that the state pardon board clamped | down a general rule that it would not consider clemency applications unless prisoncrs have served at least one-third of their sentence. an Neither political party nor any gov-! ernmental organization anything } “wrong in the maxim: “to the victors be- Disowned in theory per-| haps, it is nevertheless ingrained jn our political system. Some time back a Key! West politician disclaimed bitterly against | such a policy, yet when elected his first thought was nepotic, a reward for his victory secured by the franchise of the} people. In this connection it is no sur-| prise to this column to hear that every! Sholtz appointee will find his head on the chopping block. Fred P. Cone was elected to the governorship with the aid of his friends, and these friends expect their re- ward and will get it; it’s in the cards, sees i their messages. j other judgment than that based upon as- away back when it was considered some-| thing akin to disgrace to get a divorce, ex- ; cept for the mest compelling reasons. To- day divorces and annulments of marriages } are so common as to excite only passing comment. An interesting table showing the | spread of divorce in this country is con-' tained in the World Almanac, giving | statistics on the subject running back to; the year 1888, when the percentage of | ‘ divorces to marriages was only 5.4. Since then divorce has increased with almost continuous regularity, until it has reached 17 for every 100 marriages, or about one; out of six. Taking the record of 40 years by in- | tervals of 10 years we find the following: There were 6 divorces for every 100 mar- ; riages, in 1891; 8.2 in 1901; 9.3 in 1911; 13.7 in 1921, and 17 in 1931. During the j same period the number of marriages per 100,000 population has shown a slight in- | crease, The lowest number of marriages, | population considered, during this 40-year period was in 1894, when there were 8.6 marriages per 100,000 of population; the highest was in 1920, when -the number rose to 11.98. ‘ Taking actual figures without con- sidering the increase in population, it is shown that in 1888 only 26,669’ persons in the United States wéré divorced, while the highest number was.reached in 1929, when no less than 201,469 couples were leased from their marital bonds, The most distressing feature of this rapid and continuous spread of the divorce habit is that more than 100,000 children are affected by it each year, re- |} PROMISE YOURSELF Certainly we do not wish to bore our j readers with diatribes against the killing of so many American citizens on the high- ways of the land but it is a serious mat- ter when nearly three thousands citizens bite the dust every month in automobile accidents. The number of those injured is ap- palling. The economic loss alone justifies a campaign to reduce the accidents and save life and limbs. There is much that the average man | or woman can do in this drive for safety. No one has to wait on his neighbor. You can make up your mind today that, here- after, you will drive more carefully. Others can do the same. The cumulative effect will be tremendous even if there no organization, no publicity and no boas ing. We hope that at least one reader of this article will decide immediately to take the pledge of the safe driver. If you are} the one, you needn't bother about adver- tising it to the world. Just remember your promise to yourself when you drive your automobile. NOT GUARANTEED BY US The All-American. Astrologers vention was recently attended ~ by hundreds of star-gazers and the celestial firmament. As usual they come forth with some predictions, including: (1) the average} citizen is going to fare well, (2) the eco- nomic condition of the country is good, (3) | there will be a boom in real estate, (4) there will be no recurrence of the drought j and (5) Roosevelt's re-election. We chronicle these items in order that | our readers may know what the stars cae according to the professing students of We do not guarantee} them and, in fact, despite the claim that} con- } some | students of } astrology is on a scientific basis, prefer to} put our money, if and when, upon some trological dope. “MORE IMPORTANT” The Olympic games of 1940 will be staged in Tokyo, Japan, much to the satis- | faction of many eminent Japanese who ~~ sire to demonstrate that the island em- pire can outdo the Germans when it comes | to staging the world’s greatest athletic ex- hibitions. A sour note however comes from the all-powerful army group which reminds civilian officials, educators and_ sports leaders that by 1940 the Japanese Empire may have more important contests on its mind, Nation’s Affairs Profit or Spoils _, _, By ELIOT JONES Professor of Transportation and Public Utilities, Stanford University The goods and services that' we all enjoy may be supplied to.us by pri- vate enterprise or by the State. If they are supplied >y private enter- prise we must pay a price for them sufficient- ly high to in- duce the sup- plier to con- tinue in the business. Tem- porarily the consumers may take advantage of the necessi- ties of the pro- ducers, but they can not expect to do so regularly. On the other hand, the con- | sumers, if they think prices are too high or the quality is poor, may, as- | suming the existence of competitive conditions, withdraw their patron- age. We may anticipate, therefore, that private enterprise will usually make goods and services available at a price that consumers will be will- ing to pay. The ability’to withhold patronage ! or transfer it somewhere else gives the consumers. reasonable protection against excessive prices and poor quality. Some services, however, can not well be handled on a price basis. Ex- amples are police protection, fire pro- tection, national defense, weather re- porting, flood control, and parks. These services must be performed by the State (using the term in its broad sense), and the necessary funds ob- | tained through taxation. In addition to performing the ser- vices that can not well be handled on a price basis the State may also per- { form the services that can be handled on a price basis; and in this day and age we are witnessing a wide exten- sion of state activity. We are told that if state enterprise were substituted for private enter- prise we could get goods and services at cost price, and it would not be necessary to pay tribute to profit- seeking capitalists. ‘What is this so-called tribute? The consumers want goods and services tak e bacor 2 Bel i Ae e mn. Seldom is it for the consumers to produce their own bacon. They must therefore get it from someone who has it for sale. They can not well get it from a pro- ducer, because the nearest producer may be hundreds of miles away. The consumers must therefore resort to intermediaries — retail grocers and others—who make it their business to gather from numerous markets, often far removed, the innumerable arti- cles that the consumer may want, and to keep them fresh, and to bear the loss in the event of damage or decay. Does tribute seem an appropriate word to use in connection with such valuable services? It is true that the profits of the retail grocer may be large, but this is seldom the case, and if they are, the field is usually open to all comers. If the State displaced private enter- prise, would the consumers be better off? The answer depends, of course, on whether the State could manage the business more efficiently. The State would presumably sell goods and render services at the cost price; it would not need to make a Profit, though many public enter- prises do operate for profit, the same as private enterprises. But the cost to the State might easily be more than the cost to private concerns plus a profit, in which case the so-called tribute to private enterprise is seen to be no tribute at all, but merely a necessary recompense for the per- formance of indispensable services. It must be remembered that the | Present economic order ‘is highly complicated; it involves, the produc- | tion of thousands of commodities in widely scattered localities, their transportation to markets by many agencies, and their storage and dis- tribution through innumerable wholesale and retail outlets. That the State could build up an organization capable of doing the job more effectively itis now done is much to be doubted, especially if the government is run on the “spoils system,” as at present, (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S WEATHER Temperatures* Highest Lowest Mean 5 Normal Mean . Rainfali* 94 Ins, [hours from New Jersey eastward, being central this morn- -90 ing some distance off the Massa-! ~ <1 chusetts 82 gales and heavy has caused ins along the Atlantic coast during the last 12 to the coast. It 3 Ins. ; southern New England coast. crx 24-hour period ck thix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac un rises - Mm. . m m. Moon Moon. sets Tomorrow’s Tides A.M. P.M. High °mM-| porting 4.14 Rains have been general in At- jantic coast districts during the last 24 hours, New York City re- inches and Boston, inches. Thgre have showers © in Masgs., 3.30 so been’ moderate portions of the southern Plains | 12:49, States and on the Florida Keys. | = SEPP S as: N COIOPIIDOPID ION IDS, 5:43; Temperatures have risen in the {Rocky Mounta‘n and Plains States; ; while elsewhere chenges have been ; unimportant, with readings below ‘normal from the Lake region east- ward the north Atlantic States. Low as OAL Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 29.97. WEATH=R FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Sunday) Ee Key West and Vicinity: Partly; tonight and Sunday with’ scattered showers; gentle to mod-} erate winds, mostly easterly. | Subseribe zo The Citizen—20e Florida: Fair in north and part-| weekly. ly cloudy in south with} —— seattered showers on the extreme! south coast tonight and in ex-! KEY WEST treme south portion Sunday. ‘| CQLONIAL HOTEL Jacksonville, to Florida Straits: 5 and East Gulf: Gentle variable | In the Center of the’ Business and Theater District GIES III ILI ILI SS. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge portion winds over north and gentle to moderate winds mostly easterly j over south portion and partly: overcast weather tonight and Sun-j day. . Sensible Rates } i WEATHER CONDITIONS | | The trop'cal storm has decreas-; ed in intensity and moved north-| ' The Easiest Way For You To Pay For A Home is to pay for it as-you pay rent. The logical way is to pay monthly, out of income, an installment on the p ijial ‘And :the interest, etc., and thus, over a pried Ay 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 it to yourself. CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED CREDIT. The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Seb bd td tkdtthethitdidL 6 hud ue if Ld ti kAAttedtdhéed Happenings Here Just 10 Year?) ocjiched and many other build Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen jall available bread and other food stuffs. Citizens of Key West are urged to bring as much bread and lother food es they can to The Citizen office, 125 Duval, street. before 7:16 o'clock this evening. It will be promptly taken to the irain leaving at 7:30 and will be distributed where most needed in Miami under the supervision of the Amezican Legion. Represen- tatives of the Chamber of Com- jmerce ard the American Legion are czilin-; on all bakeries and wholesale hovses and securing a large quantity of bread and crack- ers and will later take up c tions for the purpose of for these purchases. The following marriage licenses have been issved from the office | ef Judge Hugh Gunn since the last list was published. Remisburg | Mitchel’ to Cornelia Boll; Harry | H. Young to Agnes L. Ward; Ivan j Watson to Mery Orden; John How a'd Thrift to Mzry Malone. Edito‘al comment: It is claim ed that eur cities are too noisy but tow where the merchants won't advertise are not usually } comp'ained o£ on that account. ‘A baby boy was born yesterday -o Mr. ‘and Mrs. Carl Taylor in heir home, 355 Simonton street. A baby boy was born yesterday {to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sands at heir home, 623 W There were two trains nut from the East Cozs | vesterday afternoon. One of them i"eft at 3 o'clock and the other left one hour later. Both of the train carried fairly large passenger lists, pulling Station Miami shuddered Saturday morning under the lashings of one of the most terrible storms which have vis'ted the Flozida coast in many years. The unestimated “amage will run into millions, it s said, and the people of the tood dazed and awed while nessing tae results of the terrible forces of nature. iami’s center ‘f a 70-mile area was swept by the hurricane and the city felt the “ull force of the wind which times reached a force of 109 mile= }per hour, it was said. Some of the finest buildings in Miami are warped and otherwise show the at ff |ings suffered. Deaths reported from Ho'lywood are 52 and Fort | Lauderdale est-mates the cead at Key West has been requested to, 2° ith every building @ the city send to Miami ty train tonight |Sffe~inz d»maze from the gale Five huse electric towers erected by t were he blown Radio They do~n. Staten were erected ai a cost of $165,000. K ey merce quir'es comin tions as te accommodations ef v= is beginning te receive West Chamber if Con = rding rooms f the pr sezson. Many que> o win rious kinds have been receiwed and othe sary West to telephone cular emphasis is being on boarding f. cther letter asking for informats e ¥ accommods* \of the ed that the chambe ation nv reoms are A ace acriving im cach mai nce Hties, about eve to bearding houses @ Se many been rece inds it ons. inquirics have neces_ cople of tne chamb esk th K order that compl person whe requeste the Chambcr of Commerce AFTER YOU HAVE READ THE SUNDAY STAR TOMORROW, CHECK UP ON THE ADVER- TISERS WHO FURNISH INTEREST- ING READING YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Readers by Special Ar- rangements for a Limited Time only TEN CENTS Com and Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. City and State Date of Birth Write Plain—Enclesing 10c Coin and Stamp STOP BY OUR GARDENS Plant Board Spraying Operations You will see hundreds of dead stalks and hundreds of others struggling in vain te resist the death dealing spray operations. 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