The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday Ry THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. s s second class matter “FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press «he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication ef 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 eeaaaels ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. AL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obitucry not étc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents @ line. for entertai e is to be de Citizen is an ope sion of public issu Interest but it will not publish cations. churches from which cal or general jonymous commiuni- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1., Water and Sewerage. 2 Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. ‘Hotels and Apartmente: Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidat‘on of County and City Governments. The wise merchants is the one who put the “ad” in trade. Seotchmen make good receiving but rather reluctant paying tellers. Savages have great veneration for their tribal laws. This tends to prove that ; miles. AMERICAN RAILROADS The year 1930 marked the 100th an- niversary of the first regularly operated steam railroad in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio, which in 1830 was only 13 miles long. Other construction under way brought the total for the coun- try to 23 miles in that year. By 1840 the mileage had increased to 2,818 and extensions were made with in-! creasing rapidity during the succeeding years. When the railroad was 50 years old, in 1880, the United States had 93,671 The ten years between 1880 and 1890 was the greatest period of railroad build- ing. American roads built during that de- cade totalled 71,983 miles. The greatest railroad mileage was reached in 1916, when 254,251 miles were in operation. Since 1916, owing to the abandon- ment of a number of unprofitable short lines, the mileage has been actually re- duced, being now about 249,300 miles. At present new construction is almost en- tirely limited to adding a second, third or even fourth track to existing lines. One of the most striking develop- ments in railroads has been the increase in the size of locomotives. From a weight of less than five tons 100 years ago, they have been built larger and larger until today many passenger locomotives weigh 150 tons or more, while those used in freight transportation range as high as 220 tons or more. A few special types exceed 400 tons. With the growing competition of the automobile, truck and airplane, it is im- possible to predict what the next century of railroading may bring forth. It is safe to say, however, that for heavy freight transportation the railroad will hold first place for many years to come. RATS AID SCIENCE For centuries the rat has been one of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years ‘Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen { A radio message was picked up’ by the local station last night! which stated that 50 people are! destitute with food and water running low at a point about 80 miles north of Key West near; Lost Man’s River on the main-- land portion of Monroe county.! Coast Guard Vessel 298 came in-j to port this morning and began! loading food, supplies and water! and made ready to hasten to the rescue of the sufferers. Mr.; Beaver of the Gulf Refining com-' pany and Commissioner Hilton; Curry cooperated. In less than! one hour after the vessel arrived! in port she had sailed on the mis-! sion of relief. Paul Boysen, who is well acquainted with the sec-; tion to which the vessel is bound, | went along with Captain Daniels.} Hon. Charles H. Grakelow,; grand exalted ruler of the Elks,! has wired Judge Jefferson B.! Browne, pardon conrmissioner, to proceed at once to Miami and re-} port to James R. Nicholson, past’ grand exalted ruler to assist him! in ev way in extending relief; to the sufferers from’ the storm. Judge Browne will leave’ ‘tonight in accordance with instructions.+ The Grand Lodge of Elks, of Flor-} ida, has appropriated $25,000 to aid in the need and~ distress jn} the sterm stricken seetion of the state. ‘On the arrival of the Steam-' ip Governor Cobb from Havana sterday, passengers and cargo of the ship were transferred to. the Steamship Cuba which _ pro- ceeded to Tampa last night. This was done to place the Cuba in her! regular service between Tampa.' Key West and Havana which will put her back at this port Friday; merning. The Cobb sailed ior, Havana today. re i The estimated loss of life from ' make the You and Your Nation’s Affairs Peter Is Robbed: Paul Is Paid By CLARENCE W. FACKLER Associate Professor of Economics, New York University Frequently, business statistics are like Egyptian nose veils, they conceal as much as they reveal. At times they are recorded and described in so one- sided a manner that mental im- Pressions con- cerning the state of nation- al progress be- come biased and Incorrect. Apparently, society enjoys relating its gains, but like the infrequent winner at the avoids ing atten- tion too loudly to its losses. For example. the financial press of late has been de- scribing the increases in farm in- ! comes, the larger railroad earnings, and expanding government receipts. Yet, it is not always clear from the context of these optimistic reports just who is providing the funds which “improvement” in each case possible. Consider first the larger incomes for farmers. According to reports, cash incomes for agricuiturists in : July, 1936, amounted to $735.000,000, the largest for any month since 1929 Sales of farm products totalled $711.- 000,000 and government benefits »/added the difference, or $24,000,000 The inference is that the nation ts | better off because the farmers. despite the havocs of nature. have more mon- ey to spend. But the larger part of the farmers’ gait. is made possible by higher prices charged consumers in the cities, and by government sub- sidies. City dwellers these days are dig- ging deeper in their pocketbuoks to buy food and to pay taxes For them. | food costs alone have risen 32 per cent since 1933, and are now about 4/5 of what they were in 1929 Take another example of statistics which do not tell all. Railroad earn- ings, due largely to lower passenger fares, have risen markedly this sum- mer. The nation’s 113 leading roads show a 128 per cent increase in net | operating income for July, 1936. over the same month last year. But, what the railroads gain in traffic, busses may easily lose. At least, travel by automobile generally. being now more expensive for a greater number of people, wil! un- doubtedly decline. Reduced sales of cars, gasoline, oi] and accessories will follow in the wake. Both of these developments in the | industrial fields are similar to what | is taking place politically When the government by direci and indirect taxation takes away from one group and gives to another, one group loses | what the other gains, unless the plan- ning is all-wise and entirely devoid of errors. Only if future generations can be induced to make up these losses through greater exertion and by heavier taxes can the burdens be shifted. It is not altogether impossible | that pressure along this line will mean finally that the debts, arising out of the political readjustments now being made, will be repudiated. As things are going now, it is the present generation. however. which is suffering from less food at nigher prices, from tosses of its savings due to industrial readjustments. and from decreases in the purchasing power of its money occasioned by political ma- nipulations. The truth ts that industrial read- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 22. 1 TODAY’S | Highest ‘ Lowest Mean |Normal Mean : Rainfall i Yesterday's Precipitation .06 Ins. |Ncrmal Precipitation | coding at S o'clock thin mermemg- Temerrow's Almanac Sun rises ~ = iSun sets | Moou ris | Moon: @ets | First ‘quarter, § | Autumnal equinox | (Autyen be gia sd) | Sept. 23 ; | i ! High Low Barometer 8 A. a today: Sea leve i WEATHER “FORECAST (Till & p. m., Wednesday) y West and Vicinity: Partly clo with scattered showers to- night and Wednesday; ‘northeast to cast winds. Florida: ed showers on the extreme se gentle Partly cloudy. s jcoast tonight and over sou’ tion Wednesday. Jacksonville te Florida Straits Gentle north portion and gen- vanabie | winds ov |tle northeast to east wing ;South portion and partly evercast | Weather tonight and Wednesday. justments, unless even and uniform , and political readjustments. unless engineered with extreme care. bring zains to certain groups only by im- | posing losses spon others Of course, it is not always true that , what is somewhere gained is some- where lost, but the sort of “prosper- ity” on which the country is being regaled nowadays is largely of this sort Statistics like these disclose only one side of the national picture. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) i WEATHER CONDITIONS i <s The small tropical central this hurricanc was morning about midway between Nassau a toward the ne moderately muda. [it was m lor rently Pressure over eastern sections of the coun- is ‘ing the last 24 bours tte heavy cals = New YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS WEATHER Asheville, N. C_ 30.14 mches, anc Portland. Oregon, 32.88 mrcbhes and is lew over the Becky Moa=- Pines States tam and nerthers and upper Masceapp: Valles 25 Ins-jg dturbance ower mid costes | sPkts record covers 2¢-henr periay” Pear=; mas’ amd extreme southe:= F ida amd there Reve beet meerrst« Mex asia, the Car « S KENNEDT Otihe=ai = Charge thom At the same tame = buds ep pour seem apams feteer sk : Grove s Tasteiess Cand Tome comune os oe eee en[ ful Fafitile I 1 Americans are not savages. the storm in South Florida last Today In History ‘Today’ s Hor oP week has been placed at 600. The . injured run into the thousands. ; Many of the injuries reported are however, minor ones. A 1936 Reading to The Citicee Reeders by Special rangemests for « Limited Time only TEN CENTS Com Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA the worst enemies of mankind, destroying food, spreading disease, and otherwise be- ing a general nuisance. In recent years, however, scientists have found a practical a gs Sean Com and 1692—Seven women and _ two; 's native has a kindly na-| :men executed in Salem, Mass., for | ture, idchle imaginative and with | | witchcraft. la creative mind. The temper may ibe a little short, as is common with | Tampa will soon have the _ finest trailer camp in the South. In that she is not trailing but ahead of the times. According to information re-! What has become of Gandhi? How quickly people gotten when the Mahatma are for- newspapers ignore them! th sentence: “I always read the political platforms carefully be- fore deciding which candidate to sup- port.” Correct With the opening of the schools, per- mit reversion to the thought that it is the teachers and not the buildings which make the school. Ed, down in the composing room, con- tributes this: ‘Knock, knock. Who's there? Amsterdam. Amsterdam who? Amsterdam tired of hearing knock, knocks I'm about to go nutty.”—Times-Union. With the war clouds Europe, solidarity should be our watch- word. Arraying class against class is dangerous at all times and particularly at the present. If we don’t stick together we'll get stuck, hovering over There are still many men who ad- here to the theory that “petticoat” govern- ment is unthinkable and that only those bipeds who wear pants know how to govern, but they must remember that wo- men do not wear petticoats anymore, and have gone to wearing “slacks”, which is another name for pants. Mussolini she has eight million soidiers and is ready for war tomorrow. Hitler says his army is in the pink of'ton- dition and is ready for a scrap ,on notice. How can world peace be expected with such talk. going -on?—Times.Unions Let ’em talk; so long as they talk they won't fight. A barking dog with os mouth open can't bite. Unless there is a reversal of the usual procedure, the friends of Fred P. Cone will be rewarded and those who opposed him will find themselves in the cold, but in one case at least the one ousted will go a step upward. That exception is Chester B. Treadway who is slated to be removed from the state road department and may be made the directing head but not the en- gineer in the building of the bridges com- pleting the road to the mainland. short} £ use for limited numbers of these rodents,, which have been employed in research connected with human nutrition, Some interesting results from experi- menting with rats are reported by Dr. Helen S. Mitchell, nutrition expert of a Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium. On a diet of liver only, the rats de- veloped acute kidney inflamation, but were brought back to health by a change of food. Anemia was produced by feed- ing the rats only milk, which is deficient in iron, but the addition of inorganic iron solution restored them to health. Perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of the experiments are the babies of the coun- try, for many of the diseases of childhood result from improper feeding. As Dr. Mitchell has expressed it, “the rat in the laboratory cage Has revealed the correct diet for the baby in the cradle.” WATCH THE BOYS AND GIRLS There are quite a group of = active, little boys and girls from two to six in Key West. They heedlessly run into danger. They are at an age that dents of serious import happen. parents bear this in mind. In a year, in this country, 1,600 chil- dren between these ages burned to death. Hundreds died from poisoning. Their little hands reached out to examine and came into contact with death. It is not too late to save the lives of Key West's little children. Let all parents be careful around the house. Teach the children not to play with fire and leave no poison within their reach. acci- Let our IT’S ACTUALLY WORKING Most legislative panaceas don’t work. But one is. The 1935 legislative session changed the method of selling tax deeds. The old plan was the owner or other party at interest either redeemed the tax applica- tion at its face prior to issuance of the deed Sr lost the property. New law re- quires the property under application to be put up at auction to the highest bid- der; surplus, if any, going to the owner. The law has begun to produce some real benefit to owners. Almost without exception bids are offered substantially above the amount of the tax certificate and costs; this extra going to the property owner, peo o Rial auth BME etter ae Re he Rar SS keg enone ceived here from Galveston Com-' 1776—Nathan Hale, “Martyr quick, energetic people. There Name - mander W. A. Benham, who was Spy” recently named to be in command by British in New York. Aged only, of the United States Coast Guard 21. Comanche has arrived at but one life to lose for my coun- Cutter His “I only regret that I have of the Revolution, hanged}, strong, self-commanding faculty, which will, in most cases, hold con- i trol; that port from New York and has try,” rings down through the years. | | casionally into sensuousn assumed command of the cruiser.; Mrs. Benham is a daughter of Mr.: and Mrs. Frank, Maloney of Key: West. Editorial contment: The auto- mobile speedsters’should not knock ever all the lamp posts and tele- phone poles as the loafing ele-' ment needs same kinds of support! to lean against. ihis 18-year-od bride, Hall Chuck, first Baptist mission-' Monday aries to live in Chins, sailed from Criminal court of record will hold a_ short session morning to dispose of some of 1788—Judge John C. Symmes: of New Jevsey, having bought a { quarter-million acres in the ‘“Mi-/ ‘ami Purchase,” reached settlers—Cincinnati Bend grew out of this settlement. ; for colonization, ' Ohio with his company of and North 1835—Rev. Jehu L. Shuck and Boston. Mrs. Shuck first protest- the cases which have been docket- ant missionary of her sex%n China, ed since the cessed. regular term re-; =a i There will be a meeting of Troop 3 Girl Scouts held on Fri- day afternoon beginning at 4:30 o’clock in their headjuafters in Golden Eagle Hall. A full at- tendance of members js re- quested. OnUG i The Jack Dempsey-Bugene. Tun-: ney fight for the world’s cham pionship wilbsbe! giveh ound — b: round at The Citizen office Thursday night. You are invited to come out and get the results of this battle just as it takes place in Philadelphi Every blow, | every action and every important, occurrence of the fight will bei given, absolutely free. j Joseph Mondul was elected died at the age of 27. sident Lincoln’s first, 1862 — F Emancipation oar — faster Counsellor = in was elected Junior Couftsellor the meeting of Rabert J. erry Chapter DeMolaf’s¢ last ight. The newly elected#officers yill be installed at the regular MALARIA COLDS | Henrietta} (cceersssrscrsszonen | (if very much like buying a it to yourself. CREDIT. CLEA AANA hehe hh hdd Lud N The Easiest Way For You To * 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., 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 INSURED The First National Bank ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The logical way and thus, house and then renting b hkerde theuke uh ude aude all C heuhuke Vs sp | | TISPPTLALLL 2 2 Subscribe zo weekly. but is liable to slack off, oc-| The Citizen—20c | ee OO LSOOTTO TSS. SOTOTIee es. BiG as. While Out Ridin STOP BY OUR GARDENS Of Our Rose Bushes By You will see hundreds of dead stalks and hundreds of others struggling in vaim to resist the death dealing spray operations. Is Key West To Be Reduced Te A Barren Island By These People? SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CD. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best™ White and Eliza Streets Pree Oh hh hedede deddededed hedhed hdhededdhadedadedead i