The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO " The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday Ry SN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ‘, President Business Manager tizen Building and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. JUE ALLEN, From The Corner Green sively entitled to use dispatches credited to lited in this paper and also d here. it or not otherwis the local news pub! SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year : six Months z Three Months ~ One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATE: Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading noti will be charged for at hurches from which cents a line. and invites discus- publie 1s 5 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. Consolidation of County Governments. and City The people elect leaders to office but once there they are at the mercy of their leaders who can make decisions which in practice cannot be undone. But the lead- ers can be undone at the next election. Cengratuiations to the Miami radio announcer who pronounces Toledo, Spain, correctly. It Toe-lay-doe, not Toe- lee-doe. Perhaps some Key Wester familiar with the Spanish language is tipping him off, is Key Westers generally learn with re- gret that Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde had the misfortune to break her leg. The acci- dent will require the cancellation of her speaking engagement advocating the re- election of President Roosevelt. Edmund Burke said of the Americans of Revolutionary days that they were ac- customed “to snuff the approach of ty- ranny in every tainted breeze.” It is just the reverse today in Germany, Russia and Italy; they snuff the approach of liberty and freedom there. One sometimes hears How big is the Universe?) No one knows, that much we know. If it has no ending, it may be assumed that it has no begin- ning. In this connection there are several things we do know. We know, for in- stance, that the nearest star is so far dis- tant that an airplane traveling 200 miles an hour would require 13,000,000 years to get there. Astronomers aver there is a xy of stars 170,000,000 light years or nine hundred and _ ninety-seven quintillion (997,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles distant from the Earth, and that is only ar as our present photographic plates reach. It is not humanly _ possible even to conceive or imagine the entirety of space. the question: Although Florida press comment is not unanimous in condemning the Tampa spectacle of refusing to let Communist Candidate Browder speak, censure of the authorities’ foolish action is beginning to pile up. Confessing at the outset that it is “dead against Communism,” the Ar- cadia Arcadian declares: “Just the same We would be willing to let the candidate far president on the Communist ticket talk about’ his program in a public place, be- cause he has a Constitutional right to do s@,” “He and his followers will win more by it” (the ban), predicts the Lakeland Ledger, “than they would have gained by a hundred speeches.”” The Key West Citi- zen points out that “Italy, Germany and Russia padlocked the vocal cavities of the would-be orators and did not tolerate the semblance of free speech, and now they are regimented under the iron hand of rulers whose every word is law.” It is un- fortunate that Tampa, just out from under si a goodly share of the flogging stigma, had | to get itself so soon under another cloud.— Miami Daily News. of thanks, resolutions of | GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES Few of us know much about geo- graphy, except in a most vague way, and this being the case a little inquiry into the latitude and longitude of various places ! often reveals facts which are somewhat} surprising, as a few examples may il- lustrate. We think of “sunny Italy” as a warm, | southern country, yet Rome and Chicago ! are in exactly the same latitude. Other pairs of places of equal latitude are Paris | and Quebec; Berlin and Attu Island, | : Alaska; New York and Istanbul (Con-| stantinople) ; Florence, Italy, and Toronto, Canada. Venice, famed for its canals, is ; in the same latitude as Montreal. In the manner of longitude, also, our ; casual impressions often might be found | faulty. A classic example, pretty well known by this time, is that the Pacific end of the Panama Canal is farther east than j the Atlantic end, owing to the peculiar | curve of the isthmus. Due to the eastward sweep of South America’s western coast, we find Santiago, Chile, to be 200 miles farther east than New York. Reno, Nev., is farther west than Los Angeles. Washington, D. C., is due north of Nassau, Bahama Islands. | A good many persons, when they first | heard of it, were surprised to learn that Tokyo, Japan, is some 1,100 miles farther east than’ Manila, Philippine Islands, 2s eyesore PLIGHT OP THE AGED. oittises While not a pleasant subject to dwell upon, on occasional look ahead to the con- dition which may surround old age would be advisable, even for those whose circum- stances in early life are satisfactory and whose future seems secure. We may well be reminded that nearly 80 per cent of all old people are wholly or partially dependent upon others for sup- port. Yet many of these in early and middle life were prosperous; some even wealthy. Who can not look about him and see acquaintances who were once the envy of their neighbors, but who through business revers accidents, illness or extravagance are now brought to feel the sting of poverty? Usually such disasters might . have been averted by a reasonable exercise of prudence and thrift. Keeping up with one’s neighbors in a false display of pros- perity is one fruitful source of old age poverty, and there are many others. Much of the misery which usually accompanies old age might be avoided by looking ahead before it is too late. , LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE Interest is aroused by the disappear- ance of a retired banker and business man of New Jersey because of the note left by the gentleman, telling his relatives that he had “gone out to join the army of missing persons” and requesting that no effort be made to find him. No thought of gpigidesis entertained because the“man, in his note, after saying | he had removed all identification from his clothing, insisted that he would not “do away” with himself aS*t##t\vééld be a sin and prevent hifn from “joining” his wife, who died.several years ago. The man is 63 years old, six feet tall and walks with a slight limp. If any read- er of this article runs across the brother it will be just as well if you mind your own business. If the man wishes to get away from his relatives he probably knows what he wants and is entitled to do as he pleases without being molested by a lot of cranks. TAKE YOUR CHOICE The chances are that somebody, read- | ing this article, will be seriously injured in } an automobile accident within the next | few weeks. Of course, as you read, you remark to yourself, “it isn’t going to be me,” and you, may be right, but, unfortunately, you may be wrong. Can you do anything about the risk? Certainly, you can. Make it your business to drive carefully, take no chances and walk rather than ride with speed maniacs. The chances are that some of your friends will think you are a “scared cat” but, if they are reckless drivers, you prob- ably are and ought to be. Anyway, look- ing at the subject from a wide angle, would you rather be a “scared cat” or a dead, game sport? | shall be obliged, consequently, ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs A Tale that Goes With the Hide By HARLEY L. LUTZ : Professor: of Public Finance, Princeton University As the politicaliguiipaigh :|'tier, the pdcking compatty aid vari- we shall hear more ‘and more about |‘ous others, including his ewn shop, it taxes and taxation. The subject is an| does not follow that all taxes paid entirely proper ong at all times, for!|.by these various parties’are actually ., Atherg is no dit|.carried forward to the ultimate con- =] puting that it is|‘sumer. Tax shifting is-not so auto- the most impor-| matic as this; on the ceutrary, it is tant, and at the/ extremely difficult and uncertain. same time the} Should the process be as easy and cer- most difficult,| tain as these posters assutte, the com- aspect of gov-| plaint of the farmer, the railroad. the ernment. In|meat packer and the theory, our po-| their respective heavy taxes must be litical cam-| quite without foundation. paigns are the] It is true that over long periods, the democra t i c| prices received for consumable goods method of con-| must cover the expense of producing ducting both a/| them, and that certain taxes consti- criticism and tute a legitimate part of this expense. defense of a|At any given time, however. the particular gov- ernmental pol- icy and they afford, therefore, an especially ap- propriate opportunity for the discus- sion of taxation. Unfortunately, those most active in the critical as well as the defensive exposition are not always careful to base their treatment of this compli- cated subject on sound premises. We to listen to many fallacies and half- little or none of these taxes. When all producers are successfully shifting their taxes to the consumers. we shall know it by the decline in the com- plaints over the taxes leyied on pro- ducers. Until these complaints sub- side, we should be skeptical about such facile explanations as to where the tax burden falls. A_misleading implication’ of this kind of advertising is its suggestion that the political party in power is responsible for all taxes, and if it over | prices that can be charged may cover | truths as the debate grows warmer. It may be worth while to undertake, occasionally, a correction of some of the worst errors that are made. One illustration of the kind of half- truth that will be uttered sbout taxa- tion is the device said to have been originated by certain meat dealers. It is a poster, displayed in the shop. showing the amount of taxes in the retail prices of tamb chops. sausage. rib roasts and other meat items. This kind of argument ts erudely effective, and tittle of its effect is re- moved by the fact that the statistics may be of dubious validity, or by the further fact that its implications are misleading. In other words. it is only a partial truth, against which there may be strong considerations that are entirely omitted. The assumption that all taxes are shifted to the consumer is untenable. Granting, for the moment, that a re- tail meat dealer can accurately com- pute and allocate to a pound of lamb chops its proper quota of the taxes paid by the farmer, the railroad car- were not for this party's policy lamb chops, for example, would sell for 32 cents instead of 50 cents per pound. No argument is needed to show that som : taxation is required by any gov- ernment. Without the stability and se- curity provided by government,” would be unavailable at any, price. The issue that should raised, in all discussions of taxatibn. is how functions of government and how much of what we pay is due to gov- ernmental waste and extravagance. Since this kind of inguiry touches such matters as the spoils system, the defective structure and organization of government and the policy of pay- ing extravagant subsidies_and bene- fits to specially favored groups. there is little interest in pushing it among those who take the lead in our politi- tant step in tax reform has to do with public expenditures rather than with taxation. goods would net sell for less: they {' much taxation is necessary and prop- | er to support the essential and useful | cal affairs. The first and, most impor- | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From : People of Key West are re- | sponding nobly to the appeals for financial assistance made by Mi-; ami and other east coast cities.! The fund for these devastated cities having already passed the one thousand dollar mark. Tele- grams continue to come in from the storm stricken area asking for finanvial ‘aid for the destitute and undoubtedly it will take many “iron men” to meet the exigencies of their great ex-! tremity. Besides Miami there are i Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Goulds, Moore Haven and many other small towns which are sadly in need of the succor their more for- jtunate neighbors can well afford. |The people of Florida are uniting tin a great effort to succor victim: ‘ofthe hurricane and we of this Island City Who were entirely spared that adversity, ought to of- |fer our resources with generosity | and sympathy because Key West has on occasions passed through just such stress of circumstance: as they and can well imagine what those cities, unprepared to it such attacks and ignorant the;simplest methods -of' pre-| ! limjnaxy. ,axgcaution ..must _ have! suffered... The, list of _ contribu-! tions to date total in cash, $1,- 1063.50. "This is not ‘taking into cotisidévation’ the “food and other! things sent to the stricken area.} ‘On account of the Cuban In- dependente Day celebration to be {held in Key West October 10, the, Peninsular and Occidental Steam- ship company announces first! class excursion rates from Havana |to Key West at $17.50 for the | round trip, tickets to be sold in | Havana October 8 and 9 and will | be limited to return not later than | October 14. It is expected that { these favorable round trip tickets crowd to come to this city and take part in the celebration. lrelief organization. This is \sist as much as possible im plies of ul by the company’s officals: to Ve viding relief for storm suffi : Misses Irma and Curry entertained the of their Sunday school yesterday at their home at Eaton street. Games were play and delicious refreshments candy, cake and ice cream The Misses Curry were by Mrs. James Singleton and Miss/ the mvags af Ethelind Sawyer. gy eg ames @ two sas — Sr Ros In today's issue of The ET eS will be found the announcement, Ses pam of Leroy Torres as a candidate Seo oe ee Sere for the office of constable from the first district to be voted on in the November election. This candidate has a large following and his many friends are con- fident he will make a good race. i vy i i aLe Hie HL tie Today In History 1734—The Schwenkicider- rehgees éemomnz ed = -— = There was an unusually large number of fight fans assembled last night. At 9 ‘clock werd was received from Havana that returns could be sent here if The Citizen wanted them. At once word was sent that the would be received and Lopez was secured to make announcements. From the me- ment the fight started until the 10th round when Tunney was de- clared the victor, the crowd was gradually augmented and by the time the victor was announced. there was a large assemblage of fight fans eagerly absorbing the announcements. of ther regen. eleerved tea oy 1841—James Brook adves <came EKajak aoe ous Eng ihmas al or scendants raie the name All members of Troop 4 Boy Scouts are called to assemble at headquarters on Sunday eve to attend divine services. Uni- forms will be worn with black ties. will be an inducement for a large’ — YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS !Moon rises . (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) TODAY’S WEATHER ‘gale force over a small area near 89 the center. The center will like- -.78 I, reach the, extseme east, coast -84. of Maine or western Nova Scotia ..82,tonight, and storm warnings are | displayed on the coast of Maine east of Portland. Showers and thunderstorms have occurred during the last 24 hours from southeastern New Mexico .jand northern Texas” northeast- 121 p. m,| ward over the Lake region and 2:31 §. m.j Ohio Valley, being heavy at. Mem- 2:45 a. m.|Dhis, Tenn., 1.14 inches; and Louis- ville, Ky.) 2.42 inches; There have :also been light to mgderate show- ers in portions of the East Gulf States and western Florida. There has been a decided fall in tem- | perature in the Plains States, up- per Mississippi Valley,’ and Lake region, with readings:slightly be- }low freezing this morning in (Ti!l 8 p. m., Friday) \northern Minnesota;, while tem- Key West and Vicinity: Partly.' peratures continue above normel cloudy tonight and Friday, local} throughout most eastern and showers Friday; gentle variable; southern districts. winds, G. S. KENNEDY, Flor Partly Officiak:in Charge showers Friday and : north portion tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits; and East Gulf: Gentle’ variable{ winds and partly overcast weath-} er tonight and} Friday with scat-' | Temperatures* Highest .. Lowest Normal Mean . Rainfali* Precipitation nal Precipitation record nding at 8 0° Tomorrow Sun rises Sun sets -0 Ins, -26 Ins. © period er Kk thix morning. | joon sets ~ Témerrow’s A.M. High 4:13 Low .. 11:33 Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 30.03. ides P.M. 6:14 10:38 WEATI ‘ORECAST cloudy, local in extreme aay KEY WEST. COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District First Class—Fireproof— Sensible Rates tered showers Friday. WEATHER CONDITIONS The tropical disturbance was central this morning about 350 miles east-southeast of Atlantic: City, N. J., moving almost direct-! ly noithward about 20 miles per hour attended by shifting’ gales and probably by winds of whole {(orereecrserserasen The Easiest Way For You To & Pay For A Home is to pay for it ags.you pay rent. 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