The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 2

PAGE awe: The Key West Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday Ry THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President EN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE AL! Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. dat Key West, Florida, as second class matter spatches credited to in this paper and also here. for republication it or not otherwi the local news publishe SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year six Months Three Months ... 0.60 j a8 NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of :, Will be charged for at SPECIAL All reading notice by churches from which sion of public issues interest but it will no: ef local or general nonymous eommuni- It is easy to pass a law, but it is dif- ficult to find out what it really means. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be efraid te 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; toierant of others’ rights, views and print onty news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com opinions; promise with principle. Trading at nome is reasonable only so long as people can trade reasonably at home. The ideas of a great many men would never be known if there were no news- papers, Whenever you are given the idea that you are being let-in on a special deal, you probably are. Mace you a’Ghob- Smiths Smith is Thought might be interested! The name of heipn in’ Gaelic. Then there is the fellow whose idea of fame is to have one of his testimonials read over the radio. Nothing can be considered “safe” in political prognostications if the voters de- cide to do some thinking. Civic organizations are apt to turn their attention to something new and thus verlook problems connected with what We read that a Vanginia college has rgain. He demanded double the salary of the college president. obtained a football coach at a t only All those coffee sippers who are ridiculed for this apparently harmless di- version, should reply to these jesters that coffee drinking was Napoleon's favorite pastime, that and playing solitaire. Russia and Germany are not only making faces at each other but calling names. The next thing they will be throw- ing rocks, but these are known by another name when things begin to happen. During the present year, 92 people did not find Miami a desirable place to live and committed suicide or attempted to do so. The race is to the swift in the. Magic City and not all can stand the strain, Some day Ripley will say: The wtaast population of ascity of 10,000 rejoiced when it was announced that its only rail-¢ road would be abandoned, believe it or} not. Readers everywhere will be astound- ed until he gives them the facts the follow- ing day. A Talmudic tale assures us that a fish came ashore in the Mediterranean, so large | that the people of sixty cities ate from, and those of sixty more salted down some of its flesh, and from one of the eyes, 300 measures of oil were obtained. Do you; know a better one? { borrowing to meet new obligations. | spend public money the disappointment in your own soul and } business you both follow. THE ANSWER IS INEVITABLE The fact that 2 and 2 make 4 is so self evident that no one argues about it. At the present time the Federal Gov- ernment has a debt of about $35,000,000,- | 000 and an annual income of about $4,- 000,000,000. Annual interest charges amount to nearly $1,000,000,000, figured | at 2 per cent. The Government's total debt is, roughly, eight times its annual in- ; come. Put an individual on the same basis: Suppose he earned $3,600 a year and bor- | rowed’$30,000. At 2 per cent interest, he | would pay $600 a year carrying charge. ‘The average person earning $3,600 a year is certainly in no position to repay a $30,- 000 debt, | | particularly if he has to keep! It is said our country is wealthy enough to take care of double its Federal ! debt. It probably is at present but the: politicians and the people have learned to ; faster than they earn! | H | | i | H | i | 1 | { | i | 1 | ' i { it; What will cause them to see that $2 of public expenditures for $1 of receipts, leaves a $1 deficit just as surely as 2 and 2 make 4? A spendthrift individual or a spend- thrift government are headed for the same | goal, the only difference being that the government can mortgage every citizen’s property and earnings and hang on longer | than the individual who can mortgage only his own property. | COLLEGE FOOTBALL College football is still regarded as, an amateur sport, in spite of the Carnegie Foundation’s findings that in many institu- tions players are to some extent subsidized. But, regardless of what the players get out of it, college football has assumed the pro-; portion of a business in which millions are involved. As a recent writer declares: “It is played today by athletes as highly trained as steeple-chasers, in marble amphi- theaters that shame the Roman Coliseum, before crowds that match in gate receipts the earnings of a Dempsey-Tunney prize fight.” The development of modern football from a casual sport to its present eminence seems remarkable when it is recalled that the first inter-collegiate game in the world was played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers with 25 men on each team, which was won by Rutgers by the score of 6 to 4. i It is also interesting to note that the: first play which gave rise to modern foot-1 ball is commemorated by a tablet at Rugby ! School, England, bearing this inscription: “This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a fine | disregard for the rules of football as play- ed in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game, A. D. 1823.” A SIGN OF ENVY \ Business men who competitors | need not be jealous and envious of each other. Those who show this littleness are } to be pitied more than condemned, for | they have a narrow viewpoint of life and are usually moved by the bitter knowledge that the other man is succeeding where they are failing. Cooperation is much better. Friendli- ness makes more friends and wins more} business than being surly. The general public soons knows why you criticise your | competitor in business, and discounts what you say. Caustic remarks about the man in your own line of business only reveals} are advertises that he is beating you in the If you must judge us, judge us by what we strive for. If we are weak, be tolerant; if we are strong, pray that we become not arrogant; if our mistakes in- jure you, tell us of them and trust in our sense of justice to make reparation. If we cannot agree on details, such as_ politics and religion, let us agree upon-the broad fundamental principle of human kindness, for when we put aside the accumulation of opinions that are the children of self- interest, we will find a family resemblance in the faces of all men.—Frank Ander- son, dae - nga pete THE KEY WEST CITIZEN © You and Your Nation’s Affairs Has America Really Failed? By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University Socialists, communists and radicals among the New Dealers are all ene- mies of the constitutional system of industrial freedom. They are all ex- ponents of a strong, central- ized govera- mental control and ownership of industry. The most effective way to bring about the new order that they advocate is to convince the people that the American sys- tem is a mis- erable failure. Hence the ti- rade against the capitalists and the economic royalists who are repre- | sented as crushing the people, and robbing them of their share in the fruits of industrial progress. The American system of industrial freedom is not perfect. All human jeinstitutions are defective. Many im- provements in the system-can be made, cught to be made, and will be made as business efficiency and busi- ness foresight improve from year to year. But no other system of in- dustry known to man is in the class. with the American system with refer- ence to the luxuries and conveniences and standard of living it has afforded to the great masses of the people. Well informed. intelligent people know this. But it is easy for the dema- gogue to mislead the igno:ant crowd by capitalizing their ignorance and F clucice. Over against the supposed disas- trous reign of the “economic royal- ists” in this country. it is interesting to consider certain facts concerning our industrial system that have been published recently. In the period of industrial progress from 1923 to 1929, the manufacturins industries paid out five times as much | in wages and salaries as in dividends. and twenty times as much as w:s held typical prosperous year, the income from industry was paid out as follows: ; Wages and Salaries .. separ Dividends Surpluses 708.000, 000 In 1929 the total expenses of the | manufacturing industries were paid out as follows: + 60% . 185% Dividends, interest and surplus ....... 21.5% For this year, dividends amounted to six per cent on money invest two per cent was reserved for surplus. The radicals can easily mislead the public by giving great publicity to a few big salaries received by. execu- tives. The facts are that the average salary of executives in_industry is less than $6,700 a year. Congressmen. payers’ money. In 1935, the salaries of executives were only three per cent of the payrolls. If all the execu- tives’ salaries were confiscated by the radicals, and distributed to the em- ployees, each employee would get the enormous sum of 79 cents more a week than he is now receiving. He wouldn't receive this very long. how- ever; with the directive brains elim- inated, the business would go into bankruptcy in a short while. The average profits for all corpora- tions on the money invested for the years 1923-1933 was four per cent. Wages are always paid whether the business is gaining or losing. But in good years only three industries out of five make profits. In 1849 the factory employee re- ceived an annual average wage of $249. In 1929 the annual average wages of factory employees was more than $1,300. In 1849, the factory em- ployee. perhaps. worked a third more hours per day than the employee works today. The general public, unfortunately, is ignorant of these facts, and this state of ignorance is a fruitful field for developing prejudice and passion against the mythical “economic royal- ists.” are paid $10,000 a year from the tax- | jand {low over most of the | for surplus, For this period practi- cally 80% of th. total income from industries went to wages, 16% te divi- dends and 4% to surplus. In i927, Can radicalism, supported by ignor- ance and prejudice, destroy the ipmesican, system of industrial free- jom? (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) Cee TODAY’S WEATHER Temperatures + sand South Atlantic States, with a 92 slight disturbance this °: morning over extreme northwest- “gy (ern Florida, Apalachicola, 29.80 a. ‘inches; while strong high pressure Precipitation .03 Ins, | ateas, crested over Colorado and jitation -18 Ins.j eastern Canada, overspread most ge yee ‘of the remainder of the country, Tomorrow's Almanac | Denver, Colo., and Cochrane, On- 6: ,tario, 30.34 inches. Showers and | thunderstorms have been general |W * during the last 24 hour&-in the astern portion of the coun- ee being heavy at Apalachicola, | Fla., 1.28 inches. L’ght to mod- M. ‘erate rains have also occurred 13 from eastern Colorado eastward 3 into Missouri, and in portions of {the Ohio Valley, Lake reg’on, ard ‘North Atlantic States. Tempera- ‘tures have fallen from the middle Mississippi Valley, northeastward jover the North Atlantic States ‘and readings are unseasonably throughout much of the coun- in the northern Rock- i a Gulf and South At- tantic Stal The maximum tem- perature at Key West yesterday, record Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean . Rainfall> central Yesterday’s Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises Moon’ s:ts Full Moon, Sept. 30 4:01 p. m. Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High - 9:17 Low 2:40 Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 29.90. WEATIiLER FORECAST H * (Till 8 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Pai cloudy with scattered N night and Wediesday; moderate winds, mostly southeast to south. Florida: Partly cloady, seatter- | ed showers Wednesday and in ex-/6f 92 degrees, equalled: treme north “portion and on™ the , for this time of year. southeast and extreme south toasts | Sos tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits Liquid - Tablets Salve-Nose Drops and East Gulf: Gentle to moder-; ry “Rub-My. INEDY, 1 in Charge checks ate southeast to south winds and MALARIA partiy overcast weather tonight ; Wednesday with scattered; showers. first day Headache 30 minutes, WEAT HER “COND! i i Pressure continues moderately | T East Gulf| SOLIOITOSE SS, PP PPD 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 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 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 ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation WII IIIIIIDIIIIOIII IM. rah, & & ) ‘ i) N) % N) A) \) N) \ N N) N) \ 5 ism”-World’s Best : A | | N | | | | {thusiastic fans. and KEY WESTIN | | DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just 10 Mansel Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen j will TUESDAY, EDA. SEPTEMSER 2p. 1996 in over the wires of the a= | Unien wires to this office. {by play will be received and an- age for the benefit ef the The service will be en- rar free to Key Westers and ;the more that come out te hear? | the returns the better the office be satisfied. The games of = Get Rid of Malaria Banish Chills and Fever! Members of the Monroe County; Saturday and Sunday will begim ‘Te conquer Malesia yoo mast de ten, High School football team are now on their way to Tampa en route to St. Petersburg where they will meet the St. Petersburg team in the first game of the season. They left with John} Jenks as manager and Coach Mil- lard G. Anderson. Abdut 20 en-; rooters for the home team also went to cheer! the boys during the game. This is the second year in football of, the high school team. The St.; Pete aggregation flew the cham- pionship banner last year. The Key West team line-up follows: Harry Capo, center; Kermit Baker, left guard; Ben Sawyer, right guard; Earl Jackson, left tackle. Joseph Varela, right tackle; Theron Gato, right end; Richard Trevor, left end; Joe Pierce, quarterback; Floyd Rob erts, left halfback; Morris C right halfback: Earl Yates, full- back. Substitutes: Fred Car- bonell, Jack Roberts. George Adams, Anthony Thompson, Oc-| tavio Recio, Nestor Recio. Editorial comment: “Women Excel As Drivers.”—Headline. Of men perhaps, The many friends in this city of Miss Ruth Harvey, formerly a j resident of Key West, will learn with interest and pleasure of her recent marriage in Jacksonville to S. B. Bubier a prominent business man of Miami. Members of Robert J. Perry Chapter DeMolays held an excel- lent meeting at their headquarters in Scottish Rite Hall last evening when the recently elected offi- cers for the ensuing three months at 1:30 o'clock and be given out in Key West directly after. The games in St. Louis on Tuesday, Wednestiay and Thursday giv at 2:30 o'clock ang will aise be, given .out as on a5 re ceived. Motor Launch Sbiawasse, gov- ernment license Number V-4172. was repotte? by radio from the Mallory Line Steamer Concho as ‘adrift in the gulf 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon at a point about 10 miles east of American Shoals light. Coast Guard Cutter Saukee left last night to search for the vessel in the vicinity indicated by the radio. The Shiawasse made this port September 20 and se cured a supply of gasoline at the Porter Dock company. The ves sel was then bound from Havana for its home port at Fert Myers There were four men on the ves sel while it was here and people who boarded the craft said it car- ried no cargo. The Saukee re turned to Key West 11 today towing the Shiawasse. appears to be im goed cond There was no sign of lif board. w sent Commander and Mrs. Whitted of Norfolk, Va. check to the chamber of merce relief fund today Whitted will be pleasantly membered here as Miss Lowe, sis ter of Mrs. W. D. Cash The check received from Commander and Mrs. Whitted added to the cash previously received makes a total of $1,445.76 received the South Florida ferers. 2 Mr for storm we) theme bieed (2) come the eGecm anc we er eet 1) Desres ae ater = Se i fal tH i Ht Ml git H i ul wo i it } I } 1 seeeeces Teday’s Birthday- weccccces+ --erccceseeces Ma; com- , mont. « tary of gration were installed. Randolph Gray; —. and Charles Smith having att ed the age of 21 years were given the majority degree. YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Readers by Special Ar rangements for a Limited Time only TEN CENTS Coie and Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, KEY WEST, FLA. 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