The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JVUE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West ang Monroe County. FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press -ke Associated Press is exclusisely entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year = six Months Three Months One Month Weekly —. ADVERTISING BATES Made known un application. SPE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituzry notices, étc., will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. entertainments by churches from which to be derived are 5 cents a line. nen forum and invites discus- f pub! and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. 4. Hotels and Apartments. 5. Bathing Pavilion, Airperts—Land and Sea. . Consolidat’on of County Governments. and City Election polls are interesting, but there’s nothing like the official count to tell what the voters will do. An ideal job for a WPA worker would be that of tester in a mattress - factory. That job could be done lying down. Revenge is the most expensive luxury known to man.—Times-Union. And gen- erally discovered when it is too late. If you can throw a bigger chunk of mud than anyone else the campaign man- agers will make a beaten path to your door, The Citizen does not attempt to re- strict the thought of any reader and, for that reason, often publishes articles that are not exactly in line with its own views. If the Social Security Amendment to the Florida Constitution is passed it will mean succor for 745 Monroe County de- pendents, of whom 517 are aged, 217 chil- dren, and 11 blind. a eee In Kursumlija, Yugoslavia, a hungry unemployed man won a bet by swallowing j two newspapers. So there is one man at least who can stomach two newspapers; a lot of folks can’t stomach any. This writer heard every broadcast of President Roosevelt and Tuesday night heard the voice of Candidate Landon for the first time, and at once came to the conclusion that La Voz de Ama is not to be compared with Vox Populi. i favorably with much and they have been heavily criticised but, | The Cathedral in Valencia, Spain, stands on the site of a Roman temple to Diana, occupied by a church under the| Goths, and a mosque under the Moors. Should the Communists be successful in the internecine warfare now being waged, the site will lose its religious aspect for the first time. Over half of Florida’s counties have arranged for elections November 3 to vote on outlawing slots. Angry at this racket foisted on the people of the state by the Sholtz administration on the plea of need- ed money for schools, voters will over- whelmingly turn thumbs down on the one armed bandits, beating the legislature to} the wrist slap by one winter season, The young ladies of Smith college are taking their politics rather seriously. Tues- day 200 Landonites started a_ political parade but were frustrated in its con- tinuance by*50 adherents of the opposite political faith. When the opposing fac- tions clashed the affair took on the ap- pearance of a melee until the scene was composed by the faculty. It is not thought the authorities will take cognizance of the exuberant event. “NINE OLD MEN” While the politicians ran riot over the countryside last week, making speeches without number and pledging the voters : this and that, “nine old men” gathered in the new, stately Supreme Court building in Washington to resume their deliberations after a four months’ fecess. i The candidates may promise as they : please but, in the end, it is what the jus- | tices of the Supreme Court say that has the final authority. They have not dealt recent in the main, they retain the confidence of the people of the nation. This does not mean that this paper agrees with the opinions of the Court in> every instance, or that the majority of the | It: people agree with what they decide. simply means that the people of the | United States prefer a rule of law and that | they are willing to proceed by methods to accomplish their aims. This Court will not render any deci- sions on the various cases before it before the early part of next month. upon motions for new hearings on several issues, notably the New York minimum wage law, which was recently held uncon- stitutional. In this case the Court is hope- lessly out of step with popular opinion, which is clearly demonstrated by: the fact that both resident Roosevelt and Gover- nor Landon have spoken in favor of the law. Citizens generally legal should bear in mind that the Court was created as a part | ystem of government and } of a three-way was intended to act as a brake upon a too rapid alteration of our fundamental laws. It has certainly fulfilled its role in this re- spect but, as years fly by, the will of the people of the United States will be acted into law and upheld by the United States Supreme Court. ABUSES OF THE LAW At a recent annual meeting of American Bar Association it was openly admitted by prominent members that pub- legislation | i i : How This By HARLEY L, LUTZ The person who first uttered the expression, “Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,” was stating in homely fashion the proposition that i a@ good rule works both ways. We ac- eept this prop- esition in our You and Your Nation’s Affairs Would Jam the Jails Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University of a large income by teuation. ample, and then fixes a long sentence as the penalty for attempted evasion, the case is not greatly dif- ferent from that of the bandit who | holds a pistol at his victim's head and | offers the attractive altermatives of “Your money or your life.” Until about a century-ago, it was i Here Just 10 Years Teday As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen KEY DAYS GONE BY | —<c Dr. Charles E. Roberts, former | prominent Key Wester, who con- j ducted dental parlors in this city jfor a number of years, and died > jat his home in Atlanta yesterday, ; will be buried tomorrow morning for ex- {2t Stuart, Fla. Interment will be prison {in the family plot where his little | daughter Elizabeth is buried. Dr. Roberts is survived by his wife and two children, Isabel and Charles ; Neil Roberts. He also leaves four { brothers, Samuel, Richard, Robert jand Thomas Roberts, of Key West, Hl THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1336 —_—_— | afternoon. Pallbearers will be." temm and the Marne: wil pins Captain Robert W. McNeely. U. game of Southall Setueriny afte S. N., commandant at Eey Wea Naval Station; Captain Clark 3D. Stearns, U. S. N., retired; on J Vining Harris, judge of the crm 5 inal court; Hon Arthur Gomez. state attorney; Hon J. F. Buste. county soliciter; Hen. Shiriey C Bott, Hon. Milton W. Curry, and Clayton W_ Kirtland There have been better games but few with more imteresting de- tails than that between the Amer- ican Legion and the Regulars which was played at the Army barracks yesterday. The Legion naires won by 2 score ef $ te 5 Cremata, Stevens and Castille were awarded the battmge boners while Dion and C. Griffin starred in the field. of a - afterneen, The Mecree an fees, The scons oemg tage = and the Ame—uas meg = 5 Lege = glaped ot the bere ix -oex & beter a Ege 2 ae os = = = It may Pass | en-j | the | everyday af- fairs, for we recognize no Personal or class differ- ences that would elevate some persons to a level on which they may set. for them- selves, a stand- ard not equally applicable to everyone. The situation appears to be differ- | ent when it comes to government. | although there is no good reason that ' this should be so. Consider, for ex- i ample, the prison sentence that may } be imposed for certain offenses under j the income tax law. Beyond question. j a tax law, like any other law. must | have the means of effective enforce- ment. Both tax administration and public administration generally would - collapse unless it were possible to | apply the laws, and a-system of pen- i alties is properly regarded as the ad- ministrator’s most reliable and effec- | tive leverage to this end. { ‘Tax laws and their penalties stand_ somewhat dpart, however. from other legislation, forthe tax law itself cre- ates the incentive to evasion. The higher the tax rates and the heavier the tax burden, the greater is the in- centive to escape the tax. It is not so with the law forbidding murder. theft and other offenses. We do not progressively stimulate murder or other crimes by our laws forbidding them and fixing certain punishments. A steady stepping-up of tax rates, on the other hand, does stimulate tax evasion. ~ The most logical solution would be to keep tax burdens down, for in pro- be equitable to impose severe penal- ties in case of evasion. When govern- ment proposes to take practically all portion as this were done. it would; (Address questions to the anthor. care of this newspaper) customary to send persons to jail | when they were unable to pay their debts, but it was discovered that this Was a very poor way to collect debts. Long prison sentences are not a good way to collect income taxes, either. The government may collect some- thing for the particular tax year in question, but when a person who is capable of earning a substantial in- come is jailed for five ar,tgn years, his income stops and the tax also stops. Some individuals now serving sentences for income tax evasion { were suspected of boxing obtained | income by unlawful meafs, and of having committed still more serious offenses against society. These as- sumptions have blinded us to the real significance of such methods of tax enforcement. Another aspect of the severe tax penalty raises expressly the issue of sauce for goose and gander alike. This is the proposition that public officials, in spending the taxpayers’ | cit money... should. be held to:the same | high standard as they would set for the citizens in paying their taxes. The logical counterpart ‘of tax evasion is | waste of public funds, The most-con- spicuous and ..the: least defensible | form of public waste is the spoils sys- tem. If we are determined to send a citizen to jail for attempting a tax fraud against the government, we should also be prepared to send to jail the official who commits an ex- penditure fraud against the taxpayer. Patronage and political spoils are such a fraud, but we appear to have a very different standard for public spending than that which we have set for taxpaying. In government finance, sauce for the goose may mean a jail sentence for the gander. | If we could eliminate the spoils s3 tem we could lighten taxes to a de- gree which would not. require the jailer to stand back of the tax collec- | tor. in order to get in the public rev- | enue. of in by jin 1 of be be and two sisters, Mrs. John ;erts and Mrs. Lillie W. Cold, also cided to purchase the now being used by Roy Lewin in iconnection with service. 000. {about following a conierence with Mr. Lewin. operating the scavenger ment for the sum per month, having purchased equipment irom {former contractor. ment will be the property of the position of {have been received and may had by application to Arthur Pas- ‘torini at the stamp window of the j local postoffice. tions must be made out and filed after as made the examinations held. * | for participation jelection in November is published | that any voters who Rob- The Monree County Hi Schoe this city. Key West councilmen last night reguiar meeting assembled, de- equipment the scavenger The sum given was $14,- This action was brought The very same whiskey we Mr. Lewin has been depart- $2,857.33 the Gwynn, gaquip- of Harry The y though Mr. Lewin is to con- , tinue operating the service. Blanks for application for the! clerks and carriers be These applica- November 10 and as soon there- arrangements can be a te Considermg ms mic anc Pleasant taste, i's mot ‘90 odd that folks are asz- ing for The W den Fam- ily Blended Wtuskey. The list of citizens disqualified in the coming The Citizen today. A meeting the county commissioners will held at an early date in order may have en disqualified through error Copyright 1936. Jos. S. Finch © Co., inc. Schenier, Pa. ican appear and have their names | placed on the qualified list. The body of Mrs. Jefferson B. Temperatures* the central Rocky Mountain | Browne arrived on the train this afternoon accompanied by Judge re-| Browne and Joseph, bereaved hus- Highest ---87 -lic confidence in the courts-and their ad-.,bowest. ministration of the law is being steadily weakened. A report was adopted denouncing | “the growing prevalency of the use of, ex- Mean ........ Normal Mean .... Rainfa Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation 80 T. Ins -2¢ Ins, period cndin: pert witne: with their conflicting testi- | mony.” This referred particularly to the use of alienists in criminal cases, where} experts may always be secured to testify | that the accused is insane, provided he has} the money to employ them. i | As a matter of fact, lawyers in con- ; vention very frequently criticize the pre- vailing method of criminal procedure, but j so far they have done very little to correct it. Legislators are also to blame for the | present state of affairs, but as most legis- lators are lawyers the responsibility still rests almost wholly upon the legal profes- sion. ? j By the passage of innumerable laws} regulating everything under the-sun, and} imposing upon peace officers the task of } enforcing trivial and often foolish statutes, the perpetrator of major crimes such as | murder and robbery have all the better; chance to escape punishment. If more at- tention and punishment of these serious; offences, it might be possible to reduce their number. PREVENTING FIRES This week is Fire Prevention week. All over the United States there will be much written and talked on this subject. It will mean little or nothing to Key} West unless our readers take some action. The enormous fire loss every year from; preventable conflagrations is shocking. It can be avoided, in part, by every citizen. Each has an individual responsibility to minimize fire risks on his or her own; premises. Each has the duty of practis- ing care in all things pretaining to fire, which is a dangerous, if serviceable, slave of mankind. Fires, like accidents, occur when and where least expected. The very person jtends this morning Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises . loon .sets “Tomorrow's A.M. High 10:37 Low ....... - 3:54 Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 29.92. “FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with scaattered showers tonight and Friday; gentle moderate -avinds, mostly easterly. Florida: Partly~‘eloudy,zscatter- ed showers Friday and over ex- treme north portion, on the east coast, and along xthe Keys tonight. Jacksonville “toy Florida Straits and Easty : Moderate, mostly easterly.winds and part!y overcast weathéx tonight and. Friday with scaattered Showers. WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS A trough of low pressure ex- from mid- western Canada southward over New Mexico and Arizona, with disturbances central over Mani- toba, Winnipeg, 29.76 inches, and Pay For it to yourself. reading this article with satisfaction that everything is shipshape may be the next victim. Now, regardless of insurance, an economic loss occurs, which means lessen- ed wealth. All of us should take thought, at this season, and resolve to do our bit in preventing unnecessary fire losses, IITIPLILLLLLLLLL AE MN N CREDIT. The First National . along the south Atlantic and. east Jof the M'ssisippi ¥:ver, ; common itch. Two sizes, 35c and $1. FOL LALA AABR LA AA hh de dh dda The Easiest Way For You To 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 CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chak heheh hd dh tad hdd dd dd gion, Grand Junction, 29.70 | ba: ‘inches; while high pressure areas, terested over the far Northeast, and far Northwest, overspread the | remainder of the country, East- {port, Me., 30.54 inches, | Karsicope, British Columbia, 30. linches. - Light to moderate show ers have occurred since yest-rday orning in the Florida peninsula, 0., dei and ulf coasts, and on port’ons ef the Texas coast, and there have been ight raiaz in wideiy scattered lo- calities on the mildie and north ‘ Atlantic coast ani from the Lake jregion westward. Temperatures have risen in most sections east and in ‘portions of the States; | while elsewhere changes have been} ! genera ht, and readings are. ve aormal throughout ; Pwits i G. S. 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