The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 6, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, President Business Manager n The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only vaily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. cntered at Key West, i nd class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press sociated Press is exclusizely entitled to use epnblication of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited in this paper and also jocal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three Months .... onth "ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPE notic ry n L NOTICE cards of thanks, resolutions of | , €te., Will be charged for at ng for ¢ tain’ hurches from which nts a line. d invites discus- cts of local or general h anonymous communi- nt THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it wiinout tear and without favor; never be atraid te attack wrong or to applaud right; aiways 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 injustfce; denounce, vice and praise virtue; commend goog done, by, individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print onty news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com promise with principle. Forward passes on a highway curve are also frequently incomplete. sist on a little service in a restaurant, you will generally get it. Prosperity seems to be arriving but we had it just before the crash in 1929, Hundreds of municipal corporations are finding it harder to pay bonds than voting them. The price of castles in Spain has slumped worse than real estate after the Florida boom, By the way became of that Bok prize peace plan?) Now would be a good time to give it a trial. what ever s coffee is not harm- ful if used in moderation. Three or four saucers a day should be reasonable. The mental age of the average adult is only 14 ye according to a psy- chologist, indicating that the average adult is considerably below the average. When the Whites capture Madrid, they should and probably will, execute all the officials for refusing to surrender the capital agai nsutmoyntable odds and useles:Jy, sa’ ¥gigg, thousands of lives. Although~ Roosevelt captured the residential bunting with a plurality of rly 10,000,000 votes, he failed to win in his immediate vicinity. He lost his county by more than 4,000 and his own home town, Hyde Park, by 1,250. One of the surest signs of progress in the world is the fact that the social con- science is seldom content with things as they are, but always strives for better things. That is as it should be, so long as| we keep our feet on the ground and don’t | go reaching after the moon. President Azana of Spain shook off the dust of the capital and went to Barce- lona, where warfare is delayed until the Whites capture Madrid. Nevertheless, he found he couldn’t live such an abundant life there either and attempted to take his own life, but was prevented by the inter- vention of friends. The working of abstract impersonal justice is to be found in one of Victor Hugo’s books, where the gunner, owing to whose carelessness a cannon has_ broken loose in the ship’s hold and done great in- jury to the ship, but who at great personal risk manages to save the situation by deft- ly lassoing the dangerous runaway gun, is first of all decorated for his bravery and then shot for his original carelessness, OUR IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS November 3, was a day which brought’ America face to face with unprecedented | conditions. This is normally a two party government; we in the Southern States where one party is predominant realize | that a healthy opposition would often force a more discriminating nomination | No thoughtful | Democrat will rejoice over: the apparent | of candidates for office. annihilation of the opposition; We thave done well under our system of-checks and balances; still we are in-need of ‘action and reaction. Conditions “\ will’:.‘produce these as the need for them develops. “At any rate, at the moment, weare ‘not a “house divided against itself’ Almost unanimously, the country approved of the Roosevelt policies; and almost to a man, we share the responsibility for the course we have decided to take. Locally, in those matters which con- cern every Monroe County citizen per- sonally, we have every cause for thanks- | | giving. The outcome of the election as- sures us that the projects of a highway, sewerage, water, beautification, and other matters will be carried to completion. Our citizens have expressed in no un-! certain tones, their determination to expel the slot machine from Monroe County. Most emphatically have they spoken in favor of the Social Security Act and its | provisions for the aged, the blind and the | needy child. They have shown their disapproval of a dual government for Monroe County, with all of its wasteful duplications of of- fices and office-holders by their. approval of the act which gives us an opportunity to bring our governmental organization up to date. ie This needed reform has been ad- vocated for years by The Citizen. It is no motive of self-interest that has prompted The Citizen to work for this consolidation in past years and to urge that it be brought about, now that people have declared it desirable and by their votes have made it possible. The Citizen stands to lose more money, by the redué tion in official printing, than does any of- ficial stand to lose by the abolition of his office. But both The Citizen and the official have a stake in the welfare of the com- munity which, in the long run, means a gain and not a loss by the abolition of the expense of excess offices interfering with, and duplicating each other’s work. We have taken the two first steps to- ward the consolidation of city and county. The sister counties of the State have recognized our need and given their ap- proval to our efforts to better oyr condi- tions. There yet remain other steps before this needed readjustment can be effec- tive. In a definite way, yet to be decided upon, the desires of the citizens of city and county must be formulated. The manner in which this shall be done is a measure of our fitness for self-govern- ment. We suggest an open forum, a series of round table meetings, at which there shall be the fullest possible opportunity for an expression of opinion. When this shall have been done, a representative commission should be ap- pointed to draw up an expression of our collective wills. That instrument must then be submit- | ted to the Legislature and be returned to us with such amendments may be deemed necessary. And, after its ratification by the vote of the electorate of the County of Monroe and the City of Key West, it will be the established form of government in sub- stitution of that which we now have. While it is true that the -Legislature will not meet for meaths to -come, the thoughts of every citizen, #nd: exery.<etvic | organization should begin at once tei#en- ter upon the nature of - the consolidated government that: will-meet eur-needs- we should begin NOW to, adjust, y to one another and to ae? Beatin Ou fore us. - as There is enough gold in the oceans of the earth to supply each inhabitant with 50 tons of the yellow metal. As yet the cost of production is more than the value of the gold. Once this is solved there will be plenty of gold for all, but then it will be a base instead of a basic metal, and anoth- er standard of exchange must be resorted to. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Nation’s No one knows with any degree of exactness how much public control should be injected into private busi- ness for the good of society. Yet, it was evident at theThird World Power Confer- ence that pub- lic administra- tors still have no hesitancy in recommending more and more government in- terference. That the in- dustria) pud- ding may be spoiled by the constant addi- tion of large quantities of @ political season- | ing seemed of no concern whatever. Judging by what was said, one would think that there is no limit to the | beneficence of political control, espe- cially in the utility field. This pressure to regulate private enterprise more minutely, to break up large-scale concerns, and even in ome cases to supplant them with publicly-owned enterprises is becom- ing so far-reaching that, unless there } is a let-up, all phases of industry will shortly feel the heavy hand of gov ernment control. Agriculture, com- mercial banking, common carriers, manufacturing, labor, and interna- tional trade are all threatened, to say nothing of the conduct of purely in- dividual affairs. It has been known for years, ot course, that businesses can be owned and operated by a government. They can be publicly owned and leased to private enterprise. They can be pri- vately owned and rented to the gov- ernment. Or, the ownership and op- eration can be left entirely in private hands. There is, however, no information available concerning the kind and amount of public direction which | would be most useful in particular instances. Likewise, there is no means of weighing in advance the conse- quences of certain types of industrial control. It is, therefore, little short of ridiculous for political “planners” to jump to the conclusion that there is something magical in the words, “public control.” (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) a TODAY’S 82 Lowest . Mean ... Normal Mean Rainfati- Yesterday’s Preciprtation Normal Precipitati 3 15 78 76 -10 Ins. raing. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun ris 6:38 a. |Sum sets . 2 . im, 1 Moon ‘risés = Moon sets .. : . m. Sea level, 29.93. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p, m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly] cloudy to cloudy with occas‘onal showers tonight and Saturday; moderate easterly winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight jand Saturday with | occasional jrain; not much change in tem- Rerature, “9 onville to Florida Straits and E Gulf: Moderate to fresh northeast to east winds; mostly overcast weather tonight and Sat- urday with occasional showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure has risen over south- ern Florida, and high pressure areas, crested over and northwestern sections of the MT CLL hh heh hk hd dade dadiadid, Pay For CREDIT. ' You and Your 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 it to yourself. CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED 7 Affairs It is all well enough, of “liberalism,” and of the for “experimentation.” But ‘is no excuse for the United States to fol- low in the footsteps of Russia, Ger- many, Italy, and Spain by. throwing discretion and research to the winds, ; The truth of the matter is that ten- | dencies in this direction develop be- cause there is no popular demand for | weighing the relative mefits of the different types of control before they | are applied. x A disinterested or misinformed citi- zenry is, therefore, the real threat. | For, whenever the general interest in how a government handles. economic problems wanes, public officials seem | to become miraculously gifted with | supreme insight into these problems. Seemingly, with an almest super- human ability, they tackle them all. Bureaucracy, restrictigrls, confisca- tions, subsidies, artificially created | purchasing power, highs tariffs and embargoes, heavy taxatiany and mon- ! etary devaluation are itroduced. And yet, the fact that first ome and then another is tried dé@monstrates plainly that the potency of titesé drugs is at present unknown. in the light of such circumstances, it ought to be worth while for people up and down the land to ask a few of chain stores and publi¢ utilities, why is competition to be destroyed labor? Is political machinery de- stroying private business merely to give the appearance of safeguarding the social interest so that men can be continued in public office? Can a so- cialistic management always act in the interests of consumers? Is it not as private capitalism was ever alleged to be? 7 Real progress in our nation de- pends upon how anxious the citizenry is for answers to such questions. Only a permanent board, organized for de- liberate, systematic, and technical study of social problems, and for the formulation and execution of plans Professor W. C. Mitchell ‘said at the Harvard Conferences in September, this offers “our best chances of avoid- ing a dictatorship.” WEATHER ‘country this morning, overspread most districts, Eastport, Me., 30.68 inches, and Williston, N. D., ‘30.76 inches. Rain has occurred isince yesterday morning in the ‘Atlantic States from Virginia | southw: being heavy at Titus- tod Ville, Fla., 2.96 inches” Sind there | jhas been Jight to moderate rain or }snow from the northetn: Rockies eastward over the Lake Superior | jregion. Another cold wave is mov- ing in over the nor néfn Rocky iMountain and northern Plains |States, with temperatures below jzero this morning in North’ Da- kota, Williston reporting a* mini- mum of six degree below; while elsewhere changes have ‘been gen- erally slight, except in the East Gulf States where warmer weath- er prevails, and readitigs’ are be- low normal throughout’ 'th coun- try, except in Florila*and eastern | North Carolina. | G. S. KENNEDY, Official itt Charge. if KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center of the Business list, born at Bound Brook, N. To Avoid Dictatorship | By CLARENCE W. FACKLER ‘ Associate Professor of Economics, New York Univérsity ./ bee rene | president, son of the founder, born | questions. For example, if competi- | tion is to be encouraged in the case as harmful in agriculture, mining, and ! possible for a socialistic government | to be as antagonistic to union labor | can give such solutions. Possibly as { . Today’s man, senater, fimancier and Be} publican leader, numbered among Today S Horoscope | the country s great statesmen of | the past, bern at Fester, EB |Died April 16, 1915. | 1786—(150 years ago) ' N. Blackford, noted Indiana jar- J.jed mvs cian poser of mar lingten, D. C Mormon | 1932. Teder's matee 5 pera! ane = = 1854—John Philip Seum fam band leader and com. porn im Wash March 6 thes Ined Died Dec. 31, 1859. 1832—Joseph Smith, 3 i Dee at Kirtland} @. Died. | » 4 1859—Madisen C tist clergyman, rnalist and Ce j #ii, \jou Boston | 5 high Peters, Bap }< popular auihe” preacher, born Pa Tied Oct FisQaaas” ANY Abeer aga €: ‘ yidge, Mass, Unijerian|yoi¢ ¢| as teacher, and write on} philosophy, born in Boston. Died Oct. 23, 1903. 1861—Thomas © Gregers Texas eer Attornecs -Geners Aldrich, ; under Wilson bern at Cranferds congress- |ville, Miss. Died Feb iis tiie 1841—Nelson w. 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