The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1936, Page 2

PAGE OWOR Che Key West Citizen h xcept Sunday By ‘rom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ie Associated Press d Press is exclusizely entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credits in this paper and also ishee SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES © known on application, nks, resolutions ‘of Will be charged for at iments by churches from which 5 cents a line. orum and invites discus- bjects of local or general not publish anonymous communi- iMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Brilxes to complete Road to Main ER : aaa AAO ee cA : - Hand aud—Sea. of C@inty and City Life has taken on a new lease of life. Mary Astor is writing a book. uff! Hot A Brooklyn man aie a big mess of lic in an unsuccessful attempt to ward off influen Now he has flu, indigestion and halitos lt has been suggested that both Maine and Vermont cast their electoral vote for Piesident Roosevelt to make his re-elec- tion unanimous. That’s like cheating at solitaire. While the electors could law- vote for whom they pleased, they « mandate from the people of those ates which cannot be ignored. Ot a cer beautifully s n reformer, it has been aid: “He regarded little chil- dren as little guests in the world, to be velcome t with gentle courtesy and tender- ness, to be offered knowledge and _ love, and charmed with song and flowers, so that they might be glad and proud to have come into a world which gives them hap- pincss, and only asks of them goodness.” be outlook is against any change in ional opposition to the grant of further Federal appropriations for the a ship canal, notwithstanding the ivorable report of the Army Engineers ci The appropriation committee of the House, ‘i Wade PLOY ict, and its personnel w CP ractically ugehanged in the next Congres’. “ Also Senafpr Vanden- s certain téfenewihislopposition un- circumsthhied, a oe eo The Russian government has adopted # Constitution patterned after that of the United States and it- was ratified this week, presumably a la Russe. That is omething for the book-—Russia_ veering to the right and the United States to the Mutation, either way, seems a re- quirement to keep the governments from ioppling over. Dictator Stalin announced ia is determined to be the most atic government in the world. Vt saying so much when one con- s how far afield democracies have rayed from the original intent of the founders. left eft. A trailer is something that is back of »mething, nevertheless the trailers are ¢ to the fore. For the first time rs were a part of the National auto how in New York, and they are a new and jor industry in American life. Two » 10,000 trailers visited Florida. the number increased to 60,000.- i ssible that in 1937 this number will be doubled. Nearly all automobile manu- turers are producing trailers. When > road to the mainland is built Key West will be the mecea of. tourists, and should hasten to capitalize this new fac- tor in American life. AWFUL POSSIBILITIES Horrible as were some of the engines of death employed in the World War, they were probably far less destructive than those which might be brought into play in a future death struggle of nations, Prof. Leonard Hill, in his address as president before a London sanitary as- sociation recently cited one _ possibility which is terrifying in its implications. He declared that a certain kind of germ which can be easily cultivated: isso. deadly that a spoonful suitably’ distributed could kill a ‘ million persons. non-combatants alike in the - event,,..of another great war have been hinted2at. And there is little use to argue that such diabolical means, if developed, would not be used. Toison gas in warfare was condemn- ed and agreements to avoid its employ- ment were made long before the World War, but it was used with telling effects by both sides after the Germans resorted to it at Ypres, in 1915. Our own experts declare that chemical warfare will play a far more important role in any future war. ; And there is not the slightest doubt that ; disease germs would be likewise employed veloped. = With all these added horrors in pros- pect, it is little wonder that thoughtful persons everywhere are seeking to prevent another world tragedy, which might easily wipe out entire populations. Civilization must preserve peace, or perish by the in- struments of destruction which it has created. THE NAVY’S NEW CHIEF The appointment of Admiral William D. Leahy to be Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral William H. Standley, effective upon the latter’s retirement for age, will bring to the highest post in the United States Navy one of the most able officers in the service. Like many another admiral who has achieved high distinction in the nation’s sea force, Admiral Leahy was born far from the blue water upon which he was destined to win lasting fame. He was born at Hampton, Iowa, on May 6, 1875; was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1897, and advanced through the various grades to the rank of captain in 1918. He has held numerous sea commands of high responsibility, including that of commander of the battleship force, which he now holds. He has also served as chief of the bureau of ordnance and chief of the the service, both with the rank of rear ad- miral. He was of the most important shore duty promoted to the rank of vice-admiral in July of last year. Admiral Leahy is a veteran of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine in- surrection, the Boxer trouble in China, the Nicaraguan occupation, the Haitian cam- paign and the World War, besides serving in other expeditions of minor importance. He: will bring to his respgpsible duties as a of Naval Operations the experi- ence gained during his long record of creditable service, and his selection _ for this highest naval post will meet with gen- eral approval. “SOAKING THE POOR” i In recent years the government has depended more and more on indirect taxes for revenue, and less and less on direct { taxes. Indirect taxes are simply levies hid- den in the cost of commodities and serv- ices—taxes paid in advance by producer ‘or marketer. We seldom’even kn we | are paying them, but their wholgia uence is to boost the cesof Hwing. = This trend pf government is extreme- ly menacing. effect, indirect taxes re- duce the incomes of us all—and the great- | est burden fallgion the person of small means. A laborer earning twenty dollars a week eats as much bread as a man whose income may be a hundred or a thousand a week, but his tax contribution to the gov- ernment, represented by part of the cost of { the bread he eats, is the same—in relation to his earnings, much greater. The upshot of this is that the bulk of j the people, those of small or moderate | means, are most adversely affected by rising taxes, | This is not the first time such meas- | ures for the extermination of troops’ anid | if a practical method of doing so were de- | bureau of navigation, two assignments in| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your. | i | Economic President, American Academy of Political and Social Science ' booth during the winter season, The Coast Guard beschell seam | "JUmess all signs fail, our most diffi- roblems in the months ahead iwi in the field of foreign affairs. 1, Domestic business is on the upgrade. H Our task at | 7 home will be to ij sis prevent too { rapid an ad- i] # ‘ vance. { : Abroad the i B.| situation is : dark and grow- i “ ing darker, i week by week. 1 Diplomats are ’ working fever- ishly to prevent [ the outbreak of a war in Eu- rope. Almost i : any slight inci- | é dent would be ! enough to start j one. In the United States we need | only to remember the sinking of the battleship Maine in 1898. Even now the cause of that disaster is not known. No one thinks of it as the cause of the war but it was the ira- mediate occasion for a surge of pub- lic demand for our declaration of war against Spain. A similar incident. almost any- where int Europe or in Asia may start active mobilization of armies. There may even.be no actual declaration of r. fristead, hostilities may start without any formalities. And if fight- ing begins between any two large ! countries its spread seems almost in- | evitable. It is not that many people really want war. Presumably they do not. Probably few. if any statesmen really want war. The trouble is that the forces that may bring it on are su } violent and so uncontrollable that it | mey come in spité of human desires ; Can the United States keep out of such a conflict if it once starts? Many of us thought so in 1914, but we were wrong. We could not. or at least we did not, stay cut Now we are again hopeful. But we are more cortcerned. Some believe we should try in every || Nation’s Affairs Neutrality | By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON way to isolate ourselves} have advocated “economil 4 we have a conor ‘w Norbladibg the sale of munitions;toyeither size in a war between foreign ; We tried this law in the recent con- flict between Italy and Ethiopia. Our action did not help Ethiopia to who: our munitions could a sold in any case. Italy of more help and was merely irri- tated. Moreover. we continued {6 ex- port oil, motor trucks, etc, which are not munitions but are of tremendous importance in a modern war. There is a dilemma which it is hard i | | | 1 \ { ! ‘Fmonths of: December, 1 | | 4 to solve and we do not yet have the | answer. Unless we cut off an indefi- nitely iong list of articles from ex- port to the belligerents, cur effort fails of its main purpose. There are so many kinds of supplies that can be used in modern warfare that near- ly all of our export trade would be affected. But if we extend the list to include many things-— oil. motor trucks, cotton, wheat, etc., etc. the effect on our own economic life will be very serious. In fact, it will be so great that it will be difficult and probably impossible to secure the necessary public support for such an action Would cotton interests in the south favor an embargo on exports of cotton and wheat interests an em- bargo on wheat? What would be the attitude of the countless other in- terests toward restrictiaps on their sales? If we face the real probabilities in- stead of merely recording our de- sires, we may well be discouraged over the prospect of maintaining “economic neutrality.” {f: there is any way by which the government or people of the United States can prevent a war we should of course do it. But no one seriously believes we can now do anything soon enough or of enough importance to prevent a conflict Our task will be to keep out if a war starts. And’ we do not yet nave the answer to that. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaner) | THE WEATHER Highest . Lowest Mean . Normal Mean R i 's Precipita Yesterday tion Sun rises Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets ........ Full Moon, 28th ‘Tomorrow’ P.M. 9:03 2:20 High .... How: 22. 3 ; . Barometer ® AY M. today: & Sea Jevel, 30.14. | WEATHER FORECAST : (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) ; Key West and Vicinity: Fair and co'de: tonight; Saturday fair and somewhat warmer; moderate northerly winds, Florida: Fair and colder tonight with k lling frost and temperature 24 to 30 degrees-in extreme north portion, light to heavy frost in jcentral portion with freezing tem- perature in inter‘or, frost in Lake Okeechd¥ee region and possibly in mucklands in extreme south por- |tion; Satiivday fair with rising Moderate north- west and-north winds . -becomin: variable over extreme north po tien and northeast over south and | central portions, and fair weather” tonight and Saturday. ~ WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately low this peo over the North Atlantic IIPISAISALLIL AED EL, The Easiest Way For You--To N N Pay For ile to Florida Straits ° Today’s Horoscope ° enerre . If those born this day would avoid filling the life with sorrow, let them keep the mind from repin- ing. Grief comes to all, and it is much better met with a smile than vith moans. This nature has lenty of fidelity and natural sym- pathy if the good traits are nur- ured; but keep looking on the right side. tates, Boston. Mass., 29.82 inch- s; while a high pressure area, rested over the lower Mississippi ; Val'ey, overspreads most of the remainder of the country east of the Rockies, Little Rock, Ark., 30.42 inches... Light snows have oceutred during the last 24 hours lin portions of the middle: Miss'ssip- !pi and lower Ohio Valleys, and | western Lake region; while gener- ‘ally fair weather has prevailed in other sections from the Plains States tastward. Temperatures have fallen in most districts east of the Rocky Mountain States, ex- ‘cept in the northern Plains and upper M’ssissippi Valley, with freezing southward over northern Georgiz, and light frost in extreme ‘northwestern Florida, and read- ings ranging at 8 a. m. this morn- ing from 12 degrees at Duluth, Minn., and Detzo't, Mich., to 71 'degiees at Key:West, ¢ “€s. KENNEDY, “Official in Charge ee Subserive to Tne Citizen—20 weekly. . BENJAMIN LOP! EZ HOME West A Home is to pay for it as you pay rent. if to pay monthly, out of income, an installthen m the principal and the interest, etc., ang@gthus, over a given period of years, pay off tire mortgage and have the house free of alf very much like buying a house and the it to yourself. \ ‘ \ The First National Bank ot Key West CREDIT. N 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 . pat WOTIIIIITIIIOIIIIILS. a {afternoon when a telegram was Ohad ka kiadadiadada dh hd de dadedide de dade died dade dud, with C. C. Symonette in charge.! | tourist centers during the early ¢ Marines and the Umwersts e* DAYS GONE BY Here Just 10 Years Ago Teday As Taken From Bureau of information at the vation. Florida East Coast Railway de-'to begin 3 7 pot will open on’ December 15 noon in Chicage. Mr. Symonette will preside at the = we at & ding opt Ji rature advertising Will mect 2 picked Key Wet ee SS Sees Se pee rare 9 iverbally offering On the barracks d=mend 28 and cee wel Ge sce of cot what’ instructive and informative ©'clock tomerrew mermme ay eee ee Ee }) imformation is needed about the Surances are gwen that & wR Be gn os ke ee mel Hdand City. An exceptionally @ closely contested battle teem large number of tourists are ex- Start to fimish The iiand Omy pected to arrive here during the Baseball League = bey prepe January img another schedule ef gam= w and February and it is the opinion be played Gurmg the season ane of those who are directing the this will be announced inter operation of the booth and other} allied activities, that no better im-; 4 notable ewent im the reas of formed person could have been se-" ort in Key West will be the & lected for this important service. + -rngtional football game te be than Mr. Symonette. He will leave jjoyed here next Thursdey after for Havana and other important poon between the team of the © teer ost ces Gerke fmt ome eg he ae Cery coe LL nil if part of the season and disseminate povane clewen. The local cub information and distribute litera-' defeated the University team «= ture about Key West. their ground. m Havana recentis !by a score of 13 to 20, and te Key West's clean up campaign after the score steed 10 c= will start Monday morning with faver of the Cuban team at the renewed impetus and a largely end of the first half increased working force, when city and county prisoners unite im! i ~— the work of cleaning up the| Five per cont dsscouns == Se streets and waterfronts of the} ##owed on ail cay toxes® - city. Sheriff Niles with the con- Pied the months ef December an Se anneunceme sent of the commissioners will sr Bee cal o send out eight more ablebodied 7 oss a2 qithur Sheppard @ —2 2¢eGee men jail birds under guard o! eta eA at Tee Deputy Sheriff Everett Rivas, and Chief of Police Ivan Elwood will Cite" furnish the same number from} the city’s bastile. There is no’ checes time timit to this clean up drive.) COLDS pated. Especial attention is to, FEVER Laquse - Tateets fest dey Wy qt It rt belt | i i i ‘Ty me li and pleasing results are antici- be given to the waterfront which! in. some sections present a rather discouraging appearance but will,| Sojve-tieseBeeps Sendnche 38 aimeten. under the combined efforts of city, Try “Rub-My-Tiem”-Werl’s Beat and county, soon be in more pre-| Linument . sentable condition. - | Editorial comment: - After peo- ple get their dogs licensed it would be a good idea to round up the children who are running wild and have them collared and tag- ged. | YOUR DESTINY BY LE Maks A 1936 Reading to The Cotece Bomdems ty Seecet A rangem-ents for « Limited Teme caly TES CENTS Com and Considerable surprise and dis-| appointment was experienced this received from Coach Kendrigon of , the University of Havana football team, that it will be impossible for the team to play here tomor- row. Nothing was known here of the postponement of the game un-* til the wire was receieed. The, date of December 2 was set by J Chih hehe hhh heh ddd . SPECIAL SALE TEXOLITE A WASHABLE WATER PAINT FOR INTERIOR USE THAT & PUT UP IN PASTE FORM. 1 GALLON OF PASTE SEDUCED WITH WATER COVERS APPROXIMATELY 358 TO Soe SQUARE FEET ONE COAT. z REGULAR VALUE—$390 GALLONS ee ee ee LIMITED QUANTITY ON HAND: 5 CALS SUEF_3 CALS CREEN AND 2 GALS. IVORY. 5 QTS. BUFF, 1 QT. GREER. SEE THE NEW “CORY” COFFEE SREWER [TS MINUTES QUICKER IN BREWING TIME. IT KEEPS YOUR COFFEE aT Com RECT SERVING TEMPERATURE. THERE 5S NO METAL & COm- TACT WITH THE COFFEE. IT BREWS A CLEAR DELICIOUS COF- FEE OF UNIFORM STRENGTH. $5.95 and $7.95 Each j “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best™ White and Eliza Streets Preece 5 \ iknekekadadidhtbttktdb ttt tbidgiepddd ( haheheds