The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1936, Page 2

PAGE Two The Key West Citizen ~ Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President Business Manager zen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE A Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. | orida, a as second cla 3 . matter “FIPTY-SIXTH YEAR —— ‘Member of the Associated Pres: -Le Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor repnblication cf all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the focat news published here. IPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ae PECIAL NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of will be charged for at for entertainmen ue is to be deriv The Citizen sion of publie es and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Rathing Pavilion, Ahports- -Land and Sea. Cons ton of County and City Governments. A lot of the best fishing originates in a quart bottle-—Times-Union. The centr to pay often depends on the capacity to tell the truth about it. Not ihe Campbells, but the trailers are coming. Adopt the boy scout slogan and “Be Prepared.” As it looks from this distance, Com- rade Stalin would do well to saw wood and say nothing for a while. Perhaps it fortunate that the title of a novel or movie never gives any inkling of what the aching is about. The price of stocks is going up but, all the same, we suggest that people with little sums of money keep their change. We'll have to find a new name for that kind of ladies. The term “gold-dig- ger” is rather absolete, now that the gov- ernment has it all, Vanderbilt University’s chancellor de- cries the fact that college football is going But Vandy’s team could be absolved from the charge this season, professional. Although the Democrats will have lit- tle Republican opposition in the next Con- gress, they may be depended upon to stir up some lively fights among themselves, King Edward is said to be waiting to find out the views of his subjects about Mrs. Simpson. Why not take a strayw* voted A and then take it for granted that sénti- ment is the other way? Gypsy Rose Lee, who is now in the lime-light as a tease strip dancer, was re- cently attacked by marauders who “strip- ped” her of her jewels and modestly re- frained from imitating her act. Life’s Minor Pests: The people who insist upon telling you how good spinach is for your health, though that health phobia has been disproved by authorities long ago. The best that can be said about this chenopodiaceous pot herb is that it is harmless. Two French priests once played with stones upon which were painted black spots. When one of the two won, he would recite the first line of the Vesper service: “Dixit Dominus Domino Meo.” Thus, the recitation was abbreviated into i a and the prone became known s “Dominoes.” A psychiatrist affirms that a hobby will keep one from going crazy. How about taking on work for a hobby? Don’t be lazy and you won't go crazy, might be a good axiom to adopt. Spinsters very likely will prefer a hubby instead of a hobby, though some married women keep a hubby for a hobby. ; come of persons in the ! have pointed out cases where, provisions, some very large corporations | little, fellow. THE SWEAT OF COMMON FOLKS “Taxes, little or great, are the sweat of common folks,” said the Portland Ore- gonian ina recent editorial. The “common folks” are the great tax- | payers of this country—sooner or later, di- rectly or indirectly, they pay almost all of the cost of government. There aren't enough “rich folks” to tax to make a dent in the Federal, state and local ‘vets. Authoritative surveys have shown that if government took ALL the net in- higher income brackets, plus all the net income of Amer- ican corporations, revenue would still fall far short of meeting outgo. The moral is plain. Tax reduction is in the interest of every citizen and every business—and the greatest beneficiary of all would be the person of small means and the small business. The new excess profits tax is a case in point. Tax experts under its can actually pay less in taxes than they did formerly—while almost all small cor- porations will have to pay more. The prin- cipal burden of, the law will fall on the $25 a week, taxes take six or seven ‘those dollars—because what you pay f@r'the article you buy must also‘¢over its pgoportionate share of the hundred and ofe taxes pay by the _ pro- ducer, the. mariufacturer, the transporter, the insurer, the broker, the agent, the re- tailer, ad infinitum. eae you ear SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Forme Editor of The Key West Citizen One night recently a somewhat in- toxicated motorist drove up to a Chicago filling station and asked an attendant to look over his car, which he said was “drag- ging awfully bad and all the tires must be flat.” The trouble was not hard to find, for he was dragging along another car whose front bumpers had become locked with the rear ones of his own. Twenty-five years ago Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Rice of Texas drove a horse named Dan to their home after their® marriage ceremony. Later they bought an _ auto- mobile and sold the horse. Recently, while |S visiting in Lubbock, Mrs. Rice recognized |; Dan pulling a garbage wagon, bought him back, and now at the age of 30 he is spend- ing his last years free from toil on Rice farm near Fort Worth. A new organization known as Dog- house, Ine., has been formed in Baltimore for the benefit of men who frequently “get in bad” with their wives and need a quiet retreat in which to think things over over and find consolation among fellow un- fortunatéd? !Thegheag,of National Kennel No. 1 is Al W. Jghuson, whose official title ig Great-Dane. 3° >” akimmed milk aca toy ai ,000 square feet of skat- ing rink for Sonja Henie, Olympic cham- pion skater, who is featured in a new mo- tion picture. This was not due to a tem- peramental whim of Miss Henie’s, but be- cause frozen milk photographs better than ordinary ice. Only a few years ago the now famous | radio team of Lum and Abner were just two other guys. Lum (Chester Lauck) was a commercial] art student at the Chi- cago Academy of Fine Arts, while Abner (Norris Goff) was driving a_ delivery wagon for his father’s grocery establish- ment in Mena, Ark. John Goodell of Beardstown, IIl., was winner of a $50 prize at the Dad’s Day celebration of the University of | Illinois this month, the @Wward being made be- cause he has sent eight children to the university. His eighth, J. Merill Goodell, is a senior in engineering. Frank Mehane, a Texas game war- den, had no diffciulty in getting the goods on a Galveston restaurant proprietor. Or- dering a flounder, he was served one eight inches long. The law provides a 12-inch minimum, so the restaurant man was ar- rested, tax bud-! the } i} were THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Confusion in j President, American Academy In all parts of the world govern- ment affairs are confused. ‘Every- where conditions are about the same | with differences largely a matter of degree. Wash- ington is no ex- ception. Many new and in- volved prob- lems have arisen. The de- pression, upset conditions abroad, divided counsels at home are among the ob- stacles to wise policies and ef- ficient execu- tion. It is time 3 now to take stock, at the beginning of another four years. Errors have been made. many of them very costly. Americans of all shades of political opinion want them corrected. Some of them can be attacked at once and there is no valid reason for delay. ~First, is the large amount of over- lapping’ in government activity There is no need to give particulars here. The fact of the overlapping, ts nat questioned Until it is corrected there will be duplications of effort and unnecessary expense. Time after time there have been gestures made by the appointment of a “coordina- tor” but little or nothing has been done. A special committee of inde- pendent experts is now studying the whole question and will in the near future make its recommendations Their report should have the widest publicity and not be pigeonholed or | iznored’ This has occurred often in the past with such studies and neither the administration nor the Congress should be permitted to do it this time. Another aspect of confusion is the contradiction of effort that occurs when an organization is not wel) co- ordinated. A concentration of respon- siblities and a reduction in the large number of boards and commissions will surely lessen the number of cases You and Your Nation’s Affairs Government By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON of Political and Social Science | where one board or bureau adopts policies ‘or plans which are’directly opposed by the policies of some other government body. For example it is grotesque to try - to increase the volume of farm prod- ucts by irrigation projects, opening up new land .and reducing costs by better methods of cultivation while farmers are being paid to reduce acreage. Similar conditions exist in other directions and a better: organi- zation of government administration will definitely help. Perhaps the most important need in Washington is a clearer and more consistent statement of general pol- icies than has prevailed in the past. Much of the resentment and uncer- tainty toward the administration has been due to failure on the part of the public to see clearly its general pur- poses. Spectacular things have been done. Some have been properly con- demned by thoughtful critics who had no political bias. Others have been accepted with some hesitation because of the confusion in the ture as a whole. Statements of policy have often clashed sharply with the government acts. It is to be hoped that’ these mat- ters will now be clarified! ‘The pub- lie does not expect perfection. It realizes that conditions change so rapidly that plans must undergo oc- casional readjustments. The general direction of administration policy, however, can and should be made clearer. Among the many questions of pol- icy concerning which the public seeks light are these" (a) When and how will the Fed- eral budget be brought inta?balance? (b) What government’ activities are to be abandoned ause the emergency is passing or has passed? tc) What activities are wo be re- tained? (d) What kind of a monetary sys- tem are we to have in plece of the peculiar system now in effect? These are only four of @ long list ot questions, all of vital importance. Now that the heat of the campaign is over it is time for a little light. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) TODAY’S Highest .. | Lowest Mean S Normal Mean Rainfat Yesterday’s Precipitation | Precipitation 83 ..69 76 2 0 Ins, -06 Ins, ] Last Gantt, 5th m. Vomorrow's t 0p. Sea level, 30.10. FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | tonight and Saturday; not ange in temperature; gen able winds. Florida: Partly cloudy in south, mostly cloudy in north portion to- night and Saturday followed by’ rain in north portion by Saturday ‘| night or -Sunday; no decided ! ficjange in temperature, Jacksonville to Florida, Straits afld East Gulf: Moderate north afid northeast winds over north No Itch Too Deep Imperial Lotion contains six itch killing medicines that go down into skin folds to reach and kill the cause of eczema, rash, tetter, ring- worm and common itch. Pleasant to use.. Two sizes, 35¢ and $1.00, Pay For it to yourself. POTPEDEI ATT H, CREDIT. aa ae. Ni - spreads * Phoenix, Ariz., and Los Angeles, aa a and central portions, and gentle! variable winds over extreme south: For This Liquid | SITTOITTUTOTTOT EES, The Easiest Way For You See forit as yqu pape The logical way 1s to pay. monthly, out of ingome, an installment on ‘the principal and the inter: over a given period of years; pay. 9 oft: mortgage and have the housé free.of all.debt. It’s very much like buying a house and then renting CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD/JOR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR no INSURED ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON IN The First National Bak ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SOTLTTTTOTTEE EEE, WEATHER portion, with weather overcast to- n'ght and Saturday. WEATHER CONDITIONS A strong high pressure area has moved in over the Dakotas, Huron, |S, D.. 30.48 inches, and’ pressure is high southeastward to the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts; while {moderately low pressure over- southwestern districts, Calif., 29.88 inches. Light to moderate precipitation has; oc- curred during the: last. 24*hours in | the. Lake region, hie Val- ALA and throughout st of the 4 Atlantic States, except central and ; Southern Florida. There has also jbeen light snow in portions of the jnorthern Rocky Mountain and 'Plateau States, and rain in south- ern California, and on the coasts \of Oregon and Washinzton. Tem- | peratures have risen somewhat in ‘the eastern Lake region; while de- ided'y colder weather has over- pread the Dakotas and eastward ver the upper Mississippi Valley, with readings at 8 a. m. this morn-! ing ranging from 16 degrees below zero at Williston, N. D., to 74 de- grees at Key West. 15 G. S. KENNEDY, | Offigial,in Charge. | _ Subscrive to Tag Aitizen—20c weekly. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West a a oa oe a4 A Home and thus, terest,..ete the “ntire RA A A, | . © DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | KEY WEST IN | Eduardo H. Gato, Sr., venerable multi-millionaire and the world’s most extensve individual manu- facturer of cigars, for many years + prominent citizen of Key West, died last night at 12 o’cloek in 79 years old. Gathered at bedside when the end came were three sons and three daughters: Eduardo H. Gato, Jr., Thomas H. and Frank H. Gato, Mrs. Maria H. Gato de Miyares, Mrs . Bar- barito H. Gato de Hernandez, and Miss Maria H. Gato. The daugh- ters all reside in Havana as does one of his sons, Frank H. Gato. |The others reside in Key West |The family of E. H Gato, Jr., left Havana. In the party were: Mrs. E. H. Gato, Jr., E -H. Gato, Il, Miss Edna H. Gato, and Frank H. Gato, Il, and wife. Friends of that congenial and popular veteran of the U. S. Navy, Captain Thomas James, will be interested to know that the good ship Bagaduce, of which Captain James is the commander,. was re- cently in an exciting .rescue of the crew of the Steamship Alle- gheney. The Bagaduce had just finished the rescue when she was ordered to préd¢éed to Pensacola, where she now is. The Key West Country Club held the most enthusiastic meet ing ever last night at the rooms of the chamber of commerce. Of- ficers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: R B. Austin, president; H. R. Mallory, treas- urer; Ross C. Sawyer, secretary; J. Lancelot Lester, C. D. Stearns, Norberg Thompson, William 4H. Malone and C. W. Kirtland, di- rectors. All officers and enlisted men of the navy and army were admitted to membership without the payment of any initiation fee, all other requirements having been complied with. Editorial comment: Everybody is advised to spend his money where it will do the most good except the politician. A‘ venire of 76 talesmen has been drawn from the jury bex from which panels will be drawn to serve on the murder cases to be tried in cireuit court next|' FRIDAY, DECEMBER < 1996 week. A Dice, alias Lerencie Ortegas, who is charged with the murder of his former sweetheart a a are, Manoel Jimimez will be ar (cee eamines if the jease is concluded by Wednesdar, the case ef E R Bodine charged with killing EC. Morime at a tank station on the Florida East Coast Railway at Cudjee Key, will « be heard. Dice is colored and Bodine is white. Attorneys i= both cases have stated they are ready te go te trial The regular Island City Base- ball League doubie header will be played Sunday afternoon at the army barracks, The Americas Legion team and the Regular: will meet im the first game which & scheduled to start at 2 o'clock — and the next game will be be tween the Monrees and ( Guard. Both games promise of excitement, it sac Today's Anniversaries eceeee December 3. 1555 | his late home, Havana, Cuba. Mr.: fs was born in 1847 and was: this morning on the steamer for; The Cuban Stars and the Factory team will cress bats o'clock tomerrow morning army barracks Thi, sey fans, should be 2 good game. Both teams are im fine conditiern and will play for victory as they cach stand winner of one game Sunday cam be 2 real dey rest for mothers attending Baptist Church. as) arrange=e: have been concluded for 2 = Sery which will be under supervision of g@ trained This nursery Beran shew year ago and under the leader ship of Miss Mollie Parker. the tu An enjoyable surprise pert was given last evening @ bower of the seventeenth birth annie: sary of Miss Miriam Watki 2 her home 712 Fleming Marjorie Baker won second went te Virginie Sa and George Peacon wen the » YOUR DESTINY BY LE MAES fer o Limited Tare aaly TES CESTS | POETS i P i to, sell quickly. (soeresreresasassessssss Sis »~ TWO CLOSE OUT SPECIALS A Few Dolls, Jumbo Size, 98c Each Also a few betier dolls at various prices. to be on hand a week hence because prices are merece Goer oe "N@ HOLD-OVERS. 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