The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen “Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, L. ARTMAN, President 4JUE AL! >) Ans it Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Unly vaily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Gutered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter “PTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press Associate Press is exclusively entitled to use ‘or republication of all news dispatches credited tu it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the locat news published here, SRIPTION RATES "SUBS Une Year ... Six Montns : T’sree Months . one Month , kly ADVER' Made known on appi SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cargs of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, éte., will be charged for at the ral of 10 cents a line. ertainments by churches from which : derived are 5 cents a line. The n open forum and invites discus- sion of publ issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- rations. & reve 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, Consolidation of County and City Governments. e Useless information: The distance from here to there, and back. Almost any wife can tell her husband what he needs in his business—it’s brains, usually, Weather men look for a cold, wet win- ter. In that case we in Florida will look for a lot of tourists, \ There are always ways to beat the law but, just as truthfully, there are al- ways ways for the law to beat you. If you do not think the United States is the best country in the world to live, go to Europe and you wil come back thorough- ly convinced. There are no taxes as yet on the wages of sin, for which we should be thankful, the Sanford Herald opines. That's true, but they pay a helluva lot of graft. Some day a genius will come along and cross a cabbage with corned beef.— Times-Union. And while he’s about it he’d better graft some mustard on.—St. Pete Independent. We'll have none of your sauce, if you please. If Wally Simpson has the intelligence with which she is credited, she would do Welk die quit England, even if she is ac- dused of running out on the king. Twice divorced she will have no difficulty ‘in divorcing herself from an unpleasant situa- tion. The English may be a sporting people and interested in horse racing and _ foot- ball, but they took an even more passion- ate interest in the Prayer Book question some years ago and will presumably take more interest in the morals of whether their king should or should not marry a divorced woman. Comparatively only a handful of Europeans visit the United States while Americans flock to the shores of Europe by the thousands, leaving millions in their wake. The amount of the teurist trade is vastly in favor of other nations. Even be- tween the United States and Canada” as well as Mexico adjacent to this country, the preponderance is enormously un- balanced against Uncle Sam. If we were English-born; somehow we would not be pleased overly much if the king had as his queen a foreign-born. woman who was divorced twice, and had both former husbands living. In this so- called land of the free and home of the graft, thousands of Americans were dis- pleased because of the several divorces in the president’s family, and certainly we have no line of succession to worry about —at least, not yet, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT Thoughtful men and women would oppose any tendency in this country to create limitations upon the individual’s right to think and express his thoughts, ! .Any -e in regardless of the topic considered. effort to curb intellectual freedom attempt to perpetuate the present status is an obstacle to progress and freedom. educational an Even in circles, some- times, the course of inquiry and conclusion | is restricted, usually to placate financial, economic or religious groups whose patron- age the intelligence-dictators would either have continue or begin. The future wel- fare of humanity is sacrificed for such cur- rent favors. In many countries of the world men- tal freedom is fast disappearing. Russia enthusiastically prefers communism, Italy and Germany similarly regard it treason- | able to suspect the beneficence of the par- ticular authoritarian rule in each nation and in such countries thinking must be in mass proportions, organized and_ regi- mented as definitely and as irrevocably as military maneuvers. No intellectual free- dom or progress can be permanently ex- pected’ in such nations. Tolerance of discussion, based upon sincerity of belief, is the foundation alike of both democratic government and the maintenance of human liberty. Without freedom for criticism of both doctrines and deeds, no error can be corrected, and no improvement may be looked for when hu- man beings have been totally subjected to mental contro] and censorship. A particular disagreeable fact in every case where some dictatorship de- crees beliefs and opinions for everybody is the savagery with which opposition is at- tacked and physically obliterated. Those who proclaim the unquestionable certainty and superiority of their own viewpoint fear to let it mix in free competition with other ideas and examples, a terror which entirely refutes the confidently expressed conviction of certainty. Liberals everywhere should oppose restrictions upon human thinking and ex- perimenting, unless we prefer to route the human race back to the Middle Ages with controlled dogmas and interdictions upon further questioning by the intelligence of markind. If so unhappy a_ state should arise the world will sleep again for a couple of centuries, during which brave and fearless thinkers will die as in ages past. THE UPKEEP AFTER A WAR It’s not the cost of war so much as the upkeep that works havoc with the nation’s monetary plans, For example, there were 280,564 men engaged in the Spanish-American war, of whom 9,599 were casualties. Today 227,- 229 veterans are on the pension rolls, drawing about $100,000,000 a year. The Civil War has been over more than sixty years but in 1931 the pensions being paid amounted to some $120,000,- 000... The World War’has been over about } eighteen years, so what? Merely that World War compensation increased from $121,374,000 in 1921 to $690,000,000 in 1932. This doesn’t include the bonus money and only a statistician could _ esti- mate the cost of a general pension, which many fear will be the next demand of the World War veterans, ————__—_— DIVIDING DUTCH ISLANDS? British officials in London, like the rest of the world, would like to know ex- actly what Berlin and Tokyo agreed to in their recent cgllaboration. Like the rest of the worl British dismiss the drive against-eomm nism as:the real subject of The attr. In Englert the belief is heard that the two nations haye agreed to five sep- | arate spheres pf influence in the Dutch East Indies, which Japan’s superior rights recognized in Dutch Borneo and _ Celebes and Germany’s sphere fixed in Sumatra and Java. If you will get. your map and look up these islands, then Singapore, where the British have a huge naval base, you will see why England is interested. If you carry your map study a little further and look at the Philippine islands, then the Mariana and Caroline islands, now Japanese, you will see where the United States might become interested. | gation of navy vessels, submarines jand aircraft ever seen ‘Key West about Friday of THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1 | will be his son Robert. Givens, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY |; Happenings Here Just 10 sans Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen The greatest peace time aggr ee | i in these waters will commence arriving at this | week to spend some time in train-| ing and dril | maneuvers. All’ operations will be conducted from, the local navy yard and the ac- tivities will extend as far as the, coast of Cuba. With this great’ flotilla of water and air craft will come a force of more than 7,500 officers and men who will be al- lowed ample shore leave during their stay and it is estimated they will not spend less than $100,000 in the Key West stores and theaters, and other places which afford contentment and amuse- ment for the personnel of the fleet. The fi vessel vive is the Hannibal which is ex pected to reach port by Frida The vessel left the navy yard Philadelphia on December 3 and was to stop at the Norfolk navy yard for stores and supplies. i at In this issue of The Citizen ap- pears the announcement of the forthcoming first issue the Key West News, a weekly news- paper which will make its initial appearance next Sunday. It _ is the intention to issue each Sunday thereafter. The publi Robert H. Givens, “5 an esti- mable gentleman well known to Key Westers. Associated with him, of j Was waylaid a \ threatened to sher will be: for Jr. The mechanical work will be done by The Citizen. , This will save the immense pe install- ing a new plant. News has ; no connection whatever with The Citizen. i George Reece, the negro who id shot?in the arm just as he was in the act of enter- ing his home at the . corner of Thomas and on Streets last night, is reported as getting along very well today. Reéce says he has no idea who shot) him the night was very dark. He can find no reason for the attempt on his life, he said. of A. S. RB. was, held - At the last meeting West Consistory A. election of ofvice the following oitic yere chosen for the ensuing term: W. E. Hu ton, V. M.; A. G. Lupd, gene secretary; Aus a The other elective and appointive we ained in their iow due to ar- ) t de nd_ to: trial hot had A Dice, char gree murder, took thes! day in circuit court where hi is continu He said® he Ji he, Jiminez, him He: did hing which hap. pened acter SMinez and saw him fall. He didJnot recatl telling Mercedes Carauancha to run as he was ¢ > tot MN her He thered hiding on on the boat ez because not rer he shot rev 1 open- tore ill had ed an account for her and when she wa i t \ ‘ none Copyright 1936, Liccstt & Mysxs Tosacco Co. 3 Miriam Parks, another © paid all of her. expenses. she got well she would not speak to him any more and took up with Jiminez whom acknowledges « shooting to death at the same time Dice is aHeged to have kille the woman. News has been rece: nnouncing the seven pound girl to Mr. Hilton Stirrup at their Miami. Mrs. St marriage Miss Gloria Js daughter of Mrs. E and granddaughter-vi Mrs. € ents Jaycocks, cocks. 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