The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1936, Page 2

cy PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday Ry THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President 4UE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Cntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press -Le Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for repnblication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the locat news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year .... 3ix Months Tree Months one Month . Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, * SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, éte., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which 2 revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an oven forum and invites discus- sion of public issueg and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- rations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartinente. Rathing Pavilion. Abports--Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Evidently the Filipinos are fit for in- dependence. They fight among themselves as much as we do. “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” perhaps, but one easily gets fed up on that particular brand of sweetness. Well, the comic opera is ended, king has his Cinderella and the crowd : verse has a positive radius of curvature of “vealed by the the! reform. Now, luckily, business men, rep- THE UNIVERSE TO CONQUER Alexander, the Great, in years that are gone, yearned for new worlds to con- quer and there are individuals today who | are worried at the great progress of hu-| man beings, fearing lest there be nothing ; left for the future to reveal. The universe, however, invites the at- | Its stupendous tention of mah. size dwarfs the present mentality of men. | a row of ciphers mean nothing, as for ex- | ample when they tell you that the uni- only 500,000,000 lights years. To clarify this in your thinking remember that a light-year is the distance light will travel in a year and light moves 186,000 miles aj} second. If you have grasped the truth about the positive radius, let us add another bit from the knowledge of the astronomer, who says that the distance to the outer- most nebulae of the universe is about three sextillion miles, or a three, twenty-one ciphers. By the time our readers get these small items in mind we will come back to the subject, especially if the astronomers are able, in the meanwhile, to agree on just exactly what the size of the universe is. Some of them expect this to be re- 200-inch telescope now followed by| You and Your: Nation’s Affairs Five Billions May Help By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON lp i tronomers dwell on distances so vast that | President, American Academy of Political and Five billion dollars ts the nuge sum eld by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, France | and a few smaller countries in special accounts to sta- bilize their cur- rencies. For years foreign exchanges have been fluctuating within wide limits—so wide that ordinary business has been seriously affected. Ex- porters, import- ers and others have hesitated to take the risks involved in in- ternational trading. In the United States, for example. an exporter has been unable to plan ahead with confidence. He has not known how tmuch a shipment to Liverpool, sold for £10,000, would bring him in dollars. With the pound at $5 he would receive $50,000 but with the pound at $4.90 he would get only $49,000. This difference of $1,000 is 2 per cent of the total sale and in our illustration we have used only a minor fluctuation of ten cents in the price of the pound. In recent years that price has actually ranged be- building to carry on the research which now depends upon the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson, Calif. A REMEDY BETTER THAN A DEBATE The business men of the country who are making a realistic approach to some of the problems of the nation are to be commended. Undoubtedly there is room for correction in the field of national eco- nomics and the people of the country are demanding action without much regard to the source of the relief. Heretofore, there has been too much ground lost in debating the necessity of resented by the United States Chamber of tween $3.50 and $5.00. For a long time it could be urged that the trouble was with France That country has now devalued the franc and established its own stabil- ization fund of 10.000,000.000 francs Optimistic statements have been is- sued but it is interestirig to watch the New York quotations for the pound. the franc and the other foreign cur- rencies. They are not firm. They are weak. There is a constant tendency for them to decline and it seems prob- able that if the various stabilization funds were not used they would fluc- tuate even more. This is not a criticism of the under- standing that has been reached It was a wise arrangement and is to be heartily approved. But we should not make the mistake of supposing it has | solved any of the basic difficulties. The foreign exchange quotations are much like our readings of the ther- mometer and the barometer. They tell us about the weather but we cannot control the weather merely by manip- ulating the instruments. it is clear that foe ee ee ee i apted Covecvccccccccccsececces | *** Sometimes, when the day's work | eeeccescecoooose At my Limbo of unfinished’ things. FRIDAY, DECEMEEE 11. 1936. Today's December 10, 1936 ‘Be L£ mars Se eecesecccossessosesess ;_1787—Thomas Ho Gallee@etree cpececter god talents of Shoe Ee Amencan tree sings, ‘pioneer in the education ef the Reweese fo ua Decemee 3 I look back, in the pages of life'’s|deaf, born in Philadelphia Died) SacrrTaeeUs peegie comilly varied stages, j Sept. 10, 2852. 1805—William Liepd Garmusen_ Boston's famed abelitionit, =e" 2 Specs: i am Stl anc a ee ek a i ee a | oe : a eee I remember the visions, the foolish former and editor, born at New SS Ee tel Ge ccteeme of amet i |The The ee or disa trous ig ce ag gralceanl that a sudden reversal.of the: be more troublesome than, their re- ceipt. This is not because we ‘would suf- fer from a loss of gold. Weihave now about one-half of the total world stock of monetary gold aiid it would be better for the United States and for the resi of the world if it could be distributed better. If we could ex- port a large amount and if it could go to countries like Germany that fave so little, all of us would be bet- ter off. We have far more than our appropriate share. it is by no means clear that any large part of the funds ‘ing here can or will be quickly withdrawn. But if they were the danger. {jes in the fact that such a movement would be accompanied by a heavy sele of se- curities and a collapse in stock mar- ket prices. This would dave serious repercussions. Fear of war abroad, the. ‘possibility of further devaluation of egrtain for= eign currencies, the de: of for- eigners for drafts on New York to pay their current obligations here—these are some of the basic reasons why funds are coming to us. Uptil there is more steadiness everywhere in the world and until we can find a better adjustment for our business relations with the rest of the world, the for- eign exchanges will continue to be erratic. For temporary assistance the five billion dollars in the stabilization funds is adequate. But even this pinay gering large sum is not basic difficulties. Offici side of the ocean, of this. It is important that,the es est of us also understand, On the World's spacious breast, | - from the East to the West, i But the hardest of battles I ever'be among the country’s The work that was never’ a things put away for a lazier | chusetts’ And the dreams that re, . = | scholar. somehow, defeated. |buryport, Mas Died May 24 | 1879. noted Shakesperes= .ooce bern at Newburyport. j Mase. ‘Died July 7, 2928 any ete —=— a ee Bert bus: acc et oe ee eer ows cies Geek et & —Wliam J. Rolfe, Mawes fmesh ame Geez oefcce wing Wey coe abet @ ee ee ae Carfa 2 Seer mete 1830_Emily E. Dicknee, ef SS Te = Are the cities and men that! Amberst, Mass poctess, unknown S°°¢ Seustkespe= eet jee eas in her lifetime but discovered te mothers These peep oe and I've known have fought, Have been here, in this head —_ May 15, 1886. The hopes I so prized aoe reach- | of my own. ed to the skies, The answer is here, in my mem- My best efforts fell short of success. cries clear, And I’m just a “beginner,” I' guess, . There are many who say, casual way: You have on!y to finish the things | “Why, it’s easy for you to make good; yon’ve begun And rewards will be yours, ~ they should!” 1850—Jennie A_ Brownscombe. _. Times noted American painter, whese jjects, born at Honesdale. Pa Died them = New York, Aug. 5, 1936. 1851—Melvil 1‘ibrarian and pioneer im Sibeary 4 | organization, tern at Adams Cen in aitre, N. ¥. Died at Lake Pieced iFla., Dec. 26, 1931 SOs a 1867—Herman admiral, born im Died Sept. 13, Socknes Pepperei 1936 Mass. mere 'But now as I sit with the day's 8 work all done, And the wind in the old cal tree sings, I feel rather glad for the fun that I’ve had i Mid the Limbo of unfinished things. Key West, Fla, Dec. 9, 1936, 330 Duval St. ms Today's Horoscope | 1 Toe re home << ane cemcat cee a - ere. bat awe Dewey, noted €apect tec mack fee otte= ie ai ees oo ans) ase ome o — eet tems of wae Some pcs poets after death, berm ‘there 2 gece ect et 2 toe == ae specialty was early American sob SSE ae OE Ss oe wert seres Goes w a = ay Se i= coer = feortumeicy mat 2 oe Lec wa 45 = = = — = ce i SOLO pecerer-seseeesseses tf Today's native will be ingen-! ious, with artistic tastes, and with | many friends. The mind is a lit-| tle top tortuous, and the disposi-, tion may be passionate and too. resentful. At some period of the life-w critical time will- be ‘met slowly homeward wends its way. Commerce, suggest state compacts as a (Address questions to the author care of this newspapér) means of industrial regulation. The same = reasoning applies to reforms in other areas. We have no quarrel with reform, whether it originates through State com- | alana Today’ s. erie Anniversaries *| @eecveccecsnsescbosccoer Europe will be ready for another gen- eral war just as soon as Uncle Sam sig- nifies his willingness to finance it. abs 1816—Indiana Statehood. We are Popular humorists are highly paid, but some of the funniest people in the world don’t get a cent for being that way. Women who demand equal rights with such vehemence would be surprised if they got them. Joining the army, for in- stance, as in Russia. The pendulum of acclaim swung to the government of Premier Baldwin pacts or through Federal action” inclined to agree with the people of the nation and demand some relief, regardless of how it is secured. The citizens who are worried about the Constitution can do ef- fective work in its behalf, if they really want to, by aiding in the correction of con- ditions that have been condemned by the } | people. THE NATION’S PROBLEM jing ‘in Columbus, Ohio, 1878—Discovery of rich silver fie'ds in Leadville, Colo., a vil-! lege of some 25 log cabins, which in the next 25 yvears poured out! one-third of a billion dollars worth of precious minerals, '1886—The Federation of Or- ‘ gan'‘zed Trades znd*Lahor Unio Jof the U. S. A. and Canada meet- where at the same time a convention of in- dependent trade unions was meet-| ‘eut’s Susquehanna it jit Conn., May 29; * Ge ae, 1728—John Durkee, Zoldier of the Revolution, who led Connecti- COfipany of ‘colonizers to the Wydming Val- ley in Pennsylvania,’*“born at | Windham, Conn. Died Nor- silt ¢4 1792—Joseph, Molin: Aus author of the codease carehil i “Stille Nacht,” bornjlis-Died ai 4, 1848, des when al the friends will be need- | ed, therefore be careful not to alienate them. [oeeesesscesecessessrsessssre™ : SEASONAL SPECIAL The great problem before the United jing, effected a union under the! States, just now, is what to do with those |new name of the American Fed-! that are unemployed, willing but unable to | °T@tion of Labor, when the populace realized that their king preferred the love of a woman to their loyalty. 1813—C'emence S, Lpzier, New York feminist and pioneer woman i homeopathic physician,.,born at | Plainfield, N. J. Cierva, the Spanish inventor of the autogiro, the most original aeronautic in- vention of our time, died during a crash in a plane not of his own invention. Such is fate! The Times-Union columnist doesn’t keep track of his paragraphs. In his De- cember 8 column he asks, What's Become of Haile Selassie, and in the same column he informs his public that the king of Judah is “cavorting around the continent wearing striped pants, sport shoes, spats and a swallow-tail coat.” Some of the old Romans were also at times too proud to fight. Cato, being scurrilously addressed by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him: “A contest be- tween us is very unequal, for thou cans’t bear ill language with ease and return it with pleasure, but to me it is unusual to hear and disagreeable to speak.” . The city council has decided to make 1937 a business year, so all who owe taxes get ready to dig in your jeans, for there will be no more trifling as in the past. The Citizen recently said editorially concern- ing the extending of credit in Key West by our merchants: “Credit, extended on no basis at all, is either alms-giving, or just plain foolishness; it certainly is not busi- ness.” And the same thought applies to the city council which has really less right to extend credit on taxes than the business man who owns his business and is not rep- resenting others as in the ease of the city council, find work. The National Industrial Conference Board estimates the unemployed at 8,975,- 000, the American Federation of Labor says 11,000,000 and the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers asserts the correct 1918—End of the 30-day Arm- 1888, istice--Germans evacuste Belgian and French soi!, give ap guns and 2mmunition specified and surren- der their fleets. 1927—Communists seize figures are “less than 5,000,000 without | 0” China, but soon are forced to } work and seeking work.” ! With these conflicting estimates it seems reasonable to have a census of the unemployed, as suggested by Secretary Roper, but immediately bobs up another question, “When is a person unemployed?” Does the class include those who formerly worked occasionally, the part-time worker and those engaged in seasonal occupa- tions? President Roosevelt has suggested that the-unemployed be allowed to reg- ister themselves, thus saving time and ex- pense. Business leaders indicate, on their part, a willingness to make special efforts to-give, work to the unemployed. Alto- gether there is much discussion of the question. Maybe, a solution is in sight, after all, and the near future will see the truth of the prophecy that America will once again face a labor shortage. OLD ADAGE WINS “Few die ‘and none* resign,” the old phrase referring to office-holders, took a tumble when Mayor William N. McNair, of Pittsburgh, recently resigned. The adage, however, gained its ground when, in a few days the gentle- ‘man reconsidered and attempted to with- draw his resignation. The courts, how- ever, rule that the resignation is beyond recall, give it up. 1930—New York City’s Bank of . of $200,000,000. This Liquid Kills Skin Itch Quicker Containing six kinds of itch kill- ing medicines, Imperial Lotion flows freely into skin folds ‘and Pores to reach and kill itching of . eczema, rash, tgtter, ringworm and common itch. Two sizes, 35 and $1. Can*) May 9, 1902, | ae Died April 26, : s 1837—Henry Moftoh, *scient- ist, first president of ghe ‘Stevens Institute of Technoldgy, Hoboken, N. J., born in New Xe i Died S 1843—Robert Kechg famed Swedish author of her. day, born. United States closes with deposits ! Died April 25, 1926.;.- | >? WaeataeetTDe eee eE, Ni Pay For it to yourself. CREDIT. 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