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PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE cma PUBLISHING CO. INC, ARTMAN, President Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Cou . Flor! FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR untered at Key Ve cond class matter Member of the Associated Press -be Associated Press is exclusi entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the locat news published here. One Year . 3ix Months Turee Mont! one Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. YOTICE of thanks, resolutions of » Will be charged for at an aan notic a line. Notices for ents ertainments by churches from which ar to be derived 5 e line. n oven vites discus- al or general Interest but it not publish anonymous communi- eations. 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, Ab ports--Land and Sea. Life will be worth just about what you make it worth to you. Pity the linotype operators if war be- tween Japan and Russia breaks out. Those who rocked the boat last sum- mer and got away with it are now starting kitchen fires with kerosene, A Senator says the average American is not tax-conscious yet, but it won’t be long until he is taxed unconscious, A man with one foot in the grave does not have the same outlook on life as the youth with life and the world before him. The Count of Covadonga renounced his right to the Spanish throne and mar- ried a commoner; now he is divorced. The Duke of Windsor, who had a throne, ab- dicated; now—but that’s another story and we'll tell it some other time. When you criticise your home town paper for not coming up to your expecta- tions you accuse yourself, for a newspaper is what the people and business of a com- | munity make it. The publisher issues the | product according to the patronage ren- dered. The more abundant life may be made so abundant that it will develop into hedonism, that makes pleasure the chief good in life and the gratification of pleasure-seeking instincts paramount. This is a doctrine that will not lead to real and permanent happiness. The National Safety Council on No- vember 30 marked up its 1936 traffic death toll to 29,850 for the first ten months of the present year, and calculated that the figure would reach 37,500 before January 1. That would be a new all- time high, exceeding the record 37,000 of 1935. If Americans decide to work but 30 hours a week and Europe puts in 48 hours, it will not be long before the balance of production will be in Europe’s favor and then we will do the buying instead of the selling that will eventually enrich the peo-! ple of those countries and impoverish us.} It can’t happen here; you wait and see. On the subject of the king’s renuncia- tion of his throne for the love of a woman | the world is divided. It appears that those counter to the decision he has made are in the majority. One who describes herself s “a loyal British woman” expresses her opinion in one pungent paragraph: “The | king abdicated because he could not make a woman—who had two living husbands —his wife. I would be willing to wager everything I have that he regrets his be- havior. And if they are together two years hence I shall be surprised.” | stricted immigration and a | rate. { 1950, and slowly decline thereafter. POPULATION TRENDS Recent government reports give some interesting figures concerning the coun- try’s population, which the Census Bureau now estimates to be 128,429,000, an in-| crease of 908,000 over last year. The bureau shows gains in all states except Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island,-South Dakota ! and Wisconsin, | The rate of increase in population is | slowly but steadily declining, due to re-| lower birth Dr. O. E. Baker of the Department | of Agriculture predicts that the country’s | population will probably reach its peak by | Since the depression began in 1929, there has been a trend of population away | from towns and cities and toward the} farms. Last year this trend was checked | | i | ! | | |! and now the movement is again toward th towns and citits, doubtless because of in- | creased opportunities for employment of- | fered by industrial centers, Farmers make up less than 25 per | cent of the total population at present. | js Last year 1,211,000 persons moved away! from farms, while only 825,000 moved to| them. There is nothing alarming about; | this, however, as it is estimated that with | unrestricted production the United States | could supply its own needs for agricultural products with 40 per cent less farmers. GUITEAU’S PISTOL After lying forgotten in the files of the Attorney General's office in Washing- j ton for more than 50 years, the pistol with which Charles J. Guiteau assassinated | President James A. Garfield in 1881 has been placed among other historical -relics in the National Museum. | Accompanying the pistol was the con- fession signed by Guiteau after his com- mission of the crime. This confession, written in a beautiful hand by the mur- derer himself, said in part: “T think of General Garfield’s con-| dition as a removal, and not as an_ as- sassination. My idea, simply stated, was to remove as easily as possible Mr. James A. Garfield, a quiet and good natured citizen of Ohio, who temporarily occupied j © the position of President of the United; States, and substitute in his place Mr. Chester A. Arthur of New York, a_ dis- tinguished and highly estimable gentle- | man.” President Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died on September 19. His} assassin, a disappointed office seeker and | fanatic, was hanged for his crime the fol- lowing year, UPHELD ON OTHER GROUNDS Making a plea for lighter-weight books, Professor William Lyon Phelps de- clares that the reading in bed habit in- volves dangers, for the accidental drop- ping of some of the present day volumes carries the possibility of danger formerly | associated with turning loose a _ paving block or a heavy brick. The demand is justified. While we do not share the bed-reading habit, a re- cent spell of sickness afforded experience enough to see the justice of the Yale’s pro- fessor’s complaint. A, sick man has a bad! enough time getting well without the ad- ditional strain of holding up a book weigh- ing several pounds! However, we make no plea for able- bodied, physically-well readers who are not only too lazy to hold themselves up but likewise object to supporting the book they are reading. These will soon be wanting an automatic page-turner, and it won’t do to coddle them unduly. These bed-readers need some physical exercise | and they might well stand the exertion caused by maintaining the book they read. The indiscriminate sale of oe guns and sawed-off shotguns to criminals aroused the public some months ago and a law was passed, requiring the registration of such sales. This, however, didn’t settle the prob- lem. For the twelve months ending June 30th, last, only one weapon was registered. After all, you can hardly expect a gang- ster, buying a machine gun, to come in, be fingerprinted and pay a $200 tax on his FOP OP IV IIOP ED LA fe HARDLY TO BE EXPECTED purchase, can you? lear, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your. Nation’s Affairs Tax Sanity Remote By HARLEY L, LUTZ Professor of Publie Finance, Princeton University There has been much distussién recently about the American way/oft taxation. The assertion has been quite definitely made that the present scheme of fed- eral taxation is the embodiment ofthis American way. No formal prescription 0- taxation methods exists, in the constitu- tion or any- where else, by which we may discover just what is the American way of taxation. The best procedure is to examine the record with a view tu ascertaining now federal an? state governments supported themselves since the ion was established. The record shews that during the century anda quarter that elapsed between the ratification of the con- stitution and the adoption of the sixteen h amendment, Congress ae- pended almost entirely on the cust-ms revenue and various internal excise taxes. On the other uand, the states nd their local subdivisions were sup- ported by the divect taxation of prop- erty, business, incomes and inherit- ances. On a few occasions and for emergency purposes, there was mod- | erate federal taxation of personal in- comes and the inheritance of personal property. This distribution of sources was in- a_ general was eacept under quite imprac- not forbidden to 2 but by general con- sent these were left to the federal governme..t. So far as the testimuny of history goes, this gepera‘ plan may as proper- ; be called the American way of ation as anything that has de- veloped during the last twenty-three }years. For a hundred and twenty-five years the federal goverrment chiefly the indirect taxes, while the states used chiefly the direct taxes. It is well known that we have quite compfetely lost sight of this tradition- «1 tax policy. The income iax amend- ment, effective in 1913, authorized fed- eral taxation of incomes without re- gard to the original constitutional re- quirements respecting federal direct taxation. Since then Congress has so completely usurped the income tax field as to destroy it for state taxation purposes. The same thing has hap- pened with the inheritance tax. The states developed this tax, fought the battles for it through the courts, and evolved its principles. Then Congress seized it, some twenty years ago, and the federal rates have been advanced to levels that threaten the ultimate extinction of estates and inheritances to be taxed. The states likewise dis- covered and developed the gasoline tax, but Congress has also added a federal levy here. During this periud of invasion c™ the state tax field and the absorption of the great bulk of the available yield from historically important state taxes, Congress has also tightened the federal grip on the indirect taxes. Nevertheless, the states-have been forced to turn to sales and other in- direct taxes in an effort to offset the federal encroachments in direct taxa- tion. It is impossible to get back to sanity in taxation, and it is futile to talk about the American way of taxation, until there can t a sufficient reduc- tion of public expenditures. to permit of some basic tax readjustmer.ts. It is hopeless te expect expenditure reduc- tion without two other jevelopments. One is the elimination of the wastes of governmental organization and procedure, and the otker is a drastic shrinkage in the exaggerated notion that now prevaiis with regard to the value and importan e of so much governmenta: action. A deflation of the governmental ego i; one of the first steps toward tax reform. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) TODAY’S Temperatures* Highest Lowest Mean eae Normal Mean Rainfall” peestands Ry’s. Pree pitation Sun ri Moon sets iees Tomorrow’s Tides A.M. High 12:42 pleves ft. Se 2 0 7:24 Barometer 8 a. m. today: | Sea level, 30.01. WEATH=ZR FORECAST i (Till 8 p, m., Saturday) <ey West and Vicinity: Partly tonight and Saturday; somewhat warmer tonight; gentle, to moder te variable winds, most- ly cloudy in south in north portion 's in extreme north | somewhat warmer to- Satutrday mostly cloudy, in north and central por- | ghtly colder in extreme, and west-central portions. sonville to Flo erate southerly. winds, excepp, variable. over extreme: south por tion, probably shifting to wester- | ly over extreme north portion | Saturday, and fair to partiy over- | cast weather tonight and Satar-| portion, cloud probably show portion night; jday, except showers over extreme north portion, East Gulf: Moderate southerly } winds, shifting to westerly over | north portion, and weather partly | cloudy to overeast tonight andj jsouth Atlantic States, and | Mich: jeurred since yes‘ | Temperatures have fallen lof the Florida pen! WEATHER | Saturday, with showers over north Pressure is modérattly low this ‘morning over the northern Plains States and far Northeast, and a ‘low pressure area, of slight inten- "sity, is centered over the lower ippi Valley, Wi-ston, N. .90 inches, Eastport, Me., 29, 84 inches, and Little Rock, rk., 29.84 inches; while pres- s high from the Lake region southward over the midd'e - and over the far West, Sault Ste. Marie, 38 inches, and Ga't Lake City, Utah, 30.42 inches. Light to moderate rain or snow has oc- erday morning in the middle Mississippi Valley and from Colorado southeastward in- to northern Texas, snow in the , extreme upper Mississ'ppi Valley land portions of New.England, and rain on the north Pacific coast. from the Lake region eastward over the north and middle Atlantic States, jand have risen on the middle and east Gulf coast; while elsewhere changes have been generally un- | important, with readings near or above normat, excef¥er north- eastern districts and, in portions sula, Gs. NNEDY, Official, in Charge. pasenee Skin Pores Kills Scalp Itch With six itch sietlon Reg peer in liquid form, Im; 1 Lotion tow sae sets i. kilts the and thus gets a’ ae s. cause of scalp it $1.00, SECO ELOOTE LET IM it to yourself. CREDIT. The First National The Easiest Way For You To Pay For AHome ~ is to pay for it as i4u pay rent. The logical way is to pay monthly, out of incom, an installment on the principal and the interest, etc., and thus, over a given period of years, pay off pO entire mortgage and have’the house frée of gil deb rt. < very much like buying a house and en, ren CONSULT US HOW YOU CAN BUILD OR BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE OF BUILDING ON INSURED ee AEM E TITRE EIEEE Bank ot Key Key West 8 ) N N N N N N a “N N N Ny Ny N N 5 A referendum will be held in Key West on the question of “ transferring’ the $90,000 golf ©" 4#==ary links fund to the city’s street im- the different provement fund. This is being maya —— done because of the statement _apwane that this money whcih is not, to #4 Bave been doing wonderfully be used for further work on the ee ae ae. Ot lf course can be advantageously ° caches Selec ais toc (eas captain ae npeere ape = provement and certain chan; to Pried of recreation am endez = |e made in the sidewalks and Jy to the fullest measure the | thoroughfares of the city. Should the referendum favor the trans- fer of the funds then the action will require the approval of the next session of the Florida lezis- lature. Key West -Temple 20, Pythian Sisters wai hoia ther reguiar ‘meeting next Wednesday nignt at {whch tame the usual Christmas sociai hour will be enjoyed. Each jmember is being requested to j bring some inexpensive gift and jat the proper time these gifts will »: j be exchanged. A Christmas pro- was a large crowd im attendance jgram has been arranged, refresh-' and all thoroughly enjeped ‘the ‘ments will be served and every- evening’s entertainment. one wil] make merry while the jevening lasts. Coast Guard Cutter Saskee which was sent Thursday to search for the semi-submergee Caibarien, laden wath turned to port thy mern the barge @ toe. E & aoe ot The place operated by Isaac Mesa on Greene street was raided by members of the sheriif’s force ' yesterday aftrnoon at 4 o'clock and the raiding officers reported that intoxicating liquor was found lin the place. The proprietor was placed under bond of $100 for his appearance at a preliminary hear- ing before Judge Hugh Gunn. The raid was made by Chief Deputy Sheriff J. O. Kemp, assisted by Constable Dalbert Bethel. Repair work which has been done along the county highway under the supervision of County Foreman Paul Monsalvatge has been the subject of much favor- able comment. The condition of jthe road and its appearance are greatly improved where these im- provements were made and one citizen was heard to say it would be great if all roads could be given the same treatment. YOUR DESTINY BY LE M4E5 Stamp. THE KEY WEST CITizes, KEY WEST, FLA Tomorrow morning will find the Cuban Stars and the Box Factory baseball teams engaged in a battle for mastery and to decide the supremacy of one team over the other, which was left in doubt last week when CHRISTMAS SPECIALS ARTISTIC GLASSWARE SOMETHING NEW—SOMETHING DIFFERENT—fOR THE SUF- FET, SERVING TABLE OR CHINA CLOSET TWO COLORS TO SELECT FROM: YELLOW AND SILVER G2 GREEN AND SILVER ASSORTED FRUIT BOWLS, each as SANDWICH TRAYS, (DOUBLE LAYER). «xi 5175 CHEESE AND CRACKER DISH, «ach $s. 8 ~3,PC, CONSOLE SET, CONSISTING OF 2 CANDLE “STICKS AND BOWL TO MATCH, st 2s Regular $6.25 Value . . . . . - CONSISTING OF 6 WINE GLASSES, 6 HICHBALL CLASSES, 6 OLD FASHION GLASSES, 1 COCKTAN SHAKER. 1 DECANTER, AND 1 JUICE BOTTLE. Extra Special Sale On Liquor Sets CONSIST OF ATTRACTIVELY PAINTED DECANTERS WITH GLASSES TO MATCH—SEPARATE DECANTERS AND CLASSES WITH OR WITHOUT STANDS. 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