The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 28, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published iy, xcept Sunday By THE CIT1Z: LISHING CO. INO, President P. ART! » Ani Business Manager om The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. st, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press «he 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 local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES entered at Key One Year ... 3ix Months Turee Morft One Month Weekly SPECIAL NOTICE All reading potices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which & revenue is tq be derived are 5 cents a liné. The Citizen is an oven forym and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ations. Cuba has had 14 presidents; nine since 1933. 7 Today is gone; it will never come back again. > 4 Printers’ “pi” is not. very digestible, nor is that we have tried in some . res: taurants. To receive a gift from Bethlehem in the Holy Land on Christmas Day is a joy- ous experience this writer takes pleasure in chronicling. In the death of Arthur Brisbane The Citizen lost one of its most distinguished paid subscribers, and this writer an honor- ed and admired friend. Thousands of Key Westers did not enjoy so sumptious a spread as that of which the prisoners in the local jail par- took on Christmas Day. Countess di Frasso, who has never ap- peared on either the stage or screen, has a set of swell looking legs.—Walter Win- chell. You’ve been looking. Here is the first squawk against Gov- ernor-elect Cone. He refers to the people of Florida as Floridans, and not Floridians; we think we are and want to be the latter. Gomez, first constitutional president since the Machado regime, was ousted be- cause of so-called unconstitutional activi- ties. Don Liborio seems to have trouble with his constitution. This writer regrets having failed to ask former Minister to Denmark, Ruth Bryan Owen, when last she visited Key West if she ever found out what was really rotten in Denmark. Arthur Brisbane’s death leaves a void in the journalistic world, and millions of his readers will miss his comment-on-cur= rent affairs and his quaint philosophy i his popular column “Today.” bin By Sheriff Thompson provided. no tender birds for his jail birds, but he procured for them an epicurean feast of roast pork, sauce and dressing, rice and potatoes, ap- ple pie, mince pie, and pumpkin pie, oranges, apples and candy. What, no liquids! Perhaps the woman most envied for her supposed knowledge is the wife of a small town doctor.—Key West Citizen. But imagine being Walter Winchell’s wife!—Lee Morris in St. Petersburg In- dependent. Nearly all the merchants and business men of Key West, in The Citizen’s Christ- mas edition, thanked their customers for their patronage in 1936 and wished them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Readers of The Citizen noted but a few exceptions, t The late Arthur Brisbane had never been in Key West, although he frequently made trips to all parts of the United States. It was his wish, however, to come here, and he so expressed himself in a letter to this writer. These were his words: “T hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again when you come up north, or when I accomplish a long-deferred plan, and go to Key West.” ‘$0 | on the same plane. AN ESSAY ON BUYING AT HOME Millions of words have been printed and uttered in the interests of trading at home and every community of any size stages periodical drives to keep the home town dollar revolving in the circle of its business enterprises. Much ridicule has been poked at small towns and cities as they attempt to de- velop into trading centers but the same ambitions move the boosters of the larger metropolitan areas and their rivalfies are It is laudable for any municipality to desire growth and, because so many cultural activities depend upon the prosperity of business, entirely com- mendable to encourage the growth of home town enterprises, which provide em- ployment for local citizens, There was a time in many cities when aman or woman who bought out of town was consflered something of a _ misfit. There was a general realization of the de- sirablity of keeping money at home but not quite such a clear conception of the way to turn the trick. It was generally assumed, in many quarters, that what was necessary was a series of articles on trad- ing at home in the local newspaper at the editor’s expense and that was that. Today, more thatr ever before, it is being generally recognized that the job of keeping home money in town is primarily one that belongs to the merchants and “business men and that it is not to be un- dertaken in the same way that colleges work up pep for football games. There is no use to assail a fellow-townsman for trading somewhere else when there is a distinct advantage to the family pocket- book in so doing. In other words, trading being what it is, buyers are naturally go- ing to take the best bargains they can ob- tain and it is the function of merchants to provide them with the best buys. No town can _ successfully institute buying at home and keep it going unless it possesses alert, industrious and capable merchants, who are able to sell merchan- dise along modern lines, giving customers the same advantages that can be obtained in other marts. Buying at home will not work if all that it means is the snaring of dollars from unwary and_ unintelligent buyers. Key West merchants have the ability, they have the means and many of them are now exhibiting merchandising _ skill that encourages the belief that buyers will find it worth their time and money to shop here. The local merchant, everywhere, has the advatitage of proximity to his trade which nobody can take from him. It is worth having and should be the means | of securing for him the trade support of the buyers in his natural field of opera- tions. STUDYING NEW FACES As there will be some 95 new faces in the national House of Representatives when Congress meets in January, William _T. Roy, assistant parliamentarian of that body, has set about to become familiar ‘with them even before they arrive in Washington. He already knows the names and faces of the 340 members who served in the last House. In order to get his gallery of notables completed before the opening day of the next session, Mr. Roy shortly after the election wrote to each new Congressman, asking for his photograph. He also has collected a large number of news photo- graphs showing prospective lawmakers in various poses. All this material he has as- sembled in a large album for study. The reason for all this is that one of Mr. Roy’s tasks is to be able to identify any member of the House when called up- on to do so by the speaker. With a total of 435 members, the ability to recognize and call each one by name _ instantly is quite an accomplishment at the beginning of a new Congress. . ‘ The weather bureau will establish four additional frost warning: stations in Florida. They may find some yet.—Fort Myers News-Press. But not in Key West, the only frost-free city in the United States. According to Ripley there is a street in Key West which runs from the. Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This would allow a fellow to make a coast to coast trip afoot in less time than an airplane could fly from New York to Philadelphia. —Times-Union, You and Your Nation’s Affairs Commodity Dollar Fallacies By WALTER E. SPAHR Chairman, Department of Economics, New York University Note: This is the fifth of a series of articles by Dr. Spahr discussing the commodity. dollar plan. The whole series has been published in a pam- phlet which will be sent to any reader tipon request to the author in care of this newspaper. The assumption of the commodity ~dollar advocates that the price level should be stable is definitely open to effective ‘challenge. Certainly there are no defensi- ble grounds on which one could urge thata price level should be sta- bilized at the low point reached during a severe depres- sion, because theeconomic system is badly out of balance at that point. In recovering from adepression,the price level will and should rise, because rising prices are part of the forces which contribute to a better economic equilibrium. Similarly, there are no sound grounds on which one could urge that a price level should be stabilized at the peak of a business expansion be- cause the economic system at that time will be badly out of balance. Prices must and should fall to pro- mote a better adjusiment of economic factors. Thus the only time at which one R te price level is when rs in the economic ed a state of equi- en such a balance ig ained the price level will be rela- ble because of the nature ; and then we need not eon- ccrn ourselves about it. To attempt to maintain a stable price level by artificial devices when there are maladjustments in the eco- nomic system is unsound in practice. § an effort tends to prolong the sting maladjustments and to cre- yew ones, all of which will cul- nate in accentuated difficulties in the end. Our experiences with the taaintenance of a relatively stable price level from 1923 to 1929, while the underlying economic factors were badly out of balance, should teach us the very valuable lesson that stability of the price level does not insure sta- bility in the economic system. sr etaleienpeine: dove ioane, mat 2m, bilize individual prices; and it is at individual prices, not at price aver- ages, that ple buy and sell. A stable price level, resting upon a mul- titude of individual instabilities, when these reveal serious maladjustments, has no virtue; it merely misleads peo- ple as to the actual nature of the most vital underlying factors. But appar- ently the commodity dollar advocates have learned nothing from this bitter experience. The claim of the commodity dollar advocates that a dollar of stable pur- chasing power will bring greater jus- tice, as between debtors and creditors has in it much truth. But their asser- tion, in this respect has unduly sim- plified the problem of the relation- ships between debtors and creditors. Debtors are interested in the sources and size cf their incomes; they have only a secondary interest in the price level. They pay their debts out of incomes, not out of the price level. Creditors are primarily interested in seeing that they are reper. and they are only secondarily intere: in the price level. They do not spend their incomes for the price level but for only part of the commodities com- prising it. Nor can people be divided into such simple categories as debtors and cred- H itors. There are probably relatively few persons who are not both debtors and creditors. And certainly all busi- ness corporations are both debtors and creditors. A change in the purchasing power of the dollar is one thing, but the question of who gets more or less of these dollars, more or less easi- iy, involves an_ inveStigation of the facts in each individual case. A normally rising price level follow- ing a depression will be found to be more beneficial to both, tors and creditors than will a stal ‘ice level which is artificially maintafued in the face of various maladjustments such as those increasing unemployment or reducing the incomes of a great pro- portion of the people. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaver) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | ! Thomas S. Caro, esquire, has; tendered his resignation from the} office of police judge ! request that same be considered! as becoming effective today.! Judge Caro’s resignation has been accepted by Mayor Leslie Curry; who at the same time apponted Attorney Raymond Lord to the’ judgeship. Judge Lord has for some tme been assocated with At-! torney Wm. H. Malone in the_ practice of law in this city. At-! torney Caro is with his family lo-: cating in Tampa where they will make their future home. The at-! terney will there continue his legal practice. In handing in his resignation, Mir. Caro said that his! reasons for leaving the city are} that he beleve: Tampa offers at this time better opportunities for, young practicing attorneys. ‘W. M. Simmons, assistant pro-| hibition administrator . for the State of Florida, and W. C. Crum- ley, prohibition agent, who came to this city from Miami and con- ducted a series of raids yester- day were arrested in the after- noon on warrants issued by Jus- tice of The Peace Rogelio Gomez. They are charged with entering’ the private residence of Raul Vas-, quez, at Amelia and Duval streets, { without having first provided! themselves with the required! search warrant. It is also charged that one of the men broke open and entered a bath room where a female was bathing. The of-| tice Gomez and made bond of ficers appeared before Peace Jus- $1,000 each for their appearance at the next term of criminal court, an with the' Scoutmaster George F. Archer statés that all stout leaders and sébhts"bf Trodp "3 ‘and 4 Girl, Scouts"also Troops 1,4 and 5 Boy} Scouts, are invited ‘to a wiener! roast at the picnic trees tonight.! This is to be given in’ honor of} visiting Boy Scouts from Tampa. Their host will be Mayor Leslie 3 | Curry. | % i t Great preparations are going forward for the formal opening of the Hotel Casa Marina on the evening of Saturay, January 1.' There will be given at that time a delightful dinner dance in_con- nection with the opening. _ The! hotel will be under the manage-/ ment of L. P. Schutt, as usual,’ who is very much pleased over the prospects of a big season. The price of tickets to the dinner, dance will be $2.50 and all who Today’s Horoscope Today gives an aff ionate, sympathetic nature deserving of a much better reward than-likely to receive. There is a concentra- tion and whole-heartedness of spirit that will go far to offset some of the deficiencies. of the character, and help in the strug- ge for success, which will be ulti- mately attained. intend attending should make; their reservations at once, The annual Grand Convention Caballeros de la Luz teday con- vened in Key West at San Carlos Hall. Feliciano Castro, Spanish consul pgsided. The convention brings to Key West about 100 visitors from Ybor City, Tampa, and other Florida cities, besides a number from Cuba. Ernesto Bravo, Adolfo Garcia and Augustine Garcia, who were arrested in connection with the raids made by prohibition officers yesterday were arraigned for pre- liminary hearings this morning. U. S. Commissioner C. Rodney Gwynn presided at the hearings and each of the men was placed under bond of $250 for their ap- pearance at the next term of United States court. The de- fendants were charged with il- legal possession of liquor. Editorial comment: Three men pretending to be plumbers, rob- bed a store at Lancaster, Pa. One man pretending to be a plumber is usually sufficient for an ordi- nary job. . Fred Williams, a colored _ boy, was arrested yesterday on a seri- ous charge. He was given a pre-| liminary hearing this morning be- fore Judge Hugh Gunn and placed under bond of $500 and in default: was remanded to the county jail! to await trial in criminal court. ‘Wherever it occurs and however, irritated the Chekehehahkeheh hdd Abad LT eeccccccccesseccescceses Temperatures" Highest - Lowest Mean . Normal Mean Rainfail~ Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation —. “Thin record covers 24-hour peried coding at % o'clock thix morning. . Tomorrow's Sun rises ee Sun sets Moon irses 11 bama lawyer and senator. scidber_, -| editor and novelist. bern at Bumte ville. Ala. Died there, May 21. - | 1865. 1817—August Hoeen. - | more’s High .. 103 ae 4:35 Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.14. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 5 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly c'oudy tonight and Tuesday, pos- sibly light showers; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate eesterly winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy and con- tinued mild tonight and Tuesday, possibly light showers near the extreme south coast and in north- west portion. Jacksonvil'e to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to moder- ate easterly winds, and mostly overcast weather toaight and Tues- day. WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is low this morning over the fer Northeast, Eastport, Me., 29.62 inches, and from the Pacific coast eastward over the central and southern Rocky Moun- tain States, San Francisco, Calif., 29.74 inches, and Salt Lake City, Utah, 29.72 inches; while a strong high pressure area crested over central Canada, overspreads most of the remainder of the country, Sau't Ste. Marie, Mich. 30.50 inches. Precipitation mostly in the form of rain, has occurred during the last 24 hours from east-/ ern Texas northward over the Lake region and northeastward over the middle and north Atlan- tie States, being generally light to moderate. There has also been precipitation over districts, with heavy rain in south- ern California, Los Angeles re- porting 1.92 inches. Temperatures have fal'en in the Lake region and Ohio Valley, and colder weather has also overspread the northern Rockies, with readings somewhat below zero in Montana this morn- ing; while abnormally high tem- peratures prevail in the north and middie Atlantic States. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge western , Germany. Died Sept. 28. 1886. 1822—Wilam B. Tabeferre. Virgniia lawyer and Confederme! yer, professor. president of Prmce ton University, governor of New Jersey, 28th President, tere ot Staunton, Va Died m Wash ton, Feb. 3, 1924. 1860—Herry Bache Suth pre lifie librettist, bern at SBaufiaia. N. ¥. Died Jan. 1, 1936 1866—John M Powis Smith. University..cf Chicage’s noted Biblical scheiar, barn = Enganc Died Sept. -?*, 2832. 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