The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 2

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The Citizen is an oven forum and invites discus- fion of public issues and subjects of local or general — but it will not pubtish anonymous communi- sation BAL: RISES Seen Se iMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. if 2. Bridges to complete Road to Main lund. 3. Wree Port. > 4. Hotele anf Apartinents, 5. Bathing. Payiliop, 6, Adnpurts:5 aml and: Sea. 7 haolidacion of County and City We see nothing advertised to make a fellow keep that schoolboy stomach. At night the young mother usually calls the signals while the father carries the bawl. A Peruvian poet has been sentenced to three years in prison. Justice was doubtless tempered with mercy, at that. $13.87; today it is around $45.00, but as in former days it is not equally divided. Have you heard the story about the husband who complained that his wife Was a poor housekeeper? If you haven't, you missed nothing; if you have, there’s no use repeating it. Counciiman Frank Delaney is to be commended for the courageous stand he has taken against the perennial tax dodgers. Were his associates—who take an oath to do their duty—like him, there would be enough funds in the exchequer to pay current bills, and particularly the wages of the city employes. Private building permits in Florida cities for 1936 will total about $60,000,- 000. Figures outside cities except hotels recorded by the state hotel commission area guess. Federal construction figures ded $30,000,000. State highway fig: A®% REA $10,000,000, This makes a rather impressive score of more Pm nrpaeg ape “Miami area accounted for’ exce eS WwW alf of, theypriyate construction. Key West city council has at last moved to grapple with a problem which has plagued most Florida cities and which PPE PEEL LPL EEE PAE PETE OTS Miami has attacked with notable success |’ during the last two years or so—the prob- lem of tax delinquencies. The Key West Citizen isn’t sure whether the council's expressed. determination to “put the tax dodgers on the spot” in merely an appeas- ing gesture to the taxpayer, but believes the declaration “seems to be genuine.” Of one thing, however, The Citizen is sure. “The taxpayers of Key West are getting extremely tired of having to bear the bur- dens of the tax dodgers, meaning those who can pay and will not.” a similar bad situation in St. Augustine, The Citizen says: Key Went, pleadings have failed of their purpose, and the lash of the law must be applied if results are to be obtained.” So the city attorney’s office in Miami found. It acted accordingly, and in yesterday’s news columns of this paper you read that city tax collection were 46.5 per cent higher on Jan. 9 than on the same date last year—which, in turn, had been a notable improvement over the year before. —Miami Daily News, Referring to; “There, as well as in! KIDNAPERS MUST PAY The kidnaping and brutal slaying of little Charles Mattson horrified a nation that waited and hoped for word that his life was safe. The finding of his battered | body in the snow made:real the fears en- tertained by millions who knew him only through the newspapérs that recounted is exclusively entitled to use} the story of his capture. That the nation’s police, in full force, ‘evidence of created in this country. Men and: women abhor kidnaping like xo other erime ahd those guilty of it must be apprehended ‘and punished, ae ef The Citizen finds it hardto believe that normal humanity. produces specimens | so degraded as to kill innocent little chil- dren in the search for money. solace to other human beings to believe that those connected with such fearful acts | are abnormal but no mitigation of their guilt or excuse for their continued pres- ence on earth. We do not relish the torture of crim- inals nor do we advocate the death penalty, except in emergencies, but no death can adequaicly punish kidnapers 0 kill their victims“with fiendish “dis- regard of innocent...childhood. In such cases, it appears, death should inexorably overtake those who kidnap and _ slay. be- cause such rgthless punishment by society seems necessary to protect other little boys and girls. The people of the United States, with one mind, look to the nation’s police forces to apprehend the ‘guilty hands that struck down young Charles Mattson and to the law of the land for action to discourage such outrages against civilization and the home. TRAINING G-MEN Special training for government em- ;: | ployees after appointment is given by a In the year 1837 the circulation of money in the United States per capita was i t number of departments and bureaus, of the most rigid of these schools one being that for the training of G-Men in the Bureau of Investigations. Every special agent or G-Man must attend this schoo] for.three months of in- tensive study and training, at puts in 10 hours a day for six days a week. Five principal topics included in the course are administrative, legal, technical, scientific, and investigative training. In addition to the theoretical instruction, given by five full-time instructors, supple- mented by the aid of experts in the vari- ous fields, there is also pra Those under instruction are given op- portunities to go on investigations in com- | pany with experienced men, are taught to use weapons, and caused to study finger- prints and blood chemistry. Even after completing his three months of training the G-Man’s schooling is not over. He must return to Washing- ton one month out of every 10 for further instruction in the latest developments of his profession, HOUSING A NATIONAL NEED When the fact tha homes whic President Roosevelt stressed millions of Americans live in lack modern actually breed d he directed atten- tion to one of the sore spots of life in this country. He might have added that, in many instances, living conditions also pro- mots immorality. "Phe problem does not exist in large cities, where slums abound, any more than in the smaller urban communi- ties and on the farms of the nation. Lack of adequate housing is a national problem | that can not be solved by blaming selfish landlords although there is something that can be done to curb the rapacity ,of a ss METS Go He minority among them ~ In the: United States, in the! five years | before 1929, the nation built more 400,000 homes.a year but in the six years beginning with 1930/less than tf t 1 ber was built. The shortage of homes, during this six year period, was more than 2,000,000. Another item that contributes to the healthfulness of Key West is the fact that , that pollute ; The } we have no belching chimney the air as they do in industrial cities. smokes this city does manufacture are harmless to the consumer and those in his immediate vicinity, POCO EP EEL ENE EEL EON E EEL EEE It is some | which he} ' al training. facilities and | the | than) at mim; | = Old remedies for the ills of busi- ness find their way again and again into newspaper headlines. | Follow any metropolitan daily for | a week's time | and you will learn about these panaceas. F-r_ instance, you will find that “Crop Curbs Are Vital to Prevent Ex- cessive 1937 Svurpluses.” You + will also learn that “Banks Scramble for Goverrment Boads at Low- cst Interest Rates Known.” An ir terviewer will report that so-an “Charges Business With Responsibility for Ad- versities Developing from the Na- tion’s Recovery.” There will be at least one account 2f the “A. F. of L. Demanding Large -nu Continuing Wage Increases,” at the same time “Aiming at Higher Living Levels.” There is no zeal like that of those who suppress and distort the truth, Space does not permit.an exami: tion of all the misconceptions i volved in these published expres- sidns of opinion, but let us consider the Nation's most »ressing protlem: how better to distribute what can be pro- duced so that everyone may have more to consume. In this connection ‘we will consider for a moment the task of adjusting wages. Unionized employees, and in some cases employers, are still acting as though there is no relation at all be- tween wage rates and the productive- ness of workers. Union labor wants to work only six ours a day and five days each week, and yet insis: on in- | creasing wages until it can enjoy a much higher leve) of living. Appar- ently, it still believes that larger and larget quantities of goods can be pro- duced automatically simply by mak- ing heavier business disbursements for wages, and oy insuring more and more leisure all around. What labor contributes to the pro- } ductive process, what business is com- pelied to pay for capital, and what savings industry ‘rust necessarily (Address questions to the aut Today In History | SCCCCCCCCODeCD AOD OC CRORe 1802—Detroit incorporated a town—populstion about 2,000 and new town had some 300 houses. 1871—William I proclaimed German Emperor—founding of German emy 1909—Secretary of the In-} teriox, James R. Garfield, an-| nounces discovery of Western} and frauds involving $110,000,- | 000. 1912—Britain’s Capt. Robert} F nt reached South Pole after a heartbreaking trip to find; itlat Amundsen of Norway had | jbeen there first only a month be- fore as evidenced by Amundsen’s | tent left there, | | 1933—Chile reported to hgve | laid up her batt'eships on accofint | of the depression, | | unmail otches To ease the stinging soreness o and aid healing, bathe with ' | > Resinol Soap—then apply Resi |-—_—— s as at the close of busin United St rent Ob rect and or guaranteed Cash and due from Banks 3 Capital Surpki Depe Ee “ oe Fee PEE CELA APOE EER OP LE LIS PN CREE ORR EE oe Nation’s Affairs Comfort Wages by Magic By CLARENCE W. FACKLER Associate Professor of Economics, New York University | That the have to adore. Our Atlantic side is grandeur And the bay cannot be: beat, And there is no better harbor When you overb« j -Staff of the WPA In-}* om Division doubled lissioner of — Immigration jurges drive on criminal i Post office department finds three of the Republican, cartoon stamps CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Comptroller’s Call LIABILITIES Undivided Profits and Re Member of Federal Reserve System Member of Federal Denosit Insnrance Cornoration we i make for replacements of worn-out and obsolete equipment and for tech- nored: According (labor ppokempers nol |. According labor 5s] es! wages must-not be “frozen” below the ‘ “comfort level,” :ttainable -by an.egr . timated yearly income of $3,623 per family, especially when ‘profits’ aré rising. Of course, empl maka 39, such attempt to “freeze” ‘wages. besides, it is fsolhardy to!try to’: make" wages depend on profits, Fox, not only ;, are profits what is left after wages are paid (and sometime- conspicuous by their absence), but over long periods of time, business income is insuffi- cient to pay enterprisers interest on | their own investment and wages of management for the servi¢es which they render. Labor ought to remember that as it | becomes more productive, and as in- | dustry becomes more. mechanized, higher wages and shorter hours of employment will come as a conse- quence, regardless of “sit-down strikes” and legislation. designed to force arbitrary increases in, wage tn- comes. Payments for labor already take from 65 to 80 per cent of the national income annually,’ and labor, the country over, has traveled far from the 10 to 12 hour day of the nineties. Moreover, workers should understand that in the long'run they lose days of labor just as certainly as bond and stockholders lose their in- vestments, if short-sighted policies are followed. a Anyone who can remember back to the NRA days will recall that, when increased wage rates bring: higher wage costs, selling prices must also advance. So, even if industry as a whole were to adopt the Carnegie- Illinois Steel Plan of raising wage rates as living costs advance, wages ana prices would enter a vicious cir- cle. There would be no known limit to which both coud not rise. Obviously, it is not the economists’ reasoning which has failed to bring so-called comfort wages by the magic which labor imagines is possible. Rather it has been labor's unwilling- ness to be convinced of the soundness | of economic principles. There are sim- ply too many labor factions, that for one reason or another sare content merely to chug up and down the side- tracks and dead-end spurs of progress instead of switching over io th> main lines, and going ahead at full steam, hor care of this newspaper) PREDICTION (By T. T. T:) The keys: have a great future And that you will soon, see, It may seem to you unbelievable But in time you will agree. You who read this may be skeptic And wi'l say it can’t be, When I say 100,000 will be located by the r 1943. Just compare other pludes That have been built up, before, With not half the beauty To keep your fishing ficet. The bay side has the protection Also the best of fishing grounds, Where you can spend your winters ‘To more advantage than anywhere around. e free, chor you see. Adjoining any k Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West a Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service ] Licensed Embaimer Phone 135 Night 696-W | ess December 31, 1936, i RESOURCES i | Loang and Investments $ 275,660.47 | . 7.87 rniture ! | e aed | } Other Bonds and Securi- ! ties 171,800.16 i \ Stock of the Federal Re- 1 { serve Bank 4,500.00 H Temporary ! sit In 591.84 $1,462,532.48 | Normal. Mean © | City, Mo., 30,12 inches, San ciseo, Ca!., 30.06 inches, ami, Fia., 30.14 inches. raoewe | shen bas, occurred last 24 hours from eastern ad Oklzhoma northeastward over 1! the eastern Lakes region and At-| ‘8 northward, with heavy rain at Lit- 9 tle Rock, Ark., 2.00 inches, Nash- ville, Ky., 1.55 inches, Light to oderate precipitation has also Rainfall” Yesterday's Precipitation TT. Ins. Nori od in recard cavern 2i-huwr ported coding at o'clock thin morning. | ———~-~ Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises F313 a. m,! Sun sets 6:03 p. m.! First’ quarters 19th . _ 8© Tomorrow's: Tides ‘Hig! Sea level, 30.08. WEATH2& FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not, much change in _ temperature; | moderate southeast to south winds. | Florida: Part'y cloudy tonight | and Tuesday with local showers _ and somewhat cooler in extreme, north portion Tuesday. ‘ Jacksonville to F.orida Straits: Moderate southeast to south, winds, and partly overcast weather . tonight and Tuesday. j East Gulf: Moderate southeast | to south winds, becoming north’ and northeast over extreme north portion, and partiy overcast weath-' er tonight and Tuesday with oc-; casional rain over north portion! 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