The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 2, 1937, Page 2

e. maes and suhisets oteinael = general it will net publish anonymous ‘coenm IMPROVEMEN[S FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water end Sewerage. Bridges (2 complete Road to Main land Pree Port, Hotels and Apwtments. Rathing Pavilion, Alepurs—Land and Sea, Conselidntion of County and City Governments. , freer ee ‘The reciprocal trade treaties put the “it” in tariff. George Ade is a humvrist but you can't tell it from his pictures. Ws a smart suitcr. ia February, who reeognizes, in his fair -ompanion, a June bride. You probably don’t know it, but the Courts, last week, made more laws than the legislatures. The Red Cross proves its value every time some section is afflicted with a qis- aster. Don't forget this, and now is the time te remember, and help. The Miami Herald says editorially that “winter visitors go to Tampa and fill up on gasoline.” Surely Tampa has some- thing equally potent and better tasting than that. President Lewis of the United Mine Workers referred to the Gencral Motors company as “economic royalists’, words he heard from the !ips of une who should never have uttered them. There is no such thing as “capitol” punishment, many may think; but those} democratic congressmen who jumped the twaces and dared to have independent thoughts, know there is, and that not all is “capital” punishment. Co mon Delaney, Mesa and Rob- erts faver drast:- action-in collecting the delinquent taxes, in cases where the prop- erty owner is able to pay; but’they alone cannot bring this desideratum about un- less the majority favor the plan. New magazines .e cropping up in- diseriminateiy on the newsstands. One of the latest is “The Commentator’, which has for its slogan “freer than the air.” But don't let that fool you for an instant. If interested in its acquisitior, it will set you back a quarter of a buck. The city coungil’s avowal to make tax evasion more difiicult seems to have been a mere gosture.’ This is election year, you know! So the city employees and the creditors will have to wait for a more convenient day to get what is their just due. Politics 's terrible! In the old days gzeat painters ridi- euled their enemies by painting them gtotesquely, and sometimes the figure of dudas was used to vent the. hatred. Une such case is the picture of he Last Supper in the church of Corpus Christi, in Valen- cia, Spain, now the seat of the Spanish government. The figure of Judas in the picture is said to be the portrait of a shoe- maker who dunned tke artist. such terrible damage in the Ohio River '| sissippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, leav- | nomena by saying that cold, dry air from | inch of rainfall, seldom realize that this | means that one hundred and thirteen. tons | of water have descended on a single acre ing devastation in its wake. Weather experts explain the phe-' the polar regions met warm moist air from the tropics. When this happens rain results. When it continues for an abnor- mal period, the precipitation is far above normal. Consequently, the water flows rapidly into streams, the rivers are over- loaded and leave their banks. In connection with the present flood it is pointed out that the rainfall over the Ohio River basin and other flood areas was some two to six times the normal amount during January. Some weather reported twenty-three inches of rain when the normal was only four inches. In a number of areas the excess rainfall varied from nine to more than eighteen inches above normal. Readers, hearing constantly about an of ground. An inch of rainfall amount-to 75,320 tons of water to the square” mile. The vast amount of “water that thus reaches the earth is attested by a fairly accurate measurement of one day’s rain in an English county, where 670,220,000 tons of water came from the skies in one day. A rain in India some, years ago, was measured with reasonable accuracy and the total fall of water amounted to 7,000,- 000,000 tons, So great is the prodigous deluge that balances the evaporation of the water from the surface of the earth that com- petent weather experts estimate that the amount of rain and snow falling on the entire surface of the earth averages about 16,000,000 tons a second. It is easy to see, from such figures, that long continued rains, over any considerable area, will in- evitably cause disastruos floods unless measures are taken to retard the flow of water. INTERESTING ITEMS Interesting items of news that re- cently caught the attention of editors in- clude: The electrocution of a young woman | in a large city, when she forgot that she | had rigged up a live wire to protect her! room from intruders. Another was the fatal stabbing of a man attending a banquet, where more than five hundred persons listened to a speaker, but were unable to tell how, when or by whom he was murdered. The third was the “lucky mistake of a postman” who misread an address on a large parcel and delivered more than $300,000 worth of st honest family. The ge in another city and were.il “fence” but were proniptlys. the police and eventually,r owner, A RICH RAKEOFF (Tampa Tribune) Florida Front Page, a snappy and informa- tive journal which recently began publication at Tallahassee, brings out a fact probably little known to the general public. Front Page tells us that, on every dollar paid by the state for school books, 10 percent goes to In the past two years, on total purchasés of $1,566,- 000, the depository collected the snug $156,000. various publishers. the school book “depository” in Jacksonville. sum of The depository relays orders to the The office of the State Super- intendent of Education, which directs the entire school administration of the state, has an ap- propriation of only $43,000. State Superintendent English made vestigation of the depository situation an in- and re- ported that there is nothing illegal about it, be- cause the commission to the depository is author- This is As Front Page points ized by act of the Legislature. another instance of colossal waste. out, books could be ordered directly from publish- ers by the State Superintendent and the could save the 10 per cent paid Mr. Fincannon,” state who operates the highly profitable depository, for an entirely useless function, costing $78,000 a year. . i fF Hd iit Al | i ii z ali f : E oie 5% F Prt i e Fe i i i E | it 3 : : i of these days they were in danger of drowning. During the trip a storm came up and when they |were landed on Key Largo they though ,, jwere told they were but a short over a are cost of | ways from Cuba. They were com-' timbers production, st and | pletely fooled by the smuggler tion, a fserenmap by ved {Who brought them to Key Largo| scicleity sigan An of the "to direct {as he had told the aliens that he! H Hy iF A organized group of workers to place an unwarranted and unjust burden on consumers in crder to obtain a bonus i F f t i i ret i" i z sf t & if i i ‘States thorities to handle tween Cuba nd the States. While in Key West members of the party were cloth- '@dy supplied, with shoes and well inethe, county jail, When leav-! ing for Philadelphia in charge of officials -yesterday, they signed, | and.very gladly, a testimonial to the: kindness and courtesy extend yed during their stay. Few of the 300 or more auto- mobile tag delinquents seem to have paid any attention to the shakeup threatened yesterday by Auto License Tag Inspector A. T. Triay who came down from Miami to make the “tardy crowd” come pacross and comply with the law. The extent to which the delin- quents were frightened may be imagined’ when yesterday there were but 10 of those who are de- linquent purchasing the necessary tags, and seven were purchased before noon today. Just 17 per- sons complied with the law, leav- ing 283 who are in danger of ar- rest and punishment. ; i g E fi or price is the result of na‘vral forces expressing themselves through the watural Jaw of demand and supply j d,.the natural law of competition. ‘ie’ fact’ that here and. there indi- | cause the viduel exceptions may be found to this law does not materially affect its | di general applications. i of ages on a constitu. | the tional market are not due to differ- bargaining power. Legitimate wage are not determined by bar- gaining power, but by natural laws. Lifferences: in wages aré due chiefly ferences .n the quality of labor. Differences in feenniet pai hank ~~ forent sections are often i M7 5 the fact that wage carners take into | Sumer's faces. { consideration things outside of tech-| However, many consumers nical wages that are of value to them | ignorance, will continue to fol in accepting employment. tators and demagogues in their When a group of employers in any | mands industry as the automob.le business d together and by means of com- pulsion force those in charge to pay (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) z 5, F Hl ee -- - ———— ee me * 6 i ene Se RESOURCES: ip their ‘i The Kidnaper A Monster, Stalking from the deep, Dark shadows of its lair: A Fiend In human form, Guided by the Emperor of Hell, From whose domain This brutal monster Has been spawned and freed To veek its prey Among innocent, County Commissioners are to- day asking for bids on the Card Happy children, With six itch killing medicines And still forever Bg = ins fal po The ringing laughter and thus gets at and kills the Of some little child: cause of scalp itch. 35c ard $1.00, To tear and crush z The hearts of those iS pee LES ial Whe x Who love, and wait, FLL LES = And waiting—pray— x. n a FLL Ld = That the} little boy 4 z é Or littie gitfis safe; ; | : Only to learn i ‘That never gain i. SF his Will they hear * ¢ = The merry laugh Or cheery greeting Of that child whom they adore, For, from the shadows The beact has come and seized, Tortured and killed that little one, Then slunk into the void From whence it came, To gloat—to wait— Perhaps to strike again! = — MUST MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK ORDERED 45 Ib WEIGHT BULLSEYE ROOFING $1.80 Per Roll . 23 ROLLS ON HAND—PRESENT STOCK ONLY —REGIN. Key West, Fia., Jan, 22, 1937. Retrospect Strange is life with its mystery '* ys and nights of languid thoughts. ! ‘eams are pages of history, ‘The price the world has brought. The leafy trees give shade in summer 1 the summer's heat and bi ing sun. Souls grow weary for a little r tragic in the noon-day sun, is gone and autumn leaves fall The words of Life’s music brings love to all. Bridge Lamp . . . . . $1.69 48” HIGH—ATTRACTIVE SHADES—ALL DIFFERENT MANTEL CLOCKS ALL METAL 154g"x11". 4° DEBP ALL MIRROR DOOR —ALBERT C. KEITH. “ALSACE” 50 HOUR LEVER MOVEMEN BEAUTIFUL MAHOGANY | FINISHED CASE Each . . $3.75|\Each. . . $2.25 Atlanta, Gla., Jan. 24, 1937. Today’s Birthdays Secccccsescercecececeoes Today’s Horoscope Charles Hanson Towne of New| Today gives a naturally aggres. York, editor and author, born at|sive nature, and one fully alive to Louisville, Ky., 60 years ago. its own interests. This will make ee you suave and outwardly cau-| “ |tious. Be careful to observe re- bee ieee, of En none jgard for others’ opinions. The LET US HELP YOU ON YOUR ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF ELECTRIOAL SUPP RD. cd ve mind is fertile of expedients but SUCH AS CONDUIT BX CABLE, RUBBER COVERED WIRE PE ae RS ERS AE, lacking in discretion. eth ee % Ms toe we " ; { SWITCHES AND PLATES, RECEPTACLES AND PLATES, AND Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist. | } MANY OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS LN N born in Vienna, 62 years ago, | ¢€ A S A M A R I N A H ie as 4 Us to Yenwe || Key West’s Hotel DeLuxe a —American Plan— 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath | Evening Dinner - Geoffrey O’Hara of Tuckahoe, | N. Y., composer-writer, born in Canada, 55 years ago. 1 Dr. Christian Gauss, dean of; Princeton Univ., born at Ann Ar- bor, Mich., 59 years ago. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Streets Afternoon Tea Palm Shaded Beach with Casino eur in Attenliance Florida East Coast Hotel Co. Peter Schutt, Manager eatal | Julius H. 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