The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1937, Page 2

Unly Daily in ‘West and Monroe — —_——-.-.. __._ ___.. FIPTY-SIXTH YEAR Press is exclusi zely- of all new: laps of thanks, resolutions of te., Will be charged for at seapects onituary notices nm il the rate of 1 "- a tin Notices for ' and subjects of local or general it wiil not publish anonymous communi- interest but IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST an enormous scale, Millions of dollars in taxes have been thus evaded, and attempts to curb this species of lawbreaking have been generally ineffective, although con- vietions have been obtained in several : now an investigation of whole- | sale evasions of the gasoline tax law is be- ing held in Tennessee, and what has hap- pened in other states is partially told in a recent article in the Nashville Banner, which cites the following: For defrauding the state, two West Virginia men have been given jail sen- tences, and three others have been con- victed and are awaiting sentence, Among these are a former state budget director and two employees of the state tax de- els Pre kis me otal it EE A > Fae & & i : i d i fe i | . | HEL Judge ‘W. B. Howell, of New i i i i Fr i Pt FH can publie should not com- plain except where com} laints are reasonable and open in Key West n Monday morn-! — Editorial partment, who have pleaded guilty. In Mississippi some 150 indictments for gasoline tax frauds were returned by grand juries, one‘against a former state Water and Sewerage. i | ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN t. 2. Bridwes: to complete Road to Main land. auditor, In Michigaia’ man convicted of 3. Free Port. defrauding the istate:of»$21,000 in gaso- 4. Hotels and Apartments. line taxes has served a prison sentence and 5. Rathing Pavilion, has been returned to Missouri to face a Ms Rikdiede lao. arid Sea. similar charge. . a b 7. Gonsoldeton of County and. City States in which, gasoline taxes are ex- tremely. high are naturally shunned by } tourists as much as possible, while their own citizens who live near the border of a neighboring state with a lower tax will cross the state line to have their tanks Governments, Interesting statistics: Sixteen million tons of rain and snow fall on the earth where ae results may properly be ected. Notice first that wastes in private business are also a loss tc all of us. Inefficiency anywhere—in the making of shoes, in the generation and dis- tribution of electric current, in the operation of a depe~tment store— affect all of us to a greater or less degree. Because of such inefficiency we get ‘poorer goods or -ervites oF pay higher prices. TLe only special features connected with government waste is tha’ its losses are distributed more widely among all of us and that public officials are especially chosen by all of us to run some of our affairs. Next to be remembered is that the area within which savings may prop- erly be made is quite limited. A very large percentage of government out- lays cannot or should not be reduced. Interest on public debt is one such item and the sums devoted to repay- ment of maturing obligations also are, among them. Another illustration is the salaries of government employees name of the one who gave. it, Yet he was the one who took thei initiative and in this case 3 ernment is hard, not want something from ‘do not want to pay for what we The obstacles to patient, intelligent’ eflaet in| ent ‘the most careful studies in state and local affai ional Economy League ing a great deal. Also there are sev- eral committees cooperating in an analysis of the federal government. How much the costs of government could be reduced if all these recom- mendations were adopted is not clear. But if their advice is heeded there can be some savi in expense and a large gain in e*iciency. availabl the Ni sing, February 14. ‘The customs those court does not handle cases, but deals exclusively with duce nothing disputes and claims relative to books, customs and duties of exports and imports, a cash bond, df? "$s00 © failed to appear for :preliminary! hearing before Judge Gunn yes-; terday. Owens was about town) yesterday and in the sheriff's of. } fice at 11 o’clock. It was learned} THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK that he took the train for Miami, A deputy sheriff! people who are their i criminal to reduce ' toxieation, | ally, forfeited |}. heli! He’ CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF KEY WEST midafternoon a every second, The Tennessee state senate has passed a bill prohibiting editors from publishing “any untruths.” And the Fort Myers News-Press thinks it’s a good bill, “it will bar them from quoting state senators.” The home is still the most dangerous place in which to be. 29,000 persons lost their lives within the haven of their homes, while 38,500 were killed on the highway in automobile accidents, in the year 1936. The total number of deaths in both cases was an all-time high. The firm of Stone & Webster classify their treasurers at Key West and Tampa as ante-meridian and post-meridian. In this city it is A. M. Hewitt and in the west Gast city it is P. M. Miller. Whether the meridian, too, is accounted for is not known to this writer. People with uncontrollable tempers, for their own sakes, should refrain from earrying weapons of any kind. And oddly enough, those afflicted with “hot” tempers are the most repentant after the deed is done. If fight they must, it is better and more manfully, to use the weapons nature gave them and strike out with their fists. If the other fellow is too big, use discretion which is the better part of valor, and re- Member that “he who fights and runs @way may live to fight another day.” Jericho, Palestine, has been adver- tixed for many centuries, yet has a popula-j tion of only 2,000. So let us not get dis- couraged here in Key West.—Key West Citizen. If anybody doesn’t like Key West, you can tell ’em to go to Jericho.— Lee Morris in St. Petersburgh Independent. For many years, in every part of the land, undesirable people have been urgently advised “to go to Jericho,” but evidently the advise is not heeded as the population of that well publicized place in Palestine does not increase, as noted above. In Europe the custom of supplying male escorts for females has prevailed for many years, evolved when American girls by the thousands found it was not-comme il faut to go places over there alone, and the gigolo got his place in the sun. It started with dowagers giving pourboires te their dancing partners, copied later by the younger set and so the custom grew inte a regular and lucrative business, to which handsome but impoverished youths attached themselves. The custom has found root in the United States in the larger cities, and now Miami is going to take a crack at it, according to advertise- ments appearing in the papers recently: Profitable during the season, the custom will fade into inocuous desuetude when the Magic City each year becomes itself filled: Besides, many doa profitable busi- ness through smuggling gasoline from a low tax to a high tax state. The fact is that in most states gaso- line taxes are unreasonably high, in many instances doubling the price of gasoline to the consumer. ROBBING BABY’S BANK Taking money from a baby’s bank, even by its parents, would seem to be a| rather questionable proceeding, but in one | instance recently reported, it has had a happy sequel. The baby whose savings fund was diverted into active channels is Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Thom of Rushmore, Minn. When depression hit the Thom family hard in 1932, they had to give up their town home and go on a farm, with prac- tically no cash capital. Mrs. Thom found that the baby’s bank contained $54 in pennies, nickles and dimes, put away in more prosperous days, and she “borrowed” it. She invested the money in a venture into the poultry business, which has proved ; successful. She finally devoted most of her efforts to the raising of turkeys, study- ing scientific methods of feeding and giv- ing unceasing vigilance to the prevention of disease ameng her flock. This vn te managed to bring to maturity aofi crop of 8,617 turkeys, which she ‘sold to one poultry concern for $10,156. Mrs. Thom?figures'that her profit on thé lot is dearly $4,000. H She can tow replaée Robert’s savings fund with interest, and-it is likely that Santa Claus was unusually kind to the lit- tle fellow on Christmas, OLD AND NEW CALENDARS (Miami Daily News) In the old bible of the Washington family at Mount Vernon appears the following entry:! “George born ye 11th day of February, 1731, about 10 in the morning, and was baptized the 5th day of April following. Why is it then that we have been taught that 2, and that we The exp George Washington was born in 1 celebrate his birthday on Feb, 22? tion is simple. We adopted our present calendar in 1752 and added 11 days to our time. Too, we made January the first month of the year in-| stead of March. By the old calendar Washington | ; by was born during the last month of the ye: the nev, the second month, We thought by adopting a new calendar we Now it haven’t, as suggestions have been made to divide had at last conquered time. seems we the year into 13 months. The purpose is that the interval between March 21 and April 16 can be! made into one month so we can have a uniform date for Easter. Many churches and organization. the | movement. But what a juggle there will be again | to make birthdays we celebrate accord with the | favor new reckoning! liand) Ironworks by its inventor, | Syria. born in New York City, 49 |James B. Nei’son, | Yope open war on Communism, APR OAs BOBO AT TG was sent to Key Largo where the! Comptroller's Call " man was caught and brought back’ RT 8 (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) and is now an inmate of the! $ 275,660.47 Stine Ree ee ae RT 88 county jail. i 187 MY IDEAL < | al Mrs, Elizabeth Page, wife of * 30,920.76 My ideal girl is the old fashioned girl Andrew Page, died 5 o'clock this} With Nature pink cheeks and her hair in a curl. morning in the home at 619 Ashe; divans the Fedetay Rez 171,800.16 The kind that doesn’t use powder or paint street. The funeral was to be. shad Bank eral Re. 4 eo And can throw a good 6ld fashioned faint. held 4 o’clock this afternoon at; ‘Temporary. Federal De- 500. The kind that says limbs instead of legs the Ley Memorial church, with; posit Insurance Fund 591.84 And thinks that rabbits lay Easter eggs: Rev. E. L. Ley officiating. Mem-; United States Govern- , 2 The Kind that <till wears a necklace watch bers of the local order Knights of: ment Obligations di- And can’t mix or drink a double Scotch, ss Fined nea y eee The Golden Eagle will attend in rect andjor fully The kind that I’d like to chance my fate with | canned $612,571.98 But thank Heaven, I don’t have to have a date with. a body. | Gaiiana doe frou Béuke 908,479.49 ornensas deacons . + —RASPUTIN, J. W. Ricketts, Coral Gables’ ‘Fi.462,582.48 Key West, Fla., Jan, 28, 1937. financier, is expected to arrive! Thursday and will sumbit an of-/ Capital LIABILITIES $ 100,000.00 3 Bi 2 Pet ak Hy BS eS a fer to build a fresh water pipe Surplus, 64,055.31 line to the city. A telegram re- Deposits ...... 1,298,479.17 UNDER COVER ceived this morning by Captain| ae ne Clark D. Stearns, chairman ofi $1,462,532.48 Rasputin, Rasputin, Oh, why do you hide, Under that terrible name That we cannot abide. Is there something the matter With your conscience or face That you keep under cover As if in disgrace? 4 Your versus are clever, aa) And are read without fail But sometimes I wonder If they are written in jail. the water commission, says that Mr. Ricketts would come earlier, Member of Federal Reserve System Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation COMODO E EDM D, MUST MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK ORDERED 45 Ib WEIGHT BULLSEYE ROOFING Per Roll. . . . . . . $1.80 23 ROLLS ON HAND—PRESENT STOCK ONLY Today In History) Today’s Birthdays 1837—The hot blast in smelting-! Dr. Bayard Dodge, president of furnaces used at the Clyde (Scot-| the American University at Beirut, i years ago, s! i Ewin L. Davis of Tenn., Fed- 1840—Cunard Line’s firgt_ eral Trade Commissioner, born in steameéf; the Britannio, about 1,-| Bedford Co., Tenn., 61 years ago. 100 tons and 207 feet, launched } Bridge Lamp . . . . . $1.69 —line then the British and North; Ralph Fogg of Lynn, Mass., 3 a ” — ag American Royal Mail Steam Pack-' consu'ting engineer, born there, 48” HIGH—ATTRACTIVE SHADES—ALL DIFFERENT et Company, 153 years ago. Michael Williams, editor of The eal, New York, born at ; Halifax, N. S., 60 years ago. 1917—Senate passed Immigra- tion Bill containing much discus y test over Preside veto—first step to barring immi- gration to country, MANTEL CLOCKS) MEDICINE CABINETS 0 HOUR ‘aie T Ree 5 MOVEMEN net. Ae eile BEAUTIFUL MAHOGANY 1544"x11". 4” DEET FINISHED CASE ALL MIRROR DOOR Each . . $3.75|Each. . . $2.25 Aaron Sapiro of New York, lawyer. born in San Francisco, 63 {years ago, i 1930—President Rubio of Mex- ico shot two hours after taking oath of office. 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