The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 17, 1937, Page 2

_ ae a8 second class matter SIXTH Y ver Mer.ber of the Associated Press ~* Press is exclusively entitled to _ for ton of all te mine pF meng ispatches credited t Mico Bews published her, ayia peers ‘and iso a a ie | sDvVER. Made known on app’ ation, SPECIAL NOTION Poticea, cai of thanks, resolutions of te, will be charged for at tet ainments by churches from *@ revenue is to be derived = cents = Hine. yea ‘The Citizen is an oven forum and invites. “aiscus- tion of public isaucs and subjects of local or general interest is will Bot publish anonymous communi- i IMPROVEMENTS FOr KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water rad Sewerage. Bridges to con:plete Road to Main lund. Free Port. Hotels and’ Apartments, Rathing Psvilivn, Abeurt+ -Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governmenre, er sere | | i ’ L Baseball fons are L-ginning to. stir, coming out of their hiberaation. lt is said that some of the coldiers in Spain's civil war are learn’ng to speak Spanish. If you think yen are observant, tell us off-hand whose picture appears on a $1,000 bill. : Key West people should patronize Key West stores; this even applies to the : owners of stores. Seratch the surface of most parents: and they will admit that;junioris a wizard of some kind or another. Tom Tampan says he wishes Myrna Loy could be in every picture—Tampa Tribune. Freckles and all? } When the average woman takes up bridge she is about on a par with ker hus- band when h. takes up golf. We see where a lady made $500,000 ; by writing a book. Now, if you need : money, why not write a book? New magezines are ‘popping into print like pop-corn over a fire, but the real popping wil? start when they crack- up. An Indian girl winncr of a_ beauty contest is called Pietty Bear. A lot of the : paleface favour have been that way, ’ too, ‘4 E Only they deserve liberty who are willing to tight for it, is the slogan of the | National Comittee to Urhoid Constitu- tional Government. A rich man has to worry‘about a lot of things that never trouble a poor man. But one of the rich man’s worries a poor man wou'd iike to sharevis the paying of an income tax. Rather than speed up the Supreme tire court usually acis ft. cases, al that much more time nT consideration and ‘ettineintion: To pay, or not to Pay; that the! question with which the ta: delinquent: of | Key West are’ confrefited? ‘whether it is) nobler to do’ the square thing by the city | and its upright citizens or to dodge the is- sue and defy the law. is The former German Kaiser was criticized for his avowal of ‘“Me—und! Gott.” Hitler is more presumptious and eliminates God altogether, runing the Court, 15 judges will retard it as the en. | lieves there should be a uni and | marriage age of 16 for girls, and a higher | jficers of the local customs house. required for| minimum for boys. She would make ex- | ! per investigation, e of the most bitterly debated ques- | tions which has come before the | country in a long time concerns the request of President Roosevelt for power to add six members to the United States Supreme Court in case present justices above the age of 70 do not retire. Opponents of the plan charge that if | the Presient were given the authority ask- ed he could pack the court with justicds’ | upon whom he could depend to uphold any legislation he might cause to be pass- ed by Congress. Furthermore, because of his great party majority in Congress, he would then virtually control all three branches of the government—legislative, judicial and executive. In other words, aécording. to these critics of the plan, the President would virtually become a dictator, with no re- straint whatever. This, it is asserted, is too much power to be placed in the hands of one man, no matter how good his inten- tions might be. Many loyal supporters of New Deal legislation share in the belief that the plan is fraught with great dangers, and that it would mean the end of independ-4) ence for the judiciary. ace The President’s plan has many ,,op- ponents, many from the ranks of. these who were his foremost supporters, and ‘’]' determined fight is being waged to pro- tect our Supreme Court from subordina- tion to the will and caprice of the ex- ecutive. Never in our history have the American people been so deeply stirred. It is not an issue for partisan politics. It transcends party, overshadows religious, racial, and all other dividing lines. We know now that the President’s so-called judiciary bill is not a bill to reduce the Supreme Court’s power to declare laws un- constitutional. « It is a bill to empower Mr. Roosevelt to shape the findings of the Court so that, for the next four years, he will control the political life of the coun- try, which may entail the most detrimental consequences to national freedom. Our form of government was set up as a protection against tyranny. Our fore- fathers saw the necessity of having the three departments, legislative, executive and judicial, kept separate and , in- dependent, and if the people of this coun- try permit one man to become master of al! three branches of the government and of the fundamental law, then we_ shall throw away our most precious heritage and shall have sounded the death knell of democracy. History has and is showing us_ that personal government always ends in brutality, and that there can be no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship. Too; much power, no matter in whose hands, always ends in abuse. CHILD MARRIAGES Since the recent marriage of a 9-year- old Tennessee girl, new impetugshas been given to the movement for more, striae state regulation of minimum ages for. who seek to wed. All but nine states hi statutory laws on the subject. but minimul age varies from 14 to 18 in 1 of boys. 1 | age is 14 for boys and 12 years for girls. Naturally no law can prevent a marriage | if a license can be obtained and someone | found who will perform the ceremony. In} the recent Tennessee case the mother did ‘ old daughter. Miss Katherine F. the Children’s Bureau in Washington, be- iform minimum ceptions, with judicial approval after pro- favor a marriage age less than 14 years for girls. Under present laws all the states r quire the consent of parents to the mar- 21. must be obtained by boys under 21, though there are a few exceptions. Miss Lenroot recommends that there | should be strict provisions for verifying; al- show without any assistance in the manner | of the dictator until the speli breeks and ; the people assert themselves, consent of parents and for a period of de- lay between application for license and its issuance, cace of gitls and from 15 to 20 in the case ; The common law minimum marriage | } not object to the marriage of her d-year-| | Lenroot, chief of } but would in no event! In most states the consent of parents | 4 } H grants appropriation for “Oly | Games to be held in Ber;in in 1! —nations were fighting Ups er when time | came, 1918—Prea Wilson wires car-!~ penters’ union president, “Will you} ~ cooperate or will you obstruct?”— jmen returned immediately to work 1933—League of Nat‘ors broad- east its decision on occupation of Manchuria by Japan—adverse to Japan, 1934—K’ng Albert of Belgium killed mountain climbing. from Havana where they are in | ties 171,800.16 1936—-U. S. Supreme Court or- Stock ‘of the Hoterel Re- iders:three Miss'ssippi negroes giv- | e serve Bank ... a 4,500,00 jen new tria!; “the rack and torture | epiohie a2 5 ie Vand sons .,)ghamber may not be substituted for | Uiite d States Gove: £ the witness stand;” U. S. Supreme! ment ‘Obligations 4i- peNeai es : Gourt by 8-to 1 decision upholds sites andlor” folly | tish are unusually numerous this Government’s right to sell surplus) guaranteed: . $612,571.98 eer Was IN year. |T.V. A. power, Cash and due from Banks 366,479.40 979,055.38 r tank at the Se anaey YOUNG GIRL TAKES IRON | $1,462,532.48"— iS heen, well stocked , -witl } LIABILIT: mens 28 Net: GAINS TEN POUNDS Capital’ ®. We 5 100,000.00. Ago T; my people who)’ Bertie Grove, age 12, was badly} Surplus, Undivided Profits and Reserves . 64,055.81 Me sin fn Fon vium Zor. the Gndérweight. After taking Vinol/ Deposits - ARIES Lasmamnat Pies ERA acda EERO who are ac-, {iton tonic) she gained ten) pyr es Pe quai ted with, ife, and-all of pounds. It gave her appetite and! : ! a 5 DirectomusD VU Hdd States wait enjoy, every minute spent rosy cheeks. Children like Vinol.| Member of Federal Reserve System a guests of the Key West Chamber watching the specimens. \Oriehtal Pharmacy. \ Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation a of Commerce at a membership ~ = - ene ie ee ee a a= - --—~+ ¢ meeting to be held next Monday 4 evening in the La Concha Hotel.’ 77 The visitors will be returning ~ ee isession with Cuban civic organ- izations this week. A number of 4 leading citizens will make ad- Hi dresses on subjects which are of “ vital importance to the com- ~ munity and the program will af.) “ ford excellent entertainment. Re-' t freshments will be served dogma, 4 {the meeting. 4. H “i sas : “ News has been received in Key st announcing the death™“'of i Carpenter Frederick Wil- Witte, U. S. N. | Death ‘oc- curred on board the U, S. 8. Cin- cinnati on February 3. The de- cea.ted was well known in + Key West as he was for several .years at the local naval’» station. ‘He was transferred from this station and then to sea duty. & sensi wba Quite a number of Key West automobile owners are complain- ing of gasoline losses during the jnight, ‘hose who have made the complaints are positive that when | they retired they left the tank, !guil. When they awakened in the jmorning the tanks were empty. |“There are a lot of fellows in Ithis city who never work yet, al- | have gas to burn,” said one jof the losers of gas, “and. it. cer- } tainly loo! unny to me.” “Well iru garage and have something by me which will Hrove i : a deterrent to the theft of gas,” s been forced jsaid one man who hi [to spend $6 in one week when his jus’ expenditure for gas is but | $2. i John H. 33d Degree, i Sovereign ei 13) - Bec Vas > mS Beottih Rite Ma iA Jarisdietion of the, itvarrive in Key He will be here it to the focal Za | With a total of more than § {000,000 more than all the the state combined, Key Wes | ain; tts standing as the most important seaport! ty. The nt report sent out) lb the U. stoms service shows:| » {that the state’s total wi 6 ‘ '397 and for Key West f : . . . . . oe te ths value St uaa aug To Florida each year come mantic memories of a moon which grips the imagination ape snonth. of Heean bas thousands to drink in the sun- which they never can forget. and creates the stuff of which One hundred and _ ninety-six) shine—to rebuild body vigor. e t dreams are made. gallons of Bacardi, a Ford coupe ‘ Sun and moon vie for honors penis a Cole eight, we captured |on Stock Island last night by of- When they leave they carry in Florida. If you have seen There is no Florida sun back The liquor was divided in the with them not alone the stored- the “moon over Miami,” have home—no Florida moon. Don’t | automobiles. usto Larso was ar- ed and placed in county jail.| Larso was the driver of the Ford. | i up sunshine, but also the ro- you experienced the thrill of _ hurry back north—it’s a long } the gorgeous Gulf sky at sun- . time till next winter. set—off Pass-a-Grille? The other driver escaped. i} | ! FREE Guide-Map of Florida ‘The hundred and one beautiful and interesting things to see and do in America’s Playground, are shown in the new Standard Oil Tourist’s Pictorial map of Flor- ida—free at any Standard Oil dealer or service station. Editorial comment: Women used to make their pétticoats out of flour sacks. Now they have! no flour sacks because they buy: their bread at the bake shop. It’s} probably alright though, as they’ve | nit wearing petticoats. i Stay a while longer. Florida Many modern tourists travel is a State—not a spot. -Trayel riage of girls under 18, and in some states | consent must be obtained by those under | Florida’s highways by moon- its network of highways. You can “travel more, for less, with Standard Oil Products.” light—-in trailers. They see the whole State—the “gyp y” life STANDARD OIL COMPANY Key West kingfishermen left} this morning for the first time in| | three weeks. They have been} jstaying in port because of the! | market being stocked. They left} | ths morning with the understand- | g that no boat shall bri: more than 200-pounds. The kine- INCORPORATED IN KENTUCKY