The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1937, Page 2

| preme Court to make it fit one economic viewpoint, boils down to a single funda- mental issue. The Court, they say, must | be reorganized because it is not in tune} h the tin es; because the Constitution prevents much legislation which the peo- “—- i | ple of the country want. g . _. Apparently, there is nothing new : about such arguments. More than a hun- ' |,dred years ago they were advanced—and : answered so effectively that the answer . bd Constitution was made to guard people [ so | against the dangers of good intentions, " real or pretended, . .. There are men in all , ages who mean to exercise power usefully. PS _ Mate known on i —but who mean to exercise it. They mean 6 am gpendigene dl Seen 2 to govern well, but they mean to govern. | Pet, hotles, ste. will be charged tor at} They promise to be kind masters but they } when cents a line. “ ” Ee en ae ee ene eecont a . te an open forum and. invites discus: In more recent years Justice Bran- Tete Te patidt caSkymeus cosines, | deis, the Court’s most famed contemporary tr liberal, put it this way: “Experience should i teach us to be most on guard to protect IMPROVEMENTS F KEY WEST liberty when purposes of government are » aovocaten BY THE crrizeN || beneficent. Men born to freedom are na- bt ae ~~ || turally.alert to-repel invasion of their lib- ~ 1. Water Pe Sewerage. erty by evil-minded persons. The greatest : & Bridges to complete Road to Mam dangers to liberty lurk in insidious en- e land. croachment by men of zeal, well meaning, T : & Bree Pon. but without understanding.” Even 150 years ago when the Con- > & Bem’. and Apartments. stitution was adopted and provision made & Rathing Pavilion, for the Supreme Court as the umpire upon e © = Alegort—LanJvand Sea. all laws, the drafters provided the Con- 7. Gonsolidation of Count; and City stitutional Amendment as the means for . | Gover eternally letting the people determine how much of their liberties they wanted to} bd Wonder how tak & person. rs aika he surrender to a powerful centralized gov- in is il at ease! space We believe in edvertising—you might A SOUTHERN POET s vo re ee wel. Sidney Lanier, one of the South’s py Some public officials are both hand-| greatest poets, was a most accomplished fo picked and machine-ma2e. and versatile man, and was in turn a me- g wee chanic, soldier, teacher, professional musi- o The trouble with so many jokes is{ cian, lawyer and poet during his 39 years Ss they are not fit to remember, of life, although a sufferer from _ tuber- culosis contracted in his early twenties as a result of service in the Confederate Army, including five months as a prisoner. Aifter the war he held a clerkship in Montgomery, Ala.; was principal of the academy at Prattville, Ga.; studied and practiced law in Macon, Ga., his birth- place; spent a while in Texas for his health An oceasiona! drink m' yht do no harm if one didn’t get the habit of drinking be- tween drinks. errs Low interest rates wili facilitate the growth of any section and high interest rates will thwart development. Even the to bankers know this. with little result; played first flute in the} bey —---——— — Peabody symphony concerts in Baltimore; | te Ohio surgeon landed a taryon measur- | composed music to his own songs; wrote at ing over seven feet at Key West. Now,| the official cantata for the Centennial Ex- . that’s an operation he'll brag about—| position in Philadelphia, and was finally } Times-Union. He certainly did; you should} a lecturer on English literature at Johns le ‘a heard him. Hopkins University for a few months be- © fore his health completely failed. Lod This column predicted the Barrie- Although not appreciated by critics ba Barrymore marriage to collapse within aj at first Lanier’s poems have long been year; it did. Now here is another: The! widely acclaimed, especially his “Corn,” N Astor-Del Campo will go the same way,j “Sunrise,” “The Symphony,” “Psalm of S within the same time. These predictions! the West,” “The Song of the Chattahoo- | a are a cinch. chee,” “The Marshes of Glynn,” and the chy cantata already mentioned. He also wrote } For years the only portrait inthe Cabinet room was that of Lincoln; now it has been replaced by one of Thomas Jef- ferson. If the canvas of the Great Eman- eipator served to keep the Cabinet in check, that of Th: mas Jefferson will serve the same purpose equally as well. “Tiger-Lilies,” a_war novel, and “Science of English Verse.” His son, Henry Wysham Lanier, is a well known New York author and pub- lisher, who was formerly editor of the | Golden Book magazine. 4 3ESh SAYS ADULTS GROW The estinuable women in charge of the Key West Pvblic Library are in a jam; they are placed between Scylia and Charybdis. Receiving $5 from The Citi-| wen every day the sun fails to shine, they naturally would like to see many sunless days, yet their civic pride keeps them from wishing (es if i: made any differ- ence) for cloudy day. The idea that men and women stop growing at the age of twenty-one years is given a few pokes in the face by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist, who says that measurements of whites and Indians made by him and other investigators show that bodily stature may increase after the in-! dividual becomes mature. — True, the growth is small, only about Once the inner waterway course is aj a centimeter, but other bodily processes reality, Key West will hav: a source of in-7 proceed into the adult stage. Dr. Hrdlicka says that in men of all races leg and trunk come beyond present f-recasts. Fort Lauderdale calculates an income of $750,-| growth continues far into adult life. Some is} of the growing processes continue into the 000 annuaily, and Miami's estimate $250,000. These amcvnts are apart from} fifth and sometimes the sixth decade. the direct income derived from dockage This may be the explanation of the} fees. It is now possible for small vessels} behavior of some of the adults that you! te proceed throu; h the intercoastal water-| have observed. When you see a man of way from Trent: 4, N. J. to Bahia Honda, | fifty-five, for example, making a fool of Fia., over 1,500 miles, without going out| himself the patent explanation is that he into the ocean. Thirty-three miles beyond | is still growing. Unfortunately, if cut lies Key West, the southernmost city in| down by an automoobile accident, the in- | the United States, and the terminus of the} dividual will never get beyond his child- 1 hood era, routes down the Atlani.: Coast. the theory that our ways leery, but: whom they now invite to join forees'in a Farmer Labor Party such as has been so auspiciously launched in Minnesota. Certainly, the farmers of this coun- try have had trouble during our seven lean years, and even before that they were none too prosperous. 1929 the gross farm income was $12,000,000,000, or about one- seventh of the national income, al- though at the same time the agricul- (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) presidential election of 1932, when Norman Thomas re- ceived 884,274 communist the gross farm income of 1936 is estimated at about: years has been relati still is. explain except on parlor. socialists: were caught in the net of the: New} git Deal. gj teneany Pasi 8 be, itt jes wold; Ba they are , Rees with indignation inst strikes of sea- men af aulninobile workers and will read with nearty approval a recent editorial of the Nebraska Farmer L. Lewis. sit-down . is the his modern — Shylock pound of desh.” dead set against it? CHILD LOVE God’; “Increase “Gnd multiply” Brings to parents priceless joy, When they dandie os their lap Chubby girl or bouncing: boy. Many a grandchild may they see Chortling. dancing on their knee! “Let the barren too rejoice More than she that hath a spouse,” When he mothers orphaned babes Or the homeless wail doth house. “Who hath left his kin for me, Earns in life a hundred fold,”— So the Master taught His flock,— Hard words, but of sterling gold. Childless like the Master, I Walk through stregts of dear Key West; By the hundreds tots I claini, And with them I laugh and jest. As he scorches on his bike Oft I wave at tiny Billy, Ort ile at totty Dotty,— pates may think I’m silly: So the Twelve rebuked the mothers. When the Lord t' Which to Him ca rt or tattered y or barefoot boy, h the rich they pleave or shock, ch enjoy. God yortray: Life I see, nocence nd Santtity. loving King May we some day carols sing. : “John prime instigator of the strike in the motor industry. demanding Eugene V. | 000. a considerable imoresecntes over 799 votes, and 31,175 were cast for Mr. But even so, Cox, candidate of the Socialist Labor Party, precursor of the Communist Party. » This disastrous defeat in time of depression, when the present social order is supposed to be breaking down, is hard to ively low, and No wonder, then, that. most farm- ers think that plumbers are overpaid at $1.25 per hour, cement workers at $23 per week, common railway labor Under these circumstances is it too much to say; in regard to the pros- pects of the Farmer Labor Party, that the omens are far from auspicious and that the stars in their courses are The beautiful poetical thoughts of “Father to a Child” in The Citizen suggested these lines: —KEY WEST PIED PIPER. 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We have a few safety deposit bente for rental to those of our elients whe desire t | use them for the safekeeping of jewelry, deeds, mortgages, life insurance policies, your will oF any other securities or valuable docamet«. The basketball game between the Coral. Gables Team and the ‘onch Five of Key West was called off last night when word was received that several of the proposed visiting team members! had been injured in an auto- mobile accident which occurred in Coral Gables while the boys were| preparing to go to the depot. The. local marine team took on the THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the FDIC ‘ Member of the Federal Reserve ee eed 1168 HOLLOW RED CLAY BUILDING TILE, #"<t@"<t2 TO THE FIRST BUYER 6 EACH HERE IS A CHANCE TO CASH IN ON A REAL BARGAIN IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO BUILD BUY THEM AND PUT THEM ASIDE WALL BOA $35.00 PER THOUSAND SQ. FEET D “DUPLEX ARMOR BOARD” CAN BE USED ON BITHER SIDE ONE SIDE CREAM, THE OTHER LIGHT GREEN. SAVES PAINTING. 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