The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1937, Page 2

. . | 2 aa SPECIAL NOTICE noth: of thanks, resolutions of where ry moticen ete Wit ue onteen tence . is to be derived are 6 contes tne gion of aia Re ‘but it will not Debian anonymous Communi. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main lund. 8. Free Port. 4 Hotels and Apartmes, 5. Rathing Pavilion, 6& = Abyerte—Lanw and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governmenu:. NO USURPATION “If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the con- stitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amend- ment in the way which the Constitution designates, But let there be no change by usurpation; for, though this, in one in- stance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” GEORGE WASHINGTON. Seon the legislature will meet, and that will be meat for crooked politicians. Mayle the United States will become normal when the umpire yells, “Batter Up!” Key West is poor picking for remit- tance men; the soil has suffered through erosion. It is profitable advice never to en- dorse the note of a friend or cash the check of a stranger. Spring is here—but what is that to Key West? It is always Spring on this ozone laden isle. Be careful when you are driving your ear in Miami. So far this year the record is one death a week. The merger of county and city again apparently will not materialize. The ob- ject was to economize and save the tax- payer some money, but on second thought why worry about taxes when no one needs te pay them. Dictators are a menace to the peace of the world, but between Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, the ruler of Italy appears to be the most menacing. He cannot constantly defy the European nations without even- tually causing a conflagration. Florida's economic outlook has a reseate hue, but do not construe that as meaning that we are still in the red. In January income from gasoline exceeded twe millions. The state treasury is like a filling cornucopia. The February income was 6% millions and the outgo only 4 1-3 millions, a gain of almost two millions, re- sulting in a new high total balance of $9,- 280,818.79. Confederate pensions, road department, and the general fund all had balances exceeding a million each. Flor- ida is getting an honest business adminis- tration. | Why don’t we control it, and retain the awful high of 30,000 deaths, the nation with business indices rising steadily, we seem, to be embarking on a new boom year accidents. And there isa danger that | traffic deaths in 1937 will reach the 40,- Where will this cavalcade of death halt? When will we turn it back? Sure- ly the American people are adequate to cope with this social emergency. Here we have the automobile, endowing us~ with the manifold blessings of a motor age. blessings, rather than dissipate them in death, injury and destruction? The great irony is that while some people shrug their shoulders, or shudder and say, “Nothing can be done about it,” others are doing something about it, and doing it very well. It is a matter of record that the cities and towns which are. pur- suing positive, planned and permanent policies of routing out the fundamental causes of their traffic accident problems are reducing accidents and chopping away congestion. It is a matter of record that despite the unprecedented number: of deaths in 1936, nineteen states reduced their traffic fatality records on an average of 7 per cent. All but two of these states carried out positive traffic control pro- grams. Yes, it can be done! Traffic control is not yet an exact science. But authorities agree that far more is known about it than is being ap- plied by the average community. We need not kill 40,000 men, women and children this year if we determine not to, and if we put the goal of halting the cavalcade of death on the list of things to be done NOW! PROTECTING THE UNWORTHY A business man writing in a news- paper in another State recently related that for thirty years he had watched busi- ness men “gang up” against needed re- form and thus protect those who were dis- gracing their ciass. Certainly, when a business, an indus- try or a profession harbors those who make a jest out of service and a racket out of the privileges they enjoy the public is jus- tified in believing that the business, indus- try or profession defends and approves those who are unworthy of their toler- ance. We have no particular class of peo- ple in mind but the observation applies very forcefully, we think, to certain pro- fessions. Lawyers, for example, rarely make an example of a crooked shyster al- though the public, generally, is convinced that many shyster lawyers exist and fatten on the theory that- attorneys serve the courts and the causes of justice. Other examples could be used but are unnecessary to advance the plea that men of all walks in business life seriously con- sider the obligations that they owe the public and ascertain whether their as- sociates are, as a class, rendering society a full value for the compensation received. HAVE WE ENOUGH IN PRISONS? Major law violations in the United States total Around 1,300,000 annually, ac- cording to an estimate made by Thorsten Sellin, of the University of Pennsylvania. This is, to us, an amazing mass of crime. It means roughly an average major | Yaw violation for every one hundred citi- | zens of the republic, which is not a record to be proud of. Minor violations, according to the | same authority, number 15,000,000 with- out taking into account liquor or motor vehicle violations. This is one for every eighth person in the country, which is en- tirely too much crime, \ The prison population of the nation, according to Sanford Bates, former direc- tor of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, is around a quarter of a million, including those in jails and juvenile institutions. Assuming that the number of crimes ! committed annually is about correct and ‘the prison population is near the correct | figure the conclusion is plain that not! enough criminals get to prison. Maybe, | this has something to do with the great! number of crimes committed fortunate, forgotten mass, and under-privileged striker. . The short day and the short week | of. with increased pay are advocated on | of the labor moi the ground that they will put the un- employed working people a high standard of living. As a matter of this sure would make it next to im; ble for millions of inefficient, un- and Sociology, Vanderbilt U ora a the power to cl the door ment to millions under 18.9 villi to work, and guarantee all trained and slow workers to get em- | earn much at first as loyment ‘nis, of course, would cut down the effecti dously, favored grou. Practically all classes of workers may find tions, at the market prices for in any field of business. | ees. But, in time, they supply of labor tremen- id give a monopoly to the | small facto: employment under normal services. But, they could not ace to labor moi le 'y under the high-powered sys- |and short day. w! q ad A a tem brought about by the conditions ther with a bi mini of the short day and short week. The Mey ‘child labor Mea tetion rut. demand for high ficiency and high | seriously obst: speed under such a system would dis- | destroy, this néw development in: qualify them. dustry, ‘ The minimum wage law is urged 9p the ground that the wages of all in- | who are put out of enplaseneat ‘in the ferior workers, under such a law, | interest of this js would be is called the “living wage basis.” This | is among would be approximately $15.00 .a | human rights, Are millions of What will become of the raised immediately to what | swered question. The i the most week for women and girls, and $20.00 | can citizens to be deprived of a week for men. Of course, no such | alienable right, and fo! ‘to general result would be obtained, any | mendicant class in tora ee more than the fixing of a minimum confe: privilege may opoly be price of $100 a head for scrub cows | on a politically favored labor would enable the owners of scrub It isn’t strange that th cows to sell their cows at $100 each. | Court is regarded as out Such a law would simply drive the owners of scrub stock out of the market, and confer a monopoly privi- | welfare. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) WANTED—A MOTHER I asked a boy today where I could find a Mother, He said he didn’t know, but he would ask his brother. I sure would like to have one, ariyone will do, jt se | ; |The hotel has done a much larger ign 24 {as during the days of the boom it to. work opt function of the Supreme Court is to protect human rights and general Just so she wlil love me. I promise I’ll love her, too. And when I find one who will be to me a Mother, Till tell the boy who said he would ask his brother, And all the other boys who may be wanting one, Awd don’t know where to find a Mother to call them And when I find her I’ll ask her, why I never had | A big man like the boys always ¢all their Dad, Son. To take me walking with him, he a-holding to my hand. To have a Mother and a Dad, Gee Boy; it must be graft. Sometimes I get to crying ’till the tears run down my face, The other boys, they've got homes, I sleep in any place, I’m trying hard, very hard, to find a Mother, And when I find her I'll love her, yes, love her like né other. If you should hear of any Mother who might be Wianting a boy with a freckled face, remember me... . —MARIE CAPPICK. Key West, Fla., March 29, 1937. SEAGULLS A sunny day, a clear blue sky And seagulls flying up so high, While on the docks, here and there Seagulls watch for their bill of fare. A few of the seagulls flying low Watch fix in the water below, yy a flash, like a bee from a hive about then make a nose dive. Down they go among the fish, Sardines to them, make a tempting dish. And after they have eaten their fill They let their thoughts go where they will, and in the sun and bask And dream of their hard day’s diving task, . . . —EL DIABLO. March 2: SAFEGUARD YOUR VALUABLES Don’t expose your valuables to robbery and fire hazards. We have a few safety deposit boxes for rental to those of our clients who desire. to use them for the safekeeping of jewelry, deeds, mortgages, life insurance policies, your will or any other securities or valuable documents. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the FDIC Member of the Federal Reserve {both of the buildings is to begin’ jwithin the next 10 days. The, poats from. this vestigation of the financial stand-| oe ing of the two contractors pr sag found them both satisfactory. of the English [2 morning after serving of breakiast. As has been the @s- | tom in the past the hostelry closes ‘for the season on the last day of Rae ae eee? } March. It will be something more j than a week before Manager L. iP. Sehutt and his staff of ex- ecutives can bring all matters to a close, wind up the hotel's af- } fairs for the season and get away. busimess this year than last, said | Manager Schutt, and he feels that , next year’s business will be bet- | ter than this. It will probably be {not until winter after next when ‘the hotel business will be as good jhe said. } | Activities of the Rotary Club, Woman’s Club and the city offi- cials took on a new aspect this ; morning when about two dozen of jthe combined membership joined im on an inspection trip to all | places on Duval street. The drive started at 9:30 and covered the three blocks at the north end of the street. Notes were taken! covering every phase of the con- ditions as found and comparisons’ will be made next fall when the! final inspection is made and im-' provements checked. ! | Free dental work on . children, whose parents cannot afford to’ pay for the treatment is expected | be begin next Monday morning! when the seven local dentists start! their activities in the hospital at' aren: {aera ed. FIFAFPFEPPPPLELE LAP Lo Sd : Po Q 94 “INGRAHAM” ALARM CLOCKS, SQUARE IN SHAPE, BLACK ENAMELED CASE, VERY AT- TRACTIVE— $1.75 “REGAL” ELECTRIC IRONS, MEDIUM WEIGHT, WITHOUT ite. 21 PC. TEA SET, CONSISTING OF 6 FLATES, 6 CUPS AND SAUCERS, 1 CREAMER, 11 SUGAR AND 1 TEA POT, AT- TRACTIVELY FINISHED IN BLUE AND WHITE— SET FURNITURE POLISH FLOOR POLISH LIQUID WAX PASTE WAX HOSTELRY CLEANER White and Eliza Streets N . . : . \ \ . . . . . : : ; . 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