The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 26, 1937, Page 2

~~» £20. ——— -—. == ae ene =e ££ ©€64 Fee re tn se All feeding motives, ca of tharss, resolutions of foepeet, chituary notices, ete. will be charged for at the Pate of 16 conte a line. for eetertaiements b. churches from which & tevenee i@ to be derived are 5 dine. ‘the CiHtiarn an open foram ai invites discus- fee of Peblice issues and subjects lecal or general terest ‘wet | Will net publish anonymous communi- eaten. ‘MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST \WYQEATED BY THE CITAZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Pree Port. Hotels and Apartments. Rathing Pavilion, Atgurte Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and (overnment:. "fre City Beonomy at Tallahassee seems to be gaining friends, In the winter time Key West enjoys healthful summer's sun. A newspaper may be a public servant but 1 takes private funds to keep it go- ing. The radiant young things see nowadays will be the June 1937. that you brides of Advertising must be a good there are so many successful mer who say so. thing; business Because candy makers and florists have things to sell, many will remember mothers on a Sunday in May. A Congress that can regulate wages and hours for the benefit of labor can also regulate them for the benefit of the em- ployer. It should be a 50-50 proposition. ‘The Citizen is at all times desirous to contribute to the success of all worthwhile undertakings but those conducted for pro- fit ave expected to pay for the contribu- tion. The Florida Racing Commission found not guilly a trainer accused of doping race horses, and then suspended him for 60} days, probably for being foolish enough to! be caught in the act. Seolding Key West and Monroe coun- for their failure to merge city and county governments in accordance with! the enabling referendum of last fall, The! Key West Citizen declares: “The Citizen learns that city government in Florida is the most efficient, the state comes next and | the counties last. There are exceptions to} this rule, and Key West is one of them.! Here the county commission is the most ef- ; ficient body, while the city administration} is not highly theught of. In fact, the city; and county govern, ,ents should be merged _| paign which is waged against the white the list of diseases which kill the greatest | number of people in the United States every year. Incidentally, of the ten lead- ing causes of death in the country, only cline during the past three years. Whether this is to be attributed to the steady cam- plague, or not, we have no way of know- connection: Concerning heart disease, Dr. Harry L. Smith, of the Mayo Clinic, reports that coronary sclerosis is sometimes called the “disease of the intelligentia” because of the susceptibility of physicians, bankers, lawyers and clergymen. tics of the disease include the hardening of the nerves, ligaments and blood vessels around the heart and its incidence is high- | est among those who do mental work and lowest among those who do manual labor. The Citizen naturally hesitates to at- tempt any conclusion from these observa- tions but, apparently, the disease attacks individuals who are prone to forget the; importance of physical exercise while con- | suming their energies in the anxiety of | mental worries. It would appear that, somewhere along the line of popular education in this country, the physical nature of man has been neglected. If} this is true} and we believe that it is, we might save the lives of future professional men by stressing athletic interests during j childhood, with the hope that, when they } grow up, the individuals will have sense enough to continue what has been wisely begun, ' SPRING FOR CLEANING UP Annual Spring cleaning is a process that most housewives thoroughly under- stand and the practice survives nearly everywhere because of the obvious ad- vantages obtained by giving the domicile | of the family a thorough renovating. Probably, drawing a lesson from the housewife, many towns and cities have es- tablished a similar custom and once a year, usually in the Spring, launches a com- munity drive for the same essential pur- pose. The only difference is that where the housewife takes care of her own home the community seeks to enlist cooperative action of all citizens in the work of clean- ing up the premises that make up the} year. unit. Hl Key West has had such drives be- Up Week,” “Paint Up Week,” “Beautifi- | cation Week,” etc. We are not interested ; pik ' 5. How does the American} in the names but the ideas are sound and | gar Association stand on the Pres- é : z ident’s Cout.xef 2 SAVE THIS COUPON West with much profit to all concerned. Thoiaae Tuesda: and Wednesday's Every citizen should be a committee | Wesnington ¢ : re ef this...week and i Sh 1 »s it cos ring them to— *% of one to improve the appearance of his or How much does it cost to A ‘ h > y Me ae al} {build a modern battleshiz South Florida Contracting er property. The combined action of al 8. Rob- | & Engineering Company |} of us will have a notable influence upon jert F. New York | o” A Lacouguakereas ae | the impression that our home town will | bern? z receive one 16-piece se! ak F h = nat Who owns the Asgociated | Meunt Vernon Dinnerware make upon those who come here. More jp, Set consists of four plates; important, it will have a good effect upon 10. How much’ does our an- | four and saucers and four those of us who live here. nual trade with ‘the Phi.ippines [| cereal Or bring $1.19 amount to? and receive oversize Dinner :. .o ae ] s instead of standard ABOUT ACADEMIC FREEDOM Every once in a while we obserye &@ great dither in the public print over the | fate of some professor, reputedly ousted because of his personal views. roar is usually caused by the rush of per- sonal friends to defend the gentlemen of learning and the influx of professional guardians of freedom of speech who ve- hemently demand that the pedagog escape any penalty on account of “honest” think- ing. There often arise instances when the clambr 48. justified but we are afraid in most ca8es there is nothing to the turmoil. | in ae For example, sometimes a teacher private school or college, hired to teach a at a considerable saving to the taxpayers, } specific subject, will develop into a rabid but our local politigians are shying from the proposition as if it were a contagious | It is noteworthy that the Mon- roe county exception to The Citizen’s rule on relative efficiency of city and -ounty diseas governments also applies to Dade. The} main point, however, econo. ~ and effi- ciency by mergers of local governments, remains a goal that Florida will be driven i to seek more and more es time progresses. | retain his salary regardless of his views | ana where and how he expounds them. ~—~Miami Daily News. aR EN SO xn and disregard his obligation to teach what advocate of some peculiarism. As a_ re- sult, be is usually invited to teach some- where else and, more particularly, to earn! his salary in another location. | The real question seems to be wheth-' er such a professor can retain his salary he was hired to teach. Most of the time what the dissident preceptor desires is to 2S one, tuberculosis, has shown a steady de-! ing but we suspect that there is some si The characteris- | : iduring the recent fore, under various names, such as “Clean- j automotive industry? cost each year? By WALTER E. SPABR gi vorable attention than would those who are presumed to be better equipped to deal with monetary ques- tions. The Senator's bill proposes to con- vert the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System into a Mone- tary Authority charged with the re- sponsibility of controlling the price Jevel. Then he proposes that the Board shall raise the price level “without delay” to that of 1926. Next, he says that “pending” the raising of the price level, which he previ said was to be done “without delay,” the Board is to investigate what *he price level shouldbe. Then she says that the price level shall not, be low- er than that of 1926. Finally, he says that tle price level shall be an equi- librium price level. Although no one can possibly know where an equilib- rium price level is until it is reached, Senator Thomas presumes to know that it is above the 1926 average. Prices in 1926 have a peculiar sa- credness to the Senator. In his speech he said: “It is because of the regula- tion and stabilization of the value of the dollar at 100 cents in 1926 that that year has been designated as the most satisfactory to. consider as the norm or standard.” That statement is quite inaccurate. In 1926, when the year 1913 was used as 100 per cent, the price level was approximately 150 per cent. The chief reasons for adopting a new base and index num- ber (in October, 1927) were to pro- vide a postwar rather than a prewar base, to increase the number of com- modities from 404 to 550, and to in- troduce pew and important ones. Nor was the value of the dollar stabilized at 100 in 1926 as the Senator assert- ed. The Federal Reserve Bulletin for October, 1927, said: “By the spring of 1926 . . . the downward movement of prices, which in some groups, no- tably farm products, had begun about the, middle of 1925, had become gen- eral, and indexes for all groups, ex- cept fuels, were lower at the end of 1926 than a year earlier.” WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Tuesday; {littie change in temperature; mod- the erate northerly winds. currency. If the Senator would study the Federalist Papers and other perti- nent literature of that period, he would discover his error. If “value of money” meant then what the Sena- tor says it does, how could Congress regulate the “value of foreign coin"? That would involve regulating for- eign price levels! Although the expression “value of money” refers to a ratio between ously | money and credit spent and goods and services sold, the Senator per- sists in insisting that it is the value of money that changes. One may say with equal truth that it is the value of goods that changcs. Both state- ments mean precisely the same thing. By unjustifiably concentrating his at- tention on the money side of the equation, the Senator also incorrectly makes money the sole causal factor in a changing price level. The causal factor can be either goods, money, or a combination of both. Money can be the chief causal factor when it is inflated or otherwise made unsound, In his speech the Senator blamed 1920-1921. The recession in prices be- gan in June, 1920; Mr. Harding was inaugurated on March 4, 1921. The Senatcr apparently does not know that in 1920 the reserves of the Fed- eral Reserve banks were down near the legal limit; that in fact eight of them paii tax penalties for deficient reserves in 1920; and that rediscount rates had to be raised and credit curbed or the country would exhaust its reserves and the banking structure would collapse; that people were com- plaining of and conducting drives aaginst high prices; and that Presi- dent Harding, in October, 1922, spoke of “the mistaken program of drastic deflation adopted by those who were icies.” There is no justifiable basis for attempting to lay the secession of 1920 the door of either poli: eae Fe in control of government pol- | (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) WHO KNOWS? | 1. Will the Social Seeurity Board pzy old age benef.ts this ' 2. How fast can a fox run? 3. What was the wage loss es in the 4. How mvch does the Navy lof aeronautics is being carried on Plans are Ho- pei, North € w of canals linking, all the riv- of the province with the nal to expand cheap tra! tation facilities. eing made in to An educational movement imbue and familiarize Italian youth with the elemental phases throughout Ital President Harding for the crisis of | {at Theatford in j land. t na, to build a net: | The up- i Peccragaeat ha Rar Plat sil (Answers on Page Four) This of: rood only until present stock ne. The first to be on hand 1 lay will be sure etting their The village whistle sounds a 9 ip. m. curfew at Plain City, Ohio, for ali youths under 18. Mayor C. |D. Perkins said the curfew would, be enforced rigidly. 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 Fedeval Reserve FIFPPLEOSAPLAPLLLL LL 2 2 CILSISIISSIILISS SI SSIS SS. {coo tonight and Tuesday, |. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate west and northwest winds, and partly overcast weath- er tonight and Tuesday. East Gulf: Moderate west and northwest winds, and generally day. WEATHER CONDITIONS | Pressure is moderately high this morning over the North At- lantic and northern Plains States, jand relatively high over the ‘western Guif of Mexico; while low pressure areas overspread the remzcinder of the country; with a disturbance off the North Caro- lina coast. Precipitation has oc- feurred during the last 24 hours in the upper Mississippi and Ohio j Valleys, Lake region, from the Middle Atlantic States southward over Florida, and on the Pacific jeoast from San Francisco north- , ward, with heavy rain from the upper Ohio Valley southeastward {to eastern North Carolina. Light snow was falling this morning in jeastern Dakota. Light snow was fal:ing this morning in eastern 'South Dakota. Temperatures have fallen over most sections, and are |s'ightly below freezing th's morn- ing in the Dakotas; while warm- ler weather prevails in hte Rocky Mountain and Plateau States. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. Thomas Paine, the Anglo. American philosopher and author, died in 1809. He was born in 1727 Norfolk, Eng: | f $2500 SPECIAL SALE ON DOORS MADE OF 7 1 1-8 CYPRESS DOO a SOLID BLACK RU 25° Len 50° Len “Your Florida: Fair and continued fair weather tonight and Tues- CREAM ON THE OTHER. 48” WIDE, 8’, 10" REGULAR PRICE $35.00 M. 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