The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Dally Except Sunday By IZE! PUBLISHING CO., INC. TMAN, President . Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner, Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroé Count cond class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associnted Press fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled’ to yse for republication of all news dispatches credited to it_of not otherwise. credited in this paper and also tiie, feeal news published here. i < SUBSCRIPTIO One Year e $10.00 Six Months 5.00 Three Months One Month Weekly — 2.50 35 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 40 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue isto be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general faterpet but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. r THE KEY WEST CITIZEN > WILL always seeleitne truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be attack wrong or to applaud right; ” always fight for progress; never be the. or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and. praise virtue. couumend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and mot gontaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to completé Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. _ We read that chemicals may be used to check insanity, And some of them start it, too. - The increasing number of homicides “vould be less alarming if they would only kill more of the right people. _ General Smedley D. Butler was in- vited’to speak before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Those old vets are tough. A dose of sodium amytal is said to akg one tell intimate things about him- elf.” Most of us tell too much without rtificial stimulation. ; : A Vienna newspaper is trying out ‘college freshmen on its editorial staff. Old stuff over here, judging by some of the editorials we read in the big papers. The dumbest man has been found. After losing a finger while fooling around a buzz-saw, a Pittsburgh man lost another showing a friend how he lost the first. Already favored by nature, Key West will be one of the most beautiful places in the world, if the Garden Club continues for a few years the activity displayed at the present time. May its interest never flag! The love of money may be the reot of GLOOMY PROSPERITY After a long period in which new financing by industry was at its lowest ebb, a start toward normal financing has been in evidence in recent months, al- though it has been handicapped by the operation of new restrictive laws already in effect, as weh as by fear of further harmful legislation to come. According ito Gol,,L. P. Ayres, a noted Tinaiie ar thority, the: second quarter of 1937 has been a.‘period of “pessimistic While ‘production and em- fevlmcreased and profits have : larger, business sentiment has been: predominantly gloomy. Col. Ayres believes the explanation for this sentiment may be seen in the decline in the security markets, “a condition which never fails to produce gloom among busi- hess men, even though their own affairs may be entirely unaffected by such de- clines.” Rumors of a plan to require 100 per cent margins in security markets have had a further disturbing effect, according to another expert, who declares that if mar- gin buying were outlawed, prices of se- curities would be artificially driven down, Fat the expense of investors. He asserts lat the Federal Reserve. Board already yhas ample authority ‘to prévent the exces- sive use of bank credit in the purchasing and carrying of securities. Further tinkering with the financial machinery would probably halt industrial expansion plans, and thus new oppor- | tunities for employment would be lost and potential increases in the nation’s produc- tive wealth would be restricted. Legis- lative and bureaucratic tinkerers must give business and industry a rest before we may expect to see a return to sound pros- perity. : RULES FOR A HUSBAND Domestic infelicity threatened to dash the mutrimonial bark of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Walsh of New York upon the rocks. In fact, matters had reached such a crisis that Mrs. Walsh was suing for a divorce. Peter pleaded for ore more chance to hold his job as husband, Mrs. Walsh heeded his plea and agreed to withdraw her suit if Peter would promise to abide by eight simple, easily understood rules which she would lay down for his future guidance. Peter promised. Here are the rules: You shall not drink. You shall respect your wife times. .Do not teach your children insubordi- nation by interfering when I am correcting them, ‘ Do not bring your pals home when you are all drunk, Give me your salary each week, be- cause I can save out of it what you spend on booze. Keep yourself tidy and fit for a wo- man to look at. Do some repairing around the house id make our home beautiful. Do not smoke in bed, at all DEATH’S BUSY SEASON Now that summer is here, with its in- creased tourist and other automobile traf- fic, death prepares to reap its richest har- vest. From the homes of the United States must come about 37,Q00 to die and a mil- lion others to be injured, are to be equaled. This senseless slaughter goes on in spite of all the warnings given and in the face of the object lessons held daily before our eyes, The pitiful part of this continuous | tragedy is that most of. these casualities are entirely unnecessary and might be pre- all evil, but let us pause and contemplate | vented by the exercise of ordinary com- | } { } j ; what a tremendous amountret gqod Rogke: jpmon sense. They.are due either to an in-, feller’s love of lucre has done for humanity. | sane desire for speed'or an utter disregard | The accounting of the stewardship.of ac-! forthe most elémefitary rules of safety. cumulated wealth is what weighs in the | balance. sengers, whose lives are at the mercy of the criminally reckless or driver. Some accidents are unavoidable, of course, but in Travelers find that most of the _rib- bing Key West gets is from Floridians and particularly those coming from Miami. Those who have traveled much and visited Key West, all express themselves in the} or pedestrians, highest praise of the Island City, and the} And even the most careful driver is politeness of the people is particularly; often helpless when he encounters a fool stressed. on street or highway. apparently the Many of the victims are helpless pas- | incompetent | / / \gerited by the THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tariffs and You and Your ‘ Wage Rates By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON j President, American Academy Half truths are as mischievous in economics as elsewhere. One of the most persistent is the common state- ment that we need high import du- ties to the American worker against products made by low paid foreign ers. This is a highly tmaccu- rate assertion. One becomes suspicious about it when he discovers that in coun~- tries where wages are low there is just as uch or .:nore fear about imports of American goods made by our high paid work- ers. Evidently the subject needs more analysis, The best way to start ts to remind ourselves that there is a difference between low wages and low labor costs. Low paid laborers may be very high cost laborers because they are inefficient. in fact their inefficiency is frequently one of the reasons why their wages are so low. Employers cannot pay high “wages unless they get returns that make it worth while. If this’ argument about ive tariffs and wages any méaning at all, we should talk not Of ‘wage levels here as compared with wage levels abroad but of labor costs here and abroad. But this is not all. The important thing to notice is not merely the labor costs but total costs. Of the total (Address questions to the author care of thts newspaper) of Political and Social Science outlay in production, wage payments are only a part. In som ‘ases they are the more important but in others less so. Whether a foreigner can ship goods to the United States and sell them here at so low a price as to drive out the American producer de- ! pends on his total costs. These include his capital costs which may be greater than his labor costs. When the issue is stated in this | manner it is easier to understand why people in other countries are fre- | quently so afraid of our goods that | they raise high tariffs against them. First, they know that American work- ers are on the whole efficient. ft is | not high American wages but low American labor costs that trouble them. But even this is not accurate. They observe that in America we use far more capital in many lines of pro- | duction than they do and that we pro- duce on a large scale. Py so doing we get the costs per unit <f output very low. Wherever our total costs per unit are lower than theirs they fear the competition of our goods. When | their total costs per unjt.are lower than ours our producers.fear their competition. | This does not touch onthe funda- mental questions in connection with protective tariffs. All it does is. to clarify..one of the arguments fre- quently. advanced. Those who favor ‘protection, still must advance reasons to show why we should keep out for- eign goods if they can be produced cheaper abroad than here. The argu- ments advanced are many and de- serve our respectful and carefui at- | tention. But we should not’ accept the usual and very inaccurate statement that we need protective tariffs mere- ly because wages abroadare lower than in the United States. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Bids for the construction of the High School gymnasium will be opened by the school board at the High School tomorrow _ night: Eight sealed proposals have been received and four of them are from Key West contractors, The contemplated structure will 6st approximately $25,000 Superin- tendent Russell says and the ma- terial, will be. concrete, one stiry high covering a space 80 by“ 70 feet. It will contain a convertible court which can be arranged for basketball or any .other sports also a system of lockers and show- er baths. On one side will be seats to accommodate 400. spe¢ta- tors. Upon edmpletion the strue- ture will be thordughly equipped for physical education’ as » pre- state board of schools and all such exereises will be eohduéted therein. There will be no more Sunday automobile trips, or on any other days, to Big Pine Key for some time to come, possibly one month. The road has been closed from where the railroad crosses Sugar Loaf Key northward and the date on which. it will be reopened is uncertain. “The S, J. Groves com- pany which is building that sec- tion-of the highway has just be- gun to apply the first coat of oil and there will be no more ffaffic until this has been completed and the road has “set’, it was.snids A watchman has been stativiied at the railroad crossing and will turn back all traffic. Reelection of the city planning commission, or zoning board, of city council} tonight. The board was unanimously elected at the time of the final reading and necessary for the council to through the formality of electi them again tonight. wo ng John Franklin Sheppard, son of City Tax Collector and Mrs. Arthur Sheppard has been pro- moted to the rank of sergeant at the Citizens Military Training camp at Fort Screven, Ga. his majority of cases they are the result of New Orleans every pure carelessness on the part of m»torists CLYDE-MALLO c. &. SMITH, Key West, to accompany him. ‘The U. S. Destroyer Mahan Se ee parents have been informed. The commission is signed by Colonel R. J. Burt of the Eighth Infantry. Editorial comment: Some Flor- idians are concerning themselves with the protection skunks . get under the state’s new game laws, There is something fundameiitally wrong with any self-respecting! skunk, though, if he is not able to protect himself. Ivan Thompson, the young man who became demented some time ago is still very ill and it is now! necessaty to have him: .placed - in the ‘asylum. at Chattahoochee. Sheriff Niles has sent for a nurse due today and the Maury is du toniorrow. They are coming from a training cruise and Fourth of July celebration at Texas. An eight pound son was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gates in their home Caroline street. Jesus Fernandez charged with smuggling 350 quarts of champagne into eountry on the Steamship Gover- her Cobb, was held in “bond $500 this morning following hearing before U.S. sioner C. Rodney Gwynn, Z i Jack Lambert, foreman for the! |comes up at the regular meeting Groves Construction 7; charged with breaking ing in the night time on Big Pine Key, today posted $1,000 at 2 {passing of the city planning ordi- hearing before Judge Hugh Gunn. some crippled | nance: This was before the mayor He said that if he was guilty of for life, during the year, if former records | h#d signed the ordinance and has any wrong doing it was because | been declared illegal, so it will be he was intoxicated and,’ had knowledge of it. STOP THOSE CHILLS AN FEVER! I Cia ne if | P Ch hhhhhhedahedededdeddddeddedhdiddddddddde if i J | i —| | 704| cigars and 28) this | i of | a Commis- A | & 5] bd id -enter-| 2 6 ‘WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1987. 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