The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESIAY, JULY 14, 1987. | fessor of ‘physics, born in Boston.!at Elgin, Ill. Died March 26, 4 Died May 24, 1910, 1987. neat e Pally Exc 3 An informed observer of attacks | Gilgen Fe re gesctoh Bg dead against the chain store industry recently 408 ALUN, Atuintant Merinene Ma said that critics of the chains Cérfier Greene and Ann Streets hold two assumptions: First, that there is something inherent- ly evil in the chain method of distribution; : second, that the business of distribution On Whose Neck ? § | exists and should be protected for the { 4 a ‘ By HARLEY L. LUTZ Fy 1 benefit of the distributor—especially the her rs, apt H ublic Finance, Princeton inlversity ile writ f blish f the Boston Globe, least efficient distributor—regardless | of ' Profesor of P Fi Ui sige? dager wo Sagat tt anh ne % time, borh in New York. Died | born there. Died June 22, 1921 | what happens to the consumer. iaxates Monte sunmeete Wat toa Se a ee ee eect [auly. 16; 1016. Practically all anti-craft 1866—Edwin B. Frost. astreno- Anniversaries 1837—Jeremiah Smith, New j mer, famed blind director of the skensagsenveaspenesperes| Hampshire lawyer, State’s. Yerkes Observatory, born at Brat- 1811—Clata. Fisher, American 'preme Court justice, mcrae Vt. Died May 14, 1935. lactress-singer, born in England. | P*° Soopitiie: ba the| at Metuchen, N. J,, Nov. 12, i financial adviser to non 1898, of the same name, born at Exe- : te, N. H, Died Sept. 3, 1921. 1)) oo. — Aff airs STABBING THE CONSUMER - | t i | Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Rey ‘West, , Wiorida as second class matter ~ Subscribe te The Citizen. STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh! | TRY IT TODAY— “yirry SIXTH YEAR of the Associated Press Whe Assounted Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to ft of not otfierwise credited in this paper ani also ‘the local news published here. 1831—Amanda M. ~ Douglas, j 1846—Charles H. Taylor, noted 1857—Frederick ~“L.’ Maytag, followin; itty descripti f a tax ti income tax for the ing witty description of a gestion was an 1835—George.F. Barker, noted | Iowa founder of the washing ma- legislation, | Tis pecomue the oficial motto: “A tax] District. athe ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPHCIAL NOTICE Ail reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at the rate of 39 cents a line. tices for ‘entertainments by churches from which ai revente is to be derived are 5 cents a line. "The Citizen Is an open forum and invites discus- sion of ptibic issues and subjects of local or genera! iiterest but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- cations. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “WILL always-seek the truth and printoft’! ' without fear did‘ iwithout favor; never be afraid to. attac! “ong or, to. applaud right? < always figlit for progress; never be the dt- » gen or the Mouthpiece of any person, clique, * faction or class; always do its utmost for the » publié welfare; never tolerate corruption or © injustice;-denounce vice and praise virtue. couimend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; ‘print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- = Promise with principle. . “= IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- jand, Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. 5 Aivports—Land and Sea. = Consolidation of County and City Governments. The quickest way to put a stop to. thi to. this governmental spending is to ridicule _ it; nothing survives ridicule. Palestine, like ancient Gaul, will be divided in three parts—one for the Jews, ohe fot the Arabs and another under a permanent British mandate, - ‘Travelers find that there is a differ- ence in the quality of gas used in the vari- aus cities, but electric light is the same everywhere. Must be in the electricity. . . = It is a pity that the workingman does not realize that he is the dupe and _ will eventually be the sufferer in the present era of the squandering of the public funds, for he is the s{gamental creator of ‘the nation’s wealth, 1aA Lady Astor, on a visit to the United States, said that Roosevelt was the most loved and the most hated man in the coun- fry. By no means is ROosevelt hated, but he is feared in the sense that it is thought lls policies in time will ruin this country. The taxpayers of the United States contributed 294 million dollars more than five billion dollars to the Federal govern- ment in the fiscal year which ended June 30, which is a Morgentheau states that the millions in excess of Presiden! estimate in April. $36(4H4,629,722, ahd chiPT he oun if.we Respansi ‘soakin’ ™ . The, rtnkard maintains hat cba. mee and-does not realize his declining condition until it is too late and liquor has the mastery over him. If the misrable in- dividual were the only victim it could be overlooked, but he drags down with him his dependents of whom the main suffer- ers are his children, who had no choice in selecting their progenitor and Roosevelt's hound as their father. j heavy special or class taxes on erects an artificial barrier against the pro- | “heap o’ money,” Secretary | ficit is 150) certainly | would not have chosen a despised booze-} such as the Robinson-Patman act, the pro- posed Miller-Tydings price maintenance act, and the various state acts imposing chains, cesses of free, legitimate competition. By making illegal, mass retail practices that cut overhead costs of various kinds and thus make it possible to narrow the price spread between producer and consumer. they actually place a premium on waste and inefficiency. The manufacturer, mid- dieman or retailer who is unwilling to operate on a high basis of service and ef- ficiency is pampered by the law, and the efficient competitor and the consumer are penalized. Chain stores came into. existence as the result of a definite public demand for economical retail agencies. Their in- fluence in the retail field has been good, ‘and one of its direct results has ‘been to improve the standards of service and dis-’ tribution methods of indirect results has been to improve the standards of service and distribution methods of independent merchants. Independents who were _ will- ing to keep up with the march of progress have not been forced out of business—in- stead they have multiplied and prospered, and today independent stores do more than 70 per cent of all the nation’s retail business. Any act which outlaws free competi- tion, or interferés with it in any way, must operate at the expense of the consumer. This is demonstrated now in the rising cost of living. HEART PROTECTION More people die from heart disease than from any other cause, its death toll among business men being especially high. Yet proper precautions, if taken in time, would prevent many of these deaths. Writing on this subject in a fraternal magazine, Dr. Charlies H. Mayo, world famous physician and surgeon, says: “The report of the sudden death of a other fellow's neck.” One_ illustra- tion of this at- titude was the prompt author- ization of a public investi- gation into the “legal but higi ly immoral ways that citi- zens had found to keep down their tax’es Members of | Congress were not as indignant as the President had hoped they would be over the rather weak disclosures made by Secretary Morgenthau. .Yet they came through and gave him his investigation, knowing that more than tax evasion was in the wind. More than half of the states tax the personal incomes of their citizens and thus more than half of the mem- bership of Congress. has an oppor- tunity to commit a kind of.legal but immoral tax avoidance similar to that of .whigh; Mr.;,;Morgesthau had com- plained. Not a - ingle senator cr repre- sentative from an income tax state ever jnejudes his, fedexal; salary in| making up his state income tax re- turn. They: ate within( the! la in omits ting it but the result is fully as im moral as many of the things done by ordinary ¢ ins which so shocked Secretary Morgenthau and the Pres- ident. A second illustration of the Con~ gressional determination to regard the income tax in rticular as a boil whose most fitting domicile is the other fellow’s neck occurred at the very time that the “tax investi- gation for publicity purposes” was being authorized. The budget for the District of Columbia was under con- sideration, and like its federal coun- ‘The idea was yery popular in Con- ' University of Pennsylvania gress until it was pointed out that under such a tax members of Con- gress would be liable toa District tax on their income. As soon as this word went forth, the notion .of balancing | the budget of the District of Columbia by using an income tax died in its tracks. Both senators and ‘represen- tatives expressed themselves vigor- ously in opposition. Some of these gentlemen are so vio- > lently obsessed on the subject of tax- | ing according to ability that they count that day lost in which they do not introduce a bill providing for increases in the rates or reductions in the exemptions under the federal in- | come tax law. But no one in Con-/ gress is ro utterly and absolutely de- } voted to the principle of taxation | according to ability as to be willing ; to expose his own federal salary to | a local income tax. The revenue plans for the District were hastily revised, and singularly enough, here was a measure on which every one, whether Democrat, Repub- lican, Farmer-Laborite, or Socialist, could happily.agree. No partisan bick- ering diyided our national lawmak- ers as they agreed to kill the income tax for'the low's, neck, This. time the o} low was the property dwhar ie property” tax fate Was taised’'by another $2.00 per $3,000) of assessed value, _ The old Romans used to kid them- selves and each other by saying that it was sweet and pleasant to die for one's country. How sweet and profit~ able it is to do the legislating for one’s country, and to authorize drum head investigations into how others ob- serve the tax law, while at the same time making certain that one’s own a lawmaker is not levied fegats of the costs of local This pec dying for one’s country by a-long way. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) It is crumpled—he looks from the Beneath and beyond Cub'stiely staggered and “THE POET—AND THE CITY For hours he has sat there. vacantly staring at paper, Absently, wondering why he should even bother to write. | Phen slowly taking a match and his last cigarette— window into the night: uz the neon-bespaitered roofs of the city— }—leaning against each other And suddenly seeming to his homesick mind like chicks, Flufiy and yellow, who crowd in the barnyard under their mother. Far to the east is the heated sunrise of the foundries, Where grimy and sweat-clad Pollock giants toy with hot metal; And besi¢e the foundries is thy great spider-web of thavel, Briefly disclosed by sparks Which fy high and then settle. prominent business man from heart disc ase | is all wrong. year ago his physician, if given the oppor- tunity, might have discovered the dam- | aged heart. which he probably. had had} And there, a little way to the left, msing since, developing some infectious disease or infected teeth. Early detection with proper personal hygiene and wise treat- ment would have added happy, useful years.” A recent bulletin of the Dental In- stitute of America points out that 23 mil- dental care, with an average of from four to six decayed teeth. In many cases the are likely to develop the type of heart dis. ease which brings early death. Too often, to the blood stream until irreparable dam- age is done, through failing to see a den- tist except when forced to do so because of an aching tooth, It is a well known fact that dental science is making definite progress in pre- venting the development of heart dis- He was years in dying. All There, tothe right, is the tawdry unlighted square of a park, | Wherg penniless men, who make of the city a haven, sleep Upon yesterday’s forgotten newspapers spread on a bench. Cutting suddenly in half a hue-changing and barbaric panel That counsels the mob to partake Is the sp’r of a well-known bottle of beer— of a church, whose lazy bell hangs silent in the midst Of slumbering, crumb-fed pigeons whose home has been always here. Quickly he turns from ‘his unseeing inspection of the night, lion school children are in serious need of | Walks to the table, avidly reaching beneath the mass of recta He tossed there, “Then shrugging. into ws Te goes owt the’ stalts, at the Th i i, ipl grentcost mn tapers— ABN A smali-watt buh strives to shine 00 0 mantel of dust, an infected tooth is permitted to drain inj And new he is part of the jostling crowd—which, relentless as lava, Flow: in and out of theatzr doors and basement dives--on ‘his way - pend hs las lKey West, Fle., July 6, ; wenty-two cents for cigaréttes‘ahd'a Cup’ of Java. | OHARLES GILLY. orders. But such disorders resulting from | | A Service for Travelers | infected teeth will not be materially re- duced so long as some 100 million people, or three out of four in the United States, | remain neglectful of both daily and pro- | fessional dental care. HARD TO UNDERSTAND The recent alliance organizations of Italy and Germany, ap- between proved by both governments, includes one provision that we hardly understand. Both labor organizations agree to con- sult each other before taking “any inter- | national action.” We were under the impression the big. bad Reds from Russia were only laborers that undertook “inter- national” action and that the totalitarian States attended to their main business, keeping the Bolshevics from their homelands, labor | that the , capturing | For the ever-increasing number of | patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 for each $100 purchased. and $100, cost only 75c. They are spendable wherever travelers go, and carry the added and important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- erican Express Company in case of loss or theft before your second signature is affixed. Ask the Teller about them. . THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Agents Se District of*Columbia and || hang ‘the 'taxi/bo.; pp the cape fate +e sharply and steep— | | “ EACH l deddhhdhakdkedd GIIDETAT TI TEDDT EET E: ain tsi ha ix se Sas traga pro-' chine company of the name,-born; ‘OU won't have to “cultivate” a taste for the tune of OLD QUAKER’S theme song: “There’s A Barrel Of Quality In Every Bottle, But It Doesn't Take A Barrel Of=Dough-Re-Mi To Buy It.’* In town and country, OLD QUAKER has been a favorite for fifty-nine years. 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