The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO - The Key West Citizen aily Except Sunday By N PUBLISHING CO. INC. ARTMAN, President N, Assintant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets JOE AL Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe matter Member of the Absoct Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. z he SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year é Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ----$10.00 5.00 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 i0 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which ar ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. * The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, «Jt is sometimes smart and. progressive tq admire and protect the old-fashioned. There was a time, ante Roosevelt, when farmers got more money for large cfops than small yields. It may not be what it should be, but the good/looking girls get more dates than the lassies of homely virtues. It's a good plan to praise other peo- ple whenever you are in doubt whether they come to praise or to blame. You can’t make a woman mad by nonchalantly suggesting that she “doesn’t look a day older than when you saw her the last time. pour out oodles of money for relief that does not exist in myriads of cases, Roose- velt’s popularity will wane. It must be conceded by every fair- minded person that the right to work is as sacred as the right to strike, and labor contracts arising from collective bargain- ing must be binding on both parties to the contract—employer and employee. In dedicating the new. postoffice at Fredericksburg, Va., Postmaster Farley predicted “good times” ahead. For five years we have heard that “Happy Days Are Here Again,” and have we been fool- ed during all that time. Or Aloyisius campaigning for 1940? is James Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant pastor, one-time U-boat commander, op- posed to the Nazified Protestant church, has been locked up. After the war he wrote a book dscribing his experiences in “from Submarine to Pulpit.” Now he equld make a double play and write agother book, entitling itja‘From Sub- rine to Pulpit to Jail.” Postmaster General Be, who should be attending to his job in Washing- ton instead of electioneering for his boss for a third term, said a short time ago with reference to the Supreme Court pack- ing, “It is in the bag. WE will LET the senate talk ard then we will house talk. Then WE will call the roll. WE have the votes.” If that isn't the voice of a dictator it is the voice of the runner-up, come in? LET the And where do we, the people, Progress can never be permanently halted, andthe plan, endorsed by Presi- | dent Roosevelt, to keep man from being | devoured by a swarm of machinesypsqyill come to naught if jt has any other purpesd than to help in gearing the national eco- nomic processes in this age of machines. When the linotype was invented woe for! the printing trade was predicted and in} France the government frowned on its use| for a time in the belief that it would cause | too much unemployment among typeset-/ ters. What the invention did was to make | the trade more prosperous than ever be-} fore by increasing the output, and the! Rewspapers swelled to their bulkiness of | teday, increasing rather than diminishing! the number of craftsmen, in the printing and allied trades. Just as soon as Congress refuses NEUTRALITY ACT HELPS JAPAN Should President Roosevelt declare that Japan and China are belligerents, the Neutrality Act will automatically apply, bringing about a disruption of our trade and economic relations with the Far East. This would hurt China considerably more than Japan as the issuance of loans or credits is mandatorily forbidden. It might block the gold and silver exchange | and the establishment of credit for Chinese purehase of railroad” equipment and ma- chinery in this _ country. _ Furthermore, ) China secures, much of, its aircraft from us j-and this would be automatically stopped as munitions, Japan, while alarge buyer of raw ma- |! seriously af- | terials, would not be as fected. The Far Eastern crisis illustrates the difficulties of working out a practical plan of neutrality in the event of war. Applied to the two nations, our present act would be of tremendous benefit to the Japanese. The laws of the United States would oper- ate to help Japan in her contest with China rather than to prevent the United States from taking sides in an unfortunate struggle. TRAILER SQUATTERS People who own no real estate but travel around in trailers, living from place to place, will not escape »paying their share of property taxes if many)towns fol- low the example of Peoria Heights, in Illi- nois, which has just passed an ordinance requiring such inhabitants to pay a fifty dollar annual license fee. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen - K. B. Dawson of the California legis- lature was called over long distance and asked if he could send his $1,000 contribu tion to the Democratie National Commit- tee. Being a Republican, Mr. Dawson couldn't. In Sioux Falls, N. D., 19 women are said to have formed a club composed of women who “get spanked by their hus- bands when they need it.’”’” They declare that such a procedure makes a woman feel that her husband really cares for her. It is the custom in certain South Am- erican movie theaters, when patrons ex- press marked disapproval of a picture, to stop it and start another. On the other hand, scenes loudly applauded are run over again immediately, and as often as} demanded. Suitable official honors are proposed for a cow owned by Hans Gockeln, a peasant near Schlaupshof, Germany, which gave birth to four healthy bull calves within the period ‘ee about eight Maurice Boigey of Paris advises ver 50 to avoid rcises which e@ head below thé waistline, de- claring that such contortions tend to cause a congestion of blood in the brain. In our case the warning is entirely super- fluous. A recent check of the 5,120. state prisoners in Alabama disclosed that 837 were ex-convicts, of whom 673 were serv- ing a second sentence, 112 were serving their third, 40 their fourth. 8 their fifth and 4 were serving their sixth sentence. It would be interesting to know how many | of these have received former pardons or paroles. : ss bc Whee refinery in the world “inactive operation is at Port “Hope, Ontario, to which ore is brought! from Great Bear Lake, 3,000 miles away. There is only a little more then one pound of radium in the world today, and it i worth about 25,000 times its weight in gold. is Tests in blending alcohol with gaso- line for motor fuel are being continued on a large scale. The idea may be all right when both ingredients are kept in the tank, | but when the aicoho! is in the driver re-} jsults are not likely to be so good THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | ‘You‘an Nation’s ‘One of the most ominous signs of the time is the great increase in ex- penditures for armament. Great Britain plans to spend about $1,500,- 000,000 annually for military and naval purposes during the next five years, or about three times as much as was budgeted only three years ago. The French Cham'er of Deputies has recently ap- proved a spe- cial grant of about $900,000,- 00 for military roads. indus- trial mobiliza- tion, and the extension of its line of steel and concrete fortresses along the Belgian and Swiss boundaries. This is in addition to the regular expendi- tures for national defense, which are about twice as great as in 1933. Ger- many, Italy, Russia, and Japan are feverishly building up their war ma- chine, and breathing defiance to pros- pective enemies. Even the small Euro- pean countries are joining the arma- ment race. The so-called “defense” expendi- tures of European nations are rapidly approaching the war level. Twenty per cent of the national income, and more than fifty per cent of ordinary tax income, is being used in some countries in preparing for war. The cost is so high because effective prep- and the construction of fortific S. but also vast facilities for producing airplanes, tanks, trucks. munitions, ete., not to mention huge reserves of raw materials and foodstuffs as a pro- tection against blockades by hostile nations. The carrying on of this vast war program necessarily means that less labor and fewer materials are avail- : War No Balm to Business By ELIOT JONES Professor of Transportation and Public Utilities, Stanford University d Your || Affairs able to produce the goods that are needed to satisfy people's ordinary | wants. Expenditures for armament i inevitably reduce the standard of {Normal Mean Yesterday’s Prec Normal Precipitation *Thin record covers ending at 8 o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac - Today’s Anniversaries sol Secccccceccesesccsesooes ‘18! 1754—Pierre C, .84| French soldier-engineer in 84 |American Revolution, who planned j aincton, D. C., so well and so .0 Ins.|far ahead that it took a century 14 Ins. } to grow up to his plan, born in hour period! Paris, Died in Maryland, June * p14y 1825, - mm.) . m.| 1832—Henry Steel Olcott, New 8 m. | York lawyer, co-founder of the . m.'theosphi¢al movement in America, Today gives a tendency to lux- uriousness and love of display, L’Enfant, | somewhat hidden, however, Ly the jnaturel tastefulness. Today’s na- tive will be magnanimous and open-handed, but should be very careful not to waste resources On what is merely vain show. It will be well to spend according to the means, and to control the im pulses, living, as is evidenced in various foreign countries, where the people are compelled “to tighten their belts” | in order that the production of war | materials may be expedited. There is an increase in the production of cer- tain goods, but a corresponding de- cline in the production of other goods. Moreover, the goods that are pro- duced in greater amount are to a considerable extent diverted to war uses, so that the people derive no real | satisfaction from their production. ; Steel that goes into the maki. of ; tanks and warships obviously is not | available for passenger automobiles | and streamlined trains. Unfortunately the harmful effects of expenditures for war are not al- ways seen; in fact, many people look upon them as “good for business.” It | is observed that the demand is now | great for steel, copper, nickel, air- planes, etc.; and it is also observed that the producers of such supplit can raise wages and prices (thus ben- efiting the employees and the stock- holders). This of course is exactly what happened during the World War, but as we now know the pros- perity thus induced was not real pros- perity. It was an artificial prosperity based on a profligate use of labor and resources and credit. It saddled on succeeding generations a tremendous burden of debt and taxation; it brought on an inflationary era that produced immense suffering; and it was the principal cause of the Great Depression, from which we are now happily emerging. The fact is that real and permanent prosperity results only from the bal- anced production of goods and ser- vices that minister to the needs of the people. Vast expenditures in prepa- ration for war may give a temporary fillip to industry, but their long-run effect is to reduce the material well- being of the people, and to check progress toward the realization of a higher standard of living. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken { From The Files After a swim of about Five miles and ¢linging to a buoy#for 19 hours, the captain’ of the boat which burst into flames 4 o'clock: Sunday afternoon, was rescued 11 yesterday by a Coast Guard cut- ter under command of Captain Bowery. The captain of the byrn- ed vessel gave the name of John Middleton and claims to livé at {Naples in the Fort Myers vicinity. The steamer Cuba reseued four of the..men yesterday morning jand of the others three remain unaccounted for. It is conceded that they perished. Middleton is to be arraigned on a charge of snuggling aliens, as all of the men e,natives of Italy and none of could speak English except the captain. Nothing could be learned today of the whereabouts of the Coast Guard Cutter Saukee nor when the vessel maybe expected to ar- rive from Tampa with Troop 4, Boy Scouts, who have been spend- ing their summer outing near that ‘ity in camp near Salphur Springs. The Coast Guard station had -re- ceived no reports from the Saukee }up to this afternoon and it is not jknown that the vessel arrived at Tampa from Mobile where she was {delayed for a day or two. A re- |port printed today goes so far as to say that the Saukee arrived here and that Captain Jenks made remarks about the courtesy ex- {tended the troop in Tampa. There fare also reports about two con- ,cerning the Saukee and the time she should arrive. All absolutely without foundation i aration for war involves nowadays not only the maintenance of armies j | After a week of fruitless search fer a local girl, officials of Ha-! | Vana are still searching but report |that up to the present nothing has jbeen learned of the girl or her jwhereabouts. In the meantime |the girl’s family has been advised {there is no cause for worry. Her daughter is all right. July was very little hotter than |the month usually is and very. lit- ithe drier. The average mean tem- ; perature for the month was 8&5, | which 1.5 degrees warmer than the! average for the past 57 years, In ja period of over 57 years the | CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh? —TRY IT TODAY— | Om Sale At Al Grocers Of The Citizen — records show that the Gerry has reached 100 but once. Editoriaj comment: A preacher } out in Texas says that prohibition! started in the Garden of Eden, all of which may be true but our recollection is that the Garden of Eden was also padlocked. The body of Mrs. Isabell, Marty, Scott, former Key West. arrived from Miami 8 o'clock tHis afternoon accompanied by ir husband and two daughters, Mrs. Maura and Miss Belle Scott. Mrs.! Scott requested that after death} she be interred in Key West. One of the navy planes which} arrived here several days ago from Pensacola, left on its return} flight today. It was in command of Captain Davis of the U. S. Marine Corps. An officer from the state pri-| son is expected to arrive tomor- row for two prisoners who were recently sentenced. Joe Garei white, must serve one year for grand larceny. James Mosely, colored, was sentenced to serve tive rs for assault) on his eight year old step daughter, ‘A nine pound daughter was born to Judge and Mrs. J. F, Busto at their home 407 South street. Judge Busto is county solicitor. Mother and baby are doing nicely. | j i L; 7 i i bres rf li r ‘sibly showers Tuesday; gentle va- ;nia; whe pressure is above nor- imal throughout most other sections heeded ddd ddd DIO Ia SO IMN, orn at Orange, N. J. Died in ndia, Feb. 17, 1907. 1835—Elisha Barometer reading at 8 a. m Sea level, 30.03. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity cloudy tonight and Tuesday; pos-} riable winds, mostly easterly. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight writ r, and Tuesday, seattered showers in rei south portion Tuesday. ead Jacksonville to Florida Straits’ and East Gulf: Gentle variable’ winds mostly easterly over south portion; partly overcast weather tor, born in tonight and Tuesday with scatter-| April 9, 1909. ed showers Tuesday. E 71865—Irving WEATHER CONDITIONS Zectrical engineer and 'whose telephone patent applica- ion reached patent office but a; jfew hours later than Bell's, born} at Barnesvill, Ohio. Partly | Boston, Jan, 21, 1846—Melville M. Bigelow, not-! led lawyer, professor born near Eaton Rapids, Died in Boston, 1854—Francis ford, popular novelist of his day,| the double effect you want. ‘son of a famous American seulp- Italy. \CHILLS AND FEVER Fast Relief for Malaria With This Proven Treatment! | |. Don’t go through fe » sal suffers ing. Stop Malaria chils and fever in quick time. . Take good old Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic! This is no or untried preparation. It's a far mous medicine you can on. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonie cons | tains tasteless quinidine and iron. It quickly stops the chills and fever; It also tends to build you up. Tha’ Chicago Gray, inventor, ! Died near 1901, and legal May 4, Marion Craw- Tue very next time you feel | attack of chills and fever on, go right to get a bottle Chill Tonic. cine immedi Died there, Babbitt, Har- ‘vard’s tamed leader of the New | Humanism, born at Dayton, Ohio. A shallow trough of low pressure Died July 15, 1933. extends from the northern Plains —-—————- States southwestward to the Mexi-! can border and southern Califor-| of the country, with high pres-. sure areas crested over the Lake} region and far Northwest, Show-; ers and thunderstorms have oc-) curred during the last 24 hours’ from Montana eastward to the up-! per Mississippi Va'ley, the rain-| fall being heavy in portions of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1.53 inch-_ es, Scattered showers have also oceurred in Atlantic and Golf coast district, Wilmington, N. C.,! reporting a heavy rainfall of 1.24— inches. Temperatures are above normal in the Plains States this moining; while elsewhere read- ings are generally near or some-| what belo.’ the seasonal average. Maximum temperatures of 100 to 104 degrees were reported yes- terday in the central and southern Plains States and northern Tex- as. : G. 8. 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