The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 3, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Da THE CITIZ ily Except Sunday By \ PUBLISHING CO. INC, ARTMAN, President Axsistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe unty. econd class matter Member of t ociated Press Whe Associated 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. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES = One Year ............ ‘ ae Six Months... Three Months One Month .. Wee ADVERTISIN Made known on application. “SPECIAL NOTICE es, cards of thanks, resolutions of ., will be charged for at All reading respect, obitu: the rate of i Notices for entertainments. by, jghurches from which @ revenue ts to be derived are 5 cents a line. = The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- BIOh of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, E [te nev west crew | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- iand. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. WILL ulways seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always tigi: for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or ciass; 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 not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. The American people rightly regard the independence of the judiciary as the bulwark of their freedom and no president. of the United States, no matter how pop- ular, may attempt to weaken that bulwark: without a rebuke. Premonitionists say that every time one enters an ‘automobile, Death takes a seat beside the rider. No respecter of youth, age or sex, Death also rides with , Venus. National safety drives are being made against both, with satisfactory ace ¢complishments. Total av: be attained, but the numbe An expression of gratitude» those senators who, disregarding | political fortunes, made such a_ gallant fight for the independence of the judiciary against President Roosevelt’s plan to put his will against that of the people. Sen- ators Wheeler, Bailey, Burke and Gerry, King, McCarran, O'Mahoney, Van Nuys, had the courage of their convictions and the hardihood to make a long and bitter fight to keep the judiciary free from the poisonous fumes of fascism and com- | munism, that seem slowly to be creeping into our political life, Representative J. Mark Wilcox was ene of the first members of the house of representatives to come out openly against supreme court reform, and stated if there was to be any change in the enlargement / of the tribunal, it should be done in an or- derly manner in a Constitutional Amend- ment submitted to the people for rejection or approval. Mr. Wilcox did not sit on the fence to discover which way the wind was blowing, but felt that the independ- ence of the judiciary was at stake and HOLDING OUR END UP If the average citizen who is barely | making ends meet, or who is falling be-' hind financially, would check himself up “he might find some interesting facts con- cerning his affairs. | He would probably find, among other — things, that his difficulties arise prin-j} cipally from his indulgence in the ancient ! game of trying to outshine his neighbors.| Take our automobile problem for ext ample. First our neighbor buys an inex; ; pensive car, and we must do likewise—on the installment plan. Then before it is paid for another friend invests in a_ six-. ‘cylinder machine, so in order to keep up appearances we must take another plunge, probably going him a little better. i It is the same with other things. We’ must have a better radio set than the family next door; better furniture; more stylish clothes. We must send our Mary to an expensive boarding school because ! Mrs. Jones is sending her Sally—-when | both would be as well or better off in the! home town high school. Then we must | give expénsive parties for which the Smiths | or Browns have set the pace. We must haye extensive vacation trips, when . we , might see as fine a collection of billboards | i And we wonder why wz: t hopelessly behind financially. | to say that at least one-third of the average family’s income is spent for | such gratification of vanity, beyond what would be necessary to live decently and comfortably. And by reasonable economy a lot of } people who can not or do not pay their | honest debts might be able to do so, and | thereby enjoy a satisfaction equal to that ' of “keeping up with the Joneses.” i A TAX OASIS | That the citizens of Nebraska are to, be envied, at least for their happy situa- tion regarding taxes and their state debt, is pointed out in an editorial in a recent | issue of the Chicago Journal ‘of Com- | merce. It states that in spite of the,almost nation-wide increase in both the kinds and | the amounts of taxes being levied, Ne- braska still has no state cigarette tax, no individual or corporation income tax, and no general retail sales tax. Furthermore, the general property tax for the state and all. its: subdivisions is only 44 million dollars for 1937, as com- pared with 66 million ten years ago. Also, | there.is no state bonded debt, and the | bonded debt of all the state’s subdivisions has been reduced from a total of 110 mil- lion in 1932 to approximately 79 million at present. Thus, as President W. L. Pierpont of | the Omaha Taxpayers’ Alssociation so apt- ly says: . “Nebraska remains an oasis in the taxation situation.” The reason for this highly favorable abe the alertness of! id_never-ceasing or- pected against waste | plus suppoxb{ to Here is a fine object lesson for the United States government and most of the other states of the Union. It will go un-} heeded, however, until the voters relegate | the wild tax spenders to private life. A KING'S SUGGESTION King Leopold, of Belgium, has sug- gested to Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland | that there should be an international or- ganization to solve world economic prob- lems. Can it be that the King has never heard of the American isolationists and that he, fails to understand how easily they | solve everything on a national basis? Is | this another scheme on the part of mon- archy in general to outmanoeuver demo- ; eracy and entangle it in some gathering where its prophets will lose face? | Seriously, however, there is merit to the suggestion even if many professional patriots in many of the nations will fear | to sit around a table and discuss problems \ | strong THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THIS WEEK-—150 YEARS AGO By RAYMOND PITCAIRN history. They introduoed the opening sen- tence of the preamble of a =— of the Constitution presented the Convention from its “Committee of Detail” when it reconvened on Aligust 6, after ten days recess. ‘There were many other phrases and in that preliminary ! draft which remain in the United States Constitution today. But there were also proposals which were amended in subsequent actions by the Convention. its many provisions, the branches. eg Executive power should be in one person known as “The Presi- dent of the United States of Ameri- ca,” with the title, “His Excellency.” He was to be chosen by Congress for a term of seven years, and to be ineligible for.té-election. There was no provision for a Vice-President. Legislative authority should reside in a composed of two branches, a Senate and a House of | Representatives, with powers to levy and collect taxes, to regulate com- merce with foreign nations and among the states, and various other duties more or less familiar today. ‘The upper branch, or Senate, should be chosen by the legislatures of the several states, posed of two le yersing | Sate. who would serve Apart from legislative di given authority to make treaties. POCO COR OEOORO OS OSOSEDASOSSOLSSOSELOSOOECOOEOES ‘Motorisms Any decent man is willing to; }to get by and then slow down.— give a woman driver half of the jroad if hz lnows which half she | wants.—Baltimore Sun, Presenting: Lilypons, Maryland, The disheartening thing about the appoint ambassadors and Judges of the Supreme Court, and to settle | Sienna Sees lower Representatives, should be composed of members chosen. by. the people every second year. All bills for | raising or appropriating money were to originate in the House of Repre- sentatives, which was also to have power of im- peachment. All acts of the Congress were to be in pursuance of the Constitu- tion, and ac- knowledged as every The Judicial Pierce Butler power was to be vested in one Su- preme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress should create. Judges were to hold office during good behavior. Prolonged debate followed sub- mission of the report. Beginning on August 7, it continued through many days. Probably the first serious dis- cussion. centered on the qualifications of electors who would vote for mem~ bers of the House of Representatives, Some members proposed limiting the vote to property-owners. Others fought to make it as broad as possible. “There is no right of which the people are more jealous than that of suffrage,” insisted Pierce Butler, of South Carolina. “The right of suffrage is certainly one of the fundamental articles of a republican government,” said James Madison, of Virginia. Ultimately it was agreed that electors in each state should have the same qualifications as “electors of the most numerous branch” of . | their state legislatures. Next Week: Building for Perma- Temperatures” Highest Lowest Mean Z Normal Mean. ig Rainfall* Yesterday’s Preeipitation Normal Precipitation ‘hin record covers 24-hour period ending at § o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun -tises Sun sets Moon rises 'Moon sets ...... Tomorrow’ 's » Tides A.M. High ES Low: .......+ Fe Barometer reading at 8 a. bey) Sea level, 30.00, Vthe WEATHER FORECAST : 4 (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednsday) Key West and V y: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, oce nal showers Wednesday; igentle to moderate variable winds, mostly northeasterly, with the | possibility of an occasional mod- erate squall. Fiorida: Partly sibly showers in east portion night; Wednesday cloudy, cloudy, pos- to- THE WEATHER . pressure . about hor low , northern Bah ocean to t! WEATHER CONDITIONS = : wea! was reported m. this morning over the Squally at 8 a. ma islands and the northeastward, with semewhat below normal} and evidence of the al ‘of a slight circulation with center 75 miles northeast of Nas- + sau, and apparenti - westwerd. The hi for have ween but 25 to} per hour. arees, prestre extending front jeentyal Canada southwestwcrd to jings of 100 to 104 degrees were ocea-| sional showers, squally along east | coast tonight and Wednesday, Jacksonville te Florida Straits: Moderate to fresh northerly winds near the coast possibly becoming and vatinbky, in passing squalls and fresh to strong south- easterly winds some distance off the coast; ‘Weather ‘mostly over- cast tonight and Wedneday with showers and possivly squal.s. East Gulf: ble winds, mostly northeast- partly overcast weather to- t and Wednesday, scattered showers Wednesday. heavy; Gentle to moderate | the Mexican border. Light to mod- | erate showers have ocetrred dur- ing the last 24 hours in Minne-| sota, the Lake Superior _region,| portions of fhe north gy States, Florida and Alabama. Tem-} perature changes have been gen-! erally slight ,and maximum read- | i reported yesterday in the central! and southern Plains States andj northern and central Texas. j S. KENNEDY, | Official in Charge SS eaaaeuwa — KEY WEST — COLONIAL HOTEL In theé'Center of the Business end Theater District —Popular Prices— First Class —Sensible Rates— Elevator Fireproof Garage A Service for Travelers 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 and $100, cost only 75c. for each $100 purchased. .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. much for the will power and 80} j little for the waistline.—Detroit! discussing News. PARAGRAPHS. 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Inner can No scrapping of $4.75 6.75 FITTED WITH $3.50 275 SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Street~ at i i A DID ID DMM. lashed out vehemently against the dent's proposal. If ever, men with in- dependent thought and expression are needed in the halis of Congress, it is now. The time for pussy-footers and coat-trail- ers is definitely over. Presi-} with anybody with an accent. The peace | of the world depends very often, upon} the ability of people to economic | problems and it seems sensible for those | } who want peace to give some thought and | j time to them THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve : Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation solve Phone 598 * > TF APAAALALALALAZAL LLL —— 4 VOOIIOOAIIIDS. GPOOLIGSL ILS