The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published “Da xcept Sunday By THE CITIZEN LISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALL Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets wspaper in Key West and Morroe County. Only Daily » Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIPTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated 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 .... . ‘ z Six Months Three Months One Month ADVERTIS! 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 @ revenue 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- estions. Relief is easier started than stopped, but so is revolution. \ Relief is supplied by relieving the tax- payer of some of his cash. A government that awards its voters by awards is carving for itself an arduous task. Peace will be assured in the world when there is enough force for peace and less wishing for peace. If the Japs and the Chinks keep on fighting for a few more decades, they might gradually acquire a Christian civil- ization. SwaHow-tail coats, it is said, were in- vented to hide the patches in the pants. Quite plausible, since necessity is the mother of invention. « One of the local golfers, evidently envious, says that another player made his best shot this week with his eyes shut. Always belittlin’. Using our gold to strengthen the fi- nances of other governments is nota bad idea; with half of the world’s gold supply in our vaults it will pay us to.keep other ‘nations interested in gold. :* Japanese are threatening the salmon fishing and canning industry in Alaska, and so Leo Sturgeon has ‘been assigned to look into the situation. A Sturgeon should know something about fish. We suggest that the late-sleepers of Key West get up early one morning and enjoy the sunrise. Look East, young man, ‘look East, but don’t stay up all night to have a look at the rising sun. Mussolini says that Uncle Sam is in- duiging in a pipe dream if he ever thinks of getting back the money loaned during the world war. He is right but the lesson we learned is worth. the price paid. It is reported that a alias in Robert Taylor's new seven-year movie contract does not permit him to marry until the contract expires. Handsome Bob has’ a long time to wait before he gets on the legitimate stage. Our idea of caution in reporting is the dispatch, sent out 17 days after Amelia Earhart disappeared, telling the world that navy officers “advanced” a “theory” that she had perished on her long flight over the Pacific. The world that hailed nations fighting because they * ‘guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium 5 about the nations that although they guaranteed the and integrity of C So the government is going to add the science of self-defense to the curriculum. Rather gracious on its part, because for neutrality the government itcelf, after we ‘| organized for effective resistance to Jap- | cc the; science may be used in self-defense against | CHINA MUST SAVE HERSELF The outbreak of rea] fighting between | Chinese and Japanese troops, brought | about by attempts of the latter to takei possession of Chinese cities, starts a strug- | gle that may last much longer than most | of us think, with more important develop- ments to take piace later on. Sympathy of the world, generally, we | would say is with the Chinese but even! these venerable people have discovered d Meats world sympathy will not win battles. y know now that the freedom of China! rests upon the fighting ability of the | Cliinese soldier and that nothing but the exertion of China will prevent the Jap-| anese from mastering the entire country. “There is, at least, a small lesson for pacifists in the present situation. No one, ' so far as we know, accused the Chinese of | attempting to invade Japan or infringe upon the sovereignty of the island em- | pire. The Chinese, as a matter of fact, ' have taken a steady drubbing from the | little brown soldiers for years and the Jap- anese have steadily encroached upon the territory of China. Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of China, is an extremely able man and it is pos- sible that his millions of people have ‘been eg { anese might. The price to be paid, how- ever, will be heavy loss of life but there is this to be said, Japan cannot afford to | squander too much national strength in a long drawn-out struggle in China. If the‘ Chinese continue their resistance, even in the face of major defeats, the Japanese will, in the end, lose the war. The attitude of the United States to this new warfare, by virtue of the neu- trality act, will be to cut herself, off from trading relations except under conditions that will favor Japan. This, we do not be- lieve, will have the support of the people of the nation, regardless of the fervor with which certain Congressmen pressed for neutrality legislation. The Japanese, it is said, outside powers might attempt to exert some pressure in the Far East. They sus- pect the British. Later, they will probably | suspect the United States. Meanwhile, they count on the trouble in Spain to keep European/nations busy and America’s aver- sion to war to keep us out of the struggle. fear that SPEAKING OF—(AHEM!)—LEGS For'a number of years the citizens of this republic have been leg conscious as stage, sereen and bathing beauties have vied with each other for the privilege of establishing by~patent display the right of | owning the “most beautiful” legs of the land. We have endured the competition with some fortitude, including the danger } of lost eyesight from overstrain, and with the general conclusion that American fe- males, so far as we could judge, had the right to stand on their own legs without hiding them from any competition. Now comes our former ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, to begin to boast about the leg of the American male, as displaeyd in knee breeches at the British coronation, “The Americans showed a fine set of legs,” he declared. “There wasn’t a knocking knee or bandy-leg in the whole outfit.” This is a new field in the study of legology, so far as we are concerned, and we are not yet prepared to admit that the former ambassador has any just cause for jubilation inasmuch as he may have, by chance, come across a better-than-average set of male legs. While there may be something of heauty in the male leg we } are inclined, for the present, to pass them by; we have other matters to look after. DECLARING WAR ON CANCER To further research into the causes of Cancer and to coordinate the efforts of | these fighting the disease the Congress has } appropriated $750,000 for a building in Washington to house a cancer institute | and $700,000 a year for research work to | be directed by an advisory council, ‘to be | composed of six doctors and scientists. While this may be the beginning | other enterprises of like nature and thus the start of additional expenses on the part } of government we do not believe that many people will object to it. In fact, the example might be followed with profit, i of | } | that guides i | High You and Your Nation’s Affairs The Unwritten Constitution By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University We have both a written and an un- written constitution. Our unwritten constitution is over and above the written constitution. The written con- stitution repre- sents an at- tempt of the foundets of our government to express the un- written consti- tution in con- crete form. The written form may or may not represent the unwritten real- ity; the written constitution either b ry amendment by judicial te terpretation | may be made antagonistic to the un- written constitution. The unwritten ccnstitution Is the | court of final appeal. Governments may change and repudiate the writ- ten constitution, But no government can overthrow or change radically the constitution written in the hearts of the people by centuries of strug- gle for the inalienable rights of bu- man freedom. It is this... pave. _faneeivation Te- lationships maid eae id in~ spires’ Shite ito" ‘A bitter end any government that igen to de- pe ae their sovereign free- lom. in dir Each citizen is eis teter of the unwritten: Cd fied ‘and his attitude of antagonism ,to,.amy2med- sure that would deprive him of his inalienable rights cannot be changed by laws and judicial decisions. No other man has expressed the nature of this unwritten constitution so well as Jefferson: “Men are en- dowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights—that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . . . that to secure these, governments are instituted, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of their end, it is the right of the people to alte: or abolish it.” The unwritten constitution puts (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) the government the respon- sibility of protecting the individual the exercise of all of his inalienable Tait of brestonn: and puts upon the citizen the responsibility of chang- ing or abolishing any form of govern- ment that inspires or permit. en- a Prohibition was adopteu as a part of the written constitution, and hence had all three of the government behind it But it failed miserably because it was not in ac- cord with the unwritten constitution. Whether right or wrong, men in great numbers had a conviction that prohibition was an unwarranted tres- pass of the government over the in- alienable rights of the citizen. The result was that the law was repu- diated, ignored, circumvented, and made ineffective. This is the natural and logical consequence of any law in this country that is antagonistic to the unwritten constitution. The Wagner law, it is believed, will meet that antagonism and militant resistance that always arises from the unwritten constitution when th. gov- ernment sréks io deprive men of their Inaienable rights. This antago- nism works slowly, but it works ef- fectively. ‘The right to work is a fundamen- tal, human right under the unwritten constitution. No government has the right to close the doorsofemployment to-American citizens. The right of the citizen to go on the upen market and, under conditions of freedom of con- tract, sell his services or buy the ser- Vices of others, without “let or hin- drance” from any source, is as old as Anglo-Saxon civilization. The Wag- ner law repudiates this right. The “labor boss” from the outside is given the exclusive right of opening and closing the doors of employment to American citizens. The consent of the “labor boss” mugt be obtained before a worker is permitted to earn his bread in the sweat of his face. This un-American law, it “is be- lieved, will be met by violent oppo- sition on a thousand-fields, and in the end will go the way of all other at- tempts to rob American vitizens of their inalienable rights. THE WEATHER Temperatures* Hjghest Si Lowest Mean Normal Mean 84 84 Yesterday's Precipitation Norma! Precipitation .. “This record covers 24-1 ending at N welock thix me Tom 's Almanac Sun rises - 5:57 a.’m. Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets New moon, 6th .... Tomorrow's Tides A.M. ~~ 9:22 Low a 2:29 Barometer reading at 8 a. m. Sea level, 29.98. WEATHEr FORECAST (Til 7 130 | p, m., Friday) Key West and Vic! y: Partly, cloudy tonight and Friday, pos- sibly showers Friday; gentle to moderate variable winds. florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, possibly scattered showers in extreme south portign |» and near west coast Friday. period jand East Gulf: Gentle’ ate variable , winds; ‘and overcast, weather tonight Friday, scattered showers Frid; lagi WEATHER. CONDITION: The slight Atlantic disturbance was central this 175 miles east of Charleston, S. C., moving northward by fresh to moderately strong morning about: attended | {wnids. Indications are’ that the noon or early without j damaging winds. Pressure is stil] relatively nice lover most of the eastern half the country, and the far North- (west; while low pressure ; areas |centered over mid-western Can-} ada and’ soutliwasteiin, districts | e read \the J in in States.. it to mod- tonight id Rocky { havéiloccurred during the last 24 hours from the middle Mississippi Valley northeastward over the Ohio Valley and portions of the jlower Lake region. There have also been scattered showers in North Carolina, Alaba‘ Tennes- see, T¢xas and northeastern Flor- ii Jacksonville reporting a heavy rainfall of 2.75 inches. Tempera- tures are generally seasonable ‘throughout the country this morn- ing, but day temperatures of 100 | to 106 degrees were reported yes- terday in Oklahoma and northern jand central Texa: a Today s Horoscope e000 | Today's nature is warm-heart- ‘od, bet phy; freeminded but too sensitive. The character is stead- ‘ast aiid somewhat independent, and if tis letter trait is not accen- usted too freely, the indications promise a quiet, successful life, after some siorms of illness or ‘fate have passed over, There is also good Iuck promised in mar- ried life. A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a jour ney our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. These Cheques, issu nations of $10, $20, $50 ed in convenient denomi- 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. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve tments of | showers and ae KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Opposition of one person to THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1937.) ‘girl shot her jafter the wedding, probably ‘hav- Of The Citizen Porter said that if it is huaaaly| 4 {passed unless they bear the OK of some member of the board. A’ French husband the . day Editorial comment: ing in mind the slogan “Eventually | Why Not Now”? Mr. and Mrs. N Mariel Bradley jthe Key West’s drydock is hold- possible the boulevard should be of 624 Margaret street, announce ing up the proposition. Ted Bailey went before the war department when a hearing was held here} some time ago and protested | against the improvement. The protest was entered in the name of a relative who is a non-resident of Key West. He said this rel- ative had telegraphed him to en- ter the protest. This was the only voice raised against giving the pro- posers of the drydock the right to start construction. On this pro- test and this alone the war de- partment is holding up the permit for the construction to begin. Captain Clark D. Stearns said this morning that the permission was withheld on the protest of a non-resident property holder, but there are several other matters, including the proposed ‘abatement of taxes which will have to be gone into before the situation is | clarified. A communication from the Chamber of Commerce stating that 90 pe reent of the member-_ ship had voted for the extension of the boulevard, from its ter- minus now, to White street, was read at a meeting of the city council last night. No discussion was offered on the matter and the letter was ordered filed for fur-, ther reference. | | Monroe county water are in receipt of a telegram from} Neil Scroggins, at Oklahoma City, extended at the present time. | ' County commissioners are up| in arms about indiscriminate buy-; ing of supplies by.“ county), offi- cials. Audit of bills out-of which’ grey a’ Het @iseussion_ took: Bp, 80) much time of the commissioners’ last night that it was decided to set aside practically all other busifiess until the commissioners met in. adjourned sesion this morning. A bill of $40 for five; copies of the new Key West di-! rectory, another for several bar-| rels of disinfectant and a third, for $61.25 for 2,000 engraved: letterheads and envelopes aroused; the ire of the commissioners, No one seemed to know who placed the orders and it was decided that from this time on no bills will be | trustees | | }Stating that he is getting together! jhis equipment for [ss water at Key West. [sa that he is going first to, Pittsburgh for some of the equip-} ment, will take a short vacation’ and then come to Key .West to} start operations. The trustees! held their regular monthly meet-! ¢ ing this morning and it was stated} that several other propositions! from reliable firms have been re-| ceived. They express faith in’ Mr. Scroggins. County commissioners did reach} a definite conclusion about ex-} j tending the boulevard to White’ 5 center will pass over or near the’ street at their meeting this morn-| North Carolina Capes this after- ing. The entire board was ap- pointed a committee to meet witb | the city council in special meeting} early next week and see if ong for the proposed extension not be made immediately _ afte: os work is finished under the) eres | FIPPILC LLL LLL SON-SEABREEZE”. TRACTIVE AND EFFICIENT. LOW PRICED— metal. Gears enclosi THE NEW WW” “EMERSON-SEA- BREEZE” OSCILLATOR WITH ADJUSTABLE FLOOR STAND. CAN BE EASILY RAISED JR LOWERED TO DESIRED LEVEL $14.00 8” NON-OSCILLATING “EMER- $3.50 4 QUARTS 6 QUARTS drilling for} He! Alka-Seltzer contract. Commissioner |, NO NEED TO TOLERATE SCORCHING, SIZZLING DAYS, OR SWELTERING NIGHTS. KEEP COOL WITH AN “EMERSON-SEABREEZE” VERY AT- 90. ed—cannot slip. STONEWARE WATER COOLERS WHITE BARREL SHAPED COOLERS WITH RAISED DECORATIONS IN BLUE GLAZED «INSIDE AND OUT; FITTED WITH NICKEL PLATED LEVER FAUCET — REDUCED PRICES — 3 GALLONS _ SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING C0. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” 10” OSCILLATOR SEABREEZE” LATING RANGES OF 40 TO ENCLOSED. OSCILLATING GEARS. EACH— $9.00 OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING COOL — ICECREAM FREEZERS Made of heavy thick wood tubs—waterproof construction. rustproof metal with hardwood scrapers on dashers. No scrapping of - 4.75 $3.50 the birth yesterday of a som {Mother and child are reported a8 | doing nicely. FLOPPED FROM STAND BALTIMORE. — A 30-pound carp: flopped from a fish stand in |a market: in this city and bit Mrs. Tiftie Levy on the ankle. — KEY WEST — COLONIAL HOTEL In the Center c‘ the Business and Theater District —Popular Prices— First Class Fireproof —Sensible Rates— Garage Elevator MT. FAN— “EMERSON WITH OSCIL- Inner can 6.75 2.75 recover | both to the government and the people of | legis: | the United States, in the battle against | other diseases. | Member of the Federal Deposit Insurenrc= Corperaticn consciousness from the blow of lation. its Setrebietn nent innamnaneenennacgeanice White and Eliza Streets Phone 598 MII P TO COLI LLL eee sd