The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1937, Page 2

“PAGE ee The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INC. Pe ‘TMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and.Ann Streets Onty Daily Newspaper oad ead West and Monroe Cou Entered at K mara “as second class spatter ¥ IFTY-SIXTH Y EgR HOW TC HANDLE DICTATORS ~ When .people are organized by dicta- tors the liberties of citizens are surrender- ed and the nation is geared to military pre- cision. The people willingly give up their liberties, after a minority is ruthlessly bat- tered, because of the condition into which You and Your | Nation’s Affairs | g From The Files Of The Citizen Johnny Cates left this morning on the Governor Cobb for Havana where, he has been informed, his KEY WEST IN N DAYS GONE BY Meek Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 193% — | his get away. The boat was have been sold at noon s etiaae the sale other sal Os tee of ree te ak so destroyed this morning. ; The two safes ordered for the |office of the city tax collector thing on which the permit has and the officeof the city clerk been held up, it is understood. is impossible to say just how many} ment was made by City Auditer It| Will cost $1,521. This announce Regrettable Chivalry’ By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University. days it will be before the war de-| Roberts at the meeting of cou partment will act, said Captain/ last night. He also inform: lwas said to have been picked up Stearns, but because high officials council that bids must be call about 30 miles from the city of in::Washingtow ‘have taken an in: | on all purchases of more Mat sod West. The-vessel, which an- terest in the ptoposed dock, it is| $100. -A motion was carried ith tion ee Mr, Cates’ thought their actidn will be made | structing the clerk to call for “4 ‘up last evident, Lari early date. to <P the ——— font Re-| aR ivi sponging vessel, lost for more than one week, has been found. It the people find themselyes and because they are easily deluded into believing that | Mr. Dictator can accomplish miracles. The gily.man, who: jahows, what a dic- | ion'has been raised by the Treasury ‘Tiator-led pedple will: attempt:is the’ boss | ruling on the taxable e status of the ‘ine rived Bie Pi 0 PINE: the-only..man who has} eS tea radio making is broadcasts, The ‘Member of the Associated Press Whe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication éf all news dispatches credited to +4 or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. , se Phactay sy cya Te’ was® found Gaited’ officers this morning! contract speci- fied a cert in ° RIPTION RATES One-¥ear ......... >Six Months .... -Three Months “One Month Weekly .. - ADVERTISING ‘RATES * Made known on Spplication. SPECIAL NOTICE = Ail reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | afespect, obituary notices, ete, 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 publisn anonymous communi- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN iad F440, ¢ Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and. Sea. Consolidation, of County and City Governments. 5. . 1,,.Water and Sewerage. i )-Bridges,to complete Road to Main- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to 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 ytmost for the public welfare ;-never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. commend B90d., done by individual or prgan: ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views ‘and : opinions; print only news that will elevate | and not-¢ontaminate ‘the reader; never com- promise with’ principle. /*-A museum oddity. of the future may be an old fellow who was never on the public payroll. Suggestion to readers who inherit a «million dollars:- Turn it, over to the tax Scollector quick, . A Senator says Uncle Sam must re- = duce expenses or increase taxes. So get “out the old wallet again, An exchange says it is a sign of old age when a fellow begins telling how far he u8é@t6'Wailk to school through the Stfidtor Bilbo’s vote would have |' elgettti»his colleague, Pat Harrison, as {Senate leader. But Bilbo got more pub- ow. ‘licity by voting the other way. L.PRrey POCA ER Se wETE oe aolere Now that prohibition is no more in effect and we have something to put into the cup won by the America, some 80 years: ago, Challenger Sopwith wants to take it away from us, Originally, the America cup _ cost about $500. At present it is below $50, but $5 above its value in 1934, when Sop- with was also then the challenger, and jokingly’ he avers that this increased price is the incentive for the second challenge. 6 — Colonel Fulgencio Batista, pupa) small time dictator, has the little island completely under his thumb. He Bas» the’ ‘largest armed force in the histogy ef. the republic, a controlled press and a submis- sive president and congress. But, like all dictators, he will eventually abuse his self- } assumed powers, and then rebellion will follow quickly. Already, there is a small } group of courageous congressmen clandes- | tinely opposing him, though one congress- man has openly declared Batista’s control | to be “a form of tropical fascism incom-j patible with democracy.” meg Fo and profitable, list é wen 8 ra the er gove: a he is paras by several Things but chiefly by the talk and discussion and division of the citizens, which easily leads him to believe that his organized, goose-stepping citizens can take the measure of the democracy before its citizens wake up and fight. History has shown that sometimes the dictators are right and that when they are wrong it has been because freedom-loving people have voluntarily and for a limited period surrendered freedom for efficiency in order to maintain their independence, There is one way, howeyer, for demo- cratic. natiohs to avoid the surrender of their freedom, even to meet the threat df dictator-led gations. -All-that they*have do is to mak common cause gf their fr dom and to defend it against aj] encroacli- ments from the dictators. It is doubtful whether the “pedple of the democratic countries, will have sense enough to understand this until it,is too late. The people of each democracy wil] continue to believe that it can take care of its own future without help from any- body anywhere and the lesson’ will be learned at a much higher cost, and with much greater danger,’ a little later on. LET’S HOLD .TO “FREEDOM” The pees ‘“absolute freedom of the. press” says Cardinal Villeneuve, of Quebec, Canada, accords thé license “to teach all error, gossip all calumny and provide revolutionaries with’a means to} F sing the benefits of revolution.” ’ The only defense against the teach- jing of pea 2 the teaghing ef truth. Po prevent the gossip of calumny it is mainly necessary that individuals abstain from its practice and to avoid evil from the singing of the benefits of revolution it is only necessary to make real the virtues of ex- isting government. We are not among those who believe that the newspapers of the world, and of this countty, have never abused:their free. dom. There have been many cases where the press has gone too far and some_ in- starices where it has not gone far enough. However, what the world needs today is not supression but enlarged freedom. Let the false prophets proclaim their own conclusions, Intelligent people -know the answer and nbed not be protected by a barrier raised by those who are just as apt to be in error as in the right. To per- mit any power to prevent the exercise of free speech, free press and fréé*worship— inalienable rights of a free Péople—is to deliver the progress of a peaple-inty the hands of a few. oM The fear that “liberty of)the'press in modern society” grants newspaper mep “the opportunity to poison as well as falsify public opinion’ is shared by some im- portant personages, notably Hitler, Mus- solini, Stalin and others. However, be it said for the press, it is dot the only agency that has been guilty, at times, of falsifying public opinion or of poisoning the minds of men, as well. CIVILIZATION A LA MUSSOLINI Civilization in, Italy, under the Mus- , hag GreatHed) the stage " prohibits any newspaper pages in arcity of import at high real reason is that Italy has cut herself apart from other peoples and is attempt- ing to be economically self-sufficient. We are not prepared to argue that a 24-page newspaper is necessarily better, for a reader than a 8-page edition but inj Italy, where the government tells the edi- | tors what to say and when to say it, there is reason to believe that even. an eight- page newspaper is a waste of cellulose, tracted to be paid was as- signed toa charitable or- ganization. | : When this ar- rangement was made the Trea- sury was con- sulted on the question whether such income should | J: Mrs. be included with Roosevelt's other income, and the officials con- cerned, including the general counsel for the department, Mr. Robert Jack- ‘son, advised her to omit these re- ceipts. As Mr. Jackson put it in a peesegc ed 134 the ax ¢ rasion commit- ity. Taxpayer confidence stroyed more quickly by: #vidence, or even by suggestion, of favoritism and plan was devised to avoid || of reporting income given to charity. raets pa rls tion and Sesigeiee hese ont of the net i performance evei. sea instant, in the individual Derformers whose draw-the, crawd: In the present case there was.a clear title to the income, under the contract, even if there was no actual possession or. use of it * The subject is technical and it Is possible that the. courts would event- ually sustain the Treasury's construc- tion of such a contractual arr ment, Yet the opinion given by Jacks«- and his colleagues eee a bad flavor and it would have been far bet- ter had they advised Mrs. Roosevelt to follow the law by reporting these Yet this is not so very muth trouble, for it means simply 8 different figure on one line and an entry in another line, of the return. Whether the grrangemelit dif ta did in fact lead to less tax on the remainder of the personal income in: this ticular case is beside the point. administration is now publicizing various devices la — egg “api have sought to ers ir tax. so prominent a son as the President’s wife should have been a party to a device, the only effect of which could have been to lessen her tax, is therefore highly regrettable. We agree with Mr. Jackson that the fault lies primarily with the Sg sury, which does not customarily dis- play so much chivalry ififits dealings with ordinary taxpayers, Greater di- '}day fér gupplies, left this moin-| schooner, ; AICI Hs tr. for..Ha- seized some time ago when the| vana. mond Sunday. The start promptly at 3:30 o'clock. Both of these teams have been) materially strengthened and it is predicted by advocates of each team that a good game is ex- pected with each side winning. ‘Editorial comment: Always race with locomotives to cross ings, is the advice to motorists to keep from growing old. Engineers like it; it breaks the monotony of their jobs. dohem s ‘"De8tfoyers Maury and Matuin, Which put into this port Wednes-| ing for the regular summer cruise | in Cian waters. ‘Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Phelan, of 1118 Watson street announce the birth, yesterday, of a daughter. Before her marriage Mrs. Phelan was Miss Edna Dexter of this city. Mother and daughter are’ reported as resting well. | Victor Jones, brother of Dr.! Harry N. S. Jones, and a son of| Mrs. John Peterson, of Margaret| street, died 1 o’clock this after-| Four round trips weekly direct betwee aad and Key West via Diesel. Power Boats—with over- night delivery to Key West. Leave Miami at 12:00 o'clock noon on Mon- day, Tuesda: to meee yoo eh ‘ofsponge on destroyed 1,734 bottles of beer} board) whem tiedDelfinay a fishing and 80 quarts of the liquors’ Motorboat V-15280 was cantured| | by Boatswain Johnson of the coast ‘The Pirates will meet the Am- guard at which time the captain erican Stars on the barracks dia- hopped on the dock from the deck game wil} of the smuggling vessel and made Liquid - Teblets Salve-Nose Drops _ Headache 30 minsted, Try “Rub-My-Tism”-World’s Best Liniment ‘ | TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST‘ Also Serving ‘All Points on Florida’ Ke at wrt wot won wists {fs y, Thursday and Friday. Leave Key West at 8:00 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. cepsepieeileitllipiralivicinatijages Three round trips weekly via Trucks and Boat: Leave Key West at 8:00 o’clock A, M. on receipts as part of her income and | rectness would have been,the greater then taking the 15 per cent deduction | kindness in this case. { | (Address questions to th€author core si this newspaper) — {Cape Hatteras attended by squalls THE WEATHER 86. Pressure is sill relatively, high lover the eastern portion of‘ the country; while areas of low pres- sure, centered over mid-western Canada and southwestern districts, * “Temperatures” f Highest 91 Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainf Yesterday's Precipitation Norma! « Precipitation *Thin record covers 24-hour period ending at § o'clock thin uunderstorms have occurred the last 24 hours from thi Mississippi and‘ lower Ohi: valkeys southward into the East} }Gulf States and ee Ashe- | ville, N. C., reporting heavy ‘rainfall of 1.64 inches. ‘there have jalso been light to modetate scat- tered showers in eastern North Carolina, northern Florida, Texas and on the coast of Washington. pie meee j Temperatures have risen in the (U1 7:30 p. m., day) | northern Rocky Mountain States; Key West and Vicinity: Partly; while elsewhere changes have cloudy tonight and Saturday, | been slight. Maximum tempera- possibly showers Saturday; gentle tures of 102 to 106 degrees were ‘ reported yesterday from: northern to modgrate winds, mostly south-/ roxas northward into Sétth Da- vast and south. kota. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight ; and Saturday, widely séattered thundershowers pecan ‘after- noon, Jacksonville. to°Bloridailbrdite| "°C Y- and East Gulf: Gentle to’ mpd- erate mostly southecst and winds and partly overcast weath- STAR MM BRAND er tonight und Saturday with a few scattered showers Saturday. Cc U B A N ¢€ 0 F F E E WEATHER CONDITIONS to Deliciously Freeh! —— —TRY IT TODAY— The slight Atlantic disturb- On Sale At All Grocers ance is centered this morning off Sun sets .. Moon rises Moon sets 10: AT 4:30; at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 30.02. WEATHER FORECAST G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge Subscribe to The Se 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 Ant- 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 9; i Member of the Federal Deposit Insuraf@: \ 4 noon. 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