The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen cept Sunday By THE Crize PUBLISHING CO. INC. LL ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily momeenier, in aed West and Monroe Count Entered at Key “West, Florida as second class vasniceed FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press fhe 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. Six Months Three Months 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 10 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 a but it will not publish anonymous communi- extions, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. i Bridges to complete Road td Main- jand. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 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 utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. coamend good done by, individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate nd not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. To attain success, pick out a town where neatly everybody’ else is dumb. There are plenty of such places left; We read of a New York hotel where the service is so bad that the guests never noticed a three-day strike on the bellboys. - Free-wheeling politics is detrimental to the welfare of a community, especially when the political leader has his own sel- fish interests and not that of the com- munity at heart. “Mysterious Montague,” the. Pacific Coast super golfer, who played Bitig Cros- by 18 holes, using only a baseball hat, a shovel and a fake and beat him, has been arrested and accused of a 7-year-old rob- bery in New York. His defense may be that according to golfing rules he is en- titled to a “lift without penalty.” Mae West has in prospect the division, according to California law, of one half of her vast, wealth, with her husband, long forgotten Frank Wallace, his stage name. His real name, of all names, is Szatkus. So the glamorous Mae West is after all, Mrs. Frank Szatkus. Perhaps the disclosure of such a moniker hurts the pride of the voluptious movie star more than the prospect of losing half of her im- mense fortune. Great men often show little of feat when nearing death, and some retain their sense of humor until the end. While’’ at! death’s door Clémenceau;’'the French | statesman referred to as “The Tiger” | EARLY CONSERVATION There has been a great deal of at- tention given to conservation of natural resources during the past few years, and | many may be under the : impression that this movement is comparatively new. such is not the case. Someone has discovered in the records of the Massachusetts Colony a court or- | der mere than 300 years old, which di-! rected the conservation of timber. This order, dated Mareh 29, 1626, decreed as} follows: “That for the preventing of incon- veniencés as done and may befall the plantation by the want of timber, that no man of what condition soever sell or trans- port ‘any manner of works or frames for} howses, planks, bords, shaplos, boats, canoes or what so ever may tende to the destruction of timber aforesaid; how little | so ever the quantitie be; without the con- sent, approbation, and liking of the Gov- ernour and Counsell.” Commenting on this display of fore- sight by the early settlers of the Massa- chusetts Colony, the Atlanta Georgian says: “The early law may seem to have been entirely uncalled for, but the farm- ers were looking ahead decades and cen- turies. They were right, as time has proved, but ‘their descendants forgot the warning thus uttered by the fathers. and little by little wastage took the place of eareful use. Today great stretches of the country lie denuded of their forests. Every year there are felled enough trees to cover an area equal to all of Massachusetts, Con- necticut and New Jersey combined.” Many government § and private agencies are striving to check this de- pletion of our timber, and every citizen should lend his wholehearted support to the conservation movement. We should emulate the spirit of the pioneers of 300 years ago. TOLERANCE GROWING Most informed observers will agree that in recent years a growing spirit of religiocs tolerance has been manifested in the-world, especially in the United States. | It is not unusual to find Protestant, | Catholic and Jewish clergymen appearing: on the same platform in aid of some worthy movement. Not long ago representatives of these three great bodies of religionists united ie mass meetings and otherwise to protest against the persecution of Jews by the ‘Hitler regime in Germany. But an incident hitherto without pre- cedent occurred in Cincinnati, when Rabbi’ dames G. Heller of the Center Temple; Jewish congregation of that city was | elected a director of the Concinnati and Hamilton County Y. M. C. A. A Jewish official of a Christian welfare society! H And why not? Rabbi Heller, accord- ing to the Cincinnati Times-Star, ‘thas so identified himself with the community life of this city that it is quite impossible for uny unprejudiced observer to compile a list of, its cultural-and religious leaders without including this distinguished rabbi | among such leaders.” The Ohio Y. M. C. A. organization is to be congratulated on its religious toler- ance and good common sense. LOAFERS IN COLLEGE The growing idea that a large per- |} centage of young men now in college would be better off elsewhere was em- phasized by no less an authority than Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes, in an address at Brown University, from which he was! graduated in 1881. He roundly criticized the many} modern college activities which have noth- ing to do with education, and which at- tract the mental loafers whose only ambi- } tion _is to get by and obtain a diploma. Re- ferring te such a student Mr. Hughes said: “E, shouldetake him out at once and tell him te make his own way. Those who are } not a Sed to make good use of their, college S Would be better off else-| where.“ 1 Neither Mr. Hughes nor any other | sensible person would disparage the value | | But} | probably scattePedethur ers Wedresday~ andy, a ap THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s ‘Affairs A Court Fight in 1776 By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University, One hundred and sixty-one years ago this month a group of, patriots assembled in Philadelphia, where they affixed their signatures to a great document, It was the Declaration of Independence. They were men of high courage, for this act com- mitted them to a definite and complete break with all fa- miliar national and business ties, and with some of their closest friends. They knew their risk, and one of them re- marked at the time that henceforth they must hang together or ‘they would hang separately. Eleven years after the Declara- tion another group of patriots as- sembled again in Philadelphia, this time fof the drafting of a consti- on. It has become quite a fashion of ate to belittle their achievement, but against this contemptuous attitude we may set the considered Jadgment of Gladstone, ‘who’ said‘thet it 'was the greatest’ document ever struck.off by che mind and: purpose:of man: Next autumm we shaih celebrate thei one hundred .and: fiftieth anniversary of this;second great,achi of the, American people.inself-ga igRament. Que constitution is Beat beeaupe i established a government. by. prin- ciples and not by personal whims. Some of its autuors were also signers of the Declaration, and all of them were familiar with the abuses of per- scnal government that had led to the Revolution. They differed sharply in their views, but the result was ‘a re- markable plan for the assurance and preservation of the rights and the liberties of the individual. ‘As we approach the sesqui-centen- nial of the constitution, we may .well feel concern over: its future. It has no force and no effect, except as these are derived from universal acceptance of its principles by the people. It may net always authorize government to do anything and everything that person or group wants, but it is le instrument, in. that it has provided a way by which the people can add to or subtract from, the pow- ers which they desire government to exercise. Yet its limitations grow in- creasingly irksome to those who are unwilling to respect its terms, and who are equally unwilling to follow the method of change which the constitu- tion itself prescribes. Recently it has been necessary to use armed force to preserve public order in various places, While this is an effective way of keeping order, as all dictators know, it is the way most repugnant to the constitution and to the reign of law which it establishes. Worse than the local civil wars which have been brought on by a weak and biased governmental policy in the adjustment of the relations of labor and capital, however, is the at- tack on a great constitutional institu- tion, the Supreme Court. The com- promise bill for changing its member- ship is exactly that—a face-saving compromise. It is worse in some re- spects than the original, for it puts complete authority and discretion in the President’s hands to jockey the membership to suit the oceasion, Bad as they were, the original arguments for the plan have all been scrapped now, and the struggle in the Senate has resolved itself into a brawl be- tween those partisans who are fighting to keep from letting the President down and those who have enough con- eases and intelligence to see the real "The indictment of George III in the Declaration charges that he sought it}the’ establishment..of an absolute tyranny over the thirteen states. The facts in support of this charge are set out, and one statement in particular should be read and considered care- fully today by every citizen. It is the following: “He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their office and the amount and payment of their salaries.” The creation of a subservient and personally controlled judiciary is one of the steps in the erection of tyran- nical government. Granting that the immediate purpose of the dangerous measure now before the Senate may be political face-saving and not tyran- ny, will help us no more in the end than it did the fellow who was hit by a truck to have the right of way when the accident happened. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE WEATHER Temperatures* Highest —.....,.. 2.89 Lowest _... EAR és 4.80 Mean. .<....-—.. we 4 Normal Mean 84) Ra Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitation _.. “Thin rceord covers 24-hour ending af § o'clock thin motnli T.Ins | 13 Sn ‘Tomorrow's Almamad**!})') 5:59 a. plait 7:05 p. int. Moon rises 10:45 a. m. Moon sets 10:16 p,m Tomorrow's Tides Sun rises Sun sets P.M 1:06 8 Barometer jeldian at 8 a. m. Sea_levet, 99. WEATHER FORECAST (Ti Key Ws cloudy p. m., Wednesday) t and Vicinity: Partly ith seattered thunder- showers tonight and probably Wednesday; gentle to easterly winds. Florida: Partly oudy: southwest= ands coasts tonight, 7 oH Jacksonville to Flows and East Gulf: Moderate Sedocte winds over south portion and moderate southerly winds over; north portion; partly overcast | weather tonight and Wednesday; with scattered showers. { WEATHER CONDITIONS se, ea TUESDAY, AUGUST 10,.1937. eevcccvcoveccocossece syesseemsseres Sen encores TODAY IN HISTORY Today’s Horoscope cece Seccccsecccssres SOCSOHOHEOSOSOSOOOSOSSSEOO OOOO OOOSSESPOSSOOEEEES 1790—Capt. Robert Gray re- turned to Boston in ship “ Colum- bia,” having covered 42,000 miles in fur trading and achieving rec- ord of being the frst to carry flag of the United States round the world. 1821—Missouri admitted as the 24th State. 1846—Smithsonian Institution,| position to a Washington, D. C., incorporated. probably attaining success by rea- ‘Today’s nature may be stubborn, 1833—Chicago incorporated &S/ perhaps persevering, undoubt a village—population around 200. | vindictive. Fond of display ‘not easily forgetting injury, it shows a lifting from an obscure prominent one, son of sticking closely to what- ever is undertaken, and allowing 1871—A National Labor (Con-/ nothing to turn the mind away gress met in St. Louis. ‘from it. 93977 we pn ee whether in a ‘That ix why ing first choice women all over it beer at its LS aged, and brew- extreme care in New York's most it modernly equipped brewery. One glass of Horten Beer and you will never drink any- thing else. hold in ns, steinies, in The well-know; the exclusive wholesale dist Wert. | Pressure is ‘moderately high this} ’ morning over southeastern dis- | triets, the far Northwest, and por- | tions of the Lake region; while ‘moderate, low, pressure areas, cen- tered ovet, ithe ‘upper Ohio Valley ed: ghd southern’ Roekles; oversprea ther sections of the country. ia moderate showers and phithiterstorms have occurred sined | yesterday morning from the Ohio | Valley southward over the South | Atlantic and East Gulf/States, in {the upper Mississippi Walley, ex- treme eastern Lake region, and southern N« England. There {have also been widely?) scattered | light showers in western Temperatures continue dbnormally ‘high throughout most-of-the Plains States, and maximum r¢ dings of '102 to 106 degrees we ; yesterday in the southern Plains and northern Texas. ewhere temperatures are generally sea- sonable. i G. S. 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