The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 17, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO . Che Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. __ Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter = if the fat ones are seeking adoration that’s | ject in mind, or without suggesting that the place for them,—since avoirdupois is this has not been done in Key West, the : ; : 3 3 5 ; : ; : : ; : ; ; : ; : ; : FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member ef the Associated Press The 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 —_ oeceoess - “Six Months ........... Three Months One Month Weekly .... $10.00 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ! ment is called upon to come to the rescue respect, obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at the rate of i0 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a 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- cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST a 2 ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN i 1,,,.Water and_ Sewerage. 2, »Bridges,to,. complete Road to Main- sai 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 figlt 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. commend 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 trouble with John L. Lewis ap- leaders. In Turkey fat women are adored, so taboo in this country. There are chiselers in every line, and initely align:school work with the world one *fhetwarst'is the fellow who bor- rows his neighbor’s paper. gad haventold us so. a‘ . pense of raising her A New York judge has ruled that a wife, with a job, must pay part of the ex- children, That is what might be called the recognition of equal rights for women. Add critical moments: man says out loud, “I'm getting so fat,” and then pauses for someone to swear that she is not getting fat when everybody knows darn well that she is getting fat- ter. It's entirely too hot for anyone to go to the trouble to borrow The Citizen from | their profession, his neighbor; he should conserve his health by subscribing to the paper, and at the same time porforming a civic duty as well as keeping the neighbor's friendship. What are the nations that have ex- ercised great influence on the world? The answer is, “those which possessed great power and the will to use it on other na- tions.” For example England formerly, and recently Italy and Japan. are the result. siveness she had more than point of war. 500 gain and in that day agriculture will share pears to be that he swelled up too rapidly. | communities, the character of Another quaint Soviet idea is that the| have in the public schools. country can be best served by murdering | instructors are not unduly rewarded its most experienced generals and other | nancially for their work but, with rare ex- We know he is| New subject$ should be incorporated into an aggPAVatioit*bédause so many neigh-| the year’s calendar in order that the grow- When a wo-| enough to handle their money and other But wars/ expecting During England’s aggres-| who may be expected to vote bigger and | a hundred/| better appropriations for veterans, farm- | wars of varying proportions, and Italy and! ers, laborers, post offices, new buildings, | Japan are always either at war, or on the) creek dredging, and anything j any group of voters want, | read in the hewspapers ABOUT FARM PROSPERITY We believe that most people will agree that prosperity on American farms in the years that have past was dependent upon adequate foreign markets for the surplus yields of our broad acres. Since the end of the World War, how- ever, the other nations have followed a self-sufficiency ideal for agriculture and! most of them now seek to, guarantee their own hecessary food supplies ‘from the products of their own land. é This attitude is the result of fear, in part, and will be moderated when the war scares-die down.As-more.normal. trade restores a more even prosperity to the world the commerce of all nations will the advance, Meanwhile, in the United States farm- ers are faced with surpluses that cannot be sold at reasonable profits and the govern- of the agriculturalists. Much dispute has been engaged in as to the proper means of aiding the tiller of the soil but little time has been wasted upon debating the neces- sity for the assistance. Until foreign demand for our crops improves there seems to be no alternative but crop cofitrol if we expect our agri- cultural popplation to avoid a pauper ex- istence. Nafurally we incline to favor, en- tire freedom of planting for every farmer but so long as he must sell in a world where there is not freedom of commerce the farmer must also seek protection. The tariff certainly blocks the flow of trade into any nation and gives aid to indus- tries and it is nothing but right that gov- ernments should give substantial assistance to farmers. SCHOOLS OPENING AGAIN Schools will soon open again in the United States and millions of children will pursue their studies in the hope of being educated. The basic idea behind education in the old days was that it helped a man or woman “get along in life.” Education as an end in itself was not the goal but rather education was a means to a more successful life. ~ It will be well for school boards and school men to remember this as they plan the school work. Teachers everywhere have great re- sponsibility as they contact the young peo- ple who study under them and are obliged to obey them. More than ever, in many the boys} and girls depends upon the teachers they Most of the fi- } ceptions, they take a great interest ini the welfare of their pupils. Without having any particular sub- school officials should constantly seek to make instruction more practical and def- in which the pupils will eventually live. ing child i come out of school» up-to- date, at least. WHAT AN IDEA! Well, folks, we have been gradually working up an opinion that the financiers of the nation were intelligent men, smart people’s money, besides. Of course, the banker and genius took a terrific wallop during depression and it has been a long, slow pull for them to get back to the place where they, at least, have an opportunity | of making a name for themselves and money the | Just about the time that we had con- ‘Ulitted that, after Wil tHETe THASE’ Be" some- } thing to the way the bankers make money | out of other people’s coin we happen to that a Boston | banker, anxious for economy in govern- mental affairs, demands that the Con- gress “resume contro] of the purse-strings | of the nation!” That ended the bankers! economy from The idea of Congressmen, , i else that | You an Nation’s d Your Affairs Back Where We Were? By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Political and Social Science There has been another financial crisis in France. The Treasury is fac- ing a huge deficit. The French mone- tary unit, the franc, which has for a number of months been worth about 445 cents fell in July to less than 3.84 cents. What it will be worth at the time this is printed no one can say but it is probable that the quotation will be less than four cents. This suggests anumber of comments. Only six years ago the British pound was quoted at about $4.86. the French franc at 3.91 zents and the Italian lira at 5.26 cents. In the interval the price of the pound n United States money has ranged vetween $3.50 and $5.02, the French franc has been up to 6.58 cents, and ‘he Italian lira has fluctuated similar- ly. After years of wild gyrations they are back to where they, were. Foreign exchange analysis is highly technical and only: the ignorant or the rash or the ablest of experts will tisk emphatie statements about it. But all of us can pt rly wonger just what has been gained by these extreme changer of the last-few years. One after another the various govern- ments concerned have done what they thought best under the citcumstances. Now we seem to be back where we started. But are we? In the interval several things have happened. They are not entirely due to this monetary manip- ulation but attempts at monetary con- trol have played their part. First to be noticed is that these fluctuations in foreign exchange have caused great uncertainty in foreign buying and selling. Each of the ups and downs, for example in the quotation for the pound, has either encouraged or discouraged the sale of American goods to buyers who paid for, them with pounds. The net result has been that foreign trade has lacked ¢er- tainty and any gains that have oc- curred have been more than offset by losses. The foreign trade of all coun- tries has suffered. be A second result follows from the way in which the controls have been managed. In all countries the ¢ur- rencies have been devalued. In the United States the amount of gold in the dollar was reduced by about 40 per cent. The French and the British have not up to the present made clear the exact extent of their devaluation from the amounts of six years ago but the present quotations suggest a similar amount, The situation in Italy is harder to interpret. This has not been an abandonment ofthe gold standard. No responsible official in any of the countries has said that there will not be a continuance of some relationship between gold and currency. Instead there has been an actual or practical reduction in the gold unit of each country. Third is the basis that has been laid everywhere for an extreme rise in prices. This is especially clear in France, Great Britain and the United States. Again it must be emphasized that not all of this is due to monetary manipulation. But much ‘of it is. In each of these countries there is now deep concern lest an upward move- ment of prices get out of control. The fear of extreme inflation is wide- spread. Devaluation of currencies was advocated as a device to check the fall in prices and to bring about a rise, It is not entirely clear that the method really checked the decline and it would be difficult to prove that it has up to date caused any of the price advances. But as the ad+ vances come, due largely or entirely to. other causes, they will be very difficult to check. Another result has been: the tre- mendous stimulus to gold mining. A few years ago there was a, widespread fear that gold production would be inadequate to maintain price levels. Since then gold production has jumped by about fifty per cent and now there is much discussion of how to slow it down or of how to “steril- ize” the gold, or of how to redistrib- ute it since the three countries we are discussing now have over 80 per cent of the world’s monetary supply. It is hard-to avoid two conclusions. One is that as yet we know very little about how to control pricémovements and until we know more we should be cautious in our attempts. The other is that in manipulating money we are dealing to an important extent with effects rather than with causes. One trouble is that monetary questions can be presented with such a deceit- ful simplicity that we are easily mis- led into thinking that contro} through money is easy. Instead it is difficult and for many purposes entirely im- possible. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) we Highest 88 Lowest 5 TT} Mean Stet 82 Normal Mean 84) Rainfall* i | Yesterday’s Precipitation rmal Precipitation - Temperatures* | en) . et : ily WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is above throughout the greater efar Northeast: «and in and southern moderate showers and norma: rt of the country this morning, except over the Rocky: jin States, where. relative- pressure prevails. Light to thunder- TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 193% a Bible study at the University of KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY [Fer A son was born yesterday aft ernoon to Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Albury of 1011 Angela street. Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen The baseball game between the Rotarians and Navy Officers . ness scheduled for tomorrow has been the business for this city are ex- called off as many of the players will be attending the highway ‘Miss Annie Kirchik and Ray- with the industry and many others mond (Wright are to be married who ii , A in the near future, with the con- 0 See ete sent of Miss Kirchik’s father, ac- cording to Havana newspaper Pected to attend. stories which tell of the ‘discovery! banquet at Big Pine Key. One of the couple Sunday, afternoon. |:)L. W. Bacholz, chairman of the —_ a — — teams The. two, have been. in retirement snic ‘Grab oniiead will combine and play > young im the ene mountains Teel ne Oat Siphaelss aaa graduates of the city whe their; disappearance two. weeks. : ue to arrive iM| aye under the management of ago, and have been awaiting an ‘Key West tomorrow. Mr. Bucholz}Ailan B. Cleare, Jr. opportunity of getting married./is coming from Gainesville and With the, 15, days up,.according to/will be in time to attend the meet-| | é Cuban law, the couple boarded ¢ of all Masons tomorrow night ‘ois morning and berthed at the jtrain Sunday afternoon to get h 3 j naval station docks. The vessel leeatciad: onebptiingoaan at the Scottish Rite hall. A Spe-|has just concluded the summer government agents and taken to cial program has been arranged | cruise with naval reserves, and Havana where Miss Kirchik’s fa- 24 the principal speaker will be left this afternoon for Annapolis, ther has been awaiting for some-|Mr. Bucholz, who is professor of Md. time. ‘There the matter was dis- cussed for some time and Mr.{ Kirchik finally consented to the; ieiedoeet "1 BLOW AWAY THE HEAT! he is divorced. {Besmeared and matted with} oily slime until almost beyond} human recognition, and with life; almost extinct, two aliens were fished from the big tank of a fish| oil car which arrived last night from Havana Cuba. They were jin one of the cars arriving on the) Ferry Estrada Palma. That they) lived for the 12 hours they were, in the empty air tight tank is con-; sidered miraculous. When». the: cars were shunted from the ferry) & weak tapping was heard.’ The! big cap was quickly unscrewed and the two men found utterly; exhausted. The caps on these; cars are screwed down when they) are placed on the ferries and are) not opened until the arrival] of the! ferry. One of the men ‘is a Bul-| garian and the other is a Jugoslav.| They are both in county jail} awaiting action by the immigra- tion authorities. U. S. Destroyer Maury arrived COMFORT: Cooling breezes that drive away that lazy, sultry feeling. ECONOMY: ; A realoscillating fan with strorig’' ten-inch ‘.cblades new low © PRICE. is afan that gives yoloevery+ purchased ‘for orily 95c down and the balance in monthly installments with your electric bill! —10 INCH OSCILLATING GILBERT FAN— Editorial comment: Th a Special $6.95~-95¢ $1.00 per of a child of 12 is worth $23,000.| QUIET ~ SPEEDY — STRONG New Shipment Just Received twice as much. Even a_ child,’ therefore is worth more than it will cost to employ a life guard! during the summer for the next} 25 years. ONE WEEK FREE TRIAL You may try the above ELECTRIC FAN ope Phone us today Key West spongers and others interested in the industry _here,} will fight Miami’s plan to intro-! duce sponge divers into these waters. A mass meeting at which :matters will be discussed and plans laid to enforce the laws against diving for sponge inside’ the three mile limit will be held }| 8:30 o'clock in the city hall Fri-' day night. All who are connected week without cost or obligation. and take advantage of this offer, THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. St een neren nee | OOOO MOSS OM i, ‘storms have occurred..during the ;last 24 hours in central and south- - M-jern Florida, the middle Gulf . m., States and in portions of the up- m {Per Mississippi Valley, Lake Su- | perior region, Tennessee and east- ern Texas. There have also been P.M |. few widely scattered fight show- 8:34 ers in western districts. Tempera- 2:06 tures have fallen 14 to 22 de- jarees in the Lake Superior region, } Minnesota, and South Dakota, jand have risen in the, sopthern Lake region; while elsewhere (Til 720 p. as Wee (OC Key West and Vicinity: Partly fficial in Charge cloudy with scattered showers: to-| night and Wednesday; modefate | northeast and east winds, | Florida: Partly cloudy, seattered showers in southeast and extreme south portions tonight and Wed-} STAR os BRAND nesday and in central portion | Jacksonvil'e to Florida Straits c U B A N COFF E E and East Gulf: Moderate north-} Is Deliciously Fresh! east and east winds; partly | —TRY IT TODAY— st weather tonight and Wednes- On Sale At All Grocers y with scattered showers. Sun rises ._ m Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets . ee Tomorrow's Ti A.M. .-12:08 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 30.00. WEATHER FORECAST Subseribe to The Citizen. ee nthe Wednesday. 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