The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1937, Page 2

“PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ept Sunday By IN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, President , Assintant Business Manager m The Citizen Building Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe XTH YEAR , Florida, as second class matter Member of the Ansociated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also for republication of all news dispatches credited to the local news published here. CIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | , obituary notices, ete. will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. ces for entertainments by churches from which venue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen open forum and invites discus- f public is and subjects of local or general t but it ot publish anonymous communi- cations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One’ Year EE SOE Uh e Six Months Three Months . One Month wi ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. | mind.and that is to begin the road toward 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, 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. couimend 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. People who bray the loudest lack two things: an education and something to brag about. _ President Roosevelt rewards his » henchmen and punishes those who will not string along with him. There are people in this country who care nothing about wages and _ hours; what they want is bonuses and relief. There are men in almost every town and city who are able to straighten - out the most complicated muddles without: trying very hard. In fact, if they tried at all, they couldn’t accomplish anything, If we continue to follow the ideology of the New Deal, we must take leave of our inbred integrities. In the wake of the New Deal we are setting up the preposter- ous ideal of a national life which will yield all good things to everybody with the minimum effort of merely touching a but- ton. A so-called more abundant life, which is a life without any worthy cause to inspire or guide it, without intelligence, without principle, without conscience—in a word, without character. Senator Hugo L. Black, who was nominated by President Roosevelt to the} Supreme Court of the United States in piace of Justice Van Devanter, is an ex- treme liberal a militant one.} He believes in a form of government bor- on dictatorship; he is on record as} believing that the Federal j authority over Interstate cludes the power to regulate hours, wages, conditions of employment and various } other phases of business and industry; he} believes that the child labor 1918 should be reversed s well as government's Commerce _ in- dec He is also record in opposition to the doctririe that] past supreme court decisions on constitu-} ion of} } on} tional questions are binding on future tri-} tunals. i ‘'” Patient toifers in laboratories and else- INSIST THE WORLD IS FLAT _ The world is still flat, says Wilbur; Glen Voliva religious leader of Zion, IIL, | who thinks that the recent flight of the, Russian aviators across the North Pole | confirmed his theory that the world is saucer-shaped. While we have it on the authority of the best minds that the world is round | there is nothing to prevent Overseer Voliva | from sticking to his theory. We may be inclined to smile at what | we consider the vagary of the idea that he} abides by but, just the same, how about our own ideas? Are we willing to check | up on them? We build much of our life upon theories that are handed down to us and we exhibit, as a rule, no great willing- ness to question them. In fact, we are more inclined to consider them settled and our minds at ease. That most of our accepted ideas are correct happens to be lucky for us_ but that every individual’s thinking includes some fallacies is certain. Until human beings possess the absolute in truth there is sure to be error in the thinking of man and where there is error there should be the desire to correct the mistake. To under- stand this is to begin to possess an open wisdom, NATURE'S SECRETS where’ have wrested from Mother Nature many of her valuable secrets, but many others remain hidden from them, and may always remain so. While an amazing number of synthe- tie products have been developed which even surpass the natural ones for which they serve as substitutes, there are count- less other instances in which nature’s handiwork can not be approached, much You a nd Your, Nation’s Affair > irs KEY WEST IN | IDAYS GONE BY, Happenings Here Just 10 Years/Key West hasn't the Ago Today As Taken From The SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937. scored twice and duplicated in the} yesterday from the Niles Channel ninth, Maximo twirled for the| bridge by Mervin J. Knowles. He Stars and was in fi " was accompanied by Raymond ripaines! Gio we aie {Maloney and Frank Abitas The ' same party caught two large jew- jfish at Big Pine Key bridge. ; | Editorial comment: Who said brightest {future of any city in the State of} |Florida? Is there another town) Only two marriage licenses iles of The Citizen } that. We do not blame them, Sandie, “I have a brilliant idea, Satidie,” said Professor MacAndrew Cantlie to his wise-eyed terrier, “and,one that you will appreciate, I am.sure, seeing that sane and seasoned thoughts ; such as our Scottish forbears had, are now as scarce as hen’s teeth. They had the advantage of us, Sandie, in those days of plain living and high thinking, being fed, body and sul, on oatmeal, the Bible, and the shorter cate- chism. “Aweel! Tell me what you think of this. I suggest that we start a school of elementary economics for the en- lightenment of labor leaders, politi- cians and sobsisters who are forever prating of purchasing power as though it could be, created by magic or by robbing’ Peter to pay Paul. Aside fro'~ flat money, juggling with the price of goldj/and buying silver for political purposes,.what do you think of helping the farmers of Ne- braska by raising the wages of steel workers in Pennsylvania? Consider that, Sandie, while I show you the bone of contention between the farm- er and the city worker. “Here it is! The farmer wants high prices for his potatoes and pigs, and low prices for agricultural machinery and barbed wire; while the city worker, in voluntary or compulsory collusion with the manufacturer and the merchant, demands the reverse of for the pot must not call the kettle black. But what to do? How to re- concile these conflicting interests for Robbing Peter to Pay Paul By J. E. LeROSSIGNOL Dean, College of Business Administration, “University of Nebraska the sake of peace, plenty, and per- manent prosperity? ; “Let us have higher wages, say the ldbor leaders and political magicians whom they control, for then the city workers, with more purchasing pow- er, will buy all that the farmers have to sell and at prices satisfactory to all concerned. A plausible suggestion, Sandie, but will it work that way? Will the added wages of the city worker come out of the air or out of the pockets of someone else? To ask that question is to answer it. “So it is clear to you and me, San- die, that there are only two pockets out of which the transfer of purchas- ing power can come: the pocket of the business man or that of the ulti- mate consumer. Does the ‘business man, as a rule, absorb such added costs, or does he pass them on? If he absorbs them, his own purchasing power is to that extent reduced; but if he passes them on the purchasing power of the farmer and other ulti- mate consumers is lessened by the higher prices and no additional pur- chasing power is created. There seems to be no escape from one horn or the other of this dilemma unless the business, man, by means of mass production,,can and will pay higher wages without loss to himself and without raising prices. Let us hope, Sandie, that our friends of the Brook- ings Institution will show them how to do this, and without delay, for the case is urgent. But I hae my douts, “Meanwhile the farmer is at a dis- advantage, for he cannot readily prac- tice collective bargaining, nor limit his output, nor fix prices, nor indulge in walkouts or sit-down st. ikes. Therefore he demands of the city people, both employets and em- ployees, that they do their utmost to increase the national income of goods and services, which is the basis of prosperity and the only real pur- chasing power. Are you with me, Sandie McGraw?” (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) less improved upon. And even among natural products there is a wide difference in quality for which it is difficult to account. What, for example, is the secret of the superiority of Kimberly “diamonds; of South Sea pearls. Or, in the vegetable kingdom, what | can explain peculiar excellence of Ken- tucky blue grass and the grapes of France. How explain the virtues of certain natural mineral waters. These and a_ multitude of similar questions have so far baffled the scientific world, and proved that nature at its best is beyond the power of man to equal. As someone has suggested, if all of nature’s secrets could be discovered, psy- chologists of the future might make syn- thetic saints of all of us. BRAZIL SHOWS SENSE i The request of Brazil that the United j States lease six old destroyers to be used for training purposes, pending the com- pletion of ships now being built, indicates that the South American country has an idea that other nations may have aspira- tions toward the acquisition of the natural resources of the large area now known as Brazil. j In: fact, Seeretary Hull, in requesting Congress for legislation. permitting. the xoyermment to lease such overage vessels to’ American republics specifically men tions the possibility that other nations might have their eyes on Brazil, and that recent examples of the use of force to at- tain. aims has made Brazilians a bit wary of depending upon the goodwill of the world for protection. OUR TROOPS IN CHINA We admit that we have no expert in- formation about conditions the Far East and that we have not made a special study of the need for the of United States infantry at Tientsin, China, | and other locations in China. but, just the | same, we are beginning to feel like it's} time for the soldiers to come back home. The War Department has in the past, when conditions were quiet in China, that the soldiers Whether the State department feels that | the presence of our troops is necessary is | considered, in presence suggested be withdrawn of course, to be but unless there are important consideration our sol- should territory as soon as possible. diers be removed from Chinese “Allergy” is what causes ragweed | Pollen to give some folks hay fever. And maybe it’s merely an allergy that «auses | crooners to make us sick. } Today’s Anniversaries | | 1796—Asher B. Durand, emin- ent New York engraver and paint- er, born at Jefferson Village; N. J. Died there Sept. 17, 1886. { 1798—James Lick, pioneer San Franci land buyer, benefactor to the city, donor of the observa- | tory of the name, born at Fred- ericksburg, Pa. Died Oct... 1, 1876, 1811—Wéliam Kelly, ironworks’ manufacturer, whose steel-making pro ante-dated the Bossemet process born in Pittsburgh. Died! Feb. 11, 1886. My 182i—William Barksdale, Mis; pi lawyer, congressman, Con- | ederate general, born in Ruth- erford Co., Tenn. Killed at Get- tysburg, July 2, 1863, | John Fritz, iron and steel man, me. chanical engineer, born at Beth-| fehem, Pa. Died there, Feb. 13, i | ironmaster, | | 9 1913, pee | 1854—Frank A. Munsey, noted newspaper and magazine publish- er. born at Mercer, Maine. Died, in New York, Dee. 22, 1925. cope will be of am- iable and social nature, with good will toward alt; unselfish and do- ing those things that make one well regarded by friends. The met taining success will be) and accomplished — by well to the things that the home happy and the} associaticns friendly. ‘ prac attendi mak busin eecccccveucrsccccccccces ccccccenscccscesecesoces | Today’s Birthdays Queena Marie of New York City, soprano, born, at Akron Ohio, 41 years ago, Theodore A. Waters’ of Cald- well, Ida., assistant steretary of the interior, born in Iowa, 6) years ago. Dr. Arthur T. McCormack, Ken- tucky’s commissioner of health, born 65 years ago. Malcolm G, Wyer of Denver, noted librarian, bern. at Concor- dia, Kans., 60 year’ agp. * Raark Bradford of New 1 i Work on the overseas bridges will begin by January 1. This’ | promise was made a few days ago; by Governor Martin. to Colonel Robert Spottswood, a member of; the governor's staff while the two: were at the National Guard Camp at Fort Barrancas near Pensa- ‘cola. “I am not, only going to be as good as my word about build-} ing the bridges, but I expect to see} the work started not later than; January 1 “Colonel Spottswood: quotes the governor as saying. } The governor is very much grati-! fied Mr. Spottswood says, at the enthusiasm shown by Dr. Fons Hathaway over the Oversea High- way after his recent visit here. The head of the state road de- partment has never been to Key; West before, and so was not} familiar with the road to the mainland only by hearsay. The governor’s statement to Colonel; Spottswood is taken to mean that; plans are already underway for} the bridges and the highway de- partment head finds that the ap- proximately six months from the time Dr. Hathaway was here jhas details. ee: been sufficient to work out the/4 ‘were issued during the past week that can match completion of th : Peano mea from the office of County Judge Overseas Highway, our assurance . of bridges—without cost to the Hush Gunn. Issues were to Uriab country; the prospects of water; Poitiers and Rosalie Bain; Ear the almost certainty of the dry Riggs and Naomi Curry. Last dock; the assurance of the finest) W®®k there were six. \ aquarium in two-thirds of the United States. and the outlook for} this city’s becoming-as it is un-/ yesterday for “beating up” Hattie doubtedly destined to be—the air-: Wilson of 513 Emma_ street. line center for the entire south-' “We had an argument and I cursed east. j him,” said the woman, “and ther he beat me.” Adams was bound A 100 pound tarpon was landed over to criminal court. DONT WAIT ANY LONGER | You can easily afford to own a new ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR James Adams was arrested a 3 Key West unit of the Florida h™ this morning from Fort Barran¢as where the annual two weeks = en- icampment was held, and Captain Melvin Russell says it was prob-! ably the most pleasant and suc: cessful encampment since the company was organized. Governor Martin visited the camp and re- viewed the troops and compli-| mented their work. An artillery officer with 25 years in the service witnessed the target practice of the troops and told Captain Rus- sell it was the best gun pointing he had ever seen, in the regular army or elsewhere. There were 53 of the unit members returning this morning. A group to the number of 14 stopped at points en route to their home city for visits with relatives and friends. The Cuban Stars licked the Young Sluggers 7 to 1 in their game of baseball played at the barracks yesterday afternoon. Roberts started for the Sluggers but was wild and allowed three runs in the first inning. He walk-! ed two men and hit two. Lucilo, replaced him and held the Stars, in until the eighth when the Stars Or-| : Jeans} author, born in Tennessee,) } 41 ywars ago. Harvey C. 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