The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published 1 THE CIT ily Except Sunday By N PUBLISHING CO., INC. RTMAN, President , Assistant Business Manager 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 FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of 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 EI: . ~Six Months ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Ail 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 erest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 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; afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- never be 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. ecoumend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant Sf others’ rights, views and opinions; printy only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. There is a state law on sponges; there should be a federal law on spongers, those ~ who prey on human beings. In the old days a person working only 35 hours out of the week’s 168 would have been considered nearly unemployed. The Lilliputian Florida Exposition is a clever idea and will do much in pub- licizing our Sunshine State. Key West will benefit greatly. On the ground that it is human nature we are condoning too many things that are shoddy, vulgar and obscene. Nature ‘in the raw needs refinement, a by-produdt of civilization. : Japanese have a sense of humor. Japan, her officials say, will not fight China unless provoked. So if the Japs cut another slice from China and _ the Chinese protest, that will be sufficient pro- vocation for a fight. We have been told that the heathen Chinese is peculiar, but the Jap has the edge on the Chinck. “Death in the Afternoon,” a book all about bulls, bullfights and bullfighters, written by Ernest Hemingway, caused Max Eastman to write something about “Bulls in the Afternoon”, with some as- persions on the author of the former and resented by him. The resulfs was a per- sonal encounter with the = a claims of the contestants. Then w exploded concerning “hairs on the jchest’, both litigants exposing their chests, and Hem- ingway, whom we in Key West know as “un hombre de pecho”, chided . Eastman for his paucity of hair. To determine the physical prowess of the two writers, Hemingway suggested both to be locked in a room and the one unlocking the door to be declared the winner. There were no further developments and the author of “Death in the Afternoon” went on to Spain in the hope of seeing the Loyalists win. Is EXAMPLES While it will do little good and few men of wealth will follow the example of the late James Reuel Smith( of Yonkers, N. Y., we call attention to the fact that when he died in 1935 he left about one- fourth of his estate to the United States government for the redemption of bonds. There is no reason, so far as we have | ever been able to think the matter out, why a good citizen should not desire to help his government. The fact that most of us take government for granted and the | favors*that we get as our “due” large ex- plains the attitude of the average man and §¥oman. i" Stanley Baldwin, the former Premier of Great Britain, shortly after the World| War, and before becoming head of the government, made a_ substantial anony- mous contribution to the British . govern- ment ,expressing the hope at the time that | other citizens of means would do likewise. Few of them imitated him, however. NEW CAUSE FOR STRIKE Publicity is not always desirable and, as we have often admitted, sometimes newspaper reporters. and photographers go too far in their zeal to get the news and pictures of the people that make it. However, a new angle bobbed up in St. Louis the other day when a labor leader told a newspaper photographer that if he took a picture the labor leader would “stop your presses and close your radio station.” The photographer snapped the picture of the union leader, who ‘imme- diately dispatched an assistant to the newspaper office to call a strike. Electricians connected with the radio station left their posts but newspaper workers refused to obey orders unless giv- en in person by the union leader. He did not do so and a little later the strike was | “called off.” This is a new development in censor- ship, we believe, and the taking of a news photographer of a labor leader a new cause for ordering a strike. The however, might as well make up its to many new things. mind ——— SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Norman Selby, recently pardoned after serving seven years for murdering a former sweetheart, will shortly wed Mrs.j oon rises Sue Cowley, who will be his ninth wife. Selby, who is now 63 was welterweight | champion of the world 40 years ago, hav- ing fought under the name of “Kid Mc- Coy.”’ He is in charge of Ford employees’ gardens, Funeral instructions left by Editor Thomas V. Bodine of the Paris (Mo.) Mer- cury, who died recently at the age of 67: “Place my body in the office of the Mer- cury; start the press; show the mourners the new linotype, and have a Negro chorus sing ‘Rock of Ages.’ ’’ His wishes were car- gied out. The valility of the “hunch,” whereby opinions are formed without definite rea- sons, has been vindicated by science, ac- cording to Dr. A. E. Wiggam, who declares that those so formed are usually as accu- rate as those arrived at in any other way. He says “we feel our way through life just | about as much as we think our way, and the results are about as accurate.” Pathfinder reports that a “Do It Now” sign put up in a Washington office | got surprising results the first day. Three clerks asked for a raise in salary, the head bookkeeper eloped with a anl the cashier skipped with $20,000. Like many another before his, Tom SHth’ of Broaklyn is in trouble because of a woman. After removing $2,000 worth of silk from a store, he went back to get three pairs of stockings for his sweetheart. A policeman nabbed him and took him to jail. successfully Skill and ve ility desireable enough, but it isn’t alwa them too freely, as Mrs. Florence Allen of Chicago can painfully testify. ed her husband successively at golf, chess and cribbage. len beat her up after each defeat hands. are her at its world, | stenographer, | | | | | | i | | j ' } i | | } 8 wise to display! She defeat- i Being a poor loser, Mr. Al- | You and Your Nation’s Affairs Where Is the By GUS as “Exploitation” W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University “Exploiting labor” is a_socialist- communist phrase that has been transported from Europe to this country and adopted by so-called “progressives” to develop class conflict, class antagonism and class hatred. As used by radicals, “ex- ploitation” means that wage earners are robbed un- der our system of industrial freedom of that which properly belongs to la- bor. It is gener- ally applied to employerr who pay low wages. If one textile mill pays a minimum wage of $14 a week, while other textile mill: pay mini- mum wages of $10, 9, or $8 a week, th. employers who pay the lower minimums are denounced as ex- ploiters of labor. As a matter of fact, differences in wages in the open competitive mar- ket simply indicate differences ,i the types and qualities of labor ployed. Under industrial freecom, labor market in every. Fe i rr it very accurately in@ersto: ‘both employers and employes: Diffe types and ,ualities of labor, like ferent types and qualities of ev thing else sold on the market, br; d:fferent prices. { In southern communities cooks are paid from $4 to $15 a week. All pay the market price for what they get. The woman who pays $4 a week for a cook gets a four-dollar cook, and the woman who pays $10 a week gets a ten-dollar cook. Both pay the same price for what they get. The differ- ence in compensation is due to the difference in the quality of the serv- ices. To denounce women as exploit- ers who employ inefficient, unrelia- ble cooks at the market price for such cooks is, of course, stupid. They should be commended for giving em- ployment to a group who fina it dif- ficult to get employment at any price on account of their inefficiency. ‘Those who denounce employers ‘for employing the inefficient at the mar- ket price of their labor, neither be- lieve in nor practice the policy that they seek to impose on employers. When they go on the market to buy commodities and services, they pay only the market price for everything they buy. Who ever heard of a re- former, a college professor, or even a minister, paying more than the market price for any commodity or service that he buys on the open market! Who ever heard of any of these individuals who are denouncers of exploitation by employers, supple- menting the market prices with do- nations in order to afford the seller a decent living? Every citizen has a legal, economic and moral right to buy an: commod- ity or service placed on the open market at the market price, and no one is under any sort of obligation to pay more than the market price. All wealth is a social trust, and every citizen is under a moral obiigation to use his wealth in the interest of so- ciety. Citizens are under a mora) obligation to contribute to charity— to the support of the helpless, and help to care for those who are incapa- ble of taking care of themselves. But charity has no proper place in busi- ness. Business is preeminently a field of justice. It is the function of gov- ernment to see to it that everyone en- gaged in business receives justice. No worker nor any one else has any sort of right to demand on the mar- ket more than the market price for that which he has to sell, nor to de- mand that he be permitted to buy anything at less than the market price. Such demands are antagonis- tie to social justice, and have no proper place in any industrial sys- tem based on social justice, Every individual or corporation that establishes a business in a com- munity, and pays the market price for raw material and equipment, and pays the market price for services and produces useful commodities is a public benefactor. The fact that the workers seek employment in the in- dustries that give them employment is positive proof that these industries offer them better opportunities than they can get anywhere else. To call such employers exploiters because they give employment to inefficient workers rather than to the highly skilled workers, is a gross, ground- less slander brought against them by people who neither believe in nor practice what they preach. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE Temperatures” Highest Lowest .... Mean ts Normal Mean ............ Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation -12 Ins. in ee d cove! ur period ending at 8 o'clock thin moching. Tomorrow's Almanac || | Sun rises . 6:05! ba ha Sun sets 6:54) phim . 8:30°p. in: Moon sets 8:30 a. m. Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High 4--11:22 Low - 4:49 5 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 29.99. 483 ‘ -23 Ins, P.M. 11:36 WEATHER FORECAST . m., Tuesday) ity: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with widely scattered thundershowers; moderate vasterly winds, Florida: Partly cloudy, widely thandershowers, Tges- st scattered day and near extreme south c tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Strpits and East Gulf: ad ly winds over south and variable over extreme north portion; part- Moderate eas central portions, gentle winds ly overcast weather tonight and Tuesday, widely scattered show-j Subscribe to The Citizen—20c} WEATHER 9! WEATHER CONDITIONS A strong high pressure area, ,erested over eastern Canada this morning overspreads the country {east of the Mississippi River; {while a low pressure area of some [intensity Has mioypiitii, over the figtthern Rocky Mountain States, ! with’ trough of low pressure ex- ftendilg southward into Mexico. ; Showers and thunderstorms have since yesterday Oklahoma and eastward over jbeen i morning northern general from Texas 8/ North Carolina and thence north- leastward along the coast to south- rn New England, in the East | Gulf States and lower Onio Val- liey, with heavy rainfall at Boston, Ma 1.01 inches, New York Cit 53 inches, and Birming- ham, Al 1.31 inches. There ‘have also been light to moderate 'seattered showers in (Florida and Minnesota, and rain on the north “Pacific coast, Temnerature chang- es have becn generally unimport- ant; with readings 8 to 10 de- grees below normal this morning in mzny northeastern localities, ‘and above normal in the Dakotas. where high satures were reported yest G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge weekly. A Service for Travelers For the eve who are planning a jour creasing number of patrons ney our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 for each $100 purchased. and $100, cost only 75c. 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. Teller about them. Ask the THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve if Member of the Federal Deposit Insurence Corperstica | DAYS GONE BY KEY WEST IN | Happenings Here Just 10 Yeers! Ago Today As Tal ' The Files of The | Another car got to dancing on the boulevard last night hopped’ a low place in the curb and when, it was stopped was in a leaning; | position just a few inches from, the water. No damages resulted} from the cars’ antics: Iti! owned by Ben Felton and was beifig driv- en by his son Ben, Jr., and ~ac-; companying him were his, two. sisters. No one was hurt, Last; | Sunday Archie Curry’s Chrysler,‘ driven by Mrs. Curry threw a tire,) zigzagged for quite some distance} and finally struck the sidewalk with such force as to damage two other tires and cur] a rim. It je considered miraculous tit the car did not go into the water, and! stranger still that no one was hurt.| Both accidents occurred in the} same place. | Use of a machine just purchased! iby the city for a price between! | $6,000 and $7,000, will not only} save the city that sum annually! but will permit of the streets all’ being swept and cleaned every night. At present the streets are’ only partially swept'every other night. They are not sprinkled and j this creates a great deal of dust be dry weather. | With the new machine, the pay of eight men and a upkeep of a number of mules will saved, it was announced iby the board of public works. In addition all the streets will be sprinkled and swept clean e¥ery jnight. The new machine is already as soon as a representative of the factory can come to Key West, and teach an employe of the city the method of operation. Bids were accepted last night by the county commissioners at a: special meeting held for the pur-} pose and also for the purchase of {material for bracing Similar {Sound Bridge, which is between Geiger’s Key and Saddle Bunches. The necessary timber, 90,000 feet of 3x8 creosoted lumber, was pur- | chased from Eppinger and Russell of Jacksonville, and the price was $6,300 which was the lowest bid. |The hardware, galvanized bolts and washers, will be purchased from the South Florida Contract- ing and Engineering Company for $1,185. | ' Editorial comment: Some of} these days an automobile driver is going to admit that when he IID PP Po oe GET THAT OLD BIBS a aa Me , AND } ‘ WILLIS L LL DIR APE LOLDL ODOM aaa Ls. | WE HAVE AN IMMENSE STOCK OF MATERIAL FOR MAKING STORM SHUTTERS. VARIETY OF SELECTION FOR ROOFING AS FOLLOWS: Prepared Roll Roofing — Channeldrain Metal Roofing Corrugated [ron Roof Paints and Elastic Roof Cements Sherwin Williams Aluminum Paints SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Streets MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987. went into the ditch he was making} Warner says it will be an out- at least 30 miles an hour—and, Standing event. everybody’ll drop dead from as-} Crawfish i Niles aa ! rawtfis! are swarming 45 br ae | Channel this season, according to |reports. A party of five report County Commissioners Braxton catching 150 in 20 minutes. Sher- B. Warren and Hilton Curry, ac- | iff Cleveland Niles, C. Sam B. companied by County Engineer | Curry, Frank (Pilot) Roberts and Joseph Watkins and E. A. Strunk| Webster Russell, yesterday went i ., . ,out and in a short time returned will leave tomorrow for Miami to! with a large catch. make an inspection of ferries for} fuse on the gaps in the Overseas; The wedding of Miss Elena Highway. j Lucignani to Judge Williams V. > Albury will take place at the Rotarians will entertain all boys! home of the bride, 524 Bahama and<girls who are going away to street, 5 o’clock this afternoon. school, at’ their® regular luncheon | Rev. L. Munro of the First Meth- Thursday. The meeting will be} odist church will officiate. The held in the Parish Hall on Bahama‘ couple will leave after the wed- “Bugs”: ding for a tour of the state. MAKE YOUR OWN ICE , Al you want of. / street and Seeretary here and will be put in operation. @ Every home can now easily afford the luxury of a new With this champion cold-maker in your kitchen all you do is flip a switch to have all the ice cubes, fast- frozen desserts and extra-cold storage you want during even the most torrid of heat waves. Save Three Ways! = Choose a new G-E Triple-Thrift Refrigerator and you save three ways—on price, on current and on upkeep. Prices as low as $3.41 down and $3.41 per month with your light bill THE KEY WEST FLECTRIC CO. ae eat comand sneer natn mnsinaanitell CALL US FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES ROOF TIGHT. THIS COMPANY OFFERS A III PEPE AEA ANE AA AA AAA Added ddnrigedadddiébdd ~ 4 FOR PATCHING OR REPAIRING: Phone 598