The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1937, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1937.” KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY’ “PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. ARTMAN, President , Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets FARM LIFE IMPROVING ;chine works properly it will be accepted by the city. You" and Your Nation’s Affairs Will America Lend Abcced? By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON i , President, Amercian Acddemy of Political and Social, "Science It-is not easy'to’ realize ‘thattoday] price we pay for: gold: being among ithe United States is probably (not a | the most important. It is k — creditor-nation, The facts spparge to}: large fraction of secure and they need to be sta’ rep | Blaced Lage on a short-time basis snd carefully.’ Only } mi; quickly Deon i This a few years ago| has ‘ed to their being called “hot end, of | moriey.”* rivate| It it is true that we are no longer 4 creditors on ‘balance, what we vestments! ‘expect for the future? It Seems quite Ame-ricains|probable that we shall again id abroad were es-| abroad beginning slowly and it is to timated by our| be hoped proceeding more cai Department of| For this belief there are a number of Commerce at $10,4 70,000,000, reasons. This is net, the It would be desirable if the progress into town could be arrested in Florida and, | at the same time, the conveniences and | advantages of city life received by those | outside. This is what is now within the | reach of thousands of farm homes, those who live in such places have no| earthly motive for leaving a pleasant, | spacious home and transferring to a nar-} row, crowded city area. The automobile and good roads have | placed a resident ten miles from “town” | closer to Main Street than the outlying citizens of that same town were fifteen years ago, in point of time. - Daily de- | liveries bring mail, and, if conditions war- | rant, it won’t be long before two deliveries daily will bring the rural dweller even with the city ledger. The telephone, the Trunks found to contain 28 jquarts of liquor in bottles and three one gallon demijohns of as {sorted intoxicants, were seized by The re-; aut officials at the F. E. G yesterday. The after-' baggage came over on steamships line. Arrests Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe ' The Oversea Highway is not been called on for aid. Entered a at Key and | eet, nor even a state matter. stead it is a nation-wide matter’ noon. and this is evidenced by the in-'Key and Pinecrest have been in- terest it is attracting and the in-' structed to investigate. fluence .it is agers ee ne jiddle' Santa Fey p tlig army and also! ‘Walter Johnson, the Isle of Pines and recog gineer of the Western Road Ma-'! Need as one of the largest fruit! chinery Co., and W. R. Furr, . In-! tance phone message this Deputy sheriffs at Wood of the P. and 0. /are expected. v3 Member of the Associated Press Whe 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. | Thirty-six quarts of assorted liquor were found concealed in @ delivery en.|cargo of rock which arrived on {the Ferry Palma from Cuba last ‘night. Part of the cargo had been ijremoved, the liquor placed of ithe floor of the car and then the cern will conclule their work of rock carefully piled back to hide setting up the new sweeper re-|the bottles. Frank Hornyak, cently purchased by the city and patrol immigrant inspector found propose to give a demonstration the cache and accompanied by C. of the machine tomorrow after- P. Hogeboom, customs inspector noon or if possible this may be made the capture and removed the growers and dealers citrus Plorida representative of the con- products in the world. . Mid-; dleton declares that it Pa te im- possible for Key Westers or Floridians generally to get an idea of the attention the highway is attracting not only throughout every section of the United States SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ee i Reece Six Months Three Months One Month . Weekly .... i exclusively a Monroe county proj-' quest was received in a long dis-| baggage room Most basic is the fact that we are a very large country with high pro- ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notic: ‘ds of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary n c., 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 publish anonymous communi- cations. | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN : S30. BS) E . Bridges to complete Road de Maips « ««| | Water and Sewerage. land. 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. Sco.amend good done by individual or. organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and “opinions; print only news that will elevate wand not contaminate the reader; nevér com- ipromise with principle. You can afford to he genial if you’re broke. China at the moment is not a very in- viting place for tourists. "If Roosevelt were to run a hotel, he would undoubtedly run it on both the Am- etican and European plans. What we need most at the present time is a spiritual, renaissance, for the world today is morally bankrupt. asf Dr. Pomeroy of Los Angeles vide one can become drunk On, noi Si for boilermakers who @o7 Scientists believe they have discover- ed a way to prevent bread from growing stale. Many boarding house keepers dis- covered that secret long ago. A psychologist says five per cent of the people do the world’s thinking, while the rest do the work, But thinking is the hardest work most people do, if any. Cuba’s oldest newspaper, the morning Diario de la Marina, together with the neon Alerta and the evening Advance, have announced plans to divide profits of the three papers, on a half-and-half basis, between the owners and some 600 work- ers, A rough estimate put the amount to be divided at around $300,000 yéarly. Dr. Jose I, Rivero, principal owner, said of the 105-year-old publishing enterprise, the plan was an effort to apply sacial-economic | doctrines of recent papal encyclicals to} dealings with so-workers. This scheme is mighty fine for all concerned so long as] the newspapers are making profit, but/ how about those newspapers that do not | make any money. won't the employees of] these become dissatisfied and caus trouble in those plants that are profitles To a practical mind the plan seems ephemeral. } the s radio, the individual ice manufacturer, the approaching electrification of our coun- try—all these things make available modern comforts on the farm along any improved highway. One of the greatest discomforts of rural life has been its comparative isola- tion, where the farmer’s family lived apart without near neighbors or desirable companionship. Farm homes congregating alorig’'a much-travelled highway are no longer isolated and solitary. Already, the dtfferences between “town” and “coun- tty” JhaVé disappeared. The farmer's chil- dren attend school in town, form a part of the younger social set, and the family rides five or ten miles to church and Sun- day School. Life on the farm is rapidly changing in Florida for the better. Such change means a revived agriculture which will hold rather than lose its young folk in the years to come. There will be a disappear- ance of all “dark corners” and life in town and country will approach a closer level. Both will have its own individual charac- teristics and benefits but the farmer and his family will not have to forfeit any of the pleasures and comforts of civilization to stay on the farm. Such a tremendous alteration takes place slowly, but the signs are unmistak- able. _ OLDEST LIVING THING There stands in Sequoia National Park in California what is perhaps the oldest living thing in the world, the Gen- eral Sherman tree, more than 5,000 years old. It is the largest of those redwood trees for which California is famous, and is surrounded by many others of almost! }Moon sets equal size and age. The General Sherman tree is 280 feet high and 3614 feet in diameter at its base. | High The William McKinley tree is taller, be- ing 290 feet in height, but only 28 feet in diameter. The Abraham Lincoln tree is '270 feet high and 31 feet in diameter. Some of these trees were already forest giants, ten centuries old, before Abraham fared forth from his native Ur e Chaldees to found the Hebrew na- had withstood the storms of es before the birth of Christ. Yet they will stand in sublime majesty, ig things, and will live and many centuries to come. ors from the dawn /of civiliza- tion, awe-inspiring in their stately gran- deur, they seem to hold within their mas- sive trunks the mysterious secrets of an- tiquity. If one would gain a better realization of how brief is the span of human life, let him consider the General Sherman tree, and contemplate that two hundred genera- | tions of men have appeared and _ passed from earth's stage since the broken by its first tiny shoot. soil NEW IDEA OF THE SUN A new idea of the sun follows the dis- covery, through a photograph, taken dur- ing the recent eclipse, that the great -ton- gues of flame, supposedly leaping from the sun, do not in fact leap at al solar globe is surrounded wit velope of atmosphere which flows” tongues of fire are part of the whole. The pifpres from which this dis- covery was made were taken by Major Stevens, flying around the earth of South America, last eclipse. They will lead to renewed efforts to secure additional stratosphere photographs of the next eclipse of the sun, during was) | j | i i: roe se aa i 25,000 feet above * the, “which, we believe, will come in about three | | years. g70Ss amount being $15,170,- 000,000 from which is de- ducted foreign investments in the United States amow? ting to $4,700,000,000. If the “war debts” included the net amount of our.in- vestments abroad totalled about $22,- 000,000,000. This seems to have been changed and today probably our investments abroad are about equal to foreign in- |. vestments here. Such « change in so short a time is spectacular and also very important. It has come about through .a reduction in our credits abroad .and, through an increase in the flow of funds to the United States. First to be noted as a reduction in our credits'is the “war debts.” To be sure they. are still entered in the books of the Treasury Department. Exclusive of amounts due and unpaid, they were reported as $11,155,714,- 400.13 on June 30, 1936, but only Fin- land has been paying in full during the last few years. Little more will ever be received on this huge ac- count and it explains about half of our loss. Then there have been de- faults on many of our private invest- ments. These losses have probably not been greater than those on our do- mestic investments and have been es: timated at about one-third. In addi- tion, foreigners have bought ‘sack or “repatriated” man: of their securi- ties issued here before 1928, In the last few years there has been a large movement of funds into the United States. This has been for a variety of reasons—fear of war and of currency depreciations, the rise in our security makets and the high (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) See : -e| probably continue to have an excess called ductivity. We have our economic ore ganization geared to the of some commodities in such je volume that not all of them can marketed at home at a satisfactory price. Moreover there are numerous restriction, on imports and we shall of exports, i.e. what is usually a favorable balance. Of course, this excess must be paid for in some way. Ht isto be hoped Hat ae ee eee will come in to plague us and instead we shall take fo: prom- “easy money” as it ought to bean o” return in the probably be lk 3 than in many parts of the world. Many investors will be attracted by the larger re- turns and will prefer foreign securi- ties. There are ao strong reasons, ex- cept of a temporary nature, for for- eign investment. to be made here. more stable and war clouds disap- pear, funds will not seek our market where rates will be relatively low but will go elsewere. All this efers to the “long run,” and purposely so. No one can know with certainty what will hap, en from day to day. The basic thing to re- member is that we are now past the stage where American long-time in- vestments will be attractive to for- eigners. We can easily supply our own capital and will do so. In addi- tion, we shall provide increasing amounts to other parts of the world, [THE WEATHER | Temperatures® Highest 89 Lowest ... 4-79 Mean 4 Normal Mean Rainfall Yesterday's Precipftation TL Ins | Normal Precipitation ... .15 Ins. “Thin reeord covers 24-hour per! ending at 8 o'clock thix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises . _ 6:05; he! in Sun sets .. Moon rises 9:58 Qu) iy 10:32 ie Tomorrow's Tides A.M. --- 12208 12:54 Low 6:31 6:17 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea bevel, 30.02. FORECAST P.M.| WEATHE (Till 7:30 p, m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. possibly scattered showers; mod- orate easterly winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, possibly seattered showers in extremv south portion tonight and Thurs- va and in west portion d acksonvilly to Florida Stéaits! and East) G ‘Moderate easter- winds Month and = genth le winds over north portion; partly overcest weather, showers Thursday and__ possibly over south portion tonight. WEATHER CONDITIONS A tropieal disturbance of small 83, 6:52. phe ik "leountry, wxcept in Thnee-| | scattered | tdiameter and slight intensity was centered at 7 a. m. this morning about 60 miles north of St, Thom- as, Virgin Islands. moving west (northwestward about 15 miles per | hours, according to an advisory ‘issued from the San, Juan, Puerto piles. Weathe re [ipeation is pat Tie ast of Key West. ure is high this. morning ‘tb hout most sections of the southwestern |districts, and the extrome north- ‘ern Plains States. Showers and thunderstorms have occurred dur- ing the last 24 hours. in extreme southern Florida, on the middle |Gulf coast, from the lower Mis- | sissippi Valley northeastward to {tha middle Atlantic coast, and in jportions of the northern Plains States and Minnesota, the rain- fall being light to moderate. Tem- perature changes have been unim- {portant, with roadings somewhat ‘below normal in the Plateau re- | gion and in portions of the north jand middle Atlantic States, and above in the Plains States, G. S. KENNEDY, te Official in Chara \CHILDBIRTH LEFT HER THIN, WORN, NERVOUS “After birth of my baby I was thin, nervous, run-down. The first |bottle of Vinol (iron tonic) helped. jIt gave me strength, needed iweight.”—Mrs. M. Gunstone. Oriental Pharmacy. A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers THese Cheques, of $10, $20, for’ eac 100 pure Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Member of the Federal Deposit Insrrence Ceorperatica WHEPOVEF travelers do, sad carry the. ided aad important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- erican Express Company in case of loss or theft before your second signature is affixed. Ask the ndable Federal Reserve = . ar) as < i cect but in the West Indies, the Bahama Islands and even in Cen- tral America. It is looked I he says, as one of the outstanding road building feats of all times and is being discussed by motorists everywhere as one of the really worthwhile sights in all of the United States. Thousands of peo-| ple will be drawn to Florida from, even the far corners of this coun- try, Cuba, Canada and other countries by the fame of the thoroughfare he believes. i Editorial comment: Fort Pierce recently had a fried chicken’ week. Okeechobee is planning’ a and egg week and Wauchula a contemplating a bean and cut ber week. How about Key West / Grits and Grunts Week. ' Charged with attempting to; smuggle 500 lottery tickets and a; quantity of face powder into this country from Cuba, Jesus Fer-! nandez, member of the crew of, the S. S. Governor Cobb was ar-) raigned for hearing yesterday be-! fore U. S. Commissioner C. Rod-! ney Gwynn and bound over un-| der heavy bond for the next term) of U. S. court. When leaving the} boat Fernandez was stopped by} officers and attempted to .throw! overboard the lottery tickets which he took from his pockets. | They struck the rail and fell back on the deck. ‘Fern Chapter Order Eastern} Star will hold its regular meeting! tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. All| visiting members are invited to attend. Robberies have become so fre- quent in the vicinity of the Poin- ciana section of Monroe county} that Sheriff Cleveland Niles has, done this evening. 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