The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 28, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. P. ARTMAN, President ness Manager The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe est, Florida, as Second class, fonstey, FIFTY-SIXTH. YEAR : fais =< Whe Associated Press is exclusively entitled th tide for republication of all news dispatches, credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. } would probably caution them to keep off} One Year Six Months Three Months One Month . Weekly .. 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 is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sitm of public issues and subjects jof local or general fnterest 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- jiand. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. es THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be always figit for progress; never be the or- gan o: 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. courmend 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. & afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; Even a small contribution entitles the donor to a receipt. Your education has been neglected if you fail to recognize a blurb. The game of “let's pretend” is very often played by men who think they are business leaders. The success of good government, be it municipal, state or federal, depends up- on good officials, When the average young the average sweet young thing loves her she believes the sometimes it is true. man tells that he avowal—and Business axiom: Those who borrow are supposed to pay. The lender was en- abled to make the loan because he saved, while the borrower probably squandered his income. When a public official spends any monies of the public treasury, he should give an account of his stewardship, not} only because it is the proper and just thing to do, but for his own good. to stop the tongues of the scandal mongers, s was a beloved figure in our national life and so it was nattral that} an effort should be made to erect a monu-} ment to his memory. A bill was presented | to the House having this purpose in view, a but President Roosevelt vetoed it on the ground that if Will Rogers could speak he} would never consent to a memorial of this | character. All who knew the great! humorist know that the President is ab-/ solutely right in this instance. If there is} to be a memorial requiring the expendi-/ ture of federal funds ($500,000 is asked in| the house bill) it should take the form of! a living memorial, something that would | carry joy and gladness into the hearts of} those he left behind. THIS TELL-TALE RADIO We will all besliving in the proverbial “glass house,” if the scientists keep on dis- | covering new means of checking us up.) With dictographs and truth'serums and a! new device said to be capable of making | moving pictures of what goes on in a room, without the knowledge of its oc-| cupants, they are fetting things down | pretty fine,’ | | Besides these schemes for the invasion | of privacy,;/of whith evildoers might be warned,’ Fred M. ‘taylor of Kansas City | the air—for the radio proved to be his un- | doing. Some months after deserting a wife in Illinois, Fred married a young society | woman in the Missouri city, the wedding being a swell affair, with the ceremony performed by a bishop. To make the oc- casion strictly up-to-date, the proceedings were broadcasted over the church radio. Wife No. 1 happened to be listening in at her Illinois home, and as_ Fred neglected the minor detail of getting a divorce or changing his name, his duplicity was exposed. The deserted wife journey ed: westward. , When the judge asked the two Mrs. Taylors to suggest a suitable, punishment for their joint spouse, they ‘agreed that five years would be about right, but his honor thought that two years in Jefferson City would satisfy the demands of the blind goddess, and so decreed. There Fred will have ample oppor- tunity to reflect on the wonders of science, particularly the radio. ONLY HOT AIR — Those credulous and unsophisticated souls who take the speeches of their Sen- ators and Congressmen seriously may have been rudely jarred if they read a_ state- ment once made by Senator Glass of Vir- ginia, who said: “In all my experience of 30 years in Congress, I have never known a_ speech to change a vote.” While this is a rather broad assertion, it is practically true. A large percentage of the speeches printed in the Congres sional Record are just so much hot air. Many of them are never delivered at all, but are written out and printed for dis- tribution “back home” for the purpose of impressing the voters with the great states- manship of their authors. Aside from a few notable exceptions, the sole aim in life of Senators and Con- gressmen is to get reelected. Every utter- ance and every vote is directed to that end, not influence them very much. They are thinking always about what their own con- | ‘stituents will 'say, and vofe accordingly, regardless of anybody’s speech. WHY YOU CAN’T BELIEVE ALL The bright boy rises to remark that “you can’t believe all that you see in the | newspapers,” and no newspaper man re- futes the statement. Truth of the matter, most of the news in a newspaper is based on what some member of the vast public says, and the fact that people sometimes twist the truth, and fool newspaper men, explains the remark. Another common remark that hears is “I see where The Citizen .” and the speaker will go on to narrate one say some news article that has been printed, | never stopping to think that a vast ma-| jority of the items that appear in print} are merely reports of what others say or claim, which the newspaper presents to intelligent readers leaving them to their own jutigment, pass LOOKING FOR THINGS Did you ever step to think. how much j time We waste every day looking for things | We misplace a | which have been mislaid? had | Therefore, oratory of colleagues does } You and Your Nation’s Affairs “Two Thirds” Court Plan By ERIK McKINLEY ERIKSSON Professor of History, University of Southern California Among the numerous “reforms” proposed for the Supreme Court is on to require a two-thirds vote of that body to declare a congressional proposal has been advanced by various mem-ers of Congress. The latest propon- ent of the idea is Senator Min- ton: of Indiana. New Deaiers who voted against recom- mitting the ju- diciary bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then, in the face of an agreement that a new bill would be written which would in no way tamper with ‘he highest tribunal, the Indiana Senator announced that he would-seek the adoption of a two-thirds vote = ment. face saving. There is no merit in i Not one sound argument can be a vanced in its favor. Back of the proposition, of course, is the fallaciou: belief, carefvily nur- tured by the neo-New Dealers, that the Supreme Court has persistently invalidated laws of Congress by 5 to 4 votes. Senator Minton is not the only one to foster this belief. He has been outdone b; Senator Barkley, the administration leader in the Senate. In his speech before the Democratic national convention at Philadelphia in 1936, Mr. Barkiey deliberately sought to create the impression that the New Deal had been hampered by adverse 5 to 4 votes of the Court. Unfortunately, the propaganda dis- seminated by Senators Barkley and Minton, as well as by vthers, has had an effect on public opinion. Many people have accepted witlout ques- tion the groundless charge against the Court. Only a little investigation would be sufficient to reveal the truth. Out of thirty-three decisions thus far, the ‘New Deal has won nineteen and lost fourteen. Only two of those lost have been by 5 tu ¢ votes while no less than six of those won have been by votes of 5to4 Furthermore, during the whole one hundred and forty-eight years of its existence, the Supreme Court has in- validated only eleven congtessional acts in whole o. in part by such close votes. Considering that Congress, dur- ing the same period. has passed over 25,000 public laws, one may conclude that 5 to 4 votes have not seriously in- terfered with the will of Congress. This becomes clearer when one considers the two decisions lost by the New Deal by 5 tc 4 votes. The first such decision came in 1935 in the railroad pension case. But this de- cision has not prevented a workable railroad pension system from being put into operation. In the summer of 1935, new pensicr. legislation was en- acted to replace that invalidate... Af- iter. a lower court test indicated that lis too was unconstitutional, the ad- ministratiur «tered into a compro- mise agreement with the railroads. As a result, new legislation was en- hacted in the 1937 session of Congress. This legislation is now in.force and the railroad operators have, promised not to attack its constitutionality. Thus one of the 5 to 4 decisions against the New Deal has been vompletely nullified. The othe. 5 to 4 decision was hand- ed down in a comparatively minor case in 1936. This decision invalidated a congressional act which extended federal bankruptcy privileges to wa- ter improvement districts and other political subdivisions of states. Such a procedure, said the majority of the Court, was a violation of states rights. Even though the New Dealers have not succeeded in getting around it, no disastrous results have followed this decision. Where then is the excuse-for a two- thirds vote requirement? Those advo- cating it are making a mountain out of a mole hill. They deserve no sup- port and certainly will aot get it from informed people who can‘ distinguish fact from propaganda, (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY! SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1937. 1 extensive study of many jects, sub- will entertain with a dance to- Happenings Here Just 10 Years | Night in the recreation hall in Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Key West exports during June totalled $3,194,894 out, of $5,- 543,66 for the entire, state. ig disclosed by the U.S. eustoms' report for this district just issued at Tampa. The report also shows that this city led every other city in the state by a margin so wide as to make comparisons useless. In other words 58 percent of the exports of the entire state for the} month of June passed through bare port. The other Florida port; ies had combined exports of $2,348, 772, which is almost $1,- 000,000 less—$896, 122 less to be exact—than this city can show for tne same period, George L. Babcock has decided not to make the race for mayor. Announcement to this effect was mady this morning by. Mr. Bab- ecek. He hag received numerous assurances of support since he un- officially announced: for mayor, but despite these has decided not to make the race. The Miami Rotary Cluv will hold an inter-city meeting of Ro- tary Clubs from West Palm Bexch to Key West for the pur-} pose of welcoming home John B./ Orr, past president of the Miami! Rotary Club and past director of , tke international organaization, | Mr, Orr, who has undergone three! serious operations during the past} eight months, has recently return-| ed from Rochester, Minn., pro-! nounced cured. Secretaty Arthur’ C. Evans of the Miami Rotary! Clib has written three letters} during tne past few days request-| ing that the Key West Rotary, Club be represented at the me) i | coming meeting, Editorial comment: An English-} man’s wife wants him arrested for} ‘Temperature* Highest ast Lowest Mean . Normal Mean Rainfall Yesterday’s Precipitation {Normal Precipitation hin record covers 2 ending at § o'clock thin morning. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises ... Sun sets Moon ris Moon sets . Tomorrow's Tides A.M. ey 10:02 8:44 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 29.85. WEATHER FORECAST (Till D p, m., Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: cloudy tonight and Sunday with ional scattered — showers; | moderate to fresh winds, , northerly, ly strong | squalls. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight jand Sunday, with occasional 'seat-* ed showers, somewhat ‘sdually jmear east and extreme sduth | coast. | Jack 83 P.M and possibly moderate- at tinres in passing onville ate to Florida Straits: | Mode te fresh northeast and jeast winds except mostly north- jerly over south portion, possibly moderately strong at itimes in passing squalls; weather nostly overeast tonight and Sun- jay with showers and squalls East Gulf: Moderate variable |winds, pos |partly overcast nd Sunday, extreme weather seattered showers, .16 Ins. | morning. jin many western |The m | Key bly fresh at times and! the tonight} i THE WEATHER WEATHER CONDITIONS The slight tropical disturbance 85 has apparently spread out , turned slowly to jcifie States; while a trough { sindetaialy low pressure and the westward “02 Ins,| with the center near Nassau this It is attended by mod- verlod j erate to fresh squalls over a rath- jer extensive area covering the Ba- - 6:06 a. m jhamas and. the }od¢att bad the east 6:49 p.m. jand northeast, Hat nb étgong winds 1:41 pi inch BAVET een reported. Al strong high pressure area is erésted over eastern Canada andj J 4:15 exten?s southward over the Ohio , Valley, and another strong “High” thas moved in over the north Pa- of over- jspreads the Rocky Mountain and ‘Plains States, and pressure is also Partly moderately low from Texag east- deserting her and his 19 childron. | For goodnees sakes, how long did; she expect him to stick around. The city planning board will! meet tonight at 8 o’clock for the) first time siiex its organization. Coordination of the study, mem-| bers are making of tne zoning pian, will be the: principal busi-| ness, W, W. Demeritt, the chair-} man, expects. It will be some- time, he shows, before the board) will offer a city planning ordin- ance, :s tie members feel that great cars shou'd be exercised, in its preparation, necessitating. the ward across the Gulf of Mexico to the Bahamas. Showers and thun- mostly derstorms have continued through- Gulf and out much of the East South Atlantic States, and in por- tions oF the North and Atlantic Stztes, southern and Arkanses, being heavy Rock, Ark 1.06 inches; si Fla. 56 inches; Ap lachicola, 'Fia., 1 inches, Fort Myers, Fla. 1.53 | inches Temperatures are above localities, day temperatures near 106 de- grees in the Dakotas yesterday, while over eastern districts read- ings are generally seasonable. imum temperature West of 92 degrees highest of the summer. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons letter or document and spend half an hour | looking for it. Often several minutes are consumed in searching for a hat or pair of spectacles. Some frequently forget where they have parked the car. This waste of time through lack care in putting things in their proper places was called to our attention by a very time- ly article in a newspaper which has just come to our desk. It is such a fine article, so full of good common sense and practical | our | advice, that we shall clip it out for serap-book at once. Now where in the dickens did we put i : | those scissors? of These Cheque who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. 3, issued in convenient denomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 and $100, cost only 75c. for each $100 purchased. They are wherever travelers go, and carry the added and important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- spendable erican Express Company in case of loss or theft before your second signature is affixed. Ask ag Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Inserence i Corporation we and normal with } 1 } Middbs Texas at GET THAT OLD ROOF TIGHT. THIS COMPANY OFFERS A VARIETY OF SELECTION FOR ROOFING AS FOLLOWS: Prepared Rell Roofing This: »{ada, to Baytown, Texas, put in at! the navy yard from 9 until 12. Music will be furnished by Wil- son’s Syncopation orchestra. Tanker Finlay, 425 feet long, owned by the C. D..Mallory. com- pany, Inc., from Montreal,; Can- 18 o'clock last night for fuel oil at.6 o'clock. City Fire Department will meet 3 o’clock this afternoon in recess- Enlisted men of the navy yard/ ;and water and sailed this morning ed session to further consider the | secona and third and final read: hy, | An automobile property of Lyallo Van Valkenburgh, was burned last night at the corner of Waddell ayenuve and William street. A cross in the wiring system is believed to have caused hae fire. Five couples were licensed to wed during the week, according to the records in the office of Coun- ty Judge Hugh Gunn. They were: William Davis and Rosina Sands; William Victor Albury and Elena Diomira Lucignani; Louis Victor Pelliicer and Edna Curry Peat; Winfield Scott and Josephine fire department ordinance and; perhaps pass the message on its Mary J. Sweeting. DONT WAIT {os aan ealek neeanna Rahmings; John M. and GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR: Tr ipleT -Thrift Refrigerator ri: 4 and you now save three ways —on price, on current and on ua ee 9 G-E’s automatic Thrife init will produce all the ice cubes, all a fast- i. cold remember Png Pea ee cold-maker operates be service as when new. Automatic G-E THRIFT UNIT , Sealed-in-Steel in All Models Prices as low as $3.41 down and $3.41 per month with your light bill THE KEY WEST FLECTRIC CO. AND PRICES Dixie Galvanized Shingles Channeldrain Metal Roofing Corrugated Iron idhl SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. 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