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

~~ PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe as second class matter Entered at Key West, Florid Member of the Associate: Whe Associated Press is excl 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 soe : Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ............ ADVERTISING RATES known on application. sri eading notic thanks, resolutions of resp obituary notices, etc., 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 publisn anonymous communi- cations. $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 220 All ————————— * | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN, | Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- 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 to applaud right; never be the or- afraid to attack wrong.or always fight for progress; gan o: the mouthpiece of any person, elique, 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 body else has to pay. and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. Everybody favors any tax that some- Many a man is poor today because his credit was too good yesterday, What people don’t know is usually a great deal more than what they do know. People who wonder what makes them so fat will find out if they stop eating so much, Auto accidents kill people every day, hut seem to make no impression except upon the dead. Z Sudden deaths from automobile aéci- dents are increasing, but nature sees to their replenishment—the marriage record is recording an all-time high, If rouged cheeks and painted lips are for the purpose of attracting the male sex, why do married women continue the prac- tice in view of the fact that they have cap- tured their man? In New York there is a painters’ gen- eral strike for the usual objective to ob- tain higher pay and shorter hours. The present day is $9 a day for seven hours’ work. Draw your own conclusions We believe a survey“Sif" TH? mos' Americans heartily in with the thought and wish that Chipa will be suc cessful to repel the invading Japanese The accord Japs have wrested from China all her out- Manchukue, and now are invading China proper. No the Ethiopians been sorely side possessions, particularly other people, unless it be against the Italians, has so tried, or has had more complete ju iea- tion to resort to arms as have the Chinese America, even under these provoking cir- but hop- is not an offense against internat cumstances, must remain neutr, nal law, | { | i WHAT THE V. F. W. WANTS According to Scott P. Squyers, newly elected head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the following are among the prin- | cipal objectives of his organization: - (1). The passage of a bill by Con- gress to insure jobs or pensions for vet- erans of all wars, (2). Provision for old age social se- curity benefits, to begin for veterans at the | age of fifty instead of sixty-five as provided by law. . Of course, the vetetans are for neu- trality, to keep our troops the actual lead ijn a world peace move.” The drive for jobs or pensions, says Mr. Squyers, will be misinterpreted by the | public in general, which does not appre- ciate the aims of the veterans. He points out that the veterans sacrificed ‘every- thing during the World War, lost and suffered shattered nerves.” the average age of forty-five,” private in- dustry will not employ him, particularly if ‘he is the recipient of a pension and, for the same reason, continues the leader of the V. F. W., the old age benefits should begin for veterans at the age of fifty. The reaction of readers to these aims will undoubtedly vary. “The veterans will think that they are very modest in view of ! the sacrifices made during the great war. Young people who have begun life since 1918 and some taxpayers will wonder how the success of such a program will affect them and just how much it will take to satisfy the veterans. IMPORTANT THINGS Bernard M. Baruch,. American finan- cier, recently returned from Europe where he had spent a few weeks. He was some- what pessimistic about the future peace of the world and little bit anxious lest our neutrality law “get us into war now.” He had a few ideas about domestic things, however, that seem worth noting. In the first place he said that the im- portant thing that confronts America is a solution of the agricultural problem. This, he went on, the people of the East do not | realize, Then, there is the question of wages. When we have inflation, says Mr. Baruch, as we have had, wages must go up or else a workman's real wages decline. The trouble, he continues, is that manufac- turers, when they have to pay a 10 per cent increase add 20 per cent to their prices. Mr. Baruch some things. seems to understand NOT AGAINST COMMUNISM When Hitler boasts that Japan is allied with Germany in a common front against communism he ignores basic facts that emphasize the belief that there are other purposes to the German-Japanese agreement. Japan is today fighting to oust Chiang Kaishek who has been busy putting the sword to the Communists of China in civil warfare for many years. In fact, the bat- tle only ended last December when the Whinese leader was captured and his re- lease made conditional on an agreement to make a common front against Japan. If Japan wanted communism suppres- sed in China all that was necessary was to leave Chiang Kai-shek alone and let him have full sway in China. The reorganiza- tion of China was getting along and it was what Japan war afraid of. CALLS SUICIDE A DISEASE A study of suicide Dr. Merrill Moore, of Boston, leads him to conclude that self-destruction is a disease that can be prevant in a majority of cases. we ee Simple methods of persuading individuals fiot to kill themselves involve by TORT IMT CGR Ation that will allow the | degressed tq discuss their anxieties in sym- An a pathetic companionship. hour's con versation has often saved and a meal people kill themselves on a full stomach human life works wonders, because few While more women attempt suicide than in completing their attempts. Poison is the men, the males are more successful most commonly selected de and il lumina i. ing gas comes second. The motive are unknown in most cases but where th have ascertained, lead men to desire death the women be economic and domes trouble inspires from foreign | :; countries, and-to increase the membership | oF theif organTzation so that it “can take} now i limbs | | Now, “at! | trouble | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs Can Labor Win the Farmer? | By J. E. LE ROSSIGNOL Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska An echo of the Hershey incident of last March, when a mob of farmers broke the chocolate workers’ strike, still reverberates in labor circles, as may be seen in an article in the August number of “THE COM- MUNIST” by Clarence A. Hathaway, on “The Problems of a Worker- Farmer Alli- ance” Al- though claim- ing that the farmers were incited to the attack by com- pany “stooges, the author ad- mits that the relations of farmers and workers are none too good, that there is a lag in the progressive movement among them, that the outstanding farm leaders and farm newspapers are reactionary, that there is “dan- ger of a repetition of the Hershey incident in hundreds of lecalities in ever sharper form,” “that uffless something is dong to counteracg the machinations of thé @a®& enemigs of progress the farmers wilhbe woh as allies of Fascism. Mr. Hathaway, as a communi, is much dissatisled with the “halfgway measures so characteristic of!/the Roosevelt regime.” ‘The AAA, he Says, benefited the largest and wealthiest farmers, and to a lesser degree the middle farmers, but the poorer farm- ers continued to be squeezed out. He condemns the Bankhead Act also, for forcing thousands of share-croppers off the land and criticizes the gov- ernment for inadequate handling of drought relief, the failure to supply feed and seed to poor farmers on reasonable terms and the failure to protect the farmer in the ownership The inadequacy of such measures, in the author's opinion, gives the progressives in Congress, the socially advanced leaders of the Farmer Holi- day and the Farmers Union, the CIO, and the Communists, a fine chance to consolidate the people’s front by drafting a program of farm legisla- tion for the benefit of the poor and the middle farmers—designations all too reminiscent of the Russian classi- fication of Kulaks, middle peasants and poor peasants. The program as here outlined, should include the following: pre- vention of foreclosures and govern- ment refinancing of mortgages; gov- ernment credit to the poorest farm- ers for seed, feed, machinery, etc.; crop insurance against drought and other natural causes; government loans to tenants desiring to own their own farms; ntaintenance of the level of farm prices on cost of production ba ‘s and the curbing of the “monop- oly prices” of industry. Mr. Hathaway feels very sure that, if such a program were adopted, the middle and poor farmers would re- ciprocate by joining the fight for la- bor's demands. Perhaps they would it labor would moderate its de- mands, encourage efficiency, discour- age strikes, and abandon agitation for the thirty-hour week, which enrages every farmer whether rich or poor. In all of this, the author is agitated by the fear of fascism which, in re- cent years, has loomed up on the horizon as a possible alternative to communism. So he pleads for an al- liance with the millions from the countryside and rural communities and sounds a warning thus: “These millions will become the storm troopers for fascism, the vigi- lantes, and the strike-breakers, un- less the labor movement comes to understand their problems and joins hands in their fight. . . . There will be no further Hershey incidents if FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937, From The Files mil- for Cuba is spending lions of dollars automobile traffic from the Unit-| ed States, much of which it expected will pass through Key West. This is the report brought back from the Island Republic by Dr. J. M. Renedo, who has just returned from a visit there of two months. Even Key West- ers are not much more, interest- ed in the Over Seas Highway than’ are the people of Cuba, said the doctor, and officials of the Cuban government are doing everything they can to awaken further in- terest, as they feel that comple- tion of the roadway will mean al- most as much to the business of Tthe island as it will mean to Key, West. Many thousands of per- sons are employed on the Cuban highway working feverishly to complete the roads, said the doc- tor, and 2,000 workmen are em- ployed in the province of Havana. It is the hope that before the highways are completed, ad- equate transportation will be in- augurated between Key West and Cuba for the’ movement of auto- mobiles between the two islands. The four carloads of Kentucky asphalt which arrived recently to be used in repairing Division and {Caroline streets have been uns loaded and the materi. ced in storage until the work tarted, which the city engineer believes will be sometime next week. The city street forces are now engag-| ed in work in front of Bayview) Park. It has not been decided. whether this work will be com- pleted before Division and Caro- many preparing is KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY |Dade county metropolis who owes Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken This the | managing her own affairs. was doubtless good news to ‘much of her phenomenal growth jto having attracted outside enter- {prise and outside capital and is is ill going after them strong. | Mr. and Mrs. William B. Axe report the birth of an eight pound {girl at their home in the rear of 518 nnell The, child has been given name Rose Mary. Of The Citizen put forth their best efforts. to conquer in each game. street. I have heard the name the ney” pronounced several way: Will you inform me throagh your se columns just how the world heavy-| The Florida East Coast Railway weight champion pronounces. his! announces a change in the sched- name? The name ‘Tunney”. is ule of the afternoon train which, pronounced to rhyme with furmy.' beginning September will leave In other words the “u” is short as Key West at 6:30 o’clock instead in “sun” and not long, as in! of 6:45 as it does at this time. “tunar.’”” ——-- Aha Editorial comment: A well} known Key Wester is reported to! Employer—‘Are you have told a party of Miamians re-| young man?” cently that Key West doesn’t need} Applicant—“Oh, no, sir—I'm the advice and assistance of out-'entirely dependent on myself for siders, as is fully capable of support.” matried, OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION C0., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving All Points on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Four round trips weekly direct between Miami and Key West via Diesel Power Boats—with over- night delivery to Key West. Leave Miami at 12:00 o’clock noon on Mon- day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Leave Key West at 8:00 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and of his land. the CIO adopts that line.” (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) ecccececcces Today’s Horoscone Se ceercccccsesccocsseces THE WEATHER Coccccccccccveccccsceses 4 f inoli Today’s native will be inc'ined to rove, but mainly from a desire ; The '83| disposition is unsociable and may Strive to jovercome any peculiarities that .0 Ins. fue 21 Ins. | pats Roe wertod| the moral tone as high as possi- me ible. Careful do a. m.|Much for this degree. Pp. m. BRE p. m,{Arthur to Galveston. A a. m./ance of unknown intensity is |parently forming. in. ‘thé western vig If of ‘Mexico wit’ center at; . about 300 miles south of % Ayiin. ter eaat iaeaih ling “north-northeastwerd. Temperature* 90 Highest 76\ to get away from Lowes Mean Normal Mean Rainfall® Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Precipitati ‘hin redord cavers mm AEN o'clock Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises - 6:14 Sun sets . 6:28 Moon tis' Moon people. become misanthropic. may show thmselves, training will disturb- ap- Tomorrow's Tides High § Low s § Barometer reading at 8 a ind Sea level, 29.96. . rthir, Texas, probably mov- WEATHE r FORECAST i Pressure ig moderately low this - ‘morning over far tions, and tively low in Atlan- tic and Gulf coast districts; while the northern high pressure Ohio Valley, jand overspreads most of the re- mainder of the country. Light scattered showers have occurred during the last 24 hours from the southern Plains States east- ward to the Appalachian region and in Minnesota and the extreme eastern Lake region and there chave also been light to moderate |showers in portions of Florida and on the Texas coast. Tempera- tures have fallen from the south ern Lake region southward into the Gulf 2 western sec- (TiN 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, with local showers Saturday; gentle to moderate winds, mostly northeast to east. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with local showers Saturday, Jacksonville and t Gu erate winds to east and weather tonight with local showers Saturday} Jacksonvill te Slorida Strnits and East Gulf:~ Gentle to thod- erate winds mostly northeastg to and partly overcast weagher d Saturday with stat- tered showers. area is crested over the to Florida Straits Gentle to mod- mostly northeast partly overpast and Satuflay ates, and are 10 to 18 degrees below normal in many loca'ities from the Plains State: to the Ap rian region, with light frost reported this morning ‘in southern Michivan, Elsewhere ! atures are generally near normal G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge WEATHER CONDITIONS Northeast disy ing « on the torm warnin; 10 this were porn and tem na coast, Lovisia a st from A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. These Cheques, issued in convenient deuomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 and $100, cost only 75c. for each $100 purchased. They are spendable wherever travelers go, and carry the added and ant feature of a prompt refund by the Am- Express Company in case of loss or theft Ask the impor erica before your second signature is affixed. Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insuren-s Corpers iline streets activities are started. Some delay would be caused by moving the equipment back and forth, so the engineer may decide to finish the present work before taking up the other schedule. The city is very anxious to have the, streets in the neighborhood or the park in presentoble condition, as many tourists are expected to use that section of the city when ar- riving. } Sunday. SESE = NEES Three round trips weekly via Trucks and Boat: Leave Key West at 8:00 o’clock A. M. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Leave Miami 7:30 A. M. on Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday. Daily (except Sunday) Service via motor trucks —Miami to Lower Matecumbe and return—serving all intermediate points on Florida Keys. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Full Cargo Insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 The Monroes will take part in a double header tomorrow at the barracks, and a game of baseball full of excitement. is expected. The opposing team in the ni game will be The Regulars and in, the second game the Monroes will | be opposed by the Service team.! All players are rearing to go and the Monroes, it is expected, will ——— a i (ie. d CF OLS hh bedded WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE LUMBER. LUMBER THAT DEFIES THE WOOD WORM. AND ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OF CYPRESS LUMBER AND MOULDINGS, FROM SILLS AND STUDS TO THE SMALLEST OF MOULDINGS — ASK US; WE'LL BET WE HAVE IT. WE WILL BE MORE THAN GLAD TO HELP YOU ESTIMATE THE COST OF ANY JOB Phone---598 CYPRESS LAWN FURNITURE—MADE ENTIRELY OF CYPRESS AND WILL STAND UP UNDER THE SE- VEREST OF WEATHER. BENCHES, SINGLE CHAIRS, DOUBLE CHAIRS, AND CHAIRS FOR CHILDREN— $3.00 and up LAWN MOWERS 1 1 i | GARDEN HOSE This hose is made of the best quality solid black rubber a good be lawn Keep your trimmed with Biue Ribbon Law 16” blades, wheels— Remember, Mower has watered — lawn te EACH WITH RUBBER TIRES SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Streets Phone 595 a BS de 25 FEET 50 FEET $12.25 15.00 See eee eee rere rtititertirttiwttttzgztzzgitiLias eet ee tA ttt tte tit eet ttettetttttgiidzettipiék