The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1937, Page 2

. ” verses PAGE TWO The Key West Citiz itixen | Only Daily Newspaper in En ily Except Sunday N PUBLISHING CO., Published I Sitizen Building Corner and Ann Street Key County. tered at Key West, —4— F lorida, SIXTH YEAR By INC. ts West and Monroe s second class matter 1h, Member of the Associated Press © Associated Press is exclu vely entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or fot StherWise credited in this paper and also t he local news poblished. here: Une Six Fe SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year S z vee Months Months onth . Weekly $10.00 ADVERTISING RATES ‘Made known on application, All reading notic res) the Notices for ente 4 revenue is to b The sio1 int cat PECIAL NOTICE pect, obituary notices, rate of i0 cents a line. in’ rived 5 cents a Citizen is an ope n of public issues and a forum a ions. line. , cards of thanks, resolutions of ete., will be charged for at ents by churches from which d invites discus- cts of local or general rest but it will not publish anonymous communi- 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 | afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gen o: the mouthpiece of any person, clique, | public welfare; _faction or class; always do its utmost for the 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 and not ontaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. Labor continues to assume a striking attitude. go yo ler If we fail to keep peace, we will all to pieces. Candidates ur preference? or candy dates, which is An tishitsn in Key West thinks Hit- is Stalin Mussolini's stuff. A good cigar is a cigar you like, no matter what the so-called connoisures say it is. A good many believe Pr sident Roose- velt will not. choose to run for ex-President be 1940. Newspaper editors have tough hides; if they were thin-skinned their life would too miserable to bear. Each issue of a newspaper m akes friends and enemies; so long as the friends outnumber the enemies, the paper is a suc- cess, Ke im are the seas. na sid fact in upholding the All over the nation people are talking y West, while in Key West, minence of the road’s talking turkey. Onee pir “Cease,” the say cons nie tions or take a Admittedly, the Wagner ed—it puts responsibilities ds upon employers, and Act with completion, is of few the we y engaged jn its nefarious} traffievon the-seas;now-itpperates under | determined ; ences. one many { upon The Supreme Court referred to this Act, but said there was nothing in the Constitution to prevent Congress from passing a one-sided law. foll ex an bo ows, therefore, that the ly if d permanent success,—and th Act tensive revised employer and employee. must It be it is to achieve real justice to MILEAGE GRAFT of “honest and One of the oldest forms graft’ pocketed by state legislators is called mileage. national Thus other- wise honorable men who make the laws help themselves to other people’s- money. It is a practice usually winked at kept within reason. at the end of last year tried to mileage weekly from June till December, when no meetings of the House were held, That was pushing a The fake ia protest was raised. good thing too far. claim Plain Dealer, the pleas threw the claim out, denying the argument common could not go back of the record; session mem- | record showed the House was in and therefore it was, although the bers remained at home law, or practicing weighing sugar at the general store milking cows. The newspaper adds: “Judge Reyolds took the view regardless of legal fictions in the ~ House journal, if that body was not-4 with the members physically was not in session; that if mem TS did not travel between their homes and Colum. bus once a week, each way, they “Were-not entitled to payment for such travel. “Such is the proper ending of a pretty story. It should be the last time Ohio leg- islators try doctoring the books for per- sonal profit.” WAR WITHOUT DEATHS? The use of acetyl] choline as war- making chemical is advocated as a step to make war less barbarous. Used in com- bat it would cause soldiers to drop uncon- scious to the ground where they captured in large numbers. be no deaths and no after effects. While this might be a wonderful idea for breaking through the enemy lines it is questionable whether wars can be _ satis- factorily concluded through such a_large- scale capture of opposing forces. After a few heavy engagements the number of prisoners might be more than the soldiers in action and the task of taking care them might stagger the humanitarian in- stincts of combatant nations, With both sides capturing troops by the thousands the tendency would be to use them as workmen behind the lines and, in time, this would degenerate into a form of slavery that might not end with the war. Besides, what is the use of fighting if you cannot kill your a of enemies? DEMOCRACY JUSTIFIED While-the world at large may con- sider that problems of war and peace, of- fered in Europe and Asia, are serious the people of the United States realize that really serious questions are about to pre- sent themselves to the citizens of this re- public. It won't be long now before baseball championship will be to termined and when this grave matter disposed of the brains of the nation have its attention focused upon the a be @e- 2 is will col- mythical national crown. Moreover, is the matter of the personnel of the Star elevens to be revealed. That democracy is able to solve these puzzling problems without resort to civil warfare is a complete answer to the Hit- ler-Mussolini that republi are incapable of adequately determining { the solution of serious and perplexing na- All- declaration | tional issues. CAREFUL HUNTERS is about United Now that the hunting seasor to get under way throughout the be well to remind of The Citizen of the dangers inherent in | the hunting season Scores of nimrods are cut year through the States it might down every premature discharge of handled. Other tims fall a prey to the nervous hunter who shoots at the bushes weapons, carelessly vie- that move rather than t game in full view. Those who hunt this fall might save their own observ i might and winter es by ly In bystar rigore addition, th ders. ing safety codes. spare innocent w hen | But when members of the Ohio House ; collect | was | resisted and the matter was taken to court. | Recently, according to the Cleveland | court | of former Speaker Bittinger that the court i that the | that, | i ‘Session | sent, _ it ; could be | There would | i new legiate elevens that cavort weekly for the | there | readers | ey; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘You and,Your, | Nation's. Affairs Advantages of Competition By ELIOT JONES Professor of Transportation and Public nae Stanford University production a reward roughly in ac- cordance with its economic worth. These forces work imperfectly, to be sure. Thus it would be absurd to maintain that in a competitive regime all groups of laborers are paid exactly what they are worth. It would be absurd, also, to maintain that the re- wards of labor are always ample. But would their real wages be higher under any other system that might be substituted? Competition promotes efficient op- eration and technical progress. In 8 competitive society enterpreneurs are alert to devise and apply improved methods of operation, and to introduce mechanical inventions and technical discoveries. They have ample incen- tive to invent new processes, to per- fect known ones, and to eliminate waste, because their costs of opera- tion are thereby reduced, and their profits increased. Competition leads to lower prices and better quality (or service). The reduction in costs resulting from in- creased operating and technoiogica! efficiency leads to lower prices and better quality. In the long run the consumer gets most of the benefit of improved methods and technological advance. Competition has proven ‘tremen- dously effective in incréasing the ag- gregate of wealth, and thus the.real income of the community. The period since the Industrial Revolution -a period characterized by active ¢om- petition—is notable for such an out- pouring of goods as has never before been witnessed in history, an outpour- ing so great from the standpoint of quantity and variety as to permit an ordinary workingman to live better than kings once lived. Truly the com- petitive order is a potent conjuror Se worldly goods! Cémpetition gives producers an in- centive to anticipate the wants of consumers. The wants of the people are many and varied, and the rewards of industry go to the producers who | are alert to satisfy them. Finally, competition’ gives the con- sumer a considerable measure of freedom in the choice of goods, and thereby satisfies a deep-rooted human instinct. In these troublous times it is often | said that the competitive system has | broken down, and that some other system must be substituted. The com- petitive system has its imper- fections, of course, but it has so many ad- vantages that we should not : lightly discard \ ie 4 it unless we ee 3 have reasonable assurance that some other sys- tem would work better. The advan- tages of compe- tition may be briefly listed. Competition serves as a means of social selection; | harges the function of deter- } mining the place that each person | shall occupy in the economic order. If “all the world’s a stage,” competi- tion is a device for assigning the parts to the players. The process of selec- tion works for institutions, of course, as well as for Individuals. “i ripetition’ Serves also as a regu- lator of prices. The competition of producers to sell tends to keep prices | down, and the competition of con- surfers tovbay tends to keep prices up. Competition among the sellers may berralied pen. to protect con- sumers from exploitation; competition among the buyers may be relied upon to assure producers adequate profits. Competition determines the amount of laber, capital, and land to be used in each industry, and by each pro- ducer in the industry. If there exists a state of free enterprise. in which manufacturers are allowed to com- pete with one another for the agents of production, labor, capital, and land will be employed as a rule to produce the goods that the people de- mand, thereby promoting the public welfare. Competition is a method of fixing the rewards of the several agents of production—labor, capital, land, and ente: se. Under competition. more- over, there are forces at work that tend to give each of the agents of (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen There will be by traffic to the big crowd which will assemble on the block in front of The Cittzen tonight to hear the returns from the Demp- sey-Tunney World Championship fight, which will be sent y. the Associated Press from Chicago. The Citizen appealed to Mayor |Leslie Curry yesterday afternoon and he announced that from 9:30 until the battle is over, traffic ‘will be kept off of Duval street, between Greene and Front. This twill keep the crowd from having to be broken up at intervals and allow interest to be centered on the fight returns. Tonight's per- formance will start about 9:30 o’clock and from that time on until the finish of the fight, tele- grams will be read giving each activity of the fighters and the blows struek in this great battle. The public, generally, is invited Ho be present, Ba tans Se John Casconéjiyanted in Key West /on A charge of embezzling {yrds tg; the amount of $900, re- ceipts from a sale of fish at this [port’goure months’ ag arrived \this morning from Pensacola in leustody « Sheriff Cleveland Niles. Cascone is alleged to have {brought a cargo of fish to Key West and sold it to a local firm |for $1,500. It is that no interference yesterday swallowed two le of mercury tablets, with sui- cidal intent, is resting well today, according to the report of her physician. Ammediately af the tablets, were taken sh cet iaghed | to a hospital ‘where ach | was reliéved less’ than ta ‘nfighates! after the act. The tablets, Pere taken immediately after & theal and that was the real reason why they had no time to act, Rupert Knowles, well known promoter of Knowles: “Thirty Acres” announced today he would reopen his boxing camp for the youngsters of Key West, begin- ning next Tuesday, and has sent out an S. O. to all the s. young of the event. Directors’ of the “Key West Rotary Club held a mgeting last [night at the home of J. Kirchheiner, a member of the or- ganization. The report of Robert Spottswood, who attended the dis- trict meeting at made his proposition for of the an ceptance report, which was done. Mrs. Eliz the owners of the Gift Shoppe, Fleming street, an extended trip ing which she chases of beautiful of on a Soderberg, one from st dur- has returr the ¢ ™ reported firm Pensacola against him on the market in Key t, and that he lacked $900 of the sum. The prisoner his guilt riff t seemed interested in the time would have The f said that ng of Ca: and his extreme, n advised his in luck wes fall and winter Horoscope turning in did not deny Nile ea Today's the wife length of | serve he she high'y temper com in the and scenes pec sheriff took sone his babe ) average has learned. bichlo-| scrappers in the city telling them, Otto! Jacksonville, | ace, t Temperature* Highest | Lowest Mean Normal Mean .......... Rainfall* Yesterday's Precipitation rmal Precipitation - | “Thin record covers 24-hi K at § o'clock | Tomorrow's A i Sun rises .. m. Sun sets - m.} Moon rises . m. | Moon sets nee Autumnal Equinox | 1 (Autumn _— com- mences) 23rd. 6:13 a Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High --11:58 Low S 5:25 i Barometer reading at 8 a. m. aa Sea level, 29.96. WEATHER FORECAST = { (Till 7:30 p.m y { | Key West and i Fair} tonight; Thursday partly cloudy with light scattered gentle easerly winds. Florida: Partly cloudy ss light scattered showers ‘Thursday |p and on the east coast tonight. | Jacksonville to Florida Strait; Gentle to moderate easterly winds! and partly overcast weather to- night and Thursday with scatte: ed showers. East Gulf: Gentle ea: and paxtly overcast weather night and Thursday. -79 Mj 234] 5 WEATHER CONDITIONS A strong high pressure area,! crested this morning over the} {north Atlantic States, overspreads| jmost sections from eastern Can-} ada ithward over the Gulf, while pressure is low over! western districts, except the! north Pacifie States, and a low} {pressure area of considerable in-; extends from central Can-! southward into the extreme upper Mississippi Valley. Fair} ther prevails throughout most} tions of the country this morn-! , the only measurable precipi- | [tation dering the last 24 hours! | being light to moderate showers! jon the east coast of Florida, and} rain in portions of Montana, North! Dakota, Arizona and New Mexico.) Temperatures have risen in the! Plains States and Mississippi Val-! ley, but continue somewhat below! normal jn eastern districts, Max- imum temperatures above 90 de-} grees were reported yesterday in many localities in the PI States and Mississippi Valley, with readings of 94 to 96.deg in , Minnesota, and 100 deg at | Shreveport, La. z S S i ! Hi To put a coat TAP PLPELAAL ELL LL LL 2 é g5 | Southern editor,. lawyer, .82}man and college president, born} lat Augusta, Ga. showers; | ~ 1934. Hl a tourist season coming on, You, with spare rooms should decide The walls where you reside. Yes, Rent. These rooms will bring a tidy sum. If they are pleasant and clean. And with extra money we all have fun. No need to say what else we mean. SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937. Today’s Anniversaries tus B. Cel clergy-} Died at Oxford,} , 1870. | = | 1791—Michael Faraday, famed) English chemist-physicist, _born.! Died Aug. 25, 1867. s., July 9. 1798—Marshal P. Wilder, Bos-! ton merchant, agriculturist, and first citizen of his day, born at, Rindge, N. H. Died Dee. 16, 1886. | 1833—Stephen D, Lee, Confed- vate lievtenant-general, ‘Missis- planter, college president, at Charleston, S.C. Died 28, 1908. jout the only thing that Eph’ Watts, local Inventor, can’t make le both ends meet. Looks t’me like peaceful picket+ ing Is the kind that’s done when the cops are around, sippi born May William B. York = mining manufacivrer, who established the Solway process of manufac-} turing soda here, born at Oswego, ' Y. Died June 1921. 8. New LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Business ind Theater District 4, 1853—Hugh L. Scott, Indian fighter, army chief of staff, born —Popular Prices— at Danville, Ky. Died April 30, ere Erics First Class Fireproof —Sensible Rates— Elevator —_ i 1879—W. Forbes Morgan,! 1936 Democratic national trees- urer, born in New York. Died at!) O., April 29, 1937, | Garage 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 denomi- 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 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 Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | \ of paint upon Phone 598 SILSLIOLIIIDIILILILI DS.