The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1937, Page 2

i a visit, ee eee PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen been begrer By Business Manager en Building Corner Gre: and Ann Streets Only Daily apeper, in Key West and Monroe Member of the A Whe Associated Press is excl * tor’ republication of all new it or not otherwise credited in this’ paper and also the local news published here. spatches credited to SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... a See eS Six Months . Three Months me Month eekly ~. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE by churches from which e is to be derived are 5 cents a line. All reading noti cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary no c., Will be charged for at tizen is an ope forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous commupi- Let as-hope thatthe hurricanes which have for.so,long, prolonged their absence Secretary Barly, siretir imminent, the rate of i0 cents a 1 i estions. from these«shores, «donot 8 White House secretariat is . well as a white one, to be worn according war’; but. has war ever any victories, al- | t for entertainm though no definite date has been set. At any rate it will be Early. Justice Black now has a black role as to circumstance and advantage. Yet the bard said there was nothing in a name. “Peace hath her victories no less than ways there is defeat for a brother nation. We desire no victories but those of peace. In looking over'the records, we find that no man with violent prejudices in his heart against any race or against any reli- gion has ever sat on the Supreme Court of the United States. never be broken!) May that proud record The Citizen has always considered its paper carriers as ‘“‘little’ merchants.” <A North Carolina judge has recently ruled that carrier boys who buy newspapers for delivery are “sales agents” rather than employees of newspaper publishers, Georgia and Massachusetts have all along claimed the distinction of being the first to use ether as an anasthetic. This we know as a fact, Dr, Long of Georgia used it in 1842, while the Massachusetts doctor is first heard of using it 1844. Does that prove anything? ‘in John L. Lewis, in his 4 speech, oMteaea Presiden Roosevelt for hayin, ed. at, 8 fable” and not pend eta teR et wie Perhaps the food served gaye.thePresident indigestion, or Lewis, ghar ed. too,much for the meal. But levity aside—no president has done more for labor-than Roosevelt. The in- gratitude emanates from Lewis. recent radio Roosevelt reminds one of a_ baseball fan who is snugly satisfied whenever the umpire’s decision is in his favor, but vio- lently opposed to any decision against his favorites. The President has no criticism of the Supreme Court when it decides, fa- verably, even by one vote, what cherishes, but it is an evil power when it disagrees with his views. The Greeks may not have a name for this, but Amer- icans have. he we With the passing of Thomas Garrigue | Masaryk, the world has lost a great states- | man. He was the first | president of} Czechoslovakia, and under his presidency | that country became the most prosperous | and respected new state in Central Europe. | He openly acknowledged the part the | United States played in the creation of the} new republic. Masaryk patterned Czecho-! slovakia after this country: its Constitu-| tion and laws, its government, and its business methods follow closely those of the United States. If there were more | Masaryks, there would be fewer dictators, | and the world would have been made safe j for democracy. i even } a great deaf to dp with’ ‘the Sp | fare. ; authorities that apprehended her. itraining rests largely FLIRTING WITH DEATH It is an amazing fact that the appal- ling number of deaths and injuries which result from sheer carelessness make no greater impression upon the average per. son. This is especially true with respect ; to drivers of automobiles. * | Persons who are ordinarily careful in | protecting their health and property often throw, discretion to the winds the moment | they grasp. the whee] of a motor.car,and:; flirt with death through failing’ to ‘obse¥ve'! the most elementary principles of safety. I They will take a chance at a/ grade} crossing, speed while rounding a —blind | curve, pass oth@¥’tars “unt@P™tanyerews” conditions, and do other foolish_ things | which menace life and limb—seemingly | oblivious to the fact that one slight mistake | of judgment may prove fatal to them or to! those who happen to be passengers in their cars, The jaywalker is equally reckless,, taking the chance of being run down for | the sake of saving a few steps or a mo- ment’s time. In fact, many pedestrians are even more careless than the aver-| age motorist. Safety education has been the means of reducing accidents to some slight ex- tent, but the lamentabl@afact remains that no amount of warning: has any appreciable effect upon the majority/of people. , The result is tha€$7,000 or more per- | sons are killed and about.a million are in- | jured in automobile accidents in the | United States every year, while at least 90 per cent of these casualties might be averted by the use of ordinary common sense. UP-TO-DATE ADVICE TO READERS Every once in a while we have to | carry out the time-honored custom of news! paper editors and pass some advice along to the unsuspecting readers of these; columns. | It is always a question of importance | to determine upon what subject the! thought shall be addressed. In reviewing the field today we find most problems set- tled by what others have written or said and we are forced to select from a very restricted range in an effort to get some- thing novel, Most of our’ readers have their owr opinions and stand ready to take issue with any editor who dares to treat them lightly. We have no such idea. In fact, just for a change we are going to suggest that the reader is quite correct, that his or her conclusions are eminently sound and should not be upset by anything written. This last sentence, as you see, applies | equally to all opinions regardless of what [ they might be and that is a good feature ; of any smart editorial. It is always good to write something that will please every- } body. In fact, we have rarely accom- plished this and take some pride in the} belief that we have now done so. In conclusion, therefore, we urge all readers to hold fast to whatever opinions they have formed on any subject — that} they have thought about, regardless _ of whether there is any basis for the idea or } nob j It is nobody’s business what you be- | lieve, least’ of all the business of a news- ||y overcast weather tonight 4 }Satarday with occasional showers, paper editor who probably knows little about your mental powers much less your psychie potency. NO YOUTH-CRIME THERE j Judge Malcolm Hatfield of St. Joseph, | Mich., recently called attention to the fact | that in the countries of Norway, Denmark | and Sweden, there is no juvenile delin-! quency, as child crime does not exist there. | Parents are so alert to their duties and re- sponsibilities that no juvenile courts are required. The Scandinavian countries are 98 per cent Lutheran, gnd/| the influence of that Church. "A —_ id eatly | | Ihe | laws or} the children. sii bad examp— set by a parent influence child to conjmit theft. It appears that j child and her mother were riding on a bus} and when the driver came to collect the} fares, the child heard her mother falsify the former's age in order to ride at half- This dishonest act shortly there-j; after influenced the child to steal from a ten-cent store, the training re@ived by juris according to juvenile Juve-} nile delinquency can be prevented, but parents have a distinct duty to perform in this respect, as responsibility for the child’s | with them, | Highest The Price of Neutrality By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Academy of Political and Social Science | Each day brings new problems to harassed governments, including our own. Just now the most serious for us is the situation in China. Ameri- can trade with China is im. or- tant and Amer- ican citizens have sizable 11- vestments there. At pres- ent there is virtual war be- tween China and Japan. Un- qu estionably we are affected. But what should our government do? Under any conditions the problem would be harassing, but our neutrality law which is designed to keep us from becoming involved in wars between other countries adds immeasurably to the difficultics and the dangers. There are two aspects. First is the fact that the sympathies of the Ameri- can people are undoubtedly with China, This is partly a tendency to take the part of the “under dog” but even more it is a strong conviction fliat there is no legal or moral justifi- cation for the actions of Japan. Slow- | ly but certainly there is developing throughout the world a belief that nation’ should’ be guided in their re- lations with each other by a code similar to that so generally approved for individual conduct. During recent years there have been so many shock- ing violations of this idea that it is easy to become cynical.; Yet there is no doubt that public opinion is strongly against international immo- rality. This widespread conviction makes difficult for our government to apply our neutrality law Not only would a declaration by our Presi- dent that a state of war exists in the the Far East imperil our trade and investments but many would believe that stopping trade with both China and Japan (except on a cash;and carry basis) would injure the fe-mer more than the latter. This tay not be true but the view is widely held, A second aspect is quite different. | A Presidential declaration would es- ness in the United States. One of our most important exports to raw cotton. If our shipments of cot- ton to Japan are stopped or snarply reduced, what will be the attitude of the South? Will the cotton growing areas accept without protest a reduc- tion in the price of cotton which may mean disaster to them? Will they support a general national policy whose costs will be concentrated so heavily upon their chief means of livelihood? Will they not at least de- mand that the rest of us share the losses in some Way, perhaps through a government guarantee of the price of cotton, say through loans:at per- haps twelve cents per pound? And are the rest of us ready to meet through ultimate taxation the loss such loans would bring? Then there are the importers of Japanese products, especially raw silk. A curtailment or cessation of silk imports means trouble for both owners and workers in our silk mills. They may also sk for public as- sistance of some kind. And what is true of exports of raw cotton and im- ports of raw silk is true. of many other lines of business which will suffer if our neutrality law is’applied. Yet it will be difficult for the President to delay much longer in making a dec- laration, unless, of course, there is a sudden change in the situation in Asia. Then too it is by no means clear that in any case the application of our neutrality law will accomplish its purpose which is to keep us out of war. International economic rela- tions are intricate and many doubt as dces the writer whether we can or will remain aloof if any important war starts. We can keep out of a wide- spread conflict only if one does not occur. (Address questions to the author care of this newspuper) THE. WEATHER Temperature* 86 Lowest 78 Mean 3 |Normal Mean 8 Yesterday’s Precipitation =a Precipitation : un rises m. Sun sets Moon rises Moon : Tomorrow's Tides A.M. P.M, squalliness in the Bahamas, Flor- and on the southeast 8 Florida coast. a ida Straits, Another strong i » far western spread Canada, ‘causing decidedly tures in these sections, peciaily injure certain dines of/busi-;.} “ pan isé highs; pressure jarea is crested this morning over and has southeastward over the | Rocky Mountain and Pains States, th low, , tempera- 1 { ij were paid $37,021.66 as balance KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Two sections of Overseas High-; way, totalling about 50 miles in length, were formally accepted by; the: hoard ,of county commission- ers at their regular meeting night. Settlement with the con-} tractors involved payment of} aboyt,$140,000. Jenner Brothers, { due on projects four and five} which “include the road as far! south ‘as the railroad on Upper ‘Matecumbe, which also includes the road on Key Largo. The length over all is about 40 miles. The S. J. Groves Company was) ordered paid $103,294.67 for com- pleting projects seven and eight) over Sugar Loaf and No Name } Keys. This included much extra’ work, the statement shows. The! payment is finished for 15.8 miles! of roadway. Only eight miles on) Lower Matecumbe require to be! finished to complete the road pro- gram of the present. This does}. not include the water gaps, which will be traversed by ferries, nor the Key Largo bridge which is now nearing completion. All Jewish stores in the city will be closed from sundown Mon-! day afternoon: until Thursday) morning, in observance of Rosh Hoshannah, the Jewish New Year season. This period marks the entrance into the year 5688 of the’ Jewish calendar. Neil Scroggins, who is to drill, for water here, will reach this city! tomorrow morning to select a site, for his first test well. Machinery | for drilling is en route to Key} West and the well will be started; as soon as it arrives and can be! set up. Captain Clarke D.! Stearns and Paul Boysen, of the! water board, are in Miami in con-| ference with Mr. Scroggings and/ expeet to complete final details; for the work here. Mr. Boysen and Mr. Seroggins will leave for! | Key West tonight, while Captain Stearns will arrive early next week to help push matters along, The contract means, members of; the board point out, that Mr., Scroggins will at his own xisk sink the wells at Key West. Fail-/ ing to find the quantity required, ‘he will not be paid for the work, | Lighthouse Tender Ivy will be’ e first vessel ir. this section to, be equipped with a radio compass.! with| The Department of Commerce hag last" m, | freezing in portions of the Plateau} authorized the expenditure of $2, -| |States. The westerh Jow pressure 000 to purchase and install the in- | tarea has moved tward to] g————— a jand aS | : eénttal Canada, with a ea Hise os = rsd trotigh of low pressure extending! a eaten Siting at 8 a. wal: southward to Texas, and tempera-| Sea level, 29.91. j tures are above norihal in the bewrsagrasen inks region and Mississippi Va!- p FORECAST, {ey Light to moderate showers :20 p. m., Saturday) |have occurred during the last 24 Partly hours on the middle ,Gulf coast and in Florida. There has also ‘been rain in the upper Mississip- pi Val‘ey, Plains States, and winds northern Rockies, and” it was with oceasional squalls. snowing this morning in western Florida: Partly cloudy: with yontana. ascttered showers Saturday and: The Atlantic hurricane was n the east and extreme south ' central this morning near latitude coasts tonight. /30 north and longithde 55. west, Jacksonville to Florida Straits joving north-novehwaillibr north. ‘ast Gulf; Moderate north-\The center will pass some 500 east to east winds, fresh at times miles gast of Bermbdalduring the in an, oceasional squa'l and most- gay. and Pressure relatively low this| 6 6 §™ southern Bahamas, and abnorm: Liquid - Tablets Col day ly high over the Atlantic States | Salve-Nese Drops Headache 30 minutes, north of (Flor This pressure Try “Rub-My-Tiam”-World’s Best distribution is causing considerable Liniment WEAT (Till 7 Kéy West gtd Vicinity: cloudy with seattered showers to- night and Saturday; moderate to! fresh northeast and east to G: Sak aed EDY, Charge eqnsiderable south portion. 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The radio compass is considered the latest and most ef-, ficient of navigation instruments and it is considered certain that many other vessels will soon be »equipped with the instruments which have been proven so val- uable especially in foggy weather. ing emnity. | uousity. + away from the duties of the class rooms. They expect to retur® early this evening. Editorial comment: Illegal parking of automobiles on paved streets went of fashion immediate- ly, it seems, when it became known the mayor had ordered offenders arrested. Sheriff Niles might well , consider this in connection with parking on the highway bridges. A negro woman has been killed ‘by a train at Islamorada accord ing to reports received at the of ifice of Sheriff Cleveland Nile | Deputy Sheriff Dalbert Bethel and Miss Teresa Ruiz entertained a peace Justice Frank 0. Roberts large number of friends at her jeft on the noon train today to im- j home 933 Fleming street last eve- vestigate. jning. Games were played and re-j freshments served. Dancing was’ Criminal court will resume also enjoyed by the score or more Monday morning with about half of guests. tdozen cases to be heard. John {Cascone, brought from Pensacola Teachers of Monroe County to answer charges of embezzle ‘High School are today enjoying ment, will be tried. Other cases an outing at Sand Key where they are mainly desertion and non- are fishing and enjoying a day ‘support charges. @ Why risk your good money on unknown razor blades? Probak Jr. is the product of the world’slargest blade maker—e blade that “stands up” for one cool, comfortable shave’efter another. You'll be surprised how easily this double-edge blade removes stubborn bristles ... how cool and refreshed it leaves your face. 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