The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 27, 1937, Page 2

PAGE bu The Key Wiest Citizen Published Daily rept Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUB! HING CO., INC, . ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager rom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Figrida Member of the Associated Press Ihe 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. One Year ... Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on | application. {CIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of reBpect, 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 publish anonymous communi- cations. Nobody loves a dictator, times the stenographer. does,,: but i some- a. voice. a. atin “Hugo Black,” commande Instead he paled and weht w ee Vice President Garner iw being boom- ed and groomed for the 1940 presidentia: race. He should garner many a vote for his party. The best cigar in the world is the kind you like to smoke. No one can success- fully dispute that statement. The same goes for cigarettes, : Vagrants, crooks, racketeers and— hurricanes are undesirables, and not want- ed in Key West, though these have been singularly loathe to visit us in the past. Thousands are contemplating a trip to Key West once the road to the main- land is completed. For their own con- venience and ours, let’s hope they do not all decide to come at the same time. It seems that O. O. McIntyre cannot réfrain from his phobia of diminutizing or rapping at anything concerning Key West. Sailing from Key West to Galveston, he writes of “our slim passenger list on a list- ing tub.” Evidence that fish have a mentality similar in every important category to that of man, has been resented by Professor James Gray, eminent Cambridge Univer- sity zoologist. Another reason why so many people are ¢alled “poor fish.” Key West is a warm and_ healthful place in winter for the ‘desirable visitor, but we have an air-conditioning apparatus that will make it “hot” and unhealthy for the undesirables; ‘fhevarea off th disse City is limited and there is no rgontifer the pr fruitless cPook. efforts to secure separation from South Florida by a canal. Were this project not fraught with danger to the soil in its vicinity, we would be tempted to acquiesce in the digging of the canal; provided the state would be divided into two political entities—North and South Florida. Ste tet North Florida persists in Sears, Roebuck & Co. spent $10,548,- 877 on newspaper advertising during 1936. Many small town merchants will say why KEY WEST, BE PREPARED! In view of the news that filters back into Key West from practically every place on the mainland that Key West vaca- tionists have visited, it would appear that the need of the hour Paul Revere to drive a sound-truck up and down our streets and spread the news that not only “The British are coming!’ but that practically every other’ variety of the genus homo that can raise the fare, is on , : ‘ is another its way. We understand that the Chamber ©: Commerce has put:in a good many hours and invested in a good many postage stampsin the process of creating a desire in distant peoples to share with us the in- imitable winter climate of Key West; with more than average success. Which is very good as far as it goes. But it will fall very much short of go- ing far enough if all our energies are ex- pended upon sending out warm, hospitable invitations to such an exient that we for- get to set the table, get the spare room ready and generally prepare to receive company. Certainly, the invited guests who take us at our word and then-find that they must seek repose on a park Jyench be- cause all our rooms are full, is “fipt going to like Key West very much. There was a pretty good reason for that reluctance to spend money, not so very long ago; a reason which no longer exists, as money is being made available through such agencies as have been oper- ating in other parts of the state and the use of which accounts in a large measure for Miami’s marvellous building activity. With the relief afforded tax payers by the recent action of the city and county, there is no reason why the many fine houses, now in a state of useless dis-repair should not be restored to. honored useful- ness and become a source of revenue to their owners and added attractions to that great number who are regarding Key West as a possible place of permanent residence. The Citizen has given generously of its space to promote the success of the Chamber of Commerce, regarding as_ it does a live Chamber of Commerce as a corner-stone in the structure of a modern community. Consequently, it feels that it is in a position to contribute suggestions as well as assistance, and it sounds this note of warning and advice to that organiza- tion and urges it to impress upon its mem- bers the fact that issuing invitations places upon the party doing the inviting the obli- gation of being in shape to make good when the invitation is accepted. Let’s make the desirable part of the population of the United States welcome. Fine. And let us see to it that when they leave Key West, as many of them must, that they leave with genuine regret that they could not stay longer. But, let us issue no universal wel- come. There are the denizens of the un- der-world, rich and poor, who follow the tourist lines of travel as a weasel follows the trail of a rabbit. Let us make it pretty well understood that our guests are under our protection and that the unhealthiest climate in all the world for a crook is. the famous climate of Key West. PROBABLY Crumbling prices have the Wall Street experts puzzled because*they can find no adequate reasons for the break in the mar- ket. Blamed on war and war scares the sit- uation is not so easily explained, Aug was the best industrial and the activity curve is upward. August since 1929, You an Nation’s A housing bill was passed in the last few hours of the recent session of Congress. The bad condition of the living quarters available to a con- siderable part of the popula- tion is a subject that readily arouses sympa- thyandconcern, Despite the bad state of the fed- eralfinances, many who are alarmed over the general fis- cal outlook are willing that further federal borrowing and spending be authorized for the purpose of financing this worthy project. The significant fact appears to be that a public subsidy will be required if an adequate supply of cheap houses is to be provided. And the construc- tion costs must be kept down, for the prospective tenants of these houses are capable of earning only moder- ate or low wages, hence the new housing must bé available to them at rentals that they can afford, if the social objectives of the program are to be achieved. The necessity of the subsidy is therefore conceded on all sides. Few persons have paused to con- sider, however, all of the reasons why a subsidy is required, or why, at least, it must be as high as it is likely to be. One of these reasons is high land values, and it will always be en- countered when urban slum clearance is involved. This element of cost can be diminished if greater attention is given to suburban development, a policy that will be attended by all of the other advantages that follow ur- ban decentralization. While the matter of land costs ts recognized, little is being said about another item of cost, which will be encountered wherever the building d Your Affairs ‘Some Housing Costs By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University is done, This is the Jabor situation in the building trades, It is strongly unionized, which is not of itself an ob- jection. But it is no secret that the building trade unions have a strangle ‘hold on the industry, and this is ob- jectionable. The combination of wage rates, output and hours limitations, conditions of union member$hip, and jurisdictional jealousies, constitutes a tremendous handicap to a building boom, It is, in fact, an unbeatable combination, and a very material part of the public subsidy that will be paid to stimulate and promote the desirable goal of housing reform will be a subsidy to the labor monopoly that now controls and restricts build- ing, while it raises the cost to an in- ordinate level. There is little hope of breaking this monopoly. If it could be done, how- ever, by persuading the building trade workers of the advantage to them that would follow from the stimulus to building through lower unit costs, everybody would gain. We could get much lower cost housing. The public subsidy and the taxes to carry it, would be much less. The building trade workers would have steadier employment, and better annual wages than they now receive under the fancy hour rates that throttle all but the most essential, or the most specu- lative construction. It has always seemed strange that these workers have not grasped the essential fact, which is the gain in wages from steadier employment when wage rates and other conditions are so adjusted as to make such em- ployment possible. It has also been beyond understanding why they tol- erate, as they do, the wasteful tie-ups occasioned by their long, silly and usually futile jurisdictional disputes. Here is a great field for some tactful missionary work. It is very strange indeed that the President, Senator Wagner and the other friends of more and cheaper housing are so shy about undertaking this useful missionary activity. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE W Temperature* Highest a! 85) Lowest ... | Mean é Normal Mean Rai Precipitation pitation Yesterday’ .0 Ins, Normal Pre ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 6:18 Sun Moon ris Parometer reading at 8 a. mi: Sea level, 29.91 “Thigh press “jover the WEATHER FORECAST = | (Till 7 K era'ly moderate _norther! Florida 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) | West and Vicinity: Gen-! fair tonight and Tuesday; winds. | Generally fair tonight! and Tyesday | Jacksonville to Florida Straits! and East Gulf: Moderate north-} erly winds and partly overcast) weather tonight and Tuesday. WEATHER CONDITIONS ie . A slight disturbance has | de jveloped in the Atlantic about 300 miles off the north Florida coast, and is attended by to 30-mile squal’s. It. will lik in A Soothin |For itch Sufferers Several ay valued mediciues | are so combined as to make Imperial Lotion a most trustworthy reward |in joyfully relieving the itching of eczema, rash, tetter, ringworm and | common itch. Two sizes, 35c, $1.00. ! 2 iy increase Reward EATHER intensity and move northward, and northeast storm warnings were ordered this morning on the North Carolina coast. A strong high crested this morning pressure area, over the "Jeustern, Lake region — overspreads most of the eastern portion of the country and southwestward over the Gulf States, and another re area is moving in far Sertawget: while pressure ig ‘mmnderately, fow from central Canada southWeéstward to the Mexican border and over Cali- fornia. Showers have occurred dyring the last 24 hours on the’ middle Gulf coast and in portions of Florida, being heavy at Miami, 1.47 inches. There has a'so been light to moderate rain in portions of the Appalachian region, upper ississippi Valley, and northern Ro Temperatures are below normal this morning throughout the greater part of the country, being 12 degrees below on the middle Gulf co and light frost was reported in western Pennsyl- vania and New York. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge In the Center of the Business and Theater District —Popular Prices— First Clase Fireproof —Sensible Rates— A Service for Travelers KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Colonel Charles Lindbergh may come to Key West in January or \February. After completing his present tour of the United States which will bring him to Jackson- ville, the famous. flyer is con- sidering another trip’ which will take him to “Mexico, Cuba,! Panama, and many other South and Central American cities. If this trip materializes, as the colonel himself forecasts, there is said to be little likelihood of this city’s not seeing him. Havana is sure to be visited’ by the famous combination ‘‘we”’ of the southern ltour is made, and it is practically certain that the take off will be from here, it is pointed out. There is no chance the managers of Colonel Lindbergh’s present have said, of its being changed,’ but there is every possibility of! the trip to the South American countries being made. | Once more Key West has_ not only led the state in exports, but has shipped out of the country more goods than al] other cities combined. The customs service report, just issued out of the dis- trict headquarters in Tampa, shows that during July the value of all goods shipped out of Florida as exports, had a value of $5,681,053. Goods shipped from this port alone during the }same period had a value of $3,- 185,809. This makes Key West’s, exports not only equal to those from the rest of the state com- bined, but gives her a surplus for} the month of $290,883 over all! her sister cities put together. t Joseph Johnson, of this city, is experimenting with a tree which} he hopes will free Key West of mosquitoes. That Indian Key and Bamboo Key are free of mos- quitoes is a fact well known to all who are familiar with conditions on the Florida Keys. Not even} one mosquito has ever been seen on either of these Keys, so far as can be learned, although islands in close proximity to these are’ ‘swarming with the pests. Editorial comment: Well, with! the hurricane season almost half} gone, Key West hasn’t seen enough wind to frighten even the veriest land lubber. | The entertainnient given last night at the Catholie Women’s Club was pronounced a decided success. There was a large at- tendance and the announced pro- DOMESTIC Gallon . Gallon CLIMATIC gram was carried out. games which followed the follow- ing were prize winners. Mrs. Clif- . ford G. Hicks, Mrs. Tom Galla- gher, Mrs. L. R. Warner and Paul Thomas. The negro woman whose body was cut in twain by a_ train the Florida East Coast Railway at Coconut Grove, Carey. Justice of The Peace Roberts and Deputy Sheriff Dal- bert Bethel, who went to Is- lamorada_ to found indications that the woman had been to a place where moon- shine was dispensed, that drank too freely and dropped in a trip stuper on the track. Four trains uth Florida Paint Specials Get Em While They SOUTH FLORIDA SP KEYS OUTSIDE W OUTSIDE WHITE, DOMESTIC FLAT WHITE, MASTER PAINTER'S PASTE, (Add, Gallon of Linseed Oil to Galion i MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 19871 passed over befoye the body wag \ | found. : Mrs. A. D. Luethi, 1119 Von Pfister street, entertained a few friends last evening, honoring Mrs. Harry Gregory of Miami, who h is a visitor in Key West. Flinclj In the card) as the main diversion. Refresh, ments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Blondon Goeh- ring, 617 Whitehead street, an? nounce the birth of a daughter last Friday in the home. The new arrival weighed eight pounds. Alexander . Tchermadieff, Corsair, Switzerland, and Miss Carmen Cadenas, of Havana, Cuba, arrived in the city yester- day afternoon and were married in the office of County Judge Hugh Gunn, Peace Justice Rogelio Gomez officiating. The couple left on the evening train for an extended wedding tour. They will return to Havana later and theré make their home, of of was “Millie” This report was made by Frank 0. investigate. They she OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., 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. 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