The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By ITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO, EN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets wspaper in Key West and Monroe County, Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press Whe 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year . Six Months Three Months ‘ne 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 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. 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. Advertising thakes the cash register hum, provided it is done in the right way. One of the penalties of a democracy is having to listen to what a lot of poli- ticians think they think. Why call them Irish potatoes when their native habitat is Peru? If there is a , reason this writer doesn’t know it. Pathfinder defines a college graduate ‘as a superior person who is supported by a father who quit at the seventh grade. Some people grumble over the size of their income tax and others wonder how it will feel to have income enough to pay one. Let’s realize that the world would be a rather dull place in which to live if everybody thought and acted exactly alike. Peace is the interim between wars, but cannot an enlightened world change that condition, are we so impotent as all that? Farewell to Arms expresses the senti- ment against war too politely—to hell with them puts over our opposition more ade- quately. Harwich, England, has only 1,910 hours of sunshine in the year, and yet it has more sunshine than any other place in the British Isles. Compare that fact with Key West which has nearly 5,000 hours of sunshine throughout the year. When entering Hollywood, Florida, a sign displays the legend in large letters: “Hollywood, the Friendliest Town on Earth.” Every Key Wester will dispute that statement, and properly so, for far and wide, Key West is known for just that. Certainly there is a free press Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia. It free to print whatever the ruling powers j want printed. It is also free to print ae ever else the editor chooses—but the risk is his, Some take it and that is thesend of| in is WPA SPOILS WORKERS From several states in the South come complaints from farmers that difficulty is| { being experienced in obtaining sufficient labor to pick the cotton crop, and similar difficulties have been reported concerning labor for harvesting elsewhere.. In many sections the WPA is blamed for this sit- uation. Thousands of men who are needed! on the farms are said to prefer to stick to easy WPA! made-work jobs, instead of go- ing into the fields where they would be} ; really useful. rather drasti¢d measures are being taken to | In some parts of the Souta relieve the farm labor shortage. In some cases appeals have been made to the WPA, asking that men refus- ing to accept farm work be denied relief jobs. In others loafers have been rounded up and charged with vagrancy if they re- fuse to work. ‘A dispatch from Dallas says that such measures have been necessary in the lower section of the cotton belt, from the | Rio Grande to Central Texas, where state | relief offices have in some _ instances heeded the demands of farmers by strik- ing men from relief rolls and telling them to pick cotton. There is no doubt that the loose and wasteful practices of the WPA have tend- | ed to demoralize laborers by making them | unwilling to do any real work, as long as the government will provide’ them with soft snaps at the expense of the taxpayers. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen An attempted bit of salesmanship that didn’t take is reported by City Man- ager Robert Flack of Sdn Diego, Calif., who received a letter from a manufac- turer in Davenport, Iowa, who wanted to sell the city a snow-plow. Mr. Flack de- clares that San Diego has had only two light flurries of snow in 100 years. Dr. H. F, Brandt, a University of lowa psychologist, has made tests which show that pictures of near-nude females. are.not effective in advertisements designed to at-, tract the attention of male customers. The men look at he pictures, all right, but don’t read the sales message, he says. An Illinois father’s note to his son’s teacher: “In request of the behalf of my son George if he don’t learn his _ lessons talk fresh back to him, correct him any | old way, take a stick and let him have it, I give the Permit solonge you don’t over- doing it.” Not nore than one-third of the peo- ple in the world eat with a fork, according to a recent estimate. chopsticks, while the rest eat with their fingers. A’ good many, of course, shovel in their food with a knife, A good many readers of an Arkansas paper thought a typographical error had been made when they first glanced at the | headline, “Local Boy Makes Goo.” The article concerned a young man who had obtained a job in a mucilage factory. Federal officials recently made pub- lic a list showing that 32 farmers in country received benefit payments of more than $10,000 each for participating in last year’s soil conservation program. These were mere pikers, however, campared with several big shots who received around i a million dollars. each for not raising crops | | WHEN YOU BUY THE scachocon%e in 1935. A patent has been issued to a St./ About one-third use | the! Nation’s A recent radio address by John L. Lewis should .provide fooc for seri- ous thought. [I reveals issues which should not be missed. For example: (1) What is the Lewis concept of the proper function of our federal and state govemn- ments toward particular groups? (%) What is Mr. Lewis’ concept of the econom- ics of the “labor problem?” (3) What coula be expected if Mr. Lewis were ‘o have his way? 1. Mr, Lewis’ concept of the appropriate function of government is that our govern- ment is under particular obligation to the group or class of people who contributed funds to the campaign war chest of the party elected. It is not the function of our Federal gov- ernment, in Mr. Lewis’ opinion, to be an objective, impartial govern- ment of all the people. This was made clear when he made the amazing statement that “It ill behooves one who has supped at labor’s table and who has been sheltered in labor's | -house to curse with equal ferver and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.” Let us suppose that some employ- ers’ association or the United States Chamber of Commerce had contrib- uted to the “ew Deal campaign chest and had then demanded, as a’ right, that the government grant it the fa- vors it sought. What woulc Mr. Lewis have said to that? 2. The Lewis concept of the .“eco-q } nomics” of the so-called labor prob- lem is simply that of a class struggle. Thus far I have never seen the real economics of the issue presented by Mr. Lewis. He merely takes the posi- tion that laborers as a class are ground down, are underprivileged and should be organized and led into a happier economic condition. He advocates no solution, however, except to fight it out. This approach to the “solution” of such human problems presupposes that force is superior to rationality in attaining justice. All thoughtful people know that such a view cannot be defended. The use of force does not assure justice in the settlement of any problem of human relations. The economics of the issue which Mz, Lewis does not face i. this: What |. ie Inbor’s proper share of the income Gerived from production? What are the principles that should guide in determinin,, labor’s proper share? In cases of dispute, how may a just de- termination be arrived In ortho- dex economics it is assumed that our economic system is a cooperative en- tesprise in which labor. capital, and management must perate. The Lewis view is that our system in- volves a class struggle, and that the solution lies in fighting it out. Such a view does no credit to in- 1800—Spain ceded Louisiana back to France by secret treaty,| Hlest England, with whom France| was then at war, seize Louisiana as} it easily could have. | { 1852—Historic journey of 21- year-old Ezra Meeker and his young bride from the Missouri River in ox-drawn covered wagon Jacross the unchartered West ends at Portland, Oregon—took a year} jays when (Meeker retraced} the } in year 1859—A. and P. Stops started You and Your Affairs The Program of John L. Uewis By WALTER E. SPAHR - Professor of Economics, New York University telligent human beings; it is a rever- sion to the methods of the jungle. Every major aspect of the Lewis ap- proach to this problem is marked by this brand of superficiality. [t re- quires no brains, no thought, no in- telligent leadership to organize a group to fight. The primitive tribes,’ the bad boys in our city alleys, the robber bands, the nations which en- gage in international wars use these tactics. But not many intelligent peo- ple would be willing to say that such methods are a credit to human intel- ligence. Then the question may be asked: Just why should any group in this na- tion take the position that it must use force to have its rights protected? Was not our government designed to protect the rights of all and to legis- late intelligently in behalf of the weak? Why should labor have to fight for its rights if facts are clearly pre- sented to our legislators? Is it to be assumed that our governments can- not be trusted to be just or to legis- late fairly if adequate evidence is placed before them? Intelligent peo- ple must rely upon such machinery for justice, and they must take the position that the attempts of groups to obtain their desires by force w1:: not be tolerated. 3. If Mr. Lewis were to have his way what could the people of this na- tion expr The so-called laboring classes — that is, organized labor in particular—would be in the saddle. What then? Apparently that is a prob- lem to which Mr. Lewis has provided no answer. Would organized labor take over everything and hold all of the people in a state of subjection? Is Lewis a man who views our econom- ic problems iz their entirety, recog- nizing objectively the rights of all classes of our people? As one reads his statements which drip venom and hatred for those of his fellowmen, who do not happen to belong to the class with whose interests he has al- lied himself, it is impossible to believe tha‘ he would protect the rights of others, or that he can view human and national problems in the cold, impar- tial, and objective light that must characterize fine statesmanship. These issues are serious. The Amer- leap people should pender them care- fully. The problems of labor should receive sympathetic consideration and serious attempts should be made to solve them. But these attempts should involve the use of more, rather than less intelligent methods.\The Lewis concepts, procedure, and program cannot possible be classed as intelli- gent devices. In the end they will cause great and unnecessary suffer- ing for this nation. Laborers should not have to be subjected to this sort of unintelligent approach to the solu- tion of their problems. | The President provided the correct answer when he said that “He £204 ference le “must eventual ke the place of the strike,” and that “ours as a people is the duty to maintain tude based on sanity and ‘rea- ‘to work for that happy consum- mation where bitterness and distrust shall be replaced by mutual respect by workman and. employer.*.3 2 ‘Address questions to the author tare of this pewspape TORY as a single store City. in New. York 1896—Rural Free started the country over. Delivery 1909—Bomb: wrecks news! in Los Angel in labor war, per and kil's 20, . 1928—Soviet Russia's first Five- Year Plan inaugurated. 1984—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson takes forma] farewell of NRA. Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ weekly. y 133 Mi. pte —_— = eS @ Why take chances with unknown razor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1987. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen re credence by not a few persons who are not familiar with the facts. Despite this they are without foun- dation, it is announced, as the Artman Press is in shape to turn out the same ciass of work as in the past. Monroe. county is preparing to make the final payments on the; boulevard. The settlement is to be made with the Key West Con- struction company. The county commissioners met this morning} in special session to go into the matter, found it too much, to cov- re at one.session and decided, to adjourn and. meet again..at 4|has been practicing throughout the o'clock. Engineer Watkins, made|week in anticipation of the game an analysis of the work on. the} with the marines next Saturday. boulevard and: presented it.at the} Ccach Anderson started the team meeting. Numergus,details were]|on its plays Monday and the first contained in. the: analysis, which/line men have been using them in showed the amount now due 0M | scrimmages against the second line the project to be $75,000, in-}men during the week. The team @uding $67,000 retainage, and} will be stronger than that of last the present estimate of $8,000.} year, and hopes for victory grow Chairman Kirchheiner then sug-| with each day. gested that the contractors bé paid $45,000 in cash, retaining 1$20,000 against contemplated re- pairs on sidewalks and deducting $10,000 for shortening the line of the boulevard. This wou'd leave the $45,000 payment suggested. jAncther item, the Parkway being omitted from the job, involved the sum of $9,000. In this it was agreed that the county accept from the contractors road machin- ery consisting of one three-fourths ward dragline, a 10-ton roller, a 10-ton tractor and a scarifier, at a total price of $11,000, which would leave,a total balance here in favor of the contractors. The High School football squad A 12-pound boy was born yes- |terday to Mr. and Mrs, Berton Cates of 1121 Petronia street. Mother and soy are’reported doing nicely. * Jeff Knight has sold his lunch room on Greene street to Harry Beaver and Basil Tynes. The new ownerg take charge this after- noon. An elaborate banquet was given jat a local cafe ‘ast night with Ma- ; S0ns’of the city guests of Dr. Nilo Pintado, Dr. Ramon Rodriguez and Dr.. Armando Cobo and Henrique | Hernandez, who on Thursday night j Charles Knowles, who was fat- al'y injured’ in a friendly boxing bout in Miami and died there last night, was a Key Wester by birth and was reared in this city. He was a truck driver for the naval! station here during the World} War. “Boo Boo” was the nick-} name by which he was familiarly! known. He has two brothers and a sister making their home in| Key West. They left for Miami! upon receipt of the news of his! injury and were there when he} died. It is expected the body will | be brought to Key West. } AMERICAN EXPRESS as a protection Editorial comment: The Parent-/ Teachers Associations of the city} are beginning to function regular- ly, which argues we'l for the work the school children will do this fall) and winter. } Reports that the Artman Press, Teller about them. job printing plant which has been operated in The Citizen building for many years, has suspended are fa’se. Notice that such reports are being circulated have come to the notice of the present, owner from several reliable sources. The sto- ries, it is said, have been given Member of the iy hs See FOOR ENAMEL SALE $2.59 FLO-LAC SALE $2.98 Gray Stone, 2 Regula: An_ excellent Rapid Drying. nut, and Maho; Regular Pric ahhh he irra erdteha) WE MUST SELL IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK ORDERED LIMITED QUANTITY ON HAND—GET SALE ON PRESENT STOCK ONLY For wood, concrete, Quantity and colors on hand. 1 Gal, Tile Red, 2 Gals. Dust Color, 1 Gal. Walnut Brown, 3 Gals. Mahogany, 2 Gals. Florida Green. floors, wood work and furniture. Oak, Drk Oak, Golden Oak, Wal- lites, TaSw, THOUGHT GEMS Men are apt to prefer a pros- perous error to an afflicted truth—Jeremy Taylor. sete Half the truth will very often amount to absolute falsehood. Whately. eee ‘The copy-books tell us that “to err is human.” That is wrong. To err is inhuman, to be holy is te live in the straight line of duty and of truth to God’s life in every intrinsic existence.—Phil- lips Brooks. eee It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues i infirmity of character to ad here to it when discovered. The |Chinese say, “The glory is not in inever failing, but in rising every |time you fall.”—Bovee. The fundamental error lies in jthe supposition that man is a ma- |teriat outgrowth and that the !cognizance of good or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, constitutes his happiness or mis- | ery.—Mary Baker Eddy. enee In all science error precedes*the truth, and it is better it should go ‘first than last.—Walpole were put through the; degree, of Master Mason in Dr. Felix: Vacria Lodge of this city. Remegio hepez, lwho was 75 years of age yesterday, was toastmaster. A Service for Tinelacg For the ever-increasing number of ‘patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers TARVELERS CHEQUES for travel funds, These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi- nations of $10, $20, $50 and $100, cost only 75c. for each $106 purchased. They are spendable wherever travelers go, and carry the added and important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- ericah Express Company in case of loss or theft before your second signature is affixed. Ask the THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation YOURS NOW or linoleum. Fee ee¢trtrtrdndndetgéd Gals. Gray, 4 Gal r $4.34 Value varnish stain for Gallons only on Lt. gany. e $5.00 Per Gallon blades? Put your money on knowa quality, Probak Jr.—product of the world’s largest blade maker. This blade is ground, boned and stropped by special process. It’s made to whisk off wiry whiskers without the slight- est skin-pull or irritation. Yet it sells at 4 for 10¢! Buy a package of Probak Jr. from your dealer today and save money on shaves. PROBAK JUNIOR BLADES A PRODRUGS QE THE WORLDS Lenses! Maps martes Louis man who has iivented a process said | to make old oi! wells “productive again. | The process is‘said-toyinvelve the use of hydrochloric acid sodium fluoride, if you} get what that means. A high gloss enamel for wood or metal. Can be used in bathrooms and kitchens. them. Miami publicity states that al! Flor- ida’s charms are near Miami. That, of course, includes Key West, but limits the attractiveness of Miami. Some years ool | it took in a wider territory and offered! Recently an 18-year-old girl cashier’ Havana, Cuba, the Pear! of the Antilles, as! and a 45-year-old candy man, working in, an added attraction. An editorial in The | concessions with a circus, became ' Citizen at the time protesting against such! close friends. When the circus reached glaring inanition was placed in the ar-' Cleveland the girl introduced the man to} chives of Cuba, the then Cuban consul.) her mother, who recognized him as a for- Senor Jorge Ponce, so informed this paper.i mer husband. He was the girl's father. i Sale $2.74 2.19 Reg. Price $3.75 3.00 } LUSTRAL ENAMEL yw SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Street Phone 598 SILILILIGISV<ELSIOISIIIIOIILI ES. very } VeeewaIIIIIIIIIs IT sisasgsasIsass.