The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN. PUBLISHING CO. INC, Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County, Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter XTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press ThpeAssociated Press. ig exclusively entitled to use “for republication of all news dispatches credites it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. il ‘} ner, qne Year Six Months Shree Month: ne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of (hanks, resolutions of spect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at he rate of i0 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which 4 revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- Pion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- jrations. 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. | . All things come to the waiter—in- <cluding tips. One need never starve in Pompano, ‘or it has always “bread’’ in it. arer Correct this sentence: ‘He suffered breakdown because of strenuous work n a WPA job.” Brertese Fire Prevention week will be observed n October, but it is not likely to be very ffective in Spain or China. rete a No one has ever seen a man eating hark in Key West, but most of us have een a man eating yellow tail. SEP eT pty wees Indian summer is nature’s plan to «give the sweet young things a chance to Gland another if the vacationist has rolled Soff the line. . ra The sweet young things of Key West Tare quite equal to the task of making the *young blades think they are quite the “feminine everything. bs It is a callous world that looks at the sspectacle of women and children being -bombed in China without making a move’ o prevent the suffering of these innocent non-combatants. : Since Japan hag attacked China and *is slaughtering its citizens without a dec- slaration of war, is the Nipponese govern- yment not guilty of murder, and if that is jtrue why is there no protest, from the civilized nations of the world? The editor called loudly and the of- “fice boy entered, “Here,” said the editor, ~‘are a number of directions from outsiders Stelling us how to run our paper. See that jevery one is carried out.” And the office jboy gathered them all in a large waste- ybasket and did so.—Worthington (Minn.) sGlobe. 4 3 The man who swam from Mobwny ‘to k and is plannir “to Cuba, clopedia and get familiar with the ‘Gulf Stream, stingarees, bafracuda, and rough water. None of which come under tthe heading of Hudson River.—Times- “Union. e The delinquent tax payer «breaks.—Tampa Tribune. Same here in Key West. It’s the modern version of re- ,joicing at the repentance of the sinner and Sthe ignoring of the just ones. Taxpayers gets the ng. *e. swimdbor | had eee get out his} le SOLONS’ WIVES Members of Congress, who go to Washington as bachelors, du not always | marry women who age socially prominent | or possessed of wealth; in fact, the re-| verse is more often the case, and several | have married their own secretaries, or the | secretaries of other members. | Some who were married before going | to Congress employ their wives as their | secretaries, including Vice-President Gar- | -r. Others marry their secretaries and | elieve them from office-duties. Among those who have wed their) secretaries are Senators La Follette of Wis- | consin and McNary of Oregon; Represen- | tatives Dickstein, Gavagan and La Guar- } dia of New York, the latter now being! mayor of the nation’s metropolis; Reuben | T. Wood of Missouri, and possibly others. Congressmen Kvale of Minnesota and | Frank Murphy of Ohio robbed Congress- | man Bland of Virginia of two of his secre- taries in succession by marrying them. | Bland threatened to employ only men after that. Senator McAdoo of California mar-, ried a Washington nurse after diverci his second wife, who was the daughter President Wilson. Former Congresthah Timberlake of Colorado at the age of 7B married a 32-year-old widow who had been head waitress in a hotel owned by him. So, it appears that around Washing- ton Cupid’s pranks are as_ unpredictable as elsewhere. SOUTH AMERICAN REPORT South American countries are sup- posed to be very friendly to the United} States and favorable to our world policies, especially since President Roosevelt’s “good neighbor” example, but reports brought home by travellers tell us that “Mussolini and Hitler today outrank Presi- dents Roosevelt, Justo, AleSsandri and Benavides in the daily news.” This is the opinion of Carl W. Acker- man who recently made a_ two’ months’ survey of the press, radio and cinema in relation to public opinion in the’ southern eontinent. c Dean Ackerman pays tribute to the independence maintained by the news- papers in view of the obstacles of censor- ship, dictatorship and pressure from ad- vertisers to suppress news. He finds in- terest in the war in Spain so widespread that, in spite of the alertness of news edi- tors, German nd Italian news, features and '¢ photographs get good space. He found | the press of Argentina as “free and in-} dependent and resourceful” as the press | in this country. As a general rule the people of the United States know little or nothing about the nations of South America. Our local schools stress French and forget Spanish and Portuguese, the languages used by our names of the political leaders of the leading South American powers ‘even if wernecognize the value of their trade. T test this, see if you know the countries the three South American president: named in the first paragraph of this a® ticle. WORKERS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH This week, in New York, the Amer- ican Public Health Association, will hold its annual convention. There will be present hundreds of | public health officials, doctors, nurses, statisticians, biologists, chemists and others | interested primarily in preventing disease. | Among the convention members will be representatives of the U. S. Public Health} Service, which has 6,428 employes and | spends around $20,000,000 a year to pro-/} tect the American people from disease. Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, ads the government men in their work, | and is just now directing vigorous pub- i j Hich You and Your Nation’s as Affairs “Purchasing Power” Fallacy By HARLE Y L, LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University ‘The erroneous notions relative to “mass purchasing power” have been brought conspicuously to the front again by the demands of certain rail- road brother- hoods for high- er wages. The chief argument for this in- crease was that the purchasing power of the masses must be Taised. This conten- tion has long been familiar. It was ad- vanced during the depression by those who favored large government spending on public works, on sub- sidies to farmers and other groups, and on made work. The depression was explained as a collapse of mass purchasing power, and its cure was regarded as a simple case of restoring this missing Rte pe’. we foe ‘similartogic being used to prove tha! ~recontinuation mh inerease of pros- r it upon further en- purchasing power. y Wat momtainkted ion's|thinkihg and“its p renin the brotherhoo is Fallacy. is, he, bell TRO! ts of purchasi! br Eine ish soe pake tieulafgrqup.is fhe-maii ential. In this view, no concern is shown over how such purchasing power has been created, why the group to which it is supplied should have it, or what the ultimate effects of such action may be. se questions involve economic analysis, a tedious process requiring som? mental effort, that can always be swept away by clever use of a glib phrase. Consequently, we can have our unenviable record of enor- mous federal expenditures of an un- precedented public debt, of inordinate taxation, and of wild inflationary proposals, We have the prospect of inability to balance the budget in the midst of prosperity, even wit! the aid of the heaviest taxes in our history. Much of this burden, and of this steady approach toward financial chaos, is the logical consequence of the complete misunderstanding that has prevailed with respect to the con- (Address questions to the au cept of mass purchasing power. It ts therefore the more discouraging to find that a substantial, and an ordi- narily sensible group of labor organi- zations should be guilty. Th. haze which passes for eco- nomic thinking is steadily becoming more and more of a fog. The adminis- tration wage and hour bill has defi- nitely contributed to this thickening of the intellectual atmosphere, and the demand of certain railroad brotherhoods for increased wages, to increase mass purchasing power, illustrates how readily the adminis- tration point of view is accepted by those who are not especially inter- ested in or concerned with, funda- mentals. The basic fallacy in the general doctrine that prosperity can be cre- ated in increasing mass purchasing power is in the failure to perceive the true significance of this concept. The statement issued by the railroad brotherhoods was in line with many statements that have been made in administration circles. It implied that the way to make the railroads more prosperous is to increase the mass purchasing power of certain groups of railway employees. In the same spirit the administration leaders have beer: telling the country for some years that the way to make the whole country more prosperous is to in- crease the purchasing: power of the masses generally. The difficulty is that this increase is to be. accomplished by decree, or fiat. Purchasing power means money income, and all that is needed, ac- cording to these experts, is to put more units of money into ‘he hands of the people generally. Theiz spend- ing of this money, regardless 23 what they have done to warrant receiving it, will engender prosperity. Akin to this policy is that of providing larger cash incomes for other groups, such as farmers, by persuadng or com- pelling them to produce smaller crops. All such devices are simply a kind of economic legerdemain. They mere- ly transfer something from one group to another. Like all of the schemes for sharing the wealth, they crests a temporary and illusory sense of tm- proved wellbeing that is very much like the added warmth which a famBy might enjoy during a cold winter night if it used the dwelling for fire- wood. thor care of this newspaper) THE WEATHER ‘Temperature* Highest Lowest Mean Norma! Mean - Rainfal Yesterday’s Precipitation 1 Precipitation . 81 .0 Ins. 21 Ins. riod en. . 6:21 a.m . 6:10 p.m. Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets Tomorro 6:10 p. m. ‘2 Tides A.M. . 9:48 9:31 Low. ..:g------ 308 3.09 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 30.01. P.M WEAT FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and: Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight amd Tuesday; zen- tle tq moderate i southerly, Fidrida: Partly seleudy.. toni: and Puesday, \ ere and East..Gulf: Gentle te moder- ate mostly southerly winds, part- ly ather tonight and Tuesday overeast Ww WEATHER CONDITIONS The ight Gulf disturbance! passed inland about noon yester- day aver the western Louisiana coast. It was attended by only moderately strong winds, but, caused torrential rainfall in por-| tions of southern Louisiana, the total rainfall for the storm at! New Orfeans being 16.69 inches.) AML that remeins of the storm is a weak low pressure area over! Arkansas this morning. j A strong high pressure crested this morning over north Atlantic States, over-| spreads the eastern portion the country; whe a low pressure area, . TT a. m.| dagksonyi-te to Florida Straits! _ Today’s Anniversaries SPOHSHSSSHSOSSSSSOOSSEEOSS , 1787—(150 years ago) Fran- cois Guizot, French historian, ora- ‘tor and statesman, born. Died | Sept. 12, 1874. | |. 1813—Witliam Gilpiviy | “Inde- | pendence, Mo., lawyer, soldier and| \Indian fighter, first te | Colorado Territory; born ‘ates: idywine, Pa. Died Jah. 20,1 { | 1822—Rutherford B/ Hayes, {Ohio lawyer, major-general in | Civil War, congressman, governor, !19th President, bown at Dela- ware, O. Died at Fremont, 0., jJan. 17, 1893. . 1846—Agnes Booth, American actress, born in {tralia. Died Jan, 2, 4920, noted Aus- ee1aiPrederte Reniditon, an. |thor, artist. Slustrator and sculp- ‘tor, famed for his pictures of th ; West, born at Canton, ¥. Died at Ridgefield, Conn., Dec. 26, 1909, 1881—Natalie Summer Lin- coln, mystery and detective story writer, porn in Washington, D. C. Died there, Aug. 31, 1934. | the! of 41 ; area of considerable intensity is} licity against venereal diseases in the hope that -effectively organized work be! done aginst these social scourges. j Throughout the United States there | are countless men and women whose lives | are devoted to the great advancement of} public health. For the most part these — persons work for smal] salaries but, on the , | whole, they are doing an excellent job. | They should have the support of the peo- can | centrdi over the eastern Rockies. | Tains have been general during) the last 24 hours from the mdi-/ Ge and lower Mississippi Valley esstward to the Atlantic coast and in portions of_ the northern Rocky Mountain, northern Plains States, and upper Mississippi Valley. Temperatures are somewhat be- lew norma’ this morning over northeastern districts and in por- tions of the Rocky Mountain Pacific, ; and) “should be given a break in the form of a/ ple and The Citizen wishes them a profit- | States, and genetally above inj rebate, but bait is only for fish that re-| able meeting as they gather in the nation’s ter sections ‘main uncaught, | metropolis, G. 8. KENNEDY, Official im Charge MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937; PET SHOW A HARRIS SCHOOL During recess on Wedaenday| morning, Mrs. Magdalene Hud-} dleston, 2B class of Harrts school, put on a pet show charging ad- mission of one cent. There were cats, dogs, birds | and animals of all sorts. Prizes were. awarded to “Fris- kie,” white dog whose (little mas-} ter is Billie Albury, and Ralph and: Jean Peterson’s dog, “Pete,” who} was dressed as “Babe Ruth” kaseball fame, Honorable mention was given! to’the white Persian cat cailed| “Pluffy,” entered by Maynard! Daniels. Dainty sandwiches and cookies; in the shape of animals with rais- ings for eyes were sold at the “Pet Show.” A Service for Travelers For the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES asa 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 OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO,, INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— ‘a: MIAMI and KEY WES 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 Sunday. SURE EE SSE 8S SOBER 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. of} | ah ’ - Today’s Birthday evccce Miriam Van Wate! uperin- tendent of the Framingham, Mass., Reformatory f Women, {noted social wo! born at Greensburg, Pa.. years ago. $ i Gerald Stanley Lee of North- ampton, Mass., and New York ‘City, author and educator, born at Brockton, Mass., 75 years ao. Homer A. Rodehesver of Chi- eago, gospel song publisher and musics director, born at Union Furnace, Ohio, 57 years ago. | | Prof. Walter A. Maier of Con-; cordia Seminary, St. Louis, pro- fessor of Semities, born in Bos-j ton, 44 years ago. { Charles J. Rhoads of Philadel-| rhia, banker, onetime U. S. com- missioner of Indian affa in Philadelphia, 65 years ago, | star, | 41 Keaton, screen Pickway, Kansas, Buster born at years ago. PILLOW REQUIRED 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 Fell Cargo Insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 a, | NORMAN, Okla.—An ordinance | of this city stipulates that no! young woman shall sit on a man’s! lap without a pillow under her. 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