The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 2

& PAGE ashe . he Key 5 Miest Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, INC. L, P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Mi From The Citizen iin Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily ageless” in Key West and Monroe County. West, Florida, as second class matter Entered at FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated 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. une Year ix Month: ‘Three Months . Ine Month Weekly .. iat - 350 85 20 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 10 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- 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. Hoteis and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—-Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. It is easy to “expect others. to do what you want them to do. Some people want the earth, and eventually they will get it. Bate Individuals who make promises easily a often break them without worry. ei ‘ Japan, it appears, is fighting stren- __ tiously to defend herself in China. ee _ It is strange that no candidate has promised to see that Uncle Sam pays our taxes. The merchants who cultivates his business with advertising usually reaps the cash crop. Knowledge may be a fine thing, but most of us were happier when we didn’t know so much. in in Matches are said to be made heaven because they don’t need them the other place. You may be interested to. know that! Gorosner hundred will be killed ‘on ighways today. ¢ 4 ee 5 Pema es eee ‘ The world will be able to maintain peace when the nations of the world are ready to maintain it. There was no League of Nations to protest when our forefathes took America away from the Indians, BORED Reg The new child psychology may be ™ fine for little Johnny, but we doubt that it helps mother very much. School days have béen with us only a few days and there are pupils who already “have had enough of school. Maybe they de not like the teacher. Somebody reported that the world is| moving toward peace. This is what might be termed a scoop of great magnitude— the newspapers missed it. The history of the banana can be} traced back three centuries before Christ, and the fruit first appeared in the United States early in the Nineteenth century. The few people who bit into the odd- shaped fruit were inclined to say, with Benjamin Disraeli, “the most delicious thing in the world is a banana.” Now most folks are agreed, unless there is taken into consideration the universally popular =®hot dog.” ver ppeTebepeers + INSIDIOUS DRIVE TO SOCIALIZE THE! UNITED STATES The reason given for the Federal gov- | ernment’s policy of subsidizing municipal ; electric plants by donating 45 per cent of | j the cost “free, gratis and for nothing” to | towns and cities, is to give. the people| cheaper power Service.” However, accord- | ing to Jo C. Guild, president of the Ten- | nessee Electric Power Company, the gov-' ernment could do more to further the | cause of better service if it would make its | gifts to the private utilities! The government, through PWA, of- | fers to “give’’ Chattanooga, Tennessee, | $2,000,000, or 45 per cent of what is neces- | sary to make a start on building a_ tax- exempt, municipal system, using TVA | power, to compete with the Tennessee | Electric Power Company which has served | the city 50 years. In other words, it gives | the tax money of all the people of the} United States to a chosen few. In an ad- vertisement, Mr. Guild says: “Now, here’s a proposition that we'! believe, is fair and in the best interest of, the piiblic. If the Federal government in- «sists: on making: gifts.of the taxpayers’ money,.. why tot make it to us? We are taxpdyeis'onie of the largest in the city and county—and we will pay a return on the taxpayers’ money. Here’s our proposi- tion: If the Federal government will make a gift to us of 45 per cent of the value of our property, and stop’ hamstring- ing us, we will make rates 10 per cent lower than TVA rates. And on top of this, we will continue to pay taxes to city, county, state and Federal taxing bodies— license taxes, privilege taxes, gasoline and automobile taxes, all forms of taxes—in the sum of more than $2,500,000 a year :++More than 6 per cent on the money given us. If the people are really inter- ested in cheap power, here’s one sure way to get it. Amd it’s fair to all—fair to the government, fair to the public, fair to the people who have invested «their money in this business. And fair to our employes.” Of course, there is no chance of gov- ernment adopting a policy such as this— the real reason behind campaigns to put the government in the power business is to broaden the field for political patronage and to increase the authority of politics over the lives and opportunities of us all. However, Mr. Guild’s remarkable proposi- tion should result in some hard thinking by all citizens, who are paying the tax bill for government subsidization of municipal } utilities and government-operated hydro systems such as the TVA. Socialization of a $12,000,000,000 industry which has given the American people the cheapest and most extensive electric service in the world, ig the real aim of the power _ poli- ans—shot better service and lower rates. + program is so unfair to the savings of private investors and so unAmerican in its attack on private property rights, that it is | hard fot the people to realize that an at-} tempt i@being made to force it to a con- clusion in the United States. WHY HE WENT CRAZY This story, with various tions, has been doing duty for a good while, but for the benefit of those who have not chanced to run across it we tell it again. It concerns an inmate of a asylum, who on being asked by a how he got that way, replied: “It all started when I married a wi- dow with a grown-up daughter. Then my father, being a widower, married the daughter. That made my step-daughter | ry step-mother, and my father became my step-son; my wife also becoming the mother-in-law of her father-in-law. “Then my step-mother had a son, who. was my brother, being my father’s son; but as the boy was the grandson of my wife, he was also my grandson. | “Then my wife and I had a son. My father’s wife is my son’s half-sister and! also his grandmother. Now, it is easy to see that my father became my step-son by marrying my step-daughter. Therefore, being my father’s father, 1am my own grandfather—” The visitor stopped the lunatic at point, thoroughly satisfied as to why went crazy. modifica- lunatic visitor this; me ' You an Nation’s d You Affairs Menace of Private Monopoly By ELIOT JONES. Professor of Transportation and Public. Usilitiers | Stanford University Two; preceding articles discussed the advantages and disadvantages ‘of the competitive system, and the con- clusion was reached that the advan- tages much out- weigh the dis- advantages. The case for competition is turther strengthened by a_consideration of the objec- tions to monop- oly, whether private monop- oly, as in the case of trusts, or public mo- nopoly, as in the case of so- cialism. The funda- | mental objection to private monopoly, from the economic standpoint, is that it fails to realize maximum economic output. One reason for this is that nation-wide monopolies, suck as trusts, are likely to be less efficient than concerns in active competition with one another. ‘Utider monopoly there is not the stimulus to effort and to the adoption of improved methods and processes that there is under competition. Another reason why monopoly ts | inferior to competition from the standpoint of wealth creation is that the principas source of monopoly profits is the curtailment of the sup- ply. The essence of monopoly is con- trol over supply. and thus over price; and by curtailing the supply the mo- nopoly is able to charge a higher price than woulc prevail under com- petitive conditions. How much high- er the price wil! be in ract depends on numerous factors, such as the elasticity of demand, the conditions of cost, the rossibility of competition, and the state of public opinion, but a monopoly price is almost invariably higher than a competitive price. The profits of the monopolist are thus in (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) part a reward for reducing the output of goods, and thus the usefulness of the industry to the community. The high price policy of monopolies bas unfortunate consequences. It re- duces the demand for goods, whether the goods produced by the trust, or the materials, supplies, and equip- ment required by the trust in the manufacture of its own products. The reduced demand for goods means a reduction in the demand for the la- bor, capital, and Jand required to make the goods, and thus leads to un- employment, whether of labor, capi- tal, or land. The greatest hope of improving the condition of the masses lies in an abundant supply of goods sold at low prices, but this is not the way of mo- nopoly. Bolstered up by its control of supply it follows a system of high, in- fiexible prices that contribute greatly to the severity of depressions by cur- tailing purchasing power and by re- tarding the attainment of an economic balance in price relationships, ; Another. objection to monopoly is the difficulty, almost impossibility, of regulating monopolies effecti' We have learned through experi! ita= tion how difficult it is to regulate the public utilities. And if we have ex- perienced such difficulty in regulating a few industries. what would be the prospect of success were it necessary to extend the program to all indus- tries? In effect, the government would have to determine the quantity and quality of the various articles to be produced, and it might even be obliged to fix wages. As conditions in industry are continually changing, the regulation would be'a continuing process, requiring a vast horde of government employees and a great many regulatory bodies. The more persons occupied with the task of | regulation, the fewer persons there would be to produce commodities, ; and the less, obviously, would be the | 1 national wealth! THE WEATHER Temperature* Highest Lowest. Mean... Normal Mean Rainfall® sterday’s Precipitation al Precipitation ... 86 82 -80 , -66 Ins. 17 Ins. Be period ‘Tomorrow's Almac Sun rises - 6:23 a. m. Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets . . 9:41 pe Tides A.M, High ie Low .- 6:32 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 29.95. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7.30 p. m., Saturday) cloudy with scattered showers to- night and Saturday; slightly cool- er tonight; moderate northeast winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, — scat- tered showers near east-central and extreme south coast tonight and in extreme south portion and near east coast Saturday; slight- ly cooler in extreme north por- | tion and near extreme, south — tonight. Jacksonvil'e to Florida Straits:' Moderate northeasterly winds and partly overcast weather tonight and Saturday, possibly aentere show East Gulf: Moderate northeast-| erly winds and partly overcast weather tonight and Saturday, possibly seattered showers in ex-) treme south portion, WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is tively low ‘morning over j overspread the remainder of jthe Gulf Key West and Vicinity: Partly | weather prevails in northeastern and southwestern districts; while high pressure areas, crested over the Lake region and far “Northwest, the counti Seatierstt ‘thing, ‘milly. tent, have occurred during the last 24 jhours in the Rocky Mountain and | Plains States, extreme eastern Lake region, and northern New . 6:06 p. m.| : Ber etes j Eng: and. There have also been light to moderate scattered show- ™.! ers in northwestern and extreme BS 7 \¢ southern (Florida, and in portions lof the middle and west Gulf ‘States, Temperatures have fallen over niost of the eastern portion of the! country, and are unseasonably low from the Mississippi Valley east- ward, except in Florida and on coast; while warmer the Rocky Mountain and Plains States. G. 8. KENNEDY, Offic’al in Charge LOSES GAME; RAVING MAD JORATA, Poland.—In a tournament in this city, Con- testant Willy Frydmann lost a game, then went raving mad. LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District —Popular Prices— First Class Fireproof —Sensible Rates— chess | | 4 | TIPPALL LAL ee zn BaBaa a @. erence KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Contract for repairing and re- building the portions of the road- way on Key Largo which were| damaged bythe storms of mo year were awarded to Jenner Brothers Salama Company at a special meeting of| the county commissioners yester-| {day afternoon. Under the agree- ment the section of road is to be ‘put in passable condition at once, land in 30 days the company is to, j move their entire equipment and; jbuild a first class road. This is \the stretch of the Overseas High-; way leading to the Key Largo; bridge. Recent rains and traffic \have made this section of the highway impossible to travel. j | Harold Key makes his formal announcement in The Citizen to-} day of his entry in the race for} Captain of Police in the election ‘of November 15. Mr. Key, fami-/ liarly known as Jakie to Key | Westers, will wo Speer the sup-| port of the voters. His «spore Bal a patrolman for the past six yeats,, | the duties of the offidé anibdje is fully satisfied’:his!/poptlarity |will j bring him the; votes.) ;., AL} bx ‘the Pan American’ “Airport was this morning doubled immediately ‘after the receipt of a- telegram ‘from Malcolm Meacham, and the telegram urged that every effort be put forth to finish the work in time and have the field in shape for beginning the Havana-Key West air mail service on Decem- ;ber 19. Mr. Meacham has just ; signed a contract with the Pan ' American Airways whereby he do- nates the field for the use for a {period of two years. Editorial comment: Key West man claims to have discovered a |tree that will keep away mos- quitoes. It has often been stated that the hide of an alligator -will keep fleas out of a home, and it is well known that a mosquito will never bite a goat. deme: world this, It was expected until this aft- ernoon that the Cuban Gunboat Yara would reach Key West from Tampa at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Programs for the cele- bration here state this to be a fact. A telegram from the com- mandant, this morning, announces the vessel will not be able to reach port before noon tomorrow. LIGHT BROWN Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with an yill créditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite; nor will nakedness freeze th will pleasure spring up in every-corner of thy. heart. whole hemisphere —Benjamin Franklin. empty stomach; neither The shine brighter, and THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. 1. C. CPMMMPHTIDTOOTIDODIDSS, WE CARRY | Naranjo club is igives him an acquaititanée’ with 4 The forces of men working oni $55.00 Per Thousand THIS ITEM, IS SOMETHING, NEW IN’ WALLBOARD. NOT ONLY DOES IT SERVE ASA WALLBOARD, BUT WELL. WHAT'S MORE“YOU NEED NO PAINT OR STRIPS. IN COLOR WITH A FINE TEXTURED FINISH. WITH SPECIAL CUTTING TOOLS THAT WE FURNISH, ANY DE- SIGN DESIRABLE CAN BE CUT INTO THE FACE. ABOVE ALL IT IS MOISTURE PROOF AND AN ENEMY TO TERMITES. A COMPLETE STOCK OF SUCH AS, THAT SPARE ROOM CAN BE MADE VERY ATTRACTIVE WITH ANY OF THE SEE US FOR ANY HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS IN REGARD SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” White and Eliza Streets SLLLIIDIDD ET TIELOOIIaIaI aaa OOD \ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. ashi apinerstinhenntll liest and hardest playing in Cubs. The first game will start prom lly at 2 o’clock Sunday afternod and the second game 15 minutes after the first game is over. ~ Twelve Key Westers will arrive ‘on the San Jacinto this evening No other part of the program will! \from New York. The scheduled ha. affected he. Go oleae jarrivals are: Mrs. Wm. H. Ma aster eA RRE S sgt jlone, Mrs. Francis E. Campbell, | De George R. Plummer, Battling Jackson knocked out yrs Plummer, M. Parrado, , Young Bravo in the seventh round Brown, Joe Gillis, Mrs. A. + jof a 10 round bout at the Athletic’ Lewis, E. K. Mitchell, Gonzalo Club last night. It was the big’ Gaceros, Louis Caceros, and not j boy’s second knockout in the only; ert- Gibson. two fights he has ever staged.! : | Two weeks ago the same boy put! Cards have been received Pimpy Rojas down for the count the city announcing the weddii and as luck would have it the of Miss Irene Elizabeth Lowe am |quieter was delivered in the same John D. Stephens, of Talla’ ‘round. {The wedding was in New S: lat the home of Mrs. Frank Whit Everything is in readiness for sister of the bride. Mrs. Stephe: the series of baseball games be- is a daughter of Mr. and re tween the “Arroy Naranjo” of Walter J. Lowe, of Key West. 3 Cuba and a local team. The Stephens was formerly connect one of the speed- with the local naval station. Of The Citizen | OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. 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