The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 18, 1937, Page 2

The Key Wiest Citizen Published “Dally ‘Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. 1x0. L. P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From T ‘itizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key “West, 1 Florida, as second class ponent a’ FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it er not otherwise credited in this paper and xiso the local news published here. ame Year -....... Six Months Three Months 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 @ 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 fnterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- eations. Correct this sentence: “I do as I please and I live my own life.” Don’t be in too much of a hurry. Re- ~~member the fate of the early worl.’ = By living in a Scotch community one i€stire of having many close friends. Popularity has its price, like other “ithings in life, but it is not always worth What it costs, China would trade some brand new resolutions of sympathy for some second- hand war material. The legend of fat men being kind may be a protective measure to insure protection of the paunch. = _The severest critics of the New Deal are its best friends. Among these are General Hugh Johnson, how a columnist with a growing following. ~. Qnce more the President says the badget will be balanced next year. It Wasn't balanced when he promised it the first time, so we have reason for our doubt. In his fireside talk last week Presi- dent Roosevelt omitted to mention the (opewspapers when he cited the radio and ~the movies as the source from which the people derive their information on their affairs. Columnist Pegler answers this slight most effectively. Members of the State Nurses associa- tion are up in arms concerning the state . occupational tax of $15.25. This is the same tax that is levied against doctors. It seems that the protest is justified as the nurses make about a third what the medi- cos manage to accumulate, — 2 “Once befdre the United States has pulled John Bull's chestnuts out of the fire and now he has an Oriental bonfire that has a chestnut of the Japanese specie to be extracted. Uncle Sam is being tempted again, but having burned his fingers once is not so easily lead into doing the foolish thing again. Any business to be successful must have a fair degree of adequacy in invest- ment, management, labor and consump- tion. The failure of any one of these es- sential component parts means disaster. If the first three work in waison and har- mony they will produce a... uct that will be largely sought fn ption. Mrs. Roosevelt has written a book, to be published’ next month) it is said. In it the first Lady says that We can have peace if we are willing to pay the price, which at once suggests the question “What Price Peace?’ Measured in money and ma- terial possessions no price is too high to pay for peace, but if we must make human sacrifice or change our form of govern- ment, the price is too high. Let us keep peace by keeping out of war, and one way to do it is to adhere to our Neutrality law enacted at the last session of Congress. It can be done, and do not let anyone tell you otherwise. | many heartily disagree, Sagerquist, musical director for the First | “Real Am-} REAL AMERICAN MUSIC What is real American music Gershwin or Grofe? Tin Pan Alley or Toreh. A recent survey among artists | and orchestra leaders brought forth some surprising and conflicting answers, which we quote only a few: Ted Weems, who leads the band for Fibber McGee and Molly’s Is it spirit more than any other kind, tunes like “Stompin’ at the Savoy” “The Merry Go Round Breaks Down.” That’s just Ted’s opinion, with which Nighter program, who says: erican music is sweet music, like Grofe’s ‘Grand Canyon Suite’ or Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ score. Swing music may be all right, but you won’t hear much of it on our program. If we stomp at the Savoy, we'll do it in rubber sneakers, and if the | break | American } merry go round breaks down, it’ll gently. In my opinion real music has lots of rhythm but no razz-ma- tazz; it’s melodic but not mournful; it’s sweet but not hot!’ But Captain Baker, star of the Holly- wood in Person program, disagrees with both, and votes for mountain music, which he calls sidelights on life, whose songs are fact, not fiction—-folk music, pure and simple. ; Bruce Kamman, former cornet player for John Wanamaker’s Boys’ band, now playing the role of Professor Kaltenmeyer in the Kaltenmeyer Kindergarten program, perhaps has the right answer. “It’s band music,”’ he said, and Stripes Forever.” “The Stars AGITATORS—THEN AND NOW The author of the following words ean hardly be accused of having an axe to grind in the present situation, for he has been dead nearly 90 years. Yet his words ring peculiarly true today as we see _ir- responsible agitators fomenting riots, strikes and property seizure. That man wrote: “There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influence of accumulated wealth, They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. “They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams. In a country of unbounded lib- erty, they clamor against oppression. In a country where property is more evenly di- vided than anywhere else, they rend the} air shouting agrarian doctrines. In a coun+ try where wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer he is but an oppressed slave. What can such men want? do they mean? They can want nothing but to enjoy the fruits of other men’s labor. They can mean nothing but dis- turbance and disorder, the. diffusion. of corrupt principles and the destruct the moral sentiments and moral hab society.” Yes, the man who wrote this nadia, dead nearly 90 years. He was the t Daniel Webster. PLENTY OF NEED! What (Miami Daily News) “Although Florida has one of the highway systems in the world, the time will come, and not in the so distant the Sanford Herald warns, “when the present 12,383 miles of finest future,” paving will prove inadequate and the present rate of new construction will have to be increased. The ‘tremendous increase in the number of automobile users, as well as the constant resort to ee highways for freight transportation. make additiona] highways necessary.” Florida “Two-lane highways will is bound Re; ssa highways, the character of future the Herald suggests: have head-on colli- still, that forlite going to Orlando will travel to be built so that the danger of Or better be constructed so sions may be avoided. one-way the San- road highways will on one while those returning to Sanford will take anot All railroad crossings will have to be elimina and underpasses will have to be built wh And there should be special high- This. is Florida nain “highways meet. ways constructed for busses anf] trock no idle warning and it suggests that ef the future will have plenty of vit: which te spend its gas tax money wi ways ing it to pay for the ordinary admini some of our smaller counties. broadcast, | thinks swing music typifies the American | naming | and | including Eric } You and Your of | | | _ The Constitution o. the United States is, perhaps, the greatest single contribution ever made to the science and philosophy of government. It was the product of the American Revolution. The Ameri- can revolution- ists were in no sense radicals. They were pre- eminently con- servative both in thought and action. It was the bold at- tempt of an am- bitious, dicta- torial executive to repudiate their Constitu- tion and take from them their constitutional rights as Englishmen’ that forced them to a revolution. It is of vital importance to keep in mind that men of Anglo- Saxon origin always defend the Con- stitution against any agent of the government whatever the cost to themselves. In setting up the new government the one great problem was to find some effective means of protecting constitutional freedom against ambi- tious ¢kequtiyes,) hungry for power, and against the hazards of majority Tule. The written constitution was 4} the solution ‘they “dopted. ‘ “All if tenable,’ fundamental hu- man rights’ were ‘placed under the protection. of a written constitution. These rights were regarded as the permanent achievements of man in his long, hard struggle through the for the freedom that God in- he should have. They are in- ind above, time and They represent this world as a man and as a citizen. Hence any abridgement of these rights is a posi- tive loss to social progress, whatever the consideration. When George II] demanded a s render of these constitutional rig! in the interest of changed conditions, Patrick Henry gave the Anglo-Saxon answer to this demand that will stand for all time: “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the ‘e of chains and slavery. Forbid it, Almighty Ged. Give me liberty or give me death. Executives with large powers have always been hazardous to individual (Address questions to the aut Nation’s Affairs Purpose of Our Constitution By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University | try? freedom. Hence Jefferson's statement, | “that government is best that governs least.” In view of this fact, the Con- stitution builds a great wall of pro- tection against the invasion of the rights of the individual by any of the organized agencies of the govern- ment. The three agents of the govern- | ment—the legislative, the executive and the judicial—were given only limited and specific powers, and every official is required to bind him- self under a solemn oath before God to confine his -ctivities strictly to the sphere fixed for him by the Consti. tution, and to do only that which his master, the Constitution, gives him the authority to io. They assumed that representative Americans would not violate the sanctity of an oath, The founders of our government knew well the limitations of the crowd. Speaking of direct democr: cies, Madison, the “lay man,” the au- thor of the Constitution says, “Such democracies have ever been specta- cles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent im death.” The crowd doesn’t think: The crowd is oftemmore influenced ‘by passion: and prejudice than by. reasons; The!:erowd immediate; reward: material things,,.an@, doesn’t,eonsider the, de- structive consequences that may fol- low. The.crowd js e deceived by demagogues who pose as. defend- ers of the people's righ: je crowd is easily misled to adopt ‘déstructive policies under the promise of big, im- mediate rewards in material things. The Constitution represents the wise restrictions that the people put upon themselves ‘to protect their fundamental human rights and their permanent general welfare. The Con- stitutional limitations put on major- ity rule give the people time to “cool off” before they act. They give states- men time to expose the fallacies of the demagogues and appeal from the people drunk to the people sober and in their right mind. No effective industrial progres can be made under the hazards of major- ity rule. Men will no’ work and sa rifice and save and develop great industries when they Know that the crowd may at any time be led by a demagogue; to confiscate their pro erty under the high sounding slogan of “sharing the wealth or making a “better distribution.” thor care of this newspaper) THE WEATHER ‘Temperature* Highest 86 Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rai He Yesterday’s Precipitation .01 Ins. Normal Precipitation .... .23 Ins. in record covers 24-hour perted ALN o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises . - 6:27 Sun se’ 5:57 Moon rises 5:44 ‘Moon sets 6:04 Full mpon, 19th . 4348 Tomorrow's Tides ALM. High - 9:24 Low 2:48 ¢ Barometer contin at 8 a.m: Sea level, 29.96. 79 oi 24 WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Scat- tered showers thi, afternoon; afternoon sand) Tues- southeast #: 3 rth portion and netr east coast tonight and Tues- day. Jacksonville. to Florida Straits: to fresh easterly to winds and partly over- st weather tonight and Tuesday with scattered showers. East Gulf: Moderate to fresh southeast and south winds, mod- tloudy with _ jin .jlow presscre over -| Mexico and scuth of Florida has +i caused squally weather jerately strong at times over north portion and mostly overcast weather tonight and Tuesday with showers over south portion. WEATHER CONDITIONS } Strong high pressure over the jnorth and middle Atlantic States connection with moderately the Gulf of on the Gulf and south Atlantic coasts (nee yesterday morning, and ex- tcessively heavy rains have oc- ‘curred in many localities from the Gulf coast northward over the | middle Mississippi and lower Ohio | Valleys, the heaviest rainfall re- | ported being 8.05 inches at Mo- ; bile, Ala. Another high pressure [area overspreads the far West; while a trough of .low pressure ‘extends fom a “Low” of marked intensity over central Canada, southward to the Mexican border, with another low pressure area lof considerable intensity central over Kansas. Preciyitation » has also occurred daring the last 24 hours from the north © Pacific State, eastward over the Lake fregion, and it was snowing this morning in southeastern Wyoming. Temperatures are generally near or above the seasonal average throughout the country this morn- ing. Official senescent Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt whole hemisphere wi pleasure spring up in e j | never cry again with an empty stomach; hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. int neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor The shine brighter, and very corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST j Member of the i Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937. PCOOOHOSOSOEEEOESOSOSOSOSIOSOOSSOSOSSOSEOOOOESOOE TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES eo 1. Did the railway brother-| hoods win their demand for a 20) jpercent wage increase? {. 2. Are Masons active in Ger-! many or Italy? 3. ed a war memorial at Chateau- Thierry? | 4. What was the largest cot- 1787—(150 yea otn crop ever raised in this coun- | L. Stevens, naval | engineer, pew England cler, {time one of the land. 5. What penalty is for the unemployed who fail enroll in the census? 6. How much does bomber cost? 7. How many Federal judzes! have been appointed by President Roosevelt? i 8. Are there fewer persons on the WPA roll than a year ago? | 9. Has Russia provided for the construction of two hattleships in the United States? 10. How many men were in the} OCE at its peak? H to ‘gineer and pionee j waukee financier man, remembered 119, 1887. 1828—Isaae P. a lof the “Day of Doom,” for a long Has the United Stat ¢.| books in that region, born in Eng- las the United States erec' Died May 27, 1705. | pioneer provided steamboats, son of the famed en-/ 1817—Alexander Mitehell, ed many banks in the "61, born in Scotland. ‘gyman, author Ps; Diad Feb, 14, 1895; 1839—Thom: | famed lawy | Speaker of rs ago) Robert, Portland, architect and! 1902. builder —of| most popular} congressman born Dec the Maine. House, Died 1844—Harvey Wiley, U. r in mechanical | | food chemistry, “born at Ind. Died June 30, 1930. Mil- and congress-| for having sav-; 1856—James B. Frazier, panic of) senator, governor of Tenness Died Apr.| horn at Pikeville, Tenn. | Chattanooga, March 28, 19% Subscribe to The Gray, Union soldier, Indiana governor, Minist- weekly. 1631 —— Michael Wigglesworth,} er to Mexico, born in Chester Co., s B. Reed, Maine's and at ve Ss } transportation, born at... Hoboken,| DePt- of Agriculture's chief chem- * Naval |N. J. Died are, April 20, 1856.| ist, pure food advocate, pioneer in Kent, Us Citizen—20¢ (See “The Answers” on Page 4) Today’s Birthdays Soccceceeccoses J, Butier Wright, U. S. Am- bassador to Cuba, born at Irving- ton, N. Y., 60 years ago. 1 James Truslow Adams of New York and London, noted Ameri- can historian, born in Brooklyn, N. , 50 years ago. Harold L. Davis of Oregon, | novelist, Pulitzer prize winner in} 1935. born in Douglas Co., Oreg.,| 41 years ago. i Rear Admiral Harris Laning of Illinois, who today reaches the statutory age of retirement, born at Petersburg, Ill, 64 years ago. OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. 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