The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 2

“PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE vig oy BAS epcnin CO. INC. L. |» President JOE ALLEN, ‘Asslatant’ Dasteane Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. — Entered at Key Ww est, Florida, “as second class matter ¥-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press fhe 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 fhree Months Ine 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 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which @ revenue ts 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. People who have bright ideas *arcly "keep them secret. Ee ‘ Our idea of zero in stort is one) jot hi *those 80 to 0 football games. The nudists seem determined not to Dlet the rest of us get a thing on them, a 1. SBM and qtr ‘ Some people like music and others are 4partial to cowboy and hill-billy songs, ts Some who can speak in several lan- - guages are unable to think clearly in even one. ¥ It is commendable to do a good turn, <but few of us do enough of them to make =us dizzy. * The Shoemaker case is ended—except sin Tampa’s civic conscience.—Tampa Tri- Sbune. Ergo. = ? Jewelers recommend that every man Scarry two watches, But the hold-up artist would get both of them, It seems fitting that a book described =as “a romance of the fur trade” was writ- ten by Constance Skinner. * - aiken: : An optimist declares the dove of Speace still hovers over the world. But finds no safe place in which to light. F The average man thinks he has to sign every petition that somebody | sticks “under his nose. Sign only if you think it is .the right thing to do. ' A two-ton reel of wire was stolen from ga Georgia power company. Which causes Yan Atlanta paper to suspect that some kid fas a dandy new aerial. e% sd j John 8, and James Knight, newspaper spublishers of Ohio, have purchased the »Miami Herald. The Citizen welédnies them to Florida newspaperdom and wishes for these Knights abundant prosperity now and in the days to come. In Articles I, I and II, the Constitu- stion provides for three powers: Congress, the President, the Supreme Court—Legis- «lative, Executive, Judicial. So long as -these maintain their mutual independence of one another all will be well, but not so ~if one of them assumes the authorities of =the other. = Coral Park, owned by the government, “is grown over with weeds and things. With -all-the money that is wasted in Key West *on a number of projects, evidence of which “is seén on every hand, the government yshould use some of it to keep its own prop- “erty clean, and give a good example to the “other property owners of Key West. President Roosevelt closed side chat with these words: hates war. America hopes Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.” This search for peace should continue only so long as the .search does not involve us in war. Un- his fire- “America for peace. fortunately a search for peace is some- | times an unpremeditated war. aration for AN AARON BURR TRICK In New York is the 71-story building ‘of the Bank of Manhattan company, an institution whose history goes back almost | to the foundation of the government. It | is recalled by a recent writer that the in- | stitution resulted from the shrewd trick of | a lawyer, who was none other than | the} notorious Aaron Burr. | At the time the bank was projected | the group behind it were “in bad’ poli- | tically and hence unable to obtain a bank | charter. They organized a water com- pany instead, but in drawing, the- charter | Burr added a clause permitting the com- | pany to SUBSES also “in other necessary | business.” The other business was con- sirued to include banking and it has been carried on ever since. The structure in Wall street adjoins the lot formerly occupied by Federal Hall, the first national capitol, where Washing- ton took the oath of office as President. That tract is now the site of the sub- would marvel at the development which has resulted from their clever scheme for obtaining a bank charter. LE BY LITTLE son does not realize éarth eyerytime ‘there is a heavy rainfall. If one stood on an acre of ground and was told that matter weighing 113 tons was about to fall on that acre, he would lose no time in getting off, yet that is the weight of the water in one-inch rainfall, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The government's program for the regimentation of the farmers was given anew slant by the Secretary of Agriculture in a recent radioaddress. Accarding to the press re- ports of this talk, there is to be a-shift trom “price parity” to “i come parit, It will be re- called that the expression “price parity” has been used to mean that p.ice which would give a certain agricul- tural commodi- ty. such as wheat, cotton or tobacco, the pur- chasing power with respect to the things that farmers buy equivalent to the purchasing power of this com- modity in a designated base period. This approach to the farm problem is now to be thrown on the scrap heap, although the best talent in the Department of Agriculture has been applied, for some years, to proving that it is the fundamental means of agricultural salvation. The reasons for scrapping are interesting. In the first placep™Mr. Wallace Is reported to have'’said that there is not enough money in thé Treasury to give the farmers parity on wheat, cattle. corn and hogs. His statisticiatts have computed that 17 cent cotton is re- quired for parity in the cotton belt. When it is selling around 9 cents, and the government Ican basis is 12 cents, even the Seeretary is i essed by the financia’ drain. It is extremely significant to find this faint beginning of a realization that tte federal funds are not inexhaustioie. A second reason for scrapping the over an acre, How many people walking along realize in rainy weather that thousands of tons of water are floating about in the at- mosphere over their heads? Of course, we know that all will not fall at once and as it gradually descends na great harm is done, | treasury. z If Aaron Burr and his associates could look upon the scene today they the NY Bees ous weight which falls to the SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Chicago Tribune prints and Newsdom copies this ancient wheeze, which may be as funny to the present generation as_ it was to those of the past. Trib hangs it on an Urbana restaurant, which is: said to have displayed the following sign: “Want- ed—Man with Wooden Leg to Mash Pota- toes.” Radio comedians may use the joke with impunity, the copyright having ex- pired in 1887. AS many people may know, chop suey is not a product of China, but a concoction originated in the United States. It has been introduced into China, however, not for consumption by Chinese, but for the benefit of American residents and tourists. One of the largest Chinese restaurants in lays the sign: “New York ved Here.” appears*to have struck Eryjitidzan, Purkey, where the prices de- manded for spécially attractive bridés have been suddenly advanced from around $150 to as high as $500. Whether this boost is the result of government _price- fixing or merely the working of the law of supply and demand was not stated in the dispatch containing the new Mrs. Willard Hinz of Kenosha, Wis., married 29 years ago, just can’t get along with her husband, but somehow hasn't been able to get rid of him, although her fifth suit for divorce is now pending. She withdrew her first three complaints, the fourth resulted in a decree which was an- nulled, but this time she avers she will have a divorce that will stick. Her charge, cruelty, should be easy to prove against almost any husband after living with him 29 years. A Virginia newspaper makes the fal- lewing important correction: “We made a mistake last week. Ed Snyder did not trade horses with Tony Apperson but with a Mr. Apperson of Crow, who is related to the livery stable there.” | Parents may spank their off-spring, but not each other, according to the ruling of a Los Angeles judge. Mrs. Lavern Sco- field spanked her son, Jimmie, whereupon | her husband spanked her. She was grant- led a divorce and custody of the boy, idea of priee parity is that while the consumer might stand it for a year or so, he would eventually rebel. This is a new thought also, for there has been very little concern shown here- tofore over the interésts or the atti- tude of the consumer. It reveals the essential inconsistency of striving for price or purchasing power parity while engaged in frantic efforts-to raise all prices. It is likewise an: mission of the difficulty of raising wages as rapidly as prices, and of the You and Your Nation’s Affairs Another Hoax Coming Up_ ., By HARLEY L, LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University utter futility of doing anything at all to improve real incomes by amy sort of price.tinkering. The third reason is most interesting of all, Mr. Wallace is quoted as say- ing that price parity is “basically meaningless.” This makes him the world champion when it comes to sweeping away, in one phrase, a case into the building up of which has gone years of political préssure, cun- "|ning argument and seemingly solid reasoning. These fatal admissions do not mean that the Secretary of Agriculture is ready to accept the old-fashioned no- tion that the best remedy for 5 cent cotton is 5 cent cotton. Far from it! All of the emphasis is henceforth to be laid on income parity, at least un- til some one decides that this concept is also basically meaningless. Income parity is not a new idea. It is found in the 1937 version of AAA, a bill which Congress wisely laid aside. Its new feature is in the immense addition te the territory to be covered. In the 1937 bill the parity to be sought was the relation of farm and non-farm in- comes during the five years 1909 to 1914. Now Mr. Wallace proposes to~ work for a fifty year parity level, the half-eentury following the Civil Wan In other words, he wants to give the average farmer as much purchasing power in relation t» he average non- farmer as was the case from 1864 to 1914, Could anything be more fantastic or preposterous? The stock phrases, “purchasing power of farmers” and “purchasing power of non-farmers” are ‘so vague, so general. so suscepti- ble of differences according to the groups of non-farmers included or ex- cluded, as to render impossible any exact comparison, even as of the pres- ent moment or the current year. The comparison of such incomes, for this is presumably what is meant by “pur- chasing power,” as of the last five pre- ‘war years would have required elab- orate statistical faking, since there are no authentic records upon which to draw. Any attempt to do'this over the half-century that followed the Civil War, with its boomsand depres- sions, its phenomenal éxpansion of both industry and agriculture, and its utter lack of income records, will be nothing more than a gigantic statisti- cal hoax, in comparison with which Mr. Barnum's discovery of a prehis- toric stone man was gospel truth, (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE Temperature’ & Highest é Lowest 276 Mean . 8 Normal Mean 9 Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation “Thin reeord wern 2. ending at % o'clock hb ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises - 6:28 a. Sun s 5:55 p. Moon rises 7:28 p. Moon sets . . 8:16 a. Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High arcs § Ef 1 Low 23 Barometer reading at 8 a. m,: Sea level, 29.94, WEATHER (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Thursday; somewhat cooler tonight; mod ate northwest and north wings, | becoming variable Thursday. Florida: Generally fair tonight and Thursday; somewhat cooler tonight. Jacksonyille to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate north- west and north winds becoming variable Thursday and generally fair weather tonight and Thurs- day except some coludiness in extreme south portion. PM. ‘ORECAST WEATHER CONDITIONS The ance increased in intensity and $81 Mississippi Valley disturb- {, EATHER jmoved nearly northward ‘to’ the 'Canadian Province of Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich; 28.86 \inches, causing gales onthe lower Lakes and the north Atlantic | coast, and general rains through- ;| out most of the country from the Mississippi Valley eastward, being| @ jheavy at New York Gity, 1.15 Finches. “| Pressure is moderatély high this: “|morning from the north Pacific! “| States southeastward to the mid- jdle Gulf of Mexico. Temperaures have fallen in most sections from the Mississippi Val- ley eastward and on the west Gulf coast, with readnigs 10 to 20 degrees lower in many _locali- ties in the East Gulf and South Atlantic States; while warmer lweathey prevails from the North Pacific States southeastward in- to the central Plains States. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Busi ness and Theater District EXCELLENT {| RESTAURANT Elevator Fireproof Garage Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begi never cry again with Rn will creditors insult whole hemisphere Will to thrive and thou wilt empty stomach; neither ee, nor want oppress, nor ~hunger.bite, nor.will takedness freeze thee. The shine _ brighter,.. and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. seeveceeosee Today’s Anniversaries 1674—James Logan, secretary to William Penn, scholar and ist, founder of a noted Pennsyl- vania family, born in Ireland. Died Oct. 31, 1751. 1785—Daniel Drake, Ohio’s ed medical , scientist, teacher and writer, Plainfield, N. nati, Nov, 6, 1852 1812—Austin Flint, phy ian, physician-professors of the physician, | born near J. Died in Cincin weonccccces jur- } not- |to United States. New York! among the greatest | last century, father of a noted phy-| sician, born at Petersham, Mass. | 1396, Died in New York City, March 13, ; 1886, i | prolific inventor, 1816—James W. Grimes, Iowa | Hartford, Conn. tinue;and discourage all jracing aud all kinds of gaming,! dential election, cock-fighting, exhibition of and other and entertainments.” WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937, Sececccccecsooseceseccocoseeceeses TODAY IN HISTORY 1774 — Continental OGongregs fietitious H. ions}ing to favor | tion, shows, expensive” dive 1818—United States and ial 1885: — Bal al school, establi: 1820—Florida ceded by 1927—Mayor {search the city’s 1880—The Morey Letter pub- born. Died March 22, 1850—Francis H. Richards,} addre orey, and claims hinese ore ain agreed to joint occupancy of | Institute, country’s Oregon. 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