The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 25, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen’ Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, L, P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Dally Pawapsipes in “Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press The 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 .. ip ‘ix Months fhreo. Month: 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 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- estions. | Per ae wey waar eee KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. couimend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. 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. Carelessness starts. might pay to be careful. Maybe the idea of the undeclared war is to avoid paying pensions later on. "many fires. It's a mistake to measure all progress by the profits to be expected from the de- velopment. Correct this sentence: “Really, it was only a trifling operation, hardly worth *-mentioning.” - Failures in business are those who tell others how their business should be run,— _ Times-Union, Representative J. Mark Wilcox thinks straight and talks straight. To do that men must be fearless, too ex- forgotton There are experts who are “pert, which means they have that there is much to learn. Wouldn’t the experts look foolish if the Chinese whipped the Japanese, never- theless they would join in the general re-| joicing. the 30- The world is troubled with *have” and the “have-not” nations; ciety is bothered with the same type in- fpriduals. Did degsauaas mention boondoggling? Well, out West the other day, a federal official announced that government in-} structors are going to teach Indians how ye make and use bows and arrows! The modern printer, operating a lino- type machine, can set more than five times as much type as a printer could by less mechanical methods in 1890. Yet, there are five times as many printers employed | strongly organized, this does today. That does away with the theory that mechanization has brought on the * evils of the world. UNITED LABOR AND THE PUBLIC | The conference this week between | representatives of the American Federa- | tion of Labor and the Committee for In- dustrial Organization should result in the end of the bitter fighting between these two organizations and in the union of some 7,000,000 workers into one great associa- | tion. \ While the average American sym-| pathizes with the cause of labor, in gen- eral, and desires the working class to be not mean, that the public intends to underwrite any demands that labor may makt-upon indus- } try or upon government. So long as labor | leaders wisely recognize the superiority of the general welfare and exhibit a willing- ness to recognize the rights of other peo- ple, without depending ioo much upon force to obtain their enas, the union or- ganization will have popular support. The danger exists, however, that there may develop in this country something like: the*eluss..consciousness which has beén promoted’in other lands and_ that labor; leaders may assume that, because they have-the power.,to threaten, they}; have the right'to°compel acquiscence ini their program, Under such conditions some of them may forget that other Am- ericans have equal rights to live and pros- per, which will cause ili-feeling to unions and work harm to the cause of the work- ingman. THE BLUE AND GRAY REUNION The decision of the Grand the Republic to hold a reunion with the Confederate veterans at Gettysburg next | summer moves the San Francisco Chronicle to point out that it-will give the world | final notice that our people ‘can fight, and bitterly, to the limit of their strength, and accepting the result, come together again in a united front.” When the surviving veterans meet as friends, says this newspaper, on their} bloodiest battlefield, the spectacle should convince all of us that there never should be “a lesser quarrel that cannot be com- posed by Americans.” There are issues today, it is true, that ; deeply move our citizens, but all of them, together, can hardly equal the bitterness of the last century when the men of this | country shed their blood in battle against | ‘each others. However, it is incumbent! upon our leaders to avoid the development of hatred between groups or sections be- cause foolish leadership can nation into, great woes. While some sectional differences of ; opinion exist they can be settled so long as there is confidence in good faith and fair | play. Their adjustment will never - be helped by a failure to understand the prob- lems of other sections or by criticism of other Americans as a class. A NOSE FOR PROPAGANDA Army of } plunge any! Japanese propaganda in the United States has been completely knocked out | by Chinese reports, says Viscount Hide- maro Konoe, brother of the Japanese Premier, who has recently returned to Tokyo after conducting a symphony or- chestra in the United States. | High THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs Is Real Liberalism Emerging? By WALTER E. SPAHR Professor of Economics, New York University A multitude of incidents lend en- cou ement to those persons who | hope and believe that in the not dis- tant future genuine liberalism, as distinguished from the mis- named “liberal- ism" of which we hear so much today, will again be recognized for its virtues and brought back to its proper place in both our public and private affairs. This encour- agement can be found in the fact that with the passage of practically all the self-styled iberals” have demonstratec in va- rious ways that they are not liberals at all, in the best and proper sense of that term. They have shown that they are often reactionary coercion- often enemies of democracy, often advocates of class hatred, often champions of a deplorable intoler- ance, often condemning the peaceful and intelligent ways of evolutionary processes while advocating the use 1 methods of revolution, then, too, “y often they have shown a ready lingness to violate some of the major tenets of genuine liberalism, regarding which they so vociferously insist that they are the true cham- pions, when such violation seems to serve some immediate purpose. Not many of these pseudo-liberals to convict themselves of honesty. Incident after i made all this increasing- y clear to the people of this country me of these “leading liberals” | provided an exhibition of the nature of fake liberalism when they de- fended the appointment of former Senator Black to the Supreme Court despite his connection with the Klan and despite his open violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitu- tion while a Senator. Genuine liberalism is not time- serving, nor opportunistic, nor biased, nor vindicative; nor is it marked by hatred towards one’s fellowmen, nor by the spirit of coercion so character- istic of the governmental and social systems of earlier times. More and more it seems clear that thoughtful people are beginning to understand quite well that much of the so-called liberalism of the preening, self-styled “liberals” of the present is not liberal- Temperature Highest | Lowest | Mean ; Normal Mean Rai Yesterday’s cipitation .01 Ins. Normal Precipitation ... .18 Ins. “Phin record covern 24-hour period, J ending at o'clock (hin morning. Tom Sun rises Sun sets rrow’s Almanac . m. {Moon r Moon sets e m. Last quarter, 26th Tomorrow's Pa 3:46 Low een Barometer reading at 8 a. Sea level, 30.01. WEATHER FORECAST « (Till 8:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity Fair and slightly warmer tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and warm- er; genlte to moderate northeast to east winds. Flor'da: Generally fair, slightly mer tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. To meet the clever and artistic propa- ; ganda of the Chinese this son of Japan advises his government that “the funda- | mental thing is to get hold of a man with} a nose for propaganda and let him take j charge.” He admits that, from a Japanese | viewpoint, “opinion in America much worse than the people (in Japan) know.” is FOR ALL FLORIDA (Plant ¢ Comptroller Lee f a fix im the ° state a man does something he doesn We right in his stand get in the mid- He of fixes. ieve that the co is and that he is lool interests of the st a wh and not the interests of this that o other county Mr € a state of After all, icial and when he it is with whole that he 3 acts the ag getting more and more inte the racket class when which gas tax troller to hew te the than the ali t Bd Sectors. jand East Gulf: | winds becoming Jacksonville to Florida Straits Gentle variable southerly over north portion and gentle to mod- | erate northeast to east winds over south portion; fair to partly over- Save a little of -thy pocket-will soon begin to thrive never cry again with an will creditors insult the hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. ill whole hemisphere wi m. | ta low pre u! | the Me 3:48; income, and thy ism at all, and that the country stands in sad need of true liberalism. Encouragement can also be found in the fact that the operation of eco- nomic laws is exposing some of the major economic fallacies actively ad- vanced by these “liberals” as funda- mental parts of the “true liberalism” of which they were the champions. The passage of time and the opera- tion of economic laws have been on the side of the orthodox economists, and have made the “enlightened eco- nomic liberals” appear rather ridicu- lous in the eyes of an increasingly critical public. The proposal to raise the standard of living by advocating scarcity, and the almost endless num- ber of similar economic absurdites which these “liberals” have spon- sored, are one by one revealing their true nature. Encouragement can also be found in the increasing tendency of the pub- lie to realize and to say with a tone of disapproval that “this is politics.” For the last few years one of the great games of this nation has been politics, Practically every act of the present Federal Administration has been appraised by the press according to whether it was good or bad poli- tics. The President has been spoken of almost uniformly and unblushingly as -the cleverest politician of recent times. The words “statesman” and “statesmanship” have practically ceased to be used in speaking of both him and his Administration. This is really a remarkable phe- nomenon; and it is especially remark- able in the swiftness with which the practice became practically univer- sal, But there are encouraging stir- tings of reaction against this state of things. Many people are growing sick of this game of politics and want statesmanship. Their sense of fair- ness, their interest in the welfare of the nation, and their unwillingness to endorse or to participate in the pettiness, dishonesties, smallness, trickiness, and hypocrisies of “astute politics” are turning them toward more admirable things. They want genuine, liberal statesmanship. The constant hammerings and ex- poses of the true nature; of the pseudo-liberalism and of the great current game of politics, and the per- sistent teaching of the essential fea- tures of genuine liberalism, by such true liberals as Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, David Lawrence, Frank Kent, Mark Sullivan, George Sokolsky, and several others of the same type apparently are beginning to bear fruit. Time and facts are on their side, and it seems Clear that the public is becoming increasingly aware of the fact. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE WEATHER jeast weather tonight and Tues- WEATHER CONDITIONS | Pressure is moderately high this ‘morning over the Atlantic and East Gulf States, and another high pressure area oveTspreads stern districts; while sure area of some in- j tensity is centered over the upper | Mississippi Valley, with low pres- 'far northw sure extending southwestward to xican border. The only pre- l cipitation during the last 24 hours has been light rain or snow in jportions of the upper Mississippi iValley, Lake region, and New {England and light rain over the ‘far Northwest and on the Florida I Ke The cold weather spread eastward over the ‘and middle Atlantic States; elsewhere temperatures generally higher, although ings are still abnormally low ‘throughout the country” east of the Mississippi River, being 16 to 20 degrees below the average this morning in the Flor- ida peninsula. In most sections of the West temperatures are above normal. } G. S. KENNEDY, ‘ Offie'al in Charge north while are read- hide-bound and thou wilt empty stomach; neither nor The e, nor want oppress, shine brighter, 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. has! seasonal | MONDAIY, OCTOBER 25, 1937. Jorctock tomorrow afternoon. Those who expect that payment of poll |texes tomorrow will qualify them | for election, will be disappointed KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Iter. Receipt No. 2,854 was issued From The Files Of The Citizen |at 9 o'clock this morning and Mr. | Maloney believes the number will The Chamber of lreach 2,900 before the office closes tomorrow afternoon. Key West and the South At- lantic Coastal Highway have been | done a grave injustice in a report recently issued -by the highway department, local authorities point out. The report, which was widely copied in papers in the eastern and southern part of the states, appear that Miami and not Key West is the southern terminus of the South Atlantic Coastal Highway. Key West has always been the southern terminus of the South Atlantic Coastal, Highway. It gets the annual’ meeting of the directors of the Highway Association this winter pand the general meeting of the | organization in 1920. Friday morning. Commerce is this afternoon ar-j ranging a program to celebrate| Almost as much rain felf here the occasion. Moving picture men ‘last night as the island saw dur- in Miami who have expressea the ing the first eight months of the intention of coming here to get! year. It was the heaviest rain in newsreel pictures, have been noti-| over a year. Precipitation last fied and are expected to be oni night was 4.25 inches, while for hand. The plane will take off the first eight months, but 6.24 from Meacham Airport at Mar-/inches was recorded. After a tello Towers No. 2. It will carry record breaking dry spell for the all of the first class mail from first eight months of the year this city and also that which the weather man cut loose” with comes in on the Florida East the beginning of September and Coast train that morning. i has been doing his clean level ~ | best since- that time to fill cis. Registration books in this city terns. To date the precipitation close with the end of business shows 14.50, and from all indi- hours today. The poll tax books cations further efforts are on the close at the county court house 5 way. federal road i | Mary Helen Bonnett, pupil of |the Seventh Grate Cathedral) jschool in Pittsburgh, Pa. has! written to Key West-for views of the city and. descriptive matte? of} Key West which are to be uSed in map drawings by ‘the class, The! letter was promptly answered and, tabout 50 views of the ¢ity, | to- ;gether with several maps, were sent Miss Bonnett. OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express sovien —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST 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. SAS ESS CREE ESE 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. Editorial comment: The city is’ the biggest business institution on the island. Men elected to the city council in the coming elec- tion will be the ‘directors of this business institution. This being j true, the man who votes for a candidate who has not made a, Isuccess out of his private b Iness is either a fool or cares nothing of how the city’s aseaines are conducted. Fire Chief Pinder's car is re-! ported to have barely — missed; crashing into a herd of dairy cat-| ;tle at 8 o’clock this morning when the fire department was respond-} ing to an alarm of fire sounded from the corner of Angela and Duval streets. An automobile be-| longing to Juan Padron was burn-! ing and was slightly damage‘. Regular air mail service be- tween Key West and Havana will begin Friday morning. The giant! ;mail and passenger plane which ;the Pan American Airways has/| had in Miami for a week is ducj to reach the city this afternoon. It will take off on its first trip} Daily (except Sunday) Service via motor trucks —DMiami to Lower Matecumbe and return—serving all intermediate points on Florida Keys. | Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service Fall Cargo Insurance Office: 813 Caroline St. Telephones 92 and 68 | xo. SOMETMETE TEE, OPPO P EEE Lh he heeded! 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