The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO : The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE OrrIaEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. . ARTMAN, JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily } wepeper 4 a West and Monroe Entered } at Key West, Florida as second class mater FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year .. .. =j 3ix Months . Chree Months Ine Month . Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on Spplication. 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 interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Bs 90 ban | WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; ’ wevan bet 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 elass; always do its utmost for the public weifure; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue. eoimmend 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- lard. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Vesuvius is erupting again. Jealous “of ‘Mussolini. Opportunities present themselves to the person who turns them up. The surest way to build up respect for law and order is by the fearless and " impartial-enforcement of the law. 2 Study is hard work, as any school child will tell you, and this probably ex- _Plains why most of us know so little, - bY The stock market barometer and the Sweatherman’s thermometer must ‘be in » cahoots.—Fort Myers NewsP¥ess.f it zother way around in Key West; we = stand a reversal for a little while. There is an ordinance against the dis- ° charge of firearms within the-city limits, * but promiscuous shooting abounds every- i where. Several accidents have occurred Sand some day, unless the practice is stop- ped, there will be a tragedy. Judge Akerman ordered Sebring, Florida, to hold a delinquent tax sale to - provide for certain judgments, but the city > council decided to include in the budget all defaulted and maturing bond debts which required a levy of 3,700 mills. If the tax payers would come across it would grequire the payment of $3,700 on property ‘with a $1,000 valuation, so it may be as- umed that the Sebring tax situation will =remain in statu quo. $7,000,000 Another went overseas = for the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, but little of which will be returned in prizes =to the United States. If we had a federa! = lottery of our own, we could soon balance = the budget, and later pay off the national debt. Hon. Edward A. Kenny, New Jer- sey congressman, who has been agitating for a federal lottery for years, thinks that tthe United States could clear $1,000,000,. “080 a year with a federa) lottery. ‘ tle at the fiend; Samuel Johnson, FOIBLES OF THE GREAT Nothing is quite so mysterious as the working of the human mind. A study of men classed as geniuses generally shows spects. been harmless, in other cases led to positive insanity. will illustrate: they have Napoleon was afraid of a cat; Peter} bridge; | the Great was afraid to cross a Martin Luther imagined that the devil ap- peared to him and he threw his ink bot- oven and Lincoln at times contemplated suicide. Among the ridiculous antics of great men may be mentioned habit of Cardinal Richelieu to gallop around a billiard table imagining himself to be a horse. Adam Smith, the great economist, once walked 12 miles to church, clad only in his nightshirt. Bentham, the | philosopher, went bareheaded in winter and wore heavy leather gloves in summer. Many men of genius have lax in morals as measured standards, j All this does not mean. however, that being a little nutty is an infallibie sign of genius. smo) by usual * CAUSES OF CRIME Jn, tlieir' efforts to find an explanation the increasing prevalénce of crime, aay thoughtful persons have concluded that the tendency to burden the public with a multiplicity of laws may account for much of the lawlessness which now prevails. Speaking before an international con- verttion of police chiefs, Dr. Carlton Simon said: ‘We can limit and harass human freedom to such an extent that even normally balanced individual feels that he is oppressed and will seek unlawful means of expressing his personality.” Through the operation of innumer able laws and the activities of government agencies employed thereunder we are re- stricted, inspected, spied upon, _ investi- gated and caused many unnecessary noyances which ‘are resented by a people who love freedom. If more attention were paid to ap- prehending and punishing real criminals, while allowing greater freedom from harassment to respectable citizens, we should doubtless have a more law-abiding and happier citizenship. SUGGESTS 25-CENTS BOOKS The people of the nation, as a whole, do not go in for the reading of books. course, there are individuals in eve: tion who devour the latest with most of their emphasis upon what the erudite call ‘trash’, but many considered intelligent, scarcely read books at all. Maybe, it is because, like Herve Allen says, every writer “has to compete ovies,”” but we doubt if book $ any more prevalent in the era creen engaged the time of persons, reading wa before the ye very where. Hh afithor of “Anthony Adverse,” however, makes a suggestion that might help when he says authors and publishers “should reach the 25-cent crowd not only in what we write but also in the prices for } It is along the right line because | books.” not every family, fighting te make ends meet, can spare $2 or $3 for many books, regardless of how good the contents may be, THE REASON FOR BUSINESS There are many business who have lost sight of the basic existence of business and so with approval, the recent utterance men we of William M. Jeffers, president of the Unton vf Pacific Railroad, on the subject. “Money making should be the requ nit, a justifiable result-and a necessary ont if says Mr. Jeffers, “but it is not the reason for its existence. . is to serve humanity, business is to live, basic reason . . to supply the needs of the people, to aid in| their well-being and their comfort.” Sometimes their peculiarities have | A few examples ; Beeth- | the occasional | been shockingly | the | an-| a publications, | reason for the quote, | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN HW Mr. Lewis’s. P At last we know what labor is thinking. It would be more accurate, perhaps, to say that.we know now what Mr. John Lig ‘is\thinks that | tis think- | aes Atany rate, | weknow what | ; Mr Lewis him- | self is thinking, | : for he has re- cently set forth his thoughts in the October, 1937 issue of The Public Opinion Quar- terly. Since this article presum- ably embodies the creed of the leaders of one branch of the American labor raovement, it is entitled to our care- ful consideration. fair-minded person can offer us objection to the basic aspira- | ns of the labor movement. Fair wages for the work done, the realiza- tion of a decent standard of living, and the preservation of an inner self- respect as »ne,works—these are es- sential conditions for the mainte- nance of a society of free men. Mr. Lewis does not express the objectives labor movement in these words, we may assume that he would f such a statement, although his le makes c'ear that he proposes much farther. can any fair-minded person Coubt that effective collective “bar- ry to enable labor- vith emoloyers on terms I < been recog rely on the fairness and good will to ie advantare being taken weak: in the labor ress questions to the au You and Your | Nation’s Affairs them to be a little “cracked” in certain re- | lans Revealed By HARLEY L. “LUTZ Professor of Public Finance, Princeton Uidesbiney tial to collective bargai: to be centered about the question of methods and procedures rather than the question of basic aims, In other words, the difficulty is not so much ‘a matter of what labor may reason- ably want and seek to get, as it is a matter of how labor, or the leaders of labor propose to go about getting it. At this point, Mr. Lewis’ article is significant, both for its statement of a program and for its omissions. The keynote of his program is - legis- lation or other provision . . . for eco- nomic planning, and for price, pro- duction and profit controls.” It is to be noted that he does not include wage control. When this legislative goal is reached, the governmental control of every other economic share will naturally give to labor all that is left. Mr. Lewis apparently does not realize that his plan of controlling what every one else does and gets in- evitably means, indirectly if not di- rectly, a similar control over labor. In his present enthusiasm for such a scheme, he expects the labor share to be much more than at present. On the contrary it is likely to be less. The ultimate ‘solutior. of the labor problem thatiMr. Lewis proposes is political action, The labor movement should possess .effective strength, he says, “not only in the economic field but also in thet political field, to be used without reserve, if necessary, in the great battle for humanity and genuine democracy.” Mr. Lewis’ somewhat naive eco- nomics will be examined in a later article. Here it may be observed that the plan for labor to use political ac- tion “without reserve” strongly sug- rests another proposal made nearly a hundred years ago in the supposed interest of humanity. This proposal was the “ atershin of the prole- d the document in which it made was The Communist Mani- o. thor care of this newspaper) Today’s Anniversaries eeoccccees 1740—Jamse Boswell, famed English biographer of Dr. John- son, born. Died June 19, 1795. 1775—Jean B. Faribault, neer of the mid-West, fur trader | to maintain peace with dians for many years, Canada. Died at St. Parl, Minn, Aug. 20, 1860. 1784—Robert Hoe, first of the noted family of printing-press, manufacturers, a farmer’s son; whq landed in New York penni- jless, born in England. Died Jan. 4, 1833. jlish poet, born. Died Feb. 23, 11821. 1815—Daniel D. Emmett, who formed the first American minstrel company, ! author of the song, “Dixie,” born! in Ohio. Died there, June | 1904. F. ware senator, s ambassador, grandson of noted born at Wilmington, 28, 1898. Bayard, law- secretary son and statesman, Died Sept. 1839—Justus so H. Rathbone, jgovernment clerk in W: ashington, | founder of, the, Knights of Pythias, born at Deerfield, N- Y. Died Dee. 9, 1889. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Save a little of thy ine wit! creditors punger Pide, | nor ~Wripie hemlapnere i pleastire spring, ap iq e When business fails to take into con-' sideration this basic reason, what profits may occur, business has excuse Profits should velop out of service, not out of manipula- no for existence. de- tions, speculations and unfair competitive ; positions, regardiess of , Member of the pio- | and lead merchant, who did much | the In-|. om born in’ #™ and Rebellion” speech by Rev-jtures for this time of year were! 1795—John Keats, famed Eng-! “Virginia Minstrels,” | ee, hor want oppress, akedness freeze thee.. The Today In History | eeoseccccce-coccecccevce | 1814—World’s first steam war- ship, Robert Fulton’s ‘Fulton the First,” launched in New York. {Built at insistence of New York ‘City for defence against the Brit- ish. Never in tle and finally walrerea by al explosion, 1884—Famous “Rum, Roman- j Samuel D. Burchard in New York, a few days before Presidential ictection, said to have caused de- ‘feat of Blaine in whosé favor he hed spoken. 1914—RBelgians forced Ger- mans back by inundsting the coun- try. { eats 1923—-The Republic of Turkey inaugurated. 1 1929—Wail Street crash in an over 16 million shares day. i 1931—Pres. Hoover committee in Navy League char 1 es : JUST A HABIT | CHICAGO. udge, just} can't help being a Cosh it’s just a habit with me,” said John' Ferguson of this city when ar- jralenes for housebreaking. first sniffte a ar use = lized aid for nose and upper throat...where most colds start. Micxs ‘VA-TRO-NOL bargain, Hence, organization is essen-' | ining, The differences that arise ate likely | appointed | Temperature* | Highest | Lowest | Mean ... |Normal Mean Ra Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation ... “Thin record covern 24-hour period jending at 8 o'clock thix morning. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 6:33 a. Sun sets 5:48 p. | Moon rise: - 3:23 a. Moon sets 3:34 p. Tomorrow's .0 Ins | -13 Ins. | | High iLow . Barometer reading at 8 a Sea level, 29.9 WEATHE, (Till 730 p. m. ,Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair, fnad slightly warmer tonight and, Saturday; gentle northerly winds | becoming variable. ! | Florida: Fair tonight and Sat-| jurday; slowly rising tempera- jtures Saturday and in north por-' tion and near extreme south coast. tonight. | Jacksonville to Floida Straits! and East Gu:f: Gentle northerly winds becoming variable, gener- ally fair weather tonight and Sat- urday. ‘ORECAST WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is low this morning {from the northern Rockies east- ward over the North and Mid- dle Atlantic States, with low pressure areas of considerable in- tensity centered over central and; extreme eastern Canada; while a moderate high pressure area joverspreads the Gulf of Mexico} ;2nd northward into Tennessee,| and pressure is a’so moderately, ihigh from the North Pacific; jStates southeastward into the! | central Rocky Mountain region.} during the last 24 hours was light to moderate rain in the north Atlantic States, northern) Michigan, and the north Pacific States. normal this morning in most sec-} jtions from the M'ssissippi River} westward beng 20 to 22 de-l grees above in the Dakotas; whi'e| abnormally cool weather prevails over southeastern districts. Rec-; \Ord- breaking maximum tempera-' reported yesterday in many locali-| ties in the northern and central) reat Mountain and Piateau! G. 8. KENNEDY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937. mple Ballots Now for Sale By The Artman Press The Citizen Building Temperatures are above} Thousands are buying new GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS HERE'S no better timé than right now. to buy your new G-E Refrigerator. The need for dependable refriger- ation is just about as great in winter as in summer, for remember it's always summertime in the kitch- ‘en. You can buy a big new G-E Triple-Thrift Re frigerator and save three ‘ways: on price, on cur rent cost and on upkeep. Sealed-in-Steel in ail G-E Models ‘This famous cold making mechanism has Oil Cooling and Forced-Feed Lubri- tion that assure quiecer operation, less current con- sumption and loages life. 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