The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE 1%: PUBLISHING CO., INC, L. P, ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager rom The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County 2 Member of the Press ihe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use “for republication of all news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year ss zag six Months Shree Months ‘ ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions ~f fespect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rate of 10 ce line. Notices for ent: nments by churches from which @ revenue is to 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- ns ROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ‘“* ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- Isnd. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County Governments. and City An interesting book is written well to the last and to last. » Mr. Henpeck’s most serious study is the expression on his wife’s face. Men find it easy enough to please a wife—if that-wife-happens to be someone else’s. * \ It is possible that the nudists are taxpayers after being stripped of all they have. This is a bare possibility. ; Weare told that there is nothing in the world of form to compare with the human face. Particularly some of them. ll Duce is thought to be a_ selfish person but since he got his all he wanted in Ethiopia, he is desirous that Germany, Loo, have once more the place to which it is entitled and which it once possessed in the African sun. He wants Germany to have her colonies back. How magnani- mous! General Francisco Franco says .that if his government is. triumphant in the Spanish civil war, it will be its purpose to Work to'the end that “there will be fewer eh and fewer poor.” He has also stated that the constitution under which he pro- poses to govern Spain will contain no anti- feligious clauses, and that explains why the Church hopes and prays for his victory ih the field. 4 LaVerne Moore, alias John Montague, fecently acquitted of a has been dropped from a forthcoming Bing Crosby picture by order of Will Hayes, screen dictator. robbery ns and put a crimp into the aspirations the self-confessed bootlegger, who ex-/ ize his recent trial to the| ects to capita &tent of a “hot” million. 3ruce Barton, well known gelitive, wants to be a congressman, and! Instead the His slogan On the inverse there to make laws, he has idea to unmake them. “move to repeal a law a week.” He be- Fievesithat the least governed are the best governed, and this column wishes that he would tell that to the President. Gon has delved into the matter and finds that the 75 congresses have passed 59,282 Statutes, the last congress alone contri- buting 11,000. Less laws and taxes will please everybody except politi- cians, and will not hinder an ratio. of goi original is less the progress iota. THE SPANISH OUTBREAK The Spanish revolution is about to ap- proach its climax, with Gen. Franco lead- ing his full forces in a determined offen- sive from the neighborhood of Zaragoza towards Catalonia, hoping to cut off this portion of Spain from Madrid and_ the south. News from Berlin and cates that Germany and Italy stand by the revolutionary leader, has recently been congratulated by Mus- solini for his great triumph in the north- west. Italy now admits that 40,000 Italian soldiers fight with Franco and other ob- servers believe that this an under- statement. From Paris comes the opinion that the war in Spain has not yet been won by either side. French experts say that! Franco has about 375,000 men under his command and that the Government’s army is around 450,000. : the revolutionary army are estimated at from 60,000 to 80,000 and those in the REPAbiCaH TOLCES AE THOG0. While French Government these indiegve of the the sides. tions €ontinue their parleys about the Withdrawal of all volun- teers but the opinion is general that the war will be settled before anything effec- tive is accomplished. Rome _ indi- intend to who is Foreign volunteers in sympathy is wi tiguies are a ratio of outside Meanwhi THE KEY WEST CITIZEN || Nation’s ee Although at the beginning of this year the prices of farm products were about where they were in 1913 and, therefore, the long desired pre-war parity had ‘been temporarily re- stored—thanks to the drought —in the past few months those prices have begun to sag again, so that our farm- ers are more or less apprehen- sive, seeing in their dreams the spectre of surpluses and ruin in the midst of plenty. It is there- fore with poignant interest that farm- ers everywhere have read President Roosevelt's fireside chat of Columbus Day, looking for promise of aid and comfort during the coming special session of Congress. Yet it is with some pee gee finds there indi ‘wo... familiar remedies whose efficacy has not been - pletely proved and which must carefully scrutinized, even though it may seem rude to look a gift horse in the mouth. The first of these is the proposed re- vival of crop control, reminiscent of the McNary-Haugen bill, the AAA, the domestic allotment plan, and the ever-normal granary tentatively and dubiously advocated by Secretary Wallace. However, to judge from past experience, it looks as though such regulation must go on from major to minor crops, must have a bad ef- You and Your dir “Affairs Medicine for the Farmers By J. E, Le ROSSIGNOL i Dean, College of Business Administration, Nebraska University 1 fect on our export market, and might in the long’ run create greater sur- pluses than ever so that in the long run the lot of the American farmer might be worse with government con- trol than without it. The other remedy suggested is still more questionable from the farmer's point of view, promising to increase the wages of the city laborers and thus, indirectly increase the demand for farm products. Here is the old and oft-refuted purchdsing-power fallacy expressed with naive convic- tion as though it were gospel truth: “American industry has searched the outside world to find new markets —but it can create on its very door- step the biggest and most permanent market it has ever had. ...A few more dollars a week in wages, a better dis- tribution of jobs with a shorter work- ing day will almost overnight make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products. That increased volume of sales ought to lessen other costs of production so much that even a considerable in- crease in labor costs can be absorbed without imposing higher prices on the consumer.” It will be interesting to see how our farmers and rural economists of the chair and the press respond to these suggestions but I venture to say that there will be in this connection much profitable discussion, of the philosophy of scarcity, economic na- tionalism, and the boot-strap theory of wages, and that, when all is said and done it will be found that “you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.” It may be, too, that our farmers will sooner or later discover that God helps those who help themselves. charge, | This will meet with the | approval of the majority of moving picture | advertising } to? Mr. Bar-! WATCH OUT, “LITTLE FELLOWS” Experts who have watched the gyra- tions of the stock market recently report that the “little fellow” has not been swept |® away by fluctuating prices but that, on} __ the other hand, he remains a net buyer. Benes Our own advice to “little fellows” is|Mean .. ei to get out of the stock market and stay |Normal Mean . out. While the newly promulgated reg- Vesterday’s pacers ulations have done much to protect stray | Normal Precipitation investors there is room for considerable | .,) improvement before the “little .fellow’s” money will be safe in Wall Street opera: et tions. Moon riseg . If any reader of The Citizen has some |Moon sets money to invest the chances are that op-|Neew moon, 2nd sue : Tomorrow's Tides portunities exist locally, where he can AM. keep his eye on what happens to the in- High 9:36 8:58 | dedicates log chapel to St. Paul vestment. If one must go into the stock site eee : 2:29) and name is assumed by settle- market, do so only to invest funds that you| gea level, 30.05... =m lment—now St. Paul, Minn, wish to permanently allocate for that ] purpose. Buy stocks to hold, for their di- Tae 1864—U. 3- Postal: Money Or: vidend possibilities and not because of any (Till_ 7:30 p. m, Tuesday) peter erers: hunch that the market might have another poy Noms Mawatee gad | cloudy with occasional light scat-| 1898—U. S. sends formal ul- surge upward. ‘tered showers tonight and Tues-|timatum to Spain to buy the Phil- ioe ag of the se the market will | day; moderate northeast winds, |ippines for $20.000,000. probably surge upward but that does not} mean that the “little fellows’ who play the big man’s game will get out with heavy gains. It ustally happens that the “little fellow”’ stays in too long. Besides. he is playing another man’s game and he hasn't the information that the big players have to guide their>market operations. WHAT THE SECURITY MARKET ANS TO ¥OU (Address questions to the author care of this newspdper) eve THE WEATHER eeccceccsessseesesee Temperature* Today In History ‘Portugal, took toll of 50,000 lives. 1765—Hated Stamp Act, which ultimately led to the Revolution, 0 Ins. effect. Day observed by 14 Ins, | American colonies with tolling of jbells and mock funerals, tin Sun rises 1837—Winnebago Indians re- ~\linquish claims to their old lands ' east of the Mississippi and move West. P.M. 1841—Father Lucien Galtier s possibly fresh at times. Florida: Generally fair — to-j ‘night and Tuesday except occa-|Ppopplation of country sional light scattered showers on|0ver 76 million. the east coast and Florida Keys. | ~ : . Jacksonville to Florida Straits:} 1918—Vienna hoists the flag of te northeast winds, pos-; Socialism over the city. fresh at times and partly |-— CaPuGRESE t weather with scattered | moderately low from showers tonight and Tuesday,/2da southward over somewhat squally over the south-| Plains States, : eastern Bahamas. Light rain has occurred since East Gulf: Moderate northeast! yesterday morning in northeast- |winds and generally fair weather|ern Florida and portions of the tonight nd Tuesday with scatters/upper Mississippi,, Valley, and jed showers in the Florida Straits, | there has been light snow or rain lin the northern Rocky Mountain jand Plateau States. } Temperatures are generally A strong high pressure area,!above nrmal this morning be- lerested this morning over the mid-|tween the Rocky Mountains and dle Atlantic States, overspreads Appalachian region; while colder {the eastern portion of the coun-| weather has overspread the west- try and the Gulf States, and an-jern Rocky Mountain States, and | other strong “High” over the Can- the Atlantic States from the adian Northwest extends south-: Carolinas northward. rd into the central Rocky| G. S. KENNEDY, es; while pressure is Official in Charge 1900—Census of this day gives ag little central Can- the central To the citizen!Whp'dwns few or no securities, the los of billions that have recently occurred in the stock market may seem to be of no interest. But that is a short-sighted view, for the action of the security markets affects us all. The values represented by stocks and bonds constitute savings and surplus spending and borrow- ing power. When values sharply decline, that spending power is partially wiped out. People reduce their purchasing, pro- ductive employment lags, the production | indexes of all types of industries drop This is not an argument for exc e- | ly high stock prices—it is that } part of the decline in values was justified | j} and marked a necessary correction. But | it is unquestionably true that the gover ment policy of excessively regulating curity exchange operations and forbidding | market operations, t in past times tend- ed to take up the slack in thin has proved an artificial depress security w EATHER CONDITIONS possible Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will sogh begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with an empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, por will n@kedness freeze thee. The will and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. whole hemisphere shine__ brighter, markets, j ve force —Benjamin Franklin. that endangers all investments and savings, and the welfare an of all industry. The next congress will do a great service if it revise regulatory laws in the ligh to the end that h } are controlled and at progress THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST the countr will security t of actu i manipulators time the Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. the same spirit of the honest investor and securit dealer is not b j natural restraints. ken or 1755—Earthquake at Lisbon,} MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen The road to the mainland will; Traffic Officials Association of be finished by December 1 say; the United States and Canada and members of the board of county their families who are to return commissioners who have just re-/ {from Havana 3 o'clock Friday aft- turned from an inspection trip! ernoon and leave 6 o'clock over over the various projects. The, the F. E. C. railway. two mile fill between the Mate- cumbes has all been brought to; Bebey, of the Alacranes base- the proper height, levelled off; ball team, yesterday pitched what and rocking is now going on rapid-| it said to be the only no run, no ‘ly. J. Otto Kirchheiner, chair-|hit, no man to second baseball jman of the county board reports game in the history of the city. that contractors, county en-| The Douglass school igineers and members of the; prised the opposition. During the board are all of the opinion that game of nine full innings 31 bat- not more than 30 days will be re-| ters faced Bebey. Two of them quired to complete the work. This reached first base on infield er- means that on December 1 the en-;rors. The others marched to the tire road to the mainland should/bat and marched back again. The be ready for travel except the big! Alacranes made one run, and the water gap, and it is possible that game ended thus. Alacranes 1, the ferries to be used over the| Douglass school 0. water may be ready by that time.| The Gibbs Engine’ Company of| Eilitorial comment: Key West's Jacksonville has the contract for, fame is rapidly spreading. R. Jor- jbuilding the ferries and while gen Neilson, who represents a jthey are listed for delivery De-| Danish importing firm, has just {eember 15, he expects they will|shipped his company samples of be ready for delivery ‘two weeks turtle canned in Key West and earlier. The inspection party left! believes his countrymen will like iSaturday, returned last evening it and this morning.” It consisted of }Commissionérs Watren, Porter | Mrs..J. L. Ley sustained. two |and Kircheinér, ‘County En- broken fingers and was otherwise jgineers Watkitis anaBailey. “They Slightly injured in an a were accompanied by. Captain: and collision at corner of Divisi Mrs. R. W. McNeely, Senator Wm. Watson streets, about 11 o’clock H. Malone, Judge Jefferson B, today. A 15 months old child |Browne and George Morris. jwith her escaped without a xis ‘seratch. Mrs. Ley’s Ford car col- “I am asking the people of Key lided with a Cabrera Wholesale West to elect me” said Marion C. Grocer truck, driven by Garland} | Tucker, who today announces for Felton. the office of Captain of Police a of the city. “I feel that my police! Fishing in Key West waters is) record, that of a citizen and as a the subject of a four page story ; Soldier, warrants them in repos-/!" the October issue of the i | | team com-} WHO KNOWS? 1. How many States have min- imum wage laws? 2. How much money spent by the PWA? 3. When did the RFC © begin | operations and what did it do? 4. What is the German popu- lation of Czechoslovakia? 5. How old is James Roose- velt? 6. Has Lincoln Eillsworth’s ex? plorations received _ reognition | abroad? : 7. Who was Luigi Galvani? 8. How many planes are there {in the United States? 9. What is the meaning of the {word “Baraca”? 10. Where does from? was | cork come (See “The Answ: on Page 4) |Kiwanis Magazine published in \Chieago. A number of _ striking {illustrations furnished by Hamil- 'ten Wright are used in the story, | This is one of the best fishing ‘tales sent out from Key West, and is from the’ pen of Mr. Wright. In the Center of the Busi ness and Theater District i EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Elevator Fireproof Garage satisfied that all who know me! agree that my record as a citizen, is unblemished.” Mr. Tucker said that he was a member of the| 328th Company 82nd Division on the American Expeditionary Forces, was wounded and gassed in action, and has the American} Distinguished Cross, the French) Croix de Guerre, and one gilt star for heroism in the face of the enemy. He also receive! a cita-! tion from President Wilson and] from General Pershing, and also! from the French General Petain. | ing in me their confidence. 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