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

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ~~ Published Di TE ly Except Sunday By PUBLISHING CO. INC. ARTMAN, Presid , Assistant Business Manager »m The Citizen Building Greene and Ann’ Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West. and Monroe Cou! Entered at West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY. ‘TH 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 vne Year - six Months @hree Months ~ ADVERTISING RATES “Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE {_All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespect, 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. SC TTT: ee . IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY ADVOCATED BY ausae Water and Sewéfage. Bridges to complete Road te Main- land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County Governments. and City “ For every worthwhile possession one must pay a definite price. z We sometimes wonder how nice peo- ‘ple find out which book ought to be sup- pressed. There is always an optimistic way. of looking at things. If the fish don’t bite, Took what money you save on bait. a ‘ We can’t understand why some bright individual doesn’t volunteer a column of Paragraphs “like they ought to be.” . Secretary Morgenthau says “we are ‘Weaving a pattern and each step is weigh- ed carefully.” Perhaps the pattern is for a stairway carpet. : A Milwaukee jeweler suggests that a badge be given a person when he pays his taxes. In a way the idea has merit, thinks the Washington Post, but is curious to know after the taxpayer has paid his taxes what he would have left on which to pin the badge. ; ot Hebe On account of the high gost » are com- ir product. print, papers allover the lan American publishers next year wilf’ be i pelled to raise the price oft dbliged to pay $25,000,000 more for paper ! than in 1937, and, of course, the readers will have to supply the deficiency. Why not cut down the number of pages or the size of the sheet much of the stuff with which the bulky newspapers are loaded eould be dispensed with to the advantage ef the publisher and the satisfaction of the readers. Representative J. Mark Wilcox is un hombre de pecho. As a congressman he has made an enviable record. Here is what a man who is on the opposite side of the political fence has to say about our fearless congressman: “His courage in coming out without equivocation for those principles in which he believes is admired hy friends and enemies alike. While others side stepped, he came out openly against prohibition and his stand and presenting it earned for him Congress, though he opposed no less @ personage than Ruth Bryan Owen Again, during the last election, when most political aspirants were pussyfooting and dodging the issue, Mark courageously took his stand against the Townsend Plan at a time when to do so seemed little short of political suicide, and again he won.” If Mr. Wilcox seeks re-election to | Congress as representative of the Fourth District, he will be returned, and deservedly so. ability in a seat even in { ITALY TAKES TEN PER CENT Some idea of the financial condition of the Italian government may be gained from its extraordinary levy on the capital value of stock companies, which will be required to pay ten per cent of their value into the national treasury next Spring. American admirers of Dictator Mus- solini and those who shoot off their mouths about “dictatorship” coming to this coun- try might make a note of the manner which the I] Duce gets his in funds. He j doesn’t bother to borrow from the banks and pay them interest! This is not the first time that the Italians have adopted novel methods fi- nancing their campaign of aggrandize- ment. A year or so ago the government placed a levy against all real estate, which was required to subscribe to a loan up to al fixed per cent of-the value of the prop erty. This was a loan, it is true, but the} loan is to be repaid from special taxes levied against the real estate owners, who thus loan the money, get a bond and then! repay their own end. Pio | \SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen In his daily column O. O. Mcintyre recalls that the famous tune popularly known as the “Hootchie Kootchic,” which was first used as an accompaniment for “Oriental” dancers during the Chicago world’s fair in 1893, was composed by Sol Bloom, now Congressman from New York. Bloom was for many years once of the leading composers and music publishers in Tin Pan Alley. When knocked to the ground by a bull and in imminent danger of being gored to death, Adams Small of Mara- thon, Wis., saved his life by scratching the enraged animal’s head, he says. ¢ The bull liked the scratching and stood ‘still to en- joy the sensation for several minutes, then walked leisurely away. Whether this method would work in all cases is prob- lematical, but it might be worth trying in a similar emergency. In an article giving safety advice to motorists, Ab Jenkins, holder of 14 inter- national speed and endurance records says: “Above all keep both hands on the wheel. The only two people I know who are com- petent to drive one-handed are Rickenbacker and Ralph de Palma—and both of them use two hands. When Mrs. Anntal Krammer, 48, a peasant woman living near Budapest, with 21 children won the prize offered by the Hungarian government as the country’s @iampion mcther, news of her victory was published far and wide. The prize, how- ever, was only 100 pengoes, the equivalent of about $1 for each.child, and Mrs. Kram- mer doesn’t think it"was worth all the trouble, One of the strangest alibis offered by a law-breaker lately was that of Floyd Metcalf of Buffalo. He confessed to boot- legging, but pleaded that he did it to ob- tain funds to continue his studies for the ministry, being ambitious to become a mis- sionary. Alan Hale, who for 20 years played “villain” roles on stage and screen with marked success, has at last been cast in a more respectable character, much’ to his delight. He says he has. played “bad” parts so long that he had got to hiding his own purse from himself. cit = “Lamb Bites Wolf” line which would delight Charles A, Dana. item in a Milwaukee head-j of} is a recent the shade newspaper, records that “George Lamb was fined for! biting Morris Wolf during a fight over a bottie of whiskey. If anything be worse th erbial “bull in a chin eyele. Peter Calendar rode his gas propelled steed into a Brooklyn crockery store, smashing $2, dise, but was not injured in the crash. a shop” it is a motor- Eddie | It is the caption of an} which } 000 worth of merchan- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs A Reckoning at Hand By WALTER E. SPAHR Professor of Economics, New York University The recession in the stock market ‘which has been in effect since March, 1937—the :o-called Roosevelt reces- sion—has grown out of discouraging prospects for business. Most of this dis- couragement can be traced t the bad eco- nomics em- ployed by our present Federal government. This again il- lustrates that in time the steady march of eco- nomic forces catches up with foolish man- made devices and economic absurdities of positics a.d overthrows them and often their sponsors. It is largely with such devices as artificial demagogic economics that the game of politics in government is played. ‘A peculiar mixture of so-called as- tute politics and so-called New Deal economics has pro a fantastic interlude for our people since ye 1933. The “astute politics” has been largely an appeal to the emotions of the untrained masses. The New Deal “economics” has consisted largely of attempts torlegislate wishful thinking into reality. Efforts by the government to con- trol and raise prices and wages are cases in point. Prices are the reflec- tion of the operation of the forces of supply and demand. Sometimes these forces are freely competitive; some- times they are monopolistic in nature. A rise in the price ofa commodity invites an increase in the supply of that commodity or the use of a substi- tute for it and it isa brake on demand if all other things remain the same. This is likewise true of the price paid for labor. Therefore is it not a pect liar thing for the government to suj pose that, if there is great unemploy- ment, the way to increase the demand for labor is to raise the price of labor? Would any producer who finds it dif- ficult to sell his product at a certain price be foolis!. enough to suppose he could sell more if he rvised the price? Has, not unemployment been pro- longed and have not employers been substituting machinery for high priced labor? Then, too, we have seen various at- tempts to bolster the pgices of agri- cultural -products by 4rtificial de- vices. Do not these higher prices in- vite a greater supply and has not that been the result? Does not the cotton situation provide a striking example of the consequences that can flow from an attempt to change prices artis ficially? Is it not foolish to suppose that with a change in prices, Coigietbiarepieey and supply’ will not Be, perhaps in a direction; ised? With respect to ‘cotton, | example, the foreign »demand, declined and much of our foreign market went to other nations; at the same time our supply increased to an unprecedented extent. As a consequence, cotton prices have fallen sharply, igre it these prices are expressed in tet of the pre-devaluation gold poctieg present cotton prices are at about the lowest level of the depression. Cases could be multiplied. The point is that prices aré natural reflectors of the forces of supply and demand, and should be treated as such. It is an amazing thing to ob- serve the extent to which the notion has spread that a result ca.. be treated as a cause, and that economic ills can be cured by placing the cart before the horse. The Jamage to this nation that has down from the attempts to convert a natural result into a casual factor, is probably incalculable. It has been supposed, apparently that business would expand and employ more people if the costs of labor and taxes were increased; or that rail- ways could prosper if their costs were increased without an adjustment in rates or income; or that new capital would flow into industry if the pros- pects for profits were impaired; or that business would expand in the face of constant governmental at- tacks and restrictions; or that gen- eral real purchasing power can be increased measurably or for any im- portant period of time without a prior increase in production. The present Federal government, to accomplish its various purposes, has increased the Federal debt from $19 billions to $37 billions, an increase of approximately $18 billions. It has been estimated that very close to this amount has been lost in the drop of the prices of stocks since March 1937. If this estimate is even approximate- | ly accurate, it provides a sad com- | mentary on the effectiveness of the government's spending program. This program was launched to “increase the purchasing power of-the public. Expenditures have often been made for foolish purposes. The oper- ation of economic laws, conflicting government measures and human reactions, have destroyed the effects of the spending. A very bad feature of it all is that if we are headed’down- ward into another severe business recession, we will go into it with the government's huge debt at its peak and with nothing having been done to meet the contingency of another de- pression. The operation of economje laws ap- parently is catching up on politics, politicians and the Nation, . (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) THE WEATHER Temperature® Highest Lowest .... Mean “ Normal Mean R. all® Yesterday’s Precipitation N al Precipitation 82 -0 Ins. | 12 Ins. ta _ Tomorrow ‘s Almanac --- 6:36 5:45 a.m. p. m. a, m. p. m. Moon ‘rises Moon sets Tomorrow's P.M 9:33 ri High Low Barometer reading at 8 a. Sea level, 30.05, WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity; Gen- erally fair tonight and Wednes:| day; moderate northeast winds. Florida: Generally fair night and Wednesday. Jacksonville to *lorida Straits: Moderate northeast winds, fresh at times in moderate squalls over southern Bahamas and_ partly overcast weather tonight and Wednesday East Gulf: Moderate northeast 4 over the Canaadian Province to-| ywinds and fair and Wednesday. weathér tonight WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance of considerable jintensity is central this morning of j Ontario, the barometer reading at Cochrane being 29/34 _ inches, and pressure is low southward lover the Lake region; while strong high pressure areas, crested over {the northeastern Rocky Moun- tain States, and southern Appa- lachian region, overspread the re- mainder of the country, Sheridan, ; Wyoming, 30.58 inches, and | Asheville, N. €., 30.40 inches. {Light snow has occurred during ithe last 24 hours from Montana leastward into the extreme upper | Mississippi Valley, and light rain in the Lake region, Ohio Valley, “ from the middle Mississippi alley southwestward over Okla- Doves into eastern New Mexico. There have also been light rains ton the east-central Florida coast; and in portions of the middle Guif and north Pacific coasts There has been a decided fall in temperature in the northern Rock- ies, Plains States and upper Mis-| 'sissippi Valley; while readings are generally near or above normal) Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocketiwill soon begin to thrive yand; thew; swilt wetebicry again with an will ‘creditors insult thee, hunger.bite, por will nakedness freeze thee. will whole hemisphere pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Member of the F. D. I. C. empty stomach; neither nor want oppress, nor The and shine brighter, "uk eaeameiede — Federal Reserve {| ; Frank Lewinsky, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY I" Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files ~~ The Key West, which is to be. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1937. [ world of fine publicity from the Of The Citizen members f the Traffic Officials} A nine pound daughter was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. ! Victor Thompson in their home 920 Simonton street, U.S. S. Bagaduce, Captain used: with the General Machado in! of the United States Association, Thomas James in command, re- } turned this morning from Miami. the mail and passenger run be-/arrive from Havana, the Chamber | The vessel left here last Friday tween Key West and Havana, is the very last word in airplanes. The big Fokker tri-motored mono- plane is a 1928 model instead of a} 1987 job like the General Ma- chado. It has a wing spread of} 70 feet instead of 63 feet as has the machine now in use boasts and there are nine differences making it larger and more modern. It is} being equipped with both radio} and induction compasses, the last] other slightly} ‘city for several hours, and of Commerce states that not quite half the number are required, have been promised. It will re- quire at least 75 cars to handle} the visitors who will be in the! it is owners join in making their stay" fone of pleasure. | The Young Sluggers Baseball with the Hollywood football play- ers after their game here Navy ! Day. Paul Lumley has sold his hard- ware business to the Wm. Curry’s , Sons Co., and will devote his time here/ earnestly requested that other car in the future to the business of the Monroe Meat Market which jhe owns. Team captains for the Red Cross Roll Call drive to be started word in aerial navigation instru-|Club will tomorrow afternoon at in a few days were picked from ments. pass which kept Colonel Lind- bergh on his course during his fa-| mous voyage to Pairs. The Key} West is receiving her final tests) today, Captain C. E. Whitbeck is informed, and will be in readiness to start the trip from New York to Key West in a few days. The Key West Woman’s Club has bought a home of its own. The club voted yesterday to ac- cept an offer made for what is said to be an ideal building and lot, and preliminary papers were signed shortly after. The deal is expected to be completed within a short time. Until the deed has been delivered, officials of the; club decline to make any state- ment as to the property to be pur-! chased. For some time past the} club has Been discussing the mat-| ter of purchasing a home, and much enthusiasm was evidenced yesterday when it was finaly de- cided to make. the proposed pur-| chase, and make former plans a reality. A campaign for funds to the White Way for the next® six) months has just been launched by! Joe Pearlman and J. R. Stowers representing the business men of Duval street. They will make a canvass of Du-| val street and contact every busi- ness man of the street. Funds are going to be raised, and they) are going to do it. Although quite a few auto-| mobile owners have volunteered to furnish cars for the proposed ride over the city and portion of the county road Friday when the in eastern and southern districts, | and on the Pacific coast. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge Sas tan FOR FLOORS — FURNITURE = WOODWORK IT CLEANS, PRESERVES AND BEAUTIFIES PASTE WAX It was an induction com-jthe army barracks cross bats with! the . ey i the newly organized Young Tig-| ers. The Sluggers have won five! straight games but the Tigers as- sure the fans that the winning streak will be broken in tomor- jrow’s game. Editorial comment: What about your auto for the motorcade for the passenger men?:ssIt’s:dor: the | good of all Key!'Westuyew know. Nobody expects t0::bé witty directly, but th, town, wil } Pores ee GARDNER’ various organizations last night. ¥t’s Easy To Be Mistaken About STOMACH TROUBLE Stomach sufferers should learn the about UI AS, ACID, of interest. 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