The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Sey West Citizen Except Sunday By PUBLISHING CO., INC, ARTMAN, Presid , Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Coun Member of the Associated Press Mhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or nct otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES une Year mares ™ six Months fhree Months dne 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- cations. ag, Sr FOR KEY WEST ‘ ~ ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County Governments, evan spend money before you have ,it and you will always have money, Help your neighbors to prosper and <the chances are that you will do well your- aself. ~fer to the stock market slump, one would «think they actually owned stock. The way so many Florida editors re- We read of a schoolboy who was ex- »pelled for cheating, when caught counting Shis ribs during a physiology exam. : Some folks get sore because you ask them to pay what.they owe. They forget how sore you may be because they haven't paid.—Bronson Journal. nd Leadership is never static, else it would cease to lead. Dictators are only _ too well aware of this and must keep the pot boiling. “Since time,’’ says Goethe, “is not a =person we can overtake when he is past “let us honor him with mirth and cheerful- ness of heart while he is passing.” It puts gus in a happier state of mind and is good for our healtht afd‘health means a happier empo with time. AWIAW| consequently The 24-hour special storm watch main- tafmreti throughout the hurricane “season was dfkontinued by the U. S. weather «bureau this week as the danger period is {considered past and such active vigilance is no longer thought necessary. Not in 50 years having had a hurricane after October , Key Westers dispel all their fears with the passing of that date, Colin English, state school head, . proving himself of the same fibre as Comp- - troller Lee. He discovered a minor racket ~in diverting school revenues in that coun- ties that spend less than the $800 per ~teacher unit for teachers and bus drivers “divert this blood meney to the bland uses ‘of county politics. He halted =~County from grabbing 25,000 such drip ping dollars. He sits tight while politico¢ denounce, plead, threaten to sue. is Jefferson There are rumors emanating from Washington that Representative J. Mark Wilcox will seek the seat of Senator Pep- per. While in Key West Mr. Wilcox did not commit himself, but what- ever his aspirations, the people of this city, always mindful and grateful, will show their appreciation to him, because it was he who in the final analysis did the thing that made possible the road to the mainland now in the tion. recently, process of comple-' ' i WHO SAID IT FIRST? “Verify your quotations” is the ad- vice of someone, but the advice is some- times difficult to follow. In the many famous sayings it is hard to find out who really said them first. There are many instances of striking phrases which have been attributed to prominent persons who had really borrowed them from others. For example, Lincoln’s reference to a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ Almost. identical words were used by John Wycliffe in the 14th century, and by, Robespierre, Thomas Cooper, Joseph Story, Daniel’ Webster and Theodore Parker long before Lincoln ut- tered them at Gettysburg. Even the Golden Rule, which appears in two forms in the New Testament, was expressed by Confucius five centuries -be- fore Christ, and by other ancient ’teachers| Ferhaps the most catchy phrase ever uttered by the late William Jennings! Bryan contained his “crown of thorns and| cross of gold” metaphor, which is credited, with securing his nomination for the presi-, dency in 1896. It has been and still _ is} generally believed that the phrase was original with Bryan, but the Congressional. Record shows that it was spoken by» Con- gressman Samuel W. McCall in a speech several monthgipefore. * No one whose words have been ap- propriated by another could have shown a better spirit towards his imitator! than McCall showed toward Bryan in this in- stance. When questioned about it later, McCall said: “Yes, Bryan borrowed it from one of my congressional speeches. And probably I stole it from somebody else.” MOVIES RAISE GRADES Some interesting tests with a view to determining the benefits derived from sup- plementing ordinary instruction by motion picture films illustrating the subjects taught have been made in San Diego and other California cities. In all more than 11,000 children were tested, ¢ach school being divided into two groups, one of which received both book and film instruction, the other being taught through text hooks only. The tests covered a period of ten weeks at the end of which examinations were held. Pupils having the advantage of mo- tion pictcres made grades averaging 33 per cent higher in geography and 15 per cent higher in general science subjects than those who used books alone. This experiment appears to have been exten sive enough to warrant the conclusion that method subjects is as the combined book picture highly advantageous in such those mentioned. Not only is this method beneficial to the individual pupil, but by reducing the number of failures in examinations, it re- duces the number of pupils who must re- peat courses, thus effecting a saving in expenses for school purposes. The introduction of educational films is becoming widespread, and there is little doubt that they will standard equipment for schools of the future. become +4 GRANT, FAILURE UNTIL MIDDLE LIFE As a rule men must make their suc- 's before they reach the age of 45, and which they are vitally are exceptions, of ¢ of the strangest characters in all history, made a mess of everything he undertook till near middle-age, to become commander-in-chief of the union armies and President. And perhaps the oddest thing in the odd story of an odd nature was his lifelong distaste which his great He always dis- claimed the calling of warrior, and when visiting Europe after the war he told the astonished Bismarck fhat™he took in- in military .affairs, ce with something in There Ss interested. course, Ulysses ant, one for the military life in reputation was made. no terest Home, which should be the safest, happiest place in the world, produces more other | By} reg-} accidents than does industry, or any accident-producing unit except traffic the observance of a few preventive ulations and the diligent exercise telligent wate duce the hazards greatly, of in- ess it is possible place id good will. The apes the lesson o case of! to re-| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 7 KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY’ | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen Clarence Chamberlain, who} |flew Charles Levine to Germany,| is considering establishing an airt- plane line to operate between; ;Havana and Key West, and has tried to persuade Mrs.. Francis} Crayson to use her famous plane “The Dawn” in the service. This is the gist of a statement just/ made by Mrs. Grayson, who has attracted considerable attention by her attempts to cross the At- lantic in her big amphibian mono- plane. She says she told Cham- berlain the plane had been built for an international flight by women, and therefore was avail- able for his projected airline. She also added the plane was not for sale. The Traffic Passengers Offi- cers Association which was due to arrive at 2:30 this afternoon will not reach the city until 3:30 oclock due to late departure of the travelers from Havana this morning. Everything has been arranged for enough cars to take the possible 200 men and women in the party on the proposed mo- torcade around the city and part of the highway. It was learned about 10 o’clock this morning that the vessel would be late. It till the plan to give the mem- bers of the organization a ride over the city if the ship arrives no later than 4 o’elock, If the vessel docked at a later~ hour there would be little time for sight-seeing. County commissioners are to- day paying the Gibbs Gas Engine company of Jacksonyille, $28,000 for work already completed ‘on the Overseas Highway ferries. The payment is based upon progress reported by both the company and County Engineer Joseph Wat- kins. who has been in Jackson- yille for the past few days. The first ferry will not only be launch- ed one week from Tuesday, President George W. Gibbs said this morning but will be given fts speed trial not later than .Novem- ber 18. ‘More than 250 men are now at work on the boats, Mr. Gibbg said, A story telling of a no-hit, no- run, no-man-to-second _basebal) game pitched by a school boy in Key West, the other day, brings out the fact that a more remagk- able game was pitched here 1912 by Fred Dion. In the con- test here last week two men reached first, though neither made hits. In the, game Dion pitched, the Army playing the Kelly Slug- gers, Dion’s support was _ perfect and not one runner reached firgt. So far as can be learned this jis the first time this trick has ever been turned on the island. ; The Young Sluggers ran their winning streak up another noteh yesterday when they defeated the Young Tigers by a score of 4 to 3. The game was a steadily play- ed contest, but several errors proved costly. Editorial comment: A newspa- per office is probably the only place in the world into whieh peopie will come and not only ask a favor but demand that it be done exactly as they want it. The ordinance which changed the hours of on the streets of the city was killed last night at a special meeting of city council, The installation of Rev. Alfred DeBarr' lar minister for the al Presbyterian church will be held this evening in the church. The Navy Tanker Sapelo ar- rived yesterday from Hampton Ro: and will sail tomorrow aft- ernoon for Port Arthur. The ves- sel brought oil for the tanks at the naval station. a Hydroplane Waco 2368 arrived ter dark last evening from ami piloted by James H. Krou- and left this morning for avana where it will be delivered to its ownet, who is said to be a jprominent Cuban clubman. lA Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger No matter how many \ you have tried for your cough, chest | cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and } you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than | Creomuision, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na- | ture to soothe and heal the inflamed | mucous gegen and to loosen | and expel the germ-laden Even atte: nian eae telad don't be discouraged, try = ston. Your ——— is ee to — fits obtained from the very =e | two, and it has no hyphen in it. | Ask for it plainly, see that the name | j om the bottle is Creomuision, and / You and Your Nation’s “Amazing Interference” By ERIK McKINLEY ERIKSSON Professor of History, University of Southern California One of the menaces to mankind which has not yet been overcome is the danger of floods. This fact was vividly impressed on the inhabitants of the north- eastern part of the United States and of the Ohio Valley by the great floods of 1936 and 1937. Though it is possible to min- imize the ef- fects of floods through the construction of reser‘ oirs, dams and other devices, effec- tive flood con- trol has been retarded through the lack of unified action. Many of the rivers which cause the jreatest devastation flow through or past more than one state. No one state can effectively deal with the problem; cooperative action by all concerned is required. Giving tardy recognition to this, Congress, in June, 1936, passed two acts designed to encourage the states to develop cooperative flood control projects. One act gave congressional consent to compacts between two or more states from Maine to Tennessee “for conserving and regulating the flow, lessening flood damage, remov- ing sources of pollution of the waters thereof, or making other public im- provements on any rivers or streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said States.” The other act gave the advance con- sent of Congress to compacts in con- nection with projects or eperations authorized by the act “for flood con- trol or the prevention offjamace to life or property by reasén' of floods upon any stream or streams and their tributaries which lie in two or more States.” Encouraged by this legislation, Con- necticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire proceeded to draw (Address questions to the au THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937. THE WEATHER Peper high pressure areas, crest- ‘O'ed over the far Northwest and 11| one Valley, overspread most of = eael the remainder of the country, | Kamloops, British Columbia, and .0 Ins./ Louisville, Ky., 30.44 inches. The +11 Ins.) on}: 3 ipitation i ts obdnontance Sao ot te | ly measul able precipitation in ending at § o'clock ‘morning. jthe country during the last 24 hours was light rain in southeast- ‘fomorrow'’s Almanac |Sun. ri 3 up an interstate compact to provid. {SUP rises . 6:37 & m.| en Florida. Colder weather hag for the control of the Connecticut ;Sun sets + 5:44 pe m. River flood waters. Then the President | Moon rises 8:40 a. m.|overspread most sections east of did a most extraordinary thing. in a | Moon sets . 7:37 p. m.the (Mississippi River, with freez+ r ing as far south as northern Geor- letter to Governor Wilbur L. Cross P.M. |gia this morning; while tempera- of Connecticut, received by him on August 7, 1937, the President declared, an * 10:45 {tures have risen in the northern eiene eastern Rockies, Plains States “It is my profound conviction that | High these matters are properly the sub- | Pow ject of Federal legislation and not of ad upper Mississippi Valley. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charges Temperature* Highest Lowest . Mean Normal Mean R i Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation Affairs interstate compacts.” A report by the Barometer readi at 8 a. m.: Attorney General, accompanying the Sea level, 30.02. letter, stated that the compact con- flicted with federal policy—meaning, WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) | of course rot the legislation of 1936 Key West and Vicinity: Gen- but rather the President's plan for seven T. V. A's. erally fair tonight and Friday; moderate northeast winds. This was a most amazing interfer- | ence on the part of the Chief Execu- | Florida: Generally fair tonight ou jand Friday; somewhat warmer in GET Y UP? tive. Clearly, he was dis. egarding the legislative policy of Congress in an- nouncing that he would approve no {| arty oe compact for flood va paea in the erican constitutional sys- i: tem, the legislative body, not the ex- lextreme northwest portion Friday.| Make this 25e test. If not ecxitines pee aoe fen of de- Jacksonville to Florida Straits Pleased in four days go back and ermining the policy of t! - i ment. The resident, in Sreeue and East Gulf: Moderate north-| et your 25c. Flush nat kar the policy of Congress to encourage | east winds and fair weather to-/ #8 you would the bowels. elp interstate compacts for flood control, | night and Friday. }nature eliminate poisonous waste fe oueine rpeoersil usurpation of | and excess acids which can cause Contrary to the President's views, ‘the irritation that may result in | getting up nights, scanty flow, A moderate-low. pressure area, frequent desire. and burping. Get is central thi ing over cen-| buchu leaves;:junipercil and. 6 tral Canada, , Manitoba, | other drugs made: into little green 29.68 inches, al pressure is low! tablets, Just say Bukéts to any southward into the extreme up-! druggist. Ber: at otis per Mississippi Valley; while Pharmagy,—advt.: Both Chaucer and Villon wrote ballads requesting financial as- sistance from their patrons. Does Bladder Irregularity WEATHER CONDITIONS any problem is proper'y a subject of aninterstate compact, provided .con- gressional approval is given. Come pacts are based on a negative ‘States ment in Article 1, Section Fy of the Constitution, which reads, “No"State shall, without the Consent of Con- gress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State... .” There is absolutely nothing in the statement to limit the subject matter of compacts, There appears to be no good reason why the compact method should not be used to deal with any problems which are common to more tl one state. The chief obstacle to the/suc- cessful application of the compact method, it appears from the Presi- { dent's interference in the New Eng- } land case, is a federal administration | determined to centralize all impor- tant governmental power in its own hands, i Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with an empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor The thor care of this newspaper) hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. 1 ’ a Today’s Birthdays Coceccecoceccececesccecs 1698—A Scottish colony set- tled on the coast of Panama, to open marts on both sides of the isthmus and trade with South America and A‘sia—soon failed. eoccesscececce laid of out the 1795—Dayton, Ohio, and so-named after one in| proprietors, Jonathan Dayton. 1834—Delta Upsilon, college whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. Today bestows a mind that prudent and full of There appear to be surrounding conditions that may lead to trou- ble, and they are so hidden that it will require all the natural prud- ence to discover them. Today’s danger lies in the bringing out of traits that will not tend good. resource. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. for William Congreve, famous for comedies, wrote one tragedy, “The Mourning Bride.” fraternity, founded in Williams- town, Mass. 1842—Abraham Lincoln, law- yer, aged 33, of Springfield, Ih, married Mary Todd, 23, of Lex- ington, Ky. Allies her 1918—Austria truce terms and accepts war with Coolidge of elected President; Al Smith ed New York governor; “Ma” Ferguson of Texas elected governor. —Calvin 1936—Frankiin D. © Roosevelt, reelected the previous night, calls nation to push common good. down?” You are a rare ex- ception it it does not. 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