The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 11, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISH L. P. ARTMAN, JOE ALLEN, Assisi From The Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily tether = “Key West and Monroe Entered at Key Member of the Associated Press fhe 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. une Year ‘ix Months Three 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 iaterest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 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 Governments. and City ~ Realty ‘benefits most from reality. Eskimos have no cuss words, it is said. Neither do they play golf. Correct this sentence: “The national budget will be balanced next year.” “Hands Across the Keys”—a fine title for a song. Who will write it? Don’t all answer at once. The Duke of Windsor doesn’t like for “newspapers to call his duchess “Wally,” and we wonder whether American report- ers can break the habit. If the nation goes into another depres- sion, as some say we are headed for, let us hope that it won’t be as bad as the one we thought we had conquered. When a Brooklyn mother threatened to leave home her young son stopped her by standing on guard with a butcher knife. The young generation may save the Amer- iean home, after all. Gladys Swarthout, the coloratura operatic star, underwent a barrage of eo squishy, squashy tomatoes in her newest vorvehiele in the movies, and for a time there --was-no-doubt that she was a coloratura. _ There are 2,300 electric clocks in the D tment of Agriculture building in Whelton: Put there obviously so that the 5,800 hard-working clerks won't have to work even a minute more than they have bargained for. The nation is suffering from too much experimentation by the administration, which if it were competent would not need te experiment. If you put a man in charge of your business, would you want an_ in- experienced man who tried varying ex- periments, or would you hire one who knew and had his knowledge from experi- ences of the past in your line of business or endeavor. Many reasons are given ‘for the de- cline in the stock market and the principal one advanced in this column is lack of é¢on: fidence in the Administration, and when-! ever the President relents and says some-| thing favorable to business, stocks ad-j Yesterday Mr. Roosevelt had some | kind words to say about the utilities and} holding companies and up shot the stocks | Doesn’t this prove that | if investors were confident that the Aa-| ministration would quit throwing monkey | wrenches into the machinery of the stock market would assume its normal | activities. vance, of these concerns. business, j to fight. HA intent of several nations although there is | Already the | | pecia ARMISTICE DAY—LEST WE FORGET! Armistice Day naturally causes our thoughts to turn backward nineteen years | to the memorable announcement that the World War had come to an end. It should make us reflect upon edly a failure so far as acomplishing the great idea was concerned but this does not mean, necessarily, that it was entirely in vain. Today we see a world getting ready | There is no mistake about (the some doubt about the time. tide in this country is running against our entanglement and the argument used the experience that we have had with the diplomats since the great war came to an end. is Whether the United States could have been a potent factor for peace if this country had joined the League of Nations and that agency had functioned as it was | intended remains a matter of angry dis- pute. Certain it is, however, that our course, since the World War, has not been successful in preventing the world from approaching the brink of another titantic struggle. Whether it will be the means of enabling us to avoid conflict remains to be seen but there is great doubt if this will be the case. Anyway, there is again upon us_ the opportunity to pay reverent tribute to the brave souls who gave up their lives for this nation in battle. They deserve the rev- erent gratitude of a free people and their memory should be enshrined in the hearts of those familiar with the great sacrifice they made. So far as they were concerned, they died in behalf of a noble ideal, enun- ciated by a great American, and _ their heroism is not to be slighted because the dream of peace has not yet arrived. So, The Citizen saluates the memory of the departed soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses, Without in any degree glori- fying warfare, we glory in their greatness. To them duty made the greatest of de- mands, that they lay down their lives for their country and their response was a new era in American patriotism. Let us always remember them. Let us do a little more than remember these dead heroes. They have left behind them loved ones who miss the contribution that their existence might have made to comfort. Let not the nation, or the sur- viving veterans in their zealous advocacy of pensions and payments to the living, overlook the stranded loved ones who seem not to be organized to secure for them- selves the bounty that they sometimes re- quire and undoubtedly deserve. EFFECTS OF COFFEE As inveterate coffee drinkers, Key Westers are interested in anything on the subject of Coffea arabica, and the eftects of this almost universally used stimulant on the human body and mind is frequently discussed, the conclusion always being de- rived from-the individual’s own experi- ence. In recent years many experiments have been made by scientists to determine the effect of various stimulants on the human body and mind. Results of these tests have been in some instances surprising, as may be seen by a report from the State Normal College of Ohio. Professor E, L. Mosley, head biology department of the college, of the} tested 50 of his students to determine the effects of coffee on their mental efficiency. There were found to be 39 coffee drinkers and 11 non-drinkers in the class of 50, and the biology grades of the two groups were compared, with thé following results: Of the entire class, attained grade of A. fee drinkers furnished only one, six while the other five grade A men were found among the 11 who did not use coffee. These findings closely coincide those of Professors Hoefer and Hardy, pioneer investigators of the effects of stim- | gen- | ulants, who found coffee drinkers erally less alert mentally than others. They also discovered that less intelligent persons are not so susceptible te the effect fee as are those who are more intelligent nd high stru The conclusior use of coffee by S: ns to be borers i: manu harmful, nd brain workers it has a jurious effect while amc somewha the | mad course of the world since that happy | day. The “war to end war” was undoubt- | f rather | the | Of these the sroup of 39 cof: } with | of cof- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You an Nation’s The agricultural program now un | der consideration by the Special Ses- sion of Congress appears to be in part | substantially the same old make-shift notion of find- ing ways to pay farmersfor producing less so that consum- ers must pay them more for the little they do produce. The ever-normal granary pro- gram involves practically the same principles that were tried in the unfortu- nete Farm Board scheme of the Hoover Administration. It may well be that if a Secretary of Agriculture stuck to the funda- mental economics of the farmers’ problems he would not last long in public life. It is unfortunate for this nation that the economics of ‘Ye issue | is not faced, and that a long-run, non- political view of the problem is not taken. Were this done, the Administra- tion’s policies would be substantially as follows: 1. It would point out to the farmers ! | | i } ly, like it because it means work in the open, an assured minimum of shelter and food, healthy physical ac- tivity, living close to nature, a wide variety of personal independence, etc. With these desirable things go very hard work, little financial return, often heavy losses, and very common- ly a life of oppressive and harassing debt. Yet, with its advantages and disadvantages, a relatively large num- ber of people choose to lead this life. 2. It would be pointed out to the farmers that much of their present difficulty has resulted from the fact that the world went to war, that farm prices then became abnormally high, that farmers speculated in excessiv ly high-priced land, and that a reac- tion from these abnormalities could not be avoided. It is one of the prices that farmers, like others, have had to pay because this nation went to war. 3. It would be pointed out that when existence on a farm reveals greater total disadvantages than life {Address questions to the aut More Relief for Agriculture By WALTER E. SPAHR Professor of-Economics, New York University that farming is, to a large dégree, a |p way of living. Many people, relatives | ; d Your Affairs || in a town or city, then shifts to the | latter should be made. But this is a slow procedure requiring almost a generation to make it effective. Farm- | ers’ children must be educated for the trades and professions; few of the parents can make the shift. 4. In the meantime, the government | can (a) show farmers how to diversi- fy their products so as to reduce risks | and to increase profit. (b) It can urge the states to adjust unfair and bur- densome taxation. (c) It can aid in simplifying marketing procedure and in reducing the costs of marketing. (d) It can give the farmers the home market by shutting out the imports of foreign competitive agricultural prod- ucts, especially since it does this to such a large extent for industries. (e) It can warn farmers more effectively as to trends in agricultural production | so that farmers can turn, in So far as | possible, to what promises to be the most effective lines of production. (f) Greater attention could be given, by | the Federal or state governments as the case may be, to improving roads, | to providing better schools, and to | finding ways of pushing economical tural electrification. It seems highly probable that the more thoughtful farmers would un- derstand and approve such.a pro- gram. They would know that it is sound, and that it deals with funda- mentals. They understand the waste, lishness, and political expediency yolved in the current’ programs. They do not feel that the farm lead- ers, who seek subsidies and who as @gricultural politicians presume to treat farmers as guinea pigs to be ex- perimented upon, represent them. | These famers are an independent { self-respecting, self-reliant. sturdy people. They do not like polities nor | politicians. They want only fair treat- ment and to be left alone. They di spise government regulation and gov- ernment snooping. They think they understand their business better than do many of the government officials who presume to direct their affairs. And, in general, they are right about it, But they would understand and appreciate ‘the program suggested above. Those who would not are those who are desperate and poverty- | stricken, or those who are lazy and indigent, or those who have had their self-respect and self-reliance sapped by the Treasury pap which has been handed out in recent years. | | thor care of this newspaper) THE W Temperature* t 81; 74 78 Highest Lowest - Mean .. = Normal Mean Rainfall Yesterday’s Precipitation .0 Ins.| K NEN @elock thin mor ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises }Sun Moon ri Moon sets sets High Sea level, 29.78. WEA’ RECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) i Key West and Vicinit s t cloudy wth showers this noon and tonight, probably end- ing Friday morning; fresh south- Jerly winds with occasional squalls |this afternoon and tonight, shift- ling to westerly Friday. | Fresh to south winds shift-; jing to westerly Friday and over- least weather tonight and Friday jwith showers and squalls. i East Gulf: Fresh east to south jshifting to westerly and overcast j weather with showers and squalls |this afternoon and tonight prob-; lably ending by Friday morning. | | Florida: Mostly cloudy, showers | this afternoon and tonight prob-' “southern \morning has moved southeastward * barometer pressure “| Ala., being pressure continues low over |north Pacific ‘a strong high pressure area, crest- { Jacksonvilie to Florida Straits:! EATHER jably ending Friday morning. , Small craft warnings displayed in Key West district. WEATHER CONDITIONS The disturbance that was, over Arkansas _— yesterday to the middle Gulf coast, the at Mobile, 29.64 inches, and the Seattle, inches; States, Washington, 29.56 while ed over the Lake spreads the region, over- from the ppi Val- Marie, country middle and upper Mis ley éastward, Sault Mich., 30.52 inches, Ra have occurred the last 24 hours from eastern Texas and Oklahoma eastward into the South Atlantic States, being heavy in portions of Mi si , northwestern Florida, and southern Georgia. There have also been moderate to heavy rains on the Pacific ‘coast from San Francisco north- Ste. during {with 1933? ‘bers? WHO KNOWS? 1. What percent of the Japan- ese budget is expended on arms? 2. Does either House of Con- gress utilze an electric voting de- vice? 3. What is the averoge farm wage in the United States? 4. Is it true that day-old chicks are being exported from the Unit- ed States? 5. What nation is issuing a stamp with the likeness of Presi- dent Roosevelt? 6. How does the production of automobiles’ this year © compare 7. How many persons, have; j been assigned social security num-/ 8. What is the strength of the naval air force? 9. What is the average height of adult women? j 10. How much is the new farm! program, expected to cost? (See “The Answers” on Page 4) | Today’s Birthdays U. S. Senator David I. Walsh of Mass., born at Leominster,! Mass., 65 years agg. Dr. George Crile of Cleveland, famed surgeon, born at Chili, Ohio, 73 -years ago. | | Maude. Adams, famed oldtime! actress, »born in Salt Lake City, 65 years. ago. i | Joe Penner, radio star, born in Hungary, 33 des ago. King Victor Emmanuel, Italy, born 58 years ago. Beware Coughs — from common colds That Hang On No matter how ang ve Ill, «| i many you have tried for your cor chest | ugh, irritation, you can lief now with Creomulsion, Creomulsion, wi goes right to the seat of the t ‘rouble and aids na- ture to soothe and heal the inflamed is Creomulsion, a the genuine product i you want. (Adv) =~ {| i} "neti euades University, lifornia, founded—opened six years 1889—Washington admitted te | Statehood. e signed at five jin the morning to take effect at e’even, when thousands of Ameri- can guns fired a parting shot} then got ready for lunch. i 1921—Avmerics s Unknown Sol \dier buried in Arlington National !'Cemetery. 1920—The Ambassador Bridge Day th’ occasion fer attackin’ their |Over the Detroit a between enemies. ;Canada and the U. S., dedicated. ‘Oh wal, th’ political mud slingin’ | rs here ain't as fatal as it is in some} 19° S—Declared that almost countries where th’ grave diggers tWo million more men under arms do most o” it. \the world over than in 1913, be- ‘fore the war. Germans put key jindustries on wartime basis. |Today’ s Horoscope i iico-uakh nade tie ca 'e eoccee e fright in its place. When the as- The hour of birth makes a great | pects are bad, an element of jeal- i difference in the propensities of ousy combined with a voluptuous those born today. The best phase tendency appears, which, if al- of it produces a brave, watchful, lowed vent, may bring serious and well disposed person who will trouble. 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