The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily pap A meniay By THE CITIZEN PUBLIS op EN L. P. ARTM. a pres JOE ALLEN, Apiiistant’ Business From Citizen Buildin) Corner Gri and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in “Key West and Monroe Co} Entered at Key ‘West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Associated Press : he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches Bee V5 it or not otherwise eredited In this paper and the local news publ: ~ here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Une Year ® ‘ix Months | Shree “Month: Ine 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 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 communt- 9s re FOR KEY WEST complete Road to Main- Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, Most of us still think we are free; it is perhaps just as well. Heard in a local cafe the other day: “I only fight with my equals and my equals don’t fight.” Those clever psychiatrists have dis- covered that persons who do wrong have “something wrong with them, “Americans live a life of liberty, pursuing happiness at seventy miles an our.—Times-Union. To have a rendez- yous with death. | 4 There lives a man braver than Napo- Jeon, wiser than Socrates, more honest than Lincoln, wittier than Mark Twain and handsomer than Clark Gable. That gent is your wife's first husband.—Times- Union. If you are a public official and hap- pen to be a newspaper man at the same time, you can interview yourself and pat yourself on the back as often as you like— ‘only newspaper men, worthy of the name, lo not do that. recently that a man, upon an ccasion, p' names of forty friends md wired edth*One of them the single ond,i:{‘Congratulations.” He knew of no ason Why ®hy one of them should be ¢on- *zratulated but every one replied, thanking *him and not one asked why. We . O, O. McIntyre, the columnist, a tough baby though his writings would have you believe he is a warm-hearted chap. Ac- ‘cording to Christopher Morley he cribbed “over 50 items which had appeared in Mr. Morley’s own copyrighted column. Yet when O. O. was confronted with his pilfer- ~ing, he merely shrugged his shoulders. is House Bill No. 396, known as the Murphy Act, is in disfavor in Leon County, of which Tallahassee is the capital. The county flatly announce they will not auction off any certificates, and dare an owner or speculator to force them to put the law into effect. Probably they have not given a thought to the com- mon law writ which a superior court will issue, undoubtedly, making the ance of this public duty mandatory. Sem- inole County, capital Sanford, and some others, have declared to abide by the law but have set up revolving funds and advise all and sundry applicants they will have competition unless an agreed minimum bid} is to be made. Here in Monroe county, it appears, the tax certificates put on the! auction block will have few bidders and} nearly all the property eventually will be; retained by the present owners, commissioners perform- CITY PARK DEPREDATIONS! Children do a great number of things, not approved of by their elders, which to them seem highly amusing. There are even times when older people can hardly refrain from smiling at these actions. Such is the case at the Saturday eve- ning concerts. To the strains of Strauss, Bach and. Chopin, children tumble, march maftially,@wirl or suddenly ‘bump .down | with'a bewildered expression, on, their faces. ‘All this is highly amusing to the petite participants and, oeedsionally, rous- es laughter in the’ ‘audighee. Still and all it is very distracting £6. ttie,misicians and (especially when gangs of “robbers and crooks” are organized and vocally pour volleys into their respective groups) the audience, too, can be seen to stir uneasily. No one, however, condones even in the slightest extent, the recent depreda- tions committed at Bayview Park and re- ported by Recreation Director Eva B. War- ner to a caucus of city councilmen yester- day. The boys who congregate there at night find it most daring to tear apart and break up benches, to deface the Marti monument and destroy shrubbery, but the evident destruction ty the Park and to the boys’ moral-s@nse has taught sotfety”-to quickly eensor and punish such actions, | Young ple do not realize” what harm they do in these matters, They...ie much more impressed with the amusement afforded them. The Citizen suggests that parents in- struct their children to discontinue these practices and punish when necessary. It suggests also that the police department detail an officer to the concerts, and also instruct him to keep a frequent watch at night around the Park. The presence of an officer has a remarkably sedative ef- fect on youthful imaginations, especially those which are beginning to riot. These two are not isolated cases. There is an unfortunate attitude here among certain of the younger folk. The breaking and mutilating of street lights in many sections of the town, the killing of birds with slingshot and rifle within the city limits, and other forms of destruction, all show a surprising attitude in a city that this year is preparing to attract the largest tourist trade in its history. Comparisons are odious, in the respect that they stir up resentment, but in that we do not meas ure up to other Florida tourist cities in the order kept on city streets, at city parks and at municipal entertainments, they are odious in a different sense. The Citizen knows that the majority of people here want to see a different civ- ie spirit inet! ese matters. The point is that we willnot have it until something POSITIVE is done to stop these practices. THE LADIES WHO DRIVE Here’s news for ladies who have been blamed for careless driving of automo- biles! Paul Hoffman, president of the Auto- motive Safety Foundation, contradicts the popular idea that the woman driver is dangerous, saying they are proportionately safer than mén. Statistic@lly, perhaps, the autgmobile executive is right, but he never wil |) sue- ceed in persuading the male driver that he knows anything about it. Of course, wom- en will accept his statement unanimously. Cautious men, without their own sta- tistics to refute Mr. Hoffman, will not sz much on the subject around their female kin but, at the first narrow escape on the} road, you'll likely hear them exclaim: “No wonder ITALY OBJECTS Recently, to an Italian defeatpagg¢he, Guadalaja front in the Spanish Civil war.and some of ! them went so far as to declare that the Italian Army would prove of no-opposition to the French an.case 0f-Warssre. on Shortly thereafter, the Italian tary Attache in Paris pretested to French Army General Staff against ian soldiers and generals. The French of- ficials, in reply, pointed out that in France the Press is free and that the Government was not able to control the Such articles. contents No wonder a hen cackles when she lays an egg. giving the world a son that never sets.— Today's best: She may be j Valdosta Times. a woman was driving that car!" | French newspapers referred | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Nation's To answer the question of how to increase the wage incomes of the low- est income groups, we must go back to first principles and ask how wages in general are determined. The wage or salary of any worker de- pends on his usefulness, or efficiency, in production. Ef- ficient workers can command high wages, but inefficient workers must accept low wages for the simple reason that the value of what they can contriute is small. When we add to high efficiency a substantial capital | and capable management, we get the result of good wages with low unit prices for the product, which would represent the ideal condition for a high level of real incom>s. For example, Mr. John L. Lewis is an efficient labor leader and he doubt- less receives a good salary because there are not many other me: in the mines or at the factory benches who can do what he has doue. His salary, like that of any other “executive,” is based on the value of his services to the organization he directs. Value, in this sense, means what someone thinks a thing is worth, as shown by what he is willing to pay for it. Now, suppose we were to,shut our eyes and pick at random a man from the mines or the automobile factories and propose to pay him what Mr. Lewis or Mr. Knudse is getting. for the kind of work that this miner or mechanic is now doing. Both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Knudsen would object strenuously, and somewhere in their complaint we would learn that this fellow's services could not possibly be worth that much to the C.L.O. or Gen- eral Motors, respectively. Yet this il- lustrates exactly what is proposed by Mr. Lewis and the *resident and all of those who want to raise wages by legislative decree. They propose to pick out whole battalions and regi- You and Your How to Raise Real Wages By HARLEY L. LUTZ Professor of, Public Finance, Princeton University ments of workers and raise their wages without regard to the value of their services in production. Affairs Since the whole mass of goods pro- duced must be apportioned among those who produce these goods, arbitrary inerease of certain sha’ regardless of productive capacity means an equally arbitrary reduction of other shares \.ithout regard to cas pacity. Whether the purchasing pow- er of one group be thus arbitrarily inereased by decree, by public bounty or by labor union “squeeze,” the beneficiaries are favored in buying goods over those whose incomes are more rationally determined. The group that wants wage in- crease by governmental decree fond- ly hopes that profits will be the only share reduced in the process, and this, they believe, will be “no skin off their backs.” No social realist believes that .; the total volume of profits is suffi- cient to meet this strain, any more than he believes that an equalization of all incomes would materially im- prove the economic status of those at the bottom of the income scale. There are just two step_ to be taken if we really want to increase the smallest incomes. First, we must pro- duce much more than at present. to make possible universa! enlargement of real incomes. Second, we mist in- crease the relative earning capacity of those at the bottom. As a nation we are able to do both of these things if we really want them done, But there is no prospect of accomplishing either by the kind of political and govern- mental action now proposed. Govern- ment can help, if those who are most concerned are willing to accept the kind of aid that may reasonably be expected from this source. When we consider traditional labor policies and theories, we. find them opposed to both of these essential steps. Limitation of output and re- striction on apprenticeship have long been cardinal features of labor poli- cy. Jurisdictional and sympathetic strikes are as destructive as any other kind of warfare. The closed union is as undemocratic as a capitalistic con- spiracy in restraint of trade. Some employers and some labor leaders have displayed -keen insight into this problem, but there are other cases of extraordinary stupidity on both sides. Unfortunatély, the men with greatest insight seldom com- mand as much public attention as the other sort. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) Today’s Anniversaries 1758—Noah Worcester, New England Congregational clergy- man, founder of one of the first societies for peace, born at Hol- lis, N. H. Died in Boston, Oct. 31, 1837. 1758—John Armstrong, soldier of the Revolution, author of the celebrated “Newburgh Letters,” seeking justice for the army then | disbanding, senator and secretary of war, born at Carlisle, Pa. Died April 1, 1843. 1816—Lewis M. Rutherford, noted physicist of his day, born at Morrisania, N. Y. Died at Tranjuility, N. J., 1835—Andrew Carnegie, fam-| ed steel manufacturer and phil-} anthropist, who tried to give most! of his vast fortune away, born in Scotland. Died at Lenox, Mass., Aug. 11, 1919. 1846——Carry Nation, militant Kansas prohibitionist of hatchet | notoriety, born in Garrard Co, Ky. Died at Leavenworth, Kans., jJune 9, 1911. _ 1865—Kate Gleason, Rochester, (. gear manufacturer, first ntry bank president, noted r and philanthropist, Died Jan. 9, born i 1933. | Rochester. May 30, 1892.| { 4 | joins temporary collection of pro- \ of good works and be Today In History evee ee 1783—British evacuated New York—annually observed there. 1851—Unprecedented _ emigra- tion to the West—rush to Califor- nia’s gold mines still unabated. * 1918—Soldiers and sailors in New York City roamed about beating up Communists who were holding a mass meeting to “send fraternal greetings to the Social- ists of Germany.” Germans, with- drawing from France, seriously damage coal mines. Rozsika Sch- wimmer nominated i’ Hungary the first woman ambassador. 1920—Pres. League of Nations to arbitrate between Armenians and Turkish} Nationalists. 1935—U. S. Supreme Court en- | cessing taxes. 1936—Stalin presents country with its new “Democratic” Con jstitution while Germany and Ja- pan sign Anti-Communist Pact. ‘Today’s Horoscope nature, », full ed by all. It is a fine character for a nurse, \but its action should be over a wider sphere, disseminat- ing its spirit through Hfe or lit- erature. Friends will be numer- }ous and faithful and the life happy one. very sympathetic, | Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound 'sum KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen : “Back again in paradise” seems to us, on finding ourselves once again in this delectable bit of Heaven. One has to be away from Key West for a while, in ‘or- der to fully appreciate it. One has to live through a Northern Autumn, see the leaves fall, suf- fer the slings and arrows of a outragedus fortune, in what the poet, " Charles’ D’Orleans, calls} “cold! ard winds ‘and bitter rain. One ha¥ to feel the painful nip; of frost and the thrust of snow and ice, to prize Key West as it} should be prized. Writes George! Allan England, who, with Mrs. England, has just returned for an- other winter in this city. Now, all matters in the lighter vein aside, let me say that to return to Key West is for us a wondrous } joy, one of life’s major happin What pains us and leaves us a tle uncomprehending, is that so few northerners can be convinced of the obvious fact that Key West has the most divine climate on earth. Among expenditures. for im- provements in the national’ light- house service during the fiscal year beginning June, 1928, recom- jimended by Secretary Hoover, to-| ‘day were $25,000 for Key West depot buildings and $225,000 for Florida reefs and Keys. “‘We have been hoping for this appropriation but not expecting it for the next year,” sad W. W. Demeritt, sup- erintendent of the Seventh Light- house District, today. The larger to be used for Smiths; Shoals, Galma_ Reef, Tennessee} Reef and for Pulaski Shoals, near, Dry Tortugas. The $25,000 is for} a blacksmith shop, small machine} shop, which will be erected in the near future. } Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vander-! bilt arrived this morning en their} palatial yacht, the Ara, and left} at noon for Knights Key. In com-} pany with Wm. R. Porter, of the! First National Bank, and Robert: B. Austin, president ‘of the Cham-' ber of Commerce, Mr. and Mrs.! Vanderbilt rode over the Boule-| vard, and pronounced it one of the most beautiful scenic drives they have ever seen. They also visited the Meacham airport, and Pronounced it a magnificent fly- ing field, SRA SS | The Young Sluggers yesterday! stepped on the Cuban Stars to the tune of 17 to 6. Bravo started on the mound for the Sta: We Have Just Received A Large Shipment of CLOTHES HAMPERS A NECESSITY IN ANY HOME. FOR ANY SIZE FAMILY. —GET YOURS NOW— spread} } Mili-' the | the | articles making light of the worth of Ital-} pocket will soon begin to thrive and thou wilt never cry again with an empty stomach; neither nor The and will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole hemisphere will shine brighter, pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve | Member of the F. D. I. C. t SOME OF THE FOR ANY JOB. ETS EFI OIL P TTT tery. In fact, slugging “fest THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1937. —_——————- will also begin beautification of their premises. The miniature of the Ferry “Key West”, which was on dis: play in the office of County Engi- neer Watkins, has been placed in one of the windows of the Cham- it; lasted only one inning in which! ber of Commerce, and is attract- the Sluggers made ; Medina relieved the victim of the opposing bat- runs.; ing much attention. him and was also seven Tug De Bardeleben, which was | towed into port yesterday and was the game was ® found to be in waterlogged condi- for the entire tion, is being relieved of the car- length of the contest, and many, go of lumber, which is being pil- times it appeared to get on the nerves of the fans, and whoops, | yells and caustic comments were heard from the lines, until the game was ended. Editorial comment: ed on the Porter Dock. When the hold has been freed, repairs wil! be made to the hull, and when de- clared in condition the vessel will put to sea to continue her voy- | age. 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