The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 26, 1937, Page 2

“ PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunda y THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INO. ARTMAN, President A t Business Manager itizen Building Fri Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Ne apart in Key West and Monroe nt Entered at K s second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR , ai Member of the Assdelated 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 ahd alsa the local news published here. — vne Year Six Months . hree Months Ine Month . Weekly .... ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, pbituary 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 disc sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymious communi- eations. Se ——_ ae IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotale and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County Governments. and City Good fortune for others is always a pain-in-the-neck to envious pessimists, Business, too, would like to see a little ~ non-intervention on the part of govern- = ment. ; One of the earliest football victims _ was Leonidas, who tried to block Xerxes’s * pass at Thermopylae. ? Pann) Reni Seen Sa The Supreme Court has solemnly, de- _ eided that a jig-saw puzzle is not a game. “ Thank goodness that’s settled, Zz The “Good Earth” of Key West is in = great demand, and the price is going high- ser; it used. to be “dirt’’ cheap. The sit-down strikes have lost their effectiveness and novelty; people do not ~ pay any attention to them anymore, It is thought that the Townsend plan «is dead.- Some members of Congress be- 3 lieve they can think up a crazier scheme. Never has The Citizen honored a cer- tain hooded organization by nam rin its editorial columns. The files; verify this statement, 1 There are today 836,173 employees in the executive branch of the Federal gov- ernment as compared with 578,000 in 1933. Yet the number of employees in » civil service has increased only from 467,- 161, to 515,000. Those outside of the merit system have increased from 110,070 316,000. The spoils system still and, like time, marches on, to prevails In Tampa the choicest parking spaces are enjoyed by the taxicabs and this enjoy- ment is an exclusive and special privile: given by the city governments) UV, with cars, as well asthe citizens, are de- . < Pa. ¢ P { manding a corvectiveaction by the nity ‘ter’ pf record that despite hoard precedent, there | councilmen, The Tampa Eribune : against “this gtab of public property for private use, these special privileges is contrary to pub- lic policy, violative of public policy, and contrary to law.” In Key West a like sit- uation exists, but without benefit of city} ordinance, at the corner of Duval andj Fleming streets, but the inconvenience is | not very great, and while there have been complaints concerning this undesirable} condition, they have not been so insistent} that a remedy has been demanded of the! city council. With the completion of the] highway from the mainland to this city,! the large influx of visitors with cars my/ myke a change, by ordinance, imperative. | EASY FOR THE QUACKS The ease with which charlatans of al} kinds, particularly medical quacks, de- fraud the public would be incredible were it not for the evidences to be seen on every hand. A few of the schemes whereby the gullible and superstitious have been sep. arated from their money by these swind. lers‘are mentioned in an article by Dr. Morris Fishbein. Soon ‘after Franklin made his famous kite demonstration in electricity, everyone was discussing the wonderful new force. A doctor named Elisha Perkins manufactur- ed a lot of short metal rods, which he claimed were charged with electricity and therefore capable of drawing disease from the human body. He sold many of the rods—one pair to George Washington. Electric belts and similar appliances have been sold by the millions, not one of which, of course, had any curative value whatever. A few years ago a widely ad- vertised product called Sanatogen had an enormous sale, and testimonials were ob- tained frem) many persons of prominence. The stuff was composed of 95 per cent cot- tage cheese and the remainder glycerine phosphates, néither of any medical value. One promoter acknowledged making $45,000 profit in a year from the sale of a “chemical ring” supposed to cure dis- eases of the blood, but in reality no more efficacious than a twine string tied around one’s finger. ; But we can hardly wonder at the suc- cess of quackery in a state of civilization which still accepts a mass of medical sup- erstition as gospel truth, EXTRA SESSION ITCH (Lake City Reporter) Almost ever since Florida has had legislatures theg: have been those who between terms clamor for extra sessions. Some go further and connive for them. This has been notably. true during recent ad- ministrations. Governor Carlton, unfortunately, succumbed, at the expense of the taxpayers, but succeeding executives stood their ground. With a resultant saving of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, exclusive of the damage that might have been done had the lawmakers been unleashed. The 1937 legislature had hardly adjourned be- fore the maneuvering for an extraordinary term began. Various persons and interests were prompt to attempt to put the heat Finding him about as mallable as an Andrew Jack- on Governor Cone. son, of whom he is a modern counterpart, they soon substituted force for entreaties. The strategy of the special termers is appar- ent. it, regardless of the méans used, in the hope that the Governor may be forced to bring the lawmak- The procedure involves the loss of state credit and It is to empty the state treasury and scrape ers back to Tallahassee at public expense. prestige, through failure to pay bills when due, the crippling of governmental functions, the em- barrassment of the chief magistrate. One expedient resorted to, if it was such and not a symptom of some new form of honesty, was the immediate payment of some hundreds of thou sands of dollars in old insurance premiums. These bills had been incurred by past administrations and had been calmly ignored while the solons were as- sembling daily at the state capitol. They were a heritage of the long-ago. eff and trotted out and liquidated w: at least an evidence of haste. Perhaps proof positive of hos- tility toward the Cone financial program, one that is based on “no more taxes” and no special ses- sion of the legislature. After the vacuum was created, by payment of back insurance premiums and other means, the hext objective of the reactionaries was to main- die blocking the transfer of other funds to the general fugd. In this connection, it is a mat- was a considerable holding aloft of hands in hor- ror when the Suggestion was made that the Con- and:betieves thatthe giftoff-tedermtespension money might be xiven a current j assignment. Although it was as ix cold bullion and although it was conceded that was ample to meet every demand that might arise tail end of the biennium, until the very sted with the untouchables. Such inst es as these, so contrary to com mon-sense and so positively reflecting a desire to | hinder Governor Cone in carrying out his ¢ paign econo at those politicians who instigated them of becoming heroes, defenders of the faith, saviors of the people and all-around tin Gallahads, they are being stripped of their disguises and revealed as ordinary bedraggled treasury raiders . That they were dusted | as federal | it was | y pledges, point the finger squarely Instead THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | You‘an % < 2 hn: ’ Nation’s d Youg Affaifs : Friend Warns Labor By J. E. LE Dean, College of Business Administration, Nebraska University ' Among American economists there is, I believe, no truer friend to labor than Professor Leo Wolman, of Co- lumbia University and the Nev. School for Social Re- search, some- time director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, member of the National Labor Board, and in various other ways closely connected with the labor move- ment as guide, philosopher and friend. To be sure, he has dis- Pleased the Au- tomobile Workers by taking a stand against the majority rule, but there are many loyal laborites who would forgive him for that. In view of all this one is somewhat surprised to read in a recent number of THE ANNALIST Dr, Wolman’s article on “Long-run Consequences of Gi e s, id Labor goers fos dg ich he in effect, that our labor leaders their backerShave been short-sigh in asking and accepting governm| favors, and ma’ fer us re tiots later, 2: another business jepression. the even! Without question, f ime factory workers have gained much since the trough of the depression, and in some ways are better off than they were in 1929. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly earnings of some 11,00.,000 factory workers have increased from 42 cents an hour in June, 1933, to 66 cents in July, 1937, or 56 per cent, while hours of work are about 8 per week: fewer than in 1929. Allowing for the reduced cost of living, the purchasing power of the hourly earnings of factory workers is now about 36 per cent greater than in 1929. Weekly and yearly earnings have not increased so much, but that is another story. On the face of the figures it looks (Address questions to the aw ROSSIGNOL as though this large group of em- ployed workers had gained much and lgst nothing, but Dr. Wolman men- ons certain features of the situation friends of labor grave conéern. For one thing, the increase in hourly wage-rates has brought about an in- crease in the unit costs of manufac- tr e which, “will be hard to sustain except under conditions of capacity production or rising prices or both.” Everywhere, too, there are’signs of relaxation of shop discipline and the imposition of formal and informal rules leading to restriction of output and increasing costs. The policies, also, of wage-fixing, price-fixing, restriction of output, and other phases of stabilization by fiat, successful in a rising market, have greatly diminished the flexibility of business and its capacity to adjust itself to changing conditions. The same policies have furthered labor monopoly, which, while raising stand- ards of living in some industries, “is calculated to do great and irreparable damage to the average standards of the whole population.” Still another rigidity, psychological in.character, has come from the in- cessant preaching by labo: leaders and politicians of the so-called pur- chasing power'theory of stability and prosperity, implanting beliefs in the minds of men and women which will be difficult to eradicate, except in the hard school of depression and indus- trial conflict. Altogether, Dr. Wolman presents a telling indictment of our current labor policy which he closes with this sig- nificant sentence: “In the experience of the railroad, coal mining, clothing and building in- dustries, in which, until recently, the overwhelming majority of American trade unionists were concentrated, there is little to support current faith in union doctrine and practice.” This will not be pleasant reading for those champions of labor who ig- nore the old Latin proverb, festina lente—make haste slowly. And an- othe ancient proverb might well be kept in mind: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend.” thor care of this newspaper) Today’s | Anniversaries _ | 1727—Artemas Ward, Mass. General of the Continental Army, bern at Shewsbury, Mass. Died there, Oct. 28, 1800. 1827—Ellen G. H. White, lead-| er in the Seventh-Day Adventist! church, born at Gorham, Maine. y’s Horoscope Toda Today bestows a nature that is affectionate, and a of the cautious and demonstrative, even appearing secretive until the mind is fully made up. There is considerable daring and a love of contention. When the nature is fully understod it will be found mixture Died at Saint Helena, Cal., July 16, 1915. i Y 1 1828—William H. Sylvis, pio-; neer Philadelphia labor leader, iron-moulder’s union official, born in Indiana Co., Pa. Died in his; 41st year, July 27, 1869. | 1830—Horace A. W. Tabor, the; Leadville, Colo., s®orekeeper who! became a bonanza king, born at! Holland, Vt. Died April_ 10,! 1899. 1832—Mary Walker, Civil War} surgeon, suffragette, authorized; by Congress to wear male attire,} born at Oswego, N. Y. Died Feb.! 21, 1919. | 1837—( 109) veh zo) Ge 4°| Sears Greene, New York civil Pn-} gineer, som jof’a’ noted--seldier#n- gineer, bor Lexington, [y. Died Dec. orge Cary Eegles| nJ journalist-novelist, burn Died April 14, »blQ 1839. New Y at Vevay, Ind. 1911. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer Phone 135 Night 696-W a well worthy of regard. Mothers! In treating your family’s colds, of uke needs WICKS or take needless chances... use VAPOR PROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS CKSONVILLE FLORIDA GARNETT ANDREWS. Mancoms ENJOY COMFORT at the @odem, fireproot hotel in the heart of dowas town Jacksonville. Every room with tub and shower, soft water, ceiling fan, radio, slatted summer door... Every Bed with innerspring mattress and reading lamp. Renning ice water on every floor, AIR CONDITIONED COCKTAIL LOUNGE . COFFEE SHOP DINING AND MEETING ROOMS Rates--Single with Private Bath 78 Rooms $2.00 - 80 Room $2.50 40 Rooms $3.00 - 24 Rooms $3.50 10 Sample Rooms with Private Bath $400 Slight imcreose for dovble occupancy or 1B POUND Herel wore PATTIE W HOTEL ofsoTO a Sevenoah, Ge Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon begin t never cry again with an o thrive and thou wilt empty stomach; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nak whole pleasure spring up in ev hemisphere wil The and edness freeze thee. 1 ery corner of thy heart. shine brighter, —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. I. C. and outlook that may well cause the | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen One and possibly two ferry boats may be chartered by the county commissioners for service on the Overseas Highway this! winter. - They will be for use in addition to the three the county ‘is building. Nothing official has been done but the matter is being | discussed by members of the board and will likely come up at the next meeting. Even with the three how being built there will be need of others, those closest in touch with ' the situation believe. According to! a tentative program worked out by the commissioners 60 cars each day can be transported in each di- rection with all three ferries in operation. This, however, is said to be insufficient, and for this reason the chartering of at least two other additional for the com-, ing season is being considered. | The second of the two ferries being built in Jacksonville for the county will be launched this aft-| ernoon, or early tomorrow mor ing. It will be christened Florida’ Keys. A telegram was_ received by the county commissioners this morning announcing that the ves- sel is ready to hit the water and asking tha the name be sent. “Let' | Her Go. The name is Florida Keys”, wired the commissioner chairman in reply. The third fer- ry of the group will be ready: within a short time, it is said, i will be launched as soon as it is, declared ready for leaving the} ways. | — | All members of the Catholic} Woman’s Club, who are interest-| ed in making the coming Knights! of Columbus Convention a suc-; cess, are requested to be in at- tendance at the regular meeting! to be held Monday night at the club house. | Tug de Bardeleben, which was’ forced into Key West harbor by’ rough weather on Wednesday, is| stil] awaiting more favorable, weather before sailing for her des- tination in Cuba. Schooner Harrison T. Meacham, from Tampa to Havana, with a cargo of lumber removed. The gunwales came clear today and as soon as the vessel is light, neces-| sary repairs will be made to get! the hull in condition for resuming? the voyage. Editorial comment: Did some one say that we are still needing! fresh water. Well we are, and FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937. | Mies Roberts was accompanied by two women-and a woman was rid- ing with Mr. Esquinaldo. The Key West High School and the Gesu High from Miami clash- ed on the grounds at the Army baracks this afternoon 3:30 o’clocks The game was to have started: at 3 o’clock but because adarge’party of Gesu rooters were "t6* arrive by 3:30, start of Travel Magazine’’, will tatry »pic-' the amie was postponed 30 minu- tures and’ @ story of airplané trav-| tes. el between Cuba’ ahd Key “West,| the local Chamber of Commerce; Two baseball games are to be has. been. informed. The chamber: played here tomorrow. One be- furnished ‘the pictures and data! tween the Young Sluggers and the for the story. j Cuban Stars and the other be- | tween the Service team and the A Chevrolet automobile driven} Monroes. The Stars went to by Miss Thelma Roberts and a pieces Thursday and were given Ford car driven by Enrique Es-|a trouncing by the Sluggers. quinaldo, crashed at the corner of; They were licked in the first im- Peacon Lane and Caroline street,} ning. They did not get a hit un- just after noon today. The Ford| til the eighth inning. They prom- is said to have been considerably! ise a more interesting contest to- damaged, but no one was injured.' morrow. there’s none in sight, more is the, pity. The next issue of. the,.,“Air OVER-SEAS TRANSPORTATION.CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service , —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving All Points on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Four round trips weekly direct between Miami and Key West via Diesel Power Boats—with over- night delivery to Key West. Leave Miami at 12:00 o'clock noon on Mon- day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Leave Key West at 8:00 o’clock P. 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