The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1937, Page 2

/ PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZI.N PUBLISHING CO. INC. ARTMAN, President JOE &LLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Ne Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH 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 -redited in this paper and also the local news published here, FLYING BOATS TO SUPPLANT LINERS Will flying boats, carrying forty or fifty passengers, supplant the huge liners that now plow the seas of the world? That is the question raised by the re- port of the Maritime Commission, which makes a distinction between the so-called “luxury” passenger ship and the smaller, more serviceable vessels, » The superliner, built to eateh:the high, class trade, costs around $50,000,000 with a “life” of about twenty years. Huge ‘fy-! ing boats. on the other hand, costing about) $1,000,000, will carry passefigers across} the Atlantic six times as fast and at prices expected to be much cheaper than super- liner charges. A fleet of eighteen flying | . Une Year - Six Months Three Mon 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 publisn anonymous communi- cations. iv 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 and City Governments, How about the world practicing some of the civilization we have heard talk about so much! The good will of your neighbors is worth having; hold it if you have the right kind of neighbors. Complete freedom, in every respect, will arrive when we have complete intel- ligence, in every respect. Some day the freedom of speech, will be denied the press and pulpit alike if there is not found a more wholesome, moral and spiritual standard in the conscience of those who now speak freely. The press as well as the church must be more militant against the existing evils or its obligation will be usurped by the state. The main objection to the Wagner La- bor Act is that its provisions are not bind- ing on both contracting parties, employers and employes. As the law now stands. employers are responsible for their agrec- ments and acts, while loye; ot ; so on the face éf it Pics doy) sided with the result there is pernicious confusion, and will continue until neces- sary changes are made and i placed on the shoulders 0 ing parties. . ~~. There will be many disastrous results (of the Murphy Act as now interpreted and ‘law. Its original intent and purpose was ‘apparently sound and allowed delinquent ‘taxpayers or anyone else to buy in at auc- tion 1934 and prior taxes, the state actual- ly to take title at the end of two years of &H land not so cleared. But as one writ- er agserts, allowing cancellation of all tax- es for the years subsequent to 1934, even including 1988, is “imposing on good na- ture, good sense, and public decency.” Since the taxes for 1939 are not due until 1940, what are the counties going to use for money in the meantime? Who wants a wage law? Not Ployees! Not labor unionists! Not ers! Not consumers! Not employers! No class that would be affected by it, so far as this column is able to ob- serve and discern, is in favor of Federal wage-and-hour control. In view of this fact, the question arises why intense and powerful political pressure is being exert- ed to force the passage of such a law. Con- gressman J. Mark Wilcox, a diligent stu- dent of this economical problem, is bitter- ly opposed to its enactment, and has enun- ciated many and plausible reasons for the stand he has taken against this meas- ure. em- farm- _, | boats could offer the same passenger serv- ice in point of numbers as that given by a Queen Mary. Already the trend of maritime circles is to regard the flying boat and the dirig- ible as another “ship” in service. The Navy, we understand, treats its patrol] planes as independent units and the flying schedule between New York and Bermuda has been doubled to take care of the demand. Steam- ship companies, even now, are looking to the flying boat to, supplant floating ships in express service’and some of them ‘are considering the addition of aircraft te their fleets. Increasingly reliable performance by huge flying boats and their ability to maintain schedules are admitted. A sixty- ton flying boat is expected to carry passen- gers 5,000 miles non-stop at 175 miles an hour and comfort in the air is making great strides. While the likely competition of flying boats was one reason for the failure of the commission to recommend the construction of a luxury liner there were other factors, summarized as follows: Excessive invest- ment, speedy obsolescence and expensive operation. Instead of building such ves- sels for sentimental reasons to serve as win- dow dressing for a deficit-making opera- tion, the commission favors “fireproof, vi- brationless, attractive and economical ves- sels of reasonable size and speed, distin- guished by the utmost in safety and com- fort, suitable for business or pleasure trav- el, available for national defense and manned by competent, resourceful and dis- ciplined personnel.” SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Deliberating for several weeks after the baseball season ended, the Sporting News finally made its annual selection of the most valuable players in the major leagues for 1937. First honors went to Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Ameri- cans and to Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Nationals. Second places were awarded to Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees and Gab- by Hartnett of the Cubs. James Thomas of London, walking with his wife im the semi-darkness 4 af. a large railroad station. fell into a mail bag chute and descended head first $0 ‘feet. Landing on a wide conveyor belt, badly frightened but unharmed, he pulled him- self together and rejoined his wife, who had fainted when he disappeared. | | Expert metaphor mixing, quoted by Pathfinder: “The pale hand of death stalk- } its cruel gaze on Uncle Darius Kilgore, ail | ing since he fell through his haymow and! lighted on a steer.” When Adolf Stinkus applied New York court for permission to change his name, the judge said he didn’t blame him, and asked what nat he, had chosen, The applicant replied: “Méyer’Stinkus,”” to a Wild deer are becoming so. plentiful as to be a nuisance in certain northern Il- | linois counties, according to the Pecatonica | News, which reports that they eat and de- | stroy crops and get in the way of motor- | ists on the highw. Being protected by law, the animals can not be killed. ys. ns / Adyar Atchiovritch of Belgrade via, got four and a half “ye idea tha convicted | Yugo: prison because of his mistaker a | wife is a chattel. He of | trading his spouse to a soldier for a don- | | key. was ed into our midst last week and fastened | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Heth) You-andjYour Nation’s: Affairs Power of Labor. Monopoly ; savas?) By GUS W. DYER . Professor: of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University 6A tmonopely’is control of production .9t sale-of commodities or service by a group in the interest of the group, and lagaingt th heisbaer od | e!interest of consumers in general. The purpose of a monopoly is to take a commod- ity or service out of the field of competition wherein prices are fixed by natural forces on an open market and ar- bitrarily raise th? price of the commodity or service above the market price tt. the ad- vantage of the monopolists and to the injury of the consumer. For centuries the exercise of mon- opolistic power over consumers by any group has been outlawed as morally bad and as grossly hostile to general welfare. Under constitutional freedom, each of the three factors in production —land, labor/and capital— is sold on the open, competitive markets at the marke’ prices. The prices of the finished products to the consumers are determined by the costs of these three factors in the process of production. Anything that raises the prices of eithe: of these three factors 1s added to cost, and is assessed on the consumer in higher prices. The chief cost in production is the labor cost. Out of every dollar earned by industry eighty cents goes to the employes. When those who supply any one of | these three factors in production unite, and by means of compulsion, raise the prices of their goods or serv- ices above the market prices they create a monopoly in this field. It is the definite purpose of John L. Lewis and other labvr Icaders to form a labor monopoly over American in- dustry, and by threats. strikes, the unlawful seizure of private property and other methods of compulsion and frightfulness enrich the members of the monopoly at ‘he unwarranted ex- industrial pense of the millions of unprotected “This mongpoly, . repudiates, th mono) repu e market mangPolp labor, repudiates constitutional industrial’ freedom, re- pudiates freedom of'contract and the constitutional right to work, and arbi- trarily fixes prices at an: point de- | cided upon by the leaders, and makes whatever assessment it pleases on consumers. When in complete control this monopoly holds the power of life and death over American industry, and can obstruct or destrov industrial progress at will. ‘ The principle of monopoly control of industry by any group is funda- mentally bad and destructive to in- dustrial progress and general welfare, and was so regarded by the founders of our government. It is the function and the solemn duty of the govern- ment, under the Constitution, to pro- tect the people against all monopoly domination. But the government to- day is fostering, eacouraging and ac- tively aiding the organization and extension of this monopoly through- out the ation. This strange attitude of the government in view of the sacred trust imposed upon it by the Constitution is a more serious prob- lem thanymonopoly. _ A national labor monopoly, it is be- lieved, is the worst type of manopoly known. With one-fifth of the workers organized under such a monopoly, the bodies could assess the great majority of the working people at will in forc- ing them to pay higher and higher prices for the commodities they con- sume. With the power to assess the millions of consumers at will, the bodies could raise almost any huge campaign fund needed to carry an election. Political parties and political + leaders would be afraid to oppose anything that such a monopoly might demand, and subserviant politicians would run over each other to support and defend its demands. A labor monopoly would prove it- self to be a deadly enemy to honest labor. It would be in the interest of the minority against the interest of the great majority. It would enthrone a privileged class of labor able to force tribute from the great majority of the working people. Such a monopoly would paralyze the inJustrial life of the nation, and reverse the wheels of industrial progress, (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) SPECIAL SERMON | SUNDAY EVENING Rev. Joe A. Tolle will be heard Sunday evening at the First | Methodist (Stone) Church at 7:30} on the subject “The Holy Spirit.” The Gospels tell of “all that Je- sus began to do and to teach, &n-j| til the day in which He was re- ceived up.” The book of Acts! tells of what He continued to do, | The Holy Spirit is the active, ad-| ministrative agent of Jesus. It glorifies Christ by perpetuating His character in all people, estab- lishing His Kingdom, and redeem- | ing the world. So says Rev. Joe! Tolle, who continues, “The real! work of the church depends upon} the power of the Spirit. The car-! nal can argue, but the Spirit con- victs; education can civilize, but! rebirth saves. Human energy can; run a club, but the Holy Spirit makes the Temple of God.” At the Sunday morning service Rev. Tolle wil use as his sub- ject, “The Law of the Remnant.” ; “You will find a worshipful at- | mosphere and a most inspiring} musical program,at al]. of the! services at Stone Church,” states | Rev. Tolle. “You are cordially ins} vited to attend here inday.” i eccceceseuvcsece evccee| : Today’s Horoscope Tod ative must keep the the mind from repining, if he or she would avoid filling the life with sorrow. Grief comes to every one, and is much better met with a smile than misanthropic moaning. This nature has a plen- ty of fidelity and a natural sym- pathy with friends if the good traits are nurtured; but keep looking on the bright side of life. Totlay In History 1812—Large part of Napoleon’s = army lost on ill-fated retreat from| story of Key West that a dra-| Moscow. 1842—Father Edward Sorin, French Catholic missionary, who had just arrived in Indiana, be- gan foundation of Notre Dame University as an Indian mission station. 1879—Edison lights his labora- tory with an electric lamp—birth of the incandescent lamp. M 1907—Edward Payson Weston, at 68, repeats his walk from Port- land, Me., to Chicago. 1911—Three new American Cardinals created. 1935—Persian (Iran) Minister to U. S. handcuffed by Elkton, Md., policeman, creating interna- tional complication. 1936—German Nazis ban dra- matic, literary, musical and movie critisism. LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Busi ness and Theater District EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Garage Elevator Fireproof Saveva little of thy income, and thy ,hide-bound pocket will soon begin t né¥er cry again with an will creditors insult thee hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole:>‘hemisphere wil o thrive and thou wilt empty stomach; neither e, nor want oppress, nor “The l and 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. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1937. *KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY 4 Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files A new campaign of prohibi- tion enforcement will be launched | in Florida next month, according; to.adyices received today. Already! forces; are being moved to Key West and.other parts of the state with secret orders for their at- tacks-against rum runners and} moonshiners by land, sea and air.! A fleet of destroyers now off the! coast of South Carolina, is moving into Florida waters to join a force of 30 government patrol vessels, with orders to form a rum block- ade around the coast of this; state. doubled to forma group of 50 agents to intercept liquor trans- portation and this force will be reinforced by Coast Guard air- planes. All American cigarettes are! barred from Cuba by the new \law which has been made effec- tive, according to reports from! Havana. This, in the opinion of; customs officials, means that} Americans going to Cuba this winter will not be able to buy} their cigarettes in that country,} afd also they will not be permit- téd to carry a supply with them.! This law, if enforced, will no doubt, result in many persons Who intend going to Havana for the season, changing their minds as it means, if carried out, that {visitors from this country will ei- ther smoke Cuban cigarettes, or do no smoking. ! The Ferry Florida Keys was launched this afternoon in Jack- sonville, it is presumed. Accord- ing to a telegram received by the county commissioners yesterday, the second Over-Sea ferry was to leave the ways this afternoon, or yesterday. Since no word has been received of changes in the| plans the assumption is that the; vessel is now on the water and preparations are being made to put it in service. “A Noble Outcast,” four-act drama of intense interest and one of the best of the plays arrang- ed for amateur performances, i j to be presented by a colored com- pany of Key West for the Red Cross. This, so far as can be learned, is the first time in the matic performance has ever been} presented by a colored company for a white audience in Key West. The Young Sluggers played an excellent game of basbeall yes- terday afternoon at the Key West barracks and shut out the Cuban Stars by the score of 4 to 0. It We Have Just Received « Large Shipment of CLOTHES HAMPERS A NECESSITY IN ANY HOME. FOR ANY SiZE FAMILY. IFTIPPLALALLLLL ALLL AA EACH SOME OF THE FIIPALLZALLZLZL LL FOR ANY JOB. ‘ N) N \ The land force will be} |M MEDIUM SIZE LARGE SIZE Of The Citizen was an intensely interesting game and the fans were kept agog dur- ing the entire period of the con- test. Editorial comment: If Key West had a few more friends of George Allan England’s ability, not to mention enthusiasm, the whole world would soon know what a delightful place this is to reside. Only one marriage license was issued in this county during the week ending today, from the of- | fice of Judge Hugh Gunn. This | authorized the marriage of Chas. Zak, radioman, U. S. N.,. to Mary | Emily Goodbee, of St. Augustine. Telegrams received yesterday asked officers to intercept a color- ed boy who had run away from his parents in Miami. Last night Officer Everett Rivas picked him up on the streets and he will be held until someone arrives to take him in charge. Four months old ir. and Mrs. Eugne, will be _ christened, morning in Baptismaliserviceoat St. Paul’s chutchi “Phe baby will - 00 oR {89 ow} Wy a be named Patricia. Adele. Spon- sors will be Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Campbell and Mrs. Eugene R. Al- bury, Sr. . Subscribe to The Citizen—20e ' weekly. “STAR > BRAND | CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh! {oie TRY IT. TODAY— On Sale At All Grocers } Hye “a! 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