The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1937, Page 2

The Key West Citizen Published | aily Kixcept Sunday By PUBLISHING CO. INC. |, Prealdent LEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Grecne and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member the Associated Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use ication of all news dispatches credited to therwise credited in this paper and also al news published there. une Year . Six Mont fhree Months Ine Month .. ADVERTISING BATES Made known on application, ECIAL NOTICE ' All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of J reapect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which nue is to be di ed are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects ef lecal or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cativas. “a 2 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water,and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- jand. > Free Port. Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion, Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, Drive carefully and you might live to see Christmas day. Not every speaker has any idea of what he. is trying to say. Forward looking children are paring their letters to Santa Claus, pre- Don’t blame a politician for being a slick talking demagogue if you fall for his line of chatter. Nowthat Thanksgiving is past we have a year to discover some reason to be thankful in 1938. Reports from South America indicate that democracy is not so very much alive on that continent, The Red Cross‘rell call is nearly over, but if you forgot to send in your member- ship, you can still do so, Economists ean’t agree on what should be done to make business better. That's easy; advertise ——Fort Myers News-Press. China knows now that eternal vigil- ance is the price of liberty. She has been asleep for a long time, while Japan has been alert, and now the Celestial Empire's awakening may be too late, President Roosevelt has belatedly found out that prosperity can no more be legislated than morality. The. law of sup- ply and demand still prevails and its posi- tive action cannot be stepped although it may be deferred artificially for a brief period. In our youth we were told to save and that a penny saved was a penny earn- ec!, but now we are told that this theory is all wrong and that spending is necessary for us all to The world has either been cockeyed all the time before, or is cockeyed how, prosper. The Tampa Tribuné thority for the statement that “Keyes. erawfish with all the proper trimmings are served | in all the Spanish reatanrants in Ybor City, | Tampgs Latin c@ony!’ This ‘Writer has | also found “Key West lobster” on the menu | of Tampa’s finest hotel. The wnnecessary stock market panic} has alse caused the Florida city and coun- ty bends to sag, and in the past three, weeks the drop has been the sharpest for the ¢ five-year period. Drops as steep 8 points have been reeorde:, althouzh during the fast few years the actual con- ditions in Florida have not been better. ‘ tial power of the dictator-céntrolled A THREAT, TO DEMOCRACY The history of the world will show, we believe, that democratic institutions are best for the peace development of na- tions. The freedom and liberty which accompany such forms of governments are the requisites for individual develop- ment to its highest, efficiency. While democratic forms of govern- ments encourage individual initiative and individual progress, these factors in them- selves tend to militate against efficiency on the part of the government. Thus, we find that a democratic form of govern- ment is somewhat inefficient, a bit costly and slow to take action to effectuate its policies. By contrast, the dictator-type of government stifles individual initiative and freedom, but, on the other hand, cen- ters in the government the powers neces- sary for resolute, prompt and effective ac- tion. The Citizen has no quarrel with the people of any country when they prefer a dictator type of government. Reeogniz- ing the handicaps that a democracy im; poses upon efficiency in government it- self, there is no particular reason to be- moan the existence of dictator-type gov- ernments in the countries that prefer them. However, such governments direct their energies and train their people: for the pursuit of war ana exert preted ited pressure upon democratic peoples, ing advantage of a peace-loving citizenry and the slow-moving government. It iastime for all democratic peoples to realize that a positive danger exists. The present world situation finds Germany, Italy and Japan organized on a war basis, and dissatisfied with the old status. The rulers of these countries con- stantly exert pressure upon other nations and, apparently, are ready to wage war if necessary to attain their ends. So long as this spirit dominates these nations, the peace and safety of no democratie nation is secure. Aggressive dictators looks upon weaker democraciés as the legitimate prey for their imperialistic appetites. The only obstacle that they recognize is the ability on the part of the other nation to protect itself by force of arms. Thus, we fear, that the increasing pressure of the aggres- sor-dictators will compel the democratic nations, in self-defense, to arm them- selves and, perhaps, organize their nations upon a war basis. The United States, for example, pre- fers to develop along democratit lines and to live at peace. If it must be organized for war on a competitive basis with pos- sible attackers, it will be necessary for this country to meet the war threat. This will require the dislocation of the peace- time economy, the acceptance of war serv- ice as an individual obligation and the surrender of at least some of our in- dividual freedom. Unless the nation is prepared to meet possible foes, it will cer- tainly invite attack. If, in the present situation, it arms itself, then it has to sacrifice some of the democratic traditions and ideals. Thus, we face the necessity of altering our political and -governmental ideals because of the presenge. and bs: tions. 6 In the face of such a world situa’ it seems self-evident that the inte: the democratic nations are identical. * It also appears clear that if the democratic processes are to be preserved, there must be some unity of action on the part of the democratic powers. No single nation will be able to withstand the impact of the dic- tator-controlled group and it will be ex- tremely foolish for the democratic coun- tries to stand alone in the face of the so- called anti-Communist bloc which in- cludes Germany, Italy and Japan. NOT 212 TO 4! News from a high school in a com- paratively large city is that 216 high school girls recently voted a choice be- tween marriage and careers, with the re- | sult being only four votes for marriage. So wha Se, nothing! In a few years at most, a majority of the girls will be marri > arried and, even then, some of them will be taken up with their careers. Life may be soe topsy-turvy that some women are willing to eliminate marriage in es but the ratio is nothing like 212 j te 4. a- 4} 10 a! favor of a freedom to werk for them-/; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your | Nation's President Roosevelt has again em- phasized the low living standards of a large percentage of the American people. Such reminders are salutary. 2 Our national in- come as a total and on a per capita basis is the in the world. Our resources and our capital are| enormous. La- bor is intelli- gent and skill-| ful as -well as management Yet there are millions of people whose living standards @re very low eco- nomic positions are highly precarious. All this is admitted. Unquestionably every effort should be made to bring about improvement. The angument. should be only over the means. How can such a situation be remedied? here is, however, no simple rem-. edy. Life in modern times is highly involved. Any action that is taken has countless ramifications. Even the best trained statesmen and econo- mists cannot anticipate all the con- saruenes® of.a given act of i fon Brot ansec istrative ruling. oa pme starts reac- ns and these in we else and so on the depression and for reform- ing society. Many are fascinating in their simpli¢ity but for the same rea- son they are dangerous. Unfortunate- ly there is usually way to convince tive untrained authors of these plans. A second point to emphasize is that results may often be secured better by indirect methods rather than by direct. This is discouraging. It calis for patience and for careful planning of intricate matters. There are not. many who have the skill and the pa- tience to approach life in this way. Now let us come back to the prob- two reascns for concern, One is that all of us revolt at poverty. We desire The Cart Before the Horse | , By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON President, American Aeademy of Political and Social Science lem of the underprivileged. There are| paid. This will be (Address questions to the cuthor care of this newspaper) Affairs |i { for humanitarian reasons to see high- er living standards secured and main- tained. The other reason is that, un- | less a large volume of purchasing | power is distributed in some way among great masses of people, busi- ness breaks down and our intricate ' Abilene ____ Apalachicola —. Atlanta _- Boston - Chicago — Corpus Christi Denver —_. Detroit Dodge City economic machinery ceases to oper- | El ate or clse operates in a partial and irregular manner. An easy but dangerous answer is to approach the matter directly by = { ing more purchasing power to general pubic. ‘The crude way of do- | ing this ee to print Terao 3 pen mont Gistribute it widely in re- peg A little or mo work. Only a short time another way was tried. It has failed but there is al- ways the danger that it will be tried again, perhaps in a slightly different ; form. Under the operation of the NRA, the plan was to raise wages and shorten hours of labor. This was done | on the theory that the higher wages ; would promptly be spent in the. pur- chase of goods and these purchases would stimulate business activity. Results were quite different from these expectations. Higher wages could be paid by some employers who operated at low costs or who had ample reserves. But there were many whose costs were high and who Jacked reserves. They were at the “margin” and could not stand the extra burden until after ‘business had’ improved. All through our economy actions.and reactions were started that tended to defeat rather than to help the main purpose. An indirect approach would have! been’ far better.: Then, too, a manufacturer of capital goods, say of wire, seh Would at the best have had ‘to months before higher wages to Jaborers' in’ general would work around ‘to the point where he would have more orders for his product. If it is proposed to try again this direct approach, the idea should be fought. There are many business prac- tices that ell good citizens should condemn and that government should check. But the basic thing to keep in mind in such a society as ours is that those things should be done that will stimulate honest business men to their best efforts. As business is more active, higher wages can and will be id. in part because many employers are glad to do it but also because they will hav. to. _ KEY From The Files a in January, has caused, the local Chamber of Commerce to rehew its efforts te have the President stop off at this city and lay the| cornerstone of the Over-Sea High-! way Bridges, despite the fact that he recently wrote Goyernor Mar- tin that this was not feasible. Ae- : ;cording to a letter just received \the governor had extended thie in-! vitation on the part of Key West,’ Monroe County and the State of Florida Mr. Coolidge set out in his letter his regrets at being un- able to do as requested. He had received a number of letters from} places in Florida, in fact so many, | that he had decided to refuse to announce any acceptances, and} would go right through to Cuba withou: any stops in the state. Members of the chamber still feel |Pres is an exrellent chanc> of the President acceding to the request of Kev West, and will continue; the efforts. souinitniggy Toot i | army of Shriners, more than, i Te le Saturday and = y, December | Pa © meet-/ a Vb ein with the 125! iami Temple ere. invitation was extended the Miami aggrega- tion by the Shrine Club of Key; Stowers, ambassador to the Poten-; tate. A wire from H. R. Prigden! \advises the acceptance has been! j unanimous and that a large party! is coming. City council went on record ; unanimously last night as being | opposed to any cut in the license for the carnival company which is jexpected to open here for a two] j weeks engagement. Every mem-| ber voted no when the question came up for consideration at the jregular meeting of the couneil iast! |night. If the carnival comes it! will pay the city about $900 for! the twe weeks. | “All for Key West” will be the} }Slogan of a club to be organized; jin Key West at a mars meeting toj ibe held in the city hail next Fri- ‘day night at 7:30 o'clock. This was decided last night. A com-! munication from Maximo Vasquez Suggested the plan and it met with ivamediate approval by the coun- :ciL ~Members of all civic and tra-| ternal organizations are urged by} President Ross C. Sawyer, to be} on hand next Friday | ! Father Dimmick, rector of St.! ; Paul's Episcopal church, will talk, ‘to the Home Making division of! WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken from iami, will invade Key est Hatteras - ‘Havana |atteras Huron .. Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock jLos Angeles Louisville Miami St. Paul -. Nashville New Orleans ‘New York _.. jOklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix — Pittsburgh - St. Louis - : Salt Lake City - “This record Sun rises Sun sets Of The Citizen Character Education ,in the Home as a basis for Citizenshi; i ing.” Editorial comment: Textile men ere trying to invent a wrinkle proof cloth, while beauticians are working to perfect a wrinkle proof face. A colored man giving his name as Jacob Roberts, who has been. wandering about>the city for sev- eral days, was placed in jail yes- terday and a lunacy board ap- pointed to investigate his mental condition. Captain Thomas James was very happily surprised last night when members of Troop 5, Boy Scouts, visited his home. Former Scoutmaster George F. Archer and Mrs. William Demeritt preceded the troop to the James’ home, and were followed by the troop which was responsible, said the ye vere for the “ surprise ve ever hadi 14 AW Key ‘West Country-Club were re- named at the*election of ‘officers: held-in-the rooms of the elub last nights Report; of the club's com: mittee who handled the affairs of the recent subscription dance. West through Arthur H. Shep-| Shows a net earning of $2,045. pard, club president and J. R.; American Place Names Introducing: Mose, N. D.; Jed, Minn.; Sam, Idaho, and Mich. \ Allof-the' old offitérs'of ‘the! Low THE WEATHER | Lowest Highest | Jast night ba brs.'Saturday increasing cloudiness, 48 Normal Precipitation —. covers 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock thix moruing. Tomorrow's Sea level, 30.15. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Announcement from Washing- the Woman’s Club at the Chamber] _ Key West and Vicinity: Fair to- ton that President Coolidge had of Commerce Monday afternoon.jnight; Saturday partly cloudy; definitely decided to go to Cuba His topic will be “The Velue of|slightly warmer; moderate north. * winds, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 193% { northwest portion late tonight; i followed by rain in northwest! ‘portion, slightly warmer. j Jacksonville to. Florida Straits: } | Moderate northerly winds, becom- ing northeast Saturday, and; {generally fair weather tonight and Saturday. East Gulf: Moderate northeast- ly winds tonight, becoming east- erly Saturday; generally . fair weather tonight; increasing :Cloudiness Saiurday, probably foi-{ jive by rain‘over north ‘portion i} } 62 52 36 72 in afternoon or at night. as f WEATHER CONDITIONS . Pressure continues high. over) the eastern portion of the country | ee and another high pressure area covers the far Northwest; while pressure 1s mod..; erately low from west-central} Canada southward over the cen-; tral Plains States. | Light rains have occurred dur- |ing the last 24 hours from west- jern Texas northeastward to the lower Missouri Valley, in eastern North Carolina ang in the State of Washington. Temperatures have fallen from the East Gulf and South Atlantic| | States northward over New Eng- jland, with freezing southward; jover northern Georgia, and have) risen from the upper Mississippi | Valley and Lake region south-| ‘westward over Texas. } G, S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. i DRIVERS 4 GENEROUS FELLO BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key Half Century 24-Hour Ambulance Service } Licensed Embalmer Phone 135 In the Center of the Basi ness and Theater District EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Garage Elevator 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 1c whole will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. hemisphere will The and shine brighter, pleasure spring up in every corner of thy ‘heart. —Benjamin Franklin. 3: ite ip Train-| Florida: Generally fair, slightly warmer near the coast and in: Ia cc eat PIP PIP PPP L AECL eee EE still a chance, but a “Want Ad” has already made the money. The fellow who’s waiting for business to improve before who is going to wake up some morning and find a big white elephant on his hands for another year. By rehabilitating now, you and this other fellow can keep winter visitors here, and show a positive inducement for them to come back next year. Why run such a risk and see tourists come in one day and go out the next.. It is a sure investment, because it is in- evitable that we will have a tremendous winter season. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING C0. Dealers in LUMBER, CEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, SASH AND DOORS, PAINT, HARDWARE, AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS White and Eliza Streets “Your Home is Worthy Of The Best” Ob Ah hhh dake hed bee eee ee \ Sekt hbLLLLLiLeea BOBS L aS S: "so? If it’s your watch or spectacles, perhaps a “Want Ad” will bring them back. If it’s your pocketbook, there’s isn’t going to keep tourists in town this season. And when they've gone, they have gone forever—Someorie else in some other city THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. D. 1. C. — om Phone 598 : ; . ‘ : N : : : . ; . : . : ; : : : . . : : e)