The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 9, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO t Public ownership advocates and so- cialistically inclined power politicians re- ceived a sound kick in the pants from one end of the country to the other during re- cent elections, when numerous proposals for municipal ownership and operation of electric utilities went to the vote of the people. Outstanding defeat was in Alle- ghany County, Pennsylvania, where a scheme to create a special county. admin- istration to acquire and~ operate local utilities was rejected two to one. At Reading, Pennsylvania, voters re- jected by a preponderant majority a pro- posal that the city bond itself for $4,750,- 000 to build a municipal electric plant and distribution system—the community already is competently served by the As- sociated Gas & Electric System. Similar proposals in Beattyville, Kentucky, and Irvine, Kentucky—communities that are likewise served by the same system—were likewise heavily defeated. And at Redwood City, California, irate voters smashed a proposed bond is- sue of half a million dollars to purchase a of the Pacific Gas and Electric Com- f while back across tne nation still Qnly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe “§ County. FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Six Months fhree Months wie Month .. Weekly _. he Key West Citizen "Publish ily Except Sunday By THE cia Fuss CO» INC, 2 . ARTMAN, Deaaldent JOB ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager r From The Citizen ‘Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press jociated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of 4Jl news dispatches credited to it or not othePwige Creditéd in this paper and also the local news pibished here. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, sil SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | “t, obituary notices, etc., will be eharged for at ate of 10 cents @ line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which nue is to be derived are & cents a line. Citizen’ is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will pot publish anohymous communi- eations. ef public ownership scheme was sowt@ly bedten by the citizens of Ports- mouth, Virginia. i -¥Op¥idusly the public definitely does not want expansion of political bureau- eracy into the electric business—in spite of honey coated promises of free-for-noth ing power. | Free Port. Hotele and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. irports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. OX BLOOD TREATMENT Remember that December 24th is the last shopping day until Christmas. Amazing results in the treatment of pneumonia patients with injections of a new chemical derived from warm ox blood were reported by Dr. Clyde Brooks of the medical school of Louisiana State Univer- sity before the Southern Medical Associa- ‘tion’s recent’ meeting in New Orleans. The greatest success of the new treat- ment has been attained in pneumonia in infants and old people, Dr. Brooks said, and it has also proved very beneficial in influenza cases. An interesting compari- son of results by percentages of deaths was given, covering methods employed in a series of 800 pneumonia cases. Of children one year old or less hav- ing lobar pneumonia 55 per cent died under serum or other treatments hereto- fore employed, while only 6 per cent died when treated with the new chemical, which is called “‘deutero-proteose.” Among pneumonia patients over 60 years old 75 per cent died under usual treatments, while only 15 per cent died when the new chemical was used. If subsequent results maintain the record reported by Dr. Brooks, the new discovery will mark an epoch in the battle against one of mankind’s most deadly enemies. Hh Cheap entertainment: Call on your friends and let them serve refreshments. We wonder whether Henry Ford saved a Blue Eagle poster for his museum of quaint Americana. We are likely to have an ynbalanced budget as long as we have so many un- balanced people in Washington. a The Japanese say that the Occiden- 3 tals cannot understand their ratiocination; =not apparently can the Chinese, who are + also Oriental. “Tl blows the wind that profits no- body.” Tax dodgers, so often berated in ~ this column, are putting this paper on its “feet through the Murphy Act. OPE DES Public officials should remember ~that their private lives are subject to cen- =sure, and to praise; and that the electorate = penalizes most effectively at the polls— athe one defihite place where the citizen T can register! his disapproval or approvalsé ITALY { 1ZES A NEWSPAPER President Roosevelt is or. the = digging of the cross state ship canal “for = which some $5,900,0@0*haves been. boon- > doggled. Senator Pepper, = president's coattails, is “e ~ Representative Wilcox, watchful of the = public funds, thinks the canal will serve =no useful purpose and is a waste of the * taxpayers’ money. OF9%7D ita tration of the power that the Halla Government maintains “ over the ress of Italy is recently reported from ome. It seems that an afternoon newspaper printed an article from Paris, hinting at an Italian-French reapproachment and the possibility of a quarrel between Italy and Germany. Immediately, the German Em- Miami is preparing for the greatest] bassy protested and the Government of winter season in its h-story, and that means Italy ordered the seizure of the news- : Key West will get its share of visitors, The} paper. = influx to this city wilt increase with each Just what was accomplished by the > year, in proportion to Miami’s, and the} seizure of the paper, we have no way of > spurt will most unbounded for the} knowing. However, the incident serves ~ first few years after the highway is com | to illustrate the attitude of Germany and ~ pleted. If we have vision we will be pre-| Italy toward newspapers. = pared, and shall not perish. WHAT SENT PRICES SKYROCKETING The Key West Garden Club and Tree = Guild is having a meeting tonight at the = Public Library at which ideas and sugges- <tions will be weleomed of those present. >The ‘club realizes that some concerted ef- > fort must be made before the opening of the Overseas Highway having in view the clean-up and beautification of this island city, which will be the mecca of thousands once the terminus will be made more ac- cessible. A laudable organization like the { The Federal Trade Commission been ordered to make an immediate vestigation of reports that monopolistic methods and other unwholesome methods of competition have contributed to the sharp rise in the cost of living this year. That is a laudable activity. But isn’t ; it also pessible that the government’s policy of killing pigs and reducing crops, plus shorter hours and higher wages, plus = Garden Club and Tree Guild is entitled to} artificially restricted factory output per >the active caoperation and help of all citi- | man, have had something to do with high- ns of this city and its well-wishers., j er prices? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WELL DESERVED KICK IN THE PANTS! -You an Nation's Cron Coniral By ERIK LicKINLEY ERIKSSON Professor of History, Un:versizy of Soutisera Exlijern’s Heading list of “must” Jegisla- tion Which Congress is expected( to pass during the current special ses- sion, is the crop contro} bill drafted by the Depart- ment’ of Agti- culture in; co- operation . with, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other farmers” organizations. This bill was undcr consid- eration during the regular 1937 session but failed to pass. Whether this was due to the general revolt against the President by congressmen of his own party or to a ‘elief that the measure is dangerous and unnecessary, or Doth, is not clear. Before the end of the regular ses- sion, southern congressmen began agitating for loans by the Commodity Credit Corporation to volster up the price of cotton, in the face of a bump- er crop. This gave the administration an opportunity to do some bargaining in an attempt to save its face. In re- turn for promised cotton loans, Con- a joint resolution, signed ident on August 24th, en- Ssrincipies contained in the tion’s farm plan. The resolution promised that Congress, upon recony: would give first consideration to legislation for carry- Hi ing out these principles. Furthermore, it was stated “that it is the sense of the Congress that a permanent farm program based upon these principles should be enacted as soon as possible after Congress reconvenes.” Most important of the seven prin- ciples thus endorsed was Secretary ‘allace’s favorite doctrine of the “ever-normal :ranary,’ that is, the “storage of reserve supplies of big erop years ... for use in time of crop faiiure.” Coupled with this was the principle of safeguarding the farmers (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) d Your Affairs | against “undue price.dectines by a system of loans supplementing tacit national ‘soil conservation program” , ogether with the principle of cou- trolling “agricultural surpluses above the ever-normial granary supply.” Anuther priticiple called for the eontinuation of, the sou-ciiservaticn program with reduzed paymcnis to large operators “to promote the inter- est of individual farming.” Others called for “search for new uses, new outlets, and new markets, at home and a” for agricultural com- modities; for a “fuir shu~4'of the na- tional income” for the farmers; and for the adjustment of freight rates discriminating against agricultural products. : Unquestionably, the program has some good noints. Few would argue against the propositions that the farmers should receive a fair share of the national income 0 that the evil of great surpluses. should be avoided. The chief objection arises from the demonstrated .act that the adminis- tration program of crop control can- not be carried out successfully with- out complete regimentation of the farmers of the country Confrol under the original AAA was supposed to be through voluntary agreements be- tween the farmers and the. federal government. In practice, as the Su- preme Court pointed out in ruling the rogram unconst! nal, the ten- ncy. was to reso! Compulsion. The Constitution does not grant the federal go’ ht ‘th: power to control agriculture. if the neo-New TS are So sure that such control ect be exercised why do they not | submit an amendment to the Consti- tution granting the power? If the peo- ple—not merely th. farmers who would be the direct beneficiaries of the contro! system, but all the peo- ple—wish to grant such power they will anprove such an amendment, otherwise they will reject it, Instead of clamoring for federal control why do the farm: organiza- tions not promote voluntary activity. cooperative or otherwise, for the con- trol of surpluses? Why should it be necessary to regiment the farmers? KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen 1608—John Milton, England’s great epic poet, author of “Para- dise Lost,” the greatest poem of its kind in the language, born. Died Nov. 8, 1674. 1803—Squier Littell, noted Phil- adelphia physician, born. Died July 4, 1886. 1821—Joseph Sabin, noted New| York bibliographer and bookman} of his dgy, born in England. Died, June 5, 1881. 1842—Prince Peter Kropotkin, |! Russian author and revolutionary, born. Died Feb. 8, 1921. 1849—Emma Abbott, noted dra- matic soprano, born in Chicago. Died Jan. 5, 1891. i 1859—George Barnett, major- general, commander of the >! at Lancaster, Wis. Died April 27, 1930. 1868—Fritz Haber, German) chemist and Nobel prizewinner, | discoverer of a synethic process} for making ammonia which help-} ed Germany continue in the world war, born. Driven to suicide by Nazi persecution, because a Jew, Feb. 1934. was made following a meeting :of | the school boara made at the High; School last night. a gett t The 200 Shriners who are duel to arrive at Key West Saturday have been formally extended .an invitation to attend services at the First Baptist church Sunday evening. Should they remain over ; until then, and have been invited to attend the Bazaar to be held by | ite Woman's Missionary Society Saturday evening. da * County Commissioner Braxton B. Warren reports a seven-foot al- ligator killed at No Name Key yesterday. It was shot by Fore- } man MacFarland at the No Name Key terminus of the highway, just where fill for the ferry land- ing starts. i ER ATR eS at A on January 3. This announcement |?% THURSDAY, DER WHAT THAT COP MEANT SENDING ME DOWN HERE? I susT ASKED HIM WHERE T SHOULD PARK ft Seeses: eercerese es Today’s Horoscope S929 eeseCRee Today gives an originally rich, generous nature which may be- rine Corps from 1914 to 1920, born ;COme somewhat shaken from its | firm base by i!) fortune. Indica- tions point to a danger of some es- trangement in the life, that may! give a misanthropic tendency, and possibly lead to-some reckless adventures, which may or may not prove fortunate. One Objection On returning from his first day at-school, the dear boy was asked “his mother how he liked it, “Lovely, mother,” was the an- Swer,, “only there was a big man in fun. front who kept spoiling the H DECEMBER 9, 19387. ese ee rthday . uu manitarian, editor of “Our Dumb Animals,” born at Haverhill, N. Bertrand H. Snell of Potsdam, N. Y., Republican congressman, born at Colton. N. Y., 67 years ago. Eugene S. Legett of Detroit, act- ing executive director of the Na- tional Emergency Council, Wash- ington, born at Rrantford, Canada, 35 years ago. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., actor, born in New York City, 29 years ago. Meredith Nicholson of India- napolis, novelist and diplomat, born at Crawfordsville, Ind., 71 years ago. Lucius Beebe of New York, journalist and author, born at Wakefield, Mass., 35 years ago. Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foylois, iretired chief of army air corps, jborn 58 years ago. DON’T GET UP NIGHTS | THIS 25¢ TEST FREE if it |fails. Help nature drive out |waste and excess acids which ean cause the irritation that wakes you up, causes scanty flow, burning, or backache. Flush the kidneys.as you would the bowels. Get 25¢ worth of juniper oil, buchu leaves, ete., made into green tablets. Just say Bukets to any druggist. Locally at Olivieri’s Drug Store. a | i 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 will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. will whole hemisphere The shine brighter, and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. —Benjamin Franklin. Ferry service will begin on the |Over-Seas Highway about Janu- ary 1 with two of the vessels’ in service. They will make one trip daily each way, making a! maximum of about 40 cars way. Toll charges will be ifn $3.80 to $6.50. Fare for addition- al passengers will be $1 each. ‘boats will be operated for a week or 10 days without schedule, but will leave and return as they find’ it possible while the crews are be- coming accustomed to their du- ties. Lawrence Crabtree, chief engineer, will be the highest paid jemploye at a salary of $3,300 per jannum, F. G. Cole, manager will receive $3,000 annually. All this was thrashed ovt at a meeting of | the county commissioners last! night. Boyer at the weather bureau. The drop will be between 10 and 12 degrees, Tomorrow will see the mercy climbing again. The Western Union Telegraph Company is improving its proper- ty at the corner of Greene street and Telegraph Alley. The cistern is being made three feet longer Key West High and the Con- vent of Mary Immaculate are ,pamed among the “194 High Schools of Florida, which have met all requirements for stand- ardization and have been placed on the standard list by the -state department of public instruction. \There were a number of the schools which very nearly reached the mark required for standard- ization, and these have been given until December 31 to meet re- quirements. Key West fishing, superior to that of any other locality in the and two feet higher and will be finished throughout on the inside. Eave troughs are to’ be placed about the buildings, and Manager Peebles says an ample supply. of water will be made available throughout the year. | [OMPIDIIIIOIIIIOISOIIII IIIS OOS THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. Du LC. cere | United States, has not been prop- Excursion rates for the opening erly advertised, is the statement! of the highway between Key West of a visitor, who believes that the and Jacksonville, and all interme- thing to do is to devote more diate points, will be announ¢ed space to this irducement for visi- within the next few days, and tors, and the results will soon be special trains between Key Largo evident. and this city will be running. This! —— and other matters were discussed Editorial comment: Wom- with officials of the F. E. C. B’y. an’s Club is going to Bete ap ie Co., and it is thought that rates es for the convenience of visitors. a ee If it’s your watch or spectacles, perhaps a “Want Ad” will bring them back. If it’s your pocketbook, there’s still a chance, but a “Want Ad” isn’t going to keep tourists in town this season. And when they’ve gone, will be announced within a few days. | The mereury was taking a tum- | ble this afternoon with the pros- | pects of it going to the middle fif- | ties by. gright At noon today it was 69. At 2:30 it was 68, and the slide down will continue, said | i The job will doubtless. be done now despite the fact that failure -has marked previous efforts. The women usually get what they go after: . Public schools of the city will close December 17 for the Christ- . tas holidays and will open again PLAY SAFE By keeping FOQDSTUFFS at the right temperathre These refrigeratgrs in one of our ok META ICE REF IGERATORS are doubly HEAT- PROOF and‘absolutely air tight Priced from $20.00 v- Easy Terms—10 Days Free Trial On Display at THOMPSON ICE COMPANY, Inc. —Phone No. 8— has already made the money. The fellow who’s waiting for business to improve before repairing his spate room or apartment, is the same fellow 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 investinent, because it is in- evitable that we will have a tremendous winter season. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. 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