The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1937, Page 2

PAG The Key West Citizen 2 Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘Pike (UFRIZEN ;PUBLISHING CO., INC, L. P. petite aie A President JOE ALLEN, Assi! it Business Manager .From The itizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ETWO Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe | ounty. Entered at Key Wei rida, as second matter PIFTY-SIXTH YEAR Member of the Assoeiated Press Whe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication ofall news dispatches credited to it or not otherwige eredited in this paper and also the local news publighed »here. Bix Months Three Mon Qne Month Weekly -. ADVERTISING RATES TELEVISION PROSPECTS Television sets can be purchased in Great Britain, where.on Nov. 14th, .a few favored Englishmen, sitting beside tele- visors, saw a dim figure ina trench coat push through a line of guards and affront the King, as he stood rigidly at attention before the Cenotaph in remembrance of fallen heroes. Americans ‘probably -wonder why television is not available in this country. The answer, according to what we can learn, is that while American. television j development is ahead of the: English, it}, has not yet reached an aeceptable form for widespread use. ing on the problem, hope to have it ready for a dress rehearsal in a few years: Cne authority says that American en-. gineers have eliminated the unsatisfactory greenish image, replacing it familiar black and white, that they have Engineers, now work:.|’ with the] THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Feur Threats to o Likeety By WALTER £, SPAHR ‘Chairman, Department .of Economies, New York University An address in Philadelphia com- Memorating the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, delivered by George W. Maxey, Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, dis- cussed four groups of “eom- mandments” in our Federa!}aut Constitution. Justice Maxey observed that.if }is @people is to be safe these four “com mand- ments” must be ‘ ‘of the several states to: their own affairs must remain inviolate.” He then reminds us of Jefferson's observation that “When all Sitka ment shall be drawn to Washington. the center of all power, it will pas come venal and oppressiv2,” The second commandment, the. Justice. says, is, this; “Entrust = official with autocratic ‘power.” He then warns us that “The’ soins: minded hate a ate: <i Al itocrats proclaim my 8s Sohn Calvi urned Seryetus. .. ‘ir nphleahy that ‘the individual must ‘for his own sake be regimented. ....Arbi- | trary nit always marks the end of liberalism—and ‘true liberalism is SATURDAY; DECEMBER 1f, 199% KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY § ‘Happenings Here Just ‘Ten Years Ago Totlay As Taken From .The ‘Files‘Of The:Citizen : Whether the local Red Cross chapter will continue after Feb- ruary 1 will be decided during the ‘visit of H. T. Reed, field secretary for the state of Florida, who will pay an official visit to Key West on December 20.and will remain for two days. With the.drive fin- ished and practically all collec- tions in, Miss Lyon says that aft- er the national quota is taken away. from the result, there’ will be just about enough for the local !chapter to carry on through Feb- ruary. It is understood, hawever, ;that the future of the chapter will ‘rest entirely unon the decision of it “Mr. Reed. | “No other ciiy in‘Florida has. jthe promise that has Key West,” was the statement made by Po- tentate ‘R. R.'Pridges, of Mahi tion, the nominee states. The se- leetion ‘will -be confirmed at meeting to be held at Coral Gables in March. : Arthur B. Curry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Curry, and Miss Mary E. Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Ethel Roberts, will be married at the! parsonage of Ley Memorial chureh | this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. E. L. Ley will officiate. The couple will be at home to their | friends at the residence of the groom’s parents, 1411 Albury | street. } residence and would be glad to! have some ‘literature about Key ** ‘West, its resourees, climate, ad-| Link Oakey sez he’s agin all | eign relations ‘cause he’s got “TI desire to o change my place of many in this country already. ae “If It was @ snake it'd bite: sald Seth Peabody when he th’ gov’ment was lookin’ fer ti civilization’s finest fruitage.’ | Temple, Miami Shriners, who was observed. Made known on application. SPECIAI. NOTICE i All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notloes, éte., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a lim Notices for entertainments by .churebes from which « revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ‘The Citizen is @n opén forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations ee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY 'FHE ‘CITIZEN Wateryand Sewerage. Bridges to — {Ro#d. to Main- ‘tent: i Free’ Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing ‘Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 6 You can ‘have plenty of work ‘to do if postpone all your work. Faith and patience are great assets and wonderful helps when you need them. Everybody assails ‘“‘un - American ideas” but very few people try to define them, 1 Compliments are paying investments but they must be true and sincere if they are to have the desired effect. It must ibe astounding to men in the public eye to-hear other people ‘tell the ———~ppblic what they think about issues upon err revEeeeeeyyyere ~ which they have said nothing. Such liberty as a democracy possesses is protected by the judiciary. . Therefore, it behooves us, to protect the judiciary and ~see that there are no encroachments on its prerogatives. Vocational guidance isa new field for the labor of educational experts. Re- cently, :if we:are not mistaken, the city of ‘Chicago reorganized ‘its schools so that eighty per cént ofthe courses were jin this com ASW. 2 ds, ° i INT Pe ie a md ontémptible in- dividual is the public jodfieial who takes a soléma ‘oath that he wit’enforce the law of the land, then offer protection to gam- blers and other flouters of the law by taking dirty graft. Is it possible that Key West ‘harbors -prostitutors of that ilk? This columh just cannot believe that the rumors being Circulated have foundation in faet; and if they are true, why do not the better ¢lass of people or the Ministerial Alliance do something about it? This is a tale of how unseruptilous, smalltime bolita operators sometimes cheat their negro customers. A white man who had ‘been in ‘the business for more than a month asked another man who had dropped out of the industry if .he would sell his bolita outfit, including ball sets and bags. After the sale was made the buyer admitted he had been running his business without ever ‘having held a draw ing, eacn time picking the number on which there .was least money bet and an- nouncing it as the winner. The reason he} to was buying the set, he told the seller, was because some of this customers were be- | coming suspicious. “A swell state of af | fairs,” said the man who had dropped out of the racket, “they make me qu't and | a burglar like that do ‘business.”— 22! Daily News. inereased the size of the picture to 7 by 10 inches and provided a system of project- ing them on a screen 3 by 4 feet, about the size of home movies. The experts report that television’s range is about thirty miles, and this would require 2,000 transmitters to give adequate coverage to the entire country. The trans. mitters would have to be ‘lirkked with coaxial cable and ‘to do this would cost $500,000,000. The next ‘problem is, where is the money coming from? These facts make it extremely prob- able that television, when it is introduced, will be available only in the ‘larger cities CRAZY TRAILER LAWS People who travel and live in trailers are complaining loudly about the laws. un- der which they must operate ‘their homes on wheels, and with .good reason.. No two states of the Union ‘have the same laws dealing with trailers, a recent report of a conference of highway users -dis- closes. If a trailer traveler were two visit all of the 48 states this vehicle would eventually have as many lights as a Christ- mas tree, one speaker declared. Red, blue, green, crystal, amber, yellow and white lights in various numbers and com- binations are demanded by conflicting statutes. In some states trailers must dis- play as many as 10 lights. Height limits range from 11 feet in Oregon to the sky in four states. ‘Length limits for automobile and trailer com- bined range from 30 to 85 feet. Registra- tion and license fees vary greatly. Perhaps the most remark- able thing about Justice Maxey's address is that we are living in a time when it is necessary to remind our people that their -safety is threatened by a failure of adminis- trative offices to observe these “com- mandments.” It is.startling to realize that the American people have béen seriously threatened by violation of hs sie one of them since March, Justice Maxey’s address, which was distinctive in its quality, should rank among the finest papers pro- duced in the .realm of statesman- ship in many decades. It dealt with statesmanship, with the building of our Constitution, with the requisites and implications of a democracy, with the ‘aspirations of a great and free people, with the value. of Con- stitutional government — with those great fundamentals .in government which have brought the American people so many blessings not en- joyed by many people elsewhere. In these days, when more and more power is being concentrated in Washington, we would do well to use and consider that, as Justice axey observes, “An appreciation of Nature's limitations of government is the hall-mark of statesmanship.” He continues: “Demagogues mislead the people into the belief that govern- ment possesses the wisdom and power of deity. Statesmen never government with God. They encour- age the individual to be a lifter not a leaner. They know that government has no wealth @nd no power except what citizens put into it, that the functions of government are admin- istered by average men, and that placing a man in office does not change the chemistry of his character or convert mediocrity into genius.” As a basic part of his lucid expo- sition of the wisdom of, and neces- sity for, Constitutional government, it a people are to be safe, Justice Maxey placed in four main groups the many commandments in our, Federal Constitution. ‘The first, he says; is that “Thé right The third great commandment in the Constitution, he .says, is that “Arbitrary power shall never be lodged in any majority.” He. adds: “The doctrine of the right of ma- jorities is as wicked, as brutal, and as dangerous to human liberty as the | now repudiated doctrine of the di- vine right of kings. There is not a dictator in the world today who does not elaim that he holds a mandate from the majority....The American | idea is that there are human rights to be put beyond the reach of ma- jorities, mobs or masters.” As to the fourth commandment, the Justice says: “Since in the Consti- tution the people made only limited grants of power to the Chief Ex- ecutive and to Congress, and since limitations are vain if those to whom they apply can ignore them cr in- terpret them as they please, it fol- lows that it is an implicit constitu- tional mandate which provides that guarantees to citizens and: limitations on officials shall be potentialized ant maintained by the Supreme Court of the United States” The Justice also retninds us again that “No member of the Convention ever questioned the existence of the Supreme Court’s power to set aside legislative acts contrary to the Con- stitution. . . .\What the Convention votei down . , ..was a proposal to give the Supreme Co} the power ‘to veto all acts passed by Congress, before they went into effect,’ (a power us to that now by the Executive.)” Further, he says: “Experience proves that the only citadel of individual rights and the only anchor of constitutional gov- ernment, 8 a fearless ‘independent judiciary.” All thoughtful people will agree with the Justice when he says that “Americans, ‘if they still possess the core of character, will never submit to the intolerable bondage of being governed by a dictator however dis- guised may be his official title. Any official who attempts to rule with- ey constitutional restraint can not be trusted by a people who desire to be free.” tok (Address questions tothe author.care of this newspaner) SOeSeoscecosecseovescs ighest ‘Hi, Recommendations for uniform provi-|Lowest - sions have beer made by motorists’ as- sociations, but progress in that direction is slow. Perhaps if trailer owners organize and holler loudly enough something ‘may be done about it. AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS Newspaper readers constantly hear of, airplane crashes but they do not read of the thousands of uneventful schedules that are being flown safely every day by aerial navigators, The subject of accidents looms large in the mind of the public aid the average person is puzzled to satisfactorily explain the crashes that often impress one. The Air Commerce Bureau has looked into the causes of the air disasters and reports that more than half are the result of “person- nel éfrors.” Mean - Normal Mean Rain‘ Yesterday’s Precipitation .0Ins. Normal Precipitation __ .08 Ins. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac m./near Smyrna, Del. © hoe seus Md., June 26, 1876. Barometer 7:30 a. mm. today: Sea level, 30.13. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair and continued cold to- | night; Sunday partly cloudy and, moderate | somewhat warmer; north to northeast winds. Florida: Generally fair and’ continued cold tonight with frost eacccee ‘Anniversaries centric American tragic actor of his day, born in England. Died in Philadelphia, June .13, 1816. 1822—George D. founder and first bishop of ‘the Reformed Episcopal Church, born Died at Lu- | 1837—(100 years ago) Morton, scientist, first president nology, Hoboken, N. J., born in, [Ney York. Died May 9, 1902. 1843—Roberty; Koch, German medital {Die@ May~28; 1910. famed 1849—Ellen Bey. famed Swed- ish author, bo! Died April :25, 1926. | (1861—Simeon D. Fess, Ohio’s longtime Repvovlican. congress~ man, senator and chairman of the Causes of the other accidents, listed |#s farsouth as the Okeechobee Republican Natl. Committee, born in order of frequency, follow: power failurc*, airport, water or terrain diffi- culties, ajrplane failures, weather, dark- ness, and other causes not given. HARVARD SPENDS $10,246,929 mucklands; Sunday increasing icloudiness and not quite so.cold, probably followed by rain in northwest portion by night. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate northerly winds, and fair to partly overcast weather tonight and Surday. East Gulf: Moderate northerly winds, becomihg northeasterly | in Allen Co,, O. Digd Dec. 23, 1936. Sunday’s Horoscope It will be interesting reading to some /Sunday, and partly overcast | The life of today’s «nati people to learn that the endowment of Harvard University has increased to $141,- 941,666, exclusive of lands and ‘buildings used for educational .purposes. Total expenditures of the university, during the last yéar, were _ $10,246,929. How many officials of smaller educational | morths! Among the expenses we find in- struction, research and administration.” Tt seems that “instruction, ! administration” come high at Har- weather tonight and Sunday. WEATHER CONDITIONS The:high pressure area is crest- ied over the lower Mississippi Val- jley and overspreads practically ali of the eastern half of the coun- | jtry, and westward to southern ‘California; while the northwest-} Snow has continued in the east- in the lower Rio Grande Valley, and from the Pacific States east- research ,Ward into the Plateau and Rocky readings Mountain regions. j Temperatures continue abnorm- | tally low from the Plains States’ be surroundea with the disposition wills genial, sociable and Kindly. pursuits will bo ae! jesthetic, and possibly case + in fimancial «success; ih F the life will ‘be a. pleasant-one, jand, to’a considerable oe". for. | tunate. rae eastward, with freezing as far listed rm Lake region, and rain has oc- ‘south as northern Florida; while! | $4,735.864 for “salaries of officers ng to warmer in the ‘Rocky Moun- vtain and Plateau States, with considerably mal throughout western districts. G. S. KENNEDY, lin Key West -yesterday \with ithe visiting Shriners. “Key ‘West has \the most wonderful climate in all ‘of Florida,” he said. “It thas just ‘seeking, the city has failed so-far @ in getting these people, simply are ;has, and many things which the ¢d.” ;Cuban,metropoi:s, delightful a8 it is, cannot offer to tourists. of .cer- tain. classes. The‘Monroes yesterday defeat- ed a)picked team to the tune of 7 to 3. The game was played at} ———~-~—- - the sub base grounds. Joe ‘Casa, pitching for the Monroes, held: the picked team down to three scat- tered hits. ‘Nemo, on the mound for the picked team, was touched |for 10 safeties. Casa also struck out 10 batters. It was not :the kind of ball game that, filled with spectacular playing, keeps | the fans excited to.a :high pitch, | but just a good game, with ithe. breaks going ‘to the winners to} the satisfaction of everybody, ex: eept the losing team. ‘Editorial. comment: Mlegal park- ing of cars on the-streets at night has eeased, the Board of Public: Works announces. “This is only ‘additional proof that almost any Jaw will be obeyed, if it is vigor- ously enforced. Mrs. ‘Clark D. Stearnes, ehair- man of the civic department of the Key West organization, .was nominated to, head ‘the eleventh |: section of the state federation of ;women’s.clubs.at the annual meet- ing held in Miami yesterday. The nomination is equivalent :to elec- The ‘Harris School °‘Parent:! _ /Teaeher Association will , in the school ‘buiiding.:| The pro- vantages and ‘health record,” was ‘e##0" fer high: prices. the substance of three letters re- eeived at the Chamber of Com- meree today. One was from a t nds of le are as, another from New Jersey and tla — a third from West Virginia. “We getting letters all the time,” jbecause ‘the people do not know said ‘Miss Tleen Williams, “and | what the.city has to offer. Key course letters ate always forward. West has everything that Havana ed with the information request- | The Citizen tomorrow will at 7:30 o'clock. = Jacob Roberts, the stray picked up by the sheriff's last night, has been sent x of 5 insane ane asylum at Chattahoochee.* BENJAMIN'LOPEZ ; _ FUNERAL HOME — _hareare t On | sign | rt 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, ner hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole hemisphere pleasure spring up in-every corner of thy heart. The will shine brighter, and —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the F. 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