The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1937, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITJZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, L, P. ARTMAN, President JOE ALLEN, Ass.stant Business From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR r: ber of the Aascciated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. une Year - Six Months Three Months ‘Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All fending notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of. respect, obituary. notices, ete. will ve charged for at ‘the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which & revenue ts to be derived are 6 cents a I The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, _——— MERRY CHRISTMAS The Citizen takes this opportunity to extend to its readers and friends hearty good wishes for the Christmas season. We hope that all of them will find that Christmas, 1937, surpasses other occasions in. happiness, good feeling, joy and love. Surely, all of us have much reason to be of good cheer and little or no reason for not sharing it with those among whom we live. To our younger readers, the boys and girls who are looking eagerly for the gifts that Santa Claus will bring, we extend es- pecial greetings. May Christmas day find them overjoyed with the pleasant surprises that can hardly be duplicated among the experiences of life. Modern version: Many are called. up- on, but few pay. Some sensible men think that only sissies read poetry. ~~ The biggest killers in America today run on four wheels, The value of the dollar is important only to the fellow who has one. Health hint: Don’t rob yourself of sleep; you can’t fool your body. There should be a good job for every man and a good man for every job. Another bumper crop that should be reduced is that of prone pedestrians. Parents easily lose sight of faults in boys when they are blinded by “sonshine.” Our idea of a hero is a man who takes an automobile trip with four women rela- tives, Is it a sign of prosperity when vote- trading gn Congress reaches high? Mexico apparently does not seem to understand the difference between . mine and thine, Our own idea is that the average wo- man thinks she is much superior to the av- erage woman. Called Awful. gambling? Aji Miami Gambling Is Headtine. Why Miami gambling is awful. Isn't it a bit egotistical to think the fittest survive because we happen to be among the survivors. Lucky men will soon be paying large income taxes, but they will complain just as much as those who have none to pay. Extravagance consists of buying what you need before ycu can afford it—to buy what you don't need is foolishness any time. The number of persons killed in the United States every year by automobiles is only one of the disgraces of our present era. Some day, the carnival of acrident> will be looked upon with abhorrence. an all-time] TALENT FOR MUSIC Through tests devised by psycholo- gists, many interesting and useful facts have been discovered concerning the apti- tude of a child for various pursuits. practically applied, much time otherwise devoted to training for activities for which the child is naturally unsuited may be sav- ed. It is now possible, according to Prof. Seashore of Iowa University, to positively determine the musical talent possessed by any child, even before he begins the study of music. The sense of pitch, time, conson- ance, intensity and others may each be de- termined with mathematical accuracy. Practical experiments have demon- strated that a person may have a high sense of pitch, with a poor sense of time, and so on, Only when all the elements of the musi- cal mind are acute do we find real talent. When these purely musical elements are combined with a high class of intelligence the foundation for an execptional musician is found. Contrary to general belief, aptitude for muSic cannot be developed by training. It must be inborn. A child with a poor sense of pitch at the age of eight will have a poor sense of pitch all his life, no matter how much he may study and practice. The same is true of the sense of time and the rest Training only develops that which is pos- sessed at birth. A realization of these facts would save much useless torture for music students and those’who must listen to them, if facilities for making the tests were available. Prof. Seashore declares that no at- tempt should ke made to force an unmusi- cal child to learn music, as the result must be disappointing to all concerned. He says it is a tragedy to drive an unmusical. boy to practice several hours a day on a violin, “while at the same time you may be ruin- ing a perfectly good mechanic, or archi- tect, or second baseman.” HARD TIMES CANNOT KILL OPPORTUNITIES The man or woman, engaged in busi- ness in Key West, whe is content to face the present, waiting idly for a new wave of prosperity to sweep profits into view, is doomed to disappointment. f Hard times, real or imaginary, are not barriers to opportunity. Fortunes have been made by alert individuals, quick to realize that different days demand read- justment in business. The old habits may have to be abandoned. Initiative must re- place inactivity. The year 1988 will soon begin. The lost opportunities of 1937 might as well be forgotten. The task ahead of every individual engaged in earning a living is to take advantage of experience, reshape plans and make money in 1938. Business, whether of agriculture or in- dustry or'commerce, must make money to grow. It is time for every reader of this article to direct his or her endeavors to the end that income exceed expenditures. FINANCING JAPAN Japan is financing its warfare in China, it seems, largely by the shipment of gold to the United States, where the yellow metal brings $35 am ounce. Proceeds are usually converted into sterling exchange, used to bolster the yen in the markets of the world, Since March, 1937, the Japanese have shipped more than $233,000,000 worth of gold into the United States. The high price that we pay for bullion has been a help to the brown men in the financing of their undeclared war. Costs of newspaper production have risen so much in these later years that merges are frequently announced. If there are no mergers, production plans are in- augurated whereby the papers are en- abled to maintain separate editorial iden- tities but share in the production costs un- der one roof. It is said there is nothing complete without love and that one person cannot be happy in himself; but how about the fellow who is in love with himself? Scientists say life on earth began in hot water, And the water hasn't cooled per- eeptibly since. If} the information developed by these tests be i | Hair of the Dog That Bit Us | By ELIOT JONES Professor of T: Public Utilities, 1 Srenford University THE KEY WEST CITIZEY ‘ You an Nation’s The special session of Ci | cause the speed, enactment of erop control legislation was declared to be doubtless grind out some kind of restrictionist measure. I* matters not that interna- tioual experts in the field of agriculture re- gard crop re- striction as un- sound; some- thing must be done, for polit- ica) reasons, to raise agricul- tural prices. Onlyatew weeks before the resident issued the call for a special sessie1 the Interna- tional Institute of Agriculture pub- lished a report, approved by the agri- cultural experts of many nations, in which crop restriction was vigorously condemned The Institute report said that unless the world is to acknowl- edge .intellectual bankruptcy, and is to admit that its planned economy is a sys.em of economic suicide, it must change the direction of its plan- ning efforts, Instead of leveling down it must plan coordinated expansion for employing the services of science in the satisfaction of human needs. The report of toe International In- stitute pointed out that no nation can advance in prosperity if it follows a policy of restricting agricultural pro- duction with a view to adapting it to a dwindling demand. in fact, such emergency measures taken in a great Cepression can ..ot be continued with- out putting the whole civilized world in icopardy. The trouble with crop control as practiced in this country is that the Met farmers using fertile land ‘ ther acreage as much pro- port ‘ely as the inefficient farmers at (Address cuestions to the author care of this newsnaner) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Claude Nolan, and his La Salle, the first auto ever to reach this city under its own power, arrived at the Forida East Coast termin- als 3:15 this afternoon. The first all-auto trip is a success, said Mr. Nolan after his arrival. The car amd occupants, Mr. Nolan and, Ken Goodson, widely known race! driver, arrived at Big Pine Key) shortly after 1 o’clock and this afternoon left in company with a, motorcade of local cars, who went to Big Pine Key to meet the rec-! ord makers. Contrary to expec- tations the heavy riding which the car underwent over trestles’ and rails, had little effect on the balloon tires. Six spares and two extra wheels were being carried, | but no emergency arose for their use during the entire trip. | Still the warmest place in win-! ter time, the thermometer this morning registered 68 in Key’ ti West, according to the weather bureau. This is 16 degrees warm- | er than in Miami. The extremes of temperature in the United) States were shown this morning with 68 in Key West and eight degrees below in Willston, North | Dakota. Every day during the | past few weeks, Key West has been the warmest spot in the country. The needs of between 45 and 50 families were minstered to yester- day afternoon by citizens, mem- id Your | when the trip south will begin. 4 i j Affairs | called: by the President largely be- | the esSential, will | to lary Wallace, the supply of foreign cotton is ten million bales greater than it was in 1932. t due to the great increase in foreign production, we shail have this year the second largest cotton crop in our | history. As a result the priee of cot. ton has taken a terrible drop. The low price is due, of course, partly to the large foreign crop, which our restric- | tion policy did much to bring about. | And because of the low price it will | be necessary, apparently, to take steps to curtail the future output of | | snding at $ o'clock this Sun rises Spevvereveccccccccccoces THE WEATHER edecdpenccccccccccsscces Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation. Normal Precipitation __ Almanac PT covers 24-hour Hl Be BBA BS be 7) WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate winds, mostly northeast and east. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentie to moder- ate variable winds, and fair to partly overcast weather tonight and Saturday. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. eeere ever Today In History (eeceedccnveresvcecenceose 1784—First general conference. cotton. jot the Methodist Episcopal church, It is worth noting that our large erop is due to the fact that the yie! per acre will probably break all pre- | in Baltimore. 1811—American recruits for vious records. it appears, therefore, Hoe with England offered t ty that crop curtafiment through re- | duced acreage is iot always effective. | One wonders what steps the restric- | tionists will now take to relieve us of | the curse of such an abundant supply | of cotton, which were it not for re- | strictive measures might b- available | revularly to clothe better than one- | third of our population who, accord. | ing to the President, are ill-clad. | | Of The Citizen | liquor, corrupt officers and kill his wife. | Newspapers along Fiorida’s | East Coast are heralding the) voyage of the Over-Sea Highway) ferries down the inland waterway route as one of the biggest events | planned in Florida this year, and! tourists and citizens from com-| munities along the inland route! will join in the celebration. The, motorcade which will precede the | party Monday night will leave for No Name Key 2 o'clock in the aft- ernoon. The motors will be fer-) ried across the water gap by|j county employes, free of charge, and the owners will place them on board the ferries at Jackson- ville, Tuesday or Wednesday, horn indicated that the robbers | took time to secure a fit of foot-: wear. Shelves in the store indi-| cated that two pairs of each i of men’s shoes had been tak Half dozen pairs of women’ shoes, a lot of pocket knives other cutlery are missing. bers of the “Committee of Citi- i zens”, composed largely of well- known Key West women. Cloth- ing, plain foods and toys made up’ the packages Santa Claus took to these families. The needs of each family were investigated before distribution was started, and in this way each family received what they needed most. There were no clothing misfits, no toys where there were no children, and no packages of any kind where not needed. Not a little money was contributed by those who preferred this method of ex- tending aid. ing convinced a jury he is insane, must now convince a court he is sane. It certainly is tough on a | chap who’s done nothing worse than sell $10,000 worth of bootleg } e esee Howard Hughes of Houston, } Tex., tool manufacturer and fam- ed aviator, born there, 33 years ago. Harllee Branch, second assist- ant postmaster-general, born at | Polkton, N. C., 58 years ago. Ruth Chatterton, actress, born in New York, 44 years ago. Editorial comment: Remus hav- i ernoon. It is believed that he can- not survive more than a few! hours. ‘The judge has been critic-| ally ill for some time. } To Mrs. McNeely, wife of Com- mander R. W. McNeely, of the Seventh Naval District, distinction of being the an to fly from Key West to vana by airplane, on a Pan 3 z i rT | | ‘ 5 of : Z E : LG vana and just about 1 naval station was notified of "TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS born in Spain, 49 years ago. Dr. Thomas R. Grath of the! of $16.00, three months extra pay at discharge and some 150 acres of land, 1827—General strike in Phila-| delphia; out of which grew first! | union of organized workmen in city. 1844—Oregon City incorporat- ed, first on the Pacific coast. 1865—Klu Klux Klan began in Pulaski, Tenn., as a social club; organized by six young Confed- erate soldiers. 1933 — Armenian arehbishop stabbed to death in New York City church. 1936—Cuba’s Senate ousts Pres- ident by impeachment and swears, in a new President, Pope’s Christ- mas message broadcast the world over but forbidden to be heard In the town of Lead, S. Dak., it is unlawful to encourage dogs to fight. | CLA A hh Lh A hhh hd hdd de dhaddhchidedidebed FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937.5 RETURNS TO HOME NEWARK, N. J.—When | wife walked into their home a three-year absence, John C. Clenen of this city hit her. | brought court action, and | Clenen was held in 200 bail on assault and battery charge. Liquid ~ Tablets Salve-Nose Drops _ Headache Try “Rub-My-Tism”-World’s BENJAMIN LOPEZ ? FUNERAL HOME § bg = g Aegy 24-Hour Ambulance Service | Salome re Night 696-W- LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the E ness and Theater District Wal, as th’ ole sayin’ goes: Merry Christmas ever’body. } Some village jokester sent a card € th’ tax collector wishin’ him 2 Sreecvvessvuvccesepessecce Today’s Horoscope Pecneeccccacesennsensces Today's disposition is too apt to be vacillating and uncertain. Pro- crastination may be a besetting sin. There is considerable ability and there is no reason why the labors should not be crowned with success if only the mind can be kept tied down and _ concen- trated on a single subject. x 4 EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Claude Montgomery lives in Birmingham, Ala., while Dave. Garage Birmingham makes his home in Montgomery. 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