The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1937, Page 8

FAGE TWO The Key iliest Citizen | Published Daily Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. bh. P. ARTMAN, President JOB ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corng Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West ‘and Monroe County. — Ontered at Key Ww st, Plorida, as second class matter | Fir’ TY. ‘SIXTH YEAR . Member of the Associated Press fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use the lecal news published here. | world have often been described. SOME WORLD WONDERS the ancient They the The seven wonders of were the great Pyramid of Cheops, | Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple | of Diana at Ephesus, the Grecian statue of Jupiter, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria, and the Colossus of Rhodes. All except the | great pyramid have been destroyed. for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also Other wonders, which vie with the classical seven in magnitude and historical | interest, are to be found in various parts of the world, mostly in ruins. Among these the most striking are to be found in Italy. The Circus Maximus at Rome, orig- inally built in 605, B..C., was enlarged at One Month Weekly -. pe eae ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespect, obituary notices, etc,, will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a li Notices for entertainments by churches from which | & sevenue ‘8 to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citfzen 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. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- ‘Tania, Free Port. Hotale and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. S President Roosevelt’s experiments should by this time have resulted perience, but have they? in ex- All the highways in the United States converge at Miami for the one and only Oversea Highway to Key West. Mae West is being criticized for off- color radio references to Adam and Eve. All radio comedy is not quite that old. ‘An exchange prints this valuable first aid information: “In case of asphyxiation apply artificial respiration until the patignt is dead.” England had better come across with that ten billion dollar war debt it owes Uncle Sam, or his resources cannot be counted on in another time of need. . The passion for wealth in America connotes new inventions, the opening of new markets, the making of life more com- fortable, safer and more luxurious; hardly lust for lust’s sake only. Men without purpose in life seldom get anywhere; those with wrong purposes find themselves running counter to the pub- lie-trend and only those who are lined up | the tight way succeed. Think it over. ‘ | Some. time ago a Key Wester said to | this writer that the income tax had made | liars of us all. But two thousand years be- | fore there was a thought of an income tax, | one of the prophets said that “all men are) Nars,”" and need‘ not have stated apologeti- cally that he said so in his haste. Talk to others of the happiness in} your life, and keep your sorrows to your-| self. That is better for all concerned. If a person greets you with “How are you?” That is merely a salutation and should be answered in kind; but if you wish to take it | as an inquiry regarding your health let the | answer be pleasant, even if it departs from | the truth. Nobody wants to hear a tale of | woe, i A menace to any business is the con- | cern which sneaks trade by chiseling prices and takes it out of the hide of the work- ing man, This forces the competitor who also generally has a larger investment in his plant te seek cheay labor and produce an inferior quality of workmanship i& or- der to compete. This works to the detri- ment of all concerned with the exception of the chiseler, who, accord'n= to the law) of retribution — will puni.hmaen eventually. get his | artichoke, which is in no way | with the famed city of the Holy Land. various times until in the fourth century it was capable of holding’ 385,000 specta- tors. Another of the world’s largest amphi- theaters, the Coliseum at Rome, was the | scene of horrible atrocities, in which early Christians and others by the thousands were thrown into the arena to be killed by wild lions and tigers. ' The Appian Way, extending 360 miles years before Christ, and was the finest highway of its time. In Pisa is the famous leaning tower, built in 1154, which has threatened to tumble down for more than 600 years, but still stands. The Vatican at Rome, home of the | Popes sincé- 1377, was begun by the Em- | peror Constantine in the fourth century. It is the largest residence in the world. Here | also is the largest church in the world, the | Cathedral of St. Peter, begun in 1506 and | completed 126 years later. All these are visited by thousands of tourists and others each year, because of their unique character and terest. historie in- CLEVELAND’S FOUNDER Because an editor’s type did not fit the intended heading of his newspaper, the spelling of the name of Cleveland, |: Ohio, was permanently changed, according to a recent writer. The town was orig- inally, Cleaveland, named after Moses Cleaveland, its founder, who was born in 1754 and died in 1806. ‘When the Cleveland Advertiser was established in 1830, the editor found the line of type he desired to use.as a heading } was too long for the page, so he omitted the silent “a” from Cleaveland’s name. The new spelling was soon adopted gen- erally, and has been used ever since. Moses Cleaveland was graduated from Yale in 1777 and served in the Continental Army, later practicing law in his native town of Canterbury, Conn. In 1796 he led a surveying expedition for a land company in which he was a shareholder, and also negotiated with the Indians, along the Great Lakes in the Western Reserve coun- try. e On July 22. 1796, he selected the present location of the city as a site for a permanent settlement. and his party named it in his honor. Cleveland is now the sixth city of the United States in size, with a population of more than 900,000. POPULAR MISNOMERS Many. familiar articles bear names which are misleading, although.the - mis- nomers are generally of little practical im- portance. A peculiar instance of this is seen in the popular name of the Jerusalem connected In this case the word “Jerusalem a corruption of the Italian “girasole,” (meaning turning to the sun), from the | habit of the plant, which is of the same | genus as the sunflower. The sunflower, by the way, has a name which is doubly appropriate. be- cause it not only inclines to turn toward the sun, but its flower also has some re- emblance to the sum itself. Both the sunflower and artichoke are indigenous to America. but there is also a globe artichoke, — which probably a native of Asia. Speaking of misnemers, the oné most frequently heard is “Irish potato.” This valuable tuber was discovered in South | America, whence it was introduced Europe, first as a curiosity. It came the most important item of food for ! ‘o Trish people during a time of famine, ej the name “Irish” has been applied to i it ever since. is into You and Your Nation’s Affairs Whose Baby Is This? By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt University tine be certain that a jackass will walk | It is wrong to criticize any act or attitude of an individual that may be'traced to a misfortune. Misfortunes call for pity not censure. The failure ot’ the “Wash- ington econo- mists” to recog- nize the cause and effect rela- tionship in bus- iness activities may bea fortune rather than a fault. The fact that high prices and high wages al- ways accompa- ny great pros- perity was ap- parently inter- preted by the administration economists as meaning that prosperity is the effect of high wages and high prices. Hence the administration be- | gan at once to raise prices by man- date, and raise wages far above the high prosperity level though more than twelve million workers were out | of employment. The chief purpose of the AAA and the NRA was to bring the greatest prosperity ever known by forcing high wages and high prices. This was the purpose in ying milions of acres of farm products, and converting over five million pigs, weighing up to sixty pounds each, into fertilizer and soap grease, Only last year the President said, “Reduction of costs of manufacture does not mean more purchasing pow- er and more goods consumed — it means just the opposite.” The mean- ing of this statement is, “keep the costs high if we want great pros- perity.” The purpose of the President in calling the recent special session of Congress was to pass two laws to raise prices and wages. The one little defect in this fantastic theory of the relation of high prices and high wages to prosperity is that prosperity is the cause of high prices and high wages, not the effect. Cause and effect are really different. They are not interchangeable. If you pro- duce a cause you may be certain of its effect. If you produce a jackass you may be certain of a “bray” in due time. But you can’t go out and “bray” from dreams, govern- ment authorities behold some of the real effects of their theory of forced high prices and forced high wages, they hear the protests of consumers against the ever advancing cost of |- living. A nation-wide investigation is ordered to find out why the ‘mis- | prices and the cost of living it forced came about, and who is re- | up really ornitne for this reprehensible result of the one great objective of the ad- ministration. The investigation, in the words of | the President, is limited to the field “of monopolistic practices and other unwholesome methods of competi- tion.” There are two decided advan- tages in thus limiting the field of in- vestigation. In the first place, it will keep the 100 investigators out of the offices of government officials—the real source of the high prices and the increase in the cost of living. Ir. the second place, it will be inclined to lead the ignorant and the ‘uninformed to place the blame on the economie royalists. This may be good polities. Business is a highly complex ap- plied science. The function of the gov- ernment under the Constitution is to regulate business, not direct it. Regu- | lation is a judicial function, and may be exercised successfully without a business activities, just as religious institutions may be successfully regu- lated without a knowledge of the- ology. It is not serious that those in charge | of the government are ignorant of the complexities of business. The direc- tion of business doe; not properly is extremely hazardous to business and to general welfare for those who hold political power to assume that they have knowledge that they do not possess, and exercise the authority of direction in a field of highly special- ized activities of which they are de- plorably ignorant, and are ignorant of the fact that they are ignorant. We are beginning to reap the re- wards of the experiment of substitut- ing political ignorance for specialized business skill. (Address questions to the author care of this newspaner) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Wace Jack 10 Year| Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen There is already a submarine base at Key West which will care | for 20 to 30 submarines, but it is’ ___ THE LOW DO FROM HICKORY About oes other day, when! | you pick up a paper, you will see | where they are shootin’ another | dozen or one-half dozen, over | there in Russia. And pretty soon | they are gonna have to do quite knowledge of the complexities of | come under their jurisdiction. But it | eeevecccce | "THURSDAY, DECEMBER 39, 1997. Yesterday’s Precipitation i pers i —— 05 Ins. |“ ess as the people begin to awaken | their “dope” Barometer 7:30 a. mi. today: Sea level, 30.14. ‘WEATHER FORECAST | Eli Potts got his gov’ment orders 2 a. all mixed up an’ tried t plow under (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) | in! snow drif's on his west forty. Key West and Vicinity: Partly; Sometimes we pay purty dearly cloudy, possibly showers tonight | tf Some 0' th’ free advice we took. and Friday; not much change in Jeeceucccecaascccccceces temperature; moderate winds, , , | moatly easterty. Loday’s- Horoscope Florida: Partly cloudy tonight +eceveesecessoecassccces and Friday, possibly light showers Today gives - resoure€fulness near southeast coast and along and an ability for organization. the Keys; no decided change in There is, though, a little lack of | temperature. coordination of thought and ef- ‘Today's Birthdays beaeeneeee scneceeeesese Ex-Governor ).lfred E. Smith of | New York, born there, 64 years. tor of the Institute of Cancer Re- search, Columbia, born at Colum~ bus, Ohio, 68 years ago. Dr. Stanley High, _ clergyman, former New Deal adviser, born in Chicago, 42 years ago. Dr. William H. Park, New York City’s health expert, born there, 74 years ago. Stephen. Leacock, famed hum- orist, McGill University, Montreal, professor of economies, born in England, 68 years ago. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: | fort. It may show in a breakdown refund Gentle to moderate mostly north-' under trouble caused by useless easterly winds and partly over- action; it may show in a separa- cast weather tonight and Friday, ' tion from kindred; or it may show light scattered showers over south in an elevation of the sphere of portion. action due to the enmity of an- East Gulf: Moderate northeast’ other. Final success is probable. ‘and east winds; partly overcast! eee aes | Weather tonight and Friday. \ | | WEATHER CON! CONDITIONS | | Pressure fs above normal this| |morning from the Rocky Moun-_ | tains eastward with the crest over | Alabama while an incipient cA turbance is over the upper t. | | Lawrence Valley, Buffalo, ions \inches, and pressure is low over the northern Rocky Mountains. Another disturbance appears to} | be off the south Texas ae | Brownsville, 30.18 inches. Precipitation occurred during | | the last 24 hours in southern Flor- | \ida ‘and from Texas northeast-} | ward through the Ohio Valley to. | the lower Lake region and New! ‘Temperatures ‘continue abnorm- ally high in most sections of the ‘country, being 10 to 25 degrees! above normal in Missouri, Arkan-| | sas, Oklahoma, and northern Tex- | (as, but they are 15 degrees below norma! in New Member of the hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole hemisphere wili pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. 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 The shine brighter, and —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST. Federal Reserve Member of the F.'D. LC. beeabeeheeense inactive because there are none of @ little lookin’ around; to find this type of craft assigned to this| People to shoot. Like in the early | port. It was nearly completed days in the U. S., they had plenty | when the armistice was signed,! | of buffalo and they thought they | and only esential work, such as| the completion of the seawall, has been done since. The government) has already spent $2,000,000 on this base. There are barracks) which will take about 600 men and marines. Officers may quarters in the immediate vicin-! ity. The climate and waters of Key West are ideal for submarine work. Within one hour's steam-' ing from Key West are the waters of Florida Bay, and an ideal train- ing place for any type of craft, and, it is said, especially subma-! rines. All necessary equipment - for the submarine base can be easily placed and now we but await the ending of a board of in-| spection to give an answer to the question. The psrty of 130 Boy Scouts) from the Fort ‘Myers council) which passed through here on last Monday enroute to Havana, will} return to Key West tomorrow afternoon and remain in the city | over night, sailing for home the next morning. They will be giv- en an open air reception tomor- | row night in Bayview Park. Citi- zens who would like to entertain one or more of the scouts during their stay should communicate with Scoutmaster Charles Sands, | would never run out of ’em, and! they shot ’em just for a buffalo | robe. And some day it will maybe be! the same in Russia. And it is kin-| /da funny that you will find peo- ple here in the U.S. A, on soap’ boxes and other places, ‘here and there—and you will find ’em fav-! orin’ making over our own Govt., and try out some foreign idea, or some new ism or asm that has not) been used, but sounds great. But the ducks talkin’ up these big ideas, they would not be so! hot for ’em, except they figure they maybe can be the top-ser-| geant, with a nice new job, and a new fur lined overcoat—and not |the guy standin’ up against the wall. Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA. jentire lot of liquor will number more than 1000 gallons and would | be of great value to a bootlegger at the prices offered for high grade intoxicants. Union Carabina wil hold a Ni | Year's dance from 11 p. will be continued until The dance will be held Cuban Club. fl Charles Perpall, or any others ot) the local scout officials. In another column Dr. | Rogers is advertising the | ation of his school next The ferries are on their way. This able teacher has been The Monroe County and the Flor- | qucting the school for a long ti ida Keys, two of the three boat? ang has been compliment to be put in service between Ne the type of young men Name Key and Lower Mate- ish at the institution. cumbe, docked with flags and) with county officials and citizen:| y, Spendel plead pleaded of Key West on board, churned | | sere datas Hugh Gunn |away from docks of the Gibbs Gas Jerusalem | | the waterfront shrieked a salute. of criminal court. Editorial comment: For aman Oscar Machin, the the man who lives so far away from Key to have attempted to West, Congressman McClintick is Estevez studio on Duval |certainly well posted about this few nights ago, and was city. His information about things over to the county | here would put most Key Westers was today released $250. ito shame. later be-j| Nearly 1000 packages of intoxi- Little Miss Georgina cants are today being turned over daughter of Mra. Regis by evstoms officials to Deputy 616 tric steve wilt eauctaon Wl Marshal Lyalle D. Van Valken- a party this evening im celebra-/ | bergh. The liquor is to destroyed tion of her twelfth birthday anni-/ ‘on order from federal court. The | versary. | PIPO POPOL LE 1% ow si DOMESTIC FLAT Gal. DOMESTIC GLOSS WHITE PAINT, Gal. FLORIDA KEYS OUTSIDE WHITE PAIN A food cheap pain, Gal. —....... [pee stant iansewrereenay PRE-INVENTORY PECIAL SPECIAL LOT OF PLASTER WALL BOARD, SLIGHTLY DAMAGED—CUSTOMER CAN MAKE SELECTION OF PIECES $15.00 M SPECIAL LOT OF 4xi2x12 HOLLOW BUILDIN j TILE, per piece .............. PAINT SPECIALS $1.19 1.49 . 1.49 WHITE PAINT, 14 PASTE WHITE PAINT — Simply add a gallon of Jingeed oil to this paint and you have two gallons of paint, Gal. 1.98 SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING C0. White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” 2 =|