The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1937, Page 2

. PAGE TWO vor ALEEN, ‘AsWivta: From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets ‘Only Dally Newspaper in Key West “and Monroe thie Aseoclated "Press is @xclusively entitled to ‘use for fépublication of’all news dispatches credited to | It Gr ot ‘otherwise credited in this paper and also ‘the loéal news published here. URSCRIPTION RATES une Year - Six Months Ine Month Weekly —. ADVERTISING RATES ‘Milde ‘known on application. ‘SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of fespect, ‘obituary notices, ete., will be charged for | the rute of 10 cents a line. Notives for entertainments by churches from whiten | = revenue is ‘to be derived are 5 cents a line, ‘ithe eitizen is an ‘open form and invites ‘discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or ‘general | interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- extions. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ‘Water ‘dnd ‘Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port, Hotele and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. airports—Land ard Sea. ‘Coiisdlidation of County and City Govertiments. There’s ‘one ‘man who is glad it’s over —Santa Claus. To the debutante, life is divided into Chap One, Chap Two, and so on. People with black eyes are impetuous, according to a scientist. Or probably have just been. There are individuals who are happy to be called upon to pay an incéme tax, but where are they? Once we become blindly obedient to all demands of the government, we are primed for a dictatorship. Key West will triake progress in 1938 if every’ citizen will work ‘and forget to be envidus of ‘his neighbor's ‘good fortune. Max Schmeling came over from Ger- | Many fora short vacation, put the “kayo” on-atiother victim and went back home with $30,000.—Times-Union. Not this time; the goverrment withheld $27,000 for this anii'former taxes. President Roosevelt has often stated that we should avoid the phobia of fear, but fear‘is Very much like ‘worry and the past and ‘plan wisely for the future. | New Year does us a distinct favor, which | | of a busy whirl for reflecting upon past 0 | introspective and to put ourselves under | every being, a wish for AS 1938 BEGINS Today the year, 1937, will end and | we will enter'upon a New Year, known un- | ‘-der 6ur présent calendar as 1938. | Of course, the advent of the first day | | of a New Year is an event of importance | psychologically, if not otherwise, and, be- cause of the feeling that we are turning a new page in existence, there is a common ' tendency to look ahead, to take stock of In presenting this opportunity ‘the will be worthwhile if we use it intelli- gently. Every individual can improve life and develop personality by taking time out activity. It is good, sometimes, to become the microscope of self-analysis. To face the future intelligently, as we desire to do, requires that we profit by past experiences and to do this best is to contemplate what we have done. Naturally, we think, there moves in improvement. If wishes alone sufficed we would be better i by far than we are but it is necéssary that | we do much more than wish for advances. | We must resolutely point out | course toward the désired goal ‘and, with | deterriination; fight, to, mmake our wishes | come true. 2 personal The beginning | of a New Year, there- fore, gives.us, chrono) ogically, ,at- least, a time to stop and:reflect; to:think and plan | and an occasion to fhaké'a Start along a | desired Course. Frankly, we think every- body ought to take full advantage of the beginning of 1938 in order to make it a banner year for individual progress, Every- body will not agree ujion any definition of personal progress but all of us can make an effort along the lines that seem good to us. So, as we stand by, about ready for the New Year, The Citizen extends greet- ings and good wishes to its readers, with the hope that every one of them will be able, a-year from this day, to look back and recognize distinct advances in personal de- velopment. Surely this is one activity of men and women that finds us without envy and one effort that carries with it the heatty good ‘wishes of all persons. THE WAYS OF CROOKS An interesting sidelight on the ways of professional criminals is given in magazine article which declares that cities where these gentry habitually congregate to spend their loot are seldom the scene of their banditry. The writer cites the case of Tolcdo, long known as being unusually free from underworld ‘crime, yet all the time the ren- dezvous for safe-crackers, hold-up men and other desperate crooks. It was an unwrit- ten law among them that no “jobs” were to be pulled off in Toledo, and although the police knew of their presence, they were not molested, because, as the chief said: “We never bother them, because they never bother us.”” Finally a) new.’ pubes.” commissioner | was appointed; and When he’ Jetrned of the situation he ordéted a déar-up: Then, You and Your’ | Nation's Aff airs | Zig-Zageing Whither? By ELIOT JONES Proféssorof = and Public Utilities, ford University Ina reeset speech Senator -AcAdoo, of California, said that the ‘President, may have,to turn from the. right ta, the left, or, ois to the Center. In ‘6ther ‘words, he may have to zig-zag. But so long as it gets him there, iat is the princi thing. “I think,” said the Senator, “there is: vi tue to zig-zag- ging political- ly.” If there is vir- tue in zig-zag- ging the Presi- dent is exceed- ingly virtuous. When ‘he first ran for the Presidency he was an outspoken ad- vocate of écondmy, but he had not been in office long before he ‘made ‘a right-about-face. The homely virtue of thrift was discarded with ‘such abandon that ‘the President soon be- tame the most reckless spender ever to océupy the presidential chair. Late- ly he has made some economy ges- tures, but these may represent merely a temporary policy calculated to quiet the fears of those now insistently de- manditig that the budget be balanced! As Bovérnor of the state of New York he upheld firmly the doctrine of state’s rights. He maintained that the federal government should not be encouraged to interfere In the con- duct of agriculture, businéss, ‘public. utilities, insurance, or social welfare; he protested vehemently against the steady process of creating commis- nd regulatory bodies; and he 1 the doctrine of regulation and {egislation by “master minds.” But as esident he has endeavored to exert r-reaching federal control over ‘agriculture, business practices, public utilities, insutatce, "and ‘labor rela- tions; he has created innumerable commissions; and he has built up a “brain trust” of so-called “master minds.” If this is not zig-zagging, it is at least another right-about-face. The zig-zagging may come later; in fact, so. far as the “brain is con- cerfed, it seems already to have come, for where are the Moleys and Tugwells of yester-year? His administration is noted for its attacks on business, with intermittent “breathing spells,” during which bus- iness interests are led to believe that | the hoped-for turn to the right, or at least to the center, has come. But the zig-zagging is soon resumed. Now that | the stock market has taken a huge drop, causing fears of a business re- céssion, another “breathing spell” seems to be in the offing. The ‘spoils system is deVeloped to a degree never before approached, and then a return to the merit system is advocated. All this zig-zagging is approved ‘by the politically minded Senator from California. So long as it “gets the President there, that is the principal | thing.” But it leaves the people, who in a democracy are supposed to con- lweecedsUbWccenvocestuin ‘PLEA ‘FOR POEMS ee “Editor, The Citizen: During the early Autumn ap- peared in “Time” -a letter by a lady subscribér advocating origin- al ‘poems in the columns of the magazine, and she mentioned what kind of poems she would like. I suggest the same for The Citizen. Sdivie months ‘ago there appear- | ed quite often metrical composi- | tions, but soon they ceased. Let | thém ‘be ‘continued, not too oft-' en, so as not to interfere with the news and the advertisements. | The subjects I advise are the |Island ‘attractions—the fish, flow- lers, tréés, the. Waters, stinshine, climate, ‘etc. Why not’a few of the inhabit- ants and tourists try their hand) at short poems? There are some young persons at school, with the ‘aid of others, especially their! teachérs, ‘might do ‘quite ‘well, and, with application, gradually | improve. Poems should be according tv the season, e.g., at present the | poinsettia ‘is ‘crimisoning lanes und | gardéns of ‘shacks. Vivid and ¢ol-! orful déscription of the plant with a thought about Christmastidy would be appropriate. A few weeks ago a Key Wester |sent a lyric ubdut_ “Our ictus”, trol, in the greatest doubt as to where | “there” is. It never seems to occur toa ‘poli- | tician, in dealing with governmental and economic problems, that there are certain fundamental principles that should be steadfastly adhered to; if it | did, and if they held steadfast, they would not be politicians. On the con- | trary. to the politician, “there is virtue to zig-zagging, politically.” (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the ‘the I Diane Pails, Dividend e a. |forwarded, if, was accents | company. fate fo | would not ‘others. In Lakeland, Fla., Miss Etta J | Murphy, Roitte 1, Box 55, ‘pub- llishes The Poetry Caravan, 2 | quarterly, and teaches versifica- | thon, ‘Perhaps ‘she might be glad |to examine some of the verses! | published in The ‘Citizen. Key West has more natural! Poetical advantages . than other | ‘place in Florida. Let’s do some-| | thing for our city, especially dur- | ing the Tourist ‘season. One! | Two! Three! FRIDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1937. PEOPLE'S FORUM = Today ta “History ‘WOW eeeeceecvcbocees 1793—Thomas Jefferson left Washington’s cabinet and led ‘movement forming an early Re-) publican Party. The two domin- ant parties were Federalists and | Republicans till 1828, when Re-| publicans split up to reappear * again under Republican name in Lincoln's day. 1796—Baltimore incorporated a city. 1833—Obed Hussey Hussey, Maine-born then living in Cincinnati, patent- | ed first successful reaper. 1837—(100 years ago) National expenses for running the Govern- ment for the year totals little over 37 million dollars and public debt under two million dollars! 1908—Wilbur Wright makes! world airplane record in France by flying 77 miles in two hours and 21 minutes. | | fleeing America, reach England. ae a t 1936—American scholars finish, | Sabin's “Dictionary of Books Re- lating to America,” a task begun in 1856. First half of Govern-, packers fiscal year ends with 61 jeents in taxes collected for every dollar spent. | you. will all have a very pleasant | andfsuccessful season. COVE FISHING, MP; Tom Boggs, Manager. , rates Cove, Fla., H 13 se 27, 1937, | never cry again with’an Snoot Giuckiris an’ Pete Dobérry ‘wént coon huntin’ tother night an’ all they killed was a quart o° apple Jack. Most o” th’ resolutions made t’day 1935—The Lindberghs, secretly} 9° '" one Year an’ out th’ ether, LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Busi ness and Theater District EXCELLENT RESTAURANT seecotcetec. jecesoeccesesvoure Save a little of thy income, and thy hide-bound pocket will soon bégin to thrive and thou wilt empty stomach; néither will ‘creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor The and hunger bite, nor will nakedness freeze thee. whole hemisphere wili ‘shine brighter, Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- — re Local Welfare The spécial session of Congress produced what most of the realis- tic observers thought it would be- fore it convened—that is, prac- tically nothing. At the time this is written, the body has not ad-| journed, but it is a certainty that) no major legislation will be put, through before the regular Janu- | ary session. About the ‘only con- crete achievement of the special session will be the routine appro- priation of mileage money for the members—an appropriation which amounts to'a petty graft, inas- much as very few senators or rep- resentatives go home and come back during the brief Christmas| holiday. Businesses’ hope that Congress would immiediately do something to alleviate the recession—not- ably in the direction of a revision or repeal of such special ‘taxes ‘as the capital gains and the undistri- buted profits levy—have not ma- terialized.. But the inactivity of Congress has been something of an encouraging factor. The wage- and-hours bill, in spite of zealous work on the part of the leaders of both branches, has been return- ed to committee, and obviously | Which testimony pro and con is can not pass in its present form. now being taken by the Interstate Commerce No new experimental legislation has been seriously considered. The general attitude of Congress —the ‘New Deal has not back- hard to resist. Even séthe indus- | trial leaders regard. budget-bal- ancing as suicidal now, feel that government pump-priming must be used as an instrument in fight-| | ing the recession. So far as current business is |oncerned the outlook is’ mixed, ‘with the deflationary movement | still strongly in evidence in some lines. There have been no big! drops lately, largely bécause pre- vious drops brought things down pretty close to rock-bottom. There has béeén some improvement, but it has not touched all industry by any means. There is no major ‘trend either up or down. Some business briefs of interest follow: STEEL: ‘Still ‘operating at an extremely low level. Belief reached. Steel scrap prices have been unusually stable. RAILROADS: Have increased} their buying for some nécessities. Their future is largely dependent} on whether or not they are grant-| ed rate increases, ‘concerning ‘Commission. Western and Southwestern roads were re-} cently granted higher passenger has béen one of watehfulwaiting fares. “CONSTRUCTION: Non - resi-} is that the bottom has about been; u A KEY ‘WEST BOOSTER. Key West, Fia., Dec. 30, 1937 APPRECIATION Editor, The Citizen: | Congratulations to you and the! \rest of The Citizén staff for your ; \very attractive and interesting! » ‘welll pléased with our, | nice tgeeup ad ad, ‘and ‘do ap-) preciate your kind tion. Here's hoping that The Citizen | = continue ‘growing and rr Spa eae ewan } "vsboT eortse pleastre spring up in every corner of thy heart. SPECIAL LOT OF PLASTER WALL BOARD, SLIGHTLY DAMAGED—CUSTOMER CAN MAKE —Benjamin Franklin. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the F. D. I. C. PRE-INVENTORY ee i OF 4xi2x12 HOLLOW BUILDING 6c. ieee Gans sticks like glue, and it is hard to Yet rid of denies it. Indeed, there are very few things we need ‘more to know than how to escape | from fear. se8 to-quote:the-article: ..“{THere ‘were im- mediate -retaliations. Safés began to ex- plode like fire-craékets’on the Fourth. tracked to any extent, but it has definitely grown mo¥e conserva- tive. Some of the pending meas- ures which worried it the dential building in-November was | better than in the’same month in| 1936, while residential contracts! were 12 percent below. All indus-, Gov. Cone has ordered all the gam- bling joints in Miami closed, as well as the | Beach Club at Faim Beach. A few months ago, he was saying that he would not in- terfere with local gambling until the peo- ple in those communities showed him they wanied it stopped. Apparently the Gov- ernor has been shown.—Sanford Herald. And ‘conversely the people of this com- | munity have evidently not shown the gov- | ernor that they wanted gambling In Key West stopped. Tt is extrémely doubtful ‘that Con- | rressiman Litdlow’s fesotution to provide for a referendum on War will be approved, and this column camnot see why it should be. The measure is sophomoric and bound: ‘on stupidity, and so are some of the argu- merits both pro and con. Anyway, it is ‘out Of Tashion ‘to ‘declare war. When a nation Wants to fight it puts a ‘chip onthe ‘shoulder of another, ‘and when that nation ‘knocks it off, ‘the shooting bepins. “‘Mos- sotini did that with Ethiopia and Japa) did if With China, Hold-ups became as common as measles. Cops shot crooks and crooks shot cops. To- day Toledo is no longer immune.” One difficulty said to be experienced in catching present-day criminals of the professional class is that many of their old underworld haunts which were formerly | well-known to the police have been broken }up. The crooks are scattered throughout the cities, often living in comparative se- curity in high-class neighborhoods. ‘Thiis a new atid serious complication of the | criminal problem has arisen, for which no | solution appears to be forthcoming. SWEDEN MAKES MONEY The rearmament race is helping the Swedish government, in a mild way, judg- ing from teports of the Swedish Ore Com- pany, half-owned by the State. After three deficit years the company made ‘a profit of $5,000,000 last year and will earn ‘about $12,000,000 in 1937. Of course, the government will get its share of the proceeds and may be able to bear it; part in ‘the’ rearmament race with , Steater ease. most, such as the 7-littie-TVA’s bill, are completely Gead, so far as their original ‘Objectives and wording are involved. There still remains an extremely radical bloc in the lower House and, to a les- ser extent, in the Senate—but this bloc is completely overshadowed by a conservative and middle-of- the-road ‘majority. A curious situation Obtains in | regard to the budget. As Business Week phrases it, “taking the treasury back to red-ink figures of two or three bi lions a year, is |regarded as a certainty unless | business picks up in the next few months. New Dealers around the / President and in Congress ‘do fot | bother to incliide the ‘unléss’. But try is vitally interested in present) Administration housing plans which, if they go through’as hop-} ed, will put billions into circula- tion. But if conditions remain bad, these plans will, of course, fall far short of expectations. RETAIL TRADE: Mail-order /| and chain sales have been very | the President isn’t so resigned. | He has had so many. | better buiness sure fo the, Spring, that” gards the imi: many New setllypentl eee, eniras mair pred fiscal policy it has followed for five years, and has decided that the proper time for fiscal reform has for relief this winter, which are flooding into Washington by the bushel, from governors and may- ors as well as individuals, will be, come. However, demands j probable that occur. } ata deamiial FLORIDA KEYS OUTSIDE WHITE PAINT A good cheap pain, Gal. . DOMESTIC FLAT WHITE PAINT, DOMESTIC GLOSS WHITE PAINT, Gal. PASTE WHITE PAINT — Simply add a gallon of Wnseed ‘oll to this paint and you Have two gallons OF mbit, GON nce cceenemscenite aiteniboninenonne White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best” |