The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1938, Page 2

Py lest Citizen Duened Pall - Except “Sunday By ae EN PUBLISHING CO. INC. “CAN, President and Publisher Business Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Enitered at Key West, Flofida, as second class matter Member of the Axxociated Preas The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for repuWication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise the local news published bere. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . . Six Months $19.00 - 5.06 Three Months 250 One Month 35 Weekly 20 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on‘ application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at the rate of 16 cents a lime. Notices for entertainments by churches from -which | a tevenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites dis. sion of public issues and subjects of local or ¢: interest but, it wil! not publish anonymous communi- cations. | eee ee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port. Hotele and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. 6. Airports—Land site: Tz Consolidation of County and City Governments. / j Hard work mixed with brains usually | reaps a rich reward. Good writers are often poor spellers, | but poor spellers are not often good | writers, With the beginning of 1938 we will resolve to complete the high purposes that | we undertook for 1937. The reason some merchants are not | advertising at the present time in The Citizen is their credit has been cut off. The older one grows, the better and happier life should be. If this is not true with you, check up on yourself and your | activities. The Japanese militarists may be run- | ning wild in China but the presence of two | good fleets in the Far East would curb | their enthusiasm. | Among the men wut of work are some “lazy loafers”, but the New Deal does not place that stigma on them; they are now included in the general classification of victims of the unemployment situation, Stop putting the word “stop” after each Sentence in your telegram, unless | money means nothing to you. Telegraph | companies report that most individual cus- | tomers still send the word “stop” and pay for it, though punctuation marks can now ; be sent free, Insert a “period” after each | sentencs and stop the amnecessary ex-/| pense. % It.is a pity that the weaker nations | must suffer from the aggressions of the | stronger, without outside help, but any na- | tion that joins the scrap is in for a beating. If a league of nations is afraid to inter- vene in a one-sided and bloody conflict as : it was in Abyssinia, it seems the better | part of valor for a single nation to keep | hands off. Through Assistant Attorney Jackson, | President Roosevelt is giving notice to Big Business that it cannot indulge in the luxury of « sit-down strike. Harassed by credited in this paper and also | | dustry. | heading 125 institutions | posits of more than $12,000,000,000, is in | | entire accord with the | ployment: IT’S UP TO CONGRESS NOW The nation’s leading vankers, reply- ing to a recent questionnaire, expressed the opinion that the current slump in Am- erican business would run its in into course about four months, and not develop a new depression. They qualified statement, however, by saying that an up- turn is dependent largely upon a change in the attitude of the government toward in- Finally, they proposed five dis- tinct recovery measures, in the following order, all of which are in the power. of Congress to effect: 1. ings tax. 2. 3. 4. provide a reasonable return on Balancing the budget. Lowering the tax on capital gains. | ment. 3. the interest of expansion. It is certainly no coincidence that this list of measures, proposed. by bankers with total proposals of a this THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ADVENTURES: Repeal of the undistributed earn Effecting increases in rail rates to | invest - | Encouragement to the utilities, in | de- | legion of other experts, including many | men high in government service. Tax re- titude toward the great basic industries | whieh normally provide the bulk of Am- erican investment, purchasing and em- These are essential not oply to recovery and the prevention of another depression, but to eventual permanent stability. In other words, it is high time Con-| gress did more thinking about recovery, and less about “reform’—especially re- | forms of the half-baked, experimental nature we have been witnessing in con- fused abundance the last few years. As a| number of authorities are saying, the ques- tion of whether we are to go ahead again or to continue rolling down the economic | hill will be decided in the next six to eight | weeks—and Congress must do a large part of the deciding. PEACE NOT UP TO US The people of the United States want peace—that is so well known that it is al- most useless to repeat the phrase. The effort to achieve peace, however, takes peculiar forms, including the signing of petitions advising Congressmen that Americans want peace and asking them to keep this country out of war. We certainly hope that the United | States can avoid fighting but it is apparent | that peace depends more upon other na- | | tions than it dees upon what ‘we do er think. That either Italy, Germany or Japan have any present idea of attacking | the United States is absurd although the future course of there countries may make the notion not so fantastic. . The best peace insurance that we know of, right now, is to build up the Am- erican navy and maintain its strength at a | ratio of twice the Japanese fleet. This will be sufficient to take care of any com- bination of forces that might tempt Italy | form—a sane fiscal policy—a friendly at-} OF; OZZIE M cloudy tonight and Tuesday; : | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | | Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen George Allen England’s story of Key West in the January issue of Travel Magazine, has left even Frank Lovering, another booster of note, breathless in a renewed desire to get away down here again. So Mr. Lovering express- jes his sentiments and sensations lin a letter he has just written {from his home in West Medford, | Mass. to Mr. England, who has |just written to him about his ex- periences in Key West. “Ameri- jea’s Island of Felicity” is the |title of Mr. England’s story. It |pictures Key West as the most al- |luring place, not only in Florida, |but in North America as well. It tells about a number of things which even long time residents have not noted, and tells the | world at large that this is the only city in which to spend the win- ter. At 8 o’clock this morning Key West is the warmest place east of the Rocky Mountain Plateau. The thermometer, as given by the U. S. Weather Bureau, is 52, with 20 below at Williston, S.D. Miami, the second warmest place in the eastern half of the United States, is 10 degrees below Key West, while Tampa last night saw 26. 'Charleston, where the natives boasts it never gets cold, experi- enced eight degrees below zero. This morning at 8 o'clock it was 'sician, 52 here. While this is not a ree- ord low, it is far below. the aver- 1885. Todav’= Anniversaries. 1793—Lucretia C. Mott, Phila- delphia’s eloquent Quaker preach- er, pioneer in the woman's rights and anti-slavery movements, born at Nantucket, Mass. Died Nov. 11, 1880. 1817—Thomas E. Bramlette, Union officer, Kentucky gover- nor in Civil War days, Louisville lawyer, born in Cumberland Co., Ky. Died Jan. 12, 1875. 1819—Thomas Hill Watts, Ala- bama legislator, attorney-general of the Confederate States, gover- nor of Alabama, lawyer, born in Butler Co., Ala. Died Sept 16, 1892. 1827—John W. Okey, Cincin- nati lawyer, famed as a common pleas judge and for his under- standing of Ohio law, born in Munroe Co.. Ohio. Died July 25, 1840—Father Damien, Belgian missionary to the lepers of the Is- land of Molokai, Hawaii, one of the shining lights of history, born. Stricken by the dread disease himself, and died there, April 15, 1889. 1854—Lee S. Overman, Salis- bury, N. C., legislator, lawyer, and long-time U. S. senator, born there. Died Dec. 12, 1930. _1862—Woods a ; lie he health, author "and ii phy- pub- age, which is 69.5 for the'month ; of Janeagyy edi si mols and Germany to cast covetous eyes on Cen- | | tral or South America. Frankly, we regret the necessity that compels this country to spend around a billion dollars a year for the Army and Navy but we would regret far more any foolish economy or sentimental peace dreams that might lead Congressmen not to spend the money. TAXEATERS AND TAXPAYERS As the New York Times observes, our ancestors would probably have thrown up their hands in horror if they could have forseen the state of affairs suggested by a survey of public employment recently re the Administration for five jears..Big.,jeased by the Civil Service Assembly. Business has shown remarkable! restraint in earrying on despite these — and it would be-but human:if if did “re- taliate, but we do not think this js the case; The present receszicn is the resujt of other causes, to one of which the Administration has contributed materially. Even if it were true that Big Business was on a sit- down strike it seems out of place for Presi- dent Roosevelt to interfere, since it was he who did not intervene when Labor sat down, In the spirit of fairmess. what is sauce for Lahor should alse be sauce for Capital. In 1936, wages and salaries for all em- ployes of government, excluding those on work relief, came to $5,145,873,000— which works out to $16@ for each Amer- iean family of four. As the Times also says, “If the extraordinary figures for re- lief were added to this normal total, the figures would be fairly astronontical. When conditions reach a point where the average American family must kick in with $160 a year to pay the salaries of ‘“nermal” government employes, the day Coesn’t seem far off when the taxeaters , Will exceed in number the taxpayers! & Despite rough weather i ) Highway Perry eys is making good time on her jf dowm the ‘east. coast. <Ghe {spent the night in Eau Gallie, left there this morning, and was ex- pec.cd to reach Ft. Pierce tonight. Her next stop is expected to be Palm Beach, after which she will stop at Miami and then come di- rect to Key West. Nothing def- imite has been heard today from the Monroe County which went aground near Daytona Beach. She sustained injuries which will cost $1,200 to repair. The Inverie, steamer from Bel- fast, Ireland, to Tampico, came in- to port today for a supply of fuel oil, and finds that she cannot come up to the dock until the wind subsides somewhat. Captain Arthur states that he had the! roughest voyage across the At- lantic he has ever experienced. “We left Belfast in a gale, crossed in a gale, made Key West in a gale, and expect to meet the same conditions until we reach our destination.” and her sub base in his column 2 few days back, bringing the city’s name before some 10,000,000 peo- pie and newspaper readers. That was fair enough and even a bit fairer than that. But, if this town can ever get it through the head of “the World's Greatest Editor” . Brisbane sure does bank on in” machines”. Charles Josh Culmer afd Miss May Bonnerville were married in the office of Judge Hugh Gunn at the county court house yesterday. Carl Taylor and Cleveland Niles witnessed the ceremony. The bride and the groom are Key Westers and will reside here. Blanche Martinborough, color-_ ed, had been adjudged imsane by a lunacy board, and is being de- tained in jail while awaiting - transportation to the state hospit- al for the insane. Hattie Culmer is being held while a board pass- es on her mental condition. that it is the first port of entry | eccccsccesosecessccceses Today’s Horoscope Ceccccccccsccecceccesoes Today’s native possesses a well- balanced nature and will show zeal in carrying out the designs. There is a sensuous, crafty ten- dency that may work well toward success, by leading you to act carefully. Avoid all tendency to anything cruel, for this would grow on you. Work and work hard. Supreme Court forbids use of testimony based on wire-tapping as two Justices dissent. STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE Is Deliciously Fresh! —TRY IT TODAY— | PRE Gal. . Gal. of paint. Gal. EPTFE POT IE I OTT PIPID PPT PT ISAT POPP OPE OTN i -INVENTORY SPECIALS SPECIAL LOT OF PLASTER WALL BOARD. 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