The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO the ad anon’ Citizen Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press exclusively led to use all news 4 d redited in ws pubtished here, Th. SUBSCRIPTION. RAT ? “6S 2-H SE DNFO SE - marae: > Rt Be Me at Werks +3. ADVERTISING HATES Made know® Hn application. « obotiddks! ‘resélations of :, Wil Be charged for at or genera put it will not publish anonymous communi. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ARVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN |} Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Pree Port. Hotels and, ; Apartments, Bathing’ Pavition. Airports—Eand and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments, ———————EEEEyxy The trouble with so many experts is | that they are not so expert. The best time to do good is between .. January 1 and December 31. Hard luck doesn’t run the same way | “all the time; keep a stiff upper lip and fight on—eyentually you'll win. Congress is now just where it was a “month ago; busy with perplexing problems | and with the answers hard to find. In the new building of the Department | of the Interior in Washington, there are | 1,000 electric clocks, and will that develop | ~a lot of clock-watchers! Old Hater Heflin has again been giv- en a swift kick in the pants by the Demo- | tratic electorate in Alabama, being de- | feated by Lester Hill, a New Dealer, but | Tom doesn’t know he has been licked as “he was taken down with pneumonia just before the election, and his condition is such that his physicians have refrained from breaking the disagreeable news to him. He will have a sad awakening. Norma! conditions cannot be restored by | means of fanciful plans, erratic ideas, and | miracles—al] defying the natural laws of economics. During the past few years it has ugain been demonstrated what has been | ‘known before, that—higher pay results in fewer employees; higher prices result in | - fewer purchasers; _ higher restrictions umake fewer enterprises; higher rates make ‘fewer. passeugers:"higher costs mean féew- er consumers. : a The name of the San Carlos School does not appear in the State Educational | Directory sent by the state superintendent. Certain requirements are necessary for a * public school regarding buildings, curri- ,fulum, teachers, etc., and these are not met in the San Carlos School, so the ordi- mance, requiring a saloon to be 300 feet away from a public schoo] does not apply, “per se, to the San Carles School Building | which houses both the Cuban school and the Palace Theatre. The Murphy Act, as may be seen from the legal advertisements now being pub- lished.in The Citizen,-is an accessory after the fact in the crime perpetrated by the otas dou gérs, “able to. pby their just taxes ‘hut fefusihng. td 'do.so} at the same time it is A Blessing te those property ‘oWhers who were willing and desirous'to pay their tax obligations but found themselves impotent to do their civic duty. However, the Mur- «phy Act will have its repercussions, and already, before the reaction has deeply set in, Commissiener Porter cited the baneful 1937 legislative act as the reason Monroe County will find it difficult to allocate a large amount to help main‘ the Chom ber of Commerce. You cake and eat it, too. zn"t hay> your | 88.3 | in the views of editors in far t | states, showing sentiment solidified against THE COUNTRY PRESS ON THE SUPREME COURT ISSUE At the end of the first session of the current congress, it was believed that the Supreme Court issue would again be in- troduced at the next session. Since that time, the feeling has grown that, due to the size and influence of Con- gressional opposition, the issue is dead, and may not see the light of day again. If the country press of the nation ac- curately reflects the temper of the Ameri- can people, the issue is dead indeed. The Industrial News Review recently sent a questionnaire to 12,585 country pap- ers asking four direct, non-leading ques- tions concerning possible Court changes. More than 2,300 papers replied. Proposed legislation would permit the President to appoint additional Justices, was opposed by 90.4 percent; 71.6 per cent were op- posed to the proposal that a two thirds vote of the Court be required to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional; 72 per cent were opposed to any bill forcing Jus- tices to retire at an age fixed by law. And per cent were opposed to a constitu- tional amendment limiting the authority of | the Court over acts of Congress. There was a remarkable consistency separated Court changes, irrespective of. ..séctignal politics and feelings. The completéd, ques- tionnaires, supplemental notes and _ letters indicate that these editors—as did the Congression- al majority when the Court bill was voted on—feel that the Supreme Court is the bul- wark of our liberties, and our first line of defense against dictatorship, and that it would be a national catastrophe to tamper with it. The country press is not swayed by | momentary enthusiasms, or political hys- teria. It looks at issues in the light of their effect on the fundamentals of government. | It thinks them out. And no better example | of this fact could be found than in the edi- tors’ reply to the Industrial News Review’s Court questionnaire. THE BRITISH LAY THEIR KEELS During 1937 the British government had under construction 5 battleships, 21 cruisers, 5 aircraft carriers, 49 destroyers, 19 submarines, 3 depot ships, 24 escort, minesweeping and patrol vessels, 3 gun- boats, 17 motor torpedo boats and 2 sur- veying ships—a total of 148 vessels. There is talk of a program to be an- nounced in a few months that will include three to five battleships, seven cruisers and | a generous quota of destroyers, submarines and other light tonnage. What are the British up to? It’s easy; they plan a “two-hemisphere” navy, able to protect their interests in Europe and the Far East at the same time. That’s what they built the base at Signapore for and there is no reason to believe that the Brit- | ish are going to try to make peace with the belligerent nations by crawling into a hole and hiding their heads. SCHOOL ATHLETICS Most of the high schools in the coun+-} try fail to pay proper attention to the phy~ | sical development of the studehts that at. tend them. 2 Occasionally, some of them go’in for athletics in a big way but the main idea is | to secure a winning combination of athletes | for the contests with other schools. Very rarely does any school or college, for that matter, in this country plan an athletic program, designed to reach every student and to give the undeveloped boy and girl the advantages that they sheuld have in physical development. St. John’s College, in Maryland, rec- ently held a winter sports carnival, in which 170 of the 185 students attending the institution participated. This is a wor derful record and leaves something for other colleges to shoot at. ETIQUETTE IN WAR The Japs, for all their cussedness, are an interesting people. For exampie, when a Japanese soldier is called to war it is custemary for the em- ployer to continue to pay his salary to his family. There is no law but etiquette pre- seribes it and business houses obey. Even foreign firms operating in Japan, and em- ploying native Japanese, adhere to it as a matter of “good business.” It might even be a good idea for the ted States to adept the same practice during the next, if we have one. COTTON COMES ON TREES— | pant of the White House to recog- NOT ON RABBITS | nize old-age pensions as a moral No smart aleck can kid us into/ obligation of the U. S. govern- thinking that windmills are fans}|ment. Those who differ with him for keeping the cows cool, or that/on other policies—and there are alfalfa is what grows on farmers’|many good and bad Democrats, chins. No sir, tliey can’t fool us.jand bad and good Republicans | Moreover, we know that cotton isjeven who do not always agree’ picked from cottonseed trees, not/ with the President—will admit from cottontail rabbits, and since that had his administration repeal corn is the stuff they raise; | brought into existence nothing together with a multitude’ of | for making corn plasters. You see, we are farm experts suffering from theory and pro found thinking, and we feel higi- Jones about his business of -mak- ing a living for himself and for everyone who must eat. Ad-! mitting that the only furrow we; ever made was across the taxpay. er’s brow, we can, nevertheless, justly lay claim to actual experi- ence at making roads—and road- making is pretty close to agricul- ture—except the roads we made} were inroads on the Federal Bud- get. ‘There are many of us here in + Washington and not a few have other jobs for spare time—like | being Senators and Congressmen. Congressional salaries give uplift. Then there is the Congressional Mileage Bonus. Army, a very ex- i clusive set. and-coming statesmen. who , ar?) hot up‘and-goers home: DELIBERATE SCARCITY Is POTENTIAL FAMINE Congress, is back on Capitol itn! monopolizing ‘Page One and ‘this! correspondent is back at the old desk monopolizing the spare type-/ writer. We are both hitting hard, ; but perhaps not understandingly. Again my theme is agriculture: and old-age pensions. If Congress can find a way for the one-family farms to produce normally and sell normally, with- out regimenting farmers into a bunch of even demi-reliefers,} they will be doing something. I am not a General Passenger and Ticket Agent for some ambiguous detour to Utopia, but when farm prosperity becomes real then na- tion-wide prosperity becomes real. This writer does not pose as an expert, in fact I regard most experts as just plain nuts who seek, to tell the other fellow how ‘to flunk at making a living. Nei- |’ ther do I want to appear offen- sively cocksure, for am awake to the fact that my physical pres- ence with the three wise men would not add up four wise men, but I get jittery when I hear them | talk crop curtailment. I do not profess to hold the key, but there must be a better way than re- pression. Perhaps I am just 3 Model T thinker. Statutory scarcity is terrifically un-American. Organized lack is | potential famine and no matter how cleverly controlled, famine is not compatible with to many even now having too little food. Un- controllable Mother Nature and the elements, or attempts at in- vasion by hostile foreign powers, might conspire to wipe out our wipe out our carefully managed carefully managed reserves of food and fundamentals—and pro voke catastrophic unbalance. If our lawmakers in Washing ton will give farmers the full steam-ahead signal, and guaran-; tee fair prices and quick markets, , forget. regimentatien. and crop} | curtailment insofar gs-it~ affects the one-family fatin, they willbe | solving-t the country’s every ero” ‘nomi¢ problém atone stfeke. — “ , OLD-AGE PENSIONS j s | go ee eh the historical distinction of being the first occu- O66 |constructive besides pensions for the aged, the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt would still go down in ‘history as that of a great Presi- ly qualified to direct Farmer) dent. But the present Social Seurity law is inadequate and insufficient, and not all who deserve pensions are getting pensions under it. The present set-up is not entirely com- mensurable or even workable in | many of the weaker or more in- | different states. Notwithstanding all this, the movement still stands as a milestone in human progress and socjal achievement in Ameri- ca—to the undying credit of Mr. Roosevelt. While the Social Security law commits the National Govern- ment to the principle of old age protection through pensions, and seeks to raise the program above the common habit of bestowing , and helpful to up rdinis, yet jt falls {6 Brovide ample pensions,. then. it does -work to east upon prospective Tecéipi¢nts | and beneéficiaties. thereunder .the «stigma of charity.» Even indigent” jand | ifipravétished ,oldsters . still; have their honorable pride. But With the status of the pro- gram yet wholly experimental, it is felt that President Roosevelt woud gladly welcome a more workable plan whereby some- thing could be worked out that would be more desirable than the not altogether workable Social Security law as it now stands. It is sensed that he would revamp the whole pension structure. Viewed from the rear, or using our “hindsight”, it appears that a greater measure of relief would have been achieved had the several billions spent by the Roosevelt Administration been applied to agriculture and old- age pensions, instead of thinning it out over so many different pro- jects. Today In History Scecccccccsccscoesesecs: THE WEATHER Seeceeesecoscocensessees Normal Mean —— Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation Barometer reading at 8 a. mz Sea level, 30.03. WEATHER FOR=CAST (Till 7:30 p. m. Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday: continued mild temperature; gen- tle to moderate winds,/ mostly southerly. Florida: Cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably occasional rain north portion; continued + mild. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate winds, mostly southerly, and overcast weather tonight and Wednesday, with scattered showers over north portion. WEATHER CONDITIONS + The western low pressure area thas moved southeastward, and now overspreads the Plains States and Mississippi Valley with the center over South Da- Kota; while pressure is moderate ly high over northwestern and northeastern portions of the country, and relatively high over south Atlantic and Gulf coast districts. Precipitation has occurred since yesterday morning from the north Pacific States eastward along the northern border to New York State, and thence southward to northern Florida and the east Gulf coast, with light to moderate snow over much of the northern Portion of this area. : Temperatures have risen in the it's Easy Te Be Mistaken About ‘stoic hn ea EERE Gas ACID, link iocobiens of eater oft making the Territory of Michigan out of the northeastern part of the then vast Territory of In-' diana—population about 4,000. 1861—Vassar Female College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., incorporat- ed. 1888—Beginning of the great blizzard in the Northwést States. 1910—Glenn H. Curtiss makes new flying record, flying passen- gers at 55 miles an hour. 1937—Unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court holding constitutional the 50 percent tax on silver traders—Auto strikes grow with more than 100,000 idle —Pres. Roosevelt asks Congress for immediate appropriation of 790 millions for relief works. checks and FEVER first day Pea isa Headache 38 minzté:, ied “Rub-My-Tism”-World'’s Best Liniment Good Impressions Only! —that’s the rule at you'll be and surpr ised Pre at the low price! The Artman Press Printing — Engraving IN THE CITIZEN BUILDING PHONE 51 Non fart C Pystomacticomfar JANUAEY it With gov'ment standin’ on th’ tors o’ th’ businessmen, we might call © a business suppression. Tr stamp is cne thing thet's allus licked “fore it storis. He Does A two-year-old girl in Califor- nia can name all the Justices of oS S| CONCHA HOTEL) It is reported that a certain Presi- dent wishes he could—Troy (N In the Center of the Best // ness and Thester Y. Record. ‘Dastract EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Ebewstor Fureproat central valleys and Lake region, j and readings are near or above ; : normal this morning througheut the country, except in New Eng- land, | Garage G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION GF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANE OF KEY WEST as at close of business December 31 i377. Comteclier's Cal RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures Other Real Estate Stock of the Federal Re- Other Bonds and Securmues Other Assets United States Government Obligations, direct andor ay = Puaranteed $437. €22 61 Cash and due from Banks 356.138 22 LIABILITIES Capital Surplus, Undivided Profits and Reser: Dividend declared bet not yet peyabie Deposits ‘ ates edges. 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