The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 1938, Page 2

-» but a formality quite informal, ~- warning against the “menace of dictator- The Key West Citizen * fhe Citizen Building Cu.aer Greene and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Press is exclusively entitled to use jon of all news dispatches credited to herwise credited in this paper and also | oral news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Weekly . ADVERTISING Made known on application. RATES SPECIAL NOTICE reading potices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc, will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. for entertainments by churches from which | is to be derived are 5 cents a line. en is an open forum and invites diseus- public issues and subjects of local or general but it will not publish anonymous communi- | IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1." Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Free Port, ‘Bathing Pavilion. |“: Aarports—Land and S¢a. Consolidation of Gouiity and City Governments, « It's the friends you make, that make you. Today’s injunction; Be grateful with deeds, not words. The incident in China is beginning to worry the Japanese, Those who fear death might as weil _ take care of their health. ».. Correct this sentence: “It’s an easy life if you take things easy.” ites What every community needs is broad- visioned minds, above petty jealousies and oe ee growing generations of boys and _* girls, despite all the knocks, is a fine prom- ise for the future years. : z : The Murphy Act tax certificate auc- tion sale in Monroe County is not a sale Somehow the fellows who talk most - of making their town “a better place in which to live” seldom do much about it. Governor Lehman of New York, once a “friend” of President Roosevelt, is > Jupan'de JAP VICTORY DANGEROUS The Japanese military machine con- | tinues to achieve strategic victories but the embittered Chinese withdraw deeper into the recesses of their country and turn a deaf ear to talk of peace. Premier Konoye, it is reported, has ad- vised Japanese leaders that the failure to bring China to terms has created..an in-} j ereasingly grave situation, forcing - the | Japanese government to resort to another { course of serious nature. So far, explana- 4 | tion of his remarks has not been offered. | After six months of fighting the Japa- | nese army is busily engaged on extended | fronts and the ‘incident’ threaten to be-| | come a disaster. The entire Japanese eco- | nomic and social set-up demanded a quick | decision but a long contest seems assured and an imperial conference, the first in | twenty-four years, is called to chart the | course of the island empire. Already the economic effects of the war have been profound in Japan. The | financial strain of prolonged fighting may f prove too much. No one knows how long | the Chinese will last but if they can keep | fighting for as much as two years they may | bring about the downfall of their enemy. _. Japan,,proudly determined to’ rule | Asta? nay, he so weakened by the gijérilla |owarfare of the Chinese that she wilt be jautiaetd te ist the imposition of terms by _ Mester “pptions:-when the: settlement is iy fact,“even now, the. future of pends upon the tolerance of Great | Britain and the United States. These two | nations, by using economic weapons, could | probably wreck the Japanese program and umpoverish the Japanese people. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL, Former Editor of The Key West Citizen Organized pickpockets of Cairo, Egypt, declared a moratorium on their ac- tivities during the celebration of the wed- ding of King Farouk and Farida Zulficar on January 20. The chief of the pick- pockets gave notice of their self-imposed temporary ban through a letter to a Cairo newspaper. Speaking of . différences between Presidents and Supreme Court justices, the New York Times recalls the animosity . which Thomas Jefferson held toward Jus- tice William Cushing, at whose death Jef- ferson wrote: “I observe old Cushing is dead. At length then we have a chance of getting a majority in the supreme judi- In a recent poll by the American In- stitute of Public Opinion to determine sen- timent as between Ford and the C. I. O., 66 per cent expressed sympathy for Ford, and 34 per cent for the C. 1.0. The vote of car owners was even more decisive: 73 . ship”, and is calling upon; patriotic liberals and conservatives to in hands im mon fight against any abr H and religious liberty. Ai bar association, the “Only through constant ‘the per cent for Ford, to 27 per cent for the A stfange' mietting of life and death ctutred at Adairsville, Ga., a few. days ago: dist as he finished delivering” baby menace of dictatorship—whether autocra~+ boyy Dr» Sidney F. Hutcheson, 51, remark- tic or communistic be rendered impotent.” | “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con- sider her ways, and be wise.” So we read | in the Old Testament. But, according to Dr. | _ ‘Tulian Sorell Huxley, well-known British biologist, the ant is not only unwise but | positively stupid. For one thing, he says, the ants allow a species of butterfly to in- vade the nests and eat the grubs without | fighting back. In fact they tolerate the | intrusion because the butterfly exudes a sticky substance which the ants consider a delicacy. There was a holocaust in the United eS last year that cost the lives of 40,- 600 aren, women and children. Had they oli been killed in a heap the newspapers’ headlines would have screamed in horror * and agony, but because the deaths occur- red on the average of a few over an hun- red a day, net much beyond the chronic- ling of the fatal accidents was printed, and met much done, either. It is apparent that reference is made to the toll of the sudden deaths on the highways. Each year the appalling list grows with de- termined imsistence, and there are no ex- ceptions to the conscription. The aged, he halt, the lame and the blind are. its victims as well ss the young, the hesikth: “and the strong. cy ed “everything's over now,” and dropped dead. C. Von Gossett of Mobile, Ala., still works as a steeplejack at the age of 74. Asked if the work was not teo dangerous for one of his age, he replied: “Shucks; | when I'm up there there’s no chance of an | automobile hitting me.” The Federal cigarette tax of six cents a package yielded approximately 576 million dollars last year. This does not | include the lecal taxes smokers must pay in many states. In Alabama, for exampie, | PRINTING PRESS BLAZED OUR TRAILS President Roosevelt, discussing the deficit in the Post Office De- partment, decried the Depart- ment's time-honored’. custom | ‘of carrying newspapers at less than cost_and making free deliveries of gqunty papers within..their -re- spective drade areas, as being partly responsible for. this: short+ agé in postal cash. While ‘he did. not outrightly declare thatas pne stopgap for heavy” leakage | in postal revenue he would seek to force farmers to pay more for their Hometown weekly or daily newspapers, his allusion to the matter clicked with ominous bedement. Whether or not Mr. Roosevelt is truly cognizant of the full measure of deviltry con- cealed in a proposition to force the payment of postage at regu- lar rates upon small newspapers, it remains the indisputable fact that these hard-working publish- ers are already sorely beset with having to pay piratical and pre- datory prices for newsprint, and. the imposition of this additional unjust burden would render al- most impossible the profitable ex- istenee of manynavorthy publica- uons. We are told that commerce fol- lows the flag) We also know that civilized society and the funda- ments of decency, honor and wholesomeness in home life fol- lowed the one-horse printing- Senator Josh Lee, of Oklahoma, has-moved_eastward over the’ press across America. This com- mentator has pursued a critical study of newspapers in their re- iencing car trouble, _ halted in <™® Lake region always found the community without a live local paper to be one wherein community life fai's to function up to the normal or accepted level in ideals and inte!- ligence—and it is never as pros- perous proportionately as oth-r communities in which good, sour-i home newspapers are firmly es- tablished. as franking. Just why and how it A total of 45 million votes were cast for both presidential canci- dates in 1936. During these four years every voter received 55 was approximately “$3 “for each and-every vote cast for both | Roosevelt and Landon! According to Rep. Albert J.} Engel of Michigan, to dispatch all | this free mail at one time would; require 7,000 railroad cars and 140} giant engines for hauling it out} of Washington. Rep. Engel pro-j jects his estimate to include the! job of counting all this and | propaganda for which the taxpay- | ets are donating $180,987 each) day, or $55,201,106 a year.| He! says that if an expert postal clerk ' had started sorting and counting | it the moment the Mayflower! docked at Plymouth Rock 300 WEOME-S+Y, IANTicy a Bw Soeepeccececccccocasccs: epeeesareseescocoosesens THE WEATHER PEOPLE'S FORUM Today In History seeeses Mean Normal Mean ‘Moon rises Moon sets High Barometer reading at 8 a. mz Sea level, 30.24. WEATHER FORECAST Key West and Vicinity:: ; tonight and Thursday; somewhat colder tonight; light to moderate northwesterly winds. Florida: Fair and slightly cold- er tonight, heavy frost in extreme i with temperature SHOSSSSSSSSSHSSSS CHHOSSOSSPHHSSOSSS HOSES | boat from Miami to Key West to regiment en the those days men were men” and years ago, he would be counting 5210 go degrees, and frost in cen- Tousers were frequently half yet—and if his health failed him not he might finish the job some- time ip the year 2042 ; ‘Then we talk about the adys-' | Papers and try to pin the Ni ie | on them! 3 LESS OF WORRY + Crop control and farm problerss jwere being debated in the staid ‘Senate chamber when urbane | | told this to Senators and gallery- ites. A well-to-do farmer, exper- | front of the well shaded * surrounding an asylum for the ia- sane. An inmate approached the tral portion as far south as Okee- and East Guif: Light to'tnoderate Lawrence Valley, .and over- spreads all sections from the east- _and northern The northern jow Appalachian region eastward; while strong high pressure areas, crested over the West Gulf States ‘ : ; | iron barrier from the inside and #4 Plateau region. cover most of | engaged the farmer in convers3- tion. “Do you live here, too?” asked the inmate. “No,” replied the farmer, “I live on that large the remainder of the country. Snow has occurred during the last 24 hours from the middie | farm a couple of miles down the’ £20? road. I am a farmer.” Then, mean- ing to be cordial, the farmer ask- ‘ed about several things, and fin- comes under such an innoceut) label is difficult to understand, for there is nothing candid about this system under present day abuses—unless graft and Corrup- tion may. be called candid. Per- haps the name came dowh from the obsolete noun “frank”, mean- ing pigsty, or pen where animals are fattened—because it does car- ry that fimiliar edor. Anyhow, during the current four year- period, which included a oresi- dential campaign, postage-free mail was carried by the Pos: Of- fice Department, at the taxpayers’ expense, to the tune of 24 billion pieces. The bulk of this matter disguis- ed as official mail was raw poii- tical propaganda sent out under bureaucratic sponsorship, and by Members of Congress—the last named being composed largely of ing with lynchings, several speak- ers had suggested the: proposed | law be amended so as to include | ‘racketeers, gangsters and gang murders in various sections of the! country, and not confine the ap- plication of the measure solely to the control of a special Southern | an, of Kentucky, shouted: “We have no lynchings in Kentucky;} therefore the bill does not affeet us. We have no gangsters, conse-| quently the amendment will not) affect us in that respect. Nor do| Democrats. The Republicans rat-! ed fewer by heads, but their “of- ficial” correspondence per capita suffered nothing by volume. How- ever, the New Deal held-all the trumps and control levers when it came to Departments and Bu- reaus. Z | them included . . . I don’t like to] ‘have our feudists mixed up with; | gangsters and racketeers or lynch- | | honorable, upright men, and they’ {never kill a man without reason- | able and just cause for doing so ~ cea ccccepeepeseccocoscopesepsesepesssessvancesss: 1125—Patience Lovell Wright. 1786. 1797—Therese A. L. Robinson, noted German writer, translator and philologist who married a noted American Biblical scholar, bern. Died April 13, 1870. the state tax is three cents, making a total | “xi oe: nine cents a package. The Bolckow (Mo.) Herald carries no | one on its staff for ornamental purpesés, / it seems. At its masthead is printed the | following: “J. I. Bennett, editor; Noel C. Bennett, associate editor; Gordon Bennett, | secretary. We need no treasurer.” Dr. R. N. MeMurry of Chicago, ad- vocating mental examinations of persons about te marry, says “there are a iarge | number of mild as well as severe unrecog- nized cases of mental sickness at large.” (yaies might consider the urge to get mar-— Tied as a symptom. \ atithor ‘Dutch stories for chil- seience was not antagonistic religion, born at Ticonderoga, ¥. Died June 24. 1901. ing Guif coast; ive Jacksonville to Florida Straits | Major concludes. “They are ex- as at close of business December 31 1S27_ Camrtroilers “all RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts i House, Furniture and Real Other Stock of the Federa! Re- Other Bones and Securit Other Assets SO PPP LAA LAA A hh dh dk Lhd deeded Electrical Appliances 7 Desk Lamps With adjustable neck, pen and pencil holder. Protect your Each ~4 $1.40 98c Without cord. 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