The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1938, Page 2

_ PAGE TWO The ey West Citizen Palcish-& Dally Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PCBLASHING CO. INC. L. P, ARTRAN, Presidest and Publisher JOE AIAN, Assistant Business Manager rium “he Citizen baildir< Corner Greene and Ann Str ss Oniy Dalty Newsrap-t in Key West and Monroe county Bntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exelusively entitled to use for repubiieation of all news dispatches credited to it or nat otherwise eredited in this paper and also Ioral news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! One Year i. 3.x Months ‘Three Months me Month ... e Weekly a ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of {, obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at te of 10 cents a line. ces for entertainments by churches fgem which ue is to be derived are § cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invices diseus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anenymous communi- ations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- Free Port. Hetele and Apai | Consolidation’ of Co: Governments. een ww Useless remark: everything. You can’t. have Peace, a la Japan. seems to be a vlood-letting business. To a youth the desired line of least resistance is the waist line. OU ERHNE ED LA bee os Se liner Sali ite to a courageous mayor. Not even Key West, more than 150 milés south»of'Miami, is in the Tropics, so why shoul jami broadcasting station vey tpt ety Me the “Voice of Tropical ’ | with respect to gambling. oY Potdier Mayor Addresses Lions. Head- FOR A NATIONAL LOTTERY The Citizen has been a consistent ad- vocate of a National Lottery in the belief | that its establishment would eliminate or ; at least diminish the many forms of gamb- | ling permitted through benefit of the public | officials whose outstretched arms are ever | eager to receive the bribes offered them | by the gamblers. It would reduce the | graft to a considerable éxtent, and put public office on a higher plane, The | Citizen believes that a legalized lottery will actually result in-a moral upliff-arid “even better the unmoral condition now existing THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _ Por 2 nothber of yesrnaneie opin ion an cial action. favo: at- now to.survey this view, tolappraise Zi j No cognizance of the material benefits — | is taken here in this consideration for the inauguration of a National. lottery, but | to raising revenues for laudable purposes, | and forever end unemployment. If used the National debt within a decade of years. | Furthermore it will keep millions of | dollars ir the United States where they are earned. In a recent issue under the caption “Lotteries”, PAR, the sprightly publica- tion of Cuba, had the following to say: | Puerto Rican lottery was suspended by ““the Aitierican government following the ac- uisition of the island in nish-Ameri- War by was révived by {Je insular Legi¢ in 1934,.Sinee which e regular and ings Have been'held. The 1937 and prizé’ was $75,000. The littfe Virgin Islands, net to be outdone by the larger neighbor, planned a simultaneous first draw- ing of an insular lottery. But suspended it until the 25th of this month. In the Philip- pines, formerly U. S. territory, there is also a national lottery. In fact virtually all of the territorial possession of Uncle Sam except the continental United States lotteries. cial dr: stm: themselves have Either for purposes for raising reve- nues or for some more occult reason. Some day there will be a national U. S. ‘lottery. Which might materially reduce present oner- ous taxes, help balance the*national budget and, with foreign labor and relief barred, end unemployment. The only wonder is why so simple a remedy to national ills should be so, long delayed. Stock gambling and similar games of chance are permitted. Why not a clean government ‘lottery ‘with ‘weekly ‘draw- ings? | these will be enormous and can be applied | | for that purpose solely, it would liquidate | great depres- sion was not appreciated. Many, even in high places, be- lieved that it was merely a temporary set- back and that with a little pa- tience and care prices would steady and even return to their previous levels. This was clearly the view dur- ing the Hoover regime and it was continued with certain embellish- ments after his retirement in 1933. One notion, strongly urged upon the Roosevelt Administration, was the | idea of raising and maintaining prices by manipulating the monetary dollar. Fairness demands that not all the blame for what followed should be placed “on the federal government. The igems that were applied were stfongly. opposed by only a minority. You and Your Nation’s Affairs ‘possible | satisfactorily oo | created. This brings us to an alternative, jand an extremely unpleasant one. | Harsh crities have called it deflation | and have made it extremely unpopu- lar. Nevertheless it cannot be ignored, for some o! is now being forced upon us. There are many concerns so burdened with heavy costs that they cannot hope to carry on with their Present load. Their receipts are in- adequate to meet their expenses. They should not be supported indefi- nitely with government funds but should reorganize. Losses must be taken by investors and by others. In some cases, unfortunately, this in- cludes employees, '« z This is “bad medi¢ine.”.We do not like to take it. Yet*recently the Erie Railroad has defaulted ‘on its bonds. iqeover there was much that could ‘1-5 the President Had withdrawn properly’ be said in favor of “cush- joning” the slump and saving from bankruptcy some concerns that could pull through if given temporary aid. Nevertheless the attempts as a whole have not been successful. There are two chief reasons for this. One is that monetary manipulation is for the most part not an attack on causes. Our monetary system has its defects and they are serious. Yet the main difficulties were not monetary. They were numerous and intricate and would not yield to any single, simpli- fied treatment. Perhaps they may be ‘summed up by saying that there had appeared a disequilibrium between different prices which had gotten out of a workable relationship to each other. One important illustration is that prices which many business men received for their goods were too low when compared with the prices they had to pay for raw materials, for la- bor, as interest, ete. Another way of saying the same thing js just as ac- curate. The prices business men had to pay were too high when compared with the prices they received. To many it seemed a simple solu- tion to raise prices and this was tried. | (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) some support from. the domestic sil- ver interests by reducing the price of | domestic silver trom 7 cents to 62 |eents per ounce. Whether there is | Feally a shift in the direction of pub- | lic policy we cannot be entirely sure. But less is said than formerly about raising priees*to the level of 1926 or to any other level — at least, less is said by. | some individuals and groups are still | pressing for inflation. | is an attempt to find a “scapegoat,” charges against big business. In fact, a considerable part of our difficulty practices that often make a bad situ- ation worse. Unfortunately. howe: corporations or even groups of cor- porations are to blame. Large! though by no means entirely. these evils are beyond our control. Certaii ly a “trust busting” program of the |familiar sort will not reach basic | causes. In the meantime it will be best | to let some sorely harassed concerns \“go through the -vringer.” VERY FORTUNATE leral offici¢'s. Of course ‘ We need not be surprised that there | ‘Temperatures* Lowest Mean - = biccen Mean _76 72 bi Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation T. Ins. j Normal Precipitation _ .05 Ins. | _LYhie record covers ending at S o'clock thix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises Sun sets . m. . ™m, . ™ . ™m. PM = 9:40 2 2:59 reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 30.15. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy oar occasional rain tonight and | Tuesday; somewhat colder Tues- ‘day; moderate to fresh shifting i winds, becoming northerly. | Florida: Cloudy tonight, rain in north and central portions ‘colder in northwest and extreme north portions; Tuesday mostly fcloudy, occasional rain im south and extreme east portions, colder ; north and central portions. Jaeksnoville to Florida Straits: Moderate: to fresh southerly | winds, shifting to northwest over north! portion, and overcast weather “tonight and Tuesiay with scattered showers. East Gulf: Moderate to-fsesh shifting winds, becoming | north- erly over south portion, and mod- erate to fresh northerly winds over north portion; overcast weather tonight and Tuesday with scattered showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS A low pressure arca of -consid- and to hear once more the familiar | is connected with certain business j these are not for the most part evils ; for which particular individuals or | i | | MONDAT erable intensity is moving in over the north Pacific coas* this morn- “ing, and pressure is relatively low over New England; while « strong high pressure area crested over the lower Missouri Valley overspreads the country between the Rocky Mountain and Appele- chian regions and southward to the west Gulf coast, attended by abnormally cold weather through- out this area, with temperatures 24 degrees below zero in northern Minnesota, zero at Chicago. Til and freezing nearly to the Texas Temperatures have risen im the Atlantic States, and in most far Precipitation has occurred dur- ing the last 24 hours @m the fer Northwest, and from the lower Rio Grande Valley northeastward over the Lake region and Atlan- tic States, from the Carolinas northward with heavy rains turning to snow in Arkansas Tennessee and Kentucky. sANCAZT Si, 1538. Special services wi te bel Wednesday mgm. Feorury 2 = Church of Gat 1188 Clr street A group Gf cnisc tira St be present. chang Bev E Elis, state ewerseer, Bee. T Meme. @ewet eos Bex Cross. overseer of Tennesse Teas announeeme— «2s mae Dy thy ce! peer 6 th Che o a&G There has also been light*rain | in southeastern Florida G. eUicct ; | as at close of busine: De-embe: 7 the Center of the Bax ness and Theater a EXCELLENT RESTAURARST rs. Comntroiiers Call “fhe profits ofsp business or the salary | * : | 4 oe aS or wage of an individual should not be ; : “How old Ie Camille Chaw- calculated on'the gross income, if one de- | No man ean-be certain of the inten- | temps, Premiere of France? sires to be fair, but on the amount left after | tions of another man; all that the in- 2 When did the present fight- the government's tax gatherers }ave finish- | dividual can do is to be sure of his own i CADILLAC, Mich. — il Merle Todd of this city fell be- | tween two moving freight cars, | his body broke the air hose con- | nection and the cars came to al stop before their wheels touched | co. e wa OOO ES LLL EM am ing between the Japanese and ed with you—or rather finished you. : Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of the simple life “Mussolini avows~ the dangerous life, and Franklin Roosevelt advocates the abundant life. It now remains = toebe seen what-kind of a life, outside of a § i | : intentions. The same rule applies to nations. The United States may be ever so sure of its peaceful intentions but it cannot be certain of the peaceful intentions of other powers. In fact, in the light of recent events, it can be‘reasonably certain that there are nations : dog’s life, Hitler and Stalin recommend— | + or to be more exact—force on their sub- | i The drive for soldiers’ pensions has i begun. It was bound to and if eventually, why not now. a) ae business keefis wpiitiwon’t He long betore | we all shall be getting a jon. Then, r pengtdas (foi | er ee ay we shall jhave to pay back get it—tLancaster (Pa.) a & s & 5 5 J Of interest to readers as well as to editors is the following advertisement tak- | en from a trade publication: “After this date I will not feel personally responsible for-the death of any editor who dies from overwork, soliciting advertising and writ- ing news when he could have got me at a reasonable salary. Age 29, married, 7 years experience.” With this inviting prospect in view any overworked editor who pre- maturely shuffles off his mortal coil on ac- count of overwork has only himself to blame, PUT RTT OC USES OPO ceer rior From The Gondolier, a-Miami Beach = publication: “Alarm Note: Key West will «branch out into a Caribbean Monte Carlo next month, according to recent advices. 2A huge casino is under constfuction which may drain business from Miami via the Snow nearly finished southbound highway.” =Peeved so soon! But the advices were not very reliable as no such casino is under con- =struction here. Miami has taken every- qthing away from Key West on which she =can lay her hands; now she is alarmed ~about something that does not as yet exist. Coming under the general caption “Miami = Mania” the item quoted above may be just 7 that. | ideal prey for attack. tHe United States. | edge that such an attack Will’ be met by an in the world today which would not hesi- tate to attack this country if such an at- tack promised profitable results. As the richest nation in the world this country offers the greatest spoils to a suc- cessful freebooter. It could give up much > d pay an indemnity sufficient to ePalP war costs to an attacker. It is the 234 omy There are only two factors that will deter other powers from jamking war on The first is the knowl- overwhelming counter-attack, launched by overwhelming strength in the implements of war. The other is the knowledge that, while the United States is unable to defend herself, there are other nations that will. The same observation applies to Mex- Brazil, Great Britain and France, as well as Australia, the Philippines and China. ieo, PRESS CENSORSHIP Dean Carl Ackerman of Columbia University, has made an exceptionally i teresting map, showing how censorship the press hasspread through In practically all of the Par East, fi dom of the press is unkno the U.S. R., China, Japan, Turk bia, Egy’ and other countries rigidly control th periodicals, and in India, Belgian Congo and French..West Africa, there is some measure of government control. In Europe a truly free press is enjoyed only by the inhabitants of England, France, Sweden, Norway and Finland. On this centinent, the press is com- pletely free in the United States, Mexico, Csnada (except for the province of Que- bec- and part of Seuth America. Chinese begin? “3. What explains the fact that Southern Ireland is Catholic nd the Ulster counties are Protest- ant? 4. When was the Tennessee Valley Authority established? 5. When did the Southern Sen- ators begin their fight against the Anti-Lynching Bill in the Sen- ate? 6. "Was President Roosevelt named for Benjamin Franklin? 7. What caused the present crisis in the anthracite industry of | Pennsylvania? 8. Was the wife of Nikolai Le- nin, founder of the Soviet Gov- ernment, of noble birth? 9. How does the money in- come of farmers compare with the { rest gf the population? 10. How many people visited thé.W¥tiona! Parks of the U. S.? HOT AFTER HUSBAND CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Charging that his one hundred and eighty pound wife would arm herself with a meat clever and then chase him around his butcher shop, pummeling him with her fist when she caught him, David Frediander of this city won a di- vorce. his body. He suffered only slight bruises. 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