The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 4, 1938, Page 4

PAGE FOUR REAM; Jeverything and bought this farm— jon a mortgage. But I ae ae hard ife. ju feel about it now?” ‘iously. “After kidding myself, berating | myself and psycho-analyzing my- self, I finally—” Nelda, courageously drives a truck, and cuts lettuce herself, determined to market her crop, regardless of strikes. Bill, another lettuce farmer, is @ great help and encouragement to Nelda. Reek, a wealthy playboy, and Nelda’s fiancé, is unsympathetic with Nelda’s ambitions. Mrs. Reckless, Reck’s haughty mother, seems to have something up her sleeve. Jack, is Nelda’s younger bro- ther. She wants him to become a doctor. it’s gone!” burst from urt look in your eyes.” 1 “T finally ‘ing that ere. How Four Stars said, “I don’t be- Chapter 34 Il ever be content to stay Turning The Tables | He studied her for a moment be- “IT DOESN'T matter what Mrs. | fore he spoke. aceices ten” | “When you're Mrs. Reckless, you Nelda had meant to add, “But 1 am her son’s fiancée.” Was she Reck’s fiancée, she asked herself inwardly and an- swered the question with spirit. Of course she wasn’t! She’d see to that. The fact that they hadn’t in- vited her to the party was like a call to arms. She would show Reck and his mother that the Barries were as proud as they were. She/ could give parties, too. Her eyes stormy, she turned to Claire. “I wish you would all stay over tonight, and [ll give a party.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend) Cheeks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare Up to recently, many Adminis-; which the President, according to tration spokesmen attempted to | his secretaries, has been working minimize the extent,apd.the con- The plan h sequences of the; present slump} 2) 7° eee in business. Noy,,thgse, effarts as in mind calls for the creation = of a national economic council, seem to have been abandoned. | The White House, 9g than’ made up of representatives of ail on for some time. You and Your Nation’s Affairs More Light on Soviet Russia By J. E. LE.ROSSIGNOL Dean, College of Business Administration, Nebraska University “Witicre’ is no, actual starvation on) telling the truth about the ghastly death from starvation, but there is a conditions in Soviet Russia which, he widespread mortality from: diseases| says, is a nation trapped, physically, due to malnutrition.” {intellectually and spiritually. Claire grinned. “Att@girl! Yknow Id enjoy helping you get even with that Reckless tribe.” x “It’s not getting even so much as} to show them I don’t care.'Do you think the others will stay?” “They'll leave bere only, over my dead body,” Claire granted.{ “Let's make it a big affair. Any-'|' body you can invite around here?” | “Oh, yes! I've met a number of | young ‘people in town since you were here _ “Good!” Claire’s eyes narrowed. “Any man you could invite who would make Reck jealous?” “Bill Langdon.” “Send him a very special invita- | tion, and if he doesn’t accept we'll shanghai him.” “He'll accept all right.” “Oh, oh! So it's that way!” “Of course not!” Nelda dis- claimed hastily. “We're just—sort of pals of the soil.” i “Why not get him to take you to our sorority dinner-dance on the) “Well—” | “Perhaps he has n6_ ballroom graces?” Claire hazarded. “Oh, yes, he has! I was just wondering if he'd want to go.” Nelda visualized Bill in formal clothes. He would be good to look m. He would tower above most of the other men. Claire ran into the kitchen where the others were dishing up lunch. “We're going to stay all night!" “Not I,” Harvey said. “I have a enga eo “Break it!” commanded Claire. | “Can't possibly.” | “Take your choice,” she said) tightly, “of breaking it or our friendship.” Every one used on Harvey. He hesitated only a fraction of a} second, then gave a lopsided smile | and said, “You win.” After lunch Nelda went to the | telephone and invited as many of | her friends to the party as she| could reach. Then she sped around | in her foadster to invite the others. All but the Powells were ‘free for | the evening. | ‘You Dared To Dream’ j | gees was in his living room when she called at his home. “Won’t you come in?” he asked. | Curiosity made her accept. The! furnishings of the room, she found | upon closet inspection, were of very fine quality. A book was turne)}. ed face down upon, a coffee table! beside one of the large chairs. “Your place is lovely, Bill” said frankly. Pas | He said nothing. é ; “I was amazed to see such beau-} fiful furniture in a farmhouse,” } she went on. “That was why you! ceught me peeking in that day. Re-? member?” Softly Nelda said, “I’m sorry, Bill.” won't have to worry whether your soil yields anything or not.” “I'm not going to be Mrs. Reck- less.” He stared at her as if he couldn't believe his ea: “That's over,” she said, and add- ed, “Will you come to a party at my house tonight, Bill?” “Why—yes—of course.” It occurred to her then that each time she and Reck had quarreled he or circumstances brought Bill i eines yay, Bi i) aA rl deed 18 cayeawhea Rack made up. yThat wasibeeause he was-not m love with her. 'The romantic inter- est he'd had for her ity the ‘begin- ning seemed ta have’ fadéd into a strong friendship. ‘There..was samething about his confidences... this. morning that touched her dee He smiled, but there was a touch ‘is of sadness in that smile. “I salvaged these things from the wreck,” he volunteered. “Wreck?” “I can talk about it now. Coul: at first because I was so bitte: “I could see that you were. “My dad was bank. Just about the time I grad- uated from college the bank failed. Dad wasn’t to blame, but people made him feel he was and he— well, we found him in his car one morning with the motor running.” In her softest voice she said, “I'm sorry, Bill.” “T turned over everything to the | ° bank receivers except this ture,” he continued. “I kept cause my mother used it and it. She died about three m before the crash.” “Tecan understand now how you felt when you saw me —- lot that mo resented it because y dared to dream. I'd run a Today’s Horoscope Today and adventurous spir tongue and a read pen volent and sy combim d v and there is no rei native shouid not of the world’s ¢ ed is indicated this day are ¢ twin children. gives an enterprisin ucceed re your name. Mayb “I don’t deserve even one. I've done nothing more thin any other man would I resident of |” “Well—T've bi I iy—pal.’ grinned at each other and ands. Tve got to dash home and get gs ready for ght,” she said tied out. copyright, 1987, Alice Marie Dedoge Nelda plays “Posteffice” with un- 24 results, tomerrew. Amen reached ast word Congress, is giving.almost all its attention to the causes_.of the abrupt reverse of the recovery movement. A telling sign is the series of conferences Mr. Roosevelt has been holding with business lead- ers. So far, these talks have ap- parently produced “little or noth- ing, but they are important as an example of the trend. The Presi- dent is giving much more atten- tion to the opinions of business than he did during the days when nis Administration had clear sail- ing under brightening economic skies. This does not mean that he is necessarily going to adopt business’ views of the situation, or that he is going to do what business wants. It does mean, so far as anyone can see, that he and his official advisors are wor- ried and wondering. At first, the Presidential con ferences were;naturally held with men representing the biggest kind of business—such as Sloan of General Motors, Young of Gen- eral Electric, Weir of the Weirton Steel Company. Now, according to an announcement of January 21, small pusiness men, at their own insistence, are to participate in the talks on economic prob- lems. that there has been a veritable flood of letters from little busi- ness mien asking that representa- tives of their group be consulted, and the President has issued in- structions that smaller corpora- tion officials be selected at ran- dom. from the letters and invited to the White House. All of these conferences are apparently a prelude to an idea White House aides explain; groups and ‘all shades of opinion, who will be'asked to prepare re-1 ports designed to - guide-.i Presix dential action and policies. This? council would include men from big business, little business, agri- culture, labor, investor groups, consumers, transportation and all other important elements in our national life. In theory, such a council is an admirable concept, and in accord the basic tenet of democratic government—it would provide an opportunity for a meeting of minds, where fact would be pitted against fact, and differences would be reconciled through log- ical compromise. But in actual practice, as hard-headed observ- ers have pointed out, the chance of such a council getting any- where is very dubious. There are points of view so completely op- posed, that it would obviously be a miracle for the interested par- ties to adjust them between them- selves. However, the council is still in the planning stage, and what it produces will only be de- cided if, as and when it is created. The main thing is that the Ex- ecutive is at last definitely con- cerned with business conditions. It is apparent that he is not sure of what course to take, which ac- counts for acts and statements which circumvent each other. Mr. Roosevelt is also taking a much gentler hand with Congress, which is no longer docile to White House controk No one knows what will come of all this—it does seem certain that the next six or jtwelve months will be of great jmoment to the course of Ameri- ‘ean history. WASHINGTON NOTES See eoecesecessessesesssesessseseeeses CREDIT Needed credit for small indus- trial concerns may be provided by a Government Intermediate Cred- it Bank in order to provide legiti- mate financing for small business- es which are unable to pay the expenses involved in the issuance of securities. Many underwriters decline to handle security issues of less than a million dollars. AIR FORCES The world’s military air forces were recently surveyed by C. G. Grey, British editor of Jane's All the World’s Aircraft, and the combined forces of the United States were rated very high, be- ing placed “on sheer fighting power” about equal at the top of the list of powers, along with the Royal Air Force of Great Britain. R. L LEADS Rhode Island, with 6.4 percent, had the highest proportion of to- tally unemployed and Iowa, with 24 percent, had the lowest pro- portion of jobless, according to figures compiled in the National Unemployment Census. About 4.5 percent of the. population was regarded as totally unemployed and 1.5 percent were registered on WPA, CCC, NYA and other emergency work. DECLINES The Labor Department’s month- ly survey of employment and payrolls shows a net decrease of about 300,000 in employment in December as compared to Novem- ber. The industries surveyed employed about 7 65,000 fewer workers than in December, 1936, and payrolls were ~ $19,600,000 lower. Governor Earle, of Pennsyl- vania, has announced that he will request the Federal Government to assume ownership of Pennsyl- vania’s anthracite industry along the lines of legislation recently acted by the British “Parlia- ment. He states that miners and ors, in a recent conference, malization of the per: tac EARNINGS ures for corporati in 1935 were recen by the Treasury Depart- showing gross income of were inactive, giving no income! data. “SMALL” The President has received a tremendous volume of mail from businessmen, who noted that he had discussed the recovery prob- lem with industrialists and asked that smaller businessmen have a chance to express themselves. As a result, the President called his conference with “small” business- men. His secretary was directed to go through the correspondence and pick out at random a num- ber of operators of small busi nesses. GOLD The outflow of gold from the United,States in the fourth quar- ter of 1937 amounted to less than $31,000,000 and compares with the inflow of $371,000,000 in the third quarter, $691,000,000 in the sec- ond quarter, and $277,000,000 in the first quarter. For the year, the net inflow of gold into the United States was $1,290,390,000. Im addition, the Treasury acquir- edinewly-mined domestic gold in thedmount of $169,000,000, TVA The three-judge Federal Court at Chattanooga recently decided that the TVA has not exceeded its statutory powers and that the statute itself is constitutional, thus refusing the injunction sought by eighteen privately- owned power companies of the Southeast. This decisior® confirms the authority of the Government and the general opinion is that the Supreme Court will confirm it if an appeal is made. TANKS The first ‘mechanized division in American Army ‘history will probably* Ge’ developed’ at) Fort Knox, Ky where the mechanit- ed cavalry brigade will’ ‘be ,ex- panded: The adaptation of armor- ed;' trot driven S Machines has made trémendous stridés “in fhe past few years. “The Army, which ee or four yeers ago, possessed at seven useable tanks, now has more th four hundred. The ew program is expected to pro- between 900 and 1,000 tanks some 230 armored cars, to be tributed among Army and Na- Guard units. Practically all service today are of a with high-speed. three-quar- ch armor, four ma- four-man crew t $27,000 each. This ti superior This is a sen- tence culled from'a Moscow dispatch of March 30, 1933, to the New York Times and is quoted by Eugene Lyons in his no- table book, “As- signment in Utopia” asa classic example of understate- ment by a resi- dent journalist, presumably Walter Duranty himself. For which he must be par- tially exonerated, for if a journalist did ‘not put a fairly favorable con- struction on such events and doings as the fearful famine of 1932-33. the liquidation of the kulaks, or the trials | “yons’ comments on journalists and casual visitors to Russia are worth quoting as flashes of perspica- city and caustic wit, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and other de- portees from America abandoned the Soviet land, prefer: talist exile. Bill Haywood found the vik system hateful and died a broken, disappointed man. Walter Duranty’s spoken views would have shocked New York radicals, who mistook him for a Soviet enthusiast. Maurice Hin- dus, native of a Russian village, was one of the most industrious apologists for Stalin. Louis Fischer, the com- munist publicist, though he had eulo- gized the unspeakable GP.U, was suspected of Trotskyism. Ambassador | Bullitt's conception of the new Russia was deeply colored by the romanti- cism of the earliest period. For the fabulous Sidney and Bea- trice Webb and others of that ilk there of professors, engineers and other | is at least the excuse of wishful think- “saboteurs,” he would soon be invited | ing. Bernard Shaw is an unpardon- to leave the U.SS.R. or be recalled| able cynic who judged food condi- by the newspaper magoate at home. | tions bythe menu of the Metropole, Referring to the, {rial of the British | S@w nothing and learned nothing, and engineers Lyons, writes: | yet made large contributions toward “The need to remain on friendly | the myth of a happy, prosperous, en- terms with the cénsérs at least for the} thusiasti¢ socialist Russia. Profi duration of the triat was for all of us| Dewey, Professor Counts and a ber a2 compelling professional necessity. It | Of bap actea and sub-Counts were would have been professional suicide | guilty ayperbolic panegyrics on for us to make an issue of the famine | Soviet educational experiments. at this particular time. The first and| There were also many smug econo, irreducible need of a press agency is| mists and sociologists who smiled at for the most cordial relations possible | the liquidation of millions of with all governments. A newspaper- a ae wat tha Tiemes corre- ——— = — sading streak will'soon | — BP — ae __ Eugene Lyons has that very crusad- | _— J. Chamberlin, on the contrary, ing streak in him, as one may Deed Pag te was = ag age yn from the fact that. as he says, he| 2rls passionless, the best in- thought himself a socialist as soon as| formed and least sentimental of his he thought at all. From 1923 to 1927) American colleagues in Moscow. he worked under Kenneth Durant for} Eugene Lyons returned to Amer- Tass, the official Soviet news agency,|ica a sadder and wiser man, though sending American news to Russia. In / still a semi-socialist. He begs forgive- 1927 he published “The Life and|ness for having ‘eft unsaid many Death of Sacco and Vanzetti.” In 1928 | things that he should have said and is he went to Russia. the land of his| now trying to make amends by tell- dreams. as chief correspondent for| ing the whole truth and nothing but the United Press. He held that post) the truth. Naturally. he is vilified by until he was recalled. in 1934, be-|his former comrades of the Stalin cause he could no longer conceal his| sect, but the well-known Trotskyite, antipathy to the Stalin régime. Since | Max Eastman, says: “‘Assignment in then, by voice and pen, he has been! Utopia’ is a great and noble book.” (Address questions to the author care of this newspaver) 1772—Josiah Quincy, lawyer, congressman, mayor, Harvard president, most illustri- ous of a noted family, born there. Died July 1, 1864. 1792—James G. Birney, famed abolitionist of his day, born at Danville, Ky. Died at Eaglewood, Boston ( 1870—John Mitchell, noted la- bor leader, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers, born at Braid- wood, Ill. Died Sept. 9, 1919. 1889—Richard Boleslawski, Hol- lywood producer and director of stars, born in Poland. Died in Hollywood, Jan. 17, 1937. N. J., Nov. 25, 1857. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key W Tall Contery 1802—Mark Hopkins, for 36 years president of Williams Col- lege, Mass., among the country’s great educators, born at Stock- bridge, Mass. Died June 17, 1887. 1820—David C. Bréderick, New York Tammany politician, San Francisco pioneer, Democrat lead- er, born in Washington, D. C. Died in duel, Sept. 16, 1859. Soccessccccesceseseseses It’s Deliciously Fresh! — TRY IT TODAY — STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS eo 1858—William F. McDowell, noted Methodist Episcopal Church bishop, born at Millersburg, Ohio. Died in W: » D. C., April 26, 1937. AB Baa VDI aa ssa aaa saa a. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY White Oak Mills Boom Maybe That's When On Distillery Orders Mud Hens Were Born (By Associated Press) HARRISBURG, Tl. Feb. 4— Sawmilling, a pioneer industry of this territory, has bee because Kentucky's need whisky barrels. Landowners are shipping their white oak to two mills for from $5 to $10 a tree. One of the mills turns out staves and the- other barrel heads. Nearly 80 men are employed at the two mills, which have a daily capacity of 10,00 boards. 9 The white oak which abounds in this section is a tall tree whic requires about 100 years to ma ture, but officials of the forest service say it is one of the “fast growing” hardwoods. The wood resists water and is also used for shipbuilding and flooring. It is “air-cured” about 90 days before it is shipped to the distilleries. Today’s Birthdays Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. born in Detroit, 36 years ago. 1856. had pro@mecd mud up w £ relates deep m the Rear Admiral David F_ Sellers who reaches the statutory age of retirement, born at Austin, Tex. 64 years ago. (Edward B..Sheldon cf New York, playwright, born.in Chi- cago, 52 years ago. > % 5 Rev. Beverly D. Tucker, Jr. of Rich Wa, Feetestant cierey- man-tdticator, at Warsaw 1 $d years ago” Dr. Ernest O. Holland, president of Washington State College, born at Bennington, Ind., 64 years ago Hon. Cairine R. Wilson, Cana da’s woman senator, born in Mon- treal, 53 years ago. Stand Down “Know what an alibi is, do you. Julius?” the judge said. “Yas, suh”, said Julius. “Hit's provin’ dat you wuz at a prar meetin’ whar you wasn't in order fo’ to show dat you wasn't at de crap and gin banquet whar you wuz”. President Roosevelt appeals to the Red Cross to raise $1,000,000 for the civilians in China. 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