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

) | i Phe citizenry of the fourth congres | desire a senator who will represent the PACE The Key West | Citizen Sunday By Pi SITING CO. INC. L. P. AMTMAN, President and Publisher JOF& ALUBS, Aswixtant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets TWO | LOOKS LIKE MORE PENSIONS The proposal that the Government World War veterans, even if the death of perience, is proLably the opening wedge of 2 drive for pensions that will eventually include all who got their names on the | military rolls, by draft or otherwise. Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Oniy Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter f the Associated Press xlusively @ntitled to use 1 news dispatches credited to se eredited in this paper and also news publighed here. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: I ernment $84,000,000 a year, according to Gen. Hines, administrator,of véterans’ jaf- fairs. } 10 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEy THE “HOLDING COMPANY" | "Yay weet IN DAYS GONE BY Pay pensions to all widows and orphans of | the veteran was not the result of war ex- | The wedge, as it is, will cost the gov- / We cértéinly join-with aIP Americans “28 _ lav / in the hope that the people of the United. ADVERTISING RATES known on application. jection to the payment of generoussams to the orphans and widows of the men gave up their lives for the nation. At the same time, we do not believe that the peo- ple of this country will willingly pension these who emerged from war service un- | touched and uninjured. The past history of pensions in the United States has not been a record in | which national pride can be taken. To | avoid such a condition the government, at | the beginning of the World War, instailed ECIAL NOTICE fds of thanks, resolutions of ® 8, ete. will be charged for at cents a line. ainmients by churches from whic! rived are 5 cents a li IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. Water and Sewerage. } 2. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Ae Eee Poke: cummamorne mest « 4. Hoetelg and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. t and al lidatiof of | ernments. ever, as long as there are votes to be won \-by- pensiere legislation, there=waill-be ven- sion legislation. Sin 18;when thé wafEnded, mil- “lions of Gare Americans have become of f| age. They have started life under a great | burden,.so far asthe national debt is con- | cerned. If pensions on a general scale are | to, be, voted. these young people will find | that their burden is just beginning to grew. — Self-control is the best part of wisdom. 3 | An apology is an insult if it is not sin- |, SMALL BUSINESSES NEED CAPITAL cere; the difficulty is to prove the insin- | cerity. The conference of “small” ‘business | men in Washington last week seemed to When all is said and done, you are | have some difficulty in putting-a finger on about the only person in the world who | just exactly what may be the main prob- really believes all the nice. things - said | lem of their economic struggle but there about you. | was some consensus of opinion that onc of | the main'needs is a source of capital. Each class, the working, middle class | This means a source of loans, we and ¢apitalistic, must cooperate—not one | PYesime;! as well as'a ‘supply of capital in- to surrender to any other; that way lies | vestments. Larger corporations, when they | need funds, issue bonds-or stock, which are | sold thratghout the nation. Very often the ers eet nothing except a pain in thé ; —os ida will” = | neck because of losses that involve the big sional district of Florida: will’ continue | babel ay.have Sati sneey Euto. facie | Beeause of the expense involved in stock On Pon me eel promotiofis itis. almost prohibitive for = | small business men to use the same methods | ti ite financing. If Hugh Johnson, the columnist and | wi ahs gegebenn 3 ei former NRA administrator, were president, | he says, he would: “Take all the cockeyed i nitwits in the administration and give ‘em 24 hours’ notice. Insist that all taxes not ~ If you want to get an idea of the state primarily for revenue be repealed. Stop | of nerves existing in Europe all that you punitive taxes. Return relief to the states. | have to do is to read a news dispatch that Take $1,000,000,000 off the regular gov- | came from Paris the last week of January, ernment expenditures. Return to Con-/ telling of an explosion of grenades being gress the power to fix the value of money. | moved by soldiers and the police Ask simple legislation for wages and | suburb of the French capital. hours.” That’s a program The Citizen A newspaper correspondent writes would be pleased to endorse, and who that when the blasts occurred the pe=ple | thought that war had been started by a | sudden airplane raid and that the ex- i Est plosions were aerial bombs dropping upon Ui tes } the suburb! ‘ country needs | good 5e,cigar.” ‘s meeting in} Washington last week on of the delegates | wanted to make a speech but he couldn't | get the floor and he was finally thrown out | on his ear for his persistence. After the | melee was over it was discovered that he merely desired to display a placard with Marshall's advétacy of the country’s urgent need, which, by the way, may be obtained in Key West at any time. Con- ts inform us that the Key West 5 cen , so-called “Smokers”, are the hest te be found in the land. fascism and. communism. sespaeity WAR NERVES ina the United States today. The politicians can ad- vance all the alibis they like about who crippled business, but some very simple facts remain—lit- tle business and the small investor are afraid. Taxation, political attacks on business, and labor | radicalism have driven him into his cyclone cellar. For example, the owner of a successful meat market and grocery store in Portland, Oregon, wanted to make $6,000 improvements. Fearing labor troubles, he woukin't start. A successful groceryman near cently bought a lot on which to build a his business which is in ap, ol rented But under present conditions, he seid, should I start-in the face of the present President Reesevelt signed amend- ments to the Federal Housing Act provid- ; ing for purchase of homes up to $6,000 with a 10 per cent down payment and 544 per cent, carrying charge, on Wednesday. Within 24 hours the F. H. A. and ifs re-" sienal offices were swamped with in- quities as to how one could purchase a home for a cash outlay of $500 to $600. ; This move may lead to the greatest build- ing boom im the nation’s history with 12 te 16 billion dollars spent on housing. This will give emplyyment to contractors, car- Ts, masons, bricklayers, roofers, tebers and workers in many other fields. is likely to revive business in Amercs j 2e building boom in England help- ed that country. re- ng] Portland a off for two months because of uncertainties, and disturbance of security values which has been aggravated by the political drive on business. Multiply this situation by 10,600 times over the United States, and you get that “general feel- ing” that no one can laugh off. Why best about the bush? Check up on your own feelings, as well as those of your friends, and @zew your own conclusions as to what is causing the business slump. That “general feeling” is no pipe dream im | P: States, who will,pay this bill, have:no ob--} , who? the insurance system in the hope that the | | pension problem could be avoided. Hew- | ALONG ‘OMAC | Esc a sereffe and | peacel s.arena of politics, memorials,améighonuments—if we may 6éverlook such ‘consequential | details as— The Senate in doing a thand- spring out of the cloture rule strife and filibuster of anti-lynch fire landed squarely in the mid- die of the big boiling pot of ‘must’ legislation labelled Federal hous- ing—which was enacted without the prevailing wage postscript, but within only one vote of a tie . . top control, and preparedness for war! With Big Business mice—called Bad Business rats by some. labor tycoons and professional liberals —holding covert.confabs ager at the U. S. Chamber} of and posting prigésfor the ag- eous mouse wh¢ volunteer for the job of tying a bell the | White House Cat=but finde no takers; And fashionable anti- heircles™ agog ‘with ifidigpation with said fashionables still ly bé@ling the "Néwi Deal and branding all. Admini: ideas as merely the mo: vaporings of economic { mores, and imprecatorily ing Rooseveltism’ to ‘a potter’s field. . .but with of the house at 1600 Penn: Avenue blithely snubpr: still walking away with the show! } With John L. Lewis’ crowd call-} ing for a new work relief pro-: gram of three billion dollars— without the outright mention them of their half-million dollar} campaign donation and, for the’ present, minus any specific de- mand as to which particular branch of CIO a worker must be @ paying member before qualify- ing as a beneficiary under the proposed new work relief set-up; the UMW hearing a resolution for drafting Mr. Roosevelt for @ third | term, thep, having that res$lution | scuttled and embalmed—ppssibly out of consideration for Mn, Lew- is, who isauspeettd of being very fond of the musi¢-made bees. in a bonhet-especially présiden- tial bees. : “GIVE US THIS DAY—" * Gre UMW, spearhead ¢6f the ClO, hiked the salary of John L. Lewis to $25,000. The railroads are clamoring for Governmental aid and for rate increases, and Big Business is wanting something— just anything. Homer Martin. charge of CIO’s United Automo- bile Workers, urges the Govern- ment to spend 130-million dollars for relief in Michigan. Also, representatives of small business congregate in Washing- ton—about 800 of us—each fairly bursting with a plan and, much talk. All our speeches and ges- tures run concurrently even if our Hitical | faVideds ahd aims do not. But we }}ara smanimity in one thing, and tis too many White ‘House drences have been held with- out our aid.) When it comes to " " bree We gre not SS jed al 9 | t it being U. $—but and large carpore- s may heve their big figures $ DTbcdncnee deficcts. and be jus- tified in making heavy demands for consideration, but we are 666 os Liguind = Tablets first day Salve-Nese Drops Headache 38 minutes, Try “Rub-My-Ticm”-World's Best Lint I jah. 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FOR YOUR BATHROOM ~ | tale becomes audible or the jingo {spirit waxes warm, there will be gi HP q Kiapiccings Here Sent Ton Yeies Age Telliy Ac Token ‘ From The Files OF The Citizen ' Practically all restrictions of) the effects of a severe iliness and EF ih a g hE > ; e 3 e i week quickly passes, and “T recently spent 16 days on a pole in Miami, a week is $ elat if & ety i | et i “ight pulling the car from | wa-! most vitally concerned about that, tq”. ‘Tire marks on the avenue in-jat 3 o'clock incthe-afterniotin end: $39 gheck we just nad to write ‘icate that the car was travelling while our‘bank balance is only St @ high rate ¢ $27.88. ; -* =p ‘The moguls of Big Business and , tion of the brakes « Government, who are now appar- ently suffering from senile de-; mentia, should become ‘actively ; conscious of the fact that neither Big Business or Government can jong survive unless Little Busi- rs - ness and Agrictulture are quickly a 1 o'clock - paegey yy {of advertising recognized as both soul and sinew a load of 10 cozs a PS" | should have. of our national economic exist ca making 8 beset = meme | ence, and prompt steps are taken a ee de a2 ae vd | for their permanent security. sy y ro hi “ i IF, WAR COMES Monroe County, President Roosevelt asks for been on the ways hete for 8 few unprecedented peacetime defense lo% <i po | HIS FINAL appropriations — while approxi-| sage ‘No as j Cis " ia mately 12-million are jobless, | Teturn Heme Key smte) Cileet City, Colt Siniddag Does there exist the real danger time tomorrow. The arinounced the final scene in @ movie im of invasion by murderous foreign |Ch@nge in schedule, providing for which he appeared, Robert Me- powers? Spain and China ore - op of Gace boats instead ee a eee actor, walked now but shambles of the dead and | W®. ea eee living dead, but can that happen | te commissioners said. _—— to us? Is reliance on an inferior; me off, but my guess is as good as : If, at the psycho- logical or golden moment, war, N 1940, but it will be Roosevelt— and all moves for ousting him will j print-/ ; MEDICINE CABINETS: aaa = AH metal. All mirror door. war clouds just ing or with; *, the 1940 campaign—whether it be, Sine 11"x1@". Ready for ene. a real menace or just patriotic! scare-weather manufactured and turned on by war scaremongers to PeLL LL LLL Ld woods battle with Brazilian police z which lasted forty-two hours. 32 Sq. Ft. 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