The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 12, 1938, Page 3

=... SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1938. Aa ge . 4 FILIBUSTER WINS “LITTLE” BUSINESS | HOUSING BILL GREETINGS TO SPAIN DEBATE FOREIGN POLICY BORAH'S WARNING MORE ABOUT FLEETS LEAHY EXPLAINS STATUS ROOSEVELT'S REMARKS By HUGO S. SIMS (Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen) After being laid aside for a few lays, while the Senate acted on ¢ Administration housing bill! | the anti-lynching bill was before |the Senate again last week. Ap- | parently the chances of final pas- | sage were hopelessly blasted | when the Senate refused by a \ vote of 51 to 37 to apply cloture, which would have restricted de- bate. The motion for cloture fail- ed to secure a majority when a |two-thirds majority was neces- sary to cut off the flow of ora- tory that continued to roll from Senators, determined to Sout poesia: issage of the bill. Following his conference with big business-men, the President | saw to it that small business men were invited to Washington for a feonference on the record. It is j undoubtedly a fact that many so- jcalled. small business men, in many so-called small cities, are worried by threatened competi- tion from bigger companies. For this reason they hesitate to make |improvements and hold down in- | ¥entories to as small a volume as | possbile. . | As one such business man said jto the writer last week, these small merchants, wholesalers and | operators of independent business | ventures, have a keen fear of an uq| * selling, plus convenient «| bankruptcies, enable big concerns ‘to ¢rush out ‘competitiort even at loss. Then the !inside: boys re- and, take the field for d inasmuch as the small busi- man has lost his capital in the fight’ has no source from which to additional funds. may be a little bit itch but there are many this column who will exactly what the “lit- business man had in mind. ipiece of major: leg- to go to the White House the housing bill, sent to the President last week when the i Woomine a at tification for their course in the light of existing world conditions. That the world is in an arma- ments race is undeniable but that the scramble to build ships is the result, even in part, of the Ameri- can building program, is not clear when one studies the past record of this country in attempting to promote disarmament and in al- lowing its navy to be much lower than treaty strength. Senator Pittman of Nevada, in- sisted that this country was avoiding an alliance, pointing out that naval construction was ne- cessitated by the very fact that we have no military alliances. Meanwhile, Admiral William D. Leahy, Shief of Naval Operations, told a House Committee that he was “unwilling to admit” that any foreign power could destroy our navy which would be neces- sary before an invader could land on the Continental United States. The Admiral admitted that the British fleet was “much more powerful than that of the United States and emphasized the Ger- man-Italian-Japanese_, anti;Com- munist. accord, as, a new, situation in,.sea,, power, which the;United States, must recognize, } Moreover, he pointed out that if the Mongpe; Doctring, breaks, down ,a8 a potent force.in international law, the naval strength ..gf; the United States would be the orily defense available to protect the Latin-American Republics. He in- sisted that the naval force propos- ed by the President was the min- imum needed for defense and that it would require a navy three times the strength of the one now proposed to attempt a war of ag- gression. Appearing as a naval expert, Admiral Leahy, in response to a question, said that a navy such as proposed ‘would not be strong enough in the event that the United States is attacked simul- taneously in the Pacific and in the Atlantic. Our navy today is weaker in destroyers than any navy in the world, with the ex- ception of Germany. It has fewer modern submarines than any na- tion in the world. The prese situation, as_ regards warshi among .the varic 1s naval pow: was set forth in a series of tabl and it is significant to observe that the Admiral included compi- lations to show the strength of Germany, Italy and Japan. He calls attention to their anti-Com- ‘munist protocol which proyides that they shall “communicate in- structions and defense measures” _to each other and to the fact that Italy and Japan withhold ‘infor- mation regarding naval construc- tion from the other powers of the world. Having devoted most of this . Space to a discussion of our for- had already directed invest in large-scale mortgage tions and inasmuch as the their capital this insures at @ billion dollars for housing on BO) of the. additional cost up, Corts $10,000. Down payments will we to be ten percent and the ower will have 25 years in ich to pay the balance. Twenty-six Senators and thir- -four mmebers of the House ve transmitted a message of and sympathy to the jish Cortes, meeting at Barce- and praised the fight that loyalist members of the Span- sh parliament are making to ‘save the democratic institutions” f the Spanish Republic from its mies, “both within and with- put Spain”. Party lines were dis- arded, with six Republican Senators and two Republicans in he House, and one Progressive ining a number of Democrats in jing the document made pub- by the Spanish Embassy. The foreign. policy of the Unit- d States will be thoroughly de- ited in the Senate. Last week Hiscussion got off to a good start vhen Senator Borah warned that nation was risking war by iting the world to believe it it was in an alliance with reat Britain and that the two powers are building up their nav- jes under a “tacit alliance”. The it, according to the Idahoan, a world “practically gone - de” —_ armament race sim- ir to that which preceded the Vorid War. Undoubtedly the foreign poli- ies of the United States and reat Britain are developing long paraile! lines. That this is fue to any sub rosa agreement is Boubtful in view of the ample jus- eign policy and the naval situa- tion, we are reluctant to discuss the subject further at this time. However, the people of the Unit- ed States should not fail to un- derstand the implications which revolve around the anti-Commun- ist bloc and its activities along aggressive lines. In ‘fact, im his Tmessage to Congresqy Patgtiew Boosevelt, after recounting the this country to Jimit ‘firma s and@tnae aggression, declared, “We cannot assume that Our defense would be~timited-te- one ocean and one coast and that th os af ocean would'Wwy cer- tain satge «We tain that the Reiaccile link—the Panama Canal—would be safe. Adequate defense affects, there- fore, the simultaneous defense of every part of the United States of America”. Strained trade relations be- tween the United States and Aus- tralia were restored to — normal when the British Commonwealth abolished import restrictions which have been in effect for two years and were considered dis- criminatory by the United States. The development is taken as an indication that the Reciprocal Trade agreement with Great Britain will alter economic rela tions of the British Empire and make it desirable for the Domin- ion to negotiate similar pacts. Canada and the United States will soon begin work on a new Reciprocal Trade agreement. Modification of the existing pact is essential because the pact with Great Britain may alter the value of concessions in the Canadian agreement. Moreover, trade ex perts in Canada and the United Ctates give credit to the agree- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Phote Grace Lins — HUNTING AT SEA ELIEVE it or not, it's a pigeon this fair buntress is after. And she’s out in the’Pacific not far from Guatemala, Of course the pigeon is ;,Bot the feathered cooixg type that , haunts church steeples and gets its picture taken in front of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, but it carries the name nevertheless, and shooting it is great SpOrt and requires a good eye and fast work on the trigger. Tris cleverly formed young er. -e member is taking part in the trap-shooting tournament on one of the “Santa” ships carrying fort- nightly cruises between New York, the Spanish Americas and Califor- | nia. The happy hunting grounds are discovered aft on the boat deck. And the pigeons are released from the deck beneath. One of the officers of the ship acts as master-of-the-hunt, calling the buntsmen in order to the box, seeing that the gun is properly ioaded, coaching the novices, and keeping scores. When the gun is ready, and aimed, the signal is given and the “pigeon” is catapulted from.a machine on the deck below. Sans wings or tail, the “bird” which resembles a flat disk zooms into the air, for a split sec ond is within range of the gun. If the huntress is a good shot, the “pigeon” is splintered into hundreds of tiny pieces. If, however, she’s not sufficiently quick on the trigger, the bird escapes and falls unshattered into the sea—and the girl behind the gun tries again for a better score. It’s a great sport and really requires considerable prowess! \ Bind Man Takes Office f As County Clerk (Ry Associated Press) WHITESBURG, Ky., Feb. 12— A blind man, Cossie Quillen of Neon, Ky., has assumed hi- duties as clerk of Letcher county. Mrs. Quillen, who assisted him in his campdigh, has qualified as his assistant. : Quillen, a Republitan,' was el- ected in November over Cro Cau- dill, Democrat,..who has but one arm. The blind clerk, scoutmaster at Neon, lost his sight when he was fired on by an assailant two years ago while leading a party of Boy Scouts on a camping trip in the mountains. ment for a major portion of in- creased trade and urge that its scope be enlarged. A studv of the present business recession, made by the Brookings Institution, presents the conclu- sion that it was due primarily to the “aggressive Labor move- ments” which began in the first quarter of 1936 and resulted in re- duced hours. and higher wages without regard to production. Dr. Bes G. Moulton, president, that to-restore the standards of livings@ttaimed in 1939, the na- tion would have to. produce about 33 billion dollars worth of durable _goods annually. This is an in- j crease of sixty percent oveF the 21 Dillion dollars of such goods produced in 1929 and, according @ the survey, would call for eight to nine million additional work- ers. ] 1 rng Bp CHURCHLESS TOWN fl Todav’- ‘Anniversaries 1746 — Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polisi officer in the American Revolution, Polish revolutionary leader against the Russians, born. Died Oct. 15, 1817. 1791—Peter Cooper, New York City’s noted inventor, manufac- turer and © philanthropist;' born there. Died April 4, 1883. 1809—Abrabam Linedln, school- ed in the log cabin, soldier, New ; Salem. Hil.. stmaster,s Spring- > field) TL, 1: , State Tegislator and congressman, 16th “and Civil ‘War President, born in Larue Co., Ky. Assassinated, and died, April 15, 1865. 1899—Charles R. Darwin, Eng- lish author of the “Origin of Spe- cies”, born. Died April 19, 1882. 1813—Benson J. Lossing, wood- engraver, author and editor, born at Beekman, N. Y. Died June 3, , 1891. KEEPS OUT OF DEBT (My Associated Press) WALCOTT, Ia., Feb. 12—This town of 500 inhabitants is the only one in Iowa without a and possibly the only the United States church building, church services or a minister. church, town in without a congregation More than 70 years ago a group! of Germans, who had left their homeland because of the confu-/ sion of religious faiths founded Walcott. Although they believed !| in God and continued in private worship, they did not build a church then nor has one ever been built here. A few years ago a church in Davenport, 13 miles east of here purchased a tract of land in Wal cott and planned to build a branch church here. 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Boone.” on the bottom of a hollow tortoise shell may eventualiy prove to be an authentic signature of the fam- ous Indian fighter, says Kenneth J. Reynolds, the shell’s owner. Reynolds said the shell was found by his stepfather on the bank of Otter Creek, Lycoming County, Pa, a region known to have been visited by Boone who ‘was born near Reading, Pa. Prof. Agnes M. Orbison of the Elmira college science depart- ment, who has examined the shell, believes that the signature may be authentic. SOAP IN HASH MAKES 63 ILL Los Angeles.—Angered because officials wouldn't make him a trusty, a prisoner in the Lincoln ,; Heights jail admitted that he Placed, powdered soap in the breakfast hash of 63 fellow pris- oners and all of them became so ill they had to be taken to a hos- pital. at Walpole, N. H. Died March 7, 1909. ‘Th’ only eggs thet Snoct Giuckins eats are poached-—at night. 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