The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1938, Page 2

> PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen shed Daily Except Sunday By JOE AbibN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and ‘Ann: Streets Oniy Dally Newspaper im ‘Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Axsocinted Press ssociated Press is exclusively entitled to use ation of all news dispatches credited to SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES ~ known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE ading notiees, cards of thanks, resolutions of ry notices, ete, will be eharged for-at 10 cents a line. s for entertainments by churches from which to be derived are & eents-a line zen is an open forum and invites discus- public ‘issues and subjects 6f local or general t but it/will not publish anonymous eommuni- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- Hetels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. | THE TRAILER TOURIST With the opening of the Overseas Highway in the near future a ‘probleri to confront the:city will be ‘the wayfarers known as trailer tourists. Shall we welcome the'tin canners to Key ‘West or‘not? That is the paramount question. The following editorial from the Tampa Tribune has a bearing on this sub- ject. 2 Sarasota is staging a wordy war—and it’s all about ‘the Tin Canners. ‘When Sarasota’s Mayor announced a few days ago that - tne town couldn’t take care of another convention of the motor and trailer tourists, everybody outside accepted it as the “voice of the people.” But far from it, as it now appears. The mer- chants say they were not consulted, and they are resenting and repudiating the Mayor’s mes- sage to the visitors. The convention, which numbers some 3500 persons, has brought them $500,000 in business, the indignant tradesmen, and they are not disposed to permit declare any official to drive away several thousand customers. Feeling rese so high that a marching body of merchants. went to the trailer park and invited the Tin Canners to come baek next year, regardless of official refusal to extend the.glad hand. Mayor Kimbrough proposes a special election. He takes the position that tne convention is too large for Sarasota to handle and, being of artistic turn of mind—President of the ‘Ringling School of Art—adds that »e- ing known as a “tin can city” is harmful to tre community. Meantime numerous other cities are bidding for the Tin Canners, who insist that they prefer Sarasota. MACHINE ‘CURES‘COLDS You and Your Nation’s How Capitalism Carries On By J. E. ‘LE Affairs ROSSIGNOL Dean, College of Business, Nebraska University “What is capitalism, Sandy?” queried Professor MacAndrew Cant- lie of his Scottish friend, who re- sponded with a loud bark. “But why do you-bark? is it because you do not like the name? Myself, 1 do not like it either, as it seems to denote or connote something gi- gantie and for- midabte— something in- vidious, in fact. You know the old proverb: “Give a dog a bad same and hang him’ I should prefer to call it the social system of private enterprise, but as we cannot think of a better name than capitalism, for short, we will let it go at that What's in a name? “Capitalism, then, is business en- terprise based mainly on_private property and the hope of profit, tem- pered by the fear of loss. There is rea- son to fear, Sandy, for every kind of business is uncertain. But when there is a fair chance of profit, hope is stronger than fear and many enter- prising owners of property—business adventurers I like to call them—will take risks. Therefore they carry on, pay wages, rent, interest, taxes, and all the other costs, and take what is left, plus or minus, as profit or loss. I often wonder why they do it. “In good times the profits of suc- cessful business concerns ‘are large, but in times of depression their losses are tremendous. Look, Sandy. at this report, ‘National Income, 1929 - 36,” published by the Department of Com- merce, and see, page 24, a statement of business savings, positive and nes- Yesterday’s Normal Precipitation __ “Thin record covers 24-hour peried | born at Clinton, Ia. 63 years age ending at 5 o'clock thix morning. — rosner seein ecaeccceccsccsceseeae years ago aes . Samuel Seabury «f New Yaak City, noted lawyer. bern these, pc Reka years age OIns.' Clyde B. Aitchison of Oreg., In- — > 06 Ins. | terstate Commerce Commissioner Dr. Charles M. Andrews, : — ean 4 + Rainf. Precipitation Tomerrow’s Almanac . " _ 6355 a. m. George C. Mathews, member . of the Securities Exchange Com- 6:26'p.'™-| cision," born at Northwood, I2 ative. during these eight years In-the year of prosperity. 1929. the savings of business corporations and unincor- ~ porated busimess in our country amounted “to +$2583,000.000. A tidy profit, you say? Yes. but in the fol- lowing year the negative savings of business were $4,903,000,000 which wiped out the positive savings of 1929 afd drew heavily on the surpluses ac- cumulated in previous good years. ‘Negative savings,-of course, are busi- ness losses, if you want to call a spade a spade. “Very ‘well! In the year 1931 the losses were $8,052,000.000, and in the following three years they were $8.- 942,000,000. $3,994,000.000, and $1.429.- 000,000. making a staggering total of $26,420,000.000 for our five years of depression. True, in the year of recov- ery. 1935, there were business savings of $30,000,000, and in 1936 they were $1,743,000,000, but those two years to- gether did not go far toward making up the losses of the previous five fean years. And as you know, 1937 was not much ae pod = 1936, ee prospects for are none ri ‘The concerns in question may have to draw upon their surpluses egain. Too bad that they have been so much depleted. “Wherefore, Sandy, when qur hon- ored President says that ‘those who believe in the profit system must rec- ognize that those who get the profits when business is good must bear the losses when business temporarily is slack.’.I wish he had put it another way and had said, in commendation of capitalism, that we who believe in the profit system must recognize that those who bear the losses when busi- ness is bad must be allowed profits when business is good. Do you support the amendment, Sandy MeGraw?” 1:59 a. ~ +2 years ago. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poe- ell. English founder ul movement t Sea level, 30.14. WEATHER FORECAST : ¢Till'7:30 p.m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly, cloudy tonight and Wednesday, Possibly occasional showers; con- tinued mild temperature; moder- ate easterly winds. i Jacksonville -to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate easterly winds, and partly overcast weath- | er tonight and Wednesday, .pos- sibly light scattered showers. j Western Caribbean: Moderate easterly winds, and partly over- cast weather tonight and Wednes- day. (See “The Answers” on Page 4) 1. How many persons are on WPA rolls? 2. What is the average age of U.S. Army officers? 3. What is “block-booking”? 4. How much will the Bonne- ae of 1909 Mc CURDY, ONE OF THE COLORFUL PIONEERS OF AVIATION, WAS THE FIRST W CROSS THE SEA. HE FLEW IN 1909 FRom KEY WEST, FLORIDA TO ville project on the Columbia riv- er cost? 5. Are American banks mak- ing money? The Worm’s Eye View 6.08 2282S” (By WALTER -PECK) 7. ‘What would be the monthly (Address questions to the author care of this newspaper) COSCO TCS ESS COOTTTSS OO STST OS SSOOSOSSOCSSTOOSOOSESES Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | What is described as a-quick and ef- | | fective treatment for common colds and 4 | sinus infections is provided by a short wave machine recently perfected, according to | | i jand. 3. Free Port. Youth would-be.a fine thing if it-came a little later in life. By the time automobile. traveling is made safe, people will risk ‘their lives in| the air, | Intelligently made use of, a uitte | learning is not a dangerous thing as the | saying has. it. Judging from what:we ‘read in the | newspapers few men in public life agree ' Correct this setitenee : “Of eure, you owe me the money, but you ‘don't need to pay me now.” Many people spend a good deal of their time ‘“‘over” their hair, but all ‘of ‘us spend all of our time “under” our hair. There is no-rush for cuttings from that Key West tree which ‘produces fruit smell- ing like limburger cheese—Tampa Tri- | bune. This column ran across:an ‘auto sales- man the other day whom we believe could sell a snow plow to the city of Key West.— | Times-Union. j Many reasons have:been given for the recession of the Roosévelt regime, one of which is laconic and ‘to the point: “Raise more fruit and fewer nuts:” Soundness of judgment is perhaps the highest general result of intellect, and while education is a great help, it is not | absolutely nevessary to arrive-at intelligent | conclusions, Wanted—A Junior‘ Chamber df ‘Com- merce ‘for Wauchula, a much-needed civic | organization for any growing city —The | biorida Advecate. Indeed, and Key West, | a growing city, has one in the making. The best way to make Key West a better community ‘in which to live is to be a better citizen. Practice along ‘this line ‘is the best missionary work that any ‘citizen can do. One way to be a better citizen is to pay your taxes, The ‘recent acquiescence of Austria, weak and powerless, to the\demands of the Naais, making it a practical vassal of Ger- many, is a penetrating reminder that the United States should keep ‘itself strong on land and sea ‘and in ‘the air. Certain Buro- pean nations have no love for America but they respect our ‘money power and our naval -and military strength which must-ev- er be ‘kept impregnable, but ouly ter de- fense and never for aggression. |-a’most valuable new apparatus an. Associated ‘Press dispatch from Boston. The machine creates an electro-zzag- netic field in ‘which ‘the patient is placed, but he does not come into actual contact with any current, so there is no unpleasant sensation. The rays created are concen- trated on infectcd areas, and the peculiar heat thus generated destroys the infec- tion. Treatment was given to 600 patients at the dispensary of the Medical Center in Boston before physicians made.a report of ‘the results, and it is said ‘that abscesses, -earbuncles. and certain. t¥pes of joint dis- eases, as well as colds aid sinusitis, re- ‘sponded to the action of the rays. Machines of somewhat similar type have been used before, but their effective- ness ‘was limited until the ‘method-of con- centrating and focusing the rays was per- fected by Dr. E. Schliephake of Germany. | At-present only ‘four of the latest machines are in use in the United States, three of which.are owned by private physicians. The high standing of the scientists | and physicians associated with the develop- ment and use of the machine indicates that for the treatment of disease has been given to the world. JUSTICE SOMETIMES MISFIRES Justice is not always ‘the result of legal procedure but there is comfort to be found in the fact that, in the vast majority of cases, something close to justice results. This cannot be said about the case of | Morris Idxelvitz, of New York, 48 years old, who recently won a verdict of $15,900 damages because his employer had him | unjustly incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. Money cannot repay a man for lost years nor restore him to the place where he was before he was wronged. Justice was not ‘rendered, it seems, in the case of William Crum, also of New York, who served three years upon con- vietion of being eoncerned in a hold-up only to be released last month by a directed verdict of acquittal. The 31-year-old man spent six months in the death house before being granted a new trial, which resulted in his release. Unfortunately for him, there is no way to collect damages for the wrong done him but, even if he could col- Ject money, there is no way to make ; amends to an innocent man thus punished. We cite these cases because they happened to come to our attention in a recent issue of a metropolitan newspaper. They do not imply that justice in the Empire State is hard to get or that such things are routine occurences. They happen in almost every State at times in spite of everything that can be done to evoid such miscarriages of _ Justice. lececcee coves It’s amazing how many people one will run into if one will just keep his eyes open and not be ad- verse to exchanging a polite word or two. There are a number of very interesting folks here who have become as much native as | apeslt and who are bound and {determined to remain here and see the Old Rock come into its town. I’ve talked with a lot of them and asked, among other | things, what they thought would | be the outcome after the bridges | were opened. Practically every- |one had ideas and lots of them. }Many were humorous in the ex- |treme, and several were sound | and well thought out. Chief among them was this: | Just how much is the town going to be commercialized? How much of a sideshow or a carnival are we going to become? And the general trend of thought was— “No matter if we have to lose all that we have fought and strug- gled for these past years, we must | not allow ourselves to be taken over and exploited as other cities have been”. That is sound thinking, believe you me. We, as citizens of a lovely town, must take stock of | ourselves and our town and see to it that it remains ours. Freely offered to visitors and tourists, to be sure; but nonetheless ours. Just what have we that is inher- ently ours and that is a part of jus? Our atmosphere and charm, of course. That is oursand reglly is us. It can be found nowhere else in the world. Our geographic location, carefree indolent atti- tude toward life, polyglot popu- lation. Our tropical trees and flowers, century-old charm and atmosphere. Our romantic his- tory. And our ideal all-year va- cation climate. These things are} ours and in all this country and the world they cannot be dupli- cated. In fact, at present, they are our stock im trade. Were it not for these invisible yet readily apparent attributes we could not exist I wonder how many of my readers have ever seen the re- markable places that lure tourists and sightseers in other parts of the country. Coney Island. At- lantic City. The beaches around Los Angeles. Many others. And what are they? Vast carnivals, lots of noise and high pressure “pleasure resorts”. One goes to them to spend his money and theoretically have a good time. Venice, Ocean Park, Redondo, even Santa Monica, all out of Los Angeles. And all of them once were beautiful strips of beach opening onto the Pacific and in- viting the casual passerby to stop and rest awhile. And what hap- pened? Outsiders came in and saw the possibilities. “Took over”. Made tremendous street carnivals out of them Exploited the sun- ii the water, the beaches. ng joints. Come-one games. Guides to show you the “sights”. Rot! Well, that must not happen to us. We-must not allow ourselves weeewcecneccosecveccos to be changed. We must not for- feit our beauty and-charm so that outsiders can make money. And, in case anyone asks you, if that occurs they will make money and great quantities of it.. If anyone, should make any profit from Key ‘West it ‘should be us who live! here and saw the town in its pros- | perity and its lean days. And we} must be moderate and not raise} our tariffs too high. People are}| coming to us for rest‘and relaxa-| tion. They want to be quiet, to| think, to go fishing, see the his-j toric sights of our town. And) they emphatically do-mot want to; Pay two or three prices for it. As they come let’s give them a royal welcome. Show them that the| farthér south one goes the more trly “southern” the hospitality be- | comes. ‘And that is the gist of what my friends around ‘town tell me. And | those are my ideas exactly. I'm practically a native now, and have these things much in mind along with the rest of you. And speaking of being a native, one more layer of sunburn will do it. I do believe. IPL ELL L ed. Ms Have been wondering why |, there are not more signs around to-point out where various things of interest are to be found. Why » certain landmarks are not mark-, ed, with a-bit of the history ap-j| pended so that strangers may’ know what it is all about. I have in mind one-particular house that has a breadfruit tree in the back- yar -People come there and) want to see it. Not “knowing ) where to find the blooming affair nor what to leek for they go away disappointed. That happens fre- quently in different parts of town and should be remedied. Other | cities with interesting exhibits | have them well labeled and num- erous signs about tell where they may be found. What about it? Come to think of it, Tl bet? I thought you'd say that. It happened this way. Once upon a time a party of explorers land- | ed upen a certain island that was not at that time on any of the admiralty records, and upon go- | ing ashore saw a pig caught between two breadfruit trees. vious. “Oh, oh. If he’s going start telling bum jokes. I’m goi home”. Me, too. Adios! Mi some other time. hag pill l kkedked. f 8 | ara ie ‘ a ae (2LLLL 4 payments on a home’ to cost $6,- 000 under the FHA? 8. Can farmers obtain loans for building homes under the FHA? 9. ‘When will soil conservation benefits for 1937 compliance be paid? 10. Does any state discriminaje against aliens in the distribution of relief? COCC SR OVS STL EC TT SCETSTSS PALACE 8 Point, 26” long. PANEL SAWS 10 Point, 20” Long. 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