The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 7, 1938, Page 2

< PAGE TWO : = a 3 - Ps 2 3 ‘ : ‘ * ; ° - « 4 - 3 3 : * . « . « * 5 « . . F4 « * ‘ . :. 5 * ? : H i t ’ ' H ‘ i ‘ eta ; The Key . E a West Citizen cept Sunday By HING CO., INC. From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Oniy Daily Newspaper ‘in Key,,West and Monroe County ers Entered at Key West. Fiprida, as second class matter Member of thesAnsociated Press The Associated Pregy is exclusively entitled ‘to ‘ube for republitation of all Hews dispatches credited:to it or m the local news pub! ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutiors Teayect, obituary notices, etc, will be charged for + the rate of 19 cents a line. « for enjertainments by churches from which ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. det Sean open forum and invites discus- of publiey dgpues and subjects of, legal_or general but if wil! n6Ot publish anonymous communi- of at IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land, Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. “ The physicists split the atom and the writers the infinitive: ity It takes capital to start a business; but it will stop by itself. + ‘4 fi ‘tie! political best man win in every case! s Venice, Italy, is under water, so is © Venicep@alifornia. “Imitation remains sin- Gerest flattery. ' “If the horse keeps on vanishing, it will be necessary to offer a kingdom for a horse. When 4 business letter is ignored, it has the same reaction as a question being urnanswered—an insult in either instance. An advertising man says the business recession is “largely mental.” Then a let of us have something wfong with our heads. 2 her distress. It is a momentary picture of tragedy now, but soon California sunshine will dispel the gloom, and make glad the hearts of Florida. This is no idle gesture but an expression of genuine good will. ”) 3827 Sree Davevihra pard, mayor oF ‘Myers, has the infestina) fortitude which is re- quired of his office and his sworn oath. In a public statement he says: “I am ready te fight for the fellow who has paid his taxes so that he can continue to have the fire protection, police protection, the sewer +> and garbage service he has paid for.” PTUTTTT IIIT TL re Heartiest congratulations to Tampa ‘or the award of a $7,000,000 contract by Zhe ‘government for the construction of Tour ships, and the approval by the United ates Department of Labor for a wage Agreement that will permit the cigar. in- dustry of Tampa to com cigar manufacturers of t took the cigar industry a®ay West but we hea her no if-wilf own shortsightedness that brought Se good Tuc ATiitph, on four SIZ “the goed ship “Présperfty eae - North. “Taimba Bill Ackerman, fishing editor of the Washington Post, recently wrote in the Miami Herald that with the road to the Mmaimjand another swell fishing area had been made easy of access. He took cog- Rizance of the thousands of anglers fishing from the bridges, and others who brought theif @mall skiffs with outboard motors on trailers, Mr. Ackerman believes that every “tut ang inlet, every flat and channel wil! be fiiiied. Thousands of anglers will be telling thousands of their friends of the e-:- cellence of the key fishing grounds amiand Key West beth wi!) bene i:, pee eee otherwise credited inthis paper and.alse | races are on; may the | te with tHe Hig NO HOLIDAY FOR DEATH Last year accidental deaths in the United States declined 4 per cent from 1936. But there’s nothing -in that to cause us to throw out our chests—Nature, not man, was the cause of the drop. The mild, cool summer, according to the National Safety Council, was_responsible for alraest all of the decline, inasmuch as heat deaths were 4,500 below normal. In fields were man is the governing fattor, the death and injury total, with the \.exeeption of home accidents, continued to rise. The greatest killer of all time, the automobile, claimed 4 per cent more vie- tims than it did in 1936, for a total of 39,- 700. Occupational deaths climbed 6 per cent, to 19,000. The grand total of deaths from all accidental causes was 106,000— with 375,000 persons permanently injur- ed and 9,400,000, 8 per cent of the whole population, temporarily injured. The direct cost of these accidents is estimated to have reached the staggering total of $3,700,- 000,000. There is 1937’s accident record, ex- pressed in cold figures. It is bad enough looked at that way. It is infinitely worse if you regard it in terms of human values— mutilated, bodies, .widowed ..mothers,...or- phared children, blinded and crippled in- dividuals; gore -and;carnage. And perhaps the most sombre reflection of all is that 90 per cent of the accidents were in all proba- bility easily preventable—somebody was careless, somebody was ignorant, somebody took a chanee, and there was no holiday for death. Will 1938 repeat this grisly toll of sife, health and dollars? It’s up to us, all of us, to answer that question through our ac- tions. THE PEACE OF BATTLE The nations of the world continue to } inerease their atma@ments and to plan larger battleships and the peace that is | peculiar continues to wage in Spain and | China. actin ' | In Spain the tide of battl¢!has varied, | with the Insurgents making some gains last | week. Both sides talk confidently. Italian | soldiers remain under Franco's ordérs. The | end seems nét tobe in sight" ee ' | tinues, with the Chinese fighting more | doggedly than expected and the Japanese | finding it difficult to come to decisive grip | with their foe. Between the provinces of | the North and the Shanghai zone the war | machine of Nippon slowed pergeptibly bit | this should not mislead anybody’ In the | long run the Chinese cannot hold any terri- | tory that the invaders make up their mind | to seize. i Whether the Chitiese can endure more } than the Japanese can inflict remains to be seen. Our sympathy goes out to California in | BRAVERY VERSUS BOASTING ChangeHor Schuschnigg, of Austria, forced to Bapjtulate to Herr Hitler in their recent conference, demonstrates rare cour- age and @sourcefulness in insisting that Austria st remain free and Christian. He also efhibits a firm intention to use the army'to make the Nazis behave in his country, in spite of their idea that things had been arftarged for them by Hitler. In reply, apparently, from Berlin comes the boasting remarks of Gen. Her- mann Goering, air field marshal, that the air forces of Germany will be used to “pro- tect” German minorities outside Germany. This is important, if true. Gen. Goering calls the air foree a safeguard of peace but bis delight in as- sertirg that if forced to fight it will be “awful in action,” that “boundless will to fight animates our air force” and as “a weapon tingle with eagerness to show ADH fifprrngtieres in action” reveals some- ar besilies a spirit of peace. Mla : — UVeresra, PEACE AND PROSPERITY! The Hon. Barton K. Wheeler now says that the administration: (1) should formulate a program of “economic co- operation necessary to bring the world back to a basis of prosperity, and (2) the Presi- dent should consult with the Senate and House, and with other leading industrial nations, find a basis for general agreement and then “make his proposals to the world.” Now, if that isn't easy? Just get the Senate and the House to agree, have the industrial nations of the world to add their little chirps of approval and, presto, (.<rything is fired. Funny, that some ; bedy hadn't thought of this before. In China the Japanese, incident écon- TRE KEY WEST CIPYZS> THE SQUEEZE! 7 aprper eso ceguayerer Temperature* Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean Rainfali* Yesterday’s Precipitation .0Inz. Normal Precipitation 05 Ins. “This record covers 24-pour peried eriding at % oelock thix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 6:44 a. Sun sets 6:32 p. Moon rises 11:11 a. Moon séts - 12:05 a. Toriorrow s Tides AM. 5 High 2:22 Low - 7:10 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level, 30.17. (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Kéy West and Vicinity: ly cloudy “tonight and iy: slightly cooler tonight; moderate [northerly winds, becoming north- east. . Florida: Pair in north and cen- | tral, and mostly cloudy im ex- tremé south portions tonight and Tuesday; slightly colder in cen-+ tral, ahd continued cold in ex- , treme north portions tonight, - sibly some scattered light in interior of extreme north portion near the Georgia line. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate north- west and north winds, becoming northeast, and partly overcast weather tonight and Tuesday. WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is high this morning from the northern Rocky Moun- tain regién southeastward over the Gulf and South Atlantic States, and is relatively low from the Lake Superior region, east- ward over northern New and from northern Ge To last 24 héu: California and—Nerth C. and light snow ir portion: eastern Lake region; %hil | where generally fair weather thas prevailed. “ Temperatures have fallen im the Atlantic and East Gulf States, with freezing southward into central Georgia; while readings are generally near normal over western districts. } Sem wag Pe . der? - ported that How many Amerjcan zens*are living abroad? 2 How many inhabitants there are per square mile in the United States? 3. When did the work of re- storing Williamsburg, Virginia, begin? ‘J 4. How many Masons are there in the United States? 5. Who is the Poet-Laureate of . England? 6. How far can one hear thun- 7. What is the fastest moving living creature? 8. When did Genghis Khan be- gin his rule of the Mogul Empire? 9. What happened to the USS. Cyclops? 10. When was fayon invented? WHAT'S NEW? Venetian blinds have been in- vented that are made of flexible steel.strips, asserted to be more satisfactory that wooden ‘slats. Dr -Vietor Conquest of Ar- mour’s recently reported that the addition of enzymatic extract from the pancréas of the hog ‘made cow’s milk more closely re- semble human milk. Antofagosite and bandylite, two new minerals, were discovered by the Smithsonian Institution- Harvard University expedition to Chile under the leadership of M. C. Bandy. Dr. L. W. Chubb of Westing- house Electric is supervising the construction of an atom-smasher to be used especially for research into the problem of transmuta- tion of elements. glucose injections formed an‘effective antitoxin for mushroom poisoning. _ ¢d by the Bell laboratories. —_—- 4 Injections of _ methylene have been found very Scadnas im the treatment of leprosy. Moths do not eat clothes. is the larvae, laid among clothes, which do the damage. ye we gt uP “hee at PLAY SAFE— Ry keeping FOODSTUFFS at the right temperature in one of our ALL METAL ICE REFRIGERATORS These refrigerators are doubly HEAT PROOF and absolutely air tight $20.00 Easy Terms—10 Days Free Trial . —— it the secesssse MONDAY, 224 COC CCS ESEEEDECCCCSOCCEES WASHINGTON NOTES OeSebsovccccccocdssecseediccccsiossoccepesoscoes carries 596 clocks, which ate o MILLION A YEAR . For the years 1936, sixty-one persons filed returns showing in- comes 6f more than $1,000,900 as compared with forty-one in the previous year. On a net income of $107,641,000, the group paid $77,- | 138,000 in taxes. The returns num- ‘bered. 5,447,439 with net iricome jot $19,069,137, 719. This was a | gain of 21.8 pereent in number jand 30.1 per cent in ineonie re ported over the years before. Tax BUILD HOUSE IN WEEK Pittsburgh, Pa—An experi- all-steel, The Britt limer. Queer trolled electrically by tow clocks on the bridge A woman's bicod contams per cent water while a mant only 75 per cent. 2 scientist clares. { another, and had. the roof on Se prs Finishing :tewches The dwelling has four bath and 2 utility room furnace and laundry. | liability was $1,210,1£7,205, an in-: jerease of $556,167,338, or 85 per | cent over 1936. | - The delegates of the British \Empire arrived in Washington }last week to negotiat® a trate |treaty. Negotiations will ecver | trade betwetn the United King- dom and the United States, and jalso that with the courtries | throughout thé world which make |up the British Empire. The work jis beginning with a full realiza- \tion of difficult problems and a | hope of reaching a fair and equit- able agreement which will con- | tribute to the prosperity of both countries “ind of the world at large. } ides FAR A ' One experiment that will be jhailed by taxpayers everywhere is that begun on the West Coast }by the Tteasury Department, | which will establish an office in Los Arigeles to bring the means of jincome tax appeals to the tax- payer. If it Succeeds, the method will be extended throughout the country, says Secretary Morgen- | thau, who points out that this will COST OF RELIEF The tetal cost of Federal, State and local relief was about $2%5,- 000,000 less in 1937 than in 1936, ‘according to the Social Security Board’s report. In 1937, $2,233,- 314,000 were spent. Payments in, the form of public assistance un- der the Sotial Security Act was included im the total and amount- ed to $383,000,000 im 1937, com- pared to $163,000,008 in 1936 OFFER LOANS By instructions from President Roosevelt, the Reconstruction Fi- Eight persons can be fed an omélet made from am ostr eee Northern Chile is nance Corporation has resumed its rears a total of $496.422 credit to “all deserving borrow- pars it unnecessary to conduct j prolonged correspondence with | officials in Washington, thus per- mitting small taxpapers to appeal their rulings which has “hercto- fore been virtually prohibitive. About 34 persons will be on the staff set-up at Los Angeles, ali of the “same calibre” as the home staff in Washington. RAILROADS WOBBLE The plight of the railroads con- tinues to concern the Government. Some officials are convinced that forced consolidations are neces- sary but Congress has hitherto frowned on the idea. 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