The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1938, Page 2

CE TWwo- The = silest Citizen G L. P. AMIMA\, Prenident and Publisher suk A + Aevintant tusiness Manager ty ibe Cuigen building Coruer Greene and Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and Monroe ‘ounty Oniy Daily Sutered at Key West, ida, as second class matter dispatches credited to e credited in this paper and SURSCRIPTIO: : 2 $10.00 5.08 259 6 One Year Bix Months ‘Three Months - ADVERTISING RATES ode known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of ther&s, resolutiors of t. obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at f{ 10 cents a line. for entertainments by churches from wiich to be derived are 5 cents a line. an open forum and invites discus- es and subjects of local or general inters st but it will not publish anonymous communi- Henne e eee eee eee EEE ! 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. They say, is usually a liar. In the early days, the settlers wor- ried about the roaming Indians; now vur | chief worries are the variegated taxes. The | Indians tomahawked their victims and soon it was all over; now we are taxed to death | and it is a slow excruciating process. And as the Indians gloated over their victims, with sombre mien, just so do the tax col- | lectors, but with a taunting grin. No one makes me quite as sick as OUR RAILROADS Railroad mileage in the United States reached its peak in 1916, with 254251 miles in eperation. Sinee then, through the sess emga of unprofitable branch lines, the total has been reduced to abou‘ 240, 000 miles. Approximately 45 cents of every dol- lar received by American railroads goes for salaries and wages, while more than eight cents is paid out in taxes. For every man employed directly by the railroads in their operation, it is esti- mated that one other man is employed in various industries upon which the rail- roads depend for material, fuel and other supplies. The all-time peak of railroad employ- ment was during 1920, when more than two million persons were on the payrolls. Since 1932 the number has averaged about one million, aecording to records of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. The num- ber at present is estimated to be less than a million. Approximately one-half of the coun- try’s mileage was operated at a loss last year, and 96 companies, representing 28 per cent of the total mileage in the United States, are now in the hands of receivers or trustees. Railroad executives declare the 15 per cent increase in freight rates which they are asking is absolutely necessary if | satisfactory service is to be maintained. TIME FOR ALIBIS PAST Congress can no longer think up werk- able alibis if it refuses to repeal or drastic- | ally amend the undistributed profits and | capital gains taxes. Scores of leading economists and news- papers have gone on record as saying that these taxes are largely responsible for, the business slump. The larger businesses of | the country are solidly aligned against the taxes. And now it is apparent that small business has taken a similar position. At the recent meeting of representative “little business men” in Washington, these two taxes came in for almost unanimous criti- cism. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Heppenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Teday As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Every property owner in the city who owes the county de- went taxes can settle upon the same terms recently granted to R. C. Perky. provided his property has been equally over assessed, members of the board county commissioners an- Mr. Perky w: being pay twice as much to each year as was be- ing asked of the Florida East Coast Railway, members of the board show. He owns 25,000 acres of Key land, and more than 21,- 600 of this is low and swampy. Much of it is worth almost noth- ing. Yet he has been asked to pay taxes on a valuation of from $50 to $100 per acre on every square foot of this land. In 1924 his taxes were $13,000, and in 1925 he was asked to pay more than $150,000 on exactly the same property A motorcade of 409 automobiles carrying 1200 nobles from the Arabian Temple at Houston, Texas, to the Shriners conven- tion in Miami in May, may visit Key West, is believed by the lo- cal Chamber of Commerce. The party’s schedule gives time for visits to several Florida cities, and according to the Chamber of Commerce, it can be brought here. The chamber has sent the secretary of Arabian Temple an invitation to visit Key West. The Citizen is round paper he has ever seen in a city of this size, and the same is true for the La Concha Hotel, says Darden Allen, field secretary the best all (See “The 1. Is 1938 consi hopper year? 2. How many persons will make income tax returns this year? 3. Do blood tests reveal the existence of the germ of syphilis? 4. When was the Labor De- partment created? 5. How many physicians are there in the United States? 6. What portion of the popu- lation is dependent upon govern- mental aid? 7. What percentage of railroad mileage is being operated by re- ceivers? 8 How many persons are on the relief rolls of WPA? 9. What is the largest airplane hangar in the world? 10. How much do American sportsmen pay each year in hunt ing licenses? Lowest Mean 4 Normal Mean. Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation .0 Ins. Normal Precipitation 05 Ins. “Thin record covers 24-heer peried ending at S @cleck thix morning. Temerrow’s Almanac Sun rises > 6:42 a. Sun sets __ —. 6:33 p. Moon rises 1209 a. Moon sets - es ES First quarter, 9th ____ 3:35 a. A.M. 10 12:32 Rovemetes eins at 8a. m: Sea level, 30.24. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Gener- = ally fair tonight and Wednesday; CLASSIFIED COLUMN Seecoveccecesesoocessese FOR RENT APARTMENT—One or two bed- rooms, shower and tub. Con- tinuous hot water, GE refrig-: erator. See R. R. Lord, County Court House. mar8-lwk PERSONAL OLD AT 40! GET PEP. New Ostrex Tonie Tab- lets contain raw oyster invig- orators and other stimulants. One dose starts new pep. Value $1.00. Special price 89c. Call. write Gardner’s Pharmacy. jan4-tue-thur-fri BICYCLES of the American Automobile As-} sociation, who is here ona_ visit. “T have travelled United States by auto”, says Allen. “This means that I have travelled leisurely and have had time to form my own opinion of | cities and what they have to of- fer. My business is such that, it brings me in contact with news- papers and hotels. And I have never, anywhere, seen better hotel nor a better newspa- Furthermore, halfway measures won't | per in a city of this size” do. These taxes must be radically changed if business is to be encouraged in this country. HERE’S AN OLD FRIEND “You can say that your jail is} through the} Mr. either a; | BICYCLES FOR RENT, by hour, day, week or month, J. R Stowers Company. nov2-tf FOUND FOUND—Pair of child’s spec- tacles, at conjunction of Palm Avenue and the boulevard. Owner may have same by ap- plying at The Citizen office and paying for this advertisement. mar3-tf MOTO-SCOOTS alright”, said State Prison Inspec- | tor A. L. Henderson, after the regular tour of afternoon, } inspection was} RENT A MOTO-SCOOT by hour or day. “A Treat That Can’* Be Beat”. Moto-Scoot Service, not much change in temperature; moderate northeast to east winds. Florida: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer in extreme north portion tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate north- east to east winds, and partly overcast weather tonight and Wednesday. WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is relatively low this morning over New England, and from northern California south- eastward over Arizona; while a moderately strong high pressure area, with crests over southeast- ern districts and the northern Plains States, overspreads most of the remainder of the country. Rain has occurred since yester- day morning throughout Texas, being heavy in the lower Rio Grande Valley. There has also been light to moderate rain in California, and light snow in northern Michigan. Temperatures have risen from the Ohio and Middle Mississippi valleys southward to the middle Gulf coast, and have fallen in the Lake Superior region, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. reporting a mini- mum of 12 degrees below zero this morning. Elsewhere temperature changes | have been unimportant; with readings somewhat below normal in portions of the South Atlantic States, and generally above in other G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge | | FACTS THAT ARE NEWS | THE R3F WAS BUILT AFTER TE Geeman Diaciace “L-32> teat BURNED NE&R LONDON IN 1916- SHE WAS THE RRST UCUTER Tuan AR CRAFT TO SPAN Te SLANT REAGUING MINEOLA FELD NN SD AFTER A STORMY TRIP. CARRYING COLUMBIA LAUNDRY : : completed yesterday Secretary Harold Ickes.—Olin Miller. ALL ‘LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING SERVICES after he had carefully gone over! 701% Duval street. mar4-12tx . 617 Simonton St Prom 57 Burke calls for union of “pro- everything in connection with the | — gressive conservatives” to pre- | —— A casual reader of news finds himself Few people are quite as quick as We to defend Harold Ickes.—P. E. B. You can beat your shirt and dickeys On this way of rhyming Ickes. —Fort Myers News-Press. Be a good scout and let their poetic license. ’em_ enjoy Mrs. McNutt, wife of_the commis- | sioner to the Philippines, whose husband, Paul Vories McNutt, is a Bargis-is-willin’, candidate for the presidency in 1940, says if her spouse is elected to the presidency, he will be the handsomest president the United States ever had. McNutt’s hand- some physiognomy may be the very thing that will defeat him. handsome presidents; what we saute Loin in appearance and honesty of purposé. Now who can qualify? Gov- ernor Cone for one! Looks lItke there is a little argument up as to whether Miami or Tampa is Flor- ida’s most wicked city. one that’s got it on both of °em—Brooks- ville Journal, Jacksenville or Key West? Queries the ever righteous Tampa Tribune. Why pick on us, we ain't done nothing? | But levity aside, if with the completion of the road to the -mainland, we are not vigilant and allow all the riff-raff with evil designs to come to our shores, a trans- formation will develop, and Key West— like Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa—be- come a wicked city. For years The Citizen has inveighed ainst the practice of voters to put into e and maintain in office officials who persistently refused to pay their taxes; it contended that no one should feed at the public trough unless his hands were clean: that it was an imposition on all those whe did pay their taxes to be governed by tax dodgers. And this indictment holds good for the future. For the present, however, the scene has changed and the Murphy Act did the trick by washing off this fes- tering spot from the escutcheon of—not the elect—but the elected. Now that ob- solution has been given, we hope it stick. will We have enough of | want is| -ian journalist because of his Believe we know | entranced, now and then, by advance news of coming styles. Last week we ran across an old friend, | the hat-pin, which, we are warned, is com- | ing back to keep hats in place on top of women’s heads, or wherever and at what- | ever angle they may be worn. “The old-fashioned hatpin in glorified form,” say reporters in the know, which, | roughly translated, means that the little gadgets will cost plenty of man’s ducats. What is worse, they will likely stick into | human eyes, the meat of modern mashers and, occasionally, the heads of those who rashly push them through what is often laughingly referred to as a hat. DICTATOR WAYS Readers interested in the ways of a dietator-controlled country might get a | few points from the recent action of the Italian government in expelling a Hungar- “general uatti- tude.” The visiting gentleman of the press was not very careful in concealing his an- tipathy te Fascist principles and practices. This attitude was not “appreciated” and he was “repeatedly warned.” Later, the visitor was expelled although he had serv- ed five years as a newspaper man in Rome. Before leaving Italy the Hungarian returned to the Italian government a medal that has been conferred upon him by Mar- shal Graziani for his services in Somaliland during the Ethiopian conflict. LOANS TO SMALL BUSINESSES The need of small industry souree of long-term credit, nsion, for a to be used in is admitted and the government of the United States, through various sifi- cials, is studying the problem in the hope of providing adequate financing. There are many difficulties ahead, however, before a plan will be devised that will solve the credit needs of the little busi- hess man and, at the same time, reasonably pretect the government against loss. Ob- «_oasly, sach loans should not be made on _® basis of expecting to lose the money local prison. well kept was his conclusién. At the meeting of the local Wo-! man’s Christian Temperance) Union, held yesterday afternoon, in the building of the Woman's Club, Mrs. W. W. Demeritt, local essay director, reported the pub- lie schools in Key West have each been assigned subjects on which essays are to be written. Prizes for the best essay are to be awarded. Another enthusiastic visitor and Key West booster is Henry Deck- er, New York, president of Henry Decker Limited, advertising firm, who arrived yesterday. “I cer- tainly like it here and expect to make you an extended visit next winter”. The visitor is accom- panied by his constant pal, Mee Zoo, a thoroughbred chow dog from China, of which he is very proud. Orestes Ferrara, Cuban ambas-_ sador to the United States, flew over from Havanaon the Pan American Airways plane . yester- day enroute to Was! He was accompanied tera. To Pilot Mus’ “We congratulate you wonderful trip and the marvelous landing”. They left by rail yes- terday eveni The Lucky Dance, to be given at the | K. C. Hut tomorrow night, ses eclipse the Carnival h was given last Fri- the hall. Manager Louis Carbonell says that he was so i with the success of the al dance decided on the Lucky one icky” feature will not be di ed until the night of the dan U. S. favors trade continued to rise in Commerce Dept. reports. balance January The jaf is clean and | FOR SALE | CORNER LOT, 50x100 feet. Cor- ner 5th and Staple Avenue, Apply Box D, The Citizen. nov2-tf FOR SALE—Frigidaire $30, and girl's bicycle, $25. Apply 524 Elizabeth street. mar6-3tx — SALE—Wooden, two-apart- ment house. One block from South Beach. Income produc- { ing. Write Box Y, clo The Citi- zen. mar5-3tx LOST LOST—Small ladies’ wrist watch, Saturday night. Liberal reward if returned to Dr. DePoo, phone 647. maré-It BOYS WANTED BOYS WANTED—Ages 12 to 15, to do pleasant educational work afternoons and Saturdays. Good pay. Apply by letter to J. T., cio The Citzien. mar6-Itx REAL ESTATE TO SELL OR BUY REAL ES- | TATE or mortgage on Florida Keys, address E. R. Lowe, P. O. Box 21, Tavernier, Florida. WANTED TO BUY—Smali house and lot, for cash. Must be rea- sonable. Box R, Citizen Office. mar6-3t Old Island Trading Post MOST UNIQUE SHOP IN TOWN N serve free enterprise. . ; N N a 4 \ . : 3 : 4 N N \ N 4 N N N N N : N Wiring Cleats and Nail Knobe Sc ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Rubber Covered Wire: No. 14 Black or White No. 10 Black or White White glass ceiling balls with or without hangers lc Per Foot 2c Per Foot $1.00 compirt- 25e Bakelite Plates for Reorptecies 15e EACH and Switches MIRROR GLASS PLATES FORK RECEPTACLES AND SWITCHES Ic Each 35 SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING C9. White and Eliza Streets “Your Home Is Worthy (@f The Best™ CL hh hed hh hadkckdded hbk hadnt CSSTTTOOTTES TSS SISOOME EEE Ch hhhhdddhd dedaddedh A hhheddhdddeddihadadaddadadudaditadl,