The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1938, Page 2

Corner Greene and Ann Streets Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Oniy Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ber of the Associated Press E Press is exclusively entitied to use Deans dispatches credited. to ot Mt hiirwiss Weaited ADVERTISING RATES » known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE ing notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ituary notices, ete, will be charged for at 10 cents a line. ‘or entertainments by churches from which enue is to.be derived are & cents a line. > Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- | f public issues and subjects of local or general t but it will not publish anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ‘By FHE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- land. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Taking life easy doesn’t make easier. dt Many a race horse loses the race be- cause of the jockey on his back. life Key West isin the news reels—_Tampa | Tribune. Also on the map, in the limelight, and A plage in the sums 5- nan ¥ A New Nork beggar was discévered to be the owner of two automobiles. No wonder he had to beg. ; Almost anybody can ‘gain a little =" prominence by throwing mud at somebody, * but in so doing they soil themselves. Economy is good to talk about but ‘ when it comes to spending money the * average statesman (?) has votes in mind. j The humorist, Josh Billings, once de- | * finded the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny” = As “the science of going to the devil before = you get there.” This is the time of the year for Key Westers to augment theif interest natural beauty. Everyljodypought to be willidg to do something al the line of beautification. = ana +S OTe eROT Bere “The only place whefe democracy : be found is in the grave yard.”—Olin - Miller. If you look you will also find it in = the dictionary, but besides these places it is dificult to find it anywhere else. + may The Citizen, published at the south- ernmost frontier of the United States, gets around quite a bit. A subscribed informer the office that copies of the issue of March = 23 were sent by him to Panama, Puerto = Rico, Hawaii, the Prilippines, Scotland and * England. . 2 —- March of Tinte's depic | passing aver m viaduct aft s West putsa ie = of those who saw the $a dresmeiggt wagjtrng only Phile it dasted: jon of a train leavin in the hearts Senator Charles UO. Andrews has wir- ed The Citizen that he will vote for recom- ai of the Roosev_it reorganization bill t and eventually cast his vote against it. vr Andrews has supported President Roosevelt in most of his programs, but he Trnment handing over its well de- titutional powers to the executiy sh..In this, we believe *the opinion of a vast majority cf * etituents. — the mystery of li in | THAT TVA JACKASS In a recent speech in the Senate at- tacking the Tennessee ‘Valley Authority and demanding a Congressional investiga- tion of its wasteful activities, Senator H. Styles Bridger of New Hampshire told of the now famous jackass which he said cost the TVA $4,500 and was sold for $350 af- ter proving unsatisfactory. Bridges said a TVA committee spent $2,080 for travel expenses searching for a perfect jackass in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, finally buying one near Colum- + bia, Tenn., for $2,500, thus being out a total of $4,580 in obtaining the animal. Then, said the Senator: “Came the spring, the season of daffo- dils and young love. Romance blossomed on the broad meadows of the Tennessee Val- ley, but TVA’s jackass just wasn’t inter- ested. The experts foregathered, shook their heads, and decided to sell the jackass. They got $300 for him from one J. B. Wa- ters in Sevier county, a net loss to TVA of $4,280.” Since Senator Bridges made the fore- going statement, Mr. Waters told the Asso- ciated Press that he really paid the TVA $350 for the animal, but that it had died several months ago. ‘ It would be interesting to know wheth- er the less of this investment was an = to navigation, flood control,'power, or pi j jackassery, MAN HIS OWN PROBLEM Special lenses and films, the photo- electric cell and aluminum surfacing will extend the vision of the 200-inch “eye” of Palomar obseravtory “billions of miles | farther” than when the huge mirror was projected in 1938. | Scientists tell us that the 100-inch | mirror, now at Mount Wilson, in conjunc- | tion with the photo-electric cell, is so sensi- | tive that it can detect the light of a candle, | burning 3,000 miles away! The larger mir- | ror will do much more in revealing the uni- | verse to the astronomer than the present | equipment available. j Man is undoubtedly making vast | strides in the field of intelligence. He is beginning to discayer. the fact, upon. which ife depends. Moreoverg.in mechanical fields of endeavog,:man is mak- ing the impossible easy and invention daily | increases the scope of hiimar: power. | All of this should be translated into | better living conditions for human. beings | and the development of understanding among men. Unfortunately, this does not | seem to be true and the question arises in proportion to his advancement in other lines. The pessimist doubts it and the opti- mist takes it for granted. Sober thought, however, leads to the conclusion that there is much to be done by human beings in the perfection of their own character. Without | it, other advances may prove dangerous | but they will continue, regardless of the effect upon the human race. } HUBRANDS MIGHT LEARN TO The game of bridge, which has sw over the nation like a prairie fire, is ni complicated by the introduction of a fifth suit. Heretofore, four suits of thirteen cards (in case you don’t know) made up the deck for a bridge game. The complications seem to be numerous in view of various and sundry discussions that we have heard as to the manner of bidding and playing cer- tain hands. What will happen, now that a fifth ; suit adds thirteen additional cards to the deck, we fear to prophesy, but if the new innovation takes a firm hold on the devo- tees of contract bridge, millions of hus- bands might as well begin to study the art et. cooking. TOWARD PEACE IN THE ORIENT A full page advertisement, sponsored in the Tokyo press by a Japanese patriotic séciety, advises the United States that peace in the Orient will be realized in- stantly when the United States recognizes Japan's position as the greatest power in the Orient, ceases political and economic activity which has political signiificance and stops guiding other powers to take the same attitude. There is the formula for peace, stated in general terms. When you get the spe- cific requirements, however, they will be e the demands on China, always grow- ing and never satisfied. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN STATE OF FLORIDA EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT TALLAHASSEE PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the people of & Democracy Should take en Anterest in their Government - National, State and Local, ana Cece eee ed sec evn e cccccescecbivedeswsdecncoccsee “Rubber a + > ¥ és F THE BILL for the Reorganiza-; will then take a two-thirds ma- tion of the Executive passes in jority of Congress to override whether the character of man has grown | WHEREAS, Taxationsis a vital pert of any Goverment and every citizen should be informed upon the subject, end WHEREAS, Taxes effect the business, the egriculture, the homes, the employment, afi the general welfare of the Stete, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Fred P Cone, Governor of the State of Floride, proclsim Merch twenty-seventh to April second es FLORIDA TAX INFORMATION W=EE and urge every citizen to make a study of our tex problems for the purpose of making Floride Ue waren arenes @ more prosperous Stete. IK WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand end caused the Great Seal of the State of Floride to be affixed et Tallahassee, the Cepitel, this 15th Dey of Merch, A D, 1938. Sen pPloana “FLORIDA TAX INFORMATION WEEK” STARTS ON SUNDA (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Fila. March 25.—Governor Fred P. Cone has issued a prociamation designating the week of March 27th to April 2nd as “Florida Tax Information Week”. A state committee representing a number of state-wide organiza- tions and individual taxpayers was recently formed to sponsor “Tax Information Week”. The movement is designed to make \the general public “Tax Con- scious”. The governor’s procla- mation is in cooperation with the efforts of the state committee. N. Von Glahn, 824 Barnett Building, Jacksonville, chairman of the state committee, said today that local committees are being set up to cooperate with the state committee. Individual taxpayers throughout the state are urged to cooperate with the local commit- pies tees and where no committees have been formed to set up such committees for Cooperation with the state committee. Mr. Von Glahn today “called for the volunteer assistance of in- dividual taxpayers throughout the state to aid the state committee by setting up local committees, where none have been formed, urging that they write or wire him for information and appro- priate literature for distribution in their community”. In his proclamation designating March 27th to April 2nd as’ “Tax Information Week”, Governor Cone said: “Taxes affect the its present form we shall have gone a long way toward establish- ing duttideiedvish ‘ol : the United States. Congress will have décreéd its dwn partial ab- dication, and fixed it so that one- “YW prevent the full Congressional power from ever being recaptur- ed. Thus, from interpreting demi to mean the uncon- trolled will of the majority, we shall have passed to interpreting it as meaning the power of one- third of the people's representa- tives to block the will of the oth- er two-thirds. The events of the last fortnight, all over the world, have occupied the front page headlines. The re- percussion from them had stupe- fied us all. But we have got to continue to-keep our eyes open, and, for the moment, turn them again toward Washington. For this proposal fo reorganize the executive branch of the govern- ment is at least as revolutionary as the Suprente Court bill, and, ‘in my opinion, even more dan- gerous to répresentative, demo- cratic government. And umiless there is & howl from the courtry within the next few days, this bill, which is now before the Senate, is very likely to pass. Se é-< ‘That the whole structure of our administrative system needs over- hauling and reforming is beside the point at this moment. What we really need, and need des- perately, is an extension, not a jhim! | Sf ‘Cotiiress Checks the Presi- dent the President cah Teclieck Congress, and all he meeds is ene- , third of Congress to overrule the , majority. | 7-7. ' Senater Wheeler proposed an .amendment to overcome this. Un- der his amendment, the President would still have been given re- organization powers, but Congres- sional approval would be requir- ed. This would have preserved It was generally believed that Senator Wheeler's améndment would pass. But the pressure ex- erted by the Admimistration and Mr. Farley upon legislate:. never abates for a moment, whether the pressure of holding or withdraw- ing support in the éncoming Con- gressional elections, or the pres- sure for hoiding or bestowing pat- ronage. Senator Wheeler's amend- | ment was defeated by four votes , to defeat the bill as a whole, and | @raft another and better one. ee Ge This bill must not pass. Tf it “does, we shall have .created 2 means whereby one man, once But Abways Comes Back country with a camarilla. If we LosT FROM CAR. diminishing of Congressional con- i trol and the erection of a more efficient apparatus for that pur- pose. This bill moves in exactly the opposite direction. It gives the President complete power over the bureaus, the agencies and the public corporations, which, with their immense funds and their im- mense powers, have the capacity to make or break the ‘economic and social structure of the coun- try, and under this bill the Presi- ‘dent will be" subject to less sup-_ ervision than is given to the head of any private corporation in the lapse United States. He will be given the power “to transfer, regroup, co-ordinate, | reorganize or abolish” cll of the administrative agencies. This | business, the agriculture, the might conceivably be a desirable homes, the employment and the Move for greater efficiency, pro- general welfare of the state” and vided that some check, some- urged “every citizen to make a where, is exercised by the repre- study of our tax problems for the sentatives of the people. But the purpose of making Florida a more joker lies in the President's veto prosperous state”. power. Under this law he can is- sue an edict with regard to all these agencies. If Congress does not disapprove within sixty days the edict becomes law. If it does KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Key West continues to main- tain her place as the most import- ant export city in Florida. Rec- ords just made public by the cus- toms service in Tampa show ghat this city. e@pégtelf! in Jan@ary” slightly more, than 60 percerit the goods Shipped out of the gate to foreign countries. ‘ing#thes wottkst mond of the s e exports from Florida e ‘dombified td #'tétal tahie of $4 232,693. Of this amount the Ke West exports were valued at $2- 559,233. This leaves only $1,673,- 470 for the state and gives Key West a lead of $885,752 over the ‘exports of the other nine ports of the state. A recent report of the state’s exports covering a period of the last three years discloses that Key West has averaged 60.5 of the state’s total for that pe- ried. The city’s January record is almost identical with that made in the three-year period. Once single always single, so far as the registration books are ted in Florida. This is the f£ Attorney General Fred who is advising super- visors of registration to that ef- fect. When a woman has regis- tered under her maiden name. Mr_ Davis holds, such registration st always be carried on the gistration books in that name. otwithstanding the fact that she may later change her name by marriage and pay poll tax in her matried name. There appears to be no authority, Mr. Davis ex- plains, for supervisors of registra tion to change their registracon books to show the married names of the women. “By this”. the at- torney general explains, “I do not mean that a woman may not vote Merely because she has since married. but in order for her to satisfy the inspectors that she is another name registered. she | chould produce some evidence be- ‘fore Glection officials, such as 2 marriage certificate, to show that her name has been changed. Editorial comment: Having read the recent editorial in The Citizen as to why newspapers do “print certain stories, a Key James R. Herring snd Miss Elizabeth Curry, 1419 Olivia street, were married Saturday afternoon at the office of the county judge. Witnesses included Leona Curry Gibson and H. A. Gibson and Miriam Stewart. The Yacht Bally-Hoo, owned by Louis Luckenbach, of the Lucken- bach Steamship Line, has been left at the Porter Dock to be shipped north via the Mallory Line. The party which was on the yacht left via the F. E. C. Railroad. Charles J. Ladd, retired express agent for foreign shipments of the company’s branch in Key West, is 83 years old today, and many friends are joining with him in celebrating the event. Library committee of the Wo- man’s Clab will meet tomorrow afternoon to make arrangements to catalogue the books in the b- brary. As a result of this inno- vation the library will not be opened at the usual four tomor- disapprove, its disapproval is sub- ject to Presidential veto. And it Pee Copyright, 1938, N. Y. Tribune. Inc., March 23. All rights reserved ‘Temperature* Highest _ sme Barometer reading at & a. m.: Sea level, 30.02. (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in tempera’ - light to moderate east to southeast winds. Florida: Fair tonight and Sst- and East Gulf: Light to moder. ate east to southeast winds, and fair weather tonight and Setur- day WEATHER CONDITIONS morning over eastern districts and THE WEATHER WEST POINT. Neb. March 25. —George Deitel's cow walked } i oe ii