The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1938, Page 5

me the treasurer re THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938. ‘MOTOR BOATING? | \, 4 GIVES KEY WEST. ANOTHER BOOST CARRIES ARTICLE CONCERN. | ING ORGANIZATION OF LO- CAL YACHT CLUB IN APRIL ISSUE “All we have to do is to get that thoroughfare Bahia Honda to Key West that a yacht can get through it, and if we do not have our harbor crowd- ed with yachts, it certainly won't be the fault of that good friend of Key W ‘MoToR BoatinG’,” said Secretary S. C. Singleton when The Citizen made its call this morning at the office. “Here is ‘A Survey of Harbor Facilities’, from Manasquan, N. J., to New Orleans, and Key West gets a write-up that would bring any yatchsman miles out of his way”. A copy of the April number of MoToR BoatinG contains this paragraph about the Key West Yacht Club: “The boys in the Key West Yacht Club some time ago went high hat and christened _ their club Cayo Hueso, which is Span- ish for Key West, but due to the difficulty of visitors in remem- bering this name, decided to go back to their former name and now again will be known as the Key West Yacht Club. This club has been orga only a short time and the election of officers resulted in Major James D. Mac- Mullen being selected for the office of Commodore. Other of- ficers will be Melvin Russel, Vice-Commodore; Dr. J. Y. Por- ter, Rear Commodore; Stephen C. Singleton, Secretary - Treasurer, and Dr. Armando Cobo and Stephen C. Singleton, III, repre- sentatives for the associate and junior members”. from so MANY ARRIVALS ON S.S. CUBA OVER ONE HUNDRED PAS-| SENGERS COME IN TUES- DAY FROM HAVANA Arriving on the Steamship Cuba Tuesday from Havana was the largest list of passengers ar- riving in many days whose des- tination was Key West. There were 50 fi and 11 second cabin passengers for Key West and 62 first and one second cabin pas- senger enroute to Tampa Key West arrivals: Erhart M. Bell, Martin Platte, Pugh Han- en, Irna Dorothea Helbig Hein- rich, Ralph de Palmer, Osta de Palmer, William Winship, Juan Selgas, Ostavio Pinero, Clarence H. Pierce, Yedidiah Yerninsky, Clarice Woodruff, Genevieve Woodruf, H. L. Solares, Hector Sc , Charles Schull, Hendrick ‘ol, Olice Geodwin, Samuel Carnahan, Fred C. Schatz, Charles A. Schuldee, Miguel Lanz Duret, Francisco D. Valdez, Fernando Lanz Duret, Francisco Lopez Figueroa, Harry Sta Silvia Stark, Naomi Stark, Silvoa Stark, Donald Stark, John Falkenberg, Gie' man, Suzerborg orseman, Camilla Gierseman, Jose B. Cruz, Gertrude Alonso, Leandro Gon- valez, Johannes Piszka, Mamie Donez, Vistotis South, Igbacio Perez, Edelia Perez, Jesus Perez, Jose Perez, Antonio Quintero, Carmen Dones de Quintero, David C. Rees, Frank C. Rathye, Bertha March, Helen Garrity, Isabel N Spore, Elizabeth Greenwood, Consuelo de Poo, Adolfo de Poo, Federico Ar o, Regis Lisper, Serafin Corchard, Adolfo Ra- mirez, Isabel Maria Vincent, Ra- mon Alpizar, Sid Milan Shown on the ship’s manifest were the followir items: For Key West, 13 tons of freight, four automobiles and three sacks of mail; for Tampa, 242 tons of freight and 100 sacks of mail HAVE $325 FOR CITY ART CENTER Funding of the program for the city Art Ce the Aquariu $325, Dr. Wr ber, said today Collections rehabilitation building of the ated opposite advanced to R. Warren, treasur- slow be d and may at personal n begun s asking sent the ue to the fact t Hicitation has n. et, although lc pnations have anization: Largest dor at of the C ty C which voted $200, t be as for bee or- far mmission. provide Hans Carl von Linsingen, Adolph | « Garey OKING at __ » WA sHINGION By HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen Is This the “Campaign Fu nd for 1938” Or the Logical Road to Full Recovery? The President's new recovery program, outlined to Congress) two weeks ago and explained to! the people in a radio address, i derisively referred to as “the cam- paign fund for 1938” by the op- | position, which includes a num-, ber of Democratic members of Congr as well as most of the Republicans. While Congress may do consid- erable ear-marking of funds, the prospects are that the program will proceed. It is important, therefore, for the people of this country to understand the back- ground, the intended results and the consequences of the Presi-| dent’s propos: Briefly, the President argues: The National Income The national income, which was $80,000,000,000 in 1928, drop- ped to less than $40,000,000,000 in 1932, but rose to $68,000,000,000 in 1937 as a result of the Admin- | istration’s acts to reestablish res- | ervoirs of credit, to put purchas- | ing power in the hands of the consuming public, and to secure a more equitable distribution of the national income. i By the end of 1936, he said, both the business community and the Government felt that a large measure of the Government's spending activities could be re- duced. During the winter and spring of 1937, cotton factories, automobile plants and other in- dustries, for various causes, pro- duced goods faster than the con- sumers could buy them, and by the autumn of 1937 had surplus stocks on hand. During the same period prices of some products rose faster than was warranted and many commodities were pric- ed to consumers above the “infla- tionary boom prices of 1929”. Government Action x Naturally, the question arises, did the Government do anything about the situation then? The answer is three-fold: In Decem- the Treasury began to “sterilize” incoming gold from abroad to keep it from inflating the credit structure of the nation; in April, 1937, the Gevernment issued warnings against the prac- tice of over-production and high prices; in May, 1937, the Federal Reserve increased its require- ments in order to curtail banking credit. Last autumn, says the Presi- dent, “in a sincere effort to bring Government expenditures and Government income into closer balance the budget worked out called for sharp increases i ernment spending”. In January, the Treasury estimate of the bud- get for the fiscal year beginning July Ist, 1937, reflected consider- able curtailment. These estimates, says Mr. Roosevelt, in the light of present conditions, are “far too in his message to Congress, he stated that if private enterprise did not jobs this spring, the fovernment would take up the slack". For four and a half years, recovery proceded apace, but “the course of our economics has run adversely for half a year”. Moreover, “only within the past two months, as we have waited patiently to see whether the fore- es of business itself would coun- teract it (the economic setback) has it become apparent that Gov- ernment itself could not longer safely fail to take aggressive Gov- ernment steps to meet it”. Complaints of Business Evidently, to answer the com- plaints of business that Govern- ment interference has retarded recovery, the President said, “It should be noted in fairness that since January Ist, 1937, the Presi- dent has recommended to Con- gress only four measures of jor importance to business of tt country”. These include (1) Legislation to stabilize ag- riculture (2) Legislation to end loop holes in personal income tax laws Legislation to put a floor under wages and a g over hours of labor in industry. And— (4) Tax legislation to remove inequities from the Undistribt Profits tax, especially fect the smaller type Legisiation for items (1 (2) have been approved by President, item (3) is under con sideration d congressional ac- tion ¢ » (4) is in the final tages of free conference. “The @) ceili record speaks for itself”, says the v President “No other adding. measures affecting business have been proposed” In discussing possible increase in the national income, Mr. Roose- velt continued: “I want to make it clear that we do not believe that we can get an adequate rise | in national income merely by in-| vesting, lending or spending pub- lic funds. economy that private funds be put to work and all of us recog- nize that such funds are entitled THE KEY WEST CITIZEN RECENT ISSUE OF LAKELAND NEWS | Cooccccccsccecccescesees TOO LATE TO By RUSSELL KAY Leaving the political front where the din and thunder of It is essential in our battle grows daily more intense, | it was a genuine relief to spend a day or so with the newspaper Key. West is the proud posses- | sor of a Banyan Tree, one of the, finest of this species to be found |anywhere. Recently, the Lake-| |land News, a bi-weekly pub- | lication, part owner of which is |Frank W. Lovering, who former- | ly published the Florida Keys |Sun in this city, had a very in-| | teresting story about the Banyan | Tree, which readers of The Citi- | | zen will find interesting. Column- list Lovering devoted an entire | { | | | | | i * | column to this subject in his “One At lo: | Line After Another” with which 'most Key Westers are familiar. The article follows: | _ At Dania, a few miles south of | Fort Lauderdale, a tropical gar- ;den features “the $2,000,000 Ban- to a fair profit. The Government folks at the mid-year convention | yan Tree”. Tradition dating back cannot and should not act alone. of the Florida State Press Asso-!in the “boom days” says the im- must help. I am sure s will help”. The Present Proposal What does the President pro- pose? First, that in the coming fiscal storm clouds that envelope him | year Government expenditures for the WPA, the Farm Security Administration, the National Youth Administration and the CCC be continued at the same rate as at present. To do this ciation held this year at Ocala. On the trail of candidates, dur- ing the heat of a political cam- paign, one is apt to gather the erroneous impression that the howling winds and menacing also blanket the state’s entire area. And it is refreshing to find that the fury of the political ele- ments are really but local dis- turbances, with individual storm centers confined to the limited |mense tree was thus nicknamed |when one developer, looking at |the tree with another said, “I'd | give two million dollars to have | that tree on my property”. But he didn’t buy it. eee | Few trees in the world have so |much background in history as the banyan. To botanists it is known as Ficus Indica, but Time has developed several aliases: jthe pagoda tree, the bo-tree, the will mean an increase of about a’ territory where the candidates at| grove tree, and, from an India billion and a quarter dollars more than estimated in the message the moment are working. In spite of the fact that five |tribe of tradesmen, the Banjans, game the name, Banyan, which sent to Congress on January 2nd. senatorial candidates have been;seems most favored. Usually a Second, to make definite addi- i tions to the purchasing power by providing new work by (a) Adding $300,000,000 to the amount available for immediate construction of additional slum- clearance projects. (b) By starting a billion dol- lar public works program in need- ed public improvements in states, counties and cities. (c) By adding $100,000,000 the amount set up for Federal to tramping about the state for days, bellowing like a swarm of angry bulls, waving their arms, thump- ing their manly chests and tear- ing their hair in an effort to im- press and alarm the populace, here for two days a group of sev- eral hundred well informed and intelligent citizens gather to talk calmly of such trivial and petty problems as collections, job work and newspaper make-up. Totally ignoring the fact that! | Baian is a Hindu, and that cast jot Hindu merchants utilizes the | great and columned spaces shel- tered by the far-spreading tree as market places. The one especial tree which gives the name to the: classification was on the Persian Gulf, and as a spot for worship | some of the merchants once built a pagoda there. 4 see In Calcutta, India, the name “Banian” was generally applied highway aid in the January bud- the lash of the selfish tyrant is! to a native broker or a head clerk get. (d) By adding $37,000,000 to the $63,000,000 provided for flood control and reclamation. poised above their ragged backs, that heavier burdens than they now sweat and strain under are about to be imposed on them, \in any business or private house, known as “Sircar”. In Bengal |Banian means a dealer in grain. The word is Anglo-Indian for (e) By adding $25,000,000 ad- that their weak and aged parents | undershirt, in reference to the ditional, for Federal buildings in @¥¢ about to be driven from their body garment of the Hindus, es- various parts of the country. Finance and Credit “This new program”, says the President, “adds $2,062,000,000 to direct Treasury expenditures and another $950,000,000 to Govern- ment loans”. Mr, Roosevelt con- tinues, “The net effect on the debt of the Government is this. between now and July 1, 4 fifteen months away—the. Treas- ury will have to raise less than $1,500,000,000 of new money”. Naturally, the reader wonders how the Treasury will raise near- ly three billion dollars for dire expenditures and loans without raising more than half the sum. This brings us to two recommended by the President for the expansion of bank re- sources, which were taken imme- diately without congressional ac- tion. The first was the desterili- zation of gold which placed $1, 391,000,000 to the Treasury's ac- count in the Federal Reserve Banks to be used in helping to finance the new appropriations. Readers will recall that in De cember, 1936, when large quanti-/ ment and after calm deliberation. | ties of gold were coming into this country from abroad, the structure of the nation threatened with inflation. At that time, the Treasury began acquir- nor are they necessarily devils, | ing the gold in order to prevent its use as the base of excessive credit. This was done to prevent excessive inflation; it was called judgment possesses more of the/| “sterilization” of gold. The pres- ent “desterilization” reverses the proce is now demeed desirable GERALD JAYCOCKS HEADS DEMOLAYS ing Tues- = f et day night members of Robert ‘cocks as their next term. Kermit Dexter Dorgan was and neilor Degree exemplified at th he DeMolay was also g. Oth er business was postponed until meetin next week games were play- jous refreshment and a ourse was served Present at this A. Wet meeting was P DeMolay Weber is do it and from whom he expects} oast Survey homes and the nation itself rests on the brink of chaos—these folks refuse to lend their ears and even have the effrontry, between their business sessions, to cavort in unseemly fashion in an effort to master the “Big Apple” or gath- er in rooms to exercise a_ cor! screw and inquire as to whether or not you have heard the one about the “two chorus girls and the stenographer”. And as one journeys from the sullen atmosphere of political turmoil into the sunshine of such sanity and fellowship it serves to restore his faith and drive away ct his fears, for so long as Americans | as a people possess the ability to so lightly cast aside the ‘right- ful and alarming bugaboos of po- steps jitical agitators, to see so clearly | through the fog and smoke screen that despite it they can go calmly about their business of living a normal life, there is real- ly little to worry about It is not that the question of se- lecting a United States senator is a matter of little import, for it is) == a problem that should deeply con- cern every Floridian. But in reaching a decision it is well that we do so with intelligent judg After all it is a good thing to credit remember that candidates in the a was'end are but human beings like || SLATE you and I They are not divine all possessing good and bad quali- ties. And the problem of the vot- er is to pick the man that in his good than the bad Fundamentally, there are two who in their hearts want to serve the people, and those who put their own personal interests and the selfish desi of the priv- ileged few above everything else True democracy is with the welfare of ALL the peo- ple and its practice demands that a government, while respecting liberty and freedom, does not license any selfish group or in- s ait and detrimental to the erests of all s policy should as much to labor as does to capi- tal. and as equ to youth as to age. For ntolerar and greed the hearts of little 1 as big—in the ald as best apply >» would cast s n the erest of the at heart. will the candidate who travagant promises much he will nh GIVE, tely f « he promises to TAKE what GIVE to concerned | TIPAZLZLALALZALZLAAAAAAAA AE |pecially the Banians. In the Brit- jish Navy, “banyan days” were | formerly the two days each week jon which meat was excluded from |the menu, this an allusion to the |vegetarian diet of the Hindu |merchants—the Banians. | eee | The Banian caste numbers be- | tween three and four million hu- |man beings and carries on exten- \sive trade by means of caravans {with the interior of Asia and to \the borders of China and Russia | Traveling much the Banians have established counting houses wide- ly in Asia. In Africa they were at one time indentified with the ne-, farious slave trade. Those of the |caste with enough capital live generally by money-lending at usurious interest rates. The poor- er Banians hawk their goods about the rural villages. eee | And now to the botanical side of the picture. Of plants that at- trees none | || ANNOUNCIN®... | PALMER’S ROOFING COMPANY TILE COMPOSITION ROOFING | BARRETT’S ROOFING |] Estimates Cheerfully Given 1212 White St., Key West 15 N. E. 17 Terrace, Miami 16 Years In South Florida | | | because inflation of credit! types of men in public life: those | Ob edd Order of DeMolay, terest with special privileges that! ¢ N) N) N) N) \ N N N VOTE LEWIS E. FOR CONGRESS Fourth Congressiona! District Give Business A Voice Send A Business Man To Congress HAS ARTICLE ABOUT BANYAN TREE shows such prodigious growth of air roots as the banyan, concern- ing which the poet, Milton, wrote: | “The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow | About the mother tree; a pillar’d shade High over-arched, walks between. There oft the Indian herdman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool and tends his pas- turing herds opholes cut through thickest shade”. the echoing ee The verse describes the banyan accurately. The parent tree, a tropical parasite, (Hemi-epiphy- tes) germinates from seeds dropped by birds, or carried on, the wind to other trees, quite pre- | ferably the crown of a palm. As it develops, the aerial growth! drops roots from its branches and the small, tender fibers like loose cords dangle toward the earth, in- creasing in length and thickness as they pierce their way into it oe The parts above ground con-! tinue to thicken and tighten till they grow as big as large tree trunks. More and more branches send out more and more roots; | the original tree becomes a verit- able grove, and meantime kills the parent tree into the top of; which the seeds were deposited. In this extraordinary process of evolution the banyan builds an immense and heavily columned canopy of leaves with numberless stem-like props. eee At first the young banyan lives on its host tree, but finally ex- tinguishes it entirely, so one would never know it existed. The heart-shaped leaves, five and six inches long, are produced in pairs, and develop a fig no bigger than a cherry. One tree in India is ex- pansive enough to shelter 7,000 people. The wood of the banyan is porous and of no use; the tree furnishes gum-lac and the milk and bark are sometimes used in Hindu medicinal work. Six Florida aces are busily at work in Reading, Pa., preparing for the AAA auto races being held there this week. They are Jimmie Malone, who handled pubilicity for the Florida State Fair at Tampa; Big Bilf Breiten- stien, who was manager of the Belt Fair at DeLand; Marks, who conducts racing 1ond Beach; George Kinum, | generalissimo of Orange City Ho- tel; Ralph Hankinson, who has charge of the AAA racing pro gram, and Charlie Williams, his ecretary General Butler, assailing Navy 311], calls it a “grand bluff" and urges military isolation DeSOTO HOTEL Sarasota Florida Vacation Land OPEN ALL YEAR } EUROPEAN PLAN> All Outside Rooms Quiet, Clean, Good Beds Free Parking \ $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 single + $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 double La Verne Apartments 336 So. Osprey Ave Everything furnished for housekeeping. Moderate rates by week or month BB SM ME LM BP aM, FOR MOORE WSAPAAAAAAAAAAZAALAAALE SL. N N & N ‘ . ‘ TIMELY JOTTINGS F SAFE DRIVER'S NOTE | inheritance AROUND MIAMI (By CONTRIBUTOR) The late Col. E. H. R. Green's tax to his “home state” will be around $5,000,000. But consternation and confusion is rife because the colonel absent- mindedly failed to say which of ‘his four residences was “home- sweet-home”. When in Texas, the colonel talked “hosses”, chaw- ed a quid and wore a ten-gal- lon hat. In New York, he was the debonaire man-about-town. ' And in Massachusetts he was a KEY WEST ART SCENES WILL BE SHOWN IN MIAMI AL CRAFTS, ETCHINGS, DRAWINGS SHIPPED Eighty-three water colors, paintings, drawings, etchings and some metal crafts of Key West, sights and scenes have been for- warded to the Miami’s Woman's Club for a two weeks’ exhibition ‘beginning Monday and continuing until May 14 Request was made through Adam Empie, director of the Mi- ami Federal Art Galleries, through the sponsormg Miami Woman's Club. Townsend Mor- gan, local Federal Art Center di- rector, suggested to the Key West Art Association, an independent group, which had two exhibitions at the Art Center here during the winter, that they send a repre- sentative group of scenes. The 83 were selected by a jury from |} the Association. Mr. Empie states in the request that if more pictures are sent them than their galleries can ac- commodate he has arranged for exhibition in the Miami Chamber of Commerce, American Automo- bile Association offices and other places in the downtown section of Miami. A great demand has been felt in Miami for things of interest about Key West, and large number of requests have been for art subjects, Mr. Empie states. The present exhibition is design- ed to supply this demand in some measure, he concluded. Key West Scavenger Service FOR EXTRA SERVICE PHONE 123-J WILLIAM KNIGHT a BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME ——with— Modern Tile Floor and Wainscot In Bath, Kitchen, Porch Sanitary, Decorative. Colorful Cuban Tile, Resilient Tile, Marble Terrazzo, See— Overseas Tile Company 706 White Street “bluenose Yankey” by right of birth. But in Miami, here he really was a “Cracker” who wel- comed celebrities to his mansion on Star Island and hobnobbed with traffic cops and grocer men. I remember him sitting, double parked in his huge black limou- sine with its glass top and writing desk. The 300-pound colonel had a stack of crisp $10 bills before him as he fondled his pet Boston bull, with a red ribbon. As I watched, a Miami police sergeant came up to greet him and he gave him a cigar and one of the bills. Then his chauffeur, who acted for many years as his com- panion and bodyguard, climbed aloft and the big car with its Massachusetts tags, skimmed away “Pretty generous for dam Yankey”, somebody remark ed. The Gener: Extension Divi sion, University of Florida, has scheduled short courses for min of the gospel for April 2 ; real estate brokers, May 9-10; photographers, May 16-18; water treatment, to be held at Daytona Beach, May 23-24; con servation officers, May 30-31 bankers, June 7-10; P.-T. A., June 7-10; garden clubs, June 8-10, and a short course for barbers ha been tentatively set for July 5-6 . ! {NO NAME LODGE; i No Name Key Directly on Sand Beach ! 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