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

PAGE TWS heer | The | Key West Citizen’ Pabilsheg ‘Dally MELZEN BU TIME TO BURY THE HATCHET Except Sunday By (LESHING CO., INC. ident and Publisher IN, Assistant Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets iat mayor and all other municipal officials | should end the civil war that had been rag- | ing among them and get busy cz some con- | structive work for the benefit of the entire | city of Key West. At all times The Citizen has maintain- ed‘ a ‘hands-off policy insofar as our local po8tical campaigns are concerned. We feel that the people usually can be trusted | to elect men competent to handle our muni- cipal affairs and we have not attempted to | tell them who they should put Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County oe demiered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press “The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the Jocal news published here. ‘ha i 1 | look to them to serve our best interests. The Citizen does not believe that our | city officials are serving the city’s best in- terests by sifting them in public. Such bickerings are | given widespread publicity. They tend to create the impression in other sections of the state that Key West is a house divided. It is bad publicity that overshadows the “pion"of pubile Issues and subjects of local or general | better kind being broadcast by the Over- Set but it will not publish anonymous communi- | seas Highway Celebration Committee and | detracts from the effort to attract a large | erowd here for the July 2-4 fiesta, | There are more important things to | be done. Our streets need to be cleaned, the | health laws should be invoked to forge in- different property owners and household- ers to clean their yards, the mosquito men- | ace should be studied and attacked, our trees and tropical flora should be protected SUBSCRIPTION RATES a $10.00 6.00 2.50 35 :20 »-+@me Year . Six Months ‘hree Months + One Month : ony ADVERTISING RATES ‘Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents @ lne. ‘N6tiees for entertainments by churches from which “a -reyenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- pier Mts rd Sor Sewerage. ensive City Plan (Zoning). oe and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments. ed out to pay our policemen, firemen and other city employes. We could go on and on naming things that should be done. The point is that such affairs are he+ ing neglected. Key West is looking to her city officials for action in solving many | Memory is.a great asset, if you don’t forget, “If you don’t trade in Key West, can ‘ . ‘ Yau, imagine anybody who does? municipal government should be torn by . Charity should begin at home, but | iternal strife when co-operation of the re are some people in Key West who “think otherwise. ' Key West fishermen do not have to ‘Jie about the size of their catch; even the truth is almost unbelievable, steer our little ship of state through the troubled waters ahead of us. co-operate for Key West, forgetting the past and looking to the future. WASHINGTON VOTES If the people of the United States do “not watch out, they will have a_ liberal Supreme Court on their hands, Washington took an unofficial vote to tag.d sound sentiment for the official which is denied them under existing law. More than 93,000 out of the total popula- tion of about 637,000 cast their straw bal- lots on two propositions: The right to vote for President and members of Congress; | the right to local self government. Both proposals carried overwhelming- ly, the first by 13 to 1, the second by 8 to 1. Pathfinder, published in the national —— - | capital, suggests that the difference in the _..,, The adjournment of Congress will en- | vote on the two questions was because many able many congressmen to attend to some | did not desire to bring the large Negro -very important business, and some will find | population into the local political picture. Abe. AGmalnistration in competition, | About one-third of the city’s inhabitants | are Negroes. wy RéBublican ealls the spending bill | Residents of Washington have not PVie cy ‘What would it be if the Re- | | yoted for President since the national | the spending?—Tampa Tri- capital was established there in 1800, nor ot tages be the same rose, and | for loval officials since 1874. The city, of- ficially designated as the District of Colum- —_—_oO | bia, is governed by Congress as to legisla- | There will be no dictator in the United | tion, and by executive commissioners ap- States as long as Congress votes the money | pointed by the President. for Government and its enterprises. But Many persons holding government “this cannot go on forever, a stop must be | positions in Washington retain their voting put to the spending; then what happens? | rights in the states from which they came. a | But permanent residents of the city, who Many Americans might be inclined to pay taxes as citizens elsewhere do, think overlook it, but the public schoal system is | they should also be allowed to vote. And the great bulwark of independence and | why not? likerty. We have little to fear from edu- | eated people; it is the ignorant who give | cause for caution, It’s about time for the nations of the - world to give China something besides sym- . pathy in the defense of her country against Japan. Criticism is constructive and meant to be so; knoeking is destructive and inten- “tionally so. It doesn’t take a skilled psy- - chologist to know the difference. KILLS COOPERATING CHINESE A recent press dispatch from Shang- : Tirate printers, by evading license and * hai, China, tells of a Chinese guard who “other taxes, giving little or no employment shot and killed a lawyer because the at- to others and no publicity or other service torney had accepted a post with the Jap- to the communities in which they operate anese-sponsored Nanking Government. The -f¥e.enabled to sell their inferior products. Chinaman had been employed to guard -. ab out-throat prices—The Punta Gorda the lawyer. After killing his employer, Herald, and a fellow-guard, the Chinaman commit- Sisiasdadh aebinasbian Cae ted suicide in a crowded street. The Citizen believes that each state This incident bears out earlier reports Should look after its indigent and unem- that Chinse citizens who attempt to assist ployed, and mot the federal government. the Japanese in reorganizing government The sooner this desideratum is brought in China will be poor insurance risks. The about, the better for all and everything determination of the Chinese to prevent concerned. The part politics is playing in the Japanese from succeeding in their con- governmental charity agencies is hecaming quest of China is expressed, it seems, in ~apational scandal, and the Administration | the assassination of Chinese men who be- ~ tefinding it a sinecure in boosting its come the tools of the invaders. According _ stooges into public office, hut it shewld vre- to many.standards, it is nasty work, but in “member that the pendulum swings back 2) view of the circumstances, a formidable well as forth, . Weapon in Chinese defense. Right or wrong, for better or for | worse, the members of the city council, the | in office. | | Once our officials are elected, however, we | raking up old political ashes and | against the ravages of disease and wanton | | individuals, ways and means must be work- | pressing problems. It is not fitting that our j highest and most sincere type is needed to | Gentlemen, | Recently the residents of the City of ballot | TRE | | Nation’s A Dilemma KEY WEST CIMIZEN You and Your Affairs of Principle By WALTER E. SPAHR Professor of Economics, New York University flow can those people who enthu- | siastically approved the economic doctrines written into the Democratic political platform of 1932 also ap prave the eco- nomic policies of the present government which has vio- lated the major planks of that platform? A person has to have a phenom- enal capacity for inconsist- ency to be able to endarse two sets of policies 3o diametrically opaosed to each other. The New Dea! leaders condemn those who now refuse to approve of the New Deal departures fr ah that excellent docu- ment. Such criticism is utterly unfair since those men and women of prin- ciple, who believed firmly in the gen- eral soundness of that platform, could not possibly Support the current New Deal policies which follow much more closely the planks of the Socialist platform than they do the Democratic | platform of 1932. Tt is doubtless because of its Social- | tstic character that the New Dea} Ad- ministration has the vigorous support of radicals of nearly every brand. and is opposed by the conservative Democrats, Independents. and some Republicans who gladly approved the Democratic platform of 1932 and who now believe that they and the coun- try have been betrayed. Much effort has been expended in attempting to explain why this Ad- ministration has repudiated so com- pletely the platform and promises of 1932, but little attention has been given to the remarkable ability of the mass of American people to shift their position with every shift made by the New Dealers. This is a phenomenon that deserves analysis by our social psychologists. One may overlook that great group of people who probably had little ap- preciation of the economic and other policies involved in the 1932 platform. and who are swayed by emotions and ; are bothered little by principles (economic or otherwise) and consist- ency. But what about those “inte! lectuals” who are supposed to know something about economics and who are supposed to attach some import- ance to principles and to consistency regarding them? Many of these “in- tellectuals” have abandoned their principles and have shifted from their earlier position as easily as if they had been dealing with a piece of eloth- ing. They have not only convicted themselves of inconsistency and of lack of deep principle but they are ordinarily bitter critics of thase men and women who believed in the Democratic platform of 1932, still do. What is the explanatio of this sort of thing? How do these supposedly “intellectual” shifters attempt to jus- | tify their inconsistency? Many of them ignore the matter. Others, knowing that they are caught on the hook of a remarkable inconsistency in principle, resort to eyery ingenious evasion that the human mind can de- vise—all of which weakens one’s con- and fidence in the intellectual integrity of | people who are supposed to prize it. Others strike a superior attitude and attempt to convey the notion that, being “Liberals,” they are above mere principles. Others—the less in- tellectual—sneer or snarl, they be- long to a cult that is difficult to describe. Many of them are a wild- eyed, long-haired, far.atical, witch- burning type. Often they are the agi- tators, the Socialists, the Communists, or those persons with that peculiar mixture of emotions which’ produces people opposed to everything “Amer- ican.” Many of these individuals have, been thwarted in one way or another; they have a ‘grudge against certain classes of persons, and have the no- tion that the New Deal will help them to satisfy it. Altogether there has been un- leashed in this country a_ seething undercurrent of intellectual dishon- esty, bitterness, hate, vindicativeness, and meanness that is far from healthy It is easy to believe that it is rapidly becoming ominous. A very large proportion of the New Deal support comes from these groups. If this nation is to be saved from demagoguery, from crazy “econom- ” from cheap politics, from the sipation of our national patrimony, from the revolutionary termites now undermining our supporting pil- lars, the Democrats, Republicans and Independents of principle must find a way to create a political party which the-saner elements of this country will join and which will set to work to inject high-minded States- manship and sound economics into our national government. ‘Address auestions to the author care of this newspaper) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY From The Files January 2, 1929, will see two ‘air mail lines in operation be- | tween Key West and the Canal ‘Zone and between this city, Cuba, Haiti and Santo Domingo. Daily services will be inaugurated to Canal Zone while mail planes for the West Indian Republic will be three times a week. Sealed pro- | posals for carrying the mails on these two routes will be received | by the government on January 2, with the provision they will be- gin two months after. J. C. Whit- beck, manager of the Pan Ameri- can lines is out of the city at the present time and no local repre- | sentative of the lines will discuss the matter. Nevertheless it is thought to be a practical certain- ty that this line which is already operating the Key West-Cuba line will get two contracts for the |lines to the Canal Zan¢ an@. the Cuban mail service. contracts, provide that the carrier must jhave its own landing fields, that it must be familiar with the routes to be traversed and that the company must provide suit- jable equipment for the land and water trips Two precincts, the Third and Fifth, had not tabulated com- pletely returns from the election of Tuesday. There wereat me this statement was made some- thing like 125 votes to be counted in the Third while more than 600 were to be counted in the Fifth Krom all indications the Third will get through some time to- night, while the Fifth will get through some time tomorrow There have been no appreciable changes made in the count since the last figures were published as far as changing the results of the race is concerned. George A. T. Roberts is running Car) Bervaldi a close race in the commissioner fight for the Third, the incum- bent only having a lead of 30 votes this afternoon. Millard Gib- son is leading Kirchenbaum about 30 votes in the race for the school board with Victor Lowe running close up as third man. Sepculation is rife but the certainty of the re- sults must be determined before tomorrow, as it is not expected that the final count will be delay- ed longer than by afterncen. Editorial comment: There ‘s every reasan to believe that Jen- ners Brothers will finish the Key Vacas group stretch of the Over sea Highway long before the con- Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Of The tract limit. Ferries should be in operation between the two gaps before the rush of travel sets in. This means there is little time to/| be lost. It takes more than a day to perfect such service even after the road is finished, the boats on hand and the trips begun. All this should be worked out wel]l in ad- vance. And now is the time to begin. Bennie D. Jenks and Miss Ma- rie Louise Cappick have been ap- pointed tes to represent the local postoffice at the second an- nual convention of Association of | Florida Letter Carriers and Clerks which will be held in Fort Myers; on July 4. The first convention of | the organization was held = in West Palm Beach last July with more than, 309 in attendance. It is expected the number will‘ be. mat@riafly ‘iricreased this year. A seaplane arrived this morn- ing from West Palm Beach and cleared through the local custom house for Havana. On the plane were George P. Aldridge, who at one time conducted a raid in thi: city for prohibition enforcement forces, W. S. Thompson and A. J Williamson. Facing brisk winds the trip from West Palm Beach to Key West was made in five minutes less than three hours, Mr Williamson, master of the craft reported. The distance by rail is ‘223 miles. Barbara, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Hugh K. Taylor, the jat- ter a former Key West, was ser- iously injured recently when struck by an automobile at Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. She su tained a fracture of the collar bone and leg The Oversea Highway is draw- ing Californians to Key W Cuba. The Automobile C Los Angeles is asking the loca! Chamber of Commerce for infor mation as to roads and ferries and transportation to Havana and is being given the informs tion BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME with Modern Tile Floor and Wainscot In Bath, Kitchen, Porch Sanitary. Decorative, Colorful Terrazzo. See— Overseas Tile manny 706 White Street TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938. TODAY’S COMMON i ERROR THE WEATHER | spocwecesesccescccevcess H Temperatures* Highest - | Lowest Mean ‘Normal Mean Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation oe , Normal Preci itation "A TWIRL OF THE GLOBE (Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily agree with those of The Citi- zen). Coup is pronounced koo:_ Gree KNOWLEDGE period Can you answer seven of these wing test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers TEACHER PAY Good news for Monroe County | School teachers is in’ the news! Sin rises | today. Apportionment for school | Sun sets ‘teachers salaries is nearly made’ yon ‘rises up, "Tallahassee officials announce yyoon Sets | today. This means that all teach- } Tomorrow's Tides )ers’ salaries for, the year will be | AM | paid... A loan.of $575,000 will be i High 6:19 | secured from ‘surpluses in ‘other | Low: cane |state treasury funds. and applied! Barometer 7:30 a. m. today: |to the present fund of $500 1000} Sea level, 30.02. ‘and another $250,000 available | | from the motor vehicle commis- | WEATHER FORECAST sion’s expense fund. The loan | : |would be repaid from an ex-; Key West and vicinity: |pected $1,046,000 from June andj cloudy tonight and Wednes pus _ say taxes, oe with scattered thundershowers jline taxes, store licenses an SES es | surplus in the beverage tax fund. | Wednesday ehexeens | canta, winds, mostly |NO COMPROMISE Florida: Partly cloudy The first compromise in the! and Wednesday | wage-hour bill now before a con- | thundershowers \ference in a senate and house | , ernoon. | meeting was proposed yesterday i. | when it was declared that certain} Jacksonville to Florida Straits industries would be declared ex-|and East Gulf: Mode lempt from the provisions\of the} cast to south winds } bill, but that all others, beginning witha 25 cent an hour seale would end with a 40 cents an hour seale,.at the end of seven years. The presumption is that those in- dustries which could not afford to pay the higher wages or would be To what gener birds do the long? In what year was the mn the U. S. fought? war Partly and ay at department of nt Survey moderate easterly. tonight ody of with scattered Wednesday af- water in the world. In which Independ- ence H Which is the firs t permanent 1 being? is ate south- pt _most- ly easterly repae south portion, partly ast’ weather | tonight and Wednesday with scat- tered showers Wednesday. over ov LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center ‘of the Business and Theater District URE eet Pisce ecna RESTAURANT in the heaviest toll of the eight| S&#Se+---Blewstos—--Pireproo hurt because of sectional location sts aaa _| Open, The Year Around s days of siege. They lay in thej under a_ universal wage scale . Lie 5: erro lwere the industries to be ex-|Streets, blood over Chinese shirts, | empted. Louisiana and Florida|eyes closed and pained death e x | Senators Ellender and Pepper|/pressions. In other places parts fant li : Pp didn’t like the looks of it, how-|o¢ heads were torn off. An arm ever, stating that if that sort of EE ani compromise were effected it was missing off this body or red | would mean that ultimately all}bones showed through a ripped | industries would be under a 40!chest. Air Death! cent scale and this might mean bankruptcy to many. The ald story of give an inch and others will take a foot. To combat the bill a southern filibuster, which |on the lynching bill talked for 16 | days, was threatened. Try OUR NEW LINEN SERVICE Table Linens, Uni- forms of all descrip- tion, Reeming House and Hotel Service! FIERY EARTH DEATH | A volcano inactive in ten years | outside of Manila in the Philip-| pine Islands erupted yesterday ir great force with carthquakes shaking the region and rocks and lava hurled high into the air NEW CZECH RIGHTS from the 7,900 foot peak. Terri- The “kick” of Slovakia scems|fied Filipinos in the bush were to be lack of representation,|in a mad flight to escape the im- which it will be remembered was | pending burning wall of hot lava the cause of the American 1776|which would come burning and parting from England. Czecho- | whispering through the brush and slovakia is a democratic republic, | tall coconut trees. In 1814 the however, and premier Milan}same volcano buried 1,200: people Hodza, partly through democracy}and covered a_ village. Modern and partly tlhrough observation |Red Cross units stand by for aid. of the way the wind is blowing and what it is bringing, revealed that a new national statute is be- ing prepared which will meet the demands of both Slovakia and |Sudeten Czechoslovakia. Which | shows that the world has indeed learned some things from past his- |tory. George HI of England lost a mighty big and mighty prosper- jous country by refusing Amer- \icans their representative rights. George had even more of a job on }his hands than did Hodza in} s #. meeting the demands of young, Printing | democratic, closely-knit | young, | | of the '76 days with his mon- jarchial form of government. of |Hodza, with a republic's com- . Merit Don't be satisfied with anything less than promising offers, has an easier al- THE BEST ternative. BLOODY CANTON RAID | In a few mo- when it comes to your Printing requirements! Sirens blew again in Canton, a light Your business literally China, yesterday. ments toward the east \droning was heard and then in the distance shaped black Specks i‘were seen in the sky. As they |approached the outskirts of the city observers couki sce ~ curling “speaks” to those you triangular outbursts as, bombs serve through these print- ed forms you present. Be among the many we have supplied with PRINTING OF MERIT. 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