The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1938, Page 12

PAGE TWELVE Your Washington I DR. JAMES E. POPE Colorado Building, Washington, D. C. MORE RECOVERY LESS REFORM The Washington viewpoint is a valuable guide, provided hon- est opinion can be separated from partisan wishing. There is every apparent reason for expecting a decisive upswing in business, a closer and better understanding between the New Deal and busi- ness, and between labor and in- dustry, with less bad-name-call- ing on all sides. Election results are expected to show a trend to- ward the conservative by adding substantially to the anti-Roose- | velt bloc in the House and Sen- ate, but nobody expects the New Deal to lose its balance of power! on Capitol Hill. It is almost cer-; tain, however, that a wide rift! will develop over any proposed Supreme Court changes or gov-; ernment reorganization, and! prophets on both sides of the po- | litical fence profess to see hot ; battles on both these moot pro- | posals. Both the House and the Senate are expected to go along. with the President in all matters! of additional spending for further | recovery, but it is evident that) relief-spending and made-work will be made the tied-and-dyed adjuncts of preparedness and na- tional defense programs. Recov-} ery now seems to be well on the way, and bigger expenditures in the next two years for aircraft, navy and army may be seen as; contributing largely to wide-open | optimism for phenomenal _ busi-! ness and industrial gains. OUR BRITISH COUSINS England’s very able Winston Churchill recently radioed to the U. S. a stirring plea for the unit- ed front of world democracies to! combat hostile encroachment by rabid dictato: There is food for thought in what he said. This country must not rely solely on Hitler’s chivalry to keep him away from our shores. Mr. Churchill did.not mention the old war debt England and France | have owed the U. S. since they took us on that last snipe hunt in; Europe. We have that historical bag yet, and while we are still holding it, we are nonetheless conscious that the foreign situa- tion holds a threat, even for us. | Official Washington refuses to be | quoted, but the consensus here | is that this country is bound in| sympathy with England — and) through England with France. | We wish, though, they would r turn our wheelbarrow before ask- ing to borrow the lawn mower. HIGHER-UPS DEPLORE . | OUR BRINGING-UP National Association of Hous- ing officials met in Washington! last week and held a series of} experience meetings. H. E. Pomi- eroy, a California relief boss, be- | moaned that reliefers are “en-| vironmentally unsuited” to live! in new, homes—even the low-cost | ones—that boast modern con-| veniences. His chief lament seems to be that through carelessness | or ignorance ex-hillbillies and} folks from Shantytown invari- ably cause coalescent clogging of | of the pipes, with resultant dam-| age to plumbing and property. | Mr, Pomeroy did not get down- | right personal, exactly; that is, | he did not call any names. But; suspicion and dissatisfaction are rife among us brothers of the old! corn-cob and mail-order catalog fraternity. Some relief bosses | who make their livings at telling people how not to live are spread- } ing scandal and heaping ugly calumny upon us simply because some long-standing precedents) by necessity have now achieved! institutional status in our sim- ple; honest lives. We are not to; be blamed if habit has colored our perspective and_ influences our mode of approach in given instances. After having lived so long with the mules and horses we cannot reasonably be expect- ed to grasp, forthwith, the intri- cate technique about indoor con- veniencies, etcetera, appurtenant there The that w their o the fu kindling to wonder e speaker also declared flaunt our disrespect for houses by converting ure and fixings into ood. Now we are led if Mr. Pomeroy, or those who cheered him so lustily, were ever caught in a pinch by a cold snap or if any of them were even more overwhelmingly tempted to grab up a bed slat z wham the old mule out of or if anybody has yet discovered anything better few pickets from the r simplifying the coop the old red roos- too rampageous. And aave to make a quick nat rambunctious old the unexpected what a bless- to snatch 1 and chop DICTATORS MAKE MISTAKES That fatty pat of sausage which is supposed to be a {brain cannot always do solo-out- smarting for the world. Every- body, except the great ‘“I-ME- MINE” of Europe, has perhaps heard the old gag that you should never go around with a woman unless you can go two rounds with her husband. The moral in this instance is, of course, that dictators should not start a militaristic strut unless they jcan beat the rest of the world strutting, and are prepared, fi- nancially and raw-materially, to keep it up. Because overreach- ing dictators overreached the world and constituted themselves menaces to world security, the great democracies are now head- ed for preparedness, prepared- ness the like and extent of which civilization has not heretfore dreamed. And, soon or late, when dictators become over- whelmed they may not be here to reflect that they, and they alone, started all the trouble. WASHINGTON COCKTAIL CHATTER A big ‘senator, afflicted with between-sessions, loneliness, hear- ing Jim Farley’s pious address before the Catholic hosts at New Orleans, voiced his conviction that when the genial Jim became a politician the world lost a great preacher. . .A tipsy states- man, upon reading the recent London news dispatch about Rus- sia’s Stalin creating for himself the new high title “Great Red Vojd”, complained vociferéusly that the newspapers had mis- pelled the word “void”. Maybe he was not so drunk, at that... Herbert Hoover, appearing simul- taneously before a well-coached Hoover audience and a _ micro- phone in Hartford, tries valiant- ly and all but recaptures that dramatic stance he knew so wel) before the great Sad Experience of 1932. . .A street-corner cam- eraman was plying his trade by snapping passers-by along Penn- sylvania avenue across from the White House and War Depart- | ment, when one of Washington’s prominent but eccentric dames, evidently suffering from several overdoses of current espionage and spy publicity, tied into him | —hammer and tongs. After being rescued by a policeman, the well- flogged and befuddled picture man scurried across Lafayette Square with the lady’s lusty de- nunciation of all "dirty spies” ringing in his ears, RECEIVES BROKEN ARM HULL, Eng.—Mrs. Amelia Bay- ley of this city was sent to jail for four months for beating her husband and breaking his arm when he criticized her cooking. NEVER HAD AN ACC DONT TAKE CHANCES NOW SECOND SHEETS 500 Sheets for 50c MANILA, 8'exll WHITE TYPEWRITING PAPER 500 Sheets The Citizen Bldg. PHONE $1 dictator's Cel THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Libby Holman and Ethel Merman are outguessed by host Sherman Billingsley at Manhattan’s famed Stork Club in the new game of Dukes-on-the-line which is sweeping the nation and the N. Y. Cafe Set. It is a guessing game to guess how many matches one has concealed in one’s hands. Economic Highlights In January Sessions Congress Will Plan Against Pos- sible War; American Business N o w Picking Up, Still Has Dark Spots little more than months, Congress will convene again. According to most fore- casters it will be a far more in- In a dependent ‘body, so far as White | House influence than its last few predecessors. The failure of the President’s party “purge”’—every Senator against whom he campaigned was renominated, and his only victory was the defeat by a very small margin of Congressman O’Connor of New York—has, the reports say, aroused a belligerent spirit in the hearts of a large number of lawmakers who have been spending their time sitting on the fence, in fear of making com- mitments that might cost them votes. In still another particular this next Congress, unless the un- looked-for happens, will be dif- ferent from those it immediately follows, Legislation dealing with many vexatious domestic prob- lems will be on the calendar. But this will be overshadowed, dur- ing a large part of the session at any rate, by proposed legislation arising from the chaotic Euro- vean and Asiatic situations, and dealing with what this country will do if and when war breaks out. is concerned, War Measures According to Business Week, suggested ‘‘war proposals” for Congress fall into two broad cate- gories: “1. Measure to support domestic economy disturbed by derangement of the normal func- tioning of trade at home and abroad. 2. Measures anticipat- ing the eventual involvement of the United States—and this is taken for granted in all quarters of the Administration”. All this may seem far away, but it cannot be discounted when the chance of a European foreign observer and correspondent fore- cast that it would be short last- two} ing, and would result in conflict within three years at the outside. As a result, the legislation that will be proposed, and _ perhaps passed, at the next Congress to deal with war, will be of great} concern to every citizen. One piece of legislation—the Neutrality Act—may cause some- thing of a storm in House and} Senate. Some influential mem- | bers want to revise the Act to greatly limit the President’s au- thority in permitting commercial dealings with embattled nations. The White House wants to re- | tain that authority, and even en- | large it. If matters come to a} head, there’s likely to be a knock- | down-and-drag-out fight over | this vital piece of legislation, | with no holds barred. | | Business is showing consider- | able vitality. Even when the) war scare was.at.its height, it} didn’t go back a great deal on the whole, though security prices | sagged. Today, with business/| certain that hosilities have been | postponed for some time, it is | moving up steadily. | There are some dark spots in| the picture, of course. One big one is the dilemam of the rail-| ' roads—the upshot of the wage} negotiations will to a large ex- | tent determine the immediate fu- ture of this industry. In some areas labor troubles remain an unsettling factor, and there are rumors of more strikes ahead. If} these occur on a large scale, the entire outlook could be quickly | changed for the worse. In the meantime, retail trade is improving in most parts of the country, production is picking up in all lines of raw and manufac- tured goods, and construction is going forward. New life in con- struction, as a matter of fact, is one of the very best of the busi- ness omens. | | OVERSEAS | TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving All Points on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST TWO ROUND TRIPS DAILY (Except Sunday) Direct Between Miami and Key West. DIRECT EXPRESS: Leaves Miami 2:00 o'clock A. M., arriving Key West 7:00 o'clock A. M. 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