The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen xvept Sunday By iISHING CO., INC. Prexident and Publisher Assixtant Business Manager Vhe Cittten’ Building r Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -viered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ress is exclusively entitled to use of all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and aiso blished here. mn Month . Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made krown on application. HAL NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of , ete, will be charged for at ne. ainments by churches from which e derived are 5 cents a line. « Citizen js an open forum and invites discus- on of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonyniows communi cations, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN. Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan: ‘Zoning. : Hotels and Apartments: i Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea: Consolidation of County and City Governments. ras | about taking out patent rights. It rains more on the just if he leaves his umbrella within reach of the unjust. Very fat folks are good-natured through necessity. They can neither fight nor run. Sometimes @ college remains a mediocre institution of learning due’ to the | failure of its football team. The average Key West man looks on middle-age as that time in life when one “more pain doesn’t cause afiy particular ‘worry. “Tf you know a lot, share it with others,” says the Times-Union philosopher. We can follow that injunction, but not if | we own one. Some parents think their daughter didn’t marry as well as she should, while the neighbors think she was lucky to get a husband at all. The Victorian age divided-the poor into the “industrious poor” and the loafers. We make no distinction now, since the New Deal has sprung into existence. Did you ever notice how quickly a knocker shuts up when the person he is knocking comes along? And‘what does it wove? That a knocker gerie¥ally is coward. “e ey (i More than orie Key West.mih f3'df¥hitt. that when he gets to heaven and St. Peter asks him if he was always prompt in mailing the letters his wife gave him to mail, * “Hand Mé Down My Walking Stick” is a ballad that could appropriately have been sung during the reign of Tutank- hamin, for in his tomb were found walking sticks of the finest workmanship, with gold and ivory inlay. One of the funniest things we’ve read lately is that the daughter of Joueft Shouse, head of the Liberty League, bitter critic of the New Deal, has a WPA job.— Tampa Tribune. It may be funny to some ~to see how the New Deal has undermined tle American character, but to others it is ead contemplation. Tsn't it strange that President Roose- velt should hamper the work of the Dies committee and rebuke it twice in a single week when it was created by Congress for" the very purpose of bringing to light the activities of spies and subversive acts of anti-government agents and agencies. So much more reason for the existence of this congressional committee if it ferrets out subversive acts of those high in the Ad- ministration. av | WHAT WILL THE ELECTION SHOW? | ae & | Political commentators are predicting that the election next week will disclose | national trends. We doubt the conclusion of the ex- perts very much. While throughout the i run- | | United States there are candidates ning on the Democratic, Republican and | other tickets, there is wide diversity in the positions taken by the candidate under | the same party label. For example, there are Democrats and Republicans running on the Townsend Plan and Democrats and Republicans against the Townsend Plan. The same situation is found upon other is- sues. So, it seems to us, the election next | week will not represent any very clear- cut decision of the American people on public issues. So far as we can’ see, no | great, nation-wide debate has _ centered around any issue. Local problems, prefer- ences and personalities are involved in most of the races. i Even in the states where governors are to be elected, very little can be gleaned in the way of national interpretation of | electionsresults. While in most of the , states Demécrats and Republicans vie with each-iother ‘fox possession of state offices, | i the party candidates, scattered throughout | the nation’ Mé’ Hot’ tépresent any very pat | ticular: prin¢ipfés: E¥¢W state group adopts {ts oWn ‘polities and it very often happens | that the Democrats’ of one state oppose | what thé‘ Democrats of another state ad- _ vocate. The same observation, of course, applies to Republicans, It would take a very careful analysis | of the results next Tuesday to determine, what, if anything, the election demon- | strates. Little or nothing will be apparent | from the figures showing how many mem- bers of either party go back to Congress. | It will be necessary for the analysis to | know exactly the issues involved’ in each | the political forces now working in the ' nation. It might not be amiss to point out that | by the time the expert has the forces ap- praised, on the basis of results in Novem- ber, new issues and conditions will prob- ebly be abroad in the land and the ap- pFfaisal will be practically worthless as an indication of what the people will do at the polls in the future. MONEY IS STAGNANT A return of private investment to ex- isting industries is needed most to bring a return of prosperity, declares Dr. H. G. Moulton, president of the Brookings In- | stitution, who points out that control of the nation’s economic life has gone from | private to public hands. He says that stagnation of investment | banking in recent years has created many difficulties for banking institutions, and | that those attempting to market securities | have been confronted with new and baf- | fling regulations and with such a restrieted | business that normal earnings have been | impossible, '2' ons a tions are having difficulty; in . finding, . de- le outlets forlarge accumulations of ‘Thus we situation exists which i : Onithe ‘other hand, banks and institu- Vbvd ' capitalistic system. “For these reasons,” Dr. Moulton added, ‘the restoration of the free flow of money through the capita) markets into the expansion of productive plants and equipment is the central problem in eco- nomic reconstruction.” In short, there is plenty of money | available, but present laws and regulations make it difficult to put it to work without loss. PULLING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS (Roger Babson) | district to be able to intelligently appraise | 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | KEY WEST IN. | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here’ Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen | In’ reporting the special meet- \ing of the city council last Mon- {day night The Citizen inadvert- jently announced that the street \lighting contract with the, Key: | West Electric Company. was re: {newed for one.year. This was i error as the contract was. en: {tered into to last for a period five’ Years!" Captain B. E. Webber, of .New York, master.mariner and com- ;Mander of transports during the world war, is a visitor in Key {West seeking information _rela- itive to the death of Ulof Sund- | gat, whose body was brought to this port in August, 1927, and was ‘buried in the local cemetery. The man was interred here after fu- jtile efforts to get in touch with {his family or relatives. Editorial comment: A number jof Key West Democrats report \finding Hoover signs pasted on their automobiles. Even’ auto- mobile votes will be appreciated next Tuesday by Mr. Hoover, for fe sure will need them. | ocratic senior club last night held in the county court house, plans were laid for final tdmpaign work \during the next few days. Harry Gwynn, J. Lancelot Lester, T. {Jenkins Curry and Virigil Lowe were appointed a committee to go out this morning and secure |funds with which to carry out the plans of the club. The Democratic rally, which was scheduled for tonight, has ;been postponed until Monday night. jon that night, be the scene of one of the biggest rallies of the cam- paign. There will be a number \of speakers and a brass band to |play between speeches. ; That Norberg Thompson,. in- stead of J..F. Lovell, will take over, finance and operate the | Monroe county ferry system at an early date is considered as almost definitely sure as the result of a proposition submitted at a spe- |cial meeting of the board last night. Mr. Lovell. was present at the meeting and is reported to jhave been entirely agreeable to |the acceptance of the Thompson offer instead of his own, Mr. land operate it without any ex- | pense to the county and deposit | to the credit of the county all the net profits accruing from opera- tion of the system until the prof- jits total an amount sufficient to |retire $200,000 cotinty bonds, which is the indebtedness of the {county on the Ferry issue. When , |that time arrives Mr. Thompson | is to come into complete owner- iship of the ferries, giving the ‘county one-third of the net in- {come as the cost of the franchise for the privilege of operation. The contract between Mr. |Thompson and the county com- | missioners is being drawn today by County Attorney William H. Malone and at an early date a meeting will be called to execute the agreement. City council, at its regular meeting last night, agreed to-pur- chase a new Ford"automobile for Fire Chief Ralph Pinder’ to be used in connection With his du- \ t he is going to be compelled’ {8 Jie’) striKés dt the very foundation of the entire ties as chief. The price of the car will be $549 and will be paid j for in monthly payment, with jone-third of the amount as the first payment. Milton Roberts joffered to sell the city a Buick ear for $900, with one hundred {dollars as down payment and the same amount to be paid each month thereafter. LIKE THEIR MOVIES BERLIN — Approximately 65,- 4 000,000 people, or practically the entire population of Germany, before the Austrian “anschluss”, visited Berlin's movies during 937. There were 403 cinemas going in Berlin, with a seating capacity for 208,019. The No. 1 problem of the day is the widen- | ing gulf between employers and workers. As long as labor leaders maintain their pres- ent attitude, we can have no permanent perity. The government is helping labor antagonize employers. Through relief, the government is supporting labor leaders in their organizing and striking ef- forts. Through the NLRB’S radical decisions, the government is helping to widen the reef between employer and worker. Today management and labor are pulling in opposite directions We can never have real prosperity until they again pull together. i leaders to pros- | 7 if i i ut 5 h HR of “vie Newsreel- “three questions to about dseore At a meeting of'the local Dem-, The Bayview Park will,, | Thompson's agreement is that he , \will take over the ferry system! | Economic Forecast Republicans’ Gain Of Fifty Seats In House, Highlights | Democrats Losing Similar Nuntber; Minor Parties Remain At F Seats To Be ifteen;. Four Senate H Added To Re- publican Roster “How will America vote next ‘Tuesday? What factors will in- fluence that. voting? And how will the newly-elegted Congress theliave?® > po gh es pam recently put these two- political correspondents Tepresenting daily newspapers of all shades of political opinion, and to eight seasoned profession- a politicians, including Jim Far- ley and John Hamilton. Their answers, tabulated in a late issue of the magazine, cast an interest- ing light on a topic which, with the elections just around the cor- ner, is engaging great interest. The answers of the correspond- ents, when averaged, revealed that they believed the Republi- cans would gain exactly 50 seats in the House, the Democrats would lose 50, and the represen- tation of minor parties would re- main at 13. The eight politicians’ replies, when averaged, forecast that the Republicans would gain 52 seati, the Democrats would lose 50j-and the minor parties would Apse two. But; groups forecast a gain of four s$@ats in the Senate by the Republicans, at the expense of the Democrats. At the present time, the Demo- crats have the largest congres- sional majority ‘in history. There are 333 followers of the Donkey in the House, as against 89 parti- sans of the Elephant, and 13 mem- bers of minor parties. There are 77 Democrats in the Senate, as against 15 lonely Republicans and four members of minor par- ties. If these predictions are borne lout, the Republicans will thus make a decent showing in the election—a gain of 50 seats, even in an off-year election, cannot be discounted. However, there would be nothing about that to cause excessive back-slapping in the GOP ranks. It is a_ significant fact that when Newsweek sent a similar group of questions to a similar group of politicians and political correspondents last April, the consensus was that the Republicans would gain \60 seats in the House. Thus, on the basis of the two sets of predictions, the |Republicans have lost strength since Spring. Reasons Why Going into the second question (what factors will influence the voters), 20 of the men replying said that the recession would be the principal factor, and 12 gave it as the secondary factor. Eleven listed the traditional mid-term swing away from the | party-in- power as their first choice, six gave Democratic dissension, and six, the Administration’s fiscal policies. It is a notable fact that none gave the Adminitration’s foreign policy as first choice, and only one gave it as second choice —which indicates that in this field the President has gained al- most universal favor. In answering the third ques- tion (how will the newly-elected | Congress behave), six correspond- ents said that Congress would be- |have about as it did last session, ‘seven; thought it would be ex- 4 | Summing up, the electioris will mark the start of a mild come- back for the GOP—but will still ‘leave the Democrats with tre-} mendous majorities in both | branches. Congress will be! slightly less susceptible to White | House demands. But there will be no revolutionary change. Steady Advancing Prosperity News from the business front | jis almost uniformly good. Typical comnment came recently from Al- fred B. Sloan, head of General Motors, who said, “I feel en- couraged for the first time in many years that American busi-! ness and industry are headed for! a long uphill pull”. Inasmuch as Mr. Sloan has often tended to be very pessimistic in the past, this is regarded as being of ex- ceptional significance. For about ten successive weeks, the business indicators have shown steady advances. This is largely due to major improve- ment shown by the automobile industry, whose, new models ar¢ now coming on) ‘Market. i one late week, cj it jumped 50 percent. Mol shipment rate, it is expected, will soon be! at the 250,000 point. Construction figures continue to be another bright spot in the’ | picture, with both residential and non-residential building far above the levels of last year: Still more substantial increases in all kinds \of building, including public works, are anticipated for this winter. and spring. | Retail trade, which hung. be-} hind industrial production during } most of the summer months, is on the rise now, with Christmas prospects in most parts of the country good, It is an interesting fact that the wage-hour law. came into ef- fect without causing. much of a} ripple in business. One reason is that most large businesses are unaffected by the law’s mini- mums, inasmueh as they have long exceeded them: Another is that most business men bélieve that moderate reforms of this na- ture are inevitable and desirable. | SKINAY ‘Thousands CHILDREN years, By ‘Vinel TODAY. 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Where is the Godavari riv- er? Tn Roman mythology, who was the God of Water? What nickname was applied to President Andrew John- son? What organization is repre- sented by the _ initials UAWA? 10. What does the word diary mean? Woday's Birthdays bach da tuah cached Cececcsecoees jodghm WiocPinch of Idaho, direc- ‘tor of the U.S. Bureaudf Mines, born at Lebanon, N. Y.,'65 years ago. Morse A. Cartwright, director of the Amer. Asso, for Adult Edu- ' cation, New York, born Omaha, Nebr., 48 years ago. at James Lee Loomis, president of the Connecticut Mutual Life In- surance Company, born at Gran- by, Conn., 60 years ago. Dr. Samuel M. Hammill of Phil- adelphia, noted pediatrician, born at Oak Hall, Pa., 74 years ago. 2 3 _ PEOPLE'S FORUM Soousecansececcese “ENEMIES WITHIN” Editor, The Citizen: Since the editor of The Citizen is alarmed at the influence of the CIO in the automobile industries, as lamented in yesterday’s edi- torial, “Enemies Within,” might !Can you answer seven of these|2" appraisal of its results be in order? For, we find for the first time in history a giant number of men in trade unions who were never included in the AF of 1. The men are earning relatively good salaries. In previous years all good salaries went to the heads of the corporations and the Pinkerton agencies, to prevent any agitation among the men for ‘decent working conditions. Since The Citizen is rightfully indignant at the downfall of democracy in Europe and fears repercussions here, it might be wise to remember the first vic- tims of the fascist revolts “were the trade unions. They were or- ganized threats to dictatorship and tyranny As for the “Enemies Within,” jdespite the ardent efforts of the Dies Committee to find a Com- |munist plot, the only significant | discovery was of the German spy ring in New York. That was un- covered by the Department of Justice—not the garrulous, futile Dies Committee. For greater accuracy, LEE GRAHAM. Key West, Florida, Nov. 3, 1938. F. 0. (FOOT ODOR) How To Kill It F. O. penetrates shoes. Your friends smell it. You don’t. You are immune to the odor. Get 30c worth of Tingol Solution with camphor at any drug store. Ap- ply full strength before retiring for F. O., sweaty feet, itching toes or “Athletes Foot.” Your 30c back in 24 hours if not pleased. Locally at Gardner's Pharmacy.—advt. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME King Leopold, III, of Belgium, born 37 years ago. ne BUS STATION 210 DUVAL STREET