The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 4, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TW! zwo _ _The Key West Citizen | i baily xcept Sunday By CG, INC. The Citwen Building Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Guicrea at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press ated Press is exclusively entitled to use blication of all_news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the local news published here, One Month Weekly ADVERTISING KATES Made krown on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notice: ces, etc., a line. will be charged for at ainments by churches from which | | main essential of any trade. derived are 5 cents a line. © Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- public issues and subjects of local or general but it wilt not publish anonymezs commun. | DAPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. ‘Compreheusive City Plan. (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. If he retains his tonsils ‘and appendix he is probably a surgeon. The price of peace in 1938 was Czechoslovakia; what it will be in 1939 nobody knows. Silent contempt is the kind a woman shows for another woman with whom she is not on speaking terms. We read that the food served to actors on'the stage is really fit to eat. Some restaurants might get an idea here. Tf Opportunity would wear one of those new short skirts, a good many fel- lows would open the door quicker when she knocks. Democratic nations will be closer in the next war, repeats one French states- man. We continue to hope it is no closer than those 3,000 miles. | Jacksonville man says he is thinking | of moving to Key West where he won't | advocate of trading at home, | types and means | want. | believing that-local sellers are unable to have to take down the heater in the Spring and put it up again in the Winter.—Times- | Union. That fellow has good sence; hope | he won't change his mind! After all is there anything more de- | lectable and satisfying to a hungry cori} noisseur of good food, be he gourmet or | gourmand, than a Frankfurter (hot dog: =| the vernacular) sei bet and a bettle of an. aed] corn beef and cabbage pales into insig- | nificance beside the universal snack. After a successful career of 97 years, | the North Shore Daily Journal, in Flush- ing, Queens, New York, recently sus-| pended publication. In announcing the suspension, T. Harold Forbes, pubtisher, said he had found labor and costs of ma- terial too high to continue in business on a | profitable basis. The result is a three- fold less—to labor, to management, and to j investment. Bigger business rides again! The Key West Citizen asks a pertinent question about tourist human nature. It inquires: “What do you call that pecu- liarity in haman nature by which you tip your home town help in restaurants and other places where service is given a measly nickel or dime, and find your self on visit to other places, particularly New York, bursting with generosity and pom- pously shelling out quarters, 50-cent pieces and even dollar bills to menials whom you have never seen befere or never will see again? Well, those of us who do that are marked down for small town suckers by the very “menials” whom they so pom- pously try to impress m New York. As far as Key West is concerned, however, it is a tourist resort itself and ought to get, at least an even break on the poopesition. —Miami Daily News. img the 158 veterans in Congress at pres- every week, BUY IT IN KEY WEST | The Citizen has always been a strong and the | present time of depressed business condi- | tions only emphasizes the importance of this self-evident truth to those who wish to | see our trade area develop. | Merchants in Key West offer ‘splendid | stocks of goods, from which buyers of all | will find what they The duty of giving our merchants | a chance to supply our needs is one of the most imperative that rests upon all loyal | | boosters of Key West. The other day a citizen of this com- munity was about to make a purchase. A | thoughtless friend suggested that he could | order it, and save some money. The buyer | said: | cause if there is anything wrong with it, I | “TI prefer to get it in Key West, be- can get an adjustment.” That is a point | well worth considering. i cards of thanks, resotutions of | Another idea that buyers should re- member is that cheapness is not always the | Price is im- portant, and we advise no buyer to pay ex- cessive charges for anything, but before offer competition to catalog prices one should consider what will be gotten in the two transactions. | peer lneana rare eon | FEDERAL COMPETITION If a private corporation were to use | | the same methods to drive a competitor | | out of business as are employed by the | government in competition with private | enterprise, the Federal Trade Commission | would go into action immediately. In other words, it appears that we | have one legal standard of ethics for pri- vate business and an entirely different standard for the government. The fact is that there seem to be no rules whatever that a government agency is bound to ob- serve in‘competition with private enter- | prises, | An illustration of this is seen in what is happening to the electrical industry. Private companies are being put out of business or seriously crippled through government subsidy of publicly owned dis- tribution systems, supplied with power generated by Federal] hydroelectric dams built through an enormous and wasteful ex- penditure of public funds. In a decision which is now being ap- pealed to the United States Supreme Court, a lower Federal court ruled that private power companies were not entitled to any protection against government encroach- ment, although their business might be curtailed or even destroyed, | If this principle should be allowed to | stand, no industry would be safe from possible destruction at any time the gov- | ernment decided to enter its field in pur- | suance of a socialistic program. { VETERANS IN CONGRESS Veterans of the World War do not appear to be as active in politics as were | those of{the Civil War, at least so far as | g tlected to Congress is concerned, ing to a tabulation made by Fred W. | Perkins, a Scripps-Howard staff writer: This conclusion is reached by compar- ent, 20 years after the Armistice, with the | 168 in 1885, 20 years after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. This difference in num- bers is the more significant because the total membership ef Congress is now 531, | while in 1885 it was only 399. In other words, with 32 more members of Congress now, there are 10 less veterans. “In 1885 there were 35 veterans of the Civil War in the Senate, which then had a total of 76 mefrbers. Of these 35 vet- erans, 18 had served in the Union forces and 17 were former Confederates. At present there are enly 18 veterans in the Senate, which now has 96 members. Jn the House there were 133 veterans in 1885, 82 from the North and 51 from} the South. The total membership of the House was only 323 at that time. Now there are 140 veterans in the House, which has 435 members. Reducing the comparison to its sim- plest terms, war veterans represented 42 per cent of the total membership of Con- gress in 1885, while at present they rep- resent only 30 per cent. With many unpleasant things to think and talk abeut it is comforting to know that about 31,000,000 persons in ihe United States attend religious services | Gentile, Nordic and Slav, |and Hindu,.freeman and slave of | values dulle? through understanding and appreciation, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY + Geuecesce erecsesee While all true Americans view | foreigners” or with increasing alarm the cease- | less attempts of foreign diciators' to inflict upon the Democracies of the world their various “isms” and sow seeds of discontent | among the people of our land through the paid agitator, the spy, the radio, the radical press and many other avenues, efforts |to Offset it to date have been meagre and far from effective. Qn occasions self-styled 100 percent Americans, employing. the same brutal intolerant meth- ods common to the dictators they condemn, seek to perpetuate De- mocracy by reckless violence. As- saulting speakers, tearing up signs and banners and hurling mussiles and epitaphs only serves | to give widespread publicity to the cause they seek to crush and. provide its leaders with ammuni- | tion in the form of sympathy on which thep capitalize to the full- lest extent. America has long been termed a “melting pot”—a mighty nation that has taken to its bosom those’ of every race and creed and col- |or—the best and the worst that the world had to offer—Jew and Latin every nationality and every land. ‘We erected upon our shore a | “Statue of Liberty” to ‘enlighten i the world and bid these people come, and we gathered them in our “melting pot” trusting that |the white-hot flame of true de- mocracy would fuse its content into one great loyal whole and | make them all Americans. While we tended the fires and |fea them fuel, the “melting pot” jserved us well. From it we gained countless true Americans. The metal for our “melting pot” came to us'as emigrants from every nation on earth. All were made welcome ina “new land” dedicated to the proposition that \“ALL men are created equal”. | Eagerly we helped them, patient- ‘ly we taught them—and their children and children’s. children are YOU and I. And WE, enjoying the precious |fruits of Liberty and Freedom which we inherited, our sense of lack of have permitted the flames our forefathers nursed®so tenderly to all but die out. Neglectful, we failed to watch and tend the “melting pot”. of these all important flames, it failed to yield the same pure product of an earlier day. For- getting that with the exception of the Indian, all Americans are ; nations, AWAKE! Lacking the heat’! eo sec nccosseezeses descendants ithese who called. other soil their | Native Land, we speak today ot! the “wop”, the “spice”, the “frog’, | the “greaser”: foreigners ll, whom we leave to their own de- vices, We are too busy and: too} indifferent. to longer aid © and; teach them and so they have be- come easy prey for those seek t6 convert them to other aot trines. Eagerly, disciples of Hitler and! Mussolini, Hirohito and Stalin, kneel at the base of the “melting pot” to feed the flame that we hav let die, with a new and dif- ferent fuel, while YOU and I, snug in the knowledge that we are real Americans, stand idly by, content to let these radical advocates do the work that our forefathers left for us form. America and all democratic If Hitler can sell Nazism; if Stalin can sell Communism; if Mussolini can sell Fascism—all doctrines of brute strength, hate, intolerance and fear—how much easier should be the task to SELL true Americanism, a doctrine of free- dom, liberty and equality. Americans. pride themselves on their ability to. .SELL. If we would undertake the task of scll-| s#eeccvcesscecovscnceses| Today’s Horoseope' ing Americanism and Democracy with the same energy and dilig- ence as the advocates doctrines purvey their worid at our feet. ers the task that is OURS. The time has come to rekindle the flame. A step in this direction was made recently when Florida Southern College established a Chair of Democracy to combat through education the forces of Communism, Fascism and other un-American trends. In our schools and in our homes we must instill in the minds and hearts of our youth knowledge and love for Democracy that will never die. You and I, too, must likewise re- view the lessons that 1 of to per-, of other} inferior! wares, we would have the whole? ‘TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do mot say, “I cannot come without I get well”: say, “unless I get well”. iTEST YOUR ' KNOWLEDGE, Can you amswer seven. of these test questions? Turn to ge 3 2. What is an anagram? Name the large observatory located. on Mount Hamil- ton, Calif. To what plant family does| broccoli belong? Name the capital of the Bel- gian Congo. What proportion of an ice- berg. is above water? Name the sacred mountain of Japan. Of which state is Lincoln the | capital? What race of mankind was! in possession of the South | Sea Islands when they were discovered? What are deciduous plants? What is meant by a “round trip” or “round house” in, Pinochle? 9. POSS SSE OSE ONZEOOHOOOE eo Today bestows a mind that is and they are so hidden that it will require all the natural prud- ger of today lies in bringing out Mtraits that will not tend to the |higher faculties, though they may | protect the native from injury. i the BEST product and if we al-| ‘own home ground, it will be no- jbody’s fault but YOURS and! prudent and resourceful. There! We can no longer leave to oth-|2Ppears to be surrounding con- | \ditions thet may lead to trouble, | ence to uncover them. The dan- | i VALUE of their own. We have | Y \ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933 THE LOW DOWN _. AROUND AND ABOUT FROM HICKORY GROVE | @e6.a. FLINT Peeeoccsewesesvevcccoees® |. cecscs Not so long ago I was poppin’) § “there was once an 1off about one of my favorite used-car dealer”. As The Citizen —"-'|Senators from down yonder in!might add, “correct that sen- = | the old mud-cat State, and I Sot | sence”. But it is a fact. worth re- jto talkin’ about sorghum and cording that a truthful dealer in | wishing for some. And lo and be- used cars plys his trade in Derry, {hold, an editor down there, he N. H. We repaired to him with | Ups ae sends me a can. our transportation problem. “You An tried it with corn cakes want a car that will take you jane bacon and a coupla cups of 1890 miles without causing you joes and I guess it had a quiet- grief?” he asked. We replied we ing effect, because Susie, she! must indeed have no less a car. |says, I guess we better send down peak | there for a winter’s supply. j But I got a friend out in Ore- | gon who has been around con- siderable, and he says sorghum and: cane syrup, they are not the ;same. He says sorghum is from Illinois and thereabouts and is | made from a corn-like cane—and | the juice of the southerr cane, it ‘makes cane syrup—not sorghum. But this Mississippi editor, he | calls it sorghum. But whatever it is, it is great and grand stuff. ; And any woman who has a grizzly or polar bear for a hus- ss band, she can handle him easy as , Pt is, she did. pie, if she knows her corn-cakes | and sorghum—or cane and maple Here's Quick Relief for syrup. j | JO SERRA. DUE TO COLDS ut a small lump Vepofub ‘on your to on “Cast your eyes over that group over there and see if you can pick her out”, the dealer said. We saw a good-looking Ford, a shiny Plymouth and a stout-looking coupe of the better class, “No”, said the dealer. “I wouldn't want to be found dead along the road in one o’ them. Now see that dingy-looking ,old °29 Buick there? She's the best car on the lot. You take her for fifty bucks and you']l get home without any trouble. She'll take you there O.K.”. . .And the odd weekly. rorcecrreererrerereresss| The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR * BRAND | €UBAN COFFEE i Subseribe to The Citizen—20c | | eshopst, «sata eas = Medication wathes the tedmertranesasittrickiesdown Jour wre ‘you ‘want it—when you want it. Aa ‘gy 3 for a few minutes. As ‘waydown through the girapassages. they case the Cough. | ' Of VapoRub in a bowl | of boiling water. | Breathe in the vapors i | Americanism and’: low anybody to outsell us on our | we as'MINE. When we re-kindle the/ youths were taught, little things |old flame, the “melting pot” will! that serve as example—remove | our hats when the flag is passing” by; respect the nation’s laws; arise when the National Anthem is played. And, reviewing the principles of Democracy. SELL it to neighbor and friend, to our children and the stranger with- in our gates. Remember, GOOD salesmen don’t waste time knocking com- petitive products. 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