The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 10, 1938, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen vubsatou butil, xcept Sunday By THE CVVELEN PEWEISTUNG © iN L: P. AMUMAN, President and Jue £0) Assistant Busiiess Manager Swgen Building ne and Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication ef all news dispatches credited tu it or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso t cal news . ;| the economis' ADVERTISING KATES Made known on application. MAL NOTICE cards of thanks, resotutions of tices, ete., will be charged for at © cents ®@ Ime. for entertainments by churches from which evénué is to be derived are 5 cents a line. TT Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- generab ommuns- Th sion of public issues and subjects of to interest but it wilt not publish anonyr cations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST; f ADVOCATED BY: THE CETIZEN | Water and/Sdwerage. ATAT2S .1A] Comprehensive City-Plar Hotels and Apartment °§ Bathing. Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County 4nd City Governments. otto [69 Few persons do enough good turns to make them dizzy. Batchelors love to pet babies, pecially if they are about 18 years old. You can’t dissipate ignorance by | wishing to be wise; it takes study and thinking. , A Man’s true worth probably lies somewhere between his own estimate and that of his neighbors, Many a Key West father says it’s about as hard to pronounce dirnd} dresses as it is to pay for them. Our children and grandchildren will wonder what we did with all the money they wifl have to pay back. Instead of the Duke and Duchess visiting the United States, the King and | THE SOUREST STORY EVER TOLD | Key West is a relatively small city among the group of communities’ dotting the United States; yet it has approximately | 8,000 of her population of 12,000 depend- ing wholly or in part on direct relief, old age pensions or employment provided by the, Works Progress Administration and other federal agencies. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | STILL FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY “sy In a greater or a | lesser degree the same situation’ prevails in — virtually every community im: this bounti- fully endowed country—some,, 10,000,000 .. . are unemployed in a land capable’of pro- viding independent work for many times | that number. i In their search for the underlying rea- sons for this sorry and saddening situation, , , theorists, | businessmen, social agencies | have delved | mental, political and physical | eould find on or off the records. have blamed the continuing unemployment and others fact they industrialists, | into nearly every govern- | They | | on the war, the capitalistic system, over- | underproduction, | produetion, taxation, | strikes, the machine age, too | much credit, not enough eredit and eco- | | nomic hiecoughs. | They seemingly have overlooked en- :tirely or given seant consideration to one important factor, though it has been re- | vealed in all its naked redlity to certain in- dustries, including the Everglades sugar \audustey.: That is the unemployment di- peetly traceable to and created by some of | the trade agreements within recent years | entered into with various foreign countries. | | While seeking international goodwill and developing a foreign trade, the agreements contain some of the sourest, most fantastic restrictions AGAINST American industry and the American workmen ever accepted, by an American government. Consider the agreements restricting the production of sugar in the United States and permitting the importation of cane pro- ducts from foreign countries and such off- shore areas as Puerto Rieo, Hawaii and the | Philippines while millions of our own Am- erican citizens are dependent upon charity, pensions and relief work. In brief, the sugar agreements restrict Florida production to a maximum of 53,- 0006 tons annually. The Everglades area alone on 150,000 available acres could be made to produce 600,000 tons of sugar, With an annual capital investment of $10, 000,000 and with an eventual annual pay- paid, well-housed workers, now largely unemployed. It is estimated that 50,000 workmen would be empoyed either direct- ly in this industry or indirectly in lines or activity serving the sugar industry. Take Queen of England will do us the honor next year, and won't that swell the World’s Fair | crowds! Those voters who did not cast their | votes for Pepper and Cannon in the pri- | maries had a chance to do so in Tuesday's election. That squares everything and | discriminations should be taboo, and will | be by broadminded office holders. entero teneiinntleas ooh ! Fascism and communism are threatens) ing theyreligions, of the wértd. the church to stem "‘the fide of, - | by a reinforced ‘and; renascent,. ney; ayorking in the Everglad 50,000 men off the relief rolls and Florida would have the unemployment problem pretty nearly whipped. It is a sad condition when the Florida sugar industry is not permitted to produce even enough sugar to supply the demands of the consumers of this state. When it is realized Floridians are forced to eat sugar produced in foreign countries and offshore areas by low-paid, poorly housed laborers ‘diidei questionable sanitary conditions and , thatwhe: citizens of this state are compelled And clothe the unemployed who might be im the produc- it cannot be done by relwsingt cin.\Softs j*tion of cane and its products, then the full, eushioned chairs and “watching thé Fords | eves” In Miami it is suggested that a univer- | sity be built with the $4,000,000 that the Florida Light and Power company is eom- pelled to rebate to users of its produets by order of the courts. That's a fine idea and | for the sake of higher education we would like to see it go through, but it won't. “An ordinance making it unlawful for any person to work as a cook, nursemaid, or other household servant, or to operate a laundry, dry cleaning establishment, press- ing club or to wash clothes for hire within the city of Quincy without first obtaining a certificate from a licensed, registered physician to the effect that they are free frem syphilis and tuberculosis in their in-’ fectious stages and providing for the filing of said certificates and providing penalties for violations thereof.” The foregoing is the title of an ordinance recently passed by the city commission of Quiney, Florida, and shows the increasing interest over the state in the promotion of an adequate health program and of the control of com-* municable diseases. Every eommnnity would do well to have an ordinance simi- lar to the one adopted in the Gadsden county city. fatal and factual fallacy ‘of such trade agreements is apparent, Let’s call upon our governmental offi- cials to end such foolishness, let the Amer- ican sugar industry produce all it ean to meet the American demand, import only enough to supply any shortage of produc- tion in this country and give our American workmen a chance to make an honest liv- | ing on American land under the American system of freedom and independence. PERSECUTION AND ROBBERY The mistreatment of Jews in Germany and the extension of such brutality in other countries has aoused thesi ation of civilized people through a. We are at.a loss to unde this modern perseeution of the, Jews i tali- tarian states, gut it seems i Fto us that it is accompanied by cenfiseation of the estates of the Jews. Concealed by a camouflage of racial propaganda, the pro- gram leoks like mass robbery to us. While it is the right of the German nation to decide who shall be allowed to live in Germany, the eampaign against the Jews has been condueted with sach rath- less severity. and downright barbarity, that the world quite properly condemns , and denounces the German methods, roll of $25,000,000 to thousands of well- | consumer , @ccece e RATE’S GOLD Edited By LILY LAWRENCE BOW edeeeeedecccces secoeweer FAIR WARNING La, you foolish man, Asking me to marry!— Me, whose feet, turned one way, Want to go contrary; Silly ears that harken ; To every vagrant tune; An@ gyes that never would’ see oN Gust lee» « o Bep yearning on-the «moon. | ¥ou’d not want me for a wife— | I fooled you at the start— Me with cloud banks in my eyes And a wish-bone' for a heart! —Hortense Roberta Roberts. WINDS OF CHANCE So silently the winds of chance Can change our earth born view, And steal life’s fragrance at a glance 'Qur ways-of life miseue. ‘The rhythm of the harp is stilled; Fear hushed the voice of song; Tomorrow’s problems God has willed, His love will right the wrong. In every human heart our dreams Swayed by each gentle breeze, Would stroll along an idle stream KEY WEST IN ,.DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years! Ago Today As Taken From | The Files of The Citizen Frank H. Ladd, Ross C. Saw- | yer and Cuban Consul Jorge R. Ponce left over the highway yes- | terday for Washington where they will represent Key West and the Cuban government in the motorcade which will leave the capital city on November 16 enroute to Key West in celebra- | tion of the formal opening of the | Atlantic Coastal Highway, which extends from Calais, Maine, to Key West. The delegation went | in Mr. Ponce’s automobile. J. {Otto Kirchheiner, who was nom- inated to make the trip, as rep- senting the county, declined to! go. Mr. Kirchheiner is chairman | of the board of county commis- sioners. The motorcade, an- ‘nouncements indicate, promises to be one of the most pretentious |highway celebrations ever given | in this country. Just what part jof the parade will reach West has not been stated, neither | lis the rate of progress shown, so. ‘that the time of arrival will not! be known until later. A fund of: | $500 was raised to defray the ex- | penses of the Key West delega- |tion. Of this fund the city do- nated $250 and the county a sim- jilar sum. } Pour types of membership will! be sought by the Rd Cross when it begins its twelfth annual mem- bership drive on Armistice Day, November 1}. The bulk of the 1,- | 500 members the chapter expects | to enroll will be dollar member- ; ships but many will be asked to take out the other types of mem- _ bership, carrying fees of $5, $10 and $25. The large memberships are necessary, it was pointed out, in order that the local work of |the chapter may be taken care of. But 50 cents of each mem- bership fee goes to National Headquarters in Washington. From the $5 fees, $.50 remains It is up to to'dig¢down into their pockets to help feed in Key West. The fee of $10 wilt [net the chapter $9.50 and the $25 ‘ee, $24.50. | “Wétiims of the Georgia-Florida football game will be given: out at Gardner’s Pharmacy this aft- ernoon. The pharmacy is on Du- |val street and the proprietor in- | vites all who are interested to attend the store during the time the announcements are being made. Editorial comment: Keep tab on the Hoover-crats, bolters and semi-Republicans. They'll be wanting to get back in the Dem- ocratic fold by and by. There will be two games of baseball played in this city Sun- day afternoon by teams of the Junior League. The Pirates will play in the first game against the Sluggers, and the’ Key West» team will be in the seeond game. Sunday afternoon at the naval Station diartiond the Setvice team has arowséd a great deal of im- terest among the fans in the city. The Service team has won three straight games from the Mon- roes, and the fans are imbued with the idea that it is time for the tables to be turned. Miss Josefa Tolede and Ce- cilie Borges were married last evening at the Ley Memorial church parsonage, Rev. H. T Gaines officiating. There weré quite a number of friends of the popular young couple who wit- nessed the ceremony. i Fire Chief Pinder announced, ey te And live its life at ease. But You and F must toil and spin The winds of ehanee ignore; Just be content to do our task, With God to keep the score. —Emma Stahler Smith,, - 4 qos toy “view to” wiaking a LOST ARROWS profit”. b red dart Hit squarely on the gold— econ TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer “seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers Their messages have told Before the archer draws his string. ‘Then there are pointed keen- edged hints That wildly fly astray Though léosed from a bow of Sherwood’s band And drawn as clean as day, Yet miss their mark—and never Jand! —Beulah M. Sweetser. What is an assay office? Which American city was named in honor of William Pitt? In which part of Asia Minor has an Arab revolt been in progress? Did aliens who were draft- ed into the U. S. Army during the World War, aumatically beeome Amer- ican citizens? Name the largest known species of snakes. What trade was pursued by Paul Revere? * Whom did Henry Armstrong defeat when he won the featherweight bo xing! championship? Where is the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes? What is the plural bula? ‘ Name the chief city of South Dakota. 1, 2. 3. _—— LOCUSTY WINGS Those words of wisdom Fall so easily from your lips, Yet we who know the strum Of locusts’ wings in eclipse Of sun do not eonfound Them with the sage’s truth. —Lily Lawrence Bow. 4. 5. ‘The On rainy afternoo used To take me to his smithy in the grove. He stirred the fire and with the bellows blew The sparks until there was glowing bed Of coals. In these he placed a blunted plow And when its color ehanged from black to red He took the heavy sledge and beat it hard, Then Then thrust the point into a water pail, 9. of ne- 10. woeverccccceveasoooosoes Yoday’s Birthday: ae ee Helen Bradford Paulsen (the Mother Goose Lady) of Los An- geles’ author-lecturer, born in Chicago. like A slab of bacon cooking on a spit Before the fire upon the kitchen hearth. The scent was unlike the whiffs one gets When passing by the railroad shops today. He stuck another plow into the coals And let me work the bellows. and down. Winston Churchill of Ccrnish, N. H., novelist, born in St. Louis, 67 years ago. Lt. Com. Donald B. MacMillan of Provincetown, Mass., explorer, born there, 64 years, ago. dus Smith, |The runt ‘that never made ‘his grad¢’in school, But mighty Vuilcap at his mas- sive forge Who shaped the golden chariots for gods. —Elizabeth Charles Welborn. COUNTRY PASTURE Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson of New} Te sup shines hot upon York, ornithologist, president ang tived cattle cross the creek emeritus of the Natl. Association to drink of Audubon Societies, born Tuscola, Il., 65 years ago. Charles S. peal of Chicago, financial adviser, sometime. finan- cial adviser to Poland, born at} Cadiz, Ohio, 56 years ago. i] Dr. H. Edmund Friesel, dean of | the Pittsburgh Univ. School of Dentistry, born im Pittsburgh, 65 years ago. the the pool Sere Where flank to flank they stand Arthur D. Fieks of Hillsdale, N. against the brink. Y., poet, born at Davenport, Towa, 55 years ago. White fennel, dusty from @ hoof- ee marked lane James F. T. O'Connor of Los’ Crowds elose to ruby clover, high Angeles, ex-comptroiier of the and sweet; cerrency, ‘born..at Grand Forks, And wild rose clings with stub- N. D., 52 years ago. born might to rails er Gtown gray and warped by sum- ‘eoos «~ men's restless heat. " J, hey Today's Horoscope ins; sissd ie cot beyond the ecccccces Reat-parched field, Great care should be taken. to And fern and bloodroot train today’s child in the paths of, mingle there; morality and rectitude, for to- Where hooves may plunge into day's native will be a seeker aft- the soft leaf mold, er pleasure, thirsting after new And lichened rock is hid from delights and insistent im their noon-day glare. pursuit. He should be trained to find the elements of pleasure But soon the humid hillside lies along the higher planes of [Bife, in shade, and the considerable abilities al- And cattle stumble through the summec Unern: sali ‘The gray-furred rabbit sits today that there would be a vigil near meeting of the fire department Until the sun returns again at members Sunday morning at 10 morn. o'clock at Number | fire house. + —Edyth Hope Genes. intes- lowed te assert themselves. in of en ‘ " a. 91 EUUSSMIEi | ‘Phere are hints that like a feath--regieiniag program to:strength na> of her Asiatic adventure, solemn- “ifionaP defense iret ostinvalate:in- ly pledged maintenance of the ! ‘dustry in a decade”. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938 Economic Highlights “Nineteen-thirty-nine will beyproduction that teok place last the best year for business and in- spring and summer was a strong That sen-!depression factor. By the same tence accurately sums up the token, the unlooked-for improve- views of numerous eeonomie ment in production and demand forecasters today. In their opin- ngw—which has caused some ion, the recovery movement.) makers to change their plans and which was staggering and uncer- embark on more elaborate ven- tain when it began seven or eight tures tham they thought wise months ago, will continue to gain|even a few months ago—is a both in strength and velocity. strong recovery: factor. Import- The forecasters, of course, have ant by-product im this field has been wrong before, and grievous- ‘been a substantial amount of ly so. But it is a fact that at high-wage reemployment. present cpinion is' amazingly In brief, the barometers give unanimous as to the pleasant. the commentator every reason for prospects ahead for the immedi- being bullish teday. There may ate future. You can find many 'be minor setbacks—especially in an authority who is dubious over security values, where consider- the long-term outlook—who, for able profit-taking at intervals is instance, believe that govern- | te be expected. But it seems cer- ment’s greatly-stimulated pump-'tain that next year will be as priming activities are going to good as any year since 1930—and cause the country plenty of trou- in all probability better . ble in years shortly ahead. But you'll have a hard job finding an, This government doesn’t authority who doubts that next/the dictator nations. And the year will be the most prosperous dictator nations don’t like us. since the depression began. As That is the logical deducation the conservative Annalist puts it, from the President's recent anti- “Recovery shows no signs of fascist speech, coupled with the slackening”. State Department's blunt warn- Biggest recent optimistic news ing to Japan te respect American was the announcement of a tre- rights in China under the tradi- mendous spending drive by the tional “open door” theory. News- nation’s electric utilities. Repre- papers in Rome and Berlin and sentatives» af..14..major.-systems Tokyo promptly branded us as met with the President-in:Wash-=war-makers, and denounced our like AE aa dsan AP “dispateh’ogreat rearmament program. gee mide ‘iva ‘s:tfhis government. is gravely While others quickly taking wing or faeilities’”” ® informed observers say that leg- “To temper it”, he said. It sizzled Heb Jett pital concerned with recent’ * develop- -HANOUNGEG: |: B - Lae it ne faxs mehts.° Japan, at the’ beginning dustry by éRpunding private pow- open-door policy. Apparently Details involve she had her fingers crossed. For spending at least $2,000,000,000 in that policy has been widely vio- the next two years (a sum dou- lated in faet—and so far as the- ble the recent rate of capital ex- story goes, a recent Nipponese an- penditure by the industry) and nouncement said, in effect, that buying sufficient equipmnt to Japan intends to dominate China, add 1,330,000 horsepower to ex- and that other interested powers isting capacity. And this, it is can like it or lump it. said, is only the first stage—if Still more important, possibly, plans go through as seheduled, from the long-term standpoint, sti greater expansion will fol- is something on which this col- low. umn has commented before—the On the red side of the ledger, nazi-fascist ambition to extend in the view of business gnerally, its influence in South America. is the President's Emergency It is reported that this govern- Board’s report to the effeet that ment plans to establish a large railroad wages should not be re- radio station in the Canal Zone, duced, and that railway manage- from whieh to broadcast pro- ment withdraw its request for a American programs in an at- ¥5 percent cut. The President has tempt to counteract the con- met with George Harrison, repre- tinuous pro-nazi programs that senting railway labor, and John are broadcast from powerful short J. Pelley, president of the Asso- wave stations in Germany. A ma- eiation of Ameri¢an Railroads, jor strengthening of Canal Zone for a conference concerning what defenses will in all probability to do in the future. The railroads be started soon. If.ever we are asics father | are unquestionably in the worst attacked, military experts are position of any major industry. coming to believe it will be from But there is a possibility that)Seuth America—where it would even this may have its brighter be a relatively simple matter for side—the Administration is con-' an ambitious foreign power to es- sidered friendly to the lines, and | tablish air, army and naval bases. islation to help the industry “| FINES HIMSELF one way or another will lead! —- next Congress’ calendar. SAN JOSE, Calif—No tardi- Excellent augury is the aute-|ness would be tolerated in his mobile industry’s rapid emerg- | court room, said Judge E. N. Rec- ence from the economic dog-;tor of this city, who fined him- house. The severe shutdown im/ self $5 for being lete. 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