The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESD "THERE GOES MAMA’ MILWAUKEE, Wis.—A woman in this city got-her divorce de- » JANU ARY 11, 1935 MARRIES AT 81 LONDON — Notice has been! j posted at a registry office in this ABOUT PARKING METERS DU PONT GROUP'S ACTIVITIES You and Your The Citizen believes Mayor. Willard (Wall Street Journal) Indicative of the business and Sunday By cept LISHING CO. INC. » President and Publisher Assintant Business Manager FYom “he Citizen Building Corner Gteene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in ees, West and Monroe Count , Florida, as second class matter - ber of “the Associated Press Fa oe is exclusively entitled to use atfén of all’ news dispatches credited to therwise credited in this paper and also ocal news published here. HIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES known on application. L NOTICE ds of thanks, resolutions of s, ete, will be eharged for at a line. rived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites diseus- and subjects of local or general t publish anonymous communi- “IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. : Bathing Pavilion. Airports--Land and Sea. “6. Consolidation’ of County and City ; Governments. i 1 2 on 3 i 8. elt. ie -” “A good wife is one who knows more ? > than. her husband, but doesn’t let him sus- a man matries his stenog- rapher, he becomes the one who takes dic- srutation, ¥ Pee the,supply,.of.speeders continue to ‘accelerate! “the supply of pedestrians will diminish. <= Jt is anid the! brain. works: Heat ently ii the morning. At least until’ one gets to THE ‘Affice, . wrx s Wise men. sometimes - keep their mouths shut; foolish individuals broadcast ome ABE views, ““» You\can’t let the rich keep all of it. ‘The‘game always stops when one boy wins 21 the marbles. as i ‘A man may be clever while seeking ..£or..wisdom; but when he believes he has found it, he is a fool. ».2he man who is a good whistler never “dows much fretting about the trusts de ng the country. ‘A Nashville produce dealer advertises ties of character, ” Yet character usual- ..» .. Among .the crops which ‘are most ~ pro itable when — harvested green are bananas and American tourists. The world is not interested in the rea- | sons why you could not do your work; “what it wants is performance and not ex- | -cuses. * There are some Key West women who think the reason some married women | adii’t take a joke is because they have al- ait taken one too many, “** There are ugly rumors afloat eor- “erning certain conditions in ¢onneéction ., With the licensing of the amusement parks. If true there is not a word in the dictionary Ahat-eould adequately describe the situa- tion, ... In 1864 Germany, or rather Prussia, Was embroiled in conflict with Russia and -othets over lands she coveted even as now, ~and Seward, Lincoln’s Seéretary of State, | —sent''this dispatch to the Amefican em-| -bassy in Berlin as the policy of the Amer- “ican Government towards other nations: “The government seéks to cultivate good relations with all nations, and it desires equally to avoid giving offence and find« ing offence. So long, therefore; as the ‘government of Prussia respécts otir rights and manifests a friendly disposition, you | | | | | bury has before him a number of protests | Chemical Society. will nct be expected to question it upon | “the language of the press, however it may i "_Sbé supposed to speak for or in the name of , a minister.” | hours before the council ‘at the rate of $45 a meter, which M. Albury should make a careful investi- gation of certain reported facts before he | enters into contract with the Trafico Park- | ing Meter company of Miami for the in- ! stallation of between 200 and 300 parking meters on Key, West streets—as authorized | at a special meeting Tuesday night of the | eity council. In the first place, the Miami news- papers of Tuesday, January 10, a few | met, printed | stories to the effect that federal court suits | \ to put Henry O. and Martin L. Shaw, | for entertainment by churches trom which } brothers, and their Trafico Parking Meter company “out of the parking meter busi- ness for five years and to collect $16,000 | alleged damages from Henry O. Shaw” have been filed by M. H. Rhodes, Inc., ; Hartford, Conn. The plea for an injunc- ; tion in the suits alleges that a contract with | the Rhodes firm prohibits the Shaws from engaging in the parking meter business for five years from Jan. 27, 1937. It does not seem like good business for | the eity to rush headlong: jnto a contract | with the Trafico Parking Meter company. | The sensible thing’ to do, it seems to The Citizen, would be at least to await the out- come of the suits. If a contract is entered into and if it later develops the Trafico | company is illegaily engaged in the park- ing meter business, Key West would be cut on some kind of a legal limb. We do not believe it advisable for the city to put itself in that position. According to well authenticated re- ports, the Trafico company recently sold | the city of Miami 400 meters for $12,000, which is a rate of $80 a meter. The city | council has atithorized Mayor Albury to enter, into contract with Trafico for meters is a| spread of $15 between the price charged the’ ‘city of Miami and that charged the city of; Key West. That seems unreason- | able and certainly should be investigated. Parking meters need servicing daily | and must be watched constantly. Experi- ence has shown that such meters can be operated with slugs and that they may be entered easily by thieves. Key West does not have sufficient police for the proper protection of these devices. Further, the question’ of ‘servicing of the meters would become a problem if the present suits against the Trafico company are decided against the company. The Citizen holds no brief for any parking meter company or for any par- ticular kind of meter. Reports have been spread throughout the city that all the companies involved in bidding for the con- tract to furnish parking meters to Key West were willing to make substantial fi- nancial concessions. Whether these were te have been paid into the city treasury or diverted into other channels is a question tio one So far has been able to answer. The only concession the city appears certain to get is five free meters with each 100 pur- chased. Besides. these questions,» Mayor Al- against installation of parking devices in this city. Concensus of those interviewed by The Citizen is against the meters, so the | city’s chief executive will be performing a | ptblic service if he refuses to enter into contracts for the parking meters—at least at this time. PAPER MAKING IN THE SOUTH Paper production in the South will be quadrupled within a decade, says D. H. Killefer, a New York chemical engineer, reporting in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, published by the American According to this authority, pulp and paper will be removed from a. leading position among the imports of this nation. The development of the paper’industry of the South is associated with the research of the late Dr. Charles Herty’s process of using Southern pines to produce pulp and purified cellulose at a cost low enough to interest paper and. rayon makers. According to Mr. Killefer, it will re- quire an investmefit of -$500,000,000 -to take advantage af the South’s pulp wood. Herty’s discovery that young fesin-free slash pine can be used as raw material is the basis for the prospect that, before tany years, Southern woodlands will be supplying the nation with an atinual crop Nation’s Financial city of a marriage between Sir Affairs Insanity By GUS W. DYER Professor of Economics and So. In a recent article the position was pos! | taken that the Administration's policy of continuously adding to the cost of pepcection in this country by raising wages, reducing hours of ser- vice, curtailing production, in- creasing the tax burden on busi- aess, etc., would drive this coun- try out of the world markets. There is a limit to the cost bur- den business can carry, and compete suc- cessfully with other countries. As the New Dealers see the trade leaving us in South America they “ tuch disturbed. They are various ways to regain this — J orations, dissertations, con- ‘ences, agreements, “war scares” and alg alliances. But none of these nos- trums, nor all of them combined, will the course of trade in these countries, It is the economic advan- tage in exchanges, and this alone, that directs the course of business. There fe no stibstitute for this in legitimate ess, Now, the news comes from Wash- n that the Administration is con- the policy of lending large sums of money to the Latin American countries on the understanding that will spend this money, or the larger part of { of it, in buying commodi- from the United States. The Unit- | ed States is Pap tl a double-barrel gun in huni for trade in these coun- tries. le Secretary of State Hull at Lima, Peru was seeking a pledge of united defense against foreign ag- gression in the western hemisphere, Secretary Morgenthau of the Treas- ury disclosed he was studying the use of treasury loans and other facilities Members of the local K.G.E. Drum Corns, who went to Talla- hassee to represent this city and county in the Carlton Inaugura- tion Celebration Tuesday, re- turned to the city last night over the highway and all report hav-; ing had a wonderful trip. Arthur| Gomez, chairman of the Monroe’ county delegation, was a mem- ber of the party returning last evening as far as Miami, and will come in this afternoon. Included in those making the tmp were Ar- ihur H. Sheppard, Captain P. R.' Clements, drum major; Drum- mers John F. Sheppard, Paul Roberts, Louis Carbonell, Stanley . Baker, Reynold Knowles, Victor Hartman, Everett R. Rivas, Ray- mond Bethel, Raul Carbonell, , Samuel Higgs, Pascual Alonzo, ; Miguel Perez, Jackson Roberts, Earl Yates, Jack Baker, Gustave Ayala, Jose Ismael, Ramirez, Roy Vogt, R. B. Curry; Jr., Cymbals Arthur H. Sheppard; Color Guards Benjamin Sawyer, John Rivas. The boys had many nice | .hings to say about the bus driv- ut, L. Guthelyn, his congeniality end courteous manner. ! Commenting in a most inter- esting and pleasing way upon the | iecent Key West story by Elmer Davis, which appears in the Jan-: uary issue of Harpers, Grace Nor- | man Tuttle, in her column in the’ Miami Herald, accuses. Mr. Davis of having a weakness for Key West and calls him down for using so many big words that frown the faces of readers not highly educated. His description, she says, would indicate that this city is a super-heaven on earth,' and believes his exalted opinion of Key West came through the frequent prolonged visits of Mr.’ Davis to the Island City. i Hugh Bancroft, publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Bos- ton News Bureau, also president of the Duval Mortgage Company of Key West, is a visitor in the; city. He arrived this morning: accompanied by his son-in-law; and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. wil-| liam Fox. j Editorial comment: Medical au-' thorities in the United States are, beginning to express concern about the contamination of the atmosphere in ¢ity stfeets by the exhaust of innumerable automo- biles, whose number is constantly , increasing, but the apprehension’ of the medicos will deter no one. ffom buying a car. Baseball game between the/| team from the U. 8. S. Wright! and the picked team of Key West! of pulpwood more than adequate for all demands. was a thrilling affair from start ciology, Vanderbilt University to boost trade between the United States and Latin America, ‘The proposition to raise a huge fund by assessing the millions of consumers, in this country to lend to South American countries is very interest. ing in the light of our experience in lending money to Latin America About 70 per cent of the estimated $1,172,000,000 of Latin American se- curities now held by United Statés in- vestors are in default. The real effect it is said, of loans t> Latin America ¢ would be to finance armaments with which they could kill eact. other. The Latin American governments will doubtless give their full coopera- tion in having the Administration lend them hundreds of millions on their notes. There is no legal process by which a debt may be collected from a sovereign government. The government may pay or refuse to pay. Hence the risk of borrowing isn't great—the creat risk is on the lender. The policy of lending foreign coun- tries money to buy our commodities, and theréby bring back prosperity is a new application oi the quack buy- ing-power fallacy. Under the theory the more money -we give them the morc commodities they will buy, and the more eommodities they buy the greater the! volume of business, and the greater the volume of business the greater our prosperity. When we have supplied South America with all the money these countries can absorb we can supply similar buying power to Siam, Li- beria, South Africa. Ethiopia and Egypt. In this way, under the new economic law of industrial progress discovered by the Administration economists we can grow immensely rich and prosperous in this country by tne simple process of lending the country into hopeless bankruptcy. Senator Byrd spoke in great mod- eration recently when he described the policy of the Administration as “financial insanity.” (Address questions to the author. care of this newspaper) KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happénings Here Just Ten tte Vairs hae Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen demonstrated to the crowd what! is done’ in baseball circes, in the; big leagues, and sent one sailing; for | over the marine barracks what would be a hit in any man’s! ball park. The game ended 9 to 7 in favor of Key West. Rev. E. D. Venture, of Wash- ington, D. C., has arrived in the city to assume the pulpit of Zion! A. M .E. church, it is stated by; members of the congregation. He was given a hearty welcome by ; the congregation, it is stated. U.S.S.S. Qual and Sandpiper, tender ships to the scouting squadron now in port here, sailed yésterday afternoon for the Canal Zone, leaving the other six ships and the 25 planes of the outfit to industrial advances taking place Andtew Hislop Pettigrew, aged in Florida is the new Alfred I. 'g1, to Miss Joan Cottam, 28. due Pont building, just complet- | ed in Miami at a cost of $3,000,- tion in northwest Florida have 000,., It is only one of many im- been completed and are in full portant” developments sponsored operation. by the du Pont estate and Ed- For ward .Ball, ‘of Jacksonville, head | kraft paper mill at Port St. Joe! instance, the $8,000,000 , ofthe du Pont interests, These | Started operating in April; the! , inéfitde paper mills, lumbering, | APalachicola Northern Railroad port development in West Flor-! is in process of being almost com- ida, creation of a great resort cen- {pletely rebuilt: the deep water, er at Waukulla Springs near Tal-| docks and terminals which have lahassée and numerous other | been completed at Port St. Joe, projects based on utilization of and a $200,000 canal has been Florida’s almost untapped nat- | ural resources. | constructed by which will tie Port The constructive activities of | transportation facilities into the the du Pont estate and Mr. Ball | intracoastal canal system of the Gulf county, St. Joe’s are reflected everywhere in Flor-| €ntire Gulf, the Mississippi Val- ida. In those portions of the state|!¢y and Apalachicola River sys- where development projects are! tem. not in actual progress, the eleven} banks of the Florida National Group are giving financial en-} couragement to the growth of; local business and industrial en- | terprise. These banks are situ-' ated in strategic centers of com- merce, agriculture and recreation. givin, ya unified statewide serv- | ice a Syell’,as providing local fa-! cilitiessi Jacksonville, Miami, Or- iarido,‘Bartéw, West Palm Beach, Chipley, ‘St. Petersburg, Daytona Beach, Ocala, Lakeland and Starke, all have unit banks of the Florida Nationla Group. The Miami unit, Florida Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. at Mi- ami, will occupy the entire see-! ond floor and part of the third floor of the new du Pont build- ing. The first floor is given over to stores. Key West Hotel Enlarged The tourist facilities of Key West were this year expanded: through extensive alterations and enlargement of the LaConcha Ho- tel, owned by members of the du Pont organization. { “Florida’s fortunate situation | with relation to market”, says Mr. Ball, “its great, untapped natural resources such as raw materials | for paper, wood products, glass, | ceramics, airplane manufacture, | ete.; our deep-water ports and 1,- | 400 miles of coastline, and our’ favorable climate’ and living ad-! vantages, all combine to. make Florida extraordinarily attractive ; to alert industrial and business organizations that are at last conscious of the south’s opportun- ities and are seeking the most! promising locations”. Many of the. industrial develop: , ments of the du Pont organiza- \ follow at intervals during. the | next few days. i An automobile driven by Wm.! |‘ F. Maloney and another driven by Clifton F. 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