The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO ry West Citizen tN PUBLISHING CO. INC. |AN, President and Publisher » Ansistant Business Manager From The en Building Corn’ d Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter jember of the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use all news dispatches credited to credited in this paper and also ished here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Bix Months r Months... ADVERTISIN Made known on application. AL NOTICE ling noti rds of thanks, resolutions of bituary , ete, will be charged for at nf 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a line. itizen is an open forum and invites discus- sio public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- vations. What you don’t know won’t hurt you, but if you are sharp-eyed you will notice cthers titter. When the meek inherit the earth, Hitler will probably get his share in one grain of sand. If either Russia, Germany or Italy is an alternative to our capitalistic system— we'll stick to our own. Why all this concern and solicitation for the forgotten man! You never heard of a forgotten woman, did you? If the British and French don’t oc- cupy Hainan themselves, they’ll be oc- cupied with trouble for a long time to come. Life in the United States will be revolutionized if this country goes in for war preparations on anything like the scale adopted in Germany and Italy. When a local girl tells her boy friend she dreamed about him the night before, he had better start looking at furniture ad- vertisements in The Citizen the night after. A Daytona Beach city commissioner is on trial for “exacting and accepting” $10,000 for voting for a mayor. If true, commissioner votes come high in Daytona Beach. Ethnographically speaking, the Span- ish are among the most long-headed of European peoples, but they fail to show it in their fratricidal struggle, fortunately, now nearing the end. Mr. R. C. Perky has removed his abode to Perky, Fla., and is all ready for the winter season. Mr. Artman of the Key West Citizen hasn’t leased a cottage there as yet—Miami Friday Night. A good guess! K. N. Dahle, who came all the way from the state of Oregon to winter in Key West, likes is so well here that he hopes | t6 make it his permanent home séme day. Mr. Dahle is an intelligent observer and will be a welcome addition to the grow- ing population of the island city. What are, undoubtedly, well-inten- tioned persons, have written The Citizen concerning their views on the installation | of the meters in Key West, but they are apparently libelous, and while the law is liberal about statements concerning the welfare of a community, interpretations are not definite and caution is paramount. As a rule when the heads of Latin countries are foolish enough to leave their country, they nearly always are faced with an uprising during their absence. were many but two come to mind at the moment—lIturbide of Mexico, and Cip- riano Castro of Venezuela, who were sup- planted by rebel leaders. Last week Presi- dent Benavides of Peru had to return hur- riedly when his secretary of the interior ventured to take over the presidency. The | coup d’etat was shortlived as well as the usurper. Batista, the Cuban strong man, was shot at while visiting in Mexico, though the affair was hushed up, while in Cuba itself there were rumblings of dis- affection. The Americans, not so emo- tional as the Latins, never dream of over- throwing the government when the Presi- cent leaves the country, though there is sometimes bitter acerbity in the land. In the United States the opposition uses bal- lots instead of bullets. mT Florida. fect that the enicrcement of the law is de- There | THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE BILL Monroe county lawyers fare among ; those of the state who have given their stamp of approval to the Criminal cedure Bill prepared and recommended to | ! | { | the Legislature of Florida by the Florida | | State Bor Aczociation. | 3 £O |cor_mittee of the association, citizens gen- |czelly have grown highly impatient ‘with the administration of criminal justice in Their complaints are to the ef- | leyed, the court costs are high, there are large number of reversals in the higher courts in criminal cases. , Some six years ago the Florida State | Bar Association decided to accept the t | procedure that would be fair to the ac- | cused, fair to the state, less costly, free as | possible from technicalities and in its adminisfration.” Personnel of this year’s ‘Key West, an outstanding crimes lawyer and former state attorney, who is chair- |man; Tyrus Norwood, Tallahassee, as- sistant attorney general in charge of crim- inal cases; Herbert S. Philips, Snow Martin, Bartow; Gainesville; Dewey Dye, Bradenton, for- mer state attorney, now state senator, and N. Vernon Hawthorne, Miami, former state attorney. | Under such headings as Preservation j of Constitutional Rights; Harmless Error; Conviction for Lesser Offense Not An Aquittal of Higher Offense Unless Convic- tion Stands; State Has Right of Appeal; Forgotten Men; Charging the Jury Bail Bonds Eliminates Many Technicalities; Simplifies Pleas; Immediate Shortend Indictments; Insanity; Notice of Alibi Defense; Speedy Trials; Repeal | of Present Laws, and Spirit of the Code, | the committee which wrote’ the criminal | procedure bill has made a comprehensive and sweeping change in the existing laws. “The whole spirit of the code is to simplify procedure,” the committee re- ports. The framers believe that the one issue in a criminal case is the guilt or in- nocence of the accused. Such a trial is an effort to arrive at the truth and not a forensic battle between legal adversaries to see who knows the most technicalities and loopholes. The only hope of the Bar code, to the end that justice may be sure | and speedy for all, and the criminal trials, shall be disposed of on their merits. So say we all of us! enough faith in the personnel of the crim- done a conscientious job of revising the criminal procedure and believes the State Legislature should waste no time adopting the measure proposed by the Bar Associa- tion. WASHINGTON OVER EUROPE know a good deal about George Washing- ton. We ought to, by this time. But truly great men are inexhaustible. People from age to age are always seeing them in new ways, against new backgrounds. Thus they are immortal. : Perhaps we can get the most illymi- nating view of Washington today by standing him up against the European background. Imagine him in Mussolini’s place, with absolute power over the Italian peo- ple, and think how he would do the con- structive and humane things needed, with- out tyranny, in the spirit of democracy, enfranchising the nation instead of enslav- ing it, brandishing no sword. Imagine him in Hitler’s place. Would he be choosing the way of conquest, pour- great armies and navies and air forces, stirring up class hatred, imprisoning and executing political opponents, robbing and torturing Jews, making of a peace-loving people an international peril? And in Russia! Can we picture Washington ruling there like Stalin, with arod of iron, promising constitutional government but enslaving a great nation, killing his critics as ruthlessly as a medie- val czar? | Humanity cannot have changed much | in 150 years. Europe today needs leaders | willing to rule in the spirit and method of | Washington, Pro- | ed out hy the criminal codes | many useless technicalities in the criminal | courts and there has been an_ unusually ; | challenge of these complaints and has at- | | tempted to write for Florida “a criminal | Association is to give to Florida such a} The Citizen has | inal codes committee to believe that it has | Most of us doubtless ‘feel that we | ing his country’s wealth and energy into | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WHO SAID I WAS speedier | criminal | codes committee of the Bar Association | are Bart A. Riley, Miami, well known in | Loomins Tampa; | rie J. C. Adkins, | py HUGO S. SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen ADDING 3,050 PLANES | ARMY HAS 1446 NOW | PROVIDES EXPANSION | BRANDEIS RETIRES 'HAD LIBERAL VIEWS | DESTROYERS DEFECTIVE SHIP BUILDING SLOW |OUR SUBMARINE STATUS Rulings; | | The action of the House of | Representatives in passing a bill! {to add 3,050 warplanes to the | Army Air Corps by a vote of 367 , to 15 indicates that Congress will | Pass practically the complete re- |armament program advocated by {the Administration. Earlier, a Re-: | publican caucus decided to back | the defense bill, with the excep- | tion that it propsed an amend- ment spreading the purchase of | the planes over a three-year pe- |riod instead of the two years pro- |vided in the bill. On this, the | Republicans stuck together, but | were defeated 183 to 136. | pepe ee As we understand the situa- |tion, the Air Corps had on hand lon December 31, 1938, 1,797 air- | planes, of which 351 were abso- lete, leaving 1,446 serviceable ;machines. To this should be add- }ed 558 planes under contract and |464 to be purchased under the |provision of the regular War De- | partment appropriation , bill. This | would supply the Air Corps with 2,468 serviceable planes. The bill | before the House provided a top |strength of 5,500 airplanes, in |line with the President’s recom- mendation, and, therefore, au- | thorizes the purchase of approxi- jmately 3,050 additional planes. | From‘a transcript of the hear- | ing before the House Military Af- |fairs Committee and from other | sources, it seems that the pro- gram will provide for: an in- crease of the aircraft industry’s productive capacity from 2,500 annually at present to about 800 or more than 3,000 planes by July }} 1941, to give the Army 5,500 |planes; (the Navy meanwhile | would expand its air force by 200 |planes per year, reaching a 3,000 | total in 1944). There is also pro- | vided $62,000,000 for a construe- {tion program for Army air bases, | barracks, mess halls, etc.; $8,000,- /000 for bombs; provision for training civilian fliers with more! partment have not been ‘complete training at Army train- jing centers; a research program Ito seek the development of 3,000- jhorsepower engines and 400- | miles-per-hour planes. | eee The resignation of Justice |Louis D. Brandeis, after more than twenty-two years of active |service on the Supreme Court bench, was no surprise as the Justice is eighty-two years old and has been in frail health for several years. When nominated by President Wilson, Mr. Bran- deis was opposed by business men, utilities representatives and tevery former president of the American Bar Association. It was only after four months of fiery |debate, in which the racial issue | was raised against him, that the thereafter, he became a member of the “Holmes-and-Brandeis dis- senting” firm. ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT GETING Too BIG! Senate by a vote of 47 to 22 con-! By MARCY B. DARNALL | Cecccccccccooocooesoooce Curb service by a fire depart- ment is unusual, but it was given John Winter, at St. Charles, Mo., when his trailer caught fire from ped on the gas and pulled up at \the fire, station-a short distance Let grand OLD GLORY gleam. , away, where firemen quickly put lout the blaze. i any For several weeks the organ jin Trinity Chapel at Bucking- . ham, Pa. gave out discordant Sounds, which finally led to in- vestigation by a repair man. In- side the instrument he found a nest occupied by a family of eight ‘chipmunks. Knowing their pastor’s fond- ‘ness for hunting, the Baptist WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1939 AMERICA FOR ME ‘Though other nations magnify The glory of their land, | die. | It’s here I take my stand! |Though other lands have valiant | dead Former Editor of The Citizen | This is the place where I would: Where victory banners stream, a charcoal heater. Winter step-|From this day forth above my \ head | claim | Broad-based equality, |No matter when or whence came, America for me. Here liberty and justice reign In spite of plots or fears; jOur firm foundation shall re-; main Against the flood of years. | Though other nations may pro- I congregation at Wewoka, Okla.,/Though other nations may per- gave the Rev. T. G. Nanney a ishotgun. On his first expedition he killed 37 rabbits, with which’ he prepared a feast for the donors of the gun. An enviable record for safety is held by the Louisville & Nash- . Ville. railroad, which has carried 178,244,428 passengers in the last 2l.years without a single fatality, _ according to a recently published statement. An unscheduled intermission occurred during a_ basketball game between two girl teams at New Bern, N. C., when a mouse | Mr. Brandeis geared his legal the players fled screaming from thought to change, believing that | the court. The mouse made its \the law should serve a transition- ¢8c@Pe, and the girls cautiously al society. His dissents put him returned to resume the game. on record in favor of the restora- 'tion of competition in the face of! | possible, a system of control. He A i | peeniorobelta) uenale Aenea ville ites sere peimee pea ania rights of the individual and the! of Siam in 1931. Edward VII |protection of a minority in @!anq Edward VIII visited this democracy. He did not believe,'country before ascending the {in general, that the Constitution, | throne. jor any law, was intended to! leave a nation helpless to correct} Unimportant, but true: Reno, ‘its evils and expressed the view|Nev., is 100 miles farther west that “there must be power in the than Los Angeles; Cleveland is {state and in the nation to remold'a few miles farther east than |through experimentation our eco- Jacksonville, Fla.; traveling due inomic practices to meet changing south from Detroit, one would |social and economic needs”, He enter Canada; Africa, Chile, is ladded: “If we would guide py, farther east than New' York; the ‘the light of reason, we must let | Pacific end of the ama Canal our minds be bold”. . lis tacts east than the Atlantic jend. By many his views were con-! » evccncece | sidered a forecast of New Deal} reform legislation and it is noted | Today Ss Birthdays that of sixteen important legis-| ggeece eccce ° lative measures brought before . ; F Sa ce . | Fannie Ward, actress, born in him, he sided with the Adminis- St. Louis, 67 years ago. tration ten times. ry of New York, The difficulties of building up catego ie Pass there, 66 a Navy are illustrated in the an- years ago. ;nouncement last week that eigh- Foes ean |teen more of the Navy’s newest; George C. Mathews of Wis. | destroyers have been delayed in’ member of the Securities Ex- completion because of the discov- change Commission, born at ery of enginering defects. The) Northwood, Iowa, 53 years ago. ships affected were authorized in 1935 and 1936. The defects in-| Edna St. Vincent Millay, famed ' suade { Ten thousands to their shore, To me, America has made Appeal forevermore. | This land I choose without gret To all else in the world; So while I vow allegiance, let OLD GLORY be unfurled! DR. V. A. AVAKIAN. 2710 E. 46th St. | Chattanooga, Tenn. ‘Today s Horos re- na! Still cope | scampered across the floor and ,eeeecececarceccsccesooe TODAY’Ss COMMON ERROR Do not say. “His politics are open to question”; say, “politics is”. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers 1. In law, what is idiocy? 2. For what is Seth Thomas noted? Which state of the U. S. hat the greatest tidal shore line? What is the popular name for the Rocky Mountain sheep? What is the product of 2-3 multiplied by 2-3? Who wrote “North to the Orient”? In which city is the famous Rockefeller Center? Who won the recent 1939 Oakland Open Golf tourn- ament? What is the name for the large bone in the upper arm? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word naive? Co Even if other ms don’t be discouraged, sion. Your 3. 10. | Today endows with good abili-| | ties, with intuition and a taste for, word, ask for it high living and the luxuries of | life. There is a tendency to petu-)| If King George VI makes his lance with some disposition to be | i : roposed trip he will be the third headstrong. You are apt to be ‘\stultifying monopolies wherever petkarers pee ENE to visit the! misjudged, which will be a mis-| |possible, or where this was im- tnited States, the others being take, for your instincts are good | at bottom. | II PFIPPLPALLL LLL | | je \3 { i | | 1 volve certain turbine failures and | poetess, born at Rockland, Maine, | eo it was necessary to correct the de-| 47 years ago. sign in other destroyers. Little or no extra expense is involved to the Government because the correction is up to the builder, but a delay in the completion of | | the destroyers is inevitable. | | — | tronomer-president of Drake Uni- While no one can _speak_ posi- | tively, the delay is said to follow ja long series of such incidents in | the construction of naval vessels jin recent years. Recent destroy- ,ers affected are equipped with i ‘me the new high temperature, high| erm submarines in commission pressure steam installations} and an undisclosed number un- | which have caused something of | der construction. ja controversy in the Navy De- | partment, but whether the tur- | bine failures were caused by such high pressure installations is not certain. It is rumored that the! ‘controversy over steam threaten- ed to delay work on the four bat-| jtleships authorized during the Lawrence L. B. Angas of New York, investment consultant, born in Australia, 46 years ago. 63 years ago. completed and’ 28 building, is in sixth place on a tonnage basis. Japan, it is known, has 62 mod- |eurrent fiscal year. It is said that, \the differences in the Navy De- ironed | out and that delays in the ghip-! building program have not been ‘eliminated. Some officers regard such troubles as the natural grow-} | a Let Us Estimate on YOUR Printing POSTERS \ing pains of a Navy under rapid | expansion, but others think they |indicate some lack of coordina- tion in the ship-building bureaus. While on the subject of the Navy, we might call attention to BOOKLETS ‘the disclosure that the United! STATIONERY . | States is sixth among naval pow-/| ers in under-age _ submarine) OFFICE FORMS |strength. According to naval re- \ports, Italy is leading the world |in submarine tonnage, with 98) |sion and 24 others ‘under con: struction. No reports are avail-| \able for Japan where the program lis secret. France has 76 under- age \struction. Great Britain, 46 and 13 building. The United States, | with 23 and 16 building -is in, | fifth place, and Germany, with 43 Dr. Daniel W. Morehouse, as- | versity, born at Mankato, Minn.,| Anne Nagel—Robert Kent GANG BULLETS —also— COMEDY THE GARDEN CLUB OF KEY WEST announces their annual Tropical Flower Show Formal Opening 3 P. M. Saturday, Feb. 25th, Continuing Through Sunday and Monday at the Rear of the Lighthouse Building THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST (Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Key West's | Hotel De Luxe |§ 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath | Beautiful Cocktail Lounge | DANCING NIGHTLY Dave Garson’s Orchestra PETER SCHUTT, Manager || Deepsea and Key West on the | K. W. 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