The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 19, 1939, Page 2

ZPAGE TWO eat Citizen | Published Daily Exeept Sunday By | THE CKYIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. | L. P. ARTMAN, JOE ALLEN, Assi: From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets | Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe | County | “» @ntered-at Key West, Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Asscciated Press The Associated’ Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to | it or uot etherwise credited in this paper amd also | the local: tew: d here. : | One Year | J Months “Months Dne Month E Weekly aS -20 | ADVERTIS Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of ssues and subjects of local or general | interest but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- cations ret, obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at | } | | | | — I)iPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City ‘Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Bathing , Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation. of County and City Governments. SS People have peculiar ideas -about _ freedom; it does not include the right to intrude upon others. The power to tax is not the power to destroy so long as the Supreme Court re- _ mains free and unhampered, ; A Missouri man advertises that he i will trade a saxophone for a shotgun. He _ may have had an anonymous warning. os State trade barriers are fast blocking interstate commerce and may interfere with the econdmic development of the na- _” tion: If, as a writer asserts, women’s senti- ments are expressed by their clothes, they » appear to be less sentimental than in the old days. Ludwig Marcuse, exiled German -au- ‘thor, thinks that a war must end either in the destruction of Hitler and Mussolini or of civilization. ‘ Drive at night as little as necessary; most automobile accidents in proportion .take place at night, and more ‘people are killed after nightfall. Today the woman who married a man to reform him, has a daughter who drinks half of her husband’s liquor to | keep him from being a drunkard. John A. Peters, Federal judge of} Maine: “People supported by the govern- ment are simply eating off their fellow | .-eitizens.” That’s not so bad after all; but when they start eating ’em, then we'll be- come alarmed. The Key West Citizen is complaining because it has not been able to try out grapefruit bread. You have your rights, brother, and let none take them away, but our own private opinion is that you haven’t been missing much.—The Arcadian, Ar- | cadia, Fla. But remember, there is no ac- counting fer tastes; we like spinach, for instance, * Human nature is more prone to evil than to virtue. It is the claim of David Lasser, president of the Workers’ Alliance | before the hcuse committee probing the | WPA, that the object of the Alliance is to --sprotect the workers in the lower strata over the white-collar reliefers who get the better jobs and hold them through _ pull. That, of course, is a worthy purpose, and apparently necessary, if it is nota cloak to subversion. Although the people on re-| lief may be compared to a_ shipwrecked ..erew who should have a commen under- standing and equal.and just treatment, there are many inequalities and:the whole structure is surcharged -with politics, Under _ Such circumstances it is natural that an _ organization imbued with vigilance should | emerge and rear its head.as a protective | “measure. There is no more reason that | “people on relief should take it on the chin SENATOR NORRIS TALKS:OF -WAR Senator George W. “Norris, of Ne braska, who recently celebrated ‘his sev- enty-seventh birthday, is the only living United States Senator who voted against the entry of the United ‘States into the World War against Germany. Admitting that he “could never favo: the horrors of war in China and Spain make him wonder if it “would be better tHe KEY west ciTizen | voting to put this country to war again on | a foreign field,” the Nebraskan says that for America and perhaps France, Britain i and Russia, to ally themselves now in a | World War to wipe out Fascism.” Senator Norris is not a militant. His | record of public service marks him as a | | distinct friend of humanity. He not only admires peace as an ideal, but he has been extremely practical in attempting to main- tain it. What is it that now causes him to i ponder the advantage of warfare today? The answer is to be found in the un- | At Pr A MOVE WHICH MAY be in- terpreted as political at this date, with November coming up, but which has merit enough to be broached, happened Monday. A little group, many of whom had ‘Two tax collectors are always on the heels of the U.S. motorist. In addition to the state gasoline cost of gasoline by one-third. settled affairs of the world, with every in- | dication that Italy, Germany and Japan, the three “aggressor nations,” are not only | willing to risk war for the purpose of na- | tional advantage but are actually plan- ning warfare on a large scale whenever it | promises. dividends to them. If peace could be maintained. for many years by a policy of tolerance: as these nations threaten world stability, the | price might not-be too much to pay. How- | ever, there is no reasonable prospect that such a course will avoid a greater war. This is why Senator Norris wonders whe- | ther a younger generation of Americans, fighting a world union of Fascist nations some twenty or thirty years from now, may not wish that Americans of today had defeated “Fascism in its infancy.” There are many observers in the ‘world today who do not believe that the question involves a decision between war and peace. They think that the world trend points unmistakaby to a future war and the only. question to .be’ decided. is when the fight will take place. If this is correct, the sooner the democratic coun- tries start the battle, the ‘better their their chance -will be. ‘The experts, how- ever, may be wrong there may be a:way to avoid another World War. This is. the hope that. keeps the democracies from do- ing anything that might precipitate the struggle now. ADVERTISING A BIG BUSINESS During 1938 business in the ‘United States is estimated to have spent $1,;530,- 000,000 for advertising, according to L. D. H. Weld, director of research for a na- tional advertising agency. Huge as this sum was, it lacked more | than $200,000,000 of reaching the amount expended in 1937. . Now, there are people who think that advertising is an economic waste and that advertisers throw away their money. In | view of the sums expended annually by hard-headed: business men, ‘we might as- sume that it brings in a return. Other- wise, the expenditure will be stopped. ' THE INTERRUPTION IN TAMPA TO HAVANA STEAMSHIP SERVICE (Tampa Times) The Key West Chamber of Commerce has asked the Tampa Chamber to join it in a protest of the announced lay-off of steamship communi- cation between Tampa, Key West and Havana, and it does appear that there is ample justifiea- tion for a conference with officials of the Penin- sular and Occidental Steamship Company. The Line’s service from Tampa to Key West and Havana will be suspended while the S. S. Cuba is in drydock during May, and the Key West Chamber of Commerce has written that “this is a serious matter for us and for our sister cities on the route and we invite your earnest at- tention.” No one, of course, would insist that ‘the P. and QO. Line or any other company should take any considerable eeonomic Joss through obtaining another beat to carry on the service while the | Cuba is in dry dock, but the suspension of ‘this service is an important matter to Tampans. Although the company’s Miami-to-Havana service continues, the idleness of the “Tampa line cannot help to build up patronage for the West | | Italy’s attack on Albania was | promptly denounced :by Secretary! of State Cordell Hull, as a “forci-! ; ble and violent invasion” andj |walled “an additional threat to the peace of the world”. He add- ed .tnat “any threat to peaee se! ously concerns all nations” and: that:such incidents destroy confi {dence and undermine economic! | stability in every country, “thus! | affecting our own welfare”, I The ‘President makes no effort | |to conceal his-disapproval of the taeties followed by Germany or} Italy, or of his ‘belief that the! United States should align itself on the side of the democracies in an effort to prevent war. He gave: nis hearty approval last week to 2. newspaper editorial, calling for) a “preponderant show of force” by the democratic nations. In his’ message to Congress on the stapef of the Union, the Chief Executive plainly pointed out that, in his opinion, the United -States could’ not be unconcerned when other} nations attacked the fundament-! als upon which our Government! and civilization depend. | Se i Recently, through the use ofa j “White House spokesman”, an au-' thentic statement of Administra- tion policy in the present crisis, was given to the press. This is that “the continued political, eco- nomic and social independence of every small nation in tie world does have an effect on our na- tional safety and prosperity. Each one that disappears weakens our national safety and. prosperity”. That the President is gravely: concerned over;iwhat appears to From The Files formerly of Key West, who died }at noon yesterday in Miami, will arrive here in for the fun- -eral, which is be held in ‘this city Sunday at o'clock from 412 Bahama street‘ with services at St. Paul's Fpsico-' pal church. The rector Rev. Ar- thur ‘B. Dimmick will be ‘the of- ‘ficiating minister. e j At a session af cireuit court ths mornifig the of T. J. Cur-; ry against .L. B.| Boyd and Pearl W.Boyd, involving a suit for $35,- 060 damages for contract, was ‘continued until the next term. No adjournment will be declar- cutcome 6f the appeal for a new trial in the case of Mrs. Eiizabeth 4:40» ‘aggression is control The body of°Robért H. Ranger, ‘anhounced!' from the office of ed in court -but an indefinite re-'Key West boys taxes, ‘the federal government in 1932 enacted a “temporary” 1¢ per gallon tax, which duplicates the state taxes and adds 25% annually to the motorist’s tax bill. The taxes increase the By HUGO S.°SIMS, Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen | Hull Denounces Italian Aggression; F.D.R. Says Dictators Menace U'S.' be a Nazi-Fascist dream of world domination by military force is undisputed. He stands solidly be- hind Great Britain and France in the “Stop Hitler” movement, but, at no time, has there been any suggestion that this country might throw its military support to the European democracies. It is peinted out that one of! the results of successful military of com- merce, not only in the territory of ‘the agressors but in other in- depedent ‘nations, under threat of , military potver. Thus, if -military domination continues to expan@ its influence will inevitably be felt all over the world and the aggressor nations will expand their barter system of trade. composed -the Citizens Commit-- tee, whith fought for Key West as -an.air base, had just seen a Washington official and a state aviation -official off, «after they had inspected Key West. Chair- xan Bervaldi was there for the county commission, Mayor Al- bury for the city, Melvin Russell for the Scheo] Board, and private interests were representeo by Charles Taylor and Everett Rus- sell, and The Citizen was pres- ent. Mayor Albury then turned o the group and said, “Let us appear before the City Council and-ask tuis and this”. There wes enthusiasm among the group. Lat- er Mayor Albury confided in The Citizen that if the entire group of the Citizens Committee, com- posed of about 30 of the repre- sentative business heads of the city, would start planning ahead cooperatively for Key West that this city would move ahead fast. Governing. bodies work only through the will of the people with the representative citizens’ group stimulating ‘the most through their wealth and ex- perience. If ever such a repre- sentative group as the Citizens Committee got together, Key West would be a-city whose integrity and enterprise would again be.a byword throughout the state. : WHICH BRINGS US to the | loss of a man who probably did | |more good for Key West in the | short time he was here than has} ever been done before. Franklin | Albert, professional project head | for the local WPA, was a sort of | a “mystery man”. Living inj Florida for many years, Albert! ook his law course at the Univ.; f Florida, practiced for a time 1 Miami, came here, and re-j| solved to spend all his efforts to/ dvance Key West. At present! he has an assistantship under the state WPA, intends to come back there and live when the WPA ‘is’ This will threaten the-economic security of nations “which give’ their workers -better wages and shorter ‘hours and, as applied to tue United States, force a choice between threee courses: (1) Adoption of -a “Chinese Wall” policy, calling for with-, drawal from foreign trade, with emphasis .on economic self-suffi-' ‘ciency and a terrific drop in na- tional income. (©) The use of export subsi- dies:as a national policy at a-tre- mendous cost ‘to taxpayers who: would virtually be taxed in or- der that foreign nations can buy American products cheaper than, Americans themselves. (3) A general lowering of liv- ing standards, with longer hours of work and reduced ‘wages, so’ that American exporters can compete in the world market with low-wage foreign producers. ene KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY a Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Of ‘The Citizen i} County ‘Superintendent Melvin E. ; Russell. They would have con-| tinued the fall term of the schools forthe full period of nine months but for the shortage of school funds. ! = | Editorial Comment: It is far easier ‘to ‘be all praise or blame than to be judicious and fair. It; requires high character for a per-_ son to use impartially his native understanding and judgment. The Key West team defeated the Service-Legion baseball club at the navy yard ernoon by a score of 13 to 5. scored two the first imning and kept good work going until at ninth they had piled up the score, to 13. Sunday afternoon the service club will be strengthened ot.of St. Petersburg, ‘Fla., in that ‘Tuesday Coast service and it comes just at a time when:}v'clock and their vessel will re-' city on Sunday afternoon at the Florida West Coast is seéking to build main in port until 7:30, affording .o'clock,-April 21, in the First = UP ® | ample time to take the visitors tist church. the trip to Cuba is undoubtedly a strong attrac- tion. unbroken continuance of this serviee, it seems \-orthwhile that the Chamber of Commerce and than.those placed in more fortunate Cir- >the P.-and ©. Line should make some -effort to cumstances, on~a motorcade around the city, a ride over the boulevard and the have discontinued. ‘There were many | wonderful reports of Albert's do- | ings. One of the strong factors in the City Charter, City Zon-; ing, Key West Housing Author- ity, always attending civic meet- ings throughout the city, he was a prime moving factor. His proj- ects for the city were sound and well worked up, so that they would command attention with any agency or business group. There were whisperings of his were ‘brought ashore and placed in the Marine ‘hospital. Clement W. Hudson, of 311! Elizabeth street, will leave over the highway tomorrow to attend the Grand Lodge meeting of the Knights of Pythias, which will convene in Gainesville April 24. Mr. Hudson is a delegate from this city. esent high connections in Wash circles through which then much good will gaimed for ths little Island City in many ects, among them the Oversee: Highway Bridges and the pres ent facsh water pipeline THIS COLUMN underst that the Key West Woma: is mow devoting its : throw the question of bannmg 2 highway signs not anly 4 the Overseas Highway throughout the state wW probably dooms the issuc there are too many business « terests which would reise 2 b and telegraph their senators ant representatives to fight the The present exhib: t Community Art Ce how the entrances tc ican cities look, and if then photographs of the sign Key West city limits ‘Land? Timber? Mineral? Other na- tions have them—but of what value are raw materials without human re- sourcefulness? B aiacrnt ing -fonchest hhad the courage to match their dreams, America became great. Their stout spirit was the plow that broke the high hope harnessed the waters. Their will to win probed: the earth below. ‘You and you and you are America’s Pioneers, for Today is always Yester- day’s frontier for the American spirit. ‘The ‘true ‘measure of -a nation’s re- ‘sources is the ability of its people to ses. etnias dap afl (fara ad | COMPARE these low fares s7s minute of at f