The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 21, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO : The Key Went Citizen Published Dafly Except Sunday By THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. L. P. AKTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press i ted Press ts exclusively entitled to use | | FEW IMPEACHMENTS I In connectien with the recent attempt | | to impeach the Secretary of Labor it is in- | | teresting to note that in the whole history ! of the United States only 12 Federal offi- | cials have been impeached, and of these - | only four were found guilty by the two- thirds vote of the Senate necessary to re- | moval from office. ’ The first official to be impeached was ‘aiso | Senator William Blount of Tennessee, who | 1 news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of , sespect, obituary notices, ete. Will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. tices for entertainment by churches from which f public is st but it will not publish anonymous communi- MPROVEMENTS 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 already had been expelled by the Senate by a vote of 25 to 1 before impeachment | was voted by the House, in 1797. Decid- | ing it had no further jurisdiction, the Sen- | ate dismissed the impeachment. The four removed from office through | impeachment were all Federal judges— | John Fickering in 1804, West H. Hum- phreys in 1862, Robert W. Archbald in! 1913, and Halsted L. Ritter in 1936. An- other judge, George W. English, was im- peached in 1926, but resigned before trial. | Most famous of all impeachments was that of President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on charges including usurpation of the law, corrupt use of the veto power and § interference with elections. The vote of the Senate was: guilty, 35; not guilty, 19. As the vote for conviction was one short of the necessary two-thirds, he was acquit- ted. Others impeached but not convicted ‘OPEN LOCK THE STABLE BEFORE THE HORSE IS STOLEN ‘oq THE KEY WEST CITIZEN hit Ser ROSS SS eae TODAY'S COMMON TEST Can you answer seven of these ns — Do not say. “He will likely run for President”: 7 run”. The city has decided to tum the $35,000 deposits in the First National Bank here by the Key West Electric Company for hav ing the car tracks taken up and the streets repaired over to the board of public works to be used in cafrying on the work This |means that work should begin soon on the work of taking up YOUR KNOWLEDGE test questions? Turn to Page 4 for the answers Is the sun a star? { Name the manager of the the tracks and repaving the New York Giants’ basbeall *Teets on the thoroughfares club. where the tracks run. Can a naturalized American The Si citizen be elected to the 40. pag: = 2 Some ag came U. S. Senate? | y afternoon, which was Who is Chief of the United played at the American Legion States Army Air Corps? (grounds. It at first appeared to What is the correct pronun- 0€ just @ pitching match but the ciation tof the word auto- ee cocgigem.- on maton? with the winning streak on the When it is 12 o’clock noon side of the Sluggers. The game {(ES.T.) in New York ended with the score $ to 1 FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1809 WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Tem Years Age Tedey Ac Takes From The Files Of The Cities el Scio = - na wre <n ee a <2 We bave Gee coc = tached t The Cte curmg a anc asa Dat FP sone a & ew Yok ae Mrs Presk Obes’ Seturdey evening when ate and Me ( stead wiuted he cfiSee Sr Ge aving The Cite Sect curr g & —= = heave tekes Ge pepe oecgelerly anc would mos @ very mur® we were w Ge eet aid Mrs Olmesteed Mr Olmsteac Key West for Se and steamer > Say 2 ar LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT a sy OSM ea on City, what time is it in London, England? Name the capital of the Re-, blic ef Colombia. } On what island is the train- ing camp of the Chicago} Cubs’ basebal? club? For which government agen- } orgs 18. wy April 18, 1939.,plete isolation and indifference. Yesterday afternoon the Key West club defeated the Service Legion team at the navy yard After 12 innings, which wer hard-foug3t, Bernaski weak: and the locals put over fou straight runs and the game came to a close with the score 8 to 4 cy do the initials SEC; % as F | City council met yesterday aft Where is the island of Fal-| noon and passed an ordinance ster? on its second, third and fina’ | reading, gran! Dr. J. S. Mer. ping supplies to belligerents. And | pi) 3 eae, furmshing in no case has this resulted in! tech water to Key West. The war declarations. Russia has|o:dinance was passed om | were Samuel Chase, associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Ceurt, in 1805; James Peck, U. S. judge, in 1931; William W. Belknap, secretary of war, in 1876; Charles Swayne, U. S. judge, in 1905, and Harold Louderback, U. S. judge, in 1933. The Hon. Franklin D. |On the other hand, it is equally Roosevelt, ‘clear that they are hostile to any 49 The White House, ‘policy that may send millions of Washington, D. C. | our young people to fight and die, My dear Mr. President: vin a foreign war on a continent; three thousand miles from honte.! For who want! But, Mr. President, there is an- Governments. Envy is the goad of little fellows. Isn't it odd that few people get too Americans hard up to pay for gasoline? Propaganda: Any statement made by people who do not agree with us. Swallowing live goldfish promises to become an interesting new brand of col- lege athletics. “Tt.doesn’t make any difference how clean they keep the jail,” sighed an in- mate of the Key West juzgado, “the in- side never looks as good as the outside.” There will never be need to worry that a woman will ever become president. The law requires a president to have reached the age of 45 and what woman will admit that publicly. According to President Roosevelt if Democrats do not swallow every dish— considered indigestible—set before them, they are prejudiced and they should “sub- ordinate their prejudices” or get out. If all critics in the Democratic party would get out, our party would be sadly depleted and what was left of it sadly emaciated. Maybe that was Papa Roosevelt’s way of telling son Elliott to shut up. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker believes the United States should have 50,000 air- planes as a beginning. “Fifty Thousand Planes Can’t Be Wrong” is the title of a fortheoming article by our greatest World War ace. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh last week advised the authorities too, that we should seek superiority in the air but stressed quality as being more essential than quantity. If we are going to make the Monroe Doctrine workable and take the nations to the south of us under our wing we will have to have wings in the air. That proper trade balances must be maintained between nations is conceded, and the same applies to trade between the States. Recently, however, there is a tendency towards intrastate discrimination and the erection of tariff walls despite the constitutional mandate that commerce among the United States be free. Dis- criminations bring on reprisals and_ then. intrastate trade suffers fundamentally. Within a few days’it is anticipated a_ bill will be introduced at Tallahassee by the Florida brewers which will provide for a reduction in the state tax on beer bottled in Florida by brewers and bottlers of beer, of 5 cents a case, leaving the tax on out-of- state beers at its present figure of 21 cents the case. This is purely a discriminatory measure and should be protested by every citizen of Florida who is against retalia- tion. Florida brewers are not prevented from doing business in other states, why should we have legislative acts that will result in kickbacks to the detriment of the industry. Senator Ward and Representa- tive Papy have been urged to cast their votes against this discriminatory measure and may be depended upon to do what is right, A majority of the Senate, but less than |-Peace, and ho! two-thirds, voted for the conviction of Swayne and Louderback. Judge Alston G. Dayton was impeached in 1914, but the proceedings were dropped the following year. The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment under the Con- stitution, but the Senate has the sole power to try impeachments, and two-thirds of the senators present must concur in any con- viction. country’s | rise to questiot , character. GANDHI’S DECALOG April 6, 1917, ;Peace, but int The great Indian leader, Mahatma |P* | Europe. Gandhi, was asked to outline his ten rules for an ideal life. With modesty he replied it would be presumptious for him to “lay down rules for the conduct of others, but ;, quarantine of conduct have been.” follows: “(1) Fearlessness, “(2) Truth. “(3) Belief in the equality of all the great faiths of the world. “(4) Belief in the equality of all mankind. “(5) Adherence to life’s law that | one’s bread must be earned by the sweat of one’s brow. “(6) Abstaining from the possession of things for themselves. “(7) Restraint of the palate, that is, eating for the mere sustenance of the body and abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs, such as opium and tobacco. i “(8) Swadeshi, the belief that man’s primary duty is to serve his neighbor. “(9) Ahimsa, which may be trans- lated into English as love. “(10) Bramacharya, which may be inadequately expressed as chastity.” They were as \if war starts \eagerness, to itry in war. |tators attack cisely this is Next comes April 13th. gressors, you that my own give economic SMOKED OUT | jE EES tone, we migh' There are all kinds of cigars on the market, the kind that you buy and the kind that somebody doesn’t want and gives | away. We have smelled all kinds, in our day, some whose aroma is good and some that left us with a slight nausea. Smoke from cigars is often aggravating when there is too much of it and especially in | closed rooms.. When giving away your | next Christmas cigars consider the recent | will cither ha’ accident caused when a man lost control of ““P2reed with i Mr, his auto and backed inte a police car. Up- } foregoing, anes on arrest it was found he was intoxicated feannot be Set’ dow: vi ThiS"fetter, Pe emoked |, Sms permeable ee ie since the World War. On the day of the / ant, elected by popular vote with cigar smoke. Seems he hadn’ aceident he had a toothache, drank a bot- | tle of beer and smoked a cigar, which |' made him dizzy. The result was the ac- cident and the arrest. The docter who examined him said he was drunk on cigar | der if it might not have been the beer, and then there are others who can recall cer- tain cigars that would mak an entire army smoke-drunk. But bear this incident in mind when you make out your Xmas shop- smoke! Readers in Key West may won- ping list next December! fortunate consequences of this|U"doubtedly true that a major- participation | World War, your statement .Warm Springs on Easter day, to- helping the democracies by let- gether with your press confer-'ting them, and all nations that ence at Washington on the fol-/can do so, buy supplies from us lowing Tuesday, April llth, give'and take them to As we review these statements, i basis. and others made by you during! the last eighteen months, it be- home and of selling supplies to comes more and more clear that ‘the allies was, in substance, fol- ;you are following a course simi-' lowed by the United States from lar to that taken by President’ Aygust 1914 to April 1917. And, Wilson, in the period prior leading America not The plain truth is that, since | ot for three thi “ 'your speech in Chicago on Octo-|™ peace things: | ber 5, 1937, describing certain C " = nations as diseased, and threaten- Meee Be cclegat bi Let Ee I don’t mind telling you what my own rules your press conference of April \1lth—when you approved and made your own an editorial in a i Washiigtia paper, ly fight in a war three thousand tection of American interests will! make our participation in it a .“virtual certainty”—you evidenced a willingness, if not an ania | In essence, your Warm Springs jand Washington statements have ; informed Europe that, if the dic- > the United States will attack them—and not merely by eco- ‘nomic sanctions, but by throw- ing into the balance the military {power of America. that has been givén these state- ments in every part of the world: | | Tepublics of the western world an 1g Fushing headlong into a, con- |threatening the European ag- |force with foree”. And you say that, in case of attack, “I pledge |the Capitol is now being bomb- | 5¥Stems, and a certain destruction ed, and the Huns setting fire to | the White House. t Thus, without consent of Our | at 4 le, and with no authority! Kooi Congress that alone, adel taxes, and adequate federal in- our form of government, has|¢ome. In eighteen months our | power to decide the issue of war! debt rose to twenty-five billions | jor peace, you have cki |placed America in a fals¢” and dangerous position in whics, war breaks out in . Europe, ld in mind the un-/; °ther course open to us. For it is been supplying China, though | Japanese and Russian armies are | separated only by the Manchuri-! ‘an line. } Germany and the United States have also been selling war ma-/ terials to China, while in 1937 the United States sent a million and _a half bales of cotton to Japan.! and 690,000 in 1938, to say noth- Sin the # of our people would accept ‘ the policy of refusing to send at armed forces abroad, and yet of their own ms of a most serious | ports, on their own ships, at their itisk, on a strictly cash and carry | and France have been supplying | loyalist Spain. And even the bombing of British ships by Franco’s planes did not precipi-; tate war. All of which demon-! strates that a cash and carry poli-| cy, in which we sell to anyone but deliver to none, need not lead to war. Whether the assurances you are} giving the allies, that we will| fight if they do, are bluffing the/ dictators into a settlement, or, on} the other hand, are making a set-| ‘tlement less likely, is a question | that is hard to answer. For we} do not know to what extent these | assurances are stiffening the at-| titude of the allies and making; them unwilling to grant conces- sions to the have-not nations that} will save the face of the dicta- | tors and render peace, especially | This policy of remaining at to while it failed toward the end of namely, that of the conflict, it did keep us out of toward ‘war for almost three years. And © armed conflict in jn all probability it would have ikept us out permanently, had it (1) The consistent efforts of them, and up to (2) The mistaken belief on the ,part of the German government that America could not effective- stating ,that,: in E . the pro- miles away. (3) The bungling of the British and American governments in permitting American passengers to sail on the British liner Lusi- which was secretly laden with munitions. Admittedly, no claim can made that the policy we followed from 1914 to 1917 was eal neu- \trality. It was neutrality in name only, since, with the allies con- .trolling the seas, the central pow- ers could not import © supplies from the United States. Nor of course would such a policy be neutrality if adopted at the pres-! ent time. Nevertheless, it has several important advantages. | Que is that it does.not involve, have involve this coun- In any event, in making these unauthorized assurances, you are gambling with tie lives and wel- fare of the people. | In closing, Mr. President, let England or France, war policy is pepular, or that it will tend to keep your adminis- tration in power, that, whatever | may be going on abroad, the have you speak for them as a dic- tator on the questions of war and peace. That is an ultimate and | perilous extension of power which, I believe, all true Ameri- And pre- the interpretation your speech to thé * whith, aside from certain Betas ones more,| -omparatively small racial and | politieal groups, who are doing! tall in their power to endanger | peace, the American people earn- testly desire to avoid. Another is promise to “match country will also support. . .” As we t well conclude that/UF democratic and economic {gain a dictator’s discretionary of the American standard of liv- ing. We entered the last war with | the ae a herbage eh lof the reorganiza' billion of debt, with low s @ cin authority to annul, congressional | legislation by destroying or con-| If we go to war now, with taxa-| ‘Tolling the agencies set up » by tion already at the point of dim-_ elmira inishing returns, our debt would | “fect. roe we unquestionably reach ninety or} Today you are committing fee 40 t [one hundred billions in two, Yourself to a further and even Teenie de | years. deposits | Fre serious executive usurpa- qn view of the! i tien. For, without benefit of en- Z more { legislation, and against the that; your country, you denied you that is to man, to “i te rE | ride 3 ante i | i Cy 4 itial reading pre vious. the night Chief of Police Ivan Elwood has received a telegram asking that efforts be made to locate one Edmund Seward, an artist said to be in Key West. Mr. E} wood said he has been unable t locate the man in question thus ing of oil and scrap iron. England | — Abolition of the juvenile court of Monroe county, zoning of the City of Key West and 2 city ord- inance to eliminate curb service from filling stations were among the recommendations made im the presentment of the grand jury of Monroe county and submitted to the cireuit court this forenoon. It is also urged that the city «> force the weights and measures ordinance. The report.also re- quests that the salaries of county $150 to $50 per month. and m thir way the county will save $6.000 annually. However high his abil- a lasting peace, Ste ing of Eczema, etc. back if not satisfy. Sold ev TRANSPORTATION CO, INC. inten” - annem MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS —between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST TWO ROUND TRIPS DAILY Direct Between Mamm anc Key Wen LEAVE KEY WEST DAILY (except Sunday) 1:00 o'clock A. M. arrive Miami 7-00 o'clock A.M 8:00 o'clock A. M. arrive Miami 3-00 o’cleck P.M LEAVE MIAMI DAILY (except Sunday) 1:00 o'clock A. 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