The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 11, 1940, Page 2

at | wry West Citizen | or IZEN PURLISHE ept t and Publisher xs Manager | Tampa, is exclusively entitled to use ws dispatches eredited to | ed in this »aper and also i here SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES plication. , resolutions of be charged for at rches from which + ts a line. nd invites discus- nd subjects of local or general { wil net publish anonymous communi- TRE KEY WEST CITIZEN "WILL always seek the and witgeut truth and print it out fear favor; never be to attack wrong or to applaud right; s fight for progress; never be the or- 1 the mouthpiece of any person, clique, s do its utmost for the jon or class; away corruption or virtue ublic welfare; never tolerate injustice nounce vice commen j and praise good done by individyal or organ- sion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and will elevate news that the with principle. print only and not contaminate reac never com- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ge. ve City Pian (Zoning). and Apartments. Jater and Sewe: Hotel 3each and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. 1 of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. | order to accomplish this the | low. | serve the only climatic tropics in America | the general cpinion HOPE FOR EVERGLADES PARK Ernest F. Coe, director of Everglades National Park Association, Inc., speaking before the associated dailies recently at stated that nearly all the candi- dates for romination for governor, congress and state offices, have ‘freely proclaimed before the public that, when elected, they will use every effort to push ahead estab- lishment of the Everglades Park”. Monroe county has a vital interest in the proposal to establish the Everglades as a National Park. It is evident that the voters of this county should be certain that the candidates they support May 7, during the second primary and in the fall elections, shall be committed to establish- ment of Everglades National Park. While Congress has authorized the park and defined the acceptable boun- daries, the state must acquire the land. In state legis- lature created a commission to purchase ome of the necessary land and directed the Florida Internal Improvement Fund trustees to transfer state lands to this com- mission. Additional aetion may be re- quired by our state officials finally to es- tablish this park. Supporters of the park proposal have produced endless statistics to prove that | the creation of Everglades National Park, its development by the National Park Serv- ice of the scenic, recreational and wildlife conservation values, will be of immense benefit to the state and South Florida. It ill enhance the tourist trade to the area —and that means Monroe county, for a rge part of the area to be acquired lies within this county. The land to be acquired has little value for the cultivation of crops. The price of the land is therefore relatively Establishment of the park will con- for posterity and for public use. It will be a great natural wonder, a fairyland of scenic beauties, rare birds, vanishing ani- mals ard-unmatched tropical splendor. No other area combines all these attributes. The Citizen believes it is expressing of Monroe County | when it again lauds the park proposal and The pensive maid’ may become ex- pensive after she is married. Even a dictator could hardly enforce a decree requiring people to mind their own business, Ve have never been able to deter- mine ¥ her it is harder to borrow money or to pay it back. There is a big crop of promising can- didates springing up. Infact, most of them will promise anythin jn Fascism the ideal welfare of the state is placed before the happiness of the idual, but unfortunately the fascists are the state, and being that get all the gravy. inc A Miami paper states that a company f Danish soldiers had surrendered to the ish authorities ordered does not were first who have The paper the sold iterment,”” ite whether r just buried alive. iers Quite medaentiy people visiting in; Key: We The Citizen office and‘ state had known about the in West they would have come here long ago, and what 2st come te they ages of living if only advant Key this writer most is their statement found the people of this island such accommodatin pleasant and de- light{u! folk, a condition he himself ex- perienced a seore of years ago, and which deciZed him to make this his future home- The famed hospitality of this community is am asset which must never be lost. please that; they One thing the public sometimes over- looks is the number of mistakes which do NOT get in the paper. Every published rumor Which later turns out to be false, every bit misinformation which makes its way by whatever channel into print, every typographical error is immediately grized by every reader for what it is, ake. But how many rumors which run down to their false origin, how much misinformation reaches the news of- fice but there to get no farther, how many typographical errors are corrected before they, see the light of day, the publie never knoy For every mistake which gets into the paper, a hundred others are corrected. -——Sanford Herald. i of ar are | indicates the hope that the state may soon act to create it. TREMENDOUS SAVINGS IN INTEREST All debt in the United States, private ' and governmental, is estimated to aggre- gate $159 se 000 by the United States News, In 1930, ine total debt of the nations was estimated at $160,800,000,000 by the some news-magazine, There is this difference, however, be- tween the situation in 1930 and that in 1940. Interest rates, over the United States, applicable to all debts, are from two to three per cent lower than they were in 193) Assuming that interest rates. have been reduced only two per cent, the an- nual.saving to borrowers in the Uniteé States amounts ‘to more than $3,000,000,- | 000 a year. There can be.no saving for one group of our population without a consequent loss to another group. Therefore, if bor- rowers saved more than $3,000,000,000 a year in interest, lenders or investors are collecting that much less than they would | like to collect and did collect’ in years gone by. NOT FIGHTING TO ENTERTAIN Reminding critics that the Allies are fighting “not for the entertainment of other people but for their own lives,” Oliver Stanley British Secretary of State for War, suggests that neutrals let them fight it their own way, Referring to criticism in the United States because the Allies refused to coerce Norway and Sweden to permit troops to go to the aid of Finland the British cabinet official found it hard to understand why his country should be criticized for ob- serving the rights of smaller neutral powers. So long as the people of the United | take the attitude that the European | war is a contest between conflicting ambi- States tions for world hegemony they should not be interested in whether the Allies aid | If we take the view | that the safety of small nations is at stake | other nations or not. and there is an obligation upon other atiens to protect the smaller neutrals | hen, unless we are willing to assume part of the burden, we should let those ‘who | _ carry the load pick their own way. | Constitution, | office for life.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Washinsion Wouldn’t Take Tt But He Didn’t Tom Oppose the Idea Jefferson on the Other Hand Was Dead Set | Against It; ‘Old Hickory’ Jackson a Single Six- Year Term; Hayes Indorsed It. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sec- ond in a series of three articles trae- ing the development in American: his- tory of the third term issue. What did Washington think about it? Jeffer- son? Andrew Jackson and others? The following article, especially pertinent during the present election yeur, is presented as a strictly impartial re- view of the third term subject, taking no stand for or against it. Il. PRECEDENTS AND VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENTS | | F YOU are opposed to the | idea of any President seek- , ing to have more than eight years in the White House, the chances are that_you will cite ; the case of George Washing- | ton as your strongest argu- ment. “The father of our country | declined to run for a third term. So why depart from the precedent which he es- tablished?” you will ask. If, however, you believe that there is no real objection to having a Chief Executive serve more than two terms, you will also turn to the first President. You will point out that Washington retired after two terms not because he was opposed to a President serving more than eight years but because he was worn out with the labors in the service of the nation and looked forward to a peaceful old age at Mount Vernon, Differed With Jefferson. More .than that you will quote this letter which Washington wrote to Lafayette on April 28, 1788: “Though I cannot have time or room to sum up the arguments in this letter, there cannot, in my judgment, be the least danger that the President will by any practicable intrigue ever be able to continue himself one moment in office, much less per- petuate himself in it, but in the last stage of corrupt morals and practical depravity, and even four or six years. Five years later he sent another message to congress which contained this paragraph: “All the reflection I have made upon the subject increases my conviction that the best in- terests of the country will be Promoted by the adoption of some plan which will secure in all contingencies that important right of sovereignty to the di- rect control of the people. Could this be attained, and the terms of those officers be limited to a single period of either four or six years, I think our liberties would possess an additional safeguard,” Jackson’s recommendation of a single six-year term for Presidents was echoed 40 years later when Ru- therford B. Hayes in his imaugural address said, ‘In furtherance ef the reform we seek, and in other im- portant‘respects a change of great importance, I recommend an amendment to the Constitution pre- scribing a term of six years for the presidential office and forbidding a re-election.” In 1901 indiscreet friends of Presi- dent McKinley began talking about his becoming a candidate again. Thereupon the President promptly scotched that talk by issuing a pub- lie statement in which he said: “I regret that the suggestion of a third term has been made. I doubt whether I am called upen to give it notice, but there are now questions of the gravest importance before the administration and the country, and their just consideration should not be prejudiced in the public mind by even the suspi- cion of the thought of a third term. In view. . . of a long- settled conviction . . . I will not be a candidate for a third term. . . + + The candidacy of Theodore Roose- velt on the Bull Moose ticket in 1913 revived agitation over a third term. One of the planks in the platform, then there is'as much danger that any species of domination would prevail. Though when a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little con- sequence from what quarter he comes. Under any extended view of this part of the subject I can see no propriety in pre- cluding ourselves from the serv- ices of any man who in some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capa- ble of serving the public.” The President who, even more than Washington, established the “no third term” tradition was Thomas Jeffer- son. Writing to Washington on May 2, 1788, in regard to the new the “Sage of Monti- cello’ expressed his dissatisfac- tion with “‘the | perpetual re-eligi- bility of, Pres- ident,” cause he feared that it would “make an So he said he hoped that “before there is danger of this change taking place in the office of President the good sense and free spirit of our countrymen. will make the change necessary to prevent it.”” Toward the close of his second Thomas Jefferson | term in office, when the legislatures of Vermont, New Jersey and Penn- | sylvania sent him resolutions ask- | ing him to be a candidate again, Jefferson replied to all of them with a letter which contained this para- graph: “That I should lay down my charge at a proper period is as much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If seme terminaticn to the services of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constituticn, or supplied by prac- tice, his office, nominally, four years, will in facet become for life, and history shows how eas- ily that degenerates into ap inherifance, Believing that a representative government re- sponsible at short periods of eiection is that which produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind, I feel it a duty te do no act which shall essentially impair that principle, and 1 should unwillingly be the per- son who, disregarding the sound precedent set by an ilusirieus predecessor (Washington) should furnish the first exampie of pio- Jongation beyond the second term of office.” During “Old Hickory” Jackson's frst administration, he sent a mes- sage to congress in 1829 recom- mending that the electoral college be abolished, that the President be elected by direct vote and- that he Bog Staled: 80.5 pinay ANTES Ce t Fepesenh ty Wegieen Rowenter Outen) adopted by the Democrats at Balti- more, favored a single presidentia} KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Jemes Pergola, cameraman, and Brandon Wentworth, sound effects technician, with Pathe News, completed their assign- nent in Kev West yesterday and .eft in the afternoon with sev- ral thousand feet of film. Ralph BP. Pinder, foreman of operations with the state road department and in charge of the work on Stock Island, told The Citizen this morning of an auto- |mobulist driving over the recent- ly completed island road and jcompletely ruining it. For the first time in several months the municipal sponge dock was, this morning, the scene lof a sale of sponges. This is the first sale since the winter catch |was brought in.- Only one large lot was sold, it was learned. | | Lloyd M, Ramsey and. Clinton! Hayes, veterans from the camps ‘on the Keys, were brought to Key West yesterday, apparently suffering from some form of mental abberation. Ramsey had eut his wrist with the evident intention of committing suicide. Making angling history is what C. A. Gross and H. A. MacPher- ‘son, of Greenbay, Wisc., and Da- vid Peck and L. H. Barkhausen, | ef Chicago Ill. have been doing in the few days they have been fishing in key waters. Fine speci- imens of sailfish have already been captured. TEN YEARS AGO Key West's fight to have the Northwest Channel deepened from 18 to 24 feet got under way yesterday. The House rivers and harbors committee has di- rected a review of reports for- ‘merly mede on the need ‘for deepening the channel. j rea | Improvments to the local Ma- rine Hospital to cost approxi- mately $28,000 are assured, fol- lowing the visit: here yesterday of Assistant Surgeon General F. C. Smith, in charge of the Ma-,; rine hespital division of the U. S. Public Health Service. term and urged the adoption of an , amendment to the Constitution, | making the President ineligible for re-election and pledging their candi- date to this principle. A short time before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, the senate passed a joint resolution proposing a constitution- al amendment limiting the Presi- dent to a single six-year term. While this resolution was pending in the house, Mr. Wilson wrote a letter to { A. Mitchell Palmer, a‘ representa- tive from Pennsylvania, as follows: “The question is simply this: Shal] our Presidents be free, so far as the law is concerned, to seek a sec- ond term of four years, or shall they be limited by Constitutional amend- ment to a single term of four years or to a single term extended to six years? Admitted His Quandary. “Four years is too long a term for a President who is not the true spokesman of the people, who is imposed upon and does not lead. It] is too short for a President who is doing, or attempt- © fng a great work of reform, and who has not had time to finish To change the © term to six years | would be to in- crease the likeli- hood of its being too Jong without any assurance that it would, in hap- py cases, be long enough. A fixed Woodrew Wilson constitutional limitation to a single- term of office is highly arbitrary and unsatisfactory from every point of view. Favored Two Terms. “Put the present customary limiiation of two terms into Constitution, if you do not trust the people to take care selves, but make it (not one, because four often too long), and President a chance to full-service by proving himself fit for it. » «+ + “As things stand now the peo- ple might more likely be cheat- eda than served by further limi- tations of the President’s eligi- bility. His fighting power in their behalf would be immense- “We singularly belie our own prin- | ciples by seeking to determine by fixed Constituticna) provision what | The state crawfish hatchery will probably not operate here | this season, State Shell Fish) Commissicner Strickland has just - notijied the ‘Chamber of Commerce. Lack of funds, due to failure to collect licenses from Key West fishermen, is the rea- son assigned by Mr. Strickland. The lighthouse tender Sun- dew, in charge of Captain John Albury and a crew of Key West- ers, is heid fast in a field of ice in the hargor at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Island. It may be several Hays before the tender ean proceed to Buffalo by way ,of the St. Lawrence River. With the installation Western Electric Sound eauip- ment, révently made. .in the Strand theatre, Key West can! now boast of having a theatre equipped with the best in the known world. of FIFTEEN YEARS AGO The French steamship Hyr- | jeania arrived at this port last evening, dropping anchor off the! Spit buoy, near Fort Taylor, | {where an injured member of the ‘crew was placed on board i \tug Petrei and brought to this | port. One hundred and eighty-six | members of the Southwestern Bakers’ Association will arrive } in Key West this afternoon on) the P. & O. steamship from Ha- vana, and arrangements have | been made by local businessmen | |to take the visitors for a ride taround the city. } The Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from the gen- eral manager of the Florida East | Coast Railway relative to re- | duced rates for delegates along! ithe East Coast to the annual ‘South Atlantic Coastal Highway | ;convention in Jacksonville. | Preparations continue to go! forward for the entertainment! jof General Machado, president-/ leleet of Cuba, and party, who are | scheduled to arrive here on Mon- j jday afternoon aboard the P. & 'O. steamship Governor Cobb. j Bascom. L. Grooms, general | the people shall determine for them. manager of the Key West Elec- selves and are Asgietad competent trie Cor-wany, states that an up- to determine for themselves. of popular government.” We to-date bus system will be in Laie 6 deen Spon the wists thacrs| operaticn about June 1. Four | lerge busses have been ordered, ,and thev are of the latest type | SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20e WEEKLY (1 Sentient: | THURSDAY, APRIL a he TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Never say, “I live in ; hopes”; use the singular, ! | “hope”, | "TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 6 for Answers 1. Which play won the 1939 Pulitzer award? Which is heavier, mercury? What is another the American tree? — is the leader ocratic Party U. S. Senate? Which actor starred on the stage for a number of years in “The Music Mas- te What is the usual designa- tion for the secret police of the U.S.S.R.? Did Wiley Post, Charles Lindbergh or Eddie Rick- enbacker circumnavigate the globe in 7 days and 19 hours in 1933? Do American born persons convicted under state or federal .laws lose their citizenship? To what tune were the words of “The Star-Span- gled Banner” set? 10. What well-known college is at Williamsburg, Va.? 2. lead or 3. name sycamore of in the the 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Today’s Birthdays eeeseceocccoceteescocoe® Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, born at Glens. Falls, N. /Y., 78 years ago. Brig.°Geh. Frank T. Hines, Ad- ministrator of Veterans’ Affairs in Washington, born in Salt Lake City, 61 years ago. Dr. Paul Dwight Moody, presi- dent of Middlebury College, Ver- mont, son of the famed evange- list, born in Baltimore, 61 years ago. Dr. Harry W. Chase, chancel- lor of New York University, born at Groveland, Mass, 57 years ago. Milton J. Ferguson Librarian of the Breoklyn, N. Y., Public Library, born in. Wayne Co., W. Va., 61 years ago. Dean G. Acheson of Washing- ton, D. C., former undersecretary of the treasurv, born at Middle- town, Conn., 47 years ago. Lew Holtz, actor, born in New York City. Today’s Horoscope Poeereccoccceecesesccese Today produces a sincere and steadfast man or woman who will make many friends and hold them by force of worth. It gives a generons nature, active, fully alive to the world about, and, in a way, conscious of its own merits and desirous of recogni- * ing to those who like SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen One of the Metropilitan Opera Company's talented »,perforr died’ recently on a Newt Jé: farm at the age of 39.5°SKt' w the trained mare, Anna, the opera “Aida” and; othe, ductions for a quarter: of a, ce tury during her prime. She the mount of Rudolph Val in his famous picture, Sheik.” Although Senator T. ibasting the administration 14-year old son is on good with some of the big she 'Young Horace Taft is a col lecto or lof autographs, and a few day jago he obtained one from Secre |tary of the Treasury Morger | thau. i | s lam- his terms Mothers are seldom to in a flippant manner, Toronto bakery disregards ment and tradition by displaying this sign: “Pie like mother used to make, 6 cents; pie like mother tried to make, 12 cents,” referred but a Jazz drummers are sometiffi¢s subject to a mild form of paraly sis, according .to a med: @u- thority. Some hard-hearted per. sons probably would be unsym pathetic if the paralysis were complete and permanent Fair warning is given to all and sundry by a Missouri farm- er, who displays this sign on his fence: “If any man’s or woman's oxen or cows gets i this here field, his or her tail will be cut off, as the case may be.” Discovery of a process for ex- tracting gasoline from cotton seed has been reported. But if scientists could devise a way to extract the tax ‘om gasoline would be even more helpful to the long-suffering motgrist. A 72-year-old carpenter” of Windsor, Canada, did two’ chores in one visit to the: government building a few agb. | He registered the birth of a newly- bern son and applied for an old age pension at the si i Dr. Freeman of Yale’ after an exhaustive su the man who while he wo! the most done. s likely. to. get This is encourag- to take things easy, and that-applies, we imagine, to most of us. 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