The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 13, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO y stcst Citizen HING CO. INC. t Sunday By ent and Publisher , Business Manager e Citizen Building Corner Gre Ann Streets ly Daily Newspap: ey West and Monroe at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Asnociated Press sted Press is exclusively entitled to. use tion of all news dispatches credited to redited in this ~aper and also shed here PTION RATES ADVERTISING RAT! on application. AL NOTICE rds of thanks, resolutions of notices, etc, will be charged for at 0 cents a line. spi entertainment by churches from which | s to be derived are 5 cents a line. tizen is an open forum and invites discus- iblie issues and subjects of local or general at it wil not publish anonymous communi- TRE KEY WEST CITIZEN ek the truth and print it never be WILL always out fear and without favor; to attack wrong or to applaud right; ys fight for progress; never be the or- or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; a.ways do its utmost for the welfar ; never tolerate corruption or njustice; denounce vice and praise virtue «amend good done by individual or organ- tolerant of others’ rights, views and s; print only news that will elevate 1ot contaminate the reader; » with principle, never com- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN w Comprehensive City Pian (Zoning). Mor Beach Airpo ater and Sewerage. Hotels and Apartments. and Bathing Pavilion. ~Land and Sea. 1 of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. ; Maay at home. The {ugky. individual is who doesn’t trust to luck, “usually Set- “ae send good men_ forward, and incompetents further backward. Mg drive io get money and the fight to keep it. One trouble about bane on time for! an appointment is that the other person is late. Among time-saving devices for editors the wastebasket holds a deservedly high ling books is not always a short to culture; * Economics is alw: we understand and doesn’t.’ s something that the other fellow THe person who is so freely given to advise others rarely knows how to advise hims An edieated man can argue without losing his temper and without resorting to abuiive ASOUH Tee. You never can tell what some people mean by what they you can only sus- pect what they think. When you spend money freely you ill have many friends, but most of them :way when your cash runs out. Someone has suggested a “Think * week. A fine idea if it would en- rage folks to think more intelligently. large megsure, the price of- good is abstinence. Decline the urge for d helping, and you will feel better | live longer. Wars begin with the ambitions of and end with the misfortune and ries of the people. Leaders, knowing nust win or their lives be sacrificed, rt to any means and any atrocity to Hitler knows that he is a cooked if Germany is defeated. a life of the party is a wash-out | one | fan is actuated by two motives: the | it depends upon what you | | THE SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL One of the best youth-training activi- ties in Key West has been, and the Echceol Safety Patrel, sponsored by the Key , West Rotary Club. Members of this junior | organization have attracted admiring at- tention, for their efforts in the enforce- safety rules near school buildings is, ment of and in the self-discipline they impose upon themselves. They are a credit to the com- | munity,. state 4 and nation, Anquallyithe Natioral School Safety Patrol organization stages a. parade in Washington, D. C. This parade includes elements from hundreds of - schools throughout the nation. Those sent to Washington are not alone the best safety patrolmen, but those who have also won iine scholastic records. This year it is planned to send the 12 best-rated boys of the Key West School Safety Patrol to Washington. The entire trip, including transporta- > bus and train, meals and hotel re at Washington, may be made for | approximately $385. The committee handling this activity here has managed, | with some difficulty, tc raise approxi- | mately two-thirds of that sum. This in- | cludes an appropriation of $100 by the Monroe County Commission. ey West merchants and other com- me: interesig ~are confronted with many demands for funds. in upon them for the sponsorship 1s important and vital community On the whole, they have con- ‘cial activitie tributed liberally towards these numerous } rojects, and undoubtedly some of them | \. ill contribute to the School Patrol Parade oat It seems to The Citizen that this is a burden that should be assumed by the communi The appearance of the Key | West boys at the head of the National Parade will give the city a certain measure | of valuable publicity. Publicity is one of the most important things in the develop- | ment of any resort city. But its benefits | do net accrue alone to our. merchants. They are spread among all our people, to | hotels, restaurants, cafes, ‘charter boat- |-men, oil companies, service stations .and | other activities that participate in reap- ing the tourist, dollars. , Sintte ev eryone benefits, everyone able | to de so should contribute ‘at least” ten eents towards the parade fund. THE EVENTS OF THE STARS Every time man increases the range of his telescopes he discovers that the uni- verse is far larger than he imagined. Stars, too faint to have been seen before, come into view. Recently astronomers have been in- terested in certain dim stars that suddenly | blaze in brightness, exceeding their ordi- nary brilliance by as much as a_ hundred thousand fold. Mysteriously, they fade again and return to normal. These so- called exploding stars are called novae. Besides the novae, there are the uper-novae, observed in galaxies so far | from our earth that light, travelling 186,- | 000 miles a second, takes millions of years to reach our eyes. Eighteen of these as- | founding phenomena have been observed and, at the peak of brilliance, they ex- ceeded our sun by as much as a hundred million times. In 1988 astronomers in South Africa | located a star which seemed to explode. It | split into three parts at a rate of speed estimated at a million miles an_ hour. Where the parts will go and what they , will do are unknown, Besides, it may | take hundreds of years to determine the esult of the stellar explosion. Maybe, in some distant era, men will understand the events of the stars. FOR A “CHRISTIAN PEACE” The newspapers are being bombarded by letters from - well-wishing individuals who want the government to take the lead in establishing a Christian peace. This is a fine suggestion. pacecepted in principle. How the tian peatejbetween Japan and China, | much less Germary and Great Britain, es- capes us. These letter writers should go _ into more detail. They need not tell the gov- ernment of this country what it should do. hey ought to tell Hiter and the Emperor of Japan what they should do. If they can gef results the world will hail them | and their work. There is a con- | It is easily | United | States cqul@ go about establishing a Chris- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Preddent Grant Almost Made It, He Led for 36 Ballots in 1880 Teddy Roosevelt, Who Had Served Seven Years, seca Only Other ‘Serious’ Try in 1912... , As tBullmooser.’ ; tial automatom”’ (operated by Fish, Morton, bebind the platform) who silently smoked his cigar hile the people anxiously awaited a statement frorh him about. his. Ahir term intentions.- £ \ EDITOR'S ‘or The following article, “last in a’ series of three impar- tial reviews of the third term issu tells how a “dark horse” named Jai A. €rrfield prevented Ulysses Grant | from .being- elected a third time. Ill, THE TWO BIG PRESIDENTIAL TRIES NLY twice in history has a President been recep- tive toa ‘third term.” Ulysses S. Grant was the first and Theodore Roosevelt was the second. In Roosevelt's case, it wasn’t exactly a ‘third term,” for he had not previ- ously had two complete terms as President. About the middle of Grant’s sec- ! ond term some of his supporters started. a movement ‘to 1enominate him. Immediately there was an up- rear. “Caesarism!"” | York, Herald, ministration newspapér, and tha | ery was echoed by Horace Greeley’s | powerful New York Tribune: Then other papers joined in the campaign to awaken the public to the dangers of the political machine that had been built up in Grant’s admihistra- tion. As a result of this uproar, ‘the Re- publican state convention in: Penn- sylvania on May 26, 1875, resolved: That we declare a firm, un- qualified adherence to the uti- written law of the Republic which wisely, and under’ the sanction of the most venerable examples, limits the presiden- tial service of any citizen to two terms and we the Republi- cans of Pennsylvania, in recog- nition of this law, are unaltera- bly opposed to the election to the presidency of any for a third term. Grant had felt that it was undig- nified for the President to reply to the accusations of the newspapers. But when members of his own party. went on record so strongly he felt that he couldn't ignore the issue. He issued a statement informing the convention that he had sought neither his frst term nor his second. “I am not, nor haye I ever been, a candidate for rehomination,” he | wrotes y yl not accept a renom- I ina ed, unjess if*should come r sich circumstances: as to. mipdsey it imperative duty—cir- f cumsta ft likely to oceur.”” Feared He’d be ‘Drafted.’ But this didn’t allay the suspicion. that he!might petmit himself to be “drafted.” So state conventions con- | tinued to adopt anti-third term reso- lutions and on December 15 Rep. William M. Springer of Illinois of- fered in congress a resolution That in the opinion of this house the precedent established by Washington and other Presi- dents of the United States in re- tiring from the presidential ef- fice after their second term has become by universal concur- rence a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time- honored custom would be un- wise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our free instits:- tions. shrieked the New The resolution was adopted t& a | vote of 234 to 18—80 Republicans joining with 146 Democrats to pass it over the opposition of 18 Republi- cans. That stopped ithe thir@ term | talk and Grant supporters mad¢ no effort to oppose the Reppblican nom- ination of Rutherford B; Hayg | won in the election... After leaving the White "House Grant started his tour of the world which became a triumphal proces- sion in every country he visited. When he returned his friends began | talking third term again. Although ' he told them privately. “I am not a ; candidate for any office, nor would 1 hold one that required any ma- neuvering or sacrifice to obtain,” who | the. leaHing fanti-ad- | they weren't convinced that’ ‘h wouldn’ t’accept it if Offered him, Eveitif, he: was sincere. in dise | claiming, any desire to return to the’” White ‘House,’ that! ‘wasn't the case with his’ wite!’Jalja Dent Grant wanted to be queen;of Washington society again. How much she had to do with convincing Grant that he?! might win a third time is unknown, But it was probably considerable. At any rate, he allowed Roscoe | Conkling to proceed with the build- up for his nomination by the Re- publicans. Sentiment in Grant's fa- vor grew rapidly, partly because of his popularity with the people and partly because of their dissatisfac- | tion with Hayes’ administration. As the movement to renominate him gained momentum, the old cry of “Caesarism!” was raised again and early in 1880 a number of Re- publicans held an anti-third term convention in St. Louis. They adopt- ed resolutions denouncing ithe third term..idea, the corruption of the Grant regime and Conkling’s *boss- | ism.’ When the Republican national con- vention was held, this element joined | forces with the Hayes wing of, the ; party and the supporters of Tames, | G, Blaine to prevent Grant’s nomi+ nation, But despite. their. efforts, he led the balloting for 36 votes, only to lose out when they sprang” a “dark horse” in the person of Jamesi):chestra:.conductosysbornsin, Engi A. Garfield. j Bitter in Defeat. nA When Grant received the news of his defeat, he spoke bitterly ‘of his : managers. “They never should have permitted my name to come before the convention unless they were sure of victory,” he declared, which was pretty sure proof of his desire for a third term and his willingness to ac- cept it if, offered him. The case of Theodore Roosevelt was somewhat different from that of Grant. He be- came President on the assassina- tion of President McKinley. After he finished Mc- Kinley’s une x- pired term, he was elected on his own right in 1904 —and this was his only elec- tion as President. years, almost two: verms, On November... Boesevelt 4, 1904, after his ‘victory over Alton B. Parker, the Democratie’ candi- | date, Roosevelt, issued this state-| , ment: On the fourth of March next I shall have served 314 years and these 314 years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the sub- stance, and not the form, and under no circumstances. will I be a candidate for nor accept another nomination. A “third term” boom was started for him in 1907 and he was obliged to repeat his refusal. Both these | refusals rose up to plague him in February, 1912, when a letter signed by the Republican governors of sev- en states asked him to be a candi- date again. “I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and . I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference,” he replied. H Despite the cries er!” and “Fraud!” vy Wleonoait as herents, the convention expressed its.| . preference for Taft. So T. R. bolt-'}** ed the convention,, form: Moose party and eampaigned:as its candidate. Although he carried six states with 88 electoral votes, as . against Taft's two states and eight electoral votes, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, carried 40 , states, got 435 votes in the elec- toral college and won au easy vice tory. Seabees fer weach Mopgontaptend ! i SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20e WEEKLY. | ‘onkling and others, hidden , ‘dent ‘of Stanford University formed -the ,ullery ny igh SATUR AY, APRIL 1S; 1940 Whai Is In A Name (My Axsoriated Prone GRAND ISLAND. Neb.. April 13—A visitor to a farm near Grand Isiand noticed a big gan- der who was the prea! at leader of the fl or ed it to the far TODA\’S COMMON ERRCR Never stv. “He was sentenced to be hung”; or, “He wes hune last Mon- dey"; sav, “hanged”. | Voday’ s Horoscope The native of this day perticulariy avoid evil associa- tions, for the influences indicate es through the envy of others. 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