The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 26, 1947, Page 2

r PAGE TWO ta Se Hey ent Citizen Ny Mxcept Sunday, Toyraee and Publisher Manager CrMAN, lat The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daly Newspap r in Key West and Monroe County Hetered at Key West, Florida, ax second class matter HR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS plated Breas ts exclusively entitled to all news dispatches credited and edited in this paper, a therw r wblished here. news SUBSCRIPTION RATES =) $10.00 5.00 2.75 ADV BETISING BATES Made Known on Application SPECIAL NOTICE All ‘reading noti¢en, cardi hanks, resolutions foppect, obitqary poems, ete, will be med tor at the ra cents a line. y churches from are 5 cents a line. wnd invites dis- it will met p MEMBER 1947 | MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion, 4. Airports—Land and Sea, 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments, ' 5. Community Auditorium, 1 iraitinasssScsiael MONOGRAPH Harry Laubscher, Key West C. of C. Dear Harry: On Monday, Sept. 22, this writer : uggested (hat you make efforts to have the U. 8. Naval Observatory transferred to Ke West. Our ever-alert Rep. George Smathers already fas suggested to the authorities the removal to this Keep on plugging for this enter- city, prise! THE ORACLE. Two TRUTHS Reports from England indicate that there is a growing opposition to the pol- icles of the Labor government — and that it ie becoming apparent in the sanks of la- bor tteelf. The cause of that resentment plain. It is rooted in the fact that the high hopes held out for socialism were a crvel Ulusion, that rigid_regimentation has 1, not fed, the energies and produc- abilities of the nation, and that Eng- land is new on the verge of complete eco- disaster, sapp tive nomic The British people are not complaining about the austerity program — a similar measure would necessarily have been im- any government in the interest of industrial recovery, What they are com? plaining about is that the incredible sacri- ‘wes made by the people in living stand- ards have gone for nothing. All the basic industries on which British exports de- coal, electric power, steel and the have either been socialized or threatened with socialization. And in all of then? output been declining. Poli- Uelans, many of them utterly without ex- in industry, are the unchallenged masters of England today, and they have shown # great deal more ability at extend- ing their own authority than in getting out the goods that can England from ruin When socialism fails, posed by pend reat has pengnce save its advocates al- Ways propose more socialism as the cure. And that has brought still another grave danger to the English people — the loss of mights which have been extended since the Magna Carta. Labor officials say that treeaing a worker in his job does not amount to a labor draft—but that it is merely a play on words when the law makes it impossible for a man to change employment if he so desires. Agriculture has been surrounded with dictatorial re- strictions, and more have been proposed. England is a living example of two vi- tally importent truths—first, that social- ism is wasteful and inefficient; and, sec- ond, that it is basically and inevitably a destroyer of individual liberty, That is the lesson that England is giving the United States, and i! is time for us to heed it. Modern education seems to revolye around football games. om THE RUMOR MONGER Morbid and maudlin persons reside in every city. They thrive on making them- selves and others miserable. They are the type of persons that work up a community into mass hysteria. When they lack a basis for their depressive rumors, they use the familiar dodge, “I heard,” though they had not heard anything bearing on what they say, so-and-so to be the case. These sick-minded persons started a rumor in Miami, before last week’s hurri- cane had finished lashing that city, that another hurricane was headed that way. Every publicity ageney in Miami ap- pealed to its residents to stop spreading rumors. They were told that should another hurricane be located, they would be given the news immediately by the Weather Bureau. “Stop spreading rumors, and de- pend on the Weather Bureau to serve you promptly,” the rumor mongers were told in effeet. But the appeals were futile. The morbid, the mat.dlin, still continued to tell their lies. Here in Key West, rumors about the coming of other hurricanes were ‘spread by residents -with similarly morbid minds, Even after the storm, which did not de- velop into a hurricane, had gone far, far away from Key West, rumors about “an- other hurricane” continued to persist, But these rumen mongers do not con, fine themselves to lying about storms that exist only in their own minds. They resort to “I heard” in spreading untruths about their fellowmen, Beware of the rumor monger! petra AT ES The idea that a newspaper ean be coerced by advertisers is one of the fal- lacies that some readers like to believe, THE OTHER FELLOW'’S PRICES ——- In an article in Nation’s Business on the price problem, Jack B. Wallace makes this sage observation: “Nearly everyone seems to think a price is too high if he is buying and qquite within reason if he is selling.” The universal attitude explains a good deal of the debate over prices these days. The working man kicks like a steer when he has to pay $8.50 for a shirt that cost $2.00 before the war—but he is all in fa- vor of a wage rate that may be double or more what he earned in 1941, The farmer yells, “Robbery!” when he finds that the cost of a piece of agricultural machinery has gone way up—but he doesn’t see any- thing wrong with record prices for meat and .grain, And, finally, the realestate man regards his grocer as a lineal descen- dant of Jesse James when he sees how lit- tle food a five-dollar bill will buy—and then goes out to sell houses for $20,000 that would have cost $10,000 oy less seven years ago. Government officials denounce ‘ industry for high prices — but nothing about inflationary influence of a $260,- 000,000,000 national debt and ‘prodigal government spending, What we would like, in short, is to enjoy 1947 incomes along with 1941 prices. Desirable as that dream may be, it is strictly a piece of fantasy so far as the facts of life-are concerned. Your retail merchant is charging you more for what you buy because ‘the: increase in wholesale costs and business overhead force him to. The manufacturer charges more because there has been a tremendous inflation in the cost of labor, taxes, materials and ev- erything else. All intelligent businessmen would like to see lower prices. They are worried for fear that millions of consumers will be priced out of the market. But the prices have simply followed the wage-cost- tax trend as they always have and always will. And all the talk about profiteering we hear these days won’t change the situation one iota. High cost of living is not synonymous with higher living. HIS MIND NEVER CHANGES John L. Lewis is raising the roof in try- ing to tear down “the iniquitous Taft- Hartley statute.” Apparently Mr, Lewis is getting off on the wrong foot. * The American Federation of Labor and the CIO are cooling off in their oppo- sition, waiting to learn how the new labor law works, Apparently wage workers are engaged in a period of ‘watchful waiting.” Several million members of labor unions believe they are protected in their positions, and that that they can earn more money in the course of a year by derly and disastrous strikes. staying on the job than by going on disor- THR ENY WEST CrviZzaN HOPELESS HENRY NE fe ee WWUAAANGAANALASGGAAAAE GAGA GALA AGAAUGTANRA LAAT i Key West In Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES | -OF THE CITIZEN OF September 26, 1937 ‘ AMAUMANOOANENH4 GA REURERERSALGELG EDERAL Key West High School class, numbering 61, has elected George Del Pino president. Arthur Sawyer Post of the! American Legion will elect offi- cers at a meeting tomorrow night; in.their hall at , Whitehead and | ‘United streets. | Henry knows religious freedom and the right to free debate Are among the many virtues that have made fous country great: Buthe hy protecting tolks in lanas ac: we fought and wo. John H. Russell, 81, was struck iby an automobile Saturday night while on Division, near Watson street. He suffered a fracture of e@gun, 'the skull, and his condition today Ione way of ile certcin that we keep our! a and bound. ‘was reported critical. | liberty. Will E. P. Robests, who had} ———— SesSIOE IE ES aa Seeate iath been visiting in Detroii for twol months, returned to Key West to-! day. He said he had heard many | ms in Detroit talking about | Overseas Highway. i TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS LAUGH AWHILE! (Know America) aan Edith Abbott, dean emeri- of the Univ. of Chicago’s chool of Social Si », born at Grand Island, Nebr., 71 years y, ago. bus London Mrs. Glorianna Bayly left Sat- urday for Cincinnati where she will. represent St. Paul’s Church) Traveling on a not to pass her » Wiley of Indiana jas a delegate to the general assem Doriaeak Heat suce de = : fe lean- bly of Episcopal churches from all - geisigs and poked the con- over the world. ja r in the ribs with her um- Local boat owners 4 today are circulating a addressed to Governor Cone, ask. ing that the tax on gasoline be Years ago. femoved when it is used in boats,! Prof. Robert D. W. Connor of jthe U . of North Carolina, rpo- ! Henry B. Hask stant cn- fessor of jurisprude! one-time } périntendent of ' lighthouses, left Archivist of the U. born in this morning on an inspection tour , Wilson C., 69 y of gids to navigation on the east’ Thow Stearns end west coasts of the sta aie. ieditor and publisher nen ‘the National A ‘it Men, born at Aviston, IL, , court ‘bh who \ i ihe juice of the plant aS. poet, orn in St ovis, 59 years ago. The Mi Neen V and, Dr. John D. Clark of the Univ. Minnie Porter Harris g Nebraska, noted economist, and n in Live in New York City. The nat Ft. Collins, Colo., 63. Oak Co., years ago. ping at tke Barbizon Pl 1 ad aaa ns an‘ F. Dobie of the born 77 years ago. Today The Citizen says in editorial paragraph: “Nobody loves a dictator, but | sometimes a stenographer does.” ALLE Ar em Rs Political Announcements _| FOR ELECTION OF CITY COMMISSIONERS ~ OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 4. 1947 For City Commissioner LOUIS CARBONELL ALBERT B. COOPER’ | EARL HIGGS NEIL SAUNDERS ; { BRUCE SAYLES © Satta tanita tin ttn tind te De ty te tte te tte te Det tin to tn tin tnt in tn tin onan tin tts tin tn tintin in tin Dnt in in fin ttn tn ts Dn tn a tn et td a naa a a ai Se a te eae ae tan ee ed Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N.Y. Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Key West —they’re just a few of the new Advance-Design CHEVROLETS setting’ higher sfandards of: value; on: every job! THE CAB THAT “BREATHES”—"in- fresh air and FLEXI-MOUNTED GAB™ is rubber-cush- joned against road shocks, torsion and vi- CHEVROLET VALVE- IN-HEAD TRUCK ENGINES are world’s most economical for their size. HYDRAULIC BRAKES are exdusively designed for grecter brake-lining NEW STRONGER | FRAMES carry | greater loads. LARGER WINDSHIELD and WINDOWS give 22% greater visibility. | LONGER WHEELBASES. 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