The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1949, Page 2

OO nn aren akan seinen amen peepee enue acta unaaaeeimena ape mene a DE OT TN ae - ea mancmamnt — THE KEY WEST CITIZEN : ok Bete hes: in the a, Viewer Lowe.’ } y Bendes, registration is proceeding slowly. in am effort to sep up k Lowe said thot six weeks befo i. day the | im City Holl and placed in the No. I fire sta- | son on the side of the Greene street entrance. ; So ter es The Citizen is aware. only two Key Westers have said they are going to be | candidates tor the office of city commissioners. One of them has made his announcement in | The Citizen, but neither of them has quclified. hh is hard to determine the cause of the cpethy ameng prospective candidates and residents generally. Interest in all elections | & stirred up by candidates and their support- ers, but at present nobody is stirring the po- aucel pot There is a possibility that some residents, who intend to enter the race, are deliberately | weeping quiet im the hope of not rousing into Getwuy other cspisants for the office of com- muasioners. Whotever may be the reason for | the apathy of one thing we may be sure: not | much more time can pass, if intended candi- | dates are determined to wage campaigns, be- | tore politieal activity begins. The likelihood | ® campaigning will be short and hot. politic: | ally speaking. WHO GETS THE LION'S SHARE wet The idea still seems tobe prevalent that the owners of industry get the big re- wards—while the workers get the crumbs. That is one of the worst possible mis- conceptions. And it is a good sign that in- dustry is now working to correct it, by re- leasing simplified balance sheets showing the actual financia) experience of typical enterprises. A revealing example concerns the na- tion's largest steel) company, which has Kewdere The atvetiietny manager of The Wieee ebeeme the writer that ote read- om @@ Ged 8 prefitat tead the eehwerticetme nr well as the eee, peitiewlas the food adver- eo ee THE ORACLE ‘With election day two and one-half months —- Whe somber of poii: the | octet Grates 1949 ea: weds thoew 6! the eter petted fer the preview year hy near. » ttt per cent. The has not ance ie Ins Teoane been in business for 47 years. In that time it bes had a total gross income of $44,000,- 000,000, Here, on a percentage basis, is what happened to the huge sum of money. Payments for human energy#-wages, casement hee appateet im all states but Chere have ' ‘ OA GEES cate ae te the lent week in | POvroll taxes, social security, etc. — took tole ao compared «ith 4540 he «ame | 41-4 per cent. osu et (08 Payments to other companies for As the tant of duly there were 1.144 | #00ds and services — much of which went oe the eaten, Only Delaware and | +t in payrolls — took 37.2 per cent. ‘oh were withowt « cine! e ithe | Depreciation of equipment — worn- oh fee Which the figures are available, | Cut tools — required 6.7 per cent. BR & well te bnew tha: anneal The government, through taxes, re- @oceh ft Pree elebrating the birth. | ceived 6.4 per cent. Gee ot the late Presbiin © Reows «it, The owners of the business — the ote 6 Getelierebic cam fe treat those | tockholders who put up the money that etteteh ee the dread 4 « end to | made the company and its employment ere ite teddy wigin and | Possible — received 8. 3 per cent. tema tome et Further, not all of that 8.3 per cent ee Ce ee We Rew, the experts have | Went to the owners in cash. About a third le ahebie te diatewer Rew the dicease | of & had to be set aside to buy new tools ui «There af mane @or rhe | that would be needed. t that we have «wen come tom Dr The point is clear. Capital — which ® Geeter of M Louk wh sorte that | amply accumulated savings of mifffons of ee silty to the | People, most of them with modern means » wee te 6 lwherete: ulations works for a modest wage, generally the Merrewer, cotele facts ebout the ground | *mallest share of the company’s earnings. oe ete the eeepc ion tho! might be tet Psat LAWS CAN BE ENFORCED Vike mate & fownd throughout the tem- There are those in Key West, who talk about the disregard of law and the necessity for the punishment of criminals. It isa ery that is heard all over the land, but for different reasons, depending upon et ate and tepieal cone. vetecn the tender, or em Rewe 2 higher idence in rural rather than im urban population. it would & ent fer the was nal in man ew the mole comes out ( the ground im het weather which ne tendency n the surface shel the tiny | has in mind. oneal ee lmeeneequential as to have Back of the fight for law and order, onped cam petent cael. beervation | however, stands the impelled observance ot @ate of all law. The assassination of a man a une in Chieago, the killing of a little child takes te mations to Geht bor it | Playing in the streets of New York, the (ee ORY Mere te keep the peace of the | Petty and enormous graft that. mars our we tat political life and other criminal acts that a n, occur here, and elsewhere, are each part The ameting reveletion of modern | °! ® ‘isregard for law, that’has flourished pitta Ree Vittle knowledge is re- | 1" this country. ; ‘ quired te became an expert There are, in the United States, enough police officials to enforce the laws of the land if these officials are properly imbued with a desire for law enforcement. It is a farce when a police official, aia Phere & ne way accurately to predict whet peaple will do at any time, some wil! | wort Qe Wag and others the opposite. : unless some citizen complains. It is not by 4 > preepeet that minority | the business of the average citizen to swear qrenpe . aa 4 . we one day | out warrants, or to work up evidence. We oe 4 JF ~ eundetley,. will hamstring | have officials for these things and they should do their duty. what particular law a particular person | learn- | ing of a vielation of the law, does nothing | pe | NOW THE BOYS KN OW RALPH BUDD. born Aug. 20, 1879, at Waterloo. Iowa. Presi ' dent of Chic Byrlington » trains, > Budd’ ‘was int civil. engineers} sing from Hig land Park Col- lege at Des Moines, in’ 1899 and — started work in the en- gineering de. partment of the Great We-tern. In 1902 he join- ed the Rock Is- ‘three years as chief of the Panama Railroad with Pacific he worked under james J. Hill on the Great North- erm, becoming its president in| 1919. He took charge of the ‘ . et in 1932. In World BILL HITE (right). head of a flying service at Lang Beach, | ; | War If he directed transport for and his asscciate, Bob Overholt (left), made their first parachute. |the government. . jumps in erder to answer cusfomers’ ‘NO. 1 SOIL SAVER | ae HERE ARE TWO PICTURES of Maj. Gen. Meery © President Truman's military aide. whe is under fee © leased by the investigators. daunted. Hite jumped a few hours later—and broke his left leg. Now they get around together with one set of crutches. Over- holt is in charge of the company’s parachute department, PINNED WORKER WAITS FOR RESCUE ELIJAH H. LYNUM (above) of Manila, Ala.. is the South's No. 3 Negro soil conservation farm- et of 1949. He won the honor in competition with Negro “farmers of all southern stdfes. The announcement was made at the annual South-wide Soil Conservation Jamboree at Log Cabin Community. Ga. model Negro farming setilement.| WALTER BENNETT, 48, holds to strands of barbed wire fence as he waits for help after he was pinned beneath a tractor which turned over on him at Independence, Mo. Bennett. a dairy farm employe, was mowing weeds along a road when the tractor, equipped with a sickle, turned over. Bennett was trapped 15 minutes in this position before a tow truck crane lifted the tractor off of him. :At a hospital, physicians said he had no broken bones. a SUNSHINE CONSTRUCTION CO. Exclusive Dealer for Monroe County jer @ Ever-Plastie Elaterite @Culfspray Shower-Fackewes @ Ventilated Awning-Shutters @ Perma Stone iin SE pony Unmanned 4 In the late 1850's, fare the San Antonio & San Dicge | Mail Line, from San Diego to) San | Antonio, was $200. The |stage coaches were drawn by six inules excepting for adistance of 180 miles on mule back, with an arm- ed escort for each stage coatth. pee oe me al DINAH COMES HOME, MEETS “MAMMY” Vineyards to produce | wine were started in California dround 1769 by Franciscan priests. LEGALS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF T: | Case No. 11-955 IVAN W. WATSON, Plaintiff, FRANCES CECELIA WATS Defendant. GLASS amd ALi MINE JALOUSIES () Wirephoto wa J $ SINGER DINAH SHORE (left) comes back to Winchester. Tenn., tly best her old hometown, for a one-day visit. Among the first to greet her is Alice Trigg (right), her beloved Negro “Mammy”, who nursed Dinah from infancy through childhood. “Mammy” is now employed in the home of Dr. Henry Gass, vice chancellor of the University of The South at nearby Sewanee. 7 ead Domestic, Cnbem end ® Breech Makes ‘Money For Girl LUEBECK—(P)}—A young Ger- rl refugee from the Soviet zi eeded in piercing iron curtair ' & TERRAZZO Flee C.B.S. CONSTRUCTION SUNSHINE, LICENSED CONTR & Poms Last Times Today RED STALLION IN THE ROCKIES with FRANZ, JEAN Cane No, 11-949 CAROLYN JARRETT STUART, Plaintiff, DIVORCE ROBERT STUART the | and making money = it. In the British Zone resort | nde on the Baltic, | ormer Wehrmacht ery range finder. For the nt of a nickel you may gh and try to find out \ \ | | | } | an R OF PUBLICAT! t, | | required to ap-, | MONROE co: Last Times Today SLAVE SHIP what goes on in the nearby Soviet | 1: 1949, Zone. { (Cireuit Court Seal) EARL R. 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