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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

1t has been announced that Rus
sian sugar predecessor viii be less
by 10000 tons, which viii enable
Cuba 10 place her sugar in the
European market. Producers of
lava have agreed to place the ex-
portation of their sugar in hands
of the government. the same as
Cuba. which viii prove advansag-
eous for the even distribution Of
said product
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06
ENTIRELY GONE

VERSAILLES, State Ssna-
tor Drake Naive of this city, has
not found a single plank of his
store since it was washed away in
a flood.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

While his father, sisters and
work ina cotton mill near
their farm in Lindale, Ca, Ralph
Watson, IL, does mans work
around the farm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

The sugar institute has agreed
20 extend the ''pool" of 700, 900
tons Of sugar destined for the Uni
ted States, until July, 1888. They
have also agreed in part to the
coming suger crop beginning in
February and not to exceed two
million tons.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06
DOESN'T HURT HER

LINCOLN, Kan.-By smoking
an extra pipe of tobacco, Mrs.
Abbie Holman, pioneer resident of
this city, recently celebrated her
102nd birthday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Mrs. RIGA Peacon left on the
Over Sea Limited yesterday for Mi
ami Beach where she win visit with
Professor and Mrs. G. Z. Everett
and other relatives.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Collections in the department of
the treasury are increasing with
the new taxes and the Secretary
of the Treasury DR.. Ferrara is
meeting all exterior and interior
obligations, having created a
special department for the eollec-
ton Of said taxes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

There has been great increase
IN the expectation Of fruits and
vegetables to the United States
during the first six months of the
year, as compared with the first
SIX months Of last year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

The national tourist commission
Il preparing a booklet on Cuba,
which win be sent as advertisement
20 the international exposition in
Chicago to whomever requests il.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

w. N. Mcdonald, expert radio
electrician, who was here for a
short stay as the guest of j. c..
Walton, left yesterday afternoon
Cor Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Cleveland Saunders, Frank Papy,
Lionel Plummer, Sam Kemp, Rex
Shaw, Ralph Russell.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

The department of the treasury
has issued a circular disposing that
steamship companies notify the
arrival of boats to this port as
hours ahead of time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Leo Warren. president of the
city council, left over the East
Coast yesterday TO attend the meet
ing Of the executive committee of
the Overseas Bridge Corporation
in Miami today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

By order Of the president of the
republic 125 prisoners have been
set AZ liberty, who we're serving
sentences for various offenses.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

The department Of sanitation
has ordered the local sanitary IN
sPsssors 70 require that all who NJ.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06
P PERSONAL Mention

j. Bennett BUST, of Charleston,
S. c., arrived on the Havana
Special yesterday from Miami and
will remain here until tomorrow
when he will leave on the S. S.
Cuba for a stay in Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Virgil S. Lowe left over the
highway this morning for Miami
and expects to return tomorrow
afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Mr.. Jorge Govantes has been
appointed to represent the national
tourist commission of Cuba in Mi
ami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

j. F. Uhrbach was an incoming
passenger over the East Coast yes
terday on brief business visit
and left in the afternoon for his
home in Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Bergstrom,
who were visiting Mrs. Bergstrom's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Pierce,
left over the highway yesterday
morning for their home in Detroit.
Mich, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierce, who spent while
with relatives in Miami.
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tend the public schools be vac
cinated.
Expectations from Cuba during
the first semester of the present
year had a greater value than the
importations, for while the latter
reached a value of $30,203, 600,
the former reached a value of $39,-
10000, this being about nine
million dollars in excess of the
first.
The National Casino will be
opened for the tourist season on
December 80 and the horse races
in Oriental Park will begin on
January 81.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

L. c. Palmer, of Jacksonville,
arrived over the East Coast yes
terday for a stay of one day in
Key West before taking passage
for Havana.
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HAVANA HIGH POINTS
b Local Cuban Consulate

~ Local. Cupan consulate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A fleet Of three planes of the
army are taking a goodwill trip
Through Guatemala, Mexico and
the United States. The two first
countries have been reached sue
eessfully and their respective
authorities were high in their en-
teftainment of the Cuban aviators.
The secretary of the interior has
allowed an extension of time until
November to all foreigners resid-
ing In Cuba for their registration
ia the foreigners registry"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

tend the public schools be vac
cinatad
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Fifty Years of Progress.

The mere act Of living fifty years Is
in itself an accomplishment in over
coming the vicissitudes Of survival. But
the anniversary is all too apt TO be the
occasion for mere retrospective hind
sight and a muster of good deeds done.
One reason why this community can
with such real feeling extend its hearty
congratulations TO the Associated Char
tiles this week, on its tiftieth birthday,
is that its half century Of work in the
past is best viewed ss a promising SYM
boil Of the future. 1t is comforting no
idle tribute to conceive the Associated
Charities as a pioneer, not content with
blazing q single trail through what still
remains q wilderness, but which can
already look back with great satisfac-
tion upon well beaten paths that it has
opened for others to follow.
The organization, in 1881, and the
incorporation, in January, 1882, OF the
Associated Charities resulted from the
belief that eficient organization, sound
policy, social rehabilitation and meas
ures for the prevention Of the evils that
cause hardship and suffering were
necessary in the administration OF
charity. It's organization was concur
rent with early public recognition OF
Evening star., 1932-01-10

sents q way out Of what now amounts
TO dilemma in many States. State
highway departments now administer
$4,000 miles of main highways, but the
figures show that some 2,500,00 miles
of lesser roads are under the authority
of more than 5000 county govern
ments and a far larger number OF
township officials.
The very fact that there are 50 many
OF these local authorities is sufficient
in itself to thwart any idea or purpose
Of accomplishing uniformity OF admin
istration. Everybody knows the type
Of neighborly pressure that obtains in
every community, and 1t is equally we'll
known that an elective official has his
difficulties cut out for him when he
attempts to resist his neighbors in de-
Velopment of any program. 1t is simply
condition that exists, and the con-
clusion of observers here Is that a
broader base could and should be
worked out for supervision and control.
Mr.. Macdonald believes there should
be some local supervision, but that re-
SponSibility for the program should be
placed higher so that q perspective may
be had and more economical applica-
ton Of funds may result.
y
The proposal for a vehicular tax
naturally brings up question that has
agitated authorities in many States
heretofore-namely, do the heavy
vehicles pay their share of the whole
cost OF the roads? A belief exists that
larger vehicles. Of which there Is q
rapidly increasing number on the high
ways, are paying In some measure their
relative share, but the truck and bus
transportation business objects to such
taxes. This factor also injects railroad
influence into the general problem SO
that its solution holds prospects of
much controversy.
When the question comes up as to
how much the heavy users Of highways
should contribute to construction and
support costs, there arises, in the
opinion of some observers, the necessity
for considering the requirements of that
traffic. 1t cannot be served by lightly
constructed roads, nor will the needs
of the areas be met by too-narrow
traffic arteries.
Thus it becomes obvious that stand
ardization must be established In some
measure If justice is done. These prob
lens are both administrative and tech
nical, it is believed, for the reason that
administrative authorities ought to de-
ermine to what extent heavy trafic
uses a given road and what the tech
nical needs are in the way of con-
struction.
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Anti-F Foreign Sentiment, Prevalent
In the American Congress, Is Analysed

tina, certain percentage to the United
States.
Thereupon the United States Govern
ment becomes earnestly interested. II
wants to get for the United States the
largest quota" feasible. The govern
ment OF Argentina Is similarly deeply
stirred. 1t, too wants a big quota
and 1t wants one that will be bigger
than the one assigned to the United
States.
The proposed British wheat quotas
thus spring from governmental nation
alism and drive onward into govern
mental internationalism. In the OLD
days the American wheat producer and
the Argentinian wheat producer traded
with an individual wheat merchant in
Liverpool Now the era approaches
when the United States Government
and the Argentinian government will
| trade on wheat with the British gov
ernment at London.
| Such is the developent in commodi-
ties. A parallel development Is trans
piring In loans.
X + n X
Senator Glass of Virginia Is yigor-
| ouSly asSailing the tentative and slen-
der supervision exercised by our State
Department during the last 10 years
over loans by American bankers and
investors to foreign governmental and
private institutions. Senator Glass re-
| CARDS that supervision as altogether un-
| warranted and illegal. Nevertheless the
drift of things here is not toward less
supervision of such loans, but toward
more.
| President Hoover, when he was Sec
retary of Commerce, declared en-
! phatically that loans abroad by Ameri-
can bankers and investors should not
be made except for reproductive pur-
! poses" That is, they should not be
made for meeting ordinary running ex-
penses. They should be made only for
the initiating or furthering Of enter
prises which would make money and
which would thus provide funds for re-
payment The President has repeated
this advice since entering the White
House. He repeated it once more only
last month.
The economic truth evidently Is that
uncontrolled exceSSeS of private loans
abroad have produced situations of the
utmost embarrassment now to govern
ments and to the national economic
entities which they today attempt to
supervise and to improve. The prospect,
then. Of governmental control Of in
! ternational loans grows more certain
every day. When, however, each gov
ernment is controlling foreign loans by
its citizens, the next steps inevitably is
international negotiations between gov
ernments regarding those loans and re-
garding the terms Of repayment. Such
negotiations, indeed, are already among
, the commonplaces Of politics in Europe
What we witness may accordingly be
set down as follows:
l. The internationalism which imme-
diately followed the Great War and
which devoted itself to the politics OF
the prevention Of wars has not sue
ceeded in curbing nationalism On the
contrary, the development Of nations
into national economic entities has ac-
centuated nationalistic sentiments and
sentimentalities.
2. Side by side, then, with an at
tempted internationalism Of peace, there
now arises, for national advantage a
violent governmental internationalism
trade.
Hence both the hatred of abroad
and the flxation upon abroad" In
Washington.
Copyright 1897
Evening star., 1932-01-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
RunOrS.

Runors.
The rumorS, oh the rumorS,
How they spoil our pleasant humors
AS they fiutter in a disconnected way!
We are lightly turning, ever,
From our serious endeavor
To listen to what some one has to say
Ger land and sea they are flying;
Like shifting winds they're signing,
And they leave us all uncertain and per-
picked.
We disregard the present.
Though it may seem calm and pleas
ant,
While we wonder what the rumors will
say next.
The facts, we boldly face them;
We can mold them or erase them
AS we study what necessity exscts;
But we dread the necromancy
OF some unsupported fancy,
And the rumors are far deadlier than
the facts.
Evening star., 1932-01-10
A Dangerous Interlude
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES L. FREEMAN, d. d, IL. ID,
Bishop Of Washington

Text-Romans KILL: "It Is high time
to awake out of sleep, for now is our
salvation nearer than when we be-
lieved"
Sleep suggests inaction. Again, 1t
suggests repoSe, quiet and refreShment.
Shakespeare speaks Of sleep as knit
ting up the raveled sleeve of care" 1t
is not of this form of sleep, so essen
1t is rather of that kind of inaction,
that unresponSiveneSS to the high claims
OF duty that now and again character
ICES our habit Incidence, indifference
and apathy are the certain marks OF
our decline. To reach a stage in life
where we are wholly unrespOnSive to
the high call Of duty leads inevitably to
situation fraught with perils. Now
and again we hear men say that they
have so long pursued given course
they have gotten into a rut from which
they find it difficult to emerge. This
practice frequently begins with youth
and grows out of a desire to pursue only
the easiest course. Again, it discloSes
itself with many Of us when we enter
upon the larger sphere of our hfe's
service.
The phrase asleep at the switch" is
suggestive one again. we speaA " a
man standing in his own light" which
implies that he Is hindering his course
and running his efficiency by blocking
the path to progress and advance. All
the misfortunes that attend our way
cannot be traced to these vices, but 1t Is
safe to say that in a majority of the
cases we have known of miscarriage and
disappointment, supineness, lack Of in
itiative and of will to succeed have
been conspicuous causes OF failure.
Probably an excess of indulgence or an
undue overestimate of our own worth
plays a conspicuous part in the miscar-
rage of the best-laid plans we make.
There can be little doubt that much OF
the misfortune that now attends the
widespread depression, which we call
Evening star., 1932-01-10

the dislocation of industry, Is traceable
to a lack of forethought and sklilful
planning. We had too secure sense OF
our self-sufficiency. We had come into
en- era of unprecedented prosperity
thinking nothing could stay its course.
The call of the text has striking ap-
plication to the present situation: 1T Is
high time to awake out OF sleep"
We have reached the stage where
reason and action must play their large
part in restoring both confidence ana
the return to normal ways OF living.
For ruthless extravaganza, Wherever eX-
hibited, rigid economy is called lot. FOR
an excess of expansion, a policy OF sane
retrenchment and readjustment Is de-
manded. In both our corporate and In
diyidual life we have been recreant to
those high principles that were our stay
and security in other days; in fine, our
morale has been weakened and our ad-
herence to those religious principles
that govern us, both IN conduct and
practice, have been ignored or forgotten.
The influence which our religious con-
yictions play in the So-called practical
concerns of life Is real and intimate
Our salvation now and in the future Is
conditioned by what we hold OF faith
as well as in our obedience to Him in
whose hands we believe are the issues
of life Individuals, families or COM
munities that willfully neglect their re-
ligious obligations ultimately pay the
penalty. There have been signs that in
our over r-self-confidence in our capacities
and abilities we have been asleep, SO
far as our religious faith and habits
were concerned. A brilliant modern
writer has said: "The present depres-
sion of humanity has its ground, be-
lieve, In mans degraded sense Of his
origin" which implies that we are
thinking of life and its meaning today
without realizing its higher potentiali-
ties and possibilities The ancient word
has q deep significance: He that
walketh in darkness knoweth not
whittier he 9oeth"
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Plan to Divide Roads
Into Two Tax Groups
BY HARDEN COLFAx.

Thomas H. Macdonald, chief of the
United States Bureau of Public Roads,
came forward this week with the sug-
gestion that the financing OF high
way development be done by yehicular
taxes for State or public highways, and
that local roads be constructed and
supported out of taxes levied on abut-
ting lands.
Coupled with this, Mr.. Macdonald
proposes that all States give immediate
and serious consideration to the ques-
ton Of centralized supervision over tax
alton, budgeting and purchasing Tor
road purposes. He said that 1t was
imperative to take action in this dl-
rection, for apparently the highway
problem has increased in complexity as
result of relief programs that have
been and are being carried out.
The theory to which Mr.. Macdonald
adheres Is that there should be q claS-
sification Of roads to place the burden
Of construction and maintenance upon
those who use them. Main highways,
over which flows in these days the
traffic Of immense territories, no longer
should be held to be local arteries.
They are not land servers" in Mr..
MacDonalds opinion, in the sense that
iOcdl IOauS HluSG pc, DuL are HiSu"ayS
Of general interest. The State, there
fore, should look after them.
y
State roads, so-called, II properly
selected, necessarily serve intercity
movement and represent as well the
assimilation of all feeder traffic from
the local roads. What better method
can be used in financing them, then,
Mr.. Macdonald asks, than by vehtc-
ular taxes of a general character?
The bureau chief, anticipating re-
action to additional taxes on land as
serted his belief that such tax would
not be burdensome for the reason that
the degree of improvement they require
will depend entirely upon the demands
Of the territory they serve. 1t Is his
belief. further, that the improvements
will be of a character less expensive
than that necessaryxko the high-speed
main highways where traffic impact Is
heavy
Mr.. Macdonald believes that the
Evening star., 1932-01-10

plicated social order, and 1t typihed
one OF the first efforts to deal, sanely
and intelligently, with some OF those
problems.
In its work Of prevention 1t recognized
the importance Of health as an asset In
maintaining independence, and from q
committee OF the Associated Charities,
! interested In the prevention Of disease,
was born the present Association for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis. A COM
mittee of the Associated Charities was
the forerunner Of organizations and
movements for better housing condi-
tions, and, in Washington particularly,
for the elimination Of alley dwellings
unfit for human habitation. A COM
mittee Of the Associated Charities was
responsible for the foundation OF the
two Summer camps now maintained for
mothers and children, Camp Good Will
and Camp Pleasant. A committee of the
Associated Charities, in 1908, became
one Of the instrumentalities for estab-
fishing the system of public Fairgrounds
known today-the system that had its
start in privately operated and main
tained Fairgrounds under the Washing
ton Playground Association. The Asso-
ciated Charities organized the Commit
tee on Friendly Visiting" whose volun-
teer visitors looked in" as neighbors,
and not as almoners, to discuss and to
advise with those whose principal need
was hope for the future rather than
temporary means Of subsistence, and
this sort of assistance has been empha-
sized, perhaps above everything else, in
the work of the Associated Charities
the permanent welfare of the family
rather than the temporary and emer-
gent help to individuals.
Its leadership In the movements to
establish the now permanent and
valuable Council Of Social Agencies,
its work in behalf of organizing the
Washington Community Chest, its ef-
forts to bring about the consolidation
Of the old Board of Charities and the
Board of Childrens Guardians under
the present Board of Public Welfare,
and its assistance In the passage of
social legislation, such as the mothers
pension law, are well known. These
and other constructive steps could be
enumerated at length, not so much as
accomplishments-for there Is 50 much
yet to be done-but as symbolizing q
period of social enlightenment that is
represented in the life of the Asso-
ciated Charities. What will 1t be pos
sible to recall when the Associated
Charities pauses again to look back
over full century?
The Associated Charities owes its
support to the people of this community
and its leadership in the last fifty years
recalls names that stand for the best
In Washington-Justice David J. Brew
er, Henning Jennings, Corcorsn Thorn,
Cuno H. Rudolph, S. w. Woodward,
John Joy Edison, william H. Baldwin,
DR.. George M. Kober, Mabel T. Board
man. But one must not forget the
triumph that this flfty-year anniversary
records for that little band of unselfish,
devoted workers, under the leadership
Of that modest gentleman, Walter S.
Ufford, whose ideals and Self-sacrifice
furnish the soldiers for the firing line
in q battle that never ends.
Evening star., 1932-01-10

sewage Of the city is dumped into the
river this side of Alexandria. There is
a sewage-disposal plant and most Of the
impurities are removed before empty
ing into the river. Sediment tanks and
screens are now used in the treatment
Of the Capitals sewage, but there Is
still room for great improvement.
1t is understood that the District
Commissioners have already purchased
sixty additional acres Of land adjoining
the present plant in anticipation Of a
new sewage-disposal plant. Senator
Swanson's resolution is the first move.
When the matter is referred to the
Commissioners 1t will doubtless receive
their hearty approval.