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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

PreliminaFies for the Waugh
Conway bout next Tuesday night
at La Brisa have been arranged
and win be announced by the PRO-
motens AsaaaE. Conway arTaver
today and says he wil win the bat
tie by q knockout in tia first sew
egAl rounds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

Notiees have been sent out that
.aIl automobiles not equipped with
state tags for the year will be or
dered OFF the stfse n the first
day Of next month, = owners de-
eide to buy the tags after that
date a penalty viii be attached to
the purchase price.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

The Mallory steamer Concho is
due to arrive in port tonight with
heavy freight and 81 passengers,
who will land here, % for Key
West and Ia for Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

Business with the Florida East
Coast Railroad is getting better all
the time. according to L. Z. Spen-
Ger, agent at Key West. Both
freight and passenger traffic is
good and picking up with the pass
ing days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

At a meeting of the board of
public works last night the Texas
company was awarded a contract
to furnish the city 5000 gallons Of
road oil at 81 cents gallon to be
used on streets and roads in the
county. Mr.. Pritchard cast the
only dissenting vote.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-20

A total of six planes has arriv-
ed as part of the torpedo and
bombing squadron which will be-
gin drill and training in these wa
tiers within q few days. The re-
mainder of the first unit of twelve
machines is expected To arrive
Monday.
Evening star., 1933-05-07

A high and handsome
spill in the Maryland Hunt
Cup race. Randolph Duffy
gets a high view Of terra
frma before he hits it after
leaving Fugutive's back at
the thirteenth barrier of
the Worthington Valley
classic. He was able to
remount and finish the
course. g Star Stan Photo.
At left: Fine weather
and the classic event lured
a big throng to Worthing-
ton Valley. Nd. to watch
the running of the fortieth
annual Maryland Hunt Cup
point-to.point.
g Star STAFF Photo.
Evening star., 1933-05-07

A record smashing
pole vault at the Penn
Relays. Keith Brown
of Yale is the high
soaring performer and
he set a new mark for
the Penn meet of IA
feet. G A. p. Photo.
Evening star., 1933-05-07

Building for the return of
world prosperity. President
Roosevelt and Edouard Her
riot, former premier of France,
holding their final conference
at the White House on the day
of M. Herriot's departure.
g Harris & Ewing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
Harness And Caddles

There is an industrial tragedy, and the end of an era, in the death of John Soll- berger. 75-year-old harnessmaker of Omaha. who killed himself the other day. He seems to have been done to death by combina- ton of automobile and prohibition. Soll- berger made and repaired harness for large brewery. When the brewery was closed, B years ago, he was reduced to getting along with odd jobs. Lately hope dawned with the return of beer. The brewer re- opened But not with horses. Beer wagons had now become motor trucks. So the poor old harnessmaker hanged himself
 It is pity he did not, years ago, turn from harness to saddles Though the dray horse has gone, the saddle horse remains, in greater honor than ever. Horseback riding steadily grows in favor with those who can afford it, made all the more glamorous by the mechanizaton of the more necessary forms of transportation. There are now said to be 500,000 saddle horses in the United States The horse is honored more than ever in the Golden Jubilee of the Ma tonal Horse Show held in Madison Square Garden, New York, this month. If John Solberger could have seen that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
The Forgotten One

We've heard about the forgotten man, writes woman to her paper. He's been remembered. Make room for the Forgotten Woman - the American woman - the American housewife She's the backbone of the nation, but the most unhonored, unsung, unnotlced person in the whole country.
 Hail the housewife! Not the opera singer, the actress, the business woman or the glamorous cosmopolitan, but the house. wife, that ordinary figure with harassed brow washing out baby's diapers and giving Johnny his cod liver oil and telling Jean not to use double negatives and to please use her hanky and wondering what to fix for supper. We are important, we know it, but no one else looked our way until Presi- dent Roosevelt appealed to use, to help SUD- port the MIRA. We are interested. We have better reason than anyone. We are raising future America to be good Amer lea. Will we help support the MIRA? We're so doggonned flattered to be noticed that we'll do our darndest.
 The rousing cheers and meal out for the F. w.! Still, we haven't noticed that they've framed any Housewives Code. do they think it would bust up the works? Aren't they advanced enough for that3 Or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
No Grade Crossings

The Royal Scot. crack British railroad train which has been visiting in this coun- try. stopping for several months at the Gen. tury of Progress after tour through Can- ada and the western United States, is now on its way home again. It is stopping in cities here and there along its route from Chicago to the Atlantic. Three million people examined it at the Worlds Fair, and many thousands are tramping along its corridors in the cities where 1t pauses.
 There are American trains with bigger and more powerful engines and more lux urious fittings. There are American trains which go faster than the Royal Scot. though none that are run SO economically. Never theless. the British train reveals surprising differences. One of these is that the engine has no cow-catcher and no bell. To the oft-repeated question why. attendants an- swer patiently and cautiously: Why have cowcatchers when you have no cows on the track?" That brings out another why, and the answer, Tt is not permitted"
 Then it comes out that in all of England there are no grade crossings Streets and roads go over or under the tracks. Out in the country the tracks are either slightly de- pressed or slightly elevated. They rarely run on the ground level. Think what this means in accidents and injuries prevented and lives saved. We have barely made start at it in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
California Reconsiders

Now that California, which is chiefly responsible for the Asiatic exclusion clause in our immigration act, is changing her mind, there IS a good chance of that interna- tional irritant being removed. The presidents of nine important California colleges issue statement urging that the quota plan now applying to European countries be applied also to Japan and China, in harmony with the recognized principles of justice and fair dealing" The state Chamber of Com merce has also declared for quotas, its plea being supported by important foreign trade clubs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. More important still, perhaps, is the sim- lar aequlescence of the California Federation of Labor. The National Federation also has withdrawn its opposition.
 All these groups, and many others agree thar American living standards will not suf- fer from the entrance of 105 Chinese and 1855 Japanese a year-which are their re- spective limits under the quota system and not laborers either, but people of the professional and commercial classes To those who ask why there has been so much fuss about such trifle, the answer is that it IS question of saving their self respect and culvating their friendship instead of thier enmlty. Here is a practical contribution to peace. And if we cannot preserve peace in Europe, all the more reason for preserving peace on the Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
Turkeys For Everybody

There are 2o,000oo0 turkeys ready for the Thanksgiving market. It is said to be not only the largest production ever. but the best developed and graded batch of holi- day birds. This announcement is accom- panied by the good news that prices will be reasonable. Other kinds of poultry will also be plentiful.
 It looks like a good year for the tradi- tional Thanksgiving feast. If all were well socially and economically in this fair land there would be turkey or chicken or duck for every person who wanted it on Thanks giving day. Even as things are. it ought to be possible with all our organized and pri- vate charity and relief work to get Thanks giving birds this veal to more than usual of the people who rarely have them. Anyhow. it is goal to shoot at in the next few weeks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
What Size Reward?

s5 If you were do statue of your old friend Uncle Sam these days, you would have to show him in the pose of the Thinker. Uncle Sam has learned whole lot of things in the last few months, and his big job right now is to figure out what they mean and what he ought to do about them. gOne of the things he has got to make up his mind about is the size of the monetary reward which is permissible for the private citizen in as complex and closely integrated . society as that of modern America.
 The field of private enterprise rewards its leaders very well. The country is still . bit groggy from gaping at the discoveries the Senate committee has made about bankers incomes. Enormous salaries, fat bonuses. retaining fees from this and that outside corporation. chances to get little rake-off on the side by playing the market ---an of these things go to swell the in- come of the financial and industrial titan.
 And the ordinary American is trying to figure out if it is all necessary. The theory, of course. is that you have got to hang up huge rewards of that kind if you are to get large-ealiber men to do the big jobs Is the theory correet?s Well. the president < of the United States has fairly responsible job. and he gets along on $75.000 year, That's good deal of money. but it is small compared to what such men as Wggn, Mitchell. Hill. Grace and their confseres get
 General Hugh S. Johnson, who has the colossal job of overseeing all American in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
Gold And Dynamite

Another sign of the times. Denver author ities are trying to stop the careless trucking of explosives through the streets. The safety director says Some drivers have been hauling sticks of dynamite around as if they were so many pieces of macaroni." Sticks of dynamite are funny. The stuff looks like brown sugar, and even tastes little like it. You can light it with match and it will burn harmlessly in the air. But pound or jolt it, and it will blow up everything in the neighborhood.
 The real story is what the dynamite is used for. It's for gold mining, Back in the hills miners are busy again, as they were decades ago, prospecting for new veins and starting again to work known lodes long discontinued. The higher price of gold now makes their operation profitable.
 All signs point. to a big revival of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
Antarctic

Now that the Byrd Antarctic Expedition is setting out again for south polar regions, and establishing postoffice in Little Amer ica, 1t may be well to get one thing straight right now. That is the correct sound and spelling of the region.
 What is the use of polar exploration, either north or south, if people keep on saying and writing "Artic" and Antarctic? They are doing it all around. They are already writing letters addressed to "Antartica." And be it said to the shame of the newspaper profession, there are papers carelessly mak- ing the same error in print. Let's get it right once for all. It isn't 'Artic" but Arc tic" It isn't 'Ant-art-ic" but "Ant-arc- tic. :" If the C" isn't convincing, make it K.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1883
Need Is Better Housing

It is reported in Washington that the huge federal pdblic works program IS going to get another shot in the arm. All the $3,- 300.000,000 fund originally voted for this program will be allotted by January l. It is doing the recovery effort great deal of good, but 1t begins to look as if there IS not quite enough of it. So now 1t IS ex- pected that the administration will boost 1t to a total of $5, ,000,000,00O. This being so, the next question to decide is for what shall the money be used?
 We certainly need few more public buildings such as postoffiees and courthouses. Highways and waterways received huge slice from the original program. So did naval construction. There remains how ever, one field in which almost unlimited sums could be used properly; field in which money spent not only revives industry and puts men to work, but ereets Sounder and safer foundation for all American society.
 This of course, is the field of housing. There are in American cities today some 9.000,000 homes that belong in or close to the slum classification. No program that we could finance now could replace all of them with decent dwellings but it IS at least evident that we cannot take too big bite for the size of the problem involved These 9.000,000 slum homes present job that the nation could work on for years.
 Now, spending money on housing is one of the most direct of all ways to promote business revival. It puts a great many men to work, 1t restores realty values, it stimulates trade in many basic raw materials and semi-finished industries. If we want to get back to prosperity, the more money we pour into slum clearance plans, the better. Yet that is only half of it.
 Even in prosperous times. money put in- to Slum clearance would be money well spent. It IS hard to build healthy society when large part of the society is housed unhealthfully. Sums breed crime. disease. vice. and poor citizenship generally. They cost us infinitely more than the cost of re- placing them. They are perhaps the great est single drag on democracy's feet. If the public works fund IS to be boosted. the ad- ministration will do well to pour every dime available into housing program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
To-day.S Selected Poem
NOVEMBER RAIN

(By Lala Mitchell Thornton in The New Tor
 Times) It should have showed, but all day long There came the drip, drip, drip of rain, Like tears against the window pane, A dirge-like. murmuring refrain. A plaintive, pleading. minor strain. The Winter skies are dull and gray, The winds are pitiless and chill; Bending the branches on the hill, Sweeping the bare fields barer still, Working on copse and hedge their will And still the rain falls hour on hour, And muddy brooks Segia to flow, And walks are bogs if laid too low, Catching the borders overflow. In Wintertime there should be snow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
A Book Q Day by BRUCE CATION
He Wanted To Be
 A Steamboat Man

Steamboat Round the Bend," by Ben Lucien Burman, is tale of Mississippi river life,--a life as for eign to most of us as that of the Congo. The novel lifts the curtain on a strange and exotic people, the | folk who live on shanty- boats in the little riverside towns of the
 lower valley.
 It is chiefly the story of Dr John.
 quaint old gentleman who lives l in a shanty- boat with his pet roos- ter and doses the neighboring peas ants with patent medicine. The dream of his life is to own steam boat, and he finally floats a, small | loan to buy and refit decrepit
 wreck that has been lying on d
 nearby sand par.
 Then things begin going wrong. His nephew is arrested for murder and pr John has to raise money | for his defense. He tries to do it with his steam boat, but times arc
 hard and freights are scarce, and | pretty soon the boat is sold to meet | creditors claims.
 So Dr John acquires sort of | floating museum and goes up and dow nthe river collecting dimes.
 But pretty soon this uncaulked ark
 sinks on him and leaves him flat
 broke. He starts rowing on a raft.
 hunting the one witness who can save his nephew from hanging. He finds the witness, at last, the nephew is released-and pr John starts out in his shanty-boat once
 more, forgetting his bad luck and dreaming again his old dream of
 owning a steamboat.
 MT Burnan has done an uncom- monly good job of describing a strange and picturesque people. He
 gets the steady, tireless flow of the
 river into his book, somehow-and it all makes excellent reading. I Published by Farrar and Rine- hart it sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16

dustry, does it for S6.000 year. Donald Richberg. NRA's general eounseL works for SI2.0OO year. Maj Gen Edward Mark ham. who as chief of the army's en- eineers, will have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next four years. works for $500 a month. One of the biggest engineering jobs ever undertaken the Mississippi flood control work-was put through by his predecessor, Maj Gen Lytle Brown. on the same salary. And the enormous Muscle Shoals project is directed. by three men who draw Sl0,000 year apiece So what?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
NEW ENGLAND APPLES
(New Haven Registerl

In the combination purpose of providing public food supplies out of federal funds and buying with federal funds what the producers have grown in excess of public demand, federal relief practices now have reached the apple-b buy ing stage. Reports fix the sum supposed to be made available for apple purchases at around $300,- 900. Since reports on the pro- posal came from the Pacific Northwest, apple-growers in the Northeast have assumed that this would be another plan designed for western benefit. Third gradeb apples would be bought in the Northwest and shipped from there to wherever there might be use for them. The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation has pointed. out to the relief adniinis- tration that New England also produces apples, and that if any are to be purchased for distribu- tion in the eastern part of the country some might better be bought here. The saving in freight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
The Washington Merry Co., Round BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT s. ALLEN Authors of "Washington Merry Round"
 
.Continued from Page

But not in Pittsburgh, financial stronghold of the house of Mel lon. There, the Clearing House association. dominated by "UEcie Andy" held. q secret meeting, . turned thumbs down on the New Deal plan.
 And to be sure that there was no slip-up in this refusal to CO., operate, the octegenarian multi millionaire personally attended the meeting-the first time in two years.
 SECRET DRIVE
 The inside word is that former Vice. President Charley Curtis and Indiana's lame-duck Senator Jim Watson have joined forces to get rid of Chairman Everett Saunders as the first step in 8 movement to clear the republi- can national committee of Hoo- yer dominance.
 Saunders has baked at re- quests that he resign or that he issue a call for meeting of the committee next month. If he per- sists in refusal to convene the committee his opposition plans to issue a call over his head. Under republican party rules 16
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
Here, There And Everyzvherg
SOME TAX RELIEF
Bridgeport Telegram)

| 1 Repeal was bound to come Soon- difference to the American taxpay-
 CT whether it did come sooner" or
 "later." Because the 36th state con- vention will have ratified before the close of the current year, sev- eral taxes will be abandoned which | otherwise would have continued | throughout 1884.
 These special taxes, levied against business generally, were intended to raise $221.000,00O to be applied | lie works funds during the coming year. Now the government will look flor an equivalent sum-possible
 niore-from taxes upon legaHzed 1.auor.
 One tax which will be immediate jy dropped is the extra assessment cline. That will be slight relief for motorists and incidentally, the first time in history that a gasoline tax has gone down and not up. The capital stock tax will remain effec- i've until July 1st next, because the fiscal year for this tax was reck-
 cned from July to July instead of l1anuary to January. but it will then
 ie abandoned. The extra tax of five
 per cent on all corporation divi- Cends Cover and above the income tlxes paid by the corporations and It1e recipients of the dividends) will ILe dropped as well, as of January 1 It might be said that it will make lro difference to the nation as a |Thole if one form of tax is substi- |iIted for another calculated to |rlise the same amount of money. Hut there is an important difference
 between general taxes levied against 'e,i forms of business, and excise |tlxes which are levied against lux tries, where the presumption is |t-lat those who can pay for the lux llries can pay the taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16

gole industry. Old and new prospectors are busy all through the Rockies and the Cali fornia ranges. Jobless city folk and farm ers too. are banning gravel in many creek bed. east and west. north and south. There is probably some gold mining now in half the states of the Union. If the work yields days wages. it's worth while.
 The economic effect of this revival may be great Probably nothing would bring so healthful imitation of currency and prices as big increase in the gold supply. More thorough working of marginal deposits. by large numbers of miners. might do again what rich gold discoveries did in the past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-16
national committeeman can sum- mon q committee session.
MERRY-GO-ROUND

mon d committee session.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 A moement is on foot to at tempt to place the 17-year-o old Mooney Billings case before the United States supreme court. Attorneys John F. Finerty. Washington, and Frank P. Walsh. New York are preparing brief to be submitted to the tribunal next month asking that it review the conviction of the two noted labor leaders. :. Walsh widely known liberal, has been spending most of his t.me in Wash ngton recently as one of the attorneys of Albert H. Wiggin former head of the Chase National bank. When Governor Bill Langer, of North Dakota, participated in a recent agricultural conference in the presidents cabinet room, he beloved so loud that Roose- welt, talking to Q delegation of Puerto Ricans in an adjoining room, had to send for secretary and ask that 'Langer be quieter.
 A business survey issued by the National City bank for the first nine months of this year shows profits for 205 corpora tions amounting to $200. 367,00O in contrast To $30,266,000 they made the same period in 1892. :. =. Dr Eldorado Uber, who once conducted school for rhythmic dancing in New York, has in- formed the agricultural depart ment that most of the farmers troubles could be laid to the lack of beauty and harmony in their lives. He urged a government program of courses in rhythmic dancing as a solu- ton.
 (COpyright. 1883, by United
 Feature Syndicate. Incl