The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NOW AND Then
Stephen Cochran Singleton

vi course, the eulJOf OF
THE CITIZEN does not en-
dorse the views Of his
columnist, just because he
prints them. No one has to
agree with the writer; at
least no one has, SO far; and
it is pretty late to begin.
S. C. C.
What a country the next gen
Grafton is going to live in! For,
assuredly the problems that per-
pick us are going to be settled
somehow. And it has been
definitely ascertained that no
problem is ever settled until it is
settled RIGHT.
President Roosevelt is still
pinch-hitting for the Forgotten
Man team, and making a good job
Of it with the rooters for the OPP
position searching desperately for
some jinx that will put an end to
his winning streak. Just because
they are biting their nails in sui
len silence is no indication that
they are in the least reconciled.
Remember some of the people
who used to stand and sing, my
Country IT'S of Thee? Because
it wasn't safe not to? Well, we
have been assured that this is
WAR, war on depression, with all
of the war time psychology. We
still have singers who cross their
fingers while they sing.
Then too, the Shoots, the
Grundy's, the Morgans and the
Mitchells are pretty fair war
makers themselves. They have
not retreated so far that they
can not send in a shell once in a
while. Well hear from them when
congress meets again.
One of President Roosevelt
problems will take a bit of solv-
ing. Purchasing power, he says,
must keep up with production.
That leads to more talk, as the
carpenter said when he built the
house on the wrong lot.
AS we see it, . if purchasing
power keeps up with production,
then if you pay me $500 to find
the material and make a pair of
shoes, and add to the $500 you
have paid me, certain amounts for
usury profits, rent, and so forth
and so on, am to be able to buy
the shoes for say, $3.50, with the
$500 you have paid me. But
how?
Of course, the answer IS that
there must be production for use.
in the place of the production for
profit on which all our modern
life is based. But, when you have
given that answer, you have only
started another series of ques-
tons. How? How? How?
Before President Roosevelt
finds the answer to these ques-
tions, we will have to do a little
more law making. For, every ex-
pert chiseller in the land has got
his wits. and the wits of the best
legal talent he can hire. hard at
work to find out how he can con-
tinue to chisel a living out of
other mems industry. And graft
has for so long time been the
richest vein in this underground
mine, that it is to graft that the
chisellers will continue to turn.
If this is war (and preachers
and politicians assure us that il
isl, then GRAFT is TREASON,
You know the punishment for
treason in wartime. We fancy
that before this war can be won
for the FORGOTTEN MAN. more
than one highly superior person
will have to stand between wal
and, a firing squad with bandage
over his theiving eyes.
AT any rate. whether President
Roosevelt can land rs in the New
Deal or not, he can probably as.
sist us to change cars without
much loss of life. And for this
we can be supremacy thankful
Especially when we visualize the
awfuh rear end collision that We
would have been crawling out OF
by this time if the Great En-.
gineer" had remained on the Job
Congratulations to the next
generation. May you never
realize what your old man was az
AGAINST