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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07
MEDICAL

epilepsy - EPILEPTICS! De-
troit lady finds complete relief
for husband. Specialists home
abroad. failed. Nothing to sell.
All letters answered. Mrs. Geo.
Dempster, Apt EFT. 5000 Lafay-
cite Blvd, West, Detroit, Mich.
jan7-ltx
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

1785-The noted French aero
naut, Blanchard, in company with
an American, DR.. Jeffries, crossed
the English Channel in balloon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

A New York man, thought dead, is
said to have been restored by liquor If it
had been the other way around it wouldn't
have been news.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

1927-Radiotelephoay establish
cd between New York and Lon
don.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

A California town puts traffic vio-
lators in Jail. If that custom were general
pedestrians would have clear track.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS

PERSONAL STATIONARY-Let
us furnish you with personal
stationary; 100 sheets of sta
tionary $1.00; 100 envelopes
$1.00; both, with your name
and address printed in attrac-
tive type. The. Artman Press,
Phone 81. jan7
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

Every new arm relief measure seems
a little crazier than the one before. And
not only crazier but also costlier.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

There is no virtue in being defeated,
but there is virtue in refusing to remain
defeated.
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TODAY In HISTORY
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1782-The Bank of North
America, the first regularly estab-
tished bank in country, opened for
business in Philadelphia
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

We read that "the first method of
spreading news was by word of mouth" It
is also the last.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

BEARUP'S DRY CLEANING
WORKS. 514 MARGARET ST.
PHONE 227.
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AN AUTO STROP RAZOR outfit
given free with each classified
advertisement. ASK FOR 1T.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

President Nicely Kemp. Of the
Rotary Club and Secretary Bugs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

Gilbert AlbuFy. A. W. Clark,
and Samuel DevOe, eolored. ehaFg-
cd with inCiting . riot. viii BE- Civ
en- a preliminary hearing Monday
afternoon before Justice Of the
Peace Eugene Russell.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

Barometer at y q. m. today.
Sea level, 30.13.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Thompson Friday night at their
home at 412 White street, a nine
pound boy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Gates an
nounce the marriage of their son.
Edward Frazier Gates to Miss Suda
B. Charles, of Blaneh. KY, Janu-
airy 5. They viii be in Key West
some time this month for a visit
with Mr. Gates parents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
Specialized Reading

|. The Readers Bureau of the Cincinnati Public Library was organized in 1925. It's purpose was to guide readers in using library facilities and, if they wished, in their choice of books. After seven years of experience. the bureau reports that the public is out to learn "more and more about less and less. Fewer readers try to read widely in ltera' ture and the arts The tendency is to con- centratc on one or two subjects. Apparently the specialization which Nicholas Murray Butler says has been carried too far in edu- cation has also invaded the libraries
 The recent concentration on economics and philosophy seems understandable. The state of civilization -- present and future is naturally interesting many readers these days and setting them to reading along such lines. None of this means that detective stories now stand idle on library shelves or that poetry and drama are neglected. There are readers enough to make use of wide variety of books. After while, too, in- tensive study of single subject will grow tresome, and readers will spread their n- terests again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
TUESDAY, JANUARY s1, 1883
An Era of Surveys

Dr Henry Sloane Coffin president of the
 Union Theological seminary, thinks the world has got itself all tangled up with
 studies of this and that which lead no-
 where. Tn a recent sermon, he said The . ,chief peril of our contemporary academic
 life is that we discuss and analyze our
 faith instead of employing it in achieve
 rients for God. that we appraise the move ..-snients of the day instead of flinging our selves into the enterprise of making juster
 world. To-day we have surveys. Every :. thing is analysis and appraisal, but no ae-
 tivity."
 1t is certainly a fact that American pigeonholes and wastebaskcts are pretty well ( stuffed with reports of commissions. sur- {, veys sponsored by philanthropic founda- . tions. analyses of industry and education and . education and religion and health and any " number of other phases of life. There IS lot of good stuff in those reports, too, il- . lumnating material which ought to fur ], ther the solution of many trying prob- cm-reeommcndaton which, if proper ( ly carried out, would end much injustice and suffering and promote health and . happiness.
 {. Why don't we use them2 For one thing, it is much easier to make survey than to make it's recommendations effee- . tive. A few intelligent persons can study . conditions and point out faults and eorrec- tions. It takes intelligent voters intel. Z ligent legislators and intelligent officials to put over the suggested reforms. It also . takes time and good will and cooperation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
Inexperienced Nation

In d letter to the New York Times, reader makes some ht-provokng erlti' eismS of the foreign policy of the United States. So far. he says, this country has started too many things without finishing them. has given too much good advice which it did not follow itself That is why, with such lot of good intentions America has not got very far yet in cooperating with other nations to maintain world peace or end the economic depression. He has gener- ous explanation for our wavering policy.
 America as a nation has not adjusted herself as yet to the world responsibilities to which her immense national resources and cultural aspirations entitle her. Her states. men, writers and diplomats are often called upon to solve questions for which their own nations experience does not give then, any precedent while their advice may be sought solely because America is so large, rich and superfcially independent
 Maybe there is something in it. Ch' drcn who grow rapidly, and look older than they arc, often are expected to behave with the responsibility and judgment of maturity. Perhaps, in spite of the kind things said of this country by foreign ob- servers who have regarded it as a mature nation, it really is still in its adolescence lacking experience and judgment. But we hate to admit it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

Elisabeth Marbury, who died little more than week ago in New York city. was a temperate and level-headed woman, and a foe of intemperanee. At the same time she was also foe of prohibition, and came out strongly in her Announcement of this amendment to the constitution. It has been said that Miss Marbury's salon at her residence in Sutton Place, New York. was one of the most famous in that city. Her mid-wnter Sunday afternoon teas stood out as individual affairs where and when were gathered at her invitation worthwhile friends to discuss worthwhile subjects of literary. social, political or social nature. The per- sons who received invitations to these teas considered themselves among the more fortu- nate beings despite the fact that Miss Mar bury's tea parties were tea parties and not excuses for cocktail hour. Which goes to prove that you can always get cocktails. but it is not so easy to gather together a group of people who know how to talk and drink tea in the manner of ladies and gentle. men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

Yale University is soon to lose Professor George D. Baker from the Department of Drama. Professor Baker. after eight years in this position, has had crowded courses and numerous plays, many of them original, have been produced by students of the University Theatre. Many famous play wrghts and critics have come under the tutelage of Professor Baker, among the former are Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Edward Knobloek, and Herman Hagedorn; among the latter, Hey wood Broun, Walter Pritchard Eaton, Van Wyek Brooks and others. Equally famous producers and stage designers have trained with him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
Damned Up Buying

The railroads for the last couple of years have been spending about billion dollars a year less than usual for rails. ties, rolling stock and similar requirements. Robert P. Lamont. president of the American Iron and Steel Institution. points out that as soon as the roads have regained enough earning power to justify it they will have to place orders for 100000 tons or so of steel in addition to their current needs, to catch up on repairs and repacements. It is the same. in varying degree. with every other indus try. And assuredly it is the same with at least nine-tcnths of the homes in this eoun- try.
 Deferred buying is creating deficits of fundamental requirements which will call for many billions of expenditure as the tide def initely turns. Lean business will have an opportunity to fatten up again. Many ] discouraged man and woman may raise the question whether the tide will really rise again to flood the shallows. The only answer to that is that it always has in the past. And as Patrick Henry said, We have no way of judging the future except by the past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
Sea Rocketing

Auguste Picard, the Swiss professor who went up into the stratosphere in a metal ball to study the upper air, is reported as hav- ing invented a rocket to travel in. He may contemplate using it to soar higher than a balloon would carry him. He speaks, how ever. of the possibility of rocketing-or maybe we should say rocketeerng-horI- zontaly. He estimates that his rocket can travel three miles a second. At that rate it would be possible to cross the Atlantic in IS or 20 minutes.
 So we may be shooting over to Europe and back again. one of these days in the time it would take for business errand a few blocks away. That is, if we don't mind the speed. Anyone who feels as if everything inside of him were rushing to his feet when an elevator starts up, and rush ing to his head when it starts down, might be little tmid about embarking in such a craft. Aceelerating from nothing to three miles q second. in about the time you get an automobile into high from standstill might be little hard on the human sys- tenn. Then there would probably be some Smart Aleek aboard who would insist on rocking the rocket And coming down. like shooting star out of the clouds. would certainly call for good set of shock ab- sorbers We'll let the professor try it first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

and did very well. giving an impression that their college really was an educational institution and that their minds were rapidly maturing.
 Then" says the writer, 'cSme bespee- taeled oldster who dseoursed at some length on the athletic situation. He was optimistic about football prospects, and went so far as to express confidence that Harvard would be beaten. This evoked applause from the ancients. The young seemed unmoved. One youth smiled wanly. Who cares he said. whether we beat Harvard3 Who cares indeed whether we play them?'" From which. the writer seems to suggest, it might be inferred that college boys are growing up faster than their alumni arc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

Ground-hog day is approaching and in- cidentally the inevitable discussion of winter lingering or spring lettering, whichever the case may be, Thursday of this week is the day when, it is said the ground-hog comes out of his hole. and the continuance of win ter weather hinges on whether or not the ani- mall sees his shadow. A cloudy day with no shadow means no more winter; sunny day with shadow means back to his hole and lots more winter; at least so the story run meth. Whatever happens on that day if winter is no more severe than 1t has been there is no need 10 worry about cold weather and storms. The disappointed ones are those addicted to winter sports--you simply cannot toboggan or ski down grassy in- cline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
WOMEN AS LEGISLATORS
(Meriden JOurnal)

The League of Women Voters finds there are now 131 women serving as legislators in 33 states, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont hold national leadership in this respect.
 Nineteen or four per cent of the 442 members of the New Hamp- shire legislature are women. Con- necticut has eighteen women while Vermont has 10. about Ia per cent of the PIT membership.
 The percentage is higher in Ari- zona with five women out of 54. and in New Mexico. Utah and New Jersey, each of which has six wo- men out of the fir smaller total. In the last election women leg islators were added in New Hamp. shire and Rhode Island. They re- tained their number in Massachu- settes and lost in Maine, Connecti- cut and Vermont.
 Persons who believed that the change in suffrage would he fol- lowed by an influx of women into the legislative halls. are probably somewhat disappointed.
 In Meriden women have lost all their first gains in representation | in public office. Miss Payne, as city clerk, seems to be the sole survivor here. At one time there were two women in the board of aldermen, Mrs Williams and Mrs Taylor. and two in the board of education, Mrs Wheeler and Mrs Galanti. Women continue active at cleo. tons in the interests of men can. didates and are occasionally re-
 warded with appointive offices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
Political Technicians

According to Prof Raymond Moley oi Columbia university, whose field is polit- cal science, there is nothing remarkable about applying his theoretical knowledge to practical life, as he has sought to do for many years. A man has to know the reality of government before he can teach 1t. And when he knows it. he should use it. Tcehnieans are needed in politics. he maintains, just as they are needed in in- dustry. And he does not agree with critics who say that political leaders will not welcome information and advice from such academic specialists when it is offered in a reasonable way.
 The trouble with most academcians and students, he explains, is that too often they take the position that they are not in' terested in helping government They won't take what there is, select, revise, mold and shape. They want to start as if no govern ment existed before them. They take an antagonistic position to politicians. It's mistake You cant expect the world to change completely SO that the students may take charge" Fortunately at present there is strong tendency to welcome such ''po- liteal technicians' as advisers to the govern ment. Never has there been more need ot them, and never has there been greater op- portunity for them. The essential thing, as Prof. Moley sees, is that they should not be too academic and shouldn't high hat the politicians
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
"White Cockatoo" Is a Really Good Detective Story

A really good murder story---one that you can read without first sur pending all of your critical faculties lis a rare thing. One of the few writers who can produce this sort of tale is Mignon c. Eberhart, and her newest book, "The White Cockatoo," is q bell-ringer. TO begin with, 1t has deeply complicated and honestly puzzling mystery as It's core. It provides an authentic atmosphere of horror and suspense. It Is filled with real peo- pie, competently characterized and motivated. It Is, in short. written by Q writer who knows smoothing about writing; you don't find your self stopping. every fifth page, and muttering, "Real people don't talk or act this way" as you do in most mystery stories.
 There's an American engineer who stops at q cavernous old hotel in 0 little French town,~ waiting to meet a friend and go on e vacation trip. Tn the hotel is an American girl who is waiting to meet her long-lost brother and establish her right to half of a $10,000,000 for tune. Just as these two. get ac- quainted, sudden death starts pop ping.
 | A nameless intruder gets poison ed and then stabbed, q porter is shot from an elevator and another man is poisoned and stuck in the grand piano; to complicate matters there's Q sllnky hotel proprietress, Q lot of excitabie French cops and q very mysterious and taciturn de- tective chap.
 This, in short. Is that rarity, a truly good detective story. Pub lished by the Crime Club, 1t sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

Washington-Cutti down mili- tary expenses seems to be just as difficult as slashing into the nearly
 a billion dollars year that IS spent on the veterans. Congress just won't do 1t. All students of the economy problem point out that extensive economy can't be achieved without cutting the veterans and the army and navy; that nearly 75 per cent of
 federal expenditures go to pay tho cost of past wars and of prepared
 ness. But congress insists that
 there be no reduction in the items
 contributed for national defense.
 Congressman Ross Collins of
 Mississippi, chairman of the house
 military affairs committee and also
 chairman of the appropriations
 subcommittee on war department expenditures, tries to take a little
 hack at military expenditures every
 now and then. Last year he and
 his committee colleagues decided to
 save few million dollars by lop- ping off about 2,000 army officers on the theory that they were unne- cessary and that the total number of officers was all out Of proportion with the number Of enlisted men. But the military lobby got busy In
 Q big way and killed that plan.
 This year Collins and the appro- priations committee, still trying to
 save n little money, proposed abol- ition next summer of the Citizens
 Military Training camps, which cost $2,5O0,000 last year to train 37,- 500 young men for month and
 for which the presidents budget this year recommended a million dollars to train about 15,000.
 Collins argued that the country
 was being soaked all that money
 merely to provide free Summer vacations" for nearly 400 900 men. Of these, he said, only 2,500 went into an advanced course which might make them of some military
 value, where as the same amount of money would train 25.000 men in the National Guard-for which appropriation had been increased. Mothers were sending their boys | to c. M. T. c. he said. because 1t had greater "social advantages
 than the militia and the trainees were young men from the very best families" He quoted high army officers to show that the
 camps were not of great military
 value.
 | But the house patriots all landed
 on Collins neck, accusing him of pacifism and narrow-mindednes
 "This year of all years" they said,
 boys should be trained for war. GOid-star mothers were begging
 that their sons be given the privi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
WRONG IN ALL RESPECTS
 (Hartford Times)

The Connecticut League of Municipalities proposes a seIective sales tax and a state income tax, the proceeds of both to be distrib- uted among the cities and towns according to population. The selective sales tax would ap. ply to the so-called luxuries, in. cluding cosmetics and tobacco. This whole tax proposal ignoreo lone Fundamental fact, namely that citizens are not seeking to be taxed further. They are insistent that budget balancing be accomplished not by increasing the tax burdens upon their shoulders but by econ omies.
 That applies to all new forms of taxation.
 As far as a state tax on tobacco is concerned it is worth while 10 observe the tax that commodity already bears. In the case of sO- called 15 cent packages of cigar cites the federal government now collects tax of cents per pack age. As a matter of fact these cigarettes now are. or have been very recently selling at 12h cents package so that the payment of the tax leaves only 6h cents to cover the cost of manufacture and selling and includes all the profits derived by anyone who handles cigarettes If the state were to impose tax of one mill per cig- arctic as has been proposed. that would increase the tax 2 cents per package. Thus. federal and state tax upon a 16 cent package of cig- arettes would amount to 8 cents. or more than one-half the cost. No commodity, especially one so generally used, should be taxed 100 per cent.
 There is nothing yet to indicate that the cigarette tax matter will get further than the stage of sug- gestion. It should not. It Is not desirable that the state should look for tax revenue to the same sources upon which the federal government has already imposed lleviea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31

The New York Sun says in an editorial
 Play in Hard Times The tendency for people at a time of economic stress to divert their. minds with certain games and toys because they cannot afford the more expen. sive amusements often serves secondary purpose by putting groups of workers back on their feet The editorial goes on to say that fiber board plants are operating day and night. and one company they mention is turning out about 5000 puzzles every twenty-four hours. That can readily be seen when one notes the number shown every week on the newsstands. The jig
 saw has become a popular pastime if not a vice. second only to the contact bridge fur ore. Other games are proving eually fascinat
 ing to young and old. Some of these games
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-31
THIS ISN'T COOPERATION
(Hartford Times)

Apparently the legislature of 1888 is not going to repeat the mis- take of its predecessor of two years ago In refusing to appoint q com mittee to investigate the state's system of taxation.
 Governor Cross's recommendation for such a commission was peremp- torily refused in 1891 and he rec newed the suggestion this year in his message. Tn cOnformance with the governors wishes Senator Ber- gin, leader of the upper house, in- troduced bill providing for the commission to be appointed by the governor except for two members, one to be named by the president pro tenn of the senate, and one by the speaker of the house. The gov ernor could be trusted to make his selections to. such 0 commission on a, non-political and non-partisan basis.
 Raymond E. Baldwin, majority leader of the house. has offered Q bill providing for a commission of five, two to be appointed by the speaker and one by the governor, tHo paAAWAh OAAA tAAS ass'~ ration would be carried on who'll iy under auspices of the republican organization. The governor would be empowered to appoint one oi five men, the others to be named by the republican speaker and the republican lieutenant governor The democratic majority in the senate would be ignored.
 That is hardly good example of the cooperation which Cover nor Cross suggested in his mess age and the people of the state ex. pect. The Baldwin bill ought no' to pass in its present form. Prop, ha rdlv abdicate its share in the in. yestigation and 1t ought not to dc so. Such a bland ignoring of the senate majority would be amusing if it were not indicative of an en- tirely wrong spirit.