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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

The day we start passinf out Ee-
al heer there'Il be stampede
viii just about everybody and MS
brother grabhin' ard snaschEn Tor
their first bottle. That's plain
everyday human nature. America
will 50 Fer legal beer jus1 Ike she
went tOr yo-yo ard miniature golf.
After The new wears off ard folks
find they ean gps Il when they
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20
. A POT LUCK DINNER
W|NoME In and take pot luck"
was the old invitation for

W@OME in and take pot luck"
was the old invitation for
q most informal dinner
and only the most conventional
person could say that @pot luck
wasn't the best luck IN the world.
Some say the expression origina-
ted from peasant heartnsides
where the pot always dubbed
away. and some days it contained
more of this, while another day
more of that-and one took the
luck OF the pot. Others associate
the poker significance Of the term
.'pot" But no matter where 1t
came from--it's pot luck just
the same.
And just now, Pot Luck dinners
are very much in vogue, because
they offer a sparkling, spon-
taneous sort Of evening with no
formal restrictions. Here is the
way one little group worked it
out. They were congenial couples
who dined together once a week
at the country club in good golf
weather. And then, came winter
las the movies used to say. So.
to speed winter on its way, one
young matron, who liked lots OF
fun with little fuss, suggested q
once-a-week pot luck dinner at
different house each time, with
each couple bringing course.
And What Dinnerl
The hostess served the main
course, because planked steaks
and such things dislike to be
dashed around over miles Of road
to get to their destinations, and
the guests brought good-natured
travellers such as soups, salads,
desserts, etc. And what a dinner
this first pot luck meal turned
out to be! Very appropriately,
almost everything came in pots
the sort that are easy to cook
in. easy to carry and easy to
serve from.
The first course was q cocktail,
and it came cold and frosty after
the cracked-ice manner of cock
tails; then there was onion soup
in those little French onion soup
bowls which boast lids. The
SOUP came in q big crock and was
heated and then poured into the
little bowls-which the SOUP
course guest brought along with
her-since soup must be piping
hot. Then followed veal medal
lions and asparagus with Hollan-
daise sauce. which was the main
course contribution of the hos
tess; someone else brought the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

Maybe beer is curse and may
be ii amt. Anyhow lot Of good
men like Washington, Lincoln, and
Jefferson had access to the brass
rail and unless the guys that write
history arc goofy, they turned out
to be pretty good citizens. II
they were with as today | dent
think any Of EN- would turn you
over to the police IL you asked EN-
to ''cone over and sample a bottle
of home-brew" and If you happen
ell to be thirsty they would prob
ably know couple Of good tele-
Ikone numbers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

Whether We like Ii Or not.
the majority az the citizens of
these United States Of America are
.swes'' They've tried the Noble
Experiment and found ii don't
work. They've found that prohi-
hilton doesn't prohibit and that
you cant legislate morals They
thoaght they'd settled the arwu-
mens last November. Roosevelt
understood il that way ard SO did
Congress. Now Il seems the Flor
ida House gnneur& As this is
written the Florida Senate il run
min 'r0und iii circles sryin' 70
nake up It's mind. But no mat
ter was happens there will BE- &c
beer II Fioriaa ~ long aS there
are customers willing fo pay for
The question IA who = Koin'
Ia nekef skE prefRss
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

After hsteRin courteous and at
tentive to both sides think they
are haywire. It'll take . lot more
than mere bottle of beer q
make Or break this country. With.
or without Il. ven rock along, but
since il i evident that the hulk
OF the people got the idea that
beer Is ono Of the answers to cur
troubles the sooner We quit foolin'
round and give II 10 'eIn the bet
ter off vel be.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

Most of the birds that are yap-
pin for beer aren't really as thirs-
~ as they make out. A lot Of
'em probably wouldn't drink d
pint year, but they've got enough
of the old fashioned American
idea of fairplay and a square deal
in their makeup. backed with an
inherent love of freedom, to de-
nand the legal right TO drink it if
they want to without havin' some
simple owl accuse 'em of bein' a
traitor to their country and an
enemy of law and order.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

want it and where they want it,
most of 'em will go about their
business and forget all about it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

II seems that the only reason
Prosperity has refused Ia turn the
corner ii because thare wasn't a
nice beer garden on it and If there
was beer garden there. Prosper
ity would push in the swingin'
door and never get any further.
II really looks like we were in q
tough spot no matter what kind of
handspring the well knewn cat
does.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

One side yells swe want beer"
while the other side yelps ''we
don't want beer and the funny
part of it is we got beer. We've
never been without ii, all we want
now is the legal right to drink it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

salad--dressed cucumber radish
and green pepper rings--trans-
ported ..cool as a cucumber" in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-20

PAsas 10 We Delivss
Eaasn ard EIizsbesh So.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
No "Crab.o

It seemed to be the eoncensus at the meet ing of the Connecticut League of Munie- paiities last week that united action should be taken by every city and town in Connee- tieut to prevent the state grabbing off all revenue that it could in the coming two years. The state is faced by large deficit and naturally will seek to protect itself. The cities and towns aren't able to fend for themselves these days and must have some form of state aid, preferably in jhc form of diversion of a portion of certain taxes which now go entirely into the state treas- ury for such purposes as they are intended.
 The League has drawn up program of proposals that will be presented tb the Leg. islature during this years session. Included in it are many deserving of the best support that our senators and representatives can give. We aren't so enthusiastic about others, especially the general sales tax. which can't prove popular with the buying popu- lace no matter how urgent the need of it. Surely there is some other way of securing revenue. sadly needed as it is, than in this way. There will be too much opposition. we think, to a general sales tax, for it to have possibly any chance of complete en- dofscment.
 We noted that the League is supporting the general movement to decrease the inter- est rate on unpaid taxes from 9 to per cent. Similar action to this has been start ed in many local city council. It's good emergency legislation and common sense dictates its general adoption. In conjune- ton with it the cities and towns would have inc state cut it's per cent interest rate for failure of municipalities to pay their state and military taxes. There is also solid backing in the league for the movement to change the dates of the fiscal years so that ihey will coincide with tax payment dates and this obviates the necessity of borrowing in anticipation of taxes
 In general the idea of the mayors and town officials comprising the League mem bership is to secure from the state eoopera- ton in paying it's way through these dif- fieult times. There is also reasonable demand that the cities and towns share in certain tax levies, to which they are certain ly entitled in part, but to which they now have no right. We might mention motor law violation fines and costs and taxes on interstate and local bus lines. Don't forget that our city streets bear the same burden as do the state roads. Don't forget that city enforcement officials do the arrcsting in the majority of cases where fines arc metcd out for motor law volNions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
What About Tipping?

The tipping problem bobbed up again re- gently when it was announced that a chain of well known hotels was forbidding tip. ping of check girls in connection with its dining rooms and restaurants. At various times over long period of years, reads the announcement, we have taken steps to limit this custom. The custom has con- tinued none the less, not because diners felt an impulse to reward the attendant for serv- ices, but because common practice seemed to require that the tip be given"
 It will be interesting to see whether the new order works. There have been many efforts to>stop tipping. The reformers among those receiving tips have said they would rather have regular wages that did not depend on the whims and moods of possible tippers. It has been argued that tipping is unfair because it fails to reward those who serve unseen but who do more for a patrons comfort than some of the attendants who are within tipping reach.
 The public. on the other hand, divides into two groups confirmed tippers and non- tippers. The one group believes tipping is the only way to get service and the other regards it as unnecessary if not actually graft. Non-tipping regulations sometimes work and sometimes fail. It is a custom which will be hard to kill, because there are always soI many who do not want it killed, but experiments along that line are always worth trying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
Who Would Be President?

Here's d hypothetical case of considerable interest. Just suppose that President Elect Roosevelt and Vice -President-Elect Garner should die before they are inaugurated on March 4. who would be the next president of the United States! Senator Arthur Cap per of Kansas brings this question up in his weekly periodical, the Pathfinder. and then proceeds to answer il. After thoroughly discussing it he concludes by stating that "thc secretary of state in the outgoing ad- ministfaton might act as president in ae' eordanee with the presidential succession act.
 We wonder if Secretary of State Henry l.. Stmson could under these drastic cir eumstanees ascend to the presidency. We are afraid that his right to the office would be seriously questioned. Certainly the man date of the voters in last November s cleo ton would be ignored if this ever came to pass But it might even be ignored if just the president eleet died in the interim be- tween election and inauguration. Should the vice president. elect succeed to the higher office before bis chief had been naugurated there still would be much questioning as to his right to do SO.
 Nobody questions the eonstItrtonaIIty of the presidential succession act of 1880. It is necessary to prepare for any unexpected happening. But the nation has never had the experience of seeing this act work, eX. eept where the president died and his vice. president succeeded him. But even in those instances nobody stepped into the place of the vice. president. The office remained vacant until the following election There is a point that Senator Capper makes in hs recent article that might throw some light on the rights of candidates to office. We refer to the electoral college, Its importance would certainly be magnifed in the death, of both president -eect and vlee.presden' elect.
 Before discussing it we should explain that use of the above expressions IS ineof' rect. SO the Kansas senator tells us It isn president.eleet until the members of th' electoral college have met and named thei preference. Thus, instead of saying PreS dent.E Elect Roosevelt today we should us the form president designate. The eleetora college meets soon to elect Governor Roose welt and Speaker Garner and convey thei vote to the Senate. Could not the eleetora college designate new president by it's vot' even if this man were not candidate the immediate preceding elcetion' .Proba bly, not. but there's aithought. Ibat a least, would make the electoral college mor'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03

New Britain has the right idea. In keeping with the times which all of us cheerfully admit now are not the best t has cut the price of parking tag exactly in half In other words if you park along New Britain streets where you are not sup posed to. you only have to pay the smiling police officer at headquarters Sl instead of the customary $2. The latter price seems to be pretty universal wherever you go in the good old U S. A. At some time Of other police chiefs or safety boards must have got together and established this rate. The New Britain idea is sound. Who wouldn't be glad to get bargain rates these days, even if it is parking fine'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
A Test Case

Real fighting goes on in Manehuria. de- spite the soft words of the Japanese, as the natives continue struggling for their inde- pendenee. Also the debate goes on at Geneva, regarding the celebrated Lytton re. port with Japan refusing to recognize it and quesmtioning the authority of the League of Nations. while the little countries in the League insist on outlawing Japan and the big powers hesitate.
 As regards the status and authority of the League. we have nothing to do. Our con- eern in the Lytton report comes from our peace treaties with Japan, renouneing wa, and guaranteeing the integrity of China. We don ot want to get into trouble with Japan. but we have a real interest in main- taining peace. justice and the open door in the Pacific region. And we really have larger interest than that, in common with Europe. Lloyd George puts the case we'll in describing Japan's defiant attitude and her hope of getting away with the spells:
 Are her calculations sound? If SO, then was the World War fought in vain. and we are back in the old conditions of interna- tional lawlessness and imperialistie aggres- sion. leading to periodic xplosions of ever more deadly warfare. Manehuria is the tes, case to prove whether such an international verdict as was expressed in the Lytton re. port more unanimous and well-informcd than in any previous issue can, infaet, be enforced by international opinion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
Balanced Society

Will Hays, movie ezar, as interested in eefnoeraey' as all the rest of us, is not thrown into hyster:eal alarm as some people have been by its suggestions and findings. He says: Tn a properly balanced society. teehnoosieal progress and social progress should be eontemporaneous and synony. nous. The machine translates to the humblest home the benefieenee of science, art. invention. The solution of our indus trial problem is not to place halter upon the progress of the machine age We'll gen. orally solve the puzzle of replacing the workers who have lost their jobs to robot substitutes. That's been happening ever since the first scythe reduced the number Of harvest hands who had hitherto uprooted wheat stalks by fist
 Long before the present depression began. long before the Teehnoerats began to tell us about their discoveries thoughtful persons had been saying that science and invention and technical progress had got too far ahead of social progress. Society was getting badly out of balance. One of the effects of the depression has been 10 make more per. sons awafe of that fact and to set great nun. bcrs of hitherto indifferent citizens to think. ing about the problem seriously. It ought to be possible to bring about that proper balance. But it will require world.eooper ation. not merely local and national ad- justment,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
.NEA Service Writer

NEA SeFvACe WFltCr
 Washington-Among all the fore casts we Washington correspond ents are making for 1033, there IS only one sure bet:
 Everything gets tossed Into the lap of Uncle Frank Roosevelt. Uncle Frank is not merely reecp- tive. He is eager for it--eager for the most gosh. n wful cumulatlon of agfiravatod, intensified, vitalised and toughencd assortment of prob- lcmB that ever confronted . newly. inaugurated president.
 Wc were given to understand that Unclo Frank would be pleased no end of this lame duck sosSion if congress would provide repeal of tho 18th amendment. legaliza. ton of beer--with \ tax on it--farm relief, through somo such scheme nB tho domestic allotment plan, and a certain amount of budget-bal- anelng.
 It now appears that Uncle Frank was rather optimistic--that he had much moro foith in congress than has ever been Justified in It's past performances or is now being justl- fied in its current performances. 1t now appears that we are not going to get any of those things, which means that thoy will be passed along to tho special session of tho 73rd congress which Uncle Frank will bo calling some time after tho fourth of March. A repeal resolution Booms hopo- less since the defont in tho hous0. Beer. if 1t should passo tho sen. ate, would almost surely Dc vetoed by President Hoover. The farm ro- lief prospects arc poor, what with tho probability of veto. And con. gross has shown little disposition toward any pretcnse Of "bnlnnc- ing the budget"
 Unclo Frank Is nobody's fool and he realized such facts at least as soon 'as anyone elsc could be cer- tain of them. So .ho is prepared to handle all those rather important Issues by himsolf, along with such other issues ns he was sure would have to Dc reserved for him In any event. Among those intter issues is tho problem of war debts, which tho governor wants to take care of in his own administration. as ho has made plain to MT Hoover. Also among the Issues to bo held for Roosevelt appear to bo those of un- employment relief.
 There is not yet ahy indleat lion that Uncle Frank has been bring. Ing any pressure to bear for direct relief beyond the proposal pro- sonted by him through Senator Dyrnes of South Carolina which would continue public works through bond issues instead of vir- tuaiiy aboiishing them. as Hoover
 proposes. Nor does hc soem to demand of democratic leaders any drastic economies or fovenue-rnis:. Ing before he can come to demand them officially.
 There are also such matters ns tariff reform, government reorgnn- ization, economy featuring the democratic promise of q sS DOT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03

fair success at predicting the weather for many years. If he says we will have an open winter. we will; if he says 1t will be long and stormy. nine times out of ten it will be. Just now he has been discussing this holiday thaw which dssipated the ice and snow of mid Deeember. He says in part. Look for winter thunder and light ming in January. It may not show up. but generally does when the winter weather IS soft. The 'softness. they say. is bad for health. But never mind. There is nothing we can do about it. Let's get it clear. SO that nobody can say we hedged a moist.
 murky. stormy, 'thawy' winter with not the customary amount of cold and brisk dryness until after the first part of Febru- ary when some bitter cold waves will put in their appearance. A backward spring, until past the middle of March A disa. grceable winter. generally speaking. :"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
Our Daily Washington Letter
Passing It on to Uncle Frank
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

cont cut In federal expenses, rail- road legislation, tho St Lawrence ] waterway and the flvo-day week | In government service which arc going over Into the Roosevelt ad- ministration.
 But there is no question that Uncle Frank, regardless of how forvently he hoped that somo of hls favorite measures would Do enacted Ut this session, isprnpar- ing for ono of tho snappiest, most active und most effective sessions of congress this country has over seen.
 His agents and investigators now operating In Washington. officially and voluntarily, arc so thick that you can hardly hurn around with out plumbing Into one. By March he should bo as thoroughly in. | formed on all phases and aspects | of tho government ns any gent who ever stepped Into the Whito House.
 His confidence Yin being ablo to force carly action on that great variety of problems domandlng solution may be well justified. Af- ter all, ho will command tro larg- est congressional majoritlos which were ever elected with any new president and he probably will Do in | perfectly grand position to dictate iegislation.
 The wholo vast machinery of patronage, about to operate with unprecedented velocity. will Do at bis dispoeai. And behind him K an dnequailod popular majirity of tho voters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-03
So They Say

old maids, or what is more mod ernly appropriate, bachelor girls, in the business and professional worl doarn moro money than do mraried women and divorcees, = Helen Mathewson Laughlln, dean of women. University Of California.
 No story ever yet has gone on the films aB 1t was written.--John Erskine, author and professor or English, Columbia university.
 
 We arc against war. our idoa IS to prepare for peace. We get ouh policy from the Bible.--from Luke; "A strong man well armed keop- oth his palace in peace. .'--.I1ouis Johnson, national eommonder or the American Legion.
 WAS never bothered by slcepl- ness, but 1 was bothered when my facet cream and powder ran out in Paris last night.--Amy Johnson. British aviatrix. on her return to London from record flight rom Capetown, Africa. It isE't nccessary for people to follow each other like sheep iil social events.-MrB John Nance Garner, wife of the vicc.president' elect.