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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27
Admiral Byrd Expresses Fear
For Safety OF Expediionists
HAND SIGNALS

Remember that the driver
behind you cannot read your
mind. Extend to him the same
courtesy you expect from the
driver in front of you. Hand
signals are universally the
same. Employing your hand
in the proper manner in
starting and stopping may
avoid a serious accident and
save considerable property
damage.
REMEMBER UTOM
BILES KILLED OVER 500
PEOPLE IN FLORIDA DUR.
ING 1888. LET'S STOP 1T.
by Governors Committee
on Public Safety.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27

democratic leader, evidently was
counting on getting amendments
rejected then having a final vote.
Chances for congress at this
session to enact regulatory legis-
lation for stock exchanges and
communications was shown today
TO have been recommended By ad-
minjstration committees, and were
seen as percertibly dwindling in
asmuch as President Roosevelt
himself did not make any speci-
Tic request.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27
some SHIPS WILL
LEAVE MONDAY

All navy vessels in the harbor
today are expected 10 remain un-
I'll Monday. II was learned today.
Some Of the vessels will be order
ed TO other parts. It Is said. and
some win be retained on assign
ments in these waters.
Vessels now IN port are the
Destroyers Badger, Cole. Clarion.
Tiiiman, Rabbit. Dupont, Ellis
and Jacob Jones.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27
French Premier Chautelnps
And Cabinet Resign Today

PARIS, Jan. 27.-Premier
Chautemps and his cabinet
resigned today. Their res
ignations followed a series of
demonstrations against the
government as a result of the
recent collapse of the Bay
Onne Municipal Pawnshop
and resultant mud bath"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27
President Roosevelt Ball To Be
Given AT Key West Country Club

Key West Country Club will
present a scene of beauty Tues
day night when the doors are
thrown open to the many Key
Westers and out of town visitors
who will attend the Birthday Ball
in honor of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Selection of the Country Club
was definitely decided at a meet
ing of the committee yesterday
afternoon.
From today until the night of
the levee the committees will be
working to make this event the
most wonderful of its kind ever
given in the city.
Decorations representative of
the tropics will be used in pro-
fusion. These will be seen against
a background formed of variety
of flags that have been promised
from the navy vessels in port, and
others privately owned.
Dance music is to be furnished
by Howard Wilson's orchestra,
with several artists in addition to
those of the regular organization.
Promptly at II o'clock radio
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27

FALMOUTH, Mass, Jan. 27.-
The home of Fulon Oursler, play
wright and magazine editor, over
looking Buzzard's Bay, today
sheltered Mary Pickford from
whatever caused her to flee Bos-
ton last night under conditions re-
mindful of Hollywood thrillers.
The famous actress had been
appearing on a Boston stage when
she suddenly complained to the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27

for government officials in
the chamber of deputies.
Two cabinet ministers, AL
bert Dalimier, minister of
Colonies, and Eugene Ray
naldi, of justice, resigned
under fire of deputies.
Chautemp's government
lasted exactly two months.
It's collapse was the fourth
in a year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27
Mary Pickford Leaves Boston
Stage In Mysterious Manner;
Actress Has Hallucinaions
CBy Associated Press)

police that a man and woman had
been following her.
This was all the police would
say, and it was considerably more
than Miss Pickford would say.
However, late last night she
left Boston in her own automobile
and was escorted here by police
and state troopers.
She begged to be excused from
answering telephone questions
most of which asked if she had re-
ceived kidnapping threats.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-27

WHERE TO GO
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Palace -- Montgomery Players
present: ''Ten Nights In q Bar
Room"
Strand-'I'm No Angel" and
Shadows Of Sing Sing"
TOMORROW
Chureh-Serviees at IL 90 ..
m, 7:30 o. ~. and 8 90 p. m.
Palace - Montgomery Players
present Ten Nights in q Bar
Room"
Strand-"Fm No Angel" and
Shadows 81 Sing Sing"
Navy Fleld-BasebAl.
Evening star., 1934-10-03

march with q system already pre-
pared. He threatens dreadful things,
but, thank God, he has not expunged
us yet.
The human drama of the struggle
between the States is demonstrated by
such souvenirs OF the strife. A su-
perior warmth burns in them They
have a quality which the more formal
pages of history simply cannot have.
They live, have vitality. as their
authors had.
And 1t is right and proper that they
should be delivered to the custody of
the State for preservation. America
metaphorically is bursting with such
material. 1t is scattered from coast
to coast, and rather too much of it is
in private hands. Far safer would it
be If it were gathered in public treas
uries like the Library of Congress, the
several State museums or the univer-
sity libraries.
Mr.. LongStreet has been guided by
the example of others who have con-
tributed to the building up of insti-
tutional collections of historical papers
Also he has indicated the desirable
course for his contemporaries to fol-
low. The literary materials of a Ma
tons chronicle should belong to the
Nation, the annals of State to the
State. Were the policy generally
adopted the task Of research scholars
would be rendered vastly easier.
Georgia should be congratulated on
the endowment offered by her generous
son. Perhaps the gift will prompt the
presentation of other letters written
by the same or other soldiers.
Evening star., 1934-10-03
Making Progress Backward.

The protection, to taxpayer and to
employe. of the merit system should
be constantly extended. The merit
system is the best practical guarantee
of efficiency and economy in Govern
ment and the more thoroughly it is
applied the greater the advance made
toward efficient, economical govern
ment. The disturbing feature Of the
new Interpretation Of civil service
rules and regulations as they apply to
the District Government is the under
lying tendency to weaken, rather than
strengthen, application Of the merit
system to positions in the municipal
government.
Commissioners, under President Hoo
yer, and the Civil Service Commission
as to the selection of municipal en-
ployes from the eligible lists-with
due regard to residence in Washing
ton of the eligibleS-did not go as
far as many would like to see it CO.
But it was q step in the right direc-
ton, paving the way for future legis-
lation. Now that the good features Of
this understanding have been weak
ened by an Interpretation, or ruling,
exempting certain positions from the
application of the merit system, the
danger is that other positions will be
likewise exempted, and instead Of
Evening star., 1934-10-03
Generals Letters.

From Atlanta comes a dispatch to
the effect that the James Longstreet
collection of Confederate generals let
ters has been presented to the Georgia
Department of Archives The donor is
the great leaders son, Fitz Randolph
Longstreet.
Among the treasures conveyed are
communications from Robert E. Lee,
E. P. Alexander, N B. Forrest, D. H.
Hill, j. B. Hood, Joseph E. Johnston,
Lafayette McLaws, A. P. Stewart and
Roberts Toombs-names which may
have meant more to a previous gener-
alton, but which still mean much
today.
To illustrate the power of attraction
possessed by the faded documents it
is necessary only to quote a single
paragraph penned by Lee to Long
street August 29, 1864:
Do not let Sherman capture you,
and ! will endeavor to hold Grant till
you come. Our enemy Is very
cautious and he has become so prof.
cient In entrenching that he seems to
Evening star., 1934-10-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

bility Of gaining as many as 10 SEN
ate seats and even of turning up in
the House with as big a New Deal
mot necessarily Democratic) major
ity as they had at the late session.
What they mean is that while more
G. o. P. Representatives may be
elected than in 1882. there will, as
before, be an extensive group of them
who will support New Deal legisla-
ton. AS to the Senate, the Demo-
Gratis are sure to break the record,
hitherto held by the Republicans. of
having the peak number of 81 men,
bers Of one party in the Upper House.
This was in 1907, during the closing
period of the other Roosevelt admin
istration. The Democrats now hold
60 Senate seats.
Wall Street resents White House
insinuations that the land of the bulls
and bears Is Americas most prolific
rumor region. A New York Times
financial writer protests: "Wash-
ington, for sheer inventive ingenuity
has long surpassed New York. The
rumor factories here work overtime
and their products often bear the
stamp of genius, but none Of the
Wall Street gossips has ever pretended
to be as imaginative as those who
operate from the Capital. Instances
might be cited. Between the two
groups they manage to keep the
official deniers fairly busy. So far
as the particular rumors just men
toned by President Roosevelt are
concerned, they must have been stale
when they reached his ears. The
report Of the resignation of the Sec
retary Of the Treasury is a hardy
perennial, revived periodically from
Alexander Hamilton's time to that of
Henry Morgenthau. jr."
In the retirement Of Maj. Gen.
Briant H. Wells. commanding the
Hawaiian Department, to become
secretary of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association, the United
States Army loses one of its most
distinguished officers. He is a vet
eran of the Spanish-American War,
the Philippine Insurrection and the
World War. Native of Utah and a
Mormon, Gen. Wells was graduated
at West Point just 40 years ago and
has held numerous important posts
at home and abroad. Wells was
awarded the D. S. M. for his services
as chief of staff of the 4th and 9th
Army Corps in France. His friends
understand it was his desire to re-
side permanently in Hawaii that in
duced Gen. Wells to quit the Army
before reaching retirement age next
year.
One of the symbols Of reviving
prosperity, Of more than ordinary in
terest to the New Deal intellectuals,
is the fact that nearly all the big
colleges, universities and prep schools
report capacity, and in some cases
record enrollments for the year just
opened. Several institutions have
folded up during the depression and
many others were compelled to cur
tail faculties and cut salaries, but
with the way things are starting out
this year, 1t looks as If the economic
worst were over in the realm of higher
education.
(Copyright. 1934J
Evening star., 1934-10-03

finding the policy of the merit system
strengthened it will be weakened.
The merit system in national and
local government has been weakened
under the present administration. In
no recent administration have poll
titcs and patronage played SO large
q part in filling Government Jobs.
And every step backward increases
the delay in general recognition of
the merit system as the most effective,
desirable policy in good government.
1t is unfortunate to find the munich
pal government losing what little
ground had been made toward the
general application of the merit sys-
tenn and facilitating the rule OF the
spoilsmen in selections for positions
under the municipal government.
Evening star., 1934-10-03
Shocking Challenge to World
Seen in Italian Nursery Army

Premier Mussolini's decree that
italian military training shall begin
with boys Of 8 shocks the Ameri-
can press generally, although a
minority is found contending, with
the Knoxville, Tenn, Journal, that
since nations all over the world cul-
tivate the war spirit. Mussolini's new
policy merely gives this teaching
visible form"
"Mussolini DEGREES that childhood
be tutored by Mars" observes the
Tulsa, Okla, World, "and that women
forSake the arts and professions and
all employment to rear children for
the army. The theory behind this
infamous policy is that war is hence
forth the business of Italy and that
the state owns. body and soul. all
individuals. This means the aboli-
ton of the home except as a place
to rear soldiers; it means that happy
childhood is practically abolished and
little boys must play at war in prep
aration for mans deadlieSt work. :"
Imagine a baby boy of years
being instructed in the gentle art of
killing his felloWs!" the Muncie Eve
ming Press eXclaims. That paper goes
on to warn that "the wars of the
future will not be fought by great
armies, but by machines controlled
by comparatively few persons" and
suggests that Italy, with every able
bodied man, woman and child under
arms, might cut poor figure in
another war with little Belgium, if
the latter should happen to have .
machine capable of wiping out these
great Italian armies"
"The man who is always ready to
defend his rights" declares the
Jersey City Journal. usually meets
many men. equally ready, whose
opinions of their rights infringe on
his. As result, he is too busy fight
ing to enjoy the rights he may have
without battle. Italy, with its mill
taristic policy now extended to chill
dren of 8, is in danger of finding
itself in just that position, for the
children of today will be governing
Italy after II Duce is dead, and the
OutAOOh VI LllSoC SONClilOlO WILL NC tllC
aggressive, no-compromise outlook of
persons trained since childhood to be-
lieve that fighting is the best method
of obtaining anything desired"
Blind worship of warlike glories
and traditions has constituted one of
the main incentives to war;" in the
opinion of the Saratoga Springs Sara
togian, while the Hutchinson (Kans.) }
News suggests that "either Italy fears
she will be attacked in the not dis
tant future, or is preparing to wage
major war on her own account"
The Christian Science Monitor,
while making its protest against the
Mussolini principle, agrees that in
most countries 'the training of each
new generation for war begins very
early in children's lives" The Moni-
tor adds: 1T begins in the develop
ment of nationalistic pride and bel
ligerent thinking, which are fostered
in most school rooms among children
no older than those to be turned
over to the Fascist Balilla. In the
guise of patriotism it permeates many
school activities. It distorts historical
fact in public school text books. It
enlarges upon national and racial dit-
Evening star., 1934-10-03

ferences. 1t exalts the heroes Of war.
glorifies national accomplishment on
the battlefield, celebrates with mill
tary pomp the holidays that recall
scenes of strife. 1t is not altogether
certain that an education which would
teach some of the actualities of war
fare would harm children more than
that which encourages pleasant fan
tastes about it,
THE Italian decree" according to
the Long Beach (Calif) Press-Tele-
gram, seems to coordinate, In a
military sense, Mussolinis demand for
more children and his recent talks
about the imminence of war. How
ever much his views may outrage
public sentiment elsewhere, 1t must
be granted that the Italian dictator
is consistent in his theories. He would
make Italy's mothers proud to rear
baby soldiers"
Nevertheless, the San Francisco
Chronicle insists that such a Spar
tanizarion is paradox in the country
that produced the Renaissance in
Europe and has been closest in cul-
tural kinship in modern life to the
free spirit of Athens" The New York
Times maintains that Intelligence,
freedom, initiative are today the best
kind of military preparation, whereas
Mussolini seems to be thinking of the
time when two lines Of men hacked
away at each other with swords and
stabbed with javelins."
The Louisville Courier-Journal is
OF the opinion that dictators want
huge armies to quel rebellious masses
at nome rather than for foreign wars,
but the Monroe CMich) Evening News
holds that it cannot fail to make
other nations increase the strength
of their armies"
Evening star., 1934-10-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The young man wanted to know
why he found Emerson so hard to
read"
His older companion declared that
it was probably because the great
sage really said something in every
sentence. Most writers cannot ac-
complish quite that much; their SEN
tences must form q continuity. as the
scenario people say, in order to make
a complete thought.
One has to think continuously, in
reading Ralph Waldo Emerson. There
is scarcely anything like him to be
found elsewhere, due to this unvary-
ing habit Of complete thought, SEN
tence by sentence.
Trust thyself, every heart vibrates
to that iron string"
The entire essay on Self Reliance"
Is there, in a few words.
X
Suppose one takes three sections
from the essay, as follows:
Trust thyself, every heart vibrates
to that iron string. Accept the place
the divine providence has found for
you. Great men have always done so,
and confided themselves childlike to
the genius of their age. We are not
minors and invalids in a protected
corner, but guides, redeemers and
benefactors, obeying the Almighty
effort and advancing on Chaos and
the Dark"
A second section, equally well
known:
"A foolish consistency is the hob
goblin Of little minds. adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and di-
vines. With consistency a great soul
has simply nothing to do. Speak what
you think now in hard words and to-
morrow speak what tomorrow thinks
in hard words again, though 1t con-
tradicts everything you said today"
Now for third section:
There Is time in every mans
education when he arrives at the con-
viction that envy Is ignorance; that
imitation Is suicide; that he must
take himself for better for worse as
his portion. The power which resides
in him is new in nature, and none but
he knows what that is which he can
do, nor does he know until he has
tried"
Would 1t be possible for these fine
sentences to make sense, If they were
alternated. without regard to Sc
quence?
Suppose the first sentence from the
first section is used. followed by the
first from the second section, then
the first from the third: then the
second sentence from the first sec
tion, second from the second, and SO
on.
Let us see how It will come out!
Trust thyself. every heart vibrates
to that iron string. A foolish consis-
tency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and phil
oSophers and divineS. There is a time
in every mans education when he ar
rives at the conclusion that envy Is
ignorance; that imitation Is suicide;
that he must take himself for better
! for worse as his portion.
Accept the place the divine provi-
dence has found for you. With con-
sistency great soul has simply
nothing to do. The power which re-
sides in him Is new in nature, and
none but he knows what that is which
he can do, nor does he know until he
has tried.
Great men have always done so,
and confided themselves childlike to
the genius of their age. Speak what
you think now in hard words and
tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks
in hard words again, though it con-
tradict everything you said today. We
are not minors and invalids in a pro-
Evening star., 1934-10-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Change.
You've got to change the style Of hat
To something that's in style.
You've got to change the garment that
Was proper for a while.
You've got to change the way you
dance
Or modify your walk.
1t even may befall by chance
You'll have to change your walk.
You've got to listen to the words
That echo from of yore,
Yet utilize the thought you've heard
Expressed a day before.
Sometimes you have to change your
home.
Life's hardest whim you find,
AS through ideas you may roam,
You've got to change your mind.
Evening star., 1934-10-03

tected corner, but guides, redeemers
and benefactors, obeying the Almighty
effort and advancing on Chaos and
the Dark"
This is not as good Emerson as the
way the great man wrote 1t, but 1t
makes sense, just the same.
One might scramble Ralph Waldo
Emerson to any degree whatsoever
and the chances are he would still
make sense" and still remain hard
to read" for all those whose minds
are not by nature acclimated to his
ways of thought.
He commonly left out connectives,
not only as such. between sentences,
but also in these connective thoughts
which are used by lesser brains to
carry their own ideas forward.
This does not mean that Emerson
was the greatest writer in the world;
he Just was the greatest writer Of his
type, it would seem.
His sentences are epigrammatic,
but there Is much more to them than
just that, else one Of his greatest
admirers. Elbert Hubbard, would
have been as great. writer as his
master. Hubbard could turn as neat
an epigram as the next one. He even
improved on the great ones mouse
trap" saying tthe original Emerson
is to be found in the journals, not
the essays.
X
Emerson Is difficult reading for
SOME persons because he tried to tell
the truth. 1t seems strange to ad-
duce this as a reason for the finding
Of difficulty of comprehension, but
the truth in itself Is difficult Of un-
derstanding by multitudes of men,
even very young men. The world
has tried for many centuries to hide
the truth from itself, in many and
diverse ways. The man who, now
and then in the centuries. dares to
speak straight out-from the shoulder,
as many say-usually has difficult
time Of 1t.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was fortu-
nate. Confining himself strictly to
the role of thinker, as distinct from
doer, he was accepted by his own
time, and even more so by the pres
ent. 1t has been said that he is now
light, even more so to those alive
today than to his contemporaries
He Is mind. q still living mind,
whether one finds him difficult to
read or not.
1t is question whether even the
most scholarly person can find him
easy to read. This comes about be-
cause he made no compromise with
humor. While man in himself full
Of fun, In a quiet New England way,
he seldom permitted this to creep into
his writings. He was all seriousness
there. He would not have made a
popular columniSt of the modern SLAP
stick style.
This alone makes him difiicult read
ing for many. particularly the young,
for they are accustomed to pretend
ing that everything is funny" They
inject the humorous tone into every
thing and are most at home when
they find it in what they read. They
want everything lively and up-to-the
minute, as they say.
Actually, Emerson Is very up-to-
date, because he wrote about the
eternal verities, which never 60 out Of
style. His tone was serious and there
are many readers who resent serious
! ness.
His compact style was filled with
thought. Now thought, in itself, is
dificult, say what one will. The mind
OF man has arrived at intellectual
habit only by dint of perseverance.
1t is easy to give in to the brute in
ertia. A turn with Emerson, now and
then. keeps one mentally alive.