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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12

The assembly period at the Di-
vision Street School Tuesday was
characterized by the two events
which fall this week, namely
American Education Week and
Armistice Day.
American Education Week Is
observed annually to inform the
public as to the needs, aims and
achievements of the schools. The
general theme for this observance
is "Our American Schools At
Work"
With the stage symbolically dec
Grated with posters, the Fourth
Grades, under the supervision of
Miss Gladys Pinder, Mrs. Amelia
Cabot and Miss Florence Albury,
presented the following program:
Two-part song, "Peace Ever
More''-Fourth Grade Chorus.
Poem, "a Worldwide Truce"
-Noelia Bravo.
Play, Thanks To Horace
Mann:
Scene L
Place, a living room.
Time, the present.
Armistice Day Songs by the school.
Scene IL
Place, an o,d-feshioned school.
Time, a winter morning early in
the 10Th century.
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100000 short of employment in the
industries at their highest peak Of
prosperity Hence il Is stupid in the
extreme to hold the Misunderstanding
industries responsible for the fact
that 100000 workers are unenl-
ployed today. AS matter of fact a
larger per cent of gainful workers
are employed in the manufacturing
industries today than in 1929. In 1929,
208So Of the workers were employed
in factories. Today 22% of the work.
ers are employed in factories.
In all other depressions it was easy
for the rural sections to absorb much
of the unemployment Of the towns
and cities. Almost any worker could
at least make living in the country.
But the policy of the administration
in radically reducing farm produc-
ton closed the doors of the rural sec
tons to the unemployed in the towns
and cities. and threw out OF employ
ment large proportion OF the 6.849.-
663 farm hands and tenants. 1t was
natural for these to crowd into the
towns and cities and apply for relief.
The radical reduction of farm pro-
duction. of necessity brought unem-
ployment on a large scale in trans
portation. and in the handling OF
products all the way from producer
to consumer. 81
The insistance on short hours and
an advanced wage scale under the
MIRA forced employers to lay OF
the slow" and the inefficient. work.
ers. and retain only those who could
earn the higher wage in the shorter
hours. This ur a | condition
forced on business. it is believed, IS
one of the chief causes of the unnat-
ural employment problem. It is a
gross injustice to any man to force
him on charity because he is not able
to earn an arbitrarily fixed wage. The
right of a man to work. to sell his
services at the natural market price
without any sort of interference is
one of the inalienable rights of an
American citizen.
In normal times a very large num-
Der of workers are employed in pro-
jecting large scale production for the
future. The political uncertainty with
reference to fundamental business
security is such today that activities
of this nature have been arrested.
Do these facts not point. therefore.
to the conclusion that our serious.
abnormal problem of unemployment
is the result of government policies?
.hOr. care of this ue1psDaneyl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12
CHILDRENS HOME
SOCIETY In NEED
OF FURTHER AID
MAKES URGENT THARSxS-EW-
ING APPEAL FoR MoNEN.
FOOD AND VARIOUS oTHEE
ARTICLES

Facing : huge dcflcir e eve
s.. 0O0. the Children's Hane -
eiety Of Florida. generally slskez
Of everywhere As -'Fl8riaz's G-ea1-
est Char -ty''. Is facing n e-@=z
situation, and Is making al uEEeu-
Thanksgiving appeal fer n@aeE-
food and ehildren's Wea-2hles 81
through the state
Every fam y IN Flolda Iaaz
can possibly give even rhe zEzl-
est amount Is urged 70 sznd n q
contribution In money 70 ehe
treasurer Of the soc-ety. 40 Buck
man Building. Ja1ksonTi ie. 0r %
enc of the three branches Of H.
society at Lakeland, Miami o. Pen
sacOla.
Those who cannot give noney
or who des re 70 give mere mar
money are urged 10 send IN Any
thing that children from zee nab
les up 70 boys and gills q Is
years Of age. can eat. Eear o. e.
10Y. Donations Of canned eooGs
Preserves. staple pr0vis ems. fats.
Vegetables. meats, chickens. DDS
p.gs or turkeys y "a Be 49,
welcomed Al the headqaarter's -
ceiving Room. 255D Rive-s DE-
Ave, jacksonville. o. ~ the bEal-r
Receiving Ti0mss n Il am. LAEe-
lad ar FeHsat -. Chiid -
outer and under ~ ments. partEe-
ularly sweaters, eOats, suits srock
ings or winter wear garments ~
be greatly appreciated
The greatest need Of al t2cla@
the Home Society II the need o-
good family homes for the scoEes
Of homeless boys and girls frau
SIX to 10 years Of age, Nho IN earh
Of the sOciety's Receiving Hone
in jacksonville. Lakelsnd. Man
and Pensacola. are constant 3
plead ng with the state superb
tendent. Ma1cus c Daddy FaEE
TO find a good home q lOEe anl
care for them
Daddy" FagE would Ike YER
much 10 place every one 81 thes.
homeless boys and girls hefors
Christmas If possible. tins r. r.
the greatest Christmas Eft -
could possibly be prov ded -
these homeless children Al
plications for homeless ctilGrer
should be sent TO Daddy" FaEg
30 Buchanan Building. Lesson
vie, Fla
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Division St. School Pupils
Put On Enjoyable Program

"The Story of Armistice Day.
Charles Sanchez
Scene III
Place, your own school.
Time, the present.
Characters in the play
Mother, Grace PerdOmo.
Grandad, Edmund Thompson.
Alice and Jimmy (twins), Gloria
Acevedo and Harold Haskins.
Schoolmaster, Alfred Lowe.
Samuel, C.auduis Spencer.
Susan, Mary Elizabeth Knowles.
Horace Mann, Ward Herrick.
Mary Ann, Grace Torres.
Retsey, Virginia Roberts.
John, James Ogden.
Henry, Mike Knowles.
Modern Teacher, Paula Higgs.
Announcer, June Marie Roberts.
Understrdy, Leonell Soriano.
Other children, Ethel May Rob
erts, Rose Mary Symonette,
Martha Gomez, Sylvia Dan
iel, Willete Camalier, Gloria
Young, Alice Ogden, Jennie
Johnson, Shirley Curry, Shir-
ley Rose Smith and Ruth Be-
caisse.
The program ended with the
singing of two stanzas of "Ameri-
ca" which are about the schools.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12

1912-Search party found snow
ed-up tent and bodies of Capt.
Robert F. Scott and two compan-
ions only a days march from
plenty-Scott's search for the
South Pole and his heroic death
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a depres Sion.
But in every
one of the ten
depressions in
this country,
after a period
Of readjust-
ment of BUSH
ness. the nor.
m al demand
for goods and
services re-
turned, under a
n a I al law.
a nd the prob
lem of unem
ployment v an
ished.
This ic the
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1919-113 bodies of American
soldiers and sailors who had died
for their country in Russia arriv-
ed in New York.
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DOG DYED GREEN

LONDON.-Mrs. Frances Try
on of this city had her pet dog
dyed green to match her favOrite
walking costume.
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Today In History

1813-Historic "Canoe fight"
on Alabama River between Amer
cans and Indians In second war
with England.
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1850-Alien B. Wilson, young
cabinet maker of Pittsfield, Mass,
who occupies highest place in list
of improvers, patented his sewing
machine.
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BEATS HIS MoTHER-IN-LAW

BELFAST.-For beating his
mother-in-Iaw with his wooden
leg, Stephen Flood of this city was
sent to prison for a month.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12
You and Your
Nations Affairs
Why Are Men Out of Jobs?
By GUS W. DYER
Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vanderbilt
University

The administration enters upon its
second term facing a serious unem-
ployment problem. Temporary I'M
employment is naturally the effect of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12

1924-ShoOting in Mexico's
Chamber of Deputies-two injur-
ed, one fatally.
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1932-President Hoover invit-
ed President-elect Roosevelt to
confer with him.
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FOR RENT

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are classic today in English his
tory.
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KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Attendance at the public
schools in Key West is excellent,
Notwithstanding the carnivals now
operating here, according to
George F. Archer, attendance of
ficer. MIR. Archer says that of
the 760 students at the Division
street school more than 700 have
been present every day this week.
This morning he had to trace only
nine students each from the Divi-
sion street and Harris schools,
and found that : the eauses of
absence were sufficient. The at
tendance is equally CAS- good at the
eolored school, Mr.. Archer said.
Circuit court opened this morn
ing for the purpose of disposing
of minor miscellaneous cases
while awaiting legal preparations
for the trial of A. Dice which is
scheduled for next Monday morn
ing. This case is to be followed
Immediately by that of Bodine.
There is a large number of these
miscellaneous cases on the docket
and it is expected that the session
of court will last over a period of
at least three weeks.
Hon. Jorge II. Ponce, Cuban
consul in Key West, today re-
ported collections of $2,737.17
TOR the relief fund being assembled
here fer the sufferers from the
hurricane in Cuba. The entire
amount is deposited in the First
National Bank in the name of the
Cuban Relief Fund and as soon as
available funds which have been
promised have been collected
when the whole amount will be
forwarded to the honorable presi-
dent of the Republic of Cuba.
Announcement was received to-
day of the death in Danville, ILL.,,
of Uncle Joe Cannon at the age
of 80. He passed into the great
beyond in the rambling brick
mansion he built many years ago
for his bride. Life slowly ebbed
away from the old statesman
whose iron handed tactics in con-
gress won for him the title of
car of the public back in the
days before his fall in 1910.
The British auxiliary schooner
Fannie E. Prescott was today re-
turned to her owner, D. S. d.
Mosely, of Nassau, by order of
the United States court. The
Fannie Prescott was captured by
the Coast Guard Boat 299, under
command of Harry w. Erikson.
The vessel was about seven miles
from Sombrero light when caught,
and had on board 691 sacks of
beer, Sc barrels of beer and two
cases of wine on board. The date
was August II, 1925.
Editorial comment: If they
ever find Aimee's prison shack,
Henry Ford may buy it to add to
his collection of historical land
marks.
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gin at $50. The fashion revue
will start at 10 o'clock.
The price of admission for the
dance and fashion revue will be
reasonable, and it is expected
there will be a large number in
attendance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12

Miss Roberta Roberts enter
tanned at her home 1928 Division
street last evening with a birth
day party in celebration of the
seventeenth anniversary of her
birth. The evening was made
merry with a number of interest
ing games. and Robert Roberts
was declared winner of a guess
ing contest. Refreshments con-
sisting of ice cream, cake. candy
and sailed nuts were served
throughout the evening.
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address questions to the author OF this newspaper
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-12

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Carlyle
Williams, of $50 White street, an
eight pound boy. Mrs. Williams
is at the home of her mother at
GA Eaton street.
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Editorial comment: If they
ever find Aimee's prison shack,
Henry Ford may buy it to add to
his collection of historical land
marks.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24

the leafy, tippy tobaccos-because
these tobaccos are not quite as quick
to damage as the Jugs are. One of the
best investments a tobacco grower
ever makes is to secure enough sticks
to hold his entire crop.
AS long as tobacco is on the sticks
1t is possible to manipulate it's or
der, i. e., to dry it out if it is too
damp, or expose it to damp atmos-
phere II it is too dry. The mistake of
taking tobacco off of the sticks when
1t is too wet should never be made.
However, the stacked tobacco must be
examined if the grower is going to
correct possible mistakes in it's or
der.
About week or ten days after TO-
bacco has been taken out of the cur
ing barn it should be restacked, re-
versing the order of stacking the
top on the bottom and the bottom on
the top. This should be done on a
fair day, dry day, and if it is found
that any of the tobacco is damp the
damp sticks should be laid out and
dried.
A very good insurance against to-
bacco damaging in the stack is not to
stack it on a bare floor. Cover the
floor with dry oat straw, fodder or
similar material; lay sheets over this
and stack the tobacco on the sheets.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24
KEEP TOBACCO DRY
AFTER ITS CURING
Agricultural Expert Advises
Growers About Care
of Crops
BY J. Nj. PURDOM,
Assistant Agricultural and
Industrial Agent

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company.
The Eastern Carolina tobacco mar
ket opened September l. This means
that those who had early crops of to-
bacco will have to keep it for some
time after it is cured before the mar
ket opens. In one way this is an ad-
vantage to the grower in that the
color and general appearance of the
cured tobacco may be expected to i'm
prove while it is in the stack.
This opportunity, however, may
turn out to be a boomerang unless it
is rightly used because if the tobac-
CO was allowed to get too wet before
it was stacked away, or if it is not
properly stacked in a dry place and
covered up well, it is likely to heat
and damage, or actually rot. This ap-
plies particularly to the first prim-
ings-the first two or three groupings
of thin leaves. They are very suscep-
tible to this kind of damage. If they
are not kept very dry they will GER
tainly rot.
In this connection / would suggest
that the Jugs be left on the sticks
until just few days before the mar
ket opens. In the event it is neces-
sary to unstring some tobacco in or
der to get sticks for curing the bal
ance of the crop, it will be better to
unString some of the later curings-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24
NEW STANDARDSON
GRADING Of COTTON
American Upland Staple Is
Now Graded According
To New Method

American upland cotton is now
graded according to the new grade
standards, DR.. A G. Black, Chief of
the Bureau of Agricultural Econo-
mics, announced.
These revised standards were Off
cially promulgated on August 20, 1885
and were to be put into use exactly
one year later in accordance with the
provisions of the Cotton Standards
Act and the Cotton Futures Act.
The Universal standards for the
grade of American cotton established
by the United States Department of
Agriculture have been accepted by
all of the principal cotton organiza-
tons of Europe and these standards,
together with those for length of
staple are generally used throughout
the world wherever American cotton
is bought and sold. The present
grade standards have been in effect
since August 1924.
Value of Change
In discussing the origin of the new
standards DR.. Black explained that
for some years the American cotton
crop has been growing whittier in col
or and that very little blue stained
or yellow stained cotton has been
ginned. Conditions contributing to
this change include earlier movement
of the crop, less exposure of cotton
than formerly, the planting of earlier
maturing varieties to avoid boil wee
vii damage, earlier picking and
prompter ginning. Improved road
conditions and the increasing use of
motor trucks has contributed to ear
lier handling.
Requests were received from time
to time from organizations of pro-
ducers, merchants and manufacture
ers that the standards be revised to
make them more representative of
crops now being produced. Promul-
cation of the revision last year fol-
lowed the examination and approval
of the grade boxes by representatives
of producers and other organizations
in the American industry and of the
European associations and exchanges
that are parties to the Universal Cot
ton Standards Agreements. 1t is an
ticipated that the revised standards
will facilitate marketing by produc-
ers as well as transactions between
members of the trade and cotton
manufacturers in America and
abroad.
In the new standards the number
of grades has been reduced from 81
to 80. These latter include grades
for white cotton, 7 for extra white. S
for tinged, for gray, for spotted,
and for yellow stained. Of the to-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24

Organized effort to secure passage
of a state compact law provloins
mandatory regulation and control OIL
the size of the tobacco crop WIN De
presented at the session of the Nortn
Carolina General Assembly conVeh-
ing in January.
Two strong forces will direct Ell.
forts looking to the working out Oh
a control plan.
They are:
A committee named at the state
Farm and Home Week
The farm Federation Bureau, WHICH
is rapidly organizing North CaroIna
farmers particularly eastern caro-
lima farmers, to conduct an active
and continued lobby in the Assembly
on behalf of the farmer.
Five hundred farmers at the state
College Farm and Home conference
in Raleigh unanimously endorsed
the state compact method OF control
of tobacco and appointed commit
tee of nine men to work out plans for
such a program for the state.
The meeting was held in connec-
ton with farm and home week.
The State was divided into five dis
tricts. with four of them to have two
committeeman and the other a single
committeeman and alternate.
Members of the committee elected
were:
First district, the border belt: DR..
c.. M. Pate, of Robson county, with
T. ]. Harris, of Cumberland as alter
nate.
Lionel Well Named
Second district, part of the new
belt: F. Brock, of Jones, and G.. I.
Scott, of Johnston, with Lionel We'll,
of Wayne and ]. Y. Joyner, of La
Grange, as alternates.
Third district, the rest of the new
belt: ]. E. Winslow of Pitt, and w.
w. Eagles of Edgecombe, with B.
B. Everett, of Halifax and c. U. Rog-
ers, Of Martin, as alternates.
The fourth district, the middle belt
W. W. White of Vance and D. H. Sen
ter of Harnett with W. A. Turner of
Warren and 1. M. Wilcox of Lee as
alternates.
Federation Efforts
Plans for a strong campaign to Sc
cure enactment of the compact legis
lation have been discussed at a half
dozen county farm rallies sponsored
by the Farm Federation. E. o. Arm
old, former Pitt county farm agent
and now executive secretary of the
North Carolina unit of the Fedora
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24
Plan To Renew Campaign
For Tobacco Compact Act
Two Strong Organizations Directing Effort tor Driving
Bureau Federation Is Preparing Bill

ton, is supervising the shaping of this
campaign.
Preparation of a measure to be
submitted to the General Assembly
already has been begun by this group.
The Federation's attorneys will seek
to devise an act that will give acre
age and poundage control and bring
about similar acts through the legis-
latures of other tobacco-producing
states.
The continued compact campaigns
are an outgrowth of work begun last
spring. Congress passed an act which
delegates to the states the right to
pass compact legislation. The act
was workable, however, only upon
unanimous approval of all tobacco
growing states.
Virginia Has Law
Virginia passed such an act. Vir-
ginia's law however, was to be in
effect only upon action of other to-
bacco states. Couth Cardinals as
sembly passed such a bill through
one house but had it killed in the
vote in the next house.
Three thousand North Carolina
farmers gathered at State College
football stadium in the spring to urge
Governor Ehringhaus to call the
North Carolina Assembly into special
session to consider the proposal.
Governor Ehringhaus. however, re-
fused to call the session, maintaining
that the compact program as outlin-
ed and adopted in Virginia would be
a measure that would be impossible
of enforcement and was without suf-
ficient teeth" to make it work.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24

tai, only Is are represented by grade
boxes, namely, white grades. strict
good middling to good ordinary, in
elusive, and the tinged grades Good
middling to low middling, inclusive
All of the other grades are descrip-
tive.
Cost Cut
In the old standards IS grades
were represented by boxes which
were sold to purchasers in the Uni
ted States at $500 each, or $125OO
for a complete set. The cost of q
complete set of the 13 grade boxes of
the new standards is only $500.
The new white grades are shifted
to include whittier cotton and the
more creamy bales in the white
grades have been eliminated, since
such cotton could not be found in
quantities sufficient to make copies
of the old standards. The grades for
blue stained and for strict good mid
ding tinged have been dropped.
Under the cotton futures Act all
cotton previously classed and GER
tificated and which remains in certi-
ficated stocks at future delivery
points on August 20 must be regard
ed as of that date. All cotton classed
under the Grade and Staple estimates
act and all reports as to the quality
of this years cotton crop will be
based upon classifications made ac-
cording to the new standards, the Bu-
reau said.
Those who wish to purchase copies
of the standards or desire further in
formation concerning them should
communicate with the Division of
Cotton Marketing, Bureau of Agricul-
ture Economics, Washington, D. c.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24
$14.6O in the two years.

$14.6O in the two years.
Wages of white women in tobacco
factories rose from SO per week in
1888 to $13.15 in 1885; wages of Ne
gro women increased from $685. in
1888 to 5000 in 1885, enjoying the
largest growth of any class of work.
ers. Negro men received an average
of 1855 per week in 1888 and of $13.15
in 1885 Cigarette machine tenders
wages increased from $1,000 in 1888 to
$1625 last year. Hand stemmers'
earnings went from $40 to $1O.75;
pickers-searchers, from $755 to S1O.10
cigarette catchers, from $500 to S12-
30; floor workers, from $40 to $3.50:
packing machine operators, from $3.50
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-24
TOBACCO WORKERS
GET WAGE RAISES
U. S. Department of Labor Reports
Average Weekly Earnings HiAed
by Employers.

The United States Department of
Labor reports that average weekly
earnings Of tobacco factory workers
increased 80 per cent from 1888 to
1885, March was used as a survey
month. In 1888 the average weekly
wage for that month was $3.50, and
increased to $3.50 in March, 1895. The
average weekly earnings of all tobac-
co workers advanced from $1,000 to