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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

One important reason why farmers in
the United States receive only 40 cents of
the consumers dollar, while those in Den
mark receive 63 cents, is because of the
enormous toll taken by racketeers esti-
mated to be more than billion dollars
annually.
In New York City alone housewives
pay nearly $1OO,OOO,OOO year to food in
dustries racketeers who rule fake labor
unions and take their rakeoff by boosting
trucking charges and coercing merchants,
according to William F. Morgan, commits
siOner of public markets of that city
Unwarranted distribution costs borne
by farmers and consumers are seen in the
case of such products as milk and other
perishables. In Chicago, report re-
vealed that milk deliverymen and route
fOremen received "a per quart while the
producers as compensation for labor, ma
terials, interest on investment, and risk,
were paid 35 cents
In many cities racketeers maintain
their domination through an unholy alli-
ance with crooked politicians and office
holders, which makes it next to impossible
to suppress them.
If the government would devote more
of its energies to wiping out these rackets
and expend less effort in the haraSSing of
honest business, it would be of greater
benefit to the public
1t is notorious that while many mil
lions of dollars are wasted in futile irvc ,ti-
cations for political purposes, rackete6r-
ing is permitted to. flourish, with little eff
fort being made to put an end to it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print i.
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid - attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ
ization tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never coma
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

steady reduction in the number of her
unemployed. Along with what some
unlettered people call her sound re-
covery, she has had to get along with
only very small rise in the prices
of her wholesale and industrial prod
ucts during the years 1888 to date.
and she has enjoyed practically no
rise in her food prices. But since rela-
lively old-fashioned and outmoded
orthodox economic and governmental
policies were employed over there.
her various shortcomings must be ap-
praised in the light of those lamenta-
BILE facts.
The United States. by way of con .
trast, adopted another type of pro-
gram It has been enlightened, lib
eral, progreSSive-a New Deal. None
of that old-faShioned orthodox eco
Monies for this country! None of that
letting nature get in its work; we
were too smart. too advanced in our
thinking, for that. We adopted the
more intelligent method of curing
our economic ills by legislation. In
fact we soon realized that there were
no economic ills that could not be
cured with legislation, particularly if
we were sufficiently bold and if we
always attached to each act nice
preamble to the effect that this act
is to correct the past evils and to as
sure the more abundant life" One of
the greatest increases in production
in this country since 1888 has been
in the much neglected field of pre-
ambles to legislative acts. They have
great virtues because they point out
what is wrong, show how to correct
the trouble. and guarantee the sue
cess of the cure.
With all these progressive and
sure-ire plans IN hand we tore into
the problems and ground out laws so
rapidly that neither Congress nor
the public had time to read them. But
that did not matter so long as the
preambles about the more abundant
life and provisions for spending were
in the acts. We chucked orthodox
economics and conservatism out the
window and gathered in the New
Dealers as fast as they could be To-
Gated. There was hardly a socialist
or communist member left on any
college faculty by the time our staff
was collected together in Washington.
address questions TO the al
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is nigh this morning
over southeastern districts, Jack
sonvile, Fla, 1892 inches. and
miu-western Canadian Provinces,
Williston, II. d., 1924 inches
while disturbance is central
over the upper Mississippi and
lower Missouri Valleys, Minneap-
oils, Mimi, 29.68 inches, and
pressure is low from Arizona and
New Mexico nOrtheastward over
eastern Canada. Generally fair
weather has prevailed in most
sections Of the country during
the last "a hours, the only meas
ursble precipitation being light
rain in portions of western Tex
as. Utah and Minnesota. Tenn
peratures have risen in most sec
tions between the Rockies and
Appalachian region, and are gen
orally above normal throughout
the country, excent in the Flor
ida peninsula, where readings are
to 10 degrees below the season
al average.
G. s. KENNEDY.
Official in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

| Since prices had fallen, we decided
| to raise them, so we deValuated our
currency. prepared the way for in
fation. and did various things along
the same line hitherto not even con-
Sidered. Since the standard of living
| had fallen, we decided to raise if, and
so proceeded to make goods scarce; we
killed pigs. restricted crops, and did
similar things. We surely gave the
world an idea of what such new and
progressive plans can really look
| like. We decided that spending rather
than saving was the proper road to
prosperity. so we dropped that old
fashioned word thrift out of our
vocabulary and really settled down
to show the world what real spend
ing looked like.
The silver interests said we needed
more money. especially silver. and
that the Chinese ought to be helped.
SO, being in the mood to help every
body. we decided to buy all the silver
we could get our hands on and TO pay
prices for it according to what the
silverites thought it ought to be
worth. not those scandalousIy low
prices prevailing in the market And
didn't we give the private employers
good hazing for not increasing en-
ployment!
Then TO be thoroughly modern in
our methods, and to carry out our
| plans. which called for our char
acteristic boldneSS, We decided to
overhaul our old-fashioned govern
mental arrangements. which be-
longed to the horse and buggy days,
without going through the tiresome
formalities involved in changing the
Constitution. What was a little thing
like the Constitution amc.lg friends?
With such really simple cures for
our economic ills at hand, and with
everything planned out. the mornings
were devoted to passing laws, the
afternoons to spending. and the eve
| nings to public addresses to stimulate
| class conflict.
Surrounded with all these great
advances brought us by the New
Deal, we have enjoyed the blessings
| of huge spending, great annual def
| icitS in the budget, sharply rising
prices for food. and. according TO the
American Federation of Labor, a
| relatively steady number of unem-
ployed people-almoSt as great as
in March. 1888.
But while we as a nation are reap
ing the benefits of this new economics
we should not forget to shed a silent
| tear for the poor benighted BritiSher
who has never learned the virtues of
truly liberal spending. of unbalanced
budgets, of accommodating debts. Of
buying cheap silver at high prices, of
destroying wealth. of restricting pro-
duction, of raising food prices, of
maintaining unemployment at high
levels, of breaking down the civil SER
vice system, of putting every bright
young revolutionist and his cousin on
the government payroll. of curing
depressions by statute and cabalistic
preambles, and by daily chanting
mystic words about the more abun-
dant life.
The British always were a back
ward people.
thor cnre 0f fHiS pSh1hprl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

The Senate'S charges against former
Judge Ritter for the first six counts were
to the effect that he was innocent but he
mustn't do it again; but in the seventh
count he was charged, by the actions COM
planned of, with bringing his court Into
scandal and disrepute," and convicted.
Such ratiocination is beyond the ken of an
ordinary newspaper man and it takes a
Philadelphia lawyer to expound it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
TODAY'S WEATHER

night and Tuesday; gentle t.
moderate winds, mostly northeast
and east.
florida: Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday EXCEPT partly cloudy
in extreme sorth portion; slowly
rising temperature.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: GcnJe to moder-
ate winds mostly northeast ans
east: generally fair weather, ex-
cept partly overcast over extreme
south portion, tonight and Tues
day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Four young girls. have entered
their names in the Queen Of The
May contest to be held in Key
West. Thursday, May during the
festival being staged at the bar
racks. These contestants are Myra
Larche, Jewel Nelson, Mary Pin
der and Virginia Sheppard. Any
other girls who wish 10 enter can
do so by giving their names to
Mrs. VIM. r. Warren. who Is in
charge of the contest as pres dent
of the Key West Woman's Club.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Ia AIAoA i Z q D
ury has suffer-
ed the misfor-
tune of having
a surplus. Par
adoxical as it
must seem to
A m e ric a n S.
Great Britain
has. at the same
time, had what
is TO us the I'M
explainable ex-
D e r e nc e of
working her
way out of the
depression. She
has also had to
W the c I h O
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

The identity of the author of 'Ameri-
cana is the ource of much speculation by
the readers of The Citizen. A CORES,
pendent characterized the author as
sweet" but knowing the person we hard
ly think he could qualify as to the sac
charine charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

The eXudations of the writer of Anne
ricana' In The Citizen are making quite a
hit if congratulatOry epistles may be con-
Sidered a criterion. 1t is wholesome to be
told the plain and unvarnished truth oc-
caSiOnaly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
TOday's
Anniversaries


I7IS-Eavid 3-zinerd- mis-
sionary 10 the Incians. whose
brief span Of YEAR vas 5sst ..
born at Haddam. Cann- Died -
Northampton. Nos Oct = I7fL-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Dr.. J. n. Fogarty. formerly
mayor of Key West, prominent
physician and influential citizen,
who is now mayor of St Angus
tine and Chief Surgeon Florida
East Coast Roadway. arrived IN
the city yesterday and is today
meeting hundreds of warm FRIENDS
of years ago. The doctor expects
to remain here for a few days and
then return TO his duties in the
cOmpany's hospital
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

According to a new time card
issued by the Florida East Coast
Railway trains are due TO arrive
at Key West and depart as fol-
lows: Train rs arrives at 6-25
a. m. and Train 80 at 3 p. N
Train 76 will leave : 80 p. m.
and Train SO will leave , p m.
Trains 80 and SO are konwn as
The Royal Poinciana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

The writer of "Americana' is a polite
sort o cuss. He always thanks you for
reading his stuff. After the plain, unvar-
nished truth a little blarney soothes the
wounds, perhaps, he may think.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

In answer TO the many questions who
wrote this or who wrote that in The Citi-
zen just remember that the editor and
publisher is responsible for everything in
the paper.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

IS24-AIfred H. Colqultt. Con
federate gcne a. Georgia COVER
nor and senator. born IN Walton
Co, Ca Died March 80. Isg1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Proposals for the construction
of a pipe line. for bringing fresh
water from the mainland TO Key
West were not opened at the meet
ing of the Monroe County Water
Supply Board at its meeting this
morning. Chairman Clark ID.
Stearns advised The Citizen. They
are being held until the arrival
OF NJ. J. Coffey, vice president Of
the Gillespie Pipe Company. who
is expected from Havana this
afternoon. 1t is the opinion of
Captain Stearns that water and
sewerage systems should be Sc
cured at once FOR Key West and
he believes that the time is not
far distant when contracts will be
let for these projects.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

At the conclusion of a lengthy
discussion of the city's scavenger
by city council in a meeting last
night, it was decided to allow
Contractor Harry Gwynn, con-
tinue with the contract he now
holds and which VIII expire in
June. Mr.. Gwynn will be allowed
the use of one additional truck,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Editorial comment: To hear
them tell it. is a shame how some
politicians are literally forced TO
run for office to satisfy the de-
mands of the dear people
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
You and Your
Nations Affairs
The Benighted British
By WALTER E. SPAHR
Chairman, Department of Economics Ne,o York University

1t is distressing to note that the
British Treasury ended its financial
year. 19351936. with a surplus of
$14,705,000. For three years now the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Is the writer of Americana a he or a
she? Well, Americana is feminine isn't it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Why beware of the Greeks bearing
gift when this caution is applicable right
here at home?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

1SOS-&ar Ols.1 n. IL e F-ance.
born. Died jan ;. IS7S-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Advertising is the art of making peO-
pie know that the merchant has what they
ought to have
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
Expunged from the record.

Americana beware or you'll slip on a
banana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Frequently White Horse liquor
has been captured in Key West.
but last evening was the first
time that liquor has been captured
here in a horse car. Five hundred
bottles OF fine liquors were found
hidden in the ceiling OF a horse
car which arrived from Havana
on board the Ferry Flagler The
contraband was taken to the Gus
toms house to await the claim OF
its owner.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

1S42-John H. Farley. fourth
archbishop o. New York. CarcInal.
born IN Ireland Dled in New
York. Sent. l.. 1915
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

IS6S-John r. Hylau. New
York City's noted citizen and
mayor. born n Hunter. ~ y
Died Jan y. 1885
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Subscribe TO The Citizen-20e
weekly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

j. A. Weatheriord, o. Key
West. was elected and installed
Grand Patriarch o. the Grand En-
campment Odd Fellows now in
session at Palatka. Fla. The install
lat:on ceremonies were conducted
by Past Grand Patriarch +. 5. Nc
Coy, OF Manitoba, Canada. This
information was received in Key
West this morning by local mem
bers of the order.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

making six in all in order to main
tain an efficient service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

IS50-Damel CaeSter French.
famed sculptor. .orn n Exeter
y. II. Died Oct :. 1881
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

1S6l-Jamcs T. Phelan. san
Francisco'S noted citizen and sen
ator. born in san Francisco. Died
Aug. Z. 1880
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
WEATHER FORECAST

(Till6 p. M, Tuesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy end somewhat warmer to-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage
q Bridges to complete Road to Main
land.
r. "r2e Fort.
e. Eoleis ana Apartments.
6. ba.hing Pavilion.
q. AifpoIts-iand and Sea.
Z. AZ l3oiidauion of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

At a meeting last night o. the
stockholders o. the preferred, O.
the Hotel La Concha, it was de-
cided that at all future meetings
they will be represented by DR..
William r. Warren. DIR. j. NJ. Re
nedo and NOrberg Thompson. Miss
c.. NJ. Larranaga was appointed
president and treasurer OF the
Florida Keys Realty company.
owners of the hotel. This appoint
ment was made with all interested
persons agreeing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-20

Barometer g a. m. today:
Sea level, 30.19.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10
INDIRECT TAXES

The disposition of the consumer IS TO protest
against the payment Of all visible taxes How lore
iblv that issue was brought out in the recent gu
harnatorial campaign when the sales tax was the
major topic If the sales tax were hidden IN the
price of merchandise we buy, the consumer would
have given it little attention.
AS matter of fact, public service magazine
recently carried figures to show that the average
cigarette smoker pays S22 year in taxes, "hlch
is as much as the sales tax food necessities 1or
the average family amounts to. The little Dt OIL
green paper that rides every cigarette through the
market represents tax that is more than the cost
of the raw material, processing and distribution OF
the package.
Invisible taxes amounting to SS6.4O are wrappeu
nm in the family's annual food BILL the renter VINO
pays $50 month for his home pays sos year
in taxes: picture shows collect $2.8S per patron
annually. the electric company 1884, the gas COM
many $3.50, the life insurance company $685. tne
telephone company S4.32, etc.
Hence, the trend in taxation has been to ease up
on levies paid through the authorized tax collectors
and hide the tax burden in the monthly Dllls we
nav for all kinds of service and merchandise. Inc
greatest tax collectors for this government are the
merchants and manufacturers and the time may
soon come when direct levies will be thing OF the
past-Cleveland Star.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10
HERE AND THERE
Ry WICKEy WAMBOLDT

"For two years it has been my
Job to battle crime in Chicago.
Many. thousands Of criminals
from Juvenile automobile thieves
to, tough gangster killers, have
passed through my office.
GAS | have watched from day
to day the schemes and devices
for getting vicious lawbreakers,
known murderers, and chronic
racketeers out of the tolls Of the
law, / have become increasingly
convinced that from society
standpoint the chief malefactors
were not only those on trial.
81 have come firmly to believe
this:
cone of the laws worst enc
mics-if not the worst-is the
worst-is the crooked lawyer"
And the unethical lawyer more
than any other agent is respon-
sible for the planning and carry
ing out Of the evil political ma
neuvers so extensively harmful to
the peace and the security OF our
people.
Worthy lawyers who love their
country and honor their profess
sion should, as Mr.. Courtney in
dicates in his article, protect the
public from the mOrally-twisted,
Skilled brains of crooked lawyers
lby exposing and disciplining such
lawyers and eXpelling them from
she bar associations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10
TOMS EXEMPTION

Yesterday the papers reported how Secretary
Ickes had said several unkind words ABOUT men VINO
never had "any except malevolent interest" IN
progressivism.
Tom Pendergast was not on Mr.. Ickes' list. Tom
is the old-style Democratic boss of Missouri, and
nobody has ever suspected him of having any but
a malevolent interest in progressvism; yet ne was
not mentioned by Mr.. Ickes, and some people may
be ingenious enough to wonder why.
Their wonder may be assuaged by careful read
ing OF the papers today. There was primary III
Missouri Yesterday and in it Tom had a candidate
running for governor. At 10 o'clock this morning
with less than 800 precincts still to be heard from
Toms candidate, Lloyd . Stark had 4S6,o96 votes
while the other fellow had 140,766.
There is the reason why members of the caolne'
are not saying unpleasant things about such
Democratic boss as Pendergast. Toms interest III
the More Abundant Life may be maleVoient ou'
he certainly can get out the vote; and that is "na
will be needed in Observation-Disclosures Evening
Sun.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10
HOUSES BOUGHT FOR HOMES

One has the feeling that America is sui strons
for old-fashioned principles when the fact is re-
vealed that half of Americas home owners ouS
their first houses and garden plots gust % nave
a better place to bring up the children. 49,.
A recent nationwide survey reveals tnls happs
state of affairs Moreover, it discloses that next 10
this praiseworthy desire, the greatest motive Tor
home owning is really sentimental longing for "a
nIace Of onr own-a home" Investment runs a
pretty poor third.
About 81 per cent of American families build
bor,es the survey reveals further, and there are
children in 81 per cent of these homes at the time
of purchase. ,
An Of which implies rather distinctly that the
roor who buvs home is thinking a lot more OF
the intangible values it represents than of the dol
lars.and-cents side of the deal.-Morganton News
Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

"The mills of God grind slowly
but they grind exceedingly small"
l remember when | was a boy
how Gen. Weyler, the representa-
tive in Cuba of the same crowd
that has begun the present war IN
Spain, was shooting down the Gu
Ian instructors and otherwise
raising the devil. Now the Span
ish government is shooting down
his crowd. When will men learn
the old lesson that what men sow
they also reap? Sow oppression,
reap oppression; SOW murder, reap
murder; sow disorder, reap dis
order.
1t NAV take time to illustrate
it. But any school-child these
days can see it. America cut
down the forests, now the soil
goes: enslaved the negroes, then
developed industrial slavery over
white working people; proudly
built great cities in which millions
now nearly starve: and opened
the flood-gates to inferior lmml-
grants and reap a crop of strange
political doctrines. -.
What are decent, honest, and
fair-minded people to do amid
this weller of hate, war, crime,
and folly? The only answer is
"No surrender" They must stick
to their guns. The test of sur
vival is active endurance. They
have survived worse, bad as it is.
But they must also learn as they
90 along. The lessons from Eu-
rope and Asia teach us that just
ice will have her due. No wonder
Japan is saying in effect eve
cannot follow a leadership as in
effective as that which is now
dividing the white race" They
are creating their own system,
such as it is, while we stumble
along. If any of the white race
ever formulated the policy Let
the Asiatics kill each other off,,
/ they may now watch their own
people doing that very thing.
Even China may reach solidarity
before Europe if this business
keeps up. Those who killed Wood
row Wilson's plans may now con-
template the outcome of theil
work with whatever pleasure they
can get out of it. He said just
before he died. 81 have seen fools
destroyed before this"-and now
watch them destroying one an
other. The mills are grinding on