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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
SUPREME COURT INTERPRETATION

In handing down its AAA decision,
the Supreme Court sought to clarity mis-
interpretations and misunderstanding
about its own place in the scheme of gov
eminent
The result was diminution of serious
talk in high quarters about enactment of
laws which would restrict the power of the
Court to pass on the constituti0nalitp91o f
acts of Congress. The justices may have
had that in mind, too, when they wrote the
decision invalidating the AAA, for Il their
opinion said: u soaiiW
eve approach (this) decision With "a
sense of our grave responsibility to render
judgment in accordance with the principles
established for the governance of all three
branches of the government.
There should be no misunderstood
ing as to the function of this court in such
a case. 1t is sometimes said that the court
assumes a power to override or control the
action of the peoples representatives.
This is misconception.
'The Constitution is the supreme law
of the land ordained and established by
the people. All legislation must conform
to the principles it lays down. When an
act of Congress is appropriately challenged
in the courts as not conforming to the con-
stitutional mandate the judicial branch of
the government has only one duty,-to lay
the article of the Constitution which is in
voked beside the statute which is chal-
lenged and to decide whether the latter
squares with the former.
'All the court does, or can do, is to
announce its considered judgment upon
the question. The only power it has, if
such it may be called, is the power of judy
ment This court neither approves nor
condemns any legislative policy. It's deli
cate and difficult office is to ascertain and
declare whether the legislation is in &C
cordance with, or in contravention of, the
provisions of the Constitution; and, having
done that, its duty ends"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
LET'S QUIT KILLING!

The automobile death rate can be re-
duced. And the reckless and inconsiderate
drivers, who are responsible for some &c.
600 deaths year in this country, can be
curbed.
A number Of cities have proven this
One of them is Portland, Oregon, which
has been carrying on a Let's Quit Killing
campaign that has produced fine results
in a relatively brief length of time. Where
the national automobile death toll during
the first ten months of this year, was at
the highest point on record, traffic fatal
tiles in Portland declined about rs per
cent
The Lets Quit Killing" program can
be carried on by any community The
campaign in Portland has been led by a
newspaper, working with safety authorities
and the automobile association. Pamph-
lets, such as the sensation And Sudden
Death, have been widely distributed
Cartoons and statistical material have
brought the horrors of automobile acct
dents home to thousands of citizens. And
the local judiciary has cooperated by levy
ing stable fines and prison sentences
against violators of the traffic laws.
The automobile, properly handled, is
one of the most useful and pleasurable SER
wants of man. The same automobile, i'm
properly handled, is one of the most lethal
of weapons. In the control of drunken
irresponsible, congenitally reckless or in
competent driver it is as dangerous as a
machine gun in the hands of maniac.
The automobile, in its brief history
has killed more people in this country
than all wars in which we have engaged.
1t is increasing the massacre every year.
What are you, as citizen and an auto
mobile driver, going to do to stop this car
mage? xg /.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The northern disturbance NOV
ed eastward with increased inten-
sity, being central this morning
over New England, PASSPORT,
Me-, 29.14 inches, attended by
snow and gales from the lower
Lake region and upper Ohio Val
ley eastward to the middle and
upper Ohio Valley eastward to
the middle and north Atlantic
coasts. Pressure continues rela-
lively low south of Florida, Ha-
vana, Cuba, 1924 inches, and
rain has occurred duringSsthe last
"a hours in central and Southern
Florida, being heavy at;g Miami,
2.1S inches, and there has been
light snow from the Dakotas
southeastward over Missouri. High
pressure areas overspread the
Plateau region and Pacific States,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 30.42 inch
es, and the northern Plains States
and upper and middle Mississippi
Valley. Huron. S. D., 30.46 inch
es. The northern cold wave has
spread southeastward over the
Ohio Valley, with sub-zero tenn
peratures southwark over Ken
lucky and western Virginia and
abnormally cold weather prevails
this moving throughout the coun-
try from the upper and Z middle
Mississippi Valley eastward,s ex-
cept in northern New England.
with temperatures % to 81 de-
grees below zero in Minnesota,
two degrees below at New York
City, and zero at Washington, D.
C. Temperatures in the Pacific
Rocky Mountain, and southern
Plains States are mostly near or
above the seasonal average.
u S. KENNEDY,
Officer in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
A SIN TO VOTE WRONG

The moral obligation of a scitizen to
conscientiously endeavor to-, select good
men to public office was strongly ex.
pressed recently by Cardinal O'Connell OF
Boston.
The prelate said that it would be sin
for member of his church knowingly to
vote for a man for public office if he knew
that the candidate was unfit to hold the of
flee he was seeking.
THE voter who helps elect a candi.
date he knows to be unfit he said, there
by shares in the responsibility of improper
government
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
To veto or not to veto.

To veto or not to veto. That is the
question which now faces President Roose-
welt as he sees before him the bonus bill
enacted by Congress. He can pursue one
of three courses: sign the bill, veto it, or
adopt the pocket veto by neither signing
nor vetoing the measure, which then will
automatically become law after the ex-
piratiOn of ten days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Edward VIII, the new king of Eng
land, when he takes the oath of office
must declare his adherence to the Prot
cstant church and solemnly swear never to
marry Catholic. Nevertheless, he re-
tains the title of 'FFidei Defensor', (de-
fender of the faith bestowed by Pope Leo
X upon Henry VIII, and retained by each
of his successors
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
People given to violent

People given to violent language
often intersperse their imprecations With
the expression mot until He'll freezes
over" which implies a very definite and
emphatic negation. But at last He'll has
frozen over, but it was He'll, Mich. The
thermometer dropped to 20 degrees below
zero in this little settlement yesterday.
Hell, Mich, was not named after the cele-
brated Biblical sojourn of the unlimited,
but is the German word HELL" which
means clear
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Americana: Honest-to-goodness Am
orleans having to flee to foreign countries
to protect themselves or their loved ones
from gangsters, kidnapers.. hoodlums, yell
low Journalism ard Inscriptions poll
MISUNDERSTANDING And getting the
same treatment across the sea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today A Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Whether or not Key West is to
have a new sewerage, water and
fire protection system to be cons
tructed at cost to the city of one
million dollars may be definitely
decided at meeting of city coun.
Ell to be held next Tuesday night.
This was decided at a special
meeting of council held last night
and attended by Clyde Potts and
C. F., Goeringer, sewerage en-
gineer of Pennsylvania and F. S.
Wihtermhte, banker of the same
State. Mr.. Potts says that if the
council accepts his proposition,
plans and specifications can be
submitted in about 60 days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

The picayune Tin size only Key West
Sunday Star is probably the only paper in
the land that publishes in part the minutes
of the board of directors of the greatest
and largest corporation of the world-the
United States of America.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
TODAY'S WEATHER
portion with frost to mucklands
of extreme south portion.

Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate winds
mostly northeast and partly over
cast weather tonight and Friday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
WEATHER FORECAST
Gill 8 p. M. Friday)

Key West and Vicinity: Cen
orally fair tonight and Friday ;
continued cool; moderate winds,
mostly northeast.
Florida: Generally fair tonight
and Friday; colder in north and
central portions tonight with
temperature "a degrees to % de-
grees in extreme north portion
and freezing in interior of central
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Discussing business etiquette, trade
magazine tells statesmen they should not
expect busy executive to escort them to
the door. That, we suppose, is the head
bouhcer's job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Editorial comment: At Miami
Beach a girl landed q fish weigh
ing 112 pounds. It IS underztood
that it IS 5 foot inches in is
socks. wears oxford trousers and
has already spoken 70 her father
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

c. c. Symonette, in charge Of
the advertising and information
booth at TrumbO Island, returned
from a trip to points on the east
coast where he was on an adver-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Lieutenant and Mrs. Mccall
Pate, 531 Caroline ST., viii enter
tain tonight at the Casa Marina.
Guests at dinner viii be Captain
and Mrs. John Berry. Captain and
Mrs. Charles Muldrow, Miss Vir-
ginia Woods, of Tampa. Lieute-
nant and Mrs. Girl Marthy, Lieu
tenant and Mrs. J. Stark Warner.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

The Red Cross roll call drive
will begin 10 O'Clock Tuesday
morning February 2 This was an
nOunced this morning by Arz
Branch HeideIbaugh. secretary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

and Mortgage company, arrived
in the city this morning to look
over the affairs Of the company.
The head office of the company
is in New York.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2. Bridges to complete Road to Main
land ~
;. Free Port.
=. Hotels and Apartments.
6. Bathing Pavilion. =
9. Airports- and Sea.
z. Consolidation Of County and City
GGvernments
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Member way back when you used to
get kick pushing girl in a swing? -
Times Union. Yep; every time we tried
any tricks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

= Miami thief stole five gallons of en-
balming fluid. If he drank plenty of it,
he saved the undertakerS from an embalm-
ing job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

In Muslin mythology. Ibis Is
the counterpart Of the Christian
and Jewish devil
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Possibly it would also be ethical to
say "a lie for lie and truth for truth
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Big business, and little business, is in
terested in profits, not reform or social i'm
provement
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Concentration of power invariably
leads to tyranny, human nature being
what it u.s.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Using campaign and disseminating
information relative TO Key West
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Norma d. Brown, representing
theMiller Brothers Carnival show,
is here to begin preliminaries il
conjunction with the popularity
contest to be held during the car
nival to be PIT on here for tn,
Key West Fire Department.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

That Cabaret is going just fine.
Already the girls are showing pro-
gress in the latest dance steps
and postures which are captivat-
ing New York theater goers, and
there are a lot of young men in
the cast who are also making
Roadway Mrs. Conally is asemb-
ling Key Vests talent in color
full pageant of beauty and ability.
clothed in fashions latest foibles
for the Gown Show. There is to
be one imported feature for the
show. This is to be a well known
dancer who has made great re-
putation as a dancer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Word has been received at the
naval station, that the air squa-
dron, composed of scouting planes
of the United States Navy. The
flagship Wright, accompany in
the squadron, has left Charleston
S. c.. and is due to arrive at Key
West January q. Preparations
are now under way for an in
formal dance to be held January
% for the officers of the squa.
dron, before they leave for Guam
tanamo, Cuba, the destination OF
the squadron.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

Chief of Police Cleveland Niles
and Sergeant Laurie Roberts,
raided place on Duval street
last night and captured one quart
of Bacardi. A man in charge of
the, place was arrested and
promptly put up $50 cash bond
for his appearance for trial in
police court this afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

w. F. Burns, son of w. F.
Burns, of the Florida Keys Bond
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-23

I A1"t uIueter o ~ M. tUuuy'
Sea level, 5000.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-18
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
SPEECH IS FREE

Anyone attempting to ride the pillows of type O,
the ether waves set rolling by the Lincoln Day
speech makers requires no reports of Mondays
Supreme Court decision to assure him that Amer.
lea enjoys free speech The flood of words-some
of them much freer than Lincoln's temperate tone
must have convinced all hearers and readers
that the most essential liberty indeed the essential
safeguard of all liberty, is wholly unimpaired in
the United States. If any American fails to exer-
else the right to change his government, it will
not be because he has had no opportunity to say
or to hear what is wrong with the present Admin
straton. ~ -
But let no one overlook the vital import of the
suureme Court decision overthrowing the tax on
newspapers by which Huey Long sought to influ-
ence if not to throttle free press in Louisiana.
Let no American fail to give due thanks to
Constitution and Court which stand as impregn-
able barriers against efforts to substitute gov
eminent of men for a government of law. Let
no citizen mistake the need to cherish the law
even when temporarily it appears to thwart his
own political or economic needs.
Justice Sutherland, in reading the unanimous
decision, said:
A free press stands as one of the great in
terpreters between the government and the
people To allow it to be bettered is to better
ourselves.
These words may we'll take rank with other i'm
mortal declarations on free speech. In combina-
ton with the recent history of Louisiana they give
point to FranklinS dictum:
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of
nation must begin by subduing the freeness of
speech
Preserving press and radio free from selfish con-
troll either by public private interests should be
recognized as the first line of defense for free gov
ernments. Recalling that such freedom exists in
very few countries today, Americans may well be
grateful for the constitutional guarantees which
protect it. But they should not forget that other
countries with constitutions copied from the Uni
ted States have not thereby insured free speech
and other liberties to themselves. Liberties must
be exercised and cherished in the thought of the
people if they are to be maintained. Current ex-
ercise of free speech and current emphasis on in
dividual rights should be reassuring to all who fear
for self-government in America-Chistan Science
Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-18
PLANNED POVERTY

Much is being said today about giving the people
planned security" In looking around we fail to
find much real security of any kind, because such
state of bliss is very difficult to achieve. But at
any rate planned security makes a fine slogan
for politicians.
For centuries programs have been offered for
social security of various types. These have gone
all the way from old age insurance down to the de-
struction of animals and grain crops in effort to
give security to farmers through higher prices
So far, however, none of these plans, which have
run counter to natural economic laws, have met
with real success.
One drawback is that plans for security, even
security in the rather distant future, founded
on conditions as they exist on the earth when the
planning is done. And the trouble is that man
is wise enough to predict the future course of hui
man events, and to make provision for them.
The "dole," while temporary relief, feeds on
itself and never makes for social security, rather
for the reverse, while slogans of production for use
and not for profit have been used by socialists and
their brethren for years, and attempts to put the
principle into practice have solved nothing
The most recent example of plan for security
through production for use and RECOMMENDATION OF
men and material, is to be found in Soviet Russia
And there the plans for social security have re-
suited in planned poverty" 1t is being found that
no sort of paternalism on the part of the govern
ment will make up for individual initiative and
enterprise on the part of it's citizens.
There is no short method of bringing about eco
nemic security. Only industry intelligence and
thrift are the prime factors of real social security
National Republic.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-18

Nearly all Of our most dangerous
criminals are those who have been
educated in cur schools of crime
our prisons. 1t is not asinlne
to shut a lawbreaker up for a
while in a prison which will make
him worse than when he went IN,
then turn him loose to put into
practice his increased knowledge
of deviltry, then catch him, send
him back to the same devil place
to learn still more evil, to be re-
leased again to do still more
evil? Isn't such a system a dis
grace to our so-calied intelligence
much less to our so-called hu-
manitarianism?
There is a question as to wheth-
er we have the legal right to take
mans life. But there is no
question as to whether we have
the legal right Or any other kind
Of right to tear q mans soul down
and down. It would be far more
mcrciful to kill him at the cut
set-he would appear before his
Maker less defiled.
When some men have commit
ted a crime they become absolu-
tely reckless through their disap-
pointment in themselves. T h t
recllessness is often mistaken for
viciousness-and may harden in
to viciousness. Yet such men:
the most pitiful of sinners, could
be salvaged.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-18
THE CURB BIT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

stantly be the spiritualizing of
our species. But until that spir-
itualization can be effected, some
thing must be done to safeguard
society from persons who seem to
be possessed of demons. And
there are human creatures who
apparently can not be regenerat-
ed. They appear to lack that
higher quality which can connect
them with uplifting forces. | am
not referring to the idiots, but to
the persons who have minds which
are skreWd and cunning, but
which seem incapable of appre-
ciating the humanities.
1t seems to me that a more I'M
portant thing than to argue about
capital punishment, is to do some
thing about a different treatment
for our criminals and potential
criminals who do not come with
in the scope of capital punish
ment.
l am strongly opposed to cod
ding criminals, which, if not
guarded against, becomes a fca-
ture of prison reform. But | am
strongly in favor of treating Grim
mails constructively particularly
first offenders and youthful Of
tenders. Instead of worrying
ourselves too much about pre-
Serving the lives of fiendish muir
derers, l think we should turn
our thoughts and activities to the
more important job of making
our prisons schools of regcnera-
ton. instead of schools Of degen-
eration-which most Of them are.
Wherein do we manifest the
slightest intelligence when we
sentence a law violator to spend
some time in an institution from
which he is almost certain to en-
erge worse than when he went in?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-18
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

trous floods which sweep the Ten
nessee Valley every spring and fall.
d-Navigation of the Tennessee
4 river becomes a definite pros.
pect for the future.
1.-Two huge plants were built at
y Wilson Dam during the war to
make nitrogen. One is obsolete
and unused. The other is being
turned to experiments in creating
and making phosphate fertilizers,
judged more necessary than the nj:
trates.
IE-One Of the greatest surveys of
- land use ever undertaken has
been made. and as result, the
best use of all land in the basin is
known. Farmers have been per.
suaded to terrace their lands
against erosion, plant grass and
trees. More than 100000 toees
lialready have been planted.
E7-To encourage greater use OF
/ electricity on farms and in
homes, the Electric Home and
Farm Authority was begun. It
finances sales Of electrical euuip.
lment to people living IL the IVA
area, or to others served by com.
i panies whose rates meet IVA an.
tproval.
EO-Towns built at Norris and
10 Wheeler Dams for the work.
linen on the projects will be perma.
nent, and should eventually oave
the way to establishment of rural
communities where small factories
served with cheap power may be
started, and employees may get the
best features of city and rural life.
Invaluable experiments have
y been made in ceramics, the
electrical firing Of native kaolin
claws to make fine white dishes,
now almost all imported. Cooper.
atives have been fostered among
i the valley residents, and forward
! steps taken in labor organization
land relationships.
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