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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
A DOUBLE DANGER

Mr. Alfred p. Sloan, Jr., it seems to
us, expresses accurately current problem
when he says that 1.-The public should con-
slider what may happen if a few men gain
relationships over Americas industry
without any responsibility attached eX-
cept to themselves.
MIR. Sloan was talking about the dan
gers that are inherent if irresponsible labor
leaders obtain strangle-hold upon Am
erican business. Undoubtedly, such dan
gers exist and the public should take due
notice of the potential threat to the gen
eral welfare.
Now, the other side to this question is
that similar dangers exist if few men
gain relationships" over American indus
try without any responsibility except to
themselves even if the few men ares.in-
dustrial leaders and magnateS of big bust
ness. The public should also take due
notice of this potential threat to, the gen
eral welfare in the future.
In fact the greatest danger to the
general welfare is that over-zealous lead
ers of labor or industry may so misplay the
game as to permit the other side to cap
ture overwhelming public support for inn
practicable proposals. This has happened
in the past to the injury of the sound
progress of labor and of business.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
ECONOMY MOVE WELCOMED

Indications that the President and
to the conclusion that the governments fl
nancial house must be put in order make
good reading for most Americans.
The fact that the government has
operated at deficit for nearly eight years
and that an end to spending must come
about some day leads to the conclusion
that start might as we'll be made. Bust
ness is improving and the condition of the
nation has improved.
That beneficiaries of the spending
just because they like to get the money, is
not sufficient reason for the government
to go into bankruptcy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

has handed its opponent the smelling
salts and the water bottle every time
that il has connected with his chin.
Its efforts to stop the onslaught of
the boom began in 1886. Then the
serves by raising requirements grad
ually and by sterilizing gold. Money
rates soon began to firm and bond
prices commenced to drop.
Since July. 1896, reporting member
banks of the reserve system have sold
approximately Sl,000.000.0O0 of their
government bonds. They will prob
ably dispose of more, If the demand
for business loans continues, and high
er interest rates can be earned.
However, from first to last the Adj
ministration has professed an undying
faith in low interest rates to make
business good. Only few weeks ago
it announced that falling bond prices
would be supported by open market
purchases of the Reserve banks. This
means easier money rates again. and
renewed vigor for the price boom.
From all this swaying back and
forth, the crowd in the fight arena
has been unable to tell whether the
Champion is just Glowing and will
get down to business later on. or
whether he has forgotten the rules
entirely.
Free advice in such times is gen.
orally disregarded. But, before the
second round begins, your correSpon-
dent, who is also one of the spectators,
asks leave to shout out the suggestion
that the Champion bend every effort
address questions to the au
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
You and Your
Nations Affairs
See-Saw Fighting
By CLARENCE W. FACKLER
Associate Professor of Economics, NeC York URiUersy

to encourage the production OF goods.
This idea OF making more things
available in the country's market
places has always been one of the
best ways of keeping boom prices
from running amuck and from caus-
ing no end Of distress. Lower prices
and economic abundance can never
be secured by hopes of balanced gov
eminent budgets and promises to in
stitute tax reforms. while the public
Treasury spends lavishly with both
hands.
To shift the flow Of public funds
from producers goods industries to
consumers goods industries is. like
wise, no cal solution. The country
needs more. not less production in
the heavy goods industries. particu-
larly for peace-time consumption. Ac-
tivity IN the latter group is still per
cent below the 1923-1925 level. while
production in consumers goods in
dustries is 5 per cent above that aver
age.
Obviously. a sudden curtailment of
major PWA projects, which require
large amounts of producers goods.
and an increase in funds spent for
boondoggling will widen this gap. And
when the larger demand begins to
raise the prices for consumers goods
further, the price boom in such things
as steel. copper, and cement will be
resumed.
Today, the eountry's per capita pro-
duction is still far below the 1928
1929 averages, although commodity
price levels are only 10 per cent be-
low those of the so-called. normal
year of 1926. aa84
Plainly. if production were stimu-
lated by barrier-removing legislation.
and government spending reduced,
the price boom would disappear auto
matically. What is more, labor in all
lines would become so scarce as to
eliminate the unemployment problem
without resorting to the Subterfuge
of reducing weekly hours.
But all along. the planners in see
saw fashion have carefully created
conditions which heretofore have
been condemned. and then have tried
to forestall the inevitable disaster by
clumsy efforts.
This obvious error" policy should
be stopped. The Champion should
jump up for the second round and
try for a production Knockout by
swinging with both hands.
.hor, care of this Ret1Spaper)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

People who have a reputation of be-
ing digriified and aloof often indulge in
the most ludicrous kind of horse-play, I'M
doubtedly as relaxation. Cardinal Richie.
lieu. one of the greatest intellectuals of
his time, used to ride broom as hobby
horse around the billiard table of his home,
cutting antics like 5-year-old. The pop
ular impression of Woodrow Wilson as an
alOOf scholar. to be approached with awe,
.till prevails. yet it was his wont to con-
vulse his household with limitations of a
drunk. when he felt the urge to become
less rigorous.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
'l'oday's Horoscope


Today produces the contented
mind, and one who keeps it along
the ordinary tracks of life. Al
though seeming incapable Of great
effort, there is still considerable
resolution and generally good
luck. Many of those born today
attain to a comparative degree Of
comfort, though contented with
less than more ambitious people
desire.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

night fans. who
pay their good
none. every
March for a sea-
n ticket to all
e v e nts. ar e
slightly con-
fused as the first
70 u n d e n d s.
Even the Cham
pion seems a lit
tie bewilde red
as ne returns 10
his corner for
the rest period.
The trouble is
that since the
scrap began. the
A Manifestation
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Il is said that in the recent drummer
deal which prolonged the Monroe County
tax situation far into the future, certain
individuals. well known to all, were pal
lated with crumbs from the drummer
table. Why is The Citizen never asked
TO share in these mellifluous cuts from the
fruit of the cucurbitaceous vine? 1t, too,
has its weak moments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

AT Bilbao last week, the population
was eating eats and dogs because of food
shortage We do not know whether they
are having copious rains in the Spanish
port city, but presumably the inhabitants
would like to see it rain cats and dogs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

We are proud of hardships endured
by our ancestors, and the snOOtiest people
in the next generation may be the Daugh-
tiers of the Jobless.-St. Louis Star-Times
That may come to pass in these topsy-
turvy times. ts
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
Today's
Anniversaries

1737-(2O0 years ago. Edward
G;bbon, celebrated English his
torian, author of the Decline and
Fal of tte Roman Empire" born.
Died Jan. Is, 1894.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Key West. whether you believe it or
not, j. just as good and no better than hun
dreds of other places in the United States.
However. Key West is your home and you
can make it what you want it to be.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

179I-Samuel +. B. Morse, I'M
til 40 wholly devoted to the pro-
fession of art, inventor of teFe-
graphy, whose first experiments
met with a storm of ridicule, born
in Boston. Died in New York,
April 2, 1872.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
SAVE THIS COUPON

and two others appearing in
Mondays and Wednesdays
CITIZEN of this week and
South Florida Contracting
& Engineering Company
on THURSDAY with S9c and
receive one 16-Piece set
Mount Vernon Dinnerware
Set consists of four platesi
four cups and saucers and four
cereal di@hes. Or bring $I.19
and receive oversize Dinner
Plates instead of standard
size.
This offer is good only until
present stock is gone. The first
to be on hand Thursday will be
sure OF getting their set.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Mount Mckinley, highest peak
in North America, has two sum-
mits, designated North Peak and
South Peak.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

4. Water and Sewerage.
3 Bridges to eomplete Road to Main
land.
2 kree Port
4 Hotels and Apartments
5. Bathing Pavilion.
9. An ports-- Land and Sea.
:. Consultation Of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Chinese stenographers have little OPP
pOrtunity to display originality, as there is
no spelling i'm their language.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

1859 - Mary Wollstonecraft,
English author, whose "Vindica-
ton of the Rights of Women" is
a landmark in the history of fem
IN SIN, born. Died Sept. 10,
1897.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

These days the Administration is
out there in the center of the financial
ring smuggling hard at It's .new-found
adversary. the price boom. But the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Clean Up and Paint Up may sound
old-fashioned but it is a good slogan.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

William E. Nesheld, who died
in 1888, was an English architect
and an authority on furniture.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

The trouble with so many people who
believe in pleasure is that they don't be-
lieve in anything else.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Information is available on most sub
secis; the trouble is to get somebody in.
terested in il.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

Men slain by accident are always the
victims of other persons who are sure
there Is no danger.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

To "sympathize with means to feel
with" others.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY


A man claiming TO be Df. marry
C. Maine, an American Legion
naire of Binghampton, N. X,
taking part in a ''hikep from that
city on bet, appeared in Key
West Monday. He is now being
sought by county officials and
city officials. The reason, pass
ing worthless checks. He made
number of purchases here and
said the Commander i. j Moon, Of
the local American Legion Post,
would endorse the checks tender
ed. 1t was later learned that
Commander Moon would do moth
ing of the kind, and then the
sheriff and some of the doc !
tors" dupes started on his trail.
Up to the hour of going to press
the visiting "hiker" had not been
found. A telegram to the bank
in Binghampton on which the
checks were drawn, brought the
laconie reply: Party unknowni
no account"
With three voluntary contribu-
tions and nine others which were
solicited the Rotary Club commit
tee this morning turned over to
the Red Cross $277, for the re-
lief fund being collected in behalf
OF the flood sufferers in the Mis-
sissippi Valley district. Those
who desire to contribute to this
fund and who have not been
called on by the committees may
send check to the Chamber of
Commerce or telephone and col
lector will come at once.
Editorial comment: Dean Inge
says that the best way to remain
orthodox is not to think at all.
Many find no difficulty in remain
ing oftnodOX.
Custom officials report having
handled great number of pas
sengers arriving from Cuba yes
terday. 1t was not the largest
number ever handled at this port,
but the fact that there was not
any seizures made, not even
package of cigarettes, was the re.
markable part of the expert
ence.
Key West not only leads the
state in the value of her exports
but, as the current customs re-
ports show, she ships out of this
country more than twice the en-
tire state combined. During the
month of February, according to
the report of the customs serv-
ice, shipments through Key West
totalled $3,026,199 OF, in other
figures, more than twice the rest
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

1822-U.ysses s. Grant. tan
ner's son, soldier of the Mexican
War, farmer, real estate man and
clerk, from colonel to lieutenant
general in the Civil War, 18th
Pres dent, born at Point Pleasant,
Ohio. Died near Saratoga, n. Y,
July %, 1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
SAFEGUARD YOUR VALUABLES

Don't expose your valuables to robbery and
fire hazards. We have a few safety deposit boxes
for rental to those of clients who desire to
use them for the safekeeping of jewery, deeds,
mortgages, life insurance policies, your will or
any other securities or valuable documents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27
Of the state combined, which had
exports valued at s1,445.932.

The fact that Lee Pierce has
been called to New York by Colo
mel Robert Thompson is causing
considerable speculation in Key
West. Mr. Pierce is a recognized
authority on Marine Railways,
and it is considered possible that
he was called by Colonel Thomp-
son to discuss matters in refer
ence to the drydock which the
colonel proposes to build. and that
plans for beginning work are
nearing completion.
-=---~
The Salvation Army will have
tag days Saturday and Monday
for the benefit of those in need
in the flooded districts Of the
Mississippi valley. A telegram
has been received from Salvation
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

The Garden Thenlsf uas E
10 capacity last nieia vita fha'r
attending the lofih annisefzeIs
Of the founding 81 O,idlslless la
in America. Wm. alen9eii n
sided becaase 81 lhe lsdi.l.ss lisa
OF p. r Clements efal sd e.
strnmenfal solos. asidfa aes 81 ii&
different Officials il the cts and
musical numbers feainred the
celebration.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

1S53-Agice Morse Earle. anti
quarian and writer on colonial
life, born at Worcester, Mass.
Died in New York, Feb. 16, 1911.
1888 Arthur Somers Roche.
novelist, born at SOmerville, Mass.
Died at Palm Beach, Fla, Feb.
II, 1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-27

subs<flbe = TIE Citizen.
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Editorial comment: Dean Inge
says that the best way to remain
orthodox is not to think at all.
Many find no difficulty in remain
ing orthodox.
Evening star., 1937-02-20

recent minor verbal alter
cations between Senators or
Representatives as reported in
Evening star., 1937-02-20

At this point Mr. Money challenged
the Senator from Maryland to go out
side and repeat the remark, and he
pointed to the door, but Mr.. yelling
ton dropped into seat and Mr.. Money
was led away to the cloak room by
some of his colleagues, to cool off.
In 1860 there was row in the House
that nearly led to a duel with bowie
knives. The participants were Roger
A. Pryor of Virginia and John F. Pot
ter of Wisconsin. In the years just
preceding the Civil War. Judge Pryor
was a radical States rights partisan,
bitter in his denunciations of the
North. Potter was native of Maine
who had acquired prominence as
lawyer in Wisconsin when he was
sent to Congress. Owen Lovejoy was
speaking in the House Of the assassi-
nation Of his brother, Elijah p. Love-
Joy, at Alton, Ill, for denouncing
slavery.
Lovejoy's speech was one of the
strongest denunciations of slavery
ever heard in the House, and it aroused
a tumult of excitement. in which Pot
ter became involved. He struck Rep
resentative Barksdale of Mississippi,
more to the latter's humiliation than
injury, for the Mississippi Congress
man wore a wig, never suspected by
his colleagues, and the blow sent it
flying in one direction and Barksdale
in another. Blows were exchanged
between Potter and Pryor as a result
of which Judge Pryor challenged Pot
ter to o duel.
An excellent pistol shot was Pryor,
Evening star., 1937-02-20

Mississippi. once told Roscoe Conk-
ling that he had uttered an "unmiti-
gated falsehood." but that was as far
as the fight got.
Not so the occasion when a similar
charge was hurled across the startled
Senate at Senator Wellington of
Maryland by Senator Money of Missis-
sippi on the night of April Is. 1898.
1t was nearly 10 o'clock and Sem
ator Jones of Arkansas was endeavor-
ing to bring the Senate to some
agreement on the Cuban interven-
ton resolutions. The galleries were
crowded.
Mr.. wellington refused to permit
any agreement until he had had an
opportunity to speak He referred,
in the course Of his remarks, to Mr..
Money as lone of the agents of a
New York newspaper" who had gone to
Cuba to investigate and had returned
and reported.
This, insisted Mr.. Money, was un-
true. Mr.. wellington retorted that
he made the statement upon the au-
thority of the paper itself. The angry
Senator from Mississippi demanded
that wellington make it upon his own
authority. Having gone too far in the
discussion now to retreat, the Mary
land Senator reiterated the statement
on his own authority.
Then you lie!" challenged Mr..
Money.
"If he can inludge in that kind Of
language on the floor of the Senate,
I can stand it as well as he can." re-
piled Mr.. Wellington.
Evening star., 1937-02-20
Violent Language Used Times in Legislative Halls
and Encounters Have Barely Escaped Serious Con.
sequences as Debates Became Bitter.

Roscoe Conkling, also q Representa-
tive at this time, entered into a
heated controversy on the floor Of the
House.
Mr.. Conkling passed some scath-
ing remarks with reference to his
colleague, and when he had finished,
Mr.. Blaine delivered himself Of the
following retort:
"As to the gentleman's cruel sar-
casm I hope he will not be too
severe. The contempt Of that large
minded gentleman is so willing; his
naughty disdain, his grandiloquent
swell, his majestic, supereminent,
overpowering, turkey gobbler strut
has been so crushing to myself and
all the members of this House that I
know it was an act Of the greatest
temerity for me to venture upon
controversy with him. But, sir, I
know who is responsible for all this.
know that within the last five weeks,
as members of the House will recol-
lect, an extra strut has characterized
the gentleman's bearing. It is not
his fault. 1t is the fault of another.
That gifted and satirical writer,
Theodore Tilton Of the New York
Independent, spent some weeks re-
Gently in this city. His letters, pub
lished in that paper. embraced. with
many serious statements, a little
jocose satire, q part of which was the
statement that the mantle Of the
late Winter Davis had fallen upon
the member from New York.
The gentleman took it seriously.
and it has given his strut additional
pomposity. The resemblance Is great.
It is striking. Hyperion to a satyr,
Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble,
dunghill to diamond, singed cat to
a Bengal tiger, whining puppy to
roaring lion. Shade of the mighty
Davis. forgive the almost proclamation
of that jocose satire!"
THE Senator from Kansas, Mr.. In
gals, arose to inquire Of Senator
Voorhees,, from the floor Of the Senate
on the 1st Of May in 1888, will
the Senator from Indiana allow me
to ask him whether the soldiers of
Indiana did not threaten to hang
him with q bell-rope on train be-
tween New Castle and Terre Haute
after he had made that Lincoln dog
speech?"
Flushing with rage, Senator Voor-
hees of Indiana rose to respond:
"Mr. President. the Senator is great
liar when he intimates such a thing
. great liar and q dirty dog. Such a
thing never occurred In the world.
That is all the answer I have to
make"
"Orderl Order!" shouted the chair.
but the voice of the Indiana Senator
rose above the command.
Lamar. the leonine Senator frcn
Evening star., 1937-02-20

wear. It was authorized to commission
so of these in the Regular Army at
the close of their year of duty. and for
the first year all these so commissions
were awarded to the Air Corps.
As to aircraft, Secretary Woodring
has stated that the new types are at
least the equal of the best in the
world" The performance character
istics of the new planes, he said "indi-
cate an er-widening field Of useful
ness for military aircraft"
In his annual report. Woodring
recommended that the program for
procurement of Army airplanes should
be accelerated to provide for the de-
livery of sufficient combat airplanes
annually to reach the authorized total
of 1880 serviceable military airplanes
''as early as practicable"
In his report as Assistant Secretary,
Mr.. Woodring pointed out that during
the past year the speed and perform
ance of Army airplanes have shown