The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-29
MORE RECOVERY
LESS REFORM


a valuable guide, provided hon
est opinion can be separated from
partisan wishing. There is every
apparent reason for expecting a
decisive upSwing in business, a
closer and better understanding
between the New Deal and bust
ness, and between labor and in
dustry, with less bad-name-call-
ing on all sides. Election results
are expected to show a trend to-
ward the conservative by adding
substantially to the antl-Roose-
welt bloc in the House and Sen
ate, but nobody expects the New
Deal to lose its balance of power
on Capitol Hill. 1t is almost GER
tain, however, that a wide rift
will develop over any proposed
Supreme Court changes or gov
eminent reorganization, and
prophets on both sides of the po-
litical fence profess to see hot
battles on both these moot pro-
posals. Both the House and the
Senate are expected to go along
with the President in all matters
of additional spending for further
recovery, but it is evident that
relief-spending and made-work
will be made the tied-and-dyed
adjuncts of preparedness and ma
tional defense programs. Recov-
cry now seems to be well on the
way, and bigger expenditures in
the next two years for aircraft,
navy and army may be seen as
contributing largely to wide-open
optimism for phenomenal bust
ness and industrial gains.
OUR BRITISH COUSINS
England's very able Winston
Churchill recently radioed to the
u. S. a stirring plea for the unit
cd front of world democracies to
combat hostile encroachment by
rabid dictators. There is food for
thought in what he said. This
country must not rely solely on
Hitler's chivalry to keep him
away from our shores. Mr..
Churchill did not mention the
old war debt England and France
have owed the U. S. since they
took us on that last snipe hunt in
Europe. We have that historical
bag yet, and while we are still
holding it, we are nonetheless
conscious that the foreign situa-
ton holds a threat, even for US.
Official Washington refuses to be
quoted, but the consensus here
is that this country is bound in
sympathy with England and
through England with France.
We wish. though, they would re-
turn our wheelbarrow before ask
ing to borrow the lawn mower.
HIGHER UPS DEPLoRE
OUR BRINGING UP
National Association of Hous-
ing officials met in Washington
last week and held series of
experience meetings. H. E. Pom
eroy, a California relief boss, be-
moancd that reliefers are ZEN
fundamentally unsuited" to live
in new homes-even the low-cost
ones-thal boast modern con-
veniences. His chief lament seems
to be that through carelessness
or ignorance ex-hillbillies and
folks from Shantytown invari-
ably cause coalescent clogging of
of the pipes. with resultant dam
age 10 plumbing and property.
MIR. Pomeroy did not get down
right personal. exactly; that is.
he did not call any names. But
suspicion and dissatisfaction are
rife among us brothers of the old
corn-cob and mail-order catalog
fraternity. Some relief bosses
who make their livings at telling
people how not to live are spread
ing scandal and heaping ugly
calumny upon us simply because
some long-standing precedents
by necessity have now achieved
institutional status in our sim
pie honest lives. We are not to
be blamed if habit has colored
our perspective and influences
our mode of approach in given
instances. After having lived so
long with the mules and horses
we cannot reasonably be expect
ed to grasp. forthwith, the intri-
cate technique about indoor con-
vcniencies, etcetera, appurtenant
thereto.
The same speaker also declared
that we flaunt our diSrespect for
their old houses by converting
the furniture and fixings into
kindling wood, Now We are led
Ia wonder if Mr. Pomeroy, or
those who cheered him 50 Justify
were ever caught in a pinch by
a cold snap. or if any of them
We're even more overwhelmingly
tempted to grab up bed stat
and wham the old mule out oil
the garden or If anybody has
vet discovered anything better
than few pickets from the
fence for simplifying the coop
problem when the old red rooS-
ter becomes too rampageoas, AND
when We have to make a quick
stew az that rambuncuouS ole