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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
ENTERTAINMENT

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ing il Key Vests finest Night
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
Social Meeting
Friday

Mrs. L. 7. Bragassa and Miss
Rae Louise Russell will entertain
the members of the Junior Wom-
ans Club at their bi-monthly So
cial meeting Friday, p. M, at
the Public Library.
Bridge is the main diversion of
the evening.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
ARRIVES FROM MIAMI

Joseph Pinder, of Miami, ar
rived on the midday bus today
and will spend a few days with
members of the family.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06

c. T. Hoover, of the customs
house service i'm Key West. who
suffered from temporary blind
ness some time ago. left yester-
day afternoon for ST. Petersburg
30 enter the hospital. He was
accompanied by Ed. Valdez, at
tendant at the Marine hospital.
--~>--~%4-
Mrs. Arthur A. Lowe. Jr.. and
baby were recent arrivals i'm Key
West from Miami for a visit with
Mrs, loves sister-in-law, Mrs.
Earl Baker. 1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06

Canada's Minister of Defense
holds our fleet would be the Do
minion'S chief Pacific buffer" in
case OF a major war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
@s@ss . . . . ee
PERSONAL MENTION

George f. Writ, left over the
highway this morning for New
York. after spending three days
in Key West and making the trip
TO Tortugas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06

Miss Marina Crespo, who had
been visiting in Miami and went
TO Havana for a visit with rel
atives, returned yesterday after
noon on the Cuba.
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- SOCIAL Ia "
T'R ACTIVITIES ~ 4
Social Calendar

WEDNESDAY,
Meeting, Monroe County Coun-
ell Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton. 3 P. NJ. Division Street
School Recreation Hall.
Dance and Reception Honoring
Nina Wilcox Putnam. 10 P.
M. Raul's Club Miramar.
THURSDAY
Election of Officers, Key West
Rotary Club. 1915 P. M. ST.
Paul's Church Annex.
Concert, Key West Hospitality
Band. 8 P. NJ. Bayview
Park.
Meeting, Stephen r. Mallory
Chapter, United Daughters
of the Confederacy. 4:30 P.
M. Home of Mrs. E. Huston,
1404 White Street.
FRIDAY
Patrol Hike, Troop So, Boy
.l Scouts of America. 6 P. M.
Boulevard Camp.
Meeting, Room Mothers, Harris
School Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation. $3.50 P. M. Home of
Mrs. Benjamin Lowe, 1909
Southland street.
Eocial Meeting, Junior Wo-
mans Club. S P M. Public
Library.
SUNDAY
Concert, Key West Hospitality
Band. 4 P. NJ. South Beach.
o
MONDAY
Meeting, Musical Guild. 8 P.
NJ. Oversee Hotel Salon.
o
TUESDAY,
Meeting, Pan-American Poetry
Society, Dedication to Jose
Marti y Perez. 8 P. NJ. Home
of Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, 1101
South street.
Dinner Meeting, Stone Church
Service Club. 6 P. M. Church
Annex.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of 'HOW to Win
Friends and Influence
People

I would like to know what steps
YOU think a business friend Of mine
should take with regard to the
following experience. One month
from now I'll tell you what steps
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN
THAT BACkFIRED

Unfortunately for CIO labor union
tactics, nobody in Imperial Valley knew
that Charles Meyers was ClO organ
izer until after he was killed by sam
Schoenburg early in the morning OF
July %. AS things developed, the ClO
has cause to regret that Meyers did not
proclaim his status in stentorian tones.
Had he done so, the ClO would have
taken great pleasure after his death in
making him appear martyr to the "ter-
rorism" and "vigilante horror the left
wing unions are so fond OF picturing in
the valley
As il is the CIO'ers haven't a thing to
CRY about Even Schoenburg, they dis
covered, didn't know Meyers was ClO
organizer.
With the cards stacked against them,
the unionists still attempted to salvage
some propaganda value out of the trag-
edy of a mans death. Harry Bridges,
Pat Callahan and other leaders leaped
to their typewriters to bat out kilograms
to Sheriff Robert W. Ware demanding
that he leave no stone unturned to catch
the killer. ct must have been disap-
pointment to them when Schoenburg was
arrested) Again, however, their plans
went wrong.
The sheriff's office and Ell Centre
police proceeded with their investiga-
ton as they would in any other case
They did not make public the wires and
letters from CIO leaders, which must
have been another disappointment. The
CIO undoubtedly expected considerable
publicity about union organizer being
killed in Imperial Valley, and took pains
to let the sheriff know that the dead man
had, in fact, been union organizer.
Trouble was, the sheriff didn't cooperate
by publicizing the news.
Then came what must be the greatest
shock of all. Schoenburg pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to San Quentin
Thus we have situation which, judg-
ing by union propaganda in the past,
just couldn't happen. Trouble was, 1t
did happen. A man killed union organ
izer he was captured, and he was pun
ished, all by due process of law. All this
in Imperial Valley which CIO propagan-
dists are SO fond of calling "a little fas-
cist principalityp
The CIO has never lavished any love
on Imperial Valley, but there is con-
siderable more reason now why the un-
ionists should distrust the Ell Centro
police department, which conducted
thorough investigation instead of falling
down on the job; the sheriffs depart
ment, which wisely refrained from in
stilling the CIO issue into a case where
it did not belong; and the district attor-
ney, whose efforts were responsible for
the offenders punishment without exces-
sive expense to the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
STRIKE OUT-OF-DATE
AS UNION WEAPON

christian Science Monitor)
To-day the strike weapon is out-of-
date Such was the remarkable utter
ance made by Joseph Jones, president of
the Mineworkers' Federation, the most
powerful industrial union in Britain, at
the annual meeting attended by delegates
from all parts of the country. If such
remark had been made at such meet
ting dozen years ago, 1t would have
evoked a storm of protest.
No trade union in the country is so
we'll organized as the Miners. None is
so deeply imbued with sense of the
grievances of its members. None has
more often threatened to paralyze Brit
lSh industry by organized action against
the employers, and the longest and most
stubborn strikes of this century have
been those in which this union has been
engaged. The General strike of 1926 be-
gan in response to the demands of the
miners.
1t was at the last annual meeting of
this organization that delegates calmly
heard their President announce that the
strike weapon was -of-date-though
he did indeed add, unless faced with
intractable opposition" The fact is that
the workers have learned by bitter eX-
perlellce lnaC lne Slrlke uOeS not pay Ill
these times. We say ''in these times"
because the general attitude to industry
in Britain has altered. The big indus
trialists on their side have learned that
they cannot leave the trade unions out
of account; that it does not pay to an
tagonize them; that it is to industry's
advantage to seek a peaceful solution
of disputed points.
All the big strikes of the last twenty
years have ended in compromise which
might just as we'll have been reached
before the stoppage as after it-before,
that is to say, the men have had the
misery of being out of work and before
the owners have suffered the great loss
of shutting down their works.
Economists have long known that
strikes do not pay. What is new in Brit
ain is that the leaders of the workers
also know it. There have been few big
strikes in Britain since 1926. The right
to strike remains in reserve, but has
seldom been used. This comparative i'm
munity from open industrial war has
been an important factor contributing
to the emergence of Britain from the
great trade slump, and in mitigating the
effects of the lesser depression of the
present year.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
AMENDMENT FOR
THE WAGNER ACT

When the Wagner Labor Relations Act
was passed by congress it was hailed
by many as one of the most forward
looking developments of the century.
By many it is still so viewed-but as to
framework only. 1t has come to be SO
generally accepted that the Wagner act
is entirely lopsided that there is little
question about its present usefulness.
1t is useful only to the labor unions
1t was intended to prevent or settle in
dustrial disputes, but it has thus far
settled them only one way-always in
favor of the union. 1t has not prevented
any at all-rather it encouraged them.
When the Wagner act is amended,
becoming an absolutely impartial law
for the administration of industrial JUS
tice, it will be what many believed origin
all it would be-a huge stride towards
greater understanding and more lasting
peace in industrial relations.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14

NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (UP) -
Stocks declined in each of the full
sessions this week and the indus
trial average broke 10 points from
last Saturdays high. Trading pick
ed up.
Experts held that the decline was
a good tonic; that the market
should recede a bit and then hes
itate while business catches up.
The extent of the setback q ed
some worry however and the Chart
experts said that if the 1884 level in
the industrial average penetrated
it might signal further sharp de-
cline.
The best business pickup was in
the building industry where dollar
volume now is about equal to that
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14

The firm de- cided to make
rastic change in the model of the
machine they were selling. Some
of the statesmen did not like the
change. Their customers were sat-
isfied with what they were getting.
They were all for letting well
enough alone One salesman in par
ticular felt pretty strongly about
the matter; was sure they would
lose customers.
Nonsense" said my friend, I'VE
must keep up to date-be modern,
You go ahead and put the new
model before your customers"
The salesman did as he was told
Sure enough, number of his Gus
toners objected to the new de-
sign. He went back TO the head OF
the firm. But the heed advised him
that after hearing from all the
statesmen, they had learned that
the majority favored the new mod
ell. The change would remain in
effect.
The perturbed salesman sat down
and wrote a polite letter to each
dissatisfied customer, telling them
the change would have to stand,
and expressing his regret that such
decision had been made. He also
stated in his letters that he him
self did not approve the change
and that he had tried to persuade
his firm not to make it,
A few of his disgruntled Gus
toners relented and gave him or
ders for the new machine. The
others bought elsewhere.
Several months later, the head
of the firm heard the whole story
of the polite letters TO the dissatis-
fled customers.
What do you think the employer
should have done about it? Prais-
ed the salesman for agreeing with
the customers, or demanded that
he stand by his firm in everything?
I wish you readers of this column
would write me your opinion.
Here is a splendid bit of verse
by that popular sports writer,
Grantland Rice, which l found in
a little book of rules and regula-
tions for the cadets at West Point
the Plebes Bible, the cadets call
this book, because they must guide
their lives by it for the four years
they remain at the Academy.
But this verse and the senti-
ment it contains shouldn't be lin
tied to the cadets. 1t will do us
all good TO read it.
Where the puddle is shallow
the weakfish stay
To drift along with the cur
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Well III
TeIIYou..
says
Bob Burns

In every town, you'll find some
fella who knows all the landmarks,
the old twisted oak, the rock with
face on it, and he can use these
to tell stranger exactly where
to find any place he's lOOkin' for.
My Uncle Orky is that way.
was standin' on the corner
talkin' to him last summer when
stranger walks up and says
"NeighbOr, can you tell me how
to get to the HOskins place." and
Uncle Orky says "Sure, stranger,
you go down the road seven shaw:
ing cream ads and two cigarette
posters, then turn right at the
tOOthpaste ad and drive past four
soft drink signs and you'll find the
Hoskins place right behind the
big hotel billboard"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Bruce Cation Says
Changes Tree Themselves

y uplifter. Nobody planned IL
at way" A man invented the
achine; the inexorable progress
machine-age logic will do the
st. The most we can do VIII DC
apt ourselves to the change.
That is the way change most OF
l comes. Earnest people plan ana
leme and hope and agitate-ano
complish little or nothing. Then
ne unobstrusive little economic
It bobs up-and a change more
eeping than anything the PLAN
RS had aimed at comes into being
tomatically.
Change, of course, is not neces-
cily change for the better. Ihat
where our responsibility comes
The difference between progress.
d the reverse depends largely on
2 intelligence and spirit VITA
lich we meet these changes that
cannot avert.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14

The old order changes constantly,
as Tennyson's King Arthur remahk-
ed: and the interesting thing about
it is that it changes in spite OF us,
and brings us up against problems
that we would dodge if humanely
possible.
A symptom of the universal
change is now making another Oh
its perennial appearances III the
Mississippi region in the shape OF
a mechanical cotton picker.
This machine has been III the
news for several years now and
some fantastic things have been
predicted for it. To date 1t has not
got out of the experimental stage;
but apparently it will do SC before
long, and when and if it does, the
whole economy of the cotton belt
will undergo cnange OF almost un-
imaginable extent. ..I
There is a big "if' attached to
it, of course. But if that "if'' works
out
Well. a group of white cotton
growers gathered in d Mississippi
cotton field the other day to watch
q demonstration. In one hour they
saw the machine pick more cotton
than so or 60 good Negro hands
could have picked. They heard a
Mississippi editor remark that with
in five years or SO the Negro cotton
picker would be permanently out
of a job-some millions o. him
And one planter, musinS on this
change, remarked: God amigbtX-'
let's throw it in the river."S
Fortunately or unfortunately we
can't solve the problem tnat way.
The entire south is at the mercy
of this machine. If the thing fails
to work, of course, the problem
solves itself But if it works, and
does the thing expected OF it, the
southland-and indirectly the en-
tire nation, will suffer a change
more prodigious and fundamental
than anything that has happened
since the abolition of chattel slave
ry.
Now the point of all this is that
this change which is coming upon
us is not the work OF the govern
ment. any reform organization oi
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
REFORMING EXAMS
(Nogales Herald)

Several educationists in Britain have
lately voiced their dissatisfaction with
the present system for the examination
of students. They hold that it is no real
test of general ability, but only of the
power to cram on a special subject,
which is rather a feat of concentration
and industry than of intellect. Questions,
they point out, tend to be based on the
vagaries of fashion, more than upon any
standard theory of the way to assess
knowledge and ability
One might add to these objections the
further one that the conditions of an
examination provide a trial of the can
didates' temperaments, which is irrelev-
ant to, and likely to invalidate, the main
test. Some individuals, who are other
wise competent, are unnerved by the
momentuous and decisive nature of the
occasion, or, beset by the dread of being
wrecked upon the "bank and shoal of
time" fall into panic that makes it
hard for them to navigate at all.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Auction F hilosophy
By D. L. y

BY ID. L.
Folks it's bad enough to fway believe fish stories
let alone believing all the pres you see. Now the fe-
low that brought the real DISH story Mason the
cream hauler. He told me Taught 20 pound catfish
his trip to Texas said eh they all catch the big
ones on their vacations" i, Suppose you have the
pcture?" But he said Gee the and go with me
to the ice house. had an idthat what you would
say" Sure enouh there was ce 20 pound catfish pack
ed in ice To top it off he sfd me an sc pound water
melon he brought back. Ablin Reporter they do
things in big way in Texahd bring back the bacon.
Folks it looks like the RPlicans slipped up the
blind side of the Democratt Idaho and knocked out
Sen. Pope. Republican wdd up to me the other day
and wanted to know if it wao late to change his regis
tration he could vote folfAdoo A man sure can't
think much of his party VI he will change just to
vote for any man. or nPe he thinks an awful lot
of that man. I'll be sedyOu
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
STOCKS DECLINE RING WEEK.:
EXPERTS HOLD II EALTHY SIGN

a year ago, reflecting heavy gov
lment spending. Slum clearance
ojects in New York City carried
: July building total to the best
els for that month since 1929 for
2 nation as a whole.
Automobile production touched
lowest level of the year, in line
IN expectations. Ford was closed
d eorysler produced only a few
s. General Motors production
S under 10000 units. Detroit
'ecast reopening of many auto
bile plants shortly.
Those industries on which the
industry is dependent
supplies were becoming more
i've.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Dazed Girl Found
On Lonely Road

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Aug. 13. (UP)-
Police today were seeking definite
Identification of a pretty II year
old girl who is recovering in the
county hospital from severe case
of shock.
Authorities said the girl, who
gave her name as Loretta Fowler
of Deming, N. M, was found yes
terday on the lonely Point Iona
road in a dazed condition. She
told police she had jumped from a
car after two men, with whom she
accepted a ride, refused to let her
out.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14

rents flow.
To take the tide as it moves
each day
With the idle ripples that
come and go;
With a shrinking fear of the
gales that blow
BY distant coasts where the
Great Ports CLEAN;
Where the far heights call
through the silver glow,
Only the gamefish swim up
stream"
Are you a gamefish? Can yol
swim upstream? Or must you con
Tine your way to the paths wher'
going is easy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
News Behind
the News
Third Term Again :.
Here's NelU Sldnts
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON-Every Washing
ton correspondent expects everyone
he meets to ask-or tell him
whether President Roosevelt will
seek a third term. He expects this
because for some weeks, no one
has failed to do so.
Deponent (this writer) sayeth as
follows:
l. Roosevelt may have said some
thing about it to Mrs. Roosevelt.
The only other person in whom he
might have confided Louis Howe,
is dead. Frequently he has indicated
he prefers to quit after two terms.
If he has discussed a third term
with any living person-from the
standpoint of running again under
certain circumstances'"-that per-
sons lips are sealed.
l. Republicans, anti-Roosevelt
Democrats and Staunch New Deal
ers-including F.. D. RS intimate
entourage-believe the president will
be a third term candidate. This
fact is significant and important.
3. Each of the three groups is
sure the best strategy is to ballyhoo
the likelihood of a Roosevelt candid
acy.
4. Republicans talk up third term
because they believe this will in
cite antagonism to Roosevelt.
5. Anti administrator Democrats
talk third term in order to solidify
intra party opposition to Roosevelt
or a hand picked successor-pend-
in the 1910 Democratic national
convention.
6. Top-flight New Dealers want
everybody to discuss third term,
hoping what they call emotional
baloney' will be dissipated by 1910.
The last viewpoint is especially
interesting because it's that of
Roosevelt's own close buddies. Con-
version of this group is interesting.
It's members are for third term,
not because they want Roosevelt
or anyone else to serve third
term, but because they see no other
way out" if New Deal policies are
to be carried on.
Contributing to their "conver-
sion" was the gradually demonstrat-
ed weakness of Senator Alben Bark
ley of Kentucky, handpicked by
Roosevelt as his senate majority
leader and jammed down the
throats of senate Democrats who
otherwise would have picked con-
servative Pat Harrison Of Missis-
sippi.
Originally F. D. r. and his pals
considered Senator Bob LaFollette
as a worthy Roosevelt successor,
but resurgent conservatism in the
Democratic party indicated no
soap" Barkley, briefly, a fair haired
boy with the White House circle
in its search for a 1910 nominee,
showed no strength as a senate
leader preferred compromise to bat
tie Che had few troops and had
to be bailed out by Roosevelt in his
Kentucky campaign against the
more popular Happy" Chandler.
Roosevelt told his lieutenants to
promote Robert w. Jackson, now
solicitor general, for New Yorks
Democratic gubernatorial nomina-
ton. But when nearly all New York
Democratic machine politicians
including Jim Farley = baked
Roosevelt failed to demand theil
support for Jackson.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Thoughts for the Day

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their
mouth, and from the hand of the mighty-Joh 5:l5
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14
Hudsins Outlines
HishIishts Of
POSTMASTER Parley

Bill Hudgins, national delegate
from the Imperial county Toast
masters club, Thursday night out
lined the highlights. of a recent
national convention in Tucson,
Ariz.
San Jose was chosen as the next
convention site.
Hudgins garnered a valuable list
of notes to increase interest in
meetings of the county organiza-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-14

he did take, DuI
I'd like to hear
from you be-
tween now and
then.
This friend is
the head of a
liberal minded
firm and the
e X e C u t ives OF
this firm fire.
quently Giscuss
their polio i e S
with their sales
1aa,o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-01
MERCURY DROPS
 VERY SPEEDILY
Thirty=third Day of Skat= ing Enjoyed at Hamilton
 Park Today

Waterbury shivered again today with resumption of the cold spell currently causing hardship through mid-WeStern areas. The thermo- meter showed a mere 18 degrees above zero between 5:3O and 500 o'clock today, according to James R. Walker, city plumbing inspector, but, at mid-morning, had crept up into the 20's and, at noon, was showing warmer weather.
 Yesterday saw temperature drop of 20 degrees in one hour when, during the afternoons rain the peak of 50 degrees was reached. The rain turned to snow in magical fashion as the cercury started to drop and within an hour, 30 degrees registered on the official therometer.
 There was skating at Hamilton Park today. making the 33rd day of skating this season, according tc 1 Superintendent of Parks James J | Curtin. There was only one day during last season when the skating was good at city parks. There was question how long the skating would be good today, with probability ot rising temperatures this afternoon.
 City streets were slippery with ice early today and during the period l motorists came to work. at noon however, many of the more danger ous sections had been sanded and the snowfall of yesterday was out of sight so far AS downtown Water bury was concerned.