The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1926, Page 4

PAGE FOUR § THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Phewkesociated Press is exclusively entitled to use far republication of all news dispatches credited to Mor not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. fd SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING BATES Made known on application. is of thanks, resolutions of respect and obituary es Other than those which the paper may give as er“of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 @ line. of church and society and all- other. enter- saifiments from which a revenue is to be derived will 3¢ Charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of Public issues and subjects of local or general inter- bor “hag it will not publish anonymous communica- dons. = ‘IMPROVEMENTS ADVOCATED BY * THE CITIZEN 1... Water and sewerage. _2. Hotels: / "$B. Bathing pavilion. 4. Road to mainland. HK HS CEH EN bad NT © Some people’s idea of salesmanship is talking 86 Zast that the buyer can’t ask questions. = Abput the only sure way to stop frauds in sale of #tocks, is to pass a law that no suckers shall be bom so ; & One sign of the Back to the Land movement is the kids are getting out in the vacant lots = Bank presidents, captains of industry, ete., a hard time keeping up with the swell fashions seteby ‘thelr clerks, Eee : © The folks in this country who think the church {a failure, may. have, been. tzying. to, hire a $5,000 minister for $2,000. > fe Jakes several days to “assemble” an auto- mite, but you can disassemble it in about one mifiute by running into something. ~ It is generally agreed that everyone should have war time prices on what he sells and reduced peace time prices on what he buys. ©. The people that demand top prices for their goods and Il be complaining before long that they have too/much competition in their line. | * © It is figured to take about ten marbles per @hild asthually to supplyithé demand for this traditional toy. Any infant of an investigating turn of mind can swallow that number. ADVERTISING NO LUXURY ayaa’ ‘The idea seems to exist in the minds of some business men that advertising is a kind of luxury, which the smaller type of dealers cannot afford to in, The big concern, they perhaps say, hap a big income out of which it can make an ad- vertising appropriation. But the small concern, they may say, must husband its resources more eagefully. = It would be well if those who use that argu- mé€nt would ask themselves how these big concerns ever got their bigness, if they did not advertise? Almost all of them started away back as small concerns, and if they had not advertised, most or all of them would have continued small. = If a business is well content to be small, if it hag all the trade it wants, then it may be able to pub up a reason for not advertising. But even in that case, the reason may not be valid, because cases are all the time occurring where increased competition has taken away the trade on which nor-advertising concerns depended. * The great majority of business men desire to see their trade grow. They feel that their service is worthy of more patronage, but if they wish to realize that hope, they need to plan some means fot making their business better known to the people. Big concerns usually look at their advertising costs as a regular part of their expense, and just as essential as the hiring of a sales force, or the prévision of attractive quarters for their goods, If bufiness falls off, they are quite likely to increase | their advertising. The man who sees his business @eclining or who suffers from dull times, usually has to work a little harder. The concern that finds its.volume of business below its hopes, needs to make its money work a little harder in the field of “er. OUR CHURCHES AND KEY WEST Two directors of a bank sat at a meeting some months ago in a city of normal size in the Middle West. Both were of the highest standing in the busi- ness life of their community. The financial board of a local church had sought a modest sum for improve- ment on a note which all the board stood ready to sign. : One was opposed to church® fotes, and in his argument he said, “There are too°many-| churehes in this town now!” ‘his aroused the ire | of the other director and he leaned forward and | pointed an accusing forefinger as he said, “Say, see here my friend: I anf in favor of this loan and I’m going to vote for this loan. There cannot be too} many churches in any man’s town!” | The loan went through without a dissenting | voice. : There cannot be too many churches in this town or in any man’s town, Take the churches | out of Key West today and Key West wouldn’t be fit to live in one month from today. Consider | what it would mean: | No reverence for God. No day of rest for even the man unchurched. } No word of sustenance and succor from the Book of the Man who died on the Mount. No guiding hand except that of father or mother for the plas‘ic minds of our boys and girls. No clergymen to wed our lovers, to“ease our crossing of the River nor to say the last rites for our dead. No thought of God and his goodness in our common schools, zs There cannot be too many churches in this or in any man’s town. z The great trouble in this town is that al- though we have good ehu:ches and good leaders, we have too few attendants. If those who might go once a Sunday and who may never go any Sunday exeept to crawl into a back. seat late at Eastertime or Christmas would attend one meeting a Sunday they would help the church, they would sustain the wearying minister, they would be bet- ter men and women, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers. The children would be better day school pupils, and more capable of enjoying the glorious gifts of a nature bestowed so freely upon Key’ West; hence, our home life would eéter; our eye-to-eye meetings with neighbors, friends, the stranger within our gates would be more mutually helpful; our enthusiasm for the good things of life und of our city would be doubly enhanced—in short ‘we would be a better city all round. <cngeThe. time is ‘coming when: oumchurches-wilt: be: crowded to their very doors. This time seems to ‘be about three years away—back Bp there to- wards the north and east along a ribbon of ocean- going road that will rival the seven other wonders of the world. Yet even now, in anticipation of that time, there are none “too many churches in this town.” ‘The troubte is with the people, and they should see this trouble and cure it ere they them- selves get crowded from the pews by the hordes from the north who will out of their numbers give @ percentage so great it will fill each church at every service. There is but one flag in- all the, world which may fif above the Heaven-kissed flag of America. It has a scarlet cross on a field of blue, and the rest of the banner is white. This is the flag of | 5 the Christian church. May ité*symbolism of Him who died on the Cross for us—no matter what our religion, so we have some religion—some rever- ence for God—bring fresh strength to the churches | of this Island City. “There cannot be too many churches in any man’s town!” | | MONEY AND RELIGION | i or ee | A Michigan clergyman recently estimated | that the people in one county in that state spend | $83.00 each for.maintenance of automobiles, but | only $1.30 for the maintenance of religion. That | perhaps explains to some extent, why religion does | not accomplish more. } This does not reflect on the many who do give generously to religious enterprises. But the great majority never give scarcely anything to churches | and affiliated societies, and yet they may complain | that the churches never accomplish anything. Un- fortunately no kind of enterprise, no matter how | Wbble, czn accomplish a great deal in this world, | antil people are willing to give money to support | it. These things that people expect to get for nothing are not commonly very valuable to them. The ministers and those who conduct the daily | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ eoccesccecccdbecccccecos Income Tax In WHO? WHAT? { WHEN? | WHFRE? | HOW? Where by reason of illness or jabsence from home additional time for filing an income tax re- turn is required, should address to the Collector of Internal Revenue, for trict, a request for an extension. The request must be made before the return is due—on or before March 15, 1926, if made on the calendar year basis—and must contain a full causes of the delay. An extension of time for filing the return does not extend the time of payment of the tax or any installment thereof unless so specified in the extension. condition of granting - an exten- | sion, the collector the submission of a tentative re- turn and estimate of the amount of the tax, and the payment of at least one-fourth of the estimated | amount. | QUIETS DISTURBING RACK- Healing pine tar, pure honey, a Nutshell - Single persons who had net income of $1,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more, and married couples who had net income of $3,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or mote must file re- turns. The filing peried- ends March 15, 1926. Collector of internal revenue for the district im’ which the person lives or has his principal place of busi- ness, Instructions on Form 1040A and 1040; also the law and regulations. uf One and one half .per cent normal tax on the first $4,000 in excess of the per- conak exemptions and credits. Three per cent normal tax on the next $4,000. Five per cent normal tax on the bal- ance of net income. Surtax on net income in excess of $10,000. the taxpayer his dis- recital for the Asa thay require ING COUGHS and other soothing, cough-healing ingredients, go into the making of FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR. No opiates, justly P mothéts, hatin! medicinal value. Read the bottle contents as given on the package, and learn why FOLEY’S HONEY AND PAR is the superior cough remedy, grown persons, and reliable coughs, and for croup, tickling throat, safe for children nervous hacking and like irrita- ti West Drug Co. steamship lines out of Vancouver, fifty-four operate from the Brit- ish Columbia port, with 50 per eent of the trade going by way of the Panama Canal. 3 jon. In Eczema Frank Crecorian is convieted in Boston of robbing slain theatre wardrobe mistress | dence which won acquittal in mur- jder | prisonment. Refuse substitutes.. Key marl-im 1914 five deep-sea were operating while today only Feet—One man says | © twenty years and » Imperial Kezema Druggists are to refund your money if on same evi- | trial, and is given life im- work of the churches have to support their families | }) like anyone else. The superfluous office holders can’t prove that the government needs to keep them in office, but they can no doubt show that they need the money. According to a Congo tradition, some years | | ago a part'y civilized tribe got heavily in debt and took to the jungle for good. We can understand that impulse. The young man’s fancy at this time of year is said to lightly turn to thoughts of love, but fre- quently it also lightly turns to ask what allowance | her father can contribute to the new family, —and Lunch lasty-Cocoa-: elicious Chocolate Gake BAKER’S ‘ Cocoa and Chocolate Delightful foods and beverages of high qual- ty, pure and healthful. a 4 <, Walter Baker & Co. Lad, SP) poccheater, Mare Moser, Camana "Bootie af Chace Raspes erat foes. HISTORY. 1815—A grant covering Key West and all the Florida Keys was given to Juan Salas by Don Juan de Estrada, the then Spanish Governor of Florida. ~ 1822—Juan Salas sold the Island of Key West to John W. Simon- ton for the sum of $2,000. 1822—he United States of America purchased Florida from Spain and Lieutenant Perry planted the American flag in Key West, 1845—The State of Florida was admitted to the Union. 1860—During the Civil War Key West was the headquarters of the Union Blockade fleet. The Union forces held the fort and the City, and the citizens, although of Confed- erate sympathies, were forced to remain under Union ad- ministration. 1874—The cigar industry was establisied by Cubans fleeing from » Spanish oppression. 1888—The entire business section of the town was destroyed by fire. : 1898—Key West was used.as.a Naval Base by the American At- lantic Fleet during-the Spanish-American War. 1912—The Florida East Coast Railroad over the Keys to Key ‘West was completed. - 1921—The Casa Marina Hotel, the best hotel of the Florida East Coast Railroad system and one of the finest hotels in Florida was opened. CLIMATE—The temperature ranges between 75 degrees in Win- ter and 85 degrees in Summer (Average). It is the only place in Florida which has never been touched by frost. It is 375 miles farther south than Cairo, Egypt, but has a délightful and health- ful climate, there being very little sickness. GEOGRAPHY—Key West is the gateway to the Panama Canal Zone, Central and South America, Cuba and the West Indies. It is forty-eight hours from New York by rail. Havana can be reached in five hours by boat and in forty-five minutes by air. It is expected to be the future port of entry from South America, Central America and the West Indies. MILITARY—The United States Army maintains a Coast Artil- lery Station at Key West and during the World War it was also used as an Airplane base. It is called the “Gibraltar of America” as it controls the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. NAVAL—The United States Navy maintains a Navy Yard at Key West ss well as a submarine base. There are also a coaling station, fuel oil station and one of the largest radio stations in the world. The United States Marine Corps also has a station at Key West. INDUSTRIES—The chief industries are cigar making, commer- cial fishing, sponge fishing and shipping. ’ NOTELS—The leading hotels are the Casa Marina, built and operated by the Florida East Coast Railroad Com- * pany, the La Concha, a modern fire-proof hotel, the Over-Sea Commercial Hotel and the Jefferson Com- mercial Hotel. CIViC—Good Schools. Churcher. Fire and Police Protection— one of the best Fire Departments in the United States. Paved Streets. Good City Parks. Municipal Golf Course. *NEWSPAPERS—The Morning Call. The Key West Citizen. RAILROADS—The Florida East Coast’Railroad operates trains | to and from New York and intermediate points. Railroad Car ferries ply between Key West at Havana. It is expected that the Seaboard Air Line will construct a railroad into Key West, thus. assuring direct communication with the West Coast of Florida, the Gulf Ports and the Central States. STEAMSHIPS—The Mallory Line to New York and Galveston, The: Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Com- pany to Tampa and Havana. The Gulf & South- ern Steamship Company to Miami and New Or- leans. , MISCELLANEOUS—Beautifully colored water, Wi fe Yachting. Best fishing in Florids, 4% and Tennis, Bathing the year round. Couns. try Club (under construction). The Sea Highway over the Keys, West with the mainland, will be the remarkable highway in the South when completed. ADVANTAGES—1. Tropical climate. 2, : The Over-Sen High: | way, now under construction, paralleling Florida East Coast Railroad over the Keys permit through automobile travel from. York to Key West and, with the car ferry ice, practically through travel from Canada ‘and any point in the United States ‘to Havana, : 3. Fresh water to be piped in. This improve- ment has been favorably acted upon by the mediate future. Among the proposed ments is a boulevard which is to be « she already been authorized and awarded. 7. The rise in the West property has only recently 8. There is n> rcason why Key West will become an ideal and popular Winter resort the hotel accommodations, bathing, facilities golf and tennis, ete., equal or will equal of any Florida resort, while the fishing ix the best of any on the Coast. 9, The Keys are @ Yachtman’s Paradise bors and beautiful scenery and bound to be headquarters for) southern half of the Keys, =. & ze : i It’s Summer All Winter In Key West ae