The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1926, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. * Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter 4 Member of the Associated Press Ad#Sciated -Prése “is exclusively entitled to use f8r republication of all news dispatches credited to ior not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect-and obituary notices other than those which the paper may give as matter of news, Will be charged for at the rate of & sents a line. Noticesot ‘ainmentg from which @ revenue is to be derived will de charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. The Citizen is pen forum and invites discussion of public issues afd subjects of local or general inter- gst, but it will mot publish anonymous communica- tions. church and, society and all other enter- VEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN . Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland, Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. After failing to make good in a place, many people call it a “hick town.” American people chase the dollar, but in the field of politics they also pursue the holler. The people who were always opposed to the League of Nations believe that it is now on its last legs. The congressmen are urged to stand by the president, but some of them seem more inclined to stand on him. 6 _—_——— It is claimed that the housewives can make their own bread if the price gets too high: They can, but will they? : Anti-chicken thiet organizations being fotmed ‘The flappers need not worry, as they are too ex- pensive objects 9 tar, stealing. ‘This is a time 6f year when people can natur- ally be expected to do something desperate, after having made out their income tax returns. We Gre what to do with the surplus crops of farmers, they should also try to dispose of the surplus talk by the politicians. x _ Reckless automobile drivers seem to be able to smash down railroad crossing gates, but they ‘are not usually successful when they try to push * the railroad train over into the next lot. Our cross-eyed devil said he read that street, car @ecidents have, been reduced to 50 per cent since Snee-length skirts) became the style. The youtfg lady who~adorns our business office says: “Woudn’t it be fine if they could be prevented al- together?”—Dade City Banner. REPORTS ABOUT FLORIDA * (Charleston News and Courier) The reports about Florida which precipitated 2 flurryin Wall Street were not of a character to cause any very deep excitement or concern. Every- body who has studied the Florida movement has known*that the peak of the boom seemed to have been reached some little time ago and it was con- fidently expected that certain settling processes would have to be experienced. That is what ap- pears to be happening at the present time. There is not going to be any general smash in Florida. Instead, the large and continued de- velopment of the state is as certain as any future event can be, Millions of people know of Florida's splendid Tesources and attractions. Capital knows of these resources, too, and has the fullest con- fidence in them. A lot of shoestring speculators who have been gambling in lands and lots in Florida are probably in fer losses that in many cases will wipe people of this kind out; but Florida will not | be hurt by that, indeed may be better off when it has happened. There has been a great deal of jealousy of in other parts of the country and for a this jealousy was strong in other South- ern. But the people of the South have seen the movement toward Florida was only the first’ wave of a larger movement toward the South. Nothing can stop that movement, for the effers-and at lenst the outside world knows it. S The session of congress ‘is fast ‘passing. ‘away, and already we hear talk of adjournment sometime in May. It is admitted that there is a lot of work that congress could do well. But the Republican administration is so fearful that it will’do some- thing harmful, or something of a- radical nature, that it seems to be the feeling that they would better go home before long so as to avoid getting into-mischief. Something must be long when the lawmakers to whom the people look for the protection of their rights, are of such a temper that they can not be trusted to continue in session attending to the business of the country. If the people were elect; ing the right kind of lawmakers, they would say that the longer they continued in session, the better chance there was that they would solve the diffj- culties from which the country suffers, The present congress has not so far touched the most serious difficulties w ith which the people have to deal. The most serious problem before the country at this time is the continuance of high prices. above the level prevailing before the war, and it seems to be rising rather than falling. The Republican party has no program for meeting this situation It has reduced taxes, but these bear principally on people of considerable wealth. The Democratic party believes that this burden would never have been so heavy, if the country had not attempted, by a policy of excessively high protection, to encourage an artificial development of manufacturing industries. If industrial devel- opment could have been left to take’ place along more natural lines, we would have bought more of our commodities abroad where they ean be .pur-, chased for relatively little money, and’ we would have kept our people busy by producing. commoui- ties which would have paid for such foreign pur- chases. The cost of most commodities is far \ “ THE COST OF AUTOMOBILES It costs the average automdbile owner $700 a year for everything connected with his car, in- cluding the original cost, according to figures given out by the Bureal’ of Industrial Technology: * It would be interesting to compare that figure with what we all pay for house rent of, the, g0 ing a house. hig Probably the average av family pays more than $700 a) year its home, but the cost of the autanio| cases is as much as the rent. ey * The family of moderate mean oye ishes to operate @ car will do well ye 3 é means by which automobile costs can be kept down. Rapid driving over rough streets and roads will greatly increase the charge for depreciation and repairs. If people must tear around the country as if they were rushing to a fire where their property was being burned up, they will have to pay an extra charge to the garage man, Also the old car will deserve the favorite title of “junk” much sooner. Where people own their owmhomes and erect their own inexpensive garage on their own land, they reduce the cost of storage to a small item. In the days to come, every family ought to learn to do simple repairs on its own car, The inex- perienced owner may do his car more harm than good when he tries to make his own repairs. But | if he makes a thorough study of the mechanism of his car, he ought to be able to do the less difficult repair jobs. ‘ The young man of the future will find it is just | as desirable to know how to repair a car as to do complicated arithmetic examples. The country is getting great benefits from the general ownership of cars, but people need to study the methods by | which such ownership can be made inexpensive. QUITE A CHANGE |sippi near Memphis, with a loss (Tampa Tribune) Our legal code has been built up on the assump- | tion that women are more in need of special pro- vision and protection than men, and, although modern femnists spurn all this and demand aboli- tion of such insulting discrimination, there are still old fashioned conservatives who believe that | our orginal theory was well based. But now, it | would appear, the courts are tending toward the i feminist view—that a woman should be held re-| sponsible in every particular equally with a man, i she also being liable to offend ahd being fully } as able to take care of herself as he is to look after his own interests, At any rate the Supreme Court of New York | has ruled that a woman must pay the bill this time. | Instead of divorce and heavy alimony paid by the man, as usual, Miss Corliss Palmer, screen actress, must pay $200,000 to Mrs. Brewster for capturing | and carrying off Eugene V. Brewster, “wealthy New York Magazine publisher.” The decision im plies that a man may be weak and misled and that | @ woman may be the resolute perpetrator of the mischief. It is rather a startling. reversal of the | current ideas of former times, but it is possible | that those ideas were not always strictly correct ot simple reason that the South has too much to | i i wholly equitable. At all events we live in a new age, with new developments. TODAY’S : ANNIVERSARIES Deveccccesceccosoeccooce 1844--Rhode Island legislature formally protested against the right of Congress to interfere. with the domestic affairs of that State. 1851—A census of Ireland showed the population to be 6,- 574,278. 1881—The steamer Golden City was burned on the Missis- of 20 lives. 1891—-The American Society of Authors was organized in New York City. ARES 1909—Opetiing of the new Queensboro Bridge across the East River, New York City. 4 1917—Russian workingmen and soldiers demanded confiscation of the immense Romanoff possession, 1924—-The German People’s Party declared in favor of a democratic monarchy. 1925—William J. McConnell, former governor of Idaho and U. 8. senator, died, at Moscow, Idaho. Born at Commerce, Mich., Sept. 18, 1839. 1925—Fifty persons were kill- ed in a head-on train collision near Moscow, Russia. DON’T OVERLOOK A GOOD THING From Jas. Edwards, Mont- gomery, Ala., comes this _ letter. containing a valuable suggestion. —“I feel like a new man since taking FOLEY’S HONEY. AND TAR. Can sleep all night, sore- ness in my chest is gone, so is the bad cough. My whole family use it for coughs, colds and croup, and it always helps.” Stops tick- ling in throat, nervous hacking, and puts assoothing healing coat- ing on a raw inflamed throat. Don’t overlook FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR. Key. West Drug Co. mari-lm “BIDS WANTED Bids for the construction of a stadium on the property adjoining the Cuban Club Building. om- plete plans and specifications are on file at the Cuban Club, which may be inspected by those inter- ested--in making bids. Bids. be opened April 2, 1926, at 8) o’clock p. m., at’ the Cuban Club. The board of directors of the Cu- ban Club reserve the right to re- jéct any or all bids. Fur further information or particulars see E. GOMEZ J. R. VALDES mar22-11t y years and ne b e Imperial Eczema edy cured him. Druggists are authorized to und your money if it fails —Adv. In a certain town in Italy the taxes are levied according to the weight of the taxpayers. The fat man is assumed to be prosperous and charged on his poundage. Lefi arm sprained and ligaments FELL FROM TOP OF BOK CAR Sustains painful in but gets quick reli Hien who bandishig heneedous jeln.dee mand quick, effective for sprains, strains, lame backs ae A freight brakeman on the Chi ; and Northwestern fell off tha | top of 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—.7he United States of America purchased Florida from Spain and Lieutenant Perry planted the American flag in Key West, 1848—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 eigar industry was established 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- 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 CLIMATE—The temperature ranges between 75 degrees in Win- MILITARY—The United States Army maintains a lery Station at Key West and during War it was also used as an NAVAL—The United States Navy maintains a Key West as well as a submarine base. also a coaling station, fuel oil station and one of largest radio stations in the world. The United Marine Corps also has a station at Key West. INDUSTRIES—The chief industries are cigar » commer- cial fishing, sponge fishing and shipping. encore MOTELS—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. Churches, 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 cperates trains to and from New York and intermediate points. Railroad Car ferries ply between Key West and 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 Gal The Peninsular. & Occidental. Steamship pany to Tampa and Havana. The ern Steamship Company to Miami leans. MISCELLANEOUS—Beautifully. colored water. Wonderful Yachting. Best fishing in Florida, Golf and Tennis. Bathing the year round. Coun- try Club (under construction). The Sea Highway over the Keys, connecting } ‘West with the mainland, Will be the remarkable highway in the h completed, ADVANTAGES—1. Tropical climate. 2. The Over-Sea High- way, now under construction, paralleling the 3. Fresh water to be piped in. This improve- ment has been favorably acted upon by the entirety being converted into beautiful estates. 5. Key West is the County seat of Monroe the hotel accommodations, golf and tennis, etc., equal or of any Florida resort, while the the best of any on the Coast. 9. Keys are a Yachtman’s Paradise bors and beautiful scenery and bound to be headquarters for at southern half of *he Keys. satus snemmensiealegacasaatie It’s Summer All Winter In Key West x