The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 4

“PAGE FOUR Se anap ER ERR RNRRUERRIOU RUE REESERRIRE eee THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. ese- Intereé #- Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ‘ The ferociated Press is exclusively entitled to use for rr jeation of all news dispatches credited to " otherwise credited in this paper and also # i news published here. Sa aad SURSCRIPTION RATES one Year dix Month ree Mui Qne Mont Weekly. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. "Cafdé 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 5 sents a line. Notice of church and society and all other. enter- ainments from which a revenue is to be derived will e charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. » Phe Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general inter- ‘et, but it will not publish anonymous communica- tons. abies * IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland.’ Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion, By In former years people used to complain that clothing would not wear out before they got tired ‘of it, but that complaint is not so often heard eg. Formerly people asked before buying things if they could afford it, and now they ask if they can borrow the money. Many folks kick if their neighbors have a spring bonfire and make a bad smoke, and they also kick if their rubbish is not destroyed. ‘Labor turnover is said to be too rapid in the industries, but no such complaint is heard about the turnover in the public jobs. Peskin frauds are causing great annual loss, {but the American people demand plenty of chance ‘to lose’ their money. A MAIL ORDER EXAMPLE (Pensacola Journal) One of the best illustrations of the “mail or- , der” has come to light recently. A woman living jim the small town of Belton, S. C., in the center ‘of the South’s textile industry, ordered some towels from a mail order house paying 29 cents each for them They seemed to be a great bargain. *~ "The mohey went from het town, and the towels Feame back. They were all that had been claimed Mor them. On ‘the band was a stamp, “made by Blair Mills, Belton, 5. C. The woman’s next door @eighbor rai the mills and she could have bought “dhe towels for $1.95 a dozen at home. 5 . This is merely a clear illustration of the neces- SSity for town builders to look around before send- 4ing money away. It is also clear that merchants grill never get the business of their own neighbors ‘gniless: they tell them that they have the goods. Advertisement is the merchants’ chief warfare “pgainet mail order houses, Kt <satilsiasinas spout WOMEN ON JURIES (Morgantown (W. Va.) Post) New York feminists are demanding the right ir’ women of that state to serve on juries on an “equal basis with men. They contend the state Megisiature is discriminating against women by Benying them a privilege which was implied if not Birectly bestowed by the equal suffrage amendment a the federal constitution. é One suspects that the women want to sit in the jury |.x principally because they feel their exclusion implies an inferiority to men in tempera- Brent or judgment. If they really are eager for dary serviex—if, after gaining what they now term # preciox: privilege, they do not resort to many g@xeuses, reat and invented, to escape it—then the ‘difference between women and men is far greater ‘an is now thought. = ‘(With certain exceptions, notably those who Povet the jury fee, men look upon jury service smore as a civie duty than as a privilege, While sdmitting it is a duty good citizens ought to per- Fania cheerfully, nevertheless they find it distaste- ful and are not averse to evading it. ; Experiences with women jurors in those Sates where mixed juries have been trying cases #ince the ratification are no different from men. fier the first adventure the women are either passively or actively reluctant to be drawn a sec- omg tne. ~~ NEWSPAPER SITUATION IN KEY WEST in consistently adhering to the claim that the con- of more than'one newspaper, but the fecord-of one failure after another in newspaper ventures in this city in time past is cited in support of ‘the opinion of this newspaper along this. line. 2 A city needs two newspapers ONLY when it can support them. History has proven that a sec- ond newspaper has never been supported in Key West. Coleman Duncan, former publisher of the defunct Morning Call and Evening elegra , stated that after a thorough analysis ‘and’ cafeful ysurvey he has come to the conclusion that there is room for but one paper here at the present time, and econseghently suspended the publications. Whenever Key West is in‘ position to support two newspapers, The Citizen will heartily welcome the appearance of another one. Every additional newspaper throws an addi- tional burden upon the business firms and citizens of the community, whether they both be daily pub- lications, or one a weekly and anothsr a daily. The burden of supporting two newspapers al- ways falls heaviest on the merchants and other ad- vertising firms of a city, because, whether a paper is published once or six times a week, the adver- tising is bound to cost just so’ much’ per inch. It would naturally, appear that the publisher of the only newspaper in town would “enjoy a monopoly and take advantage of the opportunities afforded for domineering and excessive charges. But this can not, be truly said of The Citizen. For more than four years this newspaper was without any competition in Key West, and this fact made absolutely no difference in the policy and prac- tices of the paper, nor did it in any way affect its seale of rates, either in subscription or advertising. While holding the field without any opposition whatever, The Citizen did not find Key West an /unusually profitable location for a newspaper. The Citizen has just recently invested about $15,000 in improvements for the plant, and is now had, but this was not seen to be possible until af- ter a career of forty-seven years of close and con- servative management, and with perfect confidence in the present prospects of an era of great pros- perity for the community in the near future. There are hundreds of people in. Key West who have felt the sting of finangial loss in the newspaper game. Money has been lost.on every newspaper that has failed here. Key Westers seem too prone to fall into the traps of unscrupulous outsiders, those unprincipled fly-by-nighters, who blow into town and by a smooth line of talk lure Ipcal people into a proposition in order that the crooks “clean up” for themselves and then skip out and leave our people with the bag to hold. A humber of good people here have had money filched from them in this very way, some of them more than once, perhaps. This is also the case frequently in other than the newspaper line. People are warned by The Citizen to steer clear of the stranger who comes to town with a glowing plan to make people get zich quick by taking up his plans and backing him with their good money. People would do well to grab their own pocketbooks and hold tight onto them until such rascally pro- moters are known to be clear out of town, and to stay If Key West ever has a second newspaper, let it be fostered and financed, not by unprincipled and penniless promoters, but by conservative peo- ple of means and influence who are really. and sin- cerely interested in the welfare and progress. of | this city and county. And when the future brings with it conditions that will warrant another news- paper in Key West, The Citizen will be one of the first to extend it a genuine and cordial welcome. COLLIER VS. SOUTH FLORIDA (Miami Life) For seven years we have been told that~ the Tamiami Trail would be passable “from Miami to } Tampa in six more months. Each year we have | been disappointed, although the Tamiami Trail has | ldng been recognized as the most important high- | way project in Florida. Dade county has spent a fortune on it; Monroe county has floated bonds on it for another fortune, and Lee County (now Col- lier) has pledged-almost as large an amount, and | only 10 miles remain to be built to make it pass- able its entire length. Now comes Barron Collier, the promoter of Collier county and a suulti-millionaire real estate developer, who seems th have the ear of Governor- Martin and the big politicians over the state, and decides to change the réuting so it won't hit Mon- | roe county at all but will traverse his real estate holdings, although his proposed routing will miss the Dade county end entirely—aud perhaps hold | up the project two more years. Should we let him get by with it? Nét one bit, say we—so long as we have any votes, and so long as there’s a judge in the state | of Florida who will. validate a good-faith contract signed by three counties of the state of Florida: The Citizen does not desire to appear selfish | ditions in Key West do not warrant the publication | giving Key West the best newspaper ‘it has ever | THE- KEY WEST ..CITIZEN ©0000 0COOOL OOOOH OOO OS OOSOOOOOOSOOOOODSOOOOSSOODOOOSOSOSOOOESOSSOHOOOCOOOSS : _ A Successful Operation eovccccencccccococceeces DAY BY DAY IN FLORIDA Burns, of Tampa, to do what he did here recently. At least, that was the viewpoint taken by the police, and, Burns’ case took its turn on the city court docket. Imbued with an unconquerable de- sire to quench his thirst, Burns went into the washroom at police headquarters, pulled a flask from his hip and drank long and deep- ly. That was rubbing it in, the police thought, and the arrest. BARTOW—“Familiarity breeds 6 6 6 contempt” may be an old and t* @ préscription for popular utterance, but James. F. O'Connell, who was sentenced to Malaria, Ch and two years’ imprisonment in court Dengue or here for stealing an automobile, found “mixing in” to be quite}. profitable. O’Connell, in the line ‘of march between the jail and the court house, entangled himself among the other marchers, dis- entangled himself, and then van-} ished as if in thin air. They’re still searching for him. - at ‘killa the germs. WINTER HAVEN—Local police believe that in the arrest of Bu- ford Fouts, 18, of Eagle Lake, and Walter Fisher, 438, two persons largely responsible for a number of citrus thefts in this section. Numerous reports of fruit stealing have been received by the police, one grove owner stating_that he had lost about $500 worth of his production. ORLANDO — Dental surgeons may have an exceedingly painful} , way abcut them, but they are not in the habit of knocking one ‘out for a period of 24 hours, Muni- cipal Judge Enright thougft in im- posing a fine upon B. B. Bledsoe for alleged intoxication. Bledsoe told the judge he had undergone the extraction of a tooth the day BY CHARLES P. STEWART / NEA Service Weiter Vv the wets are blaming the drys for Con- gress’ long delay to re-appor- tion the states’ representation | in Washington. Perhaps the wets are right and perhaps they‘ré' wrong in holding the iirys responsible for it, but that a apportionment has been and ts being extraordinarily delayed is ot Under the constitution, representa tion is supposed to be re-apportioned after cach sus—that is to say, very ten y . It hasn't been done een. This is in clear disregard of what all hands agree the “found- ing fathers” intended, but Congress, simply doesn’t get around to it. eee "T worked all right for a good many years. e No state ever actually lost any representation. New congregsional districts were provided for ag new sections developed. The old ones kept what they had or got. more. However, Congress kept getting larger and larger, untili now the s | House of Representatives ts un wieldly ‘already, Another thing... Representation otiginajly was much more than half | rural. As cities-grew the proportion of urban. representation and including the 1914 reapportion- ment. $ then’ thefe ‘hasn't’ been, @ portionment. tf there ghould .. States which haven't crown very fast would tose part of their representation tg states which have grown. like everything. likes to lose representation. 2. More that hulf of the coun: | try’s population today lives in cities. | $9 the new representation, for the | first time in American history. would | be predominantly urban. The rural. | ites, in the sadilfe hitherto, would be outvoted. And neither do they like that idea. eee IHE tendency of a reapportion- ment, then, would be ‘to | _ Strengthen “the wets and to weaken thé drys in Congress. This tendency might not, go far enough to give the wets a majority but it would be! in: that direction TODAY'S EVENTS Observance of the 104th anni- S. Grant. Greetings to Rogers Hornsby, champ‘on batsman of-the National League, on his 30th birthday anni- versary. The Protestant Episcopal Church will open its annual church eon- gress today in Richmond, Virginia. A.general conference on lumber ard:zation is to be held in } j j | | Secretary of Commerce Hoover. | N / National Association of Butidin, ; Officials will open in Columbus, 0. | | | | birth of Samuel F. B. 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