The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1926, Page 4

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FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan, Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. gt tne} you want to know more about human nature * Entér polities or conduct a newspaper. | «» 4 «The rising generation would rise a little faster if it would rise earlier in the morning. te Slt, Meat «© - = ra ” ideas. Many of them are asking why they have | ~ - and resolve, when the doors are open and some- | Rte hf Se TRl BL he te te ale a ee 4, The slow pay debtors are full of firm reso- Iution to pay up when they haven’t got any money. “The public will thoroughly wake up to che great ‘importance of the June primary:election after it is over. “Candidates never need to invent new tricks to fool the people, because the old ones still work as well as ever, : ¥ 4@An inferiority complex is a state of mind that causes a fellow to throw down the best hand in a poker game, It is claimed that the laws are not obeyed, but some say that situation should be relieved by passing a lot more. see Many colleges are getting liberal gifts, but unfortunately’ ean’t put brains into a boy’s “head without his consent. A writer declares that density of population ‘ ey lead to future wars. Density of alleged states- men has led to former ones. f. ‘ Much is being said about the march of civiliza- but civilization must have corns, from the way its march limps just now. While theory is considered inferior to prac- tieé, musical theory never disturbed the neighbors so they had to shut their windows, « It is claimed that the American farmer ought to have a place in the sun, but he will soon be looking for one in the shade. The boys in their dress suits arouse the ad- miration of the fair sex, but they often inspire more confidence while in overalls, The Chinese typewriter has 5,000 characters, which would suggest that the stenographers of that pewdering their noses. THE FIRST RADIO PARISH A radio parish, non-sectarian, has been created at Portland, Maine, where representatives of vari- «ous denominations were present to install Rev. Mr. | Hough as the pastor, who will minister to millions of people through the broadcasting station WCSH. of religious services would hurt the churches, as avoid the collection plate ‘that way. Many people have learned through the radio | that church services are not what they thought. | They had looked at them as mournful affairs, but They find that they are a center of hope and useful to isolate themselves from this center of courage _one waiting to shake hands with them. country can not attend properly to the duty of | 1 is believed to be the world’s first radio parish. | , it was at first thought that the broadcasting | people would stay at home in their easy chairs and | listen to the preaching and singing of hymns, in- | stead of troubling to go to church. Also they would | fHE JUDICIAL ATTITUDE If the American people ever needed a fair | to | minded and judicial attitude, a willingness THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ® weigh facts without preconceptions and prejudices, | they need it now, on such a question as that of prohibition, which congress has been investigating during recent days. question without closed minds. ing to our previous opinion. If people hear facts that seem to against the theory they have been holding, they But if they hear something that scems to/ bolster up their previously formed point of view, then they do not analyze it much, but promptly accept it as gospel truth. ‘ Here is a largely new question that ought to evil. wholly determined from people’s impressions, but must be studied scientifically, as business men would decide the merits of some financial policy they had been trying out. We should be as willing to analyze the results impartially as a business man is when he figures out how some new line of policy has been operating. And people should be govern- ed by considerations as to what is good for the na- LATE COMERS Philadelphia orchestra, gave at a recent concert an ironical admonition to the late comers of his audiences, by having his players drift onto the stage of playing. Some of the audience were said to be offended, but probably they now sce that these celebrated performers had reason for annoyance. lectures, church services, ete., is very disturbing. Often in a theatre one can not get, the drift of 1 play for 15 or 20 minutes, until the late comers are seated and get adjusted and quieted down which is very irritating to those who have gotten out of breath trying to get there on time. ple who prepare these entertainments and services, and they disturb the comfort of the punctual folks who get there promptly. CRIME AND CITIZENSHIP President Coolidge, speaking to the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held that crime, bad as it is, is not so serious a danger as lack of interest in citizenship, Only a small fraction of the people are fools enough to be criminals, but millions are foolish enough to go to sleep while dangers menace us in political chan- nels, b For every dollar that we lose through burglars States because of the waste of public money. we lose much more if the government is not alert to remedy the evils that menace the land, When a man or woman refrains from voting, he or she says in effect to the evils of modern so ciety, “Go right on, I am too busy to trouble my. self about you.” : WHAT THE FREIGHT COSTS (St. Augustine Record) An interesting report has just been made on ‘ what is believed to be one of the largest single shipments of overalls ever made. This shipment consisted of 20 solid cars_load- | ed with 24,000 dozen garments—288,000 overalls— | and transported direct from Commerce, Ga., to St. Louis, a distance of 825 miles. The total freight 5,096.53. In other words, it cost 1.7 cents to haul a pair of overalls 825 miles. charge on this shipment was A MOTORIST’S VOW (Morgantown (W. Va.) Post) Once upon a time Frank Robel vowed that if his new automobile ever killed a human being he would take his own life. Today Frank Robel is dead, a victim of his | vow. He shot himself a few hours after his car had killed a woman and injured her husband. We cannot recommend this same course to all motorists. But we do say that if all autoists were imbued with something of Frank Robel’s spirit of seriousness and duty to fellows, fewer ~broken hearts would follow that host of little white coffins which lies in the wake of the great national game i of autoing. will be inclined to minimize those facts and think | they are incorrect, or are not of very much weight. | be taken up and studied in the most thorough way. | The American people have begun on a great ex- | periment in the hopes of doing away with a great | The results of that experiment can not be | tion, rather than how it affects them personally. Conductor Stowkowski, leader of the famous in an irregular way and leave as if they got tired | The way people will drift in late to theatrical | and musical performances, moving picture theatres, | Such tardy habits are disrespectful to the peo- | ~ | vider: and robbers, we Idse many dollars in the United | And | It is very hard for people to approach such a | Whatever our per- | sonal position, we all have a strong tendency to | think in one particular way. That leads us, when | some new set of facts has been presented, to un- | consciously desire to interpret those facts accord- | So the result will be | that the great majority of people who have been | reading the results of that investigation, will finish | doing so with the same opinions they had before. | operate | Where Do We Go From Here? eeccocccecce The height of politenes: | eff the street car and leét 4 your standing room. ts to get lady have Meeting exper isnt half. so difficult as dodging them President von a new line now @ speaking tour of Germany Seems to be around election time a laborer and drove him home. Elephant in the British museum has tusks nine feet long. They are as large as an aching tooth. Gen. Wu Pel-Fui ts active in China. Doesn't matter, but he sounds like fomeone—er—expectorating. 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