The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 3, 1926, Page 4

*-. PAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO, L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. ontered a Key West, Plorida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The fecociated Press is exclusively entitled to use for re ‘ication of all news dispatches credited to t or «1 otherwise credited in this paper and also the lovral news published here, aad SUBSCRIPTION RATES one Vear........ six Months. fhree Months. One Month. Weekly. ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. eel 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 5 sents a line. Notice of church and,society and all other enter- cainments from which a revenue is to be derived will ve 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- vst, but it will not publish anonymous communica- dons. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. af We are told to have reverence for the law, but vigpy seem to have more for the jaw. an =~ People need not read the newspaper adver- tirements if they are not desirous of saving a dol- lor. Thére is no reasén why people should not en- gage in stock speculation if they do not mind about jocing their money. «Perhaps if;some people spent a little less time signing petitions for new laws, they would be able to sign more checks. 2 vet eree Both political parties claim they are not re- sponsibie for the weather this spring, but anyway the people know better. It is claimed that we need a new social order, which is no doubt true, but we haven’t learned how tc run the old one yet, wee if ’ a F] ti 3 . . rt . ‘ ‘'The revolutionists declare the red flag will fly at Washington, and perhaps it will when the realtors auction off building lots. The old timers would be considerably upset to come back and find nothing growing in the vegetable garden but a garage. ee Many folks are writing letters of complaint to congress, and at least that helps pay the ex- penses of the postal department. Es » The reason why some people seem to use so muck slang, may be that if they used straight Eng- lish people might know what they mean. Pedestrians are getting knocked down in the streets of many cities, and unfortunately the bowling pin boys can’t always set ’em up again. Warnings are given against political corrup- tion, and after hearing many of the speeches one is also concerned about the political eruption. “Last Call for breakfast,” says an editorial paragraph in the Key West Citizen. Are you talk- ing about your contemporary, the Key West Morn- | ing Call?—Tampa Tribune, A good guess. As the Democrats tell us the awful things that | will happen if the Republicans win, and the Re- publicans warn us of the dreadful menace of Demo- | cratic rule, there doesn’t seum much hope left for America, Sheriff Curry of Monroe County has a new $12,000 seagoing motor cruiser. was impossible to find a bottle of liquor in Key * West to break over the bow in launehing it— Tampa Tribune, She glided down the ways paign- From Jacksonville to Key West will be one of | the longest and most scenic highways in the world + inside of a dozen years, With the completion of an overseas highway to Key West, and the linking > up of the various parts of the present East. Coast | state highway, it will be the longest single stretch * of highway of any state in the Union, and as it * winds along rivers and ocean and through groves and gardens and over causeways in ocean waters, it will furnish the most thrilling drive in America.-— Oriande Reporter-Star. | a certificate of character at one We suppose it | COMBATTING ANTI-FLORIDA PROPAGANDA One of the most unique and forceful methods of combatting the anti-Florida propaganda with | which the North and East have been flooded ae cently has just come to the attention of The Citi- zen. It is being put out from Lake Worth, consists of a splendid 16-page rotogravure section | embracing photographs of Lake Worth with two | or three to her neighbor, Palm Beach. If the effort stopped here it would not be enough, but there is apparently much more to it. In this specific instance seventeen people from Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts, have sign- | ec a splendid circular letter which has been scat- tered by mail with the Chamber of Commerce | illustrated section throughout not alone Barre, but | all Worcester County. The effect of this type of circularization must There is no need further to dwell The letter speaks for itself, | and pages devoted be tremendous. upon the value of it, It is as follows: Lake Worth, Florida. To our Worcester County Friends: Worcester County people have long been in- terested in Florida. Many Barre people, ticular, love Florida, and especially the City of Lake Worth. The undersigned Barre people now in Lake Worth take pleasure in sending you, through the courtesy of the Lake Worth Chamber of Com- merce, this rotogravure booklet showing graphs and pictures of this city. Certain misléading reports about Florida have been widely disseminated in the vicinity of Barre during the past few months. Efforts to have these statements corrected’ have been ursuccessful up to the present time. will give you a more accurate knowledge of condi- tions here than you may otherwise have gained. . Florida’s growth has just commenced. It is far | from being a “Ponzi bubble.” The homes, parks, streets and buildings which you see here pictured are not speculative enterprises. The future of Florida rests secure on its natural resources, and the results shown in this booklet are the work of the people who live here, carried out to meet the needs of Lake Worth’s citizens, © in par- photo- We believe’ that these scenes THE AMIABLE SHARK (Buffalo Evening Times) Do sharks eat humans, or are they as amiably harmless as nialtese kittjes? An airplane daredevil leaped from his plane into mid-ocean off the Florida coast. He did not reappear. The pilot circled about the spot where he went down, and reported “a school of fish, looking like sharks, in the water.” Explorers, however, smile y cynically at the man-eating shark belief. They call it legend and superstition. This little story comes from Miss Ruth Rose. who has accompanied as historian the famous ex- plorer, William Beebe, on all of his expeditions: “I have gone to the bottom of the ocean any number of times in only a bathing: suit or hiding breeches,” says Miss Rose, “with sharks swimming over my very toes like dense schools of minnows, and have never thought of being ~afraid. “Explorers, and I know many of them, deny that a man-eating shark ever lived: They admit that at some time in the history of the world a shark may have bitten one or two hu- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN OLD SORES | Botis, cuts, Tse FINISH HIN The apricot is a native of China, and we think {t should have shaved before coming to this country. |BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON — Nobody Congressman, Clarence Cannon of Missouri up in any parlia mentary bowknots Parliamentary procedure can made pretty complicated Tangling an unruly congressman up in it until he's helpless, and then chucking him carelessly aside, is one of the party leaders’ favorite methods of preventing ventilation, on the floor. of subjects that they maybe. They never make any noise | prefer to have left quietly in the cold unless someone ts bothering them. storage of some committee room (Copyright, 1926 NEA Service. Inc.) | oo ae Lk this doesn't work on Cannon Be careful when you cross the | | street. Americans spend 14 billions | @ year on autos. tles | One thing wrong here ts pedestri: | ans are not made out of rubber &. | | be But thé United States tsn’t such a | terrible place. There are more than | 100,00 bicycles in Tokyo. What could be worse than having | @ neighbor who rides a motorcycle | and plays a saxophone? | Even saxophomes could be worse. eee eee eee eR OOF Z * * Why not? Why. because he's 5 DAILY LESSONS IN “s the greatest parliamentary au- - ENGLISH » thority in America and one of the »| greatest in the world. He was the e] »| House ‘of Representatives’ parlia- Pac borden) | mentary expert for many years. Its i present rules were largely made by (By W. 5 * Ce RRR EERE Words often sons-in-law, him. When a knotty parliamentary +,. | point comes up to be * settled, .the Say speaker sends for one of his text “my son-| misused: not Often mispronounced: Retail.| Bees cover alien intruders in Accent the verb on last syllable, | their hives in tombs of wax. }the noun and adjective on first = yllable The earliest known A.D, mans. But so do dogs and cats, and we do not talk of ‘man-eating cats,’ dogs’. and ‘man-eating But just try telling that to an old sailor hop- ping about on his cork leg! Try to tell it.to most anyone! We like our dramatic tales—be they legends, myths, or truth! Nor has this country forgotten the attacks on swimmers by sharks, some of the seaside resorts. not so many years ago, at Besides, it would be hard.to’name a ferociou beast of desert or fungle, which has not been given time or ‘another, and eulogized as a good-natured but misunderstood creature. \ Despite the testimony of the travelers, the popular mind is justified in being a bit skeptical of the amiable shark. £ id ENTHUSIASM IN BUSINESS H. Gordon Selfridge, head of the famous Self- | ridge department stores of London, remarked af ter making a trip recently throngh the United States, that he was impressed with the enthusiasm | with which American business men go into their work. Perhaps that is a key thought that shows how If they go tc their job just as a means by which they can earn young people can make a success. some pocket money, they will earn that money and But if they with the keen enthusiasm that Mr. Selfridge speaks of, showing warm interest in every task they take up, someone not much more. go at it is going to say they will make a success if thes are promoted. It will not be long before sc will open the door of opportunity, and say “Walk in,” to these youngsters. Often’ misspelled: table was produced in Note the ie. THRE Synonyms: Besiege. | The size trout attains depends Large, big, great,’ oy the kind of water they ‘inhabit. immense, massive, vast, bulky. Word study: “Use a word three | and it is yours.” Let us in- | -rease our vocabulary by master-| An English employee has been |'ng one word each day. 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