The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1926, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P, ARTMAN, President. _ IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. t>rered a. Key West, Florida, as second class matter Meriter of the Associated Press scortated Press is exclusively entitled to use ication of all news dispatches credited to rwise credited in paper and also SUBSCRIPTION RATES toe Voor... A Months.......... flee Months... ye Mon Weekly. . ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ——— Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect and obituary ectices other than those which the paper may give as matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 sehts a line. ‘Notice of chureh and society and all other enter- inments 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 public issues and subjects of local-or general inter- ‘et, 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. The old timers are promoting the safety idea, but the young crowd say danger is more interest- ing. It is claimed the young crowd are hard boiled, but the old timers say some of them are not half baked. ” Even the birds are intelligent enough to join the “Own Your Own Home” movement as they build their nests. so they can run over them at a high and get smasheduup.. « le demand perfect roads rate of speed Key West—a South Florida town voting $200,000 for additional schools—the best invest- ment.—Tampi Tribune. “Cubans never forget Key West,” says a Key ‘West Citizen editorial, And Key West owes a lot to Cuba.—Tampa: Tribune. There are many folks who believe in giving the devil his due, which may be owing to the fact that the devil seems to control a good many votes. ‘The women in this country discussing how to hold their husbands, which may be a suggestion that they have never acquired the art of making pie, While football may need reform, roughness will probably never be sufficiently eliminated so our maiden aunts can play it in the parlor among ‘the fragile bric-a-brac. Florida possibly has the best reguiated state penitentiary of any state in the Union. It is an immense farm conducted along business lines. Last year over 600 prisoners to take care of the farm enly cost the state $7,761. The farm and machinery almost paid expenses. Automobile tags are to. be made there for the state, and other manufactories will be established, which, in a few years, no doubt will enable the farm to pay ex- penses and show a profit besides.—Times-Union. KEY WEST NEWSPAPER FATALITIES Any of the old timers in Key West can readily call to mind the names of at least nine newspapers that have died in this city during the past fifteen years. ‘They were The Morning Journal, The Adver- tiser, The News, The American, The Sentinel, Fl Sentinela, News-Herald, The Morning Call and The Evening Telegram. ‘The average life of each of these newspapers was tiwenty months. Financial loss accompanied the demise of every one of these publications. Upon the promise of sure and fair returns for their in- vestment innocent people had put their hard-earned money in some of these numerous newspaper ven- | tures, mever to see it again. They needed it later on, but it was gone. Nine newspapers gone dead in Key West in} fifteen years. The average life of each was 20 months. The last one mentioned lived only eight days. Ifthere are sane people in the city who claim that there is room for @ second newspaper in Key West, the above facts surely have not been brought to their attention, TAMIAMI TRAIL TRUTHS (Miami Daily News) First-hand information on the routing of the Tamiami trail obtained by representatives of the | Miami Chamber of Commerce, who walked through the Everglades to obtain facts and sweep away the | mystery as to the merits of various proposals, re- | veals the extent to which the interests of the state may be Jeopardized by officials who base their | decisions upon conflicting claims of parties rather than expert, ‘impartial observation. To engineers, men who own no land on either route and who have no political interest, the sur- A cross-state | prejudiced vey pointed to but one conclusion. highway is being built through the greatest ex- | panse of virgin land in the United States, a land with metropolitan cities on either side and untold potential wealth between. The steam shovels and drills are eight miles apart, not in a direct line east and west, as the trail is to extend, but directly the dividing rival counties and rival private interests. ‘If each turned its equipment toward the other, each would have but four miles of roadway build, at the rate of approximately one mile month, as they have been making, and by Septem- ber 1 this important and long-talked-of Tamiami opposite, north and south. Midway is line | a es in western Dade county and eastern Collier coun- ty that could be repaired at relatively low cost be- fore September 1. Yet the forces on the northern route say that ty before turning south on a connecting link, and will parallel the southern road instead of meeting it. The result can only be that one of the costliest as well as most important roads ever built in the state will overlap for 14 or 15 miles, and still will not be connected until the rival counties private interests have completed their projects. The plans for two highways through this dis- trict, as approved by the state highway commis- sion, are.commendable, for there will be need for both as the Everglades are converted into produc- tive territory. ut why, the impartial observer asks, after seeing the work himself, should two roads be built which: certainly will be blind ends in a wilderness for another three years before a connecting link is begun which is approved by all parties concerned and would open the trail by Sep- tember 1? Topography and underlying .rock formations seemed to the impartial observers and engineers in the party to be favorable to construction of the link which would open the trail this fall. No dif- ference in cost could be gnticipated, except that if the roads were connected now instead of building the overlap and connecting them later the Tamiami trail could be used probably three years earlier and a relatively larger gain to all derived. To make the trail available for travel by Sep- tember 1, or as soon as the ends can be connected, and rival it would be necessary to fill some depressions and | smooth the surface of the.road for the western 12 miles in Dade county. Engineers estimate that the | to | trail could be opened, with but a few rough stretch- | they will continue to build eastward to Dade coun- | | | | | | | | | cost of this work would be from $30,000 to $35,- | eeeeecceeeveecscoceeneees 000 and the chamber of commerce delegation re ports that this amount could be raised by public | S8Y “where are you going to?” subscription if necessary to put the trail in condi- | tion for cross-state travel by September 1. Collier naturally, desires to have the first traf- fic across the Everglades on the highway which will pass through his county without touching Mon- roe county, while the Chevalier Corp. and other owners of large tracts in Monroe county favor, of | tive, spontaneous, voluntary, course, the route which will be of the greatest bene. | Voluntary, impulsive. fit to them. But the citizens of Florida, as a earliest possible moment. If the Tamiami trail cart be opened by Sep- erally can see no reason for delaying the opening another year. By October 15 another cross-sta * highway, begun much more recently and skirting the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee, will be opened. These road builders are not ove their routes and duplicating effort. The question is squarely before the state high Way commission for answer: Shall the Tamiami trail be opened September lapping In Tampa the barbers are debating whether they want to be called chirotensors or dermaticians. The one sure thing in their minds is, they want to be called barbers. The real estat@dealers are now called realtors, if they belong, and the don’t undertakers have become morticians. urally, the barbers, want to be up-to-date, like the scof. | flaws and the pitilackers. It is now up to the rest A book a bibliopola, and a butcher as a wmacellarius. of the community. went can be known as | The | ambitions of the Tampa barbers are at least evi } dence that the barber colleges teach Latin and Greek.—Tampa Telegraph. } One more reasen why the boys and girls leave | home, is the difficulty they sometimes experience | in maintaining proper discipline over the old folks. t | It is wonderful the way the politicians “love | the peopie, particularly about election time. whole, would not give a penny for the difference, ore seeking only an open cross-state highway at the | ing ene word ey | | | want tember 1, as it CAN BE, the people of Florida gen- | 1, 1926, or some uncertain date in future years? | cell THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ng Doing in His ———— | Few of us. worry over how much money we make, but we all worry over how much money we get. It is easy to think of something to } do after it is too late to do it. stal receipts showed a | 7 e nt gain. Have you paid your Christmas bills yet? What's in a name? Mussolini con- tinues as the strong man of Italy. United States is so poor. Has only 83 per cent of the world’s autos. | Chicago murderer has a hard time. Has to work so‘ fast he is Hable to shoot some of his many friends. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) pececcocroccecsooseeseee DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON STEWARIS 4 WASHINGTON BY CHARLES P. STEWART! NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON--One hears che question raised, down ta the Senate lobby. in the few days, if President Coohage's blood hasn't been turning @ little too cool recbntly for his own good eee HE talk begun with the case of Senator McKinley of Dlinvis. McKinley was very loyal to the administration. When it came for the Senate to vote ‘on American entrance into the world court, the indications were that he ought to east a negative ballot, if he had a proper regard for his own political good healtb. 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An account at the First National Bank is SAFE and earns consistent interest. 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Accounts. FEDE RAL RESERVES SYSTEM “OY LS FLAGLER SYSTEM Florida East Coast Railway / THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE Effective April 20, 1926 SOUTHBOUND ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M. NORTHBOUND LEAVE 7:30 P. M. 2:00 P. M. Havana Special Royal Poinciana Dining Car Service—Trains 75 and 76 For Further Information See the Ticket Agent J. D. RAHNER, General Passenger Agent HAVANA THE PENINSULAR AND OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY United States Fast Mall Routes For KEY WEST, CUBA AND THE WEST INDIDS Via Port Tampa, Key West and Havan: PORT TAMPA KEY WEST Proposed sailings in effect on dates shown. Subject to change, KICY-WEST-HAVANA LINE EFFECTIVE FROM K Ly. Key West—Mon., Tu TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926 Thurs, Fri., Sat $30 A. M. Ar, Havana—Mon., " , Thurs, Fri, Sat. 3:30 P.M. Lv. Havana—Mon., Tues., W Fri., Sat. 10:00 A r. Key West—Mon., Tues., V . Fri, Sat. - 6:00 P.M, Thurs. Sat. Wed. Fri. 8. Governor Cobb leaves Key West Tues. 8. Governor Cobb leaves Havana Mon., pa leaves Key West Monday, Friday. . Cuba leaves Havana Tuesday, Saturday, Above hours are based on Eastern Standard Time PORT TAMPA-KEY WES?T- FROM PORT TAMPA TL Sunday, Thursday.. Key West Monday, Friday Key West Monday, Friday Havana Monday, Friday. . Havana Tuesday, urday. . Key West Tuesday, Saturday . Key West Tuesday, Saturday Port Tampa Wednesday, Sunday AVANA LINE DAY, APRIL Cuba leaves Port Tampa Sunday, Thursday. Cuba leaves Havana Tuesday, Saturday, Above hours are based on Kastern Standard Time 8. ¥ & P. Ay dacksonvil . F. J. SAUNDERS, Vv. P. & G. M., J. H. COSTAR, Agent, Key West, Fin. - GAS CONSUMERS Please note the dates of meter readings on your gas bills this month, The Gas Company's office will be upen until 9 o'clock every Saturday night for the pay: ment of bills and sale of merchandise. GAS SERVICE CoO.