The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 22, 1926, Page 4

/ OUR fe KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING Co. L. P. ARTMAN, President. > IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. rAGE { tured «. Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member ef the Associated Press * The Aserrtnted Press is exclusively entitled to use for Femubtication of all news dispatches credited to ‘t ew = t otherwise credited in this paper and also the focal news published here, Se SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Méde known on application. Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect and obituary actices 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 xe 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- vat, but it will not -publish anonymous ‘communica- ons. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. “Hotel Guest Overcome”—Headline. He had probably gotten a glimpse of his bill. A modern Don Quixote might amuse himself by tilting at some of our political windbags. ‘Home is said to be the most beautiful word, but the ball players say home run is better. The government tells us how to handle wool, and it should also inform us how to treat bobbed hair: * After waiting about twenty years for Con- gressional relief, the wise farmer gets a job in town. ‘ {It is claimed that people should be taught to do things, but a good many of them are interested therely in doing someone. A California pioneer declares he worked a year for a barrel of whiskey in 1846, and some would consider that good wages now. « A convieted burglar has applied for a new fvial on the ground that the man who identified him bad his head under a blanket while the hous tas being robbed. 3 STATE’S RIGHTS (North Miami Courier) The State of Florida has entered suit in the United States Supreme Court to test the con- stitutionality of the recently ‘enacted Federal In- heritance Law. The State contends that the law is ungonstitutional because it is an infringement of State’s Rights. This matter of the supremacy of the State to exelusively legislate for its citizens in certain matters has been a bone of contention for more than a century. It caused a civil war that waged for four years and took a toll of several million lives.. The fact that this war was lost to the South, the contenders for State’s Rights, has en gendered a feeling in the Northern and Eastern State§ that the matter was settled. But war, re- gardiéss of which side is victorious, cannot settle Issues that directly af fect home and family have never been enforced matters of inherent right. by the power of might. The right of the State of Florida to repeal its inheritance tax laws, and make such laws in the future prohibitory by constitutional amendment, is ungnestioned. But other States, seeing wealth gradually flow to the place where it receives the best protection, became jealous and the present | unfaifFederal law resulted. Black's Constitutional Law, a recognized au- thority on the subject, says: “It is not within the constitutional power of congress to so adjust the revenue system of the United States as to interfere with or defeat the operations of the State governments within the sphere of their legitimate activities.” This view was upheld by the State Courts of Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee, and by the Su preme Court of the United States in the case of the National States, Merchant's it will be interesting to follow the proceed- the highest tribunal will hand down in the matter of the present inheritance law. It is a matter that vitally affects the future welfafe of this State. ings aud decision that Bank versus the United | RISE OF THE POTATO to the importance of the once It is hard to realize timony tuber as an article of food. that, excepting in Ireland, the general use of the potato covers a pericd of less than 150 y In Ireland the potato became a staple article of diet about a century earlier, and from this fact arises the name Irish potato, although its origin appears to have been in Peru, where the natives have eaten it from time immemorial. From Peru the potato was first carried Spain by early Spanish explorers of the World, and thence into Italy, but it was looked upon as a curiosity, and as such wa N seen in the botanical gardens of Europe for two centuries or more before its adoption for food purposes came general. Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have been the | first to cultivate the potato in Ireland, about 159 | At first it was used for feeding hogs, but little by | little experiments were made to demonstrate that it was not harmful to human beings, so that it very gradually came into use for food, particularly dur- | ing periods of famine. It was not until about 1750 that the potato gained a permanent foothold in England and on the continent of Europe, and it was cultivated but | little in America before that time. The spread of potato culture was greatly accelerated by the scar city of food following the Napoleonic wars in the early part of the nineteenth century, since which time its use has steadily increased. But while the potato was originally ‘looked upon with disfavor, and supplied food only for | the poorer classes, its present high price brings it almost into the class of luxuries, available only to the well-to-do. . SHOULD NOT TOLERATE LYNCHINGS (Lakeland Star-Telegram) From the reports published in the newspapers and the statements coming direct from citizeris who witnessed the LaBelle lynching, a bunch of rough- necks have disgraced the state of Florida and they should pay the penalty. Even the sheriff, learn ing that the negro had been taken by a mob, made himself scarce and the city marshal stood right by | for | the automobile and with the negro begging mercy, saw him brutally tortured without lifting his hand in defense. John Martin take the whole matter in his hands and‘see justice is done not only the people of the com- should that Gov. munity who are law-abiding and who do not ap- | prove of the lawless element, taking the law in its hands, but that the whole state as far as pos- sible looks with shame upon any element that can- not and will not listen to reason. It has developed now that the negro lynched did not attack or attempt to attack any woman, that the woman became frightened at seeing the negro after dark, begged the mob not to lynch him | and that the whole trouble has been that the rozgh neck element in that locality, many of whom were in the mob, was instigated because negroes had been brought to that section to do the hard wprk and work which that same lawless element would | not even attempt to do. The statement of the cowardly sheriff himself is enough to convince the public that it was not an attach upon a woman that caused the lynching but that they just had to do something to scare out the negroes who were being brought into LaBelle by the white men and the sheriff says they were taking.the jobs away from the white men. the newspaper there was threatened if she print ed what actually happened, as she was one of the witnesses to the mob, along with a number of others. The same rough element has sent it cowardly warnings to others in the community saw the lynching but at the same time the better element of LaBelle is fighting that same element; out honest, hard-working man, whether he be black ot they want to clean them and protect white, and the prosecuting attorney, the coroner and the judge of the court, along with the go ernor, should insist that every man connected with the crime be placed behind the s and this illegal practice of jumping at conclusions and starting a mob by a gang of hoodlums, stopped at once and if necessary the trials should be held in another county where some justice can be secured through juries and witnesses. It is even claimed and it i beli men who were bers of white men who cl: d it can be proven that at least twe on the coroner's jury we the mob themselves. Is it im to be American they getting to the where are point the Spanish inquisition a mob rule and that th ot & and can be selves and appr with Governor Martin sent the wishes sheriff and he will receive this tate if the governor Ni cution of the avages his powers. men who marry for money f wives who marry for alim merely | be- | Even the woman editor of | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DRILTIN — 7 AWNs ResPecT THE WISHES AN? FEELINGS OF to | | ” AND REMEMBER - THE VERY UNBECOMING “ |The Highly Responsible Duty Recent high prices of potatoes bear added tes- | Ee of Inclining the Twig Ne oe oe eee @ Yezzir” ” ANO NEVER Tke TAN WHICH BELONGS To ANGHER * | SELFISH, GRAB TALL FoR | YOURSELF, SPIRIT IS VERY, | | ‘ir annual coal strike seems to abroad for the summer. ran have everything your need by not haying any. strike a match in a powder y or play bridge with experts. Ta Philadelphia a reformer says the world is growing worse. There are too many reformers. ‘ Fine wedding present Is a “Small- pox” sign for nailing on the door when bill collectors start. Babe Ruth is getting home runs: Now if Dempsey would only fight the world would be much more enjoy+ able. | (Copyright. 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) | exe | DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON eocee Words often misused: Don’t “he is apt to be here soon.” |Say “likely to be.” | Often mispronounced: Entree. | Pronounce an-tra, the f ‘arm,” last a as in “tray, syllable. Often misspelled: to). | i} | a as in sent | (a nonyms: order, Command, instruc- tion, lirection, mandate. Word study: “Use a word three tmes and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mas- terin word each day. To word: Pseudonym; a titious name “His stories were published under __ the pseudonym one { ‘Raymond’.” LOOK AND LEARN By A. C. GORDON rrrrrrrrrrrrrrirr ttt tty 1 What state i Land of Sunshine?” 2. 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Ameri wasn’t to blame, so Charles says. + cunpuceiiaig © 0° 9 ens HARLES has written to all the members of the Senate and House committees on education, offering to come down to Washing- first} ton and straighten the whole thing out. pa fee “It was not Vespucel who named the new world,” his letter states, “put a genial Alsatian poet by the | name of Mathias Ringman, who | coed the word’ ‘America’ and in- duced his friend, the great cartog- rapher, Martin Waldseemueller, to put it on the map. ij “It has a distinct meaning—'en- lightened energy.’ + “How it all happened fs the strang- est and most romantic . episode , in American_history.”* NO MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKES Among certain tribes of North American Indians it is considered a breach of etiauette for to speak to his mother-in-law un- der any consideration, He raise the taboo if he does some espe y worth-while feat or at the invitation of the mother-in- iaw who does so by presenting a valuable gift to the man. The Indians of these tribes may joking- ly refer to almost any other rela- tives by mar otherwise, but it is not e in the nothers-in-law, a man can or FRESH WESTERN STEAKS OF ALL KINDS WE HAVE IN LLED UP-TO-DATE ELECTRIC TOASTER PECIAL PLATE | IN FRESH FRESH AN DINNER AND NCHEON INCLUD. ME AND VEG ABLES SANITARY RESTAURANT Menroe Theatre Bldg. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926. FOR REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS SEE THE KEY WEST INVESTMENT CO. 124 DUVAL STREET PHONEQ™No. 688-W, ‘WM. CATES, Manager. ! It is the earnest aim of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK to render the very best accommodation, consistent with wise banking practice. Come in and talk over the matter of your re- quirements. IRST NATIONALBANK & Key WeEsr, FLa. ‘Florida East Coast Railway FLAGLER SYSTEM THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE Effective April 20, 1926 SOUTHBOUND \ ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M. NORTHBOUND AVE 7:30 P. M. Havana Special 2:00 P. M. Royal Poinciana Dining Car Service—Trains 75 and 26 For Further Information See the ‘Ticket Agent J. D. 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