The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No Key West Residents In General Join In Observance Of Boys’ Week PASTORS AT VARIOUS Truthful Adverti CHURCHES DELIVER SERMONS IN CONNEC-. TION WITH EVENT —- | 43 Qnanationa’| Rotary Boys’ Week started off | most auspiciously yesterday. by | the pastors of the city churches) preaching from texts appropriate to the day, and the attendance of boys was notably large at most every church. Rev. E. L. Ley, |i pastor of the Ley Memorial Meth-| edist church, planned the gram of the day, and the s held created additional interest in Boys’ Week, which is to continue until next Sunday. Today is Educational Day and Evening at Home, with the pro- gram handled by Melvin E. Russell, county superintendent of educa- tion. Through the courtesy of Manager Juan Carbonell boys of school age were admitted to the theatre’ free at two performances, one at 10 a. m. and the other at 11:30. This evening the boys will be entertained at home by - their parents, and by Dad especially; or possibly a friend may ask them| in to spend the evening. The program for the remainder of the week, as announced by George V. Perpall, chairman of the Boys’ Week committee, is as fol- lows: Tuesday—Boys’ day in citizen- chip. At the High ‘Sehool dudi- torium at 10 a, m. there will be a ten-minute talk on each of, the following subject City govern- ment, county government, state government. At this time the boy |’ mayor, hoy chiel-elpolies, boy po- lice judge and boy chief of fire department will be introduced. In te afternoon these lads will be given an opportunity to visit the department heads which they rep- resent for the purpose of instruc- tion, and the boys to report to tchool the result of same. .This day in charge of L. R. Warner. Wednesday—Water sports at Fort Taylor bath honse, where there will be conducted swimming races and canoe races for the boys in their respective classes. Boys} ere to bring their own canoes, two| Night, just at a time when the rain/ boys to cach. Classes as follows:| ¥48 Coming down in torrents. He} Grade A, 83 pounds or less; Grade | S*Y8 two negroes made a grab for| B, over 83 pounds, atidler 107! his money bag, snatching it from pounds; Grade C, over 107 pounds, | hand, but it was dropped in the | bedet {8 years af age. | scuffle that ensued and coins were} seattered all over the place. The} Evening at 8:00 O'clock two negroes made a safe getaway, Boxing at Key West Athletic} firing tack at a citizen who hap. Club. mitted free. Don’t miss this, as a good ecard has been arranged for the purpose of an evening of real entertainment. This day in charge of Geo. V. Verpall. Thursday—Father and son day at Rotary lunchcon. Each Re tar'an will bring his own son Beatrice McCrorry of Rushville, Ind. accidentally swallowed some lye an her throat swelled shut. operations were performed to sav her life. The first 42 were unsuccess ful; the 43rd was better. and she? live. NEGROES ROB MERCHANT ON FRANK MASTRIJANIS. SAYS HE WAS ATTACKED BY FOR MONEY Frank Mastrijanis, known as the “Monkey Man’ ” was business on Duval street Saturday | to chase them. The “Monkey Man” says he lost about $35, He does not know if the robbers got any of the money, ince it is probable that the whole mount may have beome lost when he coins were scatter Justice of Peace Regelio Gomez has led Constables Rebert Carey and Leroy Torres to investigate the case. One negro has been arrested, but was rel ed when the “Monkey. Man” fail: grand loyalty} to identify him. ‘ p.m. All boys *ns- Frank Mastrijanis has been semble at the monument opposite | robbed in this way quite frequent- the postoffiec, and each organiza-| ly in the past. tien is requested to turn out near 100 per cent as possible, ‘COURT OFFICIAL _ bringing with them bands, bugles SERVED WITH ORDER or any type of musical instrument that can be used while on parade, al and flags, A quantity of signs will be furnished. Let's) Boyles, United States district at- make this the biggest and best /torney at Mobile, whose nomina- boys’ parade. This day in charge jtion for a term. wag re- Jack Maher. cently ected by the United SatuFday track meet at States senate, was today served Prac 2:00 p. with an order citing him to show les he should not be bar- tance red from the federal court here ps ehinning the |The order was served on Boyles over 83 as he returned to his office this g from Washington. or| "3 son as his guest.| 5 few jokes, sev-| This day in Perpall. parade at 4 (Ry Associnted Fm © banner MOBILE, May .—Aubrey second of Capt rej Boys? at Class ks at m. pound 50 dz baseball di ranning 107 banctal br yard throw; why " broad ju n ane bar. un- sh net der po 70 yard « mornit distance throw; ronn the har. under will which enter be an open track meet in any individual or team may with ight 100 yard hase no restrictions te age the rd dash; 220 yard dash; 60 yard high Seeeeeceeersseecvcoesees ‘umn: ron- AMUSEMENTS: MONROE THEATRE TODAY pound pale va half-mile rel four, ards. nts n of each runner cover- Above e * Charles Mu in charge of Capt. and Geo. V, Per- “K Pride OW St pall TOMORR( e awarded for all Forty-thre; | DUVAL STREET ROBBERS WHO MADE GRAB’ commonly | attacked by robbers at his place of | “All boys of sehool age ad-| pened to come up and attempted | y best, ising Most Essential In Every Instance | OFFICIAL OF ORLANDO MENT ON ACTIVITIES (By Ansociatea Press) SEBRING, Fla., May 24.—The biggest of all considerations in; connection with the Florida com- munity advertising body today, declared Carl Hunt, executive! | vice president of the Orlanda Chamber of Commerce and for | Several years manager of the As- of Florida secretaries of Cham- bers of Commerce here, this fore- ‘noon, is that it shall be not only} absolutely truthful, but outand- ingly convineing as well, “[T do not speak of Florid: the great weakness of community | advertising in the past, and especi- ally direct mail advertising mat-) ter, such as booklets, ete., is that it has so often been untruthful I believe that Florida communitie: i than communities in some other} | parts of the country. | is not good enough, you had bet- ter not advertise it at all,” he con- tinued. ‘People of all classes re- sent being, lied: to, and leading commefcial © advertisers learned many years ago that the man who misrepresents in his advertising is not only a knave, but a fool in the bargain. Such advertising does not pay. It is money thrown jaway. If either the text or pic- tures in your literature give a! | false impression of your city, you | will be better off if no one who sees it ever comes to see _ town, because you cannot afford to | start off with a stranger by hav-| |ing him discover that you have lied.” Mr. Hunt said that some time | ago there came across his desk) |two folders advertising Florida communities. One booklet issued by the Orlando Chamber of Commerce in which | every illustration, including the | cover, was taken from actual) photographs. He said anyone who ij jcertain point in Orlando, | looking across Lake Eola, pick out everything shown on the cover, in- cluding the color and the flowers in the foreground. . The artist was not permitted to change one line, The other booklet, he said, came from a city considerably smaller than Orlando, but he declared that if you were to look at the cover of this booklet you might think you were looking at the sky line of lower Manhattan. “Some time ago I said that pub- lic! aid Mr. Hunt, “and after- ward I had letters from two men, explaining about their sky lines and telling me something about their literature. Oddly enough, neither one was connected with the Chamber of Commerce which did issue the booklet I was talking about. The speaker said that an adver- tisement, to be effective, must be Seen Read Understood Believed Acted upon Whether it will be seen (in the case of direct mail advertising. whether it will be noticed or CHAMBER OF coM-| MERCE MAKES COM. sociated Advertising Clubs of the| World, in addressing the meeting] alone,” he said, “When I say that} the} was a new) wished to do so might go to a) and, | The Kep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926. CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S CLINIC TO BE CONDUCTED IN KEY WEST ‘WOMAN'S CLUB _ PLANS MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT LureRARY SESSION TO TAKE PLACE IN WITH ANNIVERSARY OF OR- GANIZATION CONNECTION | | | There will be a iiterary meet-}| {ing of the Woman's Club held in! the auditorium of the Monroe ;county high school tomorrow eve- jning, commencing at 7:30 o’clock. This will be an unusually inter- jesting meeting, for it marks the janniversary of the Woman’s Club jin Key West. An exealient pro-} gram has been prepared, with | every number — especially ap-| propriate to the occasion. There wiil be a number of features of | {exceptional interest, including’ a | paper on the Woman’s Club, which | was written and will be read by |Miss Marie L. Cappick. | All members of the club, and jespeciaily the older ones, are in- | vited to attend. The club hopes! 0 have a record attendance at this event, because it is the birth-| day of the organization in the; Island City. | Program | 1—“Florida, My | the Club. 2—“The Florida,” by | Key West Woman’s! with a verde have sinned less in this respect | Club, Its Inception and Organiza-| donc,” as has happened on tion.’ 3- ber Reading of the charter mem- t, first members of the Club{ “If the truth about your town! and its officers, by Mrs. Philip| 2nd ready to | Cosgrove. | 4—Song, “We Remember Key: | West and Our Club,” sung by a! Jinal Verses by Mrs. A. D. Luethi, | piano accompaniment by Mrs. Frank Ladd. 5—“Penrod’s Letter” (Booth| +, | Tarkington), Mrs. Melvin. Russell. 6—Poems: “Cayo Hueso,” “A Red Rose for Love.” Selected from “Under Tropic Skies” by |Miss Marie Louise | Cappick;/ read by Miss Leila Pitcher. 7—Choruses: “Auld baad yne” and “Key West, U. A.,”| by Club women and the os h | bands. ‘MUSICAL COMEDY AT SAN CARLOS ENTIRE COMPANY ALREADY IN CITY FOR INDEFI- NITE STAY | discovered the ‘0 of musical San Carlos is e, with Tommy in the South cal comedy | Announcement | comedy revue at | made in this i Burns, well known as one of the best mus characters in the count The under the manage ment of Harry Cordray, who has years of practical experience Mr. Perdoma, manager of San Carlos Theatre, stated that he felt sure this was the kind of show that would please the public, of the features of the being vaudeville specialties. Price admis. reasonable, i advertisement. a show is one how which is ted of ion, in- deed very the whether it will get proper atten-| tion) depends largely en its tractiveness, he said, and he gested that communities tha afford to issue latge quantities ttractive literature might bet- t out smaller qua nore careful about the method distribution, thus making the smaller number of pieces serve more usefully, A good deal of such literature wasted at the he said. ised against the use generally speaking, where they set forth rm. He also said tha and diagrams were effective in such adver- matter, al f statistic es- peciall can- hree lives wer | there will be 5,000 fewer cripples | State | located throug } local Red Cross Chapter and the | Childrer |eroup of early club women, origi®* and} yr | broader visien For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW YORK GITY STILL LEADS “BIG FOUR” IN POPULATION Where Roads Are Really Bad Every time you see a crippled child remember this: “In 1936 because of the work of the Shrine Hospitals.” That is why Dr. F. L. Fort, orthopedic surgeon of the of Health t on May ‘DEPARTMENT OF COM- | MERCE COMPILES FIG- URES IN ESITMATES OF 289 CITIES Department is coming to Key We: 2 to hold a clinic and-examine the | ppled children who have been | zh the efforts of the| velunteer worker's who have sisted in the There are 14 as- survey the clinic whom the worker: In sueb case will the parents kindly call the Red Cre office and leave name and address, providing they would like Dr. Fort to see the child. This work will be sponsored’ by the Secttish Rite orders, The Clinic will be held in the High School building. beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., and continue throughout the day until every ehild has received a thorough ex- mination. Supt. Russell and the school nurses are co-operating in this Phase of Red Cross work. The Clinic will be directly in charge of the nurses, and all doc- tors of the city are cordially in- vited to attend. A history of every case will be made, together with the diagnosis and recom- mendations as to treatment, and this data placed with the Crippled s Committee will enable definitely on any case. r of sendir a child to vital and having it returned othing can be (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 24.— | Estimates of the population of |229 cities having 30,000 or more jinhabitants were announced to- |day by the department of | merce. | The estimates, prepared by the ‘census bureau and carrying the children for | doubt a few failed to find, and no com- |figures up to July 1, this year, are based in most cases on the as- sumption that the annual increase | since 1920 has been the same as |the average between 1910 and |1920. For cities in states which took a state census in 1925, the estimates are based on the 1920 \to 1925 average annual increase. Estimates were not given for 12 |cities where the last census show- ed a decrease in population nor for ten eities where exceptional conditions of growth, which would leause estimates tobe far from pretty as ever, too—|correct, are believed to prevail. , that’s how jt looked to/ Allowance is made for annexations a trip me from that palm-crowned hilltop and detachments of territory. y from home oe onally,” down Matanzas way. si | The big four, the country’s only id Rufus Steele, the writer, who, 1s be ‘cities having a million or more with Mrs. Steele, has just return- “Take other towns with a vision| population, show no change’ in ed from a two weeks trip that r- possibly léss ingrowing than our | rank, New York leads with 5,- ried them as-far South as the in- own. Take Key West. We found| 294,000 against 5,620,048 in terior of Cuba. leading men of that town with} 1920. New York City’s boroughs “When one focu the town ‘their eyes so firmly glued on some-|are estimated as follows: Bronx throughoa fey s! + advedoghite: of thing big and fine that is due to}g00,000; Brooklyn. 2,240,000; distance’ or from’ across the water come to them next ycar that they| Manhattan 1,877,000; Queens he loses the outlines of its internal wercn’t doing any special brow-| 764,000 and Richmond 143,000. problems and takes note of our wrinkling over the quietness re Chicago passed the three mil- grand little burg as a factor in the the real estate. market in this! lion mark for the first time with general scheme of things,” Mr. merry month of May. They are|3,048,000 against 2,701,705 in Steele elucidated.. “I had the dis- looking forward to the coming of| 1920, Philadelphia crossed the * t'net convict’on that, at the mo- the auto highway into Key West|two million mark. It retdins third ment, one who is on outside and they are pushing the building | place with 2,008,000 against 1,- looking in gets a more cheerfully of that great read across the keys 823,779. Detroit continues fourth vy of u end with all their | with 1,290,000 against 993,678. Gublelic an badtheer ie ke , is on the inside looking t summer one could ‘Ten cities comprising the h years of childhood received the) “The fact is, a man looking drive northward. from Key West] million to a ‘million class - medical and surgical care, northward from an inspiring hill- only four or five miles. Now they | Cleveland 960,000 agains first the anxious mother top down in the neighborhood of spin you up seventeen miles of 841; St. Louis 830,000 against little twisted foot Matanzas can see very clearly that splendid roadway to a section thet 772,897; Baltimore 808,000 against r the limp in the walk, but for the great movement of the Amer- is under construction. As they; 733,826; Boston 878,000 against want of a few dollars the child, ican people that is re build northward the upper portion! 748,000; Pitteburgh was allowed to grow crooked as, Florida's development of the highway is being pushed against 694,277; Los Angeles not the years passed on. as far southward a: south d from Key Largo. The estimated had 576,673 in 1920; no er-ppled child need and that, in spite of money and the men necessary to; San Franeiseo 667,000 ayninst d or suffer for want of | and perfectly ni keep the road going are on the! 596,676; Buffalo 544,000 against There are en ithe human t »b. The only appear to 506,775; Washington 528,000 Shrine hospitals and the doors are surge eight-mile and one twelve-|against 487,571 and Milwaukee open to the crippled children. Mr. stretch of water between! 517,000 against 457,147. James J. Da ecretary of Labor Fort keys. Two different parties are| The 400,000 class estimated are h s this to say for the children her offering to put in toll bridges if Newark 459,000 against 414,545; Baie oe she. world Be or plentitude of our. the federal government will ap-| Minneapolis 434,000 against 380, pages ty gn ie ene hee The ent prove, and if the government is/582; New Orleans 419,000 against philade Greate than. the lite ofc folks slacken- too in acting, the plan is to) 387,219; Cincinnati 411,000 man. It is a promise to the fu- ach of ferryhoats and lagelnet S0Lpet: fave: abdithe de tiny fthe titure i make it possible to ro'l down the; Estimates for the larger cities id the hand % child: fr Jacksonville to Key ‘in the southern states are as fol- Sigheck the chihdeen! vebane lows: Birmingham led Alabama > fost cities in growth, advancing from their opportuni 178,806 in 1920 to an estimated ing useful places in the 211,000 in 1926. Mobile d you have failed in credited with 60,777 in 1920 ‘and T r 66,809 in 19% Montg figures were and respectively. Little Roek, the only city listed, sprang from 6 1920 to 76,900 in 1926. Only three Florida cities were recorded by the ensus bureau, Jacksonville, Pensacola and Tar pa. Jacksonville figures raised from 95,450 in 1925 state to 96,500 in the estimate 1926. gi for lest recorded ir liet q 102,000 resp Roads almost unbelievably bad exist in the Lisbon ofl field’area, in south- ern Arkansas. Richard C. Craven, agent for the American Humane Association, has filed a special report dealing with the hardships endured by the mules who have to pull wagons over them. This picture shows one team bogged in the soft mud of the roadway, Craven declares *@ aaw 30 scenes like this in a short time. Cuba and F Seles Rufus Steele Outlines Observations of Development After Visit to Key West and the Island Republic. them t No dan; the hos “It helps a citizen of Fort Lau-|ting j derdale to gain a clearer perspee-/at | ve pf his town if he t , pervio casesg thereby unnecessary expense, Every one should be interested et with this work ef conserving the childhood of the nation, This Glinic is vitally important not only to the fathers nd mothers ofithess shildren, bit {to every’ man, woman and child. And the important thing to be r membered is that now is the time | of helping and hegling. Psychi s a that all maladies to ubject is mor in the forma’ any of the physically dicapped men and women of might have been given happiness and Wholesome v £ the a : han one who ‘from the ut. might. I Whe ponsible for is being felt the equator, yrary ing of ather again proper cer- j worries It by tudes, mile n to arain and cortain, c heart-beats. Here ir auderdale hipped by the town’s attractions. the ingress n ed we began to wonder unted attract ¢ } rrated or ha¢ No fe of either as pretty as ever, and v one bout one have been is mo of whether couple our va _ been Dixie to do ede in fer (Continued cn Page 8) REALTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT SESSION TO BE HELD OFFICES OF GARRISON PARK CORPORATION utmost chance ies fe and as GETS PARDON pmery 47,000 Edward Fluke, for mur Governor: " ple you ha strengthen te rving a Lirecting You can- a de wher tence pardoned ne, Arkonsas a 142 in convin 65, IN sere A Realt meeting of BR ening card i census Pensacola 25,305 in the year, with no figure: 1926 estimated had 94,748 and tivel at for wa i in the Garriron tate cen itmost of the meet importance city will be 57,121 in the 1920 cen timated 58,500 in 1926 41,5 g, it ix an attendance large us and nd 47, ton figure 500 and L 11,000, New CROCK COMEDY William de Mill has and produced the cleverest crook comedy. of a Orlean from % and ed 219 in 1920 le the written |“ t 119,000, port O00 in screen's A ro raffles. fro BATS to & ear period | Charlotte, ranking among Ni mance female ombines mystery, melodrama, orth Carolina cities, AG,3% nd 54,400 while Winston mirth, speedy action and good For a splendid “A Splendid Crime” given reanes the acting time at the MONROE THEATRE TOMORROW s2e el Sal eader, jumped from 48 £00. Durham was given 1925 in 1920 and » 42,258 and 42,900; in Tih, Greens ud 48,700; 37,700, t $502,000 was in Harvey, bore 43,525 Wilmington 23,