The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1926, Page 4

®AGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ee THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. — Crtegha «. Key West, Floride, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Thachwan-inter Press ts exclusively entitled to use Peborication of all news dispatches credited to e & t otherwise credited in this paper and also theaters! news published here. SUESCRIPTION RATES Qne Mont Weekly. ADVERTISING RATES Made 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 6 cents a line. Notice of church and society and all other enter- imments from which a revenue is to be derived wilt se charged for at the rate o cen 5 ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general inter- st, but it will not publish anonymous communica- dops. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. A wise woman keeps her husband truthful by not asking him too many questions. The titld of a book or movie should never give any inkling of what the thing is about. | Judging by the news from Poland, the capitol’s name should be Sawwar rather than Warsaw. Pennsylvanians drilled 7,400 feet for gas, ignoring the inexhaustable supply in Washington. Daring voyages are not wholly a thing of the past, as a lot of daring navigators are setting sail on the sea of matrimony. When they save a dollar anywhere, the sportive American people usually proceed to blow in|two dollars to celebrate the’ event. The old timers can’t see why the boys will go to the ball games, when it would be much more mteresting to stay at home and weed the garden. People used to oppose the idea of women going into business offices, but it has often had the effect of making the men tend up more regu- larly Formerly the kids used to idle away many hours playing truant, but now they consider it mdre fun to tend up to school and get the teacher’s goat. Sensitive people are troubled about the din of great cities, but those with a good appetite are more annoyed by the kind of dinners frequently provided there. American people are urged to get more in- terested in politics, but they seem less interested i» those who are running for office than in those who are running for bases. If .President Coolidge goes way off into the woods for seclusion this summer, he may not be able to shake hands with more than 600 people a day when he gets back to Washington. They're using embalming fluid in liquor now- If this keeps up, the undertaker” won’t todo anything but fold the victim's hands and put a flower in 'em.—Fort Pierce News-Tribune. THE BOYS AND BASEBALL It seems as if every boy had a right to learn to play baseball and to play it as well as it is in him to do s& It may be thought that every American kid gets that right naturally, but a lot do not. Many may be located so far from any playground or open space that they never have the chance. Many are timid and shrinking little fellows, who long to play, but do not dare to force their way among the more aggressive youngsters, so they never get chancethat should be their birthright as young Americans. They need it because it helps them acquire physical vigor, to do quick and accurate thinking, j to learn the lesson of subordination of their own desires to the interests of team play. inf the cities where adequate arrangements are made for playground work, the boys and girls ob- tain great benefits from participation in baseball and such games. Boys that are playing ball vigor. ously are not getting trained to lawbreaking. il oil industry to HORRORS OF NEXT WAR Charged with the duty world conference on the limitation of armaments, | | of preparing for a a commission representing all the great powers ex- The diffi- eulties which such a conference must face are tre- eepting Russia is in session at Geneva. mendous. Although all nations profess to be genuinely | desirious of finding a way to prevent future wars | all are busy with research and experiments which are developing the most deadly engines of de- struction that the world has ever seen. Electricity and chemistry are playing a large part in these de- velopments. Sir Frederick Soddy of England declares that “if mankind continues to pervert the inventions of science to destructive purposes, civilization in the twentieth century will commit suicide.” Radio control of ships and bomb-carrying air- craft is being rapidly perfected. New and deadlier gases are being compounded. A new discovery is said to have increased the possible effect of bombs a hundred times. firing disease germs from artillery and dropping them from airplanes. Russia is experimenting with In a recent report. the British Society for | Chemical Research said: ‘What happened in the late war is mere child’s play compared with what | will happen between industrial and scientifically advanced powers” in the next clash of arms. Major General Fries, head of the American chemical warfare service, declared that this form of offense “will be fifty times more deadly and effective in any future conflict than it was in the world war.” Will the world’s statesmen be able to devise a plan whereby the indescribable and struction of another great war may be prevented? Or, will so-called Christians nations finally destroy one another? horror de- POWER OF 170 MILLION Before the advent of steam and electricity, when all manufacturing was done by hand, the produc‘ion of a community or a nation was neces- sarily limited by the number of its population. One man merely meant one man’s power and one man’s production. How this situation has been changed by the introduction of power-driven machinery is forcibly stated in a recent address by J. E. Davi dent of the National Electric Light which he declared that electric motors in the Unit- ed States are doing as much work every day as could be accomplished by 170,000,000 men. When it is considered that there are only 45,- 000,000 men and women engaged in gainful -oc- cupations in this country, the significance of Mr. Davidson’s statement may be better understood. It means that every worker in the United States ha on an average four times the power he would pos sess without the aid of electricity. Yet, he added, the electrical industry is young, and we can again double our producti ‘on, presi- ociation, in we can lift much more of the load from human backs. tricity, he said: “More than ten million homes are not yet wired for electric service; a large part of Ameri- can industry remains to be electrified; only ten per | cent of the farms of: the country have elect ser- vice, and less than two per cent of the rs mileage is electrified.” Who can predict the changes which the future development of electrical power shall bring forth? lroad CRUDE OIL AND GASOLINE | (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) | | Regarding the further possibilities of elec- | While there is no danger of an oil famine in the near future, the present relation of production to consumption is such that an iiicrease of 25 ce a barrel for all grades of crude oil was posted in the Mid-Continent field on May 15. This second raise this year, and crude oil now s the bring: 50 cents a barrel more than the prices prevailing on January 1, or an average increase of 30 to 40 per cent, according to grade. This increase is reflected in the price of gaso | line, further advances in which may be expected in | view of present indications. Despite the backward season, consumption of ; a gasoline has been greater than that of last year, | while the production of crude oil has been ma- | terially less. As a consequence the quantity of erude oil in storage has been somewhat decreased so that the recent advance in price is due to the law of supply condition. nd demand, and not to any artificial Improvements in refining processes, whereby a much larger amount of gaseline from a barrel oc crude oil, have so far e e@ with ever-in While a b. 1 yielded only about 18 per cent of ga in 1 it yielded keep p mands for motor fuel 4 per cent, throug fining proces ses developed during years. Had th we should b improvements not been perf ing a much higher real gasoline f | eevee THE KEY WEST CITIZEN This Bird. Plays No Favorites soccccceserces vsceee ° Peet Soon TLL SRT ALL OVER AGAIN Coe ceescvocscossocessecsssceceeeseeenssseeseses 1, another American has gone ty the north pole and returned the | visit which it paid us last winter. ‘There are enough amateur golf. | ers in the United States to end the british coal strike. | Woman poisoned her husband in | Chicago, but then she had b: ried to him for fifteen years Coolidge, president, went cruising on the Potomac. He's so quiet we | would enjoy going fishing with him. | It's a wise pawnbroker who locates next to a hootlegging joint. Some people -are so silly they worry even when they haven't any almost grown daughters. DAILY LESSONS IN. ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON eoceenccroecesseceoeeees Words often misused: Don’t say “he is going to fix the broken table.” Say “repair.” Often mispronounced: The a pronounced as in preferred to a as in “at.” Rati Often ment. ynonyms: prior, pre dent, former, foreg Word stu U mes and it i. ours. misspelled: Develop. eceding, pre- vious, min prece- | in | | word three Let us by ea in- } se our vocab ary master » word each da if being prov he direc promptitude LOOK AND LEARN» the “He with Promptitude; | senator, at any BY CHARLES P. STEWART SA Service Writer — — Representative James T., muc Jim, Bi of ¢ ly admits that he likes h He rather thinks he likes it better than he would a Senate seat This tsn't hard to und the Senate E would be ate for quite time t s warm. Ss one of | powerful members of the house right now. . HIE three are Speaker worth, Representati Tilson, majority fle Jim Begg. as ant leader. house foreign tee, which is one important of them all But don’t imagine that he confines Long . EGG is chairr of the Serial No, O1RS55 ent of the Interi Departm I Office at -Gain Serial No. O1S839 partment of the Intert Office a By A. C. GORDON oe 1. Wh largest shee} vorld? >. Who What is f the minérals? Answers to Yesterday's Questions | w the uth ns are the} Ira I Rheumatic Pains THE KEY WEST DRUG CO. better known | self exclusively to foreign affairs. ities are manifold, “He can he doesn’t like. At his ‘ things he does like thrive, «I wax fat and hearty. These are among the things he in do, and he does ‘em all the time. eee ALLY Jim is busy, but. e me, he isn’t hurried or fussed. Wanting to see him, I dropped into his office the other day. He doesn’t hang out in the house office | building, like an ordinary representa- tive He has sumptous quarters in the Capitol itself. There he sitting behind a per! fectly clear desk,, resting himself,, ‘pparently with hot a thing in the world on his mind. The idea is, I take it, he's an executive. 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AUGUSTINE ROUTE Effective April 20, 1926 SOUTHROUND ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M. NORTHRO LEAV 7:30 P. M. Havana Special 2:00 P. M. Royal Poinciana Dining Car § For Further In Ticket Agent enger Agent HAVANA POKY TAMPA KEY WEST | THE PENINSULAR AND OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY United States Fast Mall Routes For CURA AND THE WEST INDIES a , Cuba KEY WE Via Port Tampa, Key West Proposed sailing effect on dates shown, Subject to change, cancellation or individual postponement without notice: KEY-WEST-HAVANA LINE AY, APRIL 20, 1926 A. M 3:30 P.M. 10:00 A, M. 5:00 P.M. , Thurs. Sat, . Wed, Fri. Cuba leaves Key We Cuba leaves Havana 4 Above hours are based on rn Standard Time PORT TAMPA-KEY WEST- HAVANA LINE TAMPA TUE! APRIL 2 . Thursday EFFECTIVE DAY, M. A. M. 2 A.M, 4:30 P.M. 10:00 A, M, 5:00 P.M, 7:30 P.M, 11:30 A. M. y, Thursday. andard Time ia. #. J. SAUNDERS, My J. HW, COSTAR, Agent, Key West, Fla. HERE are scores of buyers all over Key West and along the Florida Keys who are waiting for your advertise- ment to appear in The Citizen. They may not know they are waiting; you may not know it. But put your ad in and see what happens.