The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1926, Page 4

/ tAGE FOUR THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING Co. L. P, ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1926. 0 DD DD DD | \ Keep Your Food $ Sanitary By Keeping It Cold. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN JOKES TIF ISPSIPLI IAC “Alls well that ends well,” and this is true | of jokes as well as anything else. But there are | | some people in every community who seem to have | + = : = Way Down East a very poor conception of wit and humor. Real, harmless jokes are all right, and frequently afford much fun and pleasure. But false reports and | “rumors” Lroadcasted in the guise of a joke are frequently equivalent to actual crime and may bring about situations that are embarrassing, if | not really serious, | Some time ago a well known young man of | Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ciated Press is exclusively entitled to use frr re lication of all news dispatches credited to *t or «= t otherwise credited In this paper and also local wews published here. fhe Ae the —— SUDSCRIPTION RATES Key West was reported drowned while on a fish ing trip. The rumor gained general circulation ir the city, and when traced down was found to have been sprung by one of his pals as a “joke.” a Three One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. —$—$—$————— Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect and obituary ectices other than those which the paper may give a8 matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 vents a line. Notice of church and society and all other enter- ainments from which a revenue is to be derived will Se charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general inter- ‘st, but it will not publish anonymous communica- dons. . ——$—_—_ ooo — “{MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. —— “Get ready to vote tomorrow—and vote. : Key West—a first-class city with a first-class posteffice. A whole lot of candidates are going to be elected—to hear them tell it. Do you read The Citizen’s “Daily Lessons in English?” It would certainly be time well spent. The result of the American people being on tlie’ go all the time, is that their money is on the gone. N “© @ne vote may elect or defeat a candidate. “your vote may be that one. Be sure you vote tomorrow. : * © The politicians feverishly throw their hats in- to the ring, régardiess of their bald spots left ex- “ppsed. to the breeze, Poland is entitled to the pole’ by right of name, regardless of the fact that an American Byrd flew over it first. Friend Candidate will expect you at the polls tomorrow. Don’t disappoint him. Your one vote may mean his election. “The men are critized for putting their feet ‘op the desks, tables, etc., but anyway while there no. one is stepping on them. The time seems to have gone by when the young men callers could be entertained by show- them the pictures ir the family photograph album. A movement to improve the American home wopld be all right, provided people would stay in one place long enough to know where their home was. ¢ * Such wonderful success has been achiéved in developing brain power, that it is often difficult to find anyone with enough muscle to hoe the garden. o"Mr. Unknown” seems to own most of the land@ in Dade county, judging from the delinquent tax list of that county which took up 24 news- paper pages, gy Monroe county deplores the occasional killings | thatvare few and far between in this county, but think of the Hillsboro county grand jury starting | in Wednesday to probe ten murder cases, five of the crimes having been committed within the pasi three weeks. * A day or two ago a young man well known here was reported to have been the victim of a ‘fatal automobile accident. It was found that there was no foundation | whatever for the report. And, further, it learned that the young man had an aged grand- mother who is afflicted with heart trouble, had this report reached her it would probably h The rumor was wide- | spread. was | and meant her immediate death as a result of the shock it would have given her. & There can be no possible justification for | creating such groundless reports as these. If they | are jokes, they are the cruelest kind of jests that could be imagined. They benefit no one, there is no fun about them, they are alarming to the ,ex- treme and cause a lot of anxiety, yet it is all so unnecessary and uncalled for. This cruel form of joking should be stopped, and it cannot be done | too soon, A MUCH NEEDED PRISON REFORM (Bernarr Macfadden in New York Evening le Graphic) { That our prison system needs reforming is not | disputed. | The greatest difficulty lies in securing the | veform. | One of the evils of our present prison system | lies in the manner in which it gives the product of | the prisoner’s labor to some one else and permits:| his family to suffer. | We may be justified in punishing lawbreakers, | but we are surely not justified in punishing their | families. , Often the greater suffering falls upon the innocent family. The prisoner is forced to work. | He works hard. " | The product of his labor is disposed of. i But his family has no share in the proceeds. | The Federal government has taken a long step in the right direction in its prison at Leaven- | worth, Kan. | They have opened a new million dollar shoe | factory there. | The convicts will make shoes for the army | and navy. i The factory can turn out about three thousand | pair of shoes per day and will employ seven hun- | dred convicts. : These men will receive small wages. In the case of married men these wages will | ‘be sent to their families to assist in their main- |: tenance. If the convict has no family or no pending upon him for support the money will be reserved for him until his release. one de This is an approach toward a eommon sense method of handling conviets. We have come a long way in this respect since the middle ages. enough. We are still far from treating convicts like But we have not advanced far We do not treat them in a manner that is calculated to turn them away from crime. And to show that we ourselves do not have human beings. any faith in the reforming power of our convict system, we refuse to have anything to do with the released prisoner. He is an outcast. Often he is literally forced to crime to “‘get The next step we should undertake should be te abolish capital punishment. ‘ Instead of death—sentence the man to prison for life. Then, in prison, make his labor contribute te the support of his own family if he has one, and to the support of the family of his victim if he or she has such. To hang a murderer relieves him of all fur \ ther responsibility. MARY AND HER LAMB Henry Ford is rebuilding, as a part of s eclonial collection at the Wayside inn at Sadbury, Mass., the old schoolhouse around which centers the famous verse of “Mary had a little lamb”. Some of the eld folks would like to see the sophisticated modern youth go back to the simple old days when they used to recite this ancient ditty at the school exhibitions, and think it was great stuff. teach a generation of very rough b But that poem was probably written to and girls that it was worth while to be kind to animals. 1 these days the children have pretty well learned that lesson, so that “the world do move” after all. | killi He is gone. But the family of his victim is not cared for tioreby They are left to suffer. Ilis own family is also made to suffer 1 necessarily No wrong is righted, no evil an offender against the law. remedied suffering is lessened—except that of the Ris + rer. orries are over after his execu bilities are met. Make the prisoner productive, Make him « tribute to these he wronged. be made | enough to put sheets on the bed. covered a teXphone pole. 7. ; ‘ GOSH’ AIn'T IT At last the weather is warm | BY CHARLES P STEWART A Service Writer ASHINGTON—after : tionally peaceful Congress — with insurgency squelched. Republicans and Demo crats working in harmony and every thing as lovely as you please—ad Mussolini plays a violin. So did Nero. y excep ee session of rth polz's discovered. South ‘overed. But our auto dis Lots of pole discoveries these days. Pilsudsi:l discovered a great many | Poies in Poland. hubbut going on B.N Vare s defeat of George Whar | tun Pepper and Gifford Pinchot for the Republican senatorial nomina tion | ourft by the ears Our army {s buying automatic po- tato peelers. Buck privates used to | be automatic pctato peeler What's ina name? Two army offi: | cers were airested at Fort Crook. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) | JK one thing its the first bad Boa In the Coolidge luck Everybody knows the adminis. | tration was pro-Pepper for all it was | worth And he got licked A kick in the pants for @ Republican admin | istration from the most Republican eee eves DAILY LESSONS IN| cisssssi ss By W. L. GORDON pecsescneeees-2ececeeee THE DAY’S NEWS eoace ecaeccceoee Albert B. who is seeking renomination at the hands of the Republican voters in today’s primaries in Iowa, first en tered the United State: ate in 1908, gov- He has three been endo: by thé State and sent hack to Washington, his present term expiring flext March. During the days of the attempted transformation of the Republican Party by Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Cu mins was a progressive in purpos¢ without being a Progre party affiliations. In his ampaign he is standing as and true Coolidge Republican. Senator Cummins is a ‘ tention to problem By A. C. 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