The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 4

tAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P. ARTMAN, President. TRA J. MOON, business Manager. Ontered a Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of tue Axsociated Press fhe Associateu Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 4 or « 4 otherwise credited in this paper and also al news published here. ae SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘three Months. One Month 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 5 rents 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 6 cents a line. ‘The Citizen 1s an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general inter- st, but it will not publish anonymous communica- deer: IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Re Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion, One's own praises are usually sung in a high key. ‘ Fear of appearing poor is the greatest bar to getting rich. " We must sometimes eat our words, unless we had rather fight than eat. ‘i “3 In our opinion the luckiest lion hunter is the we who doesn’t find any. F te skin remedy. has ever been found effec- tive in-a case of itching palm. man, married in 1858, is probably very still. ~w="Cling to your youth,” is Elinor Glyn’s ad- girls. Sound, but entirely superfluous. e Iowa man didnot speak to his wife for a year, but possibly she gave him no opportunity. ‘ e—_—_—_——- = For pulling, si¢k Yen through many doctors ré@dite credit which ought to go to pretty nurses. Nearly every home contains a Bible and a SOP forder cit but they are not ready with equal avidity, ) A Pittsburgh man bet he would kiss th: first girl he should come to. It took half an hour for him to come to. : Roosevelt wrote “The Winning of the West.” Wayne B. Wheeler appears ambitious to write “The Winning of the Wets.” An apiarist declares that his honey bees are worth their weight in gold, but we had rather have our trousers pockets full of gold. Judge Kavanaugh of Chicago declared some time. ago that there were 118,000 murderers at large, and so far no one has demanded a recount. The staff of a Washington State College paper, called the “Yellow Jacket,” were suspended because its stinger penetrated the skins of the faculty. A GUARDED PROPOSAL Lorenzo Dow, an American evangelist who » ent, to Ireland in 1799 to convert the Catholics ‘of that country to Protestantism, was a bold spirit in many respects, but it appears that he was ex- tremely cautious in matters in which women were | concerned. His tentative proposal of marriage, written to ® young woman of his acquaintance, is a master. piece of consertatism, He wrote as follows: “If I am preserved, about a year and a half | from ¢ountry again; and if during this time you live and remain single, and find no one that you like better now than you do me, and would be willing to give me wp three years out of four to travel in foreign | lands—for if you should stand in the way I should pray Ged to remove you, which 1 believe he would that I like better something further may be answer—and if I find no one than I de you, perhaps said upon It is safe te say that the young hardly have gotten a breach of promise verdict the strength of a letter like that. the subject.” lady could Tam in hopes of seeing this northern | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1926, BIRTH OF THE FLAG On June 14, 1777, in response to a general de- mand for a distinctive national flag for the new Republic of the United States, act providing as follows: “That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes of alternating red and white; and that the union be thirteen stars, white, on a blue field, rep- | resenting a new constellation.” In this flag the stars were arranged in the form of a circle, and after the admission of Ver- mont and Kentucky the number of stars and stripes was each increased to fifteen. In 1818, five ad- ditional states having been admitted, the flag was changed to its present form, thirteen stripes with a star for each state. ment of the stars were not definitely fixed until October 19, 1912. According to tradition, Betsy Ross of Phila- delphia made the first flag bearing thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, but there is some. uncertainty regarding the origin, as well as the “first use, of the new national emblem. Another tradition is that it was first tsed by the army at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., August 3, 1777, where the flag was made on the spot, white stripes and stars cut from soldiers’ shirts, red stripes from a soldier’s wife's petticoat, with blue field cut from Captain Swart- out’s coat. : It is also recorded that the flag of John Paul Jones’s ship Ranger, the first ever’to be saluted by a foreign fleet, the French, was made from slices taken from their silk dresses by girls of Portsmouth, N. H., the white stripes being from the wedding gown of a recent bride, In commemoration of the adoption of the flag by Congress, June 14, is celebrated throughout the nation as Flag Day, this observance having been fostered by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, among whose lodges it was made obligatory in 1908. It is most fitting that this should serve to mark a renewal of allegiance to the flag. The “Pledge to the Flag,” taught and re- peated daily by pupils of many schools, is as fol- lows: e “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, inuivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” ‘Occasion AMERICA AND: EUROPE (New York Evening Graphic) It is fashionable abroad..to..poke bitter fun at the United States.~ Our government and our. people .are repre- sented as cold-blooded money grabbers. ' We are pictured as a brute squeezing poor little Europe out of its pence and ‘pounds, sous and francs, marks, lire, kopecks, and other currency of high and low degree. iy All this is propaganda! Propaganda spread by European “statesmen” to cover up the results of their own stupidity. These gentlemen led the world into a war that cost eight and a half million lives, that maimed 21,- 000,000 men and that piled up peaseeting financial obligations. These same gentlemen find themselves unable to lead Europe to peace. progress and prosperity are a reproach to their own blind destructivism they criticise America. “Dollar grabbers” is one of the most polite terms they use in talking of us. And because America’s Dollar grabbers? Well, here are a few facts:— The United States loaned nearly ten and a half billion dollars to Europe to fight the war. Of that sum approximately four billion dollars has | cen wiped off the slate by us. We are asking for the return of the remaining six billions of our own money, practically without interest, within sixty- four years. it in battles They got it. They fought for added colonies—and took them; for shipping routes and mandates, for oil wells and munitions—and now have them! for more territory. The United States fought simply to make the world safe for democracy and to end wars! But this Etropean statesmen refuse to give. they hint broadly that States should cancel all their deb Instead, the United They do not explain why to their people, but what they want is freedom to fight more wars. Frvecom for “civilized” powers to waze | age battle against independent tribesmen . . . t subjugate them so that they might be trained as | soldiers for the next war. Freedom for revolutions, counter revolutions, sovietism and fascism. Freedom to build battle- ships and submarines, airplanes and Zeppelins Freedom to exploit more greeds ahd grabs. mor: hates and horrors | Tight-fisted all that. He insists Unele Sam stands in the that old debts be settled befor ones are piled up. And for THAT | guarded. He can s knoe he's critieiged and i the criticisms and we can | the t keep poer, bruised Eur Congress passed an | The exact size and arrange- | socee | SSS SPAS ESS SSeS ES a, HECK! ESS ALWAYS GETTIN’ THAT ANIMA\— RILED vP/ LITT ISLESLISVOSSSISOD SIM. Keep Your Food Sanitary By Keeping It Cold Thompson Ice Company Incorporated $C hh AA Ad Ah dd hd did hdd dadedt MM. Nl eheehctahchedechhechecdecdheded Yun Know, ANDY MEBBE WE Spou: oni A DONE LONT Twenty-Five Hundred Stations There is 2 movement to revive the | ,,. old songs under their original names | Abilene (cloudy) instead of under, new names, Atlanta (clear) Boston (clear) In New York, a pianist drowned in her bath tub, this being the first casualty reported in the spring rush. Jack Pickford. movie actor, elairiis | he recently saw his wife, Marilyn Miller, and had dinner with her. Chicago (clear) Corpus C| | Dodge City (clear | Hatteras (clear) ‘ | Huron (clear) * And it's spring in Kansas City, where a woman of 99 has had a‘ per- manent wave put in her hair. f Louisville (clear) Miami (cloudy) In Japan they published a novel in ‘|New Orleans (cle 106 volumes, but many of our novels seem much longer. St.Louis (cloudy Washington wants to reduce the | Tampa (pt. cloidy size of our money.. Already, sortte- body has reduced the amount. » * (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Ine.) | nounce fi | time: | crea | word: | directors The nations that borrowed this money invested | {means “ Peeeececcscoucoveeeseres | DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON Words often misus “come in the room.” Often mispronounced: Accent last able, and don’t pro- syllable as ek. | pelled: simultaneous. | truth, veracity, candor, truthful- a corpor | fendants It by Often m Synonym oe ity, honesty, of th the named is a foreign rN a Word Study: “Use a word three and it is yours.” Let us in- |t e our vocabulary by maste ch day. Toda constituting complete. “This board of must be an integral part of the administration.” ing one word Integ: whole; LOOK AND LEARN By A. C. GORDON eee 1. What southern state name * here we rest’? 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Whether your income is 74| ASHINGTON — Never came | : . 56| large or small you will find it to your advantage to acquire habits of thrift by careful saving and habits of wise investment by placing your savings with us. us Tem. a LETTER poled cA 76) his associates than Senator Under- ) - 60 | wood. 78] And Underwood, Jiked by every: 70 | body, quits for good when the 69th 52 | Congress ends, whereas Heflin, who 72) could very well be spared, in the “| opinion of quite a lot of his fellow | legislators, s 64} . | see 80) QJOMINALLY Underwood is retir- | ary... 712 ing ‘voluntarily from public | 58 life. Ile announced some time | ers 68 ago that he wouldn't be a candidate ) 72) this year or later. , 6 | opBut nobody's fooled. It isn’t much | : 6 of a secret that he knows he couldn't get a renomination. He can see the writing on the wall in letters a foot | high. Such being the case, the wise policy for him, naturally, is not to try. Meee has convictions that don’t go down, in these times, in his state and he re- * fuses to compromise. That, in itse! stamps him as an individual of hon. | esty and ner You may not agree with him in all respec but you've got to récognize him as a character who stands or falls by what he thinks right. SS FEDERAL RESERVES ; oe YoY Florida East Coast Railway FLAGLER SYSTEM De- Let the Artman Press print it. the sworn bill THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE *|NEW YORK Ry Sea DIRECT OCEAN SHIPS Solid Comfort and Excellent Cuisine TEXAS Steamer to Galveston Direct Rail Connections for all points in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, ete. Lv. and Wedn MALLORY LINE || «...!:..* " C. E. SMITH, Agent Key West, Florida Effective April 20, 1926 NORTHBOUND LEAVE 7:30 P. M. corpore p alty Compan Havana Special Royal Poinciana P&O PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES K STEAMSHIP CO. UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR: West for Havana 8:30 A. M. daily except Sunday M. 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