The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1926, Page 4

®rAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. Cntere4 » Key West, Florida, as second class matter Slersber of the Associated Press teu Press is exCiusively entitled to use sation of all news dispatches credited to perwise credited in this paper and also ws published here. Sd SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Months. 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 cents a line. Notice of church and society and all other enter- sinments from which a revenue is to be derived will .e_ charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion +f public issues and subjects of local or general inter- ~ but it will not publish anonymous communica- jons. ——_— {MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST 5 ADVOQCATED BY THE CITIZEN : J Water and Sewerage. £ “2 Road to the Mainland. : 8. Comprehensive City Plan. i + 4. Hotels and Apartments. £5. Bathing Pavilion. 5 FLAG DAY * June 14 is celebrated as the anniversary of the adoption of the United States flag in many states of the union. It is a day for warm patriotic sentiment, and pride in the wonderful country that locks up to these colors as the symbol of its glory. © Its red may stand as the expression of ardent paffiotism, that has manifested such superb na- tional spirit in all times of danger. Its white can be dooked at as the insignia of the nobility of its origins, founded by men and women who gave their all for freedom. And its blue, the sky color, can represent its ideals and aspirations for the future, of ‘happiness and opportunity for all. THE RETURN FOR PRIVILEGES Young people who are finishing the work of schools and colleges do not always realize how much has been furnished to them as a free gift. These educational privileges represent the toil and seerifice of taxpayers, and the abundant generosity. of, philanthropists. j | A college student may think that when he has paid for his board and room and tuition, he has pald for everything. That is not so, because so much of the cost of these institutions is paid for by hard earned tax money, by endowments and in some instances, contribution of equipment. Having received such overwhelming benefits, it is up to.each new class of young people in Key West’to' make a return in the form of community service. YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CHURCHES Rey. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, noted radio preacher and president of the Federal Council of Churches of America, would not usually be con- sidered‘an alarmist, But he told the ministers of New York city a few days ago, that the Protestant churches are losing their grip on the young people of adolescent age, more so than at any time in 500 years. + Many may differ from that point of view, but many have been issuing the same warning. Much of the Blame for such conditions may rest with the young people, but the churches also are partly to blame for it. The young people of today are extremely in- dependent, and while that is a good thing up to a certain-point, yet they often carry it so far as to wholly disregard the lessons of human experience, and think that institutions that have been useful | for’ centuries should all at once be smashed. The human race neyer made progress that way. Bet if the churches wish to win the young people, they need to dwell less on assent to cer- tain creeds, and make’ the improvement of human That was what Jesus With all their ex- travagances, the young people of each generation bring on the stage a certain fresh point of view, and they see clearly abuses to which the older ones have become accustomed and tolerate too easily. The rivalry of Christian denominations is a feature that offends conduct their main aim. Christ ‘came to the world for. and duplication of effort many of these young people. and un-Christian to them. They say that if two or a number of religious organizations have a simi- lar point of view, they should give up their sep- arate associations, and strengthen their cause by uniting in one organization. That method achieves results in all forms of human activity, and it is needed in religion to win back these young peo- ple. It looks wasteful DUTY OF DEMOCRATS Electors who participate in a Democratic | primary are honor bound to support the nominees of that political party in the following general election. A true-blue Democrat cannot and would not do otherwise. A citizen who votes for a can- didate in a Democratic primary and then switches his vote in the general election to support a can- didate for any other party or an “independent” cannot any longer rightfully claim to be a Demo- crat. There is a silent promise—not éxpressed but clearly implied—made by every one ,yoting in a Democratic primary that he will vote for the nominees in the general election, and this is as binding upon the honor of the elector as a signed agreement or a solemn oath would be. This is as it should be in order that the aim and object of the primary election system may be attained and the high ideals of the Democratic party realized. A candidate, who lets a Democratic primary election pass and then~announces as an “inde- pendent” or candidate of any other party, simply repudiates the Democratic party, and should be banned from the party organization for all time. The. Key West Citizen is and has ever been a Democratic newspaper and always consistently adheres to the grinciples of the party. It never espouses the cause of any particular office seeker, believing that each candidate should at least be able to take care of his own campaign. The Citi- sen believes that the only honorable thing for voters fo do is to support the nominees of the pri- mary in which they cast their ballots, and this is just what should be expected of every real, honest- to-goodness Democratic voter. Democrats must stand by the results of the primary and support the nominees—or cease to be Democrats. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE (Palm Beach Times) The story of another near tragedy of circum- stantial evidence coming from the little town of Walnut Ridge, Ark., revives the old question of whether a person convicted solely on such evidence should pay the supreme penalty. Last Thursday afternoon Seymore Christie, a contractor well past middle life, sat in the prisoner’s box charged with murder in the first degree. Inside’ the court railing before him sat his two daughters and his wife, all indicted for complicity in the crime. The jury was out. The court room was still but the air was charged with the fiery condemna- tion of the murderer in the prosecuting attorney’s final plea that he’be sentenced to die in the electric chair. The door to the jury room opened. The court called for order. There was a stir as spectators rose to their feet. A verdict of “guilty” was pronounced by the foreman. His fellow jurymen nodded in accord and the court called the prisoner to the bar. A heavy stillness settled over the room. Ears strained to catch the words which would send a soul into eternity. It was in this heavy stillness that the tragedy about to be enacted was forestalled. “Wait!” A youth stood, his right hand above his head. “I killed Tom Scott.” . The cohfession was investigated. It proved sound and Christie, was jerked back from that | yawning abyss about to envelop him. It would have been a story entirely different | if our hero had been less of a man: There would | have been an execution. An entire family would have been branded with the stigma of blood and murder, perhaps imprisoned. Years later, perhaps never, there might be a death-bed confession, as there have been death- bed confessions in the past, to clear a family name. It could not restore a life or cOmpensate for the blasted lives of others. We would prefer to'| gamble on our life with the other fellows cards. Certainly we would shun the The odds are unfair. i: to his doom on our conscience for sending a man circumstantial evidence. FINAL EXAMINATIONS ji It is a somewhat fateful moment in the ex- perience of students when they take their final examinations, the result of which in some cases will determine whether they will get their coveted diplomas or not. Those who have done good work ali through the year faced those tests with confidence, that even if they missed some things, the general aver- age of their attainment would pull them through. Those who looked for the short cuts and smart ex- cuses did a little healthful trembling, and resolved have rather in future to things done yesterday | than put off until tomorrow. To be ready for an examination, a student must not merely know a lot of facts, but what is quite as important, he must have reflected a good deal over his subject and looked into its inner meanings, so he can do something more than re- Examiners are lenient to those who seem to have used their brains, i peat a parrot like lesson. | in particular and sent 30,000 copies of it, which is an awful stack, to his couraged feeling caused by a tor- fect with the first purifying and regulating effect is! |thorough and complete. jonly drives out bile and impuri- /ties but it imparts a splendid feel- and buoyancy 60c. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Yep, COCOOCOSO OOOO LOO E SOOO OOO OO OOOSOOSOOSOOHOOEOOSOOOOSESOOOOS OOO OOSOOOOTOSS It’s Hard to Teach "Em New Tricks e.3e Ce —— AGAIN, GENING ME ALL MESSED uP. WHY CANT YOu BEHAVE } A DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON ®8Y.CHARLES P. STEWART | je eccece NEA Service Writer | “And ‘tis remarkable that they | Wense Often Misused 2 ; ‘Salk most who have the least tosay.” | 52Y his manners are aggravat- —Prior. jing.” Say “irritating.” 7 ASHINGTON—Congress, inthe |’ Often Mispronounced: © Sacra- sey dave bag stesn eae |ment.. Pronounce the first a as state of oratorical eru’ a ee Sa faa such as Washington hasn't witnessed |/7 “atv” not as in “ate. : in a Jong’time | Often Misspelled: Abridge- itnessed” advisedly. No |ment. No e after g. 9 's and listens to it. x a It's all because election is coming. |. Synonyms: ccomplish, ac complish, acquire, achieve, attain, obtain, procure, master, secure, earn. Word Study: “Use a word three | times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by master- The lawmakers have been wanting to get home for quite a while, to find out what shape their fences are in. and fix them, if necessary. The managers, however, weren't able to get through with their sea- son's program as early as they had hoped, which has kept the session stringiog along ing one word each day. Today’s ‘Tied by the leg here in the eapital, | Word: Ecclesiastical; pertaining the worried legislators have been |to the church. “Tne long robe forced to the ¢xpedient of making their political speeches in the Senate * and House of Representatives, “‘ex- marked his ecclesiastical dignity.” tending” ‘em in the Congressional } Record ‘ad infinitum’—and “ad LOOK ND LEARN nauseam” in some instances—end mailing ‘em, by the bale, to their districts. | eee | 66TDLENTY of eloquence but little wisdom!” as C. Sallust Cris: | pus once remarked about a By A. C. GORDON 1. What state of the U.'S. con- tains the highest land and the low- speech he'd been listening to in the jest land? ) C. or tl d . . ime mprunte tO SHE Ce sotto | 2. 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