The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1926, Page 4

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Notice of church and society and all other enter- ainments from which a revenue is to be derived will .¢ 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- wet, but it will not publish anonymous communica- dons. manne —$—$_—$_—_—_—_—_—_————————— IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments, Bathing Pavilion. A man with a name like Gen. Pilsudski ought to be able to succeed on the opera stage anyway. The average automobile is said to last seven years, but the pedestrians who have to jump out of its way may not do so. Many men say they can’t support their fami- lies, but the family frequently say they should worry if they can get credit. All right to try to smash the political machines, bat if so the people must be prepared to take hold themselves and do the work by hand. While some use their mouths for political agi- tation, the industrious element say it is better to employ them to spit.on their hands with. The time which the old fashioned people for- merly put in watching the price markets, seems now to be devoted to watching the scoreboard. The White House roof is said to be unsafe, but that will not probably deter the office seekers from seeking interviews with the president. DO WE FEAR STAGNATION? _(Florida Digest) lorida fear stagnation or be- come “over the passing of the period of faeces speculation? Why should she for the future when the captains of indus- try, economic experts and financial writers the nation over have heralded the passing of this spe- culation period as the real beginning of an era of prospefity and growth that will make of Florida a gigdntic empire as strong as the rock of Gibral- tart § are some of these men and what have they said? Gharies M. Schwab: A solid foundation has been Jia here; this foundation must settle now beforg the great superstructure is built. Hoger W. Babson: Florida is growing at a rate today than ever beforé in its history. 6 W. O'Leary: Florida has merely made rapid strides towards catching up with the national procession ; her great future is assured. Qharles Donald Fox: I claim that Florida is potenGelly the groatest agricultural empire in the world}; Jgmes I. Bush; After a thorough inspection ef Florida, which included all the major cities, I con unhesitatingly say that there need be no mis- givings as to the stability of Florida: EB. Kenly: Florida’s continued growth and prosperity sre guaranteed by its soil and climate | end Ge progressiveness of its people. { Richard H, Edmonds: The end of wild and reckidss speculation in the real estate market is the best thing that could have come about in Florida | end the progress and prosperity of Florida are only | in their infancy aswompared with what is ahead. When such men as these—and there are many | more:we could quote—have testified to Florida’s present stability and growth and to her future pos- | sibilities, why should Florida worry? Add to these the testimonies of the Wall Street Journal, Bar- | ron’s, Magazine and many other financial publica- | tions, The Digest would like to ask, how many men of this calibre have knocked Florida? ean you name? We offer this as a challenge to Florida knock How many ers! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, pes CAPITAL PUNISHMENT In the June issue of Current History magazine ' a thoughtful contribution to the coatroversy over | capital punishment is furnished by Harry Elmer | Barnes, sociology professor of Smith and Amherst colleges, who avers that the taking of human life | as a punishment for crime is a relic of barbarism. Tracing the origins of the death penalty, Prof. Barnes declares that it arose through an effort to placate the pagan gods. Later, death was inflicted through motives of revenge. More recently, capi- tal punishment has been defended on the ground that it has a deterrent effect upon other potential murderers. All these theories are dismissed by Frof Barnes as equally abhorrent. Taking what may be called the advanced view. of the causes un- | derlying human behavior, he says: “The human animal has his conduct absolute- ly determined by the influences of heredity and social surroundings. There is not the slightest iota of choice allowed to any individual from birth to the grave. only by altering the organism or by the introduc- tion of new or different social influences and forms | of stimulation.” | Without specifically recommending a detailed plan for dealing with the problem, Prof. Barnes | declares that if crime is to be eliminated there | must be measures adopted to prevent the birth of | defective persons, so far as possible. When defec- | tives are born in spite of restrictions imposed, an | combined improvement of the ‘social environment and special ; education are recommended. He apparently favors the painless extermination of hopeless types of hu- manity who menace their fellowmen. Whatever we may think of Prof. Barnes’ views as a whole, we must agree with one of his conclusions, which is that punishment for crime should be determined by permanent. boards of ex- perts, instead of being left to juries composed for the most part of ignorant and irresponsible citizens. OLDEST LIVING THING There stands in Sequoia National Park in California the oldest living thing in the world, the General Sherman tree, more than ’5,000 years old. It is the largest of those redwood trees:for which California is famoys, and is surrounded by many others of almost equal size and age. The General Sherman tree is 280 feet high and 36% feet in diameter at its base. The William McKinley tree is taller, being 290 feet in height, but only 28 feet in diameter. The Abraham Lin- coln tree is 270 feet high and 31 feet in diameter. Some of these trees were already forest giants, ten centuries old, before Abraham fared forth from his native Ur of the Chaldees to found'the Hebrew nation. They had withstood the storm of thirty centuries before the birth of Christ. Yet they still stand in sublime majesty, living, growing things, and will live and grow for many centuries to come Survivors from the dawn of civilization, awe- inspiring in their stately grandeur, they seem to hold within their massive the mysterious seerets of antiquity. If one would gain a better realization of how brief is the span of human life, let him consider the General Sherman tree, and contemplate that two hundred generations of men have appeared and passed from earth’s stage since the soil was broken by its first tiny shoot. trunks PLAYING THE GAME It isa somewhat remarkable thing, though the | United States is said to be a lawless country, that in respect to their sports and pastimes, our people seem to be rather law abiding. Take it in baseball, for instance. general consent that the players should “play the game,” obey the rules, and submit to the umpire. If the umpire is unfair, there is a howl to have him taken out, but that is because’ the crowd believes There is a Conduct can be altered | he has been disloyal to the rules. It is not any attack on the principle of obeying the rules. But | ander ordinary circumstances the crowd says let the umpire settle it. to break the rules are not favorably regarded. Now if we could get more of that spirit into | the relations of the people to the laws of the state | and nation, we should be much better off, and many | of the evils that perplex us and cause trouble and | ~ disaster, would cease to exist. RAILROAD LABOR A new Iaw has been enacted abolishing the railway Iabor board, and putting more of the re sponsi for settling labor disputes on the rail roads, upon the employers and employes them | selves. The railroads and their workers are to be tried out, to see if they can accept the responsibility for dealing fairly with the public. If they vny new freedom to impose heavy burdens on the public, this legislation is not likely to be perma But if they look at it in the right light, it use nent. may open the door to more friendly co-operation and greater achievement and rewards in the work of s g the public, ing to travel along the of opportunity if they can ride. Players who habitually try | p COCO SOOSHEHOSOHOOTOCHOOLOE HOSTEL SESH OTETEOREOE Whither Away, Old Thing? COCOOOO HOO EO LOOT SHAOEOE= = FOSHSEDEHEHOOSOOSHHOHOHOHOHSLOSE TLD SOORSOSESEEEES BY CHARLES P. i NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON — Senator James | Couzens of Michigan has a passion for publicity in affairs of state. | A lot of his fellow senators with, Couzens would keep his passion un- der better control. It embarrasses them greatly when he lets it over- master him, as it did when he got | that income tax publicity law en- | acted at the last session of Congress. True, they repealed it this session. but it was most unpleasant while lasted. It also gave Jima reput tion, among all “regulars,” as a dangerous character. eee }OUZENS is in a pretty fair state of suppression just now. The “regulars,” on both sides, being banded together to hold in- surgency in check, are strong enough, incidentally, to prevent the Michigan senator from running., amuck again with that publicity bug of his. But, all the time, they know the | urge 1s seething inside him to tean | the lid off from everything govern- mental, and it worries ‘em. see OUZENS' theory is that cabinet members should be required to appear in Congress periodically, to have questions put to them, as miembers of the English ministry are CONVENTIONS OPENING TODAY VANCOUVER, B. C.—Amer- ican Railway Development Asso- ciation. MONTREAL- tional Council of Lighting Fix'ure Manufac- turers. DENVER, Colo.—International Convention of High Twelve Clubs. SAS CITY, Mo.—Phi Kap- tional Fraternity. CLARKSBU RG, W.: Va: : of ian Endeavor Societies Virginia. 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