The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1926, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING Co. L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. entered # Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press fhe Associateu Press 1s exclusively entitled to use for repblication of all news dispatches credited to St wrewet otherwise credited in this paper and also the see) vews published here. ai SUBSCRIPTION RATES. * One (Year Six Clonths Three Months One, Month Weekly... $10.00 5.00 2.50 80 20 H ADVERTISING RATES Mdde" known on application. ————— Catds 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 sents a line. Nétice of church and secicty and all other enter- ainments from which a revenue is to be derived will % charged for at the rate of & cents a line. ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion if peblic issues and subjects of local or general inter- set, ebut it will not publish anonymous communica- dons. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN - Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Pio Oh WE EPS Sétite bathrooms look very much like branch drug stores. The>highway to the road-house might also be termed.a route of evil. pone Agstransgressors increase we need more paved roads 6° make their way hard. ‘They careful mother will hardly permit her daughter\to wear a bathing suit as scanty as her : own. res SARS wk SORE Citizens of Three Rivers, Quebec, highly com- plime a local official by throwing. perfectly good eggs at him, = ie icago man, fined $25 for beating his wife, ne had, told him that the amusement tax repealéd. Pts said had Fiticicon people are not wearing out as much’ leather in walking as formerly, but they ~_" lot in dancing. tem though the migratory bird bill: should ily fail, the fall elections may furnish glijlame ducks to pass it during the short ses- ongress next winter. ~ is Cattle Grubs, or Ox Warbles” is the title of ajnew pamphlet issued by the Department of Agridyjture. We once lived in the country, but never saw cattle grub nor heard a warbling sound from an ox. «+ SIDETRACKING GREAT MEN « © Ore of the most remarkable things about Am- eriean politics, has been the tendency to side-track men of very great ability. James Pryce in “The Amerigan Commonwealth” alludes to this, with a tory df two politicians who were talking a good many Years ago about a certain candidate. asked hem why they did not favor this man for president, who was generally adnfitted to be the most experienced and shrewdest man in their party, ‘and who had a perfectly clean record. “Yes,” they said, “thet is all true. But you see heycomes from a small state, and we have got | that s@ite already. Besides, he wasn’t in the war. | Our mn was. Indiana's vote is werth having, and if ourThan is run, we can carry Indiana.” Washington and Lincoln are said to have been the greatest men this country ever produced. if we were to make a list of 20 of the next great- est, it is not probable that more than three or four on that list ever became president. Somehow the greatest men seem to have such positive characters and have made 89 Many enemies, that they are | considerable not politicclly available. Tt is much the same in state ond legislative politics. The real statesman and brainy man msy be set gside in behalf of some man with a gift for friendly and persuasive talk. As time passes, people will know better what is going on in all parts of the country, and a big man from a small state will seem likely to make a better run for president, than a mediocre one from # big state. The people will not be governed so much by the speeches a man makes, as by the record of things done, But to accomplish these changes, the habit of newspaper reading must he come universal, The people must study the record of candidates at least ux carefully as they res stock market or the ‘ball scores, He | But | IN MEMORY OF CUSTER On the historic ground where General George A. Custer and his heroic troopers of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry fought and died to the last man in | battle with an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on June 25, 1876, a notable | tribute td their heroism and sacrifice will be paid | on the fiftieth anniversery of their death. | Four troops and the regimental band of’ the | present Seventh Cavalry will join three thousand | Sioux and Cheyennes in commemorating the valor | of white and red warriors in that engagement. A few surviving Indians who fought there fifty ago will participate, also a few American soldie who took part in other battles of the Indian cam- paign of which Custer’s last fight was the most con- spicuous incident. Custer’s command numbered 212 officers and | men when he attacked the Indian village, which he it | evidently supposed to be much smaller than proved to be. He shortiy found himself surrounded by 5,000 or more warriors, armed with repeating Winchesters, while the ¢avalrymen had only single- | loading carbines. | The Indian Department and the War Depart- ment had not been in accord with respect to a | policy in dealing with the Indians, and Custer’s men | faced rifles supplied to the Indians by the govern- ment. | Many conflicting t#les regarding the Battle of the Little Big Horn have been current during these fifty years, as was inevitable because not a single man of Custer’s force remained alive to tell the story from the cavalrymen’s standpoint. But the main fact is that 212 American sol- diers of the Seventh Cavalry gloriously fought and | ‘ied on that wild Montana hillside within one brief | half-hour on June 25, 1876. It is appropriate that their heroic sacrifice is | to be commemorated with fitting ceremonies on its fiftieth anniversary. CANADA MAY CELEBRATE Next year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Dominion of Canada, and plans ere being dis- | cussed with a view to declaring 1927 a “diamond | jubilee year.” This seems particularly fitting in | view of the fact that the fiftieth anniversary in \ 1917 was little observed, on account of the war. | After the cession of Canada by France to | Great Britain after the inter-colonial wars, much | friction occurred between the French and English elements of the population, in which many Ameri- | can loyalists who settled in Canada after the Revo- lutionary War took a hand. Upper and Lower Canada were separated in 1791, but discontent on the part of both continued, and following insiit— rections in both they were reunited in 1841, with | little better results, Finally, in 1867, the union of the various | | | | colonies under a federal form of government was , consummated, including Ontario, Quebec, Scotia and New Brunswick. The Northwest Terri- tories were included in 1870 and Manitoba was ad- | mitted as a province the same year, followed by | British Columbia in 1871, Prince Edward's Island | in 1873, Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905. | foundland and its Labrador, never come into the Dominion of Canada. By reason of their vast expanse of territory and relatively the Canadian provinces have never been brought as closely together in thought and action as would no doubt be desirable for the unity of the Dominion. | Nova | | New- dependency, have sparse settlement, several The proposed diamond jubilee year should do much to more firmly establish this unity, and thus for practical as well as sentimental reasons the idea seems to have much to commend it. LARGEST MADE LAKE Covering an area of 40,000 acres, with a shore line more than 700 miles long, the largest artificial lake in the world is now being filled with water, ef which 530 billion gallons will be impounded. This great reservoir is located at Cherokee Bluffs on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, where a great dam, 150 feet high and containing 300,000 cubic yards of concrete, has been built in connec tion with one of the projects of the Alabama Power Company. The power plant will be placed in commission soon, with an initial capacity of 135,000 horse power, to be ultimately increased to 180,000 horse. power. Although the power to be derived from this huge dam is the primary object of its construction, other benefits will accrue to the public also. It is said by agricultural experts that the creation of this vast body of water will tend to make a large section of the adjacent country frost-proof, and consequently favorable for fruit raising. By wegu lating the flow of the river it will be a gteat aid to navigation; the lake will afford I for ts, with fis’ many pleasure res¢ will add to the f sn attractive for sportsmen. and when stocked d supply, as well as affording Such mighty works as this are of the highest type of conservation enterprises, harnessing hi to wasted power for the use of man and developing from former unused resources many agencies for his comfort and 1 being. | his investigations he found the an | swer to a puzzle which scientists | | Rome. A THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1926 Hang Your Clothes on a Hickory Limb, But--- | PEOCOOOOOSHLOD SESSOOOHOCOCEOOOOCOOOOEOSOOOE ETHOS --2ES0CCLLOESOOEDEDCCEESED | ! | WASHINGTON */42 LETTER “Acs BY CHARLES P. STEWART NDA Service Writer ASHINGTON—As Denmark, Jo! now Dr fond of eels—not food. He was so fond of them that he resolved to devote his life to a study of the ee! family. In the course of OF) was very as pets but es g thelr brains over since man caught his first eel, and we know they were e popular dish as fer back as the days of ancient have been rac He found the place where eels are born and where they die, if they escape being caught and eaten, ve YEBODY who imagines that | this didn’t rank as an important discovery from a_ scientific standpoint knows precious (little ebout science. Eeis had been one of the mysteries | of the ages clentists, | The mystery was— | y did there seem to be no in: | fant eels? | All the’ eblg ever caught, until Dr. Schmitte went fishing for them, were pretty well gr up. It didn't stand to reason they were born that way. SLL, baby some. } eee | Schmitte fished for | until he caught | aught a lot. He; Dr eeis He found their nur It’s at the bott Sea. So Dr, bmitte was made an hon- | orary r of the National Acad- emy of Science a few evenings agg and all of sctentific Washington is nearly crazy about him. Hydro- graphic and piscatorial and oceano- | graphic circles regata his discovery’ much as geogra regard the com quest of the pc CONVENTIONS OPENING TODAY WILMINGTON, N. C.—Atlantic Coastal Highway Association. HUNTSVILLE, Ala ecedmen Association, . Southern Wash.— Washington »motive Trades Association, SPOKANE Aut KENOSHA, W Bar Association. Wisconsin ALTON Mh Christian Illinois. En- which has eased output 1 by + With start , er in the STAR COFFEE MILLS DELICIOUS & REFRESHING A de COFFEE cup of fine flavored is a satisfying ‘drink 512 GREENE ST. Phone 256 Peececccesesuseseceooeos | DAILY LESSONS IN - ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON ecoeececcaeceeveees Words of:en mis | “no one was there bu Say “but her and me,” as “but” is | a preposition in this sense. i Often mispronounced: anti (pre- | fiv). Pronounoe the i as in “it,” not as in “mine.” | Often misspelled :inflammatory; | {wo m’s. Synonyms: example, illustration, | irjstanee, specimen, pattern, co ate » Word study: “Use a word three | times and it is yours.” Let us in-| crease our vocabulary by master-| ing one word each day. Today’s| word: Acquiline; belonging to or} learne it doesn’t need you | Ing everything fast except sleep. 3 AGITATION ao ee Florida East Coast Railway FLAGLER SYSTEM THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE 3 Effective April 20, 1926 SOUTHBOUND ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M. NORTHSOUND LEAVE 7:30 P. M. 2:00 P. M. Havana Special Royal Poinciana Dining Car Service—Train and 7 For Further Information See the Ticket Agent J. D. RAHNER, General Passenger Agent P & PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES STEAMSHIP CO. UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR: Lv. Key West for Havana 8:30 A. M. daily except Sunday and Wedn Key West for Port Tampa 7:30 P. M. 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