The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1926, Page 4

iol ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. ed L. P. ARTMAN, President. IRA J. MOON, Business Manager. suterea' Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press fhe |Agsaciated I'ress 1s exciusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or 1 otherwise credited in this paper and also the Jove! wews published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES sas Three Months.. Qne Month. Weekly... , ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, Cards.of tnanks, resolutions of respect and obituary sotices other than those which the paper may give as po ny F news, will be charged for at the rate of 6 septs a line. Botice of church and society and all other enter- @inments from which a revenue is to be derived will a ed for at the rate of 5 cents a line. izen is an open forum and invites discussion Cd issues and subjects of local or general inter- but it will not publish anonymous communica- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments, : Bathing Pavilion. [OSES Ss Ea Rica ae Lizzies rush in where limousines burn their tread. Key West is all right. We all say it, and that makes it unanimous. Key West is getting to be a mighty dangerous place for boozze io get into. If a merehant Church member uses a 35-inch yardstick he is none the less a thief. A prisoner jailed in Cuba died from fear of the gatrote. Another case of effect before the cause. eile What is more beautiful at this day and time than a pretty girl, with long and gracefully flowing tresses? afi \ etter Two heads may. be better than one, but five or six of them together sometimes pull some mighty strange stunis. * Lass If a few more sub-division developers like Malcolm Meacham had come to Key West when he did we would have several more pretty suburbs to- day. : The fact that angels commit no sin is largely due to their surroundings. That same environ- ment down here would make angels out of the last one of us. People going north to spend the summer are now wishing they were back in Key West where balmy, salt-laden breezes constantly dissipate high 2 Joe Sears learned to his pleasure that the Mon- ree copnty vote amounis to a hellofalot sometimes. Otherd are going to find it out to their sorrow some day—if they don’t mind out. The federal activities at Key West require about ine million gallons of fresh water annually. So Unfle Sam would take about ten million gallons a year'if our pipe line was in operation. The hundreds of heat prostrations in the cities ef the north and cast should make us appreciate more and more Key West as a fine place to spend the ‘summer—where sunstroke is unknown. : a Tén Florida cities report bond issues totaling in agafegaie $9,866.000. They are Lake Worth, De Land, St. Augustine, Lakeland, Miami, Haines City, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Clearwater and Miami Beach, In almost every instance the bid included an excellent bonus. There’s nothing the matter with Florida. os raise * COOLIDGE AS A FISHERMAN : President Coolidge, it is reported, is to try fishihg again in the Adirondacks, which will be somé new sport for him, as he has not fished since he wes @ boy and angled in the streams of his na- tive Vermont. O it luck he will have is not quite clear. Anyway, it is not probable that he will scare the fish away by talking too much. Many statesmen have enjoyed fishing. It is @ pliiilotophical sport, which takes up the man's mind, distracts him from heavy cares, and at the same time it permits him to do some thinking about big things if he wants to. The calm peace of re- mote lakes and rivers steals into a man’s mind, and a multitude of men have returned from such excursions better fitted to do their work, sto roll on their busy tongues. EXCURSION FROM GEORGIA There is to be a railroad excursion on July 24 from Augusta, Ga., to all Florida points. The re- duced rates also apply to n number of towns a con- siderable distance this side of Augusta, with a gen- eral rate of one fare for the round trip. Excur- sionists taking advantage of this rate to visit Key West will be privileged to remain over here until August 4. : People of Key West having relatives and friends in Augusta and in that vicinity should write them to make a trip to this city aboard this excur- sion. If they should desire to go over to Havana, the time limit on their tickets will be extended. The Georgia people are very much interested in Florida, and thousands of them are settling in tins state. Key West is the most promising and attractive city in Florida today, and the local people and or- ganizations would welcome as many as would come on the excursion leaving Augusta on June 24. The reduced rate will be available to one and all alike, and will no doubt bring a great many peo- ple who are actually interested in Florida in a sub- stantial way, and Key West should get her quota of the number. : Write your relatives and friends up in Georgia to come to Key West on this excursion. THE PISTOL MENACE (The Knoxville Sentinel) Why does not someone start a drive to banish the pocket pistol. One of the greatest menaces to life in this country is the carrying of concealed weapons. Certainly there is a law in this state against carrying pistols, but what has it accom- plished? Almost daily we read of some man or even a woman having been shot. This week the mayor of Alton Park, a- suburb of Chattanooga, attempted to arrest a man for speeding, when suddenly the speeder drew a pistol and killed the mayor. In the town of Columbia Sunday night a young -woman of the highest type and social standing was killed by a pistol. A Nashville youth is being held under $20,000 bond chraged. with the shooting. He declares the girl shot herself. Anyway, a pistol was used for the deed, regardless of who fired the shot. Under our present laws the law-abiding citizen is at the mercy of the hoodlum and the man who disregards the laws of both God and man,. The penalty is perhaps sufficient if it-was rigidly en- forced. Z eeniltis, What we really need is a federal law that will prohibit the sending of pistols by mail and: a law | against common carriers from delivering them. Make’ it:impossible!for anyone except a duly quali- /fied officer of the law to obtain a pocket pistol, and we will have taken a long step toward the prevention of crime, BANK FAILURES (Tampa Tribune) Our anti-Florida propagandists are having a nice time these days talking about bank failures in Florida. The fact that a few smaller banks have suspended operations, some of them only temporari- ly, is a sweet morsel for these kind friends of ours As they tell it, Flor- ida is the only state which has bank failures. Well; let’s see about that. The Tribune has obtained, from the records of the various state banking departments, the statis- ties of bank failures. in nine of the midwestern siates, in the past five years, as compared with those in Florida. ' The period covered by these fig- ures extends from January 1, 1921 to July 1, 1926. We find that, in this period, Montana had 173 bank failures, Oklahoma 160, Iowa 153, Minnesota 140, Nebraska 102, Missouri 96, Kansas 85, Wyom- ing 53 and Colorado 45. And how many had Florida? THIRTEEN! Will the ranters be fair enough to quote these fgures in their derogatory talk? And will they consider the following remark of Calvin A. Owens, president of the Florida Inter- orban Rapid Transit Company, who says: “Of fore- going failures, it is estimated that 10 percent were due to bad management, 15 percent to crop fail- ures, 5 percent to drastic legislation, 20 percent to over inflation and 50 percent to idle gossip. When the tattler, the gossiper, the idler, the doubter and the skeptic are silenced from further prattle, there i will be less runs and fewer failures.” THE BEST SCHOOLS EVER School pupils of today are far better trained than people were many years ago, in spile of all the adulation of the Little Red Schoolhouse. This SY Rub-a-Dub-Dub POLCOOOEOTHOEH2OSTEOESTOOOOOOCOHOSOOSSOOOOSSOOSE LOSS CEDOSOOSESOOROSOOOONELS { | Stewarts £4 WASHINGTON “27 LETTER AX54 “ | BY CHARLES P. STEWART | |. NEA Service Writer ~__ | ASHINGTON—Tearing down @ ghost’s “‘ha’nt” and chucking the ghost out intm the cold seems like a mean trick. wd Nevertheless that's what the gov: ernment’s talking about doing to one of the best known “ha'nts" in Wash- ington—the old house at 25 Firat street.’ Northeast, close to the Capl- tol, Party has ‘had its headquarters for the Jast half dozen years. « ‘The government wants the site for a new Supreme Court building. Major Henry: Wirz’s ghost's prior claim doesn't appear to enter into the | government's calculations at all. oe © ‘AJOR WIRZ was superintendent | of Andersonville prison, where Union prisoners were kept, in the south, during the Civil War. ‘The horrors of Andersonville were . a by-Wword of the perlod and for long afterward. The captives died there like files. Wirz was held up ‘ arch-fiend. Who knows now he as black as he was painted? had he excuses to offer, which, In the state of feeling at the time, weren't recognized? ‘They weren't recognized, at any rate. Wirz was caught when the confed- eracy fell. They hanged him in the side garden of that house at 25 First street, northeast. eee HE building was in use as a mili- tary prison at the time. ! White prisoners were kept in the upper rooms. Colored spies were | locked in the vaulted brick eellar un- | derneath. ‘Wirz was not the only one put to death, but he was by far the most famous. Mostly they died facing fire | ing squads. He died by the noose, not like a soldier, but as a common | murderer. | ALWAYS TIRED AT NIGHT— TRY THIS A healthy person never feels constantly tired. Being “too tired” continually is a sign of something wrong. When John R.| Gerdon. Danville, Ill, found him- |self “always tired at night and burdened with backache,” he took Foley Pills, a diuretic stimulant! {for the kidne: and writes: “Af- jter a few doses, I felt better, {could work with more ease, be- ‘ame stronger and could sleep bet- iter.” What Foley’s Pills ‘have jdone for others they may do for Guaranteed to give satisfac- Ask for Foley's Pills. Key July 1-1M | you. |tion | West Drug Co. Two large motor trucks are rq} quired to convey the mail received jeach day at Scotland Yard, the j London police headquarters. i where. the National Woman's 4” DOCeeoPoreeeuceroeeesere DAILY LESSONS IN ‘ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON Words often misused: Don’t say} “T begun reading the book last night.” Say “began.” | Often mispronounced: Nomad. The o as in “of” is preferred to! no.” Often misspelled: 'u in first syllable. 1 Synonyms: Burn, ignite, flame, | consume, ,scorch, kindle, blaze, har. Word study: “Use a word three Fortieth; no times and it is yours.” | Let us ‘in-|“ ‘erease .our vocabulary by master- ing one word each day. Today's word: Vulnerary; tending to cure ‘wounds. “She examined the wound and applied to it such vulnerary remedies as were possible.” “LOOK AND LEARN By A. C. GORDON eooee 1. How did the U. S. acquire title to the’ Philippine Islands? 2. Of what is macaroni made? 3. What Indian girl saved the life of Captain John Smith? 4. What city is the most im- portant military position in Canada? 5. What is Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous work? Answers To Yesterday's Questions | 1. About eighteen Richmond, Virginia. The mulberry tree. William Shakespeare. Shannon River. DIES AT 103 | | SALISBURY, Eng.—John Bals-| ter died at the &ge of 103 after! an hour’s illness. } Diarrhea In New York someone stole a sil- | ver plate upon which the Ten Com- mandments weré engraved, but per- haps he couldn't read. If your only car is @ flivver you don't have to go around worrying about wrecking your Hmousine. Kansas City cats are happy. About 500 dogs killed in rabies scare. Ought to be against the law for a congressman to take a bribe. News from Honolulu. Big drouth. Grass skirts turning to dust. Likely rain, before you could get there. Chicago robbers *locked a butcher in the ice box. He kept cool. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Jumpy Nerves swccith sitions, imagined diseases, cholia are telltale symptoms of | poor health. Very often theyare the * result of weak, undernourished and impure blood, ARDI'S FLIXIR for the BLOOD sods alates BUILDS VITALITY G1.2E of all droggiots a RGR RRCRETY SERIES | “PERFECTO” —_ | AUTO ENAMEL “61” Floor Varnish “SOLORINE” a METAL POLISH RED SEAL BATTERIES Columbia “Hot-Spot” BATTERIES Florida East Coa FLAGLER 5’ THE ST, AUGUSTINE ROU f 5 seteunernn Effective April 20, ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. - 3:00 P. M. 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Lumley’s Hardware Store 705 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, BERLAINS | opinion was given by Dr. Broome, superintendent | ef schools in Philadelphia, to the National Educa- | tien association's convention. He reached his conelusion partly by comparing examination papers made out in 1845,, wiih those of recent date. but it failed to take up a lot of subjects that are absolutely necessary in the modern world. ever the faulis of modern schools, they are trying to teach young people to think. It is of course true that the old | time school was very thorough on what it did teach, What- | SUMMERTIME |] le The Time To Have Your Plumbing Done Prompt Service At This Season JOHN C. PARK Plumber and Supplies 328 Simenten St. Phone 348 | G. C. ROBERTS Dealer in General Merchandise WALTER'S GALVANIZED TIN SHINGLES Cornell Wall Board, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Carey’s Cement Roofing. H. B. Davis 100 Per Cent Pure Paint and Oils. PHONE 240 William and Caroline Sts. James and Grinnell Sts. 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