The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 19, 1926, Page 4

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The president is doing Considerable fishing, but the fiout won't bite merely because he is pres- ident. The American people will miss the Congress- fonal Record, as it is a fine thing to promote sleep after dinner. _®amiies are urged to keep expense accounts, -butr-any of them will feel that if they did, they ould find out how they stood. It is claimed that the girls are heartless, but ‘theinginclination for the ice cream stands demon- jstrates they are not stomachless. ; + +) Some cities on the mainland seem to think {bhat visitors will be content to park their cars [bout a mile and a half outside in the country and {Walk in to do their errands. n a It is claimed that Americans eventually will iy have to work four hours a day, but the bosses they would consider themselves lucky even now bd they could get that amount of work out of some \ UNSATISFACTORY FATHERS Cal “Migs Mary McSkimmon, president of the Na- | Education association, gave American men “straight ‘alk at a Philadelphia Rotary club meeting recently, when she told them they were not doing their duty as fathers. She complained ‘ “That they ‘ame home to play the role of the tired Business man, and did not look after the educational progress of their children as they should. She asked these men to take hold with their ‘and help their children. The lesson will look more important to the children, if Father talks about it and tells them they will be sorry day if they don’t learn it. VANDALISM astonishing manifestation of the tendency me people to commit acts of vandalism has given in New York city, where it is reported (800 shrubs and 250 young trees were recently destroyed by vandals in Central park. They were stripped of their boughs or else pulled up by the nf | There are some people who do not seem to know how to act in a democratic country. They areor could be partners in the business of creating a fine country, but they are not satisfied unless they destroy what someone else has created. Some of these people have been seen nearer than New York city. pan HONOR TO A GREAT MAN . ‘ ‘ There ‘will he general satisfaction that Monti- . (pelle, the Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson, a » ther of the Declaration of Independence, has been purchased and opened as a public museum. It is a gréat-help to intelligent patriotism to have these hotes of great men preserved and thrown open to thé public. | ‘The old fathers had a wonderful foresight when they made this government, and it is not pos- te *o get far from those ideas without getting inte difficuliy. One of Jefferson's fundamental was his belief in local self government. | Heééw that the different localities must be allowed to handle their affairs in the main if the govern- ment was to continue. During recent years (hat ‘truth has been apprehended better than it was some time ago. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN STAGNATION AND PROGRESS suggestion in the codes of professional ethics which school teachers have recently been preparing for the shaping of their own conduct. The ieachers of - 27 states already have such codes, and one is being prepared for the National Education association. In the code adopted for New York state teach- ers, the statement is made that the greatst fault of which a teacher can be guilty, is that of “profes- sional stagnation”. The teachers are warned against an “‘intellectual crystallization” which makes their service mechanical. That means getting in a rut and staying there. In every occupation there are people who get into that stagnant way. They are like a still pool where the same water just stays day after day. Naturally it gets covered with scum and weeds. What such a pool needs is a stream of clear running water flowing through it. And what human thought and labor need, is a clear stream of fresh original action flowing through. In every occupation there are always new ideas and improvements, new methods and ways of work- ing, with which one should become familiar and some of which at least are practical and helpful. If people do not study those new methods and try to improve their ways of working, they fall behind the progress of the times. Whether a person works with his head or his hands, he must constantly be using his-brain to see that he is not tramping around in a circle, like a horse going around in a treadmill, but that he is advancing from point to point. That is the only way in which people can make themselves valuable in an economic and industrial system where there is constant motion and improvement. FLORIDA’S GREAT BRIDGE (St. Petersburg Independent) Florida may be said to be a state of great bridges. Its numerous bridges, spanning broad ex- panses of water, combine to form one of the state’s unique and interesting features. The city of Key West is linked with the mainland by the rails of the Florida East Coast railway over concrete trestle work extending from island to island, the whole forming the world’s longest “bridge.” It is rightly called the “over-sea railway” because it makes many wide jumps over ocean water deep enough to float the largest ship. It stands as a ‘marvel of scientific engineering. In the beginning many people, regarding the feat as impossible, belieyed that the undertaking would prove a failure. They coynted the great cost along with other handicaps—strong current, extreme depth of water.and the long spans to be made. Now that it is completed:and the doubters answered, the undertaking does not so extraordi- nary nor as “impracticable” as it once did. It is human nature when one great undertaking is achieved that others as great or even greater are attempted. It isa spirit like: this which keeps the world moving along lines of higher attainment; and so it is that with the object lesson before them, the people of Monroe County in which Key West is located, have begun the construction of an auto- mobile highway from that city to the mainland, the first span of which has already been completed. Among Florida’s great bridges are the bridge across the St. Johns River at Jacksonville; that from Bradenton to Anna Maria Key; the causeways from Miami across Bay Biscayne to Miami Beach. other causeways on the east coast; the causeway, from Clearwater to Clearwater Beach and the bridge which preceded it; and the great Gandy bridge across Old Tampa Bay. And these are not all. On Wednesday of last week the bridge across Escambia Bay, 3.3 miles long, was completed, dedicated and opened to traf- fic. It is a link in the Old Spanish Trail, and opens & new route westward into Pensacola. The attend- ing ceremonies were featured by addresses by Gov- ernor Martin and Dr. Fons A. Hathaway, head of the road depariment in this state. Dr. Hathaway said: “I consider the opening of the bridge the out- standing event of the year in the national road building program. “The bridge is more than local or state-wide importance. It does more than connect west Flor- | ida with south Florida. The Escambia bridge is the In his remarks coast country, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coast through the road and bridge systems of the state and union.” | Other bridges and other causeways have been as the great Florida highway system is being lence of the people, but which form important links | im the general attractiveness and development of } the state. j in attracting attention and new residents to the | state, Feeling the danger of appearing young, the flappers succeed in making themselves look quite | elderly by the way they daub on the paint. The ordinary person can find considerable | connecting link that brings together the entire gulf ! ¢o, Nye's complaint of the use of | huge sums against him are verified. } too. | Reed’s slush fund investigating com- | mittee goes on with its “probe.” constructed and are in course of construction, con- | necting many important highway systems through- | out the state, and others still are in contemplation | | afreid of is that money will gain con- | trol and start us back the way we evolved, all of which add not only to the conven- | POCCTS SOC ODO SOLE ELESS OCC DOO OEOEDESCO ORO DECCES Anti-Administrationitis eesce @820acee Cosevoseseoele BY Heck | IT's SPREADIN'/ (es Fama ? WASHINGTON */42 LETTER | By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON. — Republican insurgency — described by the socialistic Congressman jBerger as “the elephant's tail" has reached such proportions in the last week or so that one of two things appears likely to happen: 1—Either the tail will shortly be ‘wagging the elephant. or else 2—It is quite among the poss!- bilities that the tail will detach it- self from the elephant and ‘under- take to be a party on its own ac count. } { { 5 he | appreciate how formidable the elephant's tail—insurgency —has become, it is first neces: sary to consider the question: What is a political insurgent? The answer seems to be that he is a member of a political party who is out of harmony with its leadership to spme extent.. ~ Now President Coolidge. by vir- tue of his office. at least theoret# cally is the Republican leader at the present time. Any Republican who bolts one of his essential polt- cies becomes an insurgent auto- [ matically. oo eee 'O Coolidge policy is more abso- lutely an essential one than his policy toward agriculture. It is to this policy that the recent startling spread of Republican in- surgency is due. Just how extensive it is through out the country remains to be seen. Even as to the House of Repre- sentatives there may be a little un- certainty, the lower house fs so un- wieldy. But the Senate is easy to size up. If the Senate is an index, the ele- phant and his tail are near the Parting of ‘he ways, co BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer { ASHINGTON—Just before the Congressional primaries began, @ few weeks ago, Representa- tive Henry Allen Cooper of Wiscon- sin, the oldest member, in point of service. in Congress, told ‘me that Congresses of today are liberal as compared with the first one he cams to in 1893, but that money's power in politics probably is greater now than ever before in history. Now I know what he meant. He meant. for instance, Pennsyl- | vania. He meant Ilinols, if Senator Cara- way's charges of corruption in the | Republican Senatorial primary there are made good. He meant North Dakota, tf Sena- He may have meavt other places, We shall see. as Senator Jim ees EPRESENTATIVE COOPER'S account is that we've progressed in the 33 years since he first was a congressman, but what he’s came. Liveral legislators, tke Cooper, | |are very much pleased with the Pennsylvania disclosures end with what they look for still to come. | ‘They're not pleased with the eyt- Fiorida’s great bridges are an important factor | ences of crookedness, of course, bat their impression fs that crooked capt- tal has overdone itself abd will have to stay under cover for @ long time | to come. ‘There was a Lorimer scandal and Newberry scandal and they aaa | prevent the present ones, but the were individual scandals and oni/ connted as such. This time there's prvapect of a big batch, all at once. DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. GORDON | eeccesecee eeeceveseeoe Words often misused: Don’t say | “her whereabouts are unknown.’’| Say “is.” “Whereabouts” is} singular. Often mispronounced: Nihilist. Pronounce ni-hil-ist, the first i as in “ite,” the other i’s as in “it,” accent first syllable. | Often misspelled: Synagogue. Synonyms: Result, effect, con- sequence, sequel, outcome, out- growth, conclusion. 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: Repugnant; offensive to} taste or feeling. “His words were | repugnant to her feminine deli-| cacy.” "100K By A. C. GORDON j ° 1. Where is .the hottest and driest region in the United States? | 2. What is the “Milky Way?”| 3. What country is situated on| a group of many islands? e | 4. What insect is an ancient, and well-known paper maker? | 5. Who is the famous English| bandit, or outlaw, celebrated in) song and poetry? | AND LEARN | Anewers To Saturday's Questions 1. Italy. 2. The sparrow. 3. Between the Monitor and the Merrimac in the Civil War. 4. The boa. Kentucky. 5. SORE BURNING | FEET Tired, swollen, sweating feet smart, burn, itchand ache. "e suffer from sore, burning feet. Rub them with Licarbo liquid. Ie cool: and soothes the pain at once. It v0ps it e2,1he toes sod kills foot infections. Licarbo makes your feet feel good. 50 cents and $1.00 at your drogaist. BE morning sprinkle Licarbo Dorst- joes. It keeps your leet ince trom pain. Tr peevents bitter) and Licarbo Dusting Pewder G. C. ROBERTS Dealer in Generel Merchandise WALTER'S GALVANIZED TIN SHINGLES Sornell 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. the Island of We just on matter. Earthquake Malta. Doesn't | wonder if cows there give Malta milk. To remove freckles, have a date | with a man who needs a shave. They say the farm crisis will in- rrease the cost of living. Guess it will, Everything does, oe Locomotives give four puffs for every turn of the driving wheels. se they should quit smoking so much. Women are brave, In London, one married a man named Marniaduke. Coolidge is going fishing. He's so quiet. Bet he catches a million. Our radio wouldn't work so welt. 60 we got §25 on ft. , Claim a Seattle man- beat his @aughter to death. A trifle drastic. Talk about money fora song. Once ®e got an auto for 10 notes. Some men have winning ways. St | Louis girl stole $175 to elope. Rumor seys a couple of movie stars may marry. Serves them tight. Doesn't matter, but wonder if shoe dealers ever walk to work? Charleston dance is eald to be healthy. So ts hurdle Jumping (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Ine.) NEW YORK By Sea DIRECT OCEAN SHIPS Solid Comfort and Excellent Cuisine Steamer to Galveston Direct Rail Connections for all points in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, ete. MALLORY LINE C. E. SMITH, Agent * Key West, Florida PIPAPAPPAPLLOD A Florida East Coast Railway é FLAGLER SYSTEM THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE oe Effective April 20, 1926 ARRIVE 6:25.A. M. 3:00 P. M. NORTHBOUND LEAVE 7:30 P. M. 2:00 P, M. 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