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

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IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water hd Sewerage. ‘ Road to the Mainland. Caliapethanaive City Pian. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion, Vt knock this old world; it may be the best ester will ever see. the loop dangles before a murderer his look for a loop-hole. ; o* Pe one who ig willing to work, and has any : : | 4 Bs i can soon get ahead in this old world. ; 7 ‘ 7 would be*betier if more of us would vote ‘fi instead of voting against certain ones.’ i*eperle No news is not good news when we fail to hear from proposed improvement projects too long at a time. Jonah, The Citizen porter, does not see why a zolf player should complain about losing a match when a thousand can be bought for a nickel. The Fort Worth evangelist may be able to prove that he shot D. E. Chipps in self defense, though he acknowledged that the only eyewitness to the affair is « Nutt. Mail order houses will always get the cream of trade from towns where the merchants fail to ‘advertise. Orders for mail otder houses are se- eured only through the: use of printers’ ink. ’ ink, if;used by local mercants in. advor- tisingy would keep ‘all this.money at home. The Citizen suggests that the city council and the Key West Electric Company Officials get to- _ gether and settle this rate controversy out of court. In this way a large amount of money would be saved for the tax payers and all parties concerned. Tt can be done if gone about in the proper spirit, with perhaps 9 few minor concessions on one oF both sides. i + CHILDREN’S STREET ACCIDENTS campaign to reduce automobile accidents is carried on by R. B. Stoekel, motor vehicle commissioner for Connecticut, and in a recent bul- letin he takes up the question of accidents to child- ren. “He classifies such accidents occurring in his state in 1925 to the following causes; Crossing strepts, 878; stepping from behind some object, 404) playing in street, 82; coasting, 66; stealing 2. rides, 43; confusion, 16. boarding or leaving trolley, _ seven. : fit would be found in any state that many children get hurt as the result of stepping from be- | Wing some vebicle standing by the side of the street. r attempt, to cross a strect that is clear of "-geeh veliicles, the great mafority of drivers can sec | them in time to stop. But if they suddenly dart _ out from bebind a parked automobile, it becomes ult for a driver to stop in time if he is going “at Iniiy considerable speed. ) Drivers should consider this possibility when they pass through a street with cars parked along | side, particularly if there seem to be children | that street. They cen never know when some youngster will dert out from behind one ef those cars without looking. i Children showld be taught that this is one of he greatest dangers to them. It should be made j ‘cigar to them that if they do not want to get hurt | pevere pain, they must look before cross- ing streets, and. particularly that they should cross | where people can have a clear view of them. | Im many cases a driver can look under a car gna are if he can discover anyone's feet on the fur- | ther aide of it, in which case he needs to show spec- | fal, care. Children are not the only ones who get | hut as the result of darting out from behind parked | care WORLD TOUR, 28 DAYS In the year 1872 a French story writer, Jules Verne, noted for his fanciful tales, entertained his vast audience by a volume entiiled “Around the World in 80 Days”. It seemed an incredible idea at that time of slow communication. Yet afew days ago two men turned up at the New York World buidling who had encircled the globe in 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, and 51 seconds. This very short period of time was large- ly due to the fact that they traveled 8500 miles by airplanes. Such an exploit is a forecast of the day when the nations of the earth will be far closer than they are now, and people will travel from America to Europe or Asia as easily as they go.from Chicago to Washington now. When that time comes, the sep- arated peoples of the earth will be closely drawn togeiher and wars will cease. The world’s quar- rels have been due mostly to misconceptiona which would be ‘removed by closer relations. THE ICE AGE (Boston Sunday Globe) Our favorite planet has been slow in warming up this year. We Northerners don’t like such freaks of nature. When we have to sleep under blankets into July we feel that we are being | cheated. Our Winter was prolonged; our summer has been shortened. As if this were not bad luck enough for one season, along eontes “he: cheerful tip that we may as well make the most of what there is left, because this may he the last Summer we shall have. > The Westminster Gazette has announced ihat the earth is about to be affiicted with another Ice Age. According to the geologists, the last Glacial Age set in some 100,000 years ago, and began to soften, so that the northern world became comfort- ably habitable, from 25,000 to 50,000 years back. The anthropologisis depose that our ancestors then trekked up into Europe from. points south in Asia and Africa. It is not easy to visualize what another Ice Age would be like. We have, of course, no chron- icles describing the phenomenon. It happened hun- dreds of centuries before the writien word was in- vented. acquired the art of communicating through the spoken word. Anyway, the scientific testimony is that our own direct ancestors did not migrate into Europe until the glacial period was well on the wane. Some of the more immediate effects are noted hy the Westminster Gazette, which has covered the impending event very completely. There would soon be’a fall of fiye degrees in the average tem- perature. The polar ice cap would move farther and farther southward, impeding the Atlantic steamship lanes. Spring would be delayed longer and longer each year, with disastrous effects on production and the cost ef food. Eventually the wheat belt would have to ‘move nearer the Equator. Undoubtedly, Florida would enjoy a boom of F at least 5000 years’ duration. The center of civil ization in the western hemisphere would probably | move from North to South America. Scientific speculations of this, nature serve one useful purpose. They stagger man’s imagination and deflate his ego. Only when his mind is shocked into contemplation of the grandeur of the universe does he realize what a puny, unimportant dust- speck he is. His whole planet, his entire solar sys- tem, in fact, is a mere flicker in the infinitude of | the stellar universe. ‘ Prophecy of another Ice Age, however, ought not seriously to alarm us. PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITY According to estimates from electrical power interests, based on the sale of power to manufac- turing plants, production in this country in June | was about 12 per cent more than last year. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 7 'POCOOOESOO HOT OOOOOOSTSOSOOSOOOSESHOSS OOLOSOSHOS SSS OOOOSOOOSOHODOS~ HO0OOOR Tireless © IIT AGN EXPERT: Barc ed WE NEVER SLEEP Florida East Coast Railway , s © THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE hbucnecaen Effective April 20, 1926 ARRIVE 6:25 A. M. 3:00.P. M. " NORTHBOUND LEAVE 7:30 P. M. Havana Special _ 2:00 P. M. Royal Poinciana Dining Car Service—Trains 75 and 76 For hac Infermation See the Ticket Agent STEAMSHIP CO. . D. RAHNER, Geperal Passenger Agent UNITED STATES FAST MAIL P & ROUTES FOR: PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Ly, Key West for Havana 8:30 A. M. daily except Sunday and Wednesday. Ly. Key West for Port Tampa 7:30 P. M. Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tickets, Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on ths The eyewitnesses very likely had not even | Stewarts WASHLINGTON “242 LETTER -Atfod BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON—The District of Columbia government is to be investigated while Congress is | in recess ‘The, House of Representatives left | @ special committee, before it ad- Journed, to attend to it—Congress- men McLeod of Michigan, Gibson of Vermont, Reid of Illinois, Houston of Delaware, Gilbert of Kentucky, Hammer of North Carolina and Whitehead of Virginia, Indications are that an investiga. | tion is badly needed. Perhaps there; won't prove to be any fire but there's | an awful lot of smoke. o 2. : ASHINGTON’S city. govern- ment is of more than local im- portance for the whole coun- try governs the capital and is re- sponsible for doing a good job. What kind of a job is being done? ‘The government of the District of Columbia,” says Congressman ert of the investigating commit- who already has spent five years “is approach- and I warn all con- erned that the situation can’t be remedied by the passage of laws. j It cen only be done by a change in personnel “We need not pass laws and ex- pect relief by having them adminis- tered by se now administering } them re indifferent to all ~ except appropriation bills.”" scandal, vernment has been | fir throughout | t of the last session of Con- ive Blanton fovght it | under the stress of | his doc vittes were raised on | lprisoner during the Brit diately and | This result would seem to vindicate the idea | u that the country has benefited by reduciion of taxes. Now if they could get state and municipal taxes everywhere down by an equal proportion, what a spurt of prosperity it would create. sideration of those political and economic methods | by which such a result could be had. AMERICAN TOURISTS Europe is said to be overrun with American tourisis this summer, and many of them ere college students and young teachers. The people of those countries wonder how our young people can get the money necessary for these junkets. Which shows that it pays to be located in a tand where people have enlerprise and willingness to absorb new ideas, While it is a fine thing for people to travel if they can afford to spend the money, these who stay at home and read diligently will be broader minded people than those who travel and merely see ine surface of things and go in for high Jinks. The go-getters tell us to “snap into it”, but the majority expect to soft snap into it. The | American people should devote a bit less time to | their sports and pastimes, and a little more to con- | jOmit “a distance of.” ecvccesceccscvcces | “DAILY LESSONSIN : Don’t say “he walked a distance of a mile.” Often mispronounced: Chestnut. |Pronounce ches-nut. The first t is silent. Often (critic.) Synonyms: Similar, alike,! game, equivalent, identical, syn-! gnomous, corresponding. | Word’ Study ::Use.a -word! thrée | times and it is yours.” Let us} misspelled: Censor | ‘| inerease our vocabulary by master- ing one word each day. Today's! word: Stigmatize; to brand as! disgracé or dishonor. ‘Their ease and good living were stigmatized | as laziness.” LOOK AND LEARN By A. C. GORDON : | Which is the vince in Canada? 2. What animal is the most! useful to man of all domesticated | animals? | 3. Who is known as the “Plant Wizard?” 4. What was the most | largest pro-| * 1 jtree to the Indians? 5. “How many stars form the| “Big Dipper?” Answers To Yesterday's Gvevitons! 1. In the interior of Africa and in Portugal. | 2. The goldenrod. | 3. Francis Scott Key, while a bom bardment of Fort McHenry in The faleon. 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Davis 199 Per Cent Pure Paint and Oils. PHONE 240 William and Caroline Sts. | in church by someone who should | Time you find out what it’s all about it’s all about something else. If the police ever get after us we'll get a job as vice president and never be noticed at all. There’s one fine thing about a straw hat. When you get real mad you can bite it. It's an awful waste of money to raise a son and then let him do jam as he dern pleases. Buffalo (N. ¥.) woman was robbed | have been listening to the sermon. Expert finds cigarets ruin com: | plexions.. They don't. Nothing does. | Except leaving the compact at | . i (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ' Emerson Fans always please—| are a source of comfort. july12-tf STAR COFFEE MILLS|| || DELICIOUS & REFRESHING | A delicious cup of fine flavored COFFEE is a satisfying drink at all times: That is why every- body who has. tried our COF- FEE is a STAR COFFEE MILLS enthusiast. 512 GREENE ST. Phone 256 | NEW YORK). By Sea DIRECT OCEAN. 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