The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 4

“PAGE FOUR : THE KEY WEST CITIZEN L. P. ARTMAN, President. TRA J. MOON, Business Manager. intered » Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press Se, ce Press js exclusively entitled to use ‘tor repwblication of all news dispatches credited Mt ot «( otherwise credited in this paper and also = (he iecni vows published here. SUBSCRIPTION NATES ADVERTISING BATES = Made known on application. a “* Cards of tnanks, resolutions of respect and My ory ‘Sectices other than those which the paper may give as matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 sents a line. = Notice of church and society and all other enter- “=ainments from which a revenue fs to be derived will se charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. “> The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion “mt public issues and subjects of local or general Inter- st, but it will not publish anonymous commupice- —~ tons. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST Z ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. it An ad will add to your business as nothing else ape Ss = Health Note—Don't try to stop a fight between jusband and wife. seer ® oe It only gets warm in Key West while it gets Soretty darned hoi at points farther nortit Food costs a lot nowadays, but the philosophers Shave not discovered any way to get along without it. * “ + In keeping with the spirit of this fast age, in- Stipient hurricanes seem (o be rushing the season =tris year. a Fifty marines have been guarding the presi- caent, but up to now they have not had ‘to repel any Gattack but mosquitos. People are tcld to watch their step, but those Sho are stepping on the gas nced to put more atten- ee on the road ahead. Through sleeping car service now between jia.—Tampa Tribune. Between, joxida would be more ‘correct. Something that sometimes breaks loose in © Georgia seems to have opened up in Texas the other Siay, and Governor Ma Ferguson got terribly put Another ehild ran in front of a truck; another © hae newly made grave; this time in St. Peters- 4 burg. Parents can’t be too persistent about warn- Sang-their children in regard to playing in and cross- ing the streets.—-Tampa Daily Times. Princess Heana of Rumania, mentioned as a prospective bride fot the Prince of Wales, had a fal! from a hammock. By all means get these young people together. Put him on a horse and her in a hammock and they'l! surely fall for each other. GULF STREAM SPEEDS UP ' (Mami Tribune) , Navigators report increased rapidity in the flow of the Gulf Stream, the great body of water that flows north from the Gulf of Mexico to New- foundland and then crosses over to warm western Evrope. Southbound steamers ere delayed by it Ships crossing it are carried out of their courée. Its speed is given at six knots an hour, about seven is no faster. a river. The “rushing Rhine” Why this change in a current that has the | whole level ocean to flowin? Is the equator tipping up, or the North Atlantic sinking? Nobody knows. There are other notable alterations in the usual or- def-of things Jately—volcenoes in Alaska and eise- | where, earthquakes in many regions of the Atlantic end Pacific, unwonted rains and drouths in widely separated parts of the world, with violent extremes and general undependability in the weather of Am- erica and Europe. “gun spots,” which may be a as good a guess as any other, though most of us fail to see exactly how the explanation applies. Why should a fiery storm fn the sun, 92,000,000 miles away, Stream? Probably it won't matter much, anyway. But the incident is worth while if it will arouse more interest in that stream, which with its bright Due water, its swarming life borne northward from the | tropics, its playing delphins, porpoises and flying fish and its wondrous luminiscence at night is prob- | pep up our Gulf | | eate a stow pace. KEY WEST MERCHANTS NON-ADVERTISERS It is to be regretted if reports are true tha® | quite a number of prominent Key West people are doing ‘he bulk of their shopping in the Magic City these days. They read the advertisements in the Miami newspapers, and then go there to make their purchases. Some of them are said to claim that they find goods much cheaper in Miami than in Key West, and that they save enough on a number of purchases combined to almost pay their railroad fare. , The patronage of Key West people seems to have become an important matter with the Miami merchants, and it is reported that they contemplate taking steps to have week-end excursion rates estab- lished from Key West, and that they plan to re- fund fare to Key West shoppers whose combined purchases in Miami total a certain amout. If thi. plan is carried out, it will mean that an increased volume of the cream of business will go out of town, leaving the merchants here only ihe erumbs of trade. Key West is the only city of any size in the whole- world where the merchants unite in a flat refusal to advertise. For this reason immense sums of money go from Key West every month to the mail order houses, and now a great deal of the per- sonal purchases are being made in Miami and other nearby cities. It looks bad for Key West, but no sympathy ‘| is due the local merchants, for.not one of them, ever advertises in his home newspaper. It is not intend- ed to discuss here whether they are afraid of the quality of their goods and are reluctant to make their prices known in advertisements. But if their goods and prices are all right, they should not hes- itate to publish them (o the world, as honorable and progressive merchants do everywhere else. The local newspaper is generally looked upon as an index, to its community, and it is a serious reflection upon Key West for people in other states to pick up The Citizen and discover that not a mer- chant in the town is advertising to any extent whatever. ‘ Intelligent people have been educated up to the fact that all reputable, progressive merchants consider advertising the greatest factor in their bus- iness success, and that the largest stores are the most exiensive advertisers in every city, Frugal shoppers and buyers of home supplies have become accustomed to consulting newspaper advertisements to such an extent that they rarely enter the bus- | iness place of a non-advertiser. How many merchants in Key West? No trouble to count them. -Just go up Duval street on Satur- day evenings, a rush time among,shoppers in other cities, and you'll see almost every one standing in front of his place of business. And you can count: most all the clerks in the same way. This is all because they: donot} advertise, aad back their advertising with: ‘goodsiand prices that are attractive ‘to ‘the local buying publie. They prefer to loaf about the front door‘and complain of “poor business,” when the fault is all their own. Tt can be said without fear. of. successful con- tradiction that conditions are as good in Key West as at any other Florida city at this season of the yaer. Key West people dress as nicely as any you will find in America, and none of them go hungry. They pay out plenty of money for good food and nice clothes, but very little of it is spent here at home. It goes to the mail order*Wéuses, to Miami and other nearby cities, while Key" West merchants refuse to advertise and consequently sit around and do nothing most of the time. 3 It is estimated upon good authority that for the past year and more money has been going out of Key West to the great mail order houses at the rate of $100,000 a month, and this estimate will bear closest investigation. This is over’a million dol- lars a year the merchants of Key West let go out of town, never to return, simply because they will not advertise. AROUND WORLD RECORD | with him et once 1. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — Seems to Be Permanent REGAN MY YOUTAFUL. FIGURE DESPITE MR.) sage ECONOMY = ANNUAL EXPENDITURES ak asa Bucks secceseesuoveccscesena CHEER UP, UNK, FAT FOLKS ARE ALWAYS HAPPY THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926.: Florida East Coast Railway FLAGLER SYSTEM THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROUTE Effective April 20, 1926 SOUTHROUND NORTHBOUND ARRIVE LEAVY 7:30 P. M. Havana Special 2:00 P. M. 6:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M. Royal Poinciana Dining Car Service—Trains 75 and 76 For Further Information the Ticket Agent _ J. D., RAHNER, General Passenger Agent — STEAMSHIP CO. UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR: PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Ly. Key. West for Havana 8:30 A. M. daily except Sunday and Wednesday. Key West for Port Tampa Shtarace ’ . Tickets, Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on the Dock, ‘Phone 71 7:30 P. M. Tuesdays and aku Ah ke A DIFFERENCE IN ICE! Yes: there’s a great difference in the quality of Ice. There’s some that melts quickly, and there’s another that proper attention is not given. to its manufacture. Ice from the Thompson Ice com- pany’s plant is that kind that lasts; care is taken in its manufacture; noth- ing but the best and purest distilled water is used, and you have in our Ice Stewarts 64 DAILY LESSONSIN WASHINGTON ~ LETTER * | BY CHARLES P. STEWART ee | NEA Service Writer ‘ ASHINGTON — Nobody whe | m Words often malsueed: Don't use | knows General Lincoln C an “locate” for “find.” ‘Locate’ drews could take. without a, means to place. good many grains of salt, the report H Often mispronounced: that he intended to resign as dry | | czar of the United States before the yenatd. Pronounes blag-ard, | the end of the year that he gave himselt [first a as in “at,” g as in “go,” to show “‘considerable progress to. |last a as in “star,” aecent on first ward prohibition enforcement * syllable. ‘The general is the type of individ - s ual who generally performs moi Often misspelled: than he promises, not less cious. He did not. indeed, pledge hi | ynonyms: to dry the rsa up. He was q' st, isi: i 6 ti 9m ‘ ie » supervision, » superi te tion, that he was uncertain whether |~™ cc: WARENES ess; Oversight. j it could be done or not, He aid not | Word study: “Use a word three even promise “considerable prog | times and it is yours.” Let us in- ress." But he did say he intended to |cregse our vocabulary by master- try it for another year eee ling one word each day. Today’s | E has still about four months to/word: Avow; to declare openly; | go and recently denied he would acknowledge. “He frankly avow- quit td omty be toread out'-ae (C4 Himself to be the man they | It he coud only be forced out!—8* | vere hunting.” | Blaek- | Sagacious; Control, manage- prefer death itself the type of man the general fs. | eeeneevccececoccccscceece | et bition days, until he accepted his | manufactureof coke? General Smediey D. Butler was in Fhiladelphin. But to quit. to admit) 96 defeat!—Andrewa probably wou | ace | LOOK AND LEARN © eppreciate the situation ‘at ite full value it is necessary to con. 1 By A. C. GORDON sider the job in connection with | He was a dashing cavalry officer | 1. How many teeth has the} socially popular. He liked lively! |. 2 company, comiatery He drank, in |2Veraee man? oe both pre-prohibition and post-prohi| 2 What state leads in Present post. According to his own| 3. What . foreign general | | admission. some of bis friends said y | Ke avai card “Roh bar: ne wee 2 | brought valuable aid to Washing souse. but he lived in worldly circtes [ton during the Revélutionary —was a “Joly good fellow” of the, War? pte-prehibition brand. 4. Who is the suthor of “Lit- Andrews wes a sciiter, however, a and belicved that or |e reg enforced. Prebi . 5. From what country does| When it definitely put up tothe best wheat comé? see that it was. Would 0 enforce it? Yes. he | | 1. It became a matter of honor | } Twenty-seven. Many things have happened since Jules Verne | wrote his then fantastic tale, “Around the World in Pighty Days.” No doubt early readers of that | thor’s vagaries entertainingly presented. At that time no one except a few supposed! y erack-brained | | famous book considered it only another of the au- | miles. That would be an extremely rapid flow in ; Darius Greens had sny idea that men would ever | | fly through the air. But even before the day of the airplanes @ | ? newspaper woman, known as Nellie Bly, made the trip in 73 days. Subsequent globe-trotters gradn- [misery 9 tached s ison, D ally reducted the time until John Henry Mears made | the record of about 35 days in 1913—a record | which stood until a few days ago. In June two Americans, FE. S. Evans and Lin- they did, completing the circuit in 28 days, 14 hours, 86 minutes and 5 seconds, or a little more | _ than one-third of the time set by Verne in his fam- ous book. Some day this latest record will seem to indi- | With the recent feat of a non- stop airplane flight of 2,800 miles in mind, we may confidently look to the day when some monster of the air may girdle the globe without a landing in a week, or possibly less. ‘ Much is said about the flight of capital, and it ably the most beaujiful body of water in the world. | certainly flies fast out of our poekets around here. _ | ten Wells, started out to best Mears’s time, which | * Nearly all of these disturbances are blamed on | Continue to rink? No. of course 8 is not the man to be | rs and wet for Atm: red to him y was no slave to ale: 8. a8 he seid, he was too | to this New Mexico. Astronomy. The kangaroo. TORTURED WITH SLEEPLESS-| NESS “ei pabiible to. sleep at night} w walked. My back uld not sit in somitort you feel fine egain! 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