The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 4

Goes hemes, cates 8 mniy otnerwise credited tr thia paper 6. pone buulishe FB a. we to of toayks, resolutions of respect and obituary ae her those which the paper may give as nat cr ‘8, Will be charged fo! tents Totite of éhurch and soctety and all other enter- ainments fyom which @ revenue Is to be derived will ve charged/for at the rate of § cents a line. "The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion * es and subjects of local or general in se bork ‘will not publish anonymous communica- UMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY ‘WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Road to the Mainland. Comprehensive City Plan. & Hotels ahd Apartments. i] { 6. Bathing Pavilion. : | The new Duval street whiteway looks fine— ithe day time. i i 3 H Evelyn Nesbit does not like Thaw’s autobiog- bby, and neither does anyone else in America, he states the facts that are already well known. ‘ People who swipe souvenirs from hotels would somewhat indignant to get home and find that burglar had swiped their silver for the same ; PO x rea H Ohio has <a Negro candidate for governor. those “friends” of the colored race will have opportunity to do their stuff.and practice what preach. ‘ | Whatever may be said about Ma Ferguson, ‘and all must admit that she is a woman, and surprise would be otcasioned should she excr- the time ‘honored privilege of the sex and we her opinion’ about resigning. “Joe” Sears. and Dan Moody of Texas are two a kind—they’re both woman beaters. Wonder there's a | They in Texas?—Tampa Daily 1e8. rel lyone Key West in all the pleasant in summer and warm all winter. Places in Paris now being frequented by Am- @ scornfully referred to by the pas pen yankeefobia exists. The are qufek to forget that that is the “dis- which won the World War and saved their _. The ‘outcome of Ma Ferguson’s gubernatorial campaign in Texas really furnishes food for serious thought. She was defeated upon the charge that she was governor in name only and that her hus- band was really the chief executive of the Lone Staf state during her incumbency. Will all women govgrnors in future be subservient to their hus- in the administration of affairs of State? wi "t it be perfectly natural for them to go to theigybusbands for advice and suggestions? COTTON AND SKIRTS ‘Last week there was held in Birmingham a conference called for the purpose of devising new used, for cotton, with a view to absorbing the sur- plus}which now thenaces the farmers of the Sou:h (Many suggestions were made, among them the wee vf. cotton iicre extensively for cement bags, beltings; cylinder linings, and so on. But a more Aaring proposition caught the imagination of those present. An intrepid gentleman urged more clothes for gn, declaring that more and longer skirts would aid (#E sitwation immensely. The other gentlemen with him, apd while it is not recorded that any s On the gubject were adopted, it is said that the delegates seemed willing to pa rictical- ly fi certain certain scenic delights of the pres- ent pede. im the interest of the struggling cotion farmer. [But, simple and feasible as the plan appears at | first} glance, it has its drawbacks. Obviously the of the women is vital ic the success of the © and they have not been heard from. Will they, throagh years of progressive abbreviation, surrend- er their freedom in behalf of a mere economic prop- ositign? We doubt it. Xba, oven though fashion should at some fu- | tue gay decree more and longer skirts, we doubt that they will be made of cotton, securing emancipation from long skirts | j WITH WHAT UNHOLY GLEE! A West Indian hurricane lashes Nassau and the Lower East Coast and whirls up along the South Atlantic to blow itself-out in Tennessee. It leaves a swath of wreckage in its wake, with dead men and living heroes on larid and ‘on ‘the anger- shaken sea. ; House boats stréew Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay with debris as the breaking waves dash high. While the hurricane is being followed. northward by the news press of the world, ‘photographs of the circumstances at Miami are shot out over the coun- try by air-mail and by train to help the anti-Florida crowd bolster up its contention that. “no good can come out of Israel.” ¢ Here is a four-tolumn picture of the “Giant waves, whipped by gale, breaking over the new Venetian Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach.” It is captioned with this sheathed verbal sword: “ ‘Land of Sunshine’ Hit by Hurricane.” Here is a three-column halftone showing wreckage in Biscayne Bay: three houseboats, a speedboat and a punt piled up near the first Miami Beach causeway. And headed, “Houseboat wreck- age in Florida in wake of tropical hurricane.” There are more, but these are enough. The telegraphic dispatches run,from a few flaring words under big black type in the Tabloid "papers, to two arid three columns in the full-sized dailies, | morning and evening. The Associated Press said: “Radio stations at Miami arid Key West still were making unsuccess- ful efforts to establish direct communication with Nassau when orders from the Navy Department at Washing’on sent the auxiliary fuel ship Bay Spring, commanded by Captain Thomas James, from the Key West base to the Bahaman capital this morn- ing.” . All this is news; important news; and we no not decry it. But we do decry the unholy glee with which northern editors mess their readers’ minds with sedulous care, handling words in head- lines and captions like children’s building blocks to make them exaggerate and distort and jtwist. Facts are facts. These things have happened. History records them everywhere. It is all in a day’s news. Let’s see: a million dollars’ damage was done by a young tornado in ihe heart of Boston’s beau- tiful) Fenway Park system about two weeks ago. Lightning and rain of tremendous proportions —the heaviest.in years in many, places—occupied front page space from the North within ten days. The ho.test July day in the history of the weather bureau’s existence caused many deaths, tremendous expense in delayed work, and antold suffering among all classes ni the northern tier of states between the 20th and the 23rd of July. That was all legimate news; it was all at- tributable to the curious whims of Nature. Key West had its first hailstorm inant’ the fifteenth of July.” While cggs on tin roofs in: Lowell, Mass., and Boston and Philadelphia; while dogs were going mad in Chi- cago because of the terrific heat, Key West was living in a temperature of 88 degrees, with re- freshing breezes all the time. The North doesn’t get this news. (it would have been news in the Norih that Key West had a hailstorm. The papers might have jumped at the chance to rai] at Florida a little more.) And it would be wonderful news in the north that when thermomeiers there were striving to do 104 in the shade the Florida thermometers were sticking close to 85 and 88. But there’s nothing to base-anti-Florida prop- aganda on under these ideal climatic conditions. It is not for us to scoff. We do not take our ed- itorial pen and dip deeply in carmine ink when mil- Lions are lost in earthquake or tornado or death- dealing thunderstorms elsewhere. Why then still pick on Florida, “yellow” editors though ye of the North states be? Why that unholy glee? SURGEONS’ BIDS WANTED While ihere can be no reasonable objection to. the custom of calling for bids on any contract in- volving a large amount, the habit many business and | professional men have of chasing bids on small quantities of printed matter is sometimes exasper- ating io printers. In many cases bids are asked on jobs amount- ing to only a few dollars, where securing the pro- posals must inevitably cost more in time and trouble | than any possible saving would repay. According to a story now being widely pub- lished, one printer got weary of bidding on iriviel jobs, and when a surgeon asked for bids on @ small | quantity of letterheads, and also requested that the type form be left standing, so that he might have | the benefit of cheaper rates for future orders, the printer wrote the surgeon this letter: “Am in the market for bids on one operation | for appendicitis. One, two or five inch incis!on- with or without ether—also with or without nurse. If appendix is found to be sound, want quotations to include putting back same and canceling order. | If removed, successful bidder is expected to hold incision open for about sixty days ax 1 expect to be | im the market for an operation for gallstones at that time and want to save the extra cost of cut- ; ting.” Seems to Be a Continuous Performance 190800 OC SOE SEDELOSEOEOROOOSOESOR SOCCER 000000008 SCSESODETESESESOODO~ 2000008 PRET ScON SHE'LL. KANE ENOUGA FEATHERS TO MAKE AFEATHER BED BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer traordinary James A Reed of Missouri to have an extrnordinary secretary. The fact is that Hicklin Yates ts far more than a mere secretary. or even: super-secretary. He comes pretty close to being an assistant senator Indeed, there are quite a few full senators who aren't as im portant as Assistant Senator Yates. Reed ts very proud of his seere- tary. or assistant. and he has reason to be Yates is a unique possession ami extremely valuable. t see has sé many interests and hs uous ones, he's on 80 many Senate committees and sub-committees and special commit- tees, he conducts so many investiga- tions, he makes so many speeches, he's involved in so many fights, his time is so occupied and over-occupted that there simply isn't enough of him to go around. As the saying is, he ought to be incorporated. Well, in effect. so he is. with him- self as president, engaged in map- ping out broad general policies. Yates, as vice president and general manager. is in charge of the com- pany's actual operations. see R instance, everybody wondered how in the world Reed managed to push that investigation into the late Pennsylvania Republican senatorial primary election and keep up with his regular Senate work at the same time. The investigation alone ran three sessions daily and far into the night. + By itself it looked as if it was enough to keep the Missouri senator more than fully occupied while it lasted. Yet he always was on hand in the Senate. chamber when the solons were transacting business, mixing into everything. debating and dis- cussing and orating, just as if he had nothing: else on his mind. How did he do it? The answer is—Hicklin Yates. eee gating committee, Yates, as his secretary, automatically became the committee's secretary. He worked up the whole investiga- tion. Tt was his case, 20 to speak, pre- Prepares @ case, to turn over to the court room specialist who develops it, through the examination and cross-examination of witnesses, sums up end demands a verdict on the evidence, se ASHINGTON. — [€ Presidenr Coolidge. up tm the adiron- @acks. i as thoroughly pesved with Senator albert & and C Bascom Stemp as nts friends here im Washington ere. then ne | must be @ very fretful president Coolidge-ttes distinctly did aot | Sant 1929 presdenual tatk to start | #¢ present With che corn beter mm such « ter | ment of discontent as tt ws today « great deat of anu-adminimration | conversation t baynd w ve mixed into any discussion of candidacies The Coolidge came obviousty w to | Hie tow for awhtle and nope for better | umes for the farmers Another thing so tong 99 every | body continued to assume that Prest. | dent Coolidge expected @ renomina Ben. it was empossixe for any rival aspirant im his own party « an avtnce buynselt They Started ft Now Cummins and Sicmp have-sea be oresicential pot e-borling. HEN Reed was appointed chair. | man of the slush fund investt- | pared by him as an office lawyer | Cummins | " DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH v W. L. GORDON | Words often misused: Don’t say \“the meeting convened.” The imembers of the board might con- |vene or assemble, but a single thing eould not. Often. mispronounced: Bitu- men. Pronounce the first syllable “bit,” the u as in “unit,” last syll- lable “men,” accent second syllable. Often misspelled: Chaotic; ao. Synqnyms: Characteristic, at- tiibate, trace Preity: auali Vy, dis- tinction mark, sign, peculiarity. ; Word study: “‘Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mas- word: Veneration; reverence. “His appealing words excited their sympathy and’ veneration.” | LOOK AND LEARN By A. C. GORDON coe 1. What flower is symbolic of | August? | 2. What president was nick-| named “Unconditional Surrend- er?” 3. What battle. proved the! turning point of the Revolution- ary War? 4. Who was the Roman god- dess of the moon? 5. What is the chief city | Wisconsin? i of | Asiawais Te Yesterday's Questions 85. times. i Kentucky. a4 } . Oxygen. | { . , Sugar maple. : { | 5. Rhode Island. } SPECIAL. To sleep well get | an Emerson Electric Fan. july12-tf | 1 withstanding all the White House | ‘spokesman 8" capacity for keeping | his mouth shut. Cummins, to be sure. nas repudi. | ated his predicuon that Premdent | | Coolidge will aot care to be renom- inated two years hence, but nobody | pays any attention to his repudiation The opposition party management goes right ahead with its comment | , om what the Lowa senator w sup. | | posed to have said. Just as tf he ceal- | ty had ead it Besides. there ws a | suspicion wm Coolidge circles m | Washington that he did say tt The suggestion dy Siemp—the president's own former private sec- retary—of the availability of Speaker | Nicholas Longworth was even worse | Scared of Nick } The Cootidge folk ere atmost ad. | | mittedly very much afraid of Long: ; | Worth, aot @o much on nis own as on | | mis wifes account Like otner can- | ) didecies, the Ohwans had to remam | | under's bushel. so far as any expres | [ston from either of the two Long worth owas concerned. until the | premdent dectared mmsetf out of the | picture, tn short, Cummins and Slemp. be tween them, appear to have set the country to thinking about a succes | gor to. President Coolidge which | exactly what bis supporters wanted to avotd. masmuch as they were roreful tt would eerar to soboay 't ¢ Re could poasihiy have any guc: | wor excep? hunseif tering one word each day. Today’s | « It may be hot, but a fellow named Luke Warm was arrested in Chicago. Europe’s slogan just now is “Say tt with tears in your eyes.” Bobby Jones, golfer. deserves an- other cup if he escapes the movies. Working in @.bank would be more fun if they ever gaye away samples. Dawes was talking so fast when Congress’ ended he hasn't stopped | yet. More millions for ‘prohibition. Our foastline isa coat, line. é An ounce of argument is worth « poke in the eye | Popularity breeds contempt { } As a man thinketh go is he tn bad. | Nothing's mor peuple whe consi painful than | y pleasure a duty Followers don't’ mean you right Bank robbers have many them Others are such bum drivers The fellow who runs ts nu coward | if he chooses the right direction: { (Copyright, 19 Just "received one solid car toad | of ROOFING. Special price, one | Piy at. $2.00; two. ply at $2. three ply at $2.50. Priced for few days only. 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