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Si se | _ Miami Beach has an vote seandal. Ever in the van, Key West had add to the pungency, . - highway to the come to the far- is necessary to go to Miami, and once there most of the travel- least a little while in the judge was once heard to say’ that he got a certain individual before his court he would give him the} That statement forever barred the! from trying that particular person, should have barred him from ever oF sae 8 £ i & nee? s Supreme Court Justice Willis Van has forwarded his resignation to Roosevelt, to go into effect on dane 2. Senator Joe Robinson, _ whose ambition has always hgen to sit on the) supreme court bench, may have his ambi- «tion gratified, because is a new dealer and absolutely subservient to the will of his master. i Postmaster Farley's clairvoyance went ; afoul for once, but this column thinks the | administration's fog horn knew all the! ‘time that he was biuffing, like the prize | ‘ fighters blatant announcement that he is confident he is going to knock the stuffing ! out of his opponent, and inwardly speculat-! ing his chances of holding out a coupic of rounds or being flattened out in the very first round. a ee | ee The Everglades Park Geaminstil | asking the state-fer av appropriation™ of | $87,760 for expenses of the next two: years, divided as follows: Chairman, $4,- ' 000; a#eretary, $2,500; abstract executive, | $3,600; secretary to chairman, $1,680; typists, $3,900; appraisal and _ procure- ment work, $12,000; legal help, $2,500; legal and office equipment, $1,500; sta- | tionery, printing, $1,200; office rent, $1,-/ 800; commissioners’ expenses, $4,200} con- | tingencies, $5,000. The request from the | previous legislature was for $50,000, which | & trimmed down to $25,000, and it is not | thought that the full amount of $87,760) asked will be granted by the present legis- | ling three years i lature. books, while the evening is marked | ~~ He attends services at a local church | with unfailing regularity, an odd feature | of which is that he writes many of the ser- mons which the pastor afterward preaches - All this is in striking contrast with the characteristics which the world saw in the rather arrogant war lord of a few years ago, although Wilhelm always | professed to be on friendly terms with the Deity. An’ American admiral once got in bad by satirizing the then Kaiser in a poem called . “Me und Gott,” in which Wilhelm was rep- | i abséntes | Tesented as claiming a partnership in’ which he gave the Almighty second place. | Anyway, the exiled Kaiser is a good‘ boy now, and at the age of 78 is not likely / to further endanger the peace of the! world. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL. Former Editor of The Key West Citizen i a } i An exchange quotes a Southern darky’s comparison of the Lord with Presi-' dent Roosevelt: “De Lawd say ‘Come un- to me and I will give you rest: Mister Roosevelt say to all de good-for-nothin’ white trash and niggahs, ‘Don’t come un-' to me; just stay whah you is; set down on‘ yore gable end and rest, and Ill feed’ yuh.’ * { “If anyone doesn’t believe this one, let him blame the A. P. One of its recent; dispatches told of Ben Pinson, grocer’ o Durant, Okla., who put in a stock of buggy | whips and sold two dozen in two da Three customers said theirs would be us as fishing poles, while one was sold to a mother who wanted to whale her son. Allen R. Dickison of Indianapolis was . in deadly earnest when he decided to quit drinking. To aid him in overecomi habit he mixed up a homemade co of some kind and drank it. The fir killed him. the! ction st dose Jean Guery of Marseilles, France, missed his calling, and it was too bad. He defended a client in court so effect that the judges were moved to tea Then, upon discovering that Guery w not a lawyer. they gave him three years in jail. Former Senator Brookhart of Iowa ence picked a flaw in crop control laws which still seems to held good. He. de- elared that to make such laws. w i would be necessary to have with the Almighty, and add “I have not yet heard that He has signed up.” a. con Age seems to be no barrier to hoidi court jobs in North Carolina. Dixon, the well-khown author Clansman,” has beea appoi the Federal court for th of that state at the age of Captain Samuel A. Ashe, who tired at the age of 96. Chinchillas, whose fur is one most valuable in the world, wer extinct when 11 of the a brought to California from in 1918 by the late M. F. Cha son now has nearly 900 on his farm Inglewood. The chinchilla is a rode about the size of a large squirrel wt full grown. A wedding ring bel g to Mrs David Mann of Niagara N. Y., was missed by her in 1934. Recently whi her pet dog was being fed the drop- ped from the animal’s mouth. She be- lieves it had been caught in the dog’s teeth and remained there during the interven- : : } devoted to the reading of reli-. © i per ounce for gold is bringing in ie i i ea stats i ij Hi fate ati if Eee tH RF i z if howe Saese easy to err in meeting set going influences that but surely cause worse Cases in point are seme of the isken three or four years certain difficulties we are 1937. | for example, there was the srices frome. 2908 wal EE i. was no difference i at as Ip, 2 was no reason to rely on magic rather : than om sciefice- in meeting the situa- es tics. Tae doljar was, large amounts of government oecause of pressure from festaiea ties to support the market for groups or on the recommendation of jan ‘ultimate ine. will i i i wee Hi g 2 i y } against the mistake that was being ade. With the price of gold raised would follow promptly with the reia- tively few commodities that enter largely into our foreign trade, Second, there would be an ultimate advance i trouble. a i i i id mining has received an un- healthy stimulus and world produc- is tion has enormously expanded. As business improves prices ate being adjusted to this enlarged gold supply and to the devalued currencies and there is now a world-wide and dan- gerousiy rapid rise in prices. For us in the United States it is especially ic since our readiness to pay i Ree i El i i aE th HH § [ z q a 8 g ie Ty if i g B i H i I ‘ # E Fi i mous quantities to us from all parts of the earth. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper, i a uh ie Ft & f net i 5 E SEs ee ee eee | THE WEATHER Temperatures* ; WEATHER CONDITIONS A.M. P.M.:day morning in portions of High = 7:44 S:northern Plains States, upper Lew Ze 1:06 2 Musiatiel Vacley. & Say | saree Ae | Mississippi Va‘ley, Lae region,| esi ia Miah Set Ban m New England; while; Semileves Pas aqna most Sectiolis of the North, Fair tonight a ksonville to Florida’ St Gulf:. Gentle wi mm States. A Service for Travelers Fer the ever-increasing number of patrons who are planning a journey our bank offers AMERICAN EXPRESS TARVELERS CHEQUES as a protection for travel funds. These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi- as of $10, $20, $50 and $100, cost only -75c. »ach $100 purchased. They are spendable wherever travelers go, and carry the added and important feature of a prompt refund by the Am- n Express Company in case of loss or theft befere your second signature is affixed. Ask the Teller about them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member of the Federal Reserve Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation f — The northeastern disturbance} has moved northeastward over the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and Rainfall* the western low pressure area ex-; Yesterday's Precipitation .0 Ins ‘tends this morning from Minne-! Normal Precipitation -16 Ins. sota southwestward Mithe Mexi-; ‘This record covers 24-hour period +s whil : cuneman a aren eel ean border; while 2 high pres- -|sure area is ¢ ed, over cat the northern nedead and} .m. pressure is moderatey _ hi: $ . m./ over the southeastern portion of} sets . 3:41 a. m. the country. Light to moderate; Temorrow’s Tides rains have occurred since yeste the Tete Is fair weather has >pre-} WEATHER FORECAST vailed. \Temperaturég have fal‘en | is ‘ in the notthern Rodfies, and are| near or Somewhat below normal in | though warmer weather prevails in Lake region and Ohio Valley ile readings are generally abov e seasonal average in the south- s, |e southeast, and fair] G. S. KENNEDY, ight and Saturday. 1 Officia? in Charge a} j ' ; al: TIFAPPLIALLLL LLL 22 N N) N N N N IN N N N N iN N) N N N N N : N wt if [fe |. Editorial comment: jzelly declares. that , the NOW IS THE TIME TO SCREEN. BE PREPARED POR THE S02- MER MONTHS. PROTECT YOURSELVES FROM MOSQUTTORS KNOCKED DOWN CYPRESS SCREEN WINDOWS WITH OUT HARDWARE ___. OS KNOCKED DOWN CYPRESS SCREEN DOORS WITHOUT HARDWARE _____ aoe ADJUSTABLE PORTABLE SCREENS WITH GALVANIZED WIRE 24” High - s = 28” High “ 5 aad 30” High io SCREEN DOORS: 7-8” Doors. SCREEN HARDWARE Pine, With Galvanized Wire. SETS: 1 Pair Hinges, § Spring. 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