The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1937, Page 2

BELIEVING NONSENSE ~ Mest high school graduates turned loose upon the world this year, and every | berg College, who recently enumerated a! few of the silly beliefs he found prevalent among them. - Upon asking freshmen entering psy- { aminations on their beliefs and disbeliefs, he discovered that 50 percent of more than | ped, that expectant ‘mothers can mark their unborn by frightening experiences, that beavers know when to prepare for a long, cold winter, that red makes a bull wild, that chess develops powers of con- centration. s, resolutions ot | dogs howling foretold death, that long | va be charged for at | slender hands indicate an artistic nature, | that civilization is almost entirely a prod- uct of the white race, and that if you stare long enough at a person’s back you will force him to turn aro 7 iH As many as 25 perce it ot the idea that a receding or stream-lined |), ed WILL always seek the truth and print it witheut fear and without favor; never be efraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; eiways fight for progress; never be the or- en or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or eemmend good dene by individual or organ- tention; tolerant of others’ rights, views and Spinions; print only news that will elevate nd not contaminate the reader; never com- always good-natured, and that you cant read character by bumps on the head, or! by depressions in the skull. And every one of the ideas mentioned are without the slightest foundation fact. All are sheer nonsense. HURRICANE SEASON AT HAND | th. {of ‘s affected by the most destructive mete-| __ eye on the special storm warning service | re of the Weather Bureau. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST = e year, look upon life with minds befogged | pignest with superstition, according te Dr. H. J, [Lowest Arnold, eminent psychologist of Witten-|Normal Mean {Sun rises chology classes last year to submit to ex-|Sun sets | Moon rises ‘Moon sets 200 believed that women have powers of ‘High intuition with which men are not equip-'Low _ jeloudy tonight and Friday, Nearly half of them. believed that '<bly showers; gentle to moderate | &* tra! portions Friday and possibly} near extreme south coast tonight. vi ‘chin denotes lack of will power, that.silent ,and--Friday}o.seattered showers men are deep thinkers, that fat ones are jovem south atid central portions. mederat atu img southward over the Figies During the last 24 hours, show-: Se a Z bef d sk > tes. Pressure 1s low also over ers occurred in southern Florida‘ pioigmee B ’ T , . ie Gulf of Mexico, Florida and and lecal'y in Washington, 2! Theater District ‘eller about them. The hurricane season has come again | | ake and for several months people in the areas | Tennessee. orological disturbances will keep a close | northern Plains and upper Lake. P.M ; sort to law, which is like gambling 11:51! with leaded dice. Contrary to current propaganda, all millionaires are not bandits.| 1813—Henry se the town drunkard, the nga Peart eet es, one of rs rs man has his pace. He also has: bis, ap 926—Because ef stricter [his rights. He has, among other Ded = ae Conn. role laws in effect om fiat hings, a right to provide for his ‘Vassar professor of mily after he is gone, But for! san eae Harding por gg Cleveland. Died Feb. z vern-: novel mother of Richard ' 2ry dollar he leaves, the govern- “ing gore laa =f A.M. 10:30 i War, born at Washington, Ga. Died March 12, 1889. Sea level, 29.86. WEATHER FORECAST (Tl 7:30 p, m., Friday) Key West end Vicinity: Partly pos- } ment will take half, by’ direct in- heritance tax. If it is wrong for a, man to make a lot of money, all enter- prise that pays rewards is wrong. Henry M. Flagler had no right to spend $30,000,000 to’ bring” ‘the railread to’ Key West? He Was A Service for T: For the ever-incteasing sumber «f oh oo ee ae ee AMERICAN EXPRESS T. as a >rotection for travel fume riab'e winds, Florida: Partly cloudy, scatter- shov ers in south and east-cen- and author, born in Washington, Pa. Died at Mount Kisco, N. Y.,) Sept. 29, 1910. ‘ | 1842—-Ambrose G. Béeree, the :noted author about whose end ythere has been so much specula- tion, borp in Meirs Co., 0. Last _ credited with’ wanting fo go ahéad |ho*r = —. oe and jump’ into new things. Today; 4959 tord Kitrhencr, British |like Flagler from Becoiting''t09 Died in the sinking of the Cruiser | le to Florida Straits We ue Gentle to moder- e variable winds, mostly easter- ; partly overeast weather tonight * eater common. Tn the New*L2af'prim- 5, Ne 4 1916. conveewat WEATHER CONDITIONS ‘er, some day, the legetid will be, "PSPS “Sune t _ These Chegees, ieund i eet ‘There was once a very rich man.”{ 1869—Caroline E. nations of $10, $20, $50 and $168, com i beaten Hampstead, N. H., June 18, 1937. This morn'ng a disterdance of e intensity is central over Es 29.54 with ‘ow pressure extend- for each $100 purchased. They are wherever travelers go, and carry the important feature of a prompt refued by the erican Express Company im case of lee or msnneayel higher in the southern Lake re-' gion, f the north Pacific states and Lake region and the northern! Ponular Pei relat'vely high over the lower Plains, ie s4 i THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF region, Ohio valley and sae temperatures of id | First Class Fireproof degrees and over were again re-' Member of the Federa Resere« Temyeratures are 6 to 20 de- ported yesterday from the Plains —Sensible Rates— ees lower this morning in the states and Missouri valley. | Member of the Federal Depoest imoweemce S. M. GOLDSMITH, i Garage Elevator Carpesation zion whil ethey arz somewhat Temporarily in Charge ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Weather men look for a tropical hur- ricane any time from June to November and carefully watch the formation of con- ditions which indicate the possibility of | one of these whirling storms which have | raked the eastern seaboard for many years. In the last fifty years, 127 tropical storms of hurricane force have hit the! coast between Texas and North Carolina, | with 39 hitting Florida, 24 hitting Texaz| and 16 reaching the land along the shores | | Bridges to complete Road to Main- tend. Free Port. Hotels and Apartments. Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. stig see ee of Louisiana. The greatest number in any One year! was twenty-one in 1933. Last year hee were sixteen, the second gratest number! reported in any one season. . Readers may be puzzled by the re ports of storms, with wind velocity above eighty miles an hour, wheh they observe} that it takes some time for the hurricane : to travel a few hundred miles. This dis- | crepancy is easily explained when one un | derstands that these tropical disturbances | have a whirling motion, where great at) Father Coughlin got off the air be- fore his new bishop gave him the air. When the road to the mainland is finished, Key West will be a Mecca for tourists, and you know what a Mecca is. A Canadian by the name of Birch | died the other day in Canada at the age of 114. it took a long time but the woodman finally felled that tree. vm is attained, and a progressive motion. = yhich i aratively slow. The d The merehants are not very much in- which = Somber er e e struction is caused by the force of the! terested in the doing in the stock market, though they‘ate very eager in making ever the coguter sales, whirling wind but the storm travels for- | ward at the progressive rate which is not | anything like as fast as the rotating wind. | | | ! GOVERNOR LOWDEN’S EXAMPLE! We would like to see sponging one of the chief industries of Key West, but there is one variety distasteful to most folks, and : 7 " We have been amazed at the ability that variety is not tangible. of newspaper writers, politicians and ex- perts to spend a week or two in a foreign} The nicest thing about cricket is the country and come home with information ; tea in the interim, and what this writer} enough to answer all questions about all | likes about local golf is the occasional din-| the problems that beset the nation visited. | ner, It is difficult to comprehend why We have been somewhat skeptical of ! “Gravy” has to plead, “Whether you play | their dope because we have observed the | o& not, PLEASE come to the dinner,” when; same gang at work in the United Staies, | such an invitation should be accepted with| where they are never able to alacrity. correctly | dope out an election, a dog race or a base- i “St SHSthes— ball pennant fight. Nevertheless, the habit | Why do s0,many~ people, including | persists, but there are hints that a brighter ; newspapermen, say that money is the root; day dawns. | of all evil. Money is stamped metal, most { For example, former Governor Frank ! epmmonly represented by pieces of printed! O. Lowden, of Illinois, recently spent six paper, and intrinsically has no part in the; weeks in Europe, where he took a cure at evil of the world: It is love of motiey, andj Baden Baden. Now, Mr. Lowden, if you} particularly when it is inordinate, that; know his past record, had to have some does the dirty work. sense to get where he went. What does he - tell inquiring reporters upon his return to! this country? Well, says he, while he stayed on a “fairly high mountain” there wasn’t much he could see “in the way of conditions economic and political.” And, brothers and sisters who read i A representative in the New Jersey; house proposes that a stamp or label be pat on every article sold stating the ap- proximate percentage of the tax in the purchase price, in order to make the Am- i erican public tax conscious. That might} what is printed, this is about the correct make us tax-conscious, but physically un-! answer for all returning travelers to give | conscious, so we had better leave bad j to inquisitive newspaper men hunting copy. ! enough alone, | More important, it reflects the truth, ... have a Chesterfield. They give me more pleasure than any cigarette I ever tried Me too ... Pve heard the same thing all the way from New York. nothing I’ve found tastes half as —_— nr from Maine to California ‘ they know what Chesterfields stand for ‘ s MORE PLEASURE They fy