The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 4, 1947, Page 3

ES Se a 5, te Om pga “ f= ee al | meeteinennenieatall Key West In Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF SEPT. 4, 1937 Miss Dorothy Bethancourt, who was chosen beauty queen in Key West two weeks ago, will be given a banquet by Social Club Marti on the night of September 18. Jack Hayes, ‘Frank Alvarez and Duncombe Cash, Jr., left this morning to resume their studies, Hayes in. Loyola, New Orleans, and the other two in Carro}l College in Wisconsin. Labor Day will be celebrated Sen tn ipinetinnendin - — - _— me a THE KEY WEST CITIZEN New Birth Records Protect | | Babies From Parents’ Sins i vaaierii( BIRTH REGISTRATION CARD aia MISSISSIPPI STATE BOARD OF HEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS | rs | JACKSON MISSISSIPPI i KY : 4 | 'SPECTMEN | i..NOT VALID | 1} Ke DIRE VITAL STATISTICS | } j ‘ | i | STATE OF MiSSissiPri iE CARO ISSUED ~ o.. THIS CERTIFIES THAT THE ABOVE 1S A TRUE COPY OF FACTS RECORDED ON BIRTH RECORD OF THE INDIVIDUAL NAMED HEREQN. SAID RECORD BEING ON FELIX J. UNDERWOOD M. Dy STATE REGISTRAR ( Y wp, OF MITAL STATISTICS 2M GENUINE ONLY IF WATERMARKED - STATE OF MISSISSIPPI ) at the Boca Chica Fishing Camp | BIRTH CARD—Simple records such as this are being adopted by under the direction of Scoutmas- | some states to protect people of illegitimate birth, The complete ter Victor Larsen and T. Luther | birth registrations are available only to those with a legitimate Pinder, who said today they have arranged an_ interesting program. Miss Leota Grillon, who had been attending summer school in the Florida State College for Women, returned home last night. Sixty-five aliens have been dropped from the WPA projects in Key West, it was announced today. Mrs. L. E. Thompson and Mrs Colton Park entertained at a miscellaneous shower in Golden Eagle Hall yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Gwynette Thompson, who is to be married to Landy» Hernandez on Septem- ber 23. Miss Jennie Seymour, who had been attending summer school in ' Asheville, N. C., returned yester- day. Another local teacher, who had been attending summer school, is Miss Mae Sands, who studied in Gainesville. Miss Elmina Curry, who had been visiting in Miami and Tampa, returned yesterday. Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: “Not everybody who listens to a speaker expects to pay any at- } tention to what he says.” interest in the facts. his top. By JANE EADS ASHINGTON.—(AP).—A rather harassed young man entered a state registration office and asked to see his birth record. He scanned a photostatic copy a clerk handed to him, and blew He said that a couple of months earlier he had been offered | a responsible position. Then at the last minute the offer was withdrawn. no explanation. Now, he said he saw that the employer must have gotten a “icopy of his birth certificate in a ithorough effort to investibate his fitness. | The entry on the birth record for “ocupation of father” was “In an insane asylum.” “My father was chief psychia- 'trist, not a patient” ruefully ex- {plained the young man. : This incident was related by j Helen C. Huffman, social science janalyst, National Office of Vital Statistics, U. S. Public Health }Service. Se says the story illus- trates the unnecessary evil re- jsults of having the registrar’s of- ifice give out a certified copy of an entire certificate whenever iany of the recorded information ‘is needed. ; Some 5,000,000 birth certificates jare issued in the United States ‘annually. For many this means j tragedy. | Thousands use their certificate for necessary proof of age, citi- | ze nship and so on. But some- times, says Huffman, the | bi th record is also ;nouncement of a person’s illegiti- imacy, of his ‘bad blood’ because Miss There had beenk “a public an- { ‘Lauds Australian Primitive Dances | MELBOURNE.—(AP).—Amerti- jean dancer Ted Shawn said in an ‘interview in Melbourne that Aus- tralians had a “treasure” in the ‘primitive dances of the aborigi- ‘nes, but failed to realize it. When he arrived in Melbourne ;after seeing an aboriginal corro- ; boree at Darwin, Shawn tolda ‘reporter: “For pure art, choreog- ‘raphy and virility of perform- ‘ance this dancing is the highest ‘level of any primitive dancing ‘I have seen in the world. If my ‘whole Australian trip gave me | nothing more than my week in ‘Darwin, I would still feel my ‘visit here had been well worth- | while.” | There were 28,100,188 passen- ‘ger automobiles registered in the ‘United States in 1946 compared ‘With 29,507,113 in 1941. } Subscribe to The’ Citizen. 'tificates,’ Miss Huffman says. The following applications for j his mother hed syphilis or of his marriage licenses were filed yes- |‘criminal tendencies’ because his ;“But we can now help to bring terday in the county judge’s of- |father was in a penitentiary at ; about better methods of issuing fice: Miguel Leo Perez, 20, of Key } West, and Mercedes Acosta, 16, of Tampa; Wyatt Barnes Cosby, | Jr., 22, Fleet Sonar School, Key jwould now be | Had vital statisticians the time of his bitrh.” ;certified copies of birth records, known ,al over the country.” a generation ago that same 5,-! A number of states are current- 060,000 copies of birth certificates ily considering changes in birth issued annually, registration procedures in order West, and Dorothy Evelyn John- |they could have planed better, {to protect the child born out of son, 20, Boston; Hallie P. Rice, 23, Navy Yard, Key West, and Virginia A. Kelly, 19, Key West. Last Question “Is this the speedometer?” asked the pretty girl, tapping the glass with her finger. “Yes, dear,” he replied. “And that’s the clutch?” “That’s the clutch, darling,” he said, jamming on his brakes to avoid a fast approaching truck. “But what on earth is this,’ she inquired, at the same time giving the acelerator a vigorous push with her foot. “This dear,” he said in a soft, celestial voice, “is Heaven.” And picking up the harp he — flew away. The Cullman, largest diamond in the world, discovered in 1905, weighed one and three-quarters pounds. The average passenger car in the United States travels 9,300 miles a year ,while a truck aver- ages nearly 11,000 miles. don’t DO that! DON’T INSIST. . . . It’s embar- rassing to try to force a drink or second helping on a guest who doesn’t want it. she adds. wedlock. More and more states “They might haye forseen what |are adopting the ‘simple birth would happen when the complete ,card that has on it only the name : record is placed in anybody’s pe the person, the place and date | hands.’ ; She says they could have de- isigned the certificate so that it ‘could be reproduced in sections, {for one thing. Then a_ photostat could be |made of the parts a person needs for a particular purpose and jnothing more. Medical and statis- ‘tical data could have been placed jin a confidential supplement, which would never appear in the l certified copy. “We cannot go back and un- do the harm that was done to many thousands of people by un- necessary revealing of informa- tion that was on their birth cer- ‘of birth, the race and sex. The complete record, on which [the illegitimacy item appears, is ‘safeguarded and is _ accessible lonly to those who may have a di- ‘rect interest in the matter. | “Do you know,” says Miss |Huffman, “that one state actual- ly issues white birth records to legitimate children for school en- trance and orange-colored — rec- -ords to children registered as ille- :gitimate? Think what this means ‘to the child with the orange-col- ‘ored records to children register- ‘ed is legitimate? Think what ‘this means to the child with the {orange-colored certificate.” MIAMI and Also Serving ALL POINTS on Florida Keys Between Miami and Key West nighi. | LEAVES MIAMI | “SUNDAYS) at ‘ence ne RES RE BS clock P.M, LEAVES MIAMI A SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M. and ef arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock fl 25 PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE (a FULL CARGO INSURE NCE Py Offica: 812 Caroline Street Ph: ness 92 and 68 : WAREWOUSE: Corner Eaton and Francis Streets Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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