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man announces his candidaty ffiee, he may be sure that false it Sprung about him over- ‘Citizen hever tires of-recalling a stoty the late William H. Malone, one 3 cents chan, om | hae” thayor of Key West and representa- wt arv ices tas | tive and senator from Monroe County in the lish snonymov® | legislature, used to tell about an upright | man who ran for member of city council ee in his hometown. The day he cam- i paigned, he told Pesca: was making anual iaared | the rounds that he had stolen a pig. His wife it de asked him why he looked dejected when Site have cee oa] he came" home for luncheon. He told her, t ald, “Poppycock! Why pay any Heit eae same pill. Ei cae Eps ; pil H Fleeping pill, but not both st @ hohe yo than he had at noon. same time. ay eee t : "Whe! the trouble now?” She “ask- | op ae ca ; ‘ : : ward her slowly, his an sd, “They've proved it on me.” her, fos. Onay be s should discount every tor awhile” n8@ be’ ee about any candidate for | ..Mrs, Kent still flared at soft if you _ — next ora cet Boel ae eee they corroborate the story. | neth’s back while he took Keno ti su) he said ae apt el foals Sint rated a ude, St at ae gear th dig ahosher Maieh io oe, W you here ine Prise. thondna Shea ne lor Ene aod pou cat jump to the conclusion that the story is end yet me ah eager | ep Coy true, you may not only do ape gana can’t eis pos ea rye pris awi xe ” be ae gm gee uy, oat AP tt rie ol has been a Democrat, The Citizen has con- blingly, "sitke too. toa. ame back, “What sistently adhered to the sound principle iknow: whet Pu" with that every. ‘est voter. knowing the = ‘ candidates he well able to make his. own choice or piring for office. The Citizenhas adhered to another commendable’ practice since it has been under its present ownership: the publisher! has never attempted, directly or indirectly, to sway a single employe to vote for or against any candidate. ; A man’s or a woman’s vote belongs to ') him or her for each to cast free of restraint, Finally, The Citizen trusts that ithe three men who wit will work diligently and conscientiously to promote oes i inter. mes of Key West. which only you are responsible. When ee te dese eangygacboa can tell what “He Key West In- rs Cone. By AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF | NOVEMBER 5. 1939 . i ine Z After a meedng of committees yesterday, officers of Arthur) Sawyer Post No. 28 of the Ameri-}’ ean. Legion anounced “the ¢om- ices among the men as- you are doing except the and as J. Mark Wilcox would say, | ‘ ain't going to tell on you.” entilies THE ORACLE a SORRY EXAMPLES : “The world sorely needs honest and | ~ » O@itageous leaders who will truthfully tell the people that ‘something for nothing’ is « slogan-mirage luring them to economic | and physical slavery and degradation,” declared Ernest E. ‘Norris, of Washington, D. C., president of the Southern Railway | System. “Over country grew great and strong,” points out, “because it has been a land . opportunity without a ceiling of the ‘ héighits that could be achieved by anyone willing to work and save and invest. The ploneets’ slogan ‘Waste not,’ is one that needa to be put before the swarms of bur- @auveratic locusts now devouring the peo- eS sustenance, and bankrupting the na- tion's moral and spiritual values. If we are “W-sut'vive’and continue to progress and Prosper, there must be an end to the sac- rilegious,. screwy school of economics that throws pigs in the rivers and pours. kero- @he“on mountains of potatoes.” ~"" The “something for nothing” delusion “Ya reaching its peaks in the welfare state. | Accopding to the theory behind it, the gov- ernment should meet the costs when we are born, furnish “free” medical care all our hi to it that we have retirement pen- shortly after middle age, and take practically any other exigency that arise. What this means, of course, is SHE overnment must take most of our in- to pay the bills, and so make in- thrift and saving impossible. It Vie We mn in Bngland and other coun- e ater bent on folldwing such BETTER NOT MONKEY AROUND HAWAII plete.details of the program to be observed’ Armistice Day. in mem-.|. ory of the Nation’s war dead and in the preservation of national peace, Tremendous interest has been shown in the . Works Progress farming project which is pro- gressing in two locations in the city, one a_ one-and-a-half acre}: tract behind the convent and an- other a two-and-a-half acre tract in the Stowers lot! at Duval and Division. Religion is getting to be so complicat- ed, in this modern era, that the day-of-rest idea is losing ground, ent aceser cen nceeeemeenel HOOVER PROGRAM oa The Hoover report cannot make or break the federal budget, but it can mean the difference between a surplus or a de- ficit. The Hoover program reached Con- gress last Spring. It was the product of two years of effort by: the Hoover Commission which was created by law—and by sev- eral hundred experts who performed re- search work without pay. 1 The Report suffered a major setback when Congress réfused to swallow it whole, despite, Hoover’s personal urging. Piecemeal ‘legislation was passed, starting } in June, At the end of the session Representa- tive Clarence, Brown of Ohio and other legislators supported the reform drive and | called for a redrafting of the Hoover bills | into more “manageable” form. Those now hanging fire are too general and too vague, Brown complains, To Be Refunded On Taking Possession of Home ee $60.00 TWO BEDROOMS $62.00 THREE BEDROOMS PER MONTH Includes Pringipal, interest, Fire and Windstorm Insurance. Taxes FURNISHED MODEL ON DISPLAY 2312 Patterson Avenue 1:00 P.M. te 7:00 P.M. PHONE 598 Also Straight FHA. Financing for Non-Veterans FLURY & CROUCH, fc Sales and Financing W. G. MATHES Tomorrow night at 8: lock . at Bayview Park bandstand workers who have been laid off in reeent months from thé Works Progress Administration .payrolls , Cp inept pr dic to plan their future USING A. BROOM-AS A SCEPTER, Leo Smith. 10. of Shreve- { port. La,, demonstrates at Chicago how he will reign as king of | National Kids’ Day on Nov. 19. -Leo ‘was selected from among hundreds of boys by Kiwanis International on the basis of lead- ership and general good citizenship qualities displayed last summer at a camp for underprivileged children. Seated around the “throrie“are left to right: his brothers, Talbot, 12, and Buddy, 6. and Ernest Wells, a neighbor. Postmaster Fred J. Dion an- nounced today that full. service would be rendered to the public by the U. S. Post Office branch | here next Saturday, Anmistice | Day. Lieut. Col. ‘and ‘Mrs. 3. D. Mac-j “Ts ese Mullen were hosts to naval of- The. air above the earth has.‘ When the Supreme Court was ficers and their wives at a cock-| been divided by ‘scientists into moved from the Capitol in 1937 tail party at their residence in| the trophosphere. the tropopause, 'to its own building, each Justice jthe Army Barracks Saturday] the stratosphere, the ozone ‘layer had his individual chair moved evening. and the senogabere. “with him. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph, L. Claw- son and son, Joseph, Jr. and Glen W. CarfSon from Cleveland. Ohio, were arrivals over the high- > way yesterday afternoon and plan to remain in Key West for aj week's visit. Judge John W. Holland, of Federal Court, arrived ‘on the! afternoon bus yesterday to pre- side at the session which opened today. visting briefly “with” Telaives WITH VOTING and friends left on the afternoon ' woe en INSTRUCTIONS Charles Ww. Bovins, who was! ppm conf giventr cttogs| - On Sale At passenger leavng on the morn-! ing bus yesterday for his home} e_¢e ? e in Baltimore, Md. Judge Arthur Gomez. who had | € I izen ice been in the city for two days The courteous automobile driver rare- ly becomes involved in an argument. OUR DEFENSE BUDGET The budget of the United States has been termed a “defense budget” and there is reason to believe that it is. Something like $14,000,000,000 is be- ing allocated the three armed services, an- other seven or eight billion goes for aid and assistance. abroad, and. about five bil- lions are being spent.annually for the bene- fit of-veterans of past wars. In addition, interest on the national debt, most of it incurred in the prosecu- tion of warfare, amounts to four or five visiting with his family at the GREENE and ANN STREE7S billion dollars a year. home“on North Beach, left over Communist propaganda is : Nelle Spfead around in one of our pet countries ‘Bna As a result Congress has sent a bunch of “spy hunters” across the deep seas © to . Hawaii to get more information on what shoremen strike in Hawaii has been kept ‘watehful eyes to determine whether the conducted under the direction of-the notorious Harry Bridges of Califor- nla ean be checked. Apparently he pro- Motes Communiem in Hawaii.- Ever sinee labor unions became pro- minent this man Bridges has been about a Baad @ disturber as any of the union ‘bones. Despite the large sums involved it is the highway this morning, re- well to remember that it is cheaper to win | turing to his office in Miami, | wars than to lose them, Moreover, reten- Eee * Today The Citizen s. in oe tion of freedom and liberty is worth what- | editorial paragraph: Be ever number of billions of dollars the job | ,“C®operation on the part of requires. citizens is worth more than money to a community.” Sunshine