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may be so classified, in which the aggre.
gate capital employed exceeds that of the
FIVE important utilities which supply cleo
tricity, gas, water, street railway and tele-
phone service to the local communities of
the country. 1t has been estimated that
newspaper advertising has shortened by
one-half the process of selling the services
of such utilities.
But this is only half the story. As in the
case of banks, and aside from the sale OF
products, there has come complete
transformation in the attitude of the pub
lie utilities toward the public and in that
of the public toward them.
In many other ways does this inclusive
market place minister to the needs and de-
sires its users. One has only to glance at
the columns which contain the announce
ments of the theatres, the churches, the
schools and colleges, the steamship lines
and railroads, or the classified want adver-
tisements to realize how various and vast
are the services, ideas and ideals which are
presented in them alone.
(Next article, Serving the Conm"ni:y.")
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NOTICE

The Registration Books for the
General Election will be open at
my Office at the County Court
House for the Registration of
Electors 8 days in each week,
Monday, Wednesday, and Satur-
day, from 9 O'clock A. M. TO IL
NJ. and 2 o'clock P. NJ. until 5 P.
NJ. from the first Monday in Aug
ust until October 9th.
JOSEPH ROBERTS,
Supervisor Of Registration.
july 31-2 wks.
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INFORMATION ON KEY WEST

La Concha Hotel, European plan, single So to Sd
double 80 to 81. On large parties of 10 more,
special reduced rates. Oversee Hotel European plan
single So up. double 81 up.
Hotel Casa Marina. closed for the season.
Population of Key West, $4,000.
Municipal Golf Links-a sporty course, extending
from Gulf to Ocean. Summer rates green fees 75c per
day: $500 plus tax for year.
Bathing Beach and Tenns-Casa Marina Hotel
Grounds Also public tennis and bathing beaches
F1smng! Over 500 varieties See hotels for boats
Free Aquarium, east end of Flagler street Marine
curio shop on Margaret street.
Taxi Stands at railroad station and hotels. See
Key West
Ocean Boulevard, to encircle city, now being built
by Monroe county.
Oversee Highway, from Key West to the mainland
Onehlrd distance completed balance of roadway con-
racteo steer tobridges to span the long water gaps
Key West .'A '"' 0-'s -
Pipe Line for municipal waterworks soon to be laid
from mainland. Plenty of fresh, pure water to Key
West and the Florida Keys
Building permits and Bank deposits rapidly increas.
Key West postal receipts show an average monthly
Increase over last year of 80 per cent
Best natural harbor in Florida Exports-imports
reach $47, 900 100 annually.
Duval Mortgage Company. First mortgage loans
to home owners and home builders. Maximum loan
$5,0O0.00. On improved income business properties
$12,50O Applications received at Company's office
No. Ga Duval Street
Key West Foundation Company's beautiful Sub
division at eastery end of the island is daily reporting
Progress. Several new houses under construction
20 f. business lots on Flagler Street. 500 per
front foot, or $4,000.
so #. residential lots. SIS per front foot or
$3.50.
Terms 20 per cent cash, balance l, and years;
interest 6 per cent per annum, payable semi-annnu-
ally
All titles insured by New York Title and Mort
gage Company Certificate of Title Insurance delivered
to purchaser with contract.
DESTROYS consulting either the Wall
the Boston News Bureau will find copies of the file
in ouro office.
Amy further information Key West will be gladly
furnished by
KEY WEST FOUNDATION co.
MALCOLM MEAcHAM, President
Phone as Ga Duval Street
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GIRL WALKS 40 MILES
TO PLEAD FOR BROTHER

! LONDON.-Thomas Harris,
aged 10, may escape a long term
in prison as result of the devo-
tion of his 16-year-old sister Cath
.erine. The girl walked 100 miles
to London to lay before govern
ment officials a personal plea that
the boy had been led into an act
of burglary by men many years
Older than he, that he had never
before been accused even of a
misdemeanor and that he was her
only living relative. The soles
were worn from her shoes when
she arrived here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13
AN ExHILIRATINc EFFECT

A bottle of Herbine on the shelf
at home is like having a doctor in
the house all the time. 1t gives
instant relief when the digestion
gets out of order or the bowels
fail to act. One or two doses is.
all that is necessary to start things.
moving and restore that fine feel
ing of exhilaration and buoyancy
of spirits which belongs only to
perfect health. Price 60c. Sold
by all druggists. M WI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Upon being refused admission
for her dog to the regular Pullman
cars, a San Francisco woman
showed her devotion to her pet by
engaging a private car in order
that she might carry it with her
across the continent for a summer
vacation in the White Mountains
of New Hampshire.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Jack Dempsey, worlds heavy
weight boxing champion, is to APP
pear in court at indianapolis today
to show cause why he should not
sbe restrained from all ring action
pending the clearing up of a con-
tract he is alleged to have with
the Chicago Coliseum Club.
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sss

Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbott u.
S. A., retired, oldest living grad
.uate of West Point, born at Bev-
,erly, Mass, 95 years ago today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

A business man of Quincy, ILL.,,
has journeyed to St. Louis by air.
plane to have a suit of clothes
fitted.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Therefore, aside from contributing ma
terially to the development of what has
come to be one of the important business
activities of every community, the news
paper has likewise given tremendous i'm
petus TO one of the great stabilizing inhu-
ences in American social life-home own
ership.
Similarly, in the field of banking and
in the promotion of individual thrift the
advertising and news columns of the
American newspaper have worked magic
transformation. Compare the atmos-
phere of the average bank today with
that of a quarter of century ago, before
the banker had come to realize that the
newspaper was market place not merely
for the products of agriculture, commerce
and industry, but for service, ideas, good
will and other intangible factors which in
huence the activities and promote the ma
terial welfare of the individual and the
community as whole.
When the banker emerged from the old
time seclusion of his private Office and en-
tered the market place of the community
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NAB BERLIN BLAcKMAILERs

BERLIN.-After three years
work detectives have rounded up
seven members of an organized
gang of blackmailers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

= James r. Sheffield, United
States ambassador to Mexico, born
sat Dubuque, Iowa, 62 years ago
today. ii
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Today is the date set for the
execution in Baltimore of Richard
Reese Whittemore, notorious ban
dit and slayer of a Maryland PEN
guard.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

This month only, a $3.50 Silver
handle bread knife free. Read
Key West Electric Company's ad.
aug. Aft
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

DIR. Felix Adler, founder of the
,Society for Ethical Culture, born
in Germany, 75 years ago today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Maj. Gen. William N. Haskell,
who was head of the American
Relief Administration in Russia,
sborn at Albany, N. Y, 48 years
ago today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Two trans-Alpine flights are to
Feature of the second information
al aviation meeting which is to
get under way today at Duben-
sdorf, Switzerland.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Or. Felix Adler, eminent edu-
Gator and founder of the Society
for Ethical Culture, is in line for
congratulations on his 18th birth
day anniversary.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

If you are unlucky enough to
break off some bridgework while
chewing a banana today-just re-
member, tits Friday the Thir-
teenihs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbot, U.
S. A., retired, of Cambridge,
Mass, who reaches the age of 80
years today, is the oldest living
graduate of West Point.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Marquis of Cambridge, eldest
brother of Queen Mary, born in
London, So years ago today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Twenty years ago today the big
news was the riot of negro SOL
diers of the u. S. army at Browns
vile, Bexas, in which several per-
sons were killed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Some people are so snobbish
they won't even play a piece of
music without an introduction. ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Read Electric Company's adj
vertisements and save $3.50.
aug.4-tf.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-13

Australia is regarded as the old
est land surface on the globe.
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SELLING SERVICE AND IDEALS

E1FESI Using Columns OF the 40 save lne lOI
RRl the shopper; they do lower prices the buyers
I'LL they do insure larger income to the merchant
lAa Yet significant these services are they yield
CO. even greater values which, while ultimately
cal in their outcome, founded upon hrmeconomic
basis.
For example America has become of is
due large the persistence with which the desire for home
ownership has been stimulated through newspaper advertising 1t
only few years that the real estate business moved slowly along
succession of individual transactions until dealers awakened
the possibility making their offerings known simultaneously null
ttudes with property sell might rub elbows with several
possible customers in the of minutes walk but without
occult powers how he know that impulses toward ownership
present their minds? He could buttonho them after
another for busy modern life does permit it.
But finally the real merchanthe reator, he is
cdawaened the fact that all these unabeed passeby
alike important respectively newspaper readers At first
mdy and then boldly he venred into the market place the
community his stand And Immediately those who had homes
sell into personal with those who were looking for
homes buy Whether for purchase renting whether for home
business, ultimately for larger operations interest
aroused that today newspapers devote substantial space all
Evening star., 1926-11-19
Farm Tariffs Lower.
Figures Show Manufacturers Get
More Protection.

To the Editor Of The Star
In the discussion Of the benent or
the protective tariff to agricultural
and manufa ctured products, the con-
tention that the farmer Is not ade-
ouately protected. in compa rison with
the manufacturer, is well founded IL
the benefit is in proportion to tho rate
of duty 'on imports.
In the printed discussions of the
subject the writer has seen no definite
comparison between the duties on
agricultural products and those on
manufactures. We are told that the
duty is. for example, AZ cents q bushel
on wheat, IL cents q pound on butter,
81 a head on sheep. ETC., but these du-
ties cannot be compa red with the 30
TO 10 per cent ad valorem on house
hold articles, Is to 80 per cent on sew
ing machines, 10 to 80 per cent on
textiles. etc As the tariff law places
specific duties on practically all farm
products and ad vaiorem duties on
most of the important manufacturers.
comparison can be made only by re-
ducing the specific to ad valorem rates
Of duty. as in the following table. The
farm products rate. thus altered, may
not be absolutely accurate, AZ values
Of those products frequently change
and also vary in different localities,
but the rate Is sufficiently approx
mate to make it reliable for compari-
son.
The rates for butter, wheat and
flour include the increases made by
the President, under the flexible pro-
visions of the tariff law. when he
raised the duty on butter from to IL
cents a pound. on wheat from 80 to AZ
cents a bushel and on flour from "a
cents to 81. .O4 per 100 pounds.
Evening star., 1926-11-19

Cling for the farmer vote may be good
politics. but it in not always good for
the farmers. Less politics and more
sound statesma nship in dealing with
the needs OF the farmer 10 the need
today
There Ia Justice in the demand OF
the farmer that his dollar be equal in
purchas sing power to that Of the in
dustrial worker, the clerk. the profess
sionaI man and the ca pita list. The
power of the Government has been ex.
erted to aid the ma anufacturer. the Ia
borer. the ba mixer. the railroads. The
farmer asks that the Government give
him, too, the benefit of legislation:
that a system be worked out which
will aid him. not to produce more. but
to assure the orderly marketing q t fair
prices of his produce. On all counts
it appears the duty of Congress and
the administra ton to see that this il
done.
The problem is to bring the farm.
industrialist, to raise it to that level.
1t would be disastrous to the farmer
as it would be to the industrialist to
drag down the value of the industrial
ist dollar. The farmer, after all. finds
his great ma rket in the United States.
Compa little Of his produce
goes on, Of the country.
Without seeking to stress the value
OF any particular plan. the hope may
he expressed that new and more sym
pathetic spirit may animate those who
have to do with the farmers problem
including the so-called farm bloc in
Congress itself. There must be a give
and-take spirit II there is to be ac-
c0mplishment.
Evening star., 1926-11-19
A New Traffic system.

After much experimentation and
study the intersection Of Fifteenth
street and New York avenue. long
ira fffc buga boo, is to be made into
free corner by means of electric
signals. For eight years heavy iron
stanchions have prevented straight
line driving through this intersection.
Ira ffic has curled around the street
car loading platforms. twisted over
four lines Of car tracks to the east
Of the corner and generally done a
futurist conception of a snake dance
when 1t had occasion to use these
particular streets at this point. With
the appointment of the traffic direc-
tor in Washington and his selection
of a capable staff. work was started
to seek relief from q situation which
was as irrita ting to the motorists
as it was needless from q traffic
standpoint.
A clever system of lighting has
now been installed. Cars and pedes-
trians will stop with the red and
move with the green in the same way
as at other Intersections in the city.
Through traffic will be allowed and no
longer will unsightly and dangerous
distractions in the street delay the
motorist.
1t is important. however, that
pedestrians cooperate in the work
ing out of this new plan. Ii they
will obey the lights. as required by
the recently adopted regulation,
there will be no hitch In tho free
flowing traffic, but il they wander
aimlessly through the street there
will he little or no improvement with
this modern trea tment of q busy in
tersection. 1t Is distinctly up to the
public to make the fullest use of the
fa cilities offered by the city for the
safe handling Of present day raffic.
Evening star., 1926-11-19
Wearisome Words.

Chicago educational authorities have
discovered that the most used word
among children of kindergarten age is
the irst person. singular. nominatire
c.se pronoun - In other words, the
good old syllable - The growing
child ts said TO review the history of
the race. Proi,a bly, T. or its prehis-
tcric synonym. was the first spoken
word. while its equivalent gesture. the
thumb pointing to the owners chest,
wi, hout doubt long anIedated that.
At kindergarten age II" is used
nearly twice as often as the" il has
heer found. while mother" most
heautiful word in the language. "snes
twenty fourth in the >aungster's linn
tied voca b,lIarr. The child ia an ego
t,st above all and of necessity. in order
to insure his survival.
The sad aspect of the affair Is fur
nished by the strapping adults, male
and female. who never develop beyond
this stage. Although here and there a
pronounced egotist is. at the same
time. q beneficial genius. as rule this
class forms one Of the burdens cf So
c,sty. Any ONCE. any Pullman smok'
ins sesupartnasnt. any tea Marty VIII
alns X.tAsst sxessssa. Dsssses o
Evening star., 1926-11-19
The Farm Problem.

Rome was not built in day. Nor
has it been found possible to solve the
agricultural problem in a day, month
or year Many formulas have been
proposed. designed to give the farmer
an adequate return for his toll and
investment when compar rcd to the re-
turn from industry. None has been
found vet that is satisfactory to all
the farmers and TO the administra ton.
With the return of Congress to wash
fnston in December further efforts will
he made to enact so-called farm relief
legislation. Farm organizations or
their representatives are at work now
seeking a plan to lay before the Con-
eress. The Department OF AEricul-
ture is giving the matter earnest and
prayerful consideration Every one.
il appears, is anxious to give the
farmer what he wants, provided II can
be done along sound lines.
IL the farmer has an idea that the
present administrati ton in Washington
il unconcerned with his problem, lot
him put the idea aside. 1t would be
hs ppv day for the President. the De-
partment Of Agriculture and many
members of Congress if they could
solve this problem with satisfa ction.
With all the parties concerned anx'
ion. to giant the relief which the
farmer with Justice dema nds. 1t does
sprear that something should and
could be done 1t appears to be equal
lv clear. however. that q different
spirit must pervade the councils than
has existed in the past. 1t 10 time to
Law vide enmity, pride OF authorship
and politics and to get down to brass
tacks. Only by the fullest co'opera-
ton can there be hope Of legislation.
II the McNary HauEsnites remain
stifY- -necked, insisting upon the Me-
Nary-Haugen bill or nothing, they will
make a mistake. particularly II other
legislation Of heneht to the farmers
.s proposed ana, with the fullest CO.
.snsrs.ies. eas - lks thseush An.
Evening star., 1926-11-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

League" and that the fact may be
trumped mp against him IL certain
things come to pass two years hence.
A toa astmaster who has just presided
with grace at an important national
banquet in Washington realizes the
danger Of springing after rdinner gags
that are too subtle. Several that were
launched on the occasion here under
discussion failed signally to explode
with promptness. In fact. diagram
matte expla ma tions were required to
amplify them-and not in micro
phonic sense. either. The functionary
in question did score with an allusion
to his plight when he observed, dryIy:
well. this is. after all. a rather long
banqueting hall, and l see it takes
some time for jokes to travel the
whole dista nee" 1t In the experience
of hardened pOst-pra ndial orators in
the United States that prohibition has
in manner Of speaking. put after
dinner wit in dry dock. People laugh
far less freely than they did prior to
1920.
It's long time since the advent OF
q member Of Congress after a recess
was awaited with such gusto as is on
Ice In anticipation Of Jim" Reeds re-
turn for the Senate session impending
The Missourian's arrival is expected
primarily. to set alight a whole ira in
OF events In connection with the
t'ennsylvania and Illinois slush- fund
AFFAIRS. The case Of SenatOr-elect
Ware is likely to receive very early at.
tention at the hands of the hammer
blow statesman from the Kaw. Reed
has a new hobby in addition to inves.
legations. Recently he bought himself
a mansion on the outskirts of Kansas
City. 1t has spacious grounds. but its
distinguishing mark in a front porch
Reeds admirers in the home town in.
sist the place. on that account, would
lend itself ideally for presidential
campaign.
Harold Beresford Butler, English
man and deputy director of the Inter.
national Labor Office, offshoot of the
League of Nations, will be homo,
guest at a Washington dinner on No.
vember 23 Page Senators George
Moses and Hiram Johnson-"Jim''
Davis. Secretary Of Labor Of these
unsntangled United States, will pre-.
side!
tCOpyright 1020)
Evening star., 1926-11-19
THIS AND THAT
NY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Gle Of self respect. he would tell you.
II he were in the telling business
(which he Is not, Of coursel, that he
suffers and must always suffer.
y
Emerson put 1T this way:
eff the red slayer think he slays.
Or II the slain think he il slain.
They know not we'll the subtle ways
1 keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forgot to me IL near:
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.
"They reckon i'll who leave me out:
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubted and the doubt.
And the hymn the Brahmin sings.
''The strong gods pine for my abode.
But thou, meek lover Of the good.
Find me and turn thy back on
heaven"
* +
They reckon Ill, indeed. who leave
out the effect Of ones own worst ac-
tions and thoughts upon ones self
There Is no jail sentence. OF course.
for being mean, Just so long as the
meanness does not manifest itself in
certain ways which the law declares
it shall not.
One is not often put behind bars for
infiicting petty mental cruelty upon
others.
These matters are more of the spirit.
and have to do with what the world
has agreed to call the soul.
The soul. it would seem, gets scant
respect in proportion to the gtga ntic
part it plays in human history. There
are thousands who spend great
deal more attention on their physical
welfare than on that of their soul.
They take pains to decorate their per
sons in fine raiment. but care not a
whit what their precious soul may
look like to those who possess the
ability to see 1t.
And does any one think that only
a few in every generation are gifted
at seeing souls?
Yonder little Johnny, wears old.
knows what mamma 8 soul looks like
when she breaks forth in anger over
some petty escapade of childhood.
Mother herself has a srandsta nd
seat from which to view the passing
soul Of the old man when he comes
home tired and irritated from bad
day at the Office and takes it out"
on her patient self.
Many a baby-faced school child has
marked her teachers soul with a
large Poor" on account of ma nifesta-
tions Of unnecessary anger, which
perhap ps puzzled the struggling educa-
tor as much as it did the child.
Because no reply ia made, Is no
sign that nothing is thought.
The peevish. the ill.bred. the bOors
of this world owe q debt of gratitude
which they will never know to the
gentle, forbearing people who con-
stitute their victims.