The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-16
DR.. DE BARRITT GIVES ADDRESS
DURING MEETING OF PIT. ASSN.


the Harris School Parent Teacher
Association on Wednesday:
Good citizsnship
When you invite DIR. Warren he
speaks as a physician.
Mr.. Malone, our mayor, as an
attorney.
DR.. Kemp, as a professor Of
dentistry.
The speaker as Christian min
lister.
The minister's text book is the
Bible and this Book is full of
teachings about citizenship.
One hundred and seventy-five
passages about the poor.
Fifty speak of the fatherless.
The Old Testament champions
the cause of the poor. When you
remember how little attention
was given to the poor in those
days, its message is remarkable.
Pagan nations have never shown
large consideration for the poor.
The Old Testament laws distri-
buted the land equitably among
all the people.
Every fiftieth year the land
should be re-distributed among
. the people.
God intended the land and the
great natural resources of the
world for the benefit Of all and
not simply for a favored few.
The rich are warned again and
again not to Cypress the poor in
any way, and not to take adj
vantage Of them.
And to close all, we are COM
manded to love our neighbor as
ourselves.
The Church has always, more or
less, often less than more, rec0g-
nized its duty to teach good citi-
zenship.
No minister worthy of his call
ing can remain indifferent to
good citizenship.
When he opens his hymn book
he reads:
"Lord for all mankind we pray;
OF every cline and coast,
o hear us for our native land,
The land we love the most"
The PIT. A. is doing a fine
work in the teaching of good citi-
zenship and deserves all the help
and encouragement we have the
power to give.
The method by which the Church
Of our Lord has adopted to deal
with social problems is to implant
In the heart of the individual a
great purpose, intention, desire
and determination to better man
kind. and once this passion fills
the soul, all else win follow.
Allow me to give you one con-
crete example, and ask your per-
mission to select one of my own
countrymen. the seventh Earl of
SALISBURY.
He was very wealthy. He might
have rented the whole flat of
some expensive hotel to entertain
his friends, or taken half the deck
Of our liners, but he did neither.
A Christian nurse trained him
for God. If we had more such
general servants in Key West,
good citizenship would be within
our reach tomorrow.
At 25, he entered parliament
with determination to be q slave
to no party. Tammany methods
did not appeal to him.
He was filled with indignation
at the manner in which the in
sane were treated, or mistreated.
An insane person brings out the
best or the worst in you. He in
PRODUCED legislation and that was
remedied.
Children were bought and sold
as factory slaves. He fathered q
bin that no child should work
more than IL 1-2 hours a day.
The bin was lost to the shame of
ny e0dntrynfen.. Ire pefstvered
and stung Parliament into action.
You have to sting some folks to
get them to move at all.
We do we'll to remember what
Coolidge said to one deputation.
'sThe president can only 60 as
far as the people viii go with
him.
think our late mayor said
something like that, and we might
do well to bear Il in mind.
II SALISBURY had lived in Key
West l think he would not have
rested until that magnified bottle
advertising beer Misunderstanding.
OF course) just a few yards from
this school building was removed.
have one like il right in front
Of my school house, so the chill
dren can see il rs they come to
church and school. They viii so
some day when people have the
spirit Of good citizenship.
The Earl next pleaded that the
boys under i2 years Of age should
not be allowed to sleep on heaps
OF SCOT they had brought from
the chimneys. Some Of the lads