The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-16

children who labored in the coal
mines. They were subjected to
awful conditions. He again won
out. The women and children
were bahished from the coal mines
of Great Britain.
| If he lived in Key West he
would insist that those wretched
houses, uncomfortable; should be
removed from the vicinity of the
| Douglass public school.
| The owners of the homes would
be prosecuted and failing that,
the school building should be re-
moved so that children need not
! be contaminated.
/ When you ask for a girl to
mind your children you might
kindly remember that school and
pray and insist that wrong things
shall be put right.
Seeing the boys on the streets,
ragged, barefooted, he spent the
midnight hours in visiting them,
and established schools with the
unfortunate name of Ragged
Schools"
Many of those boys became
good citizens of their country and
l.many were sent to the colonies.
! am glad we have Bayview Park
for our children. ] rejoice that
the colored people are to have a
park for their children also, and
should like to see half dozen
Fairgrounds in our city, before
the work of the CWA is finished.
believe heartily in a ware
house for our sponges, just as
whole-heartily in a splendid aqua
rum for our fishes. want to
see our streets oiled and paved,
and | should vote 100 percent for
a swimming pool for our people,
and home where our aged people
could die, who are too poor to- have
attention in their homes.
believe the time will arrive
when we shall have YMCA for
our young men, and / know no
better task for our Ministerial As
sociation to attempt than just such
a home, especially for our navy
lads.
We have Blue Geese, Golden
Blossom, and a host of places
where they are welcome, but have
done very little to tempt our
navy authorities to consider Key
West as a splendid centre for our
navy men.
Good citizenship can find
fine field in our fine community.
Well, the time came when the
Earl was due in the realms above.
Some better task awaited him
there. They had dubbed him the
"Coster EARL He insisted on
kindness to dumb animals. Lon
don was mildly astonished when
they saw the first annual parade
of costar mongers with their ami
mails, nicely groomed, and decorat-
ed with ribbons. What change.
For years he had toiled. Spent
his wealth for others. He was
offered a resting place in the
Abbey among the great but de-
clined and preferred a humble
grave by the side Of his devoted
wife.
When he died London was NOV
ed. The funeral service was held
in the huge Cathedral. Kings and
queens were there. Nobility. So
ciety. Municipalities, Church and
state. Great masses Of people on
the streets with transparencies on
which was written, "Hungry and
he fed me. Sick and he visited
me. Naked and he clothed me. !"
This is what l mean by good
citizenship:
Love for the other man. Will
ingness to sacrifice. Desire to
serve. All these qualities come
from the presence and inspiration
Of the Christ we love and serve.
There are those who assert
that Christianity is solely indi-
vidualistic. They say that re-
lieion IS an affair Of the indi-
vidual. and that we find salvation
in ones and not by groups.
Now, I am a declared enemy
of anything that belittles the in
dividual. But we live (no refer
ence to the bachelors) not as in
dividuals but in groups.
} must remember that my child
is not the only scholar in the
school. Poor child, we say only
ten minutes late, and taken to
task. Rightly so. Suppose every
scholar came ten minutes late.
could any school function on
those terms?
Reprimanded. just because he
talked in class. Just so. Could
any person teach If all talked in
class.
AS q good citizen l shall do
well to view matters from the
standpoint Of the whole as well
rs my own child. or children.
Without the group, the indi-