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Evening star., 1936-01-04
political punch, should end with q
crisper word than a quinqueSyllable.

political punch. should end with D
crisper word than quinqueSyllable.
There was a somewhat reminiscent quail
ity in the phrase lin the hands OF po-
litical puppets of an economic autocracy
such power would provide shackles for
the liberties of the people" "Shackles"
has done duty so often before that 1t is
entitled to respite. Nor does "domina-
ton of government by financial and in
dustrial groups, numerically small but
politically dominant" promise to provide
Stimulating pabulum for the plain people.
still determined groups" has the merit
of brevity, but is not especially trenchant.
"Autocrats in smaller things, they seek
autocracy in bigger things" would be
more effective if snapper word than
things" had been used. A thing" is
such an indefinite quantity. But the
speaker did not lack for climactic effect
in his assault and perhaps one of his
phrases may serve in after months OF
campaigning. Speaking Of those whom
the former Roosevelt pilloried as male
factors of great wealth." he said "they
would gang up against the peoples
liberties" That is something that the
man in the street can grasp and quote.
1t is not an original coinage. The phrase
has been current for some time, the argot
of the era of syndicated crime. Perhaps,
however, it will be the one outstanding
bit of language emanated upon this
unusual occasion.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Regulation of Lights and
Taxi Insurance Demanded
To the EDITOR of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star
Your safety drive was laudable, but
haven't you neglected two important
items?
I drive about the country considerably,
and I can say truthfully that according
to my own observations the drivers IN
and around Washington are the most
discourteous I have found anywhere in
the matter of driving with brightest lights
at night. Almost everywhere else in the
country an approaching driver will dim
his lights, but in and around Washing
ton the police permit automobiles TO
drive around with lights so brilliant and
dazzling as to present serious safety
menace There is absolutely no excuse
for driving with brightest lights in the
city, except in out of the way streets,
where bright lights are really needed.
I have been blinded many times by Wash
ington drivers who refuse to dim their
lights Even on the highways outside the
city the same condition exists. A blind
ing light is a serious threat TO safety.
I should think the Washington police
who ride around in radio cars would
stop motorists whose lights are particu-
larly offending. To me this diScourteSy
of failing to dim for approaching motor
lists is as serious an offenSe as speeding.
The other item is in regard to taXicab
insurance I am told that taXicabS in
Washington are not obligated by law
to carry insurance for the protection OF
passengers or persons hit. Perhaps this
is why they skim through the streets.
New York City is strict in forcing taxicab
owners to carry full insurance. 1t seems
nothing short of scandalous that Wash
ington cab operators get by with no pro-
lection. Your safety campaign. COM
mendable as it was, hardly begins to
scratch the surface if taXicab insurance
is not in existence F. G. KNIGHT.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
TranSmutation.

Transmutati0n.
As mighty questions nations ask,
In simple honesty I bend
Unto my customary task
And simply say, How are you, friend?'
Some disappointments may meet:
A few are great, few are small.
Among the friends I thought to greet
Were some who proved no friends at all.
And if foe I chance to hail,
My phrasing I shall not amend.
For, should truths alchemy prevail,
A foe may yet become a friend.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRAcEWELL.

On an average of once a day, during
snowy weather, some one rushes up and
declares, Say, wish you would write
about these people who see q fellow
standing in the cold and won't pick you
up and take you downtown"
All those who feel this way are laboring
under the pleasant delusion that Wash
ington is still the Washington it used
to be-
It isn't, and that is the whole thing
in nutshell.
The reason the man in the big car.
with plenty of room, doesn't pick you
up and carry you at least to the bus is
that he doesn't know you and Is afraid
to take a chance.
You may bore him or talk about things
he isn't interested in.
You may knock him on the back Of
the head and steal his car, even in broad
daylight. He has heard Of such things.
You may sue him if his car skids and
you are hurt.
OF course, 1t does rub an average
human the wrong way to be standing on
a cold curb, and waiting. and waiting. on
a snowy morning and watching the big
cars glide-or slide-by, one after the
other, with nobody else in them except
the man at the wheel.
But the person on the curb must put
himself in the other fellows place and
realize that this business OF picking up
strangers is not what it once was, when
Washington was just an overgrown town,
and some of the SmarteSt people in 1t
lived on H street and K and other streets
where all is business now.
Newcomers to the city, who think
Washington always has been as they find
it, ought to be told otherwise.
We were talking the other day to a
gentleman about IS years old, which isn't
very old, after all.
He was born in home on H street,
just north of the Treasury, where large
Office building now stands.
He lived there until he was q years
old, which was in 1903. or thereabouts.
The changes in the city have been
tremendous since, not only in the physical
sense, but also in the more intangible
state of mind which constitutes the
difference between the small city and the
large city complex.
At about the date given above, the
WIlJcT mere NdS tOpo Ollc
of his favorite grounds for this sport was
Just south of Fifteenth and H streets.
There were few automobiles then, and
not many wagons, as We recall. Ger
tainly couple of small boys had no
trouble at all in spinning tops and in
whipping them, too. along the streets of
the city.
There were no residences on Sixteenth
street above U street. tc speak Of. the
largest being Henderson's Castle.
What may be described as the gateway
to upper Sixteenth street was then COM
posed mostly of red clay bluffs These
occupied the entire street side of what
is now Meridian Hill Park.
Boys found it a feat to climb them.
They were probably as much as Is feet
high. although they seemed so, if not
100, then.
This was one of the favorite ways Of
getting to the National Geological Park,
but another was along what boys then
called Snake road" now Quarry road.
The familiar designation of the way
was not due to the finding of snakes
along the road, although no doubt there
were plenty Of them, but simply to the
Snakv character of the road which curved
Evening star., 1936-01-04
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Chord of Desire.

She entered by the same old door.
She craved the same old gift-applause,
And where lame art had limped before
She stood, frail champion of her cause,
We chilled her advent with a yawn,
A challenge, that she put to flight
BY rousing thoughts of radiant dawn,
Or twilight drifting into night.
And we forgot the beaten route
To follow her, to follow far;
BY that rare light, beyond all doubt.
The bright effulgence of the start
Out OF the thousands who aspire
But one can weave the magic spell
That strikes the lost chord of desire
Am what that charm Is none can tell
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Babel.

We need no words of bitterness
To help world in its distress.
We may, as lives their course pursue,
Need little more than "howdy dol"
Our thoughts and feelings grope among
The tricks of many foreign tongue;
With deep diplomacies in view,
We can't say even "howdy dol"
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Deuces Wild.
A New Deal may perplex us,
But in the mighty sum
OF problems as they vex us
Some New Deals have to come.
The big brains in the shuttle
In discards may be piled,
With small ones in the scuff1e
Announcing "deuces Wild"
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Agricultural Arti6ce.

Agricultural Artifice.
"What are you going to plant?"
Potatoes" said Farmer CorntoSSel.
"And then what?"
"I don't know. Maybe we'll pay
biological laboratory to supply enough
potato bugs to hold the crop down to
legal limitations"
Evening star., 1936-01-04

"reminiscences are popular but con-
fusing, as they recall times when mails
were successfully carried with no con-
troversy between lighter or heavier
than air conveyances.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Or Mayl,e Less.

From the Lowell Evening Leader.
The oyster outlook for next year is
said to be good. But it is likely that
the customary quota will be found in
the commercial stew.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Bombing Red Cross units cannot be
explained in any manner that will sup
port theory that the Red Cross de-
served it.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

In reporting the needs of the Nation
to the Congress President Roosevelt
frankly asserted the need of a speech on
the Nations politics.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Owners of radio time who relinquished
their allotments to the President of the
United States got better ad than if
they had actually performed.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Selassie has made it clear that there is
not enough nepotism in Ethiopia to en-
able Gugsa to assert a national policy.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

"Old Satan," said Uncle Eben, "puts
on generous airs. Sometimes he's even
mean enough to disguise hisself as Santa
Claus"
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Italy's Lack.

From the Boston Transcript.
Now, if Italy only had Reno, Musso-
lini could pick up enough discarded
wedding rings there in fortnight to
defray the cost of 40 days of fighting
in Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 70
the use for republic alton of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in TINS
paper and also the local news published herein:
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1936-01-04

College degrees are literally awarded.
1t may be found in the course of time
that the Nation needs a super-professor.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

In sounding campaign guns Franklin
Roosevelt has at least demonstrated that
he is a tWo-gun man.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

The most influential lobbyist may be
a man who honestly believes he is fight
ing for a cause.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Arousal Needed.

From the New orleans Times-Picayune.
Keeping men in state of suspended
animation is neither new nor remark
able. A real scientific achievement
would b TO jolt some Of them Oh cf Il.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
TheOnly Way.

From the Roanoke tvaJ Times.
An Alabama man stole slot machine
the other day. He made the belated dis
covery that that's the only way to beat
the 'thix
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Hone for the Needy.

Hope for the Needy.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
One American had an income OF
$6 900 900 in 1894. We can think of him
as hoping to do better when prosperity
returns.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Art in Action.

Have you studied the art of oratory?"
mo-" answered Senator Sorghum. I'm
trying to get away from studied arts. I'm
cultivating the simple spontaneous man
ner. At present studied art seems to
suggest salesmanship."
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Capital Communications.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Fact that Washington, D. c. has more
telephones than any other city in pro-
portion to population helps to explain Its
ure.eminence n 4 center of gossip.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Jud Tunkins says we've got to trust to
youth, even though he has never yet
heard of a new generation that hadn't
few bad boys in it.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

@. How many States have bans on
childrens guns?-H. M. c.
A. The following States have laws con-
cerning guns for minors: Maine, the Dis
trict Of Columbia, Massachusetts,, Mime
sofa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia.
Forty cities classify rifles as deadly
weapons.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

@. What is an agunah?-B. v. S.
A. An agunah is described as a Jewish
woman who is neither maiden. widow, or
wife, whose husband has disappeared
and who may not, according to Jewish
law, remarry. In Jewish law the grant,
ing of bill CT enforcement must be per-
formed by the husband.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

c. Why are briarwood pipes so called?
H. F. r.
A. The heath tree, the root of which
is made into pipes. is bruyere, in French,
hence the Anglicized version briar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
CUBA BRINGS IN
SIS PASSENGERS
VESSEL ALSO BRINGS THIR-
TEEN TONS OF FREIGHT
FOR KEY WEST

Steamship Cuba, OF the P. and
o. S. S. company, arrived this
morning from Tampa and st. Pc
tersburg with two. first and one
second class passenger for Key
West; so first and two second
class passengers Tor Havana.
Passengers for Key West were:
J. B. Jones, Jane Halmby, S. Gar
cha.
The vessel also brought 13 tons
of freight and 179 sacks of mail
Tor Key West, and took to Ha-
vana two tons of freight and PIP
sacks of mail.
Steamship Colorado, OF the
Clyde-Mallory Lines, arrived 8
o'clock yesterday morning from
New York, discharged freight and
sailed $50 O'Clock for Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
Newlyweds Arrive
On Honeymoon

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brickett
were passengers on the Cuba this
morning. They were married
yesterday at 2:30 o'clock in st.
Petersburg and were en- route to
Havana to spend their honey
moon.
Mrs. Brickett will be happily
remembered by a number Of
friends in Key West as Miss
Marion B. Hull, Office manager
for the WPA administration in
Key West with Director John B.
Orr. Mr.. Brickett also made a
circle Of friends when he was
here for brief vacation several
weeks ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
OVERSEAS COMPANY
GET MAIL CONTRACT

Continued from Page One)
sistant, HolIon Bervaldi, on the
other hand, are satisfied that
daily delivery OF all classes o.
mail, will in the end prove the
better system. and are confident
that Key West will eventually
find it so.
With the new system. they
point out, it will not be necessary
to divert hundreds OF parcel post
packages to come by the way OF
Tampa, causing delay OF several
days, nor will letters mailed 1856
o'clock Thursday afternoon be de-
livered in Monday. as the case
now is.
Several packages mailed in Nj
ami Thursday for delivery for
Easter Sunday, were in the mail
arrivino this morning from Tam
pa. This would not happen with
the proposed service, they said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
RIFLE CLUB WILL
MEET TOMORROW

A meeting of the Key West
Rifle Club, now affiliated with
the National Rifle Association,
has been called for O'Clock to-
morrow night in the recreation
rooms of the local WPA.
The charter for the recently
organized club has just been re-
ceived from the National Rifle
Association, and for this reason
Charles Thompson, president of
the club, called the meeting, With
the charter here, it is expected
that activities of the club will be
increased.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
B. Patty SCORES
GOVERNOR SHOLTz
FOR ACTIVITIES
CANDIDATE FOR CHIEF EXEC.
UTIVE'S CHAIR REFERS TO
MANY OTHER THINGS IN ADJ
DRESS IN MIAMI SATURDAY
Especial !. The Citizen


MIAMI, April 13.-Two in
stances in which employees of the
present state administration have
been discharged for daring to
chow friendhness for him, were
told here Satul day night by B. F.
Patty. candidate for governor, in
one of the most scathing de-
nouncements of Governor Dave
Sholtz and the state administers
ton he had yet delivered.
"a young man l have known
for some time, then in the employ
of the state racing commission,
dropped in one night recently to
visit at my home in West Palm
Beach and the next day he was
given his discharge" he said. "a
man in Lakeland who is my ard
ent supporter took it upon him.
self to handle some details Of ar
rangements for the meeting in
that city, although I warned him
it might cost him his job, and was
promptly fired by the state high
way department. Such tyrannical
practices in our state government
must be broken up.
II intend to draw the line be-
fore the people OF this state to
see whether the present governor
of this state can perpetuate HIM
self in office for the next four
years. to see whether this pres
ent system of waste and despoila-
ton is to continue and to see
whether we shall continue with
this two job man practice. l am
in the center of attack by this
present administration and | am
proud OF the fact that l do not
have its support. l do not want
it. | will not have it. if it was
offered to me and meant my
election to Office
Declaring that eff any governor
of this state has ever deserved
impeachment, it is the present
governor" Patty said one instance
in which the governor should have
been impeached is for his practice
of handing out undated resigna-
tons with appointments to office.
Can you imagine a governor
handing out appointments with one
hand. saying to his appointees, 81
repOse trust and confidence in
YOU and on the other hand CIV
ing them undated designations, "
he said. This practice simply
puts the officialdom Of this state
at the mercy of every within of the
chief executive"
In previous addresses in referr-
ing to the slot machine proceeds,
Patty has said "the slot machine
is taking money out OF the legitim-
ate channels of business and send
ing it to the racketeers in the
north" but in his address here he
boldly charged that the money is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
PERSONAL MENTION

Frank Curry, who was in Key
West for a few days on business
and meeting relatives and old
friends, left yesterday for Miami
j. E. Yonge, attorney Cor the
Pan American Anyways. was an
arrival this morning on business
and planned to return to Miami
this afternoon,
Miss Lora Lock, WPA director
of woman's work in Key West and
Miami, arrived this morning for a
short visit with the local groups
and officials.
Mrs. Harry B. Peacock was an
arrival in Key West Saturday eve
ming over the highway for a visit
with relatives and friends.
Dan Chappell, candidate for
governor. and Sam w. Getzen,
candidate for state treasurer, left
yesterday afternoon for Miami.
Mrs. Amelia Olivieri left yes
terday afternoon for Miami for a
few days in Miami on business
and pleasure, with the intention
OF returning Thursday.
Robert w. Pinder, accompanied
by his mother, Mrs. Agnes Pinder.
left this morning over the high
way for several days visit in Mi
ami.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Albury.
accompanied by their two sons,
Charles and Leander. were arri-
walls in Key West from Plantation
Key at the weekend to spend
Easter in Kew West. They are
stopping at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam McClintock on Southland
street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
ITALIAN ship TO
BE- DRYDOCKED
WARBLER TAKES ON FUEL
7 PREPARATORY TO TAX
ING VESSEL IN TOW

Wrecking Tug Warbler came
into dock at the Porter company
this morning for fuel oil. After
the bunkers had been supplied the
tug returned to the Italian Steam
ship Maaddeiena Odero in readi-
ness to tow the ship to drydock.
The Aaddslena went aground
Saturday night. April / off Bar
Buoy. The Warbler started sal
vag.ng operations Sunday and last
Wednesday the vessel was float
ed.
The steamship was en- route
from Texas ports to Genoa ard
Naples, Italy. with cotton and 9TH
er stores. She came here for the
purpose of placing a member of
the crew in a hospital and ran
aground on a shoal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our appre-
citation to our family and friends
who so kindly assisted US at the
time of cur bereavement, the i'll
ness and death Of our beloved
father, Mr.. Joseph V. Albury. To
those who gave the Sc of their
cars. the donors of the beautiful
floral tributes and expressions
of sympathy, we are~indeed CRATE
full. We assure one and all that
their kindness will never be for
gotten.
Gpr13-1tX THE FAMILY
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
=: SOCIETY =:
Mesdames Baker And
Thompson Had Guests

Mrs. Homer Dickson, president
OF the League of Democratic Vot-
ers OF Dade county, and Mrs. w.
D. Sigler, executive committee
member of the league, who were
visitors in Key West Saturday
were guests OF Mrs. Harry Baker
and Mrs. Godfrey Thompson, dur
ing their stay.
Another guest, cousin Of the
hostesses, was Mrs. Dexter Saun-
ders, who accompanied the others
on their visit to the city in the
interests OF the campaign o. Dan
Chappell for governor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
This Liquid Kills
Skin Itch Quicker

Containing six kinds Of Itch. Nil
ing medicines. Imperial Lotinn
flows freely into skin folds and
pores TO reach and kill itching 81
eczema, rash. letter. ringWOrsn and
common itch Two sizes. 55c and 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
Looking At Washington
Continued from Page One)
dence of disapproval will be APP
parent at Philadelphia.

P&A civ A11AdOC1DEl4d.
To realize the situation. as lar
as the President is concerned. it
is only necessary to recall the
speculation during the winter as
to how far he had slipped" in
his hold upon the voters. There
was considerable surface agitation
for "Jeffersonian Democrats" to
get behind another leader and talk
was heard OF various senators who
would cause a great deal OF trou-
bic during the campaign. This
idea has dissipated and, despite
various attacks ON parts of the
Administration program. the
Democrats will be found shoulder
to-shoulder behind Mr.. Roosevelt.
Senator Vandenburg of Michi-
gan, listed as one OF the POSSIBLE
ties Of the Republican convention,
has been furnishing most of the
opposition to the Administration
lately. Mr.. Vandenburg broke in
to the news by fighting the Flor
ida .Inter-coastaal Canal and the
Passamaquoddy project, by insist
ing upon publicity in regard to
AAA checks and by spirited critic
ism Of the executive practice OF
starting large projects on small
sums. While most observers take
the view that the Republicans in
Congress, as group, have rem
dered very ineffective opposition,
this statement does not apply to
Mr.. Vandenburg. It is thought
that he would be acceptable to
Senator Borah although they DIFF
FER on international policy. The
Michigan senator favors concerted
action with other powers in such
questions as the World Court.
while Mr.. Borah's isolationist pro-
gram limits our cooperation to
this hemisphere. Mr.. Brandenburg
has all along consistently dis
couraged any candidacy and there
are those who say that he thinks
1910 will be a better year.
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going into the pockets of the
"racketeers in Brooklyn and ITALIA
hasasee."
He assured his hearers that he
would make a announcement prior
to election that state employees
could go to the polls and not ask
the governor or anyone else how
they shall mark their ballots. He
declared now is the time for the
people of Florida to forever stamp
out of existence the spoils sys-
tenn in our government, and he
charged that legislator going to
Tallahassee to do his job in good
faith was simply ''hog tied" by
the two job man practice.
He proposed that constitution
al amendment be adopted by the
people of the state making it an
improbable offense for the gov
ernor to require an undated resig-
nation of any appointee.
Following his address, scores
flocked to the speakers stand to
congratulate him with such ex-
pressions as "You are telling the
truth-drive thpse crooks out OF
Tallahassee" and "You have my
vote-so that an honest man car
have a chance"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-13
Junior Woman'c Club
To Meet Tomorrow

There viii be a business meet
ing of the Junior Woman's Club
held tomorrow afternoon. begin
ming at 4 $50 o'clock. at the club
house on Division street. accord
ing to announcement made today.
All members are requested to
be in attendance as business OF
much Importance to the organiZa-
ton will be taken mp during the
meeting, it is stated.