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Evening star., 1936-07-19

CONGRESS ELUDED BATTLE
Many Public Enterprises Had Grown Up in Neghborhood Whe
Federal Building Was Placed in Their Mdst-Owners of
Property Interested in Ultimate Selection.

land and making an appropriation to
start the foundations. This was done
and a second meeting Of the joint
committee was held that afternoon,
when the decision was announced and
the bill read and agreed to. Later on
the same afternoon the bill was Of
fered in the Senate as a substitute
for the House bill and 1t was imme-
diately passed. In a few days the bill
was concurred In by the House, after
q statement by Representative Mil
nken, and it became a law. The en-
tire measure was engineered by the
late Senator Morrill,. There Is no
doubt that the fact that Vermont pro-
duces granite had great deal to do
with Senator Morrill's interest in pub
lie building bills, but there never was
anything put in the bills requiring
granite to be used in their construc-
tion. Three buildings, the Pension
Office, the Agricultural Department
and the National Museum Buildings
are constructed of brick.
BY March, 1891, the Committee on
Appraisement, including Messrs. Len
man. Hamilton and Thompson, had
begun its investigation, and the recent
sales of property in the vicinity showed
that $22 square foot was paid for
land at the southeast corner of Tenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. For
an entrance way to Kernans Theater
s1O.50 square foot was given. George
C. Henning probably paid the highest
amount when he paid $52.75 for prop
erty in Vernon Row, which included
several buildings which extended east
ward from the northeast corner Of
Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
At this time Mrs. Gentner, the own
er of about 80 feet on the Eleventh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-02
The Country Doctor
CHAPTER VII

Their last evening togetherl Mary Mackenzie had not had an alto lgether gay girlhood, what with the Grear barrenness of Moosetown and Che tyrannical domination of her Gather. But this was a new kind of pain-this thought that tomorrow Tony would soar into the air and be gone, in just the same unexpected manner in which he had arrived in the winter.
 And Tony himself, Tony the gay bne, the good companion, the al- most never serious. Was she after all no more to him than pleasant company in @ wilderness? Certain " he had indicated no more dur ing the evening they spent together after the boat left, carrying Dr. Luke on his mission to the "out- side" They had laughed together, played their silly little games to- gether. been very gay. Tony had obviously been excited at the pros pect of flying south again. Was he really glad to go would he go without leaving a single hope of reunion except that gay boyish laughs? Mary cried herself to sleep that night, very softly.
 But the morning came, as it al- ways comes even after the longest night, and Mary was scarcely
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THE STORY so FAR

DIR. JOHN LUKE, country doc- tor in the little north woods set- clement of Mooset0wn, works night and day to combat an epi- demic of diphtheria. FATHER BOWEL, parish priest and NURSE KENNEDY are his aids.
 Storms have isolated Moose town, cutting off telephone and telegraph connections. MIKE SCANLAN, amateur radio opera tor. gets Q message to Dr. Luke's brother. DIR. PAUL LUKE, in Montreal, asking him to send an- titoxln, desperately needed. Com pany officials refuse Dr. Paul's request but his son, TONY, agrees to fly to MOOSetOwn with the an- titOxin.
 He arrives there, crashing a wing of his plane as he lands.
 With the serum the epidemic Is conquered. Tony obliged to re- main until his plane can be rec paired. spends much time with MARY MACKENZIE, daughter of the lumber company manager.
 Dr. Luke goes to Montreal to appeal to company officials to give MoosetOwn a hospital.
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"Higher?" he asked. They were getting accustomed to the roar of the wind and motor, and he spoke more normally. Mary peeped over the edge of the cockpit at the struggling houses and overhanging pine forests of Moosetown.
 "Yes," she replied, speaking more softly into the tube. "As high as you can gol" As though shocked at her own daring, Mary relapsed into her seat as the ship circled higher and higher, peering over the edge of the cockpit from time to time. Then she tok up the speak ing-tube again, and as though speaking to 1t alone rather than to a person at the other end, she said softly.
 Tony -- can you hear me? - I'm happier than I've ever been in my lifel I'm happy, Tony-so happy I'm cryingl"
 You mean laughing, don't you?" came back Tony's voice through the tube.
 No, Tony, I'm TOO happy to laugh. 8 smile won out over imminent tears.
 Puzzled, Tony shot back through the tube You don't think the alti- tudes making you little dizzy?"
 No. I'd like to go evan higher" returned Mary, glancing over the
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dressed when @ knock at the door told her that Tony was ready.
 Together they set out for the field near the town where Tony had discovered 8 smoother surface than the one which brought disas- ter on his arrival in Moosetown. Tony was in flying dress and car ried small suitcase. Mary, her short, tousled hair blowing in the spring breeze, loked even more de- 1ightfully girlish than ever. But somehow conversation between them was little strained.
 Are you glad to be getting back to Montreal?" queried Mary as they strode along toward the field.
 "Oh, yes, of course see my father again, and all that" replied Tony carelessly. "Of course, I'll be back here again some time"
 Some time% the very indefinite ness of the words struck Mary like a blow. Suddenly she seemed to know that he would never come back! Montreal, his old associates, his father, his work - his girl therel For the first time it struck her-so attractive a fellow as Tony would be bound to have a girl therel odd that she hadn't thought of 1t before. But of course 1t must |. be true. Mary fell silent as they walked along together. Finally she felt obliged to make conversation.
 And what are you going to do when you get back?" she asked.
 "Oh, go back to the hospital, I suppose" returned Tony carelessly. ''Be an interne again. Learn my trade. Then I'm going to find To- cation like this-where things hap penr"
 Mary's heart leaped. A location like this! Where things happen! {! Could it be that he was thinking
 Things happen'" she murmured. rHere?"
 Sure replied Tony. Where could you get more exciting job than being a country doctor in a place like this? Big hospital in the city? Spend half your time mak- ing out reports and the other half balancing tea-cupsl Dispensing bread pills and hokum to a lot of fat old cats who aren't sick any wayi Like 1t better here where it's like eating hash - never know whats going to turn up nextl"
 The plane stood at a corner of
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the field just ahead, with Greasy fussing at the motor in 8 gesture that was little short of @ caress.
 You don't want to bury your self in a hole like this, TonyI" burst out Mary. (And "Oh, how I wish you would" she said to her. selD. You want to be in city, where there's excitement, and light, and places to go and ideas, and new people all the time. Away from all this -mindedness and-and-ignorancep She blurt- ed out the last word explosively.
 You mean YOU dol" corrected Tony gravely.
 That's 1t, I guess" admitted Mary candidly. That's what I mean" There was antoher silence between them as they walked across the field to the plane.
 "All ready, Greasy, is she2" called Tony as they approached. Tn his impatience, Greasy already had the motor trobbing.
 'Sa-a-ay! Like a jackrabbitl" shot back Greasy. And will be glad to ."
 Going to take her up for a lit- tie trial hop" announced Tony. No use starting off for Montreal with out little test!"
 Greasy's face fell. Visions of a new crack-up danced before his eyes. Say" he began. But Tony cut in ahead of him.
 Get in!" he said to Mary, his tone completely matter of fact. Mary drew away slightly.
 Come on, get in!" Tony urged. Are you craZy?"
 Sure, but what's that got to do with it?" asked Tony cheerfully. And with the same impudent grin spreading across his face he picked Mary up bodily. She struggled faintly, half-frightened, half-de- lighted at the prospect of a hop a chance that might never come to her again-with Tony as pilot.
 Tony, you mustn'tl" she object ed faintly. Please, Tony let me downi"
 Which the grinning Tony prompt ly did-into the forward cockpit of the little plane.
 Just a little spin. You'll love it!" he cried above the hum of the motor. You'll love it!" And he climbed into the pilots cockpit be- hind her.
 But if Dad should find out"
 Tony maliciously speeded up the motor, which responded with deaf ening roar.
 Cant hear you!" he shouted im- pudently. Cant hear a word yo,I say" And with a louder roar of the motor, the plane trundled down the field, bouncing and rock ing on the rough surface. and sud- denly spurned the ground behind 1t.
 Following frantically motioned instruction from Tony. Mary ad- Jnsted the speaking tube earphones over her curly. wind-shlpped hair.
 How about it?" shouted Tony into the tube.
 T hate 10 admit it." she replied but it's wonderfull"
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I side at the miniature map of the Mosetown country that lay far be- low. She lowered her voice and spoke again as to the tube itself.
 Because I couldn't talk to you like this If we were down on the ground, or if you were looking at me. This is kind of like talking to your picture up in my room, and saying, Tony, don't yant you to go away"
 Whether Mary intended the words for Tony, no one but Mary can ever be sure. But the fact remains that he heard every word. He stared at the tube like one who has seen wonder. "W-wh-what was that?" he stammered.
 T don't want you EVER to go away" came Mary's soft voice. T know it's wrong to talk like this, but I don't care. It seems right, way up here, just us twol You can't go away without knowing what fun you've brought into my life-what you've come to mean to mew
 Nov, Mary!" came Tony's voice. You're to young to be say ing such thingsl Why you're just a kid!"
 Am IF"
 "Well, I THOUGHT you were! Say what's happening up here, any, way? You were just a little kid down on the ground, but now" Jubilantly he resumed, "Why l don't care what it is, it's all right! I'm just as daffy as you are, right now! And swell time to find it out, just when I'm going away! For two cents I'd head for Montreal right this minute!"
 The ship dipped suddenly. Ter rified, Mary cried No. no! Not nowl Pleasel Take me down, please!"
 Into a long, circling glide went the ship, bounced slightly, and rolle dacross the field. Tony jumped out, and lifted Q trembling Mary from the plane. For just a moment they were in each others arms.
 Then came a sudden splintering crash, and the two sprang apart. Rounding the fuselage to see what was going on, they saw strange sight. Mary MacKenzie's father, purple with rage. and spluttering explosives. was hacking violently at the wing of the plane with an ax. Struts, covering. and wires were rapidly becoming a tangle of wreckage under his furious blows.
 "Thisll teach you to take my daughter awayl" he blazed. I'm on to you and your tricksl" he yelled. swinging the ax. "I'll fix your clock. you young smart-aleck! 1! Now get outl Get out O this townl"
 Tony took one quick -step toward Mackenzie in furious anger. then suddenly stopped and began oD laugh, hysterically.
 Are ye mad. man?" growlad Mackenzie.
 "No." laughed Tony. But now" and he pointed to the smashed wing of the plane. now I CAN'T get outl"
 ITO Re Centinued)
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NEwSPRINT IN ACRES
 ESTIMATED

HaTrisburgh. Pa. - fUP) - The Pennsylvania Department of For. ests and Waters estimates that $500 acres of pulp wood is re- auired Co make the paper used for one days run of newspapers in the United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
OLD TIME CAMPAIGNS

While political campaigns are still
waged with vigor, and are often enlivened
with spectacular oratory, they do not COM
pare in pictureSqueness and enthusiasm
with those of the old days.
Back in the nineteenth century the
campaign parade was an indispensable
feature of the prediction activities, es-
pecially in presidential years. Uniformed
marching clubs bearing kerosene torches
with banners and transparencieS, and led
by brass bands, something made up process
sions miles long in the larger cities, while
the smaller communities held similar raj
lies on a lesser scale.
1t was the custom of rival newspapers
to enlarge upon the length of parades by
their partisans while depreciating those of
the opposition.
The late Vice-President Marshall once
told of such a circumstance, in which
claims of rival newspapers held humor-
Gus touch. A great parade in behalf of
the candidacy of Governor Hendricks,
after which, Mr.. Marshall says:
''In the morning the Democratic news
papers announced that it was the greatest
torchlight parade ever seen in the city;
that it took two hours to pass a given point.
The evening Republican paper quoted this
statement, admitting it was true, but added
that the given point was Mike Mulhol-
lands saloon
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print i.
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid TO attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or The mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction OF class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ.
izatiOn; tolerant of others rights views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never Cora
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Two men lost their lives and
three Others were seriously in
jured when two speeders collided
on the bridge at Pigeon Key to-
day. The tsNoS dead men were
thrown from the speeder into the
waterman were drowned. They
were j Philips, white, and Isaac
Hendrix, colored. Those injured
and new IN a local hospital are:
Harry Polocios, Key West, two
fractured ribs: Abe Enright. Geor-
gia, lost two toes; Prince Smith.
South Carolina, just slightly in
juTed. J. Phillips. the white man
who was drowned, was a section
foreman who lived at Marathon.
The only person who was I'M
injured when the speeders crash
ed, was F. Porterbaum, foreman
of one of the gangs on the speed
er coming south.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
THE HARDY DOG TICK

Scientists of the Department of Agri-
culture have been making an extensive
study of the life and habits of the common
dog tick, and have found it to be one of
the toughest of living creatures
By way of illustration, it is declared
that the tick can live as long as three years
without a particle of food or drink, and
that freezing fails to kill it.
The tick is known to be the means of
spreading Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
which in recent years has been carried to
a number of Eastern states.
The government scientists are study
ing the tick with a view to developing i'm
proved means for its eradication, which
would aid in the control Of spotted fever
infection.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
SIDELIGHTS
By MARCY B. DARNALL.
Former Editor of The Key West Citizen

Word comes from Waukon, Ia, that
the SO cents bounty on rattlesnakes will
not be paid in future unless four inches of
each snakes tail is presented to local sup
elvlSOrS. Formerly bounties were paid up
on presentation of rattles only, and some
farmers are said to have raised snakes as a
business, obtaining several sets of rattles
from the same snake.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10
T0DAY'S WEATHER

pi Valley, Buffalo, N. Y, 1886
inches, and Memphis, Tenn,
1916 inches. A disturbance of
very slight intensity is also CEN
trail in the western Gulf of Mexi-
CO this morning about $50 miles
south southeast of Galveston,
Texas, moving slowly west or
west southwest and attended by
winds of only % miles an hour.
Small craft warnings are d display
ed from Galveston to Corpus
Christi.
Showers and thunderstorms
have occurred since yesterday
morning in portions of the Lake
region, and from Kentucky and
Tennessee southwark over the
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, being generally light to
moderate, except showers have
also occurred in western districts.
Temperatures are above normal
this morning in the Plains States,
and maximum readings were
above 100 degrees yesterday in
many localities in this area, Okla
homa City reporting 108 degrees
and Kansas City, Mo-, ITO de-
grees.
G.. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.
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translated into concrete descriptions
For example, when man points with
pride to himself or friend and says
that he is a liberal. why should we
not be intelligent enough d look be-
hind the trademark and see Specifical-
ly what the man stands for? What has
he done? What does he do? We should
do the same for the conservative and
the radical Then perhaps we can see
where we stand with respect to these
individuals and their vague clasSif1-
cations.
The same general procedure should
be applied to popular slogans It is
interesting to notice how subtle and
inSidious some slogans can be. They
carry people of their feet This is be-
cause people are too lazy mentally to
look at them squarely. Under analy-
sis slogan is likely to prove to be
foolish thing. And yet they sweep
Ger this nation. they agitate people
deeply. they lead to popular crusades,
they eliminate in establishment and
disaster. and. in time. their force is
spent and they disappear. A slogan is
never something to accept at its face
value; it is something to Scrutinize
and to analyZe.
Then there are our modern arrest
ing or disturbing epithets. They, too.
demand scrutiny and analysis. They
are symptOmatic of a certain type of
unhealthy mental attitude or condi-
ton of ;.lIse who employ themeGen-
orally speaking. they are popularity
supposed to be an effective subSti-
tute for a deliberate and objective
meeting of argument or presentation
of fact But they have nothing to do
with fact, or accuracy. or truth. They
are merely a manifestation of an I'M
schooled intellect, of uncontrolled
passion.
What does .a discussion of these
things have to do with an understand
ing of our current economic prob
lens? Simply this: there can l. little
hope of arriving at fundamental eco
nomic truths so long as we permit
these popular everyday devices for
misleading ourselves to control our
mental processes. The way to funda-
mental truths is via the route Of
highly developed but wholesome
skepticiSm. -
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tive, liberal, and radical Not many
people can define these words in q
way that would prove generally salts
factory. Not many people can define
these classificatiOnS clearly and salts
factorily to themselves. l may call
myself, or be called. a liberal. | be-
lieve a large proportion of the peO-
pie like to call themselves liberals.
Why? | also believe that large pro-
portion of our people secretly ex-
perience a sensation Of satisfaction
when they call those who disagree
with them radicals or conservatives.
Why?
If we should assume for the mo-
ment that conservative is person
who wishes to conserve something.
and that radical is a person who
wishes TO tear up by the roots or Grad
icate something. what is liberal?
If he stands between these two ex
tremes. does it mean that he wishes
neither to conserve nor to eradicate
in short that he does not know what
he wants? Or does il mean that he de-
sireS TO conserve little of this and
eradicate little of that? If so, what
does he wish to conserve and what
would he eradicate? Furthermore.
what would the conservative con-
serve and the radical eradicate?
Ii would seem fairly obvious that
these terms have little r-ality unless
address questions to the al
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10

Official announcement Is made
that DIR. Nj. X. Gwynn, who has
been surgeon in charge al the
Marine hospital for a number Of
years, has been assigned to a hos
pital in Astoria, Oregon, where he
will be in charge Of the Columbia
River quarantine. DIR. g. NJ
Guiteras, who was formerly in
charge at the hospital here and
was transferred TO Galveston.
Texas, has received orders To re-
turn to Key West as surgeon in
charge.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer |

The Philadelphia Inquirer has been
bought by Moses l.. Annenberg, who is al
so publisher of the Miami Daily Tribune,
hence local interest in his newspaper ac-
tivities. Mr.. Annenberg also owns the
New York Morning Telegraph, Daily Rae,
ing Form, Radio Guide and Screen Guide,
besides Teleflash and Nationwide News
Service. The Inquirer purchase price is
S15,000,000. That Mr. Hearst is associated
in any way in the transfer of this old and
valuable newspaper has been denied Mr.
Annenberg would give his right eye if he
could secure the Miami Herald, but Mr..
Shuts is quoted as saying that he would
never sell the paper to him. In that trans
action the name of Hearst, too, was whis-
pered.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10

There was an enthusiastic meet
ing held last night at the offices
of Meltzer and Navarro by the
boosters of the c. A. Z. Turner
bridge contract, and a committee
was appointed to keep the public
fully informed as to the important
and beneficial points TO be con
sldered in the referendum to be
voted on next Tuesday. Speeches
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Gladys Mcknight of Bagonne, NJ J.,

GIadys Mcknight of Bagonile, y. j.
aided by her boy friend, hacked her moth
Ell to death with a Ratchet because she
wouldn't hurry in the preparation ofs=sup-
per for the two who had a date to play
tennis with some friends. The girls father
will aid her i'll securing freedom or at least
amelioration of punishment for the crime
This is natural, as is the statement by the
father that the mother would have plead
ed for her daughters mercy. The state
lawyers are wracking their brains to find
extenuating circumstances, one of the eta
lions being that she had scrambled bor.
mones."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10

This is one hot day, not in Key
West but in other sections, es-
pecially in the southwest. -Four
cities in Oklahoma report tem-
peratures of ITO, or higher, and
Salina, Kansas, leads with a tenn
perature of 112 breaking a record
of 80 years. At Kansas City the
reading was 1913 this morning. In
Key West it was just 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10

John Kaczmarek of Chicago started
Tor ride on scooter powered with a
gasoline motor, without learning how to
stop the thing. He hung on until he crashed
against the side of building, and had to
be sent to hospital by police. He de-
clares he will try it again as soon as he is
able to take lesson on stopping.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-10

The Smithsonian Institution will pub
lish translation of the first medical book
written in the western hemisphere, orig
mally i'll the Aztec language, in 1852. 1t
contains remedies for many ailments, in
Guiding -mindedness If it really
prescribes cure for morons it should have
wide distribution