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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Many persons appear to have an in
clination to cruelty, especially toward ami
mails, upon which they inflict suffering
without the slightest pity. In fact, some
seem to take fiendish delight in the
agonies of unfortunate creatures.
To one of normal sensibilities, it is
hard to explain this sort of depravity,
which is often found among children, as
we'll as among older persons. 1t must be
a manifestation of animal instincts handed
down from savage and brutal ancestors.
Cruelty to animals indicates certain
baseness, which usual yincludes cruel
propensities toward human beings, which
are only depressed through fear of punish
ment
Children should be taught early TO
avoid practices which tend to make them,
callous to the agonies of helpless creatures.
1t should be explained to them that when
it is necessary to kill animals for food or
for the safety of human life, it should be
done as swiftly and humanely as possible;
never with desire to inflict pain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
SPEED LIMITS

1t has been rather we'll established
that laws which arbitrarily fix speed limits
for automobiles are little protection
against accidents. The speed at which
one may safely drive depends upon the
road ard traffic conditions involved.
A high executive of one of the lead
ing automobile manufacturing companies,
who has made a close study of speed in its
relation to accidents, declares that SO or
even 90 miles an hour over good open
roads in the country may be safer than Is
miles an hour in cutting corners in town.
The safe driver is not necessarily the
slow driver, but one who uses common
sense whether driving fast or slow. Care
less driving while turning corners, passing
pedestrians or other cars, crossing rail
road tracks and maneuvering in congested
traffic is the greatest menace to life and
limb.
Sense, not speed, is the important
factor in determining whether a driver is
safe or unsafe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

gence. But even If those who take
what they want are good sports"
and are willing to pay the price. the
penalty for their selfish and unsocial
conduct usually falls, in large part, on
others. The owner of an automobile
who insists on driving while intoxi-
Gated may be willing to take his
chances of being killed. But if killed
or injured, his wife and children pay
the price also. A man may contract a
disease while in drunken state, and
pass it on to his children. He takes
what he wants, but his innocent chill
dren pay for it. 1t is case Of "the
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
the children's teeth are set on edge"
So it is with the economic affairs
of the Nation. Our government for
several years has been mourning vast
expenditures N the endeavor to sat-
isfy the numerous applicants for gov
eminent bounty. Those who are TAX
ing what they want out of the gov
eminent treasury. do not expect.
however. to pay the bill: and to that
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without tear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
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 COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

You and Your
Nations Affairs
Should We Pay For Our Take?
BY ELIOT JONES
Professor OF Trans porfaiion and Public Utilities
Stanford University

end they advocate so-calied soak the
rich" taxes.
The fact is. however. that the in
come of the rich. even should it be
confiscated in full-and only an ex-
tremist would advocate such course
would not be sufficient to maintain
governmental expenditures at their
present level. For instance, were we
to confiscate the income Of all those
with net incomes Of 100000 or more
the revenue would not suffice to run
our federal, state. and local govern
ments for two weeks. II we confiS-
Gated the income of all those with
net incomes Of $1,000 or more. the
money would be all gone. at present
rates of expenditure. inside Of four
months.
We're the attempt actually made to
finance all our government expendi-
lures by means of taxes 1t would
soon become evident to everyone that
the necessary revenues could be OBJ
tanned only by increased taxation of
the lower income groupS-groups that
by no stretch of the imagination can
be regarded as rich.
At the present time, as everybody
knows. a large part Of our governs
ment outlay is being financed through
the issuance of bonds. Our genera,
ton is thus taking what it wants. but
it hopes to make succeeding genefa-
lions pay the bill. 2slG asW
Is this good craftsmanship If we,
are determined to take what we. want.
should we not be willing to pay for it.
rather than try to saddle the debt on
future generations? If we seek to
make them pay for our excuses. can
we blame them if they refuse to bear
the burden. especially if the debt is
incurred. not to provide more or less
permanent improvements from which
they also will derive benefit. but to
provide public works that have little
to commend them beyond the fact
that they are a source of temporary
employment?
thor care of this netrSpdpeTl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
. . . . . Q . . . Q . . . . . . .
THE FIRE BELL
(Ey JOHN A. LO2D)

(Ey JOHN A. LO2D)
esssssssSsssoeessssssess
When It's cold or rain
And the grounds all wet,
Then it's great to hear that
Fire bell ring.
In the middle of the night
In bed all snug and tight,
Gee, it's great to hear that
Fire tell ring.
FThen you jump out on the floor
And you almost break the door,
But you can still hear that
Fire bell ring.
AS YOU run right to the station
With the cold and rain you're fac
ing.
You still continue to hear that
Fire bell ring.
Then you jump upon the truck
And GOWN the road it starts to
luck,
Although you still hear that
Fire bell ring.
One old fireman with the govt
Gets there when the fire is out,
Because he didn't hear that
Fire bell ring.
When you get back into bed
With warm pillow meath your
head, .e
Then you crss that guy that made
the
Fire bell ring.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Tsken From
The Files OF The Citizen

La Casa Marina, Key Vests
famous hostelry, was formally
opened last night with a dinner
dance attended by hundreds of
Key West folk and out-of-town
visitors. It was the seventh open
ing celebrated by the hotel and
was the most brilliant affair of
the kind ever seen in the city.
Seated at tcb.es for the dinner
were 800 guests. Following came
the concert of the orchestra and
then the dance which was consid-
cred extraordinary with the beau
tifully decorated ballroom and
multicolored lights adding to the
brilliance of the decorations, and
the beautiful gowns of the ladies.
Little Miss Virginia Britt was en-
Enthusiastically received when she
danced three extremely clever
numbers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
WEATHER FORECAST
(Till 8 p. M, Sunday

(IIll 3 p. M, sunday
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday; not
much change in temperature
moderate southeast to south
winds, probably becoming north
west or north Sunday night.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Gentle to moder-
ate east to south winds, becoming
northwest or north over extreme
north portion Sunday, and partly
overcast weather tonight and Sum
day with local showers in extreme
north portion.
q. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

OLD . p a n ! 5 II
proverb: Take
what you want.
said God: take
it, and pay for
it."
w h a { e v e T
may be thought
of this attitude
as the express
sion Of a prop
er rule of con-
duct, COMPARE
lively few peo-
pie are willing.
when 1t comes
to the test. to
pay the price
Of their indiil.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Baby Reyes, of Key West, de-
feated Lou PASCAL, Italian from
Philadelphia, in the main bout at
the Cuban Club stadium last night.
1t was a clean fight throughout
from which Reyes emerged with
out a scratch, while PASCAL shows
signs of rough treatment. Reyes Is
expected to appear in the ring IN
about 80 days for a match with
Garner Johns.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

The Box Factory baseball team
defeated the Cuban Stars this
morning in one of the best games
of baseball ever seen on the is
land. The score was 9 to 5. Hits
were numerous and many errors
were made, but in the opinion OF
the fans it was thriller from the
start to the finish. The Stars
made five runs, nine hits and
three errors, while the Box Fac
tory made nine runs, fifteen hits
and two errors.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

The body of Mrs. Estrada Palma,
wife of the late Honorable John
Estrada Palma, first president of
the Republic of Cuba, passed
through Key West this morning
en- route to Havana for interment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

ter part Of next week to the state
prison at Raiford. Dice viii start
serving his 20 years sentence and
Bodine a sentence of six years.
She tiff Cleveland Niles is in re-
ceipt of letter this morning adj
vising that o. H. Rogers, recruit
ing officer of the penitentiary viii
arrive in Key West Thursday or
Friday of next week for the pris-
oners.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Editorial comment: 1t is indeed
an advanced age when it becomes
possible for an ass to run a horse
less carriage like they do in these
days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Britain's Disraeli, asked what he con-
s;dered the most remarkable, the most
sustained and powerful sentence ne knew
gave as his answer: sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

In South Riding. recent novel by
Winifred Holtby. the leading character
Tan English schoolmistressl tries to
live her life in accordance with the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Eating, says scientist, is matter of
taste. Yes, and some cash, in addition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Men put off things they ought to do,
and women sometimes put off things they
ought to wear.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Pity, to some people, is SO precious
that they reserve it all for themselves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

A gutter is one who submits to the
inevitable before it becomes the inevitable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Wider highways are being advocated.
But that would only mean wider trucks
and buses.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Wives are more suspicious than hus-
bands, says writer. And more often
have their suspicious confirmed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Patrick Henry did not want to live
without Liberty; while one can now get it
for nickle
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

No professional persons sink so low
as the shyster lawyers and the quack doc
tors when they abandon their ethics.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

There are many virgin pines in Flor
ida.-Exchange. Is it because the wood
men spared those trees?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

President Roosevelt wants business to
absorb the unemployed. 1t will every
time it can get ahold of Goodman
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Beggars are rarely surprised by the
size of the gift they get
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Shrewd Benjamin Franklin remarked
that there is no such thing as a little
enemy. 20
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

College boys are bringing their class
hatred to school,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

/. Water and Sewerage.
2. Bridges to complete Road to Main
land.
g. Free Port
4. Hotels and Apartments.
s. bathing Pavilion.
6. Imports Land and Sea.
z. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
Today In History

1777-Washington marched on
Princeton to surprise British leay-
ing his camp fires burning in Tren-
ton to deceive them.
178S-Georgia the fourth State
to ratify the Constitution.
1810-Napoleon, at war with
Britain, ordered seizure and con-
fiscation of American shirs-134
ships seized in France, Spain,
Naples and Holland, all of them
his conquests.
1863-End of Civil War battle
of Murfreesborough, Tenn, one of
wars bloodiest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

The home of Miss Jennie Mae
Johnson presented a very pretty
scene yesterday afternoon when
some of the students of Florida
State College for Women enter
tanned for students who had at
tended the sessions of the school.
The rooms which open ensuite
were decorated with the college
colors of garnet and gold. The
guests were received by Miss john
Son. Miss Florence Graham and
Claudia Demeritt. After the serv-
ing 5f tea a meeting was held for
The purpose OF forming country
for the girls. es4sg ,ges
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Pedestrians should be seen and not
hurt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

A. Dice, alias Lorenzo Ortega,
colored. and E. r. Bodine, white,
both of whom were convicted of
murder at the last term of cir
cult court, will be taken the lat
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Three more boats and "a men
are to be added to the Coast Guard
unit at Key West was the an
nouncement made today by En-
sign c.. G. Carlstedt, commanding
officer of Section 20, with head
quarters at Key West. This will
give the base seven patrol boats
instead of four as at the present
time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

All public schools of the city
will reopen Monday, January g.,
was the announcement made to-
day by Superintendent Russell.
The Catholic schools will also re-
open.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Address questions the author of this neospape
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02

Barometer 8 a. m. today:
Sea level, 30.06.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02


g. Free Port
l. Hotels and Apartments
s. bathing Pavilion.
g. An port$-Land and Sea.
z. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
Pedestrians should be seen and not
hurt.
College boys are bringing their class
hatred to school,
Beggars are rarely surprised by the
size of the gift they get.
Pity, to some people, is so precious,
that they reserve it all for themselves
Eating, says scientist, is matter of
taste. Yes, and some cash, in addition
A gutter is one who submits to the
inevitable before it becomes the inevitable
Shrewd Benjamin Franklin remarked
that there is no such thing as little
enemy. -
Wider highways are being advocated.
But that would only mean wider trucks
and buses.
Patrick Henry did not want to live
without Liberty; while one can now get it
for nickle.
Men put off things they ought to do,
and women sometimes put off things they
ought to wear.
There are many virgin pines in Flor
ida-Exchange. Is it because the wood
men spared those trees?
Wives are more suspicious than hus-
bands, says writer. And more often
have their suspicious confirmed.
No professional persons sink so low
as the shyster lawyers and the quack doc
tors when they abandon their ethics
President Roosevelt wants business to
absorb the unemployed. 1t will every
time il can get ahold of a Goodman.
Britain's Disraeli, asked what he con-
sidered the most remarkable, the most
sustained and powerful sentence he knew
rave as his answer: Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-15

window. 1t was Truck Co. No. IA
raising ladder to the third-floor win
dow. And pretty soon the boys saw
Lieut.. F. E. Barber and Pvt. P. C..
Plaskett stepping through the window.
In moment mother and sons were
united.
1t was the second time the Fire De-
partment had come to the younger
boys aid, the first occasion being
when he was only few months old.
Jimmy choked on something that
time and I didn't know what to do
but call the Fire Department" the
mother said.
Joseph, jr., refused to discuss his
feelings while he and Jimmy were
locked in the room.
Coin down and see the cherry
blossoms" he said, pulling on his
snowsuit.
The boys father is an employe of
the American Express Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-15
JUNIOR HIGH STUDY
TOPIC Of SESSION
Conference Opening Tomor-
row to Consider Methods
and Problems.

The Junior High School Confer
ence, sponsored by the officers and
te-chers of the local public schools in
divisions to Tor all interested in
education, will be held tomorrow and
Saturday at the Langley Junior High,
First and T streets northeast
Registration for the two-day meet
ing, whose theme is the evaluation of
the past and the prospectus of the
future Of the Junior high school, will
be at the school, starting at am
The first general session will open at
7:45 pm.
Tomorrow afternoon those inter-
ested will be taken on a tour of the
Federal Bureau of Investigat ton,
meeting at the Raleigh Hotel at 1870
pm. The group will be welcomed by
J. Edgar Hoover, director, and will
be shown G-men methods in crime
detection
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent Of the Board of Education, will
preside at the first general session to-
morrow night. Supt. Frank w. Bal
lou will give an address of welcome
and the main speech of the evening
will be given by Thomas H. Briggs,
professor Of Education at Columbia
University, evaluating the past of the
junior high school. Following the
principal address, a panel of four, in
Guiding William G. Carr, director of
the research division of the National
Education Association; Margarietta
Collins, principal of Gwynns Fall
Park Junior High, Baltimore; Edgar F.
Long, professor Of education at Mary
land University, and c. O. Williams,
associate professor of education at
Pennsylvania State College, will give
talks OF five minutes each. The dis
cussion will then be thrown open to
the floor
There will be musical selections by
the Gordon Junior High School Or
chestra under the direction Of Helen
G. Shaw, teacher of music
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-15
MEMORIAL DESIGN
CONTEST SOUGHT
House Resolution Would
Amend Jefferson Commits
sion Legislation.

The House today had pending the
resolution of Representa- tive Wearin.
Democrat, of Iowa to amend the act
setting up the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Commission by providing
for Nationwide competition for a
design for the memorial
The commission under the resolu-
ton would be restrained from pro-
ceeding with construction of the pro-
posed 100000 memorial at the
Tidal Basin until the competition is
held. 1t would be conducted by the
American Institute of Architects,
which would select the winning de-
sign and submit it to Congress for
consideration.
Wearin asserted before the House
that the per cent commission which
would be paid John Russell Pope,
author of the design of the proposed
memorial, is in excess of the sum
ordinarily allowed on Government
construction. For contracts over 81
100000 the commission is limited to
"a per cent, Wearin said
Thomas Jefferson himself insisted
that the design be selected under
competition" when the Capitol was
built, Wearin said, adding, There is
more than one architect in America"
While some of the opponents of the
memorial plan contend the Pope de-
sign will mean elimination of practi-
cally all the japanese cherry trees
around the Tidal Basin, officials of the
National Capital Parks say the have
not yet seen finally approved plan
and cannot yet say with certainty.
They say they do not know just
exactly what the grades will be in the
vicinity of the memorial and some Off
Gals declare it is possible to design the
approaches so only few of the trees
will be affected. However they declare
this is matter for the future to de-
eide.
During the last five years re-
placement program has been under
way, with the setting out Of new trees,
inasmuch as the prospective life of the
original trees from Japan is only about
10 years more Some 500 trees have
been planted under the replacement
plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-15
A.A.A. MOurned
With Ceremony
As Notices Come
s~S
Catatalque at Old Post
Office Building Gets
Scar,t Respect.

The body Of one of the New Deals
favorite sons-Agricultural Adjust
ment Enthusiastically in state
today at the old Post Office Building.
For many there was still life in
the corpse, a pink checked baby doll
resting in crepe-draped shoe box
but for others it was just corpse.
The mourners were made up for the
most part by employees of the de-
parted, with offices in the Post Office
They received their furlough orders
this morning, notifying them their
services terminated May l. Eight
hundred and fifty workers are af-
fected.
Some of the mourners were sad
faced, but few of them failed to
show the proper respect for their late
friend and ate their lunches as they
looked on.
The catafalque for the coffin was
set up outside f1rst-floor Office. It
rested on a low stool. Overhead hung
. wreath, and on it was attached q
card which read: "In deepest SYM
pathy."