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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14
ANCIENT PlNBALL

PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis!
(UP)-Workmen GXcavating the
120-year-old ruins Of Fort Craw-
ford discovered crude "ances-
tor" of the modern pinball ma
chine. Double rows of brass nails
provided the guideways for stone
balls, several Of whcih were found
with the board.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14
BIBLE THOUGHT
GODS PROMISES ARE KEPT

Unto thy seed have } given this land" Gen,
l5:lS (Deut so 20. Jer. 80 81. Amos 9 49,.
The Courier publishes interesting comment
from q Palestine missionary to the effect that the
Arabs dislike to buy the Bible because they say 1t
promises to give their land 10 the Jew, and they
say that the promise to Abraham still holds good
They are right concerning the promise, but the"
refusal to buy and read the Bible will not prevent
the fulkment Of SIS promise
From Prophecy
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

SiEttbIt SSilI, II "
his beloved away
and parked her
while 81 see 4
m a H." Feeling.
sure he k n e W
how to beat the
game, he sneak
e d b 4 { k It II d
pl;nked q o W II
every dime III
his clothes. In
less time than ii
[ u X { : To tel
about il, he had
lost all the mon
cy he had saved
to take his girl
to the circus and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

An eastern farmer reports that lightning
stripped the trunk Of one Of his apple trees
shortly after insects had attacked the fruit.
Fortunately, however, the bark, was worse
than the blight.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

A psychologist announces that the we'll
to-do worry more than the poor. Of course
the poor have nothing to worry about
practically everything has already hap
pened.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

The Japs and the Chinese seem to be
applying old-fashioned industrial methods
to warfare. The former go i'll for the
speed-up, and the latter counter with the
stretch-Out.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

A young fellow who had taken
his girl to q circus ana with her
was watching confederate in {"
skin game oStentatiously win I"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

A concert violinist announces she will
retire to work in an office. She can keep
up with her music at home, but she'd bet
ter not do any fiddling while the boss is
around, ... BE-. .a. Is
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

Chinatown refused the dying
request Of one Of its greatest
men, Chin Lain, 69-year-old direc-
tor of the Chinese Six Companies
He had asked for a simple Ameri-
can funeral
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14
SUGGESTS TRAFFIC SAFETY

An adovate Of traffic safety, too
modest to beau seeing his name IN
print. suggests that the school
zone street sign Of the AshcVille
highway would do more good II
placed north Of Hitch IIikers' hill
Just south of the junction Of the
Mills River road. He says Il speed
Of about 60 mph over Hitch llik-
crs' hill, where vision is cut oil
from Fiemming and Patton street
entrances and the crossing Of
Oakland has is hazards. Sounds
very practical.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

A California couple set out on 4 honey
moon by roller skate the other day. They'll
probably come down to earth quicker than
most.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

You always tell when European country "
really got its back to the wall: the mead Vi TIE
government has to cut his weekend snort.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

Japanese flyers recently fired on Chlnese-'"r-
man plane, thereby raising such confusing qoeS-
ton that everybody had to ignore it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14
LOYAL, SHOPPERS: Mis- .

10 1T. JIEOT '-'INJ 3''I''' ''T
ME Bowen. merchant, shouts the
praise Of numerous tourists VIII"
are loyal shoppers IN henderson,
willie. She said that she had several
who were thoughtful, considerable
aud apprcciatlVc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-14

The frog has teeth. bu' the toad
Is tuotMLc.s.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN

Election day has come and gone. The
tumult and the shouting have died down.
Sound trucks no longer blare on our streets.
All that remains are some remnants of con-
versation, walls Uttered with political adj
vertisements and few headaches. In con-
formity with the policy of The Citizen to
take no sides in a local political campaign,
it kept its hands off and therefore has no
regrets. In the spirit of this principle, we.
offer our congratulations to the winners
ard wish for the losers better luck the
next time. Sears ON the body polite soon
heal and healthy cooperative spirit re-
suits.
With election out of the way the time
has come to bury some of the bitterness
that marked the campaign. Political
enmities should not be allowed to be the
guiding Influence in the community. There
is much to be done, Key West needs so
many things, it will take every bit of CO.
operative effort or the part of all of our
citizens to put the city completely on the
road to prosperity.
One of the first things is to remove the
political signs from windows, fences, posts
and other places. They have performed
their service and should not be, left as re-
minders of the fierce fires that burned in
theeampaign. They detract from the APP
pearaneeof the city and it would be a fine
gesture oH The part of the candidates, win
ners and losers, to go out and pull down
their signs.
The next thing is to get back of the
Overseas Highway Celebration committee
and get busy on the thousand and one de-
tails that are necessary to be done to make
the event great success. Politics should
not be allowed to keep men apart when it
comes to a celebration that will bring fresh
money into the community and advertise
Key West in all corners of the country.
After that is over, the leaders of the
community should get behind co-opera-
tive movement for the enactment of such
local and state laws as may be necessary
for the good of the community. All of the
candidates told their followers what they
planned to do in this connection. Some of
the ideas were good, some were not so
good. A strong central steering commit
tee might sift the suggestions and lay the
constructive before our city, county and
state officials and urge action.
Now is the time for all good people to
come to the aid of Key West and Monroe
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
A CHILD'S EARNINGS

The lawsuit of Jackie Coogan against
his mother and his step-father, seeking an
accounting of the 100000 he claims to
have earned as child movie-star, will
serve to focus public attention upon what
seems to be a legal principle that is out-of-
date.
While the boys earnings are set at
only $1500.OO by his mother, in her an
swer to the suit, the parent goes on to as
sert that young Mr.. Coogan has no legal
claim to the money because it is legally and
rightfnlly hisinother's
While the money earned by minor
child may. legally, belong to his or her
parents, there is considerable doubt if
parents can "rightfully'' keep as their own
an immense sum earned by child Prob
ably. Mr.. Coogan's chance to get some of
the money he earned depends upon prov
ing the establishment of trust by his
parents Regardless of the outcome of his
lawsuit, however the general public will
incline to the opinion that the young actor
is entitled as matter of right. to a sub
stantial portion of the fortune that he
earned as a child on the screen.
OF course. this question comes up in
very few families. Usually, the small
amount of money earned by a minor child
is not more than sufficient TO pay portion
of his or her expenses.
Occasionally, some spectacular child
manages to earn a large amount of money.
Naturally. out of such earnings. there
should be deducted a reasonable amount
for the expenses of the child and an
equitable allowance for any additional ex-
penses entailed on the family by reason of
the chlld's career Afterwards. in most
cases. the matter can be disposed Of
through the respect and relationship of
parent and child
Rarely is it necessary to resort TO
court, II such q step becomes necessary,
however, the minor should not 90 TO court
d the law stacked against his claims II
necessary. the law should be amended.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files of The Citizen

The state road departments
survey of the Overseas Highway
has been started under super
vision OF Edwin s. Fraser. state
highway engineer. The Stretch
from Key West, to No Name Key
isndw BEING shhveyed as the first
step @of the undertaking. The
working force on the job includes
an, instrument man, rod man and
chain carrier. Others may be
added as conditions may warrant.
This survey was planned by the
road department as it has been
stated that the highway is to be
taken over by the department
for maintenance. When this is
ordered complete file of the en-
cheering data will be needed and
the engineering departments pre-
fers to have those lines which are
made under their own supervi-
sion. The county houseboat is to
be allowed the men employed on
the job when necessary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
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| AW FOR THE LADIEC
Ethel ERNEsT MuRRELL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Blackstone says: 'The legal
existence CT the woman is Sus-
pended, or at least consolidated
into that of the husband. That
is true in Florida today. When a
woman marrieS, she ceases to
have a legal personality, becomes
one person with her husband, and
naturally he is that perSonl
Blackstone says, further on,
For this reason a man cannot
grant anything to his wife, or en-
ter into covenant with her.
This is particularly true in Flor
ida today A man and wife still
may not make a contract with
one another that will bind them.
But it has been changed so that a
man may deed property outright
to his wife as though she We're a
separate person.
And then we purpoSely skipped
the sentence quoted in an earlier
column, which began, "a wife per-
forms everything under the
wing. the wing, protection Of her
husband. baron or lord, and her
condition during her marriage is
called her 'coveture'" We skip
ped it in order TO comment more
fully on it. You notice that in
the days of Blackstone, the COM
mon law protected the married
woman, as well as restricted her.
She was in the household of her
loId in the same position as his
servants or his children. Today
she is a free voting citizen with
out the protection. but retaining
the restrictions that were rife in
Blackstone's Day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CREAM OF CHINESE

Attacking behind flame throw
ing tanks, the best of the Chinese
sdidiery, Generalissimo} Chang
Kai-S hek's own, in less than a
day recaptured the three key
cities of Lan-Feng, Yi-Feng and
Tang-shan or the Lung Hal rahz
road, which leads to Hanehows
the Chinese temporary capital. 1t
was another of those smashing
victories which have in recent
weeks considerably bolstered the
morale of the Chinese and taken
away some of the confidence of
the japanese. 1t is too bad, how
ever, that all China's troops are
not as excellent as Kai-Shek's inn
mediate guarding battalions; and
it demonstrates the vast disSen-
sion that has occupied China for
hundreds of years and split its
unity into a thousand dissenting
factions, ranging from the best to
the worst of soldiery.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
WEST INDIAN STRIKE

British tourist-town, West In
dian Kingston, Jamaica, is in the
throes of union strike as charac-
teristic as any staged along the
labor battlefront of the U. S. West
Coast. Black bulls of scores of
ships with mooring lines securely
fastened moved serenely at docks
where longshoremen have struck;
street cleaners too have DOTTED
their uniforms; electric plants
with accompanying street car
service were closed down and
grocery stores were shattered
tightly. A woman and son were
killed. Meanwhile. the pictures
que little town waits until the
strikers get their desired recog-
milton. An appropriate chapter
in a future history on the twen-
tieth century will be the STORY
OF THE STRIKES
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
MASS PRISON BREAK

One thousand i've hundred
Loyalist prisoners, most of them
political but many government
officers, staged a mass escape
from Pampolona, Spain, Sunday,
in a break which will bring about
an investigation of the entire
prison guard personnel, who are
believed to be implicated in the
escape. Six hundred had
been rounded up at dark yester-
day by massive. posses who
searched cities, beat the brush of
countrysides, stopped all trains
and highway automobiles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
cEDILLO LOSES
HUNDREDS

Reports from central Mexico
have it that hundreds of deser-
tons are continuing from Satur-
nino Cedillo's peasant army since
one of his lieges, Congressman
Epifanio Castillo, surrendered
with 300 followers. Cedillo is en-
camped in the mountains near
the railroad which threads
through central Mexico. Jumping
into the breach are Mexican gov
eminent soldiers who are moving
toward the camp, probably to at
tack in this moment of low Ce-
dillo morale.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Preparations are underway for
Memorial Day, which will be held
next Wednesday. The ceremonies
this year will be directed by the
American Legion, assisted by the
Spanish War Veterans. Sunday
is Memorial Sunday and the me-
mortal sermon win be preached
by Rev. E. L. Etheridge of Con-
gregational church. The Ameri-
can Legion and Spanish War Vet
Grams will assemble at Fleming
and William street at 1880 and
proceed to the church. Members
of all other patriotic bodies are
invited to join them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

RusselNille. Ark. Henry
Cravings wholesale grocery
store has been robbed fifteen
times Ia the past seventeen years
His latest lass amounted TO g SOC.
plus al the records of his haxi-
ness
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Mayor WILLIAMS Of Miami with I'M
mitigated assinlty delivered himself of the
following philippine evidently while labor
ing under severe mental strain: IF every
newspaper IN the United States was run
like the Miami Herald and Miami News
we would have revolution" There i q
form Of revolution or revolt IN Miami now,
but il il hy the people snna' sing andcg ia-
tolf4ahle conditions IN Their muasei lal a =
fairs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
FIRE TRUCK BURNS

Orient, Iowa.-Answering a call
for help, the Greenfield Fire De-
partInent found only garage on
fires Thesean for help was mada,
however, because the garage
housed Orient's only fire truck.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

The Hollywood Shrine Club is
making arrangements for a mo-
torcade 10 Key West on June IS.
The information was received by
members Of the order in Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
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Farthest South By Car
P. E. B., in Tampa Tribune)

=
If you crave to see skyscrapers.
subways, elevated, the Bronx zoo,
the Aquarium, the opera, stage
plays, burlesque, night clubs, etc.
we recommend a trip to New
York instead of Key West. But
Key West has lot of attractions
New York lacks. We have en-
joyed every trip to Key West
more than any trip to New York.
There are more people in New
York, we don't know why. Both
places are island cities but Man
haitian is larger island with
more artificial attractions and
perhaps more variety, although
we believe we could spend sew
eral weeks longer in Key West
than in New York before becom-
ing bored. Key West natives
know more about life and living
than the average New Yorker.
New York has a wider variety of
temperatures to offer, but that's
no advantage. Key West has no
subway but it has a six-story
building, and two or three of the
highway bridges are elevated.
The place may have something
in the way Of night clubs. 1t has
a marvellous aquarium, and if you
like fish you can look at 500 va
rieties in the clear seas surround
ing the island AT a Key West
movie theatre we saw ''The Fire
fly" for the third time. We ate
turtle steak and you might try
coneh salad or eonch chowder,
but they don't have any Key West
crawfish in Key West. Not yet.
Maybe the crawfish season will
open by the time you get there.
The federal administration
cleared up the island, but fort
unately didn't clean it up enough
to ruin its individuality. A couple
of our friends in Miami drove
there one day, planning to stay
over, but they found the place
depressing because it didn't look
exactly like Miami, so they drove
home that night and no doubt
will spend the rest of their lives
inside the Miami city limits. Most
Miamians, however, enjoy Key
West because it is not like Mi
ami. There is no point in going
to the trouble of driving 40 miles
from Miami to find a place that
looks like Miami Or driving
from Cleveland, O., to Key West
to find if it looks like Cleveland,
o. Key West still has plenty of
old style Key West houses.
1t has wide variety OF trop
ical shruhbery and trees. Some
body had the very good idea of
putting tags on many of the trees,
including those in private front
yards along the sidewalks, thus
satisfying the curiosity of US more
northern tourists. We noticed
certain trees identified as Span
ish Lime. One 'sTamarind--
Tamarindus Indica" Some So
called rubber trees, Ficus Elias
tica. Several "Sapodilla-Sapota
Achras'. A few labeled Cork
Tree-Thespesia Populn
That's the bendy tree and not
the commercial cork oak or
Quercus Suberl Then we saw
one tree with card indicating
that it was a Buck Hancock tree,
and a tree beside il seemed to be
a William r. Porter for County
Commissioner tree.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

The Administration is shying away
from the question made a year ago when il
asked the people of the United States. Are
you not better off today than you were
year ago? The answer now would be a re-
sounding No.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Sam Baillou. widely-known
colored man of this city, died last
night. For some time he had been
connected with the Lumley meat
markets of the city, but recently
had made his living by capturing
snakes. lizards and other small
creatures for some of the leading
ZOOS of the country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Ten names which had been
enormously placed on the dis
qualified list were last night re-
turned to the qualified list by the
county commissioners at special
meeting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Suggestions from readers of this paper
are welcomed always; II you have an idea
that would help to improve The Citizen,
pass il along.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Miss Ofelia Rodriguez, daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. Rafael Rodriguez,
will be married at the home of
her parents, 906 White street, $3.50
o'clock this evening. TO Walter
johnson, young business man
of this city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

There are millions of people in the
United States who think they could make
a great success ii they had the opportunity
TO live their lives over again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
HARLAN HORROR

Bomblngs, murder, dynamltlng,
beatings, shootings after mine
corporation conference in which
deputies were instructed to do
anything to stop unionizing of
the workers glowed in the words
of prosecutor Brien Mcmahon
who was heard in the preliminary
address to a rather tough-looking
jury from the tough little town of
London in tougher Harlan coun-
ty. One hline corporation drop
ped frop4 those which were de-
Tending themselves. II can be
fined $4,000, little enough to pay
for some of the things its organ
ization probably did in tearing
apart men with dynamite and
ordering ruthless shooting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
TODAY'S COMMON
ERROR
Dilate is pronounced di-
late; not di'-late.
I E s T Y o u r
K o w L E ID G E
Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn TO
Page for the answers


seeesssssssssssesssssees
/. Where is Oneida Lake?
2. What is the highest rank of
a commissioned officer in
the u. S. Navy?
3. What is the name for young
seals and mother seals2
4. Which state does Senator
Edward r. Burke repre-
sent in Congress?
5. What countries have the
coin ore?
6. Name the queen who had the
longest reign in English
history.
z. What is an excavator?
8. In astronomy, what is the
third sign of the zodiac?
8. Which state is called the
Volunteer State?
10. Do tuna fish have scales?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

The Junior Senior prom of the
Monroe County High School will
be staged at the La Concha Hotel
tonight. 1t will be the largest in
the history of the school. A din
ner will be given and afterward
there will be dancing. A number
of Seniors who were graduated
in January and have been out of
town have returned to attend the
affair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Shushot, alias "Shina", the
negro who killed Walker, a color
ed postman, some time ago and
was acquitted on a self-defense
plea, and last winter was shot in
the back by Officer Harold Key
during a mixup for which he
served a term in Jail, is again in
the tolls. This time he is charged
with breaking and entering. He
will be tried on the charge of
breaking into and robbing the
home of a negro some time ago in
Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage. sam Il l3I
2 Comprehensive City Plan tzonihg)a
3. Hotels and Apartments.
A. Bathing Pavilion s.
g. Airports-Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Trading at home is still good prac-
tice and there's nothing selfish about it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

The use of scientific terms does not
always guarantee scientific results.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Politicians often need to be acrobats,
able to straddle fence and keep an ear tc
the ground at the same time
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Editorial comment: The Key
West Citizen figures that the pro-
posed reduction of postage of
circulars to one cent will be a
boon to the waste basket indus
try.-Times Union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Mussolini and Hitler anpear to be
satisfied oTer their asreemelits to divide.
Europe between themselves
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

While a pessimist is disagreeable he
gives less foolish advice than an optimist.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

There are individuals who go through
the world in permanent coma, or in
log, to use the vernaeular
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

Advertising cannot do all the work of
selling, but it can do major part of the
job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-25

An exchange observes that a fellow
all wrapped up in himself doesn't make
much of a package.