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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
NO FAIR PUBLICITY

1t has been reported to the Monroe
County Commission that Key West is be-
ing given little or no publicity at the New
York Worlds Fair. This despite the fact
the city and county joined last year in
guaranteeing payment of 10 cents per
capita for spot on the Florida diorama.
Naturally the county commission wants to
know why Key West is not given break
in the exhibits advertising the state of
Florida. Letters will be forwarded to the
promoters Of the plan under which all of
the 81 counties of the state were to be
publicized.
Practically no comment by The Citizen
is needed to point the moral in this sad
situation. The fact Key West got the
worst of publicity or advertising ar
rangement is nothing new. There have
been many similar instances in the past
Our public officials are too easily per-
suaded in the expenditure of public funds
for publicity purposes. Amy glib talker
with financial scheme, any shapely and
appealing woman with sure-fire plan
for projecting Key West into the spotlight
or any high-pressure advertising racketeer
with an attractive, though phony, pub
LEFTY program seems to be. able to get
some Of our tax dollars and transfer them
into their own pockets. Every tinhorn
promoter in the state'is just waiting until
our municipal and county treasures fill up
again to make further raids for their own
benefit
The Citizen believes our public Of
ficials should wake up to the fact they are
being hoodwinked by such propositions.
Let's make the matter of buying advertis-
ing space, paying for publicity and pro-
motion and appropriating money for air
planes in aerocades and similar schemes
serious business. Other cities do not spend
their money haphazardly for publicity and
other advertising media. They handle
such matters in businesslike way, thus
protecting the taxpayers money and in
surfing results when they do decide to
spend money for such purposes.
The Citizen again suggests the ap-
pointment of a small non-partisan COM
mittee of newspapermen and publicity ex-
perts to investigate every proposal for the
expenditure of public money for advertis-
ing and to report back to the city council
or the county commission before any final
action is taken on any plan advanced along
this line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

A correspondent in Miami paper is
hot after Boake Carter and wants him de-
ported, as a renegade Englishman. Mr..
Carter, now a guest on Cooks Island near
Key West, is an American citizen and as
to get rid of a man who is opening our
eyes to the Vaccinations of 'perfidious
Albion?" He gives us facts, and facts
have habit of not being pleasant al
ways.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Several guava trees will be among the
$50 commercial varieties of trees and
plants shown in Florida's exhibit at the
New York Worlds Fair. Guava jelly has
been popular in the north for some time,
and visitors are always interested in see
ing this mimosaceous tree of West Indian
origin, and indigenous to Florida SOIL
The good cid days were when indus
trial firms hit the front pages because of
large dividends rather than because of pay
ing heavy taxes. For instance, the United
States Steel corporation went into the hole
last year for mere than $1,000, 900. chiefly
because its taxes were more than $780,
100000. That leaves nothing for the in
weston and nothing for expansion and de-
velopment of the industry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
FLORIDlANS PAID $24,7OO,0O0
in LIFE INSURANCE MONEY

Corral Wodiska & Co., cigar
manufacturers; James E. John
son, Tampa, president, Johnson
Distributing Company, radios;
Claibourne M. Phipps, Tampa, at
torney; Jesse M. Tompsett,
Tampa; Thurston E. Rupp, West
Palm Beach, building constructor.
Life insurance payments in
Florida in 1888 equaled 81 per-
cent of the $66,258,O00 total saw
ings bank deposits in the state
last year. Life insurance pay
ments last year equalled 70 per-
cent of the $35,226,829 total as
sets of building and loan associa-
tons in Florida. The states I'M
employment insurance fund of
$7,053,527 at the end of the fis-
cal year in 1888 was only. % per-
cent of the life insurance : pay
ments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
Life begins at 40-at least that was
about the age when Hitler got his start.

In the year 1860 there appeared let
ter in an English newspaper titled, "The
Loud Call to England reading. in part,
1.-THE country today as well as the town
abounds with vanity; sin now appears with
brazen face. That wicked spirit among
men, that formerly was curbed and re-
strained, doth now audaciously and inn
pudently show itself with Boosting and
gloriatioR. :" It was ever thus.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Just few days ago the weather was
so cold up north that several baseball
May, while apparently a mercenary
slogan is also a precautionary measure.
The market value of an ounce of preven-
ton is still worth pound of cure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Hitler is adopting the same technique
against Poland that he adopted against
Czechoslovakia Germans are being
abused in the Danzig region and must
have the protection of the Fatherland; of
course nothing but invasion of the terri
tory and its absorption will suffice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

P. E. B. in the Tampa Tribune says
that Miami negroes, upon being threaten
ed, only turned out and voted in larger
numbers than usual. He suggests that it
might be good thing for democracy if
somebody would threaten the white folks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments.
T. Bathing Pavilion.
s. -Airports-Land and Sea.
g. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

The paragrapher of the Times Union
has disprOved convincingly the time-worn
fallaey that figures don't lie. They do, he
says, in the sun on the Florida beaches.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files Of The Citizen

Ninety-one persons were killed
in an explosion at the Cleveland
clinic hospital today, according to
kilograms received at The Citizen
office. The victims included pa
tients, nurses and doctors. More
than 100 persons were in the hos
pital when two explosions &C.
CURED in the X-ray room. Fire
broke out Immediately after the
explosions. There were no pa
tients on the first floor. Those
trapped On the second floor seem
ed to be stunned and unable to
escape from the trap when those
exposed to the fumes were taken
out Their faces and hands were
discolored by gas. Firernen from
a dozen companies, police and
passengers fought the flames and
attempted to rescue those still
trapped in the building. The
dead and dying were rushed to
hospitals and some laid on the
ground rear the hospital. Sew
eral doctors, and nurses and. pa
tients were trapped on the roof.
The firemen made desperate eff
forts to save them but it was be-
lieved to be a hopeless task. Pc
destrians for a block around were
affected by the gas. There were
insufficient ambulances to carry
the victims to the hospitals, which
were overfilled. The building
was a mass of flames when the
explosion was over. X-ray films
and several tanks of oxygen ex4
ploded intensifyingi the flames.
-
Caps and gowns were a di7tin-
gushing feature of the gradual
ing exercises of the Convent OF
Mary Immaculate last night at
the San Carlos theater. Twelve
young girls with all the sweet
ness which characterizes the
sweet girl graduate. acquitted
themselves in the numbers of the
program with the dignity that
DISTINGUISHES the Convent train
ed girl wherever she is met.
Editorial Comment: If you
don't think the population of Key
West is increasing. ask Miss Min
ME Porter Harris, local statistic
ian for State Board of Health.
There were 83 more births than
deaths in 1923.
Charles Toole. chief of the Vero
Beach Fire Department, is visi-
tor in Key West, and makes the
statement that every Key West
automobile which rolls into the
Beach is greeted cordially by the
Beach people and the passengers
are asked if anything can be
done, which may add to the
pleasure of their visit. Mr..
Toole saws the fast friendship be-
tween this f1ourishing city and
the people of his district is gen.
uine and thoroughly sincere.
Mrs. Horace B. Gould left this
morning for the beside of her
mother, Mrs. Dora Roberts, who
was injured in an automobile ac-
cident while enroute to Miami
yesterday.
CL;of p,1,l, p;n5ar rf A. r.,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
BY KENNETH FRIEDMAN

Every Gay Ill 1900 lie lIiSul dIlCG
policy holders and beneficiaries
in Florida were paid SGT, 1911, or a
total of $24, 100000 for the year,
according to a special compila-
ton by The National Underwrit-
er, weekly insurance newspaper.
This huge sum represents an
increase of 100000, or pa per-
cent over the 1887 total of $24,-
100000 The. 1886 total was $22,-
800, 900.
Florida ranked Goth in life in
surance payments among all
states, while it is 31st in size of
population. The per capita pay
ment in 1888 was $15.04, COM
pared to $14.67 the year before.
Miami Leads Cities
Miami led Florida cities in life
insurance payments in 1888 with
$2,315,000 compared to $2,196,000
in 1887. Miami ranked 61st
among all cities in the country.
Jacksonville was second in pay
ments in Florida with $2,115,000
in 1888 and $2,196,000 in 1887.
Miami Beach came third with
S1,845,000.
Other cities followed in this or
der: Tampa, $1.200,O00; st. Pc
tersburg, $4,000; Dayton a
Beach. $596,000; Orlando, $780,
600; Pensacola. S415,0o0; Lake
land, $344, 900; West Palm Beach,
$4,000; Sara sofa, 1928, 900;
Gainesville. $236.000: Tallahassee.
1882, 600; Quincy, $255. 600; Lake
City, $184,0OO.
Pawmenfs On Prominent People
Prominent people in Florida
maturing life insurance policies
last year through death or en-
dowment, are: ~
Walterl E. Knight, Bunnell,
farther; Joseph E. B. Gaudet,
Daytona Beach. general insur-
ance and agent, jefferson Stand
ard Life; Edward H. Armstrong.
Daytona Beach,, mayor; Dr.
James G.. Baskin. Dunnellon;
William J. Howey, Howe-in-the-
Hills; James B. Hodges, Lake
City, chairman, Florida State
Democratic Executive Commit
tee; David kugerman, Miami
Beach. wholesale grocer; Henry
Levy. Miami Beach. president,
Normandy Beach Development
Company; Herman Silverstein.
Miami Beach. proprietor. stove
company; Alfred ]. Sweet, Miami
Beach, investor; Edward Romfh.
banker, Miami; William P. West,
Pompano, proprietor. Hammond
Development Co.; Eugene NJ.
Collins. Quincy, tobacco dealer;
Proctor K. Smiley. ST. Petersburg,
president. Home Service Laun-
dry; John w. Gibson, Sneads.
naval stores ccerator and farmer:
Manuel Corral, Tampa, president,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

As was expected, squawks are being
emitted from the tax dodgers, of course,
concerning the break Senator Hodges has
in store for the honest taxpayer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Eleanor Roosevelt says in her column
that she always enjoys an opportunity to
see a little" baby. Why the designations
aren't all babies 'little?"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
D ALLY QUIZ
Can YOU Answer seven of these
Test Questions? Turn TO
Pace 4 for the Answers

/. Is the sun a star?
2. Name the tallest of all man,
mas! 81 qot g.
3. What is a cenotaph?
4. With what sport is the name
of Paul kufyan associat-
ed?
5. Who is Sir Roger Roland
Charles Backhouse?
6. How long is decade?
z. What is the correct pronun-
citation of the word dip
Iona?
8. Name the highest mountain
in the world, computed
from sea level.
8. What are pelagic animals?
10. What does nom-de-plume
mean?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Take a vacation this summer whether
you can afford it or not; it won't make any
difference to us-you don't owe us.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

No child labor law will keep the kids
from working their parents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

A daughter was born recently
to Mr.. and Mrs. w. v. Albury in
their home in Key West The
little one win be given the name
Geraldin May. Mr.. Albury. who
is the representative for Monroe
county at the state Legislature,
was congratulated by that body
when he made the announcement
in Tallahassee following word re-
ceived from Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

SIGNS-"For Rent, Rooms For
Rent, Apartment For Rent,
Private Property, No Tres
passing, 15c each. THE ART
MAN PRESS. nov25-tf
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ROOMS

NEW VALDEZ INN, 521 United.
Sixteen beautiful new rooms.
Across South Beach. Phone
9l35. feb23-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

FOR SALE lots, each 50x100.
Run from Washington to Won
Phister street. $1,000. Apply
rear 1917 Petronia street.
apr14-s
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HOTELS

BRING YOUR VISITING friends
in need of a good nights rest to
OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clean
rooms, innerspring mattresses
Under new management. GIT
Fleming Street. nov18-t1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Chief Ralph Pinder, of the Key
West Fire Department, was yes
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

TYPEWRITING PAPER - 500
sheets, 75c. The Artman Press.
may19-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

CENTRAL HOTEL-Home of the
largest and most comfortable
rooms IN town. Special Sum
mer Weekly Rates now in eff
feet. All new furnishings. Cor
ner Southland and Duval streets.
apr7-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

Mrs. Horace B. Gould left this
morning for the beside of her
mother, Mrs. Dora Roberts, who
was injured in an automobile ac-'
cident while enroute to Miami
yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
FOR SALE

OUT ENTIRE STOCK
FURNITURE of late Benjamin
Tynes Furniture Store. All
Stock selling below cost. Every
thing must go. Open between
/ and p. m. daily. Corner
Olivia and Windsor Lane.
mayl51wk
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

BARGAIN-20 Lots on. Stock Is
land, $4,000. Brokers protect
ed. Apply "R", The Citizen.
may15- knox
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15

terday called to Homestead by
Mrs. Pinder, who sustained slight
injuries in an automobile acct
dent yesterday. but was reported
not to be in any danger.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-15
FOR RENT

FURNISHED GARAGE APART
MENT. Electric Stove and Re-
frigerator. Also, unfinished
apartment. 1902 South st.
may8-tf
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BOATS FOB SALE

CABIN CRUISER, 26', steel, good
condition, fine fishing boat,
5000 for quick sale. ]. L. Alley,
Tavernier, Florida. may9-7tx
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SECOND SHEETS-500 for SOC
The Artman Press. nov19-tf
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Editorial Comment: If you
don't think the population of Key
West is increasing. ask Miss Min
ME Porter Harris, local statistic
ian for State Board of Health.
There were SO more births than
deaths in 1923.
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The following pr0posee - 81
the Legislature sal - preseuf-
ed and incroduced n ne LeEs-
lature more thar larry 1zFs
after fhe cate of ms pUsiiczasn-
An Act providing Tor Gha
tIrement q employees ara go
Gals Of the City Of Key WsEL
and providing for the psynen1 81
. monthly coupensaf1un at<er
such retiremenf ProvIdlnE tasr
al such employees or u-tfclzls
VINO have had twenty OF -EE0re
years active and contInu0E %rv-
ice may retire and bec0me. N
active with a fry per cent
monthly salary. also members OF
officials VINO have had EfteeH or
more years active and cuntinLo1s
service may retire and -bSoome
inactive with q monthly salary
Of forty per cent Provided l1zr
all such employees OF OftlclziS
who have had fifteen or more
years Of active buf not co11inuo1s
service may retire and becc-e
inactive with q monthly Salzry
Of twenty-five per cent PROVIDED
that ali such employees OF o.
ficialS who have had ten years
active and continuous service
may retire and become inactive
shall receive twenty-five PEI ce1t
monthly salary PrOVi6Ing that
this salary SAD be pad Out q
the General Revenue Flzpd- Pro
vided that this Act snail nsl AZ
ply 20 employees OF officials Ez1o
are now receiving penSiG1 q
compensation Provides rEat me
above benefits snail apply -
widows Of persons affected here-
by after the death Of such per
sons affected and until the death
of said widows
The substance Of which Is 70
provide pensions for employees
Of the City Of key West and for
the widows Of such pensionee
persons after Their death ara
until the death q sad Eldoz.z-
HARRY NJ BAKER
Chief Fire Dept Key West E1ur-
ida aPrI2Has
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Temple dolls. A herd of small boys
followed him and Zeb wistfully
from booth to booth.
Nothing left but the glass blow
err" Zeb said, "and would you
really want glass pen after you
got it? And / wouldn't go back to
that shooting gallery until / gave
the lad twenty bucks for some new
gadgetS. The bells busted. too.
And look, I take hack all my pooh
pools. II you carry on in other
fields as you have here, then you're
all they say you are. Wha-
"a nice doll" Asey said, "for
nice sentiment. Play with II when
the bean business is dull We amt
been on the ferris wheel yet. Zeh.
Come"
The siren on the nearby fire.
house broke through the midway
noises.
Two purple lights" Zeb said.
that means out toward the beach.
Come along in my car. That's right.
Two long and two short. That's the
beach. And bells that means
woods, not a house
Asey dumped his trophies on the
ground and ran after. Zeb. and the
children painted after him.
Hey, you left your thingsl
You"
/. sKeepsem." Asey swung onto
the running board.
Zeb laughed as they sped along.
What a problem, he said,
plumber. or the ire?" They'll 60
mad"
He drove too far on the beach
road, and by the time they found
the brush fire it was practically
out. Zeb raced of with a broom,
but Asey sauntered over to Slade.
who was nursing a burned hand.
"Slade, ! met you once.
"Hullo, Mayo. Darn these tour
lists, whyn't they take some care of
their filthy fires? Seen Aunt
Sara7"
Asey pointed to his badges.
'sYup, an see what it done. I feel
like the Women's Club Parlor.
Slade, ! want to chat with you.
II want to see you, too. But right
now I've got to get this hand fixed,
and then move my junk. from my
studio. II someone hadn't spotted
this, the studied have gone up in
flames. It was headed for II. How's
for tomorrow morning?"
"At Sara's." Asey turned away
abruptly as ne saw Weston, with
Philbriek and Trip. approaching.
Continued tomorrow.
fcopsri0ht. 1881
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WEATHER FORECAST

Gill 7:30 p. m. Thursday
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Thursday; lit
tie change in temperature: mod
crate winds, mostly easterly.
Florida: Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday; cooler in north
and west-central portions tonight.
Jacksonville TO Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate north
and northeast winds. except most
ly eaSterly over extreme south
portion, and partly overcast wea-
Their tonight and Thursday.
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Chapter Five
The Midway

a FTER dinner, young Zeb Chase
"A suggested a trip 10 town. Sara
threw up her hands in horror at
the thought.
Jeff and I. are going to bed
early" she. announced, land. get
some rest. We've purposely not in
vited any company for. the week,
and we've begged out of a lot of
events-old age is such a lovely
excuse for not doing what you
don't want to do anyway - but
there is still a lot to tire us. You
go with Zeb. Asey. and see if the
midway's the gyp think it's going
to be-" =
Midway" Asey said. But l
didn't know that anything started
till tomorrow"
s "It's a preliminary" Zeb in
formed him. ITO see if things
work, and to give the local boys
and girls a chance to see things
first. We've got ferris Wheel and
a Shooting gallery, and a place
where you toss rings over electric
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OLD HOME WEEK MURDER
BY Phoebe Atwood Taylor


81 called up Sara, and she says
you're staying there. Look, here's
your visitors badge, and your po-
lice badge, and here's badge Lane
of the state police sent along with
his compliments when he heard
you were going to be here. Put'em
on"
Asey surveyed them with dis
taste. "All? All three?"
Weston pinned them on. There.
Now, want you to meet General
Philbrick. He says he always
.wantedto ask you about the Blight
case, and Vincent Trip wants you
on three programs, So
Gee, look therei" Asey said.
Weston wheeled around to look
at the street. When he turned to
ask Asey what he meant, Asey and
Zeb were gone.
Ten minutes later Zeb called
Asey, hidden in behind one Of the
carnival trucks.
"You can. come out. He and Phil
brick and Trip have all driven
away. / think you'd be peachy on
the radio, -Asey. Whynt you do
what the nice man wants? May
be" He dncked. "Oh, If that's the
way you feel about il Come on,
let's see how good we are"
Plumber Or Fire?
WITHIN an hour, Asey knew the
w pitchmen by their first names,
and the whole town knew. that
Asey Mayo had won eighteen
blankets, ten boxes of candy,
hundred and seven cigars, four
clocks. and an even dozen Shirley
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viii be inserted in The Citizen al
the rate of one-cent tlcl,a word
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every instance is twenty five
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street address as well as their
telephone number if they desire
results.
Payment. for classified adver-
tisements is invariably in ad-
vance. but regular advertisers
with ledger accounts may have
their advertisements charged.
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GIVEN AWARD

MENOMINEE. Mich.-A Michi-
gan club which is sponsoring
courteous driving awarded Po-
liceman Anton Jensen 81 for ms
technique in backing away from
a parking place. A few hours
later he backed a police car into
a post and badly damaged IL
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-12

Baseball fans are not too pleas
ed with the rumor that the
Conch-Pirate championship Sc
lies will play the first game next
Sunday. I'VE disapprove of this
for the simple reason that most
fans cannot get to. the game be-
fore 2:30 O'Clock. and. after all,
the imbued spirit and enthus-
iasm is in the Key West-Buc
fracas because of league donors"
stated a group of followers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-12

Rogeho Gomez, who once
piloted the Pirates ball club and
won the city championship three
consecutive seasons about 10
years sseoT coming back as
manager of the BUGS and an
nounces that before taking the
reigns of the team he is going to
make a selection of the best
players from the Blue Sox and
Seafood Grill and Pirates to play
Il five-game series with Key West
Conchs. IF Mr.. Hamlin accepts
the. challenge ] will play him
winner take all'', says MIR. Go
meZ. -