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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today AZ Taken
From The Files Of The Citizen

MIR. and Mrs. Frank ]. Hart, of
st. Louis, Mo-, are spending
few days very pleasantly in Key
West, and say they like it very
much. I'VE think the hospitality
of your people is wonderful,
they said to The Citizen. The
visitors are returning, from a trip
to Cuba, having driven in as far
as Key West and taking the p
and O. boat for Havana. They
desired. to make the trip by road
as they wanted to see the high
way and take the ride on the,
ferries. I'VE had expected to
leave the next morning after our
return from Cuba, said MIR. Hart,
'but were so pleased with Key
West we decided to spend several
days in this city, and we are not
one bit sorry or disappointed in
the least, as we have seen much
to marvel at and have met so
many delightful people. They
gave the assurance to The Citizen
they would be sure to return next
season.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

hatcheries II operation = rs
city and = thirI VII - opezS,s5
by the U. s. Bureau o. Fisne-5ez
Dr.. Hodges pre6lcls thai ne
three plants VII turn out 1.58o.-
600 each and every dsy durzuE
the period Of operation d. a
G. Adams. VINO vas - cnzree
OF the hatchery here last $3.50
viii return 10 again take - ne
work this year he VII De- As
sisted by Hamilton Adams C
this city. The one plant a. Key
West last year turned cut S8-o0o--
900 baby craWflSh during 1he
season, according 70 ofIczzl r.
ports. DR.. Hodges said Nkile lr
the city recently they shuEld BE-
large enough 70 be eaten 1hs
year
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

Miss Elizabeth Curry, daughter
of Mayor and Mrs. Leslie A.
Curry, will wed Ralph Sanders
this afternoon $50 o'clock in the
First Methodist church. The cou-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

81 would be very glad to have
years subscription to The Citi-
zen", writes Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, congressman from this dis
trict, "as 1 am very anxious to
keep in touch with the friends I
have there and want to deserve
the confidence the people of that
city have placed in me. I have
spent the last six weeks in Wash
ington making preparations for
the session which has just begun,
and 1 am very glad to have been
able to do this as 1 have learned
many things and have met most
of the legislators with whom ! am
to be associated and the heads of
numerous departments. I like
the offices which have been as
signed to me and Mrs. Hill, sec
rotary whom I brought with me
from Florida. has faniliarized
herself with all the details of the
work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan lzoningl.
3. Hotels and Apartments
4. Bathing Pavilion.
dd5sdAirports-Land and Sea.
-ios6y coConsolidation of County and City
. HUiiof sdt -
"a ST. Governments. e
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

One of the most humane of men is the
fellow who is just pulling out of q parking
spaee when you want to pull in-that's
The consensus of motorists.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

:. "Key West is filming autoists who blow
their horns too noisily." -Jacksonyill
Tribune. That's right, and a warning to
others inclined to make nuisance of them
selves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24
By KENNETH FRIEDMAN

tonight at the Parish Hall on Ba-
hama street. Ida Fay Curry and
Roland Heaton will render num-
bers- By special request Virgil
Cordero will sing Sonny Boy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

The large party q newspape-
people. consisting CT TIE pres
associations Of North and Sou1h
Carolina. which passed 1hruueh
this city Friday on the stezUer
enro1te 70 Havana refLrued lzs1
night and prOceedea % Tsmpa-
This is the third annual tour q
the Carolinians Last year theT
visited New York They had .
wonderful time II Earana- they
said. and IL was agreed tai
every member Of the party en-
loved themselves 3 II Peace
owner of one Of the larger
groups Of newspapers. IS pres
dent Of the ASSOCIATION. and
agreed with the other menhers
of the association that the Cuha
trip was one Of the most inter
esting they have ever takel- and
that members Of the Association
are amply repaid fur Their trIp-
Editorial Comment REparls
submitted by the grand jury 81
circuit court shows where the
county rs al" financially bat MT
where il viii be II things keep
on. as they have been
The Citizen is publishing m
this issue the fun text Of the
ordinance granting 20 DR. J. :
Merrill and associates a charteT
for the construction and 0pera-
ton Of a salt water disnllInE
plant and distribution system -
afford a fresh water supply for
the City of KEY West II appearT
in the form Of a legal notice and
is expected TO be read with car
and analysis by those interested
in the local wafer situation 81 re
present time
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

The Sock Social given n tn
Parish Hall last night Was a
Grand success and was SO pro
nOunced by the large number q
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

We are all willing to listen to reason
only we dish out the wisdom.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

A decathlon consists of ten athletic
events, such as undressing in an upper
berth
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

- A Key West chap says you can tell
woman dead secret" and it won't be
long before there will be life in it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

The water ordinance recently
passed by the City Council will
be published in The Citizen to-
morrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

Idleness is so unnatural to man that
the rich often adopt as sport and fun what
to the poor man is toll
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

T. One sign of civilization is a lack of
interest in scandalous stories, remember
that, you scandal-mongers
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

Editorial Comment: A journal
ist is an alleged newspaperman
who carries a cane and borrows
money from reporters who are
real newspapermen. is the way
one reporter puts it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

pie will make their home in Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

There is many politician who should
not serve all his terms in public office.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

Noel Cook viii be the organist
for the social, which win be held
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

There was a scene of activity
on Bahama street this morning
that attracted much attention A
crowd of women, young ladies
and children were busily en-
gagged in tearing down a fence in
front of three little homes. prun-
ing the trees and thoroughly rem
ovating the premises. Many peo-
pie have remarked on the i'm
proved appearance of the street.
The ladies of the First Metho-
dist church have arranged for a
novel social event at the church
grounds to be given one week
from tonight It viii be what is
termed an orange social Each
person win bring an orange and
the number Of seeds each orange
contains win play an important
part in the program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Chesapeake Bay Retriever

Natural History says: 1.-THE gen.
orally accepted theory as to the
origin of the Chesapeake bay re-
triever is that he is descended from
two dogs from Newfoundland res
cued with the crew of an English
brig, wrecked off the Maryland coast.
The American ship Canton made the
rescue in 1907 and landed the Eng
fish crew and the dogs on the shores
of the Chesapeake bay. The dogs
were given to two gentlemen of that
region in return for kindnesses to
the crew. The two dogs, a male
and a female, named Sailor and
Canton, made such a great repu-
tation as water dogs and duck re-
trievers that they were mated with
nondescript dogs of the neighbor-
hood, which were used for the same
work"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
ouaaItagh, Old British Festival

Quaaltagh is seldom heard of in
England, but is one of the oldest
English festivals. 1t is observed in
parts of the Isle of Man, where
customs similar to "first-shooting"
in Scotland are kept up. Men go
from house to house singing special
festival songs and are invited in
for a bite and a drink. Always,
dark men 60 first. But there are
one or two customs in connection
with Quaaltagh which are observed
nowhere else. Before midnight the
floor of the kitchen is swept, always
starting at the door and sweeping
to the hearth, otherwise good luck
will be swept out. Before retiring,
the ashes are taken from the fire
and smoothed over the hearth with
a pair of tongs, and in the morning
the housewife looks eagerly at the
ashes for tracks of human foot.
If there is one and the toes point
to the door, it means death for one
in the house; if the footprint is
reversed, it means the birth of a
child.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
TREE PLANTING ON FARMS HAS
DOUBLED

Maryland has distributed nearly
100000 forest trees throughout the
state since 1895 under the Clarke
McNary Law, passed in 1924, which
provides for allotment of federal
funds to states matching such APP
preparations for carrying on fire pre-
lection work in forests and for furn-
ishing forest seedlings for planting
on farms.
According to G.. r. Winslow, spec
ialst in forestry for the University
of Maryland Extension Service, the
seedlings planted in this state COW
err approximately EOS acres of land
and those planted in 1898 averaged
80 percent survival.
According to recent report,
farmers throughout the nation have
more than doubled their tree plant
ing activities since 1895. A total
of 55,359,728 trees were distributed
last year which was more than dou-
BILE the 26,150,197 trees distribut-
ed four years ago. The young trees
are seedlings and transplants which
farmers can plant at the rate of 500
to 1000 per day.
According to the law, the tree
distribution Is made by the State
forestry agencies, and the trees are
used only for forest paintings on
farms. Expenditure by the federal
government during last year In this
program was $75,286.33, while the
states spent $306,910.33 on the CO.
operative project. States distribut-
ed the trees at cost or less In order
to encourage farm forestry. The
states spent an additional $685.
1925 on outside projects with
free distribution lof trees for plant
ing by community forests, All
Clubs, schools and similar organiza-
lions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Boneless Fish Caught;
Scientists Are Amazed

EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA.
"A fish caught 40 fathoms beneath
the sea here should have been dead
100000 years ago.
1t belonged to the species Cros-
sopterygii, which scientists had be-
lieved extinct.
Of brilliant steel-blue color, the
fish was 5 feet long and weighed 127
pounds. 1t had no bones, but a car
tilage-a hard but plant substance
and its fins and scales were of
the primitive type.
Apparently it's ancestors were
common 10O,0O0,000 years ago-the
golden age for the Crossopterygii.
But what one of the species is doing
alive today is a riddle for the scien-
fists to solve.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
NATIONAL DAIRY MONTH

During the last week or SO, you've
probably seen good many signs
in stores urging you to use milk
and dairy products. Also you've
probably seen newspaper ADVERTISE
ments and heard radio programs
giving you the same advice.
There's a good reason for that.
This month of June is National
Dairy Month.
The chain stores started this
drive at the request of the dairy
farmers of the country Milk pro-
duction is at it's peak. Normal de-
mand is not large enough to absorb
it. AS result, unless consumer de-
mand is materially increased, there
will be serious SURPRISES. This
would result in forced-sale prices,
often below cost of production,
which in turn would mean reduc-
ton in farm income-and a cut in
farm purchasing power which would
adversely affect all industry, and
urban as we'll as rural population.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Physicians Oath Is One
Of Great Many Promises

The Physicians Oath by Hippoc-
rates is as follows:
II swear by Apollo Physician, by
Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea,
and by all the gods and goddesses,
making them my witnesses, that /
will carry out, according to my abil-
ity and judgment. this oath and this
indenture. To hold my teacher in
this art equal to my own parents;
to make him partner in my liveli-
hood; when he is in need of money
to share mine with him; to consid-
err his family as my own brothers,
and to teach them this art, If they.
want to learn it, without fee or in
denture. I will use treatment to
help the sick according to my abil-
ity and judgment, but never with
view to injury and wrong doing. I
will keep pure and holy both my
life and my art. In whatsoever
houses ! enter, l will enter to help
the sick, and l will abstain from all
Intentional wrong doing and harm.
And whatsoever ] shall see or hear
in the course of my profession in
my intercourse with men, if it be
what should not be published
abroad, l will never divulge, hold
ing such things to be holy secrets.
Now if ] carry out this oath, and
break it not, may gain forever
reputation among all men for my
life and for my art; but if / trans
gress it and forswear myself, may
the opposite befall me-"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
There has been praiseworthy

There has been a praiseworthy
increase of interest in spring and
summer community cleanup cam
paigns, which are designed TO
beautify our towns and cities, raise
the values of both business and resi-
Dental, and reduce the hazards oil
that dread destroyer, fire.
A cleanup campaign doesn't IN
yolve any great expense or expend-
iture of time. 1t does involve max
ing repairs to houses and buildings,
painting structures where needed,
razing fire-traps If any exist, keep
ing grass and weeds cut short on
empty lots and fields, etc. In many
a case, an intensive week or so OF
work of this sort, once real public
interest is aroused, will eliminate
literally thousands of fire hazards,
large and small.
Further, these campaigns arouse
pride in the community, and cause
many lasting resolution by citl-
zens, to always keep their property
in good order and appearance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
THE ECONOMY DRIVE

There is now every indication that
the recent economy drive in con-
gress was made of the same stuff OF
which all economy drives in recent
years have been made-ballyhoo and
buck passing.
This is a paradoxical situation.
On the surface, as recorded by
numerous polls and speeches, the
public is all for economy. But public
office holders, quick to accept the
views of public opinion, are ex-
tremely reluctant to do more than
talk about it. They know that de-
mands for economy are only Skin
deep" as far as the public is con-
cerned. Their constituents back
home, polls and speeches notwith-
standing, still demand free money
for this or that worthy civic pro-
ject." Economy is all right they say,
in effect, so long as the fellow in
the next state or the next county
bears the brunt of it.
The next time you are tempted
to curse the politicians in Washing
ton for not pulling the drawstrings
on the public purse, just remember
this: The average public official
won't buck public opinion. There
fore, until the public honestly de-
mands economy and all of us are
ready to grin and bear the resultant
pinch, the country will have no
economy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Poise in All Things, at
All Times, ls Important

Lord Northcliffe, the famous Brit
ish newspaper publisher, began to
earn his living before he was 20, and
by the time he was 80 he was mil
lionaire and the foremost newspa-
per publisher in England. Yet he
regretted all his life that he had not
gone to college, relates q writer in
The Neighbor Magazine.
One day he explained this COM
pick to Tom Clarke, author of My
Northcliffe Diary. II have all the
money and all the social position I
want" said Northcliffe. Social po-
sition is nothing TO me, and never
was. Titles don't appeal to me. You
are young man; don't worry about
those things. The important thing
is poise. How a man handles stu
alton is a much more important
thing than the situation itself. Poise
in all things and at all times--so
few man have it.
II have suffered from my disabil-
ity throughout my career. You cam
not know how much. / suffer from
the fact that l was not at Oxford. l
can never outlive it.
"You have a son? Send him to
good college-to the best college.
Not necessarily for three years or
more. That may be too long. One
year may be enough. 1t is a great
asset. 1t means lot to man. 1t
gives him in his impressionable
years the foundation of poise among
his fellow-creatures, which can be
got nowhere else"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Tandem Used for Towing
BICYCLES to Repair Shop

STONINGTON, CONN.-Henry M.
Bessette, II years old, who can show
a profit from his bicycle repair bust
ness, operates what he believes the
only bicycle wrecker."
When Bessette receives an "ac-
cident" call, he pedals to the scene
on tandem, from the rear of which
protrudes a stick rising at a As
degree angle. A length of rope
bangles from the end of the stick.
This he wraps around the handle
bars of the disabled bike, which is
towed away to the repair shop in
the same manner as crippled auto
mobile.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23

tive Association, and has been ac-
tive in. the work of the Association
for years. A lawyer, he assisted in
the drafting of the new legislative
measure. The two members from
Western Maryland, Messres. Gam
brill and Smith, are well-known
sportsmen, the latter of the two
maintaining his own smhll-game
refuge near Cumberland.
Voters Must Decide
The baby of the Commission,
Mr.. Beck, who is "a, has been an
ardent enthusiast of hunting, espec-
tally ducking, for several years, and
is active in the affairs of the Kent
County Outdoor Life Association:
In the meantime, the "old" Con-
servat ton Commission, which will
continue to supervise tidewater at
fairs until the voters have chance
to say ives" or mo" with regard to-
the newly created Fisheries Com
mission, lacking a minority MEM
Der, whom Governor O'Conor will
announce shortly.
The three men named by the Gov
ernor, to hold Office presumably I'M
til the Fisheries Commission began
to funtion, were Edwin Warfield,
Chairman, Robert Harrison and Mr..
Labrot, all Democrats. Mr.. Labrot
resigned to make room for the
Of a minority member.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23

A short time ago President Green
of the American Federation OF
Labor, requested that Congress
amend the Wagner Labor Relations
Act at this session. Failure to do
that, he added, might mean "ob-
liberation of the act in 1910"
In other words, if the wagner
Act isn't soon amended to correct
its abuses and weaknesses, dis
gusted people will see to it that II
is voted into oblivion. And II that
happens, the good portions OF the
act, which properly protect the
worker in his rights, will go, as
well as those bad portions which
encourage labor racketeering.
There Wagner Act has been tried,
and found wanting. The best friends
labor has, call for its revision.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23
Shock Clears
Mind of Insane
New Method Effects Cures
AS Patients Re-enact
Their Deliriums.

BEACON, N. Y.-The "lost world"
in which the insane dwell is no long,
err a mystery.
1t is brought into full view by a
new "shock" treatment which hits
the emotions only, and is announced
in Sociometry, journal of imper-
sonal relations. This new kind OF
shock is curing insanity.
Furthermore, for probably the
first time in mental records, the
emotional shock enables the insane
to reproduce at will, detail by detail,
the fantastic appearance of the real
world as it looks to insane eyes.
The shock is induced If mental
patients re-enact, in lucid moments,
the experiences of their delirium.
These sensations have been one of
the closed doors of insanity, truly
forgotten from the very moment OF
recovery.
Akin to Sugar Shock.
The ideas that led to penetration
of this barrier came partly from a
study of another form of shock for
the insane, the so-called sugar shock
and camphor shock, the former
caused by excessive doses of insu-
lin, the latter by form of camphor
known as metraZol.
About four years ago DR.. Manfred
Sakel, young Viennese physician,
astonished the medical world by CIV
ing mental patients overdoses of in
sulin Insulin has no known connec-
ton with insanity. But If DR.. Sakel
continued the insulin until the in
sane were in a coma and near death
many woke up with clearing minds.
The clearing was not instantane-
Gus, but was rapid. This was tested
all over the world. A few lives were
lost, but many mental hospitals
adopted the sugar shock treatment.
Later followed camphor shock, with
similar good results.
Become Actors
But the shock patients did not
always stay cured. Psychiatrists
found it was a great help if the re-
stored person could be made to I'm
derstand exactly what had been
wrong in his mind, what the fan
tastes had been.
Not clue to this state was avail
able from shock treatment itself.
DR.. J. l.. Moreno, nationally known
psychiatrist, who maintains q PR.
vate theater for spontaneous dra-
matte productions by mental pa
+iantc raaconed nni1der avnnfinn-
al shock might help clear dlsor-
dered mind.
At the same time, as the patient
would remain fully conscious, the
physician might get the much sought
clues to the nature of the decisions.
It would be an emotional shock,
he knew, for a person temporarily
lucid to 60 to the stage and try to
re-enact what he had been doing
and thinking while tout of his
mind" Mental patients have an
aversion to this.
These persons were not, however
requested to act. For at first they
had no recollection of what they
had thought. But they were asked
to put their bodies in the positions
as during the insane attacks. Men,
cries then began to return.
''The first acts" DR.. Moreno says,
"were of usually short duration.
Gradually the patient got control OF
roles he played during an insane
attack"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23

A special maple strip and sugar
survey indicates that the same num-
Der of trees were tapped this year
in Maryland as in 1898, although
there was slight drop in the quaint
ity of strip taken. According to
Maryland Crop Reporting Service
this year $4,000 trees were tapped,
and $4,000 gallons of strip and 10,-
600 pounds of sugar were made.
Last year $4,000 gallons of siruo
and 10000 pounds of sugar were
produced.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23

Miss Jessie Hinton. specialist in
home management for the Univer-
sity of Maryland Extension Service
points out that the ideal closet has
both a window and artificial light.
A coat of light-colored, washable
paint on both shelves and walls
makes the closet lighter and easier
TO clean.