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BREAKING HOME TIES By A. a CHAPIN K CoODBYe, Sow — . ANP Good luck • Your. Brothers WENT OFF TO *we CITY LAST YEAR. Aw'WE AlwY HEARD A WORD FROM 'EM Since — IT MlSHTY (VlfrH ’Broke Vouil mother's Q izxard ! j II GooV BY* ,TbLKS — Ttow'T cry and TWr worry f I'll Soon make my MARK, in the world — IN A SHORT TIME THE ?A»P*RS WILL BG FULL OF MY SREKIVIESS/ I WILL Be IN EVERY BoPYS MOUTH* And THEY will hash me up foil BAYS TO COME AS" A T"cfPlC OF Conversation — farewell!/ (-Hurry ur--\ W« u. I HR' -thaiw i y Vo*J-TA*OS (T fbok — polks who cct -nx> ALL-FIRCP CHESTr nrrr.u orr .l. ■ * OFTGn tfsr IT IN TV* NECK — THE GREAT amimham HOME. ( SAY, MAME, OX DN»T V ) YA fi* th* lining in ; A/W WINTER OVERCOAT L_^ yet? th* weather’s GeTTiN* SNAPPY AH* I DOM’r WANNA FREEZE. T* f _DEATH/ / \ | haven’t had the 1-" TIME, GEORGE- I’VE SPENT ALL DAY MAKING THIS BLANKET FOR OUR. fifi>she] NEEDS ONE SO BADLY / ^ ISN’T IT A DEAR? % WMV HUBBIES get peev/eo - ‘Gale Failed to Shake Miami?s Title of uMagic City"; i Recovery Held More Magical Than Original Growth fUS i Ifiaml magic is stm on the Jobl The tropical tornado that recent ept the Florida metropolis. i'-«u to strip it of Its right to re >oain the title of “The Magic City * Indeed. more magical than | Miami's original upbuilding, oy ■rrhich this title was won. Is the jwork of rehabilitation and recon •atrnctlon to which the city has set utself in the wake of the gale. Ever ^before fall contact with the outside world had been reestablished, and lwhile northern cities were still un aware of the magnitude of the dis taster. Miami was visioning for her self. out of her wreckage, a bigger land better future. This vision already is taking k*hape. under the leadership of such 'men as Frank B. Sbutts. publisher ytf the Miami Herald. Fred L. ;Weede/ind Lon Worth Crow of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor E. C. Romfh. The result ,i* that instead of merely planning t» replace and regain what she lost. ■Miami is moving definitely ahead [« a program destined to place her •^r ahead of the position she oe i-upied when the hurricane hit her. From a purely material view point. considering the city’s per manent development and progress. tthe hurricane may in fact orove lone of the best things that ever 'happened tc Miami. It weeded out. ;at one sweep, the tawdry, the ram shackle. the flimsfly-built structures that every city seeks to eliminate, pot with only indifferent success. Bat the best of the old Miami re* plained as a foundation on which 'to build. This included all the (larger hotels and the great major ity of well-constructed apartment s#*d business buildings, damage to which was largely superficial. The better-built homes, too, proved not 'to have been so seriouslv shaker ias at first reported, i With these as an object lesson tc gnfde reconstruction, the new JMiami. will be much less vulnerable !to possible future whims of nature I Aa a result of “Miami magic" [visitors to that city this winter (Will be unable to realize the mag nitude of the disaster that so re -rentlv seemed to have overwhelmed *ier The declaration by Mavor .•lomfh on the heels of the hurri jr-ane. that: “Miami this winter will be able to take care of as many .visitors as ft did last year, and as ■ f'nrrtfnrtablv and hapnilv" alreadv reems assured of fulfilment. As ex nrcesed br President Crow, of the Oiamber or Commerce.-Miami rec c .mi zed *hat her future depended A Glimpse of Downtown Miami, Which Stand* as a Guide and Inepiration to Those Directing the City's Reconstruction. I .on ner acuity to continue to serve the vacationists as usual'’ Best of ail however for Miami’s continued favor as a vacation re sort. is the assurance of the United States Weather Bureau that the citv is safe from anrulv weather during “the season” A study of hurricanes since 1887, made bv the weather bureau, re veals that "not one storm ef hur ncane intensity- nas visited the West indies ar Julf regions dor* ing the mor-' rom December t? May. incln?i rwo other montbai November » Jane, can be nrac* ticallv elim ..^ted," i It is against possible dangers in the other three months, bat for tfcd comfort end pleasure of visitor*} throughout all months, that magic" is now laboring. fwOOD CHOPPING NOW I RECREATION FOR RICH ; i J. L. (iuyon About to “Drive1 fTMHE niashie and brussie are rust- j X ing at Lake Geneva. Wts.. while j the sound of the broadax rings i through the land. Tree chopping has supplanted i golf In this colony of wealthy estate owners. The "game.” started by J , L». Guyon, has been developed to the fine points of a real contest. There is rivalry to determine who can split the most sticks of cord wood with the fewest strokes, who caD sink the ax deepest, who makes th» prettiest cuts. “Wood chopping requires even more skill than golf,” suys Guyon.j "If you don’t believe it, try it. Tb'-1 trick of striking the ax into tbr( wood at Just the microscopic angl'j that will slice out the largest po««i 1 ble segment of wood is just as d«V cate an operation as anything ye can do with a mashle or putter. "A man gets all wrapped up * an attempt to beat his last seo— < with the ax. We have rules, too We fix par at a certain number of strokes, depending upon the kind of wood and the thickness of \he log and the lucklefts one who can t ou» it fs ranked with the dubs." i* • PTTBLI SHED S • Autocastejb service REG. U.S.PAT. OFFICE to PAPA AinT Home rx>r he TolD mama Hfc WUZr comin ' right 'Back-/ /" Wal i’ll oust ( Hang aroond «n y \ WAIT_FER HIM/