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CORAL GABLES RIVIERA

AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, JANUARY 10, 1941 17TH YEAR NO. 48. PRICE FIVE CENTS

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CHANGE OF ELECTION DATE SLATED WILL INSTITUTE CHECK ON HEALTH OF DOMESTICS

POUR ET CONTRE by Jim Moore

Editor of the Riviera Ever since Gutenberg started fooling around with movable type, editors the world over have been wracking their brains to try to solve a puzzle that makes the Spinx and her riddle look like a piker. The perfect solution to the puzzle has yet to be found, for no one person knows the answer. Instead it is locked away in the individual likes and dislikes of the reading public. And so, day after day, week after week, we who furnish the grist for the grinding presses, keep trying to find out just what you readers want to see in your newspaper. One reader will tell us that we're getting out a newsy paper while the next one will hold his nose and shout "Fish wrapper" at the top of his lungs. One subscriber will ask us why we don't have comics in the paper-another confides that they crowd out local news and have no place in a weekly. And so, after years of research, editors have reached but one conclusion-you can't please everybody. This point is graphically illustrated by an anecdote about one of the editors of the Saturday Evening Post, who noticed a man on a train reading his magazine. After the traveler finished, he asked him, "How did you like the Post this week." "Fine", replied the reader, "I enjoyed every article and story in it." "That's too bad", rejoined the editor, "for if you liked every article, there are thousands of readers who won't like any of them." And so, off we go, chasing that editorial will-o-the-wisp, "The Happy Medium", hoping that our potpourri of news and features will bring at least some satisfaction to every reader. We can never hope to attain our end without your help, You, the reader, are the person towards whom every second of our working day is devoted. You are our bread and butter, because if we succeed in pleasing you, our existence is justified; if not, we can only pack hope-fully towards the WPA. That, of course, may be spreading it on a little thickly, but we are sincere in wanting to know just what you would like to see in The Riviera. If you have some feature in mind, that you would enjoy reading, please drop us a note. If at all possible, we'll see that you get it. If you think that a few comics would make the paper more readable and be of interest to adults and children, tell us. We'll be a thousand times grateful. Editors read eagerly, letters from readers telling them what's wrong with the paper. Of course, we are just as anxious to hear a few words, every now and then, telling us that a new feature is good. But it is only from culling through these "brick-bats and bouquets" that we come to know what is good and what is wasting valuable space. Maybe we're sticking our necks out in asking for your criticisms-but if it results in a better Riviera we'll gladly stand a few black eyes. So fire away.

Six-Foot Sail Is Caught by Holley

Frank N. Holley, Jr. caught his first sailfish Sunday when he boated a six-footer at Stuart, Fla. after a half-hour battle. Mr. Holley reports that the sails were swimming around the boat by the score and that he saw approximately 150 of them break water. He was accompanied by Arch Cassidy. The fish will be mounted and hung in Mr. Holley's office in the Super Five and Ten Cents Store.

Gables Takes Initiative In Crusade

Coral Gables this week took the lead in what is slated to be a state-wide crusade when plans were laid for regular physical examinations of domestics working in private homes in the city. A bill, sponsored by the Dade County Federation of Women's Clubs will be introduced in the April session of the state legislature for a similar state-wide statute. At present, the city has an ordinance requiring physical examinations and health certificates for food-handlers in business establishments, which will be extended to include domestics. The health certificates will serve as a combined health and identification card. Commenting on the move, City Manager A. B. Curry told The Riviera yesterday that several cases of disease had been discovered in domestic servants and that the new requirement would protect residents from possible contagion. "Once the law is in effect", Curry said, "we will need the cooperation of every person employing domestics. It will not apply to require every servant to produce a health card before they are employed." It is tentatively planned to hold inspections every six months, with a 50 cent fee required to cover blood tests. The examinations will be conducted by Dr. F. E. Kitchens, city health officer.

Two Painters Hold Exhibit At Blue Dome

On Sunday, Jan. 12th., J. Josef Bolinger will hold an exhibition of painting and sculpture at the Blue Dome Gallery of the College Cupboard, 248 Giralda Ave., Coral Gables. J. Clinton Sheperd, dean of arts at Barry College, is presenting an unusually fine exhibition of sculpture. Attracted by motion and the outdoor life, Mr. Sheperd finds inspiration in the saga of the development of the west, and much of his work is reminiscent of Remington, in feeling. Former instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Junior College, Conn., Mr. Sheperd's student days were spent at the Chicago Art Institute and the Beaux Arts Institute in New York City. Franz-Josef Bolinger is well known locally both as a painter and patron of arts. A student (Please turn to Page 5)