Show a I MIAMI STILL CAN PLAY LI M P c s et x a ay J w i i 2 ORPHANS ORPHANS OF THE STORM STORM Homeless Homeless perhaps parentless these three cunning youngsters a art are re keeping house in in to the midst of Miami's wreckage Found by workers they were unable to give an any y information regarding the whereabouts of their father and mother who may mayor or may not have survived survive d the Florida catastrophe x J. J p 1 9 ft J 7 0 q W 6 4 f I I SOUP KITCHENS REPLACE GAY CAFES CAFES In In this picture may be read the whole story of glaring contrasts left in the wake of Florida's disastrous twister twister twisted In the background the ruins rums of one of the colorful color color- ful seaside tearooms in the playground of yesterday in in the foreground one of the soup kitchens erected I by bv relief workers MIAMI Fla Oct 1 By NEA Service A Service A hurricane Is a a bitter teacher but but buta a city le learns from one Miami has learned It knew how to laugh before but not at itself In the boom days of ballyhooing realtors no good citizen could admit admit ad ad- admit ad- ad mit any flaw in Miami's perre i The city says frankly now that of course course the tropics tropic breed hurricanes hurricanes Let it blow Well We'll build bullet strongly enough to resist the wind And the old laugh of sunny days has a more mature ring to it it Inthe In Inthe Inthe the midst of crumbled walls blot- blot ted-out ted wealth and and death Miami can laugh It still is is a playground and the players now are sophisticated sophisticated sophisticated enough to take their fun open eyed and defiantly SHOW PLACES The visitor to Miami before the storm would have been shown be beyond beyond be- be yond ond a doubt magnificent Villa VIscaya the estate laiu out by the late James mes Deering Miami wouldn't have ha mentioned the Inevitable sq slum section But today with a wry smile Miami p to Villa VIscaya ln in ruins ruIns and and to a group of negro shanties flimsy clapboard structures structures structures tures erect e and unscratched courageous rebuilding Miami has resumed lE its d dances bridge parties and teas In the exclusive snobbish hotels But today it has lias de dealt lt out outa a sentence of ot sixty days of hard labor in the road gang to an an Innkeeper innkeeper innkeeper Inn inn- keeper who re refused sed shelter to a destitute destitute des des- and ragged woman J. J K K Dorn retired millionaire sees a dent blown in the walls of his beautiful home But what really worries him is the broken royal palm trees He spends hours digging around the roots trying to salvage the spark of life to bring back his grove HARD AT WORK Rebuilding already is In progress at a marvelous rate Temporarily at least the storm created a great many Jobs While the city was experiencing experiencing experIencing ex ex- ex- ex depression and the burden burden bur burden bur bur- den of It now finds need for more and more workers workers work work- ers to put up the ruined walls Building will be more brisk than for many months Trucks hauling away the debris of the storm al already already already al- al I ready are rolling roiling along over roads to smooth out the gullies of wave and ruin And while MIami l works unflaggingly unflaggingly it can stop to pla play I IThe The Dempsey Tunney-Dempsey fight was a marvelous example Radio antenna which had been torn down Just five da days s 's before were strung up to the stumps of palm trees and tans attended attended attended at tended the fight Crowds gathered thick In the dark streets around meeting places where Just a few hours before they had waited word from missing relatives and received returns from the fight And how they cheered For Tunney spent last winter here and was a favorite PLAYING TOO Theatres have reopened But the first performance was a Red Cross benefit Stores are doing business as usual usual scarcely scarcely any visible profiteering pro pro- but the merchants are giving 10 per cent of ot their receipts to the general reconstruction fund There Is only one Florida after titter all thinks Miami The storm did I not blow It away It It blew away much flimsy building construction a great gleat deal of ot inflated real estate promotion a certain spirit of naive self The tourist will come back to ll Florida and Miami U ml as he before fore the people here believe And the visitors will find Miami sadder but smiling and considerably ly wiser l |