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LAWMAKERS TOLD HOW RACES HELP FLORIDA I-.------.------------------ - - - 4 MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16. Joseph E. Widener, chairman of the board of the Miami Jockey Club, entertained the visiting members of ! the Florida legislature at a luncheon on the Hialeah club balcony before the races Sat- urday. In welcoming the solons, Mr. Widener said: "I have visited virtually every major race course in the world and in rebuilding Hialeah Park I have endeavored to concentrate the best features of each in our course. "After Hialeah Park gets out of the red ink and when better economic times come, as they are bound to soon, Hialeah Park will make money. The stockholders will only take a legal dividend of the profits and every dollar over it will be turned over to the charities of Florida. "Hundred of pictures have been mailed to England, France and Germany, where the beauties of Hialeah Park will advertise the state of Florida in the leading newspapers and periodicals of Europe. Every newspaper in America has told its readers of Floridas shrine to the king of sports. Yours was a worthy deed when you legalized racing in your state." Mayor R. B. Gauthier, of Miami, and Mayor Robert Marshall, of Hialeah, also addressed the legislators. Steward A. J. Cleary and Judge R. H Gore were in charge of the entertainment of the party at Hialeah.
