The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1938, Page 3

ful, dark-eyed, dark-hairea girl, is forced to sacrifice her personal amLitions, and run a ranch. feek, diond, dashing and wealthy. is charming to Nelda. BiH, 2 tanned young man with Diue eyes, disapproves of Nelda, Mrs. Reckless, Reck’s cold and @rrogant mother, subtly warns Nelda that Reck ts not for her. Leila, Nelda’s selfich sister-in- law, wants the ranch divided. Chapter Five Facing Stark Reality “7'll have to think it over, Leila,” said Nelda, : Leila sniffed. ” “There’s nothing to think over so far as I can see.” Nelda picked up the dishes at her place and carried them into the kitchen. There she met Uncle Ham: “Leila been.devilin’ you about arp little teeth 3 ly’s ear and was hangin ; on stubbornly. “Let go, Cinders! Let go!” Nelda Plead trying in vain to get hold of the bulldog) He managed to twist and squirm out of her way each time she came near him. Encounter Bz stepped right into the midst of the fray and in'a few min- utes had the anima’s separated. He zrabbed his own a. and held. him in his arms. The va ‘iant little fox terrier wanted to renew hos- tilities, and Bill had difficulty in quieting him. = “What's the matter, fella? Don’t you want any sissy dogs in sweat- ers in your neighborhood?” he asked, a twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes. Pie He Nelda exclaimed an- grily. “How about the beating he Rave ¥ bad dog? “But he had him fouled. Why— you've been striae * “I have not!” The tears came ‘in in spite of her efforts to hold them back. She hated herself for this show of emotion before a dividin’?” he whispered, his faded | strani gray eyes bright beneath his bushy brows. Nelda nodded. * Uncle Ham motioned toward the dining room with his cane. “She’s been erabbin’ about the place ever since we came. It'll be much nicer here with her gone.” “But—” Nelda hurried past him. —_What was the use of telling him or. anybody else that she detested | living on a Franch. let alone ‘run- ning one? Later, Nelda sought out Laura’ Sweeny in the kitchen. = She wanted to be firm and digni- “Mrs, Sweeny. we can't afford to keep you any longer! This is a week’s notice!” “I don’t know where to go.’ Sween ve a dismal sigh and drais the contents of the coffee pot into her cup. “Surel job.” Nelda you can get another weeny sighed again, and “It you'll let me sta7 until the first of the month maybe—” Mrs. Swee- ny paused and looked piteously at Nelda. “Well—” There was ——_— ness in the girl's cone, Mrs. Sweeny took advantage of it. “Thanks!” she exclaimed and pustled into the dining room to r up the dishes, leaving her pifee untouched. Nelda let it go a: that. She would halted er. “Candis!” Leila called sharply. “Get in out of the cold! This is no ger. “Is there anything I can do?” Bill asked solicitously. “Not a thing. You see I had to leave college to help here on the ranch, and I feel sort of—well, al] caved in.” “Your name is Barrie, isn’t it?” She nodded. “Tm Bill Langdon. That’s my house down the road” He pointed to a small gray cottage about a quarter of a mile away. “Tm not used to this sort of life,” Nelda went on. “I planned to be acommercial artist and make loads and loads of money.” i “Money.” There was a bitter edge of irony in his voice. “I sup- pose you wanted to taste cham- Pagne, wear furs and orchids?” And some one to lift ye cover off the soup tureen.” “T think Jouve got a bad case tism,” was hi: ising re- ply, a queer hard light fn his blue \ chips of ice. CONGRESS WEARS NO MAN'S COLLAR “Mother, is that where they make Congressmen?” asks Junior, | as they pass a manufacfory of high school, and befreckled Sonny is” ent jasti jamboreeing with .the Boy Scouts; Mother is “expecting”. again, and that means another mouth to feed— _ KEY:WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years ‘Ago Teday As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen | Key West is looking for an op- portunity to increase her size, ?PaGE THREE GIVES OUTLINE ANOTHER PHASE SERVICES AT OF ACTIVITIES ENTERED UPON ‘FIRST BAPTIST IN SOCIAL UNIT WELFARE WORK Pastor Yancr Furst LATEST ACTIVITIES COVER PLAN TO AID BLIND PER- stencils and rubber stamps. The but hospitalization has been ar- lad is excusable, for since his ranged, and until she must give earliest cognitive days the educ- over to a substitute, Mother will ‘able Junior has inhaled the sym- continue teaching her Sunday posiac propaganda of dynamic School class. Times are hard, punditry of fetetiously “dubbing to be negotiated, but Father fig- Congress a rubber stamp—the in- “ures he will get by! sinuation is, of course, that Con-'° This man represents us and the gress is ‘President Roéosevelt’s. great heart of the country. He Charlie McCarthy. thas ‘known heavy sledding and As if to belie the idiomatit’la-“has ‘taken it on the chin more bel, or to ring the on,‘ than once; he now rough said a visitor yesterday, and then PROGRAM RELATIVE TO added “it is the most delightful ‘city I have ever visited. With a climate unmatched by anvthing in California or Cuba, this city should be the most popular win- ter_resort for tourists in any part of the United States.” These opin- ions are expressed by Henry Houlihan, Chicago Attorney, who with Mrs. Houlihan is spending a while in Key West and naturally enjoying themselves. (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 1.—The unemployment compensation’ di- vision of the Florida imdustrial’ contributions a week early in or- der for, employers to receive the , Congress administered gas to one White House baby with | Probable fatal effect. I refer ‘to the maximum hour and minimum wage bill. If stoogemalia has been epidemic on Capitol Hill, as alleg- ed, the patient is showing recup- erative symptoms—or if Congress thas been under the thumb of Presidential authority it is show- ing pertinacious resistance to that authority. The late Sidney Smith had Andy Gump spellbinding for the Presidency, and old Andy slogan- ized to the world that he wore no man’s collar. Will Congress fol- low the precedent set by Andy? BIRTH = MADE RETROAC (2) When Republicans.are in pow- er—or threatened. with power— Democratic office seekers quail and decry the times as cataclys- mic, and the sooner over with the better—like a violent catharsis. On the other hand, the ascenden- cy of Democratic suspicious char- acters to the control levers is to Republicans the imminence of all evil. As our arteries grow hard and opinions grow harder we are more than ever convineed that the victory song of the other side lis but the charivari of political charlatans, while the opposing | party is leading, or would lead us to perdition faster than Paul Re- |vere rode at midnight through | Middlesex hamlet and town. If a | Republican or a Democrat favors birth control each would make it | applicable to the other—and re- troactive. Depending on which side of the partisan fence we are encamped, the hombres across the line are grazers of political loco weed— | their administrations are but hur- of melodramatic misrule I am speaking for about 123,000,- 000 good, solid fat-backs whe | must furnish livings for that don’t! Just forget worry and be prompt with out tax payments—that’s | with vindictive losers of patron-) | age and other anti-New Dealers, | | while pointing gleefully to reces- eyes making them look like chips | of ice. “You're acting as if you're only who ever had to— ke ‘t.” He wheeled and strode “Why — why,” she sputtered, “the nerve of him!" | AMERICA AND 1838 MARCH ON! | ¢Copyright, 1227 Alice Marie Dodge) Soap box statesmen, wild them seeececeses Today's native may deal diplomatic affairs and rise high in the confidence of others. The life-work will be along hidden lines but with some authority. The native is reserved and self- reliant, with sometimes a hard, grasping nature, selfish and as- tute, but subject to the softening influenc of love. Nelda Ginds herself on her ewan, Monday. . Speed to Burn Boggs—Is your stenographer a fast worker? Wiggs--She's 30 fast that i has to use a water-cooled type Sour cream is used by many housewives im preference to Sweet. They think it adds a mel- low flavor. A date book kept near the tele- phone will save much time and torrid of eye and zeal, wi tinue to peddle perversive prop- aganda in 1938, and because like bambooziement we li with the rapt exaltation of the d im-point, ka weather ahead, perhaps, but the old chin is still tough and can stand a whole lot more. He has confidence in his neighbor, faith in himself and his country, and knows he will pull through some- how. By the time he becomes a father-in-law other administra- tions may hold the headlines—but whether a Republican ora Demo- erat is elected he knows it will remain America, and America is safe. from the contagion of foreign isms and and cussedness. This is our county in 1938! LANDON AND ROOSEVELT Such as these are.immune) Key West is 14 degress warmer that is Miami which is the next t of the entire 1937 con- warmest spot in the United States. tribution must be made by all She is 22 degress warmer than jjable employers on or before Tampa and an even 35 degrees January 25 in order for employer warmer than Jacksonville. Prac- to receive this credit from the Bu tically the whole country except reau of Internal Revenue. Key West, is experiencing very In explaining this credit, Har- low temperatures today, with old C. Wall, director of the state many, many southern cities see- unemployment compensation di- ing the mercury lower than for vision said, “Under title IX of the several years. The local weather| Social Security Act the state is bureau is closed today because it allowed to collect 18 percent of is a holiday, but the lowest unof- ses 2 ee — tax levied ses ae e |ficial temperature reported here Mave auae fe employers ae jis 57 degrees. AGREE AS CONGRESS i ae } FIZZLES OUT | Key West’s newest store, the Although he hunted Roosevelt's Golden Rule Store, at the corner scalp in 1936, former Governor! of Greene and Duval streets, will! Alf. M. Landon, last Republican be opened to the public Tuesday nominee for the Presidency,| morning when P. M. Crews, well makes a fine show of loyalty to), nown Key West business man, ee will greet his hundreds of friends mn } customers in hi ) hosannas, nor with selfish Md bopetierecaas ae — bitions. Governor Landon sent a . i in which ee ee The Florida Keys, one of the volvement in a seriously danger- | ferries to be put on the run cver! ous foreign situation, jn which he|the water gap on the highway, said, in the,true American way, | which ran on @ bar near Daytona} that “polities cease at the water's|Beach Saturday night, injured| edge” and “there must be no| her shaft and Propeller, and will demagogic playing of politics at} have to give up the trip for the) the expense of the country’s unity | time being—until she goes on the} such as now confronts us”. Mr.| ways at Daytona Beach. Landon also criticized Congress- | men of both parties who seek to! Litenses for Christmas week forming services for them. In making his federal return the em- ployer deducts this 18 percent and pays the government .2 per cent, but in order to receive this deduction or credit all contribu- tions for the year 1937 must be paid or: or before January 25. “If the state tax is not paid on or before this date,” Wall explain- ed, “the employer pays the full 2 percent to the government plus the state tax of 1.8 percent.” “In line with our policy of co- operating with the employers of the state in every way, we are mailing out this month’s reports earlier in order that empgoyers will have sufficient time to com- plete their records before the time limit expires,” Wall concluded. handling of the extremely deli- hamstring President Roosevelt's weddings recorded at the office) of County Judge Hugh Gunn in-} clude ‘Willis Hunt Washburn to ores cate foreign situation. things, yet are of blood kinship, but both are strangers to true pa- triotism and statesmanship. Gov. Landon is‘a patriot and a states- man, and the fine spirit exempli- fied by the! President in his reply to Landon’~proves still further conflict; ished in a licans seeking advantage, not a group of New Dealers defending and apologizing, not a group of *|derson will begin practice torhor- | Viding the main course, . | ¥as visiting mother, Mrs. Thomas) |Mary Edna Elliott, Paul Alten-| | dorf to Kataline Nagy, Mario Bor-} } ges to Angela Perez, John Hardin | to Alma Vickers. j Inverted and partially sub- merged hull of a derelict schoon- Here’s our weekly ROLL OF HONOR among your merchants, those who continue to “keep ahead” by consistent advertising in your paper. Here they are: BUSY BEE BAKERY did its part to make your holiday one te be long remembered with special] assortments and sales on delicious |bakery items . . . and BROAD- High School's varsity basket-| WAY MARKET and BERMUDA ball five under Coach M. G. An-| MARKET did their part by pro- poultry and choice cuts of meat . . TIFT’S CASH GROCERY ad- tow for a stiff schedule. A varsity | team for the high school girls, | - | ad | the first in the history of the | Vertised a fresh supply of fruits school, will be put out this year,| and vegetables yesterday end. at Miss O. Schell being the athletic | this reporting, our readers took director. | kindly to the announcement 5 |NORMAN BROTHERS has been | Congressman Joe Sears declar-| Setting the “city on fire” with that Key West is not only the one 800d ads telling of their fast logical place for the New London, | §Towth and favoritism among lo- |Conn., submarine base, but it/°#! buyers of good food - . . Our }will be to Miami's interest told standby’s—ARCHER BROTH- work for the transfer. From the ERS continue, too, to furnish the etic and humani-| est families with poe economic, | Principal. H. N. Rodenbaugh, vice | president, F. W. Kirtland, Freight|home. Watch this firm forge | manager of F. E. C. Clifton Bail-|#head in the new year coming Timecturiat tile Soon ieen nal PLLOCK’S JEWELRY University of South Carolina. Ru-|STORE greets their friends and dolph Kiser of University c ayy P Delos. who! ind reed it... ISLAND CiT¥} Otto to Coral Gables. sAerowececereesesencoces day... ft aH rl 2 8 i J i i EE of customers with a New Year's ad- + lthe Cireult Court |pendirg wherein & writing the nearly 23,000 checks that are now going to the aged ‘According to a survey made by! the former State Board of Social A fundamental difference is that no person receiving old age assist ance can obtain blind assistance thamologists wfll be designat ed by the State Welfare Board. eeby bk § ge . i a fi ‘ i : i Baye if it ol | it Hi i f ff i I gf : H th | ef ist N. Thompson an@ AM. Adame, ™ R. G Ross, if lw dead, the heirs, devisees, ments ; ! tive is hereby given virtue of a ot i it Cs if i foreci * of December, A DB. of fe tl A Judicial Circutt of Florida, in andé for in Chancery, in @ f A. M. 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