The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1938, Page 5

a B. enissgs& fats THURSDAY, FE-2ULET 3 --3 Jand Reck?” Claire int: Nelda, courageourly drives a | truck, ond cuts lettuce herself, determined tc market her crop, regardiess of strikes. Bill, enothe. lettuce farmer, is @ great help and encouragement to Nelda. Reck, a wealthy playboy, end Nelda’s fiancé, is unsympathetic with Nelda’s ambitions. Mrs. Reckless, i Reck's haughty mother. Jack, is Nelda’s you:iger tro- ther. She wants him to become @ doctor. Chapter 33 Unexpected Guesis A'S sister-in-law locked i guilty for a moment. “You've got to go on with Reck after all my plans for—taking eare of your mother for one thing and —wel)”—defiantly—“it would be nice for Candy’s future if she were connected with the Reckless fam- ily.” “I see,” Nelda returned slowly. So, she ous was Candy Bar- rie’s future Leila had been think- ing about al) the time, not Melda Barrie's. ‘The next aay saw two interest- events happen at the rancho. Jack came home from the hospital and Nelda had a telephone in- stalled, Nelda called the Reckless resi- dence and was told by a servant that Mrs. Reckless and her son were not home from Hollywood. No, the servant didn’t know whet "d be back. - and no word ame from Reck, Nelda found that ie her frank way. “Nothing,” Nelda replied quick- ly. “I'm too busy these days for | parties.” She wanted to esk a hun- | dred questions about the affair, but Pride stilled her tongue. "d 2ver have dreamed a year ego that the dainty Nelda Barrie would be working in—in the soil?” Harvey drawied, his eyes wandering over her slim form in Jack’s old clothes. _ Nelda knew it was his retalia- tion for her jibe at his new aecent. *“f's ef this or a complete loss of my erop,” she said crisply. “You always were like that,” mused. “You always finish whatever you start” Jack came up to grect them then, lettuce knife in hand. “Let me see if I can cut some of that?” Jewel requested with 2 iggie, Jack showed her how it was done, Amid laughter and wise- er from the others. she cut half a dozen or more heads of the lettuce. Then Claire must try it. Then Val. Harvey showed no in- terest in the task. Nek watching them, kept thinking, “Reck did that to me! Ig- nored me! Insulted me in the eyes of my friends!” “Is there any more of that grand Italian food floating around here?” Claire asked. “Tt seems inexhaustible,” Nelda replied, thinking of the many cov- ered dishes ——— and ravioli that had foi their way to the back door of the rancho. about Maria arid her husband. Had tHe Italian woman killed him? Self Service Wwue she was answering their questions, thoughts flew throu; Nelda’s mind. They ex- voice, his teasing voice, his scold- ing voice. The strike was becoming sec- ond-page news. It had settled into short accounts of the parleys held between the shed owners and the unions. A settlement of their dif- ferences was expected at any mo- Jack insisted that Le was well enough ty haul the last lettuce cut- ing when it would be ready. pont devils haven't got a w we on em,” “You know, Si, T think uuld be different.” * “4 abor fish ting Capital, Capitel ting ital. Capita! fighting Labor. What's it ali about, ray?” need each other so much | ought to get together.” they keep on this way they'll egg. “Jack,” she said abruptly, “that maérone trée needs a little surgi- ‘al work on the limbs. Wil] you eut them for—" She broke off when she arr the somber ex- pression on his face. “A tree surgeon!” he exclaimed bitterly. eg all I'll ever be.” “Skip it!” he plunged out of the MS made no str taow no it him, for it was plain he was in- volved in some great mental up~ heaval. Although Jack protested pas- sionately against it, Nelda declared was going out into the to work. at_me. Buddy,” she Fone “Tm working har@ now because ['m building to- ward the realization of my dream.” away from that subject. fly into a tantrum at the = mention of it. ended witly her driving the = and Jack working in the Insult IN MID-MORNING she was so absorbed with watchin, her a te — that she — see group young people bag toward her unti, they were almost —_ her—Claire, Val, Harvey Jewel. ise!” they called. “Why—where did you come from so early in the morning?” she fe were at the party,” Claire answered, giving her a searching vine 48 The word slipped eut before Nelda could catch it. Some- be said in his bored drawl, and Nelda detected ene to an ‘at's thd mabe DO 2. All Set ’ {Before I give my consent to the marriage”, thundered the old man, “I must ask what income you will be receiving”. “Six ndred pounds in all”, the yx man answered without hesitation. 4 th the 500 I allow my ou will have— the young man shook daughte Quickly his head “Oh, I have been reckoning that in!” he explained. to be invited to lunch. When she lived in San Francisco they had dropped in any old time fad enjoyed the same hospiiality ad enjoy: same italit im the homes of Claire anc Jewe! But how could she stop her work to prepare a meal for them? The lettuce must be taken to the pack- Laura—She dismissed the thoug! even before it was finished. Laura would be flabbergasted at the mere suggestion of cooking for what she termed “society swells.” All at once Nelda remembered the novel way Doris had enter- tained Bill and her on New Year’s Eve. “If you'll stay te lunch,” she said brightly, “Tll-ask Mrs. Moresi to make some spaghetti.” They ited gleefully. “How would you like to prepare the rest of the meal yourselves?” she asked. They stared at her, puzzled. “I simply can’t stop my work,” she explained, the gentleness in her tone robbing words of rudeness “I think you'll really fg Aton to cook lunch together.’ be di perat to Her friends demanded to hear . MONEY FROM WASHINGTON New York’s Mayor La Guardia THE KEY WEST CITIZEN COULD SWALLOW sworps. | erel—of his own. It seems that Old Timer, too, broke out. He swallowed so much comes to Washington and bluntly | was going inquisitive of late and smoke trymg to save his props | informs a few Finance Commit- teemen that his citv—the largest and richest on this hemisphere— will not be able to care for its un- employed and unemployables without substantial aid from the Federal Government. Mr. La Guardia also advances the claim that many other large municipali- ties are faced with pretty much the same predicament—and, judg- ing by the affirmative groans echoing from other mayors, the New Yorker stated their cases correctly. Many Senators and Congress- men are holding out for the con- tinuance of Governmental spend- ing, or relief—because their con- stituents demand more Federal money. Railroads and States are clamoring for money from Wash- ington, farm authorities are de- manding cash relief for farmers, and official relief administrators are declaring for more and, if pos- sible, bigger appropriations for the proper financing of humani- tarian projects and programs. Money from Washington is our favorite and largest selling com- modity. With President ‘Roosevelt urg- + ing retrenchment -wheféver,''Te-" trenchment is ent, it gis safe. to predict that, as far as relief goes, not much: in: the way, of re- trenchment may be! expected. It is still safe.te fordedst;’this’ country’s continuance ia..its role as the paternalistic and relief be- stowing Uncle Samuel—at least until 1940. COMMENTATOR SEEKS A COUNSELOR Not being wise in the ways of finding answers to disturbing questions, this correspondent sought counsel of Old Timer. Now, Old Timer has made the | headlines all too often for com- patibility with his sense of per- sonal modesty—and his real name has been called out in the Senate every time his more vocal colleague, Sen. Phil I. Buster, has |made a strategic “no quorum” point since the era of flaming | youth and frenzied markets. In the days B. C. (Before Coolidge), | and in between, Old Timer has served as a one-man advisory board or political Mohammed to certain seekers after inside in- formation. I wanted to leave my burdens, and several perplexing questions | at his feet, so I unloaded. Does the hope of the country | tie in Governmental relief? idea Nelda went to the house them, instructed them to dra slips of pa What has happened to our proud American spirit of initia- tive and endurance? Are we, or ARE we. true sons of our fathers —those hardy souls -who wrested empire from raw wilderness? Have we turned sofeties in the a face of hardship, or have we sold short on intestinal courage and find*we cennot buck the game ars | did our ancestorse? Are we hon- oring those sturdy sires who | wrought the Iron Brotherhood of Faith-by-Works across desert and forest, who started below scratch, !' yet along with such routine: His high~ t so in- {trigued her! She wondered if Vivian Nelson had attended the party. When she got back to the house | around 12 o'clock the gales of wae she heard issuing from} the kitchen told her that her plan tes Succeeding beyond her ex- PSthis is really lark, isn’t it?” is is a isr"t it?” | floated out in Jewel's contralto. { ‘They led Nelda inside on a} [whirl laughter to see their! }@phlevements. Claire saluted her | with a long spoon. Val had one of | pLaura’s aprons tied around his! | stocky form. Harvey had discarded his boredom for the moment and was washing lettuce at the sink. Jewel was mixing a salad. | Claire motioned Nelda into the | living room away from the others. “T want to tell you, Nelda,” she } said, “that Reck had some people {from Hollywood at the party. A | famous composer with an unpro- }mounceable name and—” She | stopped when she noticed the look on Nelda’s face. “You're still in love with him, aren't you?” “| suppose so.” Nelda’s tone was vithout expression. Claire studied her a moment be- fore she spoke. woVi beeA-yishi¥ cow. | BATHE HEART London. — Tl of. pneumonia, physicians found the heart of Geoffrey Knight, 2, enlarged to three by i pressing on the organ. Sur- geons cut away two of the child's ribs, split the pericardium sac in the heart and stitched the ered portions to the chest wall to permit drainage. Every day the heart is barthed in warm salt water. They believe the child will recover. times its normal size ! | chores as warding off man-scalp- ing Indians, outwitting man-eat- ing insects, and surviving epi- | demics, they managed to achieve homes and subsistence for and in- still principles of rugged citizen- ship into their large and ever in-” creasing, families—and .. at..ihe } same time support their’ Govern: ment? COUNSELOR TURNS CRITIC But alas, for once,Old Timer. failed me! Instead of answering our burning questions in the way we wanted them answered, he had started grappling with weird that he hed to be carried out by baps he wanted to put my not toc young mind through some addi- tional stimulatirig mental gym- nastics with a view to athleticism for the development of gray mat- ter. - = Anyhow, after he had finished ' YR#t # one was like. meeting question with counter question we found ourselves try- RESOLUTION ing to figure out just how we stood, if, indeed, we were still standing. But more specificelly, _ On December 15, 1937, God saw we were puzzling over the phe- fit to remove from the Faculty nomena of our Old Timer’s adroit of Division Street School our! and specious economic or fatal- | friend and co-worker, Mrs. Laura | istic reasoning, or questioning— G-. Crusoe. or something—and just what had We mourn her passing, yet bow seized upon and rendered him un- in humble submission to the Di- able or unwilling to think or rea- Vine Will. Hers was a life spent son except in terms of the past. in service to the community in I can never be quite sure then, Which she lived. Many will re- why he persisted in awaking call days spent with her as their memories of the triumphant days teacher. Therefore, of sideburns and bustles, or bawl, Be it resolved that we, the at me about past interludes and Classroom Teachers Association progress from corsets and hoop- of Division Street School, extends skirts to scanties, from bicycles- | to her bereaved relatives our sin- | your last place, Mary? Maid—Beeause I did not know } built-for-two and Bryan’s 16-to-1 cere sympathy. frepzy of the roaring ’90’s to the , “Not till the loom is silent, Model-T, then through the era of whith, ushered in the Lost Tribe| of Hoover,.to the happy-days-are- hert-agaif reign of the New Deal, | Was,,all,.too:much for me, but here-is the preamble to the ques- tidnOl@;; Timer left sticking in my mind. SOFTIES—OR SOFT SOAP? And the shuttles cease to: fly, Shall God unroll thé canvas And explain the reasap why-, The dark threads Gre as needful, In the Weaver's skillful hand As the threads of gold and silver, In the pattern’ He’has planted”. Be it further ‘resolved, that-a | copy of these :-resolutions ’ be | Spread on our minutes, a copy be | sent to the family of our deceased Old Timer roared when I asked | co-worker, and a copy be sent to him if it were true about us sub-| the Key West Citizen for publica- sisting on too much soft food, or | tion. soft soap, and perhaps going morally flabby. The rub is, he seemed to blame it all on me. Say now, Still, I amagined I could catch a! fleeting gleam of pride in his eye! —something strangely reminis- cent of teacher’s ill-disguised en- thusiasm of long ago when E, for once, recited well. Old Timer charged into me with something to the effect that our fathers had grubbed the Respectfully submitted, MAY SANDS, MAY HILL RUSSELL, Tm no reliefer—yet. feb3-1t MIRIAM‘E. CAREY. RESOLUTION On Friday, January 7, 1938, the Angel of Death beckoned and our Felton, answered the call of her Maker. We listen for her friend- stumps, cleared the farms and = made homes, then left everything | ly greeting. We reach out, but | she is no longer with us im per- for us to carry on—but we don’t. EB They had builded cities, schools 509- She has passed on into the and churches, launched the great-' Great Beyond and there awaits est and richest nation on. earth, the coming of dear ones she loved d veritable empire | OP earth. Thelen an tee and eos In the few short years that she only to have us go modern and) W@5 privileged to serve on the elevate our noses at both milk and | Faculty of Division Street School becar suspected , endeared herself to both of Seen our efforts at/ teachers and students. Therefore, Our worthy ancestors accom- Be it resolved that we, the | Classroom Teachers’ Association, plished everything without tools |extend to her bereaved loved ones or machines, save of the very | Our sympathy. crudest sort, and without cash | markets for a thing they pro-| duced; they achieved all this in the very teeth of political and economic oppression from abroad, and they had no kind-hearted government to furnish even occa- sional relief. They did not have relief, or scarcely anything else, im those days, yet they made a) miracle of what we call America, and left it to us as a priceless heritage. Then why—now that we have gasoline plows, tractors, machin ery, stream-lined automobiles, powerful radios and electric re- pguicand> flunk* at feeding our- be an and. With throwmin)-we can exist now only by"and ffirough the love and charity. of a beneficent Uncle Sam? 1807—Joseph E. Johnston, U. S., his generation, born at Medford, soldier and military engineer, one | Mass. Died Oct. 28, 1877. of the Confederacy’s most noted generals, business man, congress- man and U. S. commissioner of railroads after war, born at Cher- ty Grove, Va. Died March 21, 1891. 1811—Horace Greeley, the fam- ed New York Tribune editer whose influence upon his genera- tion was tremendous, Presidential candidate, born at Amherst, N. H. Died Nov. 29, 1872. 1820—Elisha K. Kane, navy of- ficer, physician. pioneer Arctic explorer, born in Philadelphia. Died Feb. 16, 1857. 1821—Elizabeth Blackwell, first of her sex to receive a medical diploma, London and New York physician, founder of medical schools in both countries, born in England. Died there, May 31, 1920. 1842—Sidney Lanier, famed poet*musician of the South, a brave soul ever struggling against ill health, bern at Macon, Ga. Died Sept. 7, 1 1853—Hudson Maxim, inventor. mechanical engineer, explosives expert, born at Orneville, Maine. Died May 6, 1927. Subscribe to The Citizen. PIRATES COVE FAMOUS FISHING CAMP On Oversea Highway. 20 Miles Prom Key West 1834—Edwin Adams, comedian, ene of the most popular actors of “May tender memories soften your grief And fond recollections bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your lov- ed one brought; For time and space can never di- vide Or keep your loved one from your side The happy hours that belonged to YOU". Be it further resolved that a PaGE FIVE . N OC hdhd head, daddidadidid, FOUR SAILFISH IN A DAY, 25-POUND JACK, 300-POU D DEVILFISH, BEST CATCHES, AS WEATHER CLEARS OFF As, was, predicted in this col- Umm: iast week, when the weather “broke’, fishing came back by leaps and bounds, es. pecially the sailfishing. Th- weather yesterday and prob- ably for the coming week is ideal for fishing—clear waters and light winds. Just after a blow the fish are found in the shelter of the reef and in reef waters they bite- fast because they can easily see the trolled bait. Catches Lar-est Jeck of Season Capt. MILTON KNOWLES in the BIRDIE went out Menday but the water was still muddy and got only a few grouper. Yesterday, with Mr. and Mrs. John Winarski, Milwaukee, Wise., and Dr. and Mrs. Kirk Shawgo, Quincy, Ill. They.hit large kingfish, brought in some 30 pounders, and made the out- standing jack catch of the sea- son, a 25 POUNDER. Group- ers, barracudas and mackerel were also hauled in. Captain KNOWLES aiso tents - out- board moter boats and row boats for bottom fishing and trolling Rare Catch of a Devilfish Tuesday aboard MANUEL LOPEZ boat FIVE BROTH ERS, a 300-pound devilfish wa: harpooned and brought to beat, a rare and dangerous feat. Sunday, Lieut. John Faigle brought im a nice mess of fish of all varieties. Monday fishing parties brought im twe the FLORIDA has had pient { expenence ap Sat we Tertugas. Genaal and pieas ant besxies the Cagmem be been am sdeai feshere guste fer partes during the week. wtect have brought am mackerci te nita, grouper, laree bine! H. Smith. of New York. Toe day aboard the DAC. The ire et of the four sais weagtung 5) powncs ac eee caught by Mr Maguire A arse 43%:-pound Emgich w= 2 poze caught by Mr Semcth ~as €F 40-pound amberjack. Tuesday * a total of 28 fish, grouper, dol- phin, bonita, barracuda, king- fish were brought in by Dr. Strong and party. Today, Tom- my Howe, Cincinnati, Fred Cresby, St. Paul, James Helt- zel, Oregon, and George Mills White, Key West, are trying their luck “*pac’* available for all kinds of Deep Sea Fishing — CAPTAIN — PAUL DEMERITT Docking At GULF OIL DOCK FOR HIRE— — CAPTAIN — MILTON KNOWLES in the fully equipped ““BIRDIE’’ Docking At GULF OIL Dock SMALL OUTBOARD MOTOR BOATS FOR BOTTOM FISHING OR EXCURSIONS Rest Beach tf Wl me i HT tf i iSgtl ft i i aie tel i. 4 e | | rT} : | 4 4 a * ” ) H i f j ““LIL-BOT"’ —CAPTAtin— MP. 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