The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 19, 1938, Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938. “Scouting Marches On’’ | Comments by FRANCIS LEIGH } SOCSSSSSSSE SESS SSSSSSSSSSSSSOSSOSSESSSSSSSSSSSOOESE H This remarkable book, the au- completed the “let down” of both | thoritative History of The Boy those young men whose only life| Scouts of America, written by since school cr college days had} William D. Murray, a Charter been war—and many millions of | Member.-of the, National Execu-, older people. ae the War pared tive Board and i f its 2fter, even ie. Churches were as —— * oe divided since the members there-| ditoria}’ "Board, "was compiled of had been, and still were, on| with the aid of many ‘spétialist’*opposite sides of the fence—be-| in the Scout Moyement in gath*"ing réspectivély the “Enemy” or| ering and checking data for the, OG d ates arth eee Ne = = L @ matter oi! ‘emendous sig- | pecs happily. La caagauey wertinenty hificatice to thoughtful persons} were available for féference’ as to\that whilst Scouting had been facts. To review the manuscript born and brought into being only of the book the National Council!a few years before the World| appointed an able committee—|War—both during the War and) |in the long years since. when all _with power to autnorize its pub-j} lication. This committee consist-|fise, Sepmed {9 crumple OF iat ed of Frank Presbrey, Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., Lewis Gawtry, and jleast be crippled — Scouting | marched forward steadily, each year showing marked progress, so John H..Finley, whose name: | that in this it i La w c present day it is the are swe to all interested ip | most remarkable factor in nat- Boy Movements. Copyrighted last | ional and international life. In year, 1937, the book is publishec’| religion the whole of mankind is pb Boy Scouts of America. | prouped.in Churches, Beliefs, or since it runs to nearly 600!Creeds which differ radically.! pages inevitably costs more than ONLY in Scouting is there onc many boys can afford—$3.00. Yet. common brotherhood and sister- that price places the book within jood at present; in the Scouts the reach of every Patrol, and! year Book giving the figures for very: certainly oyery Scouter and 193351934, published in 1935, and | Boy Scout, « ‘ery person In- counting all‘the many Dominions, terested ih, Sg, dominant duty of | Countries; ‘ete, which make up. the adults, of | -F papsce — the the British Empire as only ONE right ngof the young — | country inthat compilation—47 should read with ‘care this quite Countties participate ir. this in- astonishing story written and torngtional’ movement of the published to mark the Silver ' young; unhappily Germany and Jubilee of Scouting in this coun- Italy, and save for a tiny group | try; that Silver Jubilee was of Russia aslo, are not listed, since} course ong this sapiewtd these countries had converted/ deals wi e movement until their Youth organizations into! the close of 1935 the manuscript their ‘own Nazi or Fascist forms. | ‘was not completed, data carefully “J is interesting to note that | checked, and the whole duly re- four great hunmanitarian_move- | viewed prior to publication by ments originating in England the Committee mentioned above, have become International: dur- and copyrighting and issue possi- ing the Crimean War Florence ble until late last year. Nightingale began her work The length of time—some two which resulted in modern trained years—indicates the _close care nursing; in the East End slums of | the manuscript in every de- TL ondon William Booth began the It is THE official History of Saivation Army; in the center of Boy Scouts of America. and the business part of London, the its statements cannot be disputed. City proper, Mr. Williams’ bezan the book, and an ap-' the y. M. C. A; and in the West. the steady growth of End of London Lieut, General Sir | it must be remem- Robert S. S. Powell (as it is said of Boy he then was) Scouting, his’ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN RELEASES MOVIE ABOUT KEY WEST AROUND MIAMI (Contributed) cecccccccccccnnccccccscs Add to your list of Nara Avis, 3 the book hawk. His habitat is “BRAIN TRUST ISLAND” 1s/ Miami's second-hand book store section, where he makes his NAME GIVEN TO LATEST) «rounds” daily in search of used MOVIE REEL: TO BE SHOWN | books. From under counters and/| AT MONROE THEATER debris he drags copies of once | “best sellers” and hugs them | happily, knowing where he can Awakened after years of semi-/|sell them at a good profit. tropical slumber, Key West, sleep-| He is thin and dried and dusty ing beauty of the U. S. resorts,|as his wares, but his keen eyes; has today thrown off its rags, and| are trained for first editions and/ outfitted in new and revealing | he knows his stuff. From among | garb swings on to the national the greasy piles of rotting books| scene, escorted by her Prince|he may drag forth a dog-eared| — the attentive Uncle | copy of Thorean’s “Walden”, 1854; | m. | sat Harte’. Briefly that is the story of- a|2_ frst Printing of Bret Harte’s/ community’s success March of sae tae ot ee Time tells in its latest release, 4 moth-eaten volume of Longfel- “Brain Trust Island”, which opens |low’s “Evangeline” of first vint- ‘tonight at the Monroe Theater, in | age, 1844. this city. | The book hawk knows books When f eal , Julius F. < Gispe..Jes ten these ania ani Dis days are spent in shove, | assigned to Key West by the Fed-| his evenings in public libraries. eral relief administration, to in-| On a good day he may make five} seve the easier tet a dollars, on a poor day only one. | ips once careen ie found al- | ii i ‘most the entire popsitatied Se pee his zeal is never eet 000 without mean¥ of suppart. and | Sometimes he culls desirabie edi- dependent on feliéf, says March tions from lending libraries that of Time. . ser i are. selli » Here he Stone, who comes of an’ éld Co- pigs igeyg YSister Car- lumbus family, has had, despite | rie’: a .@r more his years, a varied careér att that will includes a Harvard Ph. _D- Caran. . chemistry, a fling at chain manu- | business is his own. You facturing, the brokerage business, do not know where he comes then relief administration in New from or where he goes at night York State, and finally in Wash-|or-how he became a book hawk ington, D. C., where Harry Hop-| But from some handful of old kins urged him to accept the job | bindings collecting fly spots on of administrating relief to Florida. @ dingy rack, he can make a gooc There, Stone became especially day’s pay—and he loves it. interested in Key West’s prob- SA hoe SEE? lem. j In the past, Key West had va- riously been an important center for cigar manufacturing, in which | half the population engaged, had *** carried on a prosperous sponge trade, had been a busy port, had, Big Dance at Pena’s Garden of boasted military and naval posts) Roses tonight, starting at 9:30 and whose payrolls helped its inhabit-| carrying on until dawn if patrons ants make a living. .| want it that way. Jimmy Loss’ But what was Key West to do/ orchestra will present a new pro- now? How to climb from the gram of his “music that pleases” ececcceseccesssoscoseces TIMELY JOTTINGS FROM A SAFE DRIVER'S HOTEBOOK SSNSAEN 7 S MTONODIE — ™ Zavas i a uss sy FOG-LANDING MADE SAFER Wheeling, W. Va.—aAn automat- Coorg. ISR. The Aten Cana & Server Compu, ‘Situation Wanted’ —For Her Husband (By Anseciated Preas) ; DIXON, Hil, March 19.—This. advertisement appeared in the “situation wanted” column of a! Dixon newspaper: is i “My husband has held practi-! cally every kind of job. He usually adapts himself quickly.’ He's 28, had several years of col-! lege—but I'm tired of having him around the house. I guarantee hime to give sober. steady, ef-! cient service if YOU'LL take a! chance on him. I also guarantee to deliver him in good working! condition, anytime, anywhere. x Raa 3 FOR SALE ic landing device which. elimin- ates the danger of landing in fogs at airports has been perfected by the Army, according to reports. The pilot merely sits in the ships, keeps hands and feet off the con- trols and the plane is landed by men operating the device from the ground. More than fifty suc- cessful landings have been made by this method. CUES} FAMILY’S HEALTH! For a low initial cost, and only a few cents a week to t keep it going, you can have a DAYTON Water System in your home. Sold on Easy Terms Prices range $47.50. $53.50 PLAY SAFE— By keeping FOODSTUFFS at the right temperature im ge gf our ALL M@ 3 ICE REFRIGERATORS These refrigeraters are doubly HEAT PROOF and absolutely air tight Priced from $20.00 Easy Terms—i10 Days Free Trial Qn Display at THOMPSON ICE COMPANY. fac. —Phone No. 5— li ell scan Hale i nl “ »PRESENTED BY THESE FIRMS MAY BE DEPENDED UPON Give Them Your Business! on eer eee ee rere equally to the Girl | grst_ Camp on Brownsea | nauper’s rut? Led by William R.and the entertainment planned and $88.50 i one an , July: gwar wag- ere ; how many were or hurt, or utterly ruin- beyond computation. Not a part of the entire world but suf- fered. The Armistice brought so tense a relief to all the nations it tre world went with joy; the more earnest and humble to God, the vast mass went orgy of rejoicing and '; more, all nations expected that there a lasting understand- “world would free from fur- lar evils, and les might progress ‘ings. ed disillusionment, ity of Versailles and then done—inevit- the jealousies, -the and hatred, and debacle which ensued, today threatens newer HUT i ae fi aH gfe 2 H He i a CRREPEE ieee aftermath of the and-what occurred so afterwards—was the gen- down, and sheer loss of many. Into that War. summer of 1914, had swept the cream of young at its commencement by voluntary enlistment as British Empire or by nor- i method in the tinental nations; year after boys reached , they were into the War and became fodder.” Happily for the Inited States, the nation did not ter the War until 1917, and our first purely American Offensive did not happen until September 12th, 1918—only two months be- fore the Armistice. As a conse- quence our casualties for the en- Hud a ie 8 far. and holds ;, Si har, Possibly the |" imally began on January 24, 1908 in the Y.-M. .C., A. building in’ Birkenhead. All four movements, \bave swept but, whilst i denominational lines within vary- | religious denominat Trained Nursing and Scouting are | free of such limitations. Happily | all churches, Denominations, etc.. heartly endorse “and support) Scouting, and even Non-Chris=? tion nations support and join a} Youth Movement the Law _ of! which is (Par. 12th)—“A SCOUT) IS REVERENT. He is rever-nt towards God.” “He is faithful in his religious duties, and respects the convictions of others in mat- ters of custom and religion.” Baden Powell's first thoughts of character development intended for the guidance and training of young recruits, were in 1883, while he was only a Regimental Adjutant. He followed the mat- ter through the long years, and it was whilst he was the General in command of Mafeking, during | its long siege in the South Af- | rican War, in’ 1899, that he com- pleted his book “Aids to Scout- > | e385 It happend that Tf was in Lon- don when the news was flashed from South Africa that after its long and bitter siege of Hafeking bad whole of the British Empire cele~ brated. In London vast crowds thronged outside the ‘house of Baden Powell’s mother—cheering until their throats were hoarse. Wheeled traffic was impossible. I walked around to watch the jscene—and saw that gentle old lady smiling at the vast mass of people who had come to cheer— the mother of the man who had safely held Mafeking through its ‘And—not one of us there, nor} any man, dreamed that during that siege Baden Powell had been perfecting his book “Aids to Scouting” which in later adapta- tion was to be the basis of the Youth Movement which tire war were relatively, ~ a nation We did SR ey Te or cen the stark horror which.came, to m Nations—for the found their young man hood, of an age to bear arms eith- er killed, wounded and perhap¥ left disabled for life—or—in many cases, utterly disgusted with life in general and very unfitted to return to a normal everyday way of living. The happenings of the next year or two, with the Versailles Treaty creating discord and bitterness in place of a real Peace, and bankrupting the torn and weary world in place of re- building it and mending it in sane fashion, not merely led to the chaotic bitter breakdown which ensued and the general up- set which endures to this day, and in Europe have brought appalling ¢onditions, with War and Peace trembling in the balance — they of ours—and which during the World War, and in the black ‘Years which have followed. stood feat) increased with a sure and Steady growth, so that in this present day it functions in every part of the world, and in our country alone must have at this date in combined Boy and Girl Scouting at least three millions of boys and girls registered and growth of the Boy Scouts—their approbation by the heads of ALL religious denominations — one thinks of these words said of the. Boy Jesus—that He “increased in’ wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.” In very fact, during the 25 years of which the book “Scouting Marches On™ tells this splendid movement has increased in wisdom and in sta-' safely relieved; the, Porter, an island businessman, the| will be novel. For imstance. . . City Council determined to make/| there is going to be some novelty a last stab at resurrecting pros-| acts provided by the band mem- ley Pe rar entire island Braintruster” interest’ ‘to all—prize drawings Sth District HARRY L. BEAVER For County Commissioner First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE ‘Stonet The latter-declared he sees | will be held at various intervals no reason why Key West's glo-| which will prove profitable to a the magnetic attractions of @| ment on page one for admission pleasure resort. | details. begin to clean up the city, lay plans to rehouse and to restore POLITICAL song of Key West with paint and | Mostly with FERA funds and the island’s unemployed, partly whons Siust Geade out e-call. Key | FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY West is soon polishing itself up as. _ TO BE HELD MAY 3, 1938 tourists. For tive State | 1935. wrecking the immediate | hopes as well as the famous over- T. S. CARO thirty years ago, to the mainland. For Representative State With $3,600,000 PWA money, Key a tion-of the latest type off motor” highway. : i the island’s eager brow. ili Key noisy inpouring of race~ and honky-tonks? Will Key West tion of being thé Coney Island of the Florida Keys? March of Time now taking up his studies as a first-year student at the Harvard assignment with an anxious warn- ing to his Key West friends commercialization: “It’s going to take a lot of guts te keep them ries should not be converted into} number of patrons. See advertise- Stone and his FER assistants old homes, and artists sing the with the help of volunteers for a showplace for the expected *#eeeeeccoscoccsoooccocs Then comes the hurricane of ielature seas railroad built by Flagler. Legislature ‘ime shows the weds ras But now a new West's charm be despoli by a achieve only the doubtful distinc- shows how Administrator Stone, Law School, leaves his New Deal against promoters and unbridied out™. PIRATES COVE! FAMOUS FISHING CAMP TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE . PAUL’S TIRE SHOP Cor. Fleming and White Sts. —Courteous Service— PHONE 65 OT ae TREVOR AND MORRIS INC. 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