The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1938, Page 6

PAGE SIX Eyeglass Springs Are “*" Stronger Than Auto’s +.». (By Associated Press) | SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., May 10. POCCoCCCoreDevssrseeseeceeveseoeveeseseesse20200C* | of Minnehaha Falls, and enjayed| In Defense Of Key West } | By FRANK W. LOVERING THE KEY WEST CITIZEN UNITED STATES SCIENTIST HAS j the open-air freedom of double- | decked trolley cars in Minneapolis before there were two-story bus- les on Fifth Avenue. —New springs for eyeglasses out-| do the riding strength of auto-)| mobile springs. | @Peecccccoesoecoce Editor, The Lakeland News oe I have watched vast leaden These eyegless cushions have In all that amazing pot-pourri recently been perfected by the/ o¢ truth and fiction that is weav- | f research department of American Optical Company here. They are made of a stainless steel which is Strongér“than the auto spring metals. Shaped like @uto springs, they. have three’ « above the ttier.' The longest is not more than a ‘quarter of: an inch. They are each seven thou-, sandths of an inch ‘thick. ¢ “They form an arch which is set lengthwise on the edge of a rim- less eyeglass. When the “strap,” | or clasp, is fastened to the glass, it presses the spring against the edge. YOUR OLD HOME TOWN (Coritinued from Page One) everything else forced on the mar- ket and bringing a price far be- low cost of production; thou- sands of splendid children in every staie kept from school by adversity and without their fault; 40,000,000 good American men, women and children, without jobs, credit, proper food and « ing and the selfish, pear pi wardly rich, fearful of a revolution sec- retely shipping their, ith to ‘ellipticalleaves,: one! ing itself into a strange fabric which circumstance has _ flung about ‘the lovely island city of | Key West—the ‘ghost-story of the | iow vanished Flagler Overseas | Tailway extension, and the slow, ;plmost’Stealthy steps by which Wvhe: {Hartitdtié-stricken roadbed WAS finally’ turnéd into a path of 4 salvation for the Overseas High- \mind: “Truth, crushed to earth, | shall rise again”. There is no danger to the safe- |and-sane automobile driver who, essays the trip over the bridges that once carried great Pullman | trains along the narrow ribbon of ‘concrete between fhe ocean and the Gulf, regardless of what scof- fers say that “the balustrades \aren’t finished and you'll go over the side”. The high curb-sills are ample protection. j waves beat thunderously upon | the North Bay shore of Lake Su- ;perior; and except for the scen- ;ery the spectacle might have | ‘been the drive of the sea against way, one thing stands out in my) FRANK W. LOVERING gin; Morse inventing the tele- _ the rock-strewn coast of Maine; or the waters of the Gulf pouring wind-scourged before a norther over and between the Florida Keys. . . ‘ ) I have unravelled the tangled 'skeins of that strangely evanes- cent commodity defined as News in a thousand places (the last four words a metaphor) while day burned in the sconce of Time, and night shot my contemporary undertaking through with the all too real barbed arrows of unlaid fear. . .and often danger stalked closely by... ! In the city, in the country, ‘chasing ministers and murderers ; (and one minister was a muder- er); at wreck and disaster and holocaust, while citi burned jand human beings died; in the ‘halls of government, and the seats of the mighty; in temples of jus- There is no danger of wiping graph; Dolbear and Bell the tele-' tice, where injustice sometimes against an approaching truck if phone; Marconi the radio, with Tules—bred of political enmity, care. The road, js standard width, |20 ft., usually four feet ‘wider than many of the brick roads ‘cloth-| the driver uses. even ordinary peForrest.. . Barnum hocus-pocus for.a,gap-, that;ing world—the Cardiff Giant, make a case. . . i business rancor, legal,,.mischevy land legerdemain marshalled the press of circumstance in! “to | LAST SAY RELATIVE TO VOLCANO By EDMUND A. CHESTER (By Associated Press) ST. PIERRE, Martinique, May 17.—Thirty-six years ago all of St. Pierre’s 30,000 inhabitants but one were wiped out in the erup- tion of Mount Pelee. But the town refused to become a “ghost city.” New buildings .struggled up on the wreckage of old. It was well on its way back when, in 1929, Pelee roared again. New disaster threatened. Res dents were terror-stricken. When an American volcanologist rived and calmly announ peril was past, St. Pierre scarce- ly heeded him. Lava spoke loud- er than words. A Boom Is On But though the mountain was angry from 1929 through 1932, the holocaust never came. The volcanologist came to be respect: ed. Now a boom is on the m in St. Pierre. Not a boom by Unit- ed States standards, perhaps, but {had been active since August. ,wafted to the deck from an un- the town denitely is on the up grade. The man who has given these people in the shadow of the vol- eano the confidence is Dr. Frank A. Perret, research director for} purst the Carnegia Institute. dst of the 1929 gut- He ar-) shown in the eruption of 1902, } | | | Residents of towns at the base of the mountain were fleeing. The scientist had not even wait- ed, until his arrival to begin his studies. He found some peculiar} ashes on the boat that brought} him here; learned they had been | usually severe outbreak of Pelee on December 16. When he got ashore he had a homemade earth-contact micro- phone and a folding pocket cam-; era in the way of equipment. He | © went right to work. } In his story of the “Eruption of Mt. Pelee, 1929-1932, Dr. Perret | says this: ; “Over all the northern section | of the island industry was para- lyzed and towns virtually evacu- ated. Sugarmills were closed, the cane uncut, the population on the dole, while over all hung the ele- ment of uncertainty and appre: hension. Must all these rich es: tates with invested capital | amounting to hundreds of millions of francs be forever abandoned? Exvresses A View “T concluded that after an out-} of the Plinian intensity when the materials accumulated} for“centuries had been blown the center and conduit, a mera Of.periodie eruption TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. _Dr. Perret risked his life many |ROSILLO LEFT ON oe times to complete his studies of : CLIPPER SHIP TOD AY Pelee. He built a shack high on. (Continued from Page One) the plains near the volcano and lived there alone: balleros de Marti, Caballeros: de A Sublime Spectacle “The track of the avalanche lay to the side of the station . - ‘la luz, Sacerdotisas del Hogar, and _ Grand Lodge of Caballeros de la instant and headed | Pierre, I hung a lighted lantern |expedition they were about to The chief dangers were heat and luz. Enrique Esquinaldo, Sr., gave on from the een — was the welcoming address to Rosillo, si a minute pee! out M. Vi k: Fe fom the at of te Malm ne aa ee Seas sublime spectacle! Two pillars of | d Saag eae cloud, “a thousand s ap-| Was the master of ceremonies. Last nig! nce and cock parently gaining in i Heil sparty atthe Ha- aegria at my shélter. 4 “As I darted‘ withi but was upon, me—né shock, but swirling ¢ laden wind, ,bringing darkness that tiight felt. I felt the gi parching my throat came a feeling of weaknes it carbon monoxide? It all last- ed for half an hour, but it was nearly an hour before the feeling of suffocation was relieved by a kindly wind. Sure that this phenomenon could not have gone unnoticed at St. ich the flyer ible were present. in Carlos In- je was host at "fy breakfast. Merecedi Wospital was vis- Tiptorcade"taken around the gity, and the San Carlos Institute Fand classrooms visited. Follow- ing this the party left for the plane, which came in at the Yacht Basin. na} | Miami was host to the Rosillo group yesterday, which flew from Cuba there, before coming to Key ; West. in my doorway as a sign that I/ was safe, and learned afterwards that my signal was seen by the police who abandoned the rescue SERVICE EVERY NIGHT (Except Saturday) 8:00 o’Clock undertake. .. . Next morning( suf- | fering from weakness and a badly | irritated throat-and nose, I de-| scended ie untain to St. Pierre, made my way | °Fimbo’s {1 have reported unnumbered “Hite ¢irayc tragedies and as an antidote have | ;Fecounted unnumbered joys. . . study, his sev: Europe and covertly laying plans , crisscross Florida like a gigantic the White Elephant; to Fort de Fiitins for treatment. | for us free and intelligent Amer- pots web. i bh ot Wife, the Mermaid. icans to have a dictator, like a ere is no flanger of a lot o! " f a j “Duce” of a “Fuehrer.” | things which people who are care- crude. tintypes 0 Daguerre; the but for a real human rest’ from death, Dr. : ee. | Jess in their talk, or who build on| Photograph, the motion picture story, the first Key Wari cluded “the warning that ed the | empty-headedness, or who have/and the sound film; television, the! driver who took oath by the hot she | not been on the highway, say and| motor car propelled by gasoline, , Pot in Paradise Lost that “we subma-| Pave ‘em here like that every :day” (meaning gorgeous sunris- eeenaetaae JECT TONIGHT: tubes or water- | ONEMENT’’ ‘ensue,-cach new, outbreak | nal. in. vielence to™the |, 7-7 quiet interval, during ; pee a) solidation ‘of lava and | gases in : etedes | obstruction of the vent Had been | a great eruption always gives’ going on. ample time for escape.” | “I therefore expressed the view | si Could Not Wait {that the most dangerous explo-| r. Perret reached Martinique sive effects of the eruption were | e collection of “Poor old China join Allies in the World War; could send no army or fleet—but sometimes say vehemently-about | castaway of , kerosene; she did send 162,000 coolies,|it—and, too, about Key West. Heda. wuapegincn welaee JUST A REMINDER 6 Le ‘ folks.of his trip to “ition-in Chicago in, whom the Allies used to dig. trenches, in France. The Allies desert her now. God in Heaven) will cause Japan to pay aplenty for her rape of a defenceless Na- tion—incidentally, a moral: Let's | get for a real defence} of America.”—Mr. A. E. Toad+ vine, Maryland. j Bors * Boyhood memories: Learning| my first prayer at mother’s knee —That.old swimmin hole—Wear- | ing that first stiff hat and acei-| erences to the Island City that! the Overseas Highway at once, sitting on it in church,! cometimes meet me smack in the Wedding and divorcing the ocean ‘sounding like a dry gourd break- ing in a hundred bits or a battle | in full fury. | * e @ | Grandma’s sayings: Old Luke Parsons made all his money in| our town and sneaked off to a) mail order house to save 30 cents ~-his. widow had to hire pallbear- ets one rainy day—No burglar ever shot a good cook—Divorces | haunt the home where maids and | goat's milk sugstitute for mother | You are building your Heaven) every day—Women don’t need to} be Shapespeares, Michac! Angelos | or Sir Isaac Newtons; they can} niarry them and own ‘em—that’s ‘much. easier. past * * “Tax termites these days: 5,000,- 000 United States office-holders , escape “taxes—Federal Employees | pay no te Income Taxes and} State, County and City employees | pay ho Federal Income taxes, | whieh is a burning and crying) American shame.” — Mrs. Alice | Harts, Georgia. | : ie ee Yesterday: Hearing Uncle Ned, sitting around Dasey and Lay- ton’s old store waiting for “preaching” to start.on a Sunday | morning and telling, the home! it, Conven- | watch- | If I had let the first denuncia- | tory words I ever heard about the city—and they were spoken there —sink in; if I had not investigat- ed to satisfy myself, I could not have come to love the city and its people as I have for nearly twen- ty years; nor to have written volumes for the press, nor to have published almost eight years there. The chatter about “safety” on the bridges, the blighting ref. | face—and swing—in centtal Flor- | @ ida where circumstance has set-~ tled me as editor of a newspa- per following the losses’ of the depression and the hurts tothe publishing business in the Island City after’/the 1935 hurricane up the Keys—these items and others of like import make me some- times so thoroughly angry that I am often impelled to hold myself in and speak with guarded words in defence of the “Old Rock”. My first visit to the city was with my wife off the Tampa boat down across the Gulf nearly two decades ago. We had been ill sev- eral weeks with the flu, and were secking health, That morning, | before dawn, I sat waiting to go. ashore while a porter packed our grips to the dock. A chap who had been a seatmate the after- noon before went hurrying past and I asked, “What hotel are you going to?” He = stopped short. “Hotel? Here? Hell, this is the last place God-made. If you can get out the same day you get in—get out! | the I'm going straight aboard : train for Miami He did, apg, at’the same in- stant I made a mental reserva- tion, which I afterwards found in| a Gideon Bible in my room at the . . © ing his goatee jump, up and down | Oversea Hote), was from Exodus lop ‘excitedly told of jumping up on | this great sigh “with bis “Adam's Apple,” as he, his chair and hearing the begin-| ning of that speech: “The farmer) who goes forth in the morning to 3:3: “IN stand aside now and see 9 ¢ Which ieads me into a bit of a Key West panegyric; and Key: till his fields is as much a busi-} West won't appear in it much un- nessman as he who goes upon the | til the end: Board of Trade and bids upon! In the remorseless roll-around the price of grain;” and he fairly | of the fascinating kaleidoscope of quivered from head to foot, as he} jife, whose tumbling contents, excitedly concluded that famous / rainbow-tinted, jerkily and con- Across es), did me not a whit less serv- great rivers; railroads coursing ice by that observation in inter- the rocky vitals of mountains, | preting a “story” than did the in- clinging to sheer walls of pre- | voluntary instigator of what was cipitous canyons; the Overseas'to be my growing love for Key Extension of Florida East Coast West; who said of it before I had railroad careering nonchantly proven it a cornucopia prolific down a trail blazed by coral, in- and stintless in health and happi- sect, engineers unnumbered aeons | ness nad adventure—“Hell, this is past, connecting (then) the Na-| the last place God made!”. tion’s mainland with its pulsing loquial Omega amending the Al- city farthest South; paralled part- | pha-and-Omega-like first verse in jly then (and now succeeded) by | the Bible: | telegraphed back to + col-; soon after Christmas, 1929. Pelee | already over; created the heaven and earth”. ee Commenting on which some irate news editor is said to have a reporter too verbose for the space demands that night, when the order to cut his copy had been disobeyed, “Story of the Creation was told “In the beginning God‘ in ten words STOP!” Ag | . that, under} watchful observation of the vol- the | cano, industry might well be re- sumed.” That is the simple story of the modest man who has saved Mar- tinique billions of francs in prop- ; erty and who has instilled in a superstititous people, respect for science, Although there were many, eruptions during the next three years, not a human life was lost. THAT ADAMS DAIRY IS ALWAYS READY TO SERVE YOU BOTH GRADE ek PASTEURIZED M. ILK ADAMS DAIRY GRADE “A” RAW PHONE 455 nd the Gulf... Gutenberg, Franklin, Mergen- | thaler, Lanston, Ludlow, promot- ‘ers of the basic industry of types! for the furtherance of printnig} house craftsmanship in the press | magic of the graphic arts. . .the ' Wright brothers, breeders at Kit- ‘ty Hawk of our: modern kings of | | the sky (and descendants in aj} transmigration of ideas from John } ibe Trowbridge’s fictional Darius iGreen and his flying machine);} |Bleriot, Lindbergh, Wylie Post, | Amelia Earhart. . .the Roosevelts | ‘of the nineteen hundreds and the} Roosevelts of tgday. . .each per- son whoever he be; each event, ; whatever it is (yes, even you and} me and the times we live in)—all | are but fragments of the passin; and all the world’s a; “The boast of heraldry, the pomp | of power, ' all that beauty, all that) wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour—j; The paths of glory lead but to the grave”. And . I have stood in awe at the base of the magnificent red rock spires ! that sentinel the gateway to the, Garden of the Gods in Colorado; have heard with the’ @lert)»,..,, ers of inner consciouisfiess» «the voice of the Creator; as He whis; pered through the lips.of Chey) enne Canyon where they open: Ay vertical horizon to the zenith sun; of a brilliant Colorado noon. I have ridden on the roof of a speech of Mr. Bryan: “You shal! thorns upon the brow of labor, You shall not crucify mankind on @ cross of gold!” . Young man, if you just must marry some girl, for pity’s sake, matry a good cook and. house- keeper; she will keep poverty arid divorces away. Times do;change and so do people. However, there is a modern Cinderella—not, the AoE of & ith who lost.her pro- ‘verbitil’ shoe; but: the sort Who cd St blush; whose lips have » never ‘Caresseti'a cigarette ora, Wine “flask; whose hands and; brains can cook a good meal, run a sober and Christian home well and economically, as well as make a tasty dress. Such a wife spells a happy married life till the very But she is getting as largely in some of our large cities old dinosaur; yet, bless her she is literally running in our towns and Smail . es 6 }stantly shake down New Deals, and many a time cast dark shad- ows, too; but ever pull into rest less focus the interests and ob- | jectives of the newspaper man, it has seldom fallen my lot to fare } forth free lancing for health; nor shad any other similar quest been sq.fruitful to this human galleon and ‘his wife in body and in spir- its ‘burtiished up again. . .in scenes ‘Maid off with the pigments of cir- wumstance on the parchment of memory by the frequently cramp~ ed brush of an adventurer striv- ing fot ‘Soptiomoris © standing in the artistry of words. . .most es- pecially these scenes born of matchless hours in the captivating environs of modern America’s hauntingly beautiful Old World Key West. he ia NEWS — North, East, West, South — people, circumstance, time, place: Who? What? Why? Where? How?. Lincoln slain by Booth at the end of the Civil) War; Garfield by Guiteau; Mc-; Kinley by Cazolgosz Sir Isaac Newton befuddled by the educa- tional blow from an apple; Watts . and his dancing teakettle cover | whereof the steam engine wasi tbern; Whitney and the cotton freight car up and down the fan- tastic Loop railroad laboring along a wild mountain shelf in Leadville; and up and down the famous Cog Railway in sunsets and dawnings on Mount Wash- ington. I have crossed the in- visible line between our country and. Canada—three thousand miles of frontier neither bristling with bayonets nor echoing the shot of a foreign gun—in the cab of a railroad locomotive beside the engineer. I have navigated the Mississippi with the stained planks of more then one stout muddy ... Waiting right around the corner...in nearly a million stern wheeler beneath my feet; laughed with the laughing waters f MONROE THEATER | M. 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