The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 14, 1940, Page 2

SES eee . ARTMAN, t Jor vst Citizen CLTIZEN PUBLISHING CO> INC ytat & 34 <? and Publisher ALLEN, Business Manager e Axsoclated Pres itled to use ches credited to ADVERTISING RATES spr . NOTICE { thanks, resolutions of be charged for at churches from which KEY WEST CITIZEN vor; never be applaud right; ver be the or- y person, clique, t for the ruption or gerous aliens turalization has as the paper his mind, just rs do, iin that the British are n their fields. Any- explode, Sbues » bug won't in- nN pain- sense? And observation most life msidered. in- is the found in st Indies. It delicious apple- in Key Monitor and to the delegating too to the icularly, that has operation country, the d butter ee ment re of of those in omes a and tionship s and the people an war han ever before enhanced. t better > learn their that the compul- it would be to ind Spanish made | dream of IMPORTANT WEEK OPENS Not that the past few weeks haven't been busy ones for a big portion of Key West's citizenry, but it does look like the one starting today is going to be packed of ¢ *n, perhaps more so than any this fall season. all of us are point- Wednesday and the county- lective Service Registration that will find some 1500 young men signing up to be classified later for service in the U. Army. Preparations have been com- d for this big day—it now remains for 100] principals and teachers to carry on as chiefs and registrars. we both governmental stated meetings this week. County commissioners will assemble ‘jal session on Wednesday, chiefly to the registration lists for the coming “tion, Oo lar In the first place towards Then have hodie councilmen meet for their second ‘ar meeting of the current month and important sub- lated for discussion at this meet- umored that several s are the new Draft Board is meet- in Miami together with similar bodies veral southern counties of the state to details of the classification work on following Wednesday’s regis- go over tration. today, there was an important { the local Red Cross committee, j of which -presages a most wrt project to be pushed in the near future. Last weekend's news stories carried other notices of meetings to be held s week—assemblies separate and in ad- dition to the regular civic bedy gatherings. Yes indeed—it’s a busy week we're starting today. The Citizen would guess that it’s the forerunner of many more of similar nature to follow. ERA OF ENCHANTMENT PASSES many Not many years ago men were saying that warfare in the future would be so horrible that nations would not dare to re- sort to war. There was even talk about the pres- sure of world opinion to restrain a belli- gerent dropping bombs upon _ in- ent civilians. The moral force of civil- erted, would prevent attacks upon helpless men, women and children. an indication of modern warfare, we note that the King of Great Britain has created new awards tor gallantry for “men and women civilians in all walks of life” and that “the George Cross will rank next to the Victoria Cro: Great Britain’s highest award. The new award is for gallantry shown by civilians in meeting the perils and dan- gers that come from air raids and the t rgs of civilian populations The era of enchantment which led the democracies of the world to follow the peace by disarmament has vanished completely. Instead, the peoples of democratic nations realize the necessity of arming themselves to defend their free institutions. They have witnessed the fall of small nations, short of defensive means bu © on neutrality, good will and the belief in the moral force of civilization. Hitler has taught the world some things, but in the end, the most valuable lesson that he has given us is the demon- stration of the futility of pledges and the recessity of power to defend the ideals of civilization. from ation, it was 4d ruth lon THE FRENCH AMAZE US The French planes, which recently bombed the British fortress at Gibraltar, have been “American-made Martin bombers, piloted by French fliers.” The anxiety of this nation to assist France to resist aggression results in. giv- ing the Vichy government the means of stri at its former ally, which is a farce in view of our efforts to aid the British. We confess that we have lost all re- spect for the Vichy regime. After bowing to the German invader these Frenchmen seem not only willing, but anxious, to do some of their dirty work. Every intelligent Frenchman ought to know that, despite the talk of “blow for blow,” the only chance for the establish- ment of a free French government depends upon the victory of Great Britain. Censequently, it is little short of mazing that any French government, re- gardless of what it has to do to appease the are said to Nazi army of occupation, should put any | impediment in the way of British success. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “AME HELEN HAVES has her hands full what with study- ing former stage and movie successes, other Broadway / dramatic hits and original stories in search of material for her new CBS radio series. “The Helen Hayes Theater” will take the air Sunday, September 29. EDDIE CANTOR of fore leaving for New York for tha start of the series on Wednes- day, October 2, over the NSC-Red Networ! It will be Eddie's fir: turn at the microphor for almost two year: RAGRAPHS IN APPRECI. Joyment ten respective States and the nati KY a O TION of the musical en- ed the peoples of the: nas a whole by Phil Spitainy, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, and Michigan's Governor Luren Dickinson presented the director of the famed a irl band with during the annual held at the The plaque Day Dinner Country Club in Toledo. plaque, signed by both executives, was presented following a performance by the orchestra’s glee club at the dinner. NOT GUNS FOR DEFENSE—but axles for the fleet of eighteen Diesel-electric locomotive units ordered by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to meet demands for increased passenger serv his order, the largest the East and Flori expects to shorten the running time between the East Diesei passenger sembly-line basis. 3on, When Coast PENETRATOR PENS “The te Pee in ae was 62 degrees one morning recently. We thought with our feather mattr camp storage-room Fortunately we have to be a never-ending supply of feathers, so we set to work t6 make a new feather mattress and a feather comforter. Our source of supply of feathers, is a volum- inous feather mattress that was handed down to us by Aunt Al- lie. Aunt Allie died at the age of 76 in New England but she had homesteaded in Florida in the 1880's, in a town that was called Mannfield. Mannfield was in- tending to be the county seat, until the railroad was run through Inverness, then Inver- the county seat and vanished entirel went to Inverness another old home- steac » had been a neighbor of Aunt Allie’s. He took us out into the piney .woods and we tried to loeate Mannfield. He knew the section well enough but there was not one stick nor stone left to show the location of the center of the little town of Marnfield. Everything had gone back to Nature as completel: though man had never live there. Except one thing, that we had almost given up hope of finding, the grave yard It was nearing su we i tramped through woods to one spot that the old homesteader recognized. It was nov sink hole, where“once there had been a lake. It was on the shore of this lake that Aunt Allie’s father had set up his boot and saddle shop. Even though Mannfield died and Inverness lived, Great-uncle Oscar stayed in Mannfield to die and was buried there We were hunting his gra In the fading light of evening. against’ setting sun We saw_a lone sentinel. It wa: one gravé stone Yt #tanding. We pushed our way through the brush to the hill-top. There were six graves, five of the head stones were lving flat on the ground. We cleared the weeds and located Uncle Oscar's stone. It was propped up again and we tock a picture of it to take back to New England to Aunt Allie. But the light of the day was gone, as Mannfield had, and the picture was not a success. Some years later we returned to the section again. Our old friendly escort of the first visit was gone, too. Alone we tried to find Mannfield but.we were unsuccessful. Even the faint trail of wagon wheels had finally been wholly obliterated. Ali that re- longing, about still in a n Key West. s became and the down onlv z ‘mains to us of Aunt Allie’s home-jhours later, a complete picture of i what seems °°" foe co in Florida, feather mattress. October 2nd New York furnace fire 7 tter date home in started my We suppose ancestors are rela- tives thrice removed. We heard about some Yankee traders, pos- sibly our ancestors, who sold weoden nutmegs. There is one hitch-hiker from California to Florida who has a trick up his sleeve. He learned it from some merchant sailors who were “on the beach” and therefore hard up and too poor to pay for a meal. The boy goes into a restaurant and orders a meal, consumes most of it and then Is the m: ger “Look’ he says, “a fly in this food.” The manager apologizes and offers to bring another meal but the boy now, after seeing that fly.” The manager says, “I’m very sorry. Just don’t say any more about it, and you needn't stop at the “s desk on the way out.” leaves without paying ys with a match box in his pocket. The match box contains his supply of flies. aa The mind plays strange tricks some times. I don’t know ther to attribute it to a one- track mind or just plain old age .. approaching, but twice recently I have walked out of a restaurant without paying for my meal. In the first instance the proprietor chased up the street after me to collect. I had no excuse to offer —just never thought about pay- ing. I was too busy at the mo- ment thinking out how I could write some items in this column that I had seen and heard in the restaurant The seeond time I didn’t pay up was in ‘a different restaurant s and one that I had never visited before.’ Next to me sat a charm- ing. friendly, gray-haired wom- an. It turned out that she could say such*things as, “Do you re- member the theatre ticket office on the corner of Tremont Boylston Streets? That was husband's ticket agency”. When the meal was finished, I wasn't eating in a little restau- rant in“fampa, I was coming out of Hougtiton and Dutten’s and trudging up Park Street to Bea- con Street, with mv eves on the golden dome of the State Capitol in Boston. I “came to” when I reach ie place where my car was pi but not wholly. I was back’ again ih Tampa all ght but‘I still didn’t remember about paving for the meal. Some my Ross, star of the stage and how to win at Hi-Ro. No, I couldn't eat a thing |”. whe-| SOCIETY'S NEWEST GAME CRAZE is Hi- Ro, an exciting new technique of matching at's on summoned biécks in played with individual trays. agp ee Here's Shirley movies, showing WHO KNOWS? — See “The Answers” on Page 4 1. How many * has the US When did the Gibraltar? When ference held? 4. How many British children have been sent to this country to escape air raids? 5. Is Dr. Alt American citizen? ny US. _ Senators lifference adj rurnme! nt of gress and a rec 8 What is known as the John- act? 9. Does a ¢ have te have a majority of popular ta he clected president? 10. When did Italy attack Ethi- opia? “flying fortr British ac- s the Munich Con vert Einstein an be- Con andidate the from vy mind. It first part of a mov Iw ed and surprised at r thankful to that policeman known as the subco: $s mind that was tanding gu over my tion fer honesty. He showed me I go t An wen back th day the 1 ager. although he had never me >, said, “I knew you'd nd mv exit like seeing the ie-over asain reputa- sheul v that the Florida. he in trade hitch-hiking boy ought to change from flies to aan Funeral Service Established 1885 “Funeral Seve | Licensed Funeral Directors and Embhalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 | and ‘| AY BY THE ror Oras. agree { a, (O22 2222222 COMPLAINT SERVICE. - . If you do nat Receive Your Cops of Bs 6 P.M Between 6 and 7 P.M deliver your copy of The Gitiee= (OL EL LLL LA Add igave KEY WEST 1020 4 & Mondays & Thursdays Arrive Havana 5:00 p.m the same afternoon. 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