The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1941, Page 2

“PAGE TW TWO = mt Weat Cit Giticen cept Sunday bag rexident and Publisher N, Business Manager From The C:tizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets saOnly Daily Newspaper in KageWest and mrog County ee Hl al second class matter “noe 4g exclus' Tom-republication all news it or-not otherwise eredited im this paper and also thejocal news published here. bse ~ Ent@rgd at Key West, Member of Pres y entitled to use | NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION - 1941 *% SUBSCRIPTION RATES One-¥ear aes 3ix Months Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete, Will be charged for at the rate of 10 cent ine. Notices for ente ment by churches from which revenue is to be de d are 5 cents a The Citizen is an open forum and in sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, "MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN e~ Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern Cit) Hospital. Old age of necessity must wrinkle the face, but not necessarily the spirit. epetene aay After weeding the garden, cne may get that kink out of his back by whitewash- ing the ceiling. Tt is amazing how easy it is to start an argument with a man who is getting some petty graft, on the side. Kinudsen and Hillman both admit dis- satisfaction with defense progress, That seems to make it unanimous, A eritic a aaclataa that there is too much love talk in modern fiction. And per- haps. too much fiction in modern love talk. ‘America is a place where the farms are peopled by men wanting to go to the city and the cities are filled with men anxious to get out on the farms. It’s just human nature to put the blame ‘for everything on somebody else, but a man begins to make progress when he blames | aereeeeings on the preper person. Many eats piainte of* traffic violations reach The Citizen. Lay enforcement of- ticers should keep their eyes peeled for.vio- 43 and arrest the violators if novatten- is paid to the warnings of the officers. _. Here is a recent statement we have mt: “There are more than fifteen million dogs in the United States that eat twenty million pounds of food a day That's more than many of our ill clad, ill housed | and ill fed destitutes get for their daily ration, The omicsion of a word and graphical error inadvertently one of The Citizen's editorials and we were raked over the coals (on such a hot day) at onee, While the inadvertence was obvious, {Ga Rieticulous criticism showed the edi- térials are read attentively. We are pleased t@kiOw they are so read and scrutinized. CMfitism is always welcome, for we profit bycthem. a typo- =. “Thisseolumm has aioted several times that the United Stategis not helping Eng- land because of love for het but because | we-love ourselves, and believe that the aid We are giving the peope of that country méans helping ourselves, President Roose- vali Stressed that point in his recent fireside cW&t, and Senator Charles O. Andrews, in a COmmercement Day address at Rollins Col- lege June 5, expressed himself similarly, to the-senior graduating class. He said: “The basic consideration in our new international policy now developing is not sympathy for otfiers alone, but self-defense. It is common sense to reason that helping the victims of aggression to win is one way to prevent the spread of havoc by the aggressors « to | own country,” our aatches credited to | MEMBER = 4 | SHOR ASSOCATION tes discuss f oceurred in | TEN YEARS AGO TODAY ee Readers of The Citizen's “Ten Years | Ago Today” column hardly can escape be- | ing struck by the fundamental changes which have swept this city in one decade. | Men and women have been born, failed, and finally died. In most cases it comes as a shock to realize that a given | event actually was 10 years ago. All that j is but the natural flow of life in any com- | munity, however, and is not what we meant | to discuss. The changes in Key West, revealed by The Citizen’s files, are a change of an entire | way of life, of a community viewpoint, which is not duplicated in other cities. consider the history of Miami. The changes in 10 years or 20 years of true. A giant city has mushroomed out of the first time after a decade’s absence probably would be unable to find his way around a Miami block. time :t was large enough to find its place on or nothing else. now, but a playground right on. But look at the interests of Key West 10 years ago: Leading Florida and third in the na- tion as an exporter to foreign countries; | back from its position as sponge center of tthe nation; shipping mile - and - a - half freight trains loaded with pineapples; few | tourists making the long journey here over the ferry boat system. Of all the interests that once pre- occupied this city, only the least has mained—the tourists. All that we have said is obvious, but it should be made even more obvious. The Key Wester, who says as he did a decade | in the same Key West. SOME SUPERSTITIONS Among the hundreds of superstitious beliefs still held by otherwise intelligent people may be named the following, com- piled by a recent writer. It is bad luck to spill salt or break a mirror. or wrong side out by mistake brings good | luck. Fish is a brain food. Handling a toad will eause warts. Only the good die young. It is unlueky to light three cigarettes month are unlucky, especially if they hap- pen to fall on the same day. To pick up a | pin means good luck. Crops should be | planted according to the moon. Knocking wood averts a penalty for boasting of for- mer good luck. The list of such superstitions and be- liefs is almost endless. And it is not only | the ignorant who aet upon such beliefs. Most people, nce “those who have achieved greatness, pet. super- stitions, To mention about dreams. President Cleveland always } carried a horse chestnut in his pocket for luck. Mussolini consults astroiogers. Bill | Tilden of tennis fame carries a fourleaf | clover. Poli Negri thought her sereen | career was damaged by a black cat crossing her path. Chalaipin, famed opera star, al- | ways put on his left shoe first. Sarah Bern- hardt would not let any of her company wear yellow, Napoleon feared cats and maneuvered his armies according to the stars. Some hotels and office buildings omit the 18th in numbering their floors, in deference to superstitious guests and ten- ants, A small minority of persons are hard- boiled enough to call all these superstitions the bunk, and defy them accordingly. How | about yourself? Would you walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella indoors? BOMBERS, TANKS AND SHIPS The latest report on the needs of Great Britain include: (1) Enough heavy bombers to elim- inate the convoy problem ; (2) Heavy tanks to meet the assault of any mechanized forces which Germany may succeed in landing in Britain; and (3) Ships. This is said to be the substance of con- fidential information given the President by James V. Forrestal, Under-Secretary of the Navy, who has just returned from | trip to England. a grown up, had children, been successful or | For instance, as the nearest example, ; | Miami history are startling enough, it is | nothing, and the visitor who returned for | The difference is that Miami, from the | a map, was shooting for tourists, and little | It was,a playground then | and it is am infinitely bigger, playground | cigar center of the nation; slowly slipping | ago, “hang the tourists,” is no longer living | Putting on a garment backwards | with one match. Friday and the 13th of the | President LinéoIn was superstitious | THE KEY WEST ¢I YESTERDAY; It was only by chance that Eileen Gardner found Martin Dane when she came on to try to make.a place for her- self in New York. And now she has found. him, and knows that he really believes a woman has the right to court a man just as much as the other way around, she is deliberately trying to arouse his interest. Eileen and Martin are skating, at Martin's camp in the Adirondacks, Chapter 21 House Divided Mae bent, without losing the rhythm ot their waltzing, and kissed her lightly. ... And then, of course, the rest were scrambling down the bank,, clink- | ing onto the ice. Bill Grant had seen the sort of skater she was. He took her over. And presently she found he was | talking—which was odd, because so far he hadn't except to indi- | cate needs. “Swell skater,” he said. | “Thought Caroline Said you were | @ cashier from the lower East Side. Good dancer, are you?” Eileen said, “I come from a mountain state, I've skated and skied all my life. Yes, I dance all right, ‘50.’ \ “I like athletic girls,” Bill went j} on, “But mostly they look like hetses, Or they aren’t stayers. You're little afd cute. But I’ve | watched you. Stayer.” She’d made a friend of Bill | Grant. She hadn’t known how she wanted a friend. More warmth | that she knew was in her manner | as she looked up and laughed and said, “Thanks a lot, Bill.” Stayer! You had to be a stayer | to earn a living; girl alone in New York. You had to go on and take it; poverty and monotony, head | up under rebuff. Smiles, no mat- ter what people said and did to you—good work, no matter how | your body ached and revolted. And this big kind fellow called her a stayer because she wasn’t T'm go too tired to skate the day after an | all-day drive! “T’m a stayer, too,” he was say- ae ,, When I say things I mean re- | “Fine answered she didn’t know | what, her eyes on Martin and | Caroline, swinging past them to “When I Grow Too Qld to | Dream.” Her heart turned un- | bearably, inside her. She’d have him to remember—hunting work —living hungrily and shabbily | and lovelessly, for years after * See Bill said, “We'll get a swing } Babs os and dance. tonight. O.K.?” | So they dancea that ightbhe | | was a novelty. She was a good dancer. The men snatched. her | one from the other. Lewis, danc- ing with the careful unaccus- tomedness of a man not in a dan | ing set; Bill, sound and predic’ | able; lank collegiate Roly Per- rine, light and amusing as a cat, | “* a crazy improviser—and Martin. Martin was nearly professional. He’d have been heaven to dahce with even if he’d been bad. As it was, she forgot Bbdets but | happiness. For all the difference in Meir heights, they danced as | they had before, like one person. They were in a far corner as the band swung into an old thing “Kiss me—kiss me—again!” She tightened her hold. She tipped up her face to his, smiling | down. She sang the words... . He laughed. “Sweet kid!” he| | said as he had that afternoon. As | he stooped to kiss her she clung to him. For a long moment they kissed like lovers. . . . And the dizzy minute was past; they were down the room again. He was flushed and stirred. But it might be kissing any warm ex- | ;, cited girl. Caroline. Anyone. And then Bill took her over. She discovered next dened | eee | that her temporary queendgm had done two things. It had fastened Bill to hbk 'for“good. He was a stayer. |A! i had decided the girls to gai against her. It was reasonable enough. She | herself was a little outsider, as Lewis had said. But it hurt. She’d been fool enough to think Robin, at least, was her friend. But Robin was on guard like a furious plump kitten. And Mar- tin, after that one moment, seemed to have withdrawn him- self. His changeless mask of amused courtesy was all she she could touch. Trained Ankle [= said to her coolly next day—“What about Bill? He is sunk. He's well-to-do—and to make up for being not as rich as 7 a lot steadier. Bird im the a were standing on a slope, thing breath. She did nat non She pulled away and fee, darted down—a i way. oxo waiting at the Bottom. “Like @ bird!” he said. “Bet you . epuld " ‘s on the rottenest! gow A t her and she weit flat in the snow. i stood id her. She reached up a hand. He shook his head. “Not this time. Bill's turned with the trained ankle,” he said and struck off 3 the hill again. He overtook Today’s s Horoscope Today produces a versatile and sometimes an eccentric char- acter. disposed to begin more. crajects than can Some through education, iseemingty alert and Eileen, her eyes filled with an- rly. lo!” she said. “Leave minha tees ne Se only. laughed ad- © and steered: her back up ‘| tow — Se pes Caroline, ies dees wand ea about her as usual, the men up, made peg aa the next. day. round the “We'll sleigh up the mountain. It's" just a nice ride. Then w ski down the off other side and across the little lake. And we'll tele- phone from the road call box for as many reservations at Gillam’s roadhouse as have guts left to — it. bape a is sleigh _ along evening stuft-—one aight of efileaion. = Right, boys aS Caroline thought Eileen a a decent evening dress. Caro! her ihomanpcrd had somet! ways, Eileen’s, fightin; spirit rose to meet it—that tinued deliberate, eat done exclusion. And—it sounded Lage a swelt party. There was Bill, her friend, anyway: And the men®* dance with “pie ski ‘with her. She’ ca fake It es more ough her: an jyinoueh was whim. ~*~ i Bat they, came gown me Eileen .stayed. in Toom noon that Cra ‘ia ae ari nies snowfalls thi | the roof, and it [a ‘out daralng slush and | water on their own skatin, ange vo Noting, doing ng” = Mastin at | to the out at ease on jhis spine, 3 “Better get | a ook an ENonsense,” Caroline sala. “Tt won't: taethawed up’ the moun- tain. that lake's sheltered. | Raaset Perrine drew Robin to the window and argued with her in a low voice. Robin’s vaice went up sharply. “Damn it,/I’m not dating tha’ t fool stork yet a while. Tm going to So was: Loli. Martin’ stretched ® “Better let you i Mountain and see lingering behind the coher Per wy for Pei . clothes, came slowly aver tin. She said get won't go if you Ces Yd better not.” He did eat look at/her. He said shortly, “Suit yourself.” walked out, leaving her with Lewis, who hi ing obliviously at a‘ pay card table. Lewis was her Nsgers S but a frank enemy. They cow! have it out. Upset ?HAT have I done to them V all? hada ha ippened to Martin?” she asked. ee He said, “Ne kno answer i arts Baa ras | iow how saan’ tea oun Sh vi ae re Jam, e i vole ees Dies ae thea > alba ieorpaa tin, Sheol Fa liked her. it " ve more Sees ie ae out, gry tears, felt Bill aa , fet Bit palling hee uo. | { He | been work- | | DAYS GONE BY ' | Happenings ‘On Thi This Date Ten’ Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen — | Miss Louise Cleare, daughter | lof Mr. ee is denon eee | Seg ped? ja a Stone Johnson, | jof Mr. | both: of this city, last night were | “Vay ppginted by. the schoo} board to; ereated by three resignatjons | loud Unc nob for om SRBUOnal | teacher. ell | Miss Sadelle Albury failed to’ japply for reappointment, while | Miss Florence. Albury: announced | FOR |she will return to the state uni- | ‘versity for women at Tallahas- see, and Miss Mary Roberts said ishe and her family are moving | {from Key West. | Five hundred days after the | ;eontract has been awarded for | construction of the new Key ic postoffice, the contractor | must be ready to turn the finish- | led building over to the severe | | ment. No; time limit has been pe , however, in which the contractor | { must begin work after his bid | |has been accepted. ' Plans, and, specifications are | inow at the postoffice and Post- i | master Charles’ S. Williams an- | nounced they may be seen. by | any prospective bidder, although copies must come from the of- fice of the supervising architect | at Washington. _ | (By Associated Press)—Al Ca- | ‘pone, gang leader, today was in- | dicted by ‘a federal grand jury | hes violating income tax laws. Hl ‘Three hundred and ninety-six| TWO BEAUTIFUL STREAM-| son Hotel, phone 9118, strong, members of the Grotto organization, Mystic Order Veil. | jed Prophets of the Enchanted | Realm, invaded the city bal morning. Under the leadership of Grand | |Monarch Charles Minsinger, the | visitors arrived from St. Peters- | |burgh, via Tampa, aboard the! steamship Florida on a post-con- ‘vention tour, and left three hours later for Havana, where they will visit until Tuesday. The Citizen, in an editorial, | ' said: “Most Key Westers doubtless ment to legalize race-track bet: | ing in Miami, They are actuat led by the thought that this will | | bring more people to Florida, and jby a feeling of tolerance—the | belief that, in some things at | Neneh, a community should de-— ne ¥ for itself what it wants and ‘Such reasoning, easily under- | stanetanie undoubtedly led some | influential local folk to lend ‘their to the movement, whieh in the overriding ‘of the governor’s veto. There is| hor they considered sear $300 CASH for q phase of the matter. “For, laying aside considera- | tions of any moral ang’e of the | question—a matter which 0 | anerenecringiiemenincnenee individyal should settle for him- | self—there can be no question bot that “racing . in Miami will be detrimental financially to. Key. West’, | | Todav’s Rirthdavs | Harold D. Smith, director of. the * the Federal Budget, born at Ha- : feet He i : 3 ven, Kansas, 43 years ago. | Admiral Russell R. Waesche of | | the U.S. Coast Guard, born i | Thurmont, Md., 55 years ago. ' | Dr. Elliott P. Joslin. Harvard | Medical School professor emeritus | |of medicine, born at Oxford, | | Mass, 72 years ago. | Will James of Billings. Mont.’ artist-auther, boro in Montana,’ | 49 years ago. Mrs. Frederic M. Paist of Wayne, Pa, YWCA. leader, Dr. Harvev N. Davis, president - Providenee, RL. 60 yours ago ; ‘Thomes Mann, famed exiled German author, born & years aga Cost of constructing the Trans- Irenian railroad from Tehran to. mere than | peeseccecanacce _TYPEWRITING Sheets, 75c, The Ariman P a Three bundles for Se. The he zen Office. jan25-tf ceadeccoesece eee roeececec FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1941 neecqcqeecececos Classified Column PROFESSIONALS LOUIS A. HARRIS Attorney at Law 21% Duval St. Phone 252! Co ee a {TLLING WORTH wt SUROPEAN TR |e15 Eueateth Sk res Se ea Engine. Will! full or part: R., The Citi- . h.p. Gray Marine exchange for lot, payment. Box B.! zen. 1938 DODGE, 7-passenger Just the thing for Guide Party | work, See DEACON JONES, ! 621 Division street, jun6-2t Sams oe_ Reo “sens For 5 A sad becpatte eect, “aor: SS THE ARTMAN| | |1S-FOOT “CABIN ER, A-1 and license; exti cash, Apply Box x Citizen. may2i-tf FIRST $100 takes 20-ft. Cabin | Cruiser, Can be seen in back} of Aquarium. Cactus Terrace. | jun5-tf LINED BICYCLES, Practically new. Will sacrifice. One man's | and one lady's bicycle. Inquire Miss Davis, Chamber of Com- | merce, phone 599. juné-2t | | soueaprareesniesina-anr~pacireceatiicin | 36 MASTER CHEVROLET = DAN, 4-Door. Apply 731 Caro- | line street. jun6-3t | FOR SALE or will trade for Key | West property: Six-room house in South Miemi, four blocks from Post Office. See R. R./ Schowalter, 615. Fleming street. | i jurs-4tx i tana fear guarantee, $55. Write Box D. D,, The Citizen. jun5-3tx PAPER — 500! FOURTEEN Fully ois caraen ‘k sale, lot 12,' es * e . Washington street. Murray, Columbia Laundry. . phe yotenengge angen = ae ‘a in| BOAT PROPELLERS, lavatory; also 25-ft. chain; also severg) Tearing ay | gines. Gray's Pishery, Ojus, POSoameeoacerensaceneeegearen: ROOMS IN NEW, MODERN HOTEL. Hot and cold running water. Tile baths. eeongnes cto steady. people. oe vl anon a Three-bedroom house; cool and the itil two of the foyr vacancies Specialized Summer Instruction . FURNISHED Piano, ootianeny Band or ‘ s eee! wit hace eed Two-bedroom upstairs apart- t™ent with ¢ool porch. and Charles St. may31;wkx ———. Arnly. Arteraft Studio, Telegraph \ WINTER RESIDENT wishes de- sirable tennant for Summer months. References required NEWLY FURNISHED APART- MENT; all medern ¢onyen- iences; hot running water. Ideal for couple. Summer rates, No children or pets al- lowed. Apply 100 Packer street. may30-tf WANTED 00| WAITRESSES WANTED. Curb girls preferred. Experienced. Good pay. Apply Stork Club, may30-tf WANTED—Transportation to Mi- ami Thursday morning, with party leaving Key West not later than, 3:00 a. m. Call Gib- jun6-2tx WANTED—A chance to bid on your next printing order. The « Artman Press, aprd-tf /PICTURE FRAMING, bape frames refinished. matted, Paul DiN 614 Gia Francis street, apr a RIDE TE ms Teer ory.