The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 1, 1941, Page 2

THOUGHTFULNESS a Counci] made two appropriations this | rf field. If that is so, then it can be said that | po2' the American soldier is made on the base- ball diamond and football gridiron. i Sane | It is with a feeling of sadness and a H | sad commentary on these times ‘that one’s | thoughts unconsciously turn td soldiers and | war even when the subject deals with peace- ful sports. | We are glad council acted so promptly | in making these two allocations, but above | } all, we feel there is a more important, im- | mediate reason. ernments. ' “3 Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 4. Aatperts—Land and Sea. | 5 Consolidation of County and City Gov- tury. Wh A dark, dismal, violent future faces | #%, to see the boys have as good a time as they are able while they are able. THERE IS A WAY QUT Hopeful maidens like to hear the ring in their boy-friends’ voices, B ON a Amelia _ A wager may be a fool’s argument, but it shows the courage of conviction never- theless. The United States, and other peace- loving nations, ean join together to police the world in faver of the peaceful develop- ment of all nations upon terms of equal eco- The United States has never lost a war, Te nor has the American navy ever lost a fleet to its ey including The Citizen, a bio- Sec i graphical sketch of Adolf Hitler, to be used (The Philadelphia Dispatch) in case of his demise. If may not display a There is a great deal of talk about freedom | Christian spirit to wish that the obituary | f the seas. But im fact there has been no freedom have early publication but it is human. | of the seas for several centuries and there will be | oy 0: eee {| no freedom of the seas for some time to come— {| When town boosters run out of other | perhaps additional centuries. Subjects, they always brag about the During the first world war there was talk of | climate; you can hear it all over the United | freedom of the seas. Before the United States en- States. Climate is something to boast } ‘e?ed President Wilson’s government was protest- about, when you've got it, and we’ve got | ing to England for interfering with our commerce it i Key West; it is not just a Chamber of | amd then later with the German Empire for sink- _¢ Sommerce-shout. — ing our ships. The freedom of the seas was one of | te the fourteen cardinal points, yet nothing was done about it when it came time for writing the peace. ‘Lloyd George, then Great Britain's “big shot,” bkantly informed President Wilson “that Great Britain could not subscribe to the doctrine of free- | dorh of the seas. Great Britain will not subseribe to | it after this war is over, although she is of course against submarine warfare and always will be. There is a reason for Great Britain's refusal to subseribe to the doctrine of freedom of the seas. | The British Isles have to import most oftheir food | and it must come from across the seas. It is there- fore vital to Britain that she keep control of the sea-lanes. To fail to do so would invite starvation | at the hand of the first enemy who came along [ For John Bull therefore to aecepet full freedom of the seas would be to commit national suicide, and he is too smart to do that. 3 | She wa’ | of her.” _ | The tone of thé German press nas un- | ergone a curiotis change. For instance, in | a recent article Propaganda Director Goeb- bels seemed actually pessimistic as to Ger- | many’s chances. He didn’t say that in clear | words, of course, but the intimation was | that the Reich had a mighty tough job on her hands and that victory was far away. His statement was later followed by Von Ribbentrop’s dubious point of view that the war may last 30 years. Country newspaper editors are up in arms over a recent interpretation by the Wage-Hour Administrator which applied the Wage-Hour law to them. Daily news- papers, have, of course been under the law from the beginning, but Congress specially | “xempted weekly newpapers with circula- ions of less than 3,000 fromthe law and @aturally the country editors thought it meant just that. But no, the Wage-Hour aman says not if you print letter heads which cross state lines. So the weekly newspapers will be made to comply with this law and * not only that but be required to make com- pliance retroactive. The good old days of a shirt tail full of type and a Washington hand are gone forever—Sanford Herald. They may not have been the good : but they certainly were easier on . Today a fortune is re- . even a small daily, and the ‘social security, gid age bene- have heen considered invested capital seas we have had for centuries—and that is free- | dom of the seas for Great Britain and thse whom. she desires to see enjoy the luxury. ee The Nazis have of course never been for frée- |° dom of the seas either. They want to conirol the | their conquest, In doing this the ships of the | — United States and small neutrals as wel as bel | ligerants have suffered, and a wave af indignation | has swept over the people of the United States, | and rightly se. But even if Nazi and Italian subs | ‘were-not operating there would be no freedom of | the seas. If you don’t believe this just try to get a shipload of food over te the hungry people in Eu- rope. No matter what kind of peace treaty we have, cause self-preservatiog is the first law of nature. : we e Jey Morris, but Mr. Morris, ac- “alae 4 right, she might have poi- | soned Carol, But she never would | j Rave mistaken Eve for Carol no tier what Eve was wearing. e's been with Eve for a cen- that Amelia . . | don’t think she could have done| squashed my hopes, however. Alexandria. In Pointed out with great pride the|grope nervously in my bag for a elerk who had been so helpful | cigarette. Jeff shook his head at + on his previous visit. said very gently, we talk to you for a little while,| must have looked like a scarlet i BF It is likely that after the war is over Great | ear - « + Britain will insist on the kind of freedom of the free nied saytitng ore. Se ocean lanes te starve out England and complete | | = Ses THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Kelley month which passed without comment. ! Chapter 17 be astound her ail the time be- They were small allotments totalling only Amelia Next aye te the conver- $150. On the surface they seem relatively | Bs ene made the scene,” Jeff fn baek to Carol. “Amelia, did unimportant, and yet, we like to think they | _~ Sung over his shoulder as he| 28S Mlanton ever seem fright- will bring great returns to Key West. | irene the Hotel Bectol ”*| avoid any one person in the com- z The first of the two appropriations was | ge you under the impression at Femember | when they a $50 donation to purchase football equip- you're tracking down ‘the fo fied so | menet for boys. The second made this week | Soyns't" | asked sweetly when) ©20"the oie Samal poorest allocated $100 to improve a baseball | «Pm anxious to see the expres- i 2 er an een Ft happens my face| Amelia” Jeft said yasany ever made by any city | will have gone to claim its just] »)-2,"Vcr even left her for more «| council. Pees dak rac was.to do sométhing for her. She | They are important for 9 great many | why Alice tett the teste Bet | Sida't ‘ap wie ee | reasons, the least of which isthat it will | did all Bet a. = zal afraid that someone would find ; keep the boys off the streets. j me soul | out. pe eee ane iment i the imteasive argument that | gaa’ fs i Mamas | te fo Micha ee the boys will be made to feel, in a manner | ever promised her Carol's part,| doesn't know ‘anyone there, she ADVERTISING RATES | they understand best, that the city fathers ' Set ot for the stat a was pe there, that’s all. I re- __ Mad@ known on application, | and the city policemen are their friends and twice, he knew she was broke,| brought here into’ the hospital. Y a aime aa ttBOne Romicm | not their enemies. | fips Sather an'ihore was'ts|"F fonticd “irs arm and we of thanks, resolutions of i i | ik® slipped Rigi sti casei ns "ts we "| eng prieh soldier in made om the rugby |sapEgeragsTést Tomes ba t| beled Go, {venld see Ae } folding a burnt orange negligee over a trunk hanger. Last night there had been hos- ror and tragedy, but it was garish and fantastic. This aftermath was real, heartbreakingly real. I jmost ran out of the building, away from that bleak place where |Eve North had lived ana where | now a tired old woman was put- ting Eve’s house in order. Too, Too Pleasant T= thought of facing the dev- astation of England's leading man of letters had left me weak. with Secretly I was praying that Mr. 'y, it’s just preposterous| Greeley Morris was still not to . Jeff, surely you|be disturbed. The desk clerk didn’t. Tomm: out. to the operetor at the After a brief bit of phone-play, 't know who did it. Bat | he announced brightly that ME i “I don’ @ A Modern City Hospital. | our lads of today. It is they who face the | Amelia's been Spotnd the theater | be wold, see us. I followed | aes 5 ime. Eve didn’t keep | Jeff unwilli into ti E - — a =| uninviting prospect of suffering and per- her busy. she had nothing much| “But oye ee ‘ 2 e ie ing i jo. She might have a clue, a} him, Jeff? I don’t want to.” Too many things go in one ear and out | 84PS dying in a world they never made. cis de Kise, with tinsel ged] “EhEh! The oneteines way “be —the mouth. The reason, we confess, is that we want | not even know it.” |im his pay. Twelve, operator!” We pulled up in front of the| We stocd outside the door num- the lobby Jeff} bered 1211-3 and I started to | me. The door opened and Greeley opened the door and! Morris blinked in-our faces. He twhen I saw her I was so. 1} was still in his pajamas. thad let Jeff come. It none wat “Good afternoon, Mr. Morris!” ¢ruel to bother her with ques- | Jeff’s accent on the good was ter- | tiens and pryings. It would be| rific. }eompletely heartless. Her dark) ugly face was filled with grief,| for seconds while I grew crimson The playwright looked at us swollen with cryi }and small. When he had finally ing. “Gould reduced. me to something that i ‘i i Amelia?” pygmy, he said, smiling with j al action. So why should we change our | "Mic of opportunity everywhere in the | “SVS che indicated chairs for| hie line: “De come we tie — technique! world. We can accept this idea of ¢aopera- | us and stood watching us with ne to see you.” sf * @ weary patience. | rying to act as if I tion or war can make up our minds to be- “We at you bs leks wif you noticed that he waa in ee Something is brewing in Russia and | °°™¢ 4 militaristic people, whose everyday [ean OT erat wee & Siahihe dae 5 S81 life inc ondioced-ak Galaie a ‘Yes. {cuit tesk, I followed Morris into something is cooking in Africa. That's | #¢ ® moat solely for the ends of PES Degryse | ps aig bl sorry i i tried ‘arol Bianton, we'll| Jef saig blithely, “Tf: poms for the inner man, and the sol- wr = everlasting preparedness for | Oy ‘who led Mise Nez th. You hag to intrude nS arate ‘iers ha m4 insta! . 7 it t you, Ame-| "m= sure that you had al- ve in prospect both drink and food. |lia? And we think vou can help| ternative. Do you mind if I clean FREEDOM OF THE Sicand tie thats a hasta er |e: Negences” meee 5 4 | eater a lot, ai - ‘00m. ri t t The Associated Press has forwarded OF THE SEAS i and performances You|Dolt. I must have shown it, for might have noticed something / Jeff plunked me into a chair and that none of the others did.” | Stood over me. itched Jeff intently. “Pm; “This will be over before you ways. around the theater when know it. I just want to find out North is hat kind of a guy he really is.” Playing. I took care | W! | “He doesn't look like a mur- | “i know you did, Amelia. You | derer in his pajamas. Jeff, do you | were doing something for her that i have a pair like that?” Poison was; “Where would I get a pair like glass, |that? They probably cost nine pounds, ten and‘a half. With only be Her head bobbed slowly up and | ome paif of pants.” down. “I was putting on the wa- ter for her tea. She didn't have | barrassed when Morris asks you } an entrance early in the third = at was taking my time.” | his m you crossed the stage to | was leafing y= a large flat the itchen did you see anyone?” book that he had found on a eor- “Lots of people. Almost all the ner table. On the third page he were there working.” “Are you going to em- | what the de “I want | began te roar. “A # And Jef® was still chuckling, but he = managed to replace > tea and im a min-/ books and move away from the Miss Thompson came } table before our host Miss North's} His dressing gown made me a in fact, all his clothes oe and ordered pet of collen, a lit one of his long peculiar | F i i sit i 4 ith a @ Question in his eyes, wi it and it was evidently an 2 ~ i - 2B ie | i i L i of & ig He é ak aa Ff if af i va H bi i N. E. ist Street at Biscayne Boulevard Union Bus Station MIAML FLORIDA SUMMER RATES UNTIL DECEMBER ALFRED SIMONS, Manager ephave buzzed. Morris an- | —_-___———— —__ BEY WEST _- There is a town I think best— Is the little town of Key West it is warm aii the year ‘round— Snow is never on the ground Key West has beautiful blue skies— Blue just like a baby’s eyes When you walk dowm the street Noboy ig grouchy, but ready greet. If you want to take a vacat Come to the twon nation. ROBERT STANLEY ARCHER (Ql years old) ttle Key West, Fla. Dec. 1, 1941. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Tex Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizes Yesterday and today the San- taea Cigar company employed 40 new cigarme ers to help fil extensive C. order: T. Jenkins while tempting to a ticks, lost the house. He a coat and two diamond ‘Mr. Curry had saturated the walis and floor of the house tc kill the insects. the gaso- as doing its « spark fro’ yard was blown i and set it aflame. Twice-a-day ferry service wa inaugurated by Mon ferry system th ings of the boa and No Name eous. mo ror were itaultan- The Stephén R. Mallory Chap- ter, United Daughter of the Cor federacy, will meet with Mrs. Al lan B. Cleare at her home on North Beach. Lievt. J. B. Lynch, of Opa- locka, fiying field near Miami had Mrs. Menner as his guest in his plane yesterday and circled the island several times. Personal Mention—Frank H Ladd left yesterday for a busi- ness trip to Miami. . Mario Lo-4 pez, who was visiting relatives in Havama and other points in Cuba, returned yesterday. Mrs. Paul DiNegro left yester- day for Miami taking her little daughter for treatment by eye specialist. The Citizen, in editorial para- graphs, said: “Certainly nobody can deny the reasonableness of Fire Chief Baker’s request that automobile and people be kept far enough away to enable firemen to work without serious handicap. If this ordinance can’t be enforced the city might just as well tear up did as be pleased—provided he was big enough” + “Some Les Angeles miscreant recently stole nine skunks. prob- | ably the foulest (smelling) crime | Today’s Horoscope Today's disposition is enthus- jiastic. pessibly inspirational, | very impulsive and_headstrong,_ view that by in any case it wil} carry with it its share of trouble, due chiefly to excess of zeal. |DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN _ Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery , GENERAL PRACTICE t ‘$25 Whitehead Street Key West. Fia. Phone 612-W i —24-Hour Duty— seccee Seeeces sccercesesesesers Classified Colamn eeerecsecsse ce sceeeseeesewers 9 == * . —_ Adverusers snauid give ther FRITS ad@reas @ wel as thee — number i they dese - = + ec adver a ym of x . amen a a = = ie FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS ee << FOR SALE E i om om Ses Ss BAR = ~ se = N JONES = ~owe: TRAILERS. r al — 2 ~ = = Tock? —— = ae Be | I UTBOARD MOTOR BOAT. 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