The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 13, 1942, Page 4

BAGE EO) FOUR FOUNDING OF CHILDREN’S HOME CELEBRATED ON NOVEMBER 2|maxes PLANS FOR On Monday, Children’s Home Society of Flor- ida—now generally spoken of as “Florida's Greatest Charity”’— will celebrate the founding of the Society forty years ago, on No- vember 1902. A series of ings will be held in all parts of Florida, starting with a big lunch- eon meeting noon of Monday, November 2, at which meeting the governor of Florida, Honorable Spessard L. Holland, will be the special guest speaker. In connection with the meeting at Jacksonville, which is being spons by the Rotary Club and other civic, welfare, religious, educational and other groups—and to which everybody in Florida is invited. GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT “I have personally known of- the important state-wide, non- sectarian service of the Chil- dren’s Home Society of Florida, “Florida's Greatest Charity”, for many years and firmly bi lieve that the Society has ren- dered an unusually worthwhile | service not only to over forty thousand homeless, orphan, and needy children but to the en- tire citizenshiv of Florida.” Other meetir will follow at Miami, L nd Pensacola, where the has establish- ed delightft home-like Receiv- ing Homes, 1 in many other: communities all over the state— to be sponsored by the more than 2300 officers and members of the Socicty’s Sponsoring Com- mittees, actively working for the} interest of the Society and its | homeless youngsters in every | portion of the entire state. | Society Has Made Fine Record For Forty Years Beginning withcut any funds, any receiving homes or any friends, in November, 1902, the Society cared for 21 homeless children during its first year—| raised $400 in money and began | a truly great humanitarian serv- ice in behalf of Florida’s home- less, orphan i needy children of all -e babies on up to 16 y e—of every creed and 1. over Flor- ida. This and important | child ice has been! mair ‘ough all the years; without any state or federal gov-| ernmental funds, the entire sup- port coming through voluntary | contributions of money, food and | children’s wearables. Continued Growth Is Recorded The work and support. has grown until the Home Society | is now giving its aid, care and| supervision to from 1500 to 20001 children in need each year. The | contributions now come from} over 50,060 men, women and} children in every city, town and hamlet in Florida—and this amounted to $150,000.00 last year. Bequests sometimes considerably increase the amounts. The Society now from debt, home-like fortab’ Receiving Homes ini Jacksonville, South Jacksonville, | Miami, Pensacola and Lakeland, these homes having a total capa-| . each home| temporary shelter where | are pre ed to go out) fully selected adoptive the chief purpose of the being to place homeless in childless adoptive of permanent love, care The staff of increased from one four staffs of physi- ists have the free ly 100 of the ans and dent-| state nd there are| 400 of Florida’s leading citi- | zens who compose the state and branch boards of directors and| women’s advisory boards. Over | 2300 well known men and women in all parts of the state are of-; fic and members of the So- ciety’s Sponsoring Committees; which cover the entire state. In| other wo: e nearly 3,- 000 of Flo men and} women giving their time, thought, | efforts and funds in the direction we red akeland Society il age | owns, free! and com-| children homes he dy children. aps the most important work of the Society has been its leadership in the securing of leg- islation benefiting dependent, delinquent, defective and de-} fenseless children. Among the} important child welfare laws ei- ther drafted, passed or sponsor- ed by the Home sonic are the Juvenile Court Child Labor law, Compulsory Wife Desertion laws pro dustrial § boys and measures and 1001s girls, tic for delinquent} feeble minded and epile children, Crippled Childre Commission, the State Welfare Board, the State Tuber- culosis Sanitarium and other im- portant institutions and agencies November 2, oa memorative meet- | at Jacksonville the! ; |Mareus C. SOCIETY OF FLORIDA WILL BE THE KEY WEST, CITIZEN SOCIETY HALLOWE'EN SOCIAtL | Special Guest Speaker SPESSARD L. HOLLAND Governor of Florida WEATHER REPORT | Observation taken at 8:30 a. m.,! E.W.T. ‘City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours - Lowest last night Mean Normal mes Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 8:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Oct. inches Deficiency inches Total rainfall since Jan. inches Dedificency since ‘Jan. inches _ “ Relative Humidity 66% Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise -- 1:25 Sunset a OL Moonrise 11:51 Moonset 11:06 Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 12:50 a.m. 7:36 a.m, 2:11 p.m. 7:03 p.m. FORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Little change in temperature tonight. Florida: Little change in tem- 1, since Oct. | perature tonight. Hatteras, N. C., to Apalachi- cola, Fla.: No small craft or storm warnings have been issued. Bertho Sx ARCHERS HAVE GIRL Announcement has been made of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Archer at a local hospital. The new arrival has been given the name of Jayne Louise Archer. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along nicely. CURRYS HAVE SON Anniuncembént has been made of the birth of a son, weighing seven pounds, to Mr. and Mrs. Allen E. Curry in a Miami hos- pital. The new arrival has been given the name of Russell Allen. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along nicely. WELLS’ HAVE GIRL A girl was born Sunday in the Marine Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. | John E. Wells. Mrs. Wells for- |merly was Miss Dorothy Stead- man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Steadman, 324 Elizabeth street, and Mr. Wells is a pharm- acist’s mate in the Navy. The baby will be given the! name of Diane. She and her mother are doing well. The National Labor Relations. Board considered 11,000 cases in 1941, relating to the health, education and care of children. The Florida State Conference }of Social Work was founded by the Home Society, and the So- ciety’s State Superintendent, “Daddy” Fagg has served in important positions jwith the State, National and |Southern Child Welfare Agencies, | the President’s White House Con-} ten years for the past 40 years. “Daddy” Fagg wants to thank everybody in Florida for every jaid given to the Society during | the past 40 years and says, “The great work has really just be- gun.” EPO” rs ‘land that it -| their women, which inspires their -|men to fight and win it. Plans are being made for the} annual Hallowe'en Social to be| given on the lawn of the Ley | |Memorial Church grounds on Fri-| 4 day, Oct. 16, at 5 p. m. Children are requested to be given for the most appropri- | ate costume, and one also for the | most comical. | An enjoyable afternoon’s en-| tertainment is being looked for-} ward to. | ANSWERS TO YOUR | WAR QUESTIONS Q—yYou say we can send,sol-; diers in Australia Christmas pres- | ents. Will my boy-friend send) me one from there? { A.—Don’t blame Uncle Sam if} he doesn’t, sister. Q.—Is there a corps of women| parachute WAACs who drop be- hind the lines and give aid to wounded soldiers? A—No. Q.—Must laundries ceiling prices so you them without asking? A—Yes. Prices for services must be posted. display | can see CALLING DRAFTED MOTHERS Copyrighted 1942 By ERAINE TURIN | | | ih ! Recently while en route from| Jacksonville to Miami, Florida, I had the privilege of chatting with a John Doe, who is in the Coast} Guard division of the service. | What he revealed made me real- ize, as I never have before, that it is the American family which} is brooking the real responsibili- ties and sacrifices of this war, is the courage of “You know, there was a guy from my home town,” John Doe said to me, speaking very se- riously, “an army pilot, who got! killed not so long ago. He was still in training when he crash- ed with anoth-} er plane. And | he was the only] kid his parents had. To make matters worse, | when they: cHineé home from the fun-| eral’, they ERAINE TURIN found their store had burned down. The folks at home told me that, in spite of all this, the mother tried so hard to smile. That’s what I call courage. “I’m awfully glad most of the} families out there got together and put up enough money to get them started with another store. | But I know it was my mother} who got things going for them.| You see, my mother feels so for| anybody who loses a son. Guess | it’s because her own sons are| liable to get it any time now. “I sure have a_ wonderful mother. And my wife! You; should see how courageous she is too, and how she’s always bucking me up in her letters. She’s been living with the folks | but now I'm going to let her take a war job. Hated to, at first, be- cause she’s not too strong. Still if she gets to work and can feel she’s helping in the war, I know} she won't worry so much about} me; she’d be too busy. Of course, | she never mentions how she| worries. Only I know her, and} know what she goes through.) That’s what gets a guy. Yet if it wasn’t for her and my mother, I don’t know what I'd do. “And my mother’s got so much | jto worry her too. First of all, my | |father works in the arsenal. That | job’s enough to worry any wom- an out of her mind. But not my} mother. She’s too swell. Then, two of my brothers work in a} shell factory. Another big wor- | ry. And my oldest brother is fighting somewhere around) ‘Australia now, and here I am in| the Coast Guard. Besides all this, | trying to buck us all up, and} cooking and keeping house for | my father and two brothers who | work in the shell factory, and} taking care of my poor wife.! what do you think? During the! daytime, she keeps and looks ‘Education law. particularly in connection with! after three small children whose | \father works in the same shell) in a war job too. | “And that’s why I write her} and my wife as often as I can, land always send them a _ wire every time I get back on shore. Because I think it’s the mothers and wives who really suffer] j have taken of Jap planes in the | fighting in | that were out of | suffered enormous |others to which he referred—are |bearing the real burdens of this | war. {ers of our (never let go | American families, lly, | SPANISH TAUGHT AT JACKSON SQUARE USO Miss Benildes Ren Remond, princi- pal of the San Carlos Institute, will be the teacher of a ‘class fdr | begining Spanish students to be| held every Wednesday evening at the Jackson Square USO club, come in costume. A prize will} according to J. H. McInnis, pro-! gram director. The class will be for both of- ficers and enlisted men of the army or navy. About twenty! men attended the organization meeting of the class last week. Janior Woman’s Club | Meets Tonight There will be a business meet-| ling of the Junior Woman's Club| held tonight, beginning at 7:00 o’clock, at the clubhouse on Du- val street, according to announce- | 'ment made today. All members are requested to! be in attendance. UNITED STATES es | (Continued from Page One) | |of a type long since obsolete, | | which led the Americans to be-!| lieve thay the heavy toll they/| j the area of New Guinea, Solomon and New Brit-| ain Islands has reduced the Japs | |to the necessity of using planes | date several | years’ ago. The communique concluded that the two attacks the marines | had made on the Japs on Guadal- canal were spread over two days’ | fighting and added that the Japs! casualities, | | considering the number of men who were involved, |HERE’S INFLATION | FOR GOOD CAUSE (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — A stranger wandering about the} Washington Market might have} thought inflation was here with acrash. Produce dealers were bidding wildly for a crate of car- rots. A carload, worth about $1,- 550 at the last recorded prices, went for $13,000. Then the stranger would have learned the reason. All procéeds| will be uséd.to get supplies and Medié¢al @quipment to American soldiers captured at. Bataan and} Corregidor. ABNORMAL GROWTH | | | WASHINGTON.—Ambergris, a} | costly ingredient of the rarest | perfumes, is an abnormal growth} in the body of a whale. | most. We guys know how they | worry even though they don’t} |tell us. And if we can’t save ’em| as much worry as_ possible, we sure would be letting ’em down.” Drafted mothers of our nation, it is obvious that American families—like John Doe’s and Such American families | give their men to the service of their country—on the lines of battle and 4on the lines of pro- duction alike. Such American families have mothers and wives who inspire those men with courage. And these mothers and | wives are you, the drafted moth- nation. Mothers and wives who make the American families what they are, and who their matter what the sacrifices may} be. And that is the reason such} fundamental- for victory | are responsible | when it comes. NOTICE! I will not be responsible| for debts contracted by any-, one other than myself. PAUL MARVEL. ‘ | | 244444 4444444444. \KEY WEST BEDDING CO. || 515 Front Street Phone 669 The Southernmost Mattress | Factory in the United States MATTRESSES RENOVATED @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTERED phpbb bbbb bbb bible ng for the State In-|ference on Children held every tare and whose mother works | TRY IT TODAY... The Favorite In Key West STAR * B GinaN corte on SALE at ALL GROCERS { | 'how going to thousands of school! | dren on streets and highways. CITES VARIOUS | TRAFFIC DANGERS Running into the street from | between parked cars is a frequent and unnecessary cause of traffic accidents involving both children jand adults, Mr. Fintey,. South SSESVErTWEEN PARKED CARS Florida Motor Club Manager, de-! clared today in announcing that warning of this traffic danger is children in Monroe County. “Likening the area between| parked cars toa trap for pedes-}| trians, the new AAA Victory} Heroes Series safety poster forj October being distributed —_ to schools, will catch child attention because of its timely tie-in with) the war,” Mr. Finley said. “Chil- dren like to emulate soldier heroes and will be impressed by the! |feature of the poster depicting} | snappy Army tank drivers with the rule: Tank Drivers Avoid | Traps: The poster is one of a series of ten to be distributed this school year which couple the ob-| servance of safety rules by men in the armed services with ob- servance of similar rules by chile “A three-year nation-wide sur-, vey of pedestrian accidents made} by the American Automobile As- | sociation, with which the South Florida Motor Club is affiliated, | showed that the practice byes | Se trians of crossing in the middle of |the block many times from be- | tween parked cars, was the most |trequent cause of pedestrian fa- italities. Adult pedestrians of Monroe County could also take a lesson from this AAA school pos- ter since national records show that adults have a much worse| traffic fatality record than school ; I children aged 5-to-14.” Mr. Finley also announced anaes the club will send graded AAA| Traffic Safety Lesson sheets to teachers with posters being pro-| vided for classroom and bulletin board display. —_— LIGHTNING BLASTS CEMENT) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —Lightning recently struck a tree in the yard of L. D. Rogers’ home; |peeled the bark away; ran under- | ground five feet and exploded un- der a cement driveway. Rogers said the cement was blasted as if! by a bomb. | ———— TT es Tommie’s SKATING RINK SUMMER SESSIONS Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. and Sat., 2:30 - 4:30 Every Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m. Ladies Invited ; Sane for HEALTH’S SAKE Phone 9116 | | ! | lists from New York City visited the park this year. Travel| —. restrictions caused them to come|FOR SALE—House. jhere after '} PHONE 135 MAYBE THIS PLACE IS SHANGRI LA | (By Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, Oct. 13—A squad of soldiers at Union Station jattempted to buy a railroad ticket |eece TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1942 CCCSOSSSESESSSSSSSSSSSESSESS: Classified Column HELP WANTED to a southern army camp to which |FOR SALE—One 4-door Stude-;| WAITRESSES WANTED. Side- they had been ordered to report, | but nobody on the railroad ever, had heard of the place. After checking postal guides, A maps, the Postoffice and tele- graph companies, the soldiers fi- nally called The Associated Press. An editor offered to send a mes- sage to Washington. Back came this reply: “Sorry. War Department says location of | | { j it baker Sedan. Margaret St. $100. Rear 514 octl2-3tx walk Cafe, Duval and Fleming WANTED-— one Nig! Manager. la C SOUND INVESTMENT at _ bargain price. New Duplex; Concrete House, completely? furnished. All modern conven-! iences. |1216 Margaret. Apply 919 Elizabeth, noon or evening. } oct3-2wks camp is a military secret.” These Squirrels Feel War’s Food Shortages ('WYPEWRITING PAPER ~, 50) Sheets, 75c. The Artman Press } septlotf FOR SALE—Ford Station Wagon (By Associated Press) BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y., Oct. 13.—Birds, squirrels and chip-) munks of Bear Mountain State ‘Park are suffering food shortages, FOR SALE—13-foot because of the war. Thousands of additional tour- | have than more remote places. The visitors tramp through de-, serted orchards, eating apples and | — peaches that ordinarily form imajor part of, the bird and squir- | rel diets. | for appointment a/1941 CHEVROLET. Tudor in excellent condition Tubber. Right price. 822 beth street. on Good v3 complete Apply M Beact m Cypress Boat, sail, $25.00. endez. Rest with Men- 4 be 2 baths, completely Excellent condition. Ca ct we Pieper ge “octib-Bix Cowboy Breaks Leg, Crawls For Two sae y Associated Press) MANASSA. Colo., Oct. 12— Riding for cattle along the Brazos, | Con Rogers, 22, a cowboy at the T-Bone ranch near Antonio, was| thrown from his horse and his leg was broken. Although the bone was jutting through the flesh, Rogers crawled across the range for two days be- fore he was found by searching parties. Physicians who later treated| him said it was almost a miracle that the leg could be set andj saved from amputation. | COLDS LIQUID TABLETS oan E To relieve Misery of | FOR SALE—Reconditione d, |FANS, AIR CONDITIONERS | SIGNS—“For Rent”, SAMPLES new, Hoover Vacuum Bargain at $30.00. Also, one Cleaner, good shape and cheap at $15.00. New Elec Vacuums if you have late. See Thomas at Rink. the Skating ~ sept30-ti “Rooms F; OF CHRISTMAS CARDS have arrived and car be seen at Citizen uffice. Beau- tiful designs and wide assor ment. Suitable for men Armed Services. sept22-tf MISCELLANEOUS BEM. 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