The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1942, Page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1942 _ DRAFTED MOTHERS By ERAINE TURIN Copyrighed, 1942 By this time, we have jearned | SP CCOCreerececcesomescccccccocccoeoceoesoenoeees that the great number of. cas-j ualties resulting from the Cocoa- nut Grove fire in Boston can be put to the stampede of the frightened patrons. Panic took possession of them: and:. caused)! the harnt ‘that sotherwise might} have beem ‘averted. -Right here,! let me give you a few-iines from | an early press release on the fire, | because they describe this point | exceedingly well. ‘ They read: “Billy Payne, the! night club’s tenor, saved 10 pa-| trons by leading them into a huge basement ice box. “Billy told the story: «<“‘T was getting ready to start | the show,’ he} said. ‘Suddenly | I heard loud} screams. I! thought there! was a fight. Then I saw a} flame racing } along the wall. | Screams got louder. Every- | one started | ERAINE TURIN rushing. “If only more had followed } me they would ‘be 4live.’ - “As Payne! led ‘the group of 10' to the basement there was a stampede’ ofy’ aerepi fg’ patrons for the dobié.”'¥ is As I read-of this lamentable | holocaust wherein panic was the chief cause of so much loss ot | life;\I could not refrain from | thinking what might happen to! us, should the war reach to our) own. doorsteps; that is, if we) were to permit a similar state of | panic to seize us. However, it is| comforting to know that our! American fiber—like that of oyr| fighting men—is made of stouter | stuff than that. Still many a} stout heart, when unprepared | for sudden catastrophe, unwit-/| tingly succumbs to fright and re-| acts in such a manner as to} bring about unnecessary hazards, , Therefore, in this time of crisis | when anything or nothing pl happen on our fronts of home, it may be wise to equip. ourselves | | with courage in the: same de-! gree as we equip our war ma-| chine with the appurtenances it! réquires. And this means that{ ‘we must enlarge our capacity for} ecurage.* George Bernard Shaw contends, “Men are wise in pro-! Portion, not to their experience, | but to their capacity for experi-/| ence.” Obviously the same ap-} pliés to our capacity for courage. ' It js our ability, or capacity, in| coping with situations, rather | than the situations themselves, | which can make them harmless | instead of deleterious. ‘Panic is a product of fear, | whether it is subconscious or not. | The fear to which our enemies, would haye us succumb, because | it brings in its path confusion, | Havoc and death. Moreover this | fear suggests lack of faith. For Where there is faith, there is no} féar. But how often haye we} heard some thougtless statement | as the following? “Oh, I’m not! afraid. One hardly knows there’s a war going on, except for some iriconvenierices and depriva- tions.” .Manifestly these words} 0 one imbued with not with a-ne merely is ar- Chapter 23 Mad Race ieee clerk turned and hurried ahead of them to the French door at the end of the left wing $f the building. As they stnod peering across the grounds, the morning quiet was broken by the roar of a starting motor. An instant later, a station wagon swung around the end of the ‘line of garages and streaked for the gate! “There they go!” ' The three could see nothirsg of the occupants, but the desperate speed of the car indicated it, held their escaping quarry. They'went down the fire escape and tan to the garages. The desk clerk. pro- duced his car key and’ Clark leaped in behind the wheel, Doc Burrows climbing in beside him. In the distance they could still hear the roar of the fleeing car as they sped out onto the ‘road, Clark put his foot down to the floor, The car leaped ahead through the grey morning mist rising from the’ white-capped breakers. They leaned forward peering through it, swaying as the | mind. tires}, car swerved around curves, . screaming, till they made out the ghost-like shape of the escaping car in the distance! Doc Burrows’ gruff voice broke the tense silence, “Any idea who pulled this off?” Clark shot’ the doctor a side- wise glance. “Haven’t you?” he challenged. “You Seemed to have Doc barked. “Plenty! She came down to Bos- som Valley and stirred up those damned farmers against Rita— practically had ‘em believin’ Rita was a thief!” “Gloria convinced them?” Clark cried. “Sure—and then come up here and sent ’em word where Rita ‘was stayin’, when I’d ordered her up here to rest for a spell!” Over The Cliff ATCH out!” Doc’s stubby finger pointed ahead and ‘ocky promontory that the sea. “Now what?” felt a cold chill pass as they strained their keep the spot. There many reasons why run out onto the isolated point! they jumped out and cous see the two figures the very brink of the leeds] hill It looked like both were women. “Hey! Stop!” Doc Burrows “Gloria!” Clark's long legs the shorter strides of the doctor. “Wait!!” But — the Some went on. And suddenly the horrorstruck eyes of ogi two men, one ce the figures staggered, up its arms and with a wild scream — the same scteam that had echoed through the halls of the hotel—went over the edge! siniete nate : E Ma MANY INSPECTIONS | | CHICAGO.—More than a mil-} lion printed panels are inspected | throughout the country’ test the jannually in nationwide tests of|reactions of paint |paint duration. - =|FARMER BOMBED R. IP, | FROM UNDER GROUND SSS ARERR Amado Valenzuela, _ better! known to the baseball fans of: years gone by as “Scrap Iron”,| |Hoot Tucker thought the day of | was “called out” by ihe Great j ; aerial bombing had struck in Ok-/| Umpire at Tampa, Fla, lahome. asi! - last | He bed ees corn and} minding his own iness on a Fans in Key West during 1900 | farm near Tabler when there was! iad ate alone, ber filmy negli- j to 1920 will recall Amado as a/a terrific blast nearby. a big hole! gee blowing in the cold morning |SCT@PPing six-footer with a black | Was torn in the ground, and j mist, her great black eyes wide |™ustache. He pitched for the| | flames spurted 20 feet high. | with frozen horror. She made no | White Stars, Regals, ‘Walk-Over’} Tucker’s team ran ‘away. He} move as Clark ran up to take her | and other clubs of those days. | admitted he felt Yike’doing the! arms. She looked at him as a } He moved to Tampa several ; same thing, but he ‘had to investi- | sleep walker waking after a long | ears ago. | gate, found a high-pressure nat-| nightmare. “I — killed — a — wo- May he rest in peace. (ural gas line had burst! man,” she whispered. Clark shook her. “Who was it?! Why did you do it?!” - “The chambermaid,” said Gloria in a vague monotone. “She was coming in t» confess — 1 had bribed her to tell you that story about Rita—I brought her out here to scare her into keeping quiet. I just meant to—scare her.” One of her small white hands moved tremblingly across her face. “I killed—her,” she repeated clearly. Sudden agony twisted | her face. Carlos Takes Over / THE end, it was Rita who re- | coverea first. The shock «f find- | ing herself a murderess threat- ened for many weeks to unbal- ance the high strung,: sensitive Gloria. Ever when the chamber- maid recovered, Gloria could not erase the imgyression from her (By Associated Preas) A minute later Clark and Bur- rows reached the spot. Gloria | atatetttetiintnd AAA RDA ttt tnte tote he bebeaeaasaihiiiate | Streamlined Service .. . WESTERN UNION One blustery afternoon in late Autumn, Rita, Clark and Carlos dropped into the lovely Friseo apartment John Cunningham had | taken until Gloria could safely be moved back to New York. Cun- ningham looked old, haggard, Gloria was just-the same. He wished she’d see them but — as the Doctor said— Carlos burst out in sudden im- patience. “Oh, drat those fancy doctors!” He pushed past Cun- ningham in one of his impetuous spurts and threw open the door | into Gloria’s room. He plunged | Puyvyvvvvverevy Direct Wire — Convenient — No Delay! 505 Duval St. “Qpposite Kress” ww In Every Town... 7} Your Family Deserves THE BEST and 4 fe FILE YOUR MESSAGES AT { rhe REXALL STORE}. WE SERVE THE BEST! i straight up to her bedside, show- ing no pity for her sunken cheeks, her plaintive eyes. “Look Uere, you pampered pixie!” he shouted, “you martyr of wickedness! I’m going .o tel] | you a bird’s eye view of yourself as seen by a-dramatist’s eye . . things your doctor never told you “You say, ‘I ruined two people’s lives!’ You didn’t. Look at ’em!” He swung around to throw a pointing finger at Rita standing | by Clark in trim suit and bright | hat, both of them looking bliss- fully happy. “The only thing you did man age to accomplish,” he shouted on, “was damn good. You got Clark Pasquin so riled up over Blossom Valley, he forgot his | silly prejudices and signed 2 movie contract so he could pay. off Blossom Rarch!” John Cunningham held hi: alin litte inds ( PRICE TOURS j is the BEST PRESCRIPTION STORE GARDNER’S PHARMACY i 328 ae PL UMBING Plumbing Supplies and Duro Pumps btn PRITCHARD FUNERAL HOME Watch and Jewelry ’ Repairing At Reece: Prices climates. breath as Gloria raised her eyes | for the first time and looked full | at Clark. standing with his arm | about Rita, who looked slim and | pale but more beautiful than ever. | He knew his daughter's crisis had | come—the sign the doctor said | would bring back. health — when | tears softened her dull eyes and | a shadow of feeling crossed them She said in a voice pregnant wit! | returning life, “I’m—sorry.” TRE END Pee FRANK K_J0HNsON Sympathetic Courtesy LICENSED EMBALMER Ambulance Service Lady Attendant PHONE 548 Never Sleep 604 wiieat she The Old Reliable om zane cide Watches, Papa sc Secs, AAAABAABABAABABAAMMDM, ee eae ee VARY CONSIDERABLY ee | elttadindinatin dnd tinhta tintin tintin tan tintntinctin nnn tintindintintinttntinds DETROIT.—Eigh “paint farms’ adind | in” varying ‘ angoutward courage. | tage which cov-/| ious fear and all Zhe more vulner- able in yiélding to panic. Indif- ference to.facts never inspires courage, but rather does it har- bor a latent fear, We must face facts, to be sufficiently fortified to cope with. any evetuality. | Faith, not! blind indifference, is the sole armor:that will protect us in time of war, because it al- lows for no panic and offers the poise to direct our steps firmly and safely: | Drafted‘ mothers of our nation, | you, who have long been pre- paring yourselves with courage, should be able to show our peo- ple that they must awake from blind indifference, and face facts with the gourage that faith alone can gives Since you, and your dear one@j on the fronts of bat-! tle, have'that fapacity for cour- BALTIMORE—The federal ae ernment has granted 230,286,000 | acres of public lands to the in- dividual states. SUMMER SESSIONS Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. ‘Feeakag 8:90 St0 pm | 00 - 10:30 p.m. Every P. 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