The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1943, Page 2

\ | AGE- TWO “She Key West Citizen | Corner Greene and Ann Streets ‘a a Only Dally Nontoe County” “4 tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ——————— OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS c ed Press is exclusively entitled to use Tepublication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the of 1 its @ line. ices for entertainment by ehurches from whieh to be derived are 5 cents a line. : pier its etc. einen H 2 SPECIAL tices, cards lin de: re’ The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- of public ii and subjects of local or general Rieren but it will not publish anonymous communi- eal EDITORIAL. SSOCIATI ? 2 . & 2 t IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Hotels and Apartments. and Bathing Pavilion. id Sea. < 4. Consolidation of County and 5atu#AcoModern City Hospital. Ho THE SUPREME COURT SAYS SO T fumes ‘i Inaremarkable decision handed down & few days ago by the Supreme Court it was held that the States cannot compel schoo! children, “(or fanatics) to salute the Amer- ican Flag. In 1940 the Court upheld the Opnstitutionality of the Flag salute. Now the reme Court reverses its own decision by 2 vote of six to three, The opinion written by ve “| your dog sticks to'you. You may kick him THE SOLES OF YOUR SHOES i ‘ “You wrote about the wonders of the mind, how afftiction may sharpen one or more of the faculties, but what do you think about the wonders of the dog,” one Citizen | editor remarked to another when thirsty Key West was being drenched with rain. “The most wonderful thing about the } dog,” said the writer of the editorial about the mind, “is that of all God’s creatures, in- cluding man, he is the most faithful. The dog stands alone as never breaking faith. You may be a king or you may be squirm- ing in the lowest dregs of society, and still unmercifully, as the despicable Bill Sikes, who, without an instant’s qualm, beat and choked to death his moll, Nancy, kicked his dog, but, with pleading eyes he will slink back to you. You may refuse to feed him, and, unlike the cat, that will go elsewhere to look for food and, having found it, re- main there to eat again, he too will go else- where to find food and, having found it, will return to you.” “All of which is true,” said the first edi- tor, “but another thing about the dog that intrigues me is his wonderful sense of smell. Do you know your dog knows the character- sitic smell of the soles of your shoes? “Let me tell you a story about the late | Dr. Jéseph Y. Porter’s last dog, Gypsy. ‘What'T’m going to tell you about I saw hap- pen over and over, but I always got a thrill out of it, regardless of how often it happen- PES Gr © Pin those days The Citizen office was in the Reynolds Building on Duval street and next toit was the Chamber of Com- merce, of which Dr. Porter was president. Two doorways led to The Citizen’s office, and it was Dr. Porter’s custom to enter the first he came to, ask about the latest news, chat a moment, walk in a semi-circle and go out of the second door in continuing to his office. | “Now Gypsy knew as well as Dr. Porter | Justice Jackson said: “Compulsory unifi- cation of opinion achieved only the unani- imity of the graveyard.” He added “‘to be- ligve that patriotism will not flourish if pa- ttiotic ceremonies are voluntary and spon- t4neous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the ap- al of our institutions to free minds... . there is any fixed star in our constitution- al constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other tatters of opinion, or force citizens to con- ¥éss by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit pp exception, they do not now occur to us.” :! ‘The decision reversed the conviction of Jehovah's Witnesses. +s The decision is accepted in Washing- ton as upholding religious freedom. Chief Justice Stone cast his vote in 1940 in holding that public school children must salute the Tlag “even in defiance of their conscientious $¢ruples.” On the other hand, Justice Frank- furter, who wrote the majority opinion in 1940, holding that schoo} children must sa- lute the flag, changed his position and voted ith the Chief Justice. “It is self-delusive,” declared Frankfurter, “to believe that the jiperal spirit can be enforced by judicial in- validation of a liberal legislation.” It is just as well to skipJehovah’s Wit- nesses and their superficial and trivial ob- jéctions to saluting the flag. The big point ig that the wise men and the ablé lawyers Who are members of the Supreme ©ourt are npt afraid to admit that they were wrong, Bnd say so. | PRAISES INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY a +4 “Our infantry can do anything that the German infantry can do and more,” declares Captain Quentin Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt. ; The Captain, with an artillery outfit in North Africa, also adds that “our artil- | lary is without doubt the best in the world.” \; The Captain was injured by machine- pun fire from enemy planes while directing American artillery. He reports “no sensa- | tion at all,” adding, “it, just felt as though someone had knocked the. wind out of me.” ti 8: The House Appropriations Committee has recommended to Congress the liquida- tipn of the National Youth Administration, Bh erstwhile New Deal relief agency for which the government appropriated 700 million dollars in the past. The Committee also refused to approve the request for per- mission by the War Manpower Commission té pay higher salaries for employes of the United States Employment Service. Mr. McNytt planned to annex the NYA to Man- power and the Committee recommendation for liquidation of that organization was an- cther slap on the wrist for McNutt and the New Deal. grandson of | or I knew where the office was, but what happened? Gypsy raced down Duval street from the Porter home, with her muzzle an | inch or so above the ground. She was going | at'top speed when she reached that first door, but the instant she passed it, she threw out her front paws to bring herself to a halt, and, having stopped, returned to the front door and entered, then made a semi-circle in The Citizen’s office and bounded out of the second door. Yes, Gypsy knew where Dr. Porter’s office was, but she depended on her smell, not that “knowl- edge,” to find the doctor. “Now, let those psychologists, or any other of the big boys, explain to you the characteristic scent of ten million pairs of shoes, all different, that ten million dogs can trace as easily as you can the path that leads to your front door.” Faith! How easily many of us break it when it suits our convenience or our pock- etbook. But the dog—he never breaks faith | even withthe soles of your shoes. The higher life is that life which leads men and women to put public good above private gain. A strvey of the rental housing field has been made’ under government supervis- ion and the report shows that owners of 30,-'| 000 apartment houses and 10,000 dwellings in 20 of the principal cities of the country has all resulted to the benefit of the land- lords and owners of property. The govern- ment has held down the owners of these places and prevented profiteering on their part. The system seems to work out very well, in a general way, but there are never- theless many instances where inequalities and injustices are practiced, Not all of the OPA linen is without blemish. BRIDGES DENOUNCES LEWIS Some years ago, the chief end in life of some conservative Americans was to se- |cure the prompt deportation of Harry Bridges, Union official on the Pacific Coast. These citizens will probably be sur- prised to hear that Mr. Bridges, in a report to his Union, denounced John L, Lewis as a THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 7 TERRY looked at Ann a long time, studying her face. Finally he said, “How much do you think Terrence House is worth?” “I don’t know exactly but if I could pay for it on terms.” “You want it that much? Enough to devote the rest of your life to paying for it?” “The rest of my .. . life?” “Well, Mr. Baxton tells me he has a cash buyer for $25,000.” “Twenty-five thousand!” she gasped. “He says it’s worth three times that much but in these times with asoline rationed and taxes high, 'd be lucky to: get twenty-five. The place would be no good to me. I couldn’t run it. So I'll prob- ably take his offer. That is, un- ie Reser oats him, How lomg would it take you to rai: $ 2500 on x raise Twenty-five thousand! Savin, every cent she made at her old job it would be twenty years be- fore she could pay for it. Saving half her salary it would be forty years. Forty years! “I... I don’t know,” she said numbly. “Under the could hard], down Mr. circumstances I be expected to turti jaxton’s offer, could ae cad “I... I guess not.” Afterwards she asked herself what she had hoped he would do and in the end she knew she had imagined he might make a gal- lant gesture, let her have the house at a loss age! because | us: she had loved Grand sie. “Goon!” she chided herself. To let the vivid blue of a man’s eyes so dull her common sense! Of course he wouldn’t sacrifice it to her. Why should he? She was nothing to him. Se had regained her composure if not her lost pride by the time she met Bert in the lobby for dinner, She was still wearing her gold jumper dress. and if it had been lost on Jerry it wasn’t lost on Bert. The quick approval in his eyes told her that. “T’ve been saving my pleasure gas for tonight,” he told her as | OSER TAKE ALL By Adelaide Hazeltine they drove to a wayside inn. He ordered Maryland chicken avocado salad and some rare Cheese with crackers for dessert. Aun sat quietly, thankful that he did all the thinking, that she could relax and forget the un- Pleasantness of the day. me When the orchestra began. to play he guided her to a patch of floor left for dancing. He held her close and once when the music broke into the haunting strains of “There Are Such Things,” he cradled her hand in his and pressed it urgently. “You're a sweetheart,” he said. Then added, “Mine.” She drew her hand away, smiled more flippantly than she felt. “You are-a flatterer, Bert. I wish Mr. Baxton shared your opinion.” 3 They were back at their table now and Bert gazed at her. eyes were dark and deep and an lmost imperceptible droop of the lids kept them from being wholly candid. “Doesn’t Mr. Baxton like rou?” “He thinks I’m a silly, schem- ing woman, trying to get prop- erty that doesn’t belong to me.” “Have you told him about the will?” She wanted to say, “You told him,” but she theught better of it She said, instead, “Sarah says my grandmother burned it.” He didn’t reply at’ once. He stroked his mustache with a thoughtful forefinger; Suddenly his face lighted. “Well, then, that settles it!” [- WAS Ann’s turn to by thought- ful. At last she said, “No, Bert. That doesn’t settle it. I don’t be- lieve my grandmother destroyed her will.” “ He raised his modeled’ brows. “You don’t believe Sarah?” “No. I'm afraid I don’t. I be- lieve that will is somewhere in my grandmother’s rooms and ’m going to find it. Will you help me?” “Well, now, I'd be glad. to,” he seemed to agree. “But wouldn’t it be presumptuous?” “Presumptuous?” “Mr. Baxton says they’ve al- ready searched for it. Naturally, Td hesitate to let him think we didn’t believe him.” Ann didn’t answer that. She sat | and | silently, Saat ig what Bert His | wanted the house for uld do if he knew the mineral | spring which was supposed to be | curing his patients didn’t exist. | sing the truth would ruin his | prrctics at, the hotel. He should | as interested’ as she in seeing | | ae the secret'was never di sudden shel wanted to tell him... sums “It’s not gust the money! that | the Property represents,” mi be- Zan. “It's... it's... The_ look in his eyes stopped ! her. “Now don’t go altruistic on | me, Ann. Don’t try to convince | me furnishing health baths to mankind is your real motive. I | may as well tell you I'm doctor- | ing them for the good of my soul.” He laughed and she knew he | was her. He supposed she money | it would make her and she couldn't change his mind. | ‘HE wap glad she hadn’t tried. He might be sympathetic | enough her, desire to keep | Grand Gussie’s secret but he cer- | aeoed wouldn't want to close the hotel. It would mean too great a dent in his own income. Later, at the door of Terrence House Best suggested another evening together on Friday. She | agreed ‘but when he put his arms | atound het and began to draw her | im, ‘she sli free: ' } to him, prog Song said and:hur-' “Good She did't want him fo.kiss he , She wi im, to. ki I> Though she him well enor in @ friendly sort o: 4 didh’t inten: t Not when!’ were meri like! | Jerry—she stopped her thought.‘ abruptly. From the library came familiar voices. The temptation to identify them was too great to resist. By walk- ing a few steps out of her way she peered into the circular bay. There on the davenport before the fire sat twe figures, discon- | certingly close together. There | was no mistaking the tousled dark | head of one nor the blond perfec- tion of the o' . It was Jerry with Sarah Townsley and they were deep in conversation. To be continued iad ‘ Today’s Anniversaries | j ‘ { JUNE 24 1771—Eleuthere Pont, youngest Trenee Today’s Horoscope JUNE 25 | Today gives such strong pas-| | jsions that much effort is needed; Gladwyhe, Pa., 57 years ago. Du} to control them. There is indica-{ . son of first Dui tion of a very successful ‘life. If Pont/here in 1800, foliader ‘fjthe|of the female sex, the fortunes powder works in a little log cabin,*will be even better, but men will born i#t France. Died Oct. 31, 1834.!do well to exercise extreme cau- _ ; on: in their dealings with’. the 1797-—John Hughes, beloved | opposite sex. New York Catholic archbishep,i eminent citizen his day, born} Choi identi Ireland. Died Jan. 3, 1864. ioe acaeesal Loca Jones had a visitor over the; 1813—Henry Ward Beecher,| week-end, and on Sunday the two! famed Brooklyn, N. Y., preacher,; went motoring. As they passed a born Litchfield, Conn. Died March , burial place the visitor remarked: 8, 1887. “That's a fine old cemetery.” —— | “Yes,” said Jones, who is a real 1831.—Rebecca Harding Davis,/estate agent, “and only five min- novelist, mother of the noted! utes to the station.” i] journalist-author, born Washing-} | ton, Pa. Died Sept. 29, 1910. | tragedian-comedian his age, born —— | Philadelphia. Died May 19, 1893. 1839.—Gustavus F. Swift, Cape} _—_— Cod, Mass., butcher, Chieago pio-; 1831.—Olive Thorn Miller, au-/ neer in beef marketing, born| thor of nature books, lecturer on} Sandwich, Mass. Died March 29,| birds, born Auburn, N. Y. Died 1903. jLos Angeles, Dec. 26, 1916. | 1842.—Ambrose G. Bierce, fam-| 1937.—Charles T. Yerkes, Chi- ed writer and individualist, born! cago buccaneer of finance, obser-| Meigs Co., Ohio. Disappeared at!vatory donor, born Philadelphia. | 75 in warring Mexico, in search of} Died Dec. 29, 1905. death, and last heard of in 1914. . | | of) Pembroke . College, | | Today’s Birthdays j { _ JUNE 2s Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, born Maj, Gen. Leon B. Kromer of Norwich Univ., Vt., former chief ef cavalry, born Grand Rapids, Mich., 67 years ago. S. Morriss, dean Brown. Deiversity,born Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 59 years ago. Dr. Margaret George Abbott of New York, playwright, producer and director Forestville, N, Y., 54 years ago. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt of the ‘Smithsonian Institution, famed marine biologist, born Washing- | ton, D. C., 56 years ago. Richmond H. Shreve of New wallis, Canada, 66 years ago. Officials hint that drafting of tathers is off till Oct. 1. Simmons, i | 1837.—Thomas ; J. JUNE 25 jCenfederate soldier, noted Geor- 1773.—Bliphalet Nott, Presby-' gia jurist, born Crawford,Ca.,. Ga. terian orator, Union College,| Died Sept. 12, 1905; 1 +) Fs > Schenectady, N. Y., president 62) ST ai years, inventor, born Ashford,| 1851.—George C. Boldt, boy im- Conn. Died Jan. 29, 1866. jmigrant, president of New York’s rs | Waldorf-Astoria, pioneer modern 1811.—James E. Murdock, famed hotels, born. Died Dec. 5, 1916. | { evcccccccoceccce REAL ICE ASSURES “traitor” and asserted that “you can’t be in favor of winning the war ané@in favor of the right to strike.” The reference to Mr. Lewis describes | the coal miners’ leader as a “black disgrace | to the laboring men and women of Amer- | ica” and denounced the “planned strike’ as “treason and treachery against our people.” Mr. Bridges renewed the pledge of his Union that during the war there would be no strikes and urged that Lewis “be isolat- ed by A. F, of L. and C.1.0. alike so that his policies and trickeries will not infect other sections of the labor movement.” REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . It’s Healthy and Safe, . It’s Pure THOMPSON ENTERPRISES (ICE DIVISION) - INC. Phone No. 8 Key West, Fila. {and cigarette: | Mrs. Agnes KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY OF JUNE 25. 1833 The members f the local eived orders t Foster, Jacksonville, on Participate in the tar that will begin on Word was hassee y Sholtz, due to tt cumulated work, h to postpone the Overseas Bridge C to telephone exhib em as toy till then Burglar cafe, Charles and Du last night and stole a na—Ger the second time that th burglarized A large sh received here today, v uted among the needy munity by x Cerneil fo: Employ Relief Wor the Miss Teresa Falk, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Charles Fail. turned ‘today ' from. Coral) Gabies. wheté) she’ hail visited’ Miss Mar Custer amd empire - command wiped cut by Indies: gatet (Reedy Miss Janice Maloney, ¢ of Mr:‘and Mrs. Jdimn' B. M igft yesterday New Yor Spend the s . Mrs. Samuel Hige json, Clarence Higgs, Jr terday for Miami Mrs. J. Lancelot daughter, Miss Orphe left yesterday fi a few days with fr WwW. Ww visiting P. Mrs. W. had been yesterday to dren, Bet left yesterday stay of several w Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Hensen Tommie’s SKATING RINE Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. and Sat. 2:30 - 430 very Evening: 8:00 - 10:39 pm Ladies Invited SKATE for HEALTH'S SAKE Phone Silt | York, noted architect, born Corn- |