The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1943, Page 2

le — BIG LITTLE WORD fe Bee Weot Citizen ee ——S Lowk at him, his head bowed, his red, eavy-lidded eyes boring holes through the walls of his cell, remorse thundering his brain! He is thinking of but one & the more than 400,000 in our lan- rr and that word is “if’—‘the longest " word in the dictionary.” somebody has Pa ierized it. “if” is not @ho has committed a crime, as was he fatal!y shot a sailor—the prey of “if his ride to Miami with Sheriff Berlin Saw- confined, to the man who but a “if” the brink picture: an 4 of the down at through the ng bore” they can not heir ¢ quality has long sinee i eut ¢ -m. He is staring without i remorse, astride of “if”, ride: rough his mind. His life has been recalls a thousand “ifs”, changed the re and he ft which would have a oe. ee nv wesT ipse of the aimless practices into which But jidn’t act on the “if”: —rererre er mer crrmzen ' t to stem the current: ? wd he d it, and, now OR ewe Ps da f reckoning has come, he is Rome ws te rg Pee cm j : Ww OOC | | has been confronted ai all of us have regrets aced with it, many of us, htly when the big lit- we chose on other « lecided ri ted itself into our lives. Peo- who have met least, » are the o re of success at some iccess because they acted wise- irstead of drifting the current over, not days are many men “fore who have been ad- wher the hard “Oh, if I had squande ring my omen, too, ey to use will lament istead of ' f I had only boug to buy it, in- t a home financially *, or will away this” their minds my mone “it the other or hrough Remorse, as The Citizen has remarked we. feeds and fattens on - itm, enough to reason that the er ter » our lives, which ir own shaping, the less wilh be our Beware of “if” when it presents itseif, lished, it throt- can not be to do some plant re is still time your owr In view pantry { food shortages it migrit THE EXPERTS WERE WRONG there were the smart o declared that there rain a larger army because the ships to transport ere certain that che merfere with our } <aw no sense in training ’ Panning extensive ~ >» ee former ebraska, ¢x {HE KEY By CARL A. Calder YESTERDAY John WEST CITL gets a room next to Lila Tag- Suddenly Calder uger. 7 hin eked face at gard’s and overhears her hav- g a heated argument with a te, surprised to hear Lila’ calling 1. He goes to her room ordere the stranger to leare, mmediately realizes he is DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF JULY 24, 1933 ity is centered n of Guadaloupe, in ties. rge of pract wile pla aced =under moving wes westward forters. overalls sweate and ed Cross testifie to ¢ t uted toda the Key We was negro. morning _befor« Peace Rog: POP ZEN PETERSON HE vw rubbing clenched! I crossed the lobb fist the cu es of|man grinned at m t at | little grin that is s to life-|ment for ‘all hotel de d: In-|“Buerios,” I'said to that grin a waited for Mirtilo to pass throug the door. isco Mir- Outside, the autos were sle. 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