The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 22, 1945, Page 2

| “ - ” The ‘Key West Citizen | WALT MOTE ————— WHAT ABOUT THE PRICE OF GOLD? ““PPOVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST id i \ \ " by. Rxeept Sunday | BES ane aca Panhiakee JO ALLEN, Husiness Manager A The Citizen bullding OCreeme and Ann Streets | ago The Citizen said: ’ ence is that some people don’t ally Newspaper in Key West and experience. roe County . Plorida, as second class matter M OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tated Press is exclusively entitled to jomtion of all news dispatches credited herw ine dited pews published here. “WPT Rates {to The Citizen “The county commissioners, he said, in this paper and Your siooe | “know by experience that they had de- eee nthe 233 | clared that an attorney’s fees for attending | - 19 | to some bonding matter was ‘exorbitant’, i RATES | biM. Even after the bill was reduced, the | commissioners thought it still was too high, jand not till the commissioners received a | letter that hinted about a suit against the county wds a compromise made and the bill paid. “One would think that that experience would be sufficient to put the commission- ers on guard against its recurrence, but what has happened? Instead of retaining nly one attorney to attend to some of the xrrangements for the proposed election to 50,000 of bonds to build a beach, issioners have retained two local ; without asking what their fees sly to be. Besides, bonding attorneys n Chicago have been retained to see that he bends meet with every legal require- ., So there vow havethe picture of cor- ating what The Citizen said about we SPROUL NOTICE is of thanks, resolutions | poems, ete. will be s a line. churches from are 5 cents a line. rum and invites dis ibjects of local or tblish anonymous reading ar ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. | Geach and Bathing Pavilion. Acrports—Land and Sea. meotidation of County and City Gov- ernments. ‘omm unity Auditorium. 1 e pri of gold-is being. discus ‘ Misi The prige of tine that it. “@22™ {Xm experience’ that some people with ue »xperts suggesting that it aes ph) fy daly ae — peat the Galan lon’t lcorr by experience. ed to 856: nee a » balance : - oe 3 z wed om an ou This former county official maintained € thorities on such matters saying that yve shonld algo learn from the expe- wild be reduced from its present level i . : ' reducec ? 1 2 of others, particularly when we are vance sete niliar with that experience. Discussing Phie reminds us that w gues He Pe hat phase of the matter, he asserted: mee wi! atin 1988), there “The county commissioners are famil- | . wogwectes of mia eae iat iar with conditions in the city. where, de- , » far, none of the prvuictions | spite the fattest years recently, ir the col- - reo ne pbs | lection of taxes, the city has been broke ’ mcerned the peice of gold | before the end of its fiscal year and has ee Weer memComceuic APTANE lad to anno w money to meet the ‘payroll. se her . ta; | My prediction is that, if the county com- ee eee We pases reach | missioners, despite their fat bank balance pay we On Ores Uae a Saabs y tr lat the beginning of this fiscal year, keep @ the legal money of the nation ants | on spending as they are doing at present, aetrens the measure of all values? they will not. have enough money in the the development of banking: most of | treasury to pay salaries by the end of their poy listle ‘slips of papier, called | fiscal vear, which is September 30. d Greer tine wei wise one we | “That statement may appear to be ex- «itute for money, inflate the cur- | . 3 Fj |aggerated or far-fetched, but wait and get along very well if we have |_"”,, n the bank to make the check |*°* 7 i It is useless for a parentto teach gen- emetional mee the eelement | tleness to her chilieon ohdeehe herself is re made in gold, under normal mee vd Wdstieviee® makes the pos- | TO! and irritable. 4 vanaeteain + ——— | Redl succéss in fife is not measured by | how. many individuals you excel, but by hing else that the seller wants iene mane a Deeded : on be arranged without any gold | ~ ~s : sages coun wailiinenee.| Cornelius Vanderbilt, in Miami hims | id enérally becoming prevalent | self, wants to know, “Ww hat are so many . * | brass-hats doing in Miami this time of discovered to upon interna- put some of | < rchants out of business and | | cases be ; 1 year?” ronghold of gold . The process m Conscience does a good job ‘in many but it. doesn’t prevent the crooks, t wotits made through speculat- ee as 2 a gouete bie aol auke international especially in high places, from continuing p i 4 ie ‘ : el their nefarious operations. Their hides are } and sé easier and ; : ‘ . . | not easily pierced. ’ ean a higher standard of living | Cree suveDtences { CAUTIOUS MR, VANDENBERG Now that Senator Arthur H. Vanden- berg has decided that he can accept the | President’s invitation to be a “delevate’ to are not much impressed by eae z i si ad é i r dispatch which tells us that Nazi the Viarldoiigei ity Condetauce. which meets re being primed for a-last fling, | #258" Francisco in April, it may be infer- ‘t ds are concentrating submat | “tii \@] feview the backeegund of -his # Nor ian waters and that a cam. | ‘@dy acceptance. The Michigan senator made his deci- In a paragraph published 10 years “One thing we learn about experi- learn by That truth is in line with a series of | | remarks made by a former county" official | | and there was quite a deal of talk, some | lof which verged on bickering, about the { YESTERDAY: While at tea | with his young bride, Merry, | ilugh Prather meets an old col- | lege chum, Tubby Porter. “The j last wed heard from you,” ex- ; clarmed Tubby, “youd gone. off | to die. What happened?” Hugh | admitted that he had, na way, | but was saved by a beautiful | young doctor. Merry Biake. Tub- | yy stared at Merry wcredulous- } ly. “You, a doctor,” he gasped. “This calls for a party at my house.” Chapter 3 - T was after three when she and Hugh came home from Tubby’s party. It had been a goa@d.party, gay, amusi stimulating. They met people liked Hugh years ago, before his heart had “acted up” and he had been sent south to “live quietly and outgrow” the bad condition, people who had lost track of him in. the years when he had been almost resigned, Sitterly, to the end of a brilliant career, people who were sincerely glad to see him again, obviously in the best of health, and >eside him the lovely, exciting girl whom it was hard to believe was the physician whose skill and daring ind Meredith was tired, but flushed and brighteyed with the excite- ment of the party. She knew that she looked very lovely in her severe, classically cut, creamy vel- vet evening gown, with the pearls that had been in Hugh’s family for generations and which had been his bridal gift to her, glim- about her smooth white rlative mink coat wrapped a her. She went on to the elevator while Hugh paused to get the key the desk. Casually, she noticed that the clerk gave him too, a ite slip of paper that had been o his pocket as he came to he ide the elevator. Upstairs in their suite of sitting and bath, she reciOus coat on a q little and said ssly, “Telephone call, dar- Hugh was fr owning. KEY WEST I iN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MARCH 21. 1935 ens Fimeral services for Mrs. Sarah who died Tuesday after- her home, 715 Fleming Ww terday street aftern on i he First odist | Churct the Rev. Georges, {E. Sunuyers officiating. | eee: | | Key Ministerial Alliance | jis making i arrange- {ments for sunrise ier services |to held in Bayview Park on Sun- ies April 21 {| Two veterans, employed on the Matecumbe bridge, were ar- rested yeste on ¢ interfering the performance of his duty, by Deputy Sheriff Gwynn Bethel {and brought to Key West for Atwood Gray Sands left yes- r Miami to attend fun- Edward Chalk- as the husband of Mr.! daughter of Mr. ees ices for fer, whe w | Sands jand Mrs niece, los Kev V | j City council, last night, passed | Jan (ordinance regulating traffic in Key W One of the pro- {Visions is Ahat bicycles, used at | night, have lights. ‘ comedy, “Miss > a Maid of Tokyo,” » given Friday evening in » auditorium of the Key West High School | Miss Nell Rose Knight, daugh-| of Mr. an Mrs. Jeffe iKnight, W. gton street Joseph Lope on of M a Leo Lope Georgia street, re ma lis morning Paul's Episcopal Chureh in by e Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick. Key West tary Club wil give R y Ann dinner. to- night in L; Marina. Drake, who Miami, re- Today The Ci « ditor ial paragraph: “Come, gentle SPI ing, ethereal} en says in an| ie LD col | usE ' Name Ahi he. taenched to: disnint i a = Nee Facets sa ;sion, according to news dispatches, after i munition to the fighting fronts “an exchange ot cordial and satisfactory oe ae whe Giana | personal letters with the President’ which, hat you read in “reports reaching | he said, “clari ed” his right of free action. bam inside Germany® thecoris | This is the tirst time that we have had 4 hatever to that the} inv suspicion that appointment of a on enemy has ‘saving U- upon a delegation was tantamount to his i, . last offer ‘tual enslavement. Nobody in the of what happened in west- ed States is looking to Mr. Vandenberg a June it is obvious that the | * ht off the possibility of mistakes at will never have an occasion for | 52” Francisco single-handed. p tt ats <x o-that offered y The devisions reached at the parley kMied inves iit the cosh of will represent the compromises inevitable Vhe question unanswered is: Why to me of good faith who seek to compose i Nazis hold off their U-boats at a differences of opinion, If the work, when e of the war? ompleted, seems evil, there is no law, so+ ie Leman, ar as we krtow, either of statute or cus- i man willing to contribute. liber jtom, w hich would require the Senator to “ietiered ai evs®' stultify himself and proclaim an endorse- oe : almost any or- | ment of that which he is unable to approve. oN + The President, it seems to us, paid the = Petehe cai ive? ator something of a compliment in se- ¥ eve day, and ting him as a delegate, evidently assum- nsequently, we should buy ing that he would seek, in good faith, to every day ; work with other representatives for the é tae etic “ ae tee er ait rood of the world. The only assumption ’ e hake reais an mn is advis- involved in acceptance is to make such an ! ersation ard ad- effort and to refrain from captious or par- I heap. neither will be heeded! tisan opposition to whatever comes about. | Cold Preparations as directed) | o had known and} the re- H source had restored him to health, F grave-! DAYS. CONE BY: } eyed, but he tried to be casual as he said. “Yes, | asked them to ring the number for pep] connect it here, You run along to bed. darling. I know you're tired. Tl wait for the call.” She nodded, dropped a light kiss: on his hair, sad geek her: coat, ;came and humming a little, went into the bedroom. She hung the coat away in the closet and a momenta: tab of com about it. It had been pensive and she had fe uilty about allowi: uy it for her. But he wantea| Soe so much for her 10 have it; he got such a terrific ck out of tus! lovely things for her. Pointed out that for years, ti bree almost hermit-like ‘secli pat ot of mountain lodge where lived, tended by the devoted te and Mrs. Cooper, who had been servants to his father who had followed him when ill health and sent him into seclusion, he had not spent a fraction of his income.. To what better purpose, he had asked her warmly, could aman put money, than to use it to buy the things a beautiful wife deserved? And she had had no } argument to offer against that! EY had shopped together. He had remembered the “best” shops where his feminine friends in the old days had shopped; and in spite of her protest that life in River Gap would not offer many opportunities for cream- colored velvet dinner gowns, or gol d lamé evening formals, he had said, “But we will be coming to New. York now and then—even iftonly between the arrival of the annual Hastings’ babies!” And because he had so sincere- ly enjoyed seeing her acquire the delicate, lovely gowns and wraps and hats that the women of his old world had accepted as a matter of course, she had not had the heart to protest. And she had admitted frankly, both to him and to herself, that she got a purely feminine, entirely normal thrill out of being smartly and ensively clad and looking her liest. MOSTLY WITH WOMEN shows women have more nm men, and people who rk have more co. ho walk around. come’, but for the love of Mike leave those spring poets behind.” MARCH 22, 1&5 Pent. 67, died 1:30 o'clock this morning in her home at 1415 El-za street. Funeral vices are to be noon in the Ley Memorial Church. Mrs. Lydia Room Mothers Association met} yesterday afternoon in the home Mr Nellie Dorgan, Car street, to arrange for an Easter festival in the Harris School on of April 16 Major William -V. Albury of the Florida toinal Guard, returned yesterday from Matecumbe where iad been in command of the he + gyards stationed there. Members the Coral Wheel) will meet this evening in} of Miss Florence Saw-/ to the home of at the yer will ride Mrs. C aC. Price the island Miss Hope ‘Rot pertson, who had; been visiting Mrs. W. Hunt ‘Har- a Roberts, formerly! ris for the last two months, rd COFFEE yesterday for her home in Or-| MIELL j ange, . Va, AT ALL Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bervaldi en-| GROCERS te at a Spanish dinne parts nthe home on ue Cot MY. 270, qupicattiran dae rime. Mrs . SHERMAN HOTEL Today ‘The Citizen says in an; 465 N. W. Fourth St., Mi ee ph: Hubbard's inves- made h there wa > wh in force.” NEW YORK.—€. study of head, is than] at} ., teacher, born in Amelia Co., Ine}; head of | beneath a,c a itn tia fal toga” of frost- ine lace, She was. ae at the dressing table, her brown. hair loose about her shoul came nfo te it rey. when Hugh ‘io ht fhe sehen 3 fre oe the hairbrush and whirled ut to face him. Her widened and her heart got| caught and she said sharply, scarcely above a whisper, “Hug! dearest—what is it?” Hugh hesitated just a moment, but when shé rose, he came toe, meet her and took her into his | arms. “The call wes—long distance,” he told her, as though it ae hard to find words with whic! answer her. “From River ned Brace yourself, sweetheart. It's— not good news,” MEREDITH shivered, a little dazed from the reaction. A | fo she had been breath- | moment lessly, deliriously happy; sudden- | ly she. felt frightened and un- — happy. | Pel me, Hugh,” she said even- | “t's — Jonathan,” said Hugh heavily, knowing how her grandfather, the beloved “Old Doctor” who, for forty years, in fair weather or foul, had treated the: sick bodies anc the | tired minds of River Gap and its surrounding miles. Meredith Guiveres as though | struck; and then she pulled he.- ? self together and said faintly, “He’s—I art Hugh? Sick?” And Hugh said quietly, “ darling. He'll never be Ry % hurt—again.” Meredith was very still. The floor seemed to sway beneath her feet; the walls seemed .2 rush :n at her; and then she had managed to pull herself together and to liit her proud young chin almost de- fiantly, to meet Hugh’s eycs steadily. e “Hugh—he’s—he’s—dead?” she whispered. Te ne continued TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES 1813—Thomas Crawford, famed ! sculptor. of the Capital Dome’s {Statue of Freedom, born in New York. Died Oct. 10, 1857. 1817 — Braxton Bragg, noted Confederate general, born War- renton, N. C. Died Galveston, | Tex., Sept. 27, 1876, * 1845 (100 years ago)—John Ban- Tabb, Baltimore “Roman famed poet and Va., | nister Catholie priest, |Died Nov. 19, 1909. 1862 — Laura Jean Libbey, Brooklyn, N. Y., society matron, | author of the love stories’ read by millions born New York. Died Oct. 25, 1924. 1886—Fred(erick) Maclsaac, ad- venture and mystery story write: \born Cambridge, Mass. A suicide, Aug. 6, 1940. Husbands! Wives! Want newPep and Vim? Thousands of couples are weak. hausted solely: because bow vim, vitality, try. Ostrs fron you, too, i vitamin By. 101 For sale at ali drus STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | TRIUMPH $4 per day—825 per week, $5. per eday—S30 per wee! All large outside rooms with pr baths: a hotel you will enjos; w ing distances wnto: From where Charlie Jenkins got back from overseas the y, dis- ged for w and he s pretty well banged up. Naturally, our town felt mighty bad about it. We wanted to sympathize with him and help him. But Doe Walters set us straight about that. He wanted most Wi said that what Charlie to be accepted as one of the gang again... as if nothing had happened. So we asked him over to pitth h shoes with his good hand, and enjoy a friendly glass of heer nd chew the fat like old times. iisive 4y Joe Marsh How to Greet a Wounded Soldier And you should have seen him pick up! From being scared of meeting people, Char confidence back and soon be- came his own sel: From aittere Isit, Doc Walters gave us the right steer. The wounded men coming home don’t want our sympathy or our overenthusiastic help. They want to be treated like the rest of us... with unee to work and lead a 1 life. And that’s the ’e>st we can offer them. pe Marag No, 112 of a Series Copyright, 1945, United Stités Brewers Foundation dear a ir place in her heart was filled by |, ogy, famed. pnraiciet born Morr. son, Ill., 77 years ago. U. 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