The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1946, Page 4

/ Ay Christmas For Some Families Aere Depends On Key West Generosity A large number of needy femilies and = under - privileged ehildren in Key West will be de- pendent on donations of toys and ehothes for any Christmas cele- bration this year, the Rev. John B. Pickens, president of the Mon- ree County Child Welfare Coun- cil, said today. Generous people of the com- munity who have useable toys and clothing which they desire te contribute, may telephone the State Welfare Department, 491, —— ee or Rev. Pickens, 1120-J, and the articles will be called for. This Christmas project is sponsored by the Council, which will serve as a clearing house in order to avoid duplication of gifts for some families, and per- mit distribution to some who may be hesitant in making their needs known. Donors who desire to provide a needy family, will be enabled to do so, upon telephoned or per- sonal application. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY While Florida like all of the nation would feel the effects of @ prolonged coal strike in the cur- taliment of industrial and agri- eultural activity, she is in a more fortunate position than most other states, and Floridians as individ- uals will suffer less than the peo- pie of any other section. At least Florida will eat and Fierida will keep waum for our fetural resources in fruit, vege- tables, cattle, hogs, poultry, fish, am abundance of sunshine and, if needed, ample fire wood should @ cold spell strike, will care for our needs. Curtailment of transportation would hit us hardest as it. would fimit the shipmeni of the largest fruit and vegetable crop on rec- @, and would reduce tourist travel on the railroads although this loss would probably be more than offset by the arrival of great- er numbe who would drive Seuth in their own cars to escape the discomforts of life in the colder and congested areas. While the picture isn’t very Pleasant we can be assured that millions will starve or freeze to death throughout the nation be- fore Florida ever feels the pinch of genuine hunger or frostbite. All business would suffer, of course, and many shortages would develop because of the lack of transportation and commercial fuel, Millions of workers, now gainfully employed, would be thrown out of work through no fault of their own or their em- ployer, and should this happen they have only to thank the New Deal which fostered the govern- mental policies that brought on this deplorable situation. They can particularly thank their friend Senator Pepper, who has consistently fought every ef- fert to curb labor and provide the nation with protective legislation against the misuse of power by arrogant labor leaders. As this is written the outlook for @ speedy settlement of our problem is far from encouraging. Backing up John Lewis, American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, through their spokesmen William Green and Phillip Murray, have gone on rec- ord as ready to join him in his fight in the event the govern- ment attempts to deal with him througlr legal or other means. But John doesn’t need the surance or their help. He is sit- ting pretty. All John has to do is sit tight and millions of CIO and AFL workers will find them- the | selves out of work without the necessity of striking in his be- half. When you shut down the coal mines for any length of time you automatically shut down the steel industry, the railroads, utili- ties, mills and factories, for indus- try cannot operate without fuel or materials with which to pro- duce and keep men employed. Court action is not very satis- factory in an emergency, and even if the government were so foolish tas to throw Mr. Lewis in jail they would simply be locking the barn door after the horse had been stolen. All this would ac- complish would be to make Mr. Lewis a martyr and cause the uniting of all labor groups behind him. So we find ourselves with the President of the United States on one hand representing 142,000,- 000 Americans, and John Lewis representing 400,000 coal miners on the other, with a reserve of approximately 15,000,000 organ- ized workers, pledged by their leaders to support him if a show- down comes. Of course the fief executive has an Army and a Navy, a Con- gress and the Courts, but unless you want to start a civil war you cannot use them with any degree of success and Mr. Lewis knows this. You cannot mine coal with bayonets nor can you mine it with sharp words, court order$’ or an Act of Congress so long”'s‘a minority group as powerful as df- | ganized labor is more loyal to its ‘leadership than to its nation’s President. | All this screaming at_ Joln | Lewis seems rather silly ¢onsid- | eving the fact that we gave him \ his club and now we howl our j heads off when he attempts to use it. John is smart and John is shrewd, He sees a chance to take over American labor and to hell with Mr. Green and Mr. Mur- ;ray. The only thing he has to | consider is the loyalty of his mine workers and from the way they are standing behind him that is no worry at all. _If John Lewis can win this ‘fight he knows he will be the King Pin of American Labor and he considers the game well worth the candle. George White, Tam- pa Morning Tribune cartoonist, j hit the nail squarely on the head ; With his cartoon where he pic- | tured Uncle Sam crucified on a }miner’s pick with John Lewis standing to one side saying, ‘Let's see ya get off of that!” : It looks like we were really in |for a “Merry Christmas” and a \ “Scrappy New Year.” ENTIRELY TOO BUSY PHILADELPHIA. — So en- @fossed were members of the Beta Eta Chapter of the Theta Kappa Psi medical fraternity in their studies that they paid no attention to a noise they heard on the first floor of their house. However, the next morning, the chef. found that a baked ham, a roast of beef, several pounds of butter and four cartons of eggs were gone from the refrigerator, not to mention a carton of bacon, ! two bags of sugar, a quantity of canned soups and canned vege- tables and fruit from a food locker. The Impossible An Oriental story tells of a man who was asked to lend a rope to neighbor. His reply was that he was in need of the rope just then. “Shall you it a time?” asked the neighbor. “I think I shall,” replied the owner, “as I'm going to tie up some sand with it.” “Tie up sand!” exclaimed the would-be borrower, “I don’t see how you can do that.” “Oh, you can do almost any- thing with a rope when you don't want to lend it!” was the reply need long The hippopotamus sweats red— a pigmented, oily fluid juices missing | STORK WORKS OVERTIME | MISSOULA, Mont. — The stork, working overtime recently, rcrowded the facilities of St. k’s Hospital, arriving with 28 infants to occupy the space designed for only 12. Apple boxes and peach crates, rigged up as baby cribs, helped solve the shortage of living quarters in the baby ward. | Asset or Liability? They tell of the ham actor | who complained long and loud to} the producer about the size of| his name on the lights. | “Oh,” groaned the actor. “q] ! know I'm not a star, but I do| think my name should be fea-! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Low silhouette and graceful body lines make the 1947 Kaiser Special outstanding among automobile style leaders. The new six-passenger, 100-horsepower automobile combines unprecedented seating width with its ream exterior, “SNAKES ALIVE ARE WORTH CATCHING Long Rattlers Bring $100 ---Pick’Em By ANDY ANDERSON ILVER SPRINGS, Fla.—Don't kill that snake—catch it! is, if you could use a bit of pin money and aren't already scared to death. An eight-foot hale and hearty Florida rattler, for instance, will net you $100, but if he’s only seven feet the price drops to a mere $15 because he is muchf*—: more plentiful. And for a seven-| or preserved for museums, rat- foot northern or western rattler, tles for curios, meat processed the price is $1 a pound. | and canned as a table delicacy, So says Ross Allen, Florida) bones bleached and dried for herpetogolist who makes. a busi- , manufacture of cosmetic orna- ness of catching snakes and sell-| ments, and gall bladder preserved ing not only the live ones but; and sold for various medical pur- | ‘things he can make of them. | Poses. | Allen’s principal market for | Allen, a short almost rotund} non-poisonous snakes is with ,™@" usually uses a hook and bag carnivals and circuses.in this ‘when he goes hunting but if he country and Canada, the snake- man buying dens that cost from $15 to $150 a den. They buy a | den on an average of every two weeks because of the high mor- tality of snakes in such work, A few showmen use poisonous snakes, Allen says, but not | many. The next biggest market takes in zoos and museums. Then, Al-| len says, there are some 5,000 in-| dividual collectors of reptiles who have private zoos in their homes | and they are always in the mar-} ket. Aside from selling the live ar-| ticle, Allen disposes of virtually | everything in a rattlesnake, for} instance, except the whirr of its | rattle; venow for serums, skin for | leather articles, heads dried and! Up Bare Handed wants to show off, he just reaches | That} down and picks up a snake back | ' of the head. He has been bitten a | few times, but it seems to bother ; him little more than a splinter | bothers a carpenter. HERPETOLOGIST Ross Allen shows how he handles rattlers. Traveling Californians In Key West On 4-Year Automobile Trip On his way to visit the battle- | field where he fought in the They were former German Spanish-American War, P. J. lands mandated to Japan under } Bestler of Los Angeles, Calif., is the Treaty of Versailles. | spending several days in Key 4. Because it occurred on Oc- West. He is accompanied by his tober 1917 by the old-style wife. The couple left California Russian calendar. on February 7 for a four-year . The Navy blimp XMI—170.3 automobile trip. hours. While visiting Key West the! 6 November 3, 1943, Bestlers are making side-trips to! 7. Signed at Portsmouth Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica. it ended the E In Cuba Bestler, who served A British with the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in 1898-99, will go over the battleground where he saw action. He was a member of Company F, from Oshkosh, Wis. | After returning to the main- land, the Bestlers Will travel to New York and New England, cross into Canada at Niagara Falls, see Yellowstone National Park, Seattle and Juneau, Al- a. At Juneau they will com- mence an automobile trip ex- tending the length of two conti- nents and ending in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Bestlers believe the American Highway will be pleted by the time they Juneau. The Answers (Questions On Page Two) 1. More than 36,000,000. varnished for curios or ornaments | | | | ( | The Republican. 2 7 8. tion 9. Thirty-one 10. mated per cent. About 2,500 out of an esti-; 1,600,000,000. The earth revolves on its axis in the course of an average y¢ a little more than 366 times. extra revolution of the its axis compensates for tal revolution: of — the out the sun. Will the person who has writ- | ten several letters to Mr. W. C. Price, attorney, of the law firm of Price and Price, Miami, Flor- ida, in reference to the case in which Mr. Harry Sweeting of Miami, Florida, is interested, and signed said letters “A COLORED “My OLD RELIABLE CITIZEN OF splendidly; never speeds so fast KEY WEST,” contact immediate- ay earth the earth on un- Pan- com- reach Ideal Woman Driver her wife runs machine Tron Man “De doctah say I got too much ‘on in my blood.” “Does yo’ eat po’k, Sambo?” Over your magic with this mixer! You don't need a thing but Helen Ann Fruit- Nut Mix... and a little in- genuity ... to whip up pud- dings, ice box pies, fillings, toppings, fudge, fruit bars and a lot of other special desserts. Fruit-Nut Mix is a combina- tion of whole glazed fruits, pecan and almond meats, she can’t stop within a foot or two; always pays attention to her tured. Why don’t you mention} the name of the show ‘plus the principals, and then before the} name put ‘And—?’” . “AND!” screamed the fed-up producer. “Why not ‘BUT?’” Laughter Defined | Pupil (to learned professor): , causes laughter? | Professor: My boy, a laugh is| a peculiar contortion of the hu- ,man countenance, voluntary or) ; involuntary, superinducted by a jconcatenation of external cir-| cumstances, seen or heard, of a ,Tidiculous, ludicrous, jocose, mirthful, funny, factious or fan- ciful nature, and accompanied by |? cackle, chortle, cachinnation, | giggle, gurgle, guffaw, or roar. | | then, wheel; never starts one way and without any reason, turns off in another direction; threads her way around corners perfect- | k | “What make is the car?” “Car? It’s a sewing machine.” CARD OF THANKS | Our Sincere appreciation is ex-! tended neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown, and for floral tokens of remem- brance and loaned in the hours of anxiety and bereave- ment occasioned by the recent illness and death of our beloved Amelia Bethel. THE FAMILY. Noy. 28-1t ly Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Attorney, 600 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida? Reward’ for prompt at-| tention to this matter. ALLAN B. CLEARE, Jr. nov28-29,1946 “Strand Theater BETTE DAVIS in “A STOLEN LIFE” Coming: ‘The Bride Wore Boots’ Dolores Del | Margarita Coming: “The Lonesome Trail” 20000000 F009800F9088F006 whole glazed cherries, all cut to size, spiced, and blended to perfection. FRUI Case Girl Born To Laniers Mr. and Mrs. William Lanier announce the birth of a daughter at the Municipal Hospital, at 6:35 p. m., Monday, November 25. Williamses Have Son A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Williams, 818 White street, at 9:32 p. m., Mon- day, November 25. Boy Born to Sellerses Laird street, announce the birth of a son at 2:45 a. m., this morn- jing. 54 Masons Flying Here From Miami For Ceremony Saturday Before 54 visiting Masons who | will fly here from Miami, An- | chor “Lodge 182, F. & A.M. will | conduct a Master’s Degree dra- matization at 8 p, m., Saturday, at the Scottish Rites Temple. | Twenty-four Key Westers | comprising the Master’s Degree team of the local lodge will pre- |sent the ceremony exemplifying | the significance of the degree. The Miamians, members of Al- lapattah Lodge 271, will arri here in two AAXICO planes | about 3:30 p. m. They will be met by Fernando Camus, dire tor of the degree team. Follo ing the remony they will re- {turn to Miami. MEMORIAM In memory of our dearest Mother, Emma Louisa Lowe. De- parted this life November 2 1942. LEOTA LOWE HOLT AND FAMILY. nov28-1tx TERETE LTE (KENNY Little Folks SHOP ; Where You Can Shop | for Your Little Folks eo’ | Po “Your. 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