The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 18, 1949, Page 6

Changing Curriculum Of School To Help Colored Children In Life = = | the Douglass School pupils do not remain in school until gradua- New Drop Out Of tion Sehow! Too s Many conditions may be re- Plane for the additional curri @lem Ww be started next year he Douglas: School are well un er way, sevording & eatteulum Behe chould be broadened Wtte more subjects with prac teal applicetions to daily life O@Gde of the pupils of the tale Beheol One impc Doug mt fact nts who} grams added in mate ty Ww Cogdell, the prin tpel Sept. Horece O'Bryant, and POpPeeentatives of the State De een of inde & stucty « nt pro- the u glass) sire @ vocation or a trade which to} will enable them to earn a_livli- Throughout this term the prin- GH ord fculty have held many | paratory tings and discussions on the sponsible for pupils dropping out of school. However, it appears quite certain that many of those stopped because they were not interested in the courses found jim the strictly college - prepara- j tory program. | This prompted the decision that there should be other pro- order to ‘help hold more of the pupils in school as well as to give those who de- hood; thereby becoming a better citizen in the community. In ad- dition to the regular college pre- program emphasis in | the areas of health, home and family life, physical education and recreation and vocational SHOW MUST USO Decides U. S. Owes hae been outstanding. Th. nm trades will be planned for the LOUISA’S LETTER Gq Louisa Rie tether loafe half of the time although he perfectly ae te make» good living for (i family and mother seems so Gaweureged that there is no pieeure te being home. I have ier with a nice boy for pg a Iam not crazy fim but I like him a lot De wants to marry me fee think it would solve m to marry him and from home with all of feations” Bess Rawwer Florida. $ cam understand how dis- you get over your py i a and I know that jet euch § circumstances as sur- round you are the cause of dozens of giles foolishly marrying the feet bey who comes along and aake them, only to find out that they are i & worse mess, then, than they were before Moertiage to @ boy you know nothing about and one who does et make enough to support you © @ bad enough risk, but when yeu admit thet you ure not in lowe with that is almost a certain reason such a ma rhage to be @ failure M things get at home, the thi ah town ond live have @ certat amd happiness fPther will shoulcde Giity f you are not i for him = be hea yeu ond} wave « en, 4 would be sand by no me agrerabie 1 ome in the pheasur { youth to ppert & = good-for-noting, lazy tether, or we take over his home aes dene inbearabi« lo is to get home can away from your where you of peace haps your his responsi there to do been a loyal i worn himself out ntawes and educa your duty to how dis There ng up all tte seemed is @ girl giv Dent make the horrible mis- he @ tying © escape from Feuer eMustion by marriage There i« nothing more Qeersble than o loveless un mar » Wee @ erise winner father | Tam @ girl who has a job but I have no satisfaction at home. impossible to save money because there are so many in house who need things and think I should lend my money them +—— HE CAN'T GIVE MONEY AWAY IN BALTIMORE BALTINORE — (#) — Want to | give money away? Don’t come to Baltimore to try it. | William Bond and Charles Mc- Cardle made a bet the other day after Bond mused aloud that money was so cheap nowaadys you couldn't give it away. McCar- jdle thought otherwise, and back- ed up his thinking with a $5 bill Then, in broad daylight, they | began walking a stipulated three blocks, McCardle courteously of- fering a $1 bill to the first pedes- , trian they met. | The first pedestrian glared and | wouldn't spt. They stopped Some more yeral already had a buck. Several figured McCardle had a gimmick. He tried ten times and found no taker. The eleventh, hédwever, took |McCardle. He was a cop who ‘formed a notion that McCardle was trying to move the dollar in the other direction, for reasons of his own. So. McCardle, who lives at Nor- ristown, Pa., was hailed into ma- gistra court. The charge: Pan- handling McCardle told his strange story The m rate « dismissed the eharge. The buck wound up in the police poor box. The 35,440-ton “America” is the largest American-flag _ pas- senger ship. | — The title Dom was applied to the Pope in the middle ages. | tiage and if Mr Right should come along after you have tied | yourself up to the wrong man, your worries of today would seem as naught compared to what | they would be then. | Good Luck, | LOUISA. Address Your Letters to: “LOUISA”, P. O. BOX 532, j Orangeburg, S. C. Vie ~ | a CAMEL— This floral camel 1 the parade at Lisse, Dutch bulb center, ‘ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN GO ON: Something To Draftees NOW: Morma Squires leads the song in the hospitals. By SAUL PETT, AP Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK—USO, which kept many a GI laughing when there was nothing to laugh about, has come back to life, time to fill the void between civilian. United Service Organizations, Inc., never completely died the peacetime soldier. and’ the but last spring it was just a few gasps away from extinction‘ It had been de-activated the previous January. Its admin- istrative staff was down to one man anda secretary. Its treas- ury had slumped to $4,000,000—money obtained from the sale of furniture—and when that ran out USO would have died completely. This appeared to be the end of the line for the vast organi zation which had spent $236,- 000,000 in seven years of trying to cheer up men in uniform, thad operated 4,000 clubs, em- ployed an administrative staff of 5,000, sent as many as 4,000 | performers all over the world in one year, spent as much as $5,000,000 a month on _ every- thing from table tennis balls to trucks, had employed a million volunteer civilians, from a Chi- cago charwoman who polished ; silver, to Eleanor Rosevelt, | who fried eggs. But last June 24, President Truman signed the new draft act. On July 6, Secretary of Defense Forrestal called USO back in to! service. That ensured continu- ance of many of the organiza- tion’s activities, which some in- dividual agencies had_ been try- ing to carry on alone. Today, with the remains of its! furniture money and_ capital raised by the Community Chest, USO is operating again, on a much smaller scale, but for a much smaller armed force. The USO budget this about $7,000,000. USO servicemé States and 15 in Alaska, Hi Guam, China and the Medite’ ranean. Every three weeks a USO show visits each of 120 veterans, Army and Navy hospitals in this country. The shows are limited to hospitals on the theory that abl bodied peacetime servicemen have enough time to get their fill of movies and the theater. “It's a traditional American custom.” says USO president Lindsley F. Kimball, “not to care about soldiers in peace- runs 144 time. It’s this apathy that pro- | vides our greatest difficulty. "We have to wake civilians | up to the fact that we, through | our Congress, voted the men | into the Army camps. There are a million minors in the new army. They should be re- garded as our public respansi- bility.” USO clubs perform many dif- ferent functions, all of them de- signed to remind the soldier or sailor that he has not been for- gotten ’by the people who sent him into service. These centers, says Dr. Kim- ball, are now being concentrated in areas where the service popu- lation far outnumber the ian, where there are little or no adequate facilities for entertain- ing vast numbers of men _ turned loose on leave. Among other things, the clubs provide food, sight-seeing tours, hobby groups, booths to press pants and senior hostesses to mend them, dances, _ parties, year is | ’s clubs in the United} civil- | * sama” DIPLOMATIC-CALL — In full ceremonial robes, U. Onn, new Burmese Ambassador to England, leaves his Embassy in London for a visit to King George at Buckingham Palace, Caickrammamearasseet ape AIS ities epORNpcoeaaeg: By A. H. ANDREWS haha gi | Known botanically. as Tecoma stans, this is one of five! Tecoma species, including both vines and shrubs, frequently seen in Florida gardens, and also in Texas. The Yellow Elder is a strong growing shrub; leaflets are opposite, from five to seven on a stem; acuminate with hls serrated edges, and up to three inchés in length: a: profuse fall bloomer with je dragrnnt tubular flowers about 1 clusters of ba yellow inches in le: “One’ of “The Tecomas_ are, upright shrubs with pinnate’ deciduous or |. ‘ subpersistent foliage and larg ers in_ terminal “clusters. stand but little frost and are- Wel suited for cultivation in. Florida and southern California. Propa- gation is by seeds which are usu- ally” freely produced ‘and ‘b: green-wood cuttings under glass, In his book, “My Garden in. Florida,” Dr. Henry Nehrling speaks highly of the yellow Eld. er as follows: _ rts “Tecome Stans, the ‘ Palo de Areo’ of Mexico or the Yellow Elder as it is usually called, Srows exceedingly well in high pine land and is perfectly’ at home in Florida, attaining an im- mense size if well fertilized and and showy usually yellow flow-,, es different small birds. mds of the branches. and are roduced so abundantly that they letely, cover the. plant, often { Weighing down to the ground the ‘ }ower..branches. .and . younger shoots. At the same time of the Year insect lift is very abundant among “these immense flower clusters and the daiity little warblers just coming from the tNogeh on the way to their winter | homes, as well as the lively blue- gray gnat catchers and the hum- ming birds, find an abundance fof insect food. Indeed, in large gardens these flowering masses of Tecomas are fairly swarming “Owing to the rapid growth and dense foliage from the ground, the Yellow Elder is mulched, dense masses eighteen highly valued as a screen for un- to twenty feet high and as much! sightly fences and buildings. It though being not at all rare. The} cannot stand heavy frosts and Tecoma is really the glory, efi may be injured even to the South Florida gardens in autumn ground, but it will come up as is the Bauhinia purpurea. in{again’ with wondrous rapidity, April, never failing to call forth: flowering abundantly -the same cuthuataaye admiration from all. geason. In fact, the writer has jolders. > «|made observation that plants “I do not know’a quicker graw-~! which have been cut down by ing, more decidedly beautiful and!sharp frost grow denses and The or level of Lake Gene va, Switzerland, this year was) the lowest recorded in « centu- games, sports events, showers and recording machines on which jto dictate a “letter” home. | Near Fairbanks, Alaska, USO operates an old gold mine. The | Mine isn’t worth anything com- ; mercially but GIs get a big | bang out of digging for their own gold. A whole day of dig- ging won't produce $5 worth, | but they like it anyway, Veterans Hospital Camp Shows \Inc., which is financed by USO jand in war-time was called USO |Camp Shows, now | Professional entertainers, are 10 different shows making the 28,000-mile hospital circuit— ; Seven variety shows, one play (‘Turn to the Right”), one revue | (‘Film Fun,” written by patients jand directed by Ezra Stone). and a streamlined version of the hit ' musical, “Brigadoon.” In addition to these regular, paid performers, Hollywood twice a year sends out about 50 stars! to tour the hospitals. They work | gratis. Among them have been ‘Jennifer Jones, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Van Johnson, Lin- da ‘Darnell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Celeste Holm and Jo "Stafford. employs 130{ There ' i at Low Prices better adapted shrub for new set- tlers in sandy pine land gardens. admirably. with the abundant. light green foliage are large, tube or thimble-shaped, bright yellow, lined in the throat with a brown- ish tint, and are fragrant. They are borne in huge panicles at the ee more abundantly the suc- jceeding fall. Nature's - pruning The flowers, which. harmonize! thus seems to be not without be- | found in Labrador {nefit to this plant. The Tecoma } ripens its seed so abundantly that hundreds of seedlings come up around the old plant. The value of this shrub blooming so late in ‘autumn cannot be overestimated. BRAZILIAN (Continued from Page One);, carried on the briefing through an interpreter. The Brazilians: gathered around several smalt tables drawn together. None’ of the Brazilians seemed to be hard drinkers. Most of them preferred soft drinks, but a féw Scotch and sodas did pass around. Here is the list of American and | Brazilian state department offi- cials and American and. Brazil- lan newspapermen in the press party: fi Hugo Gouthier, Counselor of Brazilian Embassy, Chief Press Officer for the Visit. Lincoln White, Department of State, Chief Press Officer for the! Visit. Press Officer. Frank Standley, U. S. Press ficer. Frank H. Oram, Latin Aemri- can Public Affairs Officers, De- partment of State. John S. Connolly, Newsreel Li- asson Officer, Department ‘of State. {hind the counter. | wound in Karpur’s head. FOOLED BY A HOLDUP GAME MIAMISBURG, O. — Wilbur | Karpur, grocer, isn’t going to play “cops and robbers” with the neighborhood youngsters any more. Having played a “holdup game” with the kids for years, Karpur wasn’t surprised when a youth entered his store, a gun in hand and his face covered \with a handkerchief. He laughed | when he was ordered to get be- He didn’t ‘laugh, however, when the youth ‘struck him on the head with a Charles D. Freligh, ‘Brazilian | home-made blackjack and then ifled when the grocer threw a Qf-! pop bottle at him. It took six stitches to close the mon da Costa (director general) Heron Dobingos (announcer). Asapress—Paulo Lavrador. Associated Press—Evaldo Mon- Martin R. Reynolds, Coordina; tor of International Broadcasting, Department of State. Henry G. Catucci, Manager of International Com-} munications, Western Union Tel- egraph Company. Representatiives from Rio: Brazilian Press Association — | Herbert Moses, President. ti Dean of Presidential Corre- | spondents—Pascoal Ferrone. Jornal do Comercio — Romeu | Ribeiro. Correio da Manha—A. Calado. | A Noite e A Manha—Jose Clemenceau Cao Vinagre. | O Globo—Nahun Sirotzky. | Diario de No ticias — Aurelio Lacerda. Diaria Carioca—Octavia Thyr- iso de Andrad ° Jornal do Brasil—Carlos Alber- to Dunshee Abranches. O Jor Diario da Noite — Carlos Riz: Agencia Nacional — Severino }Nunes (photographer). Romew ! Pasqualini (newsreel photograph- jer). Fernando Augusto Pedroso, ; Marinho (reporter). Teofilo Vas- concellos (announcer). Representatives from Sao Paulo: O Estado de Sao Paulo—Louri- val Gomes Machado. 2 A Gazeta—Orlando Nasi. | Folha da Manha e Folha da No- ite—Joao Batist Ramos. Representative. from Recife: Jornal do Corhercio—Esmarag- |do Marroquim (managing direc- | tor). | Representative from Porte Ale-' gre 2 | Correio do Povo—Francisco de ! Paula Job. wee Radio Nacional—Armandg Cal- + ROBERTS OFFICE SUPPLIES: : i and EQUIPMENT | \ 126 DUVAL ST. PHONE 280 | GRADUATION CARDS and GIFTS — : i Royal Portable Typewriters / for Immediate Delivery Used Typewriters Regional{ Time—William W. White. teiro de Castro. ~ United Press—William Winston Copeland. Department of State—Charles V. Hurtado (international publi- cations). Joseph R. O'Donnell (still pho- tographer). 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