The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 6, 1949, Page 2

a —— oo ————_—_— Rintered at Key Went, Florida. as second class matter AterlATED = exclusively entitted te wn Mepatches credited 4 in this paper, and eine the lowed news publiche® here RTRIPTION BATES . < 260 re % “ ~——— >. ‘9 srertet seTne neotioes, cams of (hant®, resolgtions S ot, whl be is line. open forem and invites die inuee att subjects of toral of will het peblin ananymeous Dear Citizen Readers: Again the local radio station has been subsidized by the County Commis- sloners with the taxpayers’ money to the tune of $1800 for the ensuing year. When will WKWF stand on itsown feet like any other business’ THE OKACLE EDUCATE YOURSELF 1 to middle- This editorial ix addr aged individuals who fee! that their edu- cational opportunities have not been as complete as they would have liked Conscious of this lack of training, some people bemoan the lost days and ink inte a state of semi-ignorance, with- out making any effort to become better in- formed. We would call their attention to the fact that there are only two requisites te a good education, reading and thinking There is no person in Key West, of any age, who cannot become well-inform- ed in a year or two of intelligent reading, supplemented by a little think Step the habit of taking opinions from anybody and begin trying to study some problems for the purpose of making up your own mind. To the individual who does not know where to start, we would suggest begin- ning on a sub/ect in which you are inter- ested. If it ix a technical subject that en- tranees your imagination, ask advice from some person who knows something about it. Get a book on the and, if it takes six months.read it until you under- stand it, There is really little excuse for a man or woman going into old age without mak- ing the effort to become more intelligent Even if you have only half an hour a day, take advantage of it and begin to acquire new information. Never mind about the better educated; make it vour business to improve yourself, We know many excellent individuals who have failed to take advantage of their own leisure time to read an learn but who constantly lament that they are not “edu cated.” The matter of becoming weil in- formed does not hinge upon a college de- gree; it is a matter of reading and think- ing. This is a question of decision and de- termination subject Try to be alive on the fifth day July! of July! ee One of these days somebody is going to write a book that will sel! itee!f without j a sex-stimulus. It is very difficult to tel! what some of the squabbling is about in certain Europ- ean countries; the correspondents seem to have only a hazy idea. THAT 25 PER CENT CUT —__— Probably before the end of this week, Governor Warren will designate the date for the special session of the legistature. Since the regular session ended, the Tax- payers’ Association of Florida, a legivta- tive bloe and many individuals in various waiks of life in Florida have declared that we don’t need a special session and that, if economy is practised, the state will be able to get aloag with the money it i now re- ceiving. But the tune has been changed some- what since the State Welfare Roard re- vealed that state pensions wil! be cut down 25 percent. The Citizen is aware of many residents of Key West who are wholly de- pendent on their pensions to get enough to eat. To state only one instance: An aged Key West man, living alone and without any near relatives, was getting $45 a month. Out of that sum he paid $15 rent for one room in which to sleep and pre- pare his meager meals. That left him $30 for food and other essentials. Under the 26 percent cut, he will re- ceive $83.75, and after he pays his rent, he will have $18.75 on which to live. Even if every penny of it is used for food, with sandwiches at 36 cents apiece and other prepared food proportionally high, he wil! sense the yearning for a full stomach on « good many of the next 30 days. That case is typical of about one-third of the more than 500 pensioners in Monroe county. How long the 25 per cent cut will continue is hard to determine at this time, thougty Gevernor Fuller Warren, at pres: conference in St. Petersburg, said he had received several “encouraging letters” from legislators that the state’s financia! problems are going to be solved. Severa! senators were among the legislators who _ had written the governor. Even with the 25 percent cut, Governor Warren stated, the State will be $1,800,000 in the hole by November. He concluded, “1 don’t see how we can trim any more.” OPPORTUMITY FOR ALL America is still the land of tunity Anyone who doubts it should just look over the contests held by such strong arm« of American business as the leading soap campanies. Only recently a young bride of two months was awarded more than $40,000 for writing just 16 words about a soap product. And now there is another contest ing staged with $86,000 in prizes, $40,000 as the first prize. But the Mea of just offering money is not the only one. In the current “Fab oppor- be. and ulous New Rife Contests” which runs from | « now until July 10 literally a offered Sponsor of the contest suggests that the firct prize winner may have an $18 000 house and lot, together with an annua! ineome of $500, an annual vacation fund of $250 and $3,000 in cash. With home« still ata premium it definitely “new life” to some person in these United States. Of course, if the winner prefers the $40,000 cash, he may have it “new life” is And in suggesting a home and these other assets it would seem that thix ma: ufaeturer takes a constructive step) which other business leaders well may emulate In a country where a person, merely for writing a last line to a jingle on a blank his grocer can give him, may get a home plus, it must be apparent to all that oppor tunity still Mourishes, A home ix man most cherished possesion, now more than ever And particularly a home in thie land opportunity! Those who profess tolerance should be wary about calling other people name EXPLORE VOLCANO’S CRATER We take our hat off to Volcanologist Guisseppi Imbo, of Naples, Italy, who, in connection with his duties as director of the Vesuvius Observatory, recently ex- plored the floor of the voleano’s crater The director got to the bottom of the crater for the first time that any man has explored it in thirty years. He has been trying to make the descent since the eruption m March, 1944. Signor Imbeo reached the crater floor last | by means of ropes to inspect the solidified | lava and deep crevices, many of them giv ing off sulphurious amoke. He found no indication that the volcano, recently ina: tive, has an eruption scheduled for the early future. offers a | that sat in wi S Jef? pushed veck his chair) musts he heard a knock’ om the | kitchen doo “Who is it?s, “John Stover. explained that returned from Jef | Radn't ’ “Come in and mave some supper,” kindle ya “Thanks; 1 lied to . ow uron untervention i® Russia. Stover Do down at) him when he was broke. and try it yourself” 925—Rum running ships with- place aad Sang, fot Giana. it he away the n sight of President Cootidge’s | rer ate a in silence, then | money #0 hard| QTOVER pushed back his h apital at Swampscott, | Katherine Th | “T _—- for G te, i and got to his feet. “W Mos riered ty him driven! cam on “4° a a | tout part of the week Never seem] that sin oil that’s pusslin’ me*|Giemee Yo ose toe way by Const Guard. movie, | Port, Mess. Diet July ih Samm | t@ Gnd him home. There's a cou-| He shoveled a kni beans | lawyer instead of him |! 4 a? Y . 1864. -Thor Sperry, te | ple points I got to get straight! into his mouth, ener-|in some other tim . ‘\traveling salesman who érigip about that Tolron shootin’.” getically, then w: down | Gleason) meanw hi ’ ork City ated trading stamge. bere | “What points?” with a swallow lea- other hunches irs + ps rai ervean . - . ‘ . . Kron wi ite Tenn Died Siege | . “Well, Sam's position. for one, the mks for the i com Seems kinds funny thet Bud , 4 mm all slong ¢ F og age ’ — . The Americen flag shout | td ses hunt re-| Placed in or over the | . turning over in bh ‘ ; ‘flying disks” on Places on every election day. Questions that St ‘ . [ ee the daowtedes that i yn | 948 40.900 onft coal miners playing poker protes lack of mew | ti then the evening quirct ittered by a shot It come the direction of the alley Pp how atent rodent Wilson decides; granted Hike of Mass. far sinee-calted *ntent which pevelution- rena ean, Your Horoscape t Lest Times Today BELLE STAR A hed HALHOL FE “RT one CONG THeesee i | just where? sounded only a short distance i “Well. if only five shote were) * "Sy. VEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1940 fired, and Glenn fired all of them, opened the kitchen door und Jent desires, yet ;§ $ dn’t shoot Sam.” stood looking up the dark alley. . ms seuller ele | gun through the pane and let him then went out and started toward ws > | have it, That way the muzzle of | ¢ the point from whence the shot nt that often turns the mind } the gun wouldn't be much more had come. He sow a dark ‘gure estuty of nature and her | than two feet from Sam's head.”| ¢ enter the alley from the direc \. Success will probably , | “And right close to Gleason's,”| m - tion of the street, and » moment “ carly in life and if proper adee 4 the marshal dryly ridge muld have been later ree Saxe by the dark - taken it will oe perman t was, Me d 7 ISem before he ness. e run, notic- say.” “Maybe,” said Stover, but Jef the match was bendine over } thing else?* could see that he was skeptheal, someting on the ar " 2s first coined in The gold ft disappeared. ok here, John: if fre]. Me was lying on his face R ’ C. by Servius Tul and ason was alone with Sam ing to pin Sam's mw leaned over and turned rang & legend Ferseee while the others ran up j on, you might as well knowing as he did so who it was - ine bench. And Gleason knew Sam|it The boy had no motive for| The man beside him sucked in gy ag een had it, for he played poker with! killing Sam. Slug did. TM was] Wis breath y 198" to the Mewapelinn om knowledge that Shug in-|_ “Holly smoke! It's John Sto- Mim: in “Le Boheme. and ¢ harien tended to get Sam, and there isn't the OF THE CITIZEN OF JULY 6 1999 | 1 ' . < tun ted lr th | nw | ] ~ ‘ B ’ | t ' | M ‘ . | Serr s : JULY 6 1999 | ee | ee | . Ban I . H } H » . od mu, wi : n Montelasr | | " | nal iJ ! 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Pours net AS TAKEN FROM FILes [ses moved on t Chicago 48 @roame Aten Pere sel 6 Our price for Coca-Cola has BOTTLED UNDER ate KEY WEST COCRCOLA BOTTLING COMPANY Sane a 6 bottle cartes y (phos heguenent ) 5° (poten cher poconst CACO COORnEEE oom ™ 24-betthe case . never gone up. That’s better. *j a0 _ oe —— ee