The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 20, 1949, Page 2

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PAGE TWO — . ‘he Key West Citixe Sana tears = _. Manager dine Corner Ureen ABR Kireets Onty Dany Newspaper im Key West and ” . Mongoe (wwmty Antered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter & fot other Sine (he cel Bews published here. 8) PCIE TIO. RATES erneral ee torent, bat th will ue ations TCC RERe TOE PORE He TRO ee seeeer POPP RPO rer re rrr | o Miami a ‘int debating the time-old which of the two places is cooler question The paramount question in Florida ix ig- nored, Which place ix coolest in sum- mer and warmest in winter — Key West, ' of course. THE ORACLE “GET HIM! LYNCH HIM!" “There he is—get him! Lyneh him!” The cry came from an angry mob, surg- ing around a man unable to protect him- self from the vengeance of those about him. The quotation comes from a news dis- patch, telling how some 200 persons in the metropolitan eity of New York fought with police to secure a hit-and-run driver after an accident in which a boy's leg was broken. Police captured the man and took him to a hospital tobe treated for cuts and bruises Coming out of the hoxpital, the police “fought their way back” house with the man, whose shirt was torn in shreds by the mob. Hix face and body were covered with cuts and bruises.” Only the presence of courageous = policemen If the same incident had rural area, where be sparse, the man would probably been lynched. News dispatches do not in- dicate there was any racial n the New York incident to a station- competent and saved the man happened in a police protection have factor MRE. MESTA A DIPLOMAT The President's appointment of Mrs Pearl Mesta to be Minister to Luxem- bourg has been confirmed by the Senate The presumption is that the lady will serve the nation about as well as some of the male diplomats who go abroad Nevertheless, the appointment of the wealthy widow seems to be connected in the minds of some of the public, with lavish entertainments and cash contribu tions to the Democratic Party in the last election. The appointment, however, will streng- then the assumption that diplomatic ap- pomtments are used by Presidents to re- ward party angela for putting up the cash in connection. with political cam- paigns. The practice is bad and, conse- quently, it is no defense to any appoint- ment, regardless of precedent PEPDE LE bOOBRHE CEPA EE OOH OMHOOTELETE TE C44 TEETER Those whe save money aré the ones to “ make money. - es _ You don't have to go to church, even - your own, but the practice will do you —_— ——- Human interest may be created in many ways but it is impossible for it to be felt without the element of intimacy. You may hear a story that interests persons whom it concerns but it does not appeal to you. For instance, you are aware that many persons lose their lives daily in fires and traffic accidents but you do not give a second thought to them after hav- ‘ng read the stores concerning them. But let something arise within your cirelé or in your community, such as the case of Antonia Mujica, and human in- terest plays a streng rele in your feelings. On Monday The Cithen story about Antenia Mujica, Baby,” and it gripped the Key Westers whe are familiar case. We read and forget the story programs. The general pictured the Communists as deliberately probing the Western dem- ocracies for weak spots but he did not Chace anal al Re Get oat ele | JEFF opened his eves and fi Los in the back blinked. He pushed himeelf to) 5.4 waiked over te the bow en elbow, only to fall back #Th picked tee & groan of pain. His head was Glenn nad ar ‘Then memory retugned| over i hae se again: and. the riven Gleam Senay thle ca was mental r@her ay tmp 2 hove. Glenn! Glenn, the bey he; - ned "crap sworn the memory of his mother ts guard and cherie fend | oy R-F 2. st t an, poy Ning had oy? Lj hee? — was Glenna who tied {: ae , knowing epproximately e) they would camp and in hat a condition he would find them. His gua = Jeff rolled over, getting his! the ground. YS 4 pd hands beneath him. He started to! Bach proposal for the Past Charg-| “ For a Small Investment the more than 800 persons whe lost their | a ie a -- 3 _ oe b ee SS id lives in the United States during the week- | thought. The one who had stolen | holster, and ren ' . the gold had rieden t vorse rest of ham & end and Fourth of July holidays, but in with “the breben cole. And the he tots steal on his i i i Tee ho rode that horse had|handeulis this one life that hangs in the balance we |... Se theme 2 pee =. eo cick “Now tare argued and bee try to be stirred by hepe that it will be Ptmimeset ios [age MF Ghakily he got to his feet and| have » look at yau” ~ seemed « saved, though we are alive to the fact that ue | went over to where Glenn's horse| | Jeff turned and looked nto hin} , S'S, 5, Se as “te } ti tre @ mateh an ace the chances of saving it are stim. by ss ignt c amined the prints) “Bull was go startled that he took | guards to gad Tone & Often we read about the thousands in the soft earth. They we ¢ quite|a beckward stem ot | distinet and perfeet im every de- “So you're the that = | con, bege oe ED treet vay who have died of hunger in China and tail There was no broken calk leas gold? start for home come doen le j He felt an instant great relief.jan mside foe fey. ry = We b ye a — happen } Glean wes no: 8 muarderer no| down hese and see’ P) “5h = & Dorn in this werld where at best is, | matter what else he had done, he| Ed Wade returned te me j aorta aow - | horse. * a caningam on fraught with ups and downs. How horrid | . 7" | Editor, The Citizen ! a py —y HE mud a ae Fo - wae of ana . * , ' ye id : ed | “since you other stories in the newspapers and our aa ’ ice | Operation during the recent fund| it and had left its execution to| you might unlock these be ‘hem the ool y , * : : “ar Ante i | the belder and more tenced | give me back my gum. wrt tome of eee semen any 0 ent kly as : "Weer leneeel aesliee an Shug, Glenn had doped the coficn,|" Hi didmt works Oo me oe om nog ° > - ‘ Nes r> A ,| the citizenry of our community pel g By toa sgt had | ly, ~ yt. ere: gy they agenda, yt it if we hear that a neighbor's child {s ' . " to support this humaniterian | dumped the box in the crcek,|mesnin’ of all thie” te mcond for ~ be tee is in need of the necessaries of life, or has |‘ cause ditched the wagon, thea gone on It's plain en ugh tw, eS oe ae aro ution * ‘ oa a 7 — oo 7 © Glen ad | he s hunch the be r. put Je tte the « been stricken with an insidious disease, ; | LBERT | psrag an Dp Tomy Bh Tet oS A fe = wan olde oupanl — such as polio, we are ready to help, if need- ve mie . rea ar tart vst Commander. | the fet Re as safe, Gl an h ad ow he a ah uotly, fongucing eae. god be mache ed, or, if not needed, to hope it will receive | ,, “{T8"" ' iow nee pod 19. toon call had awakened Soll ond ealied ——_ . vd t 7 ~y " ref’ | i pie i ond e, that ma te . ® proper care, in the first instance, or re- |',°"', ss : ee) A es ER Og FL cover from its malady ' WILL YOU SMILE? | "This was the only logical ex , And you did it with.|ingham coldly ° 4 Ot) 8 1m, ' sed . . vey as . a jogical 4 i t re oe dh “ . " cai , ‘ wyer anation that Jeff ce ar ct. Or ye h. ned wh Propinquity is the chief factor in pat + t f Shine Kore a ng he nk my minis use 0 | Shue. re 4 - ; A greater crime of murder, tt 4 +, ond Bilt) here human interest. fer fact Teen ned that the boy he | w 1 r u fahed it| Jef? went . a Wh. CALL T Rr | at would you do if had helped rear and a just ¢ t believe it|the trom & sovig LEADERS UTHLESS were im my oes” ; for whom b ad m “ « box. and even if at yO act Polish ‘em Despite the mass of things that one ie reads about Russia, it is somewhat difficult |i.) (1! ei. | CALL Fon proposals §=§ Your Horoscope - for the average American to secure defi- ‘ ‘ | & ~ i on will be re “ pec nite and satisfactory information as to . ‘ lig Paget al par Ploe WEOHEEDAS e Pr om ' . re “ Py es capactt what goes on in the Soviet Republic. The |‘ de, at the City Clerk's Office — oat ae t . Iron Curtain serves effectively to keep the And demande "wich | ty Hall Key West, Plarida, up Whie the natit ” - Communist area something of a mystery. | \+ “4 90D, such pregennio te br seemed! neers Ta 7 General Walter Bedell Smith, who |”. : at a regular meeting of said City served e t . . Commussom to te held at seid the Uniged Mates an Ambassador ¥ : time and date in the Commission to Russia and, thereby, gained an insight |} ’ Chambers in the City Hall, Key inte the Russian situation, recently advis- ['"""\" 7 ‘ West, Florida, for the sale of the} . Gen following property ed the Conference of Governors that the ba be Qne Generel Blectric Past | * * Soviet Government was “ruthless” and nek Charger, Model ORC124F4 A made a plea for gupport of United States }-* ae ging one three | ea oO Os l fi military assistanee and European recovery rey | bject to the following condi | think that the Soviets would risk war and consequently, believed that “they will modify their aggressive policies when con- fronted with firm resistance backed by | recognizable force.” } Any sign of vacilation or indecision | on the part of the United States, he serted, would profoundly discourage our friends in Western Europe and strength en the Communists in the belief that if they keep up the pressure, we will grow tired and give up the struggle The nations of Western Europe that engaged in the recent war, ut of the conflict practically defen says | the general, with the exception of Great Britain. This condition, with the sive and expansive tendencies of the So iet Union, has created a sense of determin ation to resist armed aggression being prepared to make that determina tion effective, the United States gives cor came o aggtes and b fidence to its possible associates and ther: } ly strengthens the potential defense this country itself | General Smith asserts that Soviet Communism is under the direction of | “ruthless and ambitious men, animated by | a lust for power and bound by the fanati- | eal doctrine which holds that the end ju tifies the means, ne matter how brutal! or unjust.” With the decided conflict f ideas, their control of Russia confronts u with potentiality “the greatest challenge | ever offered to our principles and our wa of hife.” The general says that other elements of Communist power include the seizure | this group of men of the strength and re- i sources of Russia with a determination to use them to carry out “aggressive and ex pansive policies”. The third their control and manipulation of vient groups” in other countries so as to subject these countries to the will of the | dominant power. This process, he asserts, | will continue “whenever freedom and dem ocracy do not prove themselves strong enough to resist.’ element “subser : ast be enclosed in a envelope, and marked on the Je. “Proposal for Fast Charger Ea propesal must be accom panied by a bank draft or bank ashie heck, payeble to The! City of Key West, Florida, in an t less than twenty pe 20 { the amount bid Drafts and checks will be re turned promptly to bidders wh: posals are rejected. The dr oRPER OF PEREE A THeS heck of the successful bidd 1 be applied on account of! the nt bid and the balance te ' price must be i a i City withir ie 4 enty f hours after a ast said Fast Charg-| er to be noved ter thar August 1949, tr cit ’ Hail pre es the rig eject any and mality ny bid or proposal.) Dated at K West, Florica, | Dist { July, A. D. 1949 VICTOR LOWE joao City Clerk | tase No. ttn SELLS That Good » “STAR * BRAND | AMERICAN COFFEE | seoTwn Te .rrman Last Times Today Beast With Five Fingers RonenT & ssonrw RINK eet PHTRR Foner Coming: BROADWAY Grover Hatt end Pet OBrien REY WEST COO RCOLN BOTTING cComr rany

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