The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 24, 1950, Page 2

vent since SE | ¥. 02) Koliday. aoe r a twenty THE ORACLE 6 OF GOOD WRAL tectent and Eastera jet sext month » of ab organization to be Hations! Co wil of .the et 5 heater Ph wat eetam repremnnts the fruits poet Metwer Cawvert, now Gen- ee @ Qe Federal Coma off of @tertet, The idea, we pre- Seveing “church cooperation” pot Peatestantion inte a com. ‘ bowls that can represent the P teoneetnationgn inmcofar as - they - wi * ee opitiwiem of those whe urge rection af religious move- oy Pretestaat, Catholic, Jew- , Conbectan of otherwise, mpeeet te Ai these who follow they happen to tive. WHAT COLUMBUS DID Millions of people in the United States eclebrated Columbts Day. on the twelfth of this month and many of the states of the Union observed the anniversary a5 2 We sotfiétimes wonder whether we sight of the significance of some of national celebrations. What is it, for example, that lies behind the discovery of. the New World by Columbus? How many of us stop to analyze the event or to reflect upon ifS consequences? In our “taking a holiday” spirit, we irarely appreciate the occasion we . cele- with the historical date on and his:small group came thé new World. Th region wa iscovered” on that day. | because cal records prove that the early Norsemen\came to the continent } niany decades before Columbus. Moreover, | historians are about convinced that ancient. ; explorers from Asia were familiar with | what we call the American Continents } tho f yeats before the small ships amibus got into the © sifrrounding ds o waters. ' The significance of the discovery by | Columbus is not the event itself; but the msequences that followed. Asiatics, de- | spite being first in the Continents, did not | seriously affect the course of world history, heven if they brought to us such plants as the sweet potato, cotton arid some flowers | and weeds. From the date of Columbus and his re< tarn to Spain, however, there set in a col- | onization period in which the people of | Western Europe crossed the Atlantic, took | possession of the land and set up what we | generally term, for want of a better éx- } pression, the Anglo-Saxon civilization. : This is the significance of the so-cal- led “discovery.” A Genoese navigator ad- ded to the information of the mén of his race and region when he reported the re, sults of his westward trip to the Indies. From that time on, the men of Western Eu; rope gave thought to the new world and, gradually, white peopie and, after much effort and fighting, it came about that the region was dominated and directed by English speak- ing people. This observation, it should be noted, does not_apply to South America. In this area, the Culture and civilization of a con- tinent represent the fruits of Spanish con- Querors. There is, as one can readily ob- serve in the world-today, a tremendous dif; ference between the cultures and civiliza- tion of the English anid the Spanish-speak- ing peoples. Whatever one may think of their respective virtues and vices, it is per- teetly plain that the economic, social de- | velopment-of the modern world stem from beginnings that are indubitably associatett with the Anglo-Saxon tribes and their Teu- tonic ancestors. ‘ It might be an interesting mental ex. ercise for readers of The Citizen te con sider the respective development of North and South America fer the purpose of seek- ing to understand the whys and wheréferes of what has transpired. ~ When this little problem has been satisfactorily settled, the individual might differences in culture a Presidential | ‘ Niagara CoN enjoyei the fishing m Key West| 1917. — 1830—Noah Galviti..of Havana, immensely return to the Cuban capital with high praise of the piscatorial sport in this vicinity. Such is the:in-| 1855—John S. Sherman, formation supplied to The Citi- | N.Y. lawyer, mayor, zen this morning by Theodore Al- i Ven, tet Oe eee in / EE all day Tuesday and will! | ’ | bury, ¢ity electrician, who played | host to the visiting medicai men. | | Included in- the cate, ‘Albury | Stated, were large numbers © of yellowtail, grouper, _muttonfish, ete. : < } Monroe County Draft Board is-| sued today the list’ of. all-regis- tants who applied dz’ Selective. Servite Registrgtion Day, October Today The Citizen says in an! editorial paragraph: “Water, water all around, not an aqueduct'drop to drink.” ... 20 YEARS AGO__ A four-foot alligator was.cap- tured Tuescay oy Mr: ald Mrs. Walter E. Ziezier near their! hotel The Big Pine Inn, r Pine Key. Mrs..Ziezner 1 Citizen that the “gator” ip kept in ‘captivity. and the area became séttled with te _. If one attempts this in a study eneom- |" e+ | Passing the ages, on the basis of the Best | V- available infortiation, one is apt to under- stand wiore about the problems of the é th century, the behavior and atti- }‘ tade of its peoples and, what is as interest- 1 ing, the significance of Columbus Day. : : : ; Can anyhédy temember when an | leg en te help men and wos] evening gown covered the back? : —————__—————_-— Our serve any law that is not enforced: law-abiding nation will not obs } It isn’t fair to judge any area by the |