The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1951, Page 2

nt NC OREM RT AEE B sym Page 2” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday. August 6, 19Si ~The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- iishé¥, ffom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~ P. TMAN Edito:! = | NORMAN D. ARTMAN __ Business Manage: | Mayor Of Johnson | THIS (City Not Full ROCK |Time Position ‘* JOHNSON CITY, N. Y—>)}—| }/ Business happy people are lazy. : “If they weren't, we'd starve,” jhe said. Bi Civie pride is a great virtue in| Chapter 1 ar, Gu: Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter 2 TELEPHONES $1 and 1935 mber of The Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively | itied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it) not. otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new!) BS UE ROB. published here. j their home town. ~~ GIBB | Whitehouse is the | Johnson City, }running © against mayor of and Slocum is him for the | = ee ee | By BILL GIBB same office, in an election. And Member Florida Press Association and Associated Dailies of Floride | ieee maces both of them have announced ti carrie! week, year $12.00, single copy }that they do not think the job iption (by t) 25c per ¥ The City Commission meets |of mayor of Jahnson City is. a wie sere nn cr Aa ele tea toot nc PAN Tad Sh DVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION (tonight. If we're going to solve | full-time job. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue:|the Bight question properly, it; There have been proposals to subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publist| will have to be done through; Make the office full time. But ymous communications. | the Commissioners. Be up there | the mayor and his opponent have “Sites, MOREA EL OS IO TE EET, | o resence will in-|made it clear that they’re not e of the|Tunning for anything as drastic {as all that. ue at Stake | TIME WASTED | } | comparatively easy job. The} j trouble starts when you re-read| H. y or | it. Several hours of thinking and} arm oungster writing has filled my waste bas- ket to the brim and yet there is} me . still only this much of Monday's | Yum.” said little column written. * | four. But, her ae wits Stes Tonight's headache began last| ®. AYSa sito ee eae a pages eels I 3 frie eal peas - Pages —— | fuss the last time she had to take wed @ movie of a guy Shoot ough syrup. She took’ another ing dice and continually throw-/ 1 oy at the bottle. It was ant syr- jing “sevens.” | up 5 > 6 Seven has always been a pop-j F ular number—steeped in theolo-j{ és tick re Th | they said Carmen. would. suffer’ Sy. romanticism, mysticism. ©) no ill effects Babylonians, Egyptians. Greeks, | Romans, Japanese, Chinese—all Toda 8 ays 2 Anniversaries 1789 — George F. List, famed| German economist, who fled per-| secution to. be.an American, born Headlines appearing in The: Citizen nowadays would have omnes oldtime Key Westérs with, wonder, but we to- , these people have stressed this Ms a number. Approximately one hun- day take our great strides of progress for granted. Even | j-24 years ago, John Ruskin, a in its.Golden’Age of the 1880s,~when Key West had the jPoted British art critic and theo- largest population in Florida, ix experienced to industrial |rist, chose the number in his} . tare * ae “Seven La: f Architecture’ expansion as was set forth in headlines in The Citizen on |,” point eek tie celation of artis- i August 1 and 2: : oe as OF @ politician, but here we have! itwo politicians running down! } i | The two are Arthur W. White- jhouse and Donald Slocum. Bane, ee ing « resutar cotumn ic »| Amt Syrup Fails To; At the emergency hospital) some way to prolong the drive. “Marcia's a grand person, isn't she?” “Wonderful.” The tone of Peter's voice made the word a | said with such simple conviction, such sincerity, that Betsy blinked | a little. “Look here, pal, you aren't get- ting crazy ideas about Martia, are you?” she demanded. }. “Can’t a man admire a grand | girl like Marcia without falling in } Seve with her?” “I don’t know,” said Betsy, her voice shaking a little. “You tell ; me!” | “Wouldn’t I be a pretty fool to t any woman—let alone one as beautiful and desirable as Marcia Eldon?” “Allow? Who ever heard of anybody allowing himself to fall ARCADIA, Calif—i)—“Yum, | in Jove, Peter?” she demanded. “I Carmen, age; don’t believe anybody really wants to fall in love. It’s just one of those things. You go along all péaceful and happy and minding your own business — and then wham! There you are—head over heels in misery! And there isn’t one single thing you can do about itt” “The Voice of Experience” he chided her, and tried to match her attempt at flippancy. “You certainly make being in love sound like a wonderful experi- ence.” “Being in love is ghastly, and I hate it. I wish I could stop. That's the plain, unadulterated, concentrated devilishness of it— you can’t stop!” Peter looked startled and sorry. Betsy. looked at him. “I've had fears of experience,” she told eter after a moment, “I’ve been in love since I was twelve!” in Germany. A suicide, Nov. 30, | 846. 1798—William - A. Alcott, New / England physician, writer, lectur-' er and pioneer in physical educa- | tion, born in Wolcott, Conn. Died! Mar. 29, 1859." ~ 1811—Judah;P. ‘Benjamin, fa-| mous New Orleans lawyer, Con-/} federate. secretary. of -war and of} state, fleeing ‘to. England after) war and becoming’ a famed En-/| glish lawyer, born in West Indies. | Died May 6, 1884 : tic values and morality. The’ a a eet ‘ Lamps were Beauty, Power, ‘Monroe county’s retail sales: volume: is $20,197,000 teeth, Lite Memory. Obedience. for 1950” and “Helberg announces multi-million $ build-| 2.2 sacritice. ing projects for Key West; 182 motel units under con-| He and I could have been struction.” a . 3 great pais. He was very much . % é ‘ oe against symbolism and mysti- And bank deposits, post office receipts, building |cism in art. Ruskin, in another permits, telephone expansien and allother business units | work—“The Scots Mong ren F = CE * id it = gi + NO great school (o! 5 indieate that Key West is growint. economically as it has |e 2.” yet existed which had not never grown before. Practically everyday The Citizen jfor primal aim the representa- publishes a story about the apsurge in local business. Even |tion of some natural fact as tru- public officials find if diffidult to’keep track: of our public |'Y 9% Possible = n SA jut wait a minute. expansion. Hundreds'of Key. Westers, probably thousands, ~ : Now we're getting right back}¥nique our military’ - annals, are not aware-of all-the constmiction that has:been going jt. what caused so much copy to|borm Elizabethton, Tenn. be thrown out tonight. There is|May 26, 1893. on year after yéar-for a de€ate: ; The headline ‘about ‘the niulti-million dollar building program, announced by Charles-Helberg of the Key West Improvement Company, .was'fo}lowed two days later by 1828— Andrew T. Still, founder) ‘of osteopathy, born at Jonesboro, | Va. Died Dec. 12, 1917. i 1869—Frank I. Cobb, famous New York World editorial writer no sense in provoking the local artists by vublishing my own opinions of the expression of morality through art. Or worse ; « _ yet, mv thoughts with regard to this other headline in The Citizen: |symboli, geometric art. Some-|xancas Died Dec. 21. 1923. i “City gives KWIC until September 3 to accept '$100,-|one in town might decide to! | send me along to join Ruskin— wherever the poor soul is rest- ing! CHANGING THE SUBJECT 000 property Offer-” : ‘That headline .demonstrates. that the KWIC an- nouncement for building: constuction in Key West has not Glampened the City Commissioners’ determination to | put still remaining with the acqtfire Meacham Airport for the people of Key West. | the number “Seven”, there sre City: Manager King epitomized’ the’ commissioners’ atti- i a oe enn tude: “Our only interest is keeping ‘Meacham Aitport in | our thoughts and ideas. Key: West.” ‘ For instance, there are thé ‘He explained further that offering to buy the prop- bone. oe erty'from the Key West Improvement Company is one of | known as “theological” or “holy” three ways to proceed + before~ instituting -condemnation | virtues. Justice, Temperance, proceedings. piece oA areca ee Attorney for the company asked for “reasonable| There are the seven mortal time” to discuss the offer With the owners, and the com- pelensgiiain) Lae missioners gave him a month to ascertain what will be [ees ys." most of us to use their reaction. jin a daily inventory of our ac- The Citizen trusts that the sirport matter. will be set-;"). soled sven thane “Wie tled amicably, but, if. entertaining that attitude, it is keen- | je was on the Cross. saying: (1). ly alive to the fact that Key.West.has no,train service and |“Father, forgive them, for’ they little boat service arid’miist: have an aitpart‘in its midst. to they eee: conserve its traveling fa Wig Sas cig tad oe ; pee ah a le or ES ES iat erie EEEe itn ta Hulman progress ésspifen'impeded by the anxiety of |God. Why hast Thou forseices human beings to get ¢ emselves” finished”; (7). “Father, into Thy: aa ‘ as oe 2 |hands I commend My spirit.” The questidh’ yet:te be} determined in:some European It would take a year’s supply. i ‘ 7 3 Figs a vs t to really cover thé countries is whether th Will. to.fight‘against Russian dom ee i subject of SEVEN—seven days ination. in the week, the sabbatical sev- enth year of the Hebrews, the |seven joys and seven sorrows of |St. Mary the Virgin, the sever? names for God and the fact that these names resuited in an leighth which was used for a long time—He was called “The | Seven.” In order to end this column, we're going to change over to another number. The one nown | in the newspaper world as—30— | STRAND ...33s0n0 Last Times Today FABIO) with MICHELE MORGAN AND HENRY VIDAL Coming: HIGH LONESOME 4 = Rarrymore, Jr. and Chill Wiis MONROE .octe> Monday. Tuescay. Wednesday BITTER RICE with SILVANA MANGANO Matinee Sze Night Ste Adait« Only Coming: MY FRIEND IRMA Marie Wilson and John Lund 601 DUVAL STREET his day, born in’ Shawney Co.,|than 52 pounds of protein foods So epsggnieintteiriin SiS) Sain en rees yastenl Eswets SIpannens Soereerrer Peter looked slightly annoyed. “You don’t know the first thing about love.” “Bo Norris thinks I'm grown up enough to marry him, and maybe I will!” she announced wis a «almness that surprised er. “ Today’s Horoscope) Today’s native will be precoti- 1819—-Samuel] P. Carter,. both aj OUS and, rather rash. There is a} major general and a reat admiral,| determination to hold to one’s) beliefs and principles that is Died | g00d, so far as these principles} and beliefs are good hd not too} rigidly enforced upon others. Training is all important. pineldlatadass se sain The U. S. Department of Ag- riculture recommends no_ less per person per year. . 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Peter | sharply rg glad she was going to marry | met” ! . iS pr Peter, in a He's designed such things asa ‘oot nedal drinking fountain, |tomatic cigarette lighter and | powered orange squeezer. = | “When enough © people | hese new gadgets we create to” | make life easier, we just |help being happy,” Rei | said “Bo Norris, eh?” he was saying now. “Weil,.that’s great, Betsy. Bo’s a grand guy! Congratula- tions. Pll‘send you a set of solid|/ you w silver pickleforks for your wed- | ding present.” “And Tl take good care of them, and send them back to you when you and Marcia get mar- ried.” Betsy said through her teeth. | “T'm afraid you'll keep ’em for jlife, then. Betsy. For the Lo: sake, do you suppose I'd ask any woman to share the sort of life I lead?” he burst out savagely. “She'd like it—if she loved pens to be you! If Oo pig-headed and have sense eno: nother car came de With lightning-like s; i jped forward, sending Pete ng, but out of the way of | you. + i “But Marcia’s not in love with “No, I suppdse not,” Betsy Lbs with perfect sincerity. “But she'll marry you like a flash if you want her to.” “That's enough!” snapped Peter. “Well, don’t snap my head off,” Betsy protested, with some he. “Marcia’s ambitious. She’s—well, she’s glamorous and all that, but} she’s practical, too. She hasn't any money, and she needs a lot of it to go on studying to be a great — SUMMER | EXCURSION | FARES ‘o, that’s not | » Old boy. | 3 way you'd Betsy said love wants to serve, Well, you shall serve, Gus. like it. singer.” I'll try to make it up to you, some 16-DAY ROUND TRIP uddenly Peter laughed. It] way. You're still going to have SEPT. 30 wasn't a very pleasant laugh, and | freedom and fun, but I guess from THROUGH . tired. i of us wil ace looked tii jhere on out, the two of us will (except Avg-31, Sept. 2,3) “Betsy, my sweet,” he said cvy- | walk in ly, “we're a couple of fools. Here G we -sit arguing and throwin: brick-bats at each other, and al. because of a woman who would Yaugh her head off if she so much = suspected I’m in love with er.” “Then you are in love with | her.” 3 his dog-way, ated that this was exactly th he would want it, and went beside Peter up.the walk... . The following morning . when Peter set out for his daily walk, Gus’ wooden harness was in place, | | and Peter's hand was upon it. Gus i | walked proudly, leaning ‘slightly Peter nodded. “Now go ahead | against his master’s leg, his hand- and laugh.” - some head raised, his eyes alert “I'm laughing fit to kill,” she|and on guard. 5 | said at last, in a voice so low that Mrs. Marshall stood at a win- Peter cauld scarcely distinguish | dow in the living room, watching the words. | them go down the walk. She | “You should be, Betsy. It's very |couldn’t. imagine what had amusing,” he said bitterly. « {changed Peter's idea about the { He fumbled for the catch of the | dog’s service. but she was pro- | car door, and swung it open. foundly grateful. At least, Peter | Gus, alert since the moment the | no longer ‘walked alone in a world |ear had stopped. was already on | of darkness. \the sidewalk. As Peter climbed! 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