The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1952, Page 3

Monday, Merch 17, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 BARNEY GOOG! AND SNUFFY SMITH _———— i -WISHT TD XK" OU." Oo TIME YE WUZ COM. BARLOW-- z > A-SCRAPED.-* . BEDSTID “OR WE--WE ONLY GC. 4 ONE, BUT YORE PLUME g By Fred Lasswell HAL | Sata | . BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK ®—What is it to 4 | be Irish? | On 364 days of the year Leing | Irish isn’t visibly different from being Scotch, French, Italian, Jew- 784, Serbian, Dute ng OE leaven forgive the word—English. : The Irishman pays his bills, | complains against his taxes, does his work, and listens te his wife like the man of any other race. aus = 3ut on this one day of the year— | holy St. Patrick's Day—the Irish- { man becomes an Irishman. + ATHER By George MeManus | And on this day you have to be ¥ ish to know wkat it is to be trish. ~~. . a ~6~€CN) |) CThe outer signs, af gouree, can WHAT'S THIS? -- r : ; be seen by all. The Irishman over- Ganee Wont ee = . night grows a foot taller -and BIG A HLIRRS CH i |), Stalks the earth a siant. All traf- HER NEW BON _/~' | fie lights tura green before him, ‘t | and if they dan't he sees red. But this air of majesty is caly token evidence of interior. change. The men of other races who envy “SNIF) DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME * sf1'BOO Hoo H00° 7 )1i_CAN ROOST WIF TH’ CHICKENS en ee aroma MY- WHAT A WELL-DRESSED BEGGAR“ AND HE LOOKS SO HONEST/--I SUPPOSE A THING LIKE THIS COLILD. HAPPEN TO ANyY- BoDy /--T'LL PLIT A FEW MORE COINS IN HIS HAT! MAGGIE MUST BE TRYING ON EVERY HAT JN THE STORE/ car: 2e vi 25 ota Be a PA IN THE T WON'T the Irishman his bearing on St. Patrick’s Day would envy him far more if they could look inside the Tri n’s soul. a at is it to be Irish? / « skicw @an you pup the wonder of | it into, words? If a psychiatrist | stretched himself out on his own. warm couch after his last cus- {tomer had. gone home, and he dreamed of the man he himself would most like to be—well, he might be perfect, but he’d still be only Half an Irishman ca St. Pat- rick’s Day. What is it te be irish? It is to have an angel in your. mouth, turning your prose to po- ctry. It is to have the gift of tongues, to know the language of all living things. Does an Irish- man pause and turn an ear to a tree? It is because ca this day he wants to hear what one sleepy bud says to another as it opens reen hands to the warm pring. What is it to be Irish? Oh, on this day it-is music. Not just the cornet in the parading high school band, but the deep, deep music of living, the low, sad rhythms ef eternity. The Irishman v. hears the high song of the turning Ha _ Spheres, the dim lullaby of the 2 worm in its cocoon, All the world is in tune, and he is in step with the tune, the tune that only he can hear. What is it to be Irish? 3 Fl It is to live the whole history B P I R ns ‘ of his race Letween a dawn and u ODIUILSON | 4 dawn—the long wrengs, the bird- y 4 i pee joys, he endless hurt of his Soe ss ancestors since the morning o ;time in a forgotten forest, the | knock at his heart that ¢s part of “ =. eS 4 tiie i KNEW WHEN THE SABCTAGED.."— | Be we .. ay Bark vis ue pan Lee TERMITE ue BY MY OWN MOTHER, | his religion. p Wiki 32 UNLESS HE CANCELS "¥ — HUNGRY ENOUGH We'd — MY OWN FLESH What is it to be Irish? 8 SS ALL-GIRL BANDE he HAVE HIM EATING , AND BLOON.” It isn’t only the realization that THA Our OF Our HAND.” | | he is descended from kings. It is = s nth ne “WN : | the realization that he is a king Ak A | | himself, an empire on two feet | striding in power, a strolling con | tinent of awe. What is it to be Irish? |. Why, on St. ‘Patrick’s day, to | be Irish is to know more glory, adventure, magic, victory, exulta-. | tion, gratitude and gladness than any other man can experience in .| a lifetime. , What is it to be Irish? It is to | walk in complete mystic under- | standing with God for 24 wonder- | ful hours. _ evaporate se tote Many kinds of one-celled life By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed |i5,.0000%, lassity as either ————— A SHOT MIGHT HIT "=| (| STRONG ARM BRAND COFFES ONE OF MY OWN -j ‘=| . Triumph Ay Coffee at | ALL GROCERS WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS ee COME TO THE ————~ | TROPICAL TRADER 718 Duval St. Phone 100 EVER WASTED ON BUNTS i JAN SKELLEY'S COMPLETE SERVICE ON DUPLICATION of LENSES 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THIS COMMUNITY We Use Bausch and Lomb 24 Hour Service On Any Eye Glass P OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 A. M. to