The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 26, 1952, Page 6

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, August 26, 132 wage 6 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH AW, NOTHIN’ SPECIAL-- I WAS JUST WONDERIN' WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIFTH AT MORNINGSIDE AIN'T YE HEERED >? LADY WHIZZ COME IN FUST AN’ PAID FOUR-SEVENTY!! — WHAT WwuZ IT YE WANTED TO FIND OUT, MISTOFER SNUFFY TELLS ME YOU'RE FAMOUS AROUND THESE PARTS, MRS. PRITCHART--I ASKED “\F ANYONE CAME NEAR THE OLD CANNON IN THE PARK- OLD BIFFIN WOULD START TELLING THEM HE “POOR OLD ROHAN WAS GLAD WHEN HE GOT THE GOLIT BEFORE HIS BACK BROKE =, DOING THIS EVERY knee YOU DION'T WANT A SUIT OF CLOTHES ~YOU HAD BETTER RUN ‘6 STORE = | WILL 8 THE FIRST 10 BE FIND HIM !! ZZ How’s ABouT A DATE TONIGHT, 4 77 Bur DEF/JUST LOOK AT THE FLOCK OF CARS AT B MY HOUSE ALREADY.” THEY'VE HEARD WERE IN ITS THEY'RE WAITING FOr US ./ DO You THINK _~ WE'LL ACTUALLY GET BoyS AND DATES IF WE ENTER THIS OH, MISTER CISCO, I COULD WAIT! WE'LL WORK-- IF-- YOU TELL US THE TRUTH OF WHAT'S BEHIND THE CAPERS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON AROUND HER IT'S SETTLED, SENORITA. I THE CISCO KID, AND PANCHO, MY COMPANIERO, WILL: SIGN ON AS HANDS AT THIS RANCHO. K.1EN WE WIN RUN'S GAME WE WIN TH PENNANTS 4 wiiNWia) sentit ang, ee into a lope. eed place: id ‘would say. He had seen in mind’s ore the look of astonish- | ment and then fear on King son’s face. Heard his ting Dibed eas seen po, spouting at the man’s > Ti ing him through and through. ‘et as they le up to the bi barns and past them corrals that made a lane t6 huge _ twenty-zoom all these things he had dreamed of and gloated over fled back into puerile childhood, and he knew they had been but the imagi- workings of a mind obsessed own his stilled in Strangely enough, he felt no hatred now, He hated only @ name; he was meeting a total stranger. He was coming to that stranger for help because of a girl with an aristocratic face and an- other girl—his _half-sister—who had to learn the bitterness of pene as es her father, this so-called King Ramson, wi a cow thief and the crooked swindler of a dead man. Austin pulled up in front of the house. “Just a minute,” he said half apologetically. “King’s riders just don’t walk in on him this way. Not even me.” HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK @—Ever pine to live in the days of old, when knights were bold, and the tele- phone was not invented? Those times seem glamorous and adventurous, as portrayed by Hol- lywood in such film epics as ‘“Ivan- | hoe,” based on Sir Walter Scott’s famous tale, But a 20th Century’ man, sud- denly removed to the heyday of this 12th Century, metal-plated Hopalong Cassidy, would find the going a little rough for his tastes. The modern girl would miss a few comforts, too. And as for Emily Post?. . . shudder. . . shudder. . . shudder There were no such niceties as sresent day forks and spoons. You hacked off slabs of meat with crude knifes and ate by hand. Utensils were rarely washed. A husband ‘coming home from the grocery store today is no such beast of burden as a knight faring forth to do battle. His combat gear weighed 120 pounds, eight times the weight of the plastic body ar- mor a Marine now wears in Korea. And buying a horse and suit of | armor then was more expensive | than it is now to purchase a Rolls Royce and a tailored sport jacket. A coat-of-mail—made by hand of | tiny mesh rings—took one man four to five months to complete. And you only got one fitting. It was hard to be a Horatio Al- ger hero. The best way for a poor lad to escape lifelong economic bondage was to become a priest or a knight. To become a knight a boy had to be placed in the household a nobleman as a page at the age of 12. At 16, if he made the grade, he became a squire, or or by royal -edict. It was no job for a juvenile de- linquent. A knight found guilty of dishonorable conduct received no | second chance. He sat on a raised | platform, while six priests on each side intoned the “Vigil of the dead.” After each psalm a herald | stripped away a piece of armor. | Then a bucket of filthy water was poured over the ex-knight’s head, a hatred which had been in- | S2id. him. Dalle ee i | Ly i; F > after jly | staring. “Hello, Austin,” he greeted the latter. And to ‘the Indian gi length of that fight. Austin Ramson sudd e at picl up a white nap- kin and laced it to wap shaking # litte. — ! en you are— began, tugs \ and the} in an authoritative tone of aoe: Bi “What's the meaning of this?” “He want to see you much,” she “Who is Why’d you bring him in here?” “He’s got some news of Belle and Miss Forrest. I reckon,” Austin said: His voice had gone cold and Montana, shooting a tks sideways, saw that os Texas rider’s eyes were smouldering. “And as of this minute, I reckon T’m quittin’ King. I allus i ‘was a damned cow thief, ut I never figgered yuh’d sell an eastern dude a ranch and then—” That was as far as he got, for figgered | turned to thi this man, Austin? | Pered. He looked ain, and it was; an that the Best anced of x 1 nition was al Ppassii F eralowed hard, then repuinn’: his! ym lave you eaten... Brand?” | “Not since early this afternoon.” “Sit down. You too, Austin.” He e Indian girls and! Ramson had risen, his face aj sil thundercloud. “Get out of here, you saddle tramp!” he yelled. “No mia can come into my house and talk to me like that, you hear?” “He hasn’t even started,” Mon- Today’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #—Some bankers are beginning to look even more closely at their depositors’ finan- cial prospects than they are at their borrowers’ ability to repay. And that’s pretty close, as you know, if you ever borrowed money at a bank. Most banks have more depositors than ever, and more deposits, which means they have more mon- ey to lend, j And banks as a whole are doing fine and are unworried about the present. The depositors are pro- tected by insurance. Some banks are working hard to get still more depositors. But some older bankers explain that it is their duty alwayr to re- member that a depositor who is green in the ways of getting and keeping money could change over- night from an asset to a liability— if the nation’s long-time boom should peter out—by needing to have his money and thereby caus- ing the total of deposits, the bank’s > a beg nem oet to shriv- It’s a long time view these bank- ers are taking, because they don’t expect the boom to go sour soon. They say it’s just been given a longer lease on life by the new stretch-out in defense spending which President Truman indicated in his revised budget predictions. Many disagree, both with the time-table of the boom and with the emphasis on the relative im- portance of seasoned rather than @reen depositors. But here are the of | as a major prop of the boom) was originally set to reach its spend- ing peak just about now. Then the first of this year the total height of that peak was considerably scaled down and the time was ex- tended to the end of this year. Now, the President indicates, due cept with an armed bodyguard. And while the moats were a great protection against enemies they also bred a lot of typhoid. To get your rights you couldn't call a cop. You had to fight for them under arms. But ladies, (To be contineea, Husband Killer Free On Bond LAKELAND (#—Mrs. Myra Gil- bert, free on bond, was back at her home here today while the state tried to decide whether to try her again on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of her husband. After two weeks of testimony, a Circuit Court jury couldn’t agree on a verdict Saturday and a mis- trial was declared. Mrs. Gilbert still is under the 1. New, untried businessmen with ee 2. Wage or salary earners with small savings or c! but with a lot of and other debts. The conservative bank which hasn't promoted too much new bus- iness, says the paper, is likely to have the sound and seasoned de-