The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 15, 1952, Page 6

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1 AMLOTHAR. I 00 NOT KNOW THA’ NAME. BUTHE IS THE BAD IMPOSTOR f +sEXCEPT THIS ANTENNA. THEY Monday, December 15, 1952 UH-OH!..THAT Y MAYBE IM OVER- VIBRATION / MEANWHILE, INSIDE THE REEE THE TOADMEN PIRATES Ai CHIEF ALL THE MEN WHO WENT OUT ON THAT VECTA BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK (#—There are many ways to look at Christmas. Christmas is an industry for some people, a holiday for others, just another day in the year to a bitter few. But for most of us Christmas is a time of spiritual thaw, a period when we melt the barnacles off our heart with the warmth of loving-kindness. However anyone looks at Christ- mas, cynically or sentimentally, I can respect his view of it. Ex- cept in one case. I simply cannot understand anyone who treats Christmas like a surgical operation. These are the people who, as the GI phrase goes, ‘Already got it made.” They don’t fret about the last-minute shopping expedition for the friend they forgot to remem- ber, because they just don’t forget anything. They’re the careful type who organize Christmas like a sci- entist conducting an experiment. They bought their Christmas cards sometime last January, ad- dressed them during their summer vacation, and mailed them the day after Thanksgiving. The Christmas presents they plan to give this month were purchased at. last spring’s bargain sales and were trundled to the post office by the first of December. “You mean you haven’t even be- gun your Christmas shopping?” they say now contemptuously to} friends. Somehow this attitude riles me. I don’t feel these people even know what Christmas is, and certainly I doubt that they have any real belief in Santa Claus. To them Christmas is a calcu- ‘lated thing, and their biggest satis- faction is that of knowing they chave done everything that could be reasonably expected of them in an exactly proper manner. Is that Christmas? Not to my mind, Christmas must have a kin- adling spontaneity to it or it isn’t Christmas at all. A guy who does mot have to buck the shopping crowds an hour before the depart- ament stores close misses half the fun. What’s wrong with suddenly deciding at the last minute that ‘there is still one more person you'd like to buy a gift for? Nobody ought to have his friend- | Chapter 15 ‘LOWLY Clay felt his body re- lax. He turned slowly to face the other captains, who ha jeaped to their feet and crowded forward to follow the fight, Deliberately he let his eyes travel from one face to the next, until at last they stopped at Web Holland’s bearded countenance. “ny objections?” he demanded flatly. Web’s eyes held his searchingly for an instant and then the great beard split in a grin of pure de- light. ‘Objections, Colonel? No! There ain’t no objections! Seems to me ou let him off pretty light, con- siderin’ what a fool he made of himself an’ tried to make of you.” Web turned so that his eyes, too, ran over the faces of the men beside him. “All right, boys,” he growled. “You all heard what th’ Colonel said. Anybody got any objec- tions?” For a long moment there was silence and then Tyree threw back his head and howled with laugh- ter. “Man,” he shouted, “we got us a colonel now!” He clapped Nielsen on the back with a blow that was like the fall- ing of a sledge and shook him roughly. “Odis,” he howled, “you see what's goin’ to happen to you if you don’t stop messin’ with those squaws and get down to work, don’t you? Objections? Great God! Farrar only done what’s needed doin’ ever since Sarazan got here. You want us to drag him outside th’ stockade, Colonel. or would you rather have us hang him up by th’ heels an’ work on him with a quirt?” Give him the hardest job in the stockade until e ready to leave. After hat, we'll make w our minds what to do with him. He turned to Web and mo tioned him back tc the table. “I've got a few more things I want to talk over with you, Web, might as well ge. unde> way. Tyree, take our friend with you and let me see him sweating his tail of when I get out there.” The: aggled out, dragging the ha. onscious Sarazan with | them. Clay set his chair on its feet and dropped into it. Toni ieaned forward an4 Jaid her hand on his ‘and he turned his head to smile at her. “What a fine mess you got me into!” Her quick smile answered his, but there was more than a smile in her eyes as she answered him. “Yes,” she agreed soft ‘the also. You are muy hombre, Clay —muy hombre” E TURNED away from her and waved Web into a chair. “Just what wis the matter with Sarazan?” he demanded. “Was it because he dida’t like me, or g, else back of it? ok his head slowly. “I ‘or sure,” he admitted. “Hes been funny and standoffish ever since he got here. Claimed he lest a big patch of land down by Columbia to th’ Regulators, but there wasn’t ever any special proof that he actualiy had or hadn’t. He had some money and he was pretty free with it, so when this last troop was organ- ized, there wasn’t nothin’ sur- prisin’ about th’ fact that th’ boys Jined_up and ‘lected him as cap- tain. Fact is, Colonel, I’ve got kind of an idee that he was yearnin’ to ‘lay laughed, all of the tension gone in the amazing resurgence of relief and confidence these fierce- eyed men’s approval had bred in him. “We'll keep him around a while. be th’ colonel of this outfit him- self, an’ when you stopped in ahead of him. it riled him so bad he just couldn't control himself no longer.” Clay shook his head. “I’m sorry before you go. The rest of you) his blame is mine—and the ecredit,} land! it happened,” he “This is a case wh apple cam ruin a a we'll have to find a new cag for his troop, and I'm going have io find a sew one for ya too, Web” a eb jerked upright in his cha is eyes wide with . end a stutter of words from his got to have som these men—all of them—and can act as a link oetween me the captains. of the You're a major now, ‘Veh, and why‘) we've got to dig around and out two new captains instead of “A major!” Web shook his head in disbelief, “Major Web Hol- Suddenly he leaned { table and stuck out a { i paw of a ! “By God, Colonel,” he swore, | “I ain't never been a major be- | fore, but you can bet your 4 | dollar that from new om PR be th’ | Leslee om that ever et th’ taifend , or a captain, or sent & { ron down th’ road talkin’ — j Te b d erushed Clay's im is hand ¢1 a grip that was like,a vise and then he swung himself to his feet turned away toward the door. “Major Web Holland!” he se | peated — p His shoulders straightened and his beard jutted forward even more truculently than before w down the hall. Before ar was done — captains wot unquestionably okie their meals off the mantel and more than one private would ne muttering dazedly imto his | ‘Wrong Way’ ~— Is Discovered WASHINGTON (#— Discovery of | a new wrong-way travelling moon | of the giant planet Jupiter was an- | nounced Satudray by the Carnegie [Institution of Washington in its jannual report. t It’s a pipsqueak in size as plan- AP RARE Crossword Puzzle LAIMiA| ACROSS 30. Greedy . Pierce 1. In what way . Seaweed Went away 3. Wooden pin 4. Hel en 6. Gave one’s word 47, Cry of the . Capable of Bacchanals FIURMOPERIAITIO FIAITIE|S| UVES MMP ERT A(CIRIE MET IAIPIS ME RIT MOI |S) EMAIVIALS| EKiE MME WEIR] SIE IAIN} IM, 5) RIEISION AlR| | iL VOWS} GALE MY Al ships indexed and priced like items | etary satellites go and, like three being held in a mail order catalog. The person pee baa Jupiter’s total reti- | 20. Poem Solution of Vesterday’e Puanig who over-organizes Christmas is | nue of 12 moons, violates the heav- | 39° 3 53. Coasting 2 Weary embarrassed if he receives a card | enly traffic rules followed by the | 25. : device from someone he overlooked, so he | majority of celestial objects in the ae Bown promptly mails him a Happy New | solar system. bs . 1 _— loca- Year card, and then feels smugly! jt cruises around Jupiter in an virtuous. But that isn’t the spirit of | aast - to - west direction, whereas giving—it is simply trading. | sta 4 operating procedure calls Essentially, I suppose, these peo- | for a west-to-east routine. ple who order their Christmas| The newly noted Jovian moon is trees on the Fourth of July are a | yjgj y on photographie plates sad lot, too joylessly precise ever taken with a giant telescope--a fact | to feel the deep tidal pull that which may disappoint amateur as- sweeps most hearts at this season. !tronomers who now can see four Give me the little guy who goes | of Jupiter's moons with an ordi-| home in a bus on Christmas Eve telescope, and sometimes loaded with bundles bought at the | eyen with opera glasses. | last possibile moment. He may be a} The discovery was made by as- bit thoughtless, but in his eyes |tronomer Seth B. Nicholson of the glows a true Christmas happiness. | yt. Wilson and Palomar observa- He at least bought his presents be- | tories operated jointly by the Car- cause he wanted to, not because he | negie Institution and California | i % Pee net felt he had to, and there is no icicle | Institute of Technology | eA 4 38. Beverage in his sonl. | See a ees | di 40. Grant ————— | Pitcher Harry Byrd of the Ath- | th, Wied ADVOCATE WHIPPING _ |tetics, American League rookie of |the year, won 10 games from July POST IN ALABAMA /11. He finished with a 15-15 re- MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The | cord. return. af the whipping post was | ——————___—__—_————_ listed among measures advc ed! t 1 in hig place” would | sieges by a jurist here to protect “ ui ese cheeses in state law: | NANCY OAKES WILL | vorced in 1948 after he was ae rights of law-abiding people.” a majority on a jury a ER . quitted of a charge of murders Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones | write a verdict instead of requiring , WED GERM AN BARON jing her father, Sic Merry Oakes, said in an address to a civic club it to be unanimous NASSAU, Bahamas (# — Lady/on July 7, 1943. last week that in the administra-| 2. Rewrite the } ing to |} yake: nced Friday} The baron, son of Baron and tion of criminal law “we put a insanity p riz \ ll be|Baroness Herman von Hoyingen greater value on the criminals; 3. Set ng post for jn ed to B ¥ sard | Huene of Oberammergau, Ger- among us than we do on their! offenses von Hoyningen Huene on Dec. 29. | many, attended Pasadene City Col- victims.” Let 1 serve on juries. Nancy is the former wife of Al-|lege and Oceidental College at Las iii His suggested program to “‘put y are barred in Alabama). red de Marigny whom di- Angeles. pe \us ” By George McMc'™5| 97 amK IKE ID TELL HIM TO LOSE TO Youll HE SAID IT WAS A MATTER OF LIFE .OR DEATH! f YOU'RE SHAKIN’, HONEY. MAYBE SOMEBODY YOU WAS STUCK ON WAS GOING 7 "GET MURDERED...WHERE'S 22. Bel 23. Vitality 4, 24, Hardens 25, Headiand 26. Declare 21. — lat cl ae him 32. Makes untidy 34 Be present gt BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH HE'S WALKIN’SO GOOD v CEE TLE T GOT A NOTION TO | |e PITGHERS LET HIM PLOW TH’ PuRTy” lise rllagg eins ea | Ri e { | | ASOUT THE DANCE! I CANT TAKE YOu WiTH | THiS BUSTED Fi F ts | START WARMING UD =) > | BOYS 2 THIS CRACKED <i LANONG GEAR [OF MANS 1S A —<f) ]' Luccy BREAK For }t