The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1953, Page 9

“COLORED COMMUNITY NEWS aa SANDS JOHNSON, Editor Mr. R Rogers Terry Troubled Over Moral Decadence Those of you who failed to hear ir. Rogers Terry on Sunday cer- i missed something that real- is of vital concern to the whole orld - “What Has Happened to | lorals?”” | : Everyone has wondered about | iis topic for the past ten years as ere is not a single reasoning | ing who has not had cause to so. | We realize that after every ma- | ir catastrophe there are dynamic anges that disturb all society. orld War II and the present Ko- fean conflict are no exceptions. | Basing his talk on these two fe disturbances, Mr. Terry A Pioneer ent on to tell just how’ morals ve been thrown to the wind. I_quote: ' “You are disturbed and I am iturbed over the plight Bf our ig people. We are wondering if ere is anything that can save Most cherished resource (chil- nm) from utterly destroying lemselves. One of the greatest problems it we have to deal with is delin- ency in our juveniles. ‘ Boys and girls are playing equal rts in crime. They are joined gether in groups that specialize the use of narcotics, committing | thefts, sex-orgies, and even mur- r for a price. We, as adults are often prone criticize the young people with- | it realizing that we are the unes | ponsible for their behavior. We ust realize that we cannot tell | ung people to do as we say. It only through doing what is right | at we can hope to save our ing people, as children, most in meral, do as they see others do. ‘As a result of World War IL nd the present Korean conflict any homes have been broken any children of illegitimate birth rn into the world. and many a | other forced to leave children attended for hours daily in order seek a mere pittance for their ival. In this mad rush for survival, | fe have forgotten God. We do not | br time to pray or attend church. | on of supreme - good a live a bi When v r children are brought up as asts of thé forest. How can we ‘xpect them to regard morals? Morals have gone to the wind. | ftheeriemerncerene Saunders Wholesale Firm Donates Candy To S. S. By Mrs. Vandelean Edwards The superintendent and children Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School ere very happy on Christmas ve night when they’ found th andy was to be among the re- eshments* served at their par This candy was donated by So ers Wholesale Firth thr forts of Mr. Roosevelt Sands | eec The members of Bethel A. M. E. |on nday, Jaguar 953. inday School wish Mr. Sands and | al \ 1 be aunders Wholesale Firm a very | ec ¢ Jer E » Flori ippy and Prosperous New Year. | da will As the sum of m insurar you can penses will be g Don V.F.W. POST 602! and AMERICAN LEGION POST 168 are sponsoring the original Silas Green from New Grleans | Welters (florist), > | for THANKS The family of the late Frederick uel Shavers wishes to thank h individual who was so kind hem during their recent be- al thanks goes to Rev. in Hooper, pastor of Cor- 1 A. M. FE. Zion Church no effort to comfort g their grief. To the Key West Undertaking mpany, Mrs. Ernestine Mingo friends who s of c t, sent cards hy, sent floral pieces or , they a!so give thanks. Mrs. Mary Shavers and Family. Corporal and Mrs. George W. nis means of express- ks to those who were so kind to them during their nuptial period. ‘To those who sent so many beau- nd useful th wish that they w ill be long eorge Sawyer of wish to thank the Seventh Day Ad- for remembering the holiday season of grocery. nd thanks . P. for sending a assortment of fruits, Local Girl's Engagement Is Announced Here i teacher Neely, 720 Galves- e wishes to announce the ~ 7] were awarded the pastor, Rev. R. | '|H. Johnson, in appreciation of his | ;|four years of service. gement of her daughter, Jac- Neely, to Corporal Carol nklin Tynes, son of Mrs. Annie 418 via Street. "PERSONALS Corporal Tehodore Allen, veteran jof the Korean War is now home an indefinite stay as he was} zed from the Army on July | Mr. N. A. Clarke of 224 Truman Avenue sepnt the holiday with his daughter, Mrs. Zl : in Tampa g had a most wonder- ful time. > following students have re- | d to their respective colleges: | The Misses Lillian Alice Edwards, and Clarke, Florida A. and allahassee, Florida , Bethune-Cook- h, Flo. owns and | lina, ison and Universi- jana, and on Univ ing visited her | || will be carried in next Saturday’s H issue. ||P.F.C. EDWAR WEECH ||PLAYS SAX AGAIN || of the Korean War, husband of the Of Bethel A.M.E. Churches Meets In Key West The South Florida Conference of A. M. E. Churches is in session at Bethel A. M. E. church of Key West, Florida from Janu- ary 6th through January 11th. All are asked to attend these in- spiring meetings which will be held each day and night on the | above dates. | Over 600 visitors are in the city attending these meetings. Among the dignitaries are Bishop J. A. | © Gregg of Florida, Bishop E. C. | | Hatcher of Alabama and Bishop | Barnes of the Far West. On Tuesday, January 6th, the program was devoted to welcom- | ing local <nd visiting friends. x Among those participating in the | ~ program were Mr. C. B. Harvey, | Mayor of the city of Key West, | Mr. Earl Adams, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. John 'Spoftswood, sheriff of Monroe Coun- ty, Mr. Gerald Saunders, county commissioner, Mr. Joe Allen coun- ty commissioner, Mr. Roy Allen, | principal of Douglass School, Bis- hop J. A. Gregg, Florida district, Mr. Henderson and Mrs. Winifred Sands Johnson. | The choir of Bethel Church ren- dered beautiful music under the direction of Mrs. Theodora Thurs- ton. Mr. Gerald Saunders, noted vio- linist and vocalist was the “Star” of the occasion. His playing and singing of “Sunrise Tomorrow” and “The Old Rugged Cross” are num- bers that will be filed in the cherished memories of all present. Many useful and beautiful gifts | Rev. R. H. Johnson, pastor Mrs. Vandelean Mingo, directress The full story of the convention P. F. C. Edward Weech, veteran former Miss Mary Burrows and son of Mrs: Eleanor Riou Stanton surprised everyone by playing a saxophone solo on Christmas night at the V. F. W. Hall. It was never thought that Weech would ever be able to play again as he was seriously wounded in both hands on July 21, 1952 in Korea. Weech who is now visiting his Saturday, January 10, 1953 family and friends will, in a few THE KEY WEST CITIZEN \South Florida Conference | Tiyp9 Heads Better Than One? days, return to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he will again be hospitalized. He regrets very much the fact that he will not be able to return to the scene of battle, but will be honorably discharged upon suffi- cient recovery. Edwar Weech | The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (# — The Repub- licans, who for 20 years have been 4|complaining about the spending habits of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, now get what they’ve |been asking for—a chance to show 4) what they can do. _| Today Truman presents to Con- gress his budget, his estimate of ‘what it will cost to meet the gov- | | ernment's expenses for the fiscal 4 year beginning July 1, 1953. When Gen. Eisenhower takes over the presidency he can make some recommendations of his own, |perhaps suggesting less spending | than Truman thinks is necessary. It won't be as though Eisen- | hower were entirely new in the field and had to start from scratch. The man he has picked for his |own budget director, Detroit bank- | jer Joseph M. Dodge, was kept in- . EDWAR WEECH sur- prised everyone present at the V.F.W. Hall on Christmas night |formed in recent weeks about this | | budget. HOLLYWOOD — This one ‘might be called the case of the howling dogs. This week a gossip columnist ran the news that Humphrey Bogart’s neighbors, including Lana Turner, were up in arms about the night- ly barkings of his boxer dogs. One complainer has even put his house up for sale, the report declared. Knowing that Bogart would never let a controversy pass by, I asked him for comment. His reply: “I will defend to the death the right of any dog to bark. Freedom of speech should not merely extend to humans. “Besides, the situation has been exaggerated. Miss Turner lives two blocks away, and if she is bothered by the dogs, her ears are super- human. I haven't received any complaints except from the man next door. A nice fellow, by the ; way. Sometimes he'll say he didn’t sleep a wink the night before be- | cause of the dogs. “But you know what that means. He was probably awake 10 to 15 minutes.” Bogart leaves Hollywood and the howling dog controversy behind (®) Wirephoto Teacher Fired For Installing Kissing Game PRINCESS ANNE, Md. @ — “Gee, I hope we don’t have to play postoffice again today,” seventh grader told her mother as she left the house for school. “I kissed 11 girls in school to- day,” a 12-year-old boy proudly told his mom. These sort of statements abrupt- ly changed Louis L. Pund Jr.’s occupation from a math and sci- ence teacher to an out-of-work musician. The mild-mannered Pung, who said he was an ordained minister, resigned yesterday from the facul- ty of Washington High School in this quiet community on Mary- land’s eastern shore and headed today for Baltimore to find a job tooting his trumpet. Pund was asked to resign for installing a game of postoffice—a kissing game—in his two classes. He explained its purpose was to break down his students’ inhibi- tions because he feared they were too shy. The game was played last Mon- day and Tuesda: It work this w: One boy or girl would go into the small cloakroom—about three feet deep and eight or 10 feet long —and would call in cae of the oppo- site sex. Then the door was closed. Pund explained that the young- sters, 12 and 13 years old, had four choices. They could kiss on the lips, ss the other’s hand, shake hands or refuse to play at all. He said he thought of it before the Christmas vacation, when the students appeared to be restless. He tried it out when they returned this week to classes. “At first,” Pund explained, “a lot of them didn’t want to play it. But the “next day practically all the students wanted to play. There was one boy who didn’t. so he opened and closed the cloak- room door.” JACKSON, Miss.—Harold, a two-headed water turtle found by a fisherman near Morgan City, La., is compared in size to a silver dollar. Harold’s life is one of confusion because each of his heads controls two of his legs. When one head wants to snooze, the other might want a choice morsel of food. The result — Harold crawls around in a circle. Dr. William O. Sadler, biologist at Mis- sissippi College, said each head has independent action and controls its side of the body. A parent said his youngster told him the teacher supplied the sound effects while the boy and girl were in the closet by puckering his lips and sucking air into his mouth, Losing the job didn’t seem to bother Pund too much. In a way, he appeared almost relieved. Draft Officials Humphrey Bogart Defends The! Eye College Men Rights Of Dogs To Bark WASHINGTON «# — Draft offi- cials soon may be looking at col- lege students with “something more than an appraising eye’— and tightening up on other defer- ments as well—the director of Se- lective Service says. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the director, said growing draft calls, and legal limits on the ages of eligibles, were producing ‘‘a physi- cal—perhaps I should say a mathe- metical—impossibility to x x x stay within the law without sub- stantial tightening of deferments.” He discussed the problem in an article in “Selective Service’, a bulletin of his agency. Hershey declared that “‘students will not be the only men affected by this tightening.” But he also said Selective Service, “relatively speaking” had taken an “‘infinites- jimal” number of men so far from the colleges, while inducting indus- trial workers and farmers and facing ‘an imminent necessity in the not so distant future” of draft- ing fathers. Deferments of college students for Reserve Officer Training Corps membership alone, he said, total “almost 100,000 more than the num- ber we are deferring in agriculture and industry combined.” “We certainly must look toward He said he was going to concen- trate on his first love—music—by joining a dance orchestra in Balti- more or New York. “I hope never to teach again,” he said flatly. Pund explained that he had felt it necessary that he take up a pro- fession because his parents and two brothers and one sister were “professional people.” “I figured if I didn’t take up a profession, like teaching, I’d be the black sheep in the family. Now I guess they'll just have to accept me as just a musician.” Pund, 40 years old, is married and has a young daughter. They live near Philadelphia, where his wife works in an insurance office. This was Pund’s first year at Princess Anne. His record showed he was on the Lycoming College faculty in Williamsport, Pa., in 1946-47 and was a substitute in- structor at Texas Christian Uni- versity in 1947-48. To attain salvation, each Mos- lem is required to make at least one trip to Mecca, American Indians in many areas jof America used tobacco for smok- ing before the arrival of Colum- | bus. ae the colleges with something more than an appraising eye,” Gen. Hershey continued. ‘The time for | appraising in that direction i« shot over and the time for action is almost here.” Even so, Eisenhower won't be |tomorrow. He and Lauren Bacall able—there’s not enough time—to|o to New York and then Europe, make recommendations anywhere | where he'll moxe “Beat the Devil” nearly as detailed as those put to- with Jennifer Jones. John Huston, artha Rodgers, in| by playing a saxophone solo. A Fellow’s Got to Eat a techer of at OCEANS IEW Under the Big ‘Ten: ONE BIG SHOW EAC DOORS OPEN Al Show starts at 8:15 P.M. s kk HW NIGHT 7:00 P.M — SI} hour and forty-five minut: ng minute Concert after ADMISSION Children 55c Reserved Seats for ach per all American Le 803 Em From Post Mé mac mad ~ ool is | Mrs. Mizpah Symonette Crutch- field has been indisposed as the result of a severe attack of the flu Jimmie k, son of Mr. and Willie Mack, A-6 Fort Village three teeth as th uneral of her son, Don 17 DEAD IN BL BUENOS AIRES W—A bi set and caught fire here Th nd 1 25 pers ursday ons aboard and sia chudren. gether by Truman. The latter has jwho dealt Bogart an Oscar with been working on them for months. African Queen,” will direct. |_ As usual with any president, The trip means that Bogart won't Truman began the project late last |be around to hand his successor summer. |the Academy Award. It's always an arduous task. The | One of the big bores of this beat heads of departments, bureaus, |is hearing youngsters moan and agencies and commissions put their }groan about how hard movie act- staffs to work, figuring how much ling is. So it's refreshing to talk money they would need for the to Barbara St-nv who has no fiscal year starting next July 1. /allergy to hard work. The whole budget, packed with) She stepped riga. vif the sinking detailed expense figures, fills a |“Titanic” and into a costume film volume as big as the biggest city’s | called “All I Desi: Next she'll telephone ¢ make “Blowing Wild” in Mexico | With this budget, and any rec- with Gary Cooper and re ommendations Eisenhower makes, a Western, “The Moonlic the appropriations committees of But you don’t hear her complain House and Senate will divide them- | ing selves into subcommittees and be “Sure, the hours are a gin questioning the officials of the rugged,” she admitted. “It’s various departments. | much fun to get up at 5:30 in the This quizzing will go on till next | morning and return home at 8 summer. Congress is supposed to , But the pay is good and the work look for more ways to reduce the jis stimulating. estimated cost of the government.; ‘I imagine if you wanted to, you Finally, some time next summer |could complain about any kind of oo will finish up voting the job. Ican think had no herder work | ect little 2 even do 2 satisf RZ a personal letic °’s a girl after as colum- | 2 223, in coatral of the government at last, have been able to cut government ex. penses below Truman's estimates. nist’s heart. — Mingle Minoso of the White Soz Toe New York Giants grounded won the base stealing champics- | the fewest double plays in the ship in the American League with onai League in 1952. The New 22 - but was also caught steal Yorkers hit into 96 twin-killings. the most times, 16. 8 Gas of homand vere pe 'g pelle ie fourmontheig Reraid. Mlimers. of Turieck, patients to be treated in an iron tung Calif, The lifesaving feepirater reached the hospital through » March of Dimes Just five minutes Before Monaid wee edmities Nurse He finds thet polio o'dn't nave any effect on the young felier