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MIXED BIBLE CLASS

Sam y Pindcr and w. P Monti-
elmo. Teachers
Meetings every Sunday morn
ing at the Harris School audi
torlum, 10 O'Clock. Men and wOm-
en- not connected with any other
Bible Glass and regardless Of de-
nominations are invited to at
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-27
FLEMING STREET METHODIST
lUpiown) CHURCH
Fleming at William Street
j 2 lilly. Pastor

j. 4. Lilly, Pastor
Church school meets at 9:45
m. Norman J. Lowe, genei a.
superintendent
Morning worship, IL o'clock
Sermon subject: Trial of Christ
Hi-League meets at z p. m
Miss Frances Lowe, in charge
Young Peoples EpWort b
League meets at 7 p. m. Miss
Jennie Mae Johnson, president
Evening service at 8 O'Clock.
Sermon subject: The Prodigal
Son.
Mid-Week Prayer and Bible
Study. Wednesday, 8 p. m
Choir rehearsal, Wednesday
9,45 p m
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
81. MarY's Star of the Sea

VIM Reagan, 81, in Charge
Sunday morning Masses VIII be
said at z and 9:30 O'Clock.
Week day Masses at 7 o'clock
Evening service at 1870 O'Clock,
and FRIDAYS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-27
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH

White and Washington Streets
John c. Gekelcr, Pastor
Sunday school, 10 a m. VIM
B Norman, superintendent
Morning worship, ii o'clock
Evening worship at 8 o'clock
Mldwcck Bible Study on Wed
ncsday at 1880 p. m
Strangers VIII find a welcome
and a helpful service
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-27
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH. SOUTH
FL Salvador

FL Salvador"
Grinneu and Virginia Streets
Guillcrmo Perez, Pastor
Services in SPANISH
Sunday school, 10 a m
Preaching, 3 p m
Preaching, 730 p m.
Mothers Club, Monday, 3 p IN
Bible study and prayer service.
Wednesday 730 p. IA
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THE ORTHODOX CATHOLIC
CHURCH
OF ST. Mary. The Virgin

Thomas and Julia Streets
High Mass. 7 a m
Church School, 3 p m
Solemn VeSpcrs and sermon
Is p. m
Father r 5. Hoagland Priest
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-27
PROTESTANT
SAYS CATHOLIC
WAY IS BEST
PROF. FORESTER HOLDS EDU-
GATORS SHOULD LEARN
ALL MATTERS FROM THE
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THE CHURCH OF GOD
Over Which A. J, Tomlinson /.
General Overseer

lll8 Olivia Street
Mary H Thompson. Pastor
Bible school, 10 NJ SUNDAY
p Worship at II a m
Young Peoples meeting AZ 7.30
m
Evening service. 3 O'Clock
PRAYER meetings, Norday AND
Wednesday nights
B1hl, study. FRIDAY night
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Temperatures
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WEATHER FORECAST

baFomeier 20 a m. Today:
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
ARMISTICE IRONY
Daily Short Story
BY Granville Fortesque.

/ When he regained sight anc
hearing and gazed about, Private
Joe Stryker realized he was in
wide shellcrater.
He moved his leg. A shacl
pang stabbed his wound. He
touched the bandage with cold
fingers that trembled, thinking 1t
must have been Buddy Terry who
had given him first aid.
Now, you stick close to me"
he remembered the confident ring
in Buddy Terry's voice-"and I'll
show you how to take cover, duck
them shells" Going forward in
the dark he stumbled over some,
thing soft, something in uniform.
He helped him over the top
when his legs gave way. The
noises crushed him.
Pull your tin hat way down
over your nose; it's Safer," Whis-
pered Buddy. An keep shootin' "
. He fired. till his gun barrel
burned. The battle noises re-
minded him of a storm he'd once
Seen"and heard down near South
ampton, he remembered thinking.
Now it must be nearly day.
break. Joe felt about for his water
bottle. 1t was empty. Gosh,
I'm so thirsty 1 could drink the
whole South Bay" he mumbled.
He thought of cold Jericho cider,
THANKSGIVING, Katie and baby
Joe. He felt for the locket on its
chain around his neck; his eyes
grew watery His nerves
Suddenly quivered. A groan
from across the shell crater. The
humping in his heart quickened
the throbbing in his wound. His
eyes pried the haze: Must be a
guy from the company
He saw body sprawled against
the other slope of the crater. "A
Kraut his helmet" the coal
scuttle helmet hypnotized Joe.
That man had a rifle, cartridges
a pistol. Flashed into Joe
STRIKERS mind the words "treach-
erous use by enemy soldiers of the
kamerad pistol, a weapon
and what Buddy Terry had said;
even the remembrance made him
a little sick. He looked up. In
the dawn light he noted blood
stained patch above the others
groin
"M-m-morpen."
Joe quivered at the whispered
word. Every nerve snapped on
guard. He studied the other
pumpkin-faced kid. Looked a
little like Farmer John who sold
garden truck at the next stand to
him on the Sunrise Highway.
Might be Farmer Johns son
:. the second lieutenant's
warning dripped into Joe's brain:
"the enemy soldier fires his pistol
into some vital part" He saw
the other lift something to his
mouth. He watched the mans
throat fex, heard the water
gurgle. He strained forward, lips
parted.
"Wasser?"
Joe heard the word when the
other lowered the water bottle.
He had not stirred. "Wollen sie?'
He was holding the water bottle
toward him. His arm dropped:
his body sagged, "Ich kann NIGHT
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Joe STRIKES OUT

Joe Stryker began painfully
crawling across the shell crater.
He whispered to himself, warning
himself, while his lips twisted in
a smile. The other smiled, lifted
the water bottle. Joe Snatched it.
He uptilted it to his lips all the
time watching the rim of the coal
ScuttIe helmet. He felt the water
trickling down his throat. He felt
grateful-the bottle mouth froze
against his lips.
THAT Kraut's slipping his hand
inside" Joe painted. The water
bottle thumped in the mud, struck
with a metallic clank against a
bayonet. Joe seized the weapon.
Terror sprang at him from under
the helmet rim The eyes
glazed.
Joe Stryker's nerves were quiv-
ering like wind shaken birch
leaves. He watched the blood
ooze around the bayonet hilt, eyes
bulging. The gray body slumped; ;
the coal cutie helmet tumbled off.
A white hand pulled convulsively
out of the gray tunic. Joe stared.
The fingers clutched thin broken
chain. They opened. Something
glittered in the rays of the rising
sun. A locket. Joe opened it, his
fingers trembling. The pictured
face of a young woman with a
babe in her arms smiled up al
him
Hey, joel" Buddy Terry's voice
from the rim of the shell crater
I've come to get yer" Joe hic
the locket. Buddy stumbled dowr
beside him.
"Geez, a Kraut in the same
shell pit! Dead?"
YEAH" mumbled Joe.
Good thing he was. He'd ;
bumped yer Off"
Yeah mumbled Joe.
Shouts, cheers echoed from
above the shell pit rim.
S Hear that, Joe?' Buddy asket
excitedly. THE cheering? Tha
means they's been Arms'Stice
+ The wars overn'
"Yeah?" mumbled Joe Strykel
! dull eyes on the dead body in gray
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
THOUGHTS OF HOME

That November morning the
rumor of armistice lifted him out
of his brooding. The vision of his
Thanksgiving dinner with wife
and child became so vivid he
could smell the turkey and cab
bage.
November night fog seeped
through the Argonne trees and
settled down on the regiments
hiding place. A curious stirring
disturbed the underbrush, the
silence broken by whispers only
and an occasional metallic tinkle
Buddy Terry wakened Joe.
Roll out, son. Cooks servtn
coffee an goldfish"
An it amt even daylight!'
protested Joe. How Gomez"
Regiment movin' up to firt
trenches at midnight. Quit beefin'
you been asleep three hours"
IN A SHELLHOLE
"An' how about this armistice'
Why should we start battle
"All hooey. Get goin', son, WI
gonna give the Krauts hell"
During the next hours Jo
never had time to think con
nectedly Then a shell fragmen
knocked him flat.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Another Steel Merger.

From the youngstown VindicAtor
The proposed merger of Allegheny
Steel and Ludlum Steel will have little
effect on the steel industry as a whole,
but should improve the position Of the
interests involved by uniting producer
and finisher Of alloy steel.
The merger involves a joint capitaliza-
ton Of $24,816, ,000-not a large sum as
steel investments go. Ludlum, $9,000,-
900 company, with plants at Watervliet
and Dunkirk, N. Y, holds the American
rights to the Krupp process for maxi
ing the so-called 1913" steel, an alloy
with nickel and molyobdenum. It makes
no basic steel, but has two electric
furnaces at Dunkirk, four at Watervliet,
for making high-grade alloy steel. It's
products are mostly In the semi finished
form Of wire, billets and bars; its ca
pacity is $4,000 tons annually.
Allegheny, at Breckenridge, Pa, is
about the size Of Sharon Steel Corp,
and has capacity Of 100000 tons. It
has II open hearth furnaces to convert
part Of it into alloy steel. Besides bar,
blooming, sheared plate, and hot strip
mills, Allegheny has no fewer than 81
cold sheet mills. Neither OF the COM
panies makes any iron.
1ntegration of the two corporations
should be profitable. Ludlum no doubt
will take Alleghenys surplus steel pro-
duction while Ludlum's semi finished
alloy steel will be finished in Allegheny's
cold sheet mills.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
No Pessinisnn.

At season when hundreds Of thou
sands of young men and women are
being graduated from universities and
colleges In the United States It may
serve a useful purpose to warn against
the preaching Of pessimism to youth.
In recent years there has been alto
gether too much defeatist talk More
than few commencement speakers who
should have known better have believed
it necessary to insist that the younger
generation is particularly handicapped.
It has been represented that the world
has changed fundamentally, that life is
more complicated and exacting than ever
before, that opportunities are drastically
limited, that new order" must be
created to meet new conditions"
But these doleful doctrines are as old
as the hills. Prophets of disaster, like
the poor, are constant phenomenon.
Pointing with alarm is their hobby.
Their own timidity explains the fear
they would cultivate In others. In their
search for compensation they endeayor
to develop In their neighbors, especially
among children, . panic congenial to
that which RACES Ia themselves. James
Evening star., 1938-05-31

Whitcomb Riley understood the problem
whsn he wrote about the youngsters
around the kitchen IRE a-list min
to the witch tales at Annie tells about
an the gobble-uns at gifts you, ef you
don't watch out"
Frustrated people habitually are afraid.
Poor mad Neitzsche and embittered
schopenhauer vainly tried to cure their
disease by injecting society at large with
the same malady. Like the fox that lost
his tail in trap, they stroye to make
distllusionment and despair fashionable.
OF course, they failed-but not before
they had worked havoc with a multitude
of followers. History is repeating the
experiment today as hundreds of pro-
fessional radicals struggle to win the
support Of what they call "the younger
element" for their theoretical philoso-
phies Of revolutionary reform. Their
objective Is to democratize their delusions.
But Older, saner citizens are not de-
ceived. With ample experience. they
appreciate the fact that existence never
is bed Of roses. Also. they are con-
vinced that it is not entirely futile. The
more hopeful among them argue that
the progress Of the past century has
created, stimulated. given an additional
dynamic to opportunity. For the grad
yates Of 1885. they have faith, the future
should be as bright as it was for those
Of 1908. Yet even If the road ahead leads
down into shadows, they protest against
any effort to frighten the young men
and women who are destined to travel
1t. Pessimism, they declare, never can
be helpful to anybody. On the contrary,
1t prompts people to fight against them
selves-and that, incontrovertibly. is
nothing but madness.
Evening star., 1938-05-31

latest figures show this country now back
to n, as compared to a depression low
Of So, while the United Kingdom holds
at 1923 and France at 90.
Unquestionably, part Of this better
showing by two comparable nations
and the parallel may be emphasized by
figures for other countries-snay be at
tributed to the armament programs
abroad. This, however, could not ac-
count for the whole story nor is further
explanation readily available.
1t is widely felt, and with apparent
justification, that governmental efforts to
reform American economy have been re-
strictive. Yet the British government has
quietly done many of the same things In
recent years; leaving the gold standard
as q means of making cheaper money
available for both government and in
dustry, bargaining in tariffs and apply
ing farm-a program not unlike the
A. A. A. During the same period, France
has been living mostly under q govern
ment dominated by the Peoples Front,
with q considerable amount Of social re-
form legislation being enacted
If the answer is locked in any "dark,
unfathomd caves" it should bring
high price.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
National Hara-Kiri.

<IoHi gne LOUISVILLE Cour1er-JournAI
The irony Of Japan's invasion Of
China is that 1t has 50 far thwarted its
own purpose, according to q recent re-
view Of events.
Japan sought to gain possession Of
China's raw materials-coal, iron, cot
ton-and build up market exclusively
for It's own manufactured articles. Thus
the war was to be made to pay for itself
as 1t progressed; but, while its demand
for the materials has been stupenduously
increased by the war, to say nothing Of
the huge expense, Japan is obtaining less
from and selling less in China than It
did before. Besides. Japanese textile
mills in ahantung have been destroyed
and it will take zoe, ,000, 600 yen to re-
place them.
North China was q large market for
Japan. That is gone, temporarily at
least, and Japan is losing the revenue
from 1t at time when the money is
most needed. Japan also bought great
quantities Of cotton from the occupied
area; but disorder has curtailed plant
ing and the Chinese have turned to rails
ing foodstuffs instead where they raise
anything at all. No more coal and iron
are being taken out Of China than be-
fore hostilities began, though the cur
rent need Is double, the peacetime trade.
A two-billion-yen project Of industrial
and agricultural development In North
China was to be financed behind the
lines; but there are too many Chinese
guerrillas behind the lines for that.
Meanwhile Chinese textile mills are
going up In the interior. Unless Japan
extends its conquest to encompass those
areas, those mills will supply territory
Japan formerly had been peaceably PEN
etrating.
In nine months Japan has inflicted
proportionately as much damage on it
self as on China.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
w. p. A. Force Account
As Against Contract Work

TO The Editor OF The Star:
A few weeks ago The Star contained
an editorial which expressed wonder
ment at the preference Of the New Deal
administration for the day labor method
Z Of doing work, as practiced by w. p. A.
This preference Is not new. The w. p.
A. spends its public works funds by the
day labor method or as 1t is often called
force account" work, as opposed to work
done by contract. The p. w. A. does
Its work by contract and has difficulty
getting any funds judging by published
accounts. II some way could be found
whereby the New Deal management
could control the votes Of the men who
work under contractors as they can when
work is done by day labor methods it is
quite likely their antagonism to contract
work would disappear and incidentally
the unit costs Of doing work would be
halved or Quartered.
The so-called landslide for the New
Deal administration at the last presi.
Dental election would probably not have
mater1alized had 1t not been for the
influence OF relief expenditures, that is.
without the votes Of those receiving relief
pay and their dependents, the votes Of
those working on force account" Jobs
e~AA~ cAASAA NSPSAAAVAtos tklCIIlOIG u
tabulation made of the States in which
the New Deal probably felt it urgently
needed votes will very likely show that
in such States the per capita relief ex-
penditures were largest. The present
revolt In Congress would seem to indicate
the truth Of the above statements. That
is that members Of Congress have prob
ably learned that a majority Of the SUBJ
stantial citizens of the country are not
back Of the New Deal.
The ability Of an organization to per-
petuate itself through relief expenditures
gives rise to disquieting thoughts. To
just what lengths would an ambitious
organization be tempted to 20 in putting
into effect unsound economic practices
which would bring about a depression
which in turn would produce unemploy-
ment necessitating large expenditures of
relief money on force account work whera
votes may be controlledp
THOMAS WARREN,
Evening star., 1938-05-31
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES 3. TRAcEWELL.

distinguished by It's beautiful song, It's
really elegant appearance. and its
friendliness.
This is the one thrush which has left
the woods and the pine-lned lakes Of
the North, and has come to Chevy Chase,
and Wesley Heights, and all other near
by Maryland and Virginia suburbs, to
be as friendly as the robin.
How many robins there are this year,
to be surel Any morning half dozen
to q dozen Of them may be seen in any
yard.
They are fat and saucy, and wonderful
singers, not to be blamed at all II their
effusions lack the beauty Of the song Of
the wood thrush. No, the wood thrush
is musician; his song an art work.
The song Of the friendly robin Is
much more practical matter. but what
zest and energy he puts into 1t, how
1t fairly bubbles when he is calling for
rain!"
The passing veery La best heard about
o'clock In the afternoon.
He secretes himself in q tree, resting
for q time on his trip north, and there
sends forth his sweet and unusual song
This song is Of the sort to catch in
stantly the ear Of any one trained to
bird music. Not every one is, Of course.
Bird music is special music, a natural
music, but none the easier for all that.
When one stops to think Of all the per-
sons who can whistle well, and how very
few Of them ever whistle the songs of
birds, 1t Is easy enough to realize that
bird music is not simple music, in any
sense.
1t is highly specialized type Of mu-
sical utterance, in reality the voice of
Nature speaking in peculiar sense.
1t Is almost impossible to say whether
the eye or ear plays the greatest part in
bird watching: the eye is essential,
but the sport would lack a great deal If
we could not hear the birds sing.
Catching the individual bird songs Is
one thing; listening to the symphony, or
sounding together, is another. Both Of
these utterances are within the range Of
any sincere friend of the birds.
It Is easy for any one to train himself
both to catch the individual songs, and
also to realize the concert of them ALL
Perhaps the easiest time for listening
to the latter is in the early morning, say
from AIS am. to about 4:45 o'clock.
The concert does not last long It Is
begun by some bird waking up, seeing it
Is light, and uttering long cheep.
Silence.
But soon other birds wake, near and
far, and shortly they are all tootling
away together, some singing, some chirp-
ing. some crying. some just making
great noise out Of the fullness of their
Joy in the light.
This is thrilling concert, rightly
heard; but at other times of the day all
the birds are singing together, too, but
not so vociferously.
There Is the clamor Of the big robin
babies for their dinner: the sweet calls
OF the wood thrush, clear and loud the
bubbling cascade Of sounds made by the
wrens; the occasional scream Of the
blue1ay, and the wild lay Of the mock
ingbird, and the NEW Of the catbird; and,
above all, the always happy songs Of the
robin, who has not been lauded half
enough for the part he plays in making
the bird symphony the really fine music
it Is.
Evening star., 1938-05-31

clearly from long inhibited hatred Of
the mother. In one such personal situa-
tion 1t seemed for time that the easily
associated hatred felt for the father,
against whom he had harbored a grudge
because OF restriction in the amount Of
his allowance, was an easy explanation
for his actions against business. But
under scrutiny 1t was found that the
grudge was preserved as a screen to hide
his deep inner antagonism for his moth.
or. Mother, as the logical source of reve-
nue., was quite unsatisfactory. The in
fantile feelings Of revenge that he re-
called about her contemplated the alli-
aace Of ell cosmio forces with him In
her destruction"