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shrined forever, defied in this
historic Revolutionary villagel
Hawthorne's home life with his
new wife was most happy at the
Name. Here. says writer.
Hawthorne is out of company
clothes, totally unSelfconscious
and writing purely to please him
self. Callers come-Emerson;
'Thorow' las Hawthorne persist
ed in spelling his name all that
Summer), Margaret Fuller,
George Bradford, Ellery Chan
ming, George Prescott. Elizabeth
Hoar, George Hilliard-many of
the good and some of the event
ually great in literature. But the
young people are just as well
pleased when nobody comes.
Their water supply is rain
caught off the roof in tubs; drink
ing water has to be toted in;
baths (Which Hawthorne took
with astonishing frequency are
presumably in the old wooden
tub behind the kitchen stove. :.
Thoreau, being as usual hard up.
thrifty sells Hawthorne his skiff
for 81 and teaches him how to
paddle it like an Indian. A girl
browns herself in the river and
the incident later becomes Zeno-
bias suicide in The Blithedale
Romance. where the finding of
the body is told with macabre
realism.
Hawthorne's home in Salem
had been a house of gloom. His
mother was a recluse. and he an
interpretive youth, then a dis
contented and ambitious young
bachelor; so that there was scarce
any jov IN his life till he reached
the Old Msnse with his bride.
Little wonder then that that first
Thanksgiving beneath the broad
roof of the hospitable big house
beside the Concord river was
joyous although none sat at our
board but our two selves.
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The beech leaves twirl down in
bronze spirals again in the late
November sun. and the earth in
the fields lies brown and fallow.
The year is at the requiem there
in lovely Concord, Massachusetts,,
where on the bridge across the
reluctant river that winds
through the town, the first shot
in the Revolutionary War was
fired the 10Th of April, ITS:
Here once the embattled farmer
stood
And fired the shot heard round
the world.
It is Thanksgiving again, and
this year ghostly feast will be
iald In The Old Manse, made
famous in many of Hawthorne's
writings, for the CRAVING old
house, through the upstairs study
windows of which l64 years ago
Ralph Waldo Emerson's minis
terial ancestor watched the first
battle in the war that severed
two nations, is deserted, its wide
panes and hospitable doors shut
tered. Bats dart eerliy in and
out of knotholes grown wide by
time, beneath the caves of the
ramshackle shed.
From Out The Past
Hawthorne began to live in the
Old Manse beside the meander-
ing river whose banks are en-
Drowned now with the artistry of
New England Autumn, in 1912.
He went there with his bride,
and they it were who sat at our
board our own two selves alone.
But the great house had been
built many years before. Con-
cord grew in those far-gone days
to be a literary workshop; great
names cling to it and ever will,
like an aura; the writings those
great names wrought rest as a
halo about the peaceful name of
the little town-for concord
means agreement, and harmony,
and sometimes. peace.
If Hawthorne could step from
his resting place in nearby
Sleepy Hollow cemetery today,
and walk again to the Old Manse
where he spent so happy honey
moon, he would find strange and
depressing scenes-perhaps a few
of the elms and oaks and beeches
would flick their fingers to him
on his little journey along the
back edge of the town; but the
tarvia road that leads past the
bridge where the battle was
fought and won by the courag-
eous colonials whom Paul Re-
we're had warned that day of
Britain's coming, would be alive
with motor cars--such strange
and smelly contraptions. II rode
| a horsei". and just past the Old
Manse driveway the path along
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join in a patriotic observance
and an attempt to cover that up
by insulting the members of the
American Legion do not inspire
confidence in some of the Off
GERS of Battery E. Their pa
triotism does not seem to boil
high enough. Are the regular
army forces, the navy, the coast
guard, the Spanish-American
war veterans. the Boy Scouts and
other groups to be criticized by
such mental giants as MIR. Rob-
erts because they paraded in a
patriotic procession designed to
inspire patriotism in others?
We suggest that Mr.. Roberts
study the army mobilization
plan.' the drill regulations and
brush up on how to be a gentle
man.
ARTHUR SAWYER POST NO. %
Key West, Fla.
Nov. %, 1889.
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which the flying British fled is
a memorial avenue now, with
monuments and markers put
there by patriotic societies who
remember, and becauseaof whom
posterity will remember
To Become A Shrine
The Old Manse is to become a
shrine. Vertically today it is an
Ark of the Covenant. 1t stood
a silent witness to the Concord
fight land across the sunlit street
a glass is set over bullet hole
where a patriots rifle ball buried
itself more than a century and
a half ago beside the back door
of another patriots dWellingD
The Manse was Emerson's home,
and it was Hawthorne's; and it is
an architectural antique whose
weather-rustled walls rise from
the November groves and mead
owlands to mark with fitting ST.
lence a birthplace of America.
The interior of the. stored
dwelling has long been an objec-
tive of pilgrims in unknown
thousands - millions probably.
But It has been a sealed book,
whose sole Sesame was the rela-
tionship or acquaintaneeship of
those who dwelt therein. Now the
Trustees of Public Reservations
have bought the place and
$4,000 endowment is to be rails
ed to rehabilitate the mansion
and install a custodian. There
after the Old Manse will be open
ed to the public for seven months
each year.
Not long back Hawthorne's
second home in historic Concord,
was similarly salvaged, and the
study of Emerson has been gar
nered by the lovers of history
from its frame house and re-
gathered in fireproof museum
Just across the highway Beyond
a bit the Alcott home is another
shrine.
Walked Out On Theology
One writer says of Emerson
that 'fhe was person who walk
ed out on theology to earn a
scrawny living giving lyceum
lectures. No veteran theatrical
trouper could have told him any
thing about one-night stands.
Hawthorne was poor devil SO
deluded as to marry and raise a
family on his earnings as novel
list when no such animal had as
yet appeared on this continent.
Alcott was a philosophical eccen-
trio forever out of funds: and
Thoreau. whom Hawthorne liked.
and described in his Note Books
as ugly as sin, iong-nosed, queer
mouthed, was even more ruth
less1y described by Miles Brad
ford as an asthmatic Yankee
runt with a constitutional aver
sion to work. -
But gaze upon them now, en-
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California showed under

California showed under the Ham
ard Eggs" proposition which called for
$50 every Thursday. The oldsters will not
receive the desired largesse weekly nor
any part of it. Had the amount been
halyed, the desideratum might have been
obtained. Everything indicates that States
and the Federal government favor old age
pensions-but the amounts of the pensions
must be within reason, so when granted
they do not collapse of their own weight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

Fifty-six thousand men employed by
the Chrysler Automobile Corporation at
an average wage of 80 cents the hour are
idle as the result of trying to force the cor
poration to accept contract with the
COmmunistic c. l. o. union requiring the
company to become the agency for the col
lection of union dues. A heavy loss to
capital and labor and Christmas so near.
What fools these mortals bel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28
TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ
Can you answer seven of these
ten Test Question? Turn TO
Page A for Answers

l. Where is the British crown
colony, British Honduras?
2. What is the name for the
main cabin of a ship?
8. When it is 2 o'clock p. m.
E.S.T) in New York
City, what time is it in
Denver, Colo?
4. What are the colors in the
flag of Costa RIGA?
5. Which two Presidents of the
u. S. were born in the
same city?
6. With what sport is Ducky
Pond associated?
z. Where is the Juba River?
8. Name the Secretary or State
in the Harding cabinet.
8. What is the correct pronun-
citation of the word vocif-
crate?
%. What event does the ballad
Marching Through. Geor
gia'' commemorate?
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photograph Of ST. paul's
Church. the Key West High
School. Marti monument. a
large catch Of turtle. and
three scenes of the highway.
The descriptive matter of
Key West ends with "This is
indeed a fisherman's para
disc. setting of South Sea
island lure and climate with
in the easy reach of all. The
home of the best green turtle
soup. Conch chowder and
Cuban coffee in America.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

This writer cannot understand the
ratiocination of The Alligator, student pub
LEGATION of the University of Florida, when
its editor complains about the big, bad
Miami cops interfering with the hilarity of
the students after the Gators whipped the
Hurricanes. Celebrating the victory sin
true Florida fashion" got too rough and
the minions of the law couldn't look the
ether way any longer. Unrestrained free
dom goes to extremes unless halted. and
the football spirit that develops into icen-
tious behavior must be checked, even if it
laEds the celebrants in the cooler.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

Release of a new publication,
Florida Via Camera, pic
torial treatise of the, states attrac~
tions, has been announced by the
publishers, the rosGraphic Cor
poration of New Albany, Indiana,
who compiled and edited the
book in conjunction with Eastern
Air Lines of New York, and r.
E. drummer & Company of Or
lando.
Two pages are devoted to
scenes and descriptive mat
ter of Key West. There is a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

The book, which is being dis
tributed widely by E.A.L.' and
the drummer concern, contains
more than $50 beautifully repro
duced photographs of the most
interesting tourist attractions in
the state as well as picture
stories of Florida's industries.
Florida Via Camera" is the
third of {, series of picture books
on the State of Florida compiled
by the Aero Graphic Corpora
ton, one of the nations leaders
in aerial photography and trav-
elogue publishing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

German pressure on Rumania for
closer commercial relations has failed so
far, forcing the resignation of the cabinet
However, King Carol has named as success
scr to the premier one who is an avowed
anti-Nazist and that may not result in an
early rapprochement.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28
It's about time the

It's about time the 1910 calendars
make their appearance. We're curious to
see how they are handling the Thanks
giving Day mixup. Until future presi-
dent rescinds the % designation, how
about printing the block in blank with a
question mark?
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FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
g. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
g. Hotels and Apartments.
4. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
s. Airports-Land and Sea-
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments
7. A Modern City Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

Police of Columbia, S. c., are
looking for a goofy burglar, who
stole a coat, a curtain and a vic
trola from a house in that city.
Then, either through absent
mindedneSs or fright, he left his
pistol behind when he escaped
with the loot.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28
ELIGH is
BY MARCY 3. DARNALL
Former Editor of The Citizen

Army recruiting was slim
ulated by modern advertising
methods to make a peace time
record of 50,836 enliStments in
the period between July l and
November 9, according to Col.
Lloyd B. Magruder of the re-
cruiting service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

To counteract the aroma from Key
Vests limburger cheese, transplanting the
Umbrella tree, said to smell like raspberry
jam, from Australia, would seem to do the
job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

An electrical engineer has
caused a coffee pot to produce
radio music, which the Chicago
Daily News admits is quite a
miracle, but thinks it would be
greater miracle to cause the pot
to produce a really good cup of
coffee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

Key West now has city business adj
ministratiOn. Let the national admins
tratiOn follow suit and we will get some
where.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

What good was it to some turkeys to
have been given a weeks reprieve? In a
few days they will do turkey trot to the
block and get it in the neck anyhow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

There were 11,l60 aircraft of
all types and 26,l44 licensed
pilots in the United States on
July /, a gain of l,400 planes and
600 pilots during the last fiscal
year. A much greater increase
of planes and pilots is expected
this year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

1t is bitterly cold in Russia and the
time is ripe for Staying
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

This is Thanksgiving Day-a good old festival; and
nay with hearts and besides have
made good cheer turkey and pudding and pies
custards. although sat at board but
selyea"From Nathaniel Hawthornes american Note
Books. Aug. S. 1912. TO Oct. 6. ls43. .~.ts-c1}
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28

Sooner or later most Of our national
problems come back to the millions of I'M
employed
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-28
HAWTHORNE'S
THANKSGIVING FOR TWO

Written For The Citizen BY FRANK w. LOWERING
Evening star., 1939-11-30

lowdown, and I have gathered the
following sheaves from sources
which ought to know at least more
than part of what they a-e talking
about.
A year ago during the Munich
crisis the Germans had clear SUI
periority over the British and
French of 1000 first-line modern
planes. At the time it was thought
to be greater.
The Germans are estimated to
have lost about 500 planes taking
Poland-some shot down, but most
crashed and pancaked on bad Polish
flying fields. This would bring the
lead down to $500.
OF course the Germans have been
building more planes, but for some
time the British have been outbuild-
ing them in the ratio of about seven
to six The British hope to widen
Evening star., 1939-11-30

position for next spring, by which
time, what with England, France
and America all making planes, the
allies should have supremacy In the
air.
Discount all this about 20 per
cent for wishful thinking on the
part of pro-ally observers and ex-
perts, and you probably have the
correct answer.
Evening star., 1939-11-30

the spread, but this rate has already
taken of about 1000 from the Ger
man lead, reducing it to 500.
U. s. Supplies Air Parity.
When the American Senate re-
pealed the arms embargo, it was
estimated that about 500 American
built planes would be shipped with
in 80 days to the British and French,
thus giving them, not air superiority
but air parity, as the winter closes
down.
The sources who bring me these
sheaves do not expect any important
aerial activity during the winter
The prevailing winds blowing across
the channel and the North Sea
toward England will make it diff
ficult for the Germans to take the
offensive. Winter fog will presently
complicate the matter of accurate
bombing. A crippled plane would
Evening star., 1939-11-30
D. c. Quote Is $1,000
In Sunutorium Drive

A Washington quota of $1,000 has
been established in the Nation wide
emergency campaign of the Los An
geles (CalifD Sanatorium Ex-
patients Home, according to an an
nouncement by Bernard Danzansky,
president of the Washington Com
mittee of Sponsors. The drive be-
gins here today and will run for
10 days.
The home, founded in 1918, is a
national, free, non-sectarian insti-
tuition serving INDECENT men. women
and children afflicted with tuber-
culosis. Clinics and out-patients
departments are features Of its
operation. There are $50 beds.
The institution has been approved
Evening star., 1939-11-30

have little chance fighting head
winds back to Germany over the
water.
Also, British anti-aircraft fire is
getting remarkably good. 1t is
pointed out that the Firth of Forth
Bridge presented to the German
bombers a target bigger than a
barn door. The fact that they did not
hit it would indicate that their aim
was bad, or else that British anti
aircraft fire had driven the attack
ing squadron up 10000 feet or
higher.
Supremacy by Next Spring?
Quite possibly the Germans may
stage a few major air attacks this
faQ or winter. But they won't blow
London or Paris off the map and
their losses, operating over hostile
territory defended by good anti
aircraft fire, might put them in bad
Evening star., 1939-11-30
Forum Discussion

The Town Hall Associate Group
of the Jewish Community Center
will present Mrs. Lydia Van Hagan
Van Zandt IN a forum discussion at
9 o'clock tonight at the center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV. what
Kind of Peace Can Europe Make?"
will be the subject.
Evening star., 1939-11-30
Tech Night Revue

The Mckinley High School Par
ent-Teacner Association will present
a Tech Night Club Revue at the
school tomorrow night. The cast is
composed entirely of parents and
teachers. Part of the proceeds from
the entertainment will go to the
Girls Glee Club.
Evening star., 1939-11-30

as a national agency by B'nai
Birth, Jewish Workmen's Circle,
Jewish National Workers Alliance
and Jewish Social Service Agency,
according to Mr.. Danzansky.
DR.. Israel Ginsburg of the homes
staff is in the Capital to assist with
the campaign.
Evening star., 1939-11-30

An acre was originally defined
as the area yoke of oxen could
pillow in day.
Evening star., 1939-11-30
Air Parity Declared
To Be in Allies Grasp
By Time Winter Hits
Supremacy Possible
By Next Spring, Observer
In Rome Thinks
(Seventeenth OF a Series }

BY WILLIAM L. WHITE.
ROME. Italy (By AirmaiD A
neutral European country is clear
ing house for political and military
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Democrat Group
Meets Tonight

DR.. Paul d'Eca, a member of the
staff of the Division Of Intellec-
tual Cooperation Of the Pan.
American Union and director Of
the Inter.American Book Ex-
change, will address the mem
bers Of the Democratic Women's
National Council at a meeting
tonight at the Willard Hotel.
DR.. d'Eca, a native Of Portugal,
Is the author of many articles
on international affairs and the
coauthor OF a new work, THE
Outline Of Latin American His
tory" His address to the Demo
cratic Council will be on the
Lima Conference and Its Sig
nificance." General discussions
will follow his talk.
The meeting Is open to the
public. It is being arranged by
the Councils Reporter Plan
Committee, under the chairman
ship Of Mrs Alma Shevlin.
Those who will compose the
panel to lead the discussion will
be H. c. Montee, the United
Press representative at the Lima
conference; DR.. Raphael Pico,
the new president Of the Inter.
American Forum and on the
faculty of Catholic University,
and the Rev. DR.. Francis B.
Steck, also Of Catholic Univer'
Sity.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Lima Delegate
To Be Feted

Mrs. Burton W. Musser, who
was a delegate to the Lima con-
ference, will be a guest of honor
at a dinner of the Washington
Branch, A. A. U. w, tomorrow
night at z o'clock in the I Street
clubhouse.
Mrs. MuSSer will tell about
her experience and impressions
of the conference. Miss Mabel
Vernon, head of the Peoples
Mandate, who also attended the
conference, will speak. Another
guest speaker will be Miss Mary
Wellborn, also Of the Peoples
Mandate Committee.
Mrs. MusSer is a former State
senator from Utah. Greetings
will he extended to Mrs. Robert
Olesen, president of the Wash
ington branch. The guests will
be introduced by Mrs. John Don
aldSOn,
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
By Regis CdUanagh

presage trouble. "Go right ahead"
he added.
Then he looked for the bum.
His contact should have been made
before this. But it was still not too
late; perhaps it was even better
as it was. for there, only 20 feet
away, waiting and shuffling about,
with his eyes and head down as
though searching for snipes. was
the bum. Larry saw him vt once,
but he also saw someone else.
Priscilla was just a little to one
side and hardly another 20 feet
farther on. She was waving q lit
tie colored handkerchief she had
clutched in her hand. Her eyes
looked as if she had been crying
recently. but now she was smiling
and at him.
"Priscilla!" He almost screamed
it. "Priscilla!"
He was waving and shaking the
cigar above his head to be sure she
saw it, and he hardly knew why.
because she knew nothing about
it. But the bum did and he stood
aghast. his eyes starting from his
head. The inspector raised up and
looked at him as though he had
lost his mind.
Then Larry tossed the cigar
Shot it into the air and towards
the bum-but high in a curving
arc over his head. It smacked
against the side of the liner in a
little puff of smoke and ashes
dropped and hissed out, forever
lost in the water between the ship
and pier. Larry watched it dis.
appear and a great weight lifted
from his shoulders.
Tomorrow" he called. "Tomor'
row. It's OK now"
PriScilla's own smile broke into
a grin and she nodded her head in
a series of quick little affirmative
jerks that showed she understood
And then she was gone.
GOSH" said Larry looking after
her. ITO think I almost lost her.
Why. any honest job" he said to
the inspector, will be a good job
with her to work for
Copyright, 1899, by News Syndicate
Co., Inc.)
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

A native of Ocean City, Md,
Miss Cropper was educated in
the public grammar and high
school of Berlin, Md. Her first
position was as a bookkeeper in
Baltimore, where she recei red
the fundamentals of business
training She moved with her
family to Washington in 1917
and for several years was en-
ployed in clerical work with
three leading hotels.
She always wanted q business
Of her own because she liked
the idea Of managing something
for herself. She recognized the
increasing tendency of women
to have their beauty problems
solved in the beauty shops and
so decided this would be good
field of endeavor The work
also appealed to her because she
liked people and liked studying
hair and clothes styles.
Taking time off from work,
LilliaS attended several schools
of beauty culture during a period
Of two years and then opened
ner sailor Due to her progress
in the first year of business, her
shop was selected as the first in
Struction center here for a lead
ing permanent waving method
=. In her second year she found
it necessary to acquire larger
quarters. Her present shop,
modern in every detail, is located
in a four-story building in the
$500 block Of Fourteenth st.
N. w., which she purchased in
1925. Two other shops are
trading under the name of "Lil-
has," but they are operated by
her brothers.
Miss Cropper believes that the
success in the beauty profession
comes not only from fine work
manShip, but high quality of
standard supplies made by repu-
table manufacturers. She is
now making another stride for
ward by devoting more time to
the health Of her patrons as well
as beauty by introducing a new
beauty bath for reducing.