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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26
Fern Chapter To
Meet Tonight

There win be a regular meet
ing Of Fern Chapter, Order East
ern Star. held tonight beginning
at z o'clock. at the hall corner
of Eaton and Simonton streets.
There win be a Christmas par
~ following the business meet
ing, and good time in general
Is promised all who attend.
All members are requested to
be present, while an invitation
IS extended to all visiting men,
bers Of the order.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26
Relative HHE1ialsE
FORECAST

Key West and NIcEnify- Egrf,s7
cloudy TINS aftern0en ard So
night; cooler tonight
Florida. Colder toniett. zzucn
colder IN north parton. ssn~eES
in central porsion and FAR ~
mainder Of the state.
HatteraS. N. c. &c Apalac-i-
cola, Fla. No snail crzff q sluru
warnings have been issued
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

THAT OLD GAL: Dorothy Dix
says. Husbands and wives should
not get IN mental rl1t that causes
boredom E goodness sake Dot
tie Dix. don't old maids, old
bachelors. widowers, and widows
get in a mental rut too.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

Miss Barbara Guerro, who had
been. attending college at one OF
&c sta1e institutions, returnee
aprne recently to spend the hoh-
day season
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

BOARD MEMBER ATTEN-
TON: A very important meet
ing win be held tonight of the
Key West Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross Al the office Of the
executive secretary, IN the federal
building. sfElas
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

Thompson. Philip orta. Lional
COBB Jesus Carmona, Paul Mesa.
JE and Dorothy Mae DUNCAN
and others.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

PosseSso Cano, formerly Of Key
West, but who is now making ms
home IN Miami, was included in
the recent arrivals here for sew
eral days visit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

L. P. Artman, Jr., arrived
Wednesday from Chicago. III.
where he has been an training at a
naval training station, and viii
be m the city for q short time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

Mr.. and MRS Gabriel L. Lowe
and son Were included in the re-
cent arrivals in Key West 10 spend
the holiday season with relatives
and friends.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26
Cracks And Comments
By A
FLORIDA CRACKER
THE DAY AFTER CHRIS

THE DAY AFTER CHRIST
49, When you seat turksy
hast. tufkey croquetts, tufkey = i
king and turkey turneys sl
viii probably wish yol bad nj
eaten 50 much turkey and stuffing
Thursday and be drawing heavily
on fte cid bicarbonase. as ne
day you wiz really get to read and
enjoy the lovely Christmas cards
that thrill and please you SO much
and you resolve that next year Il
sou are living SO help you Hannah
you viii address your Christmas
cards IN August and not fail even
again 10 send Yuletide greetings
when you realize the happiness
you have from those sent 10 you
It's the day you look at the lovely
Christmas xTappings and ribbons
and wish you could keep them for
ever, they are 50 gay no mum,
my only rich relative sends her
photograph She used 70 amaze
my childhood honesty by laying
out the family Bible when the
minister was expected to call
VII have the picture framed and
hang If up. When she comes. .
Talking TO little boy on street who
was unhappy over buying his
mother little present that he had
given 50 much thought and all his
tiny savings 10 but she had forgot
to say thank you Wasn't that
whistling postman working ex-
ua). A most pleasing young
man
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

MORE CHRISTMAS HIGH
LIGHTS: As expressed by Joe
Allen who says, The beautiful
service Of midnight mass at St.
PauPs Church and my brothers
visit has been the best part Of
Christmas 70 me. Shirley
Schultz: old Santa brought me
lots Of pretty clothes and ! liked
that. Joe Pinder:: The incest
thing I have had IS my date with
Ruth Rose Galley for the Junior
Woman,s Club tea dance. Judge
Raymond Lord: The children
having fun and seeing so many Of
our friends" = HRS Ivan Elwood:
Ny darling gave me a wrist
watch. II is pretty too. Jack
Sawyer: Il like all of Christmas,
The work, the fun and the play.
Bill Royce, Blue Blooded Beacon
HiIlite Of Boston, Key West and
the Mackel-Leaeh Co: Just be-
ing alive is pleasing TO me. but /
have had very merry Christ
mas. Billy Laid: TT was all SO
nice that | cannot think of any
special thing. Mrs. Joseph
Brown: The happiness Of having
my son Jefferson home for a visit
topped every thing for me-.
Kitty Symmonette: My daddy
gave me a beautiful gold bracelet
with a gold heart and he is going
to have my name engraved on il" .
Nice doings for you Kitty and
your sister, Rosemary. taking
everybodyss picture with her fine
camera Old Santa brought her.
Well any way . good time was
had by all except that bum ] met
m 'front.' Of the La Concha who
said his Christmas highlight was
the box of aspirin he found on his
dresser this morning. They"
you know who "they" are don't
you? Meaning lot of folks. What
I'm trying to say IS at least they
read The Citizen. Tom Lusk OF
the s. s. Juniper says that when
a little crack about him appeared
in The Citizen recently he re-
ceived eight clippings OF the
paper and, incidentally, Tom had
/ a merry Christmas too.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

Ar. SD Mrs. George Allen
wzrren have returned 70 Fort
Lsarderdale after a visit 70 DIR. and
Mrs VIM. r. Warren.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26
THOUGHT FOR !

THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Who best can suffer, best can
do. Milton. Defense lines are
seldom taken by frontal attack.
They must first be weakened
from within and thar was 3 crack
ing good editorial in The Citizen
few days ago about thiughfless
and needlessly cruel and I'M
founded reports about war. dis
aster. etc.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

From in Flanders field To
you from failing hands we throw
the torch; be yours TO hold Il
high.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

CHRISTMAS HIGHLdGHTS:
Jack Thompson. son of Mr.. and
MRS Norberg Thompson who's
holiday highlight was the news
that soon he viii be doing his BIZ
for his country. He has been called
by the selective service draft and
viii leave IN two weeks 10 report
for duty. One Of Key Vests mos
popular young men. he viii be
greatly missed during his alb
sence
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-26

Observation taken Al 80 =. n
18th bier. Time CRY Office
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
WORK

If you were permitted to choose
a single social weapon with which to
chart and hold a course for the devel-
opment of human society, what would
it be? Would you choose wealth, or
politics, or one of the forty or more pro
LESSONS, or a military career, business
or n of the numerous callings COM
mon in the world of men? And if you
were to choose them, how would you
prepare for them?
Were it left to me, | would choose
work, without which nothing else can
be and endure. 1t is the most valuable
thing in the world of men and nature.
All about us we see its results, the
chemical action and reaction through
out the physical order. Everything we
see about us for the use and comfort of
mankind is the result of work by nat
ure or the brain and hand of men.
Without it, there would be no
homes, no villages, towns and cities
with their modern conveniences, no in
dustries, vehicles of transportation; no
schools and churches; nothing worth
while in the life that is or is to be.
If you will show us a being who
despises work of hand Dr. brain, we
will show you an enemy of the human
race.
But work should result in the de-
velopment of those things for the good
of mankind and not its destruction.
Let us, therefore, encourage the
worker in every field and glorify it
self.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
OUR WAY OF LIFE
(by Atty. John Adams, Sr.)

Insistence is the art of pushing
ones viewpoint to personal advantage.
This regardless of those whom it may
unfairly hurt. Seeking to have its way
it moves with utter disregard of such
foundational principles as justice, e.
quality, freedom and fraternity. Our
statesmen and political strategists in
their criticism of the ways of other
people speak loudly about any trespass
or interference against, and with, what
they call, "Our Way of Life" The
sounding of this slogan may not, for
the present, be so comforting to the
minority groups of America. This new
American expression, like a danger
Gus weapon in the hands of a mad mar
may become a serious threat to the am
billions, and rights of certain small, but
loyal groups of our cosmopolitan land,
groups striving against odds to live
happily as well as helpfully in a govern
ment of their choice:-a government in
respect to which they challenge any
person or group whatsoever to show a
greater spirit, devotion, and down
right loyalty. The expression, "Our
Way of Life to some, does not carry
with it, so much of the ideals of demo-
eracy as it does to, because of power,
push our prejudices to the great hurt,
the suppressed. 1t could be charges
that the expression carries with it a
governmental intention to continued
to overlook unfair practices and Gust
oms carried on against certain classes
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
WAR AND PEACE

Once more the dogs of war are
loosed in the world, led now by the Ger
man Nazis Military Caste. The war Of
today differs from other wars in mod
ern times in that non combatants are
its victims equally with the soldiers
and sailors and airmen who do the
fighting. 1t has been called total war
which spares neither men, women nor
children.
The leadership of the German Nil
itary Caste seeks destruction of the
English civilization and culture of
which America forms a part. And we
must decide here in America whether
or not we shall abandon our ideals of
civilization, denies as they are in prac-
tice on our very hearthstones, Or sub
NIT to the slavery which the military
caste mentioned will impose if crowned
with victory. On these terms we a
have peace in the world; or war until
this philosophy is broker IN the oattles
of the sea and air and land and all men
of all races everywhere are made free
in fact and given every opportunity to
develope as human beings should in the
ways of culture and civilization and
brotherhood and service.
We would ride the world of wal
and usher in the reign of peace for a
thousand years. But that peace must
be the peace of justice and liberty and
equality and fraternity for all the
children of men everywhere.
If to attain these ends, it be nee
essary that the lives of many shall be
placed upon the altar, SO be it.
War is a monstrous thing, but
peace may be even worse, unless free
dom and opportunity and the larger
and finer life are its ends.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31

means. All of them have read the
story of "THE CRUCIFIXION" many
times each one has suffered it over
and over again at the hands of them he
has tried to serve and save.
Do not despair. Nothing a hum
an being can do in this world of ours
is so valuable S service TO mankind
which stands in such great need Of it.
And if you experience the stings and
arrows of ingratitude, from the pers-
ons for whom you have rendered a
service, hold your course and serve
them still, for they, in very truth,
stand in direst need Of service.
All men and women who have
known the burden of their people will
understand what is written here. Re-
member you are destined to play a de-
cidious part in solving the problems
which will confront mankind in the
coming postwar years.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
(WHICH SHALL TT BET"

Omaha Last year we all hop
ed that the United States would
not be drawn into the second world
war. Millions of Americans still
hope we shall escape. 1t seems
to me this hope is vain.
We must choose one side or the
other in the world struggle. Which
shall it be?
The axis powers are committed
to a philosophy of statism, under
which all liberty, or person, rights
religion, speech and press is bann-
ed. Men and women live not for
themselves, but for the state alone.
On the other hand, the allies
have as the cornerstone of their
civilization human freedom, but
tressed by the sacredness of fam
lily life and religious guidance.
ltty DCllINc ludb CNNIy Huh'aAL
being shall have the right to work
and the chance to rise and make
whatever contribution he may to
that society of which he forms a
part. Even the disadvantaged ele-
ments of such a civilization have
the probability of some day be-
coming a free, active part of such
a society.
As an American of color, there
fore | take my place alongside the
champions of the English speaking
race, and l stand ready to do in
1941 what | did in 1917. l an
convinced that our hour has come
for action, even if that means A.
merican participation in the pres
ent war.
w. B. BRYANT.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
CUT OUT
ALB,


It's easy enough to prove an al
ibi' when the job should have leen
done but alibis never get you any
where they're generally framed up
to prove that you weren't there.n
When the roll is called, they won't
ask you where you Didn't go and
what you DIDN'T do but WHAT
did you "get across"
One and one don't make two
when you try to add things that
aren't equal. The belief that it
does is responsible for much Of the
trouble in the world today. No
one man ever exeactly equals any
other man-we're all different in
ability and character-but some
people want to put us all in the
same mold and treat us all alike
and make us all live and work in
the same way. They don't allow
for individuality.
Perhaps you are doing this to
yourself. Maybe you are using an
'alibi' because you are failing to
make good on a job which isn't
your kind of a job. And this goes
for all undergraduates of their
race, creed or color. You can't ex
pect to make good, if you haven't
got what it takes. Find out what
you can do best-and then go to It.
It's usually in the little things
that most men fall down in the
day by day tests of character.
Whether you a get on with 9TH
ers, and give credit to whom it be-
longs, and speak in an even tone
when there's provocation to shout
in anger, and whether you are Civ
ing to others what you exepect of
them-an absolutely square deal
these are some of the things that
show waht kind of a man you arc.
And when you do this, you can
look every man in the face with
out apology, and without using an
abb in an attempt to get by.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
G LEADERSHIP

The lines appearing most fire.
quently in various publications about
Negroes mention "a Negro leader" did
this or that; Negro Leaders" propose
this Or that, NEGRO Leaders" met this
or that government body. Usually,
the daily papers print such terms in
their stories in every community. And
the general public may get the impress
sion that the persons mentioned are
leaders, and the persons mentioned
may believe they are leaders. They
may be quite in earnest about it, trying
sincerely to serve, but lacking any
sound plan for action and even know
ledge and experience respecting the
things desired. Often, this lack could
be remedied by conference and the &C
QUESTION of exact information and the
aid of we'll informed assistants.
And this leads TO the query: Who
is a Negro Leader?
Is it he who is tout in front" or
the one who quietly and unknown serv
es his felloWmen in little ways, who,
like the general in an army far behind
the front lines, leads through his plans
and directing minds.
And in the midst of life's struggle
are not the real leaders the humble
mothers and fathers of the race who
manage their homes, rear their child
rem, educate them as best they can and
send down life's pathway to lead use
full lives of work and services.
In a larger way, according to ones
attainments and opportunities, leader
ship among Negroes has been devel-
oped in every community in the coun
try. Many of them won national re-
noWn; a few have achieved information
al fame.
They are serving in nearly every
field of human endeavor. And under
their leadership, the Negro has made
his unequalled progress.
They know what sacrifice really
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, May 81, 1911

every possibility of such beings, and
when all the factors for their develop
ment are the same they will rise to the
splendid heights in every field of worth
while aspiration and endeavor.
Sometimes in the course of hist
Dry it is necessary for men and women
to die for such an opportunity and
such a destiny. And all men and wom-
en- of all races ought to be willing to
make every sacrifice for these ends,
and once and for all strike down the
monstrous claim that there is a MAS
ter Race" in any land anywhere be-
meath the shining sun.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
BOOK STUDIES NEGRO YOUTH
IN THREE LIBERAL COMMTN-
TTIES-

Washington, May rs CAMP
The fifth and last of the studies
in Negro youth personality de vel
opment made by the American
Youth commission, "Thus Be
Their Destiny" attempts to show
how boys and girls grew up in
three small cities, towns of liberal
traditions in 10th the North and
South.
Greensboro, N, c., Galesburg,
ILL.,, and Milton, Pa, are the towns
which though widely separated
geographically and culturally have
a tradition in common of liberality
towards Negroes. The first stld-
les of the commission made under
the sponsorship of the American
Council on Education were region
al studies. This last publication
compares conditions between re-
gions, but within the limitations of
communities of somewhat similar
tradition and with similar-sized
populations.
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31
'THE MASTER RACE"

HE VuEAo1 LIN NAIL
Once again we are hearing the
claim that a new, strong, master Race
has appeared in the world. 1t is a very
old claim. The Negroids of Ethiopia
and Egypt made it long before the
little Greek sheep herders landed in
their %pennisular, and, of course, cent
uries before Remus and Romulus were
nurtured by the tabled wolf, to found
fRome.
Even in those long days, the Ne
groids mothered and developed the
worlds first civilization, and they bore
her torch for thousands of years. Per-
haps, they grew weary of "CIVILIz-
ALTON" and returned to the forest
for peace and rest, finding at last that
there is no Master Race. The Greeks
the pupils and heirs of Egypt, bore the
torch of light and learning for many
centuries and advanced civilization to
heights V before attained. And
Rome, guided by the Greek intellect,
gave to the world her twelve Dictator
Caesars, who ruled for many centur-
les. They, too, called themselves a
master Race. The present day claim
ants to this title are the German MAJ
is. They differ from all past claimants
in two important respects; they wor-
ship no god but force, and deny to all
conquered peoples the right freely to
serve the God in whom they believe.
The claim is without merit in our
day as it was in the long ago.
The English People have also as
serted a similar claim. They have be-
come the worlds greatest colonial po-
Wer, the eXploiters of more millions of
men and greater resources than any
other people in any age. They profess
a love of liberty for all men, but deny
it to hundreds of millions under their
flag. There is, however, n supreme
virtue which Is theirs; they are the on
ly People of history who have given to
mankind the principle of individual Ii
berty. This, at least, is their IDEAL,
and the effort to attain it has given a
large eas of liberty to races and
peoples who would not otherwise have
known it.
l nthe Southern states of the Uni
ted States, the tWo-thirds white pop
ulation asserts its racial superiority
over the one4third colored population
through various forms of legal, econo-
mic, political and social prescription.
And the handicaps and cruelties they
impose upon people of color r quite
as painful as the more harsh and more
direct restrictions imposed by the So
called MASTER RACE" of German
Nazis, on the peoples they have subju-
gated.
There is no master Race; there
never was and there can never be. HUI
man beings have a human destiny and
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31

OO"N
of our citizens repugnant to the law of
the land. A way Of life is best respect
ed when that way is fair to all assoc
lated in its compact.
The expression, and legislative
outrage, Our Way of Life carries
with it a very definite program of gov
ernmental intention. This being SO, to
that part of our national family, barri-
caded behind a customary mountain of
prejudice prejudice which defies
obedience to the law of the land, exist
nothing less than THE VERY BLACK
NESS OF DARKNESS. This editor
ial talks about governmental program.
Now, it is quite reasonable, for those
interested to inquire, what is that
program Programs are not always
placed where "those who run may
read. They are hid. Not always in
some dark corner, but more often be-
hind a national tolerance, smoke screen
ed by the glaring brightness of such
loveable soundings as "OUR CONSTI-
TUTION",-OUR LAWS, a part of
which is the peoples bill of rights.
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE? Whoev-
er OUR GOVERNMENTAL PROG
RAM INTENDS. If the people are ben
Gifted, programs must be announced.
This is always done, in one way or an
other. Often the master of ceremony
cries out, "the next number on the pro-
gram, is thus and so" and then again
those who are made to bleed and suf-
fer and die, call out through their aw-
full predicament, here is where a "Way
of Life" placed us,-AND FOR HOW
LONG?
"Our Way of Life" then, seems
to proceed by an intended program.
These are best understood by carefully
observing social results which accrue
from their operation. This becomes all
the more alarming, when it is suspect
ed that the doings of today by a state
or nation, constitute types and shad-
ows of possible governmental intent
ions for tomorrow.
Instances of Our Way of Life"
are revealed by many of u bureaus
acting in relation to the citizen and
vice versa the citizens conduct towards
these boards, set in operation for the
benefit of each member of the entire
national block. The individual citizen
under "Our Way of Life" seems to pos
sess 3 habitations,- his home, his
state and his nation. He occupies
each of these under a definite author
ity. He is preeminent in the family
home. Here he has a perfect right to
determine its program, conduct and
pleasures. He admits whom he pleas
es, and prohibits whom he pleases.
There can be no opposition here to his
way of home life so long as he conducts
it in pursuance of law. The head of a
home is master, but when the inmates
of a home move into the life of the
state they can bring forth no such au-
thority, nor can the c%itizenry of a state
moving into the home life of the nation
The Omaha guide., 1941-05-31

of our citizens repugnant to the law of
the land. A way of life is best respect
ed when that way is fair to all assoc
lated in its compact.