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killed by poisons that are deadly
when the insect comes into con
tact with them
A caution: Such plants as beans
and tomatoes should not be
sprayed after the edible parts have
sormed.
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KEY WEST in
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
APRIL !. 1899

William R. Porter, vice presi-
dent of the Overseas Bridge Cor
roration; Norberg Thompson, rep
resentative of Monroe county, and
Mayor William H. Malone, repre-
senting the city, left yesterday for
Miami to attend to matters per-
tanning to the application for a
loan to construct the proposed
highway bridges.
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Fodav's Horoscope

Today gives a gentle. amiabIe
disposition, not too strong willed,
and with much sympathy for
others and a desire TO help them,
which may make them easily de-
ceived. While it is well to be for
getful of self, this virtue needs TO
be tempered with judgment.
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CHoOSEY THIEVES

LOS ANGELES. - Thieve.
broke into the butcher shop ol
Steve Kormonday and walked
away with Sl,500 worth Of chOicC
steaks, ignoring entirely the ham
burgers and wieners.
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DR.. E. E. Rice, presiding elder
in the Miami district, will arrive
in Key West next Wednesday to
conduct revival meetings for 10
days in the First Methodist
Church. the Fleming Street Meth
odist Church and the Ley Mem
orial Church.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print It
". thout fear and without favors never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece Of any person. clique.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice denounce vice and praise virtue.
commend good done by individual or organ
ization tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions: print only news that win elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
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sOTIrE TO CREDITORS
1893 prshsfe Act, Sees. IIo. 1901
- iii col RT OF THE COUNTY
~ D6E. MONROE COUNTY, FLOR
IDA.TypR0BATE.

~ BHE f0i RF OF THE COUNTY
JiDGE. MONROE COUNTY. FI.O1l-
IDA. ~ PROBATE.
In re- Estate IF
GEORGE H DEMERITT.
Deceased
To All Creditors and Persons Having
Claims or Demands Against Said
Estate:
You and each of you are hereby
notified and required to present any
claims and demands which you, or
either OF you. may have against the
estate of George Fl. Demerftf. de-
ceased late of said County. To the
county Judge of Monroe County.
Florida d I his office in the court
house of said County at Key West,
Flsrtda, within eight calendar
months from the time of the first
publication of this notice Each
claim or demand shall be in writing,
and shall state the place of resi-
deBce and post office address of the
claimant and shall be sworn 10 by
the claimant. or their agent. or
their attorney. and any such claim
or demand not 50 filed shall be
void.
GEORGE G. DEMERITT.
AZ administrator of the Estate OF
George H Demeritt. deceased
aprI-S-15-2z 1913
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MEANS roLD Russia

MOSCOW. = Staraya Russo,
strategic military center on the
Russo-German front, means in
translation. @Old Russia II is
normally resort town of $4,000
population.
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1883.-Lon Clancy, actor, the
man with thousand faces" born
Colorado Springs, Colo. Died Aug.
26, 1890.
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Today In History

1789.-First session of House OF
Representatives in New York
City, then capital. Scheduled for
previous March 4, but no quorum
showed up till this day.
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1823.-Simon B. Buckner, Con-
federate lieutenant-general, Ken
lucky governor, born Hart Co., Ky.
Died Jan. 8, 1914.
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l826.-Edward A. Sothern, fam
ed actor and father of noted actors
born in England. Died Jan. 20,
1881.
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1893. Although war with Spain
declared this month. u. S. regular
army this day composed of only
10000 men.
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1835.-Birth of mutual life insur-
ance. when the New England Mu-
t.-2l Life Insurance Co., of Boston
chartered.
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l952.-Edwin A. Abbey, famed
artist, muralist and illustrator.
born in Philadelphia. Died Aug. /,
1911.
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Letters from readers are welcomed
lake them as short as possible and sign
your name, which will not be published if
its omission is requested.
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4 l8l1-James M.cCosh. Scottish
lclergyman-professor, president of
Princeton University, born in
Scotland Died Nov. Is, 1894.
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Today's
Anniversaries

l802.-Guy R. Phelps. Hartford,
Conn.,, druggist who founded
Conn. Mutual Life Insurance, born
Simsbury, Conn. Died March Is,
1869.
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Active role for United States in
war backed, Gallup poll finds.
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The ways of mankind demonstrate very
plainly that it does not take much hokun
TIC elate the vanity of men or women.
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l924.-Hitler sentenced to five
years in prison for Munich beer
hall revolt.
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!oday's Birthdays

L & SezztGr EearEa A 3 Ilszr
Ct Iowa ben Lerla. L. - Eezz
ago
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922.-First day of national coal
strike involving half million men
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D. ElGzz15- c &c.
president uE rhe E-w GE
NichiEzl- bor1 H EEL g
years zEC-
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1925.--The Hebrew University
In Jerusalem opens.
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DzniaI c Rnpzr - 49,
D. c EZ-seCetzrv q cu-zeres.
born E~arEboro Co 8 c = rezrs
age
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Andrew R. Miller, Robert Ingle
and the Rev. ]. G. Stradley were
elected members of the Emerg-
ency Relief Committee at a meet
ing held yesterday. .
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DAVID A CrzWrff-1 Frssz5szr e
the Pill c. CZEa- go
s. L0Ez- 81 veZs a.
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Half the voters favor u. s. lot
teries, Gallup poll finds.
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l937.-Walkout at Flint, Mich.
Chevrolet plant
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Dr. AGrEEa Il Eez1tz-1r- rrz5-
dent q Ms CaIeEE o.
Calf bern San Frzzcls1a. e. VEZrs
aEo-
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Lsure-1e Lsvl1r- zcs. hI
New Yea CRY. s. Ee -
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Housewives of Key West, who used to
shop with dollars. are now figuring it out
with points.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph B. Boyden
entertained members of the Rob-
ert ]. Perry Chapter, Order of De
Molay, at the Boyden home on
Geminary street last night.
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l941.-Some 100000 soft coal
miners stop work.
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Frederick w. Sinclair diod at
8 o'clock this morning in his home
at 1902 Florida street. The body
will be shipped this afternoon by
the Lopez Funeral Home to Mr..
Sinclair's former home in Jersey
City.
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The American Citizenship De-
pertinent of the Key West Wo-
mans Club will present musical
trogram Immediately after the
regular meeting of the club on
Tuesday afternoon
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By Joe Marsh

friends. Is a may people Keep en-
Of trouble. not grt into IA
From where I sit. ] certainly
agree with the Judge The fell0~
with the abb about 3 coupe
Of beers is rejecting On good
citizens everywhere who en31F
a quiet glass Of beer with t1eir
meals -si1tin' win their frienEis
or Just relaxing after a czv's
work Moderate folks lsze 1szas
are entitled 70 consideration
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Mrs. B. F. Sasnett was elected
president of the Division Street
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton at meeting held yesterday
afternoon.
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No. So ofa Series
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Mrs. Clara Lewis, who had been
spending several months in Fort
Iauderdale visiting relatives, re-
turned yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Nellie Fulford returned
yes. erdav from Miami, where she
had been visiting her son, Arthur
Fulford.
Mrs. Richard Sawyer left yes
terday afternoon for Pirates Cove,
where she will spend the week
end.
Mrs. Martha Smith and her
daughter, Mrs. Henry Thompson.
returned yesterday afternoon
from Miami
The Citizen says today in an
editorial paragraph:
Since the election the number
of those who voted the Demo-
cratic ticket has increased consid-
.erablv. This has been especially
noticeable among office seekers =
Evening star., 1943-01-31
She'll Game

Every time the average citizen
thinks he has begun to get a
faint understanding Of government
finance. something is sure to pop
up and put him right back where
he was. in maze of wonder. Take,
for instance, what happened in a
native district of New Guinea. It's
currency was on a shell Standard
not just any old shell at all. but a
special kind. found only on certain
beaches. Life was easy. When the
natives were assessed for taxes, they
did not groan-they simply went
beachcombing.
Then the Japs took these beaches,
depriving the treasury of any further
revenue. Attempts were made to use
other varities of shells, but they were
regarded as counterfeit. Fortunate
ly, just as the government was about
to 60 broke, the toy department of a
store in Melbourne, having bought a
number of these shells some time
before, rounded up all 1t had and
sent them over to New Guinea in
time to avert crisis. The moral of
this tale is somewhat uncertain, bur
perhaps it is that no matter what
happens, governments will always
find some way to make the taxpayer
shell out.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Children Not Wasted

Inc Bishop OF southwark, speak
ing at a funeral service for 80 chill
dren killed in the bombing of a
Lewisham schoolhouse last week, said
of them: They will not grow Old
His words have gone around the
world. They have been read by
plain and humble men and women
who, whether parents themselves or
not SO blessed, could comprehend
their meaning. In time to come they
will be rediscovered in the chronicles
OF these tragic years. Students of
the heights and depths of human
experience will gaze upon them with
eyes strangely dimmed. Their sig
nifcance will endure long after their
present application has ceased to be
compelling. 1t will be remarked that
they symbolic this age of confusion
and destruction.
Meanwhile, there will be at least
few persons who, against the
diapason of the prevailing global
strife, will hear the melody Of John
Keats, an English poet who did not
survive his youth and who on that
account is but the better-loved. His
lode on a Grecian Urn" has been
voted the favorite metrical treasure
of the British race. 1t was COM
posed in 1919 and is immortal for it's
Interpretation of Immortality. The
bishop, surely, must have remem-
bered the haunting lines in which
the bard addresses the vase con-
corning the procession pictured on
its outer surface:
What little town by river or sea
shore,
Or mountain built with peaceful
citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious
morn?
And, little town, thy streets for ever
more
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate. can e'er
return"
The answer may be various. Espe-
cially when infants innocent and fair
are martyred, it is difficult to guess
the ancient riddle of life and fate.
Keats declares: When old age
shall this generation waste" the urn
shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom
thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty'-that
is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need
to know"
Some will dissent from such a
pagan" doctrine, yet the gesture
will not perish. The children of
Lewisham are not lost to their AL
mighty Sponsor. Whether in terms
Of religion or in purely secular
regards, their deaths" as the bishop
told their families and the universal
public "are not going to be wasted"
Evening star., 1943-01-31

Jewess. Presently a situation developed
in her kingdom where as at present,
her race was being prosecuted. A con-
spiracy had planned to attack the Jews
and if possible to exterminate them. In
this grave situation Esther was sum-
moned to their aid. Mordecai, the foster
father of Queen Esther, appealed to her
to importune the King in behalf of her
people In his appeal he said: IF thou
altogether hold thy peace at this time,
then shall relief and deliverance arise
from another place. and who knoWeth
whether thou art come to the kingdom
for such a time as this?" 1t is stern
and definite reminder of responsibility,
the hour of opportunity and the urge to
obedient action. 1t is a challenge to
courageous service.
1t is such an hour and such an oppor-
tunity that is at hand today. Great
principles are at stake, men and women
like those who witnessed the barbarous
destruction Of the humble village of
Lidice are asking what Is to come to
redeem and ransom such afflicted peo-
Piles? From all over the world cry is
yelling up from great masses OF the
people seeking deliverance from heavy
burdens and slavery. Out of deep
shadows they wait for the dawn of
new day. They are seeking courageous
leadership, the leadership of nations
that have Christian ideals. They will
have none other.
If such leadership is not given then
they must look for relief and deliver
ance from another place. This is the
time for heroic action, eh-forgetting
and self-sacrificing action To the
United Nations the call comes, especial
ly to America and Great Britain. The
strong, challenging cry is going forth:
Doubtless thou art come to the king
dom for such time as this" What an
age of opportunity is at hand! How it
stirs the hearts and minds of those who
have the capacity to understand Its deep
significance! How true the poets words:
I'VE are living, we are dwelling in a
grand and awful time;
In an age on ages telling to be living is
sublime
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Unhappy ItuIy

From the London tEngland) Daily Telegraph
Even Goebbels would find it difficult to
explain why the common folk of Italy
should not passionately desire peace.
Turin is in complete chaos. and its war
industries were reported virtually to have
ceased production before the RAF made
assurance doubly sure by two heavy at
tacks recently. Genoa, Milan and Naples
seem in little better shape. Disorganiza-
ton is not limited to the actual target
areas. MuSSollni never expected nor
warned his people that the burning of
bridges which he announced on June
10, l94o, would become literally true of
the burning of more than bridges in Italy
herself. He has had to improvise evacua-
ton on the largest scale, and improvised
evacuation is more like panic than plan
ming. The civil mobilization decree
issued to prevent war workers flying
from their jobs has also in many areas
proved futile. Reports from Switzerland
state that the ration scales in Italy, al
ready low, cannot be maintained because
farmers cannot or will not deliver their
produce. The Germans seem no better
at saving their ally's factories from de-
struction than they were at saving their
allie from capture in the western
desert. In his speech on December 2
Mussolini said that Germany has given
up powerful number of A.A. guns"
Where are they? Our losses in the last
two big raids on Turin were four bomb
ers, and. according to the Germans, not
all of them were lost over Italy. We
need look no further to explain the cries
of peace"
Evening star., 1943-01-31
THE HOUR OF OPPORTUNITY
By Right JAMES E. FREEMAN d. D, ILL., D, D. c. L.,
Bishop of Washington.

"If religion means anything, now is
the time to make it real" so wrote one
who was close to the inner circles of
our diplomatic service. His opportuni-
ties for world study and observation
during the past 10 years had afforded
him advantages for appraising national
and international values He was ex-
pressing in these words the thought
that great Russian had put in other
terms: There is at the bottom of mod
ern history mans break with the depths
of his own soul" Both were agreed
that behind the terrible drama we are
witnessing there were definite causes
that had produced it. AS this drama
goes on to its final curtain there was
that produced it; in word, this was an
epochal period in human history where
fresh opportunity was afforded for at
tacking evils and extirpating them: an
opportunity of vast significance that.
recognized and dealt with now might
issue in new and better world order.
In accepting this opportunity America
and her allies, the United Nations,
might prove the dominant factors in ac-
complishing results of incalculable value
and magnitude, thus turning disaster
into an event greater in its reaching
and beneficent influence than any the
world has hitherto known. Thoughtful
men and women are giving heed to this
urgent call for regenerated human
society. Without such serious consid-
Grafton of a world embracing change in
all human relations, we face a situation
fraught with terrible prospects.
Every day we learn of some new group
or organization seriously engaged in the
postwar problems. Doubtless many of
the panaceas proposed will prove i'm
practical and visionary. The main con-
sideration to be stressed is that an op-
portunity is at hand unequaled in it's
implications and possibilities. An In
cident recorded in the ancient book Of
Esther is pertinent. Esther had become
the wife and queen of a great leader
and mighty conqueror. She was a
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Siqns Of the Times

One of the few good things to
come out of the war so far has been
the reduction of nuisance and eye
sore almost approaching a national
Scandal-the outdoor advertising
billboard. Maryland reports $3.50
licensed signs in l94l, and ass fewer
in 1912. Facetiously, it may be noted
that a continuation at that rate
would cause the last billboard in the
Free State to give up the ghost late
in 1868; practically, they will be gone
even sooner-gone, but not lamented.
Their departure is hastened by war
conditions such as difflculty in get
ting material and labor, to say moth
ing of the fact that many products
previously so advertised are no longer
available for civilian consumption
Maryland's billboard tax drove out
most OF the smaller signs. Since
then many larger ones have come
down, due to growing feeling on
the part of their sponsors that they
cause resentment, rather than good
will. At least one large advertiser
has recognized this, by announcing
that in the interest of beauty it's
signs would, one by one, come down
and making good on the promise.
Not every road can be as scenically
perfect as the billboard Merritt
Parkway from New York to Hartford,
but it makes a good goal at which to
aim. In this connection may be men
toned an idea originating with
group OF Maryland lawyers. applic-
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Admiral HoIsey's Denial

Admiral William F. HalSey's fiat
denial of a widely circulated story
that American merchant seamen
had refused to unload a supply ship
at Guadalcanal on a Sunday, thereby
forcing fever-ridden marines to do
the job, teaches a lesson which
should be taken to heart.
This story, first published in an
Ohio paper, was based on informa-
ton said to have been received from
unnamed servicemen who had been
in Guadalcanal at the time, or who
had heard the tale there. This
anonymous background, of itself,
should have cast doubt on the au-
thenticity of the report, Further
more, it was wholly out of keeping
with the record which merchant
seamen have made in this war, a
record of ships that were kept sailing
in the face of great danger, on
Sundays as well as other days,
Finally, it does not appear that the
sensational allegations were checked
with the Navy Department before
publication, routine precautlon
which might have headed off the
whole unfortunate incident.
In view of Admiral Halsey's vlgor-
Gus and categorical denial, it seems
more than probable that there may
he substance fn union charges that
this false report had its inception
in the brain of some Axis propa-
gandist seeking TO aid the enemy by
stirring up diScord in this country
If so, the effort met with no small
measure Of success and it is to be
hoped that the experience will serve