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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

Organisations. societies and associa-
Has ahich make practice of selling
nnre On programs and other announce
m1ais b. lopal merchants should be fair
sn4 give their trade TO the local mer-
sasis who 40 charitably assist them.
Every once in a while. merchants will
feli ~ che descent upon them by a COM
miffec representing certain group stag
Ina some public affair and asking for the
purchase 81 a space at a price fixed at any
ameant which, Il Is thought, the mer-
chant will pay.
The Key West Citizen would not
criticize those who sell these spaces nor
does Il suggest any improperly in the
matter However. very often the sale of
Zach spaces Is the work of an outside agent
Who labors for Individual profit and the
money that the merchants expend does
littie. Il any. good to the cause that he
thinks be i assisting.
Those who go around to sell such adj
Nefiieing spaces very often adopt tactless
methods. This Is especially true when the
salesman Is a professional promoter, in
terested solely IN his own profits. In such
eases, i Is not unusual for the representa-
tlTes ~ an otherwise laudable enterprise,
to use what amounts to blaekmail tactics
IL IN effort to get an advertising donation
from 4 local merchant.
Let al advertising be sold on basis
~ advertising merit and, in the event that
8 buyer Of advertising space honestly
doubts the possibility of fair returns for
his money. accord him the privilegt OF
spending his money as he thinks best
without making a yelled threat to talk
about his store" or to boycott him for his
aftlon
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

which Russia will 60 to UNDER
mine our morale, our shrimp m
dustTy and a man named FEN
STERAfACHER, up IN Sctola, Fa.s
who never did anything 70 any
body. In fact he has never done
anything at all
Now happen TO like this Fem
stermacher fellow up ia Sciota
pa. There is nothing I would not
do for him and there IS nothing
he would not do for me. And
that is the way we 60 through
life. Doing nothing for each
other,
But / disgressl This mood IS
upon me. This foul plot ies
me tell YOU. III the course Of my
Intrepid investigation ! tossed OIL
q few vodkas, neat, just 70 at
tract the attention Of any spy
who might be shifting about tor
information on our shrimp beds.
tossed off several few vcdkas.
Then suddenly something fell
upon my head. It YVES me-
And then what about Holly
woodwood, ask Well what
about it, ! can hear you asking
right back at me.
So I'll tell you, you old people,
you!
AS any red blooded man Of
forty or so will tell you, THEDA
B4ARA was woman to put any
red blooded man in mood. She
was the siren, the vamp, the
twenty three, Skiddoo girl Of the
silent films. She had all the
things a man wanted. broad
shoulders, big biceps, straight
left and big bank account
THERE was WOMANl So
Hollywood is filming the story OF
her life. They pick BETTY HUT
TON for the part Her exact OPP
positei
Betty cancelled out and now
they have signed DOROTHY
! LAMOUR who is tops in her
own way and she is okay in my
books sarong as she sticks to her
own field. But she is by no means
I.a Theda Bara. Theda could make
two of her. There is not the re-
hottest resemblance and I am
taking umbrage at the whole de-
pressing business.
Theda did not dance or sing in
the old silent films. Sound came
in with popcorn at the Cinerlfal.
Theda just Iolled about ON divans
and looked Vow! And she
outweighed LaInour BY at least
thirty pounds. Theda would just
lower her lids over her big dark
eyes and then suddenly open her
eyes real wide and Vow!
/ am the kind of a man that
when / want to see Theda Bara
IWant to see Theda Bara and not
Dorothy Lannour.
It is high time Hollywood stop
ped these shenanigans and got
down to business in an honest
way.
Excuse me while / go out and
buy Valentine Not Gubitchev)
for Theda and write a letter to
my congressman, as laughingy
call him.
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II
oh. i am in a mood, i can tell
you. In fact, ] WILL tell you. t
am in q mood Monday is always
a day for a mood and you would
think that Hollywood, Moscow
and beverage manufacturers
would at least try to do some-
thing toward easing the strain
On top of all that today is the
thirteenth and if that isn't enough
tomorrow in Valentines Day.
while / yell for more coffee
play background music. Low.
somber and threatening. Never
mind PetriIlo, Just playD
Just when we get a good
shrimp business going, h busi-
ness that is showing a prodigious
net profit (Oboy Net profit!
Get 1T ID Just when we're as
happy as Aunt Hepzibah with d
new sunhonnet, those Soviets be-
gin another underhanded deal 1t
all looks very fishy to me, what
with Russian fishing boats snoop-
ing about the canal, and all
Right on top of the discovery Of
these shrimp beds the Soviets
have appointed new minister
for the fishing industry His name
is KONSTANTIN RUSAKOV and
he was thrown into the breach
when the Russkys discovered
their fish business is five per-
cent off the beam
/ may be in suspicious mood.
citizens are no doubt going to
call me a shrimp-war monger,
but the whole deal looks fishy to
me as | said before
My motives are selfish because
/ have partaken of these shrimp
from these here now new shrimp
beds. ! will fight the whole So
Wet Union if necessary, to pre-
serve our shrimp
Did you ever taste preserved
shrimp?
Russia is covering up her fish
shortage bv accusing our FBI.
of securing evidence against
VALENTINE A. GUBITCHEV,
who is on trial for espionage. He
is the Teller who is on trial with
JUDY COPLON, you know. The
Russians are mad because they
think our Mr.. HOOVER is a bit
of a stinker for trying to get evil
dence against Valentine They
claim Edgar tapped some phone
wires at the u. m. Assembly and
snooped into the u. NJ files. They
would no doubt rather have the
G-men use other methods on
Valentine. Their methods. Then
they wouldn't have to bother
about giving ham the old treat
ment themselves.
And do you notice that they
pick a guy named "VALEN-
TINE? And that they spring
this protest Just around VALEN-
TINES DAY? They viii no
doubt say they invented Valen-
tines Day next thing YOU know,
and that Jubitchev is the spirit
of love and light and that he and
Judy were just sending each
other Valentines.
My mood is a searching one. /
can see this plot to sabotage our
shrimp business, explode the VAL
entine myth, and louise up our
spy investigations in one swell
foop. AS Machiavellian touch
they get vodka to be dispensed
across our bars and until you
have drunk vodka you cannot
fully appreciate the lengths to
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naf Fuller Warren.
LII. Llnrldn.

Eefesnof FuIler Warren.
Tailahanee. Fiorida,
IIeaF FnIicf;
81 Florlda's 56 counties many per-
a'eaae matters crop up % annoy and
nesnlss goa. nke the Overseas row and
- demand ol Miamians 70 have you re-
s1e flslf sheriff. but you can tighten
r burden ~ the simple method of
daae uhal i right and let the chips fall
hefe they may.
THE ORACLE
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GRIsWOLD NAMED
(1sonfinued From Page One,

graduation, and then did gradu-
ate work in Germany and at Yale
before rajoining the Yale faculty
as teacher of history in 1883.
During his career as Yale
teacher, Griswold attained an in
ternational reputation as a his
Itorian,
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Continued From Page Onel
is in New York has no signifi-
canoe with wedding plans. Said
the mother:
Edith is here for work and
study"
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SEVEN COLLEGE

Continued From Page Cnel
sof Evansville, Indiana, James
Sebrumpf of Glendive and Leslie
GrenWell of Butte.
Charles Hson of Helena is in
serious condition.
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State governments would have more
power if they had shown, in the past, a
greater willingness to levy the taxes
necessary to met modern needs for their
populations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

DIR. Kirtley F. Mather of Har-
ward, famous geologist and civic
worker, born in Chicago, 50 years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

We propose that Congress pass law
Getting forth week in which there shall
s. ~ drives to stir up the people about
anything.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

Justice Robert H. jackson of
the u. S. Supreme Court, born at
Spring Greek, ra., So years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

Maj. Gen, Spencer B. Akin, the
Arrny's chief signal officer, born
in Greenville, Miss, 81 years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

Those who love money greatly are
neter much in love with anything else.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

Overheard in the editorial office:
we read a lot Of insane editorials and
pfite some"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-13

1850 Is good year--it has fifty-three
Sundays.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01
Make Use of Wild Fruit
By MILDRED KELSO

WHEN I WAS child growing up
on the prairies of northeastern Mon
tana, almost all our winters supply
of jams, jellies, preserves and
pickles came either from the wild
fruit cleaned in the coulees near
the Missouri river breaks, or from
our own home garden.
My mother was especially adept
at putting to use anything which
came her way, and some of her con-
coctions must have been original, as
I have never eaten them any place
else. There was, for instance, her
buffalo berry catsup, made in the
ordinary manner with spices and
vinegar but with buffalo berries in
stead of tomatoes as the main in
gredient. The result was de1iciousi
I have since learned of a similar
product being made from wild
plums, but have never eaten it.
Thorn Apple Relish
A relish made of shaws" or thorn
apples was another of my mothers
connections. This called for thorn
apples, spices, onions and a little
vinegar, all boiled together until
thick. Some of our neighbors made
jelly from thorn apples mixed with
a few crab apples, and have heard
of large wild rose hips being used
in the same way.
Buffalo berries and wild plunns
were always dependable sources Oh
delicious jelly, and we also canned
the wild pluns for sauce, after frs
par-boiling them in soda water.
As for chokecherries, surely anJ
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01

Montana child who has not eaten
chokecherry syrup on his hotcakes
or baking powder biscuits has been
cheated of his heritage.
This syrup was sort of happen
stance in the early days. Choke
cherry jelly consistently refused to
'sjell," which made its use in this
liquid form necessity. But many
Montana family, having learned
of the syrup's. luscious flavor, still
prefers it to the chokecherry jelly
now possible through use of COM
mercial pectins.
Citron Preserves
We grew citron in our garden In
those early days, and citron pre-
serves, made with raisins and lemon,
was favorite sauce. ''Vine peaches"
made preserves much like the citron,
as well as excellent peach pickles.
''Wond erb erie IS or garden
huckleberries furnished material for
many a winter pie, while preserved
ground cherries, a sort of little
sweet tomato enclosed in a husk,
were unsurpassed as. spread for
bread or toast. The home gardener
who has fortified herself with few
of these old favorites may consider
herself fortunate during the coming
season.
This rs a year when 1t might be
well 30 can or freeze more rhubarb
than usual. The cold water method
of canning is simple, and pies next
winter will taste garden-fresh. Rhu-
barb and strawberries also combine
10 make fine jam or preserves.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01
It's Profitable and Not Unpleasant Task
Making Your Soap at Home

before adding clothes. Remove soap
from machine, before using wringer.
This is made simple by fastening
the bag to the side of the washer,
or hanging it on the agitator.
Best for Soft Water
Homemade soap seems not to suds
as readily in hard water as do the
commercially manufactured, granu-
lated products which have been de-
veloped especially to neutralize
hardness in water. Where the water
is soft, homemade soaps are excel
lent for dishes and cleaning jobs in
which cake soap serves better than
does the granulated. I never chip
it up, since by planning in advance
for its use, I save myself that time
and effort.
1t seems to me that the principal
reason for making soap at home, is
that in it, we may redeem waste
fat to usefulness. Tallow, very poor
for cooking, is ideal for soap; drip
pings, of which one often collects
an oversupply, especially while us
ing pork, serves nicely, though they
make a softer product.
1t is fun to make things. II you
are the kind of person who seeks
enjoyment through activity, you
may like making soap. It needn't
be an unpleasant task.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01
BY ANNA NICKOL

children, and any adults nearby
while you work should be warned
of its dangers.
Use Iron. Enamel Pans
Never use aluminium vessels In
making soap, since I've has a most
destructive effect on them. Iron or
enamel ware is recommended. An
ordinary, large enameled rooster
the kind that will hold a turkey
works perfectly, with small basin
or enameled saucepan for mixing
the I've. An enameled or wooden
spoon is best for stirring or just a
wooden paddle. Tin spoons may
rust after contact with caustics.
1 find the boxes typewriter paper
comes in-two of them for a six
pound batch-exactly the right size
for cooling and molding soap. Cut
the finished soap lengthwise with
the box, then three times across,
making eight neat cakes. Turn them
out on paper, which absorbs excess
fat. Cure for a week, preferably
several weeks, before using. An at
tic, or ledge under the caves in
some shed, is ideal for this, being
warm and dry and out of the way.
For use in a washer, place sew
eral cakes in cloth bag, and tie
shut. Drop into washer full of hot
water, and run for a few minutes,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01
Childhood Memories

Looking back to childhood days,
recall
Happy impressions of life on a farm:
Watching my father bed old Princes
stall
With new-threshed straw; soft kit
tens tapping warm
Foamy milk; thrilling bob-sled rides
over
Drifted snow; a schoolmate waiting
ahead.
Rolicking romps through the fields
with Rover;
My mothers tempting loaves of
fresh-baked bread.
I recall crisp, cool mornings in the
gay
Flower land of spring pasture
knowing
The happiness such a m b lin gs
brought, pray
All children may find wild flowers
growing.
Memories like these are the golden
embers
That kindle the hearth fires of life's
iDecembers.-Selm Baker.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01
An Editorial
Baking Powder
In Action

IN LOOKING OVER an old
cook book, ssThe Pocumtuc House
wife," published in 1905 in Deer
field, Mass, we note: 'sPearlash is
necessary ingredient in all cakes
made with sour or buttermilk.
Thrifty housekeepers are wont to
gather the whitest and 1ightest of
applewood ashes as they fall in the
fireplace. These should be leached
with water and put into bottles. :.
"a manufactured article called
soda is used in conjunction with
cream tartar and sweet milk to
make light, delicious cakes"
All the cake recipes in the little
old volume use either soda, salera-
tus, cream tartar or a combination.
And note-it is cream tartar, not
cream of tartar as found in present
day recipes.
How would today's housewife like
to leach the leavening agent for her
cakes and biscuits from applewood
ashes in the fireplace. We have trav-
eled far in our baking methods and
ingredients during the past half
century-among them baking pow
der.
There are three types of baking
powders, each requiring different
amounts to, give the proper leaven-
ing results. All contain soda and one
or more acid reacting substances
The acid ingredient differs. In
phosphate powder it is calcium acid
phosphate; in tartare powders it is
potassium acid tartrate Cream Of
tartar) and tartaric acid. In combina.
ton powders there. are two acid in.
gradients calcium acid phosphate
and solium aluminium sulphate.
The label on your baking powde
can is interesting reading. If yo,
have never read tread it. It i
informative. Best results are oh
tanned by using the exact measure
ments advised for the particula
type of baking power.
Baking powder is the small in
gredient in recipe, yet it holds
key position in the final produc
for it determines the grain and tez
ture, the shape, volume and til
ightness of your culinary endeavo
AMY MARTIN.
l4-August |, 1850
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01

OF the old arts which mas fallen into
disuse in recent years. AS child
thought it would be well lost.
hated its odor, resented the drying
period, while still-soft cakes lay
around, usually in somebody's way.
Children aren't very practical in
their likes and dislikes, but at least
that prejudice taught me few very
practical detours around the dis
agreeable incidents attendant on
soap making.
Choose Sunny Day
Choose a mild, sunny day, with a
light breeze, and work outside, after
the fat is prepared. If drippings are
to be used land they can be, very
successfully boil them. first in twice
their. volume of water to remove
salt Strain into a clean vessel and
allow to cool, draining off water
after the fat has hardened.
Unless you have some handy, cool
place in which to do this, it's best
done in advance, for it may take
several hours. let the fat set until
it has cooled enough to be handled
safely, then cover and set in the
deep7freeze for half hour or so. 1t
must be melted again, for it is used
in liquid form.
Prepare the I've by chipping it or,
if the granules are loose, pouring it
from the can into cold water. A
small batch of soap is easiest to
work with, and making several is to
be preferred to handling large
amounts of hot fat at once.
Recipe for l6 Cakes
The following recipe makes 10
cakes about the size of those sold
commercially.
Six pounds of strained, clean fat.
/ Bounce can of I've.
/ quart of cold water.
Dissolve I've in water and allow
to stand until the action has stopped
and the water cooled. The first re-
action of I've to water is heat.
Pour cooled fat into cardboard
box, stir the I've mixture slowly into
it, always stirring in one direction
as you pour. It coagulates almos
Immediately.
When smooth blend is reached
the soap is finished. Set aside fol
two days to harden. Then cut int,
cakes and allow them to dry.
, That's all there is to it.
5 Helpful Hints
There are a few helpful hints
: however, that will aid in preventin
accidents.
Work outside with I've, where
gentle breeze can blow the fume
: and fine powder away from yol
: Particles of lye settled on the ski
will burn it, a particularly paint
burn which is slow to respond
:. treatment. The eyes are even MOI
sensitive and may be permanent
: injured.
On the cans in which 1ye com,
t. are printed directions for applyiE
K antidotes for various forms of il
he jury. Read them and avoid the mex
n. for using them. Lye should at {
times be kept well out of reach
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-08-01

l4-August |. 1850
Evening star., 1950-08-28
Max Stern, @, Dies;
Information Officer
And Former Editor

Max w. Stern. 66, a Govern
ment information officer for the
past - years and former Scripps-
Howard editor, died suddenly
Saturday at Echo Lake, Calf :,
while vacationing with his family
in the Sierra Mountains, the IN
terror Department announced TO-
day.
He was regional information
officer for the Reclamation
Bureau, with headquarters at
Sacramento. Funeral services
will be conducted there tomor-
row.
Mr.. Stern first entered the Gov
ernment service in 1888 as director
of information for the Social Sc
curity Board. He served six years
in Washington in that capacity.
Desiring to move to California,
he transferred to the Bureau of
Reclamation on July II, 1945.
Well known in Washington, Mr..
Stern served on the Scripps- How
ard Alliance bureau here from
1880 until he went with the Gov
ernment. His writings appeared in
some 80 newspapers of the chain.
He was born July 16, 1884, at
Cincinnati, Ohio. His family
moved to California when he was
a youth. After graduating from
the University of California in
1909, he spent a short time there
on the university staff.
Mr.. Stern began his newspaper
career in 1910 as reporter on the
San Francisco Bulletin. He wrote
at times for the Newspaper En-
terprise Association and the San
Daily News.
With him at his death was his
wife, Mrs. Beatrice Marks Stern. a
sister, Miss Helen Stern of Berke-
ley. Calf. and two nieces.
He is survived also by a broth
er, Norman E. Stern, of Piedmont,
Calf, and two other sisters, Mrs.
Louis Sammis, of Berkeley and a
Mrs. Anderson of San Jose.
Evening star., 1950-08-28
Fire Evacuation Plans
Prepared by Marshal

The Fire Marshal's Office is
drawing up fire evacuation plans
for buildings owned and occupied
by the District.
The action is proceeding under
an order from the Commissioners
directing department heads to
meet with the fire mashal and in
stitute evacuation plans at build
ings which lack them.
Acting Fire Marshal Roy War
field said the plan is for fire only
and is not connected directly
with civil defense measures.
To date, Mr.. Warfield stated,
plans have been completed for
the Soldiers and Sailors Home,
921 Pennsylvania avenue Sc. and
the old Force School, 1740 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. The school
building now houses rent control
and health department Offices.
The first meeting between de-
partment heads and the mar
shaps Office was held August 16.
Reports have been received on
about six buildings and plans are
under way for these. Mr.. War
field said he is waiting for addi-
tional reports.
District schools and other in
stitutional buildings have had
such plans for several years. The
order affects other District build
ings. Mr.. Warfield said his Of
flee will require fire drills at least
once a year. The superintendent
OF buildings, he said, may order
additional drills.
Evening star., 1950-08-28
Emergency Action Due
In Canadian Rail Strike
BY the Assoeioied Press

OTTAWA, Aug. 28.-Transport-
crippled Canada today remained
in the grip of a rail strike that
threatened to last at least another
three days. following the week.
end collapse of negotiations.
The government made 1t clear
that no further steps are plan
ned until 1t brings in emergency
legislation to end the week-old
strike at a special session of
Parliament called for tomorrow.
This announcement was made
after Prime Minister Louis st.
Laurent received a personal re-
port from union leaders on break
down of negotiations with the
companies Saturday night.
The cabinet planned to meet
today to reach final decision on
its course of action in the crisis,
informed quarters said.
Official circles said the govern
ment is not planning to ask for
general legislation banning future
rail strike, but will ask only for
what it needs to end the present
stoppage Of rail transportation.
Evening star., 1950-08-28
Kidnapping Warrant Issued
For Youth as Girl Disappears
Abduction Charged
To Lundover Hills
Boy by Her Parents

Prince Georges County police
early today broadcast a lookout
for a 19-year-old Landover Hills
(Md0 youth wanted on a charge
of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl
The charge was filed by the girls
parents.
Police identified the youth as
Robert Charles Bobby Armiger
of the 1900 block of Seventy
second avenue.
They said Armiger disappeared
last night with Mary Christine
Walter, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
George P. Walter of ALA Seventy
first avenue.
Parents of the girl told police
young Armiger had been to their
house earlier in the evening and
left home with their daughter
about 11:40 pm. The police look
out was broadcast at 1:40 am.
The lookout said Armiger was
driving a black, 1910 coupe with
Maryland tags. The lookout said
the girl was wearing red shorts
or Slacks and a white blouse when
last seen.