The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-27
These Women !.
These WOmen
LETS NOT GET
HISTORICAL.
. GIRLS, PLEASE!
BY CYNTHIA Lowry.
ZAP Newsteatures Writer


ZAP Newsteatures Writer
Any hour now, some exhorter
viii be urging women Of the ma
: ton to get together and do some
thing about the state of the
world.
Just what they can do is some
thing else again.
The job OF patching I'D an all
ing world is too big a job for
even the best organized group Of
! women in the United States.
Conceded. no women want war
or mass destruction, 1t has all
ways seemed a ridiculous wav
OF settling disputes, even when
. tne combatants were Singing
stones at each other. But now we
nave evolved weapons capable
on shocking out whole popula-
tons.
obviously, the decisions ON the
manufacture and use of atomic
weapons must be decided bv
qualified authorities as eircum-
stances dictate. It seems obvious
that the peoples of the world
can't make the decision when
large numbers of them are tight
iy shut off from information and
opinions their rulers and leaders
wish withheld.
Meanwhile how are we going
to- live under the threat of pos
slhle abrupt extinction?
This threat already has change
ed our concepts and thinking
It undoubtedly win have great
er effects on US in the future. It
is hard to move through ones ac-
customed PAGES, whether work
ing in an office, laboratory or in
the home. wondering just how
long we will be permitted to
live.
The whole situation is not
without its bitter humor. In our
work-a-day worlds we see what
marvels science has wrought. We
use an electric typewriter, our
toast pops up when properly
Drowned because of a complicat-
ed mechanism. We have at our
disposal miraculous drugs curing
diseases which used to be con
sideFed incurable. At the same
time, science which has, made
our lives longer, easier and more
pleasant has dreamed up. awful
means by which man can annihil-
ate himself.
This alleged peacetime is not
too different from war. And in
wartime, crime increased, jliven-
lie delinquency scared to new
highs. For almost anyone whose
conduct deviated from the accept
ed form, there was a ready ex-
PLANTATION war hysteria.
After all, we reasoned Logical
ly, it's hard to act as if il were
. business as usual when within
. hours, days or weeks a young
man might find himself in battle
. danger, wounded or even dead.
. Young people, caught up in the
excitement, snatched at what-
ever looked desirable at the
moment on the theory that by
J tomorrow it would have vanished
forever.
All these elements are in our
lives today It is hard to plan for
a relaxed, secure future when
there is a serious possibility the
J planning VIII be taken out of our
; hands. II is difficult to explain
I the old verities and truisfns to
: youngsters when there is doubt
: as to what their future will be.
We, can hope that the worst
: won't happen It's the job of the
: mothers and the wives to keep
: hystetia at d minimum, and to
! maintain a hopeful attitude. Ger
: taiTily we must pray that peoples
: on the other side of the world
ARE as anxious to survive as we
: are There always has been a
rday after tomorrow, and the
!. world will probably muddle
AthrouRh to it this time.