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Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21
Passengers on the Same Planet

TN THE EYES OF God and his
= angels, this earth and the people
on 1t do not fill up the big place
they fill in the eyes Of us mortals
This does not mean that we are
unimportant to ourselves. or Of no
concern to God.
Saint Paul gave us the Chris
tan reason-always the best Of
reasons - why human beings
ought to realize how close TO-
gether we really are. Speaking
10 the university crowd at
Athens, he quoted from q Greek
poet to prove his point: I'VE be-
long 10 His race" Acts l7:2s,
MoffAtt's translatiOn.l
God made all peoples from a
common origin" In him we live
and move and have our being. Re-
member that Paul was not speaking
In q Christian church. or course
Christians are brothers in an even
warmer and more living sense: but
Paul could say. even TO men who
were not Christians as he was, thai
he and they were alike offspring OF
God. that they all had their being
In the same Creator and Father
Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21

Pay Your POLL
Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21
Princeton
IatSy r.. NAYS

Lima Henderson who is " lrh-
ing in Malvern, visited home
over the weekend ... Inez Rey
rolds of Fordyce who is staylnc
Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21

l I0rd..,ssilas Ford of Farm.
Louisiana LOU visited friend.
last "a we week -...gRoyce Grav ;.
N nastrop, Louisiana ,., y
Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21

was here last week visiting Miss
Margie Hunt and ODDS Gary go.
Jacob Davis visited in Crossett
recently Clyde Benford Of
Crossett was here last weekend
visiting his brother, T. B. Ben.
Arkansas State press., 1951-09-21
The Importance of Being Human

IF WE would only just stop plnninR
4 our little tags on people, We call
them foreigners" or farmers" or
canadians" or college boys" OF
Chinese. So they are; but the
most important fact about Chinese
or fishermen. or farmers or any
other class OF mankind. Is that thev
are human beings.
What we have in common. as
human beings, Is infinitely more i'm.
portant than the variations whicr
set us off into different races, class
es and groups. The Christian will
be a loyal citizen OF his own land
out he viii also remember that he
Is world.citizen too. And as a
world-citizen. he will always re.
member certain truths about all his
fellow human beings.
One Is that since we all have
. common humanity, we all
stand In need Of God. II IL not
much cxaggeration, II any. TO
say that 10 be human In to he
helpless.
Scholars write books with titles
like THE Human Predicamcni
which is a short way Of saying that
II you are human you are In a
mess You need God. whoever you
are. But II you know that, then als1
remember that all other members
OF the human race need him too
quite as much as you do.
Our Lost Brothers
DEMEMBER. too. that while al
- are summoned 10 the sam,
destiny tas Paul said God com
mands all men to repent" jus
some OF themD. many and many
man Unjust We say, alas. mos
men7) misses that destiny
There Is a broad road leading
10 destruction. Jesus said, and
many ahV haNtbHR hat toau
How can a Christian be indiffer.
ent about thing like that9
Every man on the dark road IL
man who might be .
Christian.
From the dead-end road Of sell
ishness. hatred and pride he mlgt
come over 10 the highway OF Go,
&c. II some one took the trouble {,
90 after him. But we shall no
bother ourselves much we shal
not bother ourselves enough. abou
our lost brothers, unless we hav
the world.citizen's eye and tn
world-Christlan's heart.
Copyright 1881 by the Division
Christian Education, National Counc
Of the Churches Of Christ Of the Unite
states II America. Released BY wN
FeatufesJ
Evening star., 1951-05-13

rived just after half-past one, only
a single coach remained. Silence
hung over the village again - the
silence of abandonment, oppres-
sive and charged with apprehen-
sion. He told his driver to pull up
behind the coach. As he got out of
the car, he saw a thin, uniformed
police superintendent hurrying the
last of the still bewildered villagers
into the coach. Then the driver
started the engine, and the super
intendent slammed the door.
Good evening"" Harcourt said.
The superintendent wheeled.
Good evening. / didn't see you
arrive. You're Major Harcourt
from the Special Branch?"
Employed by it for my
sins"
my names Benbow. Officer in
charge"
lHEY shook hands. Harcourt, a
big, burly man in a tweed suit,
enveloped Benbow's slim fingers
with great hand which was warm
and dry and hardened by the
handling of tools. Where is the
wretched thing?" he asked.
Standing on the line about
five hundred yards away. The
train should never have been
stopped so close to village, but
once the engine driver heard what
he was pulling, he stopped it dead
and rushed away muttering that
he was going to complain to his
union. One can't really blame
him."
Harcourt's laugh was big,
matching his physical immensity.
Sometimes / wish had a union
myself; tonight, for example"
The police officers smile ap-
peared again. 1t changed his face,
wiping away the austerity which
responsibility and Conscientious
ness had craven in the features.
When will the thing go Off" he
asked.
Harcourt shrugged. II can't
tell, but if a man takes the risk of
sabotaging a trainload of depth
charges it's probable that he'll
want to get his moneys worth. If
I'd done the job / would have set
the delay so that the explosion
would take place where it would
do most damage"
I'm the dockyard at Ports
mouth?"
why not? 1t would be just as
easy to arrange it that way. Any
how, if the man only intended to
Evening star., 1951-05-13
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Evening star., 1951-05-13
DEATH AT ATTENTION
Continued from page mine


destroy the depth charges. they
would have gone up within half
an hour of his leaving the train -
and they haven't, so we're safe in
assuming that they won't until
the time when the train should
have arrived at Portsmouth. Be
tween ten and eleven tomorrow
morning."
"Sefe in assuming?" Benbow's
right eyebrow was climbing up his
forehead. ''You and l have differ
ent ideas of safety"
HIS companions big shoulders
shrugged. in my business I have
to weigh what evidence have and
decide whether it's worth trying
to investigate. In this case I've
decided that I have ten hours
grace. If I'm wrong I shall know
very little about it."
Major Harcourt turned and
walked back to his car, which
looked as swift and powerful as a
fighter aircraft. He took a KNAPP
sack, heavy with tools, from the
back seat and slung it over one
shoulder; then a powerful electric
lantern with two ref1ectors, one to
make a beam. the other to spread
a diffused light.
Lastly he went round to the
luggage compartment and took
out a black box like an electrical
circuit tester. '.Microphonic gadg-
et," he explained. pointing to the
box. "If it's a clockwork mechan-
ism shall hear it with that and
be back in no time. On the other
hand, if it's some sort of chemical
time fuse. it could take me hours. .
Let's pray it'll be a clock"
BENBow nodded, then took off
his cap and wearily rubbed his
forehead with a long fingered
hand. He looked like a tired musi-
clan forced into uniform by the
pressure of some great emergency.
Certainly he was not a usual type
of policeman. "Are you sure you
don't want any help?" he asked.
Harcourt smiled at him. Don't
be offended if / say it's not job
for amateurs. I'm a professional.
God knows why. because i would
seem to be a profession with little
future in it. Force of habit, / sup
pose. started to play with unex-
ploded bombs early in the war and
I've never stopped.
Harcourt turned toward the car.
The driver was sitting alert and
silent at the wheel. Beat it down
Evening star., 1951-05-13

the road a bit, Bates" Harcourt
instructed. "If I make bloomer
your car might get bent, and
that'd break your little heart, l
know"
Bates grinned. Sooner stick
around, sir, if / may"
well, put the car somewhere
safe and come back here, but keep
away from the train"
''Yessir."
Harcourt picked up his black
box and lantern. What's the best
way to the train?"
Along this road until you come
to bend, then over the fence and
across the fields"
Harcourt nodded. IF I'm not
back in an hour, make yourself
comfortable because you'll have a
long wait"
Benbow stood by the drivers
window and watched Major Har-
court stride away, huge and con-
fident and competent. The big
mans walk was buoyant, and
Benbow shook his head admir-
ingly. Major Harcourt is either a
fool, or he believes in God" he
said to Bates. "And I'm sure he's e
not a fool" -.
POLICE CONSTABLE BARON was sit
ting at a table in the office of
Birmingham's Chief Constable. He
was glad of the chance to sit down
because his bruised solar plexus
ached and it hurt him to breathe.
All the same, he did not begrudge
the need to work into the small
hours of the morning.
Five minutes passed in silence
before the Chief Constable's brit
tie. incisive voice clipped across
the room. Baron waited. looking
respectfully attentive.
He's not in any of the hideouts
the Special Branch gave u.s." the
Chief Constable said, thinking
aloud rather than dispensing in
formation. Hes not in any of
the hotels, or pubs, or doss houses
or cafes.-Ie's not been seen in the
railway stations nor in any vehicle
leaving Birmingham. Where do
you think he is. Baron?"
Baron howned. 1t was not every
day that he was asked for an
opinion by his Chief Constable,
who was quick to commend intelli-
gence but even quicker to wipe
the grin off the face of a fool.
Baron knew that this was a critical
moment in his career. IF he was a
Continued on page 28
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GARRISON Blight QUESTION

Two remarks as reported in The Citizen, were made
At the City Commission meeting Monday night about the
conservation of the Garrison Blight for the people that
worthy of ampification City Commissioner Harveys
statement that the city has taken action at last projects
question Why has not the city taken action before?
All Key Westers have in view the time when the Gar
rson Blight will be improved that its will be extern
sQ by owners of cabin cruisers and smaller yachts that
come to Key West How would those owners feel it, when
they came to town. they that the Blight actually
public domain would be owned by private interests that
would fee from every who berthed his boat
in the Blight?
most astounding part the city's inactivity in
dicated by Commissioner Harveys sa last that it had
remained supne while private interests blocked off the
ends leading into the water. John Thompson
was right when he declared The property belongs to the
j .,eitgs already. Why condemn it,"
the owner of land that abuts street that leads to
the Blight has the right to block off the street and claim
it his has the owner of the end OF every other
street in the city the right to act similarly The fact is
Mr. Thompson pointed out the end of the street belongs
to the city.
But let us assume that belong the of abut
ting land Wouldn't the owner one side have much
righCfo his half the the other side And yet
nave the spectacle of claiming all of the
of the street and the city looks impotenty and
as about condemnation proceedings when the end of the
/. street belongs to the city.
The late Jefferson b. Browne, onetme supreme
Ge and circuit Judge told the writer that basic deed
to show that the of land the westerly
side of Palm avenue formerly Salt Pond road had inner
riparian rights to the waters of the Garrison Blight He
added that subsequent deeds contained the clause land
arfaran rights pertaining thereto He then significant
/. lgfemarked But what rights pertain?" @
: Judge Browne owned the northwesterly corner at
Palm and Petronia street. with his home the
land George Smith eventually bought the property
iarged the heuse the Nerk Beac Inn and asis
ed and filled the shore opposite the Inn He kept
the retaining walls to the width of his land the
side of the He had several brushes with boat
owners in trying to stop them from anchoring their boats
off his bukhead but he made any pretension
olgning the shore end of Petronia street.
That end belongs the city, the way that the
6ads of Simonton street belong to the city.
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"strippers Are Not Arrested"

Shippers Are Not Arrested"
Editor, The Citizen
would appreciate if YOU would
print this for although | am d
resident of this city for a short
time only with the compliments
of Uncle Sam and my civic spirit
is not the allegiance of BIRTH. still
I an concerned with the decency
and justice with which the law
is administered in the place where
] and my family live.
Key West--the land Of the
Amazon, where a woman is
ainenable to the lazy only with
elnb and pistol.
This city is Just now coming in
TO its own as regards IFS recogili-
tioHgDn the map. / do hope that
the alneal city officials realize the
import of the disgraceful happen
ings Of the last few days-z-thai
this city cannot hope TO obtain b
respectable reputation If such
mdlKsis of law enforcement are
employed.
Only a few weeks ago, my wife
and j went to the local night club
the Mardis Gras to see what en-
tert&ininent was offered, Wa were
more thaaSaliiAisfs at the
low tone al y Die wAoie SHOW
particularly one strip act which
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exception of possible Transparent
cy,. is q lot more substantial than
most of the bathing suits which
parade the city's beaches. And
yet any lady emerging on Duval
Street without aruffle on her bra,
thus changing it into a halter, is
apparently in danger of being
took in"
A court trial based on such pro
cedufe too would be much more
effective. The lawyers could bring
out some really nice arguments
as to whether or not man or wo-
man was artistieally draped. And
if we put all the itinerant artists
in town on the jury, it would not
only give them a job, but might
provoke some very interesting dis
eussion of the eternal question
what is beauty when the jury re-
tires TO consider the case.
DOROTHY GRAY
l0ll Won Phister St
August 8, 1851.
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was certainly beyond what the
law as quoted in your paper OF
the 9th, would allow,
However, it did not seem tc
shock the uniformed city patrol
man who stood inside the door
and Witnessed the act | doubt
very much if he paid the custom.
airy so cent admission fee and
also doubt if any arrests for in.
decent exposure resulted from
his presence.
Granted, the Mardis Gras isn't
d public street, but il is a public
place and the spirit of the law
should outweigh the letter as il
obviously hasn't.
Pardon me if this letter seems
bilious but ! am probably moi the
only person TO be disguised when
an incident which has the APP
psaranee of a false arrest bios
SONS into a face-saving purity
campaign
Is il that Key West is a refuge
for frontier justice when law and
order is effected in q manner re
3miniscent of the bar room trails
conducted by such men as Judge
Roy Dean, the only law west q
the Peeos. .
Your truly
w. J. LUTHENHOUSE.
.LTJG, u. S. N.
zoo South Street.
Key West, Florida.
Wednesday. August 8, 1851
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Bit Production
In Illinois

MURPHYSBoRO, Ill.-(P,
Mrs, Ray Parmley reports one Of
her White Rock hens got serious
and layed an egg as big as base
ball.
She hard boiled it to keep for
display. 1t measures three and
one-quarter inches from end to,
end. 1t is eight and one-half inches
in circumference around the mid
die. The tape stretches 10 inches
around the ends. A major league
baseball is nine to nine-and one
quarter inches in cercunlference.
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ECA Helps To
Produce Burmese
'DOcumentarieS

RANGOON-tPl-Six Ameri-
can technicians will be advisers
to film board appointed by the
Burmese government to make
documentaries in Burma, it was
officially announced here.
The documentaries will show
the people of Burma what is be-
ing done in a nation-building
program. ECA aid will help the
board to obtain equipment and
other requirements. It will also
contribute towards building a
central film laboratory to serve
the entire Burmese film indus
try.
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Religious Riot
Narrowly Ayerted

RANGOON. Mp - A Buddhist
monk near here called the Mos
lem god Allah a butcher and
nearly started a religious riot at
Thai, Central Burma
While the riot squad was
alerted, Buddhists smoothed
Moslem indignation by explain.
ing Lawkanatha was preaching
on the benefits of vegetarianism.
Buddhists here are flesh eaters
though the Buddhist law forbids
the taking of life,
Thazi's large Moslem popula-
ton has forwarded a complaint
to the Ministry of Religious AT
fairs here charging the monk
with blasphemy.
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ANOTHER ANGLE"
Editor: Key West Citizen:

Editor: Key West Citizen:
There's another angle to this
( question of what and how much
Of the female form to expose.
Ii Just may be that certain Of
the city's officials have only hao
their sense of beauty offended.
To halter or not to halter, thai
is the question!
A low slung posterior, for in
stance. When a woman is so en-
lowed, she would do better to
wear pedal pushers.
And a bulgy rear Properly
draped in a harem cut of pants il
can be effective and Junoesque
Poured into Stacks, regardless OF
how well tailored, the woman
will resemble parboiled knock
Wurst.
And both sparrow and piano
legs are not artistic going down
Duval Street in high heels and
diaper play suits. The female
form is invariably thrown off keel
when it goes tiptoe in high heels.
And without the illusion of the
flowing skirt, the. whole silhouette
instead of suggesting a sunny ten
mis- court or an advertisement in
Vogue smacks of caricature.
Then there is the cut of torso
usually associated iournalistically
with the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Such a bosom
has never been at its most scenic
in halter. A graceful swish of
wolfe across the whole shoulder
line and upper arms is much bet
ter
And our protest against mar
tistic exposure is not limited to
the female of the species in Key
West. A couple of Knobby mascu-
line knees and a emaciated male
chest with a curl or two of foil
age add nothing to the charm of
stroll down Truman? Avenue
And if there is anything which
offends the cult of beauty it is
those dungarees in various stages
of discoloration which. sometimes
emerge on the streets of the city.
Most of the men who wear them
do not have the athletic bodies of
the railroad workers who wore
them in their beginnings and are
limp models for these revivals Of
the lusty working britches of our
country's yesterdays.
And those brightly oolofed
skirts with the narrative prints of
palm trees and hula girls and
bougainvilleas. Why does the man
with the flaming red hair and
bullying middle always pick out
red palm trees? And why does he
combine the shirt with green
shorts?
There Is nothing reasonable
about the amount of female or
male body coverage, so. let's at
least be artistic about it.
A summer evening gown with
an off the shoulder neckline COW
ers less territory than the average
nightgown, and yet any lady APP
pearing two yards from her front
door in a nightgown would be
taken in for playing a modified
Lady Godiva
A lady's basic lingerie with the
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your" The answer was "Apa-
che 1T takes one know one.
He also did excellent publicity
writing before he became Grim
inal investigator for the Navy. (. !,
Now he'll be heap big Chief at
Norfolk. vi Veidt will cele-
brate her August 10 birthday a
day late along, WITH Deedee Agri-
cola Whose natal day is August
lEss Henry retssn hpptas 7gais.l
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CONCH
CH0.WDER
By RAYMER

Professional iceskater Gene
Weislak must feel lost down
here in Key West where he is
stationed with the Navy For
merly with the original show
Holiday On Ice" in which Son
ia Henie was starred. the only
ice he sees now is cubed hunks
in iced beverages. Gene was
champion OF the Kinks IN I948. If
he gets too homesick Tor at least
a look at skates, he can skim
down to the municipal aquarium
and look at the pair there Tabled
"SouthernInost Ice Skates in the
U.S.A. Bill Kroli, a good skate Of
another kind, will no doubt let
Gene gaze longirgly al them.
IS MY FACE RED DEPT:
forgot TO list 1t and MRS Hal
Dubree as being present at the
CPO party last week. Peg and
Hal were certainly there enjoy
ing every bit of the show. Miss
ed the Key West Players meeting
last night but Becky Guthrie
says her minutes Of the meeting
say Gold In The Hills will be
the first production. / was at a
school board meeting and doing
a movie review As Gerald
Saunders remarked, | shuold be
twins. But who could stand
that?. Jeanne Reynolds says
she is secretary to the secretary,
Forrest Turner, not secretary to
the YMCA-USO organization.
Turner good naturally called her
Boss" for day. 1 lost a pair
of fancy sunglasses, ground len
ses with gold sprigs like briar
twigs on the frames. Losers
are weepers Finders please re-
turn the peppers Johnny Prit-
chard says that Gus Ayala was
once a member of his band I'M
halcyon days. Crack by an en-
tertainer: "A magician is like a
politician. He knows there is dir
ty work around bat can't Put his
finger on il.
VACATION TINE is here for
NJ. j. Wilder, Jr.. of the Florida
Highway Patrol. Ii. Al Reichel,
the Gabriel of VX-l, was once
with Horace Heidt's orchestra. :.
He'll be at the CPO club with
the Van Dici Combo come Sum
day, August IL, beginning at z
pm. :. The courthouse continues
20 be a madhouse with all that
pounding of hammers, blizzing
of saws and grinding of cement
mixers. The other eve, the
county commission was all in the,
dark at the offset of the gather
ing. but only because electric
power failed temporarily. What
happened to that publicity angle
suggested by Earl Adams that
lady reporters go their rounds IN
shorts?. Also on the short cir
cult is the story about Goldilocks
and the three Bs. A very
GAME warden finally had them
tagged and they became leading
members of the Zoos Whooey,
THE THING" is not just the
name of monster in movie. ..
Dorothy Gray. daughter of the
Everett Winters, has a motor
vehicle which she has named
that. 1T has a motor bike front
and play pen back, 1t works.
too, at least most of the timel i.
The 'copter which went into the
drink Wednesday and that's an
official navy news release, did so
with a surprise element spin, .
Another crew in another 'copter
had just radioed they were turn
ing back to the Seaplane Base
and were told, Good luckf"
The words were scarcely spoken
when the well wishers themselv-
es went CHUNK Sorry TO
learn of Aviation Ordnance Chief
Jack Losers transfer. The first
tifse we met, Ne eysd each other
and Jack asked, What blood?"
Cherokee ~ :. SAass akasked, And
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Personal Touch

PRESTON. Ont.tF1-Answ-
ering a fire alarm, fireman How
ard Ruppel found it was his own
home that was abla2e. His four.
year-old daughter was rescued
by his wife and a neighbor and
damage was confined TO two
rooms.