The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-16
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BY BILL GLIB
U.mS S. SENATE
Washington DC.
May 10, 1851

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Allen but have not had an OPP
portunity since that time to write
and congratulate you. 1t was an
excellent article.
With kindest regards, am,
Sincerely $40
-, p GEORGE SMATHERS.
Keys Protection:
Three deputies ~ three deputies
who will serve without pay and
furnish police protection. That is
all the Lower Keys Property
Owners Association has demand
ed.
It's d bunch of foolishness!
You don't get good, experienced
lawmen without paying for them.
If the sheriff's department feels
that criminal activities on the
Keys warrants extra protection,
then it should put on the neces-
sary men. But please, Mr.. Sheriff
put experienced men up there
and pay them for their work
Any guy who would voluntarily
take the risks of law enforcement
without pay has either been read
ing too many comic books or has
some lucrative plan hidden UP
his sleeves-or, well-or is just
plain noble.
I'd almost. be willing to wager
the red tie III get next Christmas
that if three men are appointed
special deputies now, they will
be asking for pay within six
months or a year. The creation of
the new jobs will simply be an
extra rung in the bottom of paid
political ladder. We have enough
of that in Monroe County.
1t was for this very reason that
/ opposed the School Board get
ting a raise in salary. 1t has al
ways. been an honor to serve on
the School Board, and as such,
the job didn't especially appeal
to political riff-raff. This latter
type of guy wants money. With
the new salary, a School Board
position can now be used to buy
the support of political hanger
ons." Unless there is a drastic
change, a few years time will
prove my words-the high-calibre
men of the School Board we've
enjoyed in the past will give way
10 petty politicians with muscle
bound brains and the collective
soul of Simon Legree.
But to return to the sheriff +.
He has some good deputies now,
I'm not speaking, of the honor
ary'' ones, Honorary deputies
around Key West are kind of like
colonies around Kentucky. But
men like Frank Weber can be
depended upon to put their heart
into their work. l think they are
fully capable of taking care of
any trouble that might arise on
the Lower Keys.
To Jimmy:
So you like that old song about
Avalon" and want to know
where the place is? No, it isn't in
Ireland but you're getting kind
of warm.
The word avalon" is Celtic
and means IAN island of apples"
Oldtimers, and when l say that,
mean oldtimers. (about twelve
or fifteen hundred years ago.,
used the name Avalon" to de-
scribe a paradise out in the West
ern Sea. Pretty much in the man
ner that we use Shangri-La, or
Utopia today.
Remember the brave and noble
King Arthur and his Knights of
the Round Table?
Well, when King Arthur was
lmortally wounded in the Battle
Ivof Camlan about the year SGT, he
Twas taken to Avalon. Some re-
ports say that he was buried
there; others, that he is merely
hiding his time, and will return
l,again to rule. over his people-as
honest and brave and true as ever.
Why don't you read The Gold
en- Bough," by Sir James G. Fraz-
| er?
The original work comes in
twelve volumes but the public
library at the Key West Woman's
Club has condensed volume that
is 'ehucked full of folk-loreI and
mythology.
incidentally, the library may
I, net have all the books you'd like
to read, but it does its level best
to have all the books you should
l raad