The Key West Citizen

The
OBSERVATIONS
OF A FOOL
By BILL LEE
We had a lesson in the meaning of the expression, "he is a neighborly man," not so long ago.
Last September the hurricane was rapidly approaching Key West, the Navy radar announced.
Naturally, the place of a newsman was at the point where the latest announcements were arriving. We had no time to bother about ourselves or our home.
Then suddenly we thought about our home-the place we were going to crawl into when the hurricane hit. We turned our way homeward, expecting to find the windows unshuttered, everything out of place when the blow hit.
We walked into our home. We hardly knew it for the same place. The windows had been nailed shut, the shutters were well fastened, even the gate in our fence had been taken from its usual position and was now nailed down to our front porch. Everything was shipshape.
"Who did all this?" we asked our frau.
It was none other than Navy Chief James E. Larson, who lives in Windsor lane. He had busied himself around our home for several hours. And then crept away to look after his own home.
That's neighborliness at its very best.
Well. Chief Larson is going away for a month or so. Going up to Norfolk to further his studies that will fit him to instruct young Navy men in ways of circumventing an enemy in the event we have another war.
Please don't say anything about what we've written about Chief Larson. He might not like it- and we wouldn't want to offend such a neighbor. May he live in our neighborhood the rest of his days.
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