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The Washington times., 1933-08-30
The Human Side of the News
Whaling Town Epic -Gloucester's Tribute
D,v E<IvvSuo HHI1
BY EdlUin C.. Hill.

Newburyport, Massachusetts,
picturesque old whaling town,
which once placed in the may
or's office red-haired, crap
shooting, fist-fighting ex-sailor
named Bossy Gillis, has a way
of producing extremely original
specimens of the human race,
and of all such products Lord
Timothy Dexter was the rarest
and richest. He was a tanners
son who got rich by buying up
Continental paper money dur
ing the Revolutionary War.
His fame has been preserved in
verse, for a poet sang of him:
Timothy Dexter of Newburyport,
Was a gay old soul of rare old
sort,
For West Indian trade he laid
his plans,
So he sailed with a cargo Of
warming pans,
And when he discovered for
things like these
No market at all in the carib-
bees,
His comment was merely, eve
aim to please"
He removed the lids with right
good will,
And the pans he sold to a sugar
mill
For molasses ladies. Bring all
you've got!"
They cried. and he went with
another lot.
And he sold the lids to the ma
tive beauX
Who wore 'em suspended from
ear or nose
And asked, Can you furnish
some more Of those?"
So he sailed back home where
he lived in state
With a coach and a poet lau-
reate;
And he set up statues Of men
of fame,
With Timothy Dexter among
the same.
And he wronged no man nor
was sued in tort,
This blithe old fellow Of a high
old sort
Timothy Dexter Of Newbury-
port.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

From an American point of
view, it will be fortunate if the
October meeting of the League
of Nations Conference at
Geneva on the reduction and
limitation of armaments remains
In a deadlock.
The United States has every
thing to gain and nothing to
lose by such a deadlock, because
in that way the so-called Mac
Donald disarmament plan may
ultimately be eliminated as a
basis for further discussion.
This is the plan upon which
the october meeting of the con-
ference will resume discussions.
This plan is largely the product
of the British foreign office,
the British war office and the
British admiralty.
In the formulation of this
plan, our War and Navy Depart
ments have been permitted
little part. And in the develop
ing of this plan, our Depart
ment of State appears to have
been content to "go along with
the British"
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Annual Toll

Almost everyone in that slow,
sad professional carries flow
ers from old New England gar
dens-sprays and Wreaths and
bouquets. And presently they
reach the bridge where the river
flows into the sea, and they
stop there. And one by one the
chaplain reads a list of names,
names of sons and husbands
and brothers and fathers, and
as each name is read and there
follows a long pause, flowers are
cast into the tide. AS the flow
ers drift seaWard on the ebb
tide and the prayers are said
the ineXpressibly mournful echo
OF the bell buoys makes a re-
frain that is tragically appro-
pirate.
A clear voice rises in the
memorial hymn of the fisher
folk:
Ebb1ng tide of summer day,
bear these blossoms on
their way,
North and east, to bank and
coast, where they lie
whom we love most.
The most touching item in all
the news is this annual service
held in the old seaport town OF
Gloucester, in memory of her
sons that were taken in the
past year by the relentless sea.
There is nothing like it in
America anywhere. Eight thou
sand men of Gloucester have
been taken by the sea since the
first fishing fleets sailed away
to the banks of Newfoundland
to brave the fogs and storms of
the North Atlantic.
Year after year it is the same.
The day comes when the men
folk of the family must take to
the sea. Year after year the
harbor is lined with the children
and the old men and the women,
who smile through their tears
and wave a gay farewell, all
knowing that grief must come
to some of their number before
the year is out. Looking at each
other with the silent thought:
"Will it be you this time, or
me?" Always the same, genera
ton after generation. Prison
ers of fate.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
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c-Gloucester's Tribute

with a spy-glass, he could see
his ships making in from the
Indies with bright new Spanish
gold in exchange for warming
pans, woolen mittenS,, Bibles
and New England rum. But
the famous wooden statues blew
down in a hurricane and no
trace is left of his own with it's
inscription: Il am the greatest
man in the East or West"
From a quaint. white church
in another old seaport of Mas
sachusetts. men, women and
children take their way silently,
with bowed heads, in sloW-mov-
ing procession. In that process
sion are old men, bent and
broken, who have given to the
sea all they have to give, except
life itself. And there are
women, young, middle-aged or
elderly, and all in black, and all
showing faces saddened by trag.
edy. The children in the pro
cession have no smiles, no
gayety. AS they match their
short, quick steps with the
longer strides of their elders,
they look up now and then in
W1de-eyed Wonderment.
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Revisions

Under the original instruc-
tions the American delegation to
the Geneva conference was free
to offer such amendments to
the Macdonald plan as were be-
lieved to be essential to protect
our national security.
Under the revised instructions,
this right was withdrawn from
the American delegation, the
Macdonald plan was swallowed
whole" as a basis of discussion,
and our delegation was instruct
ed to offer no amendment what
ever to any part of the plan as
submitted.
Since that time the British
delegation have offered several
amendments to their own plan.
Other amendments have been
proposed by France and the
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Curtails U. s. Planes

Under the Macdonald plan,
the number of airplanes useable
in war would be limited to 500
each for Soviet Russia, Italy,
France, Japan and the United
States.
This Is an arbitrary limita-
ton that can not be justified
on any naval, military or politi-
cal basis so far as the United
States is concerned.
These are only several OF
many provisions in the Mac
Donald plan which our ablest
national defense authorities
have never approved but are
now powerless to diSapprove.
And those are only few OF
many reasons why no treaty
for the limitation and reduction
of armaments which embodies
the Macdonald plan ought to
be ratified by the United States
Senate.
Copyright. 1888. by The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Sunday Moving Pictures
Let the People Vote

Now that Hyattsve Council has yielded to the wishes
large portion of that towns decided to hold
referendum Sunday moving pictures the Mt Rainier
Council should follow suit.
Petitions bearing the Of majority of both
towns requesting that the referendum be held have been filed
with the councils.
They show preponderant sentiment in favor of the
referendum.
For the Mt Rainier Council refuse to give the citizens
Of that town chance to express their views at the polls
would be grave mistake.
The speed with which the public throughout the States is
voting to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment indicates officials
have little knowledge of the views of their voters
Counclmen of Mt Rainier should not make the error in
judgment Of sentiment which caused the political downfall Of
so many of our erstwhls nationally known "drys."
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ONCE OVERS

You may even be bluffing to
try to offset very decided lack
of the sort Of qualities you
claim.
For some reason you failed to
acquire the knowledge or the
material backing you wish were
yours at the present time.
In all probability you are too
lightweight to keep at anything
long enough to have tie real
goods.
But you wish to hide your un-
favorable side, and instead Of
covering it, you talk so much
about yourself that people begin
to look at you a little closer.
Thus you make your def
ciencieS palmer.
Copyright. 1889 King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Bluff

Bluff
Aren't you given to bluffing
on most occasions?
In many instances, to cover
up weaknesses and deficiencies,
of course.
A little bit cowardly, you are,
but don't wish to own it.
Not willing to stand on your
own footing, and want to claim
more.
You don't exactly resort to
braggadocio but you are pretty
sure to show off your good
points if you have them, or Gre
ate the idea that you have them.
Perhaps you can deliver the
goods up to a certain point.
But you know very we'll that
you are not what you try to
make others think that you are.
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U. S. Senate Should Reject Macdonald Arms Plan

aircraft would be abolished eX-
cept where this is done for po-
lice purposes in remote regions.
Neither the coast of CONT
mental United States nor its in
sular possessions fall within the
definition of remote regions.
Under the Macdonald plan,
air bombing might be termed
"offensive' warfare in the Old
World but it is an essential part
of our own national defense
plan designed to protect our
long coastline, the Panama
Canal, Hawaii, the Philippines
and Puerto Rico.
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Mysterious Change

Our ablest authorities on ma
tional defense afield and afloat
have repeatedly pointed out
major provisions in the Mac
Donald disarmament plan that
in their judgment are utterly
unfair to this country, but of
tremendous advantage to Great
Britain, France and other for
eign powers.
But these warnings have thus
far seemed to fall on deaf ears.
And to make the situation
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Bv James T. Williams, Jr.

delegations of several other par
ticipating powers. But the
American delegation under its
revised instructions has been
compelled to remain supinely
silent.
Whether this extraordinary
change in instructions was
made upon the recommends
tions of the Secretary of State
or one of the several Assistant
Secretaries of State is still a
mystery. It may not be cleared
up until Congress reconvenes
and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the United States
Senate demands the papers in
the case.
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U. s. Loses

But there is no mystery about
the general effect Of the Mac
Donald plan on American ma
tional defense. Adoption in its
present unamended form of this
British formula would tremen-
dously reduce the defensive
power of the United States and
as greatly increase the defensive
power of Great Britain, France
and other participating powers.
This is especially true of that
part of the Macdonald plan
which deals with aircraft. Un-
der this plan, all bombing by
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

worse, there was a mysterious
change in the original instruct
ions given to the American del
egation to the Geneva confer
ence on ornaments. This change
took place shortly after the
visit to the United States last
spring of the British Prime
Minister, Mr.. ]. Ramsay Mac
Donald, for whom this plan is
named.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
WORDS FROM WISE MEN

The worlds great men have
not commonly been great schol-
ars, nor its great scholars great
men. %. w. Holmes.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

He knows not how to wink at
human frailty or pardon weak
ness that he never felt.
Addison.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
MAKE STUDY OF
AQUARIUM SITE
DR.. VAN DEUSEN AND F. W.
KNAPP DISCUSS PRO.
POSED PROJECT

The site that has been designat-
ed for the aquarium, at the foot
of Whitehead street, was made
the subject of several hours study
this morning by DR.. Robert o.
Van Deusen and F. w. Knapp.
construction engineer.
The idea is to determine in
just what position the structure
can be erected 20 enhance the
method of constructing the pipe
lines for water supply and drain
age.
This matter is one of the vital
considerations in the construction
Of an aquarium. as the tanks have
70 he cleaned at short intervals
and the piping must be such as
to enable this work to be done
quickly and thoroughly, in the in
terestS of keeping the specimens
always in untainted water.
All of the plans are being CON
sidered and just as soon as sew
eral suggested improvements are
taken up and passed on. the work
OF construction will be underway.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
U. S. S. ANTARES
ARRIVES in KEY
WEST FROM CUBA
VESSEL BRINGS STORES FOR
OTHER SHIPS. EXPECT MEM
WILL BE GIVEN LIBERTY
THIS AFTERNOON

The u. S. s. Anrares arrived
in port this mokning from Guam
tanamo, Cuba, and up until this
afternoon power launches were
coming ashore with stores to be
placed in buildings at the naval
station.
Besides the ships personnel Of
about 1856 officers and men. there
is a large number Of passengers
on board, officers and men from
Guantanamo, from the u. S. s.
Richmond and other vessels.
Most Of the men are returning
to the states FOR the holidays or
have been discharged and going
home, quite few Of them with
their families.
The captain of the Antares ask
ed for inspection and practique
this morningand il is expected that
members of the ships personnel
viii be given liberty at 4 o'clock
this afternoon and many of the
passengers win come ashore.
The Antares will remain in port
until a shipment of provisions.
now in Miami, is received. She
viii then leave to place stores on
the U. S. S. Wyoming. lying near
Key West. and proceed afterward
to Norfolk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
Damage In Section OF Pa
cific Northwest Runs In
to Millions OF Dollars ;
Train Service Disrupted
my Associated Press)

SEATTLE, Dec. IA
new flood today threatened
a section of the Pacific
northwest already swept by
swollen streams which have
caused damage estimated in
millions of dollars.
Deaths of nine persons in
Washington, Oregon and
Idaho were blamed on low
land floods and mountain
billiards..
The new threat came in
northwestern Washington as
the Skagit and Snohomish
rivers were swollen by tor
rents pouring down from the
mountains.
High temperatures in cas-
cades threatened to add
more melting SHOWS to rising
streams.
In southwestern Washing
ton streams were receding
today leaving behind scenes
of desolation.
Puyallup river valley and
Tacoma, where two square
miles of territory was sub
merged. counted a loss near
the 50, 900. 900 mark.
At Aberdeen and Hoqui-
am. officials Of three rail-
road lines declined to prom
Use any rail service until to-
morrow.
Several bridges in north
western Idaho were washed
away.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
Chairman OF Work Committee
Lists Many Relief Projects

Arthur Sheppard. chairman Of
the work committee and in charge
Of work On all Civil Works Admin
istration and Federal Emergency
Relief projects in this county. has
announced the following activities
under way:
oiIing and sanding paved
streets IN ths city and repsirs
and impro~emenss 10 snp4ved
ssreets.
Work on the naanieipsi pier
AZ the feet Of SimontoB
street
OveThMul and repairs 20
the city .Atex ~.oEhs bsiidiag
and the eater mains.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
COMMODITIES FOR
RELIEF UNIT ARE
TO Be CONTINUED
w. w. DEMERITT, CHAIRMAN
OF LOCAL CIVIL WORKS ADJ
MINIsTRATIoN. MAKES AN
NoUNcEMENT

Distribution of commodities to
families of relief workers is to be
continued by the government, w.
w. Demeritt, chairman of the
council for the C. w. A. and F.
E. r. A., has announced.
Mr.. Demeritt received tele-
gram announcing that shipments
totalling 10000 pounds were now
on the way to Key West. Most
of the edibles consist of meat.
1t is understood that the govern
ment realizes that the workers had
incurred considerable indebted
ness during the long period of idle
ness and to enable them to liqui-
date some of these debts it viii aid
them.
The procedure of issuing COM
modities to the families will en-
able them to more quickly pay up
their bills by having more cash
with which to do so.
Practically the same method OF
determining to whom the food will
be issued win be used as pre-
viously when the pork was dis
tributed.
Careful investigation of the
needs Of families will be made and
a commodity ticket issued when
the worker is paid off, whether in
cash or by cheek.
All of the data relative to the
financial condition of families in
Key West is available at the head
quarters offices and the issuance
of foodstuffs will be based on the
reports Of case workers who have
made actual contact with those
families in need.
Other foodstnffs beside meats
are to be distributed up TO the
end OF March. This information
Is contained in letters to w. w.
nemeritt received yesterday after
noon.
The amounts set forth show that
for families OF four the following
will be allowed: Flour, 10 pounds;
eorned beef, three two pound
cans; smoked pork, 10 pounds;
cheese. two pounds in half pound
foil-wrapped packages; butter,
four pounds. Eggs and other
commodities are also to be given.
All Of these items are to be
purchased direct from the whole-
sale dealers in Florida. A list Of
these is furnished 10 insure prompt
filling of orders when sent in. by
the local council.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
ADMINISTRATION
ACTS QUICKLY

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 12.-The
Civil Works Administration acted
swiftly today to strike from the
payrolls any employees of cities,
counties or other political sub-di-
visions in the state
1t adopted a resolution flatly
prohibiting such employment, and
providing that if persons now on
payrolls are employees of political
subdivisions they must be dropped
at once.
This action came as specific
cases from Key West and st. Pc
tersburg.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
COLD CONTINUES
in MANY PARTS
COUNTRY TODAY
CENTRAL CANADA AND
THREE EUROPEAN NATIONS
ALSO REPORT SECTIONS
BLANKETED WITH SNOW
Oy AssocIafcd I,resal

0sy Associated PreEnl
Old man winter continued his
firm grip ON many sections of the
nation today.
Intense cold continued in GEN.
trail Canada, and at least three
European countries reported
areas blsnketed with snow and
frost causing widespread suffering
in England. France and Poland.
A new threat Of flood. was re-
ported in the Pacific northwest.
Lower temperatures were noted
early today from the Ohio valley
to central parts of Alabama.
Georgia and the Carolinas to the
coast, however, in the south, gem
eral rains were predicted for TO-
night and tomorrow.
The lowest american tempera.
.ure was =, White River. Ontario.
which reported 40 below zero.
while Owls Head. New York. re-
ported "a for the loves. in the
United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12

coasarsstien Of the sponge
dock.
Repairs and requirements
Of parts Of the city hall and
fire station.
ceasral repairs asA over
hani 90 The souaty court
house SD eeusty jail
Starter hssss II The geif
essrse being rsp.issd snd en-
tsasivs improvsaeuss - The
Iiaks and ssker spurtsn.sess-
IL Is Shown that there are T.
SIS men and women a work on
various projects. ens Of which i
re authorized oveEh4ai and re-
pair work On The ferries o. he
.ounty system. Twenty mem were
started On this proIset today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
Maybe You'll Recognize 1884 Weather
ITS Just Old 1911 Playing Return Date
BY F. B. COTTON

ASSOCIATED Press Science Editor)
WASHINGTON, Dec. IL.
its simple enough to pre-
dict January's weather, and
all of 1934's, too, if DR..
Charles G.. Abbott's new
theory that weather repeats
itself every % years holds
good.
According to it, 1884 should be
a warm, dry year for most of the
United States except the West
coast.
Cycle is % Years
DR.. Abbott, head of the Smith
sonian Institution, has found evil
dehce that weather conditions in
various sections are, repeated
every 90 years, apparently con-
trolled by magnetic changes on the
sun, which also move in a 23-year-
cycle, double length Of the sunspot
cycle of slightly over II years.
Weather bureau records of tenn
perature and rainfall for 1911,
therefore, give at least hint on
what may be expected next year
on the basis of DR.. Abbot's theory.
although neither he nor the wea-
Their bureau is making official fore
casts.
The 1911 records show that
temperatures from one-half to two
degrees above normal may be ex-
pected in all but the far west,
where weather cooler than normal
by an equal amount should pre-
vail.
Thirteen Cities Studied
They also show that drier than
normal weather will prevail ex-
cept in the Ohio valley and the
middle section of the west coast,
with anywhere from a fraction of
an inch to nearly IL inches less
rain than the average.
The data on which DIR. Abbot
bases his theory were obtained
from 1911 records pertaining to
13 cities over the United States.
The figures show that the winter
of 1884, may be dry in the south,
northwest, Ohio valley and along
the east coast but with more than
normal rain or snow in the Rocky
mountains, southwest, midwest
and far west.
The winter should be unusually
cold in the northwest, Rockies, and
west coast but warmer than nor
NAL In other sections.
The 1911 figures indicate al
warmer than average spring in
all sections except the west coast,
which will be little cooler than
normal, and dry spring weather
everywhere, with rain farthest be-
low normal in the Ohio valley and
southwest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
NOTICE

The tax book for the City of
Key West for the year 1883 is
now open FOR the collection of
taxes and same are now due and
payable at my office.
Five per cent win be allowed
on all taxes paid during the
month of December; four percent
in January; three percent in Feb
ruary; two percent in March and
one percent in April.
SAM B. pINDER,
City Tax Collector.
dec. list.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
LINDBERCH HOP
OFF ON FLIGHT
AMERICAN FLIERs START
TRIP THIS MORNING UP
AMAZON RIVER
tny Assoclated Pressl


MANAoS. Brazil. Dee. Ia
colon.I and Mrs. Charlie. Lind
bsrxh hoped off from ,hi. river
port 800 miIes up the Amazon in
The hear. Of Brazil's equatorial
Jungle today for Trinidad.
Their departure wa. at 4.4s
Es.,erh Standard Time.
The P.n-Ameriean Airway. an
nouaesd . shOr. time later q. the
New York office tina. the Lind
bersh. were following the Rio
Nigre route. making 100 knot. an
hour in overcast .kie..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12

said late last night. Gle abused
my confidence and now ! wash my
hands of the whole affair. While
a think punishment in his case Is
too severe. I believe that all law
vioIators should be punished and
made TO pay the just penalty for
their crimes"
Authorities said il was LaRue's
criminal record which disclosed
he had been arrested on charges
Of automobile theft and carrying
concealed weapons that caused
the Judge to turn against him.
He also had served q reforma-
tory term. Governor Henry
Horner has ordered his extradi-
ton to Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-12
ISSUE
OF DEMERITT IS
GIVEN APPROVAL
CIVIL WORKS ADMINIsTRA-
TIoN COMMITTEE AT TALL
LAHASSEE oK'S REFUSAL
TO SIGN PAYRoLLS

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 12.-The
Civil Works Administration today
received the following letter from
w. Demeritt, chairman of
the Monroe county committee:
q" have to report that | had
occasion to be absent from
the city on official business
for 10 days. During that
time, the city engineer, the
county engineer, three MEM
bers of the city council,
clerks, mechanics, supervisors,
ETC.. were employed without
proper procedure insofar as
the relief files and those of
the unemployment office were
concerned. Ii 10 true that the
unemployment office was not
functioning until today (De-
cember - but the exigencies
were not such as to warrant
employment outside Of these
two agencies. Under the cir
cumstances | will not approve
payrolls on which appear
names of parties without
proper confederation of the
two agencies in question"
The GWA committee voted APP
prevail of Demeritt,s refusal to
sign payrolIs containing these
names. The names of employees
in question were not included in
Demeritt's letter.