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chlnery designed to block any in
crease of the Moscow influence
in Europe. Just now he is report
ed to be trying to negotiate with
Czechoslovakia a pact, one part
of which would call for a cancel
lation of the Russian alliance with
that country.
Statesmen long have been say
ing that should Spain 90 cOmmu-
nistic-and they believed she was
headed in that direction-there
would be a strong possibility that
France might follow suit, thus es-
tablishing a great new soviet bloc
in Europe. Little Portugal. En-
glands old ally. would have hard
work to keep out OF such a COM
bination.
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tant, for it introduced an orderly fed
eral budget procedure and it provid-
ed for some welcome improvements
in the organization of federal &C.
counting.
At the same time, however, ii in
augurated a serious error with re-
spect to accounting and auditing that
should be corrected without further
delay. The error is the combination
of the functions of accounting and
auditing under one officer The Comp
troller ana Auditor General is in
charge of the General Accounting Of
fee. and he is also responsible for
auditing the accounts kept by that Of
fee. Consequently. such audit as may
be made. after the close of any fiscal
year. is conducted by the same au-
thority as was responsible for l-eep-
ing the accounts. With all due re-
spect. it is submitted that under such
circumstance we do moi have and
cannot have a vigorously impartial
audit of federal accounts.
No private business concern would
think oil publishing an audit of its
financial affairs that had been made
by the same staff that had kept the
accounts. Some of the men in Con-
gress and in high administrative posi-
tionS have large business responsible
ties They would be offended by the
suggestion that they should combine
the duties OF accounting and auditing
in their private business affairs. This
address questions to the du
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
A PATRIOTIC COUNTY

Because of it's many family feuds and
killings, Breathitt county, Kentucky, for
many years was known as Bloody
Breathitt." These feuds sometimes con-
tinued through several generations, but
finally died out, and of late marriages be-
tween young people of former rival feudist
families have been rather commonplace.
Whether the fighting blood of the old
time feudists, transmitted to their de-
scendants, was responsible, it is said that
Breathitt was the only county in the United
States to escape the operation of the draft
law during the World War. All able
bodied men in the county had volunteered
for service before the draft became effec-
tive, and thus Breathitt was the only
county whose soldiers were 100 per cent
volunteers.
In recognition of this record the Ken
lucky legislature voted for the erection of
monument to commemorate the patriot
ism of Breathitt's hardy mountaineers, who
answered their country's call before it be-
came compulsory.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
LIFE is GETTING LONGER

A study of statistics will show that in
the last SO years fourteen years have been
added to the average expectancy of life.
Today there are in Key West proportion
ately many more persons over thirty than
there were in 1870. This also holds good
for those over the age of fifty.
A diminishing birth rate has been
noted during the same period so that to-
day young people, roportionately.9 Pare not
as numerous as they were fifty years ago
Perhaps this explains the keen interest be-
ing taken in youth and the reluctance with
which grandparents admit old age
1t is apparent to any observer that the
people of Key West, as we'll as those in
other sections, apparently retain their
youthful outlook longer than the people OF
fifty years ago. AS matter of fact, the
interest in old age, merely in itself, has de,
creased considerably in recent years.
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w. CURRY HARRIS
is CITY ATTORNEY

Continued from Page 0ne)
ceiving pay when funds are avail
able.
1t was also ordered that auto
mobile license plates TO the NUM-
Der of twelve hundred at a prizes
of SAT be purchased from a Kan
sas City, Missouri, firm, which
was the only bidder in the mat
ter.
49,. 1t was also ordered that cleo
ton commissioners and super
visor OF registration be placed on
the regular payroll along with al
other employees o. the city.
After disposing OF a few other
matters of minor Importance. the
meeting was ordered adjourned
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print il
without fear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress never be the or
gan or the 'nouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or Class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice: denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ
izatiOn; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contamirate the reader; never coma
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
Today's Birthdays

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow
of the President, born rs years
ago.
Mrs. Mary L. C. Box of Phila-
delphia, music patron, born in
Boston, 60 years ago. I
Helen Fl. Jacobs of Berkeley,
Cal, tennis champion, born at
Globe, Ariz., % years ago.
Miller Reese Hutchison of New
York, famed .inventor7engineer,
born at MOntrose, Ala, go years
ago. r.
.tar
U. S. Senator Wallace H. White.
Jr., of Maine, born at Lewiston,
Maine, SO years ago.
DR.. James T. Shotwe1, COlum-
bia Univ. professor of history,
Carnegie Peace official, born in
Ontario, Canada, 62 years ago.
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makes It the more peculiar that such
persons have not long since perceived
the curious arrangenIent that has
been forced upon the. federal bust,
ness operations by the act of 1921.
. The solution is simple. A dean-cut
separation should be made between
the accounting and the preliminary
auditing, on one hand, and the final or
post audit, on the other. All account
ing operations. and the preliminary
audit. otherwise known as the "con-
troller" function, should be under
the direction of the executive branch.
ALI post auditing. which means the
examination of the accounts after the
close of the fiscal period, should be
done by an officer who is as complete
ly Independent of the executive as it
is possible to make him.
We can now realize that the authors
of the act of 1921 had an imperfect
conception of what was required, al
though we cannot understand why, as
practical men of affairs, they should
have Numbered so badly. They acted
correctly in creating the post of audi
tor general with complete indepen.
dence OF the executive. This freedom
was secured by term of fifteen years,
and by vesting the power Of removal
solely in Congress. They blundered
in making III, same official also the
comptroller general, in which capaci-
ty he was put in charge of all account
ing and of all preliminary auditing.
AS comptroller general, he is able
o obstruct administrative action and
there have been instances of such in
reference; yet. as auditor general. he
passes judgment on the validity of his
own earlier interpretations Of laws
and Of administrative acts under
them.
Many persons think of this part of
tn Budget and Accounting Act as
providing for watchdog of the
Treasury 1t is clear that we cannot
have the best kind of watchdog until
we separate these two functions. No
watchdog ever bites himself. The
Comptroller and Auditor General. as
watchdog of the Treasury, is simply
barking at himself when, in his ca
pacity as auditor, he criticizes his
earlier acts as comptroller general.
Neither his bark nor his bite can be
very significant under such circum-
stances. -
hOT. care of this neirsDnnerl
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@sssaasssss.a
YOUR DESTINY
By LIE MAPS
The character and tAlents Of
those born between

The character and talents Of
those born between
JULY - TO AUGUST -
LEO people are generous. syn
pathetic and magnetic; make ex-
cellent nurses. are emotional and
wonderfully lntuitive, and have
great power for good. as they are
practical, philosophical and spirit-
ual. Have great love for their
own; VIII allow no one 70 dictate
management Of their children-
and viii become furious II any
one reprOves or hurts them Are
inclined TO Oe lazy and 70 borr0W-
Are easily attracted 70 the 0pPO-
site sex, but not distinguished fer
cOnstancy- Should select mates
with the greatest care, OtherUIse
long continued troubles En re-
suit. Should marry those born
betwe n November - and De-
Ccmber p (SagIttarius). March
p and April Is (Anes)- A RUBY
will greatly aid their mtu.tion-
Can a so wear a Diamond
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
today WEATHER

States, the Ohio Valley and Ten
nessee. eastern Missouri, Iowa,
the east Gulf States, and florida,
being heavy at Pittsburgh, Pa,
Ito inches, Louisville, KY, 1928
inches, Birmingham, Ala, 1.O2
inches, and Key West, Fla, I'll
inches. There have also been
light to moderate rains in the CEN
trail Rocky Mountain and Plains
States and are generally slightly
above normal throughout the
country, except where rains have
caused cooler weather.
G.. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.
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TOday's Horoscope

TOday's child MI be prccucluus
and rather rash and sno1ld BE-
handled very carefully that thc
AFTER indications Of q firm =-ezl-
fast character may - fulfIlf1-
There Is determination q huld %
ones beliefs and prIncEpie< rhz-
Is good. 50 far a. these EsTlnrip IS
are good ard not forced en- o-her
people Hence tram tzls ChE
along such lines that the faunda
ton may be tolerant IS Ne -
firm.
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WEATHER FORECAST
(Till 8 p. M, FridaYl

(Till 8 p. M, friday
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Friday with
scattered showers; moderate east
and southeast winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy, scat
tered showers Friday and possibly
near the southW est and extreme
south coast tonight.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate cast and
southeast winds; partly overcast
weather tonight and Friday with
scattered showers.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS

Moderate high pressure areas
Overspread most sections of the
country this morning, except the
far Southwest and northern Rocky
Mountain States. Showers and
tkundcrstorms have occurred since
yesterday morning in portions of
the north and middle Atlantic
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

Like woman, MusSolini does not
want to be reminded of his age, but the
reasons are not alike. Fascism is youth
movement and II Duce must remain age
less. The happy dictator" was So on
July 20, but no one mentioned his birth
day, and the Italian press, knowing its
onions, ignored it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

A magazine publishes letters request
ed from readers on What would do if I
were President The letters go a long
way toward explaining why none of the
writer's is President.
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for considering
a much-needed
revision of the
act that estab-
Iished this dou-
ble-barreled Of
fee. The act in
question is the
Budget and Ac-
counting Act of
] 9 2 l. At tn e
time of its en-
actment it may
have been the
be st me a sure
that could then
e
h a v e b e e n
passed. Its vir-
tues are innor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

When the writer first came to Key
West many years ago, the statement heard
everywhere was that I'VE need about a
dozen funerals in this town." Well, we've
had EN- and still Key West is not the tops.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

An Alabama exchange sympathizes
with boy whose dog met a sudden and
cruel fate at the hands of an automobile .
1t couldn't have been worse if the dog had
gotten under the cars feet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

In sense birthday should be mourn
ed instead of celebrated, for each anniver-
sary brings us nearer to the grave, unless
we go further and contemplate at each
passing year, happier life beyond.
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Nine members of family of ten were
killed by railroad train last week. The
greatest sufferer is the lone survivor of
this unfortunate family.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

A Chicago man dropped dead while
moving his lawn. This vindicates our
consistent refusal to engage in such dan
gerOus exercise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06
|. You and Your,
Nations Affairs
No Bite to This Watchdog
.s-..- BY HARLEY L. LUTZ.s ..es.a.
Professor of Public Finance, Princeton Unyersity

: The retirement of Mr.. ~MeCarl, af-
l ter fifteen years of service as Comp
'treller and Auditor General of the
United States. provides opportunity
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

We read that out of 16 lunatics who
escaped from Minnesota asylum, 81 have
been returned. 1t must have been the
heat
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

The economists know lot about bust
ness and finance, but each one knows it in
a different way
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-06

Nearly everything concerning the
World War has been settled by this time,
except who started it and who won it.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-17
nv RODNEY BUTCHER

NJ. S.ryice stan Correspondent
u7ASHINGTON.-On President
w Roosevelt's desk, among the
tov animals, memorandum pads.
nencils. and other paraphernalia.
visitors have sometimes sobserVed
n small brown book. ..
Both the president and Mrs
Roosevelt have been known to
recommend the book to friends.
IFS purpose is to tell people how
70 keep the capitalistic machine
operating without running INTO
The ditch.
presumably one is justified in
assuming that it at least partly
reflects what's going on in Roose-
yelt's mind as he grapples with
The problems OF recovery and re-
election. Especially since readers
of the little brown book now real
lie that 1t forecast the presidents
unexpected proposal to revamp
the corporation tax system by taX-
Ing undistributed corporation
profits.
The book is called Brass
Tacks" and its author Is David
Cushman Coyle, a consulting en-
.gineer of note.
Here's what Coyle had to say
about corporation SURPRISES. which
now seem so significant:
a.. there is another type
of insurance against hard times
that already has been widely
used. This is the habit of lay
ing up corporation surplus fol
the purpose of paying dividends
when not currently earned.
1.-THE corporation reserve Is
the grandfather and president Of
the Bootstraps Club. Here the
fallacieus notion that none!
should be made to work has had
the most devastating effects oil
the business world, and no pro
gram for stabilizing business vii
| be really effective until this no
ton has been swept away.
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MULTIPLIED BY NINE

At the time Captain B. R. Tillman was elected
governor 1890, the total expenses of the state of
South Carolina, including the interest on the pub
lie debt, were slightly under $l,000000. The
states bonded debt was little more than it is now
Since that time the population of the state has not
nearly doubled, but its expenses have been multi
piled by nine. South Carolina is poor, poor as
Jobs turkey, but the men whom the people elect to
office viii not face the fact So by high tax
ton, they inclose the state with barbed wire en-
tanglements, they keep capital out of it. And
they drive capital out of it. In the 1905 the state
used the power of tax exemption to bring cotton
mills into the state. Now they impose income and
"touch"; taxes, which they call "intangibles," ap
parently in terror that some man who has a mil
lion might became citizen.--Charlestoh News and
Courier.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

s.rrHE first stage in using sur
/ plus earnings to bring on ruin
Is TO deposit them in the bank
during the early stages OF pros
nerity. The banker naturally
lends the corporations money to
one of its competitors for eXpan-
sion of capacity, which stimu'
Iates business and for time
ebnws no indication of the inev-
;tah,n crash. AS the bubble
grows larger and more iridescent,
thn corporations turn their SUR
nlus funds loose in the call mar
ket, This is called preserving q
liouid condition.
"Then when the bubble bursts
tho companies draw out their
snnds, wrecking the banks or
calling loans on spectators as
tho case may be, and generally
debating everything in sight,
= =
| CoYLE proposes:
~ / Genuine old age pensions
ord other forms Of economic Sc
cmritv which will diminish the
urge for thrift. .o, .n,,
3 Heavy income and inner
litance taxes which would finance
. ia' rrogram and tend to keep
'ha' circulation rather than
~ Covle suggests $50 a month
nhnsion for 100000 persons
PES GO, which would cost &c.
O6O 100000 a year and with the
Vv Uvo, turnover. lie says. would
; uH national income Is or
% billion dollars in addition to
H nv yitI' Of increased stability.
, Tndav's demand, Coyle says. is
"nof for capital, nor for labor
Int for buyers to carry away the
DIV od io " The unemployed must
~ soor INSCRIBED in service" jobs,
ioe come Of Coyle's admirers con-
! ,S n him an economic messiah
S.nos memory VII be enshrined
. long after Dr.: Townsend Tow. send, Earl sll
Rrowder, and Herbert hoover are
forgotten names. s.,,.,,.,, To-,
!(Copyright, l9jv' HH't ''' >' 'S''
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IN MEMORY
Of Our Beloved Husband and
L d. lr,r

Of Our Beloved Husband and
Father, J. w. Bradley.
He is gone but not forgotten;
left this ~world to weep no
more;
But we hope some day to meet
Him on that bright and. happy
shore.
There's q sadness here forever,
Which will never pass away
Until We are all called together
On that bright and happy
shore,
He has waited long and silent
For the Lord to call him home,
But he has a home in Heaven
Where no sorrow ever comes,
1t is sad to part with loved ones
Here in this old world below
But we know some day we'll meet
him
When we are called to go.
He is safe in the arms Of Jesus,
Safe upon his gentle breast;
There by His love cnveloped,
Swcctly his soul is now at rest.
Gods word is truth eternal,
His promise is to all;
Some day in years to come
He's going to call us all.
Mrs. J. w. Bradley and children
tip.
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years of his faithful vigil iaV HI'
mothers bedside.
If that young man is curious
ity, it is not because he cannot
sleep lying down in his bed. 1t Is
because he got that way through
a most unusual demonstration "I
devotion an dservicc to his moth
er. ~.
We are showing strong ten,
dencv nowadays to disregard
ideals. We are evidencing an IN
creasing' inclination to consider
idealism sout of date-as be-
ino sentimenthsm--as being some
thing that does not click with
practicalism.
We should cultivate a love for
ideals. We should nurture ideal
ism. The only difference be-
tween man and beast is ideallSm
and even the best Of the lower
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JUST ANOTHER TREATY TO BE
TRAMPLED ON! .... -.
Bv BRUCE CATION


The statesmen of Europe, with their
wellshod feet under the table at London
figuring out what to do about Hitler, ought
TO get along beautifully unless and until
some overseas variety of Al Smith invites
them to have a look at the record. a
For if they once look at the record they
will find that this modern world has neltfl-
or the will to honor treaties nor the capa-
citv TO enforce them. Treaties today are
nrecisely what Won Bethmann-Hollweg
said they were in 1914-scraps OF paper
decorative and satisfying to hang on the
wall Int more or less worthless from any
practical standpoint.
A generation ago the great powers sign
ed a solemn agreement to respect the ter
ritorial integrity of Belgium. The one re-
suit of this was that good part OF the
World War was fought right in Belgium S
front yard. =. 3.
After that was smoothed over, the pow
ers signed the Versailles treaty, keeping a
revolver TANNED in Germany,s ribs TO
make sure that she wouldn't renege at the
last minute. Since then the Versailles
treaty has been whitfield down until today
M. Clemenceau himself wouldn't recognize
it. .'
There was the LocarnO treaty, torn
asunder by Hitler just the other day
There were the far eastern treaties, Which
worked until Japan decided to have go
at Manchuria. There were the various
league commitments, which survived unit!
Mussolini sent his men down into Ethiopia
One and all, they lasted until someone
decided to break them-and no longer
And in no case could the other signatures
get together and make the document suck
When japan went into Manchuria, the
United States yelled for action and the
British just couldn't hear. When Italy Went
adventuring, the British were all for doing
something, but the French were otherwise
engaged. When Hitler moved into the
Rhineland, he sent the French into fine
Gallo fury, but the British managed to re
tain their traditional calm to an almost
excessive degree.
That is the record, and II the aSSeilole'
statemen start reviewing it they may de-
eide to go home at once. -.--,. See.
For how can any enduring peace oe ue
vised in world wherein themost solemn
treaties have no force? What assurance u
peaceful settlement of international dis
putes can there possibly be, when nations
cannot be depended on either to hono'
their own signatures or to make thei
neighbors honor theirs? st.
The plain fact is that the world inter
nation relations today are in a state OF an
archy. 1t is like wild west town IN whlcf
even the vigilants have started robbint
stagecoaches. - a..
And the blindest man can.see that sue!
situation is going to lead great deal o.
shooting unless there is speedy and far
reaching reform. FL. g o. - q"
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Isle EXILE I
lOkowOOD HOUSE WHERE NAPOLEON
LIVED AND DIED INEIiLE.

LIVED AND DIED lNEIiLE.
SWEPT by strong winds, in the
- middle of the South Atlantic,
lies the small bleak island of st
Helena. noted mostly as the exile
place of Napoleon Bonaparte, but
Just as secure a stronghold for
many other military prisoners. The
Boer War brought 5000 rebel South
African settlers to the island, and
few years before England had
eXiled some warning African chief
talnS to the same spot
The island got its name from
Helena. mother of Constantine the
Great, when il was discovered by
the Portuguese on her birthday
May q. 1902 In 1873 England
granted the East India Company
charter to the island In 1884
however. il became British.
The stamp shown here is one 0!
a series issued in 1884, on the cen
tenniaI OF British possession, and
pictures four generations of Brit
ish royalty-King William w. up
per left. in whose reign the change
was made; Queen Victoria, upper
right, King Edward VII, her SON
lower left. and the late Kin.
George Y. lower right.