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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-30

Philadelphia Boston, postponed,
rain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-30
WEATHER FORECAST

barometer 8 a. m. today:
Sea level, 1895.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-30

Maj. Gen. Lucius R. HoIbrOOk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-04-30

Batteries: Buroaker, Bush and
Lopez; Walters, Lancaster and At
wood.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

Probably no month marks the birth
than does January. Among those born in
the first month of the year were the fol-
lowing distinguished Americans:
Paul Revere, Revolutionary patriot;
Lucretia Mott, Quaker preacher and
pioneer suffragist; Stephen Decatur, naval
commander; Cyrus Hamlin, famed mis-
sionary; Charles Summer, abolitionist
Israel Putnam and Ethan Allen, Revolu-
tionary commanders; Alexander Hamilton,
first Secretary of the Treasury; William
James, psychologist; John Winthrop, colo
NAL governor; Jon Singer Sargent, painter
M. F. Maury, pathfinder of the seas; Ben
jamin Franklin, printer, scientist, jour
nalist and statesman, Daniel Webster,
statesman and orator; Robert E. Lee and
T. j. 'Stonewall' Jackson, Confederate
Hancock, statesman; Joseph H. Choate,
diplomat; Samuel Gompsrs, labor leader
William Mckinley, president; Robert Nor
ris, financier of the Revolution; President
Franklin d. Roosevelt and others.
A few British notables whose birth oc-
Cured in January are General James
Wolfe, hero of Quebec Isaac Newton, as
tronomer; Edmund Burke, statesman
James Watt, inventor; Francis Bacon,
philosopher; Lord Byron, poet; Robert
Burns, poet. ek"
Great Frenchmen born in January in
NJ II 7 Ii, -
Moliere, dramatist; Andre Ampere, ply
sicist; Francois Mansard, architect; Be-
MOTT Constant Coquelin, actor
German birthdays of the month in
clude those of Jakob Grimm, philologist
and publisher of fairy tales; Gotthold Les
sing, dramatiSt; Frederick the Great; for
mer Kaiser Wilhelm. The great Austrian
composers, Mozart and Schubert, were also
born in January.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

are for specific periods Of time. and
these contractual relationships are
not altered by change in the weight
of the dollar. Then there is the pos
sibility that banks may borrow from
the Reserve banks to replenish their
reserves. Finally. the velocity OF the
currency may increase.
The simple fact Of the matter Is that
no one can predict the extent to
which, or the quickness with which,
the price level will respond to a
change in the weight of the gold doll
lar, considering the channels through
which the effects of the change must
operate.
The commodity dollar scheme Is
one manifestation of a persistent
quest for stability in our economic
system. But this particular attempt
to get stability rests upon unsound
grounds when the commodity dollar
advocates suppose, as they do. that
a stable price level means economic
stability; or that any monetary
mechanism can produce economic
stability either in the price level or
in the economic system as whole;
or that the gold standard has been
the primary cause of the great fiuc-
tuations in prices and the wide
swings in business activity and pros
perity; or that the present world
wide suspension of specie payments
is anything more than astemporary
episode in the history of metallic
currencies.
A multitude of factors have been
responsible for the wide swings in
business activity, prices. and pros
perity. Among them, and most inn
portant, particularly in recent years,
have been the World War and the
innumerable Embellishments which
that War generated. The behavior of
currencies was in a large degree
merely a result of these maladjuSt-
ments in the economic structure. In
so far as currencieS caused trouble,
those that behaved worst and caused
the most damage were those paper
currencies which were cut loose from
gold. The bad consequences flowing
from their use even impaired the
functioning of those currencies still
linked to gold.
The most poorly managed" cur
rencies have been those severed from
gold. Unless these paper currencies
have been reanchored to gold at a.
fixed ratio they have sooner or later
become unmanageable. No currency
cut loose from gold has ever been
managed well for any great length Of
time. When these paper currencies
have gotten out of hand. the man
aged currency advocates have as
serted that the trouble lay in the
fact that they were not properly
managed. The argument of the ad-
vocates of managed currencies-and
the commodity dollar plan is man.
aged currency scheme-reduces it.
self simply to this: A managed cur
rency is managed when it is under
control, but it is not a managed cur
| rency when it gets out of hand.
thor care of this netOSpaper)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
WEATHER CONDITIONS

! Pressure is relatively low this
morning along the northern bor-
der from North Dakota eastward,
and over far southwestern dis
tricts, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
29.90 inches, and San Francisco,
Calf, 29.SS inches, and has fall
len throughout the remainder of
the country, but is still moderate
ly high, Helena, Mont, 1920 inch
es. and st. Louis, Mo-, and Louis
vile, KY, 5000 inches. Light rain
or snow has occurred since yester-
day morning in portions of Okla
homa, Kansas, and Missouri, and
in the upper Chic Valley, and
there has been light to moderate
rain from Arkansas eastward over
Tennessee and northern Georgia to
the Carolinas. There have also
been light to moderate rains in
California and in extreme south
ern Florida. Temperatures have
risen on the Texas coast in the
Mississippi Valley. Lake region,
and North Atlantic States, and
continue sbnormally high over
southeastern districts; while read
ings are still below normal over
most sections from the Plains
States westward, bein~ slightly
below zero this morning in por-
tons of Utah, Montana, and South
Dakota.
L. s. KENNEDY,
Official in CHARGE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

The number and nature of these
channels should be noticed. Suppose
that the government should desire
to raise the price level. 1t will re-
duce the weight in each dollar. thus
making each ounce Of gold yield
more gold dollars. (Raising the paper
money price of gold is supposed to
. have the same effect) The additional
supply of gold dollars will enable the
government to put corresponding
additional supply of gold certificates
into circulation through the purchase
Of government securities. Bank re-
serves will be augmented. These sur
plus reserves. it is contended, will
lead to more loans and investments,
this will put more currency into cir
culation. and prices win rise as q
consequence.
These assumptions are contra
dicted by some very simple and
eaSily-verified facts revealed in our
currency and banking experiences.
Reserves often pile up in banks with
out there being any expansion In
loans or investments Immediately
thereafter. Conditions may be such
that banks do not desire to expand
their investments. and borrowers
may not desire to borrow. In fact. it
is very common to see the loans and
investments of a bank contract as
their reserves pile up. Furthermore,
if the currency should. through some
accident, expand in amount as the
reserves of banks increase. the eff
fectiveness of this expansion may be
offset by a decline in the velocity of
the currency.
Similarly, an attempt to reduce
the price level by increasing the
weight of the dollar. by retiring the
appropriate amount of gold certifi-
Gates, and by reducing bank reserves,
rests upon the assumption which is
imaginary that there will be a re-
sponsiveness in the contraction of
loans and investments. So long as
there are surplus reserves in the
banks, these banks do not contract
their loans and investments. Further
more, many of their commitments
address questions to the az
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print il
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid 70 attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption OF
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 contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
SIDELIGHT rs
By MARCY B. DARNALL
Former Editor of The Key West Citizen

Albert Payson Terhune, noted dog
fancier and author of dog stories, an
nounced recently on his 64th birthday
that he had retired and would try TO find
something better to do than work. Mr.
Terhune is financially able to make this
experiment, but We'll bet he don't stop
writing dog stories.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

An increase of so per cent in bust
ness in a year is pretty good, even in a
year of returning prosperity. That is the
gain reported by the rattlesnake canning
factory of Arcadia, Fla, which ships its
product all over the country Rattlesnake
meat is considered quite delicacy by
those who have tried it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
Today's Horoscope

Today's natives are endowed
with much definition of purpose
and are capable of arduous labors.
Do not allow your sympathies too
much prominence. There is a grain
of mysticism in this position, and
authorship may be easy of attain
ment,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
WEATHER FORECAST

(TLl 1870 p. M, Wednesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy with occasional light show
ers tonight and Wednesday with
occasional light showers on the
extreme southeast coast and Flor
ida Keys; mild temperature.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate north
east to east winds, and partly over
cast tonight and Wednesday with
scattered showers extreme south
portion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

This is the season when selections of
the best this and that of the previous year
are being made. A committee of the Nae
tional Board of Review has picked Mr..
Deeds Goes to Town." starring Gary
Cooper and JEAN Arthur, as the best Amer
lean motion picture of 1886. The worlds
best, however, was declared to be Ia
in France.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

In nationwide poll of radio listeners
by the NBC, the following were voted the
five bestowed Christmas carols: "Silent
Night" and "Adeste Fideles'' were tied for
first choice, the next in order being "The
First Noel, = "Hark, the Herald Angels
Sing" and at Came Upon a Midnight
Clear
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

The Presidents birthday on January
80 will be used again as the occasion of a
nationwide series of entertainments to
raise money to fight infantile paralysis.
Key Vest should participate in this worthy
enterprise, and will.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

A question of major importance will
confront Key West when the bridges are
built. Every trailer in the United States,
ard there are thousands with their num-
bers increasing, will trek toward this city.
How to take care of them will be the prob
lem to solve.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

1t is fallacy to think that we can
spend ourselves into prosperity, no matter
what the so-ealled economists say to the
contrary. 1t might be done temporarily,
but time still flies and is as unrelenting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

There seems to be flaw in every
maxim. While it is true that the early
bird gets the worm but putting the maxim
into practice rather works to the disad-
vantage of the wriggler
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

In the Welgnl
of the gold
dollar for the
p u r p o s e
o Z C h a n G.
ing the cur
reney supply
will force a
quick response
in the price
level despite
{ h e c h a n
nels through
W h / C b this
change in the
weight of the
d o l | a r
m u st re a c h
prices.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
Today In History
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1853-25-year-old Baltimore &
Ohio Railway finally reaches its
goal, the Ohio River.
191S-Central and Western
States paralyzed by blizzard.
1919-Peace Conference opens
informally in Paris.
1920-President Wilson issues
calls for the first meeting of the
League of Nations.
j. 1927-Secretary of State Kel-
.tegg ass before Senate's Foreign
i r stations Eommittee Communist
plans toS establish communism in
Mexico, Central and South Ameri-
ca, the Philippines and Porto Rico.
1929-LOngest railway tunnel
in the Western world, Smile
Great Northern's tunnel, east of
Seattle, officially opened.
1936-Ethiopia's "little" rainy
season, ahead of time, stops Italian
drive there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Every once in while you get sur
prise when somebody returns favor, for
favOrs are accepted with alacrity and re-
paid with hardness, often with ingrati-
tude
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

standish Backus Of Detroit.
president of the Burroughs Add
ing Machine. born in Detroit, 81
years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage
g BRIDGES to complete Road to Main
land
3. Free Port.
4. Hotels and Apartments
s. bathing Pavilion.
8. An purts---land and Sea-
Z. Constellation of County and City
Governments
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Miami has 1900 people without
stationary homes-they live in trailers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson. prez-
dent of Howard University, Wash
ington, ID. C., born at Paris.
Tenn. AZ years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
Opens Skin Pores
Kills Scalp Itch

With six itch killing medicines
i'm liquid form, Imperial lotto n
flows into pores and hair follicles
and thus gets at and kills the
cause of seaip itch. Csc and $1.O0.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

New Hampshire has the largest state
legislative body, with "a senators and 424
assemblymen. Nebraskas new legislature
is limited to so in single body, and is
the smallest in the nation. Nebraska's ex-
pertinent, effective for the first time this
year, will be watched with interest, and it
should be a success. Surely so members
can't think up as many fool laws as 448.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Just to show your appreciation of bet
ter economic conditions you might be
liberal in supporting Key Vests chart
table enterprises.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Trading in Key West is productive of
profits all the way round, to the buyer,
the seller and the community.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
Observation-Disclosures
Today's Birthdays
ssseeesesssssesssesssses

DR.. Robert Underwood Johnson
of New York, editor, author, di-
rector of New York University's
Hall of Fame, born in Washington,
d. c., "a years ago.
Charles West of Granville,
Ohio, Under Secretary of the In
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

The delinquent subscriber is the guy
who put the editor in creditor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Why can't other nations let Spain
have her revolution in peace. She missed
the fun during the World War.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

There is no who's Who" in Italy
but there is an I'm It."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

The rarest animal in the world is the
giant panda, in appearance a sort of cross
between raccoOn and bear, which when
grown weighs around 800 pounds. The
only live baby panda in captivity was
brought to New York recently by Mrs
William H. Hardness, whose exploring ex-
petition in Tibet caught it last November.
When captured the little animal weighed
less than five pounds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

terror, born at Mt. Vernon, O. e
years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12
You and Your
Nations Affairs
Commodity Dollar Fallacies
By WALTER E. SPAHR
apartment Of Economics, NeIO York University


to the author of this
The commodity dollar specific periods of time and
tculary relationships
weight
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

Barometer 8 a. m. today:
Sea level, 30.07.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

1936-Ethiopia's "little" rainy
season, ahead Of time, stops Italian
drive there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

address questions author this net0spaper)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-12

1919-Peace Conference opens
informally in Paris.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-22
SS Baranof Due
 Nome At 8 p.m.
 Tomorrow Night

No late advices have been re- ceived concerning the arrival time of the s s Baranof of the Alas ka Line. And so her arrivel here stil stands at 8 pm Thursday, to- morrow evening, as indicated in recent telegram to Agent Joe Harnish at Nome from the cap tain of the vessel.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-22

Pilot Jack Herman of the MAS flew Mrs. Herman and Chas. Thompson to Teller today and re- turned with Geo. Hellerich, Ar hold Thommen and Sam A. Aliak.
 He then made a hop to Council with Ralph Lomen and express, returning with Chas. K. Dent and Mort Sullivan and Jerry Gal yin from Bluff.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-22
WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
By Preston Grover

long years without IL, but even so the sum is so small it is almost futile in present trouble some times when such fund is badly needed.
 The representation fund" is money for use by diplomats in throwing parties for other diplo- mats and people who count. By that means they create good will and get needed information.
 The fund has had an unusual history. About 12 years ago, after much pleading and representa- ton, the state department receiv- ed $6O,OOO to help it's ministers and ambassadors foot the heavy bill for entertainment forced up on them. It wasn't nearly eno- ugh, but it was a starter.
 Along came the depression and desire to lop off odds and ends of appropriations that seemed un necessary. The entertainment fund might have survived but for the discovery that some of the diplomats sent to countries where liquor was permitted-that in- cluded most-served liquor to their guests. That was too much The fund was abolished and any money American envoys had from then on they took from their own pockets.
 The year 1887 brought return of the appearance of prosperity and the state department, wonde, of wonders, received $125.00O fol entert It was repeated in the 1888 appropriation bill.
 Envoys Underpaid
 Traditionally, American diplo mats are underpaid. The ambas sador to England, along with oth CTS of the ambassadorial rank gets $17,50O. His residence i. furnished by the government, ol rather on behalf of the govern ment. Actually UP. Morgan pre- sented the government with { home for the ambassador in Lon. don severa years ago. There arc posts where the ambassador anc minister do not get residences They have to pay for them out o1 salary.
 Ministers, next in rank to am. bassadors, get $1O,OOO a year. But frequently the cost of hold ing such jobs exceeds the pay That is why ambassadors to tht big countries like England anc France are men of private means able and willing to spend from their own pockets to keep ur their end.
 Other countries for the mos, part don't put such a burden on their envoys. The British ann bassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Lindsay, reputedly gets $75,OOO a year salary and allow ances. He lives in a very elabor- ate embassy out at the end of swank Massachusetts, avenue.
 Other Salaries
 Ambassador Saito from Japan, gets $4O,00O salary and allowan- ces, and a residence.
 Both these diplomats can, and do, entertain often and we'll. But American ambassadors abroad have only their salaries and a split from $l25OOO to do the necessary"
 The equipment for one battery of field artillery costs $25O, 900, two times the whole amount the
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-22

Buy them by the bundle. Use them for starting fires. For Sale At the Nome Nugget
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-22
Airplane News

Pilot Sig Wien of the Wien Air lines made a flight to Spruce Creek today with Tolbert Scott and MT. McIver, He made a flight to Teller taking Bud Thompson from there to Taylor.
 He was scheduled for flight to Taylor today with Karl Bale, and from there to Coffee Creek to bring to Nome, Mrs. Richards from Dahl Creek.
 Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow Air Service is due to arrive Nome today from Fairbanks with first class mail and express. He is scheduled for another flight to Fairbanks later this week.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Real Stoves Are Found
In Old Chinese Graves

The ancient Chinese like the
Egyptians, were much concerned about
extending the necessities, comforts
and conveniences of life to their de-
ceased relatives and friends. Conse-
quently they buried with the dead vari-
Gus implements and even human seryi-
tors.
Among the things buried with the
oead were pottery models of stoves. so
mat the cooking of food might be con-
tlnued in the other world. A number
OF these, dating to about the Begin
hlng OF the Christian era, are in the
nall OF Chinese archaeology of Field
Museum of Natural History. Chicago.
Also exhibited is a cast iron stove of
type practical for actual use in cook
ing. This. although likewise found
oufled IN grave, is of the type of
stove upon which the people of the
period did their cooking, according to
Z. Martin Wilbur curator of sinoloqy
Made during the later Han dynasty
CAD. 25-22O, it is one of the oldest
extant cast-iron objects in the world
Ihe process Of casting iron was un-
known to the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans. but was the basis of an impor-
tant industry in ancient China. Iron
founders amassed large fortunes, and
IN l19 BIC, during the. reign of EN-.
peror WI, the industry became a state
monopoly.