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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER IV-Continued

"Nol" Kroon sucked in his breath
with whistling sound, and his eyes
slowly contracted. $50 he shot him
self, did he?"
Vance's eyebrows went up slight
ly.
"That's the general impression"
he returned blandly. you're not
psychic-are you? I didn't mention
how Swift died, but the fact is, he
did die by a revolver shot. Super
ficially, I admit, it looks like sui
eide" Vance smiled coldly. "Your
reaction is most interestin'. Why,
for instance did you assume that
he shot himself, instead of-let us
say-jumping off the roof"
Kroon set his mouth in straight
line, and a look of anger came into
his narrowed eyes. He fumbled in
his pocket for a cigarette, and f.
nally stammered:
II don't know-exactly ex-
cept that-most people shoot them
selves nowadays"
ooh, quite" Vance's lips were
still set in a stern smile. "Not an
uncommon way of assisting oneself
out of this troublous world. But,
really y'know, I didn't mention sui
eide at all. Why do you take it for
granted that his death was self
inflicted"
Kroon became aggressive. "He
was healthy enough when I left
here. No ones going to blow a
mans brains out in public like this"
elbow his brains out?" Vance re-
peated. ''How do you know he
wasn't shot through the hearth"
Kroon was now obviously fus-
tered.
"T merely assumed"
Vance interrupted the mans en-
barrassment.
However," he said, without re-
Taxing his calculating scrutiny,
"your academic conclusions regard
ing a more or less public murder
are not without some logic. But
the fact remains, some one did actu-
ally shoot Swift through the head
and practically in public. I could
bear to know just where you've been
and just when you returned to the
apartment house here"
Kroon's gaze wandered.
II believe I remarked before I
went out" he said, with an attempt
at serenity, "that I was going to a
relatives to sign some silly legal
documents"
"And may I have the name and
address of your relative-an aunt,
I believe you said?" Vance re-
quested pleasantly. "I'm in charge
of the situation here until the Off
cials arrive"
Kroon took the cigarette from his
mouth with a forced air of nom
chalance and drew himself up
haughtily.
II cannot see," he replied stiff
ly, "that that information concerns
any one but myself"
Neither can l." admitted Vance
cheerfully. II was merely hopin'
for frankness. But I can assure
you, in view of what has happened
lIere this afternoon, that the police
will want to know exactly when YOU
returned from your mysterious sign
ing Of documents. And now I must
ask you to Join the others in the
drawing-room, and to wait there un-
til the police arrive. I trust you
have no objections"
'None whatever, I assure you,"
Kroon returned with a display of
cynical amusement. "The regular
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-06
AVERAGE Weddinq Aqe

In the United States today the
average age at marriage is 21.7
years for women and 24.8 years
for men. Today, women marry
four months earlier and men
eleven months earlier than they
did 25years ago.-Collier' S Weekly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-06

In the Telling
There is nothing which can not
be perverted by being told badly.
Terence.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-05-06
t'New American Race"


p ERHAPS Van Wyck Brooks
"The Flowering of New Eng
land" left you sad. They almost
made a culture, but not quite.
Here's fresh hope. DR.. Ales
Hrdlicka, the famous anthropolo-
gist, celebrates Boston, long-heads
and round heads alike, and finds
that Boston lis nurturing ''new
American race" They are the tall
est and largest Americans and still
growing.
"They are excellent, healthy
white stock" says DR.. Hrdlicka. "It
is something of a pity that they
can't be kept in an Eden and stay
there forever"
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
MILEAGE GRAFT

One of the oldest forms of honest
graft pocketed by state and national
legislators is called mileage. Thus other
wise honorable men who make the laws
help themselves to other peoples money.
1t is practice usually winked at when
kept within reason.
But when members of the Ohio House
at the end of last year tried to collect
mileage weekly from June till December,
when no meetings of the House were held,
a protest was raised. That was pushing a
good thing too far The fake claim was
resisted and the matter was taken to court,
Recently, according to the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, the common pleas court
threw the claim out, denying the argument
of former Speaker Bittinger that the court
could not go back of the record; that the
record showed the House was in session
and therefore it was, although the mem
bers remained at home practicing law,
weighing sugar at the general store or
milking cows. The newspaper adds:
Judge Reyolds took the view that,
regardless of legal fictions in the s House
journal, if that body was not IN session
with the members physically present, it
was not in session; that if members did
not travel between their homes and ColunI-
bus once a week, each way, they were not
entitled to payment for such travel.
Such is the proper ending of pretty
story 1t should be the last time Ohio leg.
slators try doctoring the books for per-
sonal profit"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
WEATHER CONDITIONS

A strong high pressure area,
crested this morning over the
north Atlantic States, overspreads
most sections from eastern Can
ada southwark over the Gulf
States; while pressure is low over
western districts, except the
north Pacific States, and low
pressure area of considerable in
tensity extends from central Can
ada southwark into the extreme
upper Mississippi Valley. Fair
weather prevails throughout most
sections of the country this MORN
ing, the only measurable precipi-
tation during the last % hours
being light to moderate showers
on the east coast of Florida, and
rain in portions of Montana, North
Dakota, Arizona and New Mexico.
Temperatures have risen in the
Plains States and Mississippi Val
ley, but continue somewhat below
| normal jim eastern districts. Max
imum temperatures above 90 de-
grees were reported yesterday in
many localities in the Plains
States and Mississippi Valley, with
readings of 81 to 90, degrees in
! Minnesota, and 100 degrees at
Shreveport, La.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
WAR WITHOUT DEATHS?

The use of acetyl choline as war
making chemical is advocated as a step to
make war less barbarous Used in COM
bat it would cause soldiers to drop uncon-
scious to the ground where they could be
captured in large numbers. There would
be no deaths and no after effects.
While this might be a wonderful idea
for breaking through the enemy lines it is
questionable whether wars can be salts
factorily concluded through such large
scale capture of opposing forces After a
few heavy engagements the number of
prisoners might be more than the soldiers
in action and the task of taking care of
them might stagger the humanitarian in
stincts of combatant nations
With both sides capturing troops by
the thousands the tendency would be to
use them as workmen behind the lines and,
in time, this would degenerate into form
of slavery that might not end with the war.
Besides, what is the use of fighting if you
cannot kill your enemies?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

serves as a means of social selection;
it discharges the function of deter
mining the place that each person
shall occupy in the economic order.
If "all the worlds a stage" COMPETE
ton is a device for assigning the parts
to the players. The process of selec-
ton works for institutions. of course,
as well as for Individuals.
! 0Gompetitioh serves also as a regu-
lator of prices. The competition of
producers to sell tends to keep prices
down. and the competition of con-
sunfers to Buy tends to keep prices
up. Competition among the sellers
may be relied upen to protect con-
sumers from exploitation: competition
among the buyers may be relied upon
to assure producers adequate profits
Competition determines the amount
Of labcr, capital. and land to be used
in each industry. and by each pro-
Queer in the industry. If there exists
a state of free enterprise. in which
manufacturers are allowed to COM
pete with one another for the agents
of production. labor. capital. and
land will be employed as a rule to
produce the goods that the people de-
mand, thereby promoting the public
welfare.
Competition is a method OF fixing
the rewards of the several agents oil
production-labor. capital. land. ano
enterprise. Under competition, more
over, there are forces at work that
tend to give each of the agents o.
address questions to the a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
CAREFUL HUNTERS

Now that the hunting season is about
TO get under way throughout the United
States it might be well TO remind readers
of The Citizen of the dangers inherent in
the hunting season.
Scores of nimrodS are cut down every
year through the premature discharge OF
weapons. careleSSly handled. Other vic
Tins fall prey To the nervous hunter who
shoots at the bushes that move rather than
at game in full view
Those who hunt this fall and winter
might save their own lives by vigorously
observing safety codes. In addition. they
might spare innocent byStanders.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

production reward roughly in acs
cordance with its economic worth.
These forces work imperfectly. to be
sure. Thus it would be absurd to
maintain that in competitive regime
all groups of laborers are paid exactly
what they are worth. It would be
absurd, also, to maintain that the re-
wards of labor are always ample. But
would their real wages be higher
under any other system that might
be substituted?
Competition promotes efficient op-
Grafton and technical progress. In
competitive society enterpreneurs are
alert to devise and apply improved
methods of operation, and to introduce
mechanical inventions and technical
discoveries. They have ample incen-
tive to invent new processes, to per-
feet known ones. and to eliminate
waste. because their costs of opera
ton are thereby reduced. and their
profits increased.
Competition leads to lower prices
and better quality Tor service). The
reduction in costs resulting from in
creased operating and chronological
efficiency leads to lower prices and
better quality. In the long run the
consumer gets most of the benefit of
improved methods and chronological
advance.
Competition has proven tremen-
dously effective in increasing the ag-
gregate of wealth. and thus the real
income of the community. The period
since the Industrial Revolution - a
period characterized by active COM
petition-is notable for such an out
pouring of goods as has never before
been witnessed in history, an outpour-
| ing so great from the standpoint of
quantity and variety as to permit an
ordinary workingman to live better
than kings once lived. Truly the COM
petitive order is potent conjuror of
worldly goods!
Competition gives producers an in
| centive to anticipate the wants OF
consumers. The wants of the people
are many and varied. and the rewards
of industry go to the producers who
are alert to satisfy them.
Finally, competition gives the con-
sumer a considerable measure OF
freedom in the choice of goods, and
thereby satisfies deep-rooted human
| instinct.
thor care of this nelUSpdper)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
DEMOCRACY JUSTIFIED

While the world at large may con-
slider that problems of war and peace, of
fered III Europe and Asia, are serious the
people of the United States realize that
really serious questions are about to pre-
sent themselves to the citizens of this re-
public.
1t won't be long now before a new
baseball championship will be to be de
termined and when this grave matter is
disposed of the brains of the nation will
have its attention focused upon the col
egiate elevens that cavort weekly for the
mythical national crown. Moreover, there
is the matter of the personnel of the All
Star elevens TO be revealed
That democracy is able to solve these
puzzling problems without resort to civil
warfare is a complete answer to the Hit
ler-Mussolin declaration that republics
are incapable of adequately determining
the solution of serious and perplexing ma
tional issues.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan OF the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or Glass; 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 eontaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Admittedly. the Wagner Act is one
sided-it puts responsibilities of many
kinds upon employers. and few upon
labor. The Supreme Court referred to this
fact in upholding the Act. but said there
was nothing in the Constitution to prevent
Congress from passing one-Sided law. 1t
follows, therefore, that the Act must be
extensively revised it it is to achieve real
and permanent SucceSs,-and justice to
both employer and employee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
Today'S Horoscope


Today's native has a kindly ma
tire, with a Great. and high y
imaginative mind The temper
may be- a little short. as is com.
mon wjta quick. energetic people
There Is a strong. self-c0mmanding
faculty. which sill. in most eases,
ho-d control: bui it is Liable "a
slack off occasionally into sen
sGaglsuesS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
WEATHER FORECAST

(Till 1880 p. M, Thursday
Key West and Vicinity; FAN
tonight; Thursday partly cloudy
with light scattered showers
gentle easerly winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy with
light scattered showers Thursday
and on the east coast tonight.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
Gentle to moderate easterly winds
and rarity overcast weather to-
night and Thursday with scatter
ed showers.
East Gulf: Gentle easter,y winds
and partly overcast weather to-
night and Thursday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Directors Of the Key West
Rotary Club held a meeting last
night at the home Of J. Otto
Kirehheiner, member of the or
ganization. The report of Robert
Spottswood, who attended the dis
trict meeting at Jacksonville.
made his proposition for an ae-
ceptance of the report, which was
done.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
A Service for Travellers

For the ever-increasing number of patrons
who planning journey our bank offers
AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS CHEQUES
as protection for travel funds.
These Cheques, issued in convenient denomi-
nations of SO, $50, $50 and $780, cost only 75c.
for each S100 purchased. They spendable
wherever travellers go, and carry the added and
important feature of prompt refund by the Am
erican Express Company in of loss theft
before your second signature is affixed. Ask the
Teller about them
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST
Member of the Federal Reserve
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

petltlVe system
has its imper-
f e ii o n S, t
course, but it
has so many adj
va ia ges that
we should not
lightly discard
it unless we
have reasonable
assurance that
some other sys-
tenn would work
better.
The advan-
tages of compe-
titiOn NAV he
briefly listed.
Competition
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Mrs. Eliza Soderberg, one oi
the owners of the Gift Shoppe. or
Fleming street. has returned from
an extended trip in the cast dur.
ing which she made many pur
chases of beautiful fall and winter
goods.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken
From The Files OF The Citizen

yesterday swallowed two bichlO-
ride of mercury tablets, with sui
cidal intent, is resting well today,
according to the report of her
physician. Immediately after the
tablets. were taken 5shes@as sushed
to hospital where the .stoiAach
was relieved less than I5 INMATES
after the act. The tablets we're
taken immediately after q heal
and that was the real reason why
they had no time to act.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Editorial comment: Johnny
Gates isn't at al cer.ain that. il
hs ever has another boat carried
90 Cuba. ne went let il stay there.
Selling one ia Cuha IS worth about
al. an average boat will bring. n
has learned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Newspaper editors have tough hides
if they were thin-skinned their life would
be too miserable TO bear.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

All over the nation people are talking
Key West while in Key West. with the
imminence of the roads completion. we
are talking turkey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Once piracy engaged in its nefarous
traffic ON the seas. now il operates under
the seas. Cease, say nine determined
nations or take the consequences
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Each issue of newspaper makes
friends and enemies so long as the friends
outnumber the enemies. the paper is a sue
cess.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

An Irishman in Key West thinks Hit
Ter is Stain MusSolni's stuff.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
You andYOur
Nations affairs
Advantages of Competition
By ELIOT JONES
Professor of Trans pOrtGfiOn and Public Utilities,
Stanford University

In these troublous times it is often
said that the competitive system has
broken down, and that some other
system must be substituted. The COM
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

A good many believe President Roose-
welt will not choose to run for ex-President
in 1910.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Rupert Knowles, well known
promoter of Knowles Thirty
Acres" announced today he would
reopen his boxing camp for the
youngsters of Key West, begin
ming next Tuesday, and has sent
out an S. o. $. to all the young
scrappers in the city telling them
Of the event.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

A good cigar is cigar you like, no
matter what the so-called connoisures say
ii is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

If we fail to keep peace, we will al
go to pieces.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Candidates or candy dates, which is
your preference?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

179S-Marshal P Wilder, Bos-
ton merchant, agriculturist, and
first citizen of his day, born at
Rindge, n. II. Died Dec. 16,
1886.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Miss Annie Rome. young We
naa who in 4 RAroxysn 81 ruge
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John Cascoue. wanted in Key
West fon a charge of embezzling
fpRdS tes the amount of 5000. re-
ccipts from a sale of fish at this
port Some months ago, arrived
this morning from Pensacola in
custody Of Sheriff Cleveland
Niles. Cascone is alleged to have
brought a cargo Of fish to Key
West and sold it to a local firm
for $t.5O0. 1t is reported that
he advised his firm in Pensacola
that luck was against him on the
trip, the market poor in Key
West, and that he lacked 5000 of
turning in the sum. The prisoner
did not deny his guilt to Sheriff
Niles, bat seemed interested in the
length of time be would have to
serve. The sheriff sand that the
parting of Cascone and his wife
vas touching IN the extreme, and
one of the most pathetic scenes
be had ever witnessed. Cascone
had been held in jail in Pensacola,
and the sheriff took his prisoner
around TO bid farewell to his
family II was found that a babe
had been born in the home but a
few hours before. and the prison
er had but a few moments "a get
= glimpse Of the new arrival be-
fore taken away, The family is
destitute.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Labor continues to assume striking
attitude.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

1833-Stephen d. Lee, Confed-
crate acknowledgement, Missis-
sippi planter, college president,
born at Charleston, S. c. Died
May %, 1908.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN
]. Water and Sewerage.
2. Bridges to complete Road to Main
land.
3. Free Port
4. Hotels and Apartments.
5. Bathing Pavilion.
6. Airports-Land and Sea.
7. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

There will be no interference
by traffic to the big crowd which
will assemble on the block in
front of The Citizen tonight to
hear the returns from the Demp-
sey-Tunney World Championship
fight, which will be sent by the
Associated Press from Chicago.
The Citizen appealed to Mayor
Leslie Curry yesterday afternoon
and he announced that from 9 80
until the battle is over, traffic
will be kept off of Duval street,
between Greene and Front. This
will keep the crowd from having
TO be broken up at intervals and
allow interest to be conferred on
the fight returns. Tonight's per-
Torrance will start about $3.50
O'Clock and from that time on
until the finish of the fight, tele-
grams will be read giving each
activity of the fighters and the
blows struck in this great battle
The public, generally, is invited
to be present.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

Barometer reading at D a. M;
Sea level, 1896.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22
Today's
Anniversaries

1790-Augustus B. Longstreet,
Southern editor, lawyer, clergy
man and college president, born
at Augusta, Ga. Died at Oxford,
Miss, July 3, 1870.
1791-Michael Faraday, famed
English chemist-physicist, born
Died Aug. 25, 1867. rer-.i
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

1879-W. Forbes Morgan,
1886 Democratic national treas
urer, born in New York. Died at
Columbus. O., April 20, 1887
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

address questions to the author Of this nel0Spdper)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

1SE3-Hugh L. Scott, Indian
fighter, army chief of staff, born
at Danrille, Ky. Died April 30,
1884.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-22

1S34-William B. Coggswell,
New York mining engineer,
manufacturers, who established
the Solway process of manufac-
turing soda here, born at Oswego.
n. Y. Died June Z, 1921.