The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By NO OVER-PRODUCTION OF FOOD The League of Nations is serving as a seccccecccccccccccccsces |) Today’s YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS You and Your: A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Reader, by Spec! Am Anniversaries THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Le JOE ALLEN, Assistant From The Citizen Buil Corner Greene and Ann Streets Newspaper Key West County. Only Daily and Monroe Butered at Key West, Florida, as Member of the Axsociated Press The Associated Press is exclu y entitled to use ublication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Months One Month “ADVERT le known on appli NOTICE of thanks, resolutions of , will be PECIAL respect, obituary notices, et the rate of 10 cents at Notices for ent a revenue is to be der The ¢ sion of public iss interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 5 cents a line. um and invites disc IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main- iand. more, Bort Bathing! Pavitt Aipotss Land and ‘Bea. ° ‘solidagin cor : “downty and City i , } | . Hotels and ASA | Governments, 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 or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or ‘njustice; denounce vice aud praise virtue; conimend good done by individual or organ- ization; teierant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never cope promise with principle. are often “cussed out” by the cure, but not until they are Doctor: patients they better. When a man compliments your face, get ready to say phasis and stick to it. you to “no” with em- In the ction of the Uniied States where this is written it looks as if the de- pression has been whipped, verte g is the modern way to sell goods and if you want to use the modern method in Key West use The Citizen. Take a vacation whether you think you can afford it or not and when you get back to work you will find out that you could afford it alright. Governor Landon will soon be notified that he has been named the standard- bearer of the Republican party. He evi- dently doesn't read the paper A classified advertisement Citizen is generally worth more costs in The than it Try one, when in need of anything; or if you want to get rid of something. Ore use Mussolini may have for Ethiopia, now that he has it, is to send re calcitrant fascists there into exile. Such a threat will keep many a sullen citizen in line. When a lady promises to meet a boy friend at a certain place at a certain time and fails to meet him there, he can take it} for granted the lady did not care to him. see Friends of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde are speculating on whether she will re- turn to Denmark as Aimerican minister or simply Mrs. Rohde, the wife of “gentleman-in-waiting to King Christian.” a It begins to look as if nature wants to see how dry it can make America. The prohibitionists are crazy with the heat if they think they can make any progress | with their ‘‘dry” propaganda at the pre- ; sent time. | | | | .: : the world. clearing-house for a vast amount of infor- mation on world conditions, Recently, a committee on _ nutrition called attention to the problem of under- nourishment and stressed the “consider- able under-consumption” of agricultural products. It pointed out that millions of people, for reasons of poverty, ignorance | or other causes, are not consuming health- maintaining diets and to supply their needs would tax the productive areas Ts While the Committee urges govern- ments to encourage and support the scien- tifie study of the problems of .nutyition, .it is also apparent that the major factor is one of distribution. The picture presented includes vast surpluses of foodstuffs and untold millions suffering from malnutri- tion. If governments generally took more the world’s goods, they would not only do their people a service, but they might find that the threat of war would be greatly re- duced. SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL. Former Editor of The Key West Citizen | interest in facilitating the distribution | Nominations are closed, according to G. C. Covill of Detroit, whe won an ideal home worth $10,000 in a contest, and has been besieged by women who wanted to share it with him He announces his en- gagement to Miss Margaret Graham of St. Thomas, Ontario. An Atlanta newspaper was recently asked this question by an anxious sub- seriber: “Is it unlucky to postpone a wed- ding?” The editor gave the cynical reply, “Not if you keep on postponing it.” Five Mexican bandits who had killed and robbed several defenseless railroad passengers were rounded up and shot with- out being given a chance to go crazy or receive ministrations from sob sisters. But | Mexico is a primitive country, not up on the new criminology, One claim to distinction is made by Rev. C. C. Grimes, a Tennessee minister, who y he is the only Methodist preacher who is not fond of chicken. He said from the pulpit: “I don't like chicken. Sin- clair Lewis, potato salad or Henry L. Mencken.” Uncle Sam isn’t so prompt in paying war debts himself, according to heirs of a| colonist named James Bell, who have pre- sented a claim for supplies said to have been furnished to Washington’s army dur- ing the revolution, in the sum of $6,056 and accrued interest, A slight misunderstanding gave \ John Acker of Newark an awful shock. Tried with her husband for passing bad checks, the judge sentenced John to jail for a year, and tyrning to the wife he said. “TH give you a like sentence.” Mrs. Acker thought he said “life” and fainted. An odd story of animal fright comes | from Nebraska, where owners of a silver fox farm are said to have sued an air! transport company for $40,000. The claim is made that low-flying airplanes have seared 56 of the plaintiffs’ foxes to death. Old documents discovered in Genoa, j cloudy is ! Nation’s Affairs More Monetary Follies By WALTER E. SPAHR Chairman, Department of Economics, New York University Was the placing of the New Dealers currency plank under the heading of “Government Finance” an uncon- scious revelation of their policies with respect to a “sound” cur- rency system? One of the major earmarks of a sound cur- rency lies in the separation of a nation’s cur- rency system from matters of government 6- nance. Mone- tary economists have been mak- ing strenuous efforts to per- suade or to force the gov- 2rnment to sepa. ate its monetary sys- tem from its fiscal affairs. out thus far their efforts on this score nave been futile. The N-w Dealers either do not rasp the significrnce of the separa- son, or their ation: of a sound cur- rency are extremely questionable Not only past events oui the new plank on curren. reveal unquestion- ably that the New Dealers’ concept of a sound curr2ncy are not only most unorthodox but are what we might in kindness call “mivst peculiar” The monetary economists of this country have also been fighting vigor- ously the feared intention of the present administration to introduce the commodity dollar scheme—a plan by which an attempt ts made to main- tain a stable price level by juggling the number of grains in the standard gold unit. The new monetary plank of the New Dealers is broad enough to permit them to introduce such 8 fantastic scheme — a scheme that would keep business and foreign ex- change in a constant turmoil. On three different occasions in 1934. the Economists’ National Committee on Monetary Policy condemned the commodity dollar plan as unsound This Committee, composed of ninety four of the leading monetary econo- mists of this country, was organized in order to give the public the benefit of the pooled opinions and experience of these economists and to remove the monetary issues from the realm of politics if possible The part of the new plank which permits the introduction of the com- modity dollar scheme ts as follows: “We approve the objective of a per- manently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctua tions in value which injured in turn producers, debtors and property own- ers, on the one hand. and wage earn- ers and creditors. on the other ie Just what “so stabilized” means to the New Dealers is anybody’s guess. And the implied assumption that our monetary system was responsible for the suffering of these groups is a mark of ignorance. This same Economists’ Committee has also repeatedly condemned the Silver Purchase Act. And yet the new plank enables the government if re- elected to continue the present absurd silver policy and even to introduce bimetallism. That part of the small paragraph dealing with currency which gives the Administration ample room to do any- thing it pleases with silver reads: “We approve . a currency which will permit full utilization of the country’s resources.” Silver is a re- source of the country If that is not the purpose of that sentence. then it takes the prize for being meaning- less and for silly statements regard- ing money. The last sentence of the money Plank .s this: “We assert that today we have the soundest currency in the world.” If that statement is true ther an inconvertible paper currency ts the best in the world. and all lessons ané principles of money are wrong. A high school student should know bet- ter than that! Fifty-two members of the Econo- mists’ National Committee on Mone- tary Policy sent a telegram to the Resolutions Committee stating among other things that “Good faith with the American public and evidence of understanding the nature of a sound currency will not be established unless the money. banking, and fiscal planks include the following: “1. Provision for a balanced budget largely by cutting expenditures. “2. Pledge to insure freedom of Federal Reserve System from politi- cal domination. ‘3. Provision for return t6 a gold standard at the present weight of the gold dollar unless international co- operation for restoring and improving the gold standard suggests the de- sirability of some slight change in the weight of our gold unit. “4. Repeal law giving President power to devaluate our currency and return power to Congress. “5 Repeal of Thomas Amendment and Silver Purchase Act. “6. Recommend appointment of a bi-partisan commission, adequately assisted by experts, to make a thor- ough study of existing money and banking systems.” {t is obvious that the ptatform did not show good faith with the Ameri- can public, and revealed. on the part of its framers, « evidence of under- standirg the na‘ure of a sound cur- rency. A monetary economist can look at this plank only with the most profound disco agement ard wonder what price the American public final- iy will pay for this political and eco- nomic folly. (Address questions to the author, care of this newspaper) | TODAY’S mperatures* Highest Normal Mean Rainfall? Yesterday's Precipitation Normal Preciy .02 Ing *'sity is central this morning *\ te 200 miles 1 Jacksonville Lowest © _....... 1.16} | Mean 83} WEATHER SeSRUEe eee. A | to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle variable winds over south portion and gen- itle winds mostly westerly over north portion and partly overcast weather tonight and Tuesday with scattered showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance of slight in east mov of Tampico, ment and with reported thus is also relatively ; Showing little - How over most of the eastren por- tion of the country, ¢ 2 arometer B a. a level, m. today: 30.03. WEATHER FORECAST (Til! 8 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly with oceasional thund showers tonight and Tuseday; gentle variable winds. Florida: Partiy cloudy scattered thundershower day and in extreme tonight; warmer on the extreme cutheast coast tonight. with Tues- south portion j cept south moderate moved in Mountain have ern Florida; while jover the central Roe legion. Light rains teurred during the jin portions of the easte Mountain and northern Pla ‘States, and tere have been s tered showers (in eastern and southern being heavy at Miami, Tia 2 j inches, and Hatteras, N. C., 1.60 inches. Temperatures are gen- erally seasonbale from the Rocky Mountain States westward and jin the Atlantic and Gulf States, lbut continue abnormally high | } | Spain, | { | | | PIPPIPTOAE 1 Italy, indicate that the total cost of the qreessercesosszessen expedition which discovered America was} only about $6,000. Columbus got $270 for! the trip, while his other two captains re- ceived $150 each. The pay of a sailor v about $2 a month. . nat 22 ET tind Belated recognition was given to a Negro slave known as “Old Aggie,” who bravely nursed the: sick when: pestilence swept the village of East Barrington; ’N. H., before the ,Revolutionary War. She lived to be 100° years old, and a monument | to her memory has been erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution. When Police Lieutenant R. L. Nord of Los Angeles requested the judge toj dismiss traffic complaints against three men the judge wanted to know on what! grounds. “These men are dead, honor,” replied Nord. your! lS 8 Pr roe N : charge to the veteran. The First National ANNOUNCEMENT TO VETERANS We will be pleased to cash U. checks issued in payment of the bonus without S. Treasury It is however necessary that you be properly identified as we must know that we are Paying the funds to the right person. Your American Legion membership card is your best means of identification. Bank ot Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SOITISISTIPIIIIISS. }minican j Monterey, jin Memphis, | New | July lof the name, Toda . sececeeeesesee 1814—Jose S. Alemany, Do- missionary, bishop San Francisco's fir archbishop, born — iz Died there, April 14 Catholic 1888. 1821—Nathan Bedford Forrest Mississippi mer federate private to ed cavalry leader, er and president born in Bedford Co., Oct. 29, railway build the Ter 1877. after wa Died Mathew, Cleve mining leac 1851—Smauel land shipping, magnate, civic thropist, born in Cleveland Oct. 18, 1931. and te and philan Died 1855—George A York and Boston p or and philanthropist, Wapole, Mass. Died there 1, 1936. collec = 1 Franklin H. Martin, ed Chicago surgeon, born at cnia, Wis. Died March 7, 19 hn Jacob Astor, fourth capitalist and inven tor, born at Rhinebeck, Died in Titantic disaster, 15, 1912. y’s Horoscope eanesceere ° ercccccecs Today is a very strong or ng perception, great adaptability to conditions znd a very able ne ture. 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