The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 7, 1936, Page 2

PAGE TWO The key West Citizen Published Daily Except Sunday By ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. P. ARTMAN, President 4VE ALLEN, Assistant Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Unly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe Coun) Member of the Associated Press -te Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited it or not otherwise credited in this paper and ais the lucai news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... ——— : 3ix Months Tree Months .. one Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cargs of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, éte., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainments by churches from which a revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- rations. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Bridges to complete Road to Main land. Free Port. Hotels and Apartinents. Rathing Pavilion. Ab ports Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. John, the last of the Ringlings, is dead, but the show must go on. No, Polonius, I never have seen a dream walking, but I saw a horse fly. Now that college football over the gamblers will have to something else. is almost bet on A sporisman’s organization to pre- serve game reminds us of the Japanese plan to cooperate with China. In the development of surprises, the one that would put Al Smith in the next cabinet, would be a knockout. The Social ferninst capital s and Communists are ism, but they are the only political parties who require their mem- bers to pay dues. The soldier is the highest ideal in the Germany and Italy of today. They who live by the sword, shall perish by the sword. Cave ursum! Hark! cross roads. There is dirty work at Big Business is in a gigantic conspiracy to entice the brain trusters from the New Deal, and thus confound it. It is possible that King never read Kipling’s words: iss only Edward has “A woman a woman, but a good cigar is a Perhaps His Royal Highness sn't indulge in the weed. Dividends to stockholders in 1936 will réach the handsome figure of $3,000,000,- 000. That also helps to keep the country prosperous. Then there is the $2,000,000,- 000 bonus. Gosh, where did all this money come from and where did it go? ! others from reinfesting premises. theless, temporary measures are the first | | that the current proposals to intro- the | men. RATS COST $200,000,000 a YEAR The average housekeeper of this coun- try may be inclined to dismiss the presence of a few mice in the house, and the aver-| age farmer may look upon the rats in his! barns as an evil not to be banished but when you think of the enormous loss_in- flicted upon the people of this country by these rodents it would seem that everyone would do his and her part to drive these | pests away. It is estimated by the U. S. Biological Survey that rats cause an annual loss of | $200,000,000 each year in this country. | They do enormous damages in the homes, stores, factories and also ravage the barns on the farms. According to the authorities who have studied the best ways to prevent this toll | temporary measures of rat control include the use of poisons, traps and deadly gas These devices merely eliminate the an mals for a short time and do not prevent consideration in dealing with the rat problem. Permanent control consists pri- marily in depriving rats of one or both in | their necessities of life—food and shelter. “Attention to such community rat breeding places as garbage dumps and city abattoirs will keep down the rat popula- tion,” says the survey in a recent bulletin. “Every community interested in prevent- ing disease epidemics that may possibly be spread by rats should make it a point to provide for proper maintenance of dumps and similar places for garbage and refuse disposal. Changes in the con- struction of buildings can be effected to make them rat-proof, and building codes of cities and towns can require rat proof construction.” A NEW CUP DEFENDER Plans are being made for another yacht race in 1937 for the famous Amer- ica’s Cup, first won in a race with the British véssel Aurora on August 22, 1851. Since that time 15 British challengers have sought to lift the cup, but all have failed. Thomas O. M. Sopwith of England, whose yacht Endeavour gave the Amer- ican defender Rainbow a close call in 1934, is again the challenger, and_ the races will probably be sailed next August. The new American cup defender will be built by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who was the Rainbow’s skipper in the 1934 races, and also captain of the victorious Enter- prise in 1930. The new vessel will be the most expensive racing boat ever built, its cost being estimated at about $400,000, borne entirely by Mr. Vanderbilt. This will be the first defender in- dividually owned in 50 years, the others ; having been built by syndicates of sports It will be designed by W. Starling Burgess, who also designed the Rainbew and the Enterprise. General tions for the two contending vessels will be drawn, as usual, by the cup committee of the New York Yacht Club. Mr. Vanderbilt is perhaps the world’s greatest yachtsman, and his admising countrymen will have confidence in his ability.to win again, as he did in 1930 and 1934, CASHING IN ON VICE Somehow we never could quite follow the idea that a supposedly reformed crook Never- | specifica- | | Hgh THE KEY WEST CITIZEN You and Your Nation’s Affairs By W. Chairman, Department The principal virtues clat the commodity dollar scheme it will insure justice in debt creditor relationships, beca' the monetary unit will bave the same purchas- ing power year after year, and that a stable rice level will ring greater stability, in- creased har- mony. and more social justice in all the major phases of the ec n-mic sys- tem. It was pointed out in the pre- ceding article duce the commodity dollar take two principal forms: One 1s to attempt to control the price level by changing the paper money price of gold through its purchase and sqle in the world markets. The other is to change the weight of the guld dollar domestically for the purpose of obtaining an in- crease or decrease in the domestic supply of currency. This latter pro- posal is that of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale. Since the Fisher plan is at present attracting less attention than the in- ternational gold buying (and selling) scheme, we shall examine the falla- cies of the commodity dollar notion as they relate principally to the lat- ter proposal. In so far as the fallacies found in the international gold buy- ing plan do not also apply to the Fisher proposal the iatter will be + given specific attention Both plans have the ame end in view. and the fallacies of both are substantially the | same. 1. The idea of controlling the price level by changing the price offered for an ounce of gold in the world mar- kets is an attempt to apply the un- sound Warren gold buying scheme which so many of us supposed had been generally discred.ted. It may »e recalled that the Federal government permitted Professor War- ren ‘acting through the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation and later the Federal Reserve Bank ot New York) to oegin raising the price of newly mined domestic gold on Oc- tober 23, 1933, and to continue doing this until the price was fixed at $35 per fine ounce on January 31, 1934 On October 23, 1933, the price was $29.59 per ounce, by January 16. 1934. it reached $34.45, and so remained un- til the price was fixed at $35 on Jan- uarv 31. These changes did not contro! the domestic price level. And here is the proof: (Address questions to the author care ot this newspa: TODAY’S Temperatures* Highest sae 81 Lowest Panes 8 a s 216 ef § fall* Yesterday’s Precipitation ormal Precipitation -0 Ins, -03 Ins. ar period moraing. -| throughout these Tomorrow’s Tides A.M. A. 6:26 Low ets Ads Barometer 8 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.07+ P.M. 5:54 WEATHER FORECAST (Til 8 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature; gen- tle variable winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with possibly show- 12} lar price cf an ounce Mtrols the price ‘evel, then ce level could not have changed 1837 to March, 1933. when we slipped off the gold standard, for the reason that we never changed the | price of gold during this entire period (excepting only the Greenback pe- riod, 1862-1879, in which we were on a paper money basis). Yet we had wide swings in the price level from 1837 to 1862, and from 1879 to 1933. This simple fact should be sufficient in itself to demonstrate that the price level is not, and cannot be. controlled by the Treasury’s price for gold. 4b) If the Treasury's price for gold controls the price level. then the price level could not have changed after January 31, 1934, at which time the | President fixed the price at $35 per ounce. Has the price level changed since then? Of course it has. For January. 1934, the average uf wholesale prices | was 722 (‘using 1926 as 100): in Sep- tember, 1934, it was 77.6: in Decem- | ber, 1935. it was 80.9: by September, | 1936, it was 82. In short, wholesale prices rose 13 per cent from January. 1934, to September. 1936, while the price of gold was fixed. Therefore. the price of gold did not control the price level. (c) Did the changing price of gold during the Warren regime control the price level? It did not. From October to December, 1933, the price of gold was raised from $29.59. on October 23, to $34.06 from December 18 to Jan: ary 15. The wholesale price level for October was 71.2; for December it was 70.8. 2, If the price of gold determines the’ price level, as asserted by the commodity dollar advocates, then all other factors, such as the supply of and demand for particular commodi- | Miss., which is ties. can have no controlling effect on the average of prices Such an as- sumption commodity dollar advocates. Let us look at some simple facts. The price level tumbled from 96.3 in 1933, and yet our price of gold did no€@ change during tl.is period. Does not common sense suggest that fac- tors other than the price of gold caused the fall in prices during this period? If the price of gold can con- trol the price level then it follows that a widespread drought. or a war. or bumper crops, or a general expan- sion of business activity. or a collapse in the stock market, or an agricul- tural program for raising prices, or credit inflation which does not change the price of gold. can not control the price level. To assume any such thing is palpably absurd. And yet this is one of the unrecognized assumptions of the commodity dollar advocates. (To be continued) per! ught to be obviously ab- | surd,. but apparently it is not to the | October. 1929, to 598 in February. } WEATHER | day. i | WEATHER CONDITIONS i a‘ i A strong high pressure area has ; moved in over the upper and mid- ‘dle Mississippi Valley and Lake i gion, Chicago, Ill, 30.48 inch- les, and has czused a cold wave with jtemperaturcs below zero in the ,extreme upper M: sippi Valley, land zero as far south as Chicago iwhi'e a low pressure area moving jin over the northern Rockies i Helena, Mont., 29.60 inches, has {caused rapidly z tempera. | j tures in th’s district and the north-} ern Plains States, Helena, Mont.,| reporting a 24-nour rise of 52 idegrees. Pressure is also low in| the far Northeast, and tempera- | tures are abnormally high through- jout most of the Atlantic States. sections, lg tonight and centra! portion Tues- ; ; Precipitation has occurred since ! yesterday morning from eastern Texas and the middle Gulf States \northeastward over the Ohio Val- 1 i |ley, North and Middle Atlantic KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Admiral F. C. Bullard, mandant of the United States Coast Guard, arrived in Key West this morning from Washing- ton and is on a tour of imspection of the Gulf Division which has its jheadquarters in Key West with Captain H. H.. Wolf After a visit with: as division commander. the commander the admiral was ithe guest of Captain R. W. Mc- Neely, conymandant at the Key West naval station. He said this afternoon that he had enjoyed a most delightful and _ interesting day. by rail for Division 15, also under command of Commander Wolf. Steamship Northland, which ar- rived Sunday after having com- pleted her regular summer service in the northern waters, took up this morning the winter run be- tween Key West and Havana, as jan additional unit of the P. and O. S. S. company. The Northland takes the place of the Governor Cobb which left this morning for Mobile to be placed in drydock and undergo the regular seasonal’ overhaul and repairs. Ed. Jenner, of the firm. of Jenner Brothers, the construction concern which was awarded the contract for building certain sec- tions of the Overseas Highway, is in the city today coming down from Islantorada on business. Mr. Jenner says that his force is mak- ing great progress and the pros- | pects are that the work contracted for by the company will be finish- ed considerably ahead of sched- uled time specified in their con- tracts. Circuit court convened trial murder in the killing of his sweet- heart, Mercedes Carmancha in this city last June. Manuel Jiminez. the woman's escort at the time of the murder ,was also killed. The committee in charge of the white way lighting program are satisfied with the progress bein; made and are sure sufficient funds will be raised. Of course, it was said, there are a number of residents still out of town but as soon as they return they wil! no doubt contribute to the general fund. While there has been col- lected. enough money to run the com-! He will leave this afternoon} i Biloxi,’ the © this | morning fr its second day im the of A. Dice, alims Lorenzo Ortega, charged with first degree (LLLLALLLALLALAL LALLA e, Saturday. of next week will tart at o'clock, These te be played «= Sundays, will start at 2-38 ‘married be probably knows. Net only do the saddees dehge to see Santa Claus, bat the grew= ups do also, and for this rease= = is stated that regardless of age Santa Claus will mect pou an greet you if you are at the lget house grounds te attend tie party to be given by the Chretien Ee deavor Society Thursday after neon. His bag will be check ful of good things fer everybody SONVILLE FLORIDA a ee et ee CE a2 (eS Ome coame Oe = into pores and thus gets st and kills the caus of scalp itch Ji acc SSR BiG ALL LLL A DALAL AA, The Easiest Way For You To Pay For A Home over a given period of years. per mortgage and have the house free of 2 very much like buymg 2 bouse and thes it to yourself. CONSULT US HOW YOU CaN BUELD G2 BUY A HOME OR REPAIR OR MODERNIZE ANY TYPE GF SUEZDINC G8 EGUEED CREDIT. The Fast National Bank ot Key West Member of the Federa! Depose css suce Coerperatsce € hahha didadadadubadadiatadiaad N i to sell quickly. SFI EEE EE EE Le NO HOLD-OVERS. CASH ONLY AT THESE PRICES CLEAR-O-LIN FLOOR ‘ LINOLEUM VARNISH CELLED AA AAA A Ah hk ede TWO CLOSE OUT SPECIALS A Few Dolls, Jumbo Size, 98c Each Also a few better dolls at various prices. We de not cupect these to be on hand a week hence because prices are marked dows bew— was the ideal character for soul-saving activities, but many seem to think other- wise. In an issue of a southern newspaper appeared an account of the former career ; of an evangelist, one Rev. Percente, whose principal stock in trade seems to be_ his} unsavory past record. The article, doubt- less inspired bythe reverend gentleman} ers in north portion. tonight, and; States and portions ofthe east-' in central portion tonight or Tues-iern Lake region, with heavy rain day; somewhat colder in west-!at Nashville, Tenn., 1.06 inches: jcentral and extreme north por-' Atlanta, Ga., 1.68 inches; Wash- tion tonight, and in central and- ington, D. C., 1.46 inches, and northeast portions Tuesday. Eastport, Me., 1.10 inches. There} Jacksonville to Florida Straits; has a’so been moderate rain inj and East Gulf: Gentle variable! the North Pacific States, light rain | winds over extreme south portion,| or snow in Montana~ arfd the; and moderate sovthwest shifting | Dakotas, and light rain in west- to north and northeast winds, over ‘central Florida. Temperatures at} ia F = north and central portions, and!8 a. m. th's morning ratiged from | himself, gives g rather boastful narrative |part!y cloudy to overcast weather |22 degrees below zero at Duluth, ofhis fornter singe with showers over north portion‘ Minn., to 76 degrees at‘ Key West. It declared that he has been a saloon | -———-- keeper, a prize fighter, a bootlegger, and the operator of. a gambling house. After r YOUR DESTINY BY LE MARS completing a penitentiary sentence for} ssakati h ARES os A 1936 Reading to The Citizen Readers by Special Ar- viol ating the Pfohibition laws, he got re ts for a Limited Time enly TEN CENTS Coin and ligion and entered the ministry. H Stamp. x Now if the gentleman’: ion bd sreformati THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, TT aS A SHERWIN WILLIAMS PRODUCT 85e 45¢ The city council of Pompano, Florida, permits the Florida East Coast trains to pass through the viliage at 45 miles an hour, and the ruling is for the full 24 hours, says the Pompano Sun. Pompano has it on Key West in one respect. Trains do go throug Pompano; they don’t even come to Key West. QUARTS, regular price $1.35, PINTS, regular price 75c, The Key West Sunday Star says that students of Biblical prophecy are watch- ing events in England with interest. Ac- cording to some of the forecasts, Edward was to be the last king, The Star adds. That coincides with what his grandfather said concerning the then Prince of Wales, successor to the throne: “You will be the last king of England.” believing much in prephecies, the convic- tion of this column is there will be other kings of Great Britain long after the mor- tal coil of Edward VIII has crumbled into dust. It is possible there will be queens in between; we came near forget- | Maybe so, but not} some } is real and sincere, his past record should not be held against him. But why should he drag that record into print? The only reasonable answer is that he is trying to surround himself with a cheap glamour, in order to attract the attention of the moron element which delights in glorifying past KEY WEST, FLA. * “Your Home Is Worthy Of The Best™ Prone 332 i LAAALAAAAhhhAhhAhaAhAiahAissiahittAthtitititststhtshsiihddhd ting the female of the species. ° lesa present criminals, Bia aIaII IDOL Z il 222 III ll PISS,