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Short-Lived Governments
France has had 100 govern
ments—premiers and their cab
inets—or an average of one every
eight months since becoming a
republic for the third time in 1871.
Not one has served a full term
of tour years because each has
been forced to resign the first
time that one of its bills was
voted dorm by the National As
-eethbly, an act which is indica
tive oj a lack of confidence in the
cabinet —Collier’s Weekly.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.—Adv.
Talent pud Genins
Talent is that which is in a
man’s power! Genius is that in
whose power a man is.—Lowell.
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THERE’S GOLD IN KENTUCKY^ HILLS
But Woe to Crook Who Tries to Take It Out! Uncle Sam May
Eventually Store 11^4 Billions at Fort Knox.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
A CROOK has about as much
chance of stealing some of
the gold out of Uncle Sam’s new
depository fortress as a tourist
has of stealing the Grand Can
yon—and as much chance of
converting it into ready cash.
An armed enemy force would
fare little better.
The federal government’s store
house for bullion, which overlooks
the military reservation at Fort
Knox, Kentucky, 31 miles from
Louisville, is perhaps the most im
pregnable guardian structure ever
created by man. And well it might
be, for Uncle Sam now owns more
than half the gold in all the world!
So fast is foreign gold rushing
Into the United States that despite
our already tremendous holdings
we are continuing to absorb every
year more of the precious yellow
metal than the entire world pro
duces in new supplies—more than
a billion dollars a year. Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau and
other government money experts
have been busy conferring of late
in an effort to find something that
can be done about it.
The United States today owns
more monetary gold (as reckoned
by value) than there was in all the
world in the boom year 1929; our
present holdings approach 11M bil
lions as compared with the world’s
supply of 10 billions at that time.
At the start of the World war in
1914 we held one billion 600 mil
lions of the total of four billions in
the world; by 1929 we were holding
four billions. Since the world's cur
rencies have been devalued the
world’s total now nears 22 billions.
Seek Safety Here.
About four years ago the rapid
flight of capital from our shores
was shrinking the nation's gold re
serves and the banks were in a
panicky state. But since the deval
uation of the dollar on January 31,
1934, our gold has increased by sev
en billion 400 millions. To be sure,
two billion 800 millions of this was
the immediate result of the deval
uation.
Since the United States now has a
currency which is about the near
est to a stable gold-standard in the
world, capital has consistently fled
countries of less stable currencies
for the safety of American securi
ties and banks. As an example,
during 1936 until France went off the
gold standard in September, nearly
600 million dollars came into this
country from France.
There are several evil aspects of
such a condition. As the President
has said, much of this influx of
foreign capital may do an about
face and leave as quickly as it
came. And the enormous supply of
gold in the treasury and the ex
cess reserves in the banks could, if
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used or misused in the right man
ner, effect a disastrous inflation.
Other than the economic problem
entailed by Uncle Bern’s suddenly
enormous gold reserves is the im
mediate physical problem of keep
ing the gold itself where it will be
safe from criminals among our cit
izenry and, more important, from
an invading enemy force desper
ately in need at fresh money.
The answer to thia ia the naw fed
eral depoeitory in Kentucky, which
embodies every imaginable safe
guard that modern aciaaoe baa been
able to devise. It ia far enough in
land—dfiO miles tw— Iha Atuartie
eoast and awe* than 2ABO mites
from the Pa^WW to require that an
invadtag saamy ceaqaer a large
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The federal government’s new gold depository defles the ingenuity
of erooks sr the pourer of an enemy. (Photo copyright McLaughlin
Aerial Surveys, from Internatiasud News Photos)
stories deep. It is hinted llti bil
lions may eventually be stored here.
The only part of the entire build
ing which has not some air of mys
tery about it is the upper structure,
unavoidably open to view. This is
121 feet long and 105 feet wide. It
is surrounded by a high steel picket
fence which could be electrified to
repulse prowlers. There is only one
gate in the fence and only one en
trance to the building. No one is
-allowed to enter either who has not
official business inside.
Secrecy in the construction was
maintained almost fantastically by
the company which was awarded
the contract, being sworn to do so.
Each workman was permitted to
work from only a small fragment
of the blueprint, which he had to
turn in at the end of the day. None
was allowed to see the plan as a
whole.
Some facts have leaked out, per
hape under the winking eye of the
government. It is said, at least,
that the underground vault is cap
able of storing 19 billion dollars
worth of gold—nearly all that exists.
It is suspended, with spaces 18
inches wide above the roof and be
low the floor. Varying reports place
the walls, floor and ceiling at two
or three feet thick. They are said
to be reinforced with interlaced
steel coils, held together by steel
rods running through them. Theory
has it that all the concrete could
be chipped or blown away, and the
steel would still hold.
Soldiers Protect Exterior.
In all of that part of the deposi
tory lying underground, there is
strong light at all times. Woe be
unto the criminal who attempts to
soften these hard walls with an
acetylene torch! The first lick of
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such a flame would automatically
bring ■ fog of the deadliest poison
gss. A score of additional sentries
are the many electrical devices, in
cluding the versatile ’’electric eye,”
designed to catch and incapacitate
a criminal caught in the act of his
crime. If these precautions fall to
stop the invader, the entire under
ground structure can be flooded in
stantly.
All these preparations assume,
however, that someone has already
made hie way through the defenses
outside. This alone would try the
mettle of Arsstns Lupin. Each of
the fear cornors at the building ia
protected by a concrete maehine-
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trigue from within, but that has not
been forgotten. The steel door to
the gold vault can be opened only
by the co-operation of three men.
Three different combinations must
be executed before the door will
open. The three men know only
one combination apiece. Whenever
the door is opened other guards are
summoned to stand by and see that
there is no funny business. Only in
the secret files of the Treasury de
partment is the complete combina
tion known; this is necessary be
cause of the possibility of death of
one of the three who knows a part
of the combination.
Very few persons have a blanket
pass to enter the depository. The
chief of the depository has, of
course, and so have the secretary
of the treasury and the President
of the United States. No one else,
regardless at official position, can
enter without the permission of the
depository chief.
TMeTs Load Berate.
About the only possibility left,
then, of thieves making away with
some of the gold, would require a
conspiracy which would involve,
necessarily, just about everyone
having anything to do with the de
pository.
If a thief or a band of thieves
had cunningly discovered some way
of beating the virtually indestruct
ible walls, the multiple locks, the
electrical safety devices, the flood
waters and the poisonous gases, he
would, upon leaving, have to pass
the machine gunners outside, and
finally the soldiers of the army post.
But suppose he did all these
things. An ounce of gold is worth
only 835. If he made away with
all the gold he could carry—and this
could hardly be more than 100
pounds—he would have only about
850,000 worth. And he would have
to be an extremely strong man, for
a 100-pound load requires superb ef
fort if it is in the shape of gold
bars.
There is no standard, but gold
bars for monetary purposes weigh
about 400 ounces each. Each ia
6M inches long, 3Vi inches wide and
1% inches thick.
Once he has the gold out of the
depository, the criminal is faced
with the perplexing problem of con
verting it into spendable wealth. He
would have to change it to dollars
some way or other or it would be
of no use to him. The only alter
native would be to smuggle it out
of the United States and convert it
into foreign currency. This in it
self would be something of a job,
customs officials being what they
are.
Bew BUpmaeta Arrive.
Readers will perhaps recall the
great to-do which was made over
the first shipment of gold bullion
into the new depository January 13.
And an interesting spectacle it cer
tainly was. From Philadelphia, 200
million dollars worth of the bullion
was sent to Fort Knox aboard a
special fourteen-car train. There
waa approximately 300 tons in the
shipment, since, at the present
value at *35 an ounce, a million
dollars in gold weighs about a ton.
Machine gun muzzles stuck out
from the sides of the gold train like
quills from an angry porcupine's
back. A dummy train went ahead
of it down the track to decoy any
evil-doers along the right at way.
The toad waa relayed to armored
cars and trucks of the mechanized
cavalry unit bristling with a feroo
ity guaranteed to defy the attacks
of any pirate bands which might be
In waiting. But the entire toad waa
pasaed through the doors at three
inch steel andlowered ta Iba 30-ton
etevatees to tea subterranean vault
witbout aiqrbodr turnbtf a bate. Re-
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UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
•• - •
By Elmo • Western
Scott Watson
Groat Father, Great Son
D ARELY does a great father
transmit his genius to his son.
Put the Hopkinsons of Philadelphia
were exceptions to that rule.
Francis Hopkinson, born in 1737,
was the first scholar entered at the
University of Pennsylvanis (then
the College of Philadelphia) and
was graduated from its first class.
He held several positions of im
portance in Penn's colony, then
moved to New Jersey. There he
was a member of the provincial
council until he was elected to the
Continental congress from New Jer
sey and thus became one of the
eignera of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. But other facts make
him more notable than almost any
of the other 55 signers of that docu
ment.
He wrote an allegory in which he
recounted the wrongs of the colo
nies and did much to fan the spirit
of revolution. He wrote the famous
song “The Battle of the Kegs’’
satirizing the British scare over an
attempt to blow up their ships with
a crude submarine .invented by a
certain David Bushnell, and this
song became the favorite of Wash
ington’s soldiers.
But most important is the fact
that evidence exists which shows
that he was the designer of the first
Stars and Stripes as our national
flag (the Betsy Ross tradition to the
contrary notwithstanding) and that
he had a hand in designing the first
Great Seal of this nation.
His son, Joseph Hopkinson, born
la 1770, followed closely in his fa
ther’s footsteps. He also was grad
uated from the University of Penn
sylvania, studied law and held sev
eral positions in the state and fed
eral government. He helped found
the Philadelphia Academy of Fine
Arts, served as its president for
many years and was vice-president
of the American Philosophical soci
ety which his father had helped
found.
But he is best remembered for a
song which he wrote—thus emulat
ing his father again. It was “Hail
Columbia’’ which was the only na
tional song of this republic until
Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star
Spangled Banner.”
First “America’s Sweetheart”
I ONG before a popular movie ac
tress was given the title of
"America's Sweetheart” there was
another. Ask any man of fifty years
or upwards and he will tell you her
name. It was Annie Oakley.
She was bom in a log cabin in
Darke county, Ohio, in 1866 and her
full name was Phoebe Anne Oakley
Mozee. Her father died when she
was six and one of the few posses
sions which he left was a Kentucky
long rifle. Little Anne, who was
something of a tomboy, soon began
using this weapon to help All the
family larder with quail, squirrels
and rabbits. She became an un
usual markswoman and the fame
of her skill spread to Cincinnati
where hotel keepers had been buy
ing the game which she killed.
When she was fifteen a noted
sharpshooter named Frank E. But
ler came to Cincinnati. He was ac
customed to issue a challenge to aU
comers in a shooting match. This
challenge was taken up by one of
Anne’s hotel-keeping patrons who
urged her to shoot against Butler.
The girl not only won the match but
she won Butler’s heart as well and
a year or so later they were mar
ried. She began taking part in her
husband's shooting act and, being
a skilled showman, he pushed her
more and more into the limelight
and kept himself more and more In
the background.
Then “Buffalo Bill” Cody or
ganized his Wild West show and in
1885 the “Butler and Oakley” act
joined it. But it wasn’t long until
the second half of the act was the
whole act and as Annie Oakley she
started on the career which made
her the idol of Young America.
“Little Sure Shot" she was named
by the famous chief, Sitting Bull,
when he went out with Buffalo Bill’s
show and as “Little Sure Shot” she
became famous, not only through
out America but all over Europe as
well.
When Cody took his show abroad
her marksmanship thrilled every
one who saw it—and that included
dukes, princes and kings.
One of her stunts was to use play
ing cards as targets and these
cards, punctured by her bullets, be
came treasured souvenirs. In those
days showmen who handed out free
passes always punched a hole or
two in them, thus saving a mis
count when the day’s proceeds were
counted. Once a baseball magnate
fooked at a card which had been
so thoroughly perforated that little
waa lett “Huh! Looks like Annie
Oakfey’a shot at HI” ha grunted.
And from that day traa peeese ku-
UMN “famia OaMqte.”
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Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
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dress and pattern number.
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Feathered Cosmeticians
Woodpeckers are surgeons;
with their strong, sharp beaks
they cut down to the haunts of
mischief-makers in the wood and
extract them with barbed tongues.
But there are other, smaller bird*
that haunt tree trunks in winter
chickadee, brown creeper, and
nuthatch—whose beaks are not
stout enough for the woodpecker'*
drastic technique. These bird*
simply search crevices and cran
nies in the bark, prying and dig
ging out insects and small cocoon*
that may be hibernating there.
They are skin specislists — cos
meticians.—Science Service.
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