The Washington times., 1930-10-17

tunda of the City Hall, VIII
liam Randolph Hearst said!
I said, it is good to be
home I arrived back in
America from abroad and I
want to repeat here in my old
home State, and my old home
city
It is good to be home.
, My legal residence is in New
York, as that is the head
quarters of my business enter
prises; but the place that is al
ways a little nearer and a lit
tie dearer to any mans heart
than any other place on earth
is the place where he was born.
Reared on . Hill
Here in San Francisco I was
born, on Kearny Street, many
years ago, when, as the old
timers Said-and guess I am
one of them--the waters Of
the bay came up to Mont
gomery Street.
Here I was reared on q hill
out at North Beach, overlooking
the beautiful Bay of San Fran
cisco and the glorious Golden
Gate, through which the stately
ships sailed in and out, to and
from distant countries.
Many a childish, day I spent
down at old Meiggs Wharf with
it's alluring collection Of strange
birds and animals which the
picturesque sailors had brought
from strange lands. ...- .r
Here in San Francisco I went
to school at the Lincoln Gram
mar School and the Geary
Street Grammar School and
learned my reading. writing and
arithmetic from Uncle Billy
Robertson, and learned some
thing of the rough-and-tumble
of the world by being walloped
quite frequently by the sturdier
boys in the class.
His First Paper
Here I received my first
newspaper from my dear father
after I had returned from col
1ege.
He catechised me quite closely
about the education I had re.
ceived, or rather was supposed
to have received and as to the
career for which I might be
fitted; and after that strict
questioning he said:
"My son, you know SO little
about so many things that l
think you are admirably fitted
for the profession of journal
ism"
So I was launched upon my
Journalistic career. In it I
know I have made many mis-
takes, but I have always tried
sincerely and honestly to live up
to the motto, Truth, Justice
and Public Service" which I
placed upon the editorial page Of
the San Francisco Examiner.
It was in the effort to tell the
truth, do justice to my own peo-
pie and render what I believed
to be a public service to my own
country, that I came to be ex.
PEELED from France.
A secret treaty was being ne
gotiated between two Of Amer
ica's late allies, and the Amert-
can people did not know the
TRUTH about it, and I deter
mined that they should know
the truth.
The American people had gone
into the war to right certain
fundamental wrongs, and one Of
these wrongs, as President Will
son declared, was the evil Of Sc
cret diplomacy.
Ended Negotiation
It was not JUSTICE to the
American people who had sacri-
ficed so much for a high princi-
pie that they should be deprived
of the fruits Of their sacrifice,
and that the evil Of secret di-
plomacy should so soon be re-
Sumed and resorted to by the
very nations which had been
saved by Americas entrance
into the war. >
believed that it would be a
PUBLIC SERVICE If I could
obtain that secret treaty anc re-
veal its full text and so discredit
secret diplomacy and put an end
to 1t at least as far as that
treaty was concerned.
So we got the treaty and
printed it and ended the whole
secret negotiation.