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The Washington times., 1933-06-13

nit that it is a world Of in
justices, and by putting you IN
the dog house because you do.
Recently this writer gave a
series of talks on the conditions
of women and children working
in sweat shops. These talks
were given before women's
clubs and parent-teacher asso-
Citations.
The women in the audiences
were obviously nice people-the
friendly, well-fed, sufficiently
intelligent wives, mothers and
daughters of comfortable Amer
ican homes. Not one of them
would have been deliberately
cruel to a cockroach. Yet it
was plain that, after the first
gushy lamentations, the plight
of the sWeatshop workers left
them cold.
Oh, of course it was simply
dreadful!
But, after all, what could
they do about it?
Did they then frankly confess
that they were just Big
Bunch of Selfish Egotists who
didn't care a hoot whether
other weary wives and mothers
broke their hearts, or other lit
tie children were starved and
crippled as long as They and
Theirs were sitting pretty?
What a fantastic idea! Of
course they didn't. To the
contrary, they registered every
sort of Proper Horror and Re
gret. But, while doing so, they
promptly proceeded to prove ex-
actly why they couldn't and
shouldn't do anything about it.
In the first place, it probably
wasn't so.
In the second place, even if
some of the statements were
true, it was no use getting all
worked up about People Like
That. For those Sweatshop peo-
pie were all Foreigners. And of
course Foreigners don't feel the
same about things as We Amer
cans Do.
And in the third place, when
people got that way it was
Probably Their Own Fault.
They didn't save when they
could. And even if you gave
them money, look how they
spent it. On movies and cheap
jewelry and trash like that.
And, in the fourth place, it
was outrageous to upset Nice
Women by telling them about
things like that. Heaven
knows, they were already doing
their duty as Good Wives and
Mothers and that was enough.
Why should they be riled up by
such horrors when they'd come
to spend a pleasant afternoon?
So, on and on. Do the argu-
ments sound familiar? They
should.
FOR HOW OFTEN HAVE
YOU USED THEM YOUR
SELF, OR HEARD THEM
USED, DURING THIS DE.
PRESTON?
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.) =
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

want our life ELSIE ROBINSON
messed up and our comfort
disturbed by the under dogs
need; and so we protect our
selves against this hazard by
remaining ignorant.
WILFULLY IGNORANT.
ARPOGANTLY IGNORANT.
And we resist, tooth m toe
nail, anyone who tries to pene-'
trate that ignorance with a
few plain facts.
Which isn't so dumb as it
sounds.
For if we once face the truth
we must do something about
it-or be branded as the hypo.
critics and Selfish Meanies
which, we usually are.
But if we keep insisting that
It Isn't So, and if we meet all
attempts to prove that it is
so with stony-eyed denialS and
righteous indignation, then
who dare cast even a spit
ball at our Great, Warm, Low
ing, Human Hearts?
Remember the old adage:
when ignorance is bliss, tits
folly to be wise!" Ignorance
is always bliss, if it pampers
our own laziness, selfishness
and conceit; and it's always
folly to be wise if, thereby,
we're forced to raise the other
fellows wages or remedy the
conditions that have hurt him.
How do respectable people
live in this world of injustices
and still square things with
their consciences? That's how
they do it-by refusing to ad-
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

The American flag was born
long before the American peo-
pie began to celebrate its birth
day.
The flag was born on June
IA, 1777, when the Continental
Congress thus resolved:
"That the flag Of the 13
United States be 13 stripes, al
ternate red and white; that the
Union be 13 stars, white in a
blue field, representing new
constellation"
Flag Day was first celebrated
just 100 years later, when Presi-
dent Hayes directed that the
flag be displayed on June IA,
1877, on all public buildings in
the Federal City. The annual
observance of Flag Day which
he inaugurated has now become
national.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

"Scotty from Death Valley
he was a picture never to be
forgotten by the gentlemen of
the press as we gathered to
meet him in the old Waldorf
a quarter of a century ago. A
broad, square fellow, he re-
minded one of Tom Sharkey
dressed up in a gray flannel
shirt, with a red scarf, and a
big black sombrero atop his
large head. His high-heeled
boots gave him a length to
which his medium size did not
entitle him. But Withal, we
knew he was a wild man from
the West when he beloved:
Bring a gallon of whisky" and
when he Knocked the tenderfeet
who insisted on a little water
on the side.
That he had flashed upon
the country like comet is
more than figurative language.
He had been nothing but a
local figure in the mining
camps of the hot sands OF
CALIFORNIA; Death Valley un-
til the day in 1905 that he
strode up to the Santa Fe
offices in Los Angeles and
called for a special nonstop
train to Chicago.
The station master stood
aghast, but Scotty planked
down the $500 called for,
and off he went at a murderous
clip for Chicago in four-coach
train, with Mrs. Scott and his
mongrel yellow dog, which
sported a thousand-dollar collar
and ate from a silver bucket.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

Adolf Hitler Germanys Chancellor and for the time
being apparently complete dictator recently celebrated his
foyourh birthday great majority of Germans celebrated
it with him, ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
Pictures of the dictator distributed. Basreliefs Of
Hitler made in tens of thousands and eagerly purchased
throughout the nation The lower picture shows German
workman pushing wheelbarrow load of the Hitler ikeneses
The upper picture shows rather curious porcelain plaque
made by the State Porcelain Factory Meissen and widely
sold shows Hitler with his little shoe brush mustache
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Mystery Man

That train reached Chicago
in A hours and Sd minutes,
and I believe the time still
stands as the record. When it
pulled into La Sale Street every
window in the four coaches had
been smashed by the terrific
pounding, Mrs. Scott was black
and blue from the buffeting,
and Scotty had tossed hundreds
of silver dollars to the staring
yokels who had gathered along
the right Of way.
From that time and for two
decades to come he remained
the champion mystery man of
the U. s. A. He was known as
a Kentuckian who had drifted
to California with wild West
show, and it was known that
his wife was a New York girl,
but whence came his sup
posedly fabulous wealth nobody
knew. People said he had
found a gold mine in Death
Valley assaying $4,000 to the
ton. Scotty never denied it,
and the legend became &C
cepted fact.
Only in the last two years did
the world learn that Walter
Scott's gold mine was a gentle
man named Albert M. Johnson,
multimillionaire of Chicago
and the Government has now
set aside the Scott-Johnson dig
dings in Death Valley as a ma
tional preserve.
SCOTS story is a strange,
bizarre one, AAd yet it does not
begin to compare with that of
his patron. Back again we go
to the past, the night of Dece2l-
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

emphasized little too much his below and the swaska
emblem below that On his head perches German eagle
holding in his claws He is supposed protecting
Hitler, Hitler supposed to be protecting him.
thing like that
When patriotism breaks loose violently usually not
logical The world looks at these interesting demonstrations
for which the Allies with their brutay stupid Versailles
Treaty. blame themselves and wonders how long
Hitler will ast how this eagle will slip off and
find another perch There would be better
Germany.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Advice to Graduates
Short If Not Sweet

Perhaps the shortest and best advice given gadu
ating class from Prof Walter Ptkin of Columbia
University.
We publish it without further comment 1t needs none.
"Dont sell your textbooks and keep your diplomas"
says Professor Pitkin. "SeH your diploma, anyone
uUiU buy it, and keep your textbooks"
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

4N4NO1OA4NNGs
w e d o Mt
plan to hurt
t he o tn e r
fellow. w e
wouldn't vote
to have -!im
h u r t, a n d
we're truly
dis t r e S S e d
W h e n W e
hear that he
is hurt. But
it stops right
there.
For t h e
simple truth
is, we don't
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
The Flags Birthday
A Precious Legacy
Blu James T. Williams, T.-

On June ID, 1916, Flag Day
was given a memorable observ.
ance in Cambridge, Mass, when
the new buildings of the MaSsa-
chusettS Institute of Technology
we're dedicated. The address on
that occasion was delivered by
the biographer of George Wash.
ington, Henry Cabot Lodge,
then the senior Senator from
Massachusetts.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

It Isn't Our Cruelty But Our
Ignorance That's Dangerous
WONT YOU" says she,
WRITE ABOUT THE
DAN GER OF HUMAN
CRUELTY?" It isn't our
cruelty that is most dangerous,
Lady.
It's our ignorance-OUR DE-
TERMINED, COMPLACENT
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

she knows that she is getting
middle aged.
So diversified are the divorce
laws in the United States, that
a woman who crosses the con-
tinent with her second husband
doesn't know, from moment to
moment, whether she's a wife,
a grass-Widow or a b1gamist.
Recovering from love: Six
days of heartache, six weeks of
disillusionment-and six months
getting over your inferiority
complex.
The modern husband has
cause for thankfulness. All the
energy that the old-fashioned
wife used to expend in remodel
ing her husband and toning
down his bad habits, the mod
ern woman puts into remodeling
her face and banting down her
figure.
Infatuation is a temporary
state of being in love. Love is
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
WISE WORDS

1t is not what man does
which exaltS him, but what
man would do.-Browning.
Atheism is rather in the lip
than in the heart-Bacon.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

Most girls seem to be looking
for a masterful, daring, cave
man lover, who can be turned
into meek, bill-paying, 6
o'clock husband.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

Somehow, the more women
read and learn about sex ap-
peal and the sex-problems, the
less they seenn to know about
how to hold a mans love.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

A woman can calmly watch
the hair receding from her hus'
bands forehead from year to
year, without feeling any older;
but, when her favorite movie
actor begins to take on girth
and to have that settled" look,
The Washington times., 1933-06-13

A man doesn't have to give
his wife a washing machine as
an anniversary present, in order
to insult her-he can do it
much more effectively by giving
her a reducing-machine.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Love and Learn

as the average man in a bath
ing suit.
The Washington times., 1933-06-13
Infatuation is a temporary
state of being in love. Love is

A mans chief objection to
marriage is that it puts the
"ties" in responsibilities.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

Great progress is being made in eliminating child
labor by means of the fair competition codes established
under the National Industrial Recovery Act. The Cotton
Textile Industry Code, signed by President Roosevelt on
July 9, barred from employment children under 16 years.
A similar prohibition has been included in other codes
approved by the President and will probably be incor-
porated in the rest of them as they are adopted.
But these codes exist only for the two-year period COW
cred by the Recovery Act. When employers are once
ditions, they will undoubtedly discover that child labor
is again profitable and will undertake to re-establish it
with all of its sinister results.
The labor movement has always condemned child la
Dor as an evil at any time and under any conditions.
During the depression the economic fallacy of employing
children while adults are jobless has been stressed. But
when the depression is over it will still be r%epugnant from
the humanitarian standpoint.
With the welfare of the children both in the immediate
present and the future at heart, the American Federation
of Labor is working for the inclusion of a child-labor pro-
hibitiOn section in every one of the emergency fair COM
petition codes. At the same time, it is using its best eff
forts for the ratification by the States of the Child Labor
Amendment to the Federal Constitution as the only meth
cd of making permanent the improved child labor stan
dards set up in the codes.
Fifteen states have already ratified the amendment.
Nine states have ratified it during 1888. Twenty-one
more states must ratify it by 1885 so that when the codes
expire a Federal law can be enacted and child labor for
ever dropped from our economic system.
The American Federation of Labor miitantly spon-
sored ratification in the fifteen states which have adopt
ed the amendment. 1t will not relax its efforts until the
tWenty-one additional states join the ratification crusade
and confer upon he Government of the United States
the authority to ban children from industry for all time
and place them in the schools from which they should
never have been taken.
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14
UNEMPLOYMENT FORTY-sIx YEARS AGO

The social menace of the substitution of iron slaves in
industry for men and women workers and the necessity
of reducing the length of the work day and work week
to prevent wholesale unemployment were seriously con-
sidered by the American Federation of Labor in its early
years.
In his report to the 1887 convention of the Federation,
President Samuel Gompers declared that the Misplace
ment of labor by machinery in the past few years has
exceeded that of any like period in our history" and said
it was lone of the most important facts with which the
labor movement has to %grapple." Commenting on the
statement by the u. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics
that nearly a million workers were out of employment,
Mr.. Gompers said:
1T is now time that something should be done to
reclaim from misery the many thousands OF good and
true men whose only fault is that they have stomachs
to fill, with ready and willing hands to supply their
wants, but continually receiving the stereotyped re-
ply in answer to their appeals for work, No job open.
much can be done by the trade unions to relieve
the distress caused by the displacement of labor by
machinery. Within the past few years the trade
unions have sought and in many instances secured a
reduction in the hours of labor; for a brief period
there has been a stagnation in this direction.
81 appeal to the trades unions of the country to go
on in this work. The answer to all opponents to the
reduction Of hours of labor could well be given in
these words: "That so long as there is one man
who seeks employment and cannot obtain it, the
hours of labor are too long"
From 1887 to the present organized labor has reiterated
its demand for a reduction in the length of the work week
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

NEW Y0RK-(FP)-A committee
representing the rank and file of the
various postal organizations has been
formed in New York City to help CO.
ordinate all the existing postal I'M
ions. Similar committees have been
formed in other cities. Delegations
are being sent to the national conven-
tons of existing unions to place be-
fore them demands of the postal en-
ployes that all unions be combined in
to lone postal organization for all
postal employees"
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

placards is sufficient to annoy the
public and create a public nuisance,
Picketing frequently leads to malic-
ious mischief, and sometimes it leads
to ~disorderly conduct and violence
On this basis the judge issued the in
junction.
Pres. William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor said, eve
certainly will not accept that decision
as final. The courts have always held
that picketing is perfectly proper and
perfectly legal"
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

NEW Y0RK-(FP)- twenty-five
thousand workers and shopkeepers in
the New York retail dyeing and
cleaning industry withdrew their
threat of strike against wholesale
cleaners when Henry +. Wolff, chair
man Of the NRA bureau of complaints
announced that an agreement had
been reached between leaders of the
two groups. Wholesalers will receive
one-third of the retail price of clean
ing garments, including delivery
charges, under the agreement.
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

PHILADELPHIA II (FP) - Two
striking hosiery workers were killed
and a dozen others were injured in a
clash between members of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Full Fashioned Hos
iery Workers and strikebreakers at
the Cambria Hosiery Mill in Phile-
delphia. Several shots were fired
from a strikebreakers' truck, strikers
CHARGE.
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14
IS A
NUISANCE SAYS
JUSTICES STRONG

NEW YORK-(FP)-A sweeping
injunction restraining two locals of
the Bakery & Confectionery Workers
union from picketing bakery plants
has been issued by Supreme Court
Justice Selah B. Strong of Brooklyn.
The order was obtained by the Spec.
ialty Bakery Owners of America
which represents about 400 shops in
the metropolitan area, on an appli-
cation which was decided without ar
gument by counsel or testimony by
witnesses. Charges against the de-
PENDANTS were malicious mischief, dis
orderly conduct and violence. Mat
thew Levy, attorney for the union, as
serted that the case would be taken
to the highest courts of appeal.
Last May, the union charges, when
the agreement expired, bosses would
not renew the old wage scales. First
hand bakers would have received re-
ductions from $72 to S54 a week, sec
ond hands from S6s to S51 and help
ers from $50 to $50, according to Levy.
At that time picketing was author
lied by the union.
This placing of pickets often be-
comes a nuisance to the public, as well
to former employers" Judge
Strong holds. "The mere walking
back and forth on a sidewalk with
Montana labor news., 1933-09-14

ana work day prop0rtionate to the increased production
of working men and women with machinery. without re-.
|duction in weekly earnings. By the fair competition
codes which President Roosevelt is establishing under
the Recovery Act that demand is being realized in part.
its realization in full.
Working men and women everywhere should enroll in
the trade unions and thus mobilize their strength in a
practical way for higher wages, shorter hours and the
complete abolition of unemployment.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
Delegate Urging Rivers And
 Harbors Program For Alaska

Although the office of the Public Works Administrator is said to be about ready to flash the GO" signal which will ir- augurate the administrations vast public works plans, Dele gate Dimond has not been able 10 learn which of the Alaska projects, if any, are on the ap- proved list of the first group of public works, according to re, ports from the Delegates of ice. This is not because Col. Donald H. Sawyer, temporary administrator of public works. IS loath to give information. but rather because the whole set-up is in such a formative stage that decisions ar e changed hourly. Practically all the Delegates time since Cong ress adjourned has been spent in protecting the Territory's in- terests in this respect. He re- gently held long conference with General Pillsbury, a rank ing official in the office of the chief of army engineers, and urged a comprehensive rivers and harbors program for Alas ka.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
CANADIAN DESTROYERS
 TO VISIT DISTRICT

Two Canadian destroyers, H. M. c. s. Skeena and H. M. c. s. Vancouver, will pay the district a four-day visit next month, arriving August 7 and departing August II, accord ing ito advices received in Stew art this week.
 The Skeena, it will be re- called, visited the district for several days last year, but the Vancouver is new to local wat CTS. The former vessel carries a crew of 6 officers and 133 en- listed men, the latter 5 officers and 96 men.
 Preparations for the recept- ion and entertainment of the crews are now in progress un- der the direction of a commit tee headed by H. B. Campbell, with E. T. Applewhaite as sec retary and composed of repre- sentatives of the Stewart Board of Trade, Hyder Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Legion and Moose lodge. N. M. Tray ersy has been appointed the Hyder representative.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
Early Results Expected From
 Georgia River Drill Work

The diamond drilling prog gram now under way on the Georgia River property is be- ing carried on under contract by the Robinson Diamond Drill ing Company of Vancouver.
 J. c. McCutcheon has been engaged to carry on the engin- eering work and to coordinate results of the past work and h e disclosures anticipated from the diamond drilling
 With the large amount of work already done, it is expect ed that proving up of addition al ore bodies will require but a short time.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
Forest Road Program
 For 1884 Approved

The Forest Highway program carrying approximately $350,- 900 for forest road work in Alaska, has been approved by Secretary Wallace of the De- partment of Agriculture, ac- cording to advices received in Juneau last week.
 Other estimates approved by Wallace include $1OO,OO0 for maintenance of the present forest highway road system, $10,000 for various small pro- jects, $6,000 for location sur veys and $15,000 for monu- mentation surveys.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
TOM. ROBINSON HURT
 IN PREMIER MINE BLAST

Thomas Robinson, miner, em . ployed in the Premier mine and we'll known in the district, was severely injured by a blast while at work in the mine late Tuesday night.
 Caught by a delayed shot on returning to the stope where he was working, the unfortu- nate young man was struck by a fusillade of hurtling rock fragments and severely bruised and lacerated on the face and head. Particles of the rock were said to have penetrated both eyeballs and may cause the loss of his vision, accord ing to reports from the mine.
 Aside from the wounds on his head and face he suffered no serious injuries, his cloth ing apparently having protect ed his body from the flying rock fragments.
 Robertson was taken to Prince Rupert Wednesday oh Norman Langford's fast speed boat. He was accompanied on the trip by his brother, Robert, and Robert Smurthwaite.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
GOLD EMBARGO MAY BE
 LIFTED FOR MINERS

Reports from Washington indicate that President Roose- welt is Investigating the feasi- ibility of modifying the present embargo on gold shipments to permit gold miners to sell their gold in world markets, where it will bring from BPS to $30 an ounce, instead of the $20.67 per ounce paid by the United States Mint.
Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-22
Hyderites Forced To
 Forego Bakery Bread

Bakery bread and bakery con- fections made of flour are now unobtainable in Hyder as re- suit of peculiar development in connection with the govern ment's new scheme to reim- purse farmers for reducing their wheat acreage by impos- ing a proseccing tax on flour and other milled grain prod ucts.
 As there is no bakery in Fly der, all bread sold here is inn ported from Stewart and is subject to the flour tax, accord ing to ruling of the Internal Revenue department. This, however, would not prevent the imported bakery products being sold here were it not for a provision of the regulations requiring that wheat products. includ n g yeast leavened bread, imported from foreign countries must be held at the customs house until a sworn statement of the importer is filed with the district collector, which, in the case of Hyder, means at Tacoma, and cannot be released by the local cust- oms office until a receipt for the tax paid is returned by the district collector. AS this pro- cess would require about three weeks, the ruling amounts to a virtual embargo on bread from Canada, as such bread would be decidely stale before it could be released by the local customs office.
 As no one here appears to want to go into the baking bus mess most of the sourdough bachelors are now making their own and incidentally do ing some cussing about govern ment regulations.