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The Washington times., 1934-03-17

If you don't mind, we will
now take up the second Of two
letters to the London Sunday
Times which held me spell
bound when I first read them,
the other having been apropos
the lack of things for seals to
balance on their noses when in
their wild state.
The letter which we will use
as a basis for today's seminar
is from Sir Algernon Law, and
reads as follows:
"Sir-It must have been in
the mid-seventies that Mr..
Gamgee started his indoor ice
rink off the Kings Road, Chel-
sea. My brothers, Major (later
Major -GeneraD F. T. A. Law
and Mr.. Ernest Law, used to
skate there. But it was poorly
attended. When my brother
Ernest came in the afternoon,
he would ask: Has anyone
been here?' The reply would
often be: only the marques
and the major!'
The marques was GlanE
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thing can be proved by my
grandfather's correspondence,
as he liked to write, and was
interested in practically every
thing. A lot o. it he wrote in
/ jaunting-car, however, which
makes it read almost like music.
However, I have before me a
note made by him in 1S45, just
previous to his falling down in
the old Baker Street Rink. 1t
reads: IT guess I'll fall down
now-Boomp! There I go!"
In his diary, under a date
which seems to be 1855, but
couldn't be, he writes: when
I went to the rink to skate
today, I asked the Duke Of
Chichester, who sweeps off the
ice, if anyone had fallen down
more often than I had the
day before. 'Dey's nobody here
but des' us chickens' replied
the old Duke, referring to a
Negro story current at the time.
So we Joined hands and skated
around the rink once together.
then backwards as far a. NO
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LOndOn's Oldest Rink

carde, a timid performer, who
used to fly from the brusque
movements Of the major, who
had learned to skate on the
Peiho river in 1861. AS the
major became a lieutenant
colonel on October /, 1877, Mr..
Gamgee's venture was appar.
emily the earliest of its kind in
this country"
Sir Algernon is cockeyed. The
first indoor skating rink in Lon
don was not Mr.. Gamgee's COM
paratively modern venture, but
one situated in the old Baker
Street Bazaar, adjoining the
original Madame Tussaud's Ex-
hibition. This flourished in
1845, when Sir Algernon's Mr..
Gamgee granting that there
could have been person named
Gamgee) was a mere child, and
probably a very disagreeable
child, too.
My grandfather, Corpora !
Benchley Oater Private Bench
ley) used to skate there and
has left abundant correspond
sncs to prove it. Almost any
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X - = By Robert Benchley
By T. E. Powers

were able, which, AM con-
vulsed to say, wasn't very far"
This makes it clear, think,
that indoor ice skating was al
ready an established fad in
London as early as 1845, or, if
we take the date in my grand
fathers diary as authentic,
1856. In 1856, however, the
Wars of the Roses were just
beginning and it wouldn't have
been cold enough for much
skating. And I am sure that
my grandfather was not 4O4
years old when he died in 1860,
or we kids would have been
told something about it.
I think that I have shown
enough to prove Sir Algernon
Law wrong, with his Mr.. Cam
gee and 1877, and, unless the
British aristocracy has gone
completely to pot, he will apol-
ogiZe.
Copyright. 1894 King Features
Syndicate, Incl
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday. /
The Washington times., 1934-03-17
President Gives Congress
Example of Wisdom
Ru .Jn111pS r. Williams. .Tr.
James T. Williams, Jr.

it is high time for Congress to
follow this example which was
also the example of the trainers
of the Constitution.
This the Congress should do
in the face of the challenge to
its constitutional authority and
responsibility as the legislative
branch of the Government. Ger
tain Senators in Congress have
made a series of allegations to
the general effect that all do
mestic air mail contracts in
operation until February 9 last
had been obtained by fraud and
collision.
Proof Lacking
The Senators who made the
allegations have yet to produce
the proof. They rushed to the
White House. they rushed to
the broadcasting stations, they
summoned newspaper reporters
and flung these allegations far
and wide. They could not
even speak for the special COM
mittee of the Senate which was
assigned to look into these con.
tracts. They spoke only for
themselves.
AS a result of the activities
of the Senators, all domestic
air mail contracts have been
cancelled. They were cancelled
without a hearing, without the
notice Congress stipulated
should be given. They were
cancelled without giving the
men who held them a chance
to be heard. They were can
celled without due process OF
law.
Now is the time and Congress
is the place for Senators and
Representatives in Congress to
put first things first by retus-
ing to ratify the unAmerican
procedure which was followed
when all domestic air mail con-
tracts were cancelled without
due process of law, without Civ
ing the holders of those con-
tracts a chance to be heard.
If the Congress will do this
it will extricate the Admins
tration from the blunder which
was instigated by certain ma
tional legislators who did not
put first things first.
If Congress will do this it
will do more to restore conf
dence throughout the country
than will the enactment Of any
legislation now pending.
If Congress will do this it
will assure every loyal Ameri-
can that the Government at
Washington still lives-the Gov
ernment of the Constitution,
"a Government Of laws and not
of men,"
Copyright. 1884, by The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-03-17
ONCE-OVERS

Persons far above you in the
social. business and financial
worlds have acquired friends,
among those with whom they
associate, because of their sim
liar business positions or finan-
cial standing.
Usually they have all the
friends they desire among the
people they consider as of their
own class.
They have no desire to ac-
quire ne friends outside their
class az circle.
And tbs is not always the
result of a form Of snobbish-
ness. It is a condition.
It is natural for persons to
wish to associate with those op
o par at least with themselves
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Acquaintances or Friends?
People laugh at you when
frequently you allude to un-
usually prominent persons as
being friends of yours.
How many really influential
friends have you, anyway?
Not many, when you stop to
consider this question-perhaps
not any.
Certainly, you may know
many persons who have
achieved more than the ordi-
nary run-but how can you
classify them as friends OF
yours?
Merely acquaintances. an d
many of them could not recall
your name If they met you
again.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
Tho Bears the Responsibility for RestOrutiOn DeLaY

PROPOSE TO GIVE TO THE GOVERNMENT
WORKERS SALARIES WHICH ARE IN EXCESS
OF WHAT THEY SHOULD BE PAID.
IT DOES NOT PROPOSE TO MAKE OF THE
GOVERNMENT WORKERS HIGH -sALARIED
HIGHLY-PRIVILEGED CLASS.
IT PROPOSES ONLY TO GIVE THEM THE
BAREST SALARY TO KEEP THEM AFLOAT IN
THE TROUBLED ECONOMIC SEAS
1T ASKS FOR THE WORKING MAN AND WORK
ING WOMAN IN THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE
ONLY A PART OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IN
SISTS PRIVATE INDUSTRY MUST GIVE TO ITS
WORKERS.
This being the case why should Congress continue to
back and fill on the issue?
WHY NOT MOVE WITH SOME EXPEDITION
TOWARD THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF AN OBJ
JECTIVE WHICH THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF
HAS DECLARED MUST BE REACHED?
The continued and unnecessary delay on the part of
Congress in facing it's responsibilities in this matter is
handwriting the Governments entire recovery program
CAN THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE DELAY ESCAPE THE HEAVY RESPONSE
BILITY WHICH THEIR TACTICS IMPOSE UPON
THEM?
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The Human Side of the News
e. po+r;o11 Woc Onco Sovo Row
By EdWin C.. Hill
It. Patrick Was Once Slave Boy

quaint yarn of how an Amerl'
can circus owner pretty nearly
ruined st. Patrick's star achieve
ment.
Back in the nineties the news
got over here that the work of
the holy st. Patrick had been
all undone. Terrible serpents
were terrorizing the country
side in Tipperary and commit
ting shocking depredations.
Poultry, pigs and calves were
disappearing from off the face
of the earth.
Then small boy ran home
with eyes popping out and told
his mother that he had seen
the devil in the form of an
enormous snake carrying off
Paddy Malone's pig. Naturally,
the mother took her child to
the priest and the good father
questioned the lad very sharply.
But he stuck to his story and
pretty soon others were telling
similarly amazing yarns, and it
seemed evident that the Old
Nick himself was loose in Ire
land.
The people were crazy with
fear and the parish priests
were stumped. But the bishop,
wise old gentleman that he was,
suspected there was more
knavery than deviltry in the
fearsome business, so he sent
up to Dublin for detectives, and
in no time at all the mystery
was a mystery no longer.
Mystery Solved
A short time before the devil
was seen carrying off Paddy
Malone'S pig and working such
other WickednesS, a one-horSe
American circus had stranded
in the little town of Amraugh,
in Tipperary. The proprietor
was so sore at his luck that he
got boiling drunk and turned
all his animals loose.
And you might imagine what
an Irish countryside was like,
all cluttered up with lions and
apes and laughing hyenas. But
they were all recaptured or
killed-so it was thought-and
the whole uproar was forgotten
until the Devil got to stealing
pigs in the light of the moon
and making such depredations,
until the good bishop sent to
Dublin for the detectives.
Hiding behind the hedges, the
men from Dublin watched pa.
tiently until they saw two Is
foot boas come hunting in the
night and coil around the I'M
lucky victims. They killed them
and in some way traced them
back to the stranded circus. And
a lot of people were diSappoint-
ed in Tipperary when the truth
came out.
It had been rather exciting to
have the Devil making personal
appearances. It gave them a
sense of Importance, the shiver
of mystery and the thrill of ex-
citement-three things dear to
the Irish heart and seldom miss
ing from the Irish character.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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I tGUor as practical policy,
putting first things first.


yUCV w PI"NCIN~I FSbNSS1
putting first things first.
franklin D. Roosevelt.
In his inspiring Inaugural of
March 4 last President Roose-
velt lined up with the Framers
of the Federal Constitution who,
when they came to write the
Preamble, favored las a practi-
cal policy putting first things
first"
President Roosevelt has set
Congress an excellent example
in this regard. From the day
he entered the White House he
has supported his Secretary of
War and his Secretary of the
Navy in their refusal to per-
NIT pork barrel politicians or
any other outside influence to
dictate military or naval ap-
pointments and promotions in
the armed services.
The list of nominations which
the President has just sent to
the Senate for the filling of va
cancies in the military and naval
establishments were recon-
mended by the Secretary of
War and the Secretary of the
Navy respectively. They did not
consult politicians. They con-
suited their military and naval
advisers and they based their
recommendations on military
and naval records. They ignored
political recommendations. They
resisted outside interference.
And in so doing they carried
out the instructions issued to
them at one of the first meet
ings of the Roosevelt Cabinet
last spring.
Refused Politicians
No President In many years
has surpassed and few have
equalled the consistency with
which President Roosevelt has
refused his political friends and
followers to debauch the mill
tary and naval establishments
to their sordid purposes.
President Roosevelt set Con-
gresS another example of put
ting first things first when he
put the studies of the General
Staff of the Army and the rec
concentrations of the Chief Of
Staff and the careful and de-
liberated and fearless policies of
his Secretary of War regarding
the building up of the Regular
Army and the expansion of the
Army Air Corps ahead of the
proposals of uniformed critics
and front page publicity seekers.
President Roosevelt has set
Congress many much needed ex-
amples of the wisdom of "put-
ting first things first" in the ad-
ministration of Government and
The Washington times., 1934-03-17

How long can Congress parliamentary tricks to
dodge the issue of fair play for the working man?
Judging from the maneuvering of the last week or
two on the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill with
it's proviso on Federal salary restoration the answer is
indefinitely"
The dickering and pickering to which this issue of
elemental Justice has been subjected enough to pro-
woke the question: IFS the Congress powerless to do
what an evident majority of that body wills?"
On both sides of the Capitol votes have been taken
which show clearly that Senators and Representatives
realize that the present treatment which the Govern
ment is giving it's workers is unsound.
YET THOSE VOTES HAVE NOT AS YET BEEN
TRANSLATED INTO ACTION AND THERE IS
EVERY INDICATION THAT THEY WILL NOT BE
FOR DAYS OR EVEN FOR WEEKS
Such situation is incongruous when it is considered
that the Congress has been able to enact within
a comparatively few hours legislation which has we'll
nigh revolutionized our Government and which has
sent golden stream of tax money flowing from the
Treasury.
THERE IS NO REVOLUTION, THERE IS NO
TREASURY LOOTING, IN THE McCARRAN
AMENDMENT TO THE INDEPENDENT OFFICES
BILL.
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THERE IS NOTHING IN THAT AMENDMENT
WHICH SHOULD GIVE RISE TO ALL OF THIS
sKITTIsHNEss WHICH IS AFFLICTING OUR
LEGISLATORS.
There is in that amendment nothing but proposal
TO UPHOLD THE HAND OF THE PRESIDENT IN
HIS EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT ECONOMIC RE-
COVERY FOR THE NATION.
There is in that amendment none of the "dynamite"
which has heavily laden many of the legislative pro-
posas which Congress has carried to enactment within
few days.
ALI that amendment will do is to enable the Govern
ment to go to the people and say: JUNGLE SAM IS
DECENT EMPLOYER, PAYING HIS WORKERS
THE SALARIES WHICH THEY EARN"
Can any member of Congress say that the Govern
ment should not be able to make that statement?
The answer is an unqualified mo"
CAN ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS SAY THAT
UNDER THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE ECONOMY
ACT, WITH IT'S MULTIPLE AND BACKHANDED
SALARY CUTS, THE GOVERNMENT IS NOW PAY
ING DECENT WAGES, MUCH LESS THE PUR-
CHASING WAGES WHICH THE PRESIDENT
SAYS ARE NECESSARY?
Again the answer is an unqualified mo"
THE McCARRAN AMENDMENT DOES NOT
The Washington times., 1934-03-17

This Is the day devoted to one
Of the great saints of Christen-
dom, Patrick, "The Apostle of
Ireland" We don't know as
much about him as we ought to
know. We are not even sure
about his actual birthplace,
which was probably in what is
now England, rather than in
Ireland.
It is even probable, therefore,
that he is not a born Irishman
at although he was fervent
enough as a grown man in his
devotion to the Emerald Isle.
He was carried off from the
English coast by Irish pirates
who passed him along to cattle
growers as a slave. Slave he
was, for six long years before he
escaped in some manner which
would make a rattling good
story if we could dig it out of
the long, long past. But he did
reach the north coast of Gaul-
what is now France; possibly
somewhere near the present
Calais.
Spreads Faith
And thus the escaped slave boy
fell in with some good men, be-
came a church man himself, was
ordained deacon at Auxerre
when he was about 81, and then
visited the Eternal City, the
capital of the Christian world.
Presently he was back in Ire.
land, raging against the
heather, routing them, spread
ing the Christian faith among
all the wild tribes. If you visit
today the Museum of Science
and Art in Dublin, they will
show you with great pride the
bell which st. Patrick used
when he went about the land
chanting his faith. A strange
chant it was, called The Lorica
and it is preserved today in the
Iiber HymnorUEl. An adventur.
Gus man, whose life history
would make a thrilling biog-
raphy could we but know all of
the trials and perils he went
through. A great man because
almost Single-handed he con-
verted an entire people to the
Christian faith. The span Of
his life was IA years.
The legend most closely asso-
Ciated in the popular mind with
the name of the good saint. has
to do with his determination of
snakes in old Ireland. Indeed,
there may be a basis of truth in
that legend. as usually there is
in all legends.
And this brings to mind tale
which was told to this writer
by the great American Natural
iSt, DR.. William T. Hornaday,
who knew a lot about snakes, as
he had a vast store of informa-
ton about all living things. He
told me a very curious story
about the time-and it wasn't
so long ago when there were
actually snakes in ireland, and
some pretty big and dangerous
ones at that. He told me the
TTTE WARRINGTON TIMES a uubIj
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15
Emphasizes Value of Meats
New York Doctor Cites Medical Association in Denial
of Belief That Many Diseases Were Traceable
to Their Use in the Diet

The present belief is: no pockets Of
pus, no rheumatism or govt.
''Even in chronic inflammations of
the kidneys such as the various
forms of bright's disease, moderate
amounts of meat do no harm what
ever. The worst cases on record in
all medical history of hardening and
turning to lime of the arteries all
over the body. and in the kidneys
and intestines particularly, have been
found in certain orders of oriental
monks, who live almost exclusively
upon starch and seeds such as peas,
beans, and lentils. They abstain en-.
tirely from meat"
With present knowledge of the val
ne of meats disproving many past IL
lusions, Professor Human urges fam
lilies to restore meat in the diet: not
the finest cuts available, but the nu-
tritious soups and stews, varied with
boiling pieces. When two pounds of
boiling meat can be bought for a
dime, the cheap cuts are too health
full and appetizing in the diet to be
displaced by any other food.
Farmers can have more meat and
avoid the surplus at killing time by
curing parts of the carcass that is
not sold. City residents who are
able to buy quantity of meat can
save money by buying enough to get
lower price and home-cure a por-
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15

men known only as Dutch Henry" and
"Frenchy." In Rath and wright's store were
James Langton, George Eddy, Thomas O'Keefe,
Sam Smith, Andrew Johnson and William UIds
and his wife. Just outside the stockade two
brothers named Shader, who bore the nick
names of Mexico Ike" and blue Bill" and who
were engaged in freighting hides to Dodge City,
were sleeping in their wagons with big New
foundland dog at their feet.
About two o'clock in the morning Shepherd
and Mike WEIGH were awakened by a report
that sounded like the crack of a rifle. They
sprang up and discovered that the big cotton
wood ridge pole which supported the dirt roof
of Hanrahans saloon had cracked and was
about to allow the roof to collapse. Hastily
awakening others In the place, they set to work
repairing the roof and this commotion aroused
others who fell to and assisted them.
Before going to sleep, Dixon and Hanrahan
had prepared themselves for early start
In the morning for the buffalo hunting grounds
to the northwest. By the time the repairs to
the roof of the saloon were completed, the sky
was growing red in the east So Hanrahan pro-
posed to Dixon that, instead Of going back TO
bed they get ready to start out as soon az II
was light To this Dixon agreed and as he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15
FINE WORK DONE
BY All MEMBERS
IN ALL SECTIONS

Nearly a million American boys
and girls were enrolled in the Al
clubs during 1882. The number is
over 100000.
These boys and girls specialize In
various farm activities. A All boy,
for example, raises blooded pigs. An
other raises pure-bred calves. An
other grows alfalfa or other field
crops.
The girls practice household work.
They study how to bake the best
bread or the best pies. They vie in
seeking to do the best sewing, the
best fancy work, how to make the
home beautiful and how to keep the
costs of the home at the lowest level.
Under club instruction many a girl
has won prize for the best chickens,
the best calf or the best pig.
1t is work that teaches boys and
girls the science and the better meth
DDS in farm life. 1t leads them on
to splendid endeavor, to extraordi-
nary efficiency in farm production
and in solving farm problems. 1t
creates in them an ambition to win
the prizes offered in the various
activities set up In the different
states. 1t is raising up new and
skilled generation on the farms. 1t
makes the farm and farm work at
tractive to the boys and girls, who
have been running away from the old
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15
Tree Transformation Is
Puzzle to Scientists

1t Is one of the puzzles of science
why some trees, long buried, turn to
coal or oil, as they have done in
Pennsylvania, and others change to
stone as in the Far West.
For practical utilization, the oil
and coal transformation means the
most to the civilization.of the United
States. For scientific studies, how
ever, the transformation of a tree
or plant into several drops of oil
ruins any chances Of investigating
the form or structure.
The remarkable preservation Of
California trees is accounted for, in
part, by the complete freedom of
their cells from decay fungus. This
would be possible If they were bur-
led while thoroughly wet.
The changes found In the wood
were a slight degree of petrification
the turning to stone, some crush
ing and a pronounced decrease in
the soluble materials, cellulose and
fbrous substance. In no case did the
wood become coal-like or otherwise
unacceptable in its characteristics.
Redwood, pine and cedar of Lebanon
were included In the studies made.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15

homestead to become hired men and
hired girls in the overcrowded cities.
In the history of this world the
sure guarantee of permanent govern
ment is contented farm population.
ome-owning farmers are the sure
defense Of freedom. The best bull
wark against Communism is the farm
home. 1t was the embattled farmers
In the colonies who threw off the
British yoke. A nation whose farm
ers go through the training of the
Al has an impregnable defense
against revolution and revOlutionists.
The million American boys and girls
in the Al work in 1882 and the mil
lions of former Al boys and girls
now grown up and on American
farms are Americas rock of safety,
the cream of American population
Portland (Ore.) Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-15

Anyone who has been a member of
thresher crew and who has &C
Quired the appetite characteristic of
a thresher can appreciate the ex-
IRENE Of food fads mentioned by r.
B. Hinman of the New York state
college of agriculture.
The cook caused dismay when she
told the threshing crew that they
would have no potatoes since they
could get enough nourishment from
nuts; she placed five peanuts at each
plate. 1t is possible, Professor Hin
man admits, to arrange an edible and
complete meal of unusual foods, but
1t is seldom done. The normal per-
son is likely to get all of the real
necessities from a diet in which
meat, milk, eggs, and the ordinary
vegetables are included.
The American Medical association,
he says, maintains that the talk
about rheumatism, govt, lumbago,
and many similar diseases being
caused or even aggravated by meat
is not backed by known facts. RED
meats" they say, ''have nothing
whatever to do with uric acid. Nor
have they anything to do with caus-
ing govt or rheumatism, because nei-
Their of these diseases is due to food
or drinks of any sort, but solely to
focal infections: small pockets of
pus around the roots of the teeth. in
the tonsils, nasal passages and 81
muses., in ulcers of the stomach and
bowels, around an inflamed appendix
or bladder, or even an inflamed in
growing toenail, bunion or a corn.