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The Washington times., 1934-10-27

It is 3 o'clock on the
Sunday afternoon of June II,
1880. A gaunt, hollow-eyed,
ragged old man sinks wearily
to the bottom step of the
Capitol Building in Washing
ton. His head sinks on his
chest. He is alone against the
back-drop of great stone col
umns and pediments, august
and impersonal as the law. A
crowd of ragamuffin newsboys
rush up to the old man.
General" they shrek,
"you've won! Congress has
just voted you a hundred mil
lion dollars! It's all in the
papers! We're waiting to sell
them!" The old man rises,
trembling, tears coursing down
his grimy cheeks. He raises his
emaciated arms to the skies
and throws back his head,
rendering thanks to just
God. Then he sinks to the
ground, inert and grotesque
under his rusty old Inverness
cape. He is dead.
The newsboys were joking.
He was Gen. Johann August
Sutter, whose great feudal do
main had yielded the gold
which made the California
gold rush, and which today is
Turing multitudes to those same
goldfields, where Sutter and
the lusty buccaneers of the
forties and fifties once "gloried
and drank Deep"
GOLD RUSH
A short while before the old
general died, the washington
police found a demented old
man, groveling on the ground,
stuffing his pockets with gar
bage and screaming Gold!
Gold! Gold!" It was Mar
shall, the carpenter, who had
first found gold on Suffers
ground. It is a tale that is
told-the violence, blood, mania
and misery that came in the
wake of Marshalls first string
of color" in that innocent
little brook in Suffers lordly
empire. Now there is an cpl
logue, and perhaps a happier
one.
Washington, through devalu-
alton of the dollar, raised the
price of gold. Those old placer
drifts may now be profitably
sluiced again, and out of the
deep quartz of the mother lode
there is to be winnowed a for
gotten residue of wealth. The
depression sends new hordes,
trekking-or rather hitch-hik-
ing-to the Scared hillsides
of Placer and Tuolumne coun-
ties, to the waste land around
Auburn and Crovile, to the little
Already of Grass Valley, cupped
in the hills, slumbrous since
the brawling miners left, now
roaring with that febrile excite
ment which only gold can
arouse.
But they are a different
breed from those booted, red
shirted, hobnailed, hairy. below
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
an Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

you have sluiced virgin gold.
But among them there are
also the old desert rats-the old
"hassayampas' quite a few
old Weather-beaten Alaska mush"
ers and sourdoughs.
And there are, too, agents of
the great corporations who spe-
cialize in metallurgy or any of
it's derivatives which may prom
Use a dividend. Sleek, Well-favored
men, roughing it in big automo-
biles and, expensive togs, spot
ting a percentage here and there
for large-scale operations; hav-
ing available modernized dredg-
ers which would have squeezed
a lot more millions out of these
alluvial wastes had gold been
what it is worth today.
And it is this today'S worth
of gold which takes them all
there-the men in muddy dun
garees and the men in Burbury
coats. There's full five octaves
of old-fashioned human nature
here. 1t was just one hundred
years ago that Johann August
Sutter, the fugitive Swiss tramp,
arrived in New York, on Tues
day, July 7.
FEUDAL BARONY
Five years later, after ap-
palling hardships, he was in the
dirty sprawl of fishers huts
which was San Francisco.
Horseback into the Sacramento
Valley he went, to the mouth OF
the Rio de los Americanos.
Years passed. His lands, houses
and cattle stretched over count
less leagues. He brought pianos,
furniture and SilverWare from
Europe. across the IsthmuS OF
Panama.
He incorporated hundreds Of
Indians in his benign feudal
State. He imported exotic trees,
shrubs, and flowers, studied
agriculture and schooled his
vassals in it. 1t was a sunny
land. His we're thrones, pow
ers and dominionS. He was at
peace. On January l, 1948,
Marshall, one of his carpenters,
discovered gold.
Tell no one." said his mas
ter. 1T means ruin" Mar
shall didn't tell, but somehow
the secret got abroad. Like an
apocalyptic curse came the
horde of gold seekers-looting,
burning, killing and throwing
all the formative social life of
California into anarchy and
chaos.
Sutter owned the ground on
which the city of San Fran
cisco stood. This, and all his
possessions were stripped from
him. He grew old, mumbling
and querulous at Washington,
imploring Congress for the res
toration of his rights, which
were unqueStionable.
A partial restoration had
been decided upon. Then the
newsboys killed him with their
fake news, and Marshall the
carpenter, stuffing ordure into
his pockets. was dragged away
as a maniac.
Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Both Feet on Ground
Both Ewes Also

of thoughts air defense recently which should re-
advocates of unpreparedness and similar human
ostriches.
The general opined that bombing plane could hardly fly
the ocea-whch ought to interest General Balbohat there
not enough bomber the world to wipe any large
city from the air. that the Army Air Corps had missed
good many bombing targets etc.
The his remarks that aviation was interesting
but not to be taken too seriously in waging war.
The other day it announced that PanAmecan Arways
had just decided to start passenger service from CALL
FORNIA TO CHINA and points route, with planes con-
sderably bigger than most of the bombers of today.
General Harbord good soldier.
So the Duke of Wellington.
The Duke you may remember, would not let the British
army have repeating rifles because lit would waste
Of ammunition
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

health, we published his pro-
test-and received, as we eX-
pected a barrage of brickbats
that made that recent baseball
fusillade at Detroit look like a
game of bean-bag. The letters.
naturally, ran one hundred per
cent in defense of Mama and
Teacher. But suddenly came
one from a Different Kind OF
Mother.
She agrees that our males are
going sissy. and that it's large
ly Mama's fault. BUT SHE
PUTS THE ORIGINAL BLAME
sQUARELY ON DADS SHOUL
DERS. And WILL that notion
be popular with the American
Mons Inc.!!! So the lady gets
the floor today. And. :. good,
goody!. . for once Elsie sits
on the nice, safe siGelineS.
Dear Miss Robinson:
I'm a mother and have reared
a son, Yet, to a large extent,
I believe your Male Voter"
correspondent is right. Women
do have too much to do with
training American boys, and
they've produced a deplorable
crop of sissieS. I believe that
much of the cowardice and cor
ruption in public life today can
be traced back to that sissy
training in boyhood.
I realized this when my son
was very small and acted &C
cordingly-though it scandal
lied my women friends. I
taught my six-year-old son how
to put all he had behind a
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

Flat" would have tossed a bit
of bird seed like that into the
kitty. But some of these lads,
who may have had callouseS
from rolling cigarettes, but
never from working a gin pole,
are picking up from SIS to $50
a day. Not many of them, but
enough of them to stir tales of
fortune and keep the stream
of drug store prospectors flow
ing in.
Around such ghost towns as
Angels Camp and Columbia
Falls, where the pine trees have
grown huge again since Bret
Harte's day, where the streams
are clear and no longer fouled
by the stamp mills, there is here
and there a flick of color in
some amateurs pan which may
forever put him out of pace
with the work-a-day world. It's
hard to catch the lockstep or
punch a time clock again after
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

ing legions which first swarmed
over the Sierra and made ruin
and bloodshed-and incident
ally high romance-in Suffers
Eden of pine forests and cryS-
tai streams.
But the wind OF the wilder
ness has been tempered to the
shorn lamb. Mail order clothes
and canned foods equip them
better than the forty-niners
ever hoped to be. Interurban
lines skirt the edges of the
placer country. Automobiles
penetrate far into the heart of
it. The rough old Queensbury
rules have been slackened.
Softer men hazard less and
win less than the old hell-roar-
ing crews who first took the
trail in the covered wagon.
A dollar a day is a pretty
fair take for these outcasts of
a broken world economy. Bret
Harte's "Outcasts of Poker
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

burdens and troubles alone and
even clever enough to do his
own cooking, he simply MUST
have somebody to help him ad-
mire himself, believe in himself
and amuSe himself.
Funny how a man will go all
through life up to As lodging
nice, eligible girls-and then
fall for a gold-digger, a moron
or a headache. All the way
round the mulberry bush, to
find a sour mulberry!
When the gods want to make
a perfectly devoted and con-
tented wife of a woman they
first extract her sense of humor
and then cocaine her vanity.
A young man may admire
women in the thirties or the
forties; but man who has lost
most of that schoolboy hair"
usually clings to the deluSion
that he would be wasting his
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
The City's Rats Must Go
Alexandria Sets an Example

Washington, National Capital and 'model city in so
many ways making intelligent and concerted effort
to meet crime situation which is rapidly getting out OF
hand.
IF WE NEED AN INSPIRATION IN THE FIGHT
AND AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THE
PROBLEM WE MIGHT TURN TO THE RELATIVELY
SMALL CITY OF ALEXANDRIA ACROSS THE PO-
TOMAC.
week ago Thursday man was murdered In that
city Four days later suspect arrested. Two days
later he confessed An hour later he repudad the
fession Almost Immediately he repudiated the repuda
tion and pleaded guilty.
Within matter of hours that man was his way to
the penitentiary Richmond sentenced to life mprison
ment
Of course, Alexandria isn't the National Capital
It doesn't have several different police forces It ism
the home of the mighty Department of Justice.
It is only quiet Virginia city in which lot Of people
love to live
BUT ITS POLICE FORCE GOES OUT AND GETS
MURDERERs AND ITS COURTS SEND THE MUIR
DERERs TO PRISON WITHOUT DELAY.
More than a month ago two men were shot during a
gambling row in downtown hotel in Washington. So
far no one has been brought to trial in connection with
that double murder and the gambling which caused it
still goes
Probably as outgrowth of the same gambling an
honest and law abiding citizen murdered early Tues
day morning So far one has even been questioned
who might have had connection with the crime although
there doubt that the murder plotted in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
In view of these facts the indignation which gripping
our decent citizens be quite easily understood
The District Bar Association citizens associations and
the Washington Federation of Churches taking the
lead in an effort to obtain action looking toward
the elimination of the present dangerous conditions
Their efforts must not be allowed to degenerate into
the simple adoption of resoutons into sporadic demands
that something be DONE"
These organizations must show those in authority that
further laxity will not be tolerated.
They must through their determination and persist
ence convince the gangster and the thug that Washing
ton will no longer put up with their presence.
WE HAVE WONDERFUL CITY HERE. BEAUTI-
Full BUILDINGS, IMPOSING MONUMENTS BROAD
AVENUES SPACIOUS PARKS.
AND WINDING OVER THEM WE HAVE SOME
SHINY RATS.
THE RATS MUST GO.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

archltect, has ordered the re-
moval of various statues from
Statuary Hall.
Statues to be moved to the
Capitol rotunda are of Washing
ton, Lincoln, Jackson, Grant,
Jefferson and Garfield.
Of the total of SO statues in
the Hall 33 are to be moved in
the hope that the change will
relieve the terrific pressure on
the structure beneath the hall.
OF the 48 States 81 have sent
at least two statues to Statuary
Hall. 1t is a privilege to which
they are entitled under the law.
Four States have sent one statue
of their favorite son.
Estimates have been made to
determine how much weight will
be removed from the overbur-
dened beams that support
Statuary Hall.
Experts learn that the auer.
age 1Ueight of the statues to be
remoUed is the small sum OF
tUo tons, or 1000 pounds each.
IN other words. $4,000
pounds, or 66 tons of statues,
are being transferred to ne1U
quarters.
On the eve of elections, there
is plenty of money to be had
on the outcome of the political
feud November 6.
A large portion of the wealth
is being offered by political OBJ
servers who nave been wander
ing around the country feeling
the pulses of a few million
voters.
One bet offered is eUen money
that the Democrats 1Uon't tOin
more than four seats in the
Senate or that there Won't be
net change OF more than
eight places.
Another wager is that there
will be a net gain in the House
for the Democrats.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

tleman, Senator Hamilton F.
Kean of New Jersey, is also the
Subjecc of heavy Wagers.
There are even some dark
horse gamblers willing to bet
that the Republicans will win
a fair number of the con-
tested cases and have more Re-
publicans in the House and Sen
ate this year than they did at
the last session.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington
TimeS)
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

to said Voter,
W a S W h a t
allied Ameri-
C a n m e n.
T h e y were
Mama'd from
the cradle to
t h e grave
sissified b y
female train
ing in our
homes a n d
schools.
B in G a
reckless crit
ter with little
regard f o r
oun nnrconol
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

Particularly
not are the
W a G ers on
the Vic Don
ahey- Senator
Simeon FesS
C n t e S t in
o h 10, h e
fight in New
Mexico a n d
as to whether
Senator Felix
Hebert W i'll
come out on
top in Rhode
Island.
That m u S.
tachiOed gen.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

S u p r e m e
c o u r t, if
necessary, in
t h e h o p e
that a recent
decision b Y
Justice Bailey
will be set
aside.
o S tensibly
the case re-
Gently ruled
on by Judge
Bailey W a S
to determine
W h e t h e r
Secretary Of
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

about him, even though his i'm
portance may correspond to
that of the "P" in Psychology.
Suicide and breach-of-promise
suits are the side-exitS of the
poor sports.
Another poor sport is the
man or woman who is afraid
to stake his happiness on one
big love, but prefers to play
safety first" by dividing it up
among a lot of little second
rate loves.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen ROWLQnd

time on anything except that
schoolgirl complexion"
There is nothing like one of
those uncertain, protracted
love-affairs, which usually end
in a blind alley. to put lines in
a girls face and rob her of all
her color and personality.
Women would have fewer
heartaches, if they would prac-
tice emotional moderation. The
girl whom a man cannot for
get is the one who likes him
just enough to stick to him-but
not enough to hang onto him.
Wifely diplomacy consists in
making a husband feel that he
is the Head of the House and
that the whole menage revolveS
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Is Junior Suffering From
TOO-Much-Mama?

"A Male Voter" said that
Junior was suffering from Too
Much-Mama. That, according
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Hawaiian sugar producers
are planning to appeal to the
Court of Appeals and the
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Bunkers on the
LOve-COurse

In these days of lightning
change love, the only time when
a woman is sure that her hus-
band will stay PUT is when she
lays the wreath of immortelles
on him.
"Why do men marry?" Be-
cause, while a man may be
strong enough to bear his own
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
E. E. HARRINGTON
ANNOUNCES FOR
THE JUlCESHIP
Another Dorchester Attorney
Seeks Elevation To The
First District Bench

Emerson C. Harrington, Jr., of the
law firm of Harrington and Harring-
ton places his name before the "The
People Of the First Judicial District"
as a candidate for the Associate
Judgeship. In the presentation of his
candidacy he says:
After giving the matter careful
and deliberate consideration I have
definitely decided to be a candidate
for Associate Judge of the First Judi
cial Circuit, and take this means of
announcing my candidacy, subject to
the decision of the voters in the COM
ing Democratic primaries.
II will sincerely appreciate the
hearty support of the voters of this
Judicial Circuit and if given the op-
portunity to serve l trust that my SER
vice will be such that will justify
their confidence and respect. l am
forty years of age and have been prac-
ticing law for fifteen years.
81 greatly appreciate the support
that has already been rendered me
and solicit the favorable consideration
of the voters in the four Counties
comprising this Circuit"
Emerson C. Harrington, Jr., was
born in Cambridge, Dorchester Coun-
ty, Maryland, August 10Th, 1894. He
graduated from the Camhridpe Hiph
School in 1912, and continued his
studies at st. Johns College and the
University of Maryland. He is mar
ried and has two daughters. He has
been active in public life and was
Commander of his County American
Legion Post for two years and is now
City Solicitor for the City of Cam
bridge.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
MIR. AND MRS. CLARY
HONORED BY LIONS

The Lions Club of this city, DR.. j.
T. Mock, president, will tender to
Rev. and Mrs. H. V. Clary testi-
monial of the clubs appreciation of
the above named rector and his wife,
in the form of special program at
their meeting next Tuesday evening.
DR.. R. Lee Hall, chairman of the
entertainment committee, has arran-
ged Ladies' Night at which all the
"Lionesses" are expected to be present
in honor of Mrs. Clary. A tempting
course dinner will be given and, for
that evening, the Club will hold it's
meeting in the cafeteria of the high
school building.
DR.. Hall states that an entertaining
speaker will be present, and other
features will be introduced to make
the evening long to be remembered.
This function of the club is staged
as fitting tribute to the popularity
of the ST. Mary's Rector and his
wife, who will leave Pocomoke on
June Is to take up their residence in
Bluefield, Virginia.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
AMER. LEGION FASHION
SHOW ATTRACTS CROWD

The Fashion Show, staged by the
American Legion and the Pocomoke
City merchants drew a very large
crowd at the local Armory on Thurs
day evening of last week, and was
eminently successful in every way.
A varied programme was arranged,
consisting of songs and dancing, solos,
styles modelling, Lilliputian wedding,
and Bathing Beauty Contest; the &C.
casion winding up with a dance.
The latest styles were exhibited by
Scher, L. Griffin Callahan, Montgom-
cry Ward and Company and J. c..
Penney and Company.
The bathing beauty contest was won
by Miss Dorothy Brooks, the first
prize being SIS. A second prize of
$40 was won by Miss Roberts, of
Eastville; and the third, SIS, by a
young lady from Cambridge.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
CANDIDATE FOR
THE JUDCESHIP
FROM CAMBRIDGE
T. SangstOn Insley Asks For
Votes At The Coming
Democratic Primaries

7. Sangston Insley, ESQ.,, another
member of the Cambridge Bar, has
entered the field along with others as
an aspirant for the Associate Judge
ship, First District.
In his formal statement to the
Democratic Voters of the First Jud-
icial Circuit of Maryland" he says
that he has never had political Of
flee, never having been a candidate;
that he was born on a farm in Dor
chester County where he worked hard
at the usual labor of farmer; he at
tended public school in Cambridge and
graduated at the head of his class
in high school; that he studied law in
the office of Chief Judge Pattison and
the late Alonza L. Miles and was
practically perfect in his admittance
examinations; that he has been sue
cessful tho having met with stern
competition in such men as Mr.. Miles,
Mr.. Goldsborough, Mr.. Fletcher, Mr..
Henry, Mr.. Mace and others; that he
is married and has two children; that
he is a member of the NJ. E. Church
and member and officer of the Bar
AGA Glass, that he has always been
a Democrat; and that he has re-
Continued on Page 1O)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
~
from the
Democrats Pen

Well. Sir, l just don't know what
this Eastern Shore is thinking about ;
maybe it hasn't sense enough to do
any thinking, but somebody ought to
tell it to stop acting so uppity about
this gubernatorial mix-up. 1t should
be informed by Mencken, Broadus
Mitchell, the Sunpaper and others of
their ilk, that, on account OF its back
wardness. God-forsakenness, isolation
and general cussedness, it has no
right to any voice in the affairs OF the
State, It's wonder those represen-
tatiyes from seven counties hadn't
been arrested and landed in a Baltl-
more Jail, an insane ward, or sent to
think it over at Jessup's Cut.
Why, what right have these Cis-
Chesapeake, Chichester, CHS, Nantl-
coke, Cis-Wicomico, Cis-Choptank and
Cis-Pocomoke galoots, to go galivan-
tim over the land of high-grade civil
lization and put in their put concern
ing the political situation? Did you
ever hear of such presumption? Just
why they were not severely dealt with
don't know. How in the world could
this "hog-wallow" over here expect
to have citizens worthy of being heard
on any question? How could these
"psalm-singing Methodists" imagine
they knew enough to find the way out
of their front gates? How could these
jewellers in a land, darker than the
Dark Ages, hope to influence the
movements of the big political Trans
Chesapeakian guys? What induced
these "Clam diggers" to dare invade
the Holy Land on the west shore OF
the "Big Ditch?" Indeed, how did
they all succeed in finding their way
out of the fastness of this "benighted
land" and exhibit bravery enough to
tell those aspirants for the governor
ship just where they should get off?
Well, wonders will never stop ceas-
ing. Maybe it won't be long before
the public will know that Mencken,
Mitchell, ct al, have earned a right
to be memorialized in the Liars Hall
of Fame alongside of Aananias, Mum
chausen, DR.. Cook, Dare Devil Dick
and the rest of those famous prevari-
Gators. The Eastern Shore is in it.,
and been in it hell of while. And
there will always come out of these
"wilds" men and women able to give
the poor devils across the Bay val
liable lessons, no matter in what SUBJ
ject.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
FARMER EXHIBITS EGG
OF MAMMOTH SIZE

Mr.. William H. Taylor, farmer, liv-
ing near the Fair Grounds, brought
to the office of the Democrat" on
Tuesday something mammoth in the
way of hen egg.
This special specimen of hen fruit,
weighed just one ounce less than half
pound, measured 91i inches for the
long circumference, and inches for
the short. The she'll, while solid, was
thin and brittle.
The egg, when broken, revealed an
other perfectly formed, along with the
yolk and whites of still another, sup
posedly part of the large egg.
Mr.. Taylor does not know just
what strain of bird laid the prodigy
as he has several birds and came
across the egg in his general collect
ion.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-06-01
A AND P. STORE
NSTALLS new FIXTURES

The A & P. Store in this city has
just installed most complete ar
rangement for exhibiting and preser-
wing the fresh fruit and vegetable de-
partment of their market street store
There are two counters with a
background of shelving and the whole
with another background of green
thing. The counters and shelving
are also green and built of material
allowing the use of ice in TIE cooling
of their stock.
The whole presents most refresh
ing appearance and cannot fail to in
crease sales by providing fresh goods
at all times.