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The Washington times., 1934-08-06

Who is the real power in
Germany today? Not Hitler,
the Chancellor, but a graying
man of so, Germany's steel
king and one of the great mu-
nitions magnateS of the world,
Fritz Thyssen.
It was he who put Hitler in
power and maintains him in
power. He does it for two rea-
sons. He hates the French. He
hates Socialism. If he cannot
have the old monarchy, which
doubtless he would prefer, he
will take that form of Fascism
which goes under the name of
National Socialism, but which
is very far from Socialism in
deed.
European observers who closely
study the ebb and flow Of the
tides Of opinion within the
Reich believe that Hitler will
survive as long as Fritz Thyssen
wants him to survive. They be-
lieve that the bloody Saturday,
wherein those individuals who
would have thrown Germany to
the left, to radical Socialism,
were destroyed ruthlessly, was
as much Thyssen'S doing, if not
more, than Hitler'S.
They believe that Thyssen,
head of the Vereinigte Stahl-
werke, the German Steel Trust,
looks forward to another DAY"
when German arms will recon
quer from the French the lost
provinces of Alsace and Lor-
raine and the iron and coal
fields which are the basis Of
the steel kings power.
The French, clear-headed and
acute, recognize in Fritz ThyS-
sen their most dangerous enemy
and make no secrecy of their
belief that Germany is rearming
rapidly with Thyssen's direct aid
and support.
Who is this silent man be-
hind the throne of Adolph Hit
Ter? He is one of the most
interesting personalities in Eu-
rope. It was his father, August
ThysSen, who established in the
Ruhr, at Muehlheim, the vast
steel industry which the son
now controls, and which has re-
lations with the other great
munitions makers of Europe.
The beginning of the family
was obscure and humble. Au-
gust Thyssen founded his steel
industry in a small barn which
stills. stands at Muehlheim. He
built up his small business with
coal and iron fields in the
Ruhr and in Lorraine. Amaz-
ingly thrifty and selfcentered,
a man of tremendous will and
StubbornneSS, old August ThyS-
sen employed thirty thousand
men in his steel mills, in his
power stations and on his rail-
way and steamship lines when
the great war came on.
August and son, Fritz, made
enormous profits out of the war
and then fell into difficulties
when the Peace Of Versailles
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
I Iuman Side Of the News - ByEdwi
By Nelson H arding

French DEGREES and regulations.
He was tried and sentenced to
prison and went to Jail with his
shoulders back and chin up, say
ing aloud that it was the hap
piest day of his life and the
proudeSt.
He had never liked the French,
although he had found it con-
venient and profitable to do
business with them, to expand
and extend his industry into
French territory, but from the
day of his imprisonment he has
hated France and the French
with an unholy hatred.
He became an intense con-
servative, helped organize the
Steel Helmet organization,
which was frankly out for a
restoration of the monarchy,
and when he saw that cat
wouldn't jump, turned to Fas-
cism and the little man with
the toothbrush must a ch e,
Adolph Hitler. He rounded up
his fellow industrialists and
urged them to back Hitler and
the NaZi cause. He threw all
the power of his prestige and
enormous wealth behind Hitler.
If European comment is to be
believed, he urged Hitler to
scrap the Treaty of Versailles
and to rouse the German people
to a new war of revenge. He
was able to do all this because
of the tremendous weight and
scope of his power in industry
and finance. Back of him were
the great banking interests and
the heavy industry.
And now he stands like a
shadow behind the clamorous
Hitler, silent but all powerful,
with the almost indeStructible
power of money and vast mate
rial possession. =
He has abolished Socialism.
Some day-so the French fear
he may seek to abolish France.
1t is exceedingly probable that
it was clear realization of the
plans and purposes of Herr
Thyssen which prompted Bar
thou, French foreign minister,
to make the round of Balkan
states, encouraging them to
stand with France against any
change of the status quo set up
at Versailles, and which
prompted the cautious English
government to assure Barthou
that England would again stand
side by side with France if
Germany, rearmed and bent on
war, should again strike at the
borders.
Anything can happen in Ger
many. Hitler may fall as DOLL
fuss fell, may be destroyed as
Dollfuss was destroyed. And in
the general cataclysm Fritz
Thyssen might go with him.
But as the cards lie in the
strange game that is being
played over the Rhine, Thyssen
holds the trumps.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

dA1u y u " =
works, department of finance,
and department of justice.
Fourth, that the governor
and the four heads of depart
ments, together with the COM
manding officers of the Army
and Navy in Hawaii, should con-
Stitute the upper house of the
legislature. The lower house
would be continued as at pres
ent. The governor would be
given general supervision over
all executive offices of the
United States in Hawaii.
Police Force
Fifth, that there should be
created a Hawaiian constabu-
larry and provision should be
made for the detail OF an Off
Ger of the regular army to
command the conStabulary and
of three officers of the Army
to be assistants to the chief of
constabulary. The constabulary
thus organized would be the
exclusive police force of the
islands, of the towns, city and
counties.
Enactment of this proposed
legislation would show tn a t
Congress fully recognizes the
real reasons for the annexation
of Hawaii and is prepared to
offer every encouragement to
the development of the people
of the islands consistent with
the needs of our national de-
fenSe.
If President Roosevelt will
declare that the time has come
to abandon once and for all
the idea that the people Of
Hawaii should be less Ameri-
can than the people of conti-
mental United States he will
pave the way for legislation
under which Hawaii will soon
become the outpost of national
defense in the Pacific which
Congress intended it should be
when that territory was an
neXed to the United States.
1884. The Washington Times,
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

The consensus is that the
Chief Executive was entitled to
his trip regardless of cost to the
taxpayer.
A few years ago Mr.. Roose-
veIt's predecessor, Herbert Hoo
yer, fixed up the Rapidan Camp
as a resting place where he
could find quiet after business
Of state.
It was reported at the time
that Mr.. Hoover paid for the
development of the Rapidan. He
did spend his own money, it's
true.
The Marines, however, were
recruited for various purposes
around the camp.
The records of the Marine
Corps indicate that the gas, oil,
trucks and other details of their
work around the Rapidan cost
just $175,000.
One crowd can oe thankful
that Bennett C. Schautfler, first
personnel director of the Fed
eral Housing Corporation, has
been replaced.
T. V. Hewett, of Florida, who
was formerly connected with
the NRA and is Schauffler'S
successor, is making it much
more pleasant for applicants
who go to the corporation in
the almost vain search for en-
ployment.
Despite numerous protesta-
tions from officials of the
Housing Corporation, Schauf-
fler declined to provide ade-
quate arrangements for appli-
cants and the thousands of
persons who went to the offices
daily for employment were
forced to stand in line for tedi-
GUS hours.
Hewett has changed the set
up. A long room is provided
where applicants may go to fill
out applications and receive in
formation.
The permanent housing or
ganization won't be set up
for months, so it is almost
futile for job seekers to apply
for work.
If they do wish to submit
applications, however, they
may now sit down and be
comfortable while awaiting what
amounts to rejection.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

OOh" S"uro' "r' S,UUU tlVe-gaI-
lon tins of alcohol.
So the Guard went to work
and spotted them. OF the 81
rum runners, IS are on the East
coast, 5 in the Gulf of Mexico
and is in the Pacific. Unlike
their old tactics of keeping the
runners out of the 12-mile limit,
the As cutters now engaged in
the chase follow the liquor
laden craft all over the ocean
and have been known to chase
one a thousand miles.
Since repeal a fleet of 80 ships
that were not in the rum trade
before have been spotted in the
Bahamas, so the guard has its
work cut out.
In charge OF the entire opera.
ton of chasing rum runners is
Comdr. Stanley V. Parker, chief
of the Intelligence Unit of the
Coast Guard.
Parker, incidentally, was near
Eighteenth and I Streets the
other day, and someone who ap-
parently didn't know he was one
of Uncle Sans super SleuthS,
picked his pocket of 500.
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt will be back in town
before long after a much-needed
vacation.
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

Unless he can get the cooper
alton of the next Congress PreSi-
dent Roosevelt will not be able
to do much to better the admin
iStration Of the territorial gov
ernment of Hawaii.
Only Congress, which estab-
liShed the form of government
under which Hawaii has become
so largely an Asiatic commu-
nifty, can change conditions for
the better.
The people of Hawaii are
really not to blame for the eX-
ploitation which the islands
have suffered at the hands of
the ruling American families.
Instead of developing Hawaii
as an outpost of national de-
fense in the Pacific, these ruling
families have exploited it as a
private commercial enterprise.
AS a result Hawaii, instead of
being a source of strength, is
rapidly becoming a source of
weakness. It is impossible to
make of what is fast becoming
an Asiatic community the Amer
ican Gibraltar that Hawaii
ought to be.
Ignored Advice
If Congress has followed the
advice which Theodore Roose-
velt gave while he was President
of the United States Hawaii
would not have been allowed to
drift into its present plight.
In December, 1906, President
Roosevelt in a message TO Con-
greSS said:
"The administration of the
affairs of Porto Rico, together
with those of the Philippines.
Hawaii and our other insular
possessions should be directed
under one executive depart
ment."
In the following January,
after further study of the sub
ject, the President had a bill
introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives designating the Bu-
reau of Insular Affairs of the
War Department as the Federal
office to exercise supervision
over Hawaii.
Because of the failure of Con-
gress more than Is years ago to
follow the advice of a great
American President the Hawaii
Islands are not serving today
the purpose for which they were
annexed-they are not the i'm
pregnable outpost in the Pacific
which they were designed to be
when they became American
territory.
Another effort to obtain legis-
lative remedy for the present
condition of affairs in Hawaii
was made under the Speaker
ship of Mr.. Garner during the
last year of the Hoover admin
istration. BY the Democratic
chairman of the House Commit
tee on Military Affairs Con-
gresham Quinn Williams of
Texas-a carefully drawn bill
was introduced to reorganize the
government of Hawaii.
BY the terms of this progress
sive measure Congress would
provide:
First. that the government OF
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
SOCIAL NOTES OF RECOVERY
Bv Robert BenchIey

Residents of the exclusive
summer colony at Bivalve Beach
are noting with satisfaction the
signs of activity around the old
Morton w. Osmy estate. The
house has been closed since Mr..
Osmy caught a bad cold on Wall
Street during the autumn of
1929.
Gardeners have been busy
putting in the old 1929 rose
bushes, and, in fact, there was
a rumor at first that the gar
deners themselves were going to
live there this summer, just to
keep the plumbing going.
This I am able to deny in this
column, as Mrs. Osmy told me
herself at the Bulbo Club the
other night that she and the
lovely Miss Orma are moving
into the beach house as soon
as it it is ready.
"Of course, we shall miss Mr..
Osmy," she said, "but he is in
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

jail 1or Cne summer, YOU AIlo"'
The Edmond B. Ergles are
back again in Sea Outlet,
their home on the cliffs at Mo-
hair. Last summer they rented
the place to an Armenian who
made nougat for sale, and con-
siderable scraping and polishing
has had to be done on the
floors.
Their neighbors at Mohair
will have to be rather cagy
about references to the Ergle
family as it was the last sum-
mer they were at Sea Gullet,
for several changes have taken
place in the meantime.
The present Mrs. Ergle is the
former Mrs. Ergle'S mother, the
first Mrs. Ergle having divorced
her first husband last year to
marry Larry LoStwhistle, who
was engaged to "BabS" Ergle
during the summer of 1882.
Young Tommy" Ergle, who
was at that time engaged to
"Kiki" Gorgon, has, as my
readers we'll remember, broken
with "Kiki'' and been sued by
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
Hawaii Looks to Congress
By James T. Williams, r.

Hawaii should be under the su-
perviSion of the Bureau of In
sular Affairs of the War De-
partment, as are the Philippine
Islands and the Panama Canal,
in each of which the defense
problem is paramount.
Second, that the chief execu-
tive of Hawaii should be a gov
ernor appointed by the Presi-
dent without reference to resi-
dence.
Third, that four executive de-
partmentS should be created,
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
Boxing In Washington
Mediocrity In The Ring

Medlocrlty In The Ring
The boxing business in Washington seems to be suf-
fering from an over indulgence in mediocrity.
Sportsmen of the city genuinely chagrned at the
failure of the newly yegaized activity to produce inter
esting bouts between outstanding opponents.
So far there has been plethora of contests between
little known and coloress boxers. Half dozen pro-
moters and clubs sprang into activity the
sport legalzed.
The result that contests staged almost every
night in the week at some place in town.
Competition may be the life Of trade but the
petition in the boxing business here has welngh
being the death of trade.
No sport in the world could be expected to stage the
number of contests that the boxing interests have at
tempted to put in Washington with any hope that
the contests would be of high caliber.
The boxing fan knows that and his reaction has been
perfectly naturhe has stayed away from the contests
Perhaps the situation which the boxing promoters have
encountered is the logical result of the creation of
activity almost overnight. Undoubtedly the situation
will change within short time
BUT BOXING PROMOTERS AND OTHERS INTER
ESTED IN THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMEMBER
THAT WAsHINGTONIANs WILL NOT BE Salts
FLED WITH MEDIOCRITY IN THE RING. THE
SOONER THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE SOONER
WASHINGTON WILL HAVE SPORT OF WHICH
ITMAY BE PROUD.
WAsESXGTOX] ] TINES
J. Ff1paricE managing y" Oe' "O " A'''
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

Mr.. GOrgon for stealing his
watch. This was followed by an
unfortunate scene at the ex-
elusive Limbo Beach Club last
summer when Tommy" and the
Senior Gorgon were separated
only by throwing cold water on
them.
It will be just as well for
guests at Sea Gullet this sum-
mer not to mention any names
at all and play safe.
This will be the first summer
that Mrs. Leopold LaLigne has
not spent on the Riviera since
1923, having decided this year
to visit her relatives, the George
L. Chambers, at Glandersholm
in Red Neck.
At cocktails the other after
noon with Mrs. LaLigne she
confided to this department that
the Riviera has grown terribly
common during the past five
years, especially since the depre-
citation Of the dollar.
"The foreign element crept
in," she said, "in spite of every
thing that the Americans could
do. Most of my American
friends have left the south of
France in disgust. Imagine!
Seven francs to the dollar! I
don't know what the Govern
ment at Washington is think
ing Of to let the French put it
over on us that way"
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ham
son are taking their regular
two-weekS' vacation this summer
at the Hanson home, 1487
Front St.
Maybe next year" said Mr..
Hanson to your reporter over a
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

Chasing rum boats is still the
chief diversion of the Coast
Guard despite the fact that pro-
hibition is dead.
A fleet of a new type of vessel
has cleared, from foreign ports
to come to American waters and
play tag with the guardsmen.
Reports to the Coast Guard
showed that 81 ships bearing
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

each OF which
S h o Id be
headed by a
commissioner
appointed by
the President
without refer.
ence to resi-
dence. These
department t S
would be: De-
partment OF
p u b lie in
Struction and
h e a | t h, de-
partment of
agricu l t ure
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

spirits W e r e
headed or
A m e r / C a.
They were of
a new style of
construction
fast, about a
hundred feet
long, painted
gray, of such
draft as to be
able to slip in
S ho re to
SIN a II. coVeS
a n d unload
and were of a
capacity of
5000 cases or
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

turned the Ruhr over to the
French as a territorial hostage.
Most of the German industrial
lists of the Ruhr lacked the
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

spirit Or the contumacy to resist
the French when that occupa-
ton came, but not the Thyssens.
Fritz fatty refused to obey
The Washington times., 1934-08-06
RerOuting
In The Interest of The Public


The projected revamping of the street and bus
lines of the city too important to ALL citizens Of the
District to permit of hasty and conceived action.
EVERYONE WHO HAS VIEWS ON THE RERoUT-
ING WHETHER HE IS AN EXPERT ON TRAFFIC
MOVEMENT OR SIMPLY AN HUMBLE STRAP
HANGER, DESERVES AND HAS THE RIGHT TO
APPEAR BEFORE TINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COM
MISSION AND MAKE KNOWN THOSE VIEWS.
Similarly we all have the right tU know the views of
the experts who are hired By pubic funds and presum
ably in the public interest sufficiently early to give all
interested parties an opportunity to study them and
anayze them before the commission takes action.
The commission has had an expert at work on the
problem of rerouting for months. His report is
due to be made public day two before hearings start
on the proposed changes.
PEOPLES Counsel William A. Roberts maintains that
these few days not enough to permit OF an intel
gen and complete study of the report OF the expert
Unquestionably he is right in assuming that position
and the Public Utilities Commission would be plllng up
troubles for itself it forecose the hearings
within few days after the report is available
APPARENTLY THERE IS NO SUCH DISPOSITION
ON THE PART OF THE COMMISSION. 1T SEEMS
THAT THE COMMISSION WISHES MERELY TO
MAKE THE REPORT A MATTER OF RECORD AND
THEN PERMIT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDY
WITH SUBSEQUENT EXAMINATION OF EHE EA-
PERT MAKING THE REPORT.
Such a. course of procedure is not unreasonable.
But the Public Utilities Commission should understand
before the hearings open that the public of Washington
is vtay interested in every shift of transit or bus lines
and in every elimination which is contemplated.
The public does not intend to be swept off its feet in
the hearings either by the commission or by the experts
and counsel of the transportation company.
The rerouting plan when it becomes effective will,
presumably be with the city for long time. At least
we hope
IF IT IS TO BE THE PERMANENT SCHEME OF
MASS TRANSPORTATION FOR THE CITY IT
SHOULD REPRESENT THE BEST AND THE MOST
DELIBERATE THOUGHT OF ALL PARTIES AT
INTEREST.
We have confidence in the Public Utilities Commis
sion. and its desire act for the benefit of the entire
community
We have confidence in the transit companies and their
desire to give the city good and economical service
We have confidence in the ability and intention of
Peoples Counsel Roberts to protect the rights and in
terests of his client-the public.
The suggestion of Mr. Roberts that interested citizens,
whether represented by organizations or acting indvid
uay meet him and discuss their views before taking the
stand at the hearings should be generally adopted.
Such prior discussion should tend to avoid needless
discussion at the hearings and should also permit of
intelligent and complete presentation of the pubics
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

Articles By Robert Benchley
appear eUery Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
The Washington times., 1934-08-06

II ID. C.
J..
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WILD swap cash for good '26 or '27 Ford
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