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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

With silver up in price ana
again, to a limited extent, back
of the paper dollar, and the old
silver camps of the West aWak-
ening from their long sleep,
George D. Lyman's new book on
the boom days in Virginia City
and the romance of the great
Comstock lode makes timely,
lively reading.
For The Sage of the Com
stock Lode" (Charles Scribner'S
sons, written by one who was
born in Virginia City in the
early eighties and grew up
among the still warmly breath
ing traditions of the thrilling
boom days. reviveS the whole eX-
citing colorful epoch in the de-
velopment of the West.
The Comstock lode stretched
it's opulent length straight
through Virginia City from
north to south, and during the
sixties every mine along it was
hard at work. It's real discov-
ererS, the two GroSch brothers,
died from the hardships of the
desert and the mountains before
they could exploit it's riches, but
shortly after their deaths it was
discovered that the curious blue
rock was choked with rich silver
running up to $4,000 a ton at
the aSSayer'S.
Whereupon the stampede be-
gan. AS DR.. Lyman writes, all
California rang with tine call.
The cunt tain roads we're
damned with the silver-mad,
bound for Sun Mountain.
1t was the greatest exodus
since the days of 40, 10 years
before. Some went in coaches,
some went in stages, a few in
covered wagons. Gamblers and
confidence men rode on price
less thorOughbreds, but the vast
majority travelled on foot. All
carried packs, a blanket and
frying pan dashed to their backs.
Some trundled wheelbarrowS be-
fore them.
There were flocks of sheep
and herds of cattle in the rush.
There were organ grinders grind
ing out music, Baochanalian
dancing and singing, hallooing
and shouting, cursing and reVil-
ing. Many we're men of means.
Some were "bummers." But as
a whole they were the pick of
California, the pick of the Forty
Miners, the pick of America.
The majority were of the Anglo
Saxon race, or from New Eng
land, with plentiful offScouring
from the Mississippi River brakes.
The most pitilesS tyrant would
have hesitated to exile his enc
mics into that sublimity of DESC
lation. But in they flowed, that
company of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
art, Mackay, Floor, Fair, O'Brien,
Terry, Montague and thousands
of others-sliding, slipping, roll
ing over rocks and stumbling
over sagebruSh, down into the
Valley of the Carson, to pile up
wealth and a wonder city of the
times.
Virginia City grew shortly to
be the liveliest town for it's age
and population that America
had ever produced. The side
walks swarmed with people.
The streets were damned with
quartz wagons and freight
teams. There was a glad. al
most fierce, intensity in every
eye. Money was as plentiful as
the dust in the streets.
Every person Eeckoned him
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
Urge Elevation of Education
By James T. Williams, Jr.

There are plenty of presidents
for Federal leadership in educa-
ton. 1t was advocated by the
founders of the Government of
the Constitution. In his immor.
tai valedictory, the Farewell
Address, George washington
said:
Promote, then as an OBJ.
ject of primary Importance, in.
situations for the general diff
fusion of knowledge. In proper
ton as the structure of a gov
eminent gives force to public
opinion, it is essential that public
opinion should be enlightened"
In different language James
Monroe expressed the same SEN
tlmentS when he said:
The responsibility of public
servants, however we'll provided
for in the Constitution, becomes
vain and useless if the people in
general are not competent
judges of all the questions
which it involves. Society in
every district must gain that
portion of useful knowleCge
which is necessary to qualify
men to discharge with credit
and effect those great duties of
citizens upon which free govern
ment rests"
And James Madison clinched
the argument for Federal en-
couragement of public educa-
ton in these emphatic words:
"A popular government with
out popular information, or the
means of acquiring it, is but a
prOlOg to a farce or a tragedy,
or both. knowledge will forever
govern ignorance; and a people
who mean to be their own gov
ernOrS must arm themselves
with the power which knowledge
gives"
Nucleus Exists
These quotations and many
others together with Federal en-
actments that could be cited
sustain the contention of DR..
George D. Strayer, professor of
education in Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York
city, that "the founders of the
Republic were quite clear with
respect to the responsibility of
the Federal Government for the
development of system of edu-
cation"
The nucleus for a Federal De
partment of Education exists to-
day in the Federal Office of Edu-
cation which is under the Sec
rotary of the Interior. All that
needs to be done is to expand
this office into an executive de-
partment, place at its head a
Secretary of Education and give
him a seat in the Cabinet of
the President.
Then will there be in the Fed
eral City a Federal headquar-
tiers for education as there is to-
day a Federal headquarters for
agriculture, for commerce and
for labor. High will rank in his
tory the President and the Con-
gress that brings this new de-
partment into being.
Copyright 1894. The Washington Timesl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
Delay in TakOma
An Unfortunate Maneuver

It is unfortunate that certain interested citizens of
Takoma Park should have felt it necessary ask for
poponemen of the referendum to be conducted in that
community the subject of granting licenses for the
sale of alcoholic beverages
On the other hand it is most fortunate that the Dis
trct Commissioners acceded to the request and granted
the delay which was sought.
Insofar as the referendum refers only to the granting
of licenses in Takoma it is purely local affair
It would be presumptuous indeed for outsiders to tell
the good residents of the section whether not they
should permit the sale of the beverages in their
munity.
BUT THE MATTER OF HANDLING THE VOTE
AND THE MANNER OF ITS CONDUCT ARE SUB
JECTs IN WHICH THE WHOLE OF THIS VOTE
LESS CITY IS INTERESTED AND WHICH WILL
PROBABLY AFFECT THE ENTIRE CITY.
For that reason it unfortunate that anything should
to interfere with to cast the slightest measure
of suspicion upon the referendum.
This particular matter the delay of few days. is
relatively unimportant in ITSELF but if it permits the
opponents of home rule to raise question as to the
ability the willingness of the citizens to accept and
90 through with rules laid down for voting, it will have
most undesirable effect
The request for the delay was made by leaders of the
dry element of the section They said to feel that
more representative vote could be turned out by their
side at the later day.
It is of course their right and their duty to protect
their interests in the referendum
But the city will look with anxious eyes to the man
ner in which they seek the furtherance of their views
The city likewise will look to the 'wets Of the section
with the hope that they will not find it necessary to ask
for an additional postponement.
THE ENTIRE CITY IS HOPING THAT THE Ia
KOMA REFERENDUM WILL BE TAKEN FAIRLY
AND ACCURATELY; THAT BOTH SIDES OF THE
CONTROVERSY WILL HAVE AMPLE OPPORTUN-
ITY TO PRESENT THEIR VIEWS AND THAT A
FULL AND COMPLETE VOTE WILL BE TAKEN.
AND 1T IS LIKEWISE HOPED THAT NOTHING
WILL OCCUR IN CONNECTION WITH THE REF
ERENDUM WHICH MIGHT REFLECT DIsCREDIT
ABLY ON THE CITY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A GREAT
MEASURE OF LOCAL CONTROL OF LOCAL AT
FAIRS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
By 7. E. Powers

The Ophir, the Gould & Curry,
the Mexican and the other
great mines on the ComStock
were turning out huge piles
of rich rock every day, and
every holder of beautifully
engraved wildcat mining stock
believed that his day was sure
ly coming. There was moth
ing in the shape of a mining
claim that was not salable.
Prices rose and fell to the
roar of the half-mad populace.
Every man had his pockets
full Of stock, and even gave
few shares to a friend as
one gives cigars. Mr.. Stewart,
later Senator Stewart of Ne
vada, offered Mark Twain 25
feet of his Justis Mine stock
if Mark would take the trouble
to walk over to his office. 1t
was then worth five to 10
dollars a foot. But Reporter
Twain asked Stewart to hold
the offer over until the next
day.
Stewart said he couldn't be
in town the next day, and
Mark let it go at that. The
price went rapidly to $3.50 a
foot.
A man who owned 20 feet
in the Ophir Mine before It's
vast riches were revealed
traded his footage for a horse
A year later the stock was
worth $4,000 a foot. The great
Gould g. Curry claim com
prised 1900 feet. Curry SOLD
his two-thirds for $4,000 IN cash
and an old plug horse.
Gould sold his third for "a
pair of secondhand blankets
and a bottle of whiskey that
killed nine men in three hours
while an unoffending stranger
who smelled the cork was dis
abled for life. (See Rough
ing IT,
Four years afterward the
mine thus disposed of was
worth $7,60O,OOO in gold coin
in the San Francisco market.
Those were lively days and
rough days, with killings
aplenty. The best-known names
in the territory of Nevada were
those belonging to the long
haired heroes of the revolver.
orators, governors. capitalists
and leaders of the legislature
enjoyed a degree of fame but
it seemed meager when con-
trasted with the fame of such
men as Sam Brown, Jack Will
liams, Billy Mulligan, Farmer
Pease, Sugarfoot Mike, Pock-
Marked Jake, Ell Dorado
Johnny, Jack McNabb, Joe Nc
Gee, Jack Harris or Six
Fingered Pete.
In Nevada in those days the
lawyer, the editor, the banker,
the chief desperate, the chief
gambler and the chief saloon
keeper occupied the same level
of society, so Mark Twain tells
us, and it was the highest.
The first 26 graves in the
Virginia city cemetery we're
occupied by men who died with
their boots on. But all, or
nearly all. were brave, reckless
men, killing principally among
themselves, travelling with their
lives in their hands.
A picture of the old West
which will never return.
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

depression in
American his
tory w h e n
the American
S y S t e m of
public educa-
ton has gone
backward in
stead of for
ward.
This condi-
ton of affairs
will doubtless
CO n t i n u e
until public
education is
given a place
Ia thu Cali
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

ming renewed
appeals or
removal of
Gov. Paul M.
Pearson.
Believing
that the Chief
Executive may
have secured
first-hand in
formation con-
corning t h e
islanders dis
like of the
present gov
ernor, emissa-
rieS of the
anti Pearson
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
Civic Workers
il The Legion Is Welcome


More active participation in Washngtons civic affairs
by the District Department of the American Legion
urged by its newly elected commander will be of material
assistance in promoting the development and growth Of
our city,
AS Commander J. Conner Roberts points out there
many local problems with which the Legion member
ship is particularly qualified to deal
The commander calls special attention to the matter Of
Government pay the hiring of local labor, traffic and
safety care of the sick and recreaonal facilities For
all of these he bespeaks active consideration by the
Legion.
These are only few of the subjects which will be
handled the better because of Legion activity
BY FOLLOWING THE COURSE WHICH COM
WANDER ROBERTS OUTLINED IN HIS INAUGU-
RAJ ADDRESS AND IN A SUBSEQUENT LETTER
TO INDIVIDUAL POSTS THE LEGION WILL NOT
ONLY BE DOING WELL BY THE CITY BUT IT WILL
BE ENHANCING ITS OWN PRESTIGE.
Americas veterans have demonstrated their power in
national affairs They have the same power in local
affairs if they choose to use it.
This point is indicated strongly by Commander Roberts
when he says:
"We must remember that, Ueterans, w favor
ably looked by the Congress- Whch happens be
local legislature. We in position part of
influential national organization, throU support
local interests and o6ectUes. We it ourselves
as local residents and to neghbors, to the feoW
uvho lives door, President Roosevelt would say
it, to do all uve can for local needs and local better
nent.'
Gsrrs Ptor Marshall rubb c. Dorsey warneld
=
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By Iohn Snure, lr.

With President Roosevelt back
in the White House after his
voyage to island possessions,
persons interested in the destiny
of the Virgin Islands are plan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

Public education is in jeop-
ardy today all over the United
States. This is the first
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

Great pain and little gain
make a man soon weary.
Happy is he who knows his
follies in his youth.
A thief thinks every man
steals.
A woman forgives sin in her
lover, but never meanneSS.
A word and a stone once leS
go, cannot be recalled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

Zeal without knowledge is
the sister of folly.
Young man may die, old men
must.
You must ask your neighbor,
If you shall live in peace.
You cannot take a COW from
a man who has none.
Wisdom Is more to be envied
than riches,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

A quicker method of reduc-
ing than by going on a lettuce
and-pineapple diet is to fall in
love and worry yourself thin
wondering where some man is
nights.
A girl used to know that a
man was thinking Of marriage
when he began asking how lit
tie she could live on; but now,
she can never be sure that his
intentions are serious until he
begins asking how much salary
she's getting.
The modern young man is
aWfully tired of being mauled
and petted-but he has not yet
reached the state of defiance
where he feels that he ought to
slap a girl for kissing him, un-
expectedly.
There will always be some
people who will marry for ad-
Venture-juSt as there will al
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
These Modern Gals

1t has almost reached the
point where a screen star or a
society woman feels that she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

ways be some people who will
pull the trigger to prove that
the gun isn't loaded.
A man loves to keep up the
illusion that he is Just a boy
in mind and heart; but, while a
woman may lie about her age
and dye her hair like JoSeph's
coat, she will never concede
that she is mentally in the
infant class.
The more a woman forgiVes
a mans unfaithfulneSS, the
more he fancies she loves him;
but, alas, no woman can be
philosophical about the other
women in her husbands life
until her love has gone COM
pletely dead.
A married man, says Reno
Ruth. is one who gets a glance
at his salary check before it
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

passes on to the landlord. the
baby-doctor, the milliner, the
grocer and the beauty-parlor.
The average man has reached
that stage where he doesn't
know whether to treat a girl
as a lady, as an enemy, as an
equal or as just a pal.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
SyndiCat e, Inc.D
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-08-18

published
No hwe Washington,
Warhd business
I. J. FitEDA trick. managing editor
Evening star., 1934-06-13
SWIMMING CLASS
IN THIRD LESSON
$50 Go Through Course in
Use of Legs at Central
"Y" Pool.

This was leg-threshing day in the
Central Y. M. c. A. pool, where more
than $50 men are being taught to
swim under auspices of The Star and
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton.
The "Ieg thresh" or "fiutter kick, -
an important factor in the crawl
stroke, was the subject of the third
lesson In the learn-to-swim course
today. All day long the non-swim-
mers were being put through strenu-
Gus leg motions under the supervision
of Dallas Shirley and John Mullady,
"Y" swimming instructors.
Use of Legs Explained.
The instructors pointed out that
the legs in the American crawl stroke
move up and down, with all action
originating at the hips. The knees
are kept nearly straight, but not stiff.
and the toes are pointed slightly
downward and inward.
To learn this kick action, the stu
dents were given three exercises. First
they sat on the edge of the pool and
practiced kicking the water. Next,
they slipped into the pool, grabbed
the edge of the pool with their hands
and tried the "fiutter" with their
bodies in the water Finally, the men
assumed a floating position and learn
ed how the kick motion would pro-
pei them through the water without
aid of the arms.
Enrolment Increases.
Ralph W. Foster, director of physi-
cal education of the Y NJ c. A., said
today the enrolment this year is in
excess of that of last year. Conse-
quently, he expects the campaign to
be more effective than that year ago.
Most of the novices are rapidly "catch-
ing on and most have succeeded in
overcoming one of the largest OBJ
stacleS-fear of the water.
Tomorrow the classes will be given
instruction in the arm stroke, which
furnishes 80 per cent of the motive
power in the American crawl stroke,
Foster said.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
ARGENTINE EXPORTS UP

BUENOS AIRES, June 13 CP.-The
value of Argentine exports in the
first five months of 1884 was reported
yesterday at about $3.50, 900 900, COM
pared with approximately $140, ,0o0, 900
in the same period last year. The
statistical Office of the government at
tributed the increase to improvement
in prices Wheat shipments, accord
ing to the figures, decreased 204 900
tons compared with 1888.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
\. j. TO AWARD
DEGREES TONIGHT
Former Secretary of War
Hurley and Senator Bark
ley Receiving Doctorates.

Former Secretary of War Patrick J.
Hurley and Senator Alben w. Barkley
of Kentucky tonight will receive hon.
orary degrees OF doctor of laws from
National University at that institu-
ment in Memorial Continental Hall.
The exercises, to begin at 8 o'clock,
will witness also the conferring of de-
grees in course upon 256 students of
Evening star., 1934-06-13
Will Dedicate Camp.

Holy Comforter Boys Band Camp,
near Abel, Md, will be dedicated at
pm. Sunday, at which time Rev,
James Z. Connell, pastor Of Holy Com
forter Church here, win speak and
bless the recreation spot. There will
be a concert by the band. under di-
rection Of Rev. Joseph Denges. fol-
lowed by ball game and aquatic
gportS.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
Hurley N. U. Graduate.

the university who completed their
required work during the past terms
Hurley N. U. Graduate.
In making Secretary Hurley doc
tor of laws, the National University
Law School will honor one of its own
graduates. Hurley studied law at Ma
tional and in 1908 he received that
schools degree Of bachelor Of laws
He took his bachelor Of arts degree
from Indian University, now known
as Bacone College, and he was a
major and lieutenant colonel In the
Army during the World War. For his
services in the Army he was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal "for
gallantry in action" National Uni
versity will award him the honorary
doctorate "for distinguished services
as soldier and statesman"
Senator Barkley win deliver the ad-
dress to the graduates in tonight's
commencement He holds the bache-
lor of arts degree from Marvin Col
lege, was former prosecutor Of Nc
Cracken County In Kentucky and also
was formerly Judge of that county's
court. He win receive the doctorate
Evening star., 1934-06-13
Voted Late Yesterday.

"for distinguished services in the life
Of State and Nation"
Voted Late Yesterday.
National University's Board of Trus-
tees formally voted the degrees to
Hurley and Senator Barley at its
meeting late yesterday.
DR.. Hayden johnson, chancellor Of
the university, dean of its Law School
and president of the District of Co
lumbia Board Of Education. win con-
fer both the honorary degrees and
those in course.
Brewster Marshall will deliver the
valedictory.
This years graduating class of Ma
tional includes Eugene Carusi. grad
uate Of the United States Naval Acad-
emy and former naval officer. Mr..
Carusi Is the son Of the late DR..
Evening star., 1934-06-13

mended his dismissal from the force.
StrudeG has been member Of the
department since May, 1882. He lives
In Alexandria.
The Trial Board which sat on the
case included inspector william G..
Stott, Capt. J. E. Bobo and Capt.
Edward ]. Kelly.
Evening star., 1934-06-13

Charles Francis Carusi. who, at the
time of his death, was chancellor of
National University and president OF
the Board Of Education of the Dis
trict. The younger Carusi was elected
president of the senior class.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
Transfusions Reach 20.

SUPERIOR, Wis. CP}.-Seventeen-
year-old Lucille Hudson will undergo
another blood TRANSMISSION today, the
twentieth during her three months
in st. Mary's Hospital. She is a
victim of aplastic anemia.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
DISMISSAL is URGED

A Police Trial Board yesterday
found Policeman C. M. Struder, fourth
precinct, guilty of intoxication and
failure to report for duty and recon-
Evening star., 1934-06-13

"for distinguished services in the Ii
Of State and Nation"
Evening star., 1934-06-13

the university who completed their
required work during the past terms.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13

With President Roosevelt at
the throttle, the wheels Of pros
perity are slowly but surely
turning. Happiness and success
are looming on everyone's hori-
zon. notice it especially in
my business as so many "out-of-
towners" are coming here to
work and I extend this in
vitation to each and everyone
Of them to avail themselves Of
my service.
l7OO BLOCK OF EAST
CAPITOL STREET:
# you are looking for a two
room, kitchen and bath apart
ment considerably under forty
dollars, here's one situated
near Eastern High School. This
apartment has Just been re-
decorated and put in first class
condition. It Is a very conven-
lent location as there are many
stores in the vicinity and it is
near car lines. For the family
who really wants reasonable
living quarters, suggest you
see this one.
9TH AND E STREETS N. E.:
All Washingtonians know
Maryland Avenue with all its
heauty and It seems as if
great many newcomers to our
City have heard of it also as I
have numerous requests for
apartments in that locality.
This one I went thru today
Is situated on the corner of 9Th
and e facing the lovely park
way dividing Maryland Avenue.
With twenty-four hour elevator
q and switchboard service, as well
as electric washing machines in
the basement for the con-
venience Of it's tenants, this
building is always in demand
and it is a very rare thing to
have q vacancy occur; however,
there are several ranging in
price from $42.50 to $50 avail
able at this time, and I would
suggest you go out and see
them now as they are generally