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The Washington times., 1934-03-15
The Human Side of the News
DestructlOn Of the Buffalo Ruined lnulans
By EdWin C.. Hill

to have a buffalo robe coat.
But overnight the great crea-
lures disappeared.
When the hunting season
opened in 1884, and the hunt
ers sailed forth as usual, the
buffalo were gone. To their
utter aStonishment none were
visible of the once mighty herds.
It was a tragedy to the Ameri-
can Indian. The white man
had taken from him everything
he had-his country first; and
then the beast which meant his
very life, his clothing, tepee,
food, tools and even sinew for
sewing.
When the buffalo went the
Red Man was doomed-doomed
to live on unhappily and miser-
ably, on reservations doled out
to him by the Government,
which had seized his hunting
grounds. Buffalo Bill himself,
who had killed many an Indian
in the old days of the Indian
wars on the plains, told this
writer that it was one of the
bitterest tragedies of history,
this ruthless destruction of the
buffalo and ruination Of a whole
people.
One Good Effect
After 1884, the country woke
up to the fact that the buffalo
we're gone, or nearly gone. DR..
William T. Hornaday, the great
naturalist, who has spent a
lifetime fighting for the preser.
vation Of wild animal life, great
and small, and who is alive to-
day, hale and hearty and still
actively at work, in Greenwich,
Conn, has told me how he went
out West to seek the few re-
manning groups Of buffalo, and
found them.
In 1907 there were only about
1000 alive, in all the country.
There was a tiny herd in the
Yellowstone National Park, an
other small herd in the DakotaS
and others here and there, and
Canada had a wild herd Of 500
which was safe from poacherS,
but could not raise it's young,
because of wolves that am
bushed the calves and ate them.
But men like DR.. Hornaday and
Buffalo Jones and some of the
wise Canadians did act in time,
and now the survivors have in
creased so that there are thou
sands in the United States
again, in our great national
parks, and at least 10000 in
Canada. -
The destruction of the mag
nificent animals to satisfy the
greed of man was a ghaStly
thing, but it had one fine effect.
It taught a lesson of animal and
forest conservation which we
are not likely to forget. And so
this outstanding fellow with the
great, lowered head will not
join the great aux and dodo and
be remembered only because Of
our Scent piece.
Copyright, 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
COMPROMISES Would Perpetuate LiUing Waqe Te171

VISION AS THE DESIRE TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH
THE WORKING MAN AND WORKING WOMAN
THAT LED THE SENATE TO WIPE OUT EN-
TIRELY THE PAY CUTS.
Clearly the temper of the Senate is such that it will
not permit the House again to write into the bill this
wholesome and unwarranted proviso.
The pay cut "compromisers"- should be known
by their proper title of "antirecovery advocates-
would entirely disregard all of the evidence against the
"cost of living" theory.
That evidence runs against the theory whether the
theory is applied to fifteen per cent of salary only
to five per cent
That evidence clearly shows that the Government
never has had any figures upon which the "cost of
living" for any period could be determined with
approximate exactitude.
THAT EVIDENCE CLEARLY SHOWS THAT
EVEN WE'RE THE NECESSARY FIGURES AVAIL
ABLE THE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY
WOULD MAKE 1T UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO
IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE
WORKING MAN OR EVEN TO MAINTAIN THAT
STANDARD AT A REASONABLE LEVEL.
THAT EVIDENCE CLEARLY SHOWS THAT
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The economic terrorism to which Government
poyes have been subjected for the last year two
not be relieved by the enactment of anything less than
the McCarran amendment to the Independent Offices
Appropriation Bill.
All of the suggestions to compromise" that amend
ment provide for the continuance into the next fiscal
year of some portion of the cut contingent upon the
"cost of living"
TO PERPETUATE THAT COST OF LIVING
FACTOR, EVEN IN A SLIGHT DEGREE, IS TO
PERPETUATE THE DOUBT, WORRY AND FEAR
WHICH HAS OBsEssED THE GOVERNMENT
WORKER FROM THE TIME THE ECONOMY PRO
VISIONS WERE ORIGINALLY ADOPTED.
The debate in the Senate which preceded adoption
of Senator McCarrans amendment clearly indicated the
unwngness of the Senate to prolong this inquitous
provision
That debate showed the unfarness the downright in
decency of holding Government workers to what some
mythical and entirely impractical figures showed to be
a living wage.
IT WAS AS MUCH DESIRE TO OBL1TERATE
THE BLOT ON THE GOVERNMENTS PERSONNEL
RECORD CAUSED BY THIS LIVING WAGE PRO
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PRODIGAL SEA-LlONS = = By

my first failure at a job. On
coming down" from the uni
versity, I was employed by an
oil spermery-and-refining COM
pany, to do just exactly what
Mr.. Blaikley has been wonder
ing about. I was assigned the
job of finding out some use
for the peculiar balancing gift
of sea lions.
Of course, my company was
concerned primarily with
whales and their by-products,
but it had been found that
the seals in the whaling terri
tory were seriously impeding
operations by sitting around in
the way of the whalers and
just swinging back and forth
with their noses in the air.
Find those animals something
to balance on their noses" said
the captain of the whaling fleet
in his monthly report, "or I
shall go crazy"
So I went up into the seal
district and tried putting vari-
GUS light objects on the noses
of the seals as they swung
back and forth. This is very
hard to do, you will find. I
tried the conventional rubber
ball, but discovered that it is
only seals with actor blood in
their veins that will go for the
rubber ball. The ones we see
in circuseS are dyed-in-the-Wool
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London Periodicals Exploit
i. S. Aviation CalamitieS
Bu James T. Williams. Jr.

He often wished that he had
been rich enough to do So"
Unfortunately, this So-called
besmircher of his countrymen
and his country's press is not
identified by name in the article
of this foreign commentator on
men and things American.
"President Roosevelt has no
intention of replying to Colonel
Lindbereh's telegram. We can
only imagine that Charles Lind
bergh was inspired, or instruct
ed, to send that tactless tele-
gram by some of his employers
in the air mail racket. Slim
is a fine pilot and all that, but
he is not mentally slim, in the
South African sense, and would
not of his own accord try
publicity stunt of that kind.
Foreign Opposition
Of course the American peo-
pie know that Colonel Lind
bergh's telegram was sent upon
his own initiative and that its
only purpose was to save the
Federal air mail from destruc-
tion and to ward off the Grip
pling blow that has been struck
American air transport and the
national defense.
It will take more than the
contemptuous criticism of the
foreign press to convince his
countrymen that Colonel Lind
bergh is ether the dupe Of
racketeers or a publicity seeker.
This attack from the other side
of the Atlantic will not lessen
the admiration and affection Of
the American people for Charles
A. Lindbergh.
The opposition across the At
lantic to the building up Of an
independent American merchant
marine and to the development
of American air transport to the
eighth wonder of the world is
not of recent origin. Foreign
governments, foreign steamship
companies, foreign aviation in
terests have long been as much
opposed to Federal aid for our
Merchant Marine and Air Trans
port as are the railroad interests
in the United States.
And much of the opposition
in both Houses of Congress to
the legislation of recent years
that has revived the American
merchant marine and reinforced
that auxiliary of the national
defense with what 80 days ago
was the best air transport in
the world, has come from those
States in which the railroads
are powerful political factors.
Copyright, 1884. by The
Washington Times Coz
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
By Robert Benchley
By T. E. Powers

himself. Any social worker will
tell you that.
So I simply sent in my re-
port, which read: complete
indifference on part of seals
to waste of balancing gift.
Recommend abandoning whole
project" Naturally, I was not
given another assignment, and,
if Mr.. Baikley wants to take
a try at it, my old desk is still
vacant, I understand.
The other letter to the Sum
day Times deals with a contro'
versy which has been raging
over the site, and name, Of
the earliest indoor skating
rink in London. and I am
afraid that I have not left
quite room enough to take it
up now. Perhaps at our next
session we can deal with it. In
the meantime, I will go over
my records more carefully, for
I am a little hazy on one or
two points. We might all Of
us read up bit on Early In
door Skating Kinks of London,
and then I shall not be talking
to such lot Of lunkheads on
the subject as might otherwise
be the case.
copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate Incl
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and SnfMfddU.
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Two letters written to the be-
devilled editor of the London
Sunday Times have stirred old
memories in my breast, and,
if the editor of the Sunday
Times doesn't mind, I will take
them off his hands.
The first, from a Mr.. Ernest
Blaikley, of Stanley Gardens,
N. W. 3, begins: Recently,
at a Well.knoWn circus, I saw
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
ONCE-OVERS

diverting in just the right way,
though her youth was perennial.
Many a fellow got his sheep
skin due to her impersonally en-
couraging ways that set him to
thinking right.
She wasn't a flipper-flapper,
amusing herself with her make
up box or whatever you call it,
disturbing a students balance,
often with intention.
Oh no, bless the college
widow" for knowing what to do.
But now you are married to
a fluffy-ruffles and instead Of
your making her over into the
pattern you admire, you find
yourself loaded down with a
milestone.
You are too practical and feel
so responsible that you can't
take time off once in a while
to get acquainted with your wife.
copyright, 1884, King Features
syndicate. 1nS.S
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And foolish notion.
Robert Burns.
John Bulls press appears to
be having another big laugh at
Uncle Sans expense.
BY recent British ships to
American ports have come
copies of London periodicals in
which appear articles exploiting
the series of calamities that
have overtaken American avia-
ton since it succumbed in re-
cent weeks to the Gripping
blows Of politics and politicians.
Forecast Scandal
Under the title OF probing
the Air Mail" one London peri
odical in its issue of February
ii published a long article upon
the activities of the Black COM
mittee. This article in this for
eign periodical begins as follows:
"The Investigations now be.
ing made by a Senate COM
r,ittee into the methods by
Ohich the Hoover 0dministr0-
tiOn awarded air mail contracts
look like revealing a scandal
fully comparable uDith the Tea
pot Dome oil revelations of ten
years ago."
Of Postmaster General Far
ley's order Of February 9 can
ceiling all domestic air mail
contracts on the ground of al
legged "collusion and fraud" in
getting them, this article in this
foreign periodical continues:
"The domestic companies in
UOlUed wiH be deb0rred for a
period of five years from
further bidding, either for air
mail contracts or for the con-
struction of Girpldnes for the
Army and Navy. There WiH
remain to them only the opera
tion of passenger services,
Which are said to be economi-
cally impossible Without the
GOvernment's mail subsidy.
"a welL-informed cOrrespond-
ent in the United St0tes-ds a
festive corpositor once spelled
it-writes that we in England
may hoUe heard of the air mail
scandaI-0 rotten mess that
some people in the States haze
known for years. He adds
that the u. S. oOiatiOn papers
could not afford to dish it up
and lose half their advertising.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

WHILE AN EMPLOYE MAY BE RECEIVING
A "COsT OF LIVING" SALARY HE MAY BE SUI
FERING SLOW STARVATION, MAY BE UNABLE
TO CLOTHE HIMSELF PROPERLY, MAY BE UN-
ABLE TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY IN DECENT
CONDITIONS.
That evidence clearly shows that the nation cannot
achieve any measurable degree of recovery long as
wages anchored to an outmoded and inapplicable
standard.
Yet all this evidence would be cast aside by the So
called compromisers
IT WOULD ALL BE DISREGARDED BY THOSE
COMPROMISES IN AN EFFORT TO FORCE UPON
THE ENLIGHTENED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS A
FANTASTICAL SCHEME WHICH THEY CAN
HAIL AS A VICTORY FOR THEMSELVES
SUCH A VICTORY WOULD BE WORSE THAN
HOLLOW-IT WOULD BE DISASTROUS.
SUCH VICTORY WOULD MEAN THE CON-
TINUANCE OF DISTRESS AND THE PERPETUAL
TION OF HORROR.
THAT SUCH COMPROMISES AS ARE BEING AD-
VANCED ON PAY RESTORATION SHOULD BE
SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BY FORWARD LOOK
ING LEGISLATORS IS WELLNIGH INCREDIBLE
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

hams, who like to show off and
revel in public applause. Your
average sea lion, the sea-lion-in-
the-street, doesn't give a hoot
whether anyone sees him or not
and I shouldn't think that
he would, everything considered.
So you will see that my as
Signment was not an easy one,
for not only was I unable to
get the seals to hold still
enough for me to get anything
started balancing on their
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
Don't Be Too Practical

Aren't you a little too prac-
tical?
So intent on making money,
that you can think of little
else, perhaps.
If a woman, perhaps you are
so interested in your card clubs
and social functions that you
never have time to spend an
evening reading with your hus-
band who loves a quiet hour
with a book.
In college days he had one
girl to whom he always went
with the new book, and as
they explored it together it
was so helpful and interesting.
She may have been the
college widow" that the
younger girls were so jealous of
but she understood the knotty
problems, knew when they
came. and was prepared 70 be
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

There was a time, not SO
long ago, when among our
principal concerns were the
building of the Panama Canal
and the preservation Of the
American bison from exter-
animation. Well, we got the
canal built, thanks to the great
Teddy, and now we hear that
the buffalo are increasing so
rapidly in Canada that the
Dominion authorities must de-
Stroy at least 1000 in the great
Buffalo National Park, near
Wainwright, in Alberta. Thou
sands must be destroyed every
year or so to keep the main
herd well fed in the park.
Sixty or 10 years ago, the
Western plains were black with
buffalo. Two vast herds, count
less in number-millionS, liter
ally roamed from the Rio
Grande to the Canadian North
west. Long since they had
been driven west of the Missis-
Eippi by the inexorable advance
of the white man and his
machines and guns. But the
prairieS were massed with them.
The gold hunters who streamed
across the Western plains in
1849 could scarcely believe their
eyes, for as far as they could
see, in any direction, and al
most every day, the buffalo
herd stretched out.
Opening the Wess
One might almost say that
our Western empire was built
on the bones of slaughtered
buffalo, for the West was open
ed by the building of the trans
continental railroad, the Union
Pacific, from Omaha to Ogden,
and the Central Pacific, from
Odgen to San Francisco. And
the long Union Pacific link
was made possible because fresh
meat was there for the taking.
Some of the most noted Of
the old Western scouts were
hired by the Union Pacific as
buffalo hunters, and William
F.. Cody, a dead shot, killed as
many as 300 in one day. Then
came organized hunting, when
men went out from st. Joe,
Mo, and Independence and
Dodge City, equipped with great
heavy Sharp's rifles, which
threw a ball as big as the end
OF a mans thumb.
They went out with big wag-
onS and whole crews of rifle
men, and when they came to
a herd they rode around it
and killed until they were weary
killed for the hides alone
seldom taking any of the meat
except a choice bit of the
tongue. It has been said that
at least two million buffalo
were killed every year, for two
or three years.
The hides, with their marvel
Gus, thick fur, brought fine
prices for coats, and back in
the days Of President Grant and
Hayes, and even later, it was
considered quite the smart thing
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the performing sea lions. AS
watched their extraordinary
balancing featS I could not help
wondering to what use they put
this peculiar gift in their wild
state"
without knowing it, Mr..
Blaikley has hit upon a very
tender subject with me. It has
to do with my first job after
leaving college. and therefore
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noses, but I couldn't make them
see the Importance of trying
to balance things for them
selves. They just didn't seem
to care that they had this pc
culiar gift (Which Mr.. Blaikley
has noticed, too, and wondered
about, or that it was going to
waste. And you just can't help
anyone who refuses to help
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oh 1Dad some poWer the giftie
gle US
To see ourSeES as itherS see us!
1t 1Dad trae monte a blunder free
u.s..
And foolish notion.
Robert Burns.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

Beware - the fury of a pa.
tient man.-Dryden.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

They spare the rod, and
Gpoyle the child.-Venning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
RhOdius Pool Scene
of Big City Event
Diving Contest to Feature
Meet Tomorrow.

There viii be swimming meet
for all the parks and beaches in In
dianapolis tomorrow at Rhodius
swimming pool. The meet is under
the auspices of the American Red
Cross and the city recreation de-
partment.
The feature event of the day will
be the open diving event for women
and for men in which divers from
the swimming clubs will be allowed
to compete. Flora Kinder, HOOsier
Athletic Club girls swimming coach,
has entered four of her outstanding
drivers, including Marjorie Fowler,
national junior diving champion.
Coach Don Bauermeister Of Car
field pool has entered fifteen SWIM
mers to compete for the team cham
pionship of the meet. Coach Russell
McIntire of Rhodius park has en-
tered a strong team Rhodius has
won the meet five of the last six
wears,
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event for future Olympics. The
matter will be voted on by an
Olympic delegation next year.
Summerill and his diving troup-
ers. after three months at their
home in Los Angeles, are starting
now on another extensive European
trip.
IRON here Smith, Simakia and
Il Summerill will 60 to Chicago to
give exhibitions at the outdoor
championships July s, 7, 8. Their
next stops in order will be New
York, Hastings, England; the Euro
pean championships at Magnaburg,
Germany, and then the Melbourne,
Australia. SeSquicentennial.
After that Smith may accept an
invitation to coach Germany'S
Olympic diving team. Samaika,
who has completed a course at the
University of Southern California,
will be given position in his own
country.
The divers during their coming
trip expect to add new names to the
list of important persons they have
entertained. The list at present in
cludes the emperor of Japan, the
king of Egypt. Mussolini. Hitler, the
president of France and the regent
of Hungary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
FavOrites Remain
in Chicago Tennis
Clay Court Championships
in Third Round.

b. tuitcG Press
CHICAGO, July 3.-The national
clay court tennis championship en-
tered the second days play at the
Chicago Town and Tennis Club to-
day with all the favorites still in
the running.
Bryan (Bitsy) Grant Atlanta.
seeded No. |, entered the third
round yesterday with a bye and .
default. Frankie Parker, Milwau-
kee, seeded No. ? and defending
champion. won his first two matches
with the loss of only one game.
Others who reached the third
round include Wilbur Hess, Hous-
ton. Tex: Karl Kamrath, Austin.
Tex: Leonard Patterson. Los An
geles; Hal Surface, Kansas City,
and John McDiarmid. Fort Worth.
Tex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
St0nehOuse, Reed
Win PrO-Amateur

By Times SpecidI
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, July 3-Ralph
Stonehouse, pro, and Billy Reed,
both of indianapolis, won the eight
een-hole pro-amateur tournament
here yesterday in a playoff after
they had finished in tie with
Johnny Sonnenberg and Willie
Adams of Ft. Wayne.
The two teams had best-ball
scores of "a for the eighteen holes.
Stonehouse scored a birdie three on
the nineteenth for first prize. Pete
Duran and Tony Bruggeman, FIT.
Wayne, won third place in a playoff
with Emma FRANKIE and Glenn Miller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
ARRANGE PUSHM0BILE
RACE AT RAVENSW00D

A puShmobile race will be held at
Ravenswood beach tomorrow at 3
p. m. with prizes to be awarded to
the first three winners in the five
mile, forty-lap, event.
Entries include Billie Demaree,
earlier winner; Jimmie Demaree,
driving a Kingan & Co. special;
Russell Snow, Wonder Bread
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The handsome, broad-shOuldered
Mr. Summeril approaches you from
the angle that he and his perform
erS are out 10 do something for both
American everyday aquaticS and
Olympian aquatics. He recalls that
Japanese swimmers. some of them
Il or Is years old. wrested the
Olympic swimming title from the
United States in 1882 at Los An
geles.
CUNINiERILL, accompanied by his
- two diving friends, has been on
a survey tour which included some
thirty-five foreign countries. Natur-
ally they have slantS on how Ameri-
can water-SplaShing compares with
that from Australia to Arabia and
Japan to Jamaica. Also they have
new s!ants on the diving board and
believe they are the worlds best.
The Olympic outlook is not so
favorable. Mr.. Summerin believes.
The United States has made
some progress, but not enough TO
cope with Japanese swimmers in
1885, he said. I look for the
japanese to be more difficult to de-
feat at the Berlin OlympicS than
they we're at Los Angeles
GONE of Smiths and Samaika's
- dives we're exhibited at Broad
Ripple Sunday, before more than
a 1000 spectators. Their second and
farewell exhibition will be given at
the north side pool tomorrow, the
Fourth. at 3 p. m.
The list of events will include in
dividual Spring-board diving from
a ten-foot board; individual diving
from a thirty-five-foot platform;
team diving from the high board
and a comedy act. The comedy was
photographed by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer pictures for a diving picture
which starred Smith.
In order that the divers might
have a high board for their eXhi-
bition here. the Broad Ripple man.
agement has erected a special ten
meter platform, conforming with
Olympic regulations.
The team diving stunts have been
shown IN the United States only
four times. They we're introduced
by Summeriu at the last Olympic
congress for consideration as an
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been placed back
in their old posi-
tons. This set the
stage for some one
to come along and
smash out a new
record for the
changed course.
1t was young Mr..
Simpson with a
81 Sunday.
When l.. w.
Horning, FIR e d
H a d ! e y, Fritz
Schn e d er and
Simpson left the
frs tee Sunday