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The Washington times., 1935-07-04
Our Heritage

Independence Day. and American people recall with
thanksgiving the courage and spirit which 159 years ago led
foreathers to Danish the depom Of kings from the
land.
The celebration of this birthday of Nation
time when many wondering if not heading back
toward another despotism.
It comes at time when have many European
nations surrender what freedom they had been able to
and slide back under the iron fist of dictatorship.
And fortunately it at time When Americans
thinking deeply than before the benefits
American system it formed and moulded by the
colonists and perpetudted by their defendants.
The Government which born of the Declaration Of In
dependence has had its struggles.
The people living under that Government have had their
difficulties.
No one blinks at those facts.
There are however, who inclined to close their
eyes to the benefits of the system who inclined to
the belief that the American system has ouved its useful
and that the time has to chase the wo wisp
governmental theories that being advanced at home and
abroad.
These few who disparage institutions who decry our
tradition would have destroy the Declaration of nde
pendence and our Constitution.
They tell that land of milk and honey awaits when
cast aside the lessons learned from history and
follow them and their ''sms.
It must be dscouraging to these detractors as it
ENCOURAGING TO PATRIOTIC AMERICANS to see our
citizens assemble in their communities today to honor
the Founding Fathers and to the glorious heritage they
queathed to
No nation which is loyal the thoughts and aims which
animated those who prepared and the Declaration Of
Independence needs to seek unrd experiments gov
ernment.
No nation which follows the teachings of these gigantic
figures of American history needs adopt doctrines
chase the chimeras of lesser men.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALIZE THIS AND THEY
WILL NOT BE LED TO STRAY FROM THE PATH OF
AMER1CAN1sM BECAUSE OF THE RANT1NGs AND
SHOUTINGS OF THOSE WHO WOULD SACRIFICE THE
WELFARE OF ALL OUR PEOPLE IN ORDER TO GATHER
POWER FOR THEMSELVES
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

nickel escape. So 1t was at
Monte Carlo.
The interplay of financial,
political and dynastic powers
around the gilded palace on the
Monaco cliff have been as in
volved and predatory as the out
reach for the MeSSaba range ore
or the Chile nitrate beds. Early
in the century, small-fry gam
blers and politicians through
France, being envious and re-
sentful of the roulette monopoly
assigned the Blancs, pere ct fills,
began pressing for like privileges
at scattered French resorts.
BY this time the Blancs had
acquired great political influ-
ence. They fought off the -four
bitters" and, in 1907, Camille
negotiated an agreement with
the French government by
which it agreed to forbid rou-
lette at any resorts other than
those of Monaco. Camille knew
his way around in French
politics.
The big-league financiers.
shifting easy money, were some
thing else again. Old Sir Basil
Zaharoff, with his cavaliers
cloak and his flat black hat,
his inscrutable face behind his
white, pointed beard, was and
is a figure as cryptic in origin
and motivations as any Shad-
owy, cloaked parsonage in an
old Tudor romance.
He had come out of the Bal
kans, no one being quite sure
of even his name, with count
less millions. snagged cunningly
out of the munitions business.
1T ALL FAILS
The World War left Sir Basil
enough gold to fill all the
skulls left on the battlefields.
He bought a great palace at
Monaco, entertained royalty,
served great banquets on the
worlds most lavish collection
of gold plate and turned on the
Casinos flux of millions a cold
and calculating eye. He, with
his Paris associates, got control
of the Casino stock.
But there is an "old saying
that what comes over the
devils back goes under his
belly" The depression struck.
The Casino patronage fell off.
All over France there was a
clamor for the legalizing Of
roulette. The COVER men
yielded. The old Casino sud-
denly had a thousand competi-
tors. The banker-manager of
the Casino began putting in
games with a larger house
percentage.
In 1882 they introduced slot
machines. They abandoned the
traditional excluSiveness which
the Blancs had so carefully
built up. They ran the place
on a business basis, with elabo-
rate accounting and coSt-finding
systems. 1t was no good. or
Man Depression is the man
who licked the bank at Monte
Carlo.
Copyright. 1898. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Depression Beats Monte CarlO%

OCpI CSS1U1I OCdCS N1OAltC Od1 II
Shrewd old Camille Blanc,
Tex Rickard of Europe, frankly
a "gamblin' man." m a de a
much better job of running the
Monte Carlo Casino than did
the Rothschilds, Sir Basil Ia
haroff and the associated Paris
investment bankers who took
it away from him after the war.
Old Camille knew his percent
age, as did his father, Fran
co.'s, but European high finance
has certain jug-handled aspects
which he did not understand.
It was no sort of game for an
innocent old chimney corner
gambler like Camille. Down the
chute he went, broke and para
lyzed, dying at "a.
But, even in the world Of
sure-thing bankers, there is
both an o and a double o on
this occasion in the form of
the depression. The former an
nual net Of around $8,000.000
has dropped to nothing.
Rene Leon, the Paris banker
who was set up as the czar of
the Casino, is out. Natives,
angry with the fade-out of
their historic meal ticket, are
threatening riots. The magnifi-
cent gilded salon, the beautiful
vestibule decorated by the great
GARNER, all the marble, crystal,
bronze and frescoes of the Ar
cady of gigolos, dukes, million
aires and royal courtesanS are
just so much junk unless there
is a quick flow of the come
easy go-easy money in the
world of the playboys.
FRANCOIS BLANC
It was in 1867 that Francois
Blanc was driven out of Baden
Baden and Homburg, when laws
against gambling were passed.
He was a reStaurateur, running
games of chance on the side.
He looked over Europe and
picked the little principality of
Monaco as a likely spot for a
fashionable gambling resort.
Prince Charles was absorbed in
scientific research and, rather
abssnt-mindedly, the prince
granted him the concession and
forgot about it.
Francois was a good business
man and a good psychologist.
He knew that human beings do
not want equality and fra
ternity. He knew that they
want privilege. Adroitly he
built up the exclusiveneSs of his
gambling pavilion. He charged
admission to the salon. He ex-
plotted the lure of great names
and great personages. He built
regal SplendorS into his eStab-
nShment.
His son, Camille, inherited his
fathers ability. Together they
gave Monte Carlo it's institu.
tional character. Little Monaco.
thriving on the house drag Of
z per cent-as I recall it, that
Is about the house percentage in
roulette-became one Of the
most respectable little princi-
palities in the world.
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didn't say that he still is.
He said that he was once a
black-faced comedian in "CIif-
tons minstrels."
He was pretty good in those
days, as he explained it.
Then he admitted that while
he was one of Clifton'S Ministries
he also assisted in another task.
On the side he sold a few bot
ties of fluid to cure everything
from boils to mothers-in-law.
In other words, he was a
medicine show Spieler.
The War Department might
nell check on the ability OF one
OF its colonies.
Judging from his ability as
an architect he would be, or his
men would be, in a tough spot
if he ever made maps for war.
fare.
He was building a house at a
well-known beach on the coast.
The architects and the build
ers were doing their work as
they thought best.
But the colonel didn't like
their style.
He demanded some changes.
They objected.
He insisted. The changes
tDere made.
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for a hymn with a number less
than 81. Here's the reason.
Roulette numbers run up to So
and any hymn number in this
range is quite apt to suggest a
hunch to the congregation and
start it off to the Casino to
get a bet on that number.
DR.. Dorsey, writing why We
Behave Like Human Beings"
might have done much profit
able research at Monte Carlo.
Two things happen when there
is big money loose anywhere in
the world. First, the money be-
comes respectable and the man.
ner of getting it is rationalized
into pattern of respectable
conduct. Second, complicated
and contending forces swiftly
get into play to let no guilty
The Washington times., 1935-07-04
Protect the Worker

In connection with the slum clearance" projects upon
which the Federal Government embarkng in the National
Capital should hardly be necessary to call the attention
Of those in charge to the desrabty Of utilizing the services
Of local contractors.
We realize that is not always possible under the laws,
to such contracts to those living and operating in the
community affected.
Nevertheless also recall that Washington has had
DISTRESSING EXPERIENCES AS THE RESULT OF
GRANTING CONTRACTS IN THIS CITY TO oUT-oF-
TOWN FIRMS.
Many of these firms Washington and submitted
low bids on projects and under the law the
awarded them
Ihey then brought into Washington the cheap labor which
had enabled them to make the low bids
After the contracts had been completed (or happened
IN several cases. deaute the contractors left the city
there remained behind the cheap labor they had imported
This practice IT ALMOST DEGENERATED INTO A
Racket tended to depress wages in Washington at time
wnen the working men here trying their hardest
stem the tides of depression.
wants repetition Of this sorry experience
II can be avoided if those who in charge of letting
contracts consider the history of the few years and de-
termine to PROTECT THE WORKER.
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A Valued Institution
Bu JAMES T. WILLIAMS, Jr.

the Institute Of Public Affairs
to bring together men and
women who are leaders in
thought and action and have
due regard for truth as the
basis of their opinions, to dis
cuSs the problems of world
wide reconstruction with view
of creating a better informed
opinion on our most timely
and important public questions,
both national and interna.
tional."
Here in this institutes discus.
sions there is the power Of mod
Grafton, the emphasis of under
statement, the eagernesS for
facts so conspicuous by it's alb.
sence from the halls of Con-
gress and from the press re-
leases of the executive depart
ments at washington.
This week Reconstruction
Problems in the Light of His
tory" is the subject Of one of
the round table conferences
over which DR.. Robert McElroy,
Harmsworth professor of Amer
ican history in oxford UniverS
ity, presides.
Another Round Table stimuli
taneously is considering the
main problems involved in eco
nomic Security" and a third
Economic and Social Develop
ments in Latin America"
european Relations and the
Rebuilding of Peace" and THE
Church in a Changing World"
are the subjects under discus
sion at the two remaining
Round Tables.
Next week a different set Of
subjects will be up for discus
sion, with additional speakers
no less distinguished on the pro
gram.
SEEKING FACTS
If there could be as we'll or
ganized an Institute of Public
Affairs as the University of Vir-
ginia is now conducting in each
of the great regions into which
the United States is divided
meeting for a fortnight each
year the household of the ma
ton would greatly benefit by
the facts developed and by the
fair-minded and temperate dis
cussions, in the light of the
facts, which are the best fruits
of these gatherings.
1t takes less than three hours
to make the trip from the Fed
eral City to the Institute of
Public Affairs conducted by
the university indissolubly
linked with the name and fame
of Thomas jefferson. But in
that short time the traveller
leaves a swamp of politics, par
tisanship and propaganda to
walk the heights of truth which
alone can overcome "every
form of tyranny over the mind
of man."
Copyright, 1888. washington Times)
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earth under the impression that
it was civilized territory.
Dear Elsie Robinson:
I wonder if you've got the
nerve to give me straight an
swer to this, or will you hand
out the usual ga-ga? I am one
of three brothers. I'm 20, grad
uated from Hi a year ago. My
older brother is 25, a college
grad. My younger brother is
IT, second year Hi. Here we
are-three healthy, ambitious
Americans, and what are our
prospects?
WHAT CHANCE
Let me say that we two older
ones really want work. We
haven't any false pride about it
and have taken anything that
was offered, from dishWaShing
in an all-night hash house and
exercising pet dogs to ditch dig
ging.
MY older brother has been out
of college two years. During all
that time he hasn't had a job
that lasted more than six weeks.
He was never fired-the jobs
just faded out. He's doing some
berry picking now, but that
can't last long. What good has
his engineering degree done
him? What chance has he of
making a life of his own? He's
been engaged to swell girl for
two years. She's crazy about
him and willing to starve with
him, but no decent man would
marry a girl under those condi-
tionS.
I'm next and I'm in the same
fix. Only 1 haven't even a col
lege degree as a possible asset.
Lately I've been running a
vacuum cleaner-putting houses
in order before vacation. But
then what? My longest job was
exactly II days.
Then there's the kid, and it's
because of him I'm writing this
letter. Bill and I try to take it
on the chin but the kids differ
ent. He has started to run with
a wild gang whose motto seems
to be, ITO the devil with every
thing" Last night I heard him
and his gang discussing that
Weyerhaueser kidnapping and
planning how they could do a
The Washington times., 1935-07-04

huUe SWorn upon the altar
OF God eternal hostility against
eUery form of tyranny oUer the
mind of mdn.-ThomGS Jetter-
son.
1t is regrettable that the Con-
greSs did not adjourn in time
to attend the ninth annual ses-
sion Of the Institute of Public
Affairs, which will be meeting
for the next fortnight on the
beautiful campus of the Uni
verSity of Virginia.
1t is also regrettable that the
members of the Presidents
Cabinet will not find the time to
spend fortnight in the refresh.
ing atmosphere of the uni
versity of which Thomas Jeffer-
son was the founder. They
could not enter its gates with
out passing by the monument
to him on which is written these
words:
"TO perpetuate the teachings
and examples of the Founders
of the Republic this monument
to Thomas Jefferson was pre-
Sented by the people,"
NOISY MINORITY
In addition to freedom Of
speech and press and assembly
there is also in this University
City freedom from that con-
tempt for the teachings and the
examples of the Founders of the
Republic that in these latter
days appears to be the chief
stock in trade not only of a
noisy minority among our pub
lie servants in the Federal City
but of an extensively conspicu-
GUS minority among the educa-
tors of American youth in more
than one higher institution of
learning.
The current session of this
institute which has become for
Virginia a valued institution be-
gins, as its able director, DR..
Charles Gilmore Maphis, has
pointed out lin a period of re-
construction after the worst
destruction of values and ideals
in its history"
Every citizen everywhere"
he says, sis longing, if not work.
ing, too, for recovery, peace and
prosperity" There is com.
mon goal of aspiration but there
is no agreed upon method to
attain it. The nearer people
here and elsewhere can come to
a common understanding of the
problem they face the easier it
will be for them to solve their
problems.
At the University of Virginia
there is no hallucination that
the basis of such an under
standing can be either political
ballyhoo or bigoted partisan
ship. The basis of such un-
derstanding and united efforts
must be facts" declares DR..
Maphis.
ut is, therefore, the aim of
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Many a time it has barred
from it's borders an American
moving picture because it was
considered immoral. Books
have been censored for the same
reason. The people are church
goers, and so have been the
dead pan" croupiers, trained
in a school for croupierS in
Paris, forbidden to drink, gam
BILE, use profanity, laugh during
working hours, or break the Sab
bath.
But Monaco has been unable
to condition its visitors to such
abstemiouS conduct. If you at
tend the little English church
in Monaco a few Sundays run
ming, you will observe a curious
thing. The pastors never call
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Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

better one. When I Jumped him,
he said, What the devil is there
left for a young fellow to do?"
Maybe you can answer him.
I can't. 1 wonder if you're
honest enough to say what you
really think. JOE.
Yes. youngster, I am. But
no editor would dare print half
of 1.-THE parents would scalp
him if he did! However, here's
part
I believe that we, the Older
Generation, have cheated and
exploited Youth to a criminal
degree.
WE ARE TOO CRAZED
WITH OUR OWN DESIRE TO
STAY YOUNG, AND TOO
BORED AND RESTLESS TO
ATTEND TO OUR DUTIES AS
PARENTS-YET WE ARE FU-
RIOUS AND FILLED WITH
SELF-PITY BECAUSE YOU,
AS CHILDREN, DO NOT
SHOW US RESPECT AND
GRATITUDE.
For our own pleasure and
profit we have broken down
all social safeguards. and then
we blame you for running
amuck. We have commercial
lied vice with salacious movies
and rotten magazines. We
have romanticized lawlessness
with our own rebellion against
Prohibition.
We have wrecked modesty
and promoted lewdness to sell
more clothes. We have made
fast machines and deadly fire
arms available to infants. In
short, we have made gods Of
Profit and Pleasure. And then
we blame you for taking ad-
vantage of the conditions which
we, ourselves, have created.
OF ALL THE ABOMINA-
TIONS AND OUTRAGES OF
THE Goth CENTURY I BE-
LIEVE THE CRIME AGAINST
YOUTH TO BE THE MOST
DAMNABLE AND SHAMEFUL.
ON A SPOT
That's what I, at So, mother
and a journalist, believe about
the spot you're on, Youngsters.
What can we do about it? I
don't know.
I want to start a newspaper
Youth Movement for the young
sters of America. A daily and
Sunday department for the dis.
cuSsion of the problems Of
youth. Not "the usual ga.ga,"
son, but THAT BRAVE TRUTH
WHICH IS MORE POWERFUL
THAN DYNAMITE. Said dis
cussion to be conducted by and
for youth-with only occasional
contributions from older people.
What do YOU think Of that
idea, Joe? What do you older
ones think? Do you believe
that Youth has the right to
such a department. Do you be-
lieve it would help? Would you
like to have me start it?
I'd like to know. AT ONCE.
Will you pass the idea along
and let us hear by the next
mail?
Copyright. 1888. King Features
syndicate. Inc.l
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are received
in this de-
p a r t m e n t
every week.
We're so &C.
customed to
the con d i
tions which
cause them
that they no
longer excite
US. Yet one
wonders how
they would
impress a WIS.,
i t or m
Mars who WIS.,
IL 1 h i
The Washington times., 1935-07-04
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

The house was completed &C.
cording to his plans.
Then it was discovered that
because of his plans one huge
room had no door or entrance
of any kind.
The entire job had to be gone
over.
Senator Tom Connally, Demo
crat of Texas, outspoken at all
times, thinks there may be some
people who consider the Senate
a laughing matter, but he
doesn't.
Senator Millard E. Tydings
of Maryland and the Louisiana
Kingfish were having a verbal
tilt the other day.
The galleries were crowded,
as they usually are when Sen
ator Huey P. Long expoundS.
Some phrase of the KingfiSh
forced a laugh from the gal
lerieS, strictly against the dig
nifty of the Senate.
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going on. 0eH' AOIIl OOnnaIIy
81 insist that the Chair en-
force the rule.
"ThiS is not q vaudeville
show, in theory at least, and I
insist that the occupants of the
galleries be made to behave
themselves or retire."
Some of the spectators were
interested to note that Connally
added that "in theory at least"
when he said the Senate was
not a vaudeville show.
Copyright 1885, Washington Times1
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lOquacity.
Twas down
at a luncheon
of the Vari-
ETY. Club the
other day.
G a SsaWay,
strange as it
may seem to
t h os e W h o
k n o W h i m,
was talking.
H e told
t h e S e show
folk that he
once was a
S h o W m a n
him Golf II O
The Washington times., 1935-07-04
Raspberries and Pickers

New Jersey farmers have appealed to State and Federal
relief agencies for men to pick their raspberry CROP
They are offering workers $225 a day.
the berries not picked they will spoil on the vines
with loss of $4,000 to $750O0
But relief don't to be interested in these Jobs
Maybe you can't blame them
Why work when you live without working?
AS one farmer says:
1hey get the pickingS. We get the raspberry"
The Washington times., 1935-07-04

Representative P. L. CASA
way, Democrat of Oklahoma,
the sombrero-wearing ex-cattle-
man who lives up to his last
name in no uncertain way, has
The Washington times., 1935-07-04
OLD FAVORITES

To Youth BY Walter Savage LandOr
Where art thou gone, light-ankled Youth?
With wing at either shoulder,
And smile that never left thy mouth
Until the Hours grew colder:
Then somewhat seemed to whisper near
That thou and must part
doubted it; felt no fear
No weight upon the heart.
aught befe it, Love was by
And rolled it off again.
So, if there sigh,
Twas not sigh Of pain.
may not call thee back; but thou
Returnest when the hand
Of gentle Sleep waves er my brow
His poppy-crested wand;
Then smiling eyes bend mine,
Then lips pressed invite;
But sleep hath given silent sign,
And both, alas take flight.
Readers mvited to send to the editor their suqoes
tons of old fa0ortes among the poems for reprnting in
this space.)
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S e n a t or
C O n n a IL y
leaped to his
feet.
He shout
ed:
IN r. Pres
ident, / make
the point Of
ord er that
the occupants
of t h e ga l.
cries are not
in order and
we ca n n o t
he ar b a ck
here what is
~0Sn~ nm
The Washington times., 1935-07-04
Our Crime Against Youth

The following is a true letter
from an American youngster.
1t is not unusual. Hundreds of
such letters from young people
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-07

May 3l,
 Born b Mr. and Mrs August Chemurak on May End, a son.
 Born 10 Mr. and Mrs Moody on May End, a son.
 John Ost made trip to Nome with dogs taking Selby Sacheus to go to work.
 Paul Stafford was in Golovin sev- eral times during the month attend ing to reindeer affairs.
 Robe, Doyle and Charley Blatch- ford ne~ into Nome to get work for the summer. Peter Olsen went in with Pete Curran on his last trip.
 Mary Tuktook, aged twenty-three died al her home on May 9th She is survived by her husband Charley Tukto1s
 Vire Knight of White Mountain made business trip to Golovin the middle of the month.
 Mrs. Arnold Undem visited in Nome for several weeks.
 Mrs. Charley Blatchford and dau- ghter Florence drove their dogs in- to Nome and made a short visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Andrew McCafIcrty returned with them.
 School closed May 24th with pie nic for all. Graduating exercises were held for the eighth grade grad uates. Lois and Lincoln Ost. Those having perfect attendance for the year were Lois Ost, James Dexter, Philip Dexter, Myrtle Fagerstrom, Joyce Fagerstrom.
 The flats, lakes and rivers around Goloyin are excellent feeding ground5 for all kinds of wild birds. Hunters have been bringing in brant, geese. ducks and cranes. The ice in the bays still holds so the dog teams can go across it with the hunt CTS.
 Lincoln and Lois Ost are visiting in Council with their father. They will stay until Fish River opens up and boats can travel up it.