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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-19
Modern Barnums

The Treasury Department approves the placing Of likeness
of P T. Barnum on memorial issue of half dollars
And why not?
Phineas T. Barnum THE Barnum, the circus Barnum
the man who said: There's sucker born every minute
He was the man who sold the public the fake Cardiff
Giant" the Mermaid" the "JoJo and the original What
Is It?"
In lay he is the patron saint of administration
which sold the public the NRA the AAA food wastage
rency tinkerng, higher taxes and horde of Jo-Jos.
His likeness a halfdollar!
the Administration had proper of gratitude it
would have made it dollar at least.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-19
Three-Minute JOURNEYS

The recent plays dealing with
the life of that Inflated woman,
Mary, Queen of Scots, have sent
many people away from the thea
ter determined to visit Scotland,
and see for themselves some of the
places and surroundings asso-
ciated with her. But even before
the tall, red-haired, beautiful
queen had become the subject of
historical dramas, tourists had
evinced desire to know more
about her.
The guides at Holyrood palace
will tell you of tourists who have
come away with tear-reddened
eyes after wandering through her
apartments and living again many
of the sad events that took place
in the grim old palace. Guides
will show the visitor through the
gracious state apartments, but will
tactfully withdraw when you come
to the apartments of Mary, Queen
of Scots, and will leave you free
to wander back into the grim past.
You will climb the narrow, wind
ing stairway that leads to her bed
room and the little boudoir ad-
joining. And you will reconstruct
the events of that fatal night when
aSSaSSins climbed that Self-same
stairway and killed Rizzio, right
before her eyes in that little bou-
doir where they were dining.
The bedroom itself has within it
something more than the desola-
ton and gray atmosphere of neg
lect. There is sadness, an undefin-
able melancholy, the hush of death
in that room with it's pictures, its
beautiful gilt mirror that reflects
the canopied bed with its heavy
curtains. 1t is as though the trou,
| h1ed thouphtS and premOnitionS of
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change, or do you find 1929 rea-
sons, excuses and alibis for evad
ing it?
But if you run too many risks,
make too many foolish changes,
you're apt to get into some trouble
that will end your life entirely"
cry the cautious.
Yes, but you'll never run the
worst risk of all-INACTION. The
man who moves about too much
MAY end in an automobile smash.
But the man who never moves at
all WILL DIE BEFORE HE HAS
EVER STARTED LIVING. His
flesh and bones may continue to
exist, his blood may still run, but
for all human purposes he is a
LATE LAMENTED. dead with
out knowing it.
Benjamin Franklin once said:
1.-THE man who does things makes
many mistakes, but he never
makes the biggest mistake Of all
DOING NOTHING"
Henry Ford wasn't thinking
merely of the LENGTH of life
he was thinking of the QUALITY
of life when he said that the
WILLTO-LIVE was the great Sc
cret. Yet, even in the mere mat
ter of years, blood count and di-
gestion. the man with the will-to-
live comes out ahead, for he does
those things which make for
healthy and abundant life.
KEEP GOING
He makes changes. He accepts
new thoughts, adopts new atti-
tudes. He keeps both blood and
brain in wholesome agitation. He
flows with Life, and Life, in re,
turn, renews him with it's own
eternal youth.
THE way to keep going is-TO
KEEP GOING!" laughs Henry
Ford. waving aside diets and
health laws.
But you can't keep going
by Sprawling in a rocking chair
and croaking about the Good Old
Days. If you want long life
and a zeStful one, you must be
willing to change your model, as
Henry Ford changed his at the
peak of his success. You must be
willing to adopt new patterns and
purpose.
"He who would save his life
must lose it" So, nearly 1900
years ago, another Builder spoke
and went scornfully to a cross
that could not kill, a tomb that
could not seal His living spirit
You say that YOU want to live
But do you? Have YOU the will
to change your model. the cour
age to face a cross and rise from
tomb? Think it over the next
time you have to take a new step
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
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TOday's BOOndOggle

The WPA spending 900 of the United States Treas
urv borrowings ito promote sports recreaonal activities
in the sports community ceners at Pueblo COL
MEANWHILE the local administrator has not yet undertaken
work on another WPA project which has been approved
by the President calling for the expenditure of $233 Of
Federal funds on the Improvement of golf and the
construction of a club house.
The theory apparently that until people have been
taught how play GOLF there will be need for the I'M
provement of the
Copyright the New Yorksun
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began to cover the White House,
he took a pine table and put it
in front of Presidents doors.
Every once in a while the Presi-
dent would come out to find Bill
questioning one of his visitors
and then call Bill into the office
to give him the right dope.
AT WHITE HOUSE
Now, there wouldn't be enough
room for each correspondent to
put a table outside the office
even if he had enough money
to buy one. So, to be brief, the
so, IS or 100 Scribes who want
to ask him questions, even If
they don't all do it, jam up
against a door outside his office
at stated intervals and wait for
it to open.
When it does open they scurry
like a flock of sheep across an
anteroom and stand perhaps
three to five minutes longer until
that door mySteriouSly flies open
and in they troop-to stand in
a solid compact mass before the
Chief Executives desk. Elbows
punching short ribs and pencils
poised dangerously close to the
eyes of the man next. And they
stand and scribble. Stand and
Scribble, 10, Is, 20 minutes and
then bolt out.
The President smiles and par
ries the sharper inquiries-Some-
times not too adroitly, smokes
igarette after cigarette and
gives everyone a chance. No
hurry while you're S tandi ing.
Just hurry to get in and out.
STATE DEPARTMENT
Now at the State Department
these days, it's a little different.
Undersecretary of State William
Philips has a way about him.
The reporters gather in an ante
room. The Undersecreary steps
in. To the head of a conference
desk. But he doesn't sit down.
And the reporters don't sit down.
They jump to their feet and
stand respectfully.
The questions come in quick
order. They must come quickly.
Usually in a press conference
there is lull after lull in which
everyone thinks hard as to what
to ask next. But, there's none
of that kind of waste with the
State Department. No sir. The
first time the questions are ap-
parently exhausted, Mr.. Phillips
bows sedately and withdraws.
No questions until next time,
my little men. And not even a
cheerful $50 long"
JUSTICE
And now then, let's peek in at
the Justice Department.
In the anteroom, gathered in
little groups, are the reporters. An
affable young man opens the door.
In they go. Promptly, but not too
hurriedly. Chairs are arranged
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/Che woman who was to keep her
rendezvous with death at the exc
cutioner's block were still lingering
in the very air.
Holyrood Palace is in a hollow
with the great bleak cliff, known
as Arthur'S Seat, overtoWering it.
From the summit of this steep rock,
the visitor can see before him a
grand panorama of Edinburgh, old
and new.
But if Holyrood is in a valley,
Edinburgh Castle dominates the
whole area, from it's mighty site on
steep hills. 1t is a grim but lovely
fortress, that stands as a guardian
angel over the old Scottish city.
The hills on which it stands are
terraced with lovely gardens, that
soften the setting.
In Edinburgh Castle, too, are
mementoes of Mary. There is
the room in which she was i'm
priSoned, and the room in which
she gave birth to the son who
was later to become James the
First of England. There is much
to see in the castle which is so
bound up in ScotiaS history.
There is so much to see in
Edinburgh, old and new, that
visitors find it hard to tear them
selves away. Once they have
made the journey over the bor-
der. Princes street, one of the
worlds most beautiful thorough
fares; Canongate, that street
which runs from the castle to
Holyrood Palace; the memorial
to Sir Walter Scott, the Cathe-
dral of St. Giles, the public
square of execution, the beautiful
old houses. all tell their story Of
grim but fascinating AUD
Reekie."
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Citizen SOldiery

Citizen soldiers sailors and Marines of Washington
are undergoing now or within the last few weeks have
undergone extensive and intensive military training
The community is often inclined to accept too lightly
the fine services which rendered by the patriotic
who form the local units of the National Guard the
Fleet Marine Reserve and the Fleet Naval Reserve.
Often this appearance of lack of appreciation
hOUeUey is simply due to the lack of opportunity
to express the gratitude Whch the city really feels
The local naval reservists have concluded their
nua sea training; the local National Guard units
finishing their annual camping period this week and the
local Marine reservss have just started their annual
maneuvers.
THIS, THEREFORE, SEEMS TO BE AN oPPoR-
TUNE TIME TO TELL ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF
THE THREE OUTFITS THAT THEIR EFFORTS TO
STRENGTHEN THE DEFENSIVE FORCES OF THE
NATION BY PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR ANY
EMERGENCY ARE ADMIRED AND ESTEEMED BY
THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.
Members of these units no more want war than do
any other decent citizens but they know that there is
always possibility that may be thrust upon us.
They taking the measures that are most likely to
prevent attack.
THEY ARE WRITING THE CoUNTRYs INsUR-
ANCE POLICY AGAINST WAR
It is noteworthy fact that these local militia units
are always able to win the commentator of their
perior officers while they engaged in field activities
YET THEIR TRAINING IN THE DISTRICT IS
HANDICAPPED BY INADEQUATE HOUSING AC-
CoGGODATIONs AND SHORTAGE OF NECESSARY
EQUIPMENT.
The most notable evidence of failure to provide proper
care for the units is the absence Of anything resembling
a proper armory for the National Guard.
6ne,o
able to retain their enthusiasm for the organization
der existing circumstances.
The other services are somewhat similarly handi-
capped.
THE BEST WAY TO REPAY THE MEMBERS OF
THESE OUTFITS FOR THEIR FINE PATRIOTIC
SERVICE IS TO EQUIP THEM WITH MODERN
AND EFFICIENT TOOLS.
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By Nelson Harding

J. Malta to you. I wish to denude
this company of brigandS of all
its poetic fascination, which it
does not in the least deserve.
Someone will ask me: When will
the struggle against the Malta
ceaSe?' 1t will cease not when
the Malta has ceased to exist, but
when all memory of Malta has
vanished from the islands of
Sicily"
Mussolini found his J. Edgar
Hoover in the "hard-boiled" Cesare
Mort, project, or police chief, OF
Palermo. Morris orders were to the
point:
END the Malta at all costs!
Get the big fellows first! When
resisted, have your men shoot
to kill! Take orders from nobody
but me and make reports to no.
body but mel"
Mort had his work cut out for
him. The Malta was centuries
old, starting out honorably
enough as a secret society op-
posed to Spanish control of the
islands. 1t had degenerated into
a crime monopoly, controlling
office-holders, judges and police.
It's main line was extortion. The
landowner or merchant who did
not pay tribute willingly was
brought to terms by fire or pill.
lage.
LESSON FOR ALL
The poor were not robbed, be
cause they had nothing worth
taking. Rather they were cult
waited by the terroriSts, who
taught them to depend on the
Malta and not the proper legal
authorities when they were in
trouble. Mort, with the full back
ing of MuSSolini, recruited his
detectives and Strong-arm squads
in Italy. When he was ready, he
struck with a fury which swept
the Malta before it. In one fell
swoop, he gathered 1885 of the
gangsterS into his net, attributing
to them 357 murders.
For five years Italy was treated
at intervals, to mass trials of mem
berS of the Malta. They were
packed by the hundreds into iror
cages in court rooms and Listened
to their fate as decided by picked
jurieS. More than 1880 went tt
prison for long terms.
The trial of 124 terroriSts al
Sciacca lasted more than one year
Another spectacular trial took
place in the former monastery Of
Santo Spirito in Agrigento, the
prisoners being 244 men anC
women, all confined in one huge
cage in the court room. The prison
sentences totaled 1900 years To-
these 244. That was a thorough
job, one which some of our loca
governments might take a lessor
from and not leave it all to the
small force of Omen.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.1
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particul ry if
they've t a k e n
such a beating
as Henry Ford
took in those
early years Of
poverty, failure,
soaring ridicule
and rebuff. Yet,
here he is to-
day, physically
as fit, mentally
as agile and en-
thuSiaStic as a
y GU G m a n.
How come?
Il t S t h e
w I L L. T O.
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u y u II 1GS Edwin r. Hill
practices with him to this country.
He is Ignazio Saietta, known as
"Lupo or the Wolf" and he has
been returned to the Federal Peni-
Tertiary at Atlanta to serve the re-
naming 20 years of 30-year SEN
tence for counterfeiting. Lupo was
sentenced in 1910 and was par
doned 10 years later by President
Harding. Before his conviction,
New York had had a chain of muir
ders, al of which were traced back
to a Sicilian vendetta which began
in 1898 when Lupo killed a small
merchant in their native village
near Palermo.
Before the law of the United
States caught up with him, it was
reported that Lupo had banked
more than a million dollars by
his counterfeiting and his exac'
ton of tribute from tradesmen.
The words "chiseling" and crack
eteering" are but new American
csc for age-old practices. What
our Omen and special prosecutors
are doing today, Mussolini had to
do eight years ago, to rid Sicily
of the Malta.
The Black Legion, some Of
whose members are being sent to
Jail, and other such organizations
which take the law into their
own hands, are blood brothers Of
the Malta.
SHOOT BRIGANDs"
This organization, which might
be likened to a grating, privi-
legged political machine, such as
our cities come up with from
time to time, had completely
dominated the island of Sicily I'M
til II Duce happened along. Cut
Threats and extortioniSts though
its members we're, they had come
to wear a halo of heroism, not
unlike that which surrounded the
American gangSter in the prohibit
ton era.
Mussolini's most difficult job
in dealing with the Malta was to
break down this false popular ap-
peal. To accomplish this, he had
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Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

around a beautifully appointed
desk. Col. Bob Gates circulateS
around with a new box of cigars.
He takes one.
"I1l try one myself just to
show you they're not loaded"
he says.
Colonel Gates is the publicity
man and creates jovial atmos-
phere. Being lawyer, Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings
can't forget he's not in a court
room and his press conferences
are decidedly a battle of wits.
With Uncle Sans No. / proSecu.
tor getting the outer edge with a
smiling finale:
Il decline to comment on
that"
A panoramic view of the room
looks for all the world like a bust
ness executive giving his field
sales force the laSt-minute TIPS
on how to sell his goods. He
keeps them smiling despite re-
tortS like this:
General, how about this
Japanese spy caSe?"
You'll have to ask the State
Department about that"
But we asked the State De.
partment and they said to come
here"
"An 1 can say is that you'll
have to go back to the State
Department. On a nice cool
afternoon like this know of
nothing that could be more
pleasant than going to the State
Department and then coming
back here and then going to
the State.
IL was, you may remember
about lob that afternoon,
ON THE HILL
or course, at the Capitol there
is still another angle.
The legislators, may they all
come back, we'll maybe not all
OF them-offer a little less sales
resistance.
The folks back home do like
to read about their Representa-
tive. So what is a good Congress
man going to do? He's going to
see the members of the Press Gal
lery whenever and wherever he
can. And the more the merrier,
Senator Joe Robinson, wheel
horse of the Administration. ma
Jority leader of the Senate, re-
cent winner in his primary for
reelection, has the first seat on
the aisle to the right of the Vice
President. More and more fire.
quently, the Senator holds his
press conference from his desk.
When the gavel adjourns or re-
ceSSeS the Senate, a goodly corps
OF the gallery boys will rush to
the floor and up to the desk. Joe
leans back and answers. Some
times he answers too quickly and
follows up with a cut-out Of the
sand trap using the old mashie:
That's off the record"
In front of his desk is as i'm
portant place to stand if you
want to find out about the Sen
ate as there is in the Capitol.
NO FORMALITY
On the other side Speaker Will
liam Bankhead holds his confer
ences in his office right off the
House Chamber. He will continue
the practice of his precedessor,
the late Joseph Byrns, of holding
a conference at 11:45 each day.
There is no formality here and
usually Representative John
O'Connor, chairman of the Rules
Committee, stands in the door
to help out with perplexing ques-
tons of parliamentary purport.
And, anyway why don't you
| try one? A little beer would help.
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Q
e q u iv alent in
t he Unit e d
States is rack
eteering." T h e
scratch of a
presidential pen
has spelled fin
iSh to a squat,
gray man Of so,
who, trained in
the Malta Of
Nineteenth cen
fury Sicily,
hrnUU ht - c
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wins a beauty
prize or t h e
chimney g e t S
struck by light
ming or papa is
elected as Sec
rotary of his
lodge, why not
call in the re-
porters like the
Government big
shots do n o W
a n d talk t
over?
Way back in
the days when
t he ! a t e be-
lnuad Pill prize
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Every move New Deal strategists make starts another
avalanche of criticism the poor professor The New
Deal promised tax increase in 1897 hoping thereby
to lu popular suspicion. But look what happened The
promise just reminded people Of the tax load they have
carried long and made voters resolve to throw it
off-onto the already nearly buried professor.
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

believe that in Sicily we are ex-
aggerating. that we are mortily-
ing an entire region.
ct is time Tor me 10 reveal the
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PRESS CONFERENCES

Why don't you have a press
conference?
That is, the next time daughter
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
HAVE YOU THE WILL-TO-LIVE?

Henry Ford was 70 the other
day. Seventy-three's a consider
able time for anyone to hang on,
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to employ all his gifts of oratory.,
In one speech, he said: Every now
and then my ear is reached by du-
biouS voices which would have me
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The word Malta" is from the.
Arabic and it means staggering"
or "overbearing." Its present-day
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: from them? Do you WELDON
change, or do you find 1929 rel
sons, excuses and alibis for evaC
Nogales international., 1936-08-01
LEGAL NOTICE
ORDER AND NOTICE OF BOND
SALE

It is hereby ordered by the Board
of Supervisors of Santa Cruz Coun-
ty, State of Arizona, and public no.
tice is hereby given that sealed
proposals wild he received by the
Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, at the hour of 10
o'clock A. M. on the eighth day of
August, 1896, in the office of said
Board of Supervisors in the Court
House in NogaleS, Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, for the purchase
of Five Thousand ($5000.00) Dol
lars refunding bonds of School Dis
trict Number One, Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, all of said bonds
to be dated July 1, 1896, to bear
interest at the rate of four (49o)
per cent, per annum, interest pay
able semi-annually, said bonds to
mature serially at the rate Of One
Thousand ($1OOO.OO) Dollars on the
first day of July of each year, be-
ginning July /, 1881, and ending
July 1, 1945. Delivery of and pay
ment for said bonds shall be made
at the office of the County Treas
urer of Santa Cruz County in the
Court House at Noga1es, Arizona.
Proposals for the purchase of said
bonds will be received until the
hour above-named and must be en-
closed in a sealed envelope with the
name of the bidder endorsed on
the envelope. All bids must be &C
companied by certified check for
not less than five (5%o) per cent,
of the amount of such bid and pay
able to the order of the County
Treasurer of Santa Cruz, County,
Arizona, and no bid unaccompan-
led by such certified check will be
considered. The certified check so
deposited by the successful bidder
shall be forfeited to School District
Number One, Santa Cruz County,
Arizona, in the event such bidder
shall noS carry out the terms OF
his proposal to purchase, if award
ed to him.
It is one of the conditions of the
sale of said bonds that the success
full bidder shall pay to School Dis
trict Number One, Santa Cruz
County, Arizona, interest at the
rate Of four (46) per centum per
annum on the aggregate principal
sum of said bonds from July !,
1896, until such time as the funds
resulting from such sale are ac-
tually withdrawn from the custody
of said bidder and paid over to the
County Treasurer of said Santa
Cruz County.
Said Board of Supervisors re-
serves the right to reject any and
oil E1QO c1IIO 1COIA11 IL 0uNAA vi VAAAS~A
checks.
It is ordered further that a copy
of this order and notice of sale be
published in the Nogales Interna-
tional, a weekly newspaper publish
ed and Of general circulation in
Santa Cruz County, Arizona, for
four consecutive weeks, beginning
July II, 1896.
VIM. G. SIMONTON,
Clerk of the Board of Su-
pervisorS,
Santa Cruz County, State
or Arizona.
(SEAD
Publish July II, 18, 25; Aug l 1896.
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
Tentative Official Budget
OF
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY STATE ARIZONA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
BEGINNING JULY 1896, AND ENDING JUNE 3Oth 1887

of Of the o
in
a sana
clrko Board o