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The Washington times., 1936-02-10

>hour after the convention discus
sion are swank, outdoor looking
people, who look like they might
have stepped from the pages Of an
English fox-hunters' magazine. But
it is a varied and uniquely Amer
ican crowd.
Here are grazierS, bird lovers,
trappers, grizZled old fishermen
with wizened and sun-tanned
faces, boy scouts and mothers tow
ing children who are being ad-
jured, cooingly, to "love our little
feathered friends" Wild life is
shown in its natural habitat in the
promenade hall of the hotel
truly much more beautiful and
dignified than some Of dominant
fauna one sees hanging over the
bar or the ticker.
There Is a museum Of guns, OLD
and new. Curiously, the more
utilitarian the gun, the more
ornate its decoration. Guns used
on George Washington'S estate,
when they shot game to satisfy
their hunger, are elaborately
scrolled and inlaid. The gun Of
the rich sportsman of today,
shooting for the fun of it, IS a
slim, trim deadly affair with no
ornamentation.
The wild life conference was
called by the President. It is a
derivative-in fact, it is baSically
linked with the entire program
of soil and resources conserVa-
ton. In this, man, birds and
beasts share a common lot and
face a common fate if there Us
slovenlineSs, looting and waste.
NEW ENEMIES
As the mat grass of the prairie
goes, erosion and dust storms fol-
low. With the depletion of the
forests, wild life languishes.
starves and is lost. - few decades
ago, streams were alive with the
trumpeter swan-Burn's figura-
tive swan to Slgnalize the grace
and beauty of Annie Laurie. Now
there are only few hundred left.
The Government seeks to pro-
tect wild life by its sanctuarieS,
feeding grounds and shelters. It
tries to lessen the trapping OF
fur-bearing animals; it Furnishes
the poacher, educates the native
who is used to taking his gun and
bringing down a brace Of ducks
or quail whenever he pleases.
New enemies OF wild life are
good roads and automobiles, m
creaSing the number of hunters
and their range, the overgrazing
of cattle, the pollution of streams,
drought, drainage, waStefulnesS,
politics and plain human greed.
CCC boys are being used effec-
lively in preparing sanctuar1es,
fighting forest fires, planting
seeds and distributing food.
Treaties with Canada and
Mexico have been neglected for
birds which cross boundaries in
their migrationS. At the conven'
tion, there are innumerable Scien-
tific papers and discussions,
happily free from political drift
or interference ence-perhapS the most
intense and Illuminating concen-
tration on wild life conservation
yet seen in our history.
Copyright, 1895,
King Features Syndicate Inc.)
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building a navy for Uncle Sans
duck defenders. His first boats
worked out nicely. His orders
piled up. Launching q new
squadron, he was sent out with
it to break in its crews and start
the Scouting-on the lakes or
down in the Southern Swamps.
To his skin in designing. he
added techniques for quiet and
hidden manipulation Of the police
craft. The habits and movements
of the migratory birds are known.
Fleets are deployed to meet the
home bound or vacationing multi
tudes and protect them from the
onslaught Of the hunters.
Mr.. Biersteker, a tall, slender.
slightly STOPPING young man,
divides his time between his New
York workshop, faShioning new
subleties to make more swift,
silent and manageable boats, and
lying on q boat in a Southern
swamp, perhaps aC 2 o'clock in
the morning, waiting, with the
game wardenS on board, to give
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TWO SIDES

Representative Everett M.
DirkSen (R.) of the Sixteenth
Illinois district, may be in an
advantageous position in the ap-
preaching campaign.
He will be able to determine
the true situation in the near fu-
ture as the date has arrived for
the filing Of candidates. in the
primaries.
It so happens that a Democrat
from Dirksen's district is seeking
election as Congressman-at-large.
Many of the influential powers
in the district contend that Dirk
sen should be elected as the Re
publican from the district while
the Democrat should be elected
CongreSSman-atlarge.
Then, say the powers, the dis
trict would have the advantage Of
beins represented on both sides
of the political fence.
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Uncle Sam has
an armed Navy
patrolling, pur-
suing, scouting
and closing in
with scores Of
lightning swift
boats, day and
night, in unend.
ing defensive
warfare, pro-
tecting certain
harmless and
useful but in
cidentally sub
human citizens.
The Stor. is
lust a little, al.
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on the attitude of the nation to-
ward the New Deal and said that
such straw votes meant little or
nothing.
Despite that view Of Mr.. Far
ley's, AYERS Representative Pierce,
the Post office Department will
not support his bill to outlaw
straw votes because the polls pro
duce from two to three million
dollars in revenues for the de-
partment annually.
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W h o slobber
and Simper in
stead Of Facing
Facts.
If I had to
take my choice
between work
ing W / t h a
cynic and work
ing W / t h a
S e ntimentalist,
I'd choose the
c y n l G every
time.
The cynic is
q sour cuSs and
often warped.
Rlnf af least.
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tics. But, after the fight is over.
and they have blackened each
others eyes and called each other
all the worst names on record, you
will see them genially fraternizing,
just as before.
Alas no, a brides greatest rival
is not another woman-it is the
whole male sex. The M. F. M. A
the greatest union in the world
copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate Incl
The Washington times., 1936-02-10

most unobServed, tangent of the
American Wild Life Conference
at Washington, where more than
1000 friends Of the beasts and
birds gather to proclaim intelli-
gent game conservation as the
one means Of saving wild animal
life in America from utter de-
Struction. It's an odd story, that
tale Of the Federal game fleets
which police the market hunters
and random killers in the hun
dredS Of game refugees through
out the United States.
This, and the story Of the pecu-
liar boats Of the armada has, I
believe, never been fully told. A
brief cut-back is necessary. In
1925, there we're, according to the
biological survey, about 100000.
600 ducks and geese in the United
States. In 1888, there were 25, ,000,-
900. The Federal Government
started out to save them.
The main game refugees are
around the Great Lakes, down the
Mississippi Valley and throughout
the South. Market hunters had
fast motor boats. They knew the
swamps and bayous as a Broad
way actor knows the FortieS.
Uncle Sans men were handi-
capped.
The killers, ruthless in their
slaughter of the nesting birds,
could slip away in the savannahs.
the rushes or the swamp oak, elud-
ing pursuit, transferring to bigger
and fleeter craft, and marketing
their kill.
BATTLING PROBLEM
The first thing to do was to
build and mobilize fleets Of boats
which should fulfill two require
ments-a speed capacity Of 40
miles an hour or better, and yet
with a shallow draught designed
for swamp maneuvering. It was
a novel and battling problem for
American designers, accustomed
to building swift boats for deep
water use.
A studious young Hollander, M.
Biersteker, a highly expert boat
designer, had met and solved Just
such problems as that in low-lying
Holland. He was brought to this
country and given the job Of
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He contends,
however, that
he cannot Sc
cure the sup
port of the
Post Office De-
partment.
r e p re senta-
tive Pierce
points out that
P oS t m a S t e r
General James
A. Farley re-
Gently made de-
rog a tory re-
marks concern
ing the Liter
ory nioacf nOll
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Words of Wise Men

Those who bestow too much ap-
plication on trifling things become
generally incapable of great ones.
La Rochefoucauld.
Unsuccessful merit will never
have many followers, though ad.
mirers may be found.-Zimmer-
man.
There never was a good war
or a bad peace.-B e n mir
The Washington times., 1936-02-10

Why do men go on organizing
for this or for that? Men have
been organizing ever since the be-
ginning of time, in the greatest
UNION which the world has ever
known. The M. F. M. A., or Men
The Washington times., 1936-02-10

Men of great and shining quail,
ties do not always succeed IN life,
but the fault lies more often in
themselves than in otherS.-Colton.
It Is hardly possible to suspect
another without having in ones
self the seeds of baseness the party
is accused of.-Stanislaus.
Thoughts are but dreams till
their effects be tried.-Shake-
Speare.
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SYMBOLIC

On the weather map that hangs
in the House lobby, there recently
was inscribed the letter 'T"
beside other symbols showing
weather conditions in Georgia.
A member of the House from
Georgia wanted to know what it
meant,
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snI1Nn EXCUSES

In the mail OF Representative
Alfred E. Better Cd of New
York, recently came the demand
from a constituent to know if
the girls who worked in the
House members office had at.
tended the jackson Day dinner
as a mark of their respect for
the Democratic Administration.
Better responded:
"They did not attend the
Jackson Day dinner. They had
the necessary evening clothes
but they did not have the re-
quired $50.
Neither did they attend
the Liberty League dinner.
They had the necessary $5 but
did not possess the required
ermine wraps"
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One-Man Senate


Honest compromise is sometimes great help in get
ting legislation through Congress.
When sentiment over given measure is fairly evenly
divided it is only reasonable that the two sides should
get together and agree to give and take in order to get
action.
But uHen one single Senator stands out against
the overwhelming majority of the Senate and seeks
to impose his personal UieWs that body then the
term compromise to apply and the term die
tntiOn takes its place. ..
Furthermore, when single Senator blocks action on
legislative proposal ground then finding that
ground untenabe huredly shifts to another and
miserable base then that Senator is simply trying
to save his face and not submitting his views for the
honest deliberation and action of his colleagues.
That in brief is the present situation of Senator Ken
meth McKelar of Tennessee in regard to the Govern
ment employe leave bills
We had hoped and still hope that the Senator would
place his views before the Senate in the form Of amend
ents to the bills state his for the amendments
and let his colleagues decide.
But now it appears that Senator McKellar has dscov-
cred entirely line of thought than that which he
followed in baking the bills last year.
He hasn't offered the amendments which would rectfy
the errors he claimed existed in the bills last year.
Instead he has offered amendments entirely diff
ferent theory
Last year the Senator said that the bills should not
pass because they would give certain groups preferential
treatment.
We looked to him to remedy that fault in the bills
It existed
NOW HE COMES FORTH WITH PROPOSAL TO
CHISEI, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS OUT OF THE
ANNUAL LEAVE WHICH WOULD BE GRANTED
UNDER THE BILLS.
No private employer in history far as we know has
ever resorted that sort of thing and the United States
Government bad it may be in some respects, should
not blaze the trail
We think Senator McKeIlar OUes it to himself
to strGighten out his record on these bills.
It is simple thing to do
All he has to do is to submit his amendments to the
Senate and let the members of that body decide freely
whether the Senator from Tennessee has any reasonable
ground for objection to the measures.
IF HE HASN'T THE BILLS SHOULD BE PASSED
BY THE SENATE NOW IN THE FORM IN WHICH
THEY PASSED THE HOUSE.
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TOO PROFITABLE

Outlawry Of straw votes is the
aim Of Representative NJ. Pierce,
Cd of Oregon
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Greatest Show on Earth
By John Snure, T.

Said one Of his colleagues:
"That 'T' stands for Governor
Eugene Talmadge of Georgia"
The next morning the symbol
"T' had been marked on several
other places on the map.
Said the Georgia member Of
the House:
"Well, Talmadge's popularity
certainly must be spreading
over other States in rapid
fashion"
Weather Bureau officials say
that the "T" stands for trace
Of precipitation"
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GAME CONSERVATION

Rum Row and the rum chaserS
are all but forgotten, so swiftly
does the film Of history flicker in
these changing years. But today
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DISGRUNTLED

Representative Fred A. Hartley,
jr. (R.) of New Jersey, former
baby member of the House, was
somewhat disgruntled the other
day when he celebrated his fiji
teenth wedding anniversary.
Hartley, who is only 80 years
old and whose birthday occurs
on February %, announced to
his colleagues;
"A fine way to spend a we'd
ding anniversary. My wife is
in Jersey. I'm stuck here"
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ntimentaliSts.

I don't like sentimentalists.
I don't like people who sugar
coat reality with sweet phrases
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OLD FAVORITES
Lost LOUe
-AndreW Lang

Who wins his Love shall lose her,
Who loses her shall gain,
For still the spirit wooes her,
soul without a STAIN
And Memory still pursues her
With longings not in vain!
He loses her who gains her,
Who watches day by day
The dust of time that stains her,
The griefs that leave her gray,
The flesh that yet enchains her
Whose grace hath passed away!
Oh, happier he who gains not
The Love some seem to gain:
The joy that custom stains not
Shall still with him remain,
The loveliness that wanes not,
The Love that ne 'er can wane
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IReoders ivted to send to the editor their sugges
tons of the favores among the poems for reprinng
this space)
The Washington times., 1936-02-10

We submit that Imitation" is already here
As the picture makes perfectly plain.
It's here in the form Of an diversified head
Of that Trust" designated as Brain"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
DR.. Townsend Comes Out
for Senator Borah

CENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH is
- campaigning earnestly for the Re-
publican Presidential nomination, and
has just received a big boost for his
cause in the announcement that DR..
Francis E. Townsend, founder of the
old age pension plan that bears his
name, will give the Idahoan all his
support. Repudiating President Roose-
welt and changing his registration at
Long Beach, Calf, from Democratic
to Republican, Townsend said Borah
was the only Republican candidate
who 'eveu approached" the standard
of the Townsendites, although the SEN
ator has refused to indorse the Town
send pension plan as it stands.
Hitherto the Townsend organization
had favored circulation of third party
petitions in every state to enlist mil
lions of people as a demonstration of
strength. SO the doctors announce
ment is a reversal of policy. If he
can induce a considerable proportion
OF his followers to enter the Borah
camp the senator's chances may be
greatly enhanced.
In a speech in Chicago opening his
campaign for Illinois delegates, Sena-
tor Borah lambasted the old guard Of
the Republican party, asserting that in
1882 100000 voters were driven out
of that party by leaders who "sacri-
feed the party for their own aggran-
dizement, and that the 100000 will
not come back to the old fold if the
old leadership controls at the Cleve-
land convention in June.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
Great Floods Recede and
Reconstruction Begins

INTREPID citizens of scores of cities
and towns ii the eastern and New
England states which were devastated
by the unprecedented floods were dig
ging out their homes and places of
business from the mud and debris as
the turbulent waters of many rivers
subsidized. Reconstruction and refitting
began everywhere Immediately, and
this, as well as the relief of the suffer
ing thousands, was aided by funds to-
falling more than $43,O0O,O00 allocated
by President Roosevelt before he left
Washington for Florida.
Rough estimates were that the total
dead in Is states were 1863; the home
less were 221, 800, and the total prop
erty damage, $271, 100000. The last
figure probably would be tripled if one
took into account the losses from in
terruption to industry and trade and
the stoppage of the wages of labor.
Cities along the lower Ohio were
threatened as the flood waters raced
down to the Mississippi and the Gulf
of Mexico, but they had had plenty
of warning and were in a measure pre-
pared. OF course many communities
were submerged, but the residents had
moved to higher land.
Everywhere in the devastated re-
gions the Red Cross workers were
busy with food, clothing and medical
supplies, and in many places National
Guardsmen were kept on duty to pre-
vent footing. The people of the ma
ton were responding literally to the
call of President Roosevelt and Adj
miral Grayson, head of the Red Cross,
for a fund of 100000.
Secretary Of War Dern, who had
been appointed emergency flood relief
head by the President, ordered the
commanding generals of six corps areas
to extend full aid in rescue work and
the strengthening of levees, and Har-
ry Hopkins gave authority to all WPA
officials to use their workers in any
way necessary in the same lines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
Russia and Poland Don't
Trust NEGOTIATIONS

EASTERN Europe, especially soviet
IL Russia and Poland, is distrustful
of the negotiations among the Locarno
powers. Russia, according to Karl
Radek, authoritative writer in Mos
COW, is convinced she must rely for her
safety mainly on her own resources
for defense, and accordingly will
strengthen her armed forces, already
numbering 100000 men. He de-
scribed commitments of the four Lo-
carno powers in regard to future ac-
ton as $50 uncertain that they can be
discounted as not existing at all"
Suggestions offered in London for
the summoning of an International con-
ference to discuss new agreements Ra-
dek found to be 80 vague" as to ap-
the world to know we will never capt.
ulate before the resolutions and for
for which Hitler has expressed no par
ticular love-"
The Polish government was decided
~ worried by reports of secret negotia-
tons in London behind the scenes of
the conference of the Locarno pow
ers. These reports were forwarded by
Col. Josef Beck, the foreign minister,
who scented plot to secure peace in
western Europe at the expense of east
ern Europe by granting Germany a
free hand in the latter region. Beck
thought there were possibilities of
revision of the Versailles and other
treaties. The information he sent to
Warsaw led the press there to publish
bitter attacks on the course Great
Britain apparently was pursuing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02

porative state, was to increase the ma
TONS economic self-sufficiency. when
and how war will come, one does not
know" he said, 'but the wheel of fate
turns fast"
Mussolini asserted the large indus
tries, particularly those working for
the defense of the nation, would be
formed into organizations called key
industries These, he said, will be
run directly or indirectly by the gov
eminent. Some will have mixed Or
ganizatiOn."
He drew tremendous cheers from the
audience, rising in the gorgeous Julius
Caesar hall of the capitol building, on
CapitOline hill, when he declared that
with this reform, the Fascist party
reached fulfillment of its purposes.
Concerning sanctions being applied
by the League of Nations as punish
ment for Italy's war in Ethiopia, Mus
sOlini said:
THE siege now in its fifth month
will never bend Italy. Only Opaque ig-
nOrance could have brought a thought
otherwise"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
Effort to Keep Politics
Out of WPA Administration

d USH D. HOLT, the young Demo-
IN cratic senator from West Virginia,
gave notice that he would continue to
hammer at the Works Progress admin
istration until senate investigation
was ordered. He demanded an inquiry
into all relief activities under charge
of Administrator Harry l.. Hopkins,
and other agencies affecting relief, the
REC, CWA, and FERA.
In reply to some of the charges made,
Mr.. Hopkins issued this bulletin:
"No employee of WPA is required to
make any contribution TO any political
party. No WPA employees job will be
in jeopardy because of failure to make
such contribution.
mo employee Of the WPA shall at
any time solicit contributions for any
political party, and evidence of such
solicitation will be cause for immediate
discharge. The question whether or not
to contribute to any political party is
a matter entirely for the voluntary de-
cision of employees.
mo person will be employed or dis
charged on the ground of his support
or nonsupport of any candidate"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
Doings of the Senators
and Representatives

g TILL refusing to appropriate S12,-
- 100000 for the Florida ship canal,
the senate passed the army bill carry
ing approximately $611,0O0,000. More
than half the sum goes for the military
activities of the War department.
There will be no reduction in the
number of CCC camps during most of
the coming fiscal year, and the en-
rollees will be kept up to about the
$4,000 mark. This was the decision
of President Roosevelt after a threat
ened revolt of Democratic representa-
tives induced him to change his mind
in the matter.
Senator Black. chairman of the SEN
ate lobbying committee, has added the
Wichita Beacon to the papers whose
kilograms ne has seized or attempted
to seize. The list also includes the
Hearst publications. the Cowles pa
pers, and the Times Publishing CON-
pany of Wichita Falls, Tex John
Henry Kirby, an auti.RooseveIt Demo-
crat of Texas, learned Black had sub.
poenaed all his kilograms and warned
the senator not TO exhibit to anyone
any family or private business mes
sageS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02
Meaning of "Perplexity"

One is perplexed in understanding
rather than in feeling; intricacies or
unforeseen difficulties perplex. The
future perplexes. That which per-
plexes depends on both the individual
and extraneous circumstances. Any
condition or thing that interferes with
the making up of ones mind as to
the pursuit Of a course perplexes.
Perplexity has not the unsettling of
the faculties implied in confusion. nor
the overwhelming of the faculties i'm
piled in amazement or establishment;
it is not the magnitude of the things
to be known. but the want of full and
definite knowledge that causes per-
plexity. Perplexity has been de-
rc~'''od "the drawing or turning
of the thoughts or faculties In differ
-, .rvci.uns or toward CONTRADICTORY
conclusions" Literary Digest.