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have enabled millions of Ameri-
cans to comprehend for the first
time the sinister significance of
earlier happenings since Personal
government Supplanted the Gov
ernment of the Constitution.
ALARMING INSTANCES
First: The seizure and search
by Personal government of the
private kilograms of organiza-
tionS and citizens suspected of
criticising or thWarting the at
tempt of Personal government to
entrench itself for another four
years in complete control of
both the executive and legislative
branches of the Federal Govern
ment.
Second: The divulging on the
floor of the Senate by a mem
ber of that body of the sub
ject of a purely personal let
ter which had been addressed
to former Senator of the
United States, delivered by mis-
take into the hands of the Sen
ator who not only read it, but
made public reference on the
floor of the Senate to it's con-
tents and threatened it's author
with the wrath of Personal gov
ernment.
As matters stand now, no
American citizen, residing in
the Federal City can file
telegram to anybody anywhere
on any subject without running
the risk of having the tele-
gram seized by the janiSSarieS
of Personal government and
put to any punitive use that
Personal government may
order.
No American citizen, resi-
dent in the Federal City, can
put in a long distance teIe-
phone call to anybody any
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11dSOOQ 10 his oo"atOE MetCaA
regular duties, but, between the
lines, is the proposition of whether
or not Congress wishes in the
future to have witnesses appear
before its committees and tell the
truth.
Since General Hagood was "sent
home" because he criticized the ex.
penditureS of WPA funds for use
less purposes, the majority of pub
lie men appearing before commit
tees of House and Senate have re-
fused to talk.
Knowing that their statements
might cost them their positions,
they have declined to answer many
questions propounded by members
of Congress, or have evaded the
issues.
Representative Clarence j. Nc
ACOO NV VI NA1SA41Sd14 Is oSCA1A15
passage of his resolution not only
because he believes Hagood should
be reinStated, but because he is Ger
tain that the fact that Hagood was
sent home will jeopardize the pos
Sibilities of securing honest testi,
mony before House and Senate
committees.
It has already been shown that
the disciplinary action taken
against Hagood has caused wit
nesseS to refrain from talking. de-
spite any questioning by members
of Congress.
Mcleod and others realize that
unless Congress steps in and indi
Gates that it will protect its wit
nesses there is every indication
that in the future the men and
women in public life who appear
before committees will not give in
formation which might be ex
tremely valuable to the nationa
legislators and the public.
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CYPRUS

O1FhOS
Always there is some traveller
or other bewailing the fact that
his favorite hideaway has been
discovered by tourists, thus spoil
ing it's quiet charm and the sim
plicity of it's people. This time it
is the island of Cyprus which has
been discovered and which bids
fair to receive a goodly quota OF
tourists in the future.
It really is a beautiful spot, this
Cyprus, which lies at the entrance
to the eastern end of the Medi-
terranean, only some 40 miles
south of Asia Minor and so miles
west of Syria. Dominating the
island, which is occupied by a
maze of mountains, is Mount
Olympus.
The inhabitants are mostly
Greeks, the rest Turkish. II you
enjoy forest scenery, then Cyprus
will please you. For it has truly
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game. This form of corruption
he would not stand for.
One calm night, after six
months of preparation. jerome
performed the miracle Of getting
into Canfield's. His hatchet men
battered down the big, bronze
door, and his net made a haul
of some of the biggest fish in
the city.
Garfield, from Europe, cabled
that he would come back and
plead guilty if Jerome stopped
annoying his patrons. Garfield
came back, paid a fine and
never put another bronze door on
the house in East Forty-fourth
Street.
Copyright 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. 1ne.)
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

'entire performance. Though it in
cluded AZ books and 20 years of
audiences.
In short, she was leading one
of those Typical American Success
Story Lives, which look so lovely
on club programs but taste like
last weeks corned beef hash to
the fellow who's consuming it.
And then suddenly she made
A Discovery. A discovery of a
new way to think about life and
tackle it. And what that discov-
cry has done to Dorothea Brande.
and enthusiastic mobs who are
paging her, is Dynamite-and
nothing else but.
Obviously, I can't give you the
details of that discovery here. Nor
do I agree with Mrs. Brande that
some Of the details are so hot.
But she's passing on one piece
Of information that deserves a
national broadcast and would
probably change the whole trend
of your life for you within the
next "a hours if you'd let it. Mean
ing what? This.
SPRING TONIC
We all take for granted the will
to live, the will to power
BUT MRS. BRANDE RISES TO
REMIND YOU THAT THERE IS
WHICH IS EQUALLY WIDE
SPREAD AND EXTREMELY VIR-
ULENT ). NAMELY, THE WILL
TO FAIL. THE WILL TO DIE.
But who'd want to fail or die?
Millions of us, my dear! Millions
OF terrified and discouraged or
peeviSh Or merely pesty people,
who lack the courage to face life
and the knack of achieving power
and popularity, and so go around
dying off by inches" as a sub
Stitute for red-blooded existence.
Millions of people who, with
every gesture, every word, every
act, even every silence, practice
and preach encouragement, futil-
ity, failure.
And if that isn't reason enough
for spending SITS for your souls
salvation and as swell a spring
tonic as there is on the market.
you'd better wire Cousin Clara to
order the lilies, dearie.
copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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ing he knew that he had been;
but he continued playing to see
if he could catch the sharperS
red-handed.
It turned out at the hearing
that such charity affairs were
getting to be quite a racket IN
england for sure-thing gamblers.
At the same party which VII
liams complained Of, Lord Han
lin found 80 cards were missing
out of a baccarat shoe which
should have contained 312.
"Don't play cards with Stran
gers" so read the signs on the
transatlantic liners, and yet ia
wager that scarcely a ship comes
into port that does not carry one
gllllible soul who has been cheated
ont of his money by one OF the
harpies. Sometimes the case gets
to the ears of the ships officers;
and sometimes to the courts, ano
the money is recovered. But moSt
of the time the adage holds gooo::
"The sucker never squealS, ana
the gambler goes off with the
money.
MODERN TACTICS
MANY times, too, these Sharpers
are clever enough to get away
without their victims having even
the suspicion that he has been a
"plucked pigeon" The best caro-
rxindler knows enough not to be
greedy. He who takes Just
enough will live to meet anotner
dupe. vou,.
Big time gambling in New York
nowadays is done mostly with
dice although some of the brldge
clubs provide stiff enough game.
The dice throwers move about
from hotel to hotel. from rented
apartment to rented apartment
always one step ahead of the po-
lice. We don't hear much ABOUT
them nowadays.
Gambling gets into the news
and stays there only when a
scandal breaks or when there IS
a big shot in operation. The last
one New York had was Arnold
Rothstein. Before him 10 was
Herman RoSenthal, and the vio-
lent deaths which came to each
of them shook New York Tor
months. ,
Gambling is a furtive thing to-
day. a fox running before the
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Personal Government
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

} where for the purpose Of con-
verSing on any subject, with
out running the risk of being
suspected of hostility to Per-
sOnal government, and, on the
basis of such a suspicion, being
subjected to the tapping of
his telephone that the "SnOOp-
ers" of Personal government
may "IiSten in" on the conver-
SatiOn.
SIGNIFICANT
The telI.tale rattle of Personal
government was detected by the
discerning ears of thoughtful
Americans several years ago.
Personal government ratified"
when all domestic airmail con-
tracts were arbitrarily cancelled
before their holders could receive
the day in court to which they
were entitled under the Govern
ment of the Constitution.
Personal government ratified
again when Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh was officially pilloried be.
fore the country as "a publicity
seeker" when he exercised the
Constitutional rights of an Amer
lean citizen and telegraphed a
respectful protest against the
arbitrary cancellation of the air
mail contracts.
Personal government ratified
14
of the United States, having de-
clared the NRA unconstitutional,
was subjected to the unjust criti-
ciSm that its decision would
thrust the American people back
into the horse-and-buggy age.
Personal government ratified
in the ear of the Congress when
it was notified that it must enact
legislation in disregard of reason
able doubts regarding its consti.
tutionality.
And now Personal government
is rattling up and down the tele.
graph and telephone wires that
lead from the Federal City into
the homes of American citizens
NofCn, East, SOuth ana west.
Millions of Americans did not
recognize the earlier rattles of
Personal government for what
they were. Now that its ugly head
has been raised high enough in
recent weeks for them to see it
with the naked eye they can COM
prehend, as never before, the diff.
ference between Personal govern
ment and that government of
laws and not of men" which is
the American system of govern
ment-the government of the Con-
Stitution of the United States, of
which the Supreme Court of the
United States is the keystone of
the arch"
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NOG very d1 us ~
tic Simile, stranger, but you can
put your money on it. For #
there's one thing above all others
which the average American wants
to know how to do just now, it's
exactly that-WAKE UP AND
LIVE!
Not-mind you-that I think
Dorothea Brande or anyone slse
can tell 'em exactly how. Which
may be a bit of a jolt, seein' as
how this is supposed to be an en-
thusiaStic book review. And is.
But just because I'm enthusiastic
doesn't mean that I can't also be
honest.
And I honestly don't believe
that any of us can tell the other
fellow how he should live his life.
Nor would I give tinker'S dam
for a successful life that got that
way by somebody elSe'S blueprint.
A RECIPE
But as a swell Swiftie on the
Well-knoWn jowl-and a guaran-
teed recipe for landing you back
again in circulation-I'm passing
on Mrs. Brande's book with luSty
whoopS of red-hot Endorsement.
First off, she presents herself as
probably the most convincing EX-
hibit A before the American pub
lie today.
She had been a professional
writer and editor for 20 years and
didn't (though in much nicer
words) give a hoot in hell for her
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The Human Side of the News
RY Edwin C.. Hill
CARD SHARPERS STILL FIND SUCKERS"


|hounds. Gone is the era of the
big, bronze door, of the honest
game played in the brownstone
mansions where a man might
risk SIS or $4,000 and eat caviar
and drink champagne while do
ing so.
Yes, for better or worse, gone
is Dick Garfield and his era.
All professional gamblers and all
gambling establishments of our
time must be measured by Can
field and his brownstone palace
in New York'S East Forty-fourth
Street, next to Delmonico's.
There was a resort, a meeting
place of the crowned heads of
business, the stage and the sport
ing fraternity as we'll as for the
crowned heads of foreign coun.
tries who came to New York.
Dick Garfield came down to
New York from New England
around 1880. He had been a
clerk in the hotels in the vaca-
ton places in that section, a po-
lite, likable young man in whose
blood ran the gambling fever.
He opened a house in Provi'
dence, was raided and, instead of
the usual fine, found himself in
jail for six months. On his re-
lease, he went straight from
his cell to the railroad station
and boarded a train for New
York.
king OF CHANCE"
For the next quarter of a cen
tury he was its King of Chance.
OF course, he, himself, took little
or few chances. His game was
as honest as the law of percent
ages permitted it to be. He did
not mind taking the terrific
losses which at rare intervals
came his way.
He counted it a good thing
for his business when a plunger
made a killing, because such an
event was broadcast throughout
the town and the advertising
brought a flock of new patrons
to the place next to Delmonico's.
Such advertising finally brought
William TraverS Jerome, the Dis
trict Attorney. Jerome was not
so much concerned about the
gambling end of Canfield's. He
knew that Garfield catered almost
exclusively to those who could
afford to play and lose. But
Jerome was greatly concerned by
the fact that the police were
being paid not to molest the
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II was the pigeon to be
plucked," said Keith Hugh Will
liamS from the witness stand OF
Judge Finlay's court in London
the other day. He was there
seeking to recover 100000 which
he had lost at an all-night card
game staged in the aid OF
charity.
Williams had been warned
that he was to be rocked" and
about three o'clock in the morn
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Help the Orchestra

The 100000 sustaining fund which the National Symphony
Orchestra trying to raise this should be oversubcbed
Unless the full of the fund is obtained it will be
necessary cra the extensive program Which the orchestra
has arranged for the coming season.
Dr. Hans Kindler director of the orchestra and his
have proven Washington that they produce good music
IT IS NOW UP TO THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON AS
A WHOLE TO PROVE THAT THEY APPRECIATE IT.
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LEGAL ETHICS

There is being circulated in the
present pre-campaign days a
pamphlet entitled "Unauthorized
Practice of Law?"
It is an effort to condemn the
lawyers of the American Liberty
League who offered to defend
clients and plead the cause of per-
sons without funds as long as the
complaint was against the Roose-
Velt deal.
The pamphlet is In the form OF
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have just pub
lished-" WAKE
UP AND LIVE!"
It's exact | Y
the sort of book
that about one
hundred million
discouraged dis
gus t e Il a n d
downright be
W i | dered hui
mans are going
to grab and
gobble like a
starved w off
pup goes for a
COB Of steak.
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raised it's head
h / g h enough
for its ugly fea-
lures to be seen
as clearly by
the naked eye
as the sound of
its rattle has
for some time
been audible to
the discerning
ear.
Within the
month several
t h i n gs have
happened at
t he National
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After Ten Years

The action of the House in sending back conference
the bill which was designed ultimately to establish
decent airport for the National Capital means further
delay in carrying out this urgently needed project.
The biH as it came from conference, UGs no great
model of speedy legislation but at least held some
promise of action.
When the measure provoked debate in the House
after that body had sent through the District wecng
appropriation BILL the leaders caused its withdrawal and
sent back for further conferences between the House
and Senate.
All that this bill would do would be to set up CON-
mission provide it with experts and give it 100000
with which to make a survey and, if desirable, take
options on the site it selects.
AFTER TEN YEARS OF AGITATION FOR ADE-
OUATE AIRPORT FACILITIES THAT WOULD NOT
SEEM TO BE GREAT DEAL OF PROGRESS, BUT
AT LEAST 1T IS SOMETHING. =.
But even that was farther than the House willing
to go last week and there is strong possibility that no
action will be taken the matter during the rest of
the session.
WE HAVE BEEN GAMBLING WITH DEATH FOR
A LONG TIME BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF AN
ADEQUATE AIR TERMINAL IN WASHINGTON
Some day our luck will out and we will witness
disaster which will shock the country.
When the day of reckoning comes Ue hope that the
members of Congress and the other individuals
uuhO hare blocked action iU realize their RESPONSE
biLity.
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WEATHER VANES

Rejection by the Senate Military
Affairs Committee of the Metcalf
resolution calling for an investiga-
tion of the retirement" Of Mai.
Gen. johnson Hagood because he
"talked too much" is construed in
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som e quarters
as a definite in
dication t h a t
Congress is not
in the mood to
adopt the Nc
Leod resolution,
calling on the
President to re-
instate the Of
ficer.
The Mcleod
resolution n OF
only calls upon
the Chief Ex-
ecutiVe to re-
store General
HapOOd to his
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It IS we'll for one to know more
than he sayS.-Plautus.
The consciousness of good in
tention is the greatest solace of
misfortune.-Cicero.
For solitude sometimes Is best
urges sweet return.-Milton.
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SYMBOLIC

WPA workers building chameleon, with changing
colors and ALL Museum of Natural History
This contribution will be complete with movable buging
eyes and shutter like eyelids It will be feet in SIZE
There will be labels to tell just why is that light rays cause
the chameleon to change its color.
In effect it will be complete.
The decision of the WPA to build chameleon appropriate
ever changed the color of its dong with such rapidty
Sometimes its hue lily white at other times it may be any
thing from pale pink to deep red.
And think of it, why should not the chameleon be
the symbol of the entire Raw Deal?
That noble experiment has assumed every color Of the rain
bow during its three years existence Yellow being its latest
and-as November draws nearer-changing to blue
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Words of Wise Men

Man has been lent, not given,
to life.-Syrus.
No one has had gods so favor
able to him that he can promise
himself a morrow.-Seneca.
The secret of being tiresome Is
in telling OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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QUITE A RISE

When the New Dealers talk
about economy they might we'll
turn to one item of construction
cost in the Navy.
In the new Navy bill there is the
item for destroyer construction,
which fixes the cost of each ship
at a price between $6,500,000 and
$7,5O0,000
The present destroyers used by
the Navy average 1900 tons. The
new ships will not exceed $500
tons, or a mere 800 tons differ
ence.
The ships now in use were con-
structed approximately is years
ago.
The price Of them at that time
ranged from 81 100000 to $1,750,-
900. Naval authorities can give
little explanation for any such in
crease in cost.
They say that steel is almost
the same in cost and that other
materials are approximately on
the same level as they were when
the present destroyers were con-
structed.
But the price jumps from not
more than $1,750,000 to more
than $6,500,0O0.
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After three years the PERSONAL
government, which rules the Fed
eral City today, has finally
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WAKE UP AND LIVE!"

I'll bet Dorothea Brande has
started plenty with this new book
of hers which simon e. SchuSter
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IMPARTIAL

There is a veteran in these
United States who believes in
claiming residence in any one of
the 48 States.
He recently wrote to Represen-
tative B. M. Jacobsen, Democrat
of Iowa, and asked for aid at the
Veterans Bureau. He told Mr..
Jacobsen he was from the home
town of the member of the Con-
gress and that he needed help.
Mr.. Jacobsen wrote the Veterans
Bureau.
He was advised:
1--WE have received cOmmuni-
cations from members of Con-
gress from 43 States concern
ing that claim"
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
ADS UP
1.9 PER CENT

CHICAGO, March 17-With un-
favorable weather factors absent
from the scene, retail advertising
during the week ended March 7
exceeded that placed during the
corresponding week of 1885 by 3.3
per cent, according to Advertising
Age. For the week ended Febru-
ary 30. the gain was 19 per cent.
For the year to date, retail line
age is 1.8 per cent ahead of last
year, the publication says, basing
its figures on data covering all of
the newspapers in 66 major cities.
During the week ended March
7, the newspapers in these cities
carried 16,054,42 lines of retail
advertising, against 15,546,307
lines last year. For the year to
date, these newspapers have
printed 147,437 1922 lines of retail
advertising, compared with 144,.
818,197 lines last year.
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GLADYS DILLON
GETS 7 YEARS

HAMLIN, w. Va, March IT.
Gladys Dillon, 14.year.old school
girl, must spend the next seven
years in reform school.
The girl appeared in court yes
terday and pleaded guilty to
charges Of poisoning her father,
mother and six brothers and sis
ters, admitting she had mixed
poison in the flour with which her
mother was baking.
Ellsworth Payne, 16-year.old or.
phan cousin of the girl, and named
by her as the one who suggested
the poisoning Ito get even with her
mother" also appeared in court
and pleaded guilty to a charge OF
housebreaking. He was ordered
sentenced to the state industrial
home for boys until he is 81.
Neither the girl or Payne dis
played any emotion when they
were sentenced. Gladys had pre-
viously sent word to her mother
asking for her best clothes 80 1
can look nice when I go away to
school,"
The mother, who testified be-
fore the grand jury in the poison
case, said Gladys was unmanag.
able, and that reform school would
be the best place for her
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Maryland Debaters
Defeat Hawaiian u

COLLEGE PARK, Nd, March
17.-Upholding the negative side
Of the question, Resolved: That
Congress, by a two-thirds vote,
should have the power to over.
rule decisions of the Supreme
Court declaring acts of Congress
unconstitutional" the University
of Maryland debating team de.
feated the University Of Hawaii
team last night.
Paul Wise. Baltimore, and Rich
ard Zimmerman, Frederick, Nd,
argued for Maryland. The Ha-
Wallan debaterS were John A.
CasstevenS and Robert G. North,
both formerly of Alhambra, Cal.
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
CHARGE SHORT COAL SALE

Two men are at liberty on bond
today charged with shortweight-
ing coal purchasers. They were
arrested after two tons" of coal
had been ordered, ostensibiy by
homeowners, and weighed by Dis
trict weights and measures off.
cials.
Buford Scivally, 20, of 811 Mary
land Ave. N. E., is at liberty on
5000 bonds, and Frank Metzger,
23, of Sunbury, Pa, was required
to post $500 to gain his liberty.
One alleged ton of coal, Walter
C. Diller, chief of the Bureau of
Weights and Measures of the Dis
trict, said, was 887 pounds short.
This coal was ordered for a home
in Malmarson Street Northwest.
The second ton" was 695
pounds short, Diller charged. This
was delivered to j. H. Smith, one
of Mr.. OILERS agents, at 1347
Irving st. N. w.
Diller said the coal is being
moved to Washington in trucks
marked New Deal Coal Com.
pany." The coal company's Of
flee is at 811 Maryland Ave. N. E..
Diller said.
Police and officials of the
weights and measures department
are investigating reports that
Washington is receiving bootleg
coal from Pennsylvania. Accord.
ing to these reports, the coal is
mined by "squatters" on closed or
abandoned mine sites and brought