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Three Minute Journeys

Mount Vernon Association. and
this organization has never slack
ened in its zeal and devotion.
BEAUTIFUL SETTING
But the main shrine for pilgrims
is the unpretentious. red-brick
tomb, so beautifully placed under
the tall, dark cedars on the hill
slope leading down to the river.
It Is more impressive than any
monument we have ever seen be-
cause of its essential simplicity
and the natural perfection of the
setting.
About As miles below Mount
Vernon is Fredericksburg, where
Washington spent his boyhood
He lived at Ferry farm, three miles
out of town across the Rappahan.
mock River, and he went to school
in Fredericksburg.
Then there is the home that
Washington and his brothers built
for their mother, Mary Ball Wash
ington-a home that contai in
some perfectly exquisite furniture
of the period.
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Aas suggested and won the game
when it had seemed hopeless. That
was the beginning of his warm adj
miration and complete trust in
Mayer Anselm. Ignoring the loud
clamor of powerful bankers, de-
nouncing this "upstart Ghetto
Jew" he handed Mayer the $40,-
900. 900. and he was his banker in
the recruiting transaction.
In later years, making some
wrong guesSes politically, the Land
grave was compelled to flee. He
handed his fortune to Mayer.
Mayer buried it in a corner of his
garden, discreetly removed parts Of
it at opportune times, and when,
years later, the Landgrave re-
turned. he received five per cent
interest on the whole sum.
By this time the family had
taken the name of the money-lend-
ing shops red shield, or RothSchild.
Mayer died in 1912, leaving five
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Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

lnames in a plea Tor better roads
for the country.
It was so large that it was i'm.
possible to send it in the regular
form, and a large wheel was made.
Around this wheel are wrapped the
sheets Of paper on which their
names are signed. To the center
Of the wheel is attached q, handle.
like the ones at old wells.
When it was brought TO- the
Capitol and interested legislators
wanted to see who had signed the
petition. they turned the crank
and the petition rolled off like a
reminding spool Of moving. picture
film,
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stand, be understood. What grace
full word or clever ritual would
crash the gate?)
So wondering, He came by night
to the Sea of Liberals, where
ignorant of His nearnesS-His dis
cipleS vainly toiled, drawing up
nets as empty as their aching
hearts. Only a little space Of sea
between them-the men He'd
loved, the Master they had fol-
lowed. But how was love to cross
that little space-bring them to.
gether, as they once had been?
The gray tide Tapped the
tired men toiled on across
the hills the dawn spread. bright
ening. And then His wise heart
knew the answer He had sought
for reaching them. Not splendid
words nor flaming miracleS-but
something which would fit their
simple, human need.
Children" He halloed, have
ye any meat?"
Thinking another fisher called,
they roughly mumbled, mo"
Threw down their empty nets.
And then
You know the rest, perhaps?
How at His word, they cast the
nets again, and brought up such
a mass of fish they could not
lift it all! .''. ~
THE ONLY SECRET
Then, suddenly, they guessed
whose voice had called -. and
flung themselves in gladness to-
ward shore ran stumbling, sob
bling, to His dear, SCARED feet And
there found that which wiped out
all their fear-healed all the hurt
and shame. Not sermons, which
their dazed brains could not under
stand, nor troubling mysteries.
which would grighten them the
more. But
"A fire Of Goals =. fish laid
thereon, and bread"
That was ChriSt's simple way Of
winning weary men. That was His
version Of "the common touch"
which bound them to Him through
eternity.
| You wonder how to love and be
beloved how to bridge those
deep gaps which lie between all
human lives . and hold and
Lead those whom you daily touch?
Then there's the only secret that
you need to know. Forget the tricks
and rules . forget yourself .
remember just the Other Fellow
and his need. His loneliness and
self-uncertainty. And give the
simple cheer he understands -. .
the plain, heart-warming service
that he need
"A fire of Goals fish laid
thereon, and bread"
The common touch? It's just
reaching heart.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
/ Syndicate. Ino.)
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words Of q bill under considera
ton. The words were: \
"Wildlife refuge, $45O,OOO."
So among other things he said:
II want to proceed to say that
Harlan County, KY, Is located
In the wilds Of eastern Ken
lucky"
To which Representative Claude
A. Fuller remarked:
"That is wildlife."
And still abiding by the rules to
talk about "wildlife refuge, $3.50
900" Representative May replied:
"And 1t is q country particu-
larIy adapted to wildlife. Some
20 or Is years ago q lot Of wild
fellows from Pennsylvania and
other industrial sections that
had more money than was
necessary to corral and buy all
of the WildIife in all of Kentucky,
In fact, in all Of America, came
down to Kentucky and opened
some coal mines in search Of
wildlife. They started out i'm
mediately, Mr.. Chairman, to in
augurate a scheme Of slavery, not
of such wildlife as bears, deer,
and 50 forth, but Of the humble
coal miners Of Harlan county
whose only crime is to toll for
the support Of their families"
And so remarked Representative
Martin Dies:
"That is WiIdIife."
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ILLUSTRATIVE

Now they recite nursery rhymes
in the Senate.
Senator Ellison D. Smith paused
in a speech before the Senate to
declare: ...
"Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.
And so betwixt them both, you
see,
They licked the platter Clean"
In this instance the gentleman
from South Carolina was refer
ring, to the fact that the pulp
manufacturers want young pine
trees to make paper and the mill
owners want the older trees for
lumber.
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

Ssons and five daughters. The sons
he had assigned to various Euro
pean capitals, as his lending oper-
atoms had spread from one coun-
try to another-the lending hav-
ing been chiefly to royalty in dis
tress, on good security.
The third son, Nathan, who
lived from 1777 to 1886, was the
great financial genius of the
family. He was sent to Man
chester, for mercantile operations
in 1900. After five years he re.
moved to London. He was not only
adroit, but he was bold and re-
sourceful, building his fortune and
the family fortune on fervent be-
lief in the organization Of intelli-
gence-with fast boats, carrier
pigeons, signal Systems-any pos.
sible means Of getting the news
and getting it first. e
In 1915, the defeat Of Napoleon
knocked the bottom out of the
London stock market. Nathan
Rothschild had sent carrier pi.
geonS to the battlefront. One Of
them brought him news Of the
victory at Waterloo hours before
London, milling about feverishly
in the wreckage Of financial ruin.
knew what had happened.
Nathan seized every available
resource and gathered stocks at
give-away prices. Then came the
official news. Stocks shot sky-high
and Nathan had them. Thus came
a great world impetus to the
Rothschild fortune and the Roths
child power as the news Of Ma
than'S coup reverberated through
Europe.
STILL POWERFUL
Solomon RothSchild was stand
ing by Metternich's chair wher
the Machiavellian Austrian wa
trusting up half Europe in strands
of political and military power
supplying money and advice.
In fact, there was a RothSchilc
at the right hand of nearly every
important throne. They had be
come indispensable to kings. Tit
sudden revolutionary CONFUSION
in France in 1880 jolted them
lot. MobG burned their palace
in 1848. Politicians execrateC
them and conspired against them
but each challenge left them NOR
strongly intrenched purveyor
not only of money but of any
thing that a fighting king nigh
need, from cannon to bully beef
In 1881, the difficulties Of thu
great family bank, the Credi
AnStalt Of Vienna, was believed
by some observers to mark thu
end of the RothSchild saga o
financial overlordship. But that
too, has come and gone. TIT
RothSchildS are still in the finan
cial bloodstream Of Europe.
If anything is Transforming thu
world, it probably is science. anC
the studiouS Victor may be recre
ant to dynastic loyaltie5 in turn
ing from banking to science.
Copyright. 1887. by King Gestures
Syndicate. Ine.l
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WASHINGTON, d. C.

We were pleased to learn that
on Washington's birthday there
were more visitors than ever at
the shrines associated with his
life and career. And since Wash
ington's birthday generally opens
the parade of visitors, it is be-
neved this summer there will be
even greater crowds.
And may we suggest that some
Of the folks who are planning
their annual visit to Europe take
a little time off to visit the
places linked so indiSSolubly with
the destiny of their own country.
There is much that is beauti.
full, rare and rich to be seen
along the 150-mile trail of Wash.
ington shrines, between the Dis.
trict Of Columbia and Williams.
burg. Va.
NATIONAL SHRINES
AS soon as one crosses the Pc.
tomac into Virginia from the ma.
tons capital, the Washington pill.
grimage begins.
Only a few hundred yards from
the highway that leads to Alex
andria are the ruins of Abingdon
the estate where Martha Curtis
Washington's wife, was born.
Then we come to Alexandria, the
nearest market town to Mount
Vernon, where the Washingtons
shopped for household necessities
where he was vestryman at old
Christ's church and participated
in the rites Of the Masonic lodge
which he founded at Alexandria
Often he spent a happy evening
playing cards and talking with
friends at GadSby's tavern there
Surely Mount Vernon is one OF
the most beautiful homes in the
world. Since 1858, the perfectly
preserved manor house, standing
in 4S5 acres Of finely-kept grounds,
| has been maintained BY the Ladies
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mains nagglng mystery. For every
happily oriented person there are
a dozen miserable miSfitS, unable
to put themselves or their program
across. Intelligent enough, most
Of willing to work-deSper-
ately eager to achieve power and
popularity-yet despite all their
efforts, they remain lonely nave
ricks, outside and unwanted by
the herd. What's wrong? What's
lacking?
Endless books offer alluring an
swers. Brilliant blah-blah that
usually leads one exactly nowhere,
and only adds to the bewiider'
ment Of a discouraged mother or
desperate workers. How can one
learn the common touch" from
these tricky maneuvers? One
can't.
BARRIERS OF FEAR
II you really want to know
how to pass the barriers our fool.
iSh fear erects {. and find and
hold your fellow man there's q
certain old story which tells it
better than a ton Of this smart
alec trash.
It was nearly 1000 years age
after the Resurrection. That
bloody business on Calvary was
done the glory and the triumph
of the Easter morn had come to
pass. Now. through land which
rocked with wonder and rumor
the risen Jesus walked again the
old, loved trails, seeking His scat
tered band.
But how was He to reach them
when they once were found? Such
a short time since, they'd suppec
together in that upper room. But
now-heartbreak and terror, JOY
and shame. had laid a gap be
tween them. He wore once more
the body they had known: spoke
the same tongue. Yet-they were
strangers. How bridge that gap
erase that strangeness? Witt
splendid words with miracles
with what3 He wondered.
I CAS- often you have wondered
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jamned an d
jumbled m o d.
ern world. Once
you could sue
coed while play
ing a lone hand.
Now you must
C o op e rate -
learn "the com.
mon touch" -
or else!
So Social Ad-
ajustment h a s
become Lesson
No. / for us all,
from kindergar.
ten on. Yet for
many 1t still re.
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a NC tion the
grea Roths'
child art collec'
n, resplend.
ent lit er of
nearly a cen
fury and a half
of yn a S t i C
power, Of finan'
cial thrones and
doninionS. such
as the world
never saw be-
fore and proba.
bly, will never
see again. Scat
tered over Lon
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Wise Words

If ideas and words were dis
tinctly weighed and duly consid-
cred, they would afford us another
sort of logic and critics than what
we have been hitherto acquainted
with.-Locke.
Worth now means what a man
is worth; property gives honors;
property brings friendship; the
poor man is everywhere at a dis
count.-Ovid.
Our greatest glory consists not
In never failing, but in rising every
time we fall.-Gold
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House Of Rep
resentatives. In
order to keep
order to keep on
talking about
he situation
in H aria n
C gu nty, KY,
that has occu-
pied the LaFol-
lette committee
In the Senate
recently, Rep
resentative An
drew j. May OF
that S ia t e
moved to strike
a,,k tho last
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Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That it be the sense of this convention
that committee should be appointed By the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
Columbia the right of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention Philadelphia,
June &c, 1886.
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Vital Appointments

-
TNHE revival of the women S minimum wage law after
its long period of rest will present complexities and
difficulties which will require skful operation the
part of the board to be appointed to carry the act into
execution.
Successful administration of the law will depend
rely on the ability the intelligence and the courage Of
those who are selected for membership the three
board.
Since the appointment of the board members rests
with the District Commissioners, the type of admins
traton to be given the law therefore rests with them
These appointments hold too great an Importance for
the city to be parcelled out pap to seseekng poll
ticians, either local or from the States.
They are too important to be dictated by those who
would fail to realize the practical aspects Of the law
and would regard it merely furnishing another oppor
tunity to indulge in social experimentation.
Abunglng board could very easily bring the minimum
wage law into such dsrepute that its provisions would
become virtually valucless to those the measure de-
signed to protect.
A politics dominated board could very destroy
any hope that may exist for successful and fair ad
ministration of the law.
Practically must be the dominating characteristic of
those who are appointed to the board if the law is not
to become device for defeating the very purposes for
which it was enacted.
The same may be said of the employees of the board.
In determining the fair minimum wage for women
the board which about to be created will have to deve
into mountain of detail and consider almost countless
factors.
Given competent staff the members will be able to
do this in such way to deal Justly with the workers
and fairly with the employers.
About the only examples of such activities in the
local field that the board will have the work of the
previous minimum wage board and the work of the
panee board of the National Recovery Administration.
Both of these organizations gathered great deal of
information about local business and local wages.
Unfortunately the work of the previous wage board
is made practically useless by changing conditions
The information gathered by the local compliance
board and the in which it conducted its actvi-
ties should prove of real value to the wage board
however.
The work of the board will be watched with in
terest when it is created.
But right now interest is concentrated upon the man.
ner in which the Board of District Commissioners pro-
ceeds with the appointments.
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QOI1 are I1l6 Ills" Edwin u. Hill
toric pictures, tapestries, ceramics,
glass, silver, and all the other
gleanings of four generations of
Unsuitable financial genius.
Not that Victor Rothschild needs
the money. The returns from the
sale, impressive as they may be,
mean little to a RothSchild. Neither
great wealth nor the symbols OF
wealth which rich men gather in
terest him greatly. He has his own
choice collection of Gainsboroughs
and Reynoldses which he treasures
and appreciates. But his heart is
in the academic calm of Cam.
bridge. Here he may find in science
a heritage which will change the
world more than did the Roths-
childs, money-lenders to kings.
makers or arbiters Of wars, arti-
ficers and destroyers of power
since the days when Mayer An
Selm hung out his sign Of the red
shield on his little money-lending
shop at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
Individual RothSchild fortunes
have been far less than many Of
the new world. The total family
fortune is unmatched and meal
culable, and the financial spider
web of power with which they en-
meshed Europe has been also a
matrix of political and diplomatic
history of the Continent.
Through all the turmoil and
stress of wars and revolutions
through long depressions and
tumultuous upheavals, the Roths
childs always have found renewed
stability and new outreach at the
finish.
MAYER ANSELM
Mayer Anselm, born in 1743
started collecting old coins at the
age Of twelve. procuring one espe
cially desired by the powerful
Landgrave, and making a neat
profit on the deal. One associates
destiny rather than chance with
the Rothschilds, but. at that, this
bit of flotsam news may at least
have been the tombstone Of des
tiny.
BY the Tine the first rifle
cracked at Lexington. Mayer was
established in his money.lendinl
| shop. He had served the Land
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Victor Rothschild deviates from<
ancient family tradition. He is
scientist. not a banker. He sells at
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wild LIFE"

As has been remarked before
there are a lot Of ways to skin a
cat. Take the example in the
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Listen. World!
BH Elsie Robinson
HOW MAY YOU LEARN "THE COMMON TOUGH?

This business Of getting along
with other people-never has it
been so important as in this
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The work of the new board will be watched with in
terest when it is created
But right interest is concentrated upon the man
ner in which the Board of District Commissioners pro-
ceeds with the appointments
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10
Insidious Plague Whitening Vast Forests; Extends
From Maine to California; Includes Montana

Although danger to immediate COM
mercial production is not great, lum-
bermen and ~foresterS are agreed that,
unless present control measures are
continued and amplified within the
next few years, millions of acres of
mountain land well suited to the lucra-
tive growing of white pines will become
hazard to all surrounding forests.
Those who, for any reason, doubt
the seriousness of present conditions
need only visit nearby areas of white
pine forests where thousands Of tell
tale flags" the rust-colored clumps
from the car window verifying the &C
count.
Quarantine laws were enforced pro-
hibiting the shipment of pines and
RibeS from infected to nOn-infected
areas and following discovery of the
rust in the west where white pine is
the most valuable of all timber species,
cultivated black currant bushes have
been eradicated from Montana, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon and California.
Control measures have not stopped
with quarantine laws and eradication
of the domestic currant offenders,
however. Following discovery of the
disease, scouting parties determined
pire, 195, 900 acres in Oregon, and g.
0O4,00O acres in California needed white
pine blister rust control work. In 1884,
infected areas in Colorado and Wy
oming were also outlined.
Since these preliminary surveys were
made, an intensive program of eradi-
eating the wild Ribes species in the
outlined areas has been underway. Up
to the end of the 1886 field season,
the first working, or wedding" of
Ribes bushes has been completed on
1921 ,O46 acres in the Inland Empire,
114,957 acres in Oregon, 44O,323 acres
in California, 5000 acres in Colorado
and 10000 in Wyoming. Second work.
ing has been completed on liz, 900
acres in these states and 5000 acres
have received their third going over.
Disease Progressing
In spite of all this, Elers Koch, as
sistant regional forester in charge of
forest service timber management and
blister rust work in the northern Rocky
mountain region, recently reported to
| the regional forester a. follows: II
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also forced to expand until with one
final wrench, it bursts and releases
newly developed spores to sail away in
search of a new home on the RibeS
leaf.
Squirrels Hasten Death
It is not the bursting of the cankers
that kills the trees, however, but rather
the throttling effect of the fungus it
self. Pushing its tenticles farther and
tightens its grip until the tree is COM
pletely girdled and circulation of food
Is stopped. Once a branch or trunk is
girdled, all parts of the tree above the
wound become separated from the
roots, get no more food, and conse-
.quently die. Squirrels consider the can
kers a particular delicaey and follow
and Fastening death of the trees.
Before death takes place, the trees
are often badly deformed. Branches
are shriveled and curled up and in the
last stages of the disease dropping,
~rust-colored clumps Of needles, known
as flags" appear at the ends of
branches fo%recasting an early end.
are alike susceptible to infection, the
older stands Withstand the inroads of
the disease better than young repro
duction and pole stands because their
needles are farther from the bushes
on the ground and their branches are
larger and longer, thereby delaying
death for a longer period of time.
Since Ribes plants cannot well endure
shade, the chances of these plants
growing under dense stands of mature
trees is also considerably lessehed.
Seeds of Ribes plants are strongly
viable, however, and may lie dormant
in the soil under mature white pine
forests for years. Once the shading
crowns are cut or burned away, they
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have Travelled this spring on the Kan
iksu, Cabinet and st. Joe national for
ests, and from personal observation,
find the disease progressing much fast
er than I thought possible. On the
Kaniksu, in very fine white pine re-
in Squaw valley, IS an infection section
or more where the disease has gone so
far a to be too late to control. Many
OF the young trees are dead already,
and in all the moisture spots and draws,
rs percent or more have a fruiting
trunk canker near the ground line
which will kill the tree within two
years.
"On the Cabinet, infection in pine
may be picked up anywhere on Big
creek south of the Savenac nursery.
The st. Joe forest is generally infected.
Bird creek is a sorry sight. The 1910
burn burn in q the ens Upper two sa1i IS OF lt the
pine. This young stand is full of red
patches caused by the recent death
of large limbs. Many test strips show
IS percent or more of the trees infected.
In the green timber below, it Is
common to see flags" extending clear
cation work is proceeding on this
drainage, but it is very questionable
whether enough of the pine a be
saved to make it worth while. This Is
probably the worst area of the forest,
but all the way up the main river and
clear to the head of Quartz creek and
Gold creek, cankerS and flags" can
be seen on the pine almost anywhere.
Infection can be found on RibeS every
where looks.
When it is considered that the 1895
and 1887 infections cannot yet be seen,
the situation gives promise of being
even far worse than it now appears.
1T is obvious that control measures
are falling far behind progress of the
disease. At best, we are going to lose
a tremendous amount of white pine,
and we may be forced to abandon
large entirely.
Il am convinced that a most de-
termined effort must be made to COM
plete the first working of all protective
units within the next two years and
that this working must be followed by
a liberal setup for rework II the In
land Empires white pine is to be
saved"