Arizona republican., 1919-12-16
GR|D|RONERS
 HAVE EVENING OF H0RSEPLAY
Republican A. p. Leased Wirsl


 WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The Grid iron Club had it's little evening of fun with public men and things at its open ing winter dinner on Saturday night.
 Headed by Vice. President Marshall, cabinet members, ambassadors and ministers of the diplomatic corps, and members of congress, a large guest list included scores of men well known in public and private life.
 Nothing was spared from the tra- ditional gridiron. The railroad prob lem, prohibition, the labor situation, topics in the public eye came in for their share of good humored treat ment.
 Members of the club, principally Washington correspondents, took the parts of the actors in the skits which did the "Gridironing" on these sub jects.
 As the capital, like the remainder of the country now has dry ban quets, or at least is supposed to, it seemed appropriate that one of the skits should be on ''moonshine"
 A company of moonshiners preparing some brew was shown and some ot lllc uldiOSuc 1IlCluutu tHc lOllOWllie "jabs":
 "A gridiron dinner is not the place for that sort of thing"
 There ain't no place where its nor, needed"
 Speaking of books on the subject I see by the papers that the prohi bition enforcement agents raided tn office of The Saturday Evening Post opd e;x- ,+e O Henry Watterson's memoirs" Has 1t got any kick in it?" Kick, well you ought to see the wa, it keeled over Morris Sheppard an Wes Jones the other day" T see Vice President Marshall here. Did you hear him order tn senate galleries cleared the other da, when we cheered Jim Reed?" "Oh, yes, that's the oldest moon shine around here" T suppose you read that Josephu Daniels thinks he has a presidentia boom?"
 That's moonshine off gree cheese"
 Speaking for the Old Solid Demo cratic Party, I nominate the bes known moonshine dispenser of the day l MT. w III f1dys, ClldlI OL llIc 1Nc publican National committee" "On behalf of the United States Re publican Party, progressive and react ionary factions, I suggest there is n finer connoisseur of moonshine tha MT. Homes s. Cummings, chairman ( I the Democratic National committee. It was decided to present bot \ chairmen with a bottle of 'moonshine The bottles, they were told were 're \ fillable."
 The railroad skit dealt with ''u scrambling the railroads" The actor represented former Director Generi \ McAdoo, Director General Hines an An Investor.
 McAdoo-"The late MT. Morgan sai \ that you cannot unscramble eggs. + was wrong. By the exercise of Ii \ tie magic, to which we modestly Ia claim, we shall illustrate how the raj roads of the United States may s scrambled and then in the twinkling an eye, as it were, and so to spea unscrambled again. Can anyone loa me a silk hat I shall return it promp ly and entirely undamaged." (Man steps forward with silk ha
 He is Mir. Investor, well known ci
 izen.)
 | McAdoo--T shall return it with 1
 pristine beauty untarnished." Investor-"Please be careful. Tn ' hat represents the sale of Liber ' Bond"
 McAdoo-"Tut, tut-have no fear
 we shall not hurt it in the slightes ' shall break this egg into the hat | so."
 | Investor--Oh, my hati" o-"Tut-tut-sir Have | fears. Trust me. Kindly turn yo \ back. What you don't see won't al
 noy you. Now we take another el \ and break it-so Now we take sor \ flour-add some coal-pour in sor
 of this agreeable variety of ketchup ' add a little sand-and finish with
 dash of vinegar. Please don't gros
 MT. Investor. It is all right.
 these ingredients are symbolic, ge \ tlemen. Now we have the roa \ scrambled. This completes my pa
 of the trick. I shall now pass {
 buck-I mean the hat to my frieI MT. Hines, who will, in his magic ws with a few passes produce the bea
 tiful rabbit known as government Q
 eration and control, and return hat undamaged to my good fr1el
 Mir. Investor" Qnvestor groans.)
 Hines Cooks at hat end glares E McAdoo)-'T am deeply indebted \ Mir. McAdoo for his trust and con dence. I wish he had finished 1 | trick. He hates the limelight and lil
 to retire while the retiring is go
 But to the trick. gentlemen Let l
 first cover the hat for aesthetic a
 olfactory reasons. It is . little mess
 (Covers hat with handkerchief, sci
 wand.)
 Hines-'T now make these myste
 ous passes-so-saying the cabalis
 words-Hocus-p -pocus-1920- Broth,
 hoods-As Taught Me by MT. McAd 1. Then I nuicklY rafsa the clnfh and ht