Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-15

That London conference,
Though 1 can scarcely tell why;
They call me advisor, I'm
Sadder and wiser, of
Diplomats I'm very shy.
Our ships they are sighting,
They say, mo more fighting"
We scarcely dare think what 1t
means;
The Navy they're sinking.
The Army they're shrinking
Thank God, we still have the Ma
rineS.
He's off to the conference,
That London conference,
Though he scarce knows what 1t
means.
The Navy they're sinking,
The Army they're shrinking
Thank God, we still have the Marines.
Tell me, Mr. Stimson." said Bull
Con, ARE you bishop?"
"No-I'm only a pawn" was the re-
Stimson said he was seeking parity"
in London.
Bishop Cannon remarked: Parity,
All, yes, parity begins at home-and
ends in London"
THE Patrioteers" was the title of
another skit, which revealed the New
Patriots" of the present administration,
hardy band of "self-sacriflcing pa
trioteers encamped on the banks of the
turgid Rapidan." Included in the list
are Stimson, Hurley, Lamont, Mitchell,
Newton. THE Ragged Continentals'
were another group who had not Jared
SO we'll in the matter of jobs at the
hands of the administration. Among
them were DR.. Hubert Work. James
Francis Burke, and Col. Horace Mann.
They sang a song "All Got Was
Much Obliged to You
Coolidge as Rip Van Wrinkle.
Rip Van Wrinkle, in still another skit,
turned out to be Calvin Coolidge. He
awoke thinking that he had heard the
voice of Wall Street calling him back
to the White House.
John j. RaSkob and Jouett Shouse,
directors of the maneuvers of Demo-
cratic national organization, imper-
sonated by club members, sang duet
to the tune of "Clementine." 1t went
in part as follows:
Mr. Raskob, Mr. Raskob, everything
is going fine;
For we Democrats are winning, In
this year of twenty-nine.
Mr.. Shouse, Mr.. Shouse, what you're
saying may be true,
We can win between elections-but
that's all we ever do.
Oh, but listen, Mr.. Raskob, let's be
happy now, and bright;
Since you've lots and lots of money,
everything will be all right.
Oh, if money won elections, Al would
be a-running yet;
But 1t cost us lots of millions, for the
votes he didn't get.
Mr.. Raskob, don't you know that all
the farmers still are sore?
They are with us, they will help
us; they will not vote as before.
Mr.. Shouse, don't be foolish, farmers
votes are all myth;
Where was your own state of Kansas
when the cyclone hit Al Smith?
Just remember, Mr.. Raskob all my
statements to the press;
Every day l wallop Hoover-that will
do the trick, 1 guess.
Mr.. Shouse, what's the good of all the
statements that you wrote?
For while we get out the statements,
some one else gets out the vote.
At meeting of the club earlier In
the day Charles S. Groves, Washing
ton correspondent of the Boston Globe.
was elected president.
The club elected as vice president
Jay G. Hayden, correspondent of the
Detroit News. j. Fred Essary of the
Baltimore Sun was elected treasurer
and j. Harry Cunningham was re-
elected secretary for the fifteenth time.
Members of the executive committee
chosen were AShmun N. Brown of the
Providence Journal, Arthur S. Henning
of the Chicago Tribune and James L.
Wright of the Buffalo Evening News.
Mr.. Groves, newly elected president
of the club, was vice president at the
time of his election. Mr.. Groves first
joined the staff of the Boston Globe in
1890 and has been reporter and political
writer for that paper ever since eX-
cept for years in which he served as
secretary to Gov. Guild of MasSachu-
sets and executive secretary of the
Republican State committee of that
State. He came to Washington as the
Globes correspondent in 1914. Mr..
Groves takes Office January /.
A new Office, that of historian, was
filled by the election of Ernest @. Walk
err a past president of the club.
The guests and members of the club
attending the dinenr were:
The President of the United States.
The Secretary of State.
The Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The Ambassador of Cuba.
The Ambassador of France.
The Ambassador of Chile.
The Ambassador of Germany.
The Ambassador of Japan.
The Ambassador of Mexico
The Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of War.
The Attorney General.
The Postmaster General.
The Secretary of the Navy.
The Secretary of Interior.
The Secretary of Agriculture.
The Secretary of Commerce,
The Secretary of Labor.
The Minister of Hungary.
The Minister of Colombia.
The Minister of Canada.
The Minister of China.
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary
Smithsonian Institution; Franklin
Adams, counselor of the Pan American
Union; Walter E. Adams, Boston. Mass.
j. N. Aiken, the Sun, Baltimore, Md;
George Akerson, secretary to the Presi-
dent; Horace M. Albright, director Ma
tional Park Service: Theodore Afford
the Kansas City Star; Henry j. Allen
! Senator from Kansas; Walter Fox
Allen, Newark, N. j.; Paul Y. Ander-
son, the st. Louis Post-DiSpatch: Rob-
ert B. Armstrong, Los Angeles Times:
| Matthew G. Armstrong, Hampton. Va:
A. Y. Aronson, the Louisville Times;
Percy Lee Atherton, Washington, D. c.;
| George F. Author, the Minneapolis
Tribune; M. H. Aylesworth, president
National Broadcasting Company, New
York.
Maj. Neill E. Bailey, U. S. A.; David
Baird, jr., Senator from New Jersey;
Lieut.. Comdr. Wilder D. Baker, u. s.
N; William F. Banks Absecon, N. j.;
Henry H. Barr, Schenectady, N. Y;
| Hugh W. Barr Washington, d. c.;
David Barry, United States Senate;
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