Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14

election of O CaliforEian as President
"California's political prospecting on
Pennsylvania avenue" To the tune OF
ION Wisconsin" they sang;
"Forty-ninerS! Forty-ninerS!
Glory to the name!
We have won the Presidency
To add to our fame. m
California! California
Now will run the show. y,
Hol Westward Ho! Ho! Hol
HeA-roarin' CO."
They declared their intention of
backing up Hoover at every turn. But
at that point the "twenty-niners, club
members dressed In gingham, with
aprons and sunbonnets and toy brooms,
rushed on the stage and told the forty
miners" to be ION their way; that the
women were going to run things In
Washington. The twenty miners" sang
IF you get into the White House,
II you're invited some day,
Wash all your faces 4
And your necks and ears
We women have made things that way.
He'll give you ice cream and daiaties,
Maybe he'll serve you some tea,
II you get into the White House.,
Don't mention that you are thirsty
Told Of New Era.
After the forty miners" had been told
there was to be no 'likker. no gam
bling, no shooting. no vice." they an
nounced they were going home, and
left the stage singing:
California, here we come
Right back where we started from.
This city, SO pretty, gave us the air
Reformers. alarmers, here an there an
everywhere.
The Forty miners came too late:
That's why We can hardly walt:
Open wide that Golden Gate
California, here We come"
1.-THE Private Life of Curtis of
Kansas" or 1.-The Kaw Man." was the
title of musical skit, with the music
committee dressed as Indians. Vice
President Curtis was shown first as q
boy Jockey. then as q hack driver in
Kansas City. while he was a law stu
dent, and finally as the Vice President.
The boy jockey, Curtis, when his at
tention was called to the fact race
track was no place for future Vice
President, replied:
II rode, but never bet. It was all
done in the spirit Of the great outdoors
and the Boy Scouts"
The Senate in special session; with
Vice President Curtis presiding, was
placed before the clubs guests. 1t was
Midsummer and still no farm bill or
tariff bill had been taken up for con-
sideration.
The Senate" said the Vice President,
pounding on the table, will come to
order and try not to be too damn
Healin Raises Objections.
Constant objections by Senator Heflin
OF Alabama and Senator Norris OF
OF any business. The Vice President re-
ceived a telephone call from President
Hoover demanding action.
The Vice Presidents end of the tele-
phone conversation proceeded as fol-
lows: Hello. hello Yes. this is the
Vice PreSident-What do you mean By
interTupting an important session OF
the Senate? Oh. pardon me, pardon me,
! didn't recognize your voice. my dear
Mr.. President. What's that? Yes, /
know it's August. On the tariff? No,
the boys haven't done anything yet. On
farm relief? Well. no. they haven't act
ed on that either, but Wen soon send
you a nice bill regulating the size Of
catfish in Boulder Dam Canyon. You
say you don't give Boulder DAM
what-what - hello - hello - changing
hook up and down. then replaces, phone
on table. These engineers know @ lot
of dams. Go the Senate, with pig bang
of gaFel) The Senate win be In order.
Gentlemen, the President wants action. :"
II objectt" shouted Hef1in.
Senator Watson, the Republican
leader, announced he had been informed
that truckload of embassy liquor had
been seized in front of the Capitol. He
moved a recess of 80 minutes, which
was carried with a cheer.
Donovan Is Decorated
A club member impersonated Col.
wild Bill' Donovan, former assistant
to the Attorney General, who failed to
be appointed to place in the Presi-
"Oh bow" he said. chat was some
battle. The battle of 1900 S street" (the
number of President Hoover's Washing
ton house,.
(, Col. Donovan said he had recently re-
ceived new decoration, the Order OF
the Boot"
The club decorated an Inventor" who
had made machine on which ex-
Presidents may do their literary work.
10 principle was "the application OF
typewriter keyboard to cash register,
combining Coolidge economy With
Hoover efficiency. A parody OF "Oid
Ironsides" was the clubs farewell to the
presidential yacht, the Mayhower.
DR.. Work, impersonated by a club
member, announced he had aided one
statesman in accomplishing his desire.
who was that?" he was asked.
''Col. Horace Mann. He said he want
ed; no reward for carrying the South,
and saw that he got 1t"
New President Welcomed.
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor Of
the Kansas City Star, recently elected
president of the Gridiron Club, was in
augurated, with real inaugural parade.
The club initiated four new active
members and two new limited members.
The active members were Georgs Roth
well Brown of the Washington Post,
Mark Tnistlethwaite of the Fort Wayne
Journal Gazette, Robert r. Lane OF the
Newark News and Robert B.ASmith OF
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Mr..
Smith was elected member at meet
ing of the club yesterday afternoon. The
limited members were William I. Ray
mond and Charles T. Tittmann.
A souvenir OF the ulnIleI NWGo LIZ
New Illustrated Congressional Record.
produced for the occasion by the Grid
iron Club. It followed exactly the style
adopted for the Congressional Record SO
far as the printing was concerned. Be
yond that, however, it was different. For
example, the record Of the Senate pro-
ceedings, under date of Saturday, April
Is. began as follows:
THE Senate met at IL O'Clock merid-
ian, on the expiration of the vacation in
Florida. everybody being broke but SEN
ator Couzins.
THE Vice President: It gives me a
pain In the neck to announce that the
Senate will receive a message from the
House of Representatives.
Message From the House.
"a message from the House of Rep
resentatives by Mr.. Halt Again, one OF