Evening star., 1930-12-14
SK|T ON ELECTION
FEATURES DINNER
OF GR|D|RON CLUB
FesS Pictured as Napoleon,
AStride Steed, VoIStead,
Receiving Returns.
'0UT WHERE VETS BEGIN
PAR0DIES DRY ISSUE
Democrats" Cooperation Offer Is
Burlesqued-Beneft Given for
Idle Lame Ducks"

Battered lame duck" Representa-
tives and Senators, worried prohibition
lists, bewildered politicians, passed in
review last night before the guests of the
Gridiron Club at it's December dinner
in the Willard Hotel.
With rhyme, song and jest the ia
nous newspaper club pictured for the
President of the United States, mem
bers of his cabinet, members of the dip
lomatic Corps, Senators, Representa-
tives and other distinguished guests, the
outstanding happenings in the Novem-
Der election, the fate of the promised
cooperation" on the part of the Demo-
Gratis and the situation over the wet
and-dry issue.
The club called upon President Hoo
yer and its other guests to lay aside
the cares of state and take light
hearted view of their problems. If the
satire was barbed it was also good ma
tured. The club was non-partisan, be-
laboring Democrats and Republicans
alike. The results of the November elec-
ton were given particular attention,
however, without the club being able
to discover the foundation for the Hoo
yer 'vindication" theory Mr.. Hoover
was assured, however, that the Demo-
Gratis in reality were his friends and they
would come to his rescue in 1882.
Club Hears President.
AS courtesy and custom decreed, the
President was invited to give his own
version Of the problems before his ad-
ministration and he accepted. His re-
marks, however, must be withheld from
publication under the clubs ancient rule
that reporters are never present" at
Gridiron dinners. Senator Joseph T.
Robinson Of Arkansas, Democratic leader
OF the Senate, was the only other speak
er OF the evening.
OF Waterloo, Senator FesS, chairman of
the Republican National Committee, dis
guised as Napoleon Bonaparte, astride
his rather restive Steed, VolStead gall
loped to the front just in time to receive
the diSheartening returns of the elec-
ton from his trusted marshaIs He bade
farewell to his army and promised to get
his beaten followers jobs as Ambassa-
dors and judges, assuring them that ''the
Ola Guard dies, but never surrenders-
the pay roll"
Rejuvenated Democracy was symbo-
lized by Cinderella, who threw of her
tattered garments and stepped forward
In royal raiment at the touch of the
Fairy Godmother Raskobs magic wand
with huge dollar sign at the end of it.
The prohibition issue was given Spe-
cial attention in parody entitled out
Where the VETS Begin" and in a trav-
esty entitled Fireman, Save Me
Che-ild!" DR.. Liquorsham, head of the
Law Enforcement Commission. and Mrs
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with her
grape concentrate tonic, offered to save
the child, but the Anti-Saloon League
ano the w; G, 7. U. appeared suspicious
Of their intentions.
Shakespearean Medley.
The famous Corporation pledged
by seven Democratic leaders soon after
the last election was the subject of
a skit produced by the "Gridiron
Shakespeareian Players" The cast in
cluded Romeo Robinson" Juliet Wat
son" and the melancholy Hamlet
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