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The Washington times., 1931-04-18

Reservations must be made
after 10 a. m. Thursday of each
week with j. Munro Hunter, Sr.,
the golf pro. Indian Spring, like
most of the other local clubs,
uses the starting system to elm
mate any congestion on week
ends and holidays.
Monthly Club Events
The golf committee at Indian
Spring includes Harry KidWell,
chairman; George j. Richard
son, Herbert L. Lacey, Elliott
Spicer and j. William Harvey, jr.
Kidwell states that the club
events will be made up from
month to month.
Paul FrizzelI, Of Columbia
Country Club, and J. Monro
Hunter, jr.. of Indian Spring,
have been turning in low
figures of Iate. FriZZelI has
consistently scored Columbia
around ~, while young Hunter
has been doing as well over
at Indian Spring, though off
color in putting.
Sweepstakes will be the golf
programs at Woodmont Country
Club and Argyle Club tomorrow.
Competition will be 18 holes,
medal play handicap.
Two powerful golf Sluggers
showed their skill in laShing out
long drives at Columbia yester-
day. They were M. Parker
Nolan, of Congressional. and
Jack Burgess, pro at the Lake
Geneva Club in Wisconsin.
Clears Trees
Nolan unleashed a wallop of
over 275 yards from the first tee,
the ball going far beyond the
bend where the fairway turns
right to the green. Burgess lofted
high drive over the trees on
the right and his ball came to
rest at safe spot to the left of
the trap on the right of the
green. This Burgess played his
shot boldly and, perhaps if he
had following wind, who knows
but what he might have reached
the green in one. That would
have given the Columbia mem
bers something to talk about.
Burgess is visiting here for a
few days and is on his way to
Wisconsin after spending the
winter In Florida. Yesterday,
he paired with Freddy Mcleod
in q best ball match against
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

Bobby Burke, disposed to take
the exhibition lightly.
Bobby put on plenty Of steam
to strike out seven men and al
low but five hits.
Needs Time
If General" Alvin CroWder is
slow rounding into form there's
no need to get excited.
For Cr0wder, it seems, is one
of those fellows who starts
like a lamb and finishes like a
lion.
The General Is in splendid
physical shape right now. But
he isn't warmed up yet. Another
game or so, it is thought, will
prepare him for his greatest sea-
son yet.
If an aching back suffered at
Annapolis yesterday further
bothers him. Rightfielder Sammy
Rice will not be on the job to-
day. In which event Sam West
will return to center while Harry
Rice replaces his nameSake.
Sammy retired from yesterdays
game at the start of the seventh
frame.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

ments to secure the right site
and proper backing for a sta
dium beautiful enough and big
enough for Washington to say
to the whole nation, Come on.
we can take care of you!"
When Washington has such
an outdoor home, the attrac-
tions are plentiful. The Army
Navy football game has never
had a home. Washington is
its natural home. Washington
is the gateway of the South
and in such a Strategical posi-
ton can we'll be the meeting
grounds of football teams be-
tween the Northern and South
ern colleges and being the Ma
tional Capital is Just as de-
sirable to teams from any sec
ton you can mention.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

mittee's luncheon meeting, at
which Mr.. Fleming referred in
very complimentary terms to
the stadium idea.
Our original theory for set
ting the stadium thought in
the lap of Mr.. Fleming was
prompted by the conviction
that the cooperation of the
men who have set out to pro-
mote Washington is the main
thing needed for the realiza-
ton of such a sports amphi-
theater. In every civic under
taking, achievement comes only
when the right people make up
their minds to go after some
thing. These people are now
members of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee of the
Board of Trade.
Their contacts, their influ-
ences, their unselfishness. their
love for their home town can
bring together the proper ele-
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

other cities our size and
smaller. There's nothing mys-
terious about showing samples
and there are samples all over
the country of what Washing
ton needs to pull sports crowds.
We knew when we wrote
that open letter to Mr.. Flem-
ing that it would not fall upon
barren soil or deafened ears,
for Bob Fleming is the kind of
man who can listen to babes
and SageS with an open mind
and an open heart, and he is
ever willing to be shown.
Consequently. today, the prop
osition of a stadium for Wash
ington is before Mr.. Flem-
ing's Greater National Capt.
tai Committee Of the Board
Of Trade. following that COM
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
CARDS OFFER
PRIZE IN
DEAN
By BABE RUTH

NEW YORK, April 18.-Another
season has opened and it strikes
me that the new crop Of players
will bring a lot of color into the
game. The fans always get q
kick out of players who did some
thing unusual and I guess they
always will.
Take this Dizzy Dean, who has
been added to the pitching staff
of the Cardinals. I saw him pitch
this spring and he has great
speed, a good curve, and all the
natural stuff any pitcher needs.
But he has even more than that.
He has confidence in himself and
willingness to say unusual
things. I think you will hear Q
lot about him this summer, even
if he should have poor season.
Means 1t, Too
Dizzy tells you what he is likely
to do to this club, or to that one.
He says, for instance, that Babe
Herman will be lucky to get hit
off him. He means it, too. It Is
not conceit so. much as it is self.
confidence. When the Cardinals
meet the Robins, all the fans will
follow the battles of Dean in the
box and Herman at the plate.
That adds new interest, and all
because Dean is willing to say
what he thinks about his own
pitching.
Brooklyn has another pitcher
who is interesting, whether he
wins or loses. That is pea
Ridge" Day, who has been called
the champion hog caller of Ar
kansas. I don't know whether
he really lis the champion or
not, but he sure gets the fans
with that peculiar "hOg CALI Of
his.
All our players had heard about
it and we were anxious to hear
him as well as see him. He faced
us in a game at Ebbets Field three
days before the season opened,
and in one of the innings, after he
had retired the last man, he cut
loose. with that peculiar hog call.
Down in his country I suppose
they pay no attention to it, but
here were 10000 fans watching
the game and perhaps no more
than two or three hundred ever
heard a real hog caller. They went
wild over it, and a lot Of them
tried to initiate it. Here was fel-
low bringing something new into
the game, and it pleased the fans.
Little Feet
Detroit has a pair of brothers
in it's outfield squad which is ur1-
usual, and the Yankees have a
player with the smallest feet in
baseball Myril Hoag, who came
to the Yankees this spring from
the Coast League, wears a No. 4
baseball shoe on one foot and q
No. AZ on the other. He has Spe-
cial shoes made for baseball, but
for street attire he wears the same
size on each foot. He sure can
step around on those little feet,
too.
Copyright 1891. by the Christy
Walsh SYndicate)
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

The tone of the open letter
was a hearty recommendation
that what Washington needs
to bring lots of people here to
enjoy the wonders of the Capt.
tai City is an athletic stadium
wherein could be staged the
types of sports that are en-
joyed at Franklin Field, Phila.
delphia; the Yale Bowl, Har-
ward Stadium, the Rose Bowl
at Pasadena, and Soldier Field,
Chicago, the new Cleveland
Municipal Stadium to be opened
this summer, as we'll as other
successful Stadia of the land.
The suggestion was made
with a confidence born of Is
years of looking at monster
sports carnivals and Spectacles.
1t was not idle chatter; it was
not guess work; it was not
speculation: it was not master
minding. 1t was pointing posi-
lively to what is happening in
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
SPENCER TOPS
H|TTERS

Roy Spencer. popular catcher, is
leading Washington'S batsmen to-
day with .545 standing. He has
connected six times in II trips to
bat.
He also has pounded home
four runs.
Harry Rice, substituting for
Sam West in center field, Sec
onds the parade. He has con-
nected four times in II visits to
the plate. His average is 1853.
The averages follow:
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
HUMAN WHlRLW WIND

r. P. williams. Of Springfield,
Ohio, was timed by five judges at
9 seconds flat for the 100-yard
dash in 1906, but the mark was
never recognized because he was
a professional and was running
against time.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

But vent
Got a Ball
Team"
The Yanks
looked good
against BOs-
ton, hut so
would Greta
GarbO in q
snapshot with
Ben 'Furpin.
w h en- the
AS vent up
against ur
w a ) hingtOn
Cl b. tn e v
( o u n d Ou
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

NICK ALTROCK 1881 isn't go
ing to be any bull market. If
that is the best they've got, they
can rent Shibe Park out for
football games early in October.
The Brooklyn club dropped
three straight to the Braves.
Don't know whether that means
the Braves are good or the
BrOOklyns are simply normal.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
w. Va, April 18 G.N.SD.-J. B.
Ryerson, Cooperstown, N. Y.
today held his fifth southern
season golf tournament win. He
defeated Robert A. Stranahan,
Toledo, 5 and 4, yesterday in the
final of the Mason and Dixon
tournament.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
To muddy"
BY JOE HOLMAN

The fans unite in tribute, and they call
II "Ruel Day"
For you've earned their plaudits
way;
No matter what has crossed your path,
you've always been the same;
Your heads been up you've never loafed,
you've always played the game!
Behind The bat you've proved to be, plain
human dynamite:
Not big. perhaps, and not so strong but
full of fire and fight:
Endowed with splendid spirit, and game
right to the core:
A little demon in pinch, matter
what the score.
Now We gather. all as one. to give to
YOU your due.
We only hope that many more will he
bit like YOU.
VIII hustle, fight for all they're worth,
and DC the best they can;
Will be upright, ard loyal, true-the
Ruel type of man.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
(NO games played.)
TOday's Games
Fhiladelphis at WASHINGTON,
Boston at New York.
Detroit at st. Louis.
Chicago at Cleveland.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
EQUALS JUMP MARK

BERKELEY. Cal, April 10
Vernon Ball, Berkeley high school
junior, equalled the National
Interscholastic high jump record
by leaping feet 33s inches.
That mark was first set in 1912
by w. M. Oler, jr., of Pawling
school, Cambridge, Mass.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
Starting Times Effective at
Indian Spring April Is
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

The golf committee of the Indian Spring Club has decided
to make starting times necessary all Saturdays Sundays
and holidays This rule goes into effect week from today
The Washington times., 1931-04-18

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April II. 1881
Rc8ER~ v SlEW'AS
aGeSIbeST


April II. 1881
Mr.. Kirk Miller, Sports Editor,
The Washington Times,
Washington. DC.
Dear Mr.. Miller:
have read with pleasure your open
letter, publis in last nj ght's Times, and
you that the members Of the Greater
iona1 Capital commt ttee are very much pleased
to observe your interest in the work
Undertaking.
In my opinion, liberal response in
subscri pit ons, for the purpose of forwarding
OF the Executive Director and his assistants
in big vay. will ultimately result in develop.
ments in the Natton's Capital Of such moment as
it 1s now hardly possible to visualize.
Washington ia already one Of the most
beautt full cities In the world, and this united
support Of citizens to bring before people
OF the Natio It's beauties educatt facilities
and cultural advantages, 1t will take its place
much more rapidly as world capital.
The suggestion conta tned in your letter
is most constructive and the full support Of
citizens in the movement undertaken will
hasten the day when a great stadium here will be
a reality.
Sincerely yours,
%z%7a@fzU===-
Cha irman,
Greater National Capital
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
RAFTING
VETERAN RUNNER

Albert Whitley" Nicholson, vet
eran long distance runner, has
won 10 marathons over the regula-
ton distance Of more than 26
miles.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays ResnltG
Chicago. 5: Pittsburgh. 4.
st. Louis Cincinnati (Raln.)
(Only games Vcheduled.)
TOday'a Games
Brooklyn At Boston.
ST. Louis at Chicago.
New York at Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh ct Cincinnati.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
TODAY'S SPORTORIAL
BY Kirk Miller

day ago-a week ago yesterday to be exact
we so bold address in these columns
Bob Fleming chairman of the Greater National
Capital Committee banker extraordinary and probably as
pubc-minded you could find in the confines OF
tho of Columbia
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
CARDINALS BOOKING

Northwest Cardinals are book
ing games with unlimited mines.
Communicate with Manager Bob
Fuchs at Clev. 5906.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
NICK
ALTROCK
Says:

The theme song of the Red
SOx new manager is 1--WE Got
the Bench. I've Got the Park,
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
Miller B. StevinsOn and Albert
r.. Mackenzie.

In the opinion of o. F. Fits,
greenSkeeper at Columbia, the
courses sorely need some rain as
the grass in the fairway has
hardly grown to any proportions.
The greens of most of the local
clubs are in excellent condition.
1t is feared that because of the
condition of the fairwayS, winter
rules will be the vogue for at
least another month.
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
Bottoms Batting Circus
Stirs Midshipmen

"He will better $50 in any company Majors or minors
nolyan tn hinnI'
The Washington times., 1931-04-18
RYERSON VICTOR

Copyright. 1891. by the Christl
Walsh SYndicate)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25

working for wages and salaries
Through the application of labor-dis-
placing machinery and work systems
labor has increased its productivity to
fabulous amounts. But the employ
ers, including the Dohertys, have kept
the working week at the same length
despite this increased productivity,
and the engineers, who have installed
the r-displacing machinery and
systems, have not lifted their voices
very high, if at all, against this anti
social practice.
The unemployment question could
be settled promptly if those who own
and operate industry would apply the
labor policy of reducing the length of
the working week to whatever ex-
tent may be necessary to put every
body to work, and keep up the hours
reduction as rapidly as new labor
displacing machinery makes it pos
sible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
RACEDY oF 7HE PART- TIME WORKER

The tragedy par-tim family support
poignanty article the
Milwaukee
Family Welfare Association Of Milwaukee
ss9 monthly
support children
the Food s2575 clothing $780, $685. fuel
light household household
$40; insurance 50; fare, 81.
Nv Frend points out that this merely budget
attention. societies.
other required for full normal life"
apparent this basis aborer who around 50
for the sixday week with
earnings month compelled by small reduction
working his family living below the charity standard
established by the
whose family standards
destroyed by skilled with his 80
per compelled lower the living standard for
family tabloid skilled worker hit by
part
Recently Investigated family monthly
qurements necessities of existence $9750 The
fathers earnings averaged three
had been reduced He merely working
of the social
testify this is unusual
ophism certain and
their who claim that dividend reduc
the equivalent of par-time workers.
why make such a fuss about the men,
"Thy making 6
and income less than 3S cent
of what it be They o than am"
a familiar faacous line of reasoning. When the
manufacturers income
contemplated Bermuda Alaska that he
build home, he
have give of his club memberships but there
himself his wife, and for his
children if he has
But workingmans is reduced he and his
family get along vegetables butter, milk and
which 100000 workers totally
unemployed compelled support entirely
standards devised by charity organizations develops
placed
standards expect
lean people
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
NOW COMES HOME
OWNING PARLEY

Washington. - President Hoover's
conference on home building and
home ownership will be held in Wash
ington from December to s. 1t is
expected that approximately 1,400
persons will participate in the con-
ference, including 1000 representa-
tive citizens associated with building
and housing activities from all the
states.
The conference is the first of its
kind on large scale in this coun-
try. 1t will deal with the whole ques-
tion of home construction and owner
ship, and of home environment, the
president states. 1t will, he added, en-
brace finance, design, equipment, city
planning, household management and
numerous other aspects.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
OVER PRODUCTION

What is commonly called overpro
duction is merely collection of goods
that people cannot buy because they
have no jobs, no wages, no money
with which to make purchase. 1t is
not probable that production will ever
cut-run human desires, and until that
time does actually arrive it is absurd
to talk about overproduction.
What is really needed is better
distribution of the proceeds of indus
try so that everybody may have an
opportunity to labor and live.
The shorter work day and work
week are steps in this direction, SO
it is best that we cease talking about
overproduction and begin thinking
and acting upon the subject of bet
ter distribution of all the things that
labor bring into being for the sus-
tanning of the human race.
Now is a particularly opportune
time to convince people of the value
of the shorter working time for all
workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
WHITE COLLAR
Idle Grow as N. Y. JObless
Increase

New York-Leaders in voluntary
local relief efforts told meeting of
vice chairmen of the commerce and
industry division of the unemployment
relief committee that the jobless sit
uation was decidedly worse than last
year.
Henry D. Gibson. chairman of the
emergency committee which raises
funds, said the situation was twice as
serious as last year with .unemploy-
ment covering all classes, and with a
greater increase in the white collar
class than in any other group.
Cornelius N. Bliss, president of the
Association for the Improvement of
the Condition of the Poor, said that
his organization was swamped with
twice as many applications for as
sistance than last year. Savings of
many persons had been exhausted and
they were applying for aid for the
first time. Milk consumption has fall
len off for 20 per cent as compared
with this period last year. Mr. Bliss
said he regarded this as very
significant and startling signal" as in
dicating wholesale undernourishment
for children.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
THE COMFORTABLE WAGE"

DR.. Roy v. Wright, president of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers, when approached, would
make no statement of what would be
done with the $500,0O0 which Henry
L. Doherty, public utilities leader, has
offered for thorough and scientific
study, under the direction of the en-
gineers of the country, of means of
alleviating the unemployment situa-
ton. He expressed the hope that such
a study would mean "in the final
analysis, that very worker in our land
will be insured stable employment
and comfortable wage"
Mr.. Wright's observation about a
comfortable wage" shows that he
is not fitted to conduct such an in
vestigation. The workers perform
the necessary labor of wealth produc-
ton. The spirit of the workers in the
United States and throughout the
world is for a portion of the wealth
produced commensurate with the
functions of labor in its production.
That portion goes far beyond the con-
ception embraced in a comfortable
wage
There are around 100000 work
ers in the United States engaged in
what the U. S. Census Bureau de-
scribes as "gainful occupation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
Endorsed by the Trades and Labsr
Council Of hamilton. Chic
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labsr Council Of Middletswn. o.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1881
ANOTHER INTERRUPTION

Life for our dear Senator Fess
seems to be full of interruptions. No
sooner does the gentleman from Ohio
get settled down in comfortable con-
temptation of the tariff as the burn
ing issue for the next presidential
campaign, than some one burst
rudely in upon him with the opinion
that prohibition cannot be denied a
hearing in 1882.
This time the interruption comes
from no less a figure than Senator
Capper. Though a Kansas of Kan
sans and therefore a dry of drys,
Senator Capper is not one to confuse
black with white. He can see wet
signs as well as the next one. And
seeing them, he does not say they are
rot here, but bluntly asserts his be-
lief that public demand will force
prohibition into the next presidential
campaign as an issue, with the re-
publicans taking the dry road and the
democrats the wet one.
All this, of course, must be pain
fully upsetting to the chairman of the
republican national committee. But
scholars who enter politics must be
prepared for Interruptions from
which the academic shades are free.
Senator Fess in the coming months
will experience many interruptions
like that which Senator Capper has
caused. 1t does seen, however, that
at least the gentleman from Kansas
might have been more considerate of
the already Fession feelings.
The next big interruption" will be
when the people of Ohio interrupt Mr..
Fess' sojourn as a senator in Wash
ington by electing wet.-Cincinnati
Labor Advocate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25

is in the interest of the union, never
permits himself to be suspended, is
always ready to extend friendly
hand or act to any brother who may
be in distress. You can find him in
union shop because he is a union
man at heart. And today the great
labor movement is carried on by the
union men and not by the so-called
members of union.
The union man criticizes when criti-
cisms are justified, and fights for
what he thinks is right The so-called
member of a union kicks tall things,
but he never fights for anything.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25

tives of such groups called by the
president of the United States should
determine the general plan and allo-
cate to each industry its quota of
unemployed. Each industry would
then arrange to do its part. Such a
method would absorb the majority of
the unemployed.
There would, of course, be expense
connected with such plan This ex-
pense should be balanced against the
funds that would otherwise have to
go into relief if the unemployed did
not get work and against these costs
of business depression. The method
of budgeting the unemployed would
give them the opportunity to earn
their livelihood. 1t is productive
investment of capital whereas capital
spent in relief is not consumed
directly.
Labor is anxious to have thought
and resources concentrated on efforts
that will help solve present Difficult
ties.
If every industry will take on its
quota of the unemployed, reduce the
work week for all while maintaining
wage rates, our united industries viii
pull up to the level of better busi
ness.-American Federationist.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-25
BUDGET THE UNEMPLOYED

The best relief that can be offered
an unemployed person is a job. The
only way to Immediately provide jobs
for over five million persons is to
get the cooperation of those who
control jobs for putting into effect a
general plan on a uniform scale.
Those who control jobs are en-
ployers and their technicians, those
who supply the credit and workers
who must work under the plan agreed
upon A conference of representa-