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The Washington times., 1931-12-24

-. II tomOr- ELSIE kObANeON
rows table will hold an empty
chair. :. then perhaps you'll
read. And perhaps the thought
that has been comforting me,
may bring a little peace to you.
For I, too, face an empty chair.
ALI day I have been thinking
Of that other side of the Christ
mas story. Not the happy side.
Not the picture Of that great
star burning over the dark hill
of those shining angels sing
ing in the midnight sky. of
the lovely Christ Child lying in
his bed Of straw
I've been thinking, instead, of
Mary. of 7oung Mar bending
over her little boy with the new
wonder and ecstasy. and terror
in her heart. For this babe had
ccme to her strangely-with the
secret sound of a great voice
calling and the secret sense Of
vast enfolding-
Loves Miracle
Yes, loTe had come like a
miracles love has always
come since the world began.
And with it had come that fear
which always follows love as its
shadow. Already she seemed to
hear the warning which old
Simeon was to give her with his
blessing.
Behold, this child is set for
the falling and the rising of
many in Israel: and for a sign
which is spoken against. YEA,
AND A SWORD SHALL
PIERCE THROUGH THINE
OWN SOUL THAT THOUGHTS
OUT OF MANY HEARTS
MAY BE REVEALED"
Strange words for a young
girl to hear. She could not
yet understand them. But the
day was to come when she
would understand them.
Those terrible days, that
only mothers know, when life
would take.her little son from
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

her arms, when the house
would be empty of the patter
of his baby feet and the prattle
of his baby voice; when she
would no longer stand in the
doorway and see him running
homeward with the other lads,
with the glow Of Nazareth's
sunlight bright on his laughing
face.
Those torturing days when
she must watch him walking
resolutely toward a certain
death, putting even her plead
ing love aside at the challenge
of his God.
Her Day Of Agony
That last, most agonizing day
Of all, when she would lie
crucified upon the ground as
he hung crucified Upon the
cross and see death rob her
Of her hope and joy.
"A SWORD SHALL PIERCE
THY HEART" With the first
.throb of love she seemed to
hear those words, and always
it was so. Always a sword did
pierce her heart. Always she
paid for love with pain. Yet
she found it worth the price.
Yes, am sure that even at
the end, in that most awful
hour, she felt that love was
worth all that it had cost. For
love had been the greatest
honor and opportunity, the
finest adventure, the loveliest
mystery her life could have
known.
Love had brought anguish
and terror and loneliness be-
yond all telling. It had surely
pierced her heart. Yet, because
of that piercing there had come
such tenderness and strength
and understanding as she
could, otherwise, never have
known. Truly "the thoughts of
many hearts had been revealed
by her own pain. Now she
could feel the pain of others.
Now she could help and heal.
Now she could Give more
abundantly" as he, her son, had
told all men to do. Love had
been worth all it cost.
Love is always worth all 1t
costs. Do not face that empty
chair tomorrow with tears.
Face it with pride and graft
tude. Thank God that you were
great enough to love, brave
enough to endure its pain. Be
glad Life gave you such a
treasure. Trust Life to give it
back again. And do not turn
from more love or grudge its
price. Love more! LIVE MORE
IN MEMORY OF LOVE!
copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate. Inca
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Democrats Fought
The Grundy Act

Mr.. Wickham Stead, the
English journalist, is bitter,
and mostly because the
American Congress is con-
cerning itself with American
interests on the debts. But
he says one thing to which
no sensible and satisfactory
answer can be made by us:
Neither he (Senator
Reed) nor any other speaker
in Congress seemed to appre:
ciate the effect of the tariff
raised last year to prohibi-
tive heights, making it more
difficult for foreign coun-
tries to remit payments to
the United States.
1t was a stupid proceeding
The Washington times., 1931-12-24

Society we must have, but let
it be society, and not exchang-
ing news or eating from the
same dish.-Emerson.
It is disgraceful to make diff
ficulties of trifles, and labor
about nonsense Is folly.-Mar.
tial.
We have not strength enough
to follow all our reason.
LA Rochefoucauld.
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WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

This is the luxury of music.
It touches every key Of mem.
ory and stirs all the hidden
springs of sorrow and Of Joy. I
love it for what it makes me
forget and for what it makes
me remember, Britain.
Nothing is more useful to
man than to speak clearly; the
meaning indeed commands itself
to be wrested to its own destruc-
tion.-PhaedruS.
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Europe RediscOvers
America
-Bu Claude G.. BOlOers

&. BOUerS
to which we were forced
under the lash of Mr.. Hoover
in the Senate; but when Mr..
Stead says that no one in
Congress appears. to appre-
ciate the fact he writes out
of the superabundance Of his
ignorance. The Democrats
of Congress, fought the
Grundy act upon the very
ground Stead mentions.
Something must be done
it will be very difficult now
that we have forced other ma
tions to retaliation - about
that tariff, but that is en-
tirely different from unload
ing the debts of other nations
on our backs.
Evidently Mr.. Stead, who
is shocked that Congress does
not follow Mr.. Hoover lead
ership, is ignorant of the fact
that he, more than any man
in our public life, is re-
sponsible for the tariff which
increases the difficulty of the
debtor nations in meeting
their obligations.
A Measure of
Hoover's Leadership
One thing now is GER
tain: Mr.. Hoover's recon-
mendation for a revival of
the World War debts COM
mission is rejected by the
amendment in the House.
The Senate will keep the
amendment. Without that
amendment even the one
year moratorium would have
been rejected; and that be-
cause men like Mr.. Stead
were assuring the Euro
peans that the moratorium
meant the transfer Of the
debts.
On that proposition Mr..
Hoover could not carry his
party with him; he seldom
does. 1t is a measure of
his leadership.
That incapacity to lead or
determination to lead in the
wrong direction is not least
among the tragedies of the
unpreced e n tie d American
panic ana distress.
A Remarkable Spectacle
Of Unity
Meanwhile public business
is being held back by the
chickering's and Donnybrook
fairs and Kilkenny cat
fights Of the Republicans in
Congress. They cannot even
elect a president pro tenn
in the Senate. Day after
day that silly contest con-
tinues because the reaction
aries are determined, through
the reelection of Senator
Moses, to force the prog
ressives of the West to bare
their backs to the brand of
"Sons Of wild jackasses."
"The only party fit to gov
ern" forsooth.
Last week the Repub-
licans in the House staged
a remarkable spectacle of
unity in the mob scene about
Mr.. McFadden, with the
none too edifying picture Of
Senator Reed emerging from
a conference at the White
House with the statement
that the former chairman of
the committee on banking
would be refused the patron
age to which he is entitled
as the representative of the
Republicans of his district.
And on top of it all, a wet
bloc of 60 Republican men,
bers has been announced to
battle against Mr.. Hoover's
noble experiment.
The Delectable
Mr.. Lucas
This is the atmosphere in
which Senator Fess starts
out to "sell Mr.. Hoover to
the country, as though it
were a bankrupt sale. And
this perhaps the explanation
of the rather contemplate
action of Mr.. Lucas of the
Republican National Commit
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tre e S set
ting places for
that m erry
fea S t tomor-
row. And SO
I'm not writ
ing for those
with the busy
h a n dS and
the joyf u !
hearts.
But if you're
not happy or
busy. if your
ha DIS q nd
your heart are
achingly idle
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These pictures by John Baer, formerly Farmer-Con
gresham from North Dakota show the present situation in
this country
Millions out Of work wondering where they going
get food carry them through the winter Their plight
is shown in the picture at the top.
Below you another problemthat Of the farmer who
wonders what he is going to do with surplus wheat and other
food products the farm.
You would think that the problems could easily be solved
but apparently they cannot be.
A. TT
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EverybOdy's Santa Claus

EverybOdy'S Santa Claus
Everybody believes in Santa
Claus, these days! That is,
everybody except the children
who have been told that he is
only a myth" and strictly for
hidden to believe in him.
But, barring the Tiny Tots,
everybody appeals to be stand
ing around, waiting for Santa
Claus" Waiting for the Big
Surprise, the Big Break, the
The Washington times., 1931-12-24

Love Is Worth All 1t Costs
If you are happy you won't
read this column today. You'll
be too busy doing other things.
filling stockings. .tri m ming
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myth" or not, we all DO be.
lieve in him; and that's what
gives us the heart and the cour-
age to carry on"
Everybody believes in Santa
Claus, except those who are
still in the high chair and
those who are heading for the
wheelchair.
(Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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The Delectable

Mr.. Lucas
This is the atmosphere in
which Senator Fess starts
out to "sell Mr.. Hoover to
the country" as though it
were a bankrupt sale. And
this perhaps the explanation
of the rather contemplate
action of Mr.. Lucas of the
Republican National Commit
tee in attempting to place
the responsibility for the
books, "The Strange Career
of Mr.. Hoover Under Two
Flags" and "The Mirrors of
Washington" on the Demo
cratic National Committee.
Mr.. Shouse's prompt denun-
citation of this story as a lie
out of the cloth was hardly
necessary.
Every one knows that the
"Mirrors of Washington"
was written by Mr.. Tucker,
of the Scripps-Howard press,
which supported Mr.. Hoover
in 1928.
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The wheat there waiting to be made into bread the live
stock is there to provide meat at low prices.
Warm winter clothing cheap Cotton sells
for less than costs to produce it, There TOO MUCH OF
EVERYTHING and there millions that have TOO LITTLE
OF EVERYTHING.
This would be an opportunity for government in
telgence to show ITSELF government intelligence really
EXISTS.
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~ promising than the ef-
feet of one week Of Congress
in convincing Europe that
there is an American sentl-
ment, an American policy
and an American govern
mental agency determined to
stand for. American interests
first. Reading the comments
of the European press, ones
curiosity increases regarding
the conversations between
Mr.. Hoover and Macdonald,
Laval and Grandi; and the
conversations of Mr.. Stim-
son in Europe and the sec
ret conversation between MIR.
Mellon with Macdonald and
the head of the Bank OF
England.
Just what was said In
these conversations by Mr..
Hoover to persuade the Eu-
ropeans that it would be
possible to shift the burden
of billions from the backs OF
other people who owe it to
the backs Of Americans who
loaned it?
We are not among those
who assume that America is
absolutely independent OF
the outside world; that is
the reason we opposed the
Grundy tariff which has
wrought the ruin Of our for
eign markets. But when we
are confronted with the ar
rogant demand that the
cost of the war shall be
transferred to the shoulders
of our people, the time has
come to take a stand with
and for America. There was
not the most remote sug-
gestion when the loans were
made to Europe that they
would not be paid; there was
nothing said or thought
about the payment being
conditioned on reparations.
There is not one sane
reason why the American
people should be taxed
through the years to come
to pay the debts of other ma
tions, some of which are far
more prosperous than we are
today.
"A Policy Of
Isolation"
We read in the London
papers that a refusal to as
sumo the debts of England
and France and pay them
out of the pockets of our
people is ga policy Of isola-
tion"; if that is "isolation"
we are for it.
We are told by the Eng
lish press that England has
abandoned hope that Amer
lea will "help toward eco
nomic recovery" and the
answer is that the economic
recovery of America will
not be served by saddllng
the debts of IA nations on
our backs.
We are told that the
"congress o nal outburst"
comes as an "icy blast" to
Britain, and the congress
ional outburst" took the
form of a specific declara-
ton that the moratorium for
a year does not mean that
we are willing to hold the
bag for the world.
What could have been
said by Mr.. Hoover, Mr..
Stimson or Mr.. Mellon in
these secret conversations
with Macdonald, L avail,
Grandi and the head Of the
Bank of England to warm
the English with the thought
that we were willing to
transfer the worlds debts
to our own people?
Democrats Fought
The Grundy Act
Mr.. Wickham Stead, the
English journalist, is bitter,
and mostly because the
American Congress is con-
cerning itself with American
interests on the debts. But
H. cav. ono '+hiur IN which
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

And many gilded Old Girl
see Santa Claus disguised as
Cupid, and secretly believes
that, if she sticks to her diet
and her daily dozen, rejuvena-
ton and young love will be her
reward from Santa.
But, to the gigolo, it is the
Gilded Mama, who looks like
Santa Claus. with a pack Of
gold nuggets in her change
purse. And to the gold-d digger,
Santa is a plump elderly gentle
man, who prefers blondes.
And for the elderly gentle.
man, there is a Santa Claus,
who will surely, surely bring
him a sweet, unmercenary
young thing who will marry him
"for love-"
You SEE how it is! Every
body believes in the IMPROB.
ABLE-even you and I!
Your Santa Claus may be
way out in Hollywood, just
waiting to discover your beauty
or your talent. And mine may
be an editor or a publisher in
New York, who will give me
that big idea for a "best seller"
But the point is, that
whether Santa Claus is a
Evening star., 1931-04-24
~ RECEIVE LETTERS
AT EPISCOPAL HIGH
II Members Of Gridiron Squad and
Seven Basket Ball Players
Are Awarded "E's."
1ExANDR1A, Va, April "a

A LEXANDRIA, Va, April a.
~ Twenty-four letters were award
n by the Episcopal High Athletic
Association yesterday to ath-
letes who represented the school In
major sports last Fall and Winter.
The "E" was conferred upon II men,
bers Of the undefeated foot ball team
and basket ball stars.
The gridmen honored were:
Ro5onsy ssy var Eioos ass Eli Y NJ Saf5S
william zi@nsTi PsIsTsbprs' Va, Va: Hsy Nc
Wales, Fla.: c. 6. Sheriff.. Cincinnati, Ohio. ;
x nDR Kes5 Rob.T. VA rrsn sfas
Ga; swift, C9iumbgss, Ga; Charles Chsals
ESnc6buTs. Va. and J. Petef Williams
It also was announced that Jesse
Stocker, guard, and "Stape" Gooch,
quarterback. had been picked on the
all-State prep team
Basket bali performers presented the
letter were:
Capt. Charles Hancock. Lynchburg. va;
CAPTAIN; Robert Train: sayannah: Ca "a Al
Va, and Eeale Robinson, Lexineton. Ky.
Thirteen Of the foot ball men and
1--WE Of the cagers will be lost. The grid
men who viii graduate are Mitchell,
Brawley, Cary. Montgomery. thinner,
Mcdonald, Gooch, Sheriff., Mapp,
Swift, Hoof, Hancock and williams,
while the basketeers who have finished
their court careers are Hancock, Nc
Donald, Orrick, Taylor and Hooff.
Five Episcopal runners, accompanied
by Coaches c. v. TompkinS and Gus
Hammer, will leave early tomorrow for
Philadelphia, where they will take part
in the l-mile scholastic relay races at
the Pennsylvania games.
Capt. w. M. Cary, Joe Handlan,
Henry Mitchell and Roy Mason have
been named on the Episcopal quartet,
with Peter Williams as alternate.
Episcopal's base ball combination,
with five victories and no defeats. will
play Virginia Episcopal at Lynchburg
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
Be Switched for Title Play Chevy Chase Cannot Stage Euen
Clarence M. Charest. DR.. o. U. Singer,
G. E. Kelly and j. Prout Gilmore.
WITH q record number Of entries IN
w sight for the tourney and the prob

n
w sight for the tourney and the prob
golfers will use the course on Monday
for practice, the committee of the
washington Golf and Country Club,
which will stage the club invitation
event next week, announced today that
visiting players must get cards at the
club office which will enable them to
practice Monday. No visitor will be
allowed to use the course unless he
secures a card.
The tourney will open Tuesday morn
ing and entries close tomorrow night
at 6 o'clock.
TOLF activities are humming down
~ in East Potomac Park. With the
rev nine-hole course scheduled to
open on May 80, Manager Al Farr Is
planning to open in about three weeks
the grass green practice putting green
for night golf. The green will be lighted
artif1cially and as an added inducement
to golfers to go down in the park to
putt, he is installing a miniature golf
course, with all the obstacles provided
by these trick courses. This miniature
layout is being installed on corner of
the course Immediately east of the
women'S section of the field house.
Farr plans to stage late in May a
District championship putting tourna-
ment on the grass practice putting
green south Of the field house. In ad-
dition to these facilities he has installed
near the house q driving net.
F'arr announces an innovation in the
way Of purchasing golf clubs. Through
arrangement with a finance corpora
ton, he is selling matched sets of golf
clubs on q time-payment plan, by which
players may purchase clubs, make a
small down payment and pay off the
balance over period Of several months.
The golf match between Georgetown
University and the University of Pitts
burgh, scheduled for tomorrow morning,
will be played over the course Of the
Manor Club. Pittsburgh plays George
Washington at Indian Spring today.
Washington club golfers are to enter
tain on Sunday q team of players from
the Hermitage Coli Club of Rich
mond, Va.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
M AXE ROSENBERG and George
I'M Honey, teamed in doubles,
rolled the highest three-game

AXE ROSENBERG and George
M Honey, teamed in doubles,
W rolled the highest three-game
set ever recorded in q Wash
ington City Duckpin Association tourna-
ment last night when, with 784, they
beat by 81 pins the record made by
Harry Burtner and Howard Campbell
in the city championships of 1925.
In their first game Rosenberg Led
with a count Of 14s, while Honey, hav-
ing q hard time getting into stride,
managed to pull up with liz, giving
them a start OF 26O. Rosenberg con-
tinued his excellent pinning in the
second string and finished with 132.
Honey had found the pocket and con-
tributed 1873, their combined efforts
giving them 270.
Going into the last game, both en-
countered several bad breaks in the
early boxes, but beari->S down in the
final frames and taking advantage OF
every break they pulled up with 254.
In the last game Rosenberg shot l3l
and Honey. 123.
TWO other new leaders in doubles
\ appeared. In class " WSeHiau
and Widmayer went to the front
with total of 654, while Douglass and
Fagan's 664 in class D was SO pins
better than the previous best In the
current event.
The changes of leadership recorded
in the woman's tourney were in classes
A, c and D OF the doubles and Cath
crime Mezereau's 292, which put her in
front in class C singles by "a pins. The
first of the class A doubles rolled and
Mary Cox and Polly Shugrue led with
a total of 627.
In Glass c, Standish and Reen pinned.
557, wrestling the lead from Alber and
Hargett by IL sticks. Glass G bowlers
seem to have a strangle hold on the
corsage prize offered each night for
high game as Miss Standish's 1913 in
her second game was we'll beyond the
efforts Of the other woman contestants.
Bureau Of Mines, the only Glass D
five of the women's teams to roll, had
an excellent chance to set a high mark,
but q 389 count in the last game held
the set down to 1877.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
V.P. DEFENDING LEAD

UNIVERSITY, Va, April 24.-Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institutes leadership
in the Tri-State Intercollegiate Base
Ball League will be challenged here to-
day by Virginia and tomorrow at Col
lege Park by the Maryland nine In
double header
Techs veteran team, which won the
league trophy last Spring and tied with
Alabama for the diamond champion
ship OF the Southern Conference, Is
undefeated in four games played.
The Gobblers have defeated North
Carolina and w. and L. and have tied
two other games.
Every league member Is scheduled to
be in action during the next two after
Moons. In addition to Techs trip
against the Cavaliers and the Old
Liners. the v. M. l. Cadets will travel
in the other direction for games with
the Tar Heels and the Wolfpack. The
Generals play Maryland today, before
meeting Navy tomorrow.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
Chips From the Mapleways

a STOR CLARKE, winner Of the
"A Campbell Sweepstakes, rounded out
his all-events in the doubles with
367, giving him 1.067 for the nine games
"a total that will hardly be close when
the cash is dished..
Lilley and Aylor tied the high doubles
game OF the tourney, 265, made by Nick
Chaconas and Lou Pantos Tuesday
night, but their 703 was good enough
to land them only in third place.
"Billie" Butler is well up in Glass A
singles of the women's melee as the
result Of a 328 set. Alice McQuinn's
1863 looks bigger and bigger as succeed
ing squads of Class A bowiers fail even
to threaten it.
The 10 Ko Service five gave an excel
lent display OF team work in their Ave
man event. Seigel led the 1874 on
slaught with set Of 352; Espey had
349; Rosenberg. 348; Shecter. 343, and
Pantos, 342. After getting away with
522 in the first game they went loco
and turned in 637. Their last was SIS.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
ROD AND STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER

AZ Leonardtown, Nd, Capt Noble
Rice, using a trap net, landed about
80 hardheads in Blakes Creek. just
below the mouth Of Brettons Bay.
These reports coming from widely
separated localities are conclusive proof
that the hardheads are in the bay and
the Lower Potomac. This week end
the anglers are assured some excellent
sport.
Anglers in the District who have no
automobiles can have machines call
for them at any designated place by
joining the "Magestic Anglers" This
organization has been effected by G. w.
Apgar of $40 B street northwest, who
can be reached by phone at Lincoln
9497-J, or by phone or visit TO the Atlas
Sports Goods Co.
According to the information fur
nished us trips will be made princi-
pally to Solomons Island at a cost of
SO 80 a person. The cost Of member
ship in the "Magestic Anglers" Is 50
a year. Trips to other fishing places
can be arranged, no matter where the
anglers desire to go.
Ohcers of the new organization are
/ Capt George Bowen, president; Capt
| " NJ. Dare, vice president, and @. w
| Apgar, secretary The head
! quarters of the organization at Solo
mons Island will be at Bowen's Inn.
Evening star., 1931-04-24
Leaders in Mems !.
Bowling Tourney

Singles.
3. Frye. ss3, c. Hollis. $50.
Teams.
IL: Hscnesls s,ds, nn'. Shirts. i!so; Ioxo s.rvic@
CLASS y.
Singles.
". M. Walker, sss: p Fiilius. ss.
Doubles.
Sss S@sasrthen. ss7; Dunvorth and oppenkeiraeF.
Terd Eleetrle, 1858; Vincent BARRIERS.
l'eso; Boyer'S Pharmacy, 1879.
CLASS c.
Singles.
@ Roller. sss; W. H. wriEht, sSs: O. v.
wisema2 and Widmayer. e54: Neidsr and
Roudabush' $50; Tamagnl and Crockett. eSi.
Teams.
aaDE WEynHe.s9od gs9 Park Isso !giEss National
CLASS ID.
Singles.
z. H, King, S4s; N. seidsnburg. sss H.
Doubles.
DoUslass and FaRan. se4; Green and Oct.
~, 63l; Carvaial and Dautel. 626.
Teams.
Grace Church. 1887: Record, 1850; North
Carolina Avenue Church, 1866.
CLASS Y.
Singles.
L }; Bacon, $50; G. Z. KeilosV. s2s; Al
Doubles.
Caldwell and Hayes. SIT: priseol and
SIT; Histon and Olmstead, SIS.
Teams.
White sox, i,si4; Floor Team, l,Bi4; Phil
lies. 1,504.
Evening star., 1931-04-24

A MOTHER report from the bay comes
IA from Chesapeake Beach, where last
Sunday two men, each using a net,
landed good catches of hardheads one
getting AZ and the other &c.