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D. C.. Woman Fifth
In Archery Event

CANANDAIGUA, N. Y, Aug. IL
Mrs. Josephine Taylor, of Wash
ington, D. c., placed fourth in the
first Columbia round of the an
nual national archery champion
ship and fifth in the first ma
tional round, with scores Of 72-
462 and 59-3l3.
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CLUB
SETS DATE
FORREST

The Army and Navy Country
Club is the second local goli
organization to definitely assist
the Washington Times in spon
eoring the District golf driving
championship.
The service club, with one Of
the largest membership in this
section, has set aside August q
as the day for the preliminarieS.
The two contestants who hit
the longest drives will be eligi-
bic to compete in the finals
which will take place the sec
Ond week in September.
Lieut.. Col. A. j. Cooper, U
s. A., whose duties at the service
club are comparable to those OF
O golf chairman, declares that
the members are talking about
the championship.
The Army and Navy Country
Club boasts of several long drivers
about whom little is heard
or read. They are expected
nevertheless. to make a strong
showing in the finals.
1t is expected that several
other clubs will enter the
championship. Columbia and
Washington Golf and COun-
try Club are two Of the more
prominent clubs that look
upon it with favor.
Three balls are to be driven
in the preliminaries with the
longest drive to count. Only
balls landing in the fairway
are to be counted while those
driven .out-of-bounds are to be
considered as a driven ball.
The new ball must be driven in
She preliminaries and finals.
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TENNIS
By WILLARD CROCKER
XIV. NET PLAY

Net play is the guillotine Of
tennis. At the net your oppo-
nent's best plays may be sue
cessfully beheaded and made
into points for yourself. You
do not belong at the net un-
less you are set to finish off
the point as soon as possible.
Never "dilly-dally in your play
at the net. Make all shots de-
ciSiVe.
Learn to "BIOck"
The first fundamental to
learn in net play is the vol
ley. Learn to "block" the ball
first. This is done by keeping
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WASHINGTON TIMES

BUSINESS OFFICE. 1917 ST. n. ".
RATES DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN
WASHINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA
The Washington Times daily is delivered
by carrier at 10 cents per week. Daily
Times and Sunday Herald Is cents per
week: daily Times and Herald daily 20
cents per week: daily Times and Herald
daily and Sunday 26 cents per week.
The washington Herald daily and Sun
day 10 delivered by carrier at Is cents per
week: daily only 10 cents per week. and
Sunday only 10 cents per week.
Orders can be sent by mail or telephone
District $500. Collection 10 made weekly
by carrier.
The Washington times., 1931-08-12
GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

Thinking of swing details while
trying to make golf shots leads
directly to a costly golfing fault
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RayBowenKeepsA AliveRing
Tradition of Family

Ray Bowen last of the Fighting Bowen swings into ac
again tonight when engages Jackie Porney the Ba
whirlwind in the main event of eight rounds at V
gina Beach Va.
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Fifty Will Make the Trip
With Printers Nine
MARY TRILLING
Bv SID KATZNELL

An enthusiastic bunch this Union Printers baseball team
officials and rooers large party of 30 leaves Saturday
morning by rail and motor for Hamilton Canada where the
Union Printers International Baseball League tournament will
be conducted
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SPECIAL NOTICES
Business Opportunities

DELICATESSEN confectionery: doing good
business: reason for selling: living quar-
ters abv. reas. 230S Pa. Ave. Il. Ll1O42Q
GROCERY NEAT MARKET FOR SALE
Reasonable. 304 n st. =. W..
LUNCHROOM FOR SALE.
Doing good business: will rent to relia"
BILE party. 800 9TH st. $. ". MET. 904l
ROOMING HOUSE. $50 10th N.w.-22
rooms. chance for fine dining room.
WE NEED ASSOCIATE BREEDERS
RAISE RABBITS
We have an established market for. and
will contract to buy. all you raise at
price which will give you generous
profit.
you how to raise them by personal in
structiOn.
A small investment will start you in
this DEPRESSION-PROOF business of
your. own and assure you OF an lndepend-
ent income.
For further information. write o. phone
'hf fLEHiGH 1s9FpSEIAn SPAcRINS ING eoMpANY. NC.
706 Colorado Bldg. NEfopoAtan 4O39.
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Standing Of Clubs
In Times League
Class A. DIniainn 2

CIass A, Division
Schedule completed. Spengler Post
winner with IA victories and no de-
Geats.
Class A. Division 3
Schedule completed. Wonder Bread
winner with IS victories and l defeat.
'. Class A, Section
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THREE D. {. NET
. ACES SHINE

MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md.
Aug. 12.-Three of Washington's
younger net hopes are rendering
an excellent account of them
selves in the Western Maryland
championships here.
Bernard Welsh, Of Rockville,
and Duke U. ace, and Allan
Study. Of G. w., won their
first and second round matches
l1andily. Welsh scored an i'm
preSSive 7-5, 60 win over
R. r. Jones, the former Nor
folk wizard, now a Washing
tOnian.
Betty Cochran. the red-headed
Washington high school miss
trounced Ann Walsh, 60, Ga
and looked good in doing it
Frances Walker and Maycita De
Souza will open play today.
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HOUSES AND ESTATES FOR
SALE-SUBURBAN g.
FARMS & LANDS FOR SALE "a
SMALL FARMS.

RESTRICTED SUBDIVISION.
2h and acre tracts. Land especially
suitable for grapes trucking. tobacco or
chickensl on good road. near Clinton
Prince Georges Co. Md. about miles for
10 minutesI from D. c. line: citV cleo
tricity and telephone available. Title guar
anteed by reputable title company: Prices
from $50 per acre up: very eaAy terms
JOHN A. BRICKLEY,
Specializing In
ACREAGE. ESTATES. FARMS -.
T09-710 Barr BLDG. Dlasf8dzl
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Employment
SITUATIONS WANTED FEMALE

SEAMSTRESS. home or out by day: remod-
cling exp: reas. prices. WEST 3O33
WANT day or any kind work: good refs.
227 w st. N. W
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BALLSTON MENTOR NOTE

The manager of the Ballston
"A. C. is requested to call Lin
coin 5233 in regard to next
Sundays game with the Isher-
wood A. G..
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SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE
HELP WANTED-FEMALE 5:

MEAT and groceryman. II years exp;
have references. Box "a. Times Herald
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Educational
INSTRUCTION COURSES

EXCEPTIONAL courses short. intensive
secretarial, saves time. more money di-
ploma. position. New classes now forming
BOYD SCHOOL, 1898 f st. Ma. 2340.
STATISTICAL CLERKS
Prepare for coming exams. Write for set
of problems on tabulatiOn graphs and sta.
tIstics. Order sent to YOU G.. o. D. 65c
Write Box % Times Herald.
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A CASHIER wanted; also exp. waitress
also exp. stenOg.: also clerk for store
other office and commercial positions daily.
Wash. Bus. Bur. 229 Bond Bldg. 18th and
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Eagles, Columbia Cubs, Braves Hill
- A. c.. ASAeostia Prep drepped cut.
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LARGE local concern can place (4l
ladies in sales department. helping 70
book orders; position permanent: expert
ence not necessary; apply at once. Room
All 1919 + ST n w
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Al COLORED POSITIONS. such as maids,
cooks, nurses, part-tme workers, ETC..
daily. Apply Wash. Business Bureau. 221
Bond Bldg. 14th and New YORK Ave.
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LADIES-SelI picard Christmas assort-
ment: sells for 81: costs you as low as
soc postpaid Request samples. DOEHLA
CO. Dept. 15. Fitchburg. Mass.
The Washington times., 1931-08-12

FOLDERS on commercial work. expert
enced and quick. temporary, $l4 per
week 314 Eye St. N. +.
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AUTO LOANS - IMMEDIATE ACTION
No investigation. No Endorsements
AUTO FINANCE SERVICE
939 New York Ave. N W Dist 5777.
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EOION NAof1.
If your car !. not paid for. we viii pay
your unpaid notes and loan you additional
cash. Lowest rateSL Confidential. Golden
Motors. 1927 14tb st. N W DEo l192.
Omen evenings.
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MOTOR TRAVEL S-AA

DETECTIVES, PRIVATE.
$40 EARLE BLDG. NATIONAL 15l1
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Financial
MONEY TO LOAN-ON
AUTOMOBILES

AUTO LOANS ana reIInancIng, cOnflden-
tial, lowest rates: ample parking Nc.
Gill 1902 Ave W North 4ab4
PROMPT. low cost service. loans oD autoe,
trucka, store & office equipment Monk,
017 N 2 Ave. NJ W MAI 6722
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
Immortal "Will's" Father
Feared Process Servers

Prosecution of Councillor Cox, of
Manchester, for not attending church
on Sunday, was founded on the Sun
day Observance act of 1877. But the
law of England about compulsory
church observance was the same a
hundred years earlier, when Shake
sDeare's father was reported to the
Stratford authorities ''for not COM
minge mOnethlie to Churche accord
inge to hir Majesties lawes"
But it was not lack of piety so
much as lack of pelf that kept John
Shakespeare away from the parish
church. For in the record, there is
this note appended to his name and
the names of eight other offenders ::
"It is sayde that these Taste nine
COON not to Church for feare. of
process for debtte."
1t was on September %, 1892, that
this record was made-juSt a year
before the publication of "Venus and
AdOnis," described by Shakespeare
in his dedication as ''The first heire
Of my invention" Morning
Post
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31

no woman, this was a race, and
devil take the hindmOSt. My poor
little pony was coughing and sneez-
ing and trembling. Her racer must
have been ready to drop. | wheeled
and went on. | kept thinking how.
when | came to Little Bear creek,
I'd bathe my little mustangs nose
and face and his poor heaving
fianks, and how | mustn't let him
drink too much. once he got his
muZZle in the water.
Just before | reached the land l
was riding for | had TO leave the
trail and cut across the prairie. /
could see a clump of elms ahead. |
knew the creek was near by. But
just before | got to it | came on
one of those deep gullies you find
in the plains country. Almost ten
feet across this one was, and deep.
No way around it that | could see,
and no time TO look for one. l put
WhitefoOt to the leap and, by Cd,
he took it, landing on the other side
with hardly an inch to spare. |
heard a wild scream behind me. |
turned. The girl on her spent racer
had tried to make the gulch. He
had actually taken it-a thorough
bred and gentleman, that animal
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
Firmly Planted

An East side resident had care
fully prepared the soil preparatory
to setting out some very choice rose
bushes in his yard. He mixed the
soil thoroughly with what he pre-
sumed to be fertilizer, watered the
roots and took great precautions in
order that the roses would have ev-
cry advantage. But despite his care,
within an unusually short time, the
roses withered and died. Eager to
know the cause of their death he
went out to investigate. He took
his spade and attempted to loosen
the soil about them, but much to his
surprise and disgust discovered that
instead of fertilizing the roses, he
had by mistake used cement and
placed his roses in a concrete base.
Indianapolis News.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
UNIQUE THINGS
MONEY CAN BUY

An advertisement appeared in a
newspaper offering "f100 for a
shapely finger of a healthy woman
for grating purposes" The owner
of the finger was not to be more
than forty-five years of age.
Would you sell a finger for f1oO?
That some people at any rate are
quite willing to do so S proved by
the fact that within the next few
days the advertiser had no fewer
than 81 replies.
1t appears that in America there
is a regular tariff for this sort of
thing. A thousand dollars was re-
Gently offered for an ear to be G-aft-
ed on to the son of wealthy man,
while human skin for grating
fetches, on an average, f10 per
square inch.
In old days the bodies of royal
princes were supposed to be too sa-
cred to be touched by a cane, each
prince had a whipping boy" who
was paid quite a good wage t" act
as proxy and take the beatings
which the princes ill-conduct had
merited. This sort of thing still per-
sists in Tunis, where nc one ri~h
enough to afford a substitute would
dream of going to prison.
If proxy Imprisonment were pOssi-
BILE in England one wonders what
the price would be for doing six
months hard!
There is tory that the great Sir
Francis Drake, in a fit of rage, or
cut off the head of a cabin-boy and
that the mother of the boy set a
curse upon the Drake family, saying:
"No male child will be born in the
Drake family until a member of the
family lives in the dungeons of
Shardeloes, the home of the brakes,
for seven years, or a stranger for
IA years"
The present head of the family,
Mr.. Edward Drake, has four daugh-
ters, but no sons, and - is q fact that
the squire recently received a letter
from a stranger offering to sd
time" in 'hese dungeons for IA years.
The price demanded has not been
made public.
Belgrade has a newspaper, the
Varodny List, the editors of which
had so often been imprisoned for
political offenses that at last the
owner issued the following nrtise-
ment:
whoever wishes a snug berth in
this cold Gather can call at cur
office for the post Of responsible ed
tor at f2 a day. We will see that
he is supplied with good food dur
ing his stay in the state prison"
Next morning a crOw1 Of nearly
so men was waiting outside the Of
flee. all eager to be imprisoned at
f. a day.
You might hardly imagine that any
woman would agree to call herself
ugly. Yet listen. A firm of florists
in st. Louis, Mo-, could not keep
pretty girl as cashier because eac
in turn got married. After losing
seven girls in two years the firm, in
desperation, advertised for an ugly
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31

Bureau headquarters, Denver, for marked road
maps, detailed travel information and Conoco
Passport, which will identify you to Conoco men
everywhere. If your time is too short for this,
stop at the first Conoco station you see and have
the man enroll you as Passport holder and sup
ply Conoco windshield sticker and road maps.
Then you will be travelling ''the Conoco way
entitled to all these special services.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31

next to me was a girl who looked
about eighteen-she turned out to
be twenty-fve-and a beauty she
was, too-on a coal-black thorough
bred"
"Ahal" said Cousin Jouett Co
forth. He was the kind of man who
says, aha"
Ion the other side was an old
fellow with a long gray beard-a
plainSman, he was-a six-shooter In
his belt, one wooden leg, and a
flask of whisky. He took a pull out
of that every minute or two. He
was mounted on an Indian pony
like mine. AS we waited we fell
to talking, the three of US, though
you couldn't hear much in that up
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those of woman of seventy. And
most of them gone at the side"
Here Yancey could not resist
charging up and down, flirting his
coat tails and generally running the
fine flavor of his victory over the
Venable mind. The Venable mind
(Or the prospect of escaping it)
had been one of the reasons for his
dash into the wild melee Of the Run
in the first place. Now he stood
surveying these handsome futile
faces, and a great impatience shook
him, and a flame of rage shot
through him, and tongue of malice
fiicked him. With these to gOad
him, and the knowledge of how he
had failed, he plunged again into
his story TO the end.
81 had planned to try and get a
place on the Santa Fe train that
was standing, steam up, ready to
run into the Nation. But you
couldn't get on. There wasn't room
for a flea. They were hanging on
the cow-catcher and swarming all
over the engine, and sitting on top
of the cars. 1t was keyed down to
make no more speed than a horse.
1t turned out they didn't even do
that. They went twenty miles in
ninety minutes. | decided I'd get
endurance, anyway, if not speed.
And that's what counted in the end.
There we stood, by the thou
sands, all night. Morning, and we
began to line up at the border, as
near as they'd let us go. Militia
all along to keep US back. They had
burned the prairie ahead for miles
into the Nation, so as to keep the
grass down and make the way clear
er. To smoke out the sooners, too,
who had sneaked in and were hid
ing In the scrub oaks, In the draws.
wherever they could. Most of the
killing was due to them. They had
crawled in and staked the land and
stood ready 70 shoot those of us
who came in, fair and square, in
the Run. | knew the piece | wanted.
A little creek ran through the land.
and the prairie rolled a little there,
too. Nothing but blackjacks for
miles around it, but on that section,
because of the water, | suppose.
there were elms and persimmons
and cottOnwOods and even a grove
of pecans. had noticed it many
time, riding the range"
(H'm! Riding the rangel All
the Venables made quick mental
note of that. 1t was thus, by stray
bits and snatches, that they man.
aged to piece together something of
Yancey Cravat's past.)
"Ten o'clock, and the crowd was
nervous and restless. Thousands
from all parts of the country had
waited ten years for this day when
the land-hungry would be fed. They
were like people starving. I've seen
the same look exactly on the faces
of men who were ravenous for food.
"Well, eleven o'clock, and they
were crOwding and cursing and
fighting for places near the line.
They shouted and sang and yelled
and argued, and the sound they
made wasn't human at all, but like
thousands of wild animals penned
up. The sun blazed down. 1t was
cruel. The dust hung over every
thing in thick cloud, binding you
and choking you. The black dust
of the burned prairie was over
everything. We were like horde
of fiends with our red eyes and our
cracked lips and our blackened
faces. Eleven-thirty. 1t was a pic
ture straight out of hell. The roar
grew louder. People fought for an
inch of gain on the border. Just
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
His Brand

Mrs. Slaughter want some ci-
gars for my husband for his birth
day.
Clerk-What kind, madam?
Mrs. Slaughter-Well, don't
know, exactly; but he is a middle
aged man and always dresses in
black.-Border Cities Star.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
The Man That Moved

"The departure of Smith was re-
gretted by all the neighbors."
''Why was that?"
"He had the best garden tools In
reighborhOod."
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
WHAT WENT BEFORE

Yancey Cravat, just returned
from the newly opened Indian ter
ritory where he participated in
the Run over the border, relates
his adventures to a gathering of
the Nenable family. Yancey is a
criminal lawyer, editor of the
Wichita Wigwam, and husband of
Sabra Cravat.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31

cashier" The salary offered was $50
(f6) a week.
Within three days they had no
fewer than $50 applicants for the
post. One more proof of how money
talks.-LOndon Mail.
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Some Omissions

Minister-DO you say your prayers
every night, Oswald?
"No-SOme nights l don't want
anything"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
FARM conference
REPORTS SECRETLY
Federation Directors to Act
on Price Pegging Plan for
"1OO-Cent Dollar"
D. the Assoclated Pres.

~ the Associated Press
CHICAGO. september ia secret
report, dealing with sterilization Of
general commodity prices, was handed
the directors Of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation yesterday for action
next week.
The report followed conference Of
farm leaders. economists and agricul-
tairal magazine editors. which had for
its purpose establishment OF 100
cent dollar"
Ralph Snyder, president of the KAN
nas Farm Bureau and head Of the com
mfttee that returned the secret report,
said 1T discussed the possibility of sta
bilixing the general commodity prices
on q higher basis and the relation of the
quantity Of currency in circulation in
this sterilization.
Snyder said the question Of farm
mortgages was only touched upon Incl
dentally IN the committees report.
ON September % the directors will
act upon the report. either approve, re-
wise or reject it. Final discussion will
be made at the December annual meet
ing of the federation and q legislative
program prepared to effect the recon-
mendations.
1t was strongly emphasized that the
recommendations offered today affected
not only the farmer, but the laboring
man and general public as we'll
Besides Snyder, the report was pre-
pared by C. r. White. president of the
New York Farm Bureau: G. ". Gregory,
editor Of the Prairie Farmer, and G. A.
Ewing, president Of the National Live
stock Marketing Association, Govern
ment-sponsored agency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

dangerous flying conditions. Steam
from railroad locomotives and house.
hold water tanks and the flames Of
plumbers blow torches had to be used
at times to warm oil in the motors of
the planes before they could be
started. Several Of the pilots were
badly frozen.
The flight was planned as test of
the ability of men and planes to oper-
ate during extreme Winter weather
away from prepared bases. Much valu-
able information was collected covering
such operations.
The trophy, now 1S years old, was
presented by Clarence H. Mackay, in
1912, to the Aero Club of America It
now is in custody of the National Aero
nautic Association, successor to the
Aero Club. The first award of the
trophy was made in 1912 to lieutenant,
now Lieut.. Col. Henry H. Arnold, Air
Corps. 1t was held during the past
year by Capt. Albert w. Stevens, Air
Corps, for outstanding accomplishments
In high altitude and long range aerial
photography.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

TIME, courage and skill of officers
and men Of the First Pursuit
Group in overcoming the OBJ
stacles of subzero weather, bliz-
yards, and acute physical hard
ships during the "sub-Arctic flight" OF
January, 1880, from Selfridge Field,
Mich, to Spokane, Wash, and return,
yesterday won for Mai. Ralph Royce,
Army Air Corps, then commanding the
group, the Mackay Trophy, awarded
annually for the most meritorious
flight achievement by the Air Corps
each year.
Maj. Royce, now on duty with the
War Department General Staff, rec
eeived the trophy from F. Trubee Dav-
ison Oeft), Assistant Secretary Of War
for Aeronautics, at the State, War and
Navy Building this morning.
The flight led by Maj. Royce, which
was judged by a special board OF Of
ficers to be the outstanding Air Corps
achievement last year, was made dur
ing the period of extreme cold, marked
by frequent bad snowstorms and other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
PRESIDENT STRESSES
NEED OF FREE PRESS
Tells Adolph S. 0chs Accurate
Newspaper Aids Promotion
of Good Government.
Nv the Associated press.

AAAagNAeeS-N
NEW YORK, September 1e.-Presi-
dent Hoover, In letter to Adolph IS.
Ochs, publisher Of the New York Times.
which Is celebrating its 80th birthday
anniversary, said @the most obvious
thing in democracy Is that 1t cannot
function except when accompanied by
q free and constructive press"
Our Government Is and must be re-
sponsive to the win Of the people ex-
pressed through considered public optn-
ion,' his letter continued. THAT exc
preston is more guided and revealed
through the press than any other
agency, but It implies great RESPONSE
bility on the press that the news shall
be accurately presented without bias or
color that the public may have an OPP
portunfty Of formulating its views on
the actual facts and that It's expressed
opinion shall be based upon considered
and constructive editorial suggestions.
ANY newspaper, great or small. that
accurately 6isseminates information aids
In the promotion Of good government
and In the sound development Of the
Nation. All these are truisms of SELF
government. but vitality important"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

denly he cried out. All of us picked
him up Immediately" he said. Tweed
week ago and died a few days later.
The Stout Institute student body to-
day passed a, resolution condemning
hazing and suggesting faculty action.
against any participants in hazing
episodes.