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The Washington times., 1931-08-17
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson.

as is and language as isn't.
of the raw, rank makings OF
human experience. nary a
notion. And how could he
have? Nine times OUT Of ten
the man who is instructing him
is there because he couldn't
turn the trick elsewhere. That's
why he's teaching journalism
at $4,000 instead of writing it
at $4,000.
All of which might not be
so bad for the youngster II ne
realized that he's just playing
with his building blocks. But
he doesn't. Nor do his pro
fessors. The campus world IS
accepted as the whole show.
It's problems transcend IN i'm
portance all affairs of state.
It's judgments are regarded as
final, It's sophistication is the
last word in smart stuff.
The Finished Product
What's the consequence?
The consequence is that,
after four years, the youngster
bursts upon the world with all
the confidence of a male tusker
and the actual poise and
ability of a baby bunny. Where
upon it is up to a long-suffer-
;no world tn swat it out of
him, before he can be a mite
of good to himself or anyone
else. Unfortunately, we rarely
do a complete job Of swatting.
As a result, our social scene is
simply Uttered with a lot or
outside collegiates and col
legiennes who still think they're
getting ready for the junior
prom.
All of which adds up to
whatP I don't know. Do you?
Should we force both stu
dents and professors to remove
their rompers and get out and
hustle like regular bindleStitfS
on alternate years?
Should we periodically turn
in on the campus a lot Of low
browed, horny-handed me-
chanicS, pill mixers, smart shy
sters and shirt-sleeve news
hounds with instructions to
raise Cain with culture and
eradicate the rah-rah?
Or should we just bear up
as best we can and thank God
d it isn't worse?
(Copyright.S1s31. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Wealthy Men In Congress

The late Speaker Longwor whose the is
to be filled by special election left estate said total
in Congress.
Rich men in Congress frequently under attack but
Nicholas Longworh unusually exempt from political
tack because Of his wealth and social position He did
make any display Of his wealth of his high social station
He was just one Of the boys with deep understanding that
dollars and high social rating do not make MEN He preferred
that his intellect honorable life and services to his nation should
give him whatever rating he deserved
Not many poor elected to House Senate these
days They not afford the expense So it gratifying
the rich statesmen generally real men, possessing
qualities as humans and national leaders.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

Does college life breed stu
pidity? ~
Does it train young men and
women to be amateurs-play.
boys and girls-Chronic Cam
pus CutupS?
Does 1t create ga-ga ideals and
attitudes? Waste the four most
plastic years Of life?
Plenty Of peeved parents
think it does, surveying the re-
suits Of the campus incubator.
And Philip Wylie confirms
their hunch in July COLLEGE
HUMOR.
According to Wylie, the aver
age undergraduate lends the
highly specialized and segre-
gated life of a canned shrimp.
For four years he lives entirely
apart from the normal human
rumpus. He wears campus
clothes, absorbs campus ideas,
accepts campus standards, con-
centrateS all his force and en-
thuSiaSIn on campus campaigns
and sports. If he works at all,
it is during the summer at tenn.
porary chores reserved for his
kind. He is taught by professors
as far removed from the world
Of reality as he. given instruc-
ton which has no possible,
practical relation to Main
Street needs.
College Bred Brats
philip Wylie doesn't say all
this, of course, but he gave the
rest Of us a grand opening.)
Take, for example, the sub
ject Of Journalism. If anyone
has even seen a real, honest
to-goodneSs journalist produced
by any university, I wish he'd
wrap it up in cotton and send
it to me by air mail. Or maybe
to Ripley.
Journalists there are who
have become journalists in
spite Of college courses, after
being kicked around in real
newspapers for five or six
years. But the average grad
uate from a journalistic course
knows as much about spot
news and feature-writing as an
Easter lily knows about a garlic
stew.
The Whole Works
Theory - technique he has
1t by the ton. English? The
whole dictionary. But Of life
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

men more interested in intellec-
tual exercise than in results;
more stirred by economical spec
ulations than by men. There is
Haywood Broun-Socialist, bril-
liant, entertaining and rather
emotional; but he is too senti-
mental to suit the desperately
dissatisfied. He would not hurt
a fly-and what a revolutionist
that is!
To the man outside looking
in, it does seem that the So
ciaiists here have lost a lot in
the death of Eugene Debs.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Lightning-Like Justice

crime ridden nation will rise up to unanimously applaud
the justice that sent to the Michigan penitentary
for life the three torch murderers guilty Of of the
diaboical crimes ever known
Nothing but the swift work of Michigan officers and courts
saved the mderers from ynChng but it quick action
Of this sort that will impress criminals though the
punishment will not be with public views of what should
Be done.
Behind the bars for e with no chance of pardon or
parole these will suffer tortures of mind and bodv far
prolonged than they inflicted upon their young victims
Give as more 1as work OF this type and there will
crime
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
WISE WORDS

Quotation, like much better
things, has its abuses. One
may quote till one complies.
-Disraeli.
Logic is to teach us the right
use of our reason or intellec-
tual powers.-Watts.
Poetry, which, by a kind Of
enthusiasm or extraordinary
emotion Of the soul, makes it
seem to us that we behold
those things which the poet
paints. Dryden.
The dexterous management
of terms, and being able to
fend and prove with them,
passes for a great part Of
learning; but 1t is learning dis
tinct from knowledge.
Locke.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

appear to arouse the emotional
enthusiasm of the mass.
Perhaps it is because of his
intellectuality-too much intel
lect, not enough emotion. 1t
makes him popular with the in
telligentsia, with the youthful
radicals in colleges, but does he
speak above the heads of the
great mass of the dissatisfied
who are not economists?
It is an interesting subject for
speculation. Somehow, so many
of the present day Socialist
leaders convey the impression of
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
TIMES TEST

Fill each blank:
!. A -- Is a savage
fish, smaller but more vi.
cious than a shark.
2. False tears, affected for
a certain purpose, are
3. Limoges. France, is noted
for its industry.
4. The musical score for the
opera, "The Kings Hench-
man." was written by
S. Farmers clubs, formed in
their interest and gener.
ally Of State alliance, are
called
6. Circe changed the men
! of OdysSeuS into
7. A is a poem tell
ing Of farm or country
life.
tends from the Baltic to
the North Sea. Ger.
many.
9. The document necessary
for international motor.
ing is the
10. Mendel is chiefly noted
for his studies of
Match correctly:
IL. Euclid Avenue
BuenoS Aires, Argentina.
IL. Avenida de Mayo
Berlin, Germany.
13. Unter den Linden
Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
II. Avenue des Champs Ely.
sees
Cleveland, Ohio.
IS. Avenida Presidente vii.
son
Paris, France.
ANSWERS ON MalAxins Pager
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
OF Fine Bearing and
Conversational Charm.

Many who never saw or knew
him imagined that he was a
soap-box expounder, slovenly
in, or indifferent to, dress;
boisterous, and given to the
wanton butchery of the Kings
English; and he was never any
thing like that. One seldom
meets in any social circle one
of more courtly demeanor, or
greater grace ~of bearing, or
one with more conversational
charm.
The Washington times., 1931-08-17

One sometimes wonders
what has become Of the So
cialist party in this country.
There was a time when eco
nomic conditions such as we
have today, with anything ap-
preaching the unemployment
of this hour, when everyone
would have thought the So
cialists, without any prospects
of actual success, would have
polled an enormous increase.
But we hear little of this to.
day. Is it due to the dispoSi-
ton of the most embittered to
turn to Communism rather
than Socialism, or to the third
party movements Of groups Of
semi-Socialists, or to some lack
of leadership?
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
The Socialist Mystery :, By Claude G. Bowers

There is a disposition among
the Socialist intelligentsia to
speak of him with affection
and yet with condescension.
He was moved too much by his
heart, not enough by his mental
processes.
He was not an expert in eco
nomics. He did not quite sat
iSfy the mental cravings Of the
undergraduate with radical lean.
ings. But he did reach the
heart Of the crowd: and is there
ever a really great and domi-
nant leader who does not do
just that-and appeal to the
imagination?
A Genius and
A Poet
Debs was a genius; and as
lacking in qualities of cruelty
as Haywood Broun. He was a
poet at heart, and it was his
imaginative nature more than
his mind that led him to Social
ism-that, and the spirit Of
protest. He was not a Socialist
at the time of the Pullman
strike when they put him in
Jail.
It was while behind bars that
he became interested in Carl
Marx, and the late Victor Ber-
ger was responsible for that.
He came out a Socialist-but
he must have been specifically
one at first. But from the first
he appealed to the imagination
of tho crNuH
The Washington times., 1931-08-17
Strayed from

Strayed from
The Fold
Not a few Of the olo-timers
have strayed from the fold.
John Spargo has gone far, far
away. And Norman Thomas,
while an attractive speaker, a
brilliant man, and one who
knows his economics does not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

The garden party which the Secre-
tary of State and Mrs. Stimson will
give for M. Laval Sunday afternoon,
october Is, will be quite small and
only for the heads of foreign missions
oficials and few friends. There will
be dinners and luncheons for the pre-
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Yorktown Celebration.
VIII Attract Many
Officials In Capital
Elaborate Dinner Parties
and Tuncheons Listed.
Boats Chartered.
Harris Ewing.

Oficial life in the Capital will be
well represented at the Yorktown Ses-
quicentennial celebration october 16 to
october 10. Many elaborate dinner
parties as we'll as luncheons will be
given during the celebration, which
will commemorate the 150th anniver-
sary Of the surrender Of Lord Corn
wallis, in yorktown, Va. Many are go
ing to the ceremonies by water, and
several patriotic organizations have
chartered special boats to take mem
bers to Yorktown.
Among those who are expected to at
tend the festivities will be the Secre-
tary Of the Interior and Mrs. Ray Ly-
man Wilbur, Mrs. Robert Patterson
Lamont, wife Of the Secretary Of Com
merce; the Ambassador of France and
Nine. Claudel their daughter, Mile.
Refine Claudel, who will be accompa-
MED by members of the embassy staff;
Senator and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Senator John
G. Townsend, jr.; Senator and Mrs.
Hugo L. Black, Senator and Mrs. Royal
S. Copeland, Senator and Mrs. Tom
Connally. Also, Senator and Mrs. Lynn
j. Frazier, Senator and Mrs. Guy D.
Golf. Senator and Mrs. Thomas p.
Gore, Senator and Mrs. Burton K.
Wheeler, Senator and Mrs. Morris
Sheppard, Senator David I. Walsh,
Sepatcr and Mrs. Henry w. Keyes,
Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses,
Senator and Mrs. Cordell Hull, Senator
Daniel o. Hastings, Senator and Mrs.
Hiram Bingham, Senator and Mrs.
David A. Reed, Representative and
Mrs. Joseph w. Byrns, Representative
and Mrs. George r. Stobbs, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Roy G. Fitzgerald, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Schuyler Otis
Bland, Representative and Mrs. Charles
r. Crisp, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs.
william Howard Taft, the surgeon
general of the Public Health Service
and Mrs. Hugh S. Cum ming, Gen. John
j. Pershing the Assistant Secretary Of
War and Mrs. Frederick H. Payne, the
Undersecretary Of State and Mrs. Will
liam r. Castle, the Assistant Secretary
Of War and Mrs. F. Trubee Dawson,
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Maj. and Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald have
issued invitations for a dinner at Ward
man Park Hotel Wednesday.
Lieut.. Comdr. s. P. Ginder, u. s. N,
and Mrs. Ginder entertained small
company informally at dinner last eve
ming at the Army and Navy Country
Club in compliment to their house
guest, Mrs. H. c. Frazer, Of Coronado,
Calf, who will remain until next week.
Mrs. Frazer made the trip east by air
with Mr.. and Mrs Barclay Warburton
Of Philadelphia in their plane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude w. Owen enter
tanned at dinner last evening at the
Mayflewer In compliment to their
nephew and his bride, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thornton owen Of Chicago, who ar
rived here last week from White Sui
phur Springs.
The bridegroom is a former Wash
ingtonian and a graduate Of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, and
his wife is the former Miss Collette
Radlebeck Of Peoria, III.
The company in addition to the Bride
and bridegroom were the bridegroom's
mother and sister, Mrs. e. w. Owen of
Washington and Mrs. Albert Beatty of
Port Washington, Long Island; Mr..
Clarence Owen and his daughter, Mrs.
Granville Soper, of Baltimore.
A reception at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude w. Owen followed the
dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul May were hosts
at dinner last evening at the Shoreham
entertaining in compliment to Mrs.
Mays sister, Miss Irma Rose Rupert,
and her f1ance, Mr.. William Francis
Hinchcliffe, of Paterson, N. j., whose
marriage will take place Monday,
october 10.
Miss Alma johnson will entertain a
large company in her home on Thirty
second street Saturday IN compliment
to Miss Rupert and Mr.. Hinchcliffe
and Mr.. ard Mrs. May will entertain
again for them Sunday evening, in their
home.
Mr.. G. Leslie McCrea entertained ct
dinner last evening in honor Of Mr..
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Mrs. Gam Furthering
Armistice Day Jubilee Ball

Mrs. Edward Everett Gam. sister of
the Vice President, has accepted the
Craftsmanship of the Patroness Com
mittee for the Armistice day jubilee
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at
the Washington Auditorium. the eve
ming of November IL. for the. benefit
of the relief fund of disabled and desti-
tute veterans. Mrs. Gam was one of
the leading sponsors of the Armistice
ball last year which the jubilee re-
places this year and with the Vice Presi-
dent occupying a box.
Mrs. Thatcher, wife of Representa-
tive Maurice H. Thatcher of Kentucky,
has been added to the list of congress
sional patronesses for the event.
Plans are being completed rapidly for
the fete, which promises to be one of
the most colorful and interesting of the
early Winter season. Sponsors for the
event include leading organizations of
both men and women In the Capital
a. well as official, residential and service
circles.
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Dinner Invitations Issued
By Maj. and Mrs. Fitzgerald
Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs Ginder Entertain Small
i Company In mpliment to
California Visitor

William McNeir, whose marriage to
Miss FRANCS Hough will take place
Wednesday. The company included
Mr.. Ralph Lee, Mr.. E. G. Graham, Mr..
John Poole, Mr.. s. A. Reese, DR.. r. E.
L. Wiltberger, Mr.. George McNeir, Mr..
Thomas McNeir of New York, Mr.. Bur-
rows McNeir Of Warrenton, Mr.. Charlie
Jacobson, Capt. Louis B. Montfort, Col.
McCafrin, Judge Joseph w. Cox, Mr.
Joe v. Morgan and Mr.. Charles Potter.
Mrs. Merritt Lum and her daughter,
Miss Dorothy Lum Of Winnetka. ILL.,,
entertained at luncheon and theater
party yesterday when their guests were
Miss Marjorie Street, Miss Mary Alice
Cochran and Miss Barbara Ballenger,
all Of Winnetka.
Mrs. Wallace Witcover entertained at
luncheon yesterday at the Carlton, the
company numbering seventeen.
Chief Justice of the court of Claims
and Mrs. Fenton w. Booth were the
guests of honor at dinner Friday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kincheloe who
entertained in their home in Falls
Church, Va. Among others in the
company were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Rugg, Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Scott
and Miss Booth. After the dinner Chief
Justice and Mrs. Booth gave interesting
talks on their travels through the Sum-
mer when they visited England, France
and Italy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Conn OF San
Mateo, Calf, who are spending same
time in this city, entertained at dinner
Thursday at Wardlnan Park Hotel
where they are staying while in the
Nations Capital.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Nolan and Mr
and Mrs. Charles L. Smith entertained
at dinner and dancing at the Congress
sional Club last week following the
Western Maryland Georgetown game
Their guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Mills, the former being coach al
Georgetown; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Cahill, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rafferty,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stohlman. Mr.. John
Colerick and Mr.. Frank Leahy.
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Oriental Setting Enjoyed
By Guests at Afternoon T.,

Mrs. Paul j. Christian was hostess at
tea Monday afternoon in her home, at
3711 Huntington street, Chevy Chase,
in honor of the members of the Sun
shine and Community Society and their
guests. Mrs. Christian had assisting
her Mrs. w. A. Durham, Mrs. j. w.
Frizzell, Mrs. Eva Chriswell and Miss
Milly Saunders. The guests numbered
about so and were seated at small tables
in the Chinese room, where Mrs. Chris
tan has placed the interesting furnish
ings and art works collected by, the
members Of her family during their
travels In the Orient.
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Ambassador of Cuba
To Attend Exercises
At Naval Air Base
Senior Ferrara Will Make
Principal Address at Ana
costa Tomorrow.
Clinedinst Photo.

The Ambassador of Cuba, Senior Don
Orestes Ferrara, win be in the large
and representative company attending
the christening tomorrow of the Amer
lean Clipper at the Naval Air Base at
Anacostia. He will make the principal
address.
Mrs. Hoover will christen the plane,
which Is the largest of its kind ever
built in the United States. Among 9TH
ers who will attend the ceremonies will
be the Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. Francis White, Representative
Clyde Kelly and Representative William
r. Wood.
The Minister Of the Union of South
Africa and Mrs. Louw sailed yesterday
aboard the Britanic from England for
this country and are expected to ar
rive in New York Sunday, october ID.
The counselor Of the Swiss legation,
M. Etienne Lardy, and Mime. Lardy will
leave Washington the middle of this
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BY SALLIE v. H. PICKETT.

Washington's so-called small season
has blossomed into a particularly
sprightly program and the cream of
the official world met many times over
at events that would have done credit
to any season and in any capital. The
two large garden parties of the week
were particularly interesting and while
Mrs. Hoover's party for the League Of
Republican Women sounds quite prosaic,
one must remember that much of polit-
ical life in Washington is made up of
the cream of society here and else
where. The woman politician no
longer goes about in plain and unbe-
coming garb and wearing unbecoming
hats and fiat-heeled walking shoes, but
abe is a dressy and most attractive in
dividual.
II this is doubted one had but TO
attend Mrs. Hooters garden party
Thursday, for pretty women in becom-
ing gowns and hats lent great attrac-
ton to the scene (where one scarce
heard a word of politics mentionedD, and
as for the fiat heels-well, it was worth
a great deal to see the flash Of high
French heels as many of the women
guests picked up their skirts and dashed
for the cover of the White House.
The most unperturbed person on the
lawn when the rain came up was Mrs.
YIoa,nr ,rk,o J;d not ayay, oIapca of the
gathering clouds, but devoted herself
to her 300 and more guests. Indeed, all
events conspire for the bringing to-
gether Of notable folk this Autumn and
starting with last week, when the Pan
American Commercial Congress was the
occasion for all the delightful social
furry. until snow flies, there will be
many famous folk to create a furore
in social life in America.
At the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa tomorrow will be another repre-
sentative company to see Mrs. Hoover
christen the gianS amphibian air liner
Of the Pan-American Always, Inc.
Many of the delegates from South
American countries attending the COM
mercial congress will attend, as will the
Secretary of the Navy and other mem
bers of the cabinet and their wives and
ranking officers of the Navy and others.
Mrs. Hoover attended the wedding
of Miss Eleanor Hard and MI. Lake
Tuesday in Bethlehem Chapel, one OF
the little personal and domestic things
she does with such grace, and ahead
of her are few dinner parties OF more
Importance than that on the night OF
Thursday, october %, when, with the
President, she will welcome to dinner
at the White House the premier OF
France, M. Laval, and the guests Of
honor who attend the Yorktown Ses-
quicentennial. The following day M.
Laval will go as guest to the White
House, and in the evening the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover will have a
few guests to meet him.
The garden party which the Secre-
tary of State and Mrs. Stimson will
give for M Laval Sunday afternoon,
october 25. will be quite small and
only for the heads of foreign missions,
oficials and few friends. There will
be dinners and luncheons for the pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

Mr.. John H. Storer sof Waltham,
Mass, and Washington, with his daugh-
ter Miss Emily L. Storer, will return
to his apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel November s. from Atlantic City.
N. J, where be spent the, Summer ct
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Mrs. Hans Kinder and her three
children have joined Mr.. Kinder In
Washington. Mr.. Kinder is the direc-
tor Of the new National Symphony Or
chestra Of Washington, which gives its
first concert November 2 in Constitu-
ton Hall.
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Mr.. and Mrs. F. Marion Law of Houston,
Tex, who formerly made their home in
Washington, are spending the week end
at the Mayfower. They were in Ats
lantic City for the Summer and MrA
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