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Evening star., 1932-10-17

n YEW YORK. october 17.-Sam
nj Breadon, president Of the st.
Y Louis Cardinals, is going to
head q move to cut the
player limit down to 81 men next
season. He says that reducing the
limit further will bolster some OF
the weaker clubs, and men on the
bench do not mean much to ciuo
that is not going any place.
we could get along very well
Evening star., 1932-10-17
LIMERICK OF THE LINKS.
A duffer who failed on his pivot,
Took up an astounding divot;
But he fOrnd that the hall

In spite of the wallop he gave it.
Those who advocate letting the boys
crawl ncyer have had a flying knee
oriven into shoulder or neck. The
sensation is said to be entirely distinct
from that of chewing gumdrops.
(Copyright, 1882 by North American News
paper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1932-10-17
The Hardest Worker.

COME time ago I asked the late
- Jimmy De Forest what fighter un-
der his banner happened to be the
hardest worker.
Jack Dempsey" he said. Dempsey
would work all day long if you would
let him He had a terrific amount of
nervous energy and he was also keen
to learn everything he could on his
way to the top. Jack would take one
CT those big heavy bags and punch it
for hours if he wasn't called of. He
never wanted to quit work"
The Dempsey that stepped into the
ring with Jess Willard g years ago
was as fine a collection of fighting ma
chinery as the ring ever knew. II
Firpo had cnly shown half Dempsey's
eagerness to get ready for the big shot.
there isn't any telling what might have
happened when he and DemCsov met
especially with Jimmy De Forest in
the Firpo corner.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
Sammy Byrd's Nomination.


CAMMY BYRD, the Yankee ou,fielder
- and a par beating golfer who can
hit a golf ball as far as any one
have ever seen. is Birmingham citi-
zen In the course Of pounding a golf
ball through raw Autumn winds, he
also entered his nomination for all
American honcrs in behalf of his ma
tive State-A'abama.
Il think" re said, they are going
to have a hard time keepin2 Hurry
Suoar-Csin of A'-bama off that back
field. Gin IS big, tat. eX~e~!s. eel
and one of the b7st backs 1 ev~~ s~w
H can kick cni p-ss an: I believe
Tennessee will have a lot of troTb'e
stopping him. He can D!ay great deal
of foot ball and will be a big help in
keeping Alabama near the front"
Cain will have to face another star
back tomorrow in Feathers of Ten
nessee. The meeting of this pair will
help to decide or build up many a
Southern argument during the after
noon
Evening star., 1932-10-17
JEANETTE PUPIL
MEETS LOUGHRAN
Success Tonight Would Make
Him Notable Figure
Among Heavies.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

n YEW YORK, October IT,
M Stanley Poreda threatens
1 Y to steal the play and the
Evening star., 1932-09-09
SWIMMER TO TRY PERSEVERANCE
AT LAW AFTER WINNING 81. 500
Leads Toronto Marathon After Many
Attempts-Writes Short Stories
and Likes to Box.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MEMPHIS. Tenn, September O.
George Blagden, 27, now will have the
time and money to devote to a career
at the bar.
If he (recent winner Of the 15-mile
swimming marathon at Torontol shows
the same perseverance with Blackstone
he has with the river. his hometown
people are certain that he will shine
brightly as legal light.
For eight years this amateur scien
tist, meteorologist, short-story writer
and former boxer sought honors in the
annual 10-mile Mississippi River sim
ming marathon here, but he never
came in first.
He entered the Toronto swim in 1929,
finishing fourth. He went well in 1881,
but was forced by the cold water to
withdraw from the race.
This Summer Blagden was rewarded
for his dogged perseverance with VIC
tory in the swim and the $500 win
ner's purse.
1t was his ambition, he said, to win
the money to establish himself in the
practice Of law With only fair edu-
cation, he studied law at night to pass
Evening star., 1932-09-09
SPANISH ROyALTY'S
LANDS CO TO POOR
Republican Assembly Also
Votes Partial Autonomy
to Catalonia.
b the Associated Press.

As Vic ASoOSldtEu russ
MADRID. September 9.-Spains pro-
jected experiment in community farm
ing and the distribution among the
laboring people of large estates Of the
mobiles and the former crown lands was
approved by the National Assembly to-
day when the Deputies voted upon the
final chapter Of the long discussed
''agrarian reform"
The measure still has to go through
the formality of final vote on the bill
as a whole which was expected to be
taken later in the day.
1t provides for the parceling Of an
estimated 52,000,000 acres of land, said
to be valued at more than five and one
half billion dollars.
Catalonia Partially Free.
At the same time the Assembly ap
proved the Catalonian partial independ-
ence bill, which has been center Of
much contention since the establish
ment of the republic year ago last
April Premier Azana said the measure
eventually would convert Spain into
union of federated states, similar to the
United States.
The measure, which is expected to
settle a controversy which has existed
within Spain for SO years, gives the
province the right to use its own Ian
guage and to direct its own education,
economic and social system, as well as
the right to police its own territory.
Questions of foreign relations and
naval and military protection are con-
ceded to the national government, how
ever.
The territory had population of O.
;,, 4Ia Jt COM
prises the present provinces of BARGE
Iona, Tarragona, Lerida and Corona.
AS soon as the measure providing for
the partition of the great estates is
published in the official gazette the
Agrarian Institute, which will be
charged with enforcing the law, will
ask the proprietors to begin registra-
ton of their land. If it is not regis
tered within 80 days it will be subject
to an assessment equal to 20 per cent
OF its value.
Involves Many Families.
The bill involves several hundred
noble families, about 20 former royal
estates and the land of about 5000
other families.
Although it was once predicted the
question of dividing the lands contained
enough dynamite to wreck the new re-
public, there was little demonstration
to mark its approval today.
Poor and large families are to be IA
vored in the parceling out Of the land,
which is expected to cost the govern
ment approximately S4,0o0,00O year.
The new farmers will be subsidized
while they are developing their land.
Cultivation of the new farms may be
either by individuals or communal as
sociations and provision has been made
for cooperative associations for culti-
waiting, providing machinery, marketing
and other operations.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
NUT GROWERS TO OPEN
SESSION HERE MONDAY
DR.. A. F. Wood, U. S. Research Di-
rector, to Welcome Delegates.
Tour of Orchards Planned.

The Northern Nut Growers Associ-
alton. Inc, will open its twenty-third
annual convention at the Washington
Hotel Monday. where it will hold ses-
sions through Wednesday. The associa
tons aim is to promote interest in
nut-bearing plants, their products and
their culture.
C. F. Walker, president of the as
sociation, will call the convention to
order at 10 am. Monday. DR.. A. F.
Woods, director of research, depart
ment Of Agriculture, will formally well
come the delegates. Tuesday will be
spent visiting nearby nut orchards.
The final day of the convention will
be devoted to committee reports and
election of officers.
Evening star., 1932-09-09

the State bar examinations with honors
recently.
"Blagden." friend Of the swimmer
remarked. "is a perfect encyclopedia Of
information. He is well versed in an
unusual number of subjects. He is an
amazing character"
This amazing character" took
hand at amateur boxing a few years
ago, f1attening noses and winning most
Of the 20 or more bouts in which he
participated.
He has been a prolific writer OF short
stories and has had some success with
their sale. His two novel-length sto-
ries. however, have not been published.
Blagden's talents for astronomy and
meteorology come to him honestly, for
his father, j. D. Blagden, has been for
more than 20 years meteorologist at
the United States Weather Bureau here.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
EMBEZZLER SENTENCED
Former German Consular Secretary
Is Given 15-Month Term.

BERLIN, September R).-Willi
Strehlow, q former German consular
secretary, was sentenced TO Is months
Imprisonment yesterday for embezzling
funds while stationed in Chicago.
Strehlow said he had been the victim
of "a badger game" and that Chicago
underworld" had terrified him into
stealing the money. No sum was men
toned.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Prohibition Farce Goes On
And You Pay For It

The Senate pucked up its courage and cut million dollars
off the prohibition enforcement fund.- but then lost heart
and despite the urgng of Senator Hiram Johnson and other
practical members, refused to cut it further.
reduction Of million dollars welcome but reduc
ton of so 100 per of the whole fund would be
welcome.
Senator Johnson remarked with truth that half the fund
would give the kind of prohibition enforcement that
get today He also pointed out that the Senate cutting
the appropriations for its scientific bureaus 20 per cent and
for fog signals insure the safety of ships by SUBJ
stantal amounts but only looping million off the
useless dry law fund
Economy needed in every Government department. but
the worst possible economy to refuse money to essential
activities and to squander money unessena activities
AS economy the limited reduction for Mr. Wood
cocks bureau is farce. And it is than farce
in the nature Of tragedy When 100000 out Of
work and private business making heroic efforts to weather
the storm every dollar spent on an unenforceabe law is
dollar denied to the jobess, and additional stumbling
block in the path of recovery.
The Senate knows this But with the exception of the
gentleman from California and few others with the
OF their convictions its members still take their lines from
their prohibition prompers Men and industry
can lie PROSTATE, but the show must 60
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
AFTER THIS WILL COME EUROPEAN PROGRESS.

When the common of Europe turns iconocast and
destroys the horrd idol that it up in the Treaty of Yer
sas progress peace and prosperity may return to Euro
pean nations.
The word needs its iconocasts, among whom old Abraham
is one of the first in history
His father manufactured idols for living Abraham,
according the legend studied the idols that his father made
didn't think of them broke few of them to show that
they didn't amount much The idols did nothing at all
about it.
After that wisely, Abraham and his descendants believed
in ONE God, invisible and ruling everything
The word iconocast you doubtless know, from
two Greek words "eikon meaning image and klastein,
''to break
This picture from the German publication kladder0datsch
shows Italy Germany and Britain walking forward to the
light better times after the overthrow of the monstrous
unjust Versailles Treaty.
The light of better day is shining their faces
The Versailles Treaty. planned and carried through in hate
regardless mpossbes and useless humiliation for the
defeated kept Europe back and prolonged for than
years hatred that should have died out long IS
responsible much of the worrying that today afcs the
whole world
The Germans that they will not because they can
not continue paying out yearly hundreds of millions in gold
that they do possess And the French whom the
German artist omits in this picture will be compelled to admit
that however fond you may be of blood cannot get out
of stone
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
The First Aviatrix
You Can't Name Her

Died April TO- at Balboa Calf Mrs Bessica Rache 49,
The name means nothing to ninetynne out of hundred
persons 1t much however when you learn Mrs
Rache probably the first aviator and the first
woman airpane designer in the world.
AS young woman Mrs Raiche expert horsewoman
swimmer and trap shooter Returning from Paris
land she became interested in the sport aviation She
studied the science of flight designed her plane built
and flew it successfully In week in 1910 she sooed
IS times Hudson Maxim famous inventor gave her medal
as the first aviatrix
In those days flying like DR.. Johnsops woman
preaching You did not expect to done weyou were
surprised to done at ALL far cry from then the
present when girls in their hop continent
parachute from the Skies up with much nonchaance
as their brothers.
Mrs Rache admitted that with the passage of years she had
lost her and afraid to go up modern plane
But there ought be monument her honor nevertheless
She flew FIRST The FIRST what makes her life important
The Washington times., 1932-04-22

A N C E ELSIE ROBINSON
THROUGH DEFEAT; AND WE
BECOME QUITE AS CON-
CEITED ABOUT OUR FAIL
URE AS WE COULD POSI-
BLY, BECOME ABOUT sue
CESS!
"Defeatism," the psycholo-
gists call it. And you've met
hundreds of defeatists-some
frankly sour; some pathetically
appealing; ali with a hard luck
story. ...........'.'''
Here's a quiet girl who has
never had a sweetheart.
Here's a queer fellow who can
never hold a, job.
Tough For Some Folks
You listen sympathetically to
their stories You agree that
they've had some mighty tough
breaks. Too bad-fine people
like that missing out on life!
Wonder if there isn't something
you can do to help?
You begin to make sugges'
tions.
You know an awfully nice fell
low. Maybe you could arrange
a meeting for her.
Or you've heard of a job.
You'd be glad to give him a
letter.
Eagerly you offer your plans.
Now, surely, these sad faces
will tighten with hope!
But they do nothing of the
sort. To tine contrary, their
gloom seems to deepen.
You redouble your efforts.
You almost yodel in your
efforts to be a little ray of
sunshine.
Nothing doing! Each argu-
ment you advance is met with
a gloomy rejection. Yes; it's
very nice of you to offer to
help, but it wouldn't do any
good. There's no use trying.
They never have any luck. The
cards are stacked against them.
Presently, as your optimism
persists, a curious change creepS
over them. Their mouths set
stubbornly Their eyes narrow
into angry. suspicious points.
Don't Want Aid
Amazingly it dawns upon you
that thew are getting mad!
They don't like your helpful
ST. ygestions, They don't seem
to want to be helped. They
act exactly as if you were try
ing to harm them-rob them
of something!
And you are. You are rob.
bling them of THEIR ONE
CLAIM TO SUPERIORITY.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Senator Bailey's
Thoughtful Speech.

This is illustrated in a
remarkably t h ou G h t f u
speech in the Senate by
Senator Bailey of North
Carolina. 1t was his first
speech as a Senator, and it
deserved the praise it re-
ceived. Analysing the ex-
IRENE difficulty Of dealing
with the crisis, he said:
I'VE passed our Glass
Steagall Act and we pro-
vided the means of credit,
but the money did not flow
because the means of using
the money was not at hand.
Accusations here have been
made against the bankers
not lending the money. I
Judge if the bankers cared
to defend themselves they
would defend on the ground
that useful and profitable
enterprise and the expan-
sion of business in the
United States has not de-
manded the loaning of the
dollar. -
Thus the steel industry is
working at 20 per cent of
its present capacity; not
from a devilish disposition
to keep men out of work,
but because it's capacity now
is so per cent above the de-
mand for its products. This
is because the purchasing
power of 100000 people
has been destroyed or re-
duced to a minimum.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Prosperity Must Be
Built From the Bottom
Claude G.. BOWers

MYTH a feeling of de-
w tachment, we have read
the Roosevelt speech in Min
nesota and re-read the Smith
speech in Washington, and
are puzzled over the excited
tone of the press in COM
menting on them. The
Smith speech was rich in
good sound constructive
ideas-the tariff, the pros
perity loan; and it is easy
to agree with him that
demagogic attempts to ar
ray class against class under
existing conditions are vi
cious. The Roosevelt speech
impresses us as the express
sion of a proper point of
view regarding the necessity
of SO changing the policy
of many years as to include
in governmental policy the
more than 100000 people
dependent on the farms.
The farmer passed out of
the governmental picture
when the Government passed
to the Hamiltonians imme-
diately after Appomattox,
Only incidentally did Ham
ilton ever give a thought to
the tillers of the soil. His
scheme of government and
society revolved entirely
around the industrialists and
financiers. In his report on
manufacturers he mentions
the farmers-because it had
been urged that mis- plan
made no provision for them.
The best he was able to do
was to reply that, with fac
tories, it would be possible
for farmers to increase their
incomes by putting their
women and children at work
in the mills. He went into
detail to show from the rec
ords in England that in GER
tain industries young chill
dren could be employed to
advantage.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Just One Plan
A Prosperity Loan

The Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation has served
a good purpose, 1t has great
ly reduced the number of
bank failures and relieved the
frozen credit condition, but
there is more unemployment
now than in January. 1t has
served one necessary pur-
pose, but it has not affected
the problem of the unem-
ployed.
1t was this thought Sena-
tor Bailey developed, and
embryo statesmen in the
streets, and even counting
houses, who are so impatient
because Congress has no
magic method for our saliva
ton, would do we'll to read
his speech. 1t was an honest
speech. 1t shows the extreme
difficulty of doing one
thing that would help in one
way, because it would do
damage in another.
Thus, many propose dras-
tic reductions in govern
mental activities to save
money, but this means in
creasing the number of the
unemployed.
But, unless there are re-
tren h ments, Government
taxes will have to be further
increased, and that is some
thing that commerce and the
people generally cannot bear.
There is just one plan that
promises to restore the pur-
chasing power of many mil
lions and call for the expan-
sion of industry and this will
make the easy credit facili-
ties, now all but worthless,
worth while, and will put
men to work in the mills to
meet the needs of the ex-
panding demand.
This is prosperity loan.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
ONCE-OVERS
Shopping Visitors

SnOOplng Visitors
Many women have the dis
agreeable habit of examining
practically everything in the
homes they visit.
Their manner is appraiSing
and their fingers lift and touch
here and there in close eXami.
nation.
It makes a hostess uneasy,
even when things are at their
best.
Such guests are not welcome,
if the truth we're told.
The sort of reception given.
the pleasure evidenced as the
result of a visit, should be
enough for a guest without
making close analysis of the
furnishings.
1t is refreshing and joy to
have a guest seem more inter
eSted in her hostess than in her
home.
The expensiveness of furnish.
ings. the arrangement and
grouping should be of little
consequence to a friendly
visitor.
But the busybody, shopping
even into the clothes presses
and lifti; g the corners of the
bed spreads. opening a drawer
or two {. opportunity comes.
is not in the house for the
pleasure of a visit with the
hoSteSSeS.
She is there to find out and
to see what she can and the
hostess is a secondary matter.
Copyright. 1882. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Comparisons


Often you think you do not
get half the credit you should
for what,you have accomplished.
You compare your prepare
tions for life and your lack of
opportunities with those of
many others who started under
the same handicaps, and you
think you have done mighty
we'll.
You would like that fact men,
toned occasionally.
You would like a few pats on
the back and a few mods of
approval.
You can't understand why
people look upon your advance
ment as nothing out of the
ordinary.
The chances are that it is
not unusual.
Many who started with less
have outdiStanced you.
But comparing yourself with
failures and feeling elated that
you did not fail, is not showing
a very high standard for per.
Sonal ambition.
1t is a sort of vanity, though,
that wishes to have those who
know of your poor start, see
you at your best now and emu
merate your accomplishments.
1t is human trait but not a
nice one and what you need is
a good punch in that ego of
yours.
It is easy to stand high in
competition with a few little
people.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

These frightened, muddled,
peevish souls have never been
able to succeed as healthier
souls succeed; yet in them, as
in all living creatures, persists
that desire for superiority. In
some way they MUST put
themselves on record. But they
have no success to put on re-
cord, AND SO THEY MAKE
A RECORD OF FAILURE.
If they can't have more
good luck than the other fell
low, they can. at least, have
more bad luck. If they can't
prove that they are fate's
favorites, they can prove that
they are the worlds worst
martyrs-cruelly picked on,
double-crossed and two-timed.
And this scheme isn't as
dumb as it appears. 1t has
many nightly attractive points.
In the first place, it's easy. 1t
takes hard work to be a sue
CESS, DuG any 1laC Tire can be
a failure. And the flatter you
are, the more convincing your
argument, and the more SYM
pathy you can command.
Indeed, nobody commands at
tention as constantly as the per-
feet failure. His family can't
possibly forget him, and he en-.
lists the sympathy of every pass
ing stranger.
Even when that sympathy
turns to disgust and rage, it's
jake with the defeatist; for
he's still in the spotlight, and
he's still being picked upon. He's
still making a record of defeat.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22

dustrialiSt or a banker who
is not feeling the pinch.
We have been dominated
by a political school which,
no doubt, honestly, felt that
if government looked after
the man at the top, and
made him prosperous, the
man at the bottom would
share in the prosperity. This
school thinks now that if
the man at the top is as
sisted, prosperity will re-
turn. There is little or
nothing thus far done for
the man al the top that does
not meet with our approval;
but nothing thus far done
for the man at the top has
given a job to the man be-
low. And the man at the
top is suffering today be-
cause the man at the bot
tom does not have the
money with which to buy.
And there will be, can be,
no restoration of prosperity
until the purchasing power
of the 100000 farmers
and the more than 100000
600 others, dependent on
jobs that are lost, is at
least partially restored,
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Farmers Showed Out of
The Governmental Picture

After the war between the
States, when privilege was
riotous and tariffs were in
creased, there was a bit
ter protest from the agri-
cultural States on the ground
that by making the farmer
buy in a protected market
while selling his products in
an open market, agriculture
would be ruined. The Chi
cago Tribune, under the
brilliant editorship of Hor-
ace White, fought this
change in policy on the
theory that it would destroy
the farmers. The New York
Chamber of Commerce op-
posed it on the ground that
it would mar the pros
perity of agriculture, by in
creasing the cost of its sup
plies without enhancing the
price of its products
And Senator Grimes of
Iowa, able and honest be-
yond most men of his time,
warned time and again that
the farmer was being showed
out of the governmental pic
ture and that the inevitable
result would be the reduc-
ton of agriculture to bank
ruptcy. 1t was Grimes, sick
unto death, who deliberately
invited the wrath of the
radicals by having himself
carried into the Senate
chamber to vote against the
Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22

perlority in
some manner.
That's natu-
raj. Even a
turnip wants
to get ahead.
B u t S u p
pose we can't
achieve m
por t a n C e
through sue
cess t h e n
what?
T H E N
M A N Y o F
US ACHIEVE
I M P o R T.