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The Washington times., 1933-05-11

You have heard about hghbrow human beings of excep
tonal intellectual ability Here you SEE three samples of the
genuine article Two learned brothers, Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Richard Lodge and their sister, Miss Eleanor Lodge
really 'highbrows."
You know at glance that these learned Brshers
used their brains from the start and still them Sir Oil
Lodge for nearly half century has been recognized
Of the greatest scientists His brother Sir Richard Lodge
the president of the British Royal Historical Society," pro-
fesor of history learned that it would make your
head ache if you knew even half of it.
As for Miss Eleanor Lodge sister of these learned brothers,
glance at her face shows that what SHE doesn't know
about difficult things is hardly worth knowing.
She the first to take degree of Doctor of
Literature at Oxford and has all of learned titles
Guiding Hon Fellow of Lady Margaret" She has been
president of important college, and could without
moments hesitation ten thousand questions which the
average human being could only reply How should I
know?"
pleasure to think how proud the mother and father
Of these three learned human beings would be they could
the two and their daughter
Some readers will find this picture less interesting than
that Of three charming young ladies from Hollywood with
legs match that of the grafenecked ladies from
Siam.
Others recognizing that these three represent high intel
lecua development remembering the American Grille
statement that each human brain contains -FOUR QUAD
BILLION electric dynamos will speculate with the
activity Of the twelve quadron of dynamos locked up
these three skulls.
These the REAL PEOPLE of world possessing the
brains that add to knowledge and that progress
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

IA ughter ELSIE ROBINSON
when you're young-and then
the strange, bewildered years
of struggle. What's it for, un-
less there's more than this?
No answer.
Yet still, you feel so sure
there is an answer! Why?
Why should this strange Ger.
tainty run, hard as STEEL. be-
meath the shifting sands of our
despair?
Why are we so sure, against
all evidence, that life is worth
while?
Why do we know, even as we
watch our bodies crumble, that
we, ourselves, shall never crum-
ble-that we shall go on and
on, vaulting with young feet
over our cradles and graves?
And sometimes there comes
a Flash, quick and clear, when,
for an instant, you seem to see
what? Afterwards, you can
not tell what; but for one time
less moment the curtain lifts,
the darkness clearS-and there
before you lies the road you've
always known, shining from
star to star!
How could you have doubted!
How could you have forgotten!
Such a silly spirit-crying like
a lost child because. for an in
slant, it has lost it's mothers
hand in the dark pressure Of
the crowd!
So. for an instant, you see
the truth about yourself and
Life. Then the shadows close
around again. Again you fear
and doubt and think this is the
end.
Then, amazingly, you will
stumble on some proof that
other souls have had their
flashes. too. Then it wasn't
just an accident! You didn't
just imagine it! They saw it,
also! So it must be true. This
isn't all. The road does goes
on!
And life has a new meaning,
a new possibility. You begin
looking and listening, peering
into the eyes of strangers, prob
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
MARRY-GO-ROUND
Rowland.

To a woman, first love comes
but once. But, to a man, every
new love is the first love"
while it lasts-and all the
others before it seem just like
practice"
The average mans idea of a
well-balanced office force is a
staff of two or three women
who know how to do the work,
plus one baby-faced reception
clerk-who is particularly re-
ceptive to him.
Men claim to be fairer in the
love-game than women. But
who couldn't play fair when he
holds better cards, knows ex-
actly how to call all his oppo-
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ing into their understanding
for proof.
And finding it, perhaps, in
some lovely passage like this
from that great, hot, striding
book, "Pageant"-G. B. Lam
casters book Of Tasmania's
prison colony days. Horrible.
Beautiful. Pageant of Empire.
Yet, strangely, almost shock
ingly, the pageant of your own
souI-your secret kisses and
killings; your hidden prayers!
GAS she stood among the
glowing tulips, there came to
her one of those familiar mo-
ments when barriers thinned;
when behind the barriers she
felt that mysterious life, caught
that sharp fleeting certainty of
the ultimate meaning of this
strain and confusion called liv-
ing. Very still, hardly breath
ing, she knew you must keep
then, or you frightened 1t, the
spirit thin -, so that it eluded
you and was gone.
every still-and it came, the
spirit thing, so serenely vast
and live and certain that you
felt your own little spark leap
up in recognizing joy. Lives
such formlesS, brittle handfuls
of nothing lives we're; squeezed
into such cranky, unmeaning
shapes. Squeezed until the pith
was out of them and the great
Hand opened and dropped them
again to earth. Squeezed
Yes, but the pith, the essential
drop distilled when the great
Hand squeezed! That remained.
That was what lived behind the
barrier.
"For one Of those rare, ire
mendous moments which had
stayed her all her life, Jenny
grasped those beckoning hands
behind the thinned barriers:
saw their lit eyes, their back
blown hair like comets; heard
their glorious trumpets, their
triumphing laughter.
Then the old brown hall was
about her again, with stray
CLEANS from the well-rubbed
brasses, bosses Of color from
the glowing tulips, letters on the
pierced silver tray"
Very still
Oh, if we could only keep
still enough; hush our noisy
questioning; silence the compla-'
cent cackle of our conceit, and
wait-and then
Suddenly, the Flash!
But that is enough. Just to
know that this isn't all; that the
trail does go on; that there.
around the turn, laughing in
the golden sunlight they are
waiting for us all-that is
enough!
Be very still! very still
Hush!
Wait!
It will comel &c"
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate lnc') -
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

When a woman deceives the
man she loves, she always feels
a twinge of conscience. But
when a man deceives the
woman he loves, he merely feels
annoyed at her for putting him
to the trouble of having to in
vent an alibi.
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

So the home folk don't put
other members of the family
on an undeserved pedestal.
A person may have admir-
able and really remarkable
qualities, sufficient to put him
or her over, in a big way, out.
side Of home.
But those familiar with the
home life of that, person might
not have the same sort of re-
Spect for the individual because
he or she does not come up to
what is required of a loyal,
non-shirking member of a home
household.
So when a husband or a
wife defends his or her position
at home as one for respect. it
goes not by what the world
thinks, but what the home folk
think.
Copyright, 1888. KirG Features
Syndicate, InS.)
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

When the Barriers Thin
Life-a strange business!
What's it all about? Why'd
we come? Where do we go from
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
ONCE OVERS
Leading Lights At Home

Leading Lights At Home
If there were not SO much
talk about their rights" many
family quarrels m g ht be
avoided; folks usually gain
what they merit.
Often a family quarrel is
precipitated because one or the
other thinks that not enough
respect is paid to their position.
Especially is this true when
one or the other or both have
attained local prominence.
Outside of the family they
receive the homage Of people,
and they like it.
At home they expect the
same sort of obeisance.
But the home folk look at
them from a totally different
standpoint.
They know their frailities-
everyone has some weakness.
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
Help the Orchestra
Symphony Needs Funds

These difficult times raise money for any purpose and
It not surprising that the National Symphony Orchestra
should encounter obstacles in obtaining the guarantee fund
which must be raised if this civic endeavor is to continue
next
encouraging however that the sponsors the orchestra
not downhearted at the delay but going persenty
about the task which they have for entire
munity.
Anyone who afford to make contribution should do
in the interest of the cultural advancement of the National
Capital
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

Some men are just naturally
emotional panhandlers, who are
always looking for a "handout"
of affection from one girl after
another, but don't want a life
Job as the lover of any woman.
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

nent's little bluffs, and hasn't
anything much at stake. any
how?
"Of course, the incest men
are always married" says Reno
Ruth, "but cheer up-not for
long to the same woman"
Harder to find than an abso-
lutely nonrefillable bottle, is a
nonrefillable masculine heart.
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

Divorce, says Reno Ruth, is
no answer to the problem of
marriage. 1t is merely the
eraser which wipes the slate
clean-and exposes it to a cou-
pie of brand new problems.
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

How often
you've asked
t h o S e ques-
tionS! H a v e
you ever real
ly S t top p ed
asking them,
in t h e deep
places of your
heart? F or
W h a t is life
worth unless
you can an
SWer them!
A little care
less love and
I q ~ n + q -
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
States, Counties, Cities
Must Halt Legal Larceny
By James T. Williams, T


the United States is directly
interested in getting Gov
ernment jobs. What vitally
interests more than one hun
dred million Americans is
getting rid of a part of the
costly burden of bad gov
ernment under which they
struggle today.
Postmaster General Farley
was speaking for these tax
ridden millions in this warn
ing which he gave at st.
Paul to Minnesota Demo-
Gratis gathered together to
honor the memory of their
party's founder, Thomas
jefferson:
"No government at
Washington can be uUholLy
successful unless local
governments liUe up to
the standard. Economy at
Washington lOiU be futile
if we do not hdUe econ
omy in the government of
the States, the counties
and the cities"
Until the tidal wave of
the depression swept over
this country, the cost of our
Federal Government had
been coming down in the
years following the Great
War.
Federal expenditures,
which were 60 per cent of
the total cost Of Govern
ment in 1921, had been re-
duced by 1925 to less than
one-third.
States Have Too Many
Taxing Units
The cost Of Federal Gov
ernment in 1928 was $35
per CAPITA, and the cost Of
State governments was $15
per capita.
But in the same year the
cost of local government
amounted to approximately
$50 per capita, or $3.50 per
family.
One of the reasons for
this alarming increase since
the war in the cost Of all
State and local governments
can be traced directly to
the vast number Of taxing
units which State and local
governments have turned
loose upon the people
leach growing constantly
from it's feeling of self-im-
portance."
As a result, the Governor
in State after State today
retains little control over
administrative departments.
And many a mayor, al
though held responsible by
the public, has little au-
thority to curb the expendi-
lures Of city administration.
Even worse is the waste
of the peoples money by
the profligates on the pay
rolls of county government
which one student of the
problem has rightly de-
scribe as "the dark CONT
nent of American politics. "
County Governments
Are Remarkable Structures
To halt the rising cost of
city, county and State gov
ernment, the people, under
this or any other Admins
tration, will look to Wash
ington in vain. Neither the
President nor the Congress
can give them relief.
Gripping our third-rate
Navy will not do it. De-
stroying what is left of our
dwindling Army will not
do it. And cancelling
Europe's war debts to this
country or walking into
Europe's security pacts will
not do it.
The remedy for the high
cost of bad government in
the several States today is
to be found in a thorough
reorganization of State and
city financial affairs and in
the complete reconstruction
of county government,
which is the most ram
shackle structure under the
flag.
In almost every State of
the Union there are too
many counties. And in
every county in every State
The Washington times., 1933-05-11

to the public welfare. "
A Democratic President
and a Democratic Congress
recently entered power at
Washington pledged to give
the American people better
Federal Government at
fair cost. If they keep this
pledge, the comparatively
small savings in Federal ex-
penditures that can be made
without reducing the eff
cheney of the Federal service
will be wasted unless Demo-
cratic governors and Demo-
cratic legislatures make the
large savings that must be
made if the people of those
States are to get better gov
ernment at a fair rate.
Calvin Coolidge always in
sisted that the best service
he rendered the people of
Massachusetts, while Gov
nor was in the reorganiza-
ton of their government.
He cut the cost and raised
the standard of government.
He did not curtail any nee
essary government activity.
North Carolina has re-
Gently shown what one
State, under the leadership
of a fearless and able Gov
ernor, can do, to give it's cit
izens better State, county
and municipal government.
North Carolina
Set Example
Under the administration
of Gov. O. Max Gardner,
North Carolina cut the total
cost of government in that
State 100000 in one year
and reduced the tax burden
on property by more than
$12,000,OOO in the same year.
Governor Gardner called
in an outside agency Of ex-
perts to make a survey Of
government in that State.
And then, in the light Of the
facts developed by this non
political group of experts,
the Governor, with the CO.
operation Of the Legislature,
turned the curve Of taxation
downward and the curve of
honest and effective admin
istration distinctly upward.
Several other States are
following the example of
North Carolina. They are
starting right by calling for
a survey of the problem by
an impartial agency. Every
State in the Union, given
the leadership Of a brave and
able Governor, can obtain
for it's citizens better gov
ernment at a fair rate when
ever the people strike in
force against the "legalized
larceny" which the high cost
Of bad government inflicts
upon them.
Governors Must
Earn Their Salutes
President Roosevelt has
just given Federal recognl-
tion of the fact that a gov
ernor is as much the repre-
sentative of all the people
Of his State as is the Presi-
dent of all the people of the
Nation. By order Of the
President, a governor IS
hereafter to be given sa-
Lutte of 10 guns instead Of
IL guns whenever he makes
an official visit aboard an
American man-of-war, at an
Army post Or a naval sta
ton.
Of the 4S States in the
Union today, 38 have Demo
cratic governors. How many
of the States will have
Democratic governors one
Or two years hence will de-
pend in no small degree, as
Postmaster General Farley
wells knows, upon the
energy they show in trying
to earn a 19-gun salute from
the Federal Government.
And the way to earn it is to
lead a warfare against the
"legalized larceny" that is
going on today in many mu-
nicipal, county and State
governments North, East
South and West.
Until this larceny ends,
good government can not
give the people at a fair
ro4o o,ooo1o ooboo1 fooi1itIeS
The Washington times., 1933-05-11
Design for Loving
Women have written volumes
Of advice on how to make a
" Helen

husband happy, but no man
has ever run a column on how
to make a wife happy. Per-
haps a man figures that just
having his shoes in the closet
and his hat on the hall rack
ought to make any reasonable
woman happy.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Griff Battery
Spies S on
Giants

They were counting noses out at
Griffith Stadium yesterday and 10
and behold, two of Manager
Cronin's dependables were miss
ing. But Manager Joe knew where
they were even though he wouldn't
say.
The two absentees were Lefty
Walter Stewart and Luke Sewell.
They were in New York to look
over the situation" at the Polo
Grounds yesterday. Of course,
they eyed the actions of the
Giants every moment during their
two games with the Boston Braves.
Then again they were there to
make reports of the conditions of
the playing field, how the angles
looked in the outfield, how balls
caromed off the walls in right and
left field and how much room the
catcher, first and third basemen
had to go after foul pops, etc.
But sad to relate the spies"
were spied. Tom Clark, Giant
coach, extended them an invita-
ton to sit in a box behind home
plate, but Sewell left, and Stewart
declined the offer.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
DR|EFUS HURLS
TNO-H|T CAME

Although the Sandlot baseball
season is on its last leg, some
interesting games were played
yesterday.
With Doc" Driefus hurting
superb ball, the St. Mary's Gel
tics won the Northern Virginia
championship by blanking the
Ballston, 3 to o. DOC" allowed
only two hits.
American Linen and Dora
mines were victorious in the Capt.
tai City Unlimited League. The
Linen outfit trounced the st.
Joseph's Saints, II to 3, and the
DORA team whipped the Stan
tons, 10 to 2.
Henry Hiser's All-Stars trimmed
the Miller Furniture diamonders,
7 to 3. big" Frank Watt
pitched for the All-Stars and per-
mitted but seven bingles.
The Majestics divided a twin
bill with the New Market (Va.l
nine at New Maraet.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Seen By Devine

This gained for Joe many
frowns from the amateur
fathers who have a strangle-
hold on simon-pure sports, but
it also gained for him the at
tention of Joe Devine, the
Pittsburgh scout, who in Au-
gust, 1924, when Washington
was in the throes of winning
its first world series, signed
Joe Cronin to a Pittsburgh
contract.
If truth is stranger than fic-
ton, isn't it an oddity that
the baseball fates were giving
Washington its first crusader
for a worlds championship in
the person of Bucky Harris,
they were also pulling the
tiny, invisible wires of the
games great tangle remote con-
troll that would eventually bring
Bucky's only duplicate into
the ranks of the Washington
club?
We believe there is baseball
romance for you-yes, and fic-
ton, too-if you close your
eyes for an instant and pom
der the coincidence.
Continued tomorrow
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Third Son

There are older brothers than
Joe, he being the third and
being born in october of the
year when April brought the
disastrous earthquake to San
Francisco-1906. Clark Grit
fifth, for whom Joe Cronin has
just won the third pennant to
ever come to Washington, was
in his prime as a baseball
pitcher, as was Nick Altrock,
the hero of the 1906 world
series.
There is contrast for you,
ladies and gentlemen, girls and
boys. Griff and Altrock in the
height of their pitching fame
when Cronin was born. Cronin
in the saddle now and Griff
and Nick on the Sidelines, as
It were, with eyes filled with
admiration and memories.
Cronin is product Of the
schoolyard and playground
form of organized sport. Later
he became assistant to play
ground directors and ultimate
ly a. director during his off
winter months.
He was actually raised in the
Excelsior district of Frisco,
where he played soccer, basket
ball, tennis, football and base
ball. At the age of IL, Joe won
the junior tennis championship
of all San Francisco, and after
all IL is a very tender age and
San Francisco very large ter
ritory indeed.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Duckpin Doings

The Holy Names Society Bowl
ing Leagues four sections swing
into action tomorrow night.
Section A opens at Northeast
Temple; Section B, Georgetown
Recreation; Section C at Pet
worth and Section D at Mt.
Rainier.
George F.. Harbin. president of
the league, is completing an
elaborate opening program.
Henry Hiser's Bethesda Bowl
ing League (men's) will put the
naples on the defense beginning
tonight.
Harry c. Riley. president, and
James B. McNabe, vice president
will roll the first balls. The
schedule for The week:
Tonight. Bills VS.. Question Marks.
Tuesday, Friendship VS.. Rockville.
Wednesday, Kings Palace VS.. Stony
hurst.
Thursday, State Theater VS.. Glen
Echo.
Friday. Dentists VS.. Chevy Chase
Dairy and Sykes Baber Shop W. Mutual
Insurance Agency.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

Cronin, and he played shortstop
for the club which captured the
city championship in 1922. Pos
sibly that team was too hot, or
possibly it was from some other
cause, but Mission High burned
to the ground and in 1928
Cronin found himself at Sacred
Heart College where in 1924 he
was on another city champion
ship team.
Somewhere in the summers
of 1923 and 1924 Cronin fell
into the ruse adopted by so
many promising amateur ath-
letes, that of playing Sunday
baseball for money, under an
assumed name. He was Joe
Cronin on week days around
the scholastic or collegiate
diamonds, but on Sundays
around Napa he was Joe zilch
on some semipro club which
gave their boys their "ex-
penses."
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Recalls First Title

Today he remembers the
words of recognition and praise
said to him by the playground
director in awarding him the
certificate of his championship.
Her name was Miss Philomene
Hagen and as she gathered the
boys around her, any of
whom he had eliminated on
his way to the top, she said:
"Little boy, you won the
tennis Championship. We are
proud of you. Keep your
mind and body clean, be a
good sportsman, play the
game honestly and fairly and
some day you will win a
greater and finer champion
ship"
How well Joe has lived up to
those early admonitions need
not be stressed here. The young
lady playground director knew
not how truthfully she spoke.
Cronin attended the CleVe-
land grammar school in Frisco
and went in for all of the usual
athletics, even at that early age
having ambitions to be a big
league ball player and having
for his local idol none other
than Tony Lazzeri, who at the
moment was a star athlete at
the Jackson Fairgrounds. He
was two years older than Joe.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25

IeIIUgIeSS q DII 10 SET Iue SGdge OF Gne
1888 Miracle Mans early boyhood.
Joe may be a miracle and master
and all that sort of thing, and for the
purpose of this series of stories and in
view of the times, let us assume he is
all or both. Yet, as kid, growing out
of the cradle and toddling his way,
first across the living room of the Napa
(Cal.) Cronins, then across the front
porch, then up and down the street and
back alley until he has finally streaked
across the baseball armament, he was
just plain American boy with a plain,
old-fashioned mother and father--just
like yours and mine-at least one of
whom had come from County Cork, Ire
land.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
Pick Ups and
Put Outs

The Saengerbund Club gath
ers tonight at Mt. Rainier to
celebrate the Griffmen's seiz-
ure of the American League
pennant-with Old-time songs.
Squirrel Charles and Earl
Jameson will think twice be-
fore hurling another golf chal-
lenge at "BuZzer" Ryan and
M. Fitzgerald. The Sing Sing
eleven bars not creed nor race
=. There are seven cOlOred
members of the prison team
coached by Johnny Law, for
mer NOtre Dame player. Paul
BOeSch, who appears on the
wrestling program at the Clark
Griffith Stadium Thursday
night, is a former New York
life guard.
The Washington times., 1933-09-25
T|LDEN DOWNS
HENRI COCHET

PARIS, Sept. 25.-In their first
meeting as professionals, William
T. Tilden II, of the United
States, today administered a
slashing defeat to Henri Cochet,
veteran French tennis star, 6-3,
GA, 6-2.
Tilden played at the top of
his form, surprising the gallery
of 5000 by his terrific service
and variety of returns. He won
five love games during the match.
Cochet's backhand was pitt
fully feeble, and Tilden played
to this weakness numerically.