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The Washington times., 1934-01-11
Over-FOrty Brigade
BY Nelson
Harding
By Robert Benchley

making a man feel unfit at an
early age. If you had to spend
the day hewing through great
trees and great bowls of corn
meal mush with a coon-skin cap
on, and then found yourself in
the evening having to look
around all over the house for
your scalp, there might be some
excuse for your saying: I'm
all in, Bessie! guess I must
be getting old"
Then, if you lived later in our
country's history, and had to
pedal all over hell-and-gone on
one of those high bicycles, or
dance those hop-skip-and-a-Jump
waltzes to "The Beautiful Blue
Danube" or invent a steam
boat, or do any of the thousand
things our grandfathers had to
do to keep the country going in
it's infancy, then 40 was old,
especially as college boys Of 10
wore enough whiskers and eye
brows for a man of 10.
But today, with no business
to rush us and no need for
taking any more exercise than
is involved in getting in and
out of taxis getting out is the
hardest), why should we run
down? A man of 40 today has
nothing to worry him but fall
ing hair, inability to button the
top button, failing vision, short
ness of breath, a tendency Of
the collar to shut off all breath
ing, black spots before his eyes
(when the bid is "hearts)"
trembling of the kidneys to the
tempo of whatever tune the
orchestra is playing, and a gen.
eral sensation of giddiness when
the matter of rent is brought
up. Today, 40 is Life'e Golden
Age.
So. it's heads up! Shoulders
back! Stomachs in-or. at any
rate, up little! And it's one,
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dollars over the amount at the
end of the preceding fiscal
year.
While the Glass Banking Bill
was before the Senate at the
last session, another attack
was made by powerful financial
interests on the Postal Savings
law. But the only amendment
accepted by the Congress was
one prohibiting the payment
of interest on demand deposits.
This brought the Postal Saw
ingS systems into line with
other commercial institutions
which were also forbidden to
pay interest on demand de-
posits.
The attempt Of the powerful
financial interests, which oppose
any extention of the Postal
Savings System, to blame that
system for some of their own
shortcomings was emphatically
rebuked by the Third Assistant
Postmaster General in a letter
to a Southern Senator last
May.
People Trust
Writing to Senator McKellar,
Of Tennessee, Assistant Post.
master General Eilenberger
said:
"To lay the ills Of the bank.
ing world at the doors Of the
Postal Savings System is un-
warranted. Had it not been
for the Postal Savings System,
this country would have been
hOney-cOmbed with hidden
money"
The record proves that the
Postal Savings System has
done more to wake up and put
to work the sleeping dollars"
which inevitably are removed
from circulation and boarded
when banks begin to fail, than
all Of the Federal threats
that have been issued to pun
ish hoarders by jailing them.
The files of the Post Office
Department are filled with ex-
amples that prove the conf
dence of the plain people of
the country in the Postal Sav-
ings System, the funds of
which are protected by the
Federal Governments guaran-
tee.
All deposits received by the
Postal Savings Systems are
promptly redeposited in local
banks that can satisfy the
Government of their safety.
It took the American people
more than half a century to
profit by the experience of
other countries and set up the
Postal Savings Banks in this
country. If Congress will ex-
tend this system by increasing
the limit on deposits not n:er=-
ly to five but to 10 thousand
dollars or even more, and open
up the Postal Savings Banks
to checking accounts, the small
depositor will no longer BE-
"the forgotten man" in the
financial world Of the United
States.
Copyright. 1894 The Washington Ttm'SA
The Washington times., 1934-01-11
Farley Proposes Expanding
Postal Savings Service
By James T. Williams, Jr.

One of the most progressive
recommendations in the first
annual report Of President
Roosevelt's Postmaster General
will delight the plain people
but will not prove so delectable
to some of the bankers.
This is Mr.. Farley'S recon-
mendation that Congress in
crease the limit of Postal Saw
ingS balance of each depositor
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Other officials of the Roose-
velt Administration are said
to look with favor upon an ex-
tension of the Postal Savings
System to include checking ac-
counts for the hundreds of
thousands of small depositors
who trust and use this Federal
agency.
Clears Situation
A few months ago the Ad-
ministration appeared to be
befogged by the financial
propaganda against Postal Saw
ings banks with which certain
financial interests and their
errand boys in the Federal City
have been darkening the hori-
Zon.
It was only last october at a
meeting of bankers in Fort
Worth, Texas, that the Comp
troller of the Currency made
the the astonishing announce
ment that if the Federal De-
poSit Insurance Fund should
prove successful "Congres
would be justified in abandon
ing or sharply curtailing the
Postal Savings System"
The fear that Mr.. O'Connor
had any authority to speak for
the President in promising such
a destruction of so popular an
agency as is the Postal Savings
System has now been removed
by Postmaster General Farley's
clear cut recommendation for
expanding the System.
For many years after the
countries of the Old World
operated successfully postal saw
ings banks, the commercial
banks of this country were able
e by their influence upon succeed
ing Congresses to prevent the
establishment of such a sys-
TEN in the United States.
Not until the Taft admins
tration was it possible to over
come the activities Of the anti
postal savings banks lobby and
get authority from Congress to
set up a system of postal saw
ings banks under the Postoffice
Department.
Ever since the depression set
in. deposits in the Postal Saw
ings banks throughout the coun-
try have been on the increase.
On June 80, 1933-the end Of
the last fiscal year-postal saw
ings deposits totaled twelve
hundred and three millions
eight hundred and forty-two
thousand dollars. This was an
increase Of more than four
hundred and eight million, four
hundred and ninety thousand
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ONCE OVERS

better than manifest irritability
or boredom in the presence Of
others.
There are plenty of married
people who live in such constant
atmosphere Of being "tried with
each other" that everyone knows
their state.
The commanding, overbearing
person of marital combination
is another diSagreeable person
with whom to associate.
It is a pleasure to be in the
society of married folk who are
genuinely at ease and pleasant
to each other.
They have no desire to over
play the game. They are just
understandingly and mutually
agreeable-this sort is accepti-
BILE in any group.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features.
Syndicate, Inc.) -..~
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

See that nothing fouls the cables,
And protect the chains from rust.
There are times in navigation
When it's anchors you must trust.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

THAT I AM
GOD"
T h o S e
words W ere
W ri t t en- by
K in g David
for the an
cient Hebrews.
But we mod
ern A m e r l.
cans have an
even greater
need Of them,
for our lives
re file d
with q clamor
a n d confu-
sion w hich
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Don't OverdO the Happy
Marriage" Act

In an effort to create an i'm"
preston of happy companion
ship, many married couples over
do the matter till there is a sus-
picion that the opposite condi-
ton exists.
And folks have a right to be
sceptical.
It is not the law of human
nature for a couple to have lived
together for many years, and
yet display an unusual interest
in each other when in company.
Through many years they
have become settled to the ex-
tent that they don't bill and COO
unless it be for the purpose Of
dissimulation.
But deception Of this kind Is
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You men Of 40, and you
women of 80 who are really 40
what's all this I hear about
your being middle-aged? Why,
you're just kids-slightly obese
kids-that'S all! Don't you
realize that you are "stand-
ing with reluctant feet"
GLASSES will correct all thaJ)
on the brink of Life's Great
Adventure-H Hardening of the
Arteries?
You are practically only one
stage beyond Puberty. First
there is Babyhood, then Child
hood, then Puberty. then Forty
to-Forty-five. Sometimes Pu-
berity even comes after Forty
to-Forty-five, and then is when
the boy or girl is cutest.
Gangllng and gaWKy, buC loV-
able. You could just take
them up in your arms and
throw them into the lake.
You think that just because
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

Be Still and Know That I Am
God!
There are, in the Bible, GER
tain eight words of great wis
dom-"BE STILL AND KNOW
Evening star., 1934-11-14
WOMEN SUGGESTED
IN SULLIVAN AWARD
None of Trio Gets Much Support,
Eastman, Bonthron, Little,
Medica Leaders.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 14.-The
names of three feminine ath-
letes, Virginia van VIE, Kath-
crime Rawls and Lenore Kight, have
been suggested as rivals of % mascu-
line candidates for the James E. Sui
livan Memorial Medal, awarded an
nually by the Amateur Athletic Union
to the country's outstanding amateur
performer.
So far none of the trio has received
any support to compare with that Of
ferred for "Blazin" Ben Eastman, Bill
Bonthon, w. Lawson Little and Jack
Medica on the preliminary reports
Miss van VIE has held the national
womens golf title three times, and
Miss Rawls and Miss Kight are out
standing swimming stars.
The list so far includes 13 track
and field athletes, golfers, SWIM
mers, 3 all-around college athletes,
foot ball stars and ! tennis player
Bryan (Bitsy) Grant.
Three Washingtonians appear on
the list, including Earl Widmyer of
the University of Maryland, sprinter
and foot ball player; Roger Leverton,
former Central High School SWIM
mer, who has won letters in four
sports at the University of Rich
mond, and Roger Peacock Of Indian
Spring Club, former District Of Co
luInbia amateur golf champion, who
early this season shot spectacu-
lar 81.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
THE SPORTLIGHT
Lateral Pass Greatest, Most Colorful
Play Employed in Modern Foot Ball.
BY GRANTLAND RICE,

When you come to a play that both
players and crowds favor, there is
little more to add. 1t should be
given every chance to grow.
Can Syracuse Stop 1t?
"HIS Kerr Colgate or Colgate
Kerr attack will get one of its
hardest tests on Saturday when
1t moves in against strong, we'll
coached Syracuse array Syracuse
team powerful enough to roll back
the fast, hard-hitting attack Of Mich
igan State.
II saw Syracuse play Saturday." q
well-known scout writes, "and, If Col
gate can keep moving against this
Orange outfit, there will be no further
doubling the possibilities of the
lateral game" .-.
But, as Andy Kerr puts It:
"Y0u are not always in . spot
to use laterals. There are some
games when you may not get
more than . chance or two to
handle the ball.
"You don't just walk into foot
ball game and start chucking laterals
this way and that. There are only
certain field positions, certain occa-
sions, where lateral may be highly
effective. At other times it may be
entirely too dangerous. But it is at
least always threat"
Vic Hanson has turned out the
best Syracuse team In some years,
Syracuse happens to know the Col
gate offense as well as any team could
hope to know it. They have been
keen rivals for a long time. This is
the climax contest for both parties
season after season. So Saturday S
answer should be an interesting docu-
ment in sizing up the full value of
the old hocus-pocus.
AT the same time, 1t will be Just as
interesting to see how Navy's open
network game will 60 against Pitts
greater power - against one Of the
strongest all-around foot ball teams
from coast to coast.
These are the details that help
pass away long Winter evenings when
the shaking panes are blurred with
snow.
Copyright. 1884. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc0
Evening star., 1934-11-14
Harris Has Learned.

HarrlS HAS
-O PUT it as bluntly as would
Harris. himself, Bucky was not
nearly so good nor effective a
field leader for the Nationals IN his
last three years at the helm here as
he was during the first two seasons,
when he landed the Grif1men on top
of the American League heap.
After all, he was very young, had
attained an unprecedented measure
Of success as a novice at task usually
given to a man of long experience, and
it quite naturally upset his sense OF
values.
Bucky went front -and-center
in a large and expesive man
ner and, in so doing, alienated
the support of the fans, who
bitterly resent any indications
of the old high hat.
But that was then. He's older,
wiser and more mellow now. He
learned. in failing for five successive
campaigns to get the Tigers out Of
the second division, that no amount of
base ball acumen on the part OF a
pilot can produce a winner If the
essential material is not available.
Bucky Faces Test
ND this brings us to the one ny
~ in the ointment mentioned at
the outset. Some rather extern
sive revamping will have to. be. done
to make contender of the band that
finished in seventh place this year
under the leadership Of Joe Cronin
and that Is just where the unques-
toned talents of Harris will be most
toughly tested.
He knows ball player when he sees
one and has demonstrated his ability
to develop the potentialities of un-
polished recruits. He can handle
men-prod the laggard and coax the
diffident.
That's where the fans get
their break, while the news
paper men profit by having as
yarn-evolving source a man
ager who not only is smart, but
who possesses an imagination
and isn't afraid to say what he
thinks.
Harris is facing an arduous assign
ment to again place Washington on
the base ball heights, but il hard work
on his part and the unqualified sup
port of everybody concerned will turn
the trick he should do it.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
CATHOLIC j. GAME
FAREWELL AFFAIR
Last Home Clash, 8 Men
? in Final Appearance in
South Dakota Tilt.

~ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY foot
ball team will bow out of the
4 local grid picture for 1884
Saturday, when it stacks up
against the University of South Da-
kota in the Griffith Stadium at 2
o'clock.
The game not only marks the finale
at home for the Cardinals, but the
last appearance of eight players who
have been dependables for three cam
paigns.
Two of the lads who will wind up
their grid careers are local products.
They are Gene Augusterfer, quarter
back, and Dan Pyne, guard. Auguster-
fer, who learned his foot ball at st
Johns Prep, has been a regular for
two years and has been tagged by his
coaches as the best blocking back IN
Washington collegiate foot ball circles
Pyne received his early foot ball
fundamentals at Gonzaga, where he
was one of the best gridders ever
turned out by the Purple Originally
fullback, he played his freshman
year in the backfield at G. u, in his
sophomore season he was shifted to
end and later to guard.
Others to Finish.
"A LTHOUGH they will be showing
n for the last time in foot ball
Saturday against South Dakota
both are members of Winter sports
teams. Augusterfer Is captain-elect OF
the varsity basket ball five, while
Pyne is the G. U. representative In
the heavyweight division of the boxing
squad.
Other c. U. gridders who will wind
up their careers in foot ball are Tom
my Oliver, fullback mainstay for the
past two years; Tom and Babe Gearty
the last of the Cardinal brother
acts; Ed Thibodeau, diminutive quar-
terback and captain-elect of the box
ing team; Francis Fleming, one of the
best ends ever developed at the Brook
land school, and Capt. Bill Confer
regular ineman, as guard and tackle
the past three years.
Evening star., 1934-11-14

JUDGING from the roar Of the
crowd that saw the Nays
~ passing attack against Colum-
bia-the even louder roar that
greeted Colgate's laterals against Tu-
lane-this is the play that catches the
fancy of the crowd. More than that,
it is the type of play that appeals even
more to the player involved, who hap
pens to be the leading factor.
I asked Andy Kerr. the main ma
gician, what he thought about its fu-
ture.
This is one Of the great plays Of
foot ball." Kerr said, "but it needs
more help from the Rules Com
mittee.
"I mean by this that laterals,
thrown only slightly forward, where
no deliberate forward is intended,
should be allowed to stand just as they
do in Rugby. I think also that run
ner, after being tackled and even
SUOppcO, cllUulO VIC PSAAhAesS0 W. 49,.
the ball to some one else instead OF
having the play called dead. These
changes would certainly not make the
game any rougher or pile up injuries
But they would make faster, smarter
game of foot ball.
There are many fire things about
the lateral" the Colgate coach added
"The players not only get a big Kick
out of handing the ball around. but
it is the type Of play that depends en-.
tirely upon the players Judgment ano
initiative. It demands speed. quick
ness and quick thinking. 1t adds
much to the color, action and excite
ment of any contest. But it has GER
tain dangerous features, which many
coaches don't like. So it needs all the
help the committee can give 1t 10 neip
its further development"
Andy Kerr is entirely correct. the
lateral should be given all possible
help and, when this happens, foot
bali will be an even better game than
it is today.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
Early Laterals.

Early Laterals.
~AcK around 1908 or thereabouts,
X Clemson, coached by John W.
~ Heisman, went to Atlanta TO
play Georgia Tech.
The two teams were supposed to
be fairly well matched. But Heis-
man had two star ball handlers on
his team named Maxwell and Sitton,
each could throw and handle the pau
accurately at top speed.
This pair opened up the first
lateral passing attack the South
had ever seen, and the Teen
defense was soon running
around in highly bewildered
circles. As I recall the score,
Clemson won by " to 0.
Frank Hinkey brought the lateral
to yale. beating Notre Dame and
Princeton, but, when Harvard broke
it up.' the play was dropped later
before its real development had got
under way. Then Harvard, later ON,
with French and Guarnaccia, used 1t
with considerable success against the
Blue.
In one game, Red Grange and the
Chicago Bears followed q forward
by five laterals down the field for q
60-yard march. standing>s big crowd
on its head.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
Sports Events
In Local Realm
TOMORROW.

TOMORROW.
Boxing.
Washington Auditorium-Fea-
ture bout, Buck Everett, Chicago,
VS.. Bob Tow, Alexandria. heavy.
WEIGHTS, 10 rounds. Show starts
$50.
Cardoza High VS.. Dunbar High,
Griffith Stadium, 2:45.
FRIDAY.
Foot Ball.
st. Adams at Landon, 8.
st. Johns at Georgetown Prep, 8.
Alexandra High at Warrenton
High.
Western High vs.. Washington
Lee High at Ballston.
SATURDAY.
Foot Ball.
Catholic U. VS.. South Dakota
at Griffith Stadium, 2.
Randolph Macon at Gallaudet,
2:30.
Shenandoah Valley Military
Academy at Episcopal High. 2:45.
North Carolina State at Howard
o.. 2:30.
George Washington VS.. West
Virginia, at Morgantown,i
Maryland VS.. Indiana AZ Bloom
ington.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
YOUNG BIKEMEN LEAD
Kodak, Ritter Go Ahead in Wild
Night in Chicago Grind.

CHICAGO, Ill, November IA R.-
After a wild night of racing. which
saw half a dozen teams in the lead
at one time or another, the entry
Of the Catholic Youth organization
of Mickey Kodak. Chicago, and
Charley Ritter, New York, held a
one-lap lead over the field, in the
six-day bicycle race.
One lap back IN second place were
four teams: Bobby Thomas, Kenosha,
Wis. and Tony Schaller. Chicago;
Tino Reboli, Newark. and Avanti
Martinetti, Italian rider; Jerry Rod
man and Louis Cohen, the Jewish
pair. and another Chicago team of
Yates and Wagner.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
Harris Best Manager Eer Says Griffith d. Eerens Tough Sailing
Harris Has Everything
Except the Team, to
Produce Winner Here.
by DENMAN THOMPSON.

~ kept for one particular, nc
- manager ever took charge OF
the Washington ball club un-
der more auspicious circum-
stances than does Stanley Raymond
Harris.
Its a break for me-" asserted the
forceful fellah who gave the Capital
its first pennant as the original hoy
manager" just decade ago.
In his enthusiastically frank
fashion he meant the landing of a
Job by an unemployed man in addi-
ton to getting the job in his home
town-and the opportunity to vindi-
cate himself in the eyes of those
customers who soured on him toward
the close of his last tenure of office
here as customers will do.
The humble opinion Of this
department is that the re-en-
gagement of the one time hard
coal mine worker constitutes
lust as much of break for the
fans and for the (hard-work-
ing?) sports-writing fraternity
as well.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
OFFERS TWO RICH RACES
I,assie and Futurity at Arlington
Will Award $4,000.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Arlington Park at Chicago again
will boast a couple Of the richest horse
races in the country in 1885.
The nominations for the Lassie
Stakes, the big event for 2-year-old
fillies, and the Arlington Futurity in
dicate that both will be up to their
1884 values. The $4,000 added Lassie
attracted 280 nomination for the 1885
running. That indicates gross value
of around $50 ZOO, which would make
it the most valuable race for f1llies
In the county.
The Arlington Futurity, $4,000
added event with 457 nomination, may
have a gross w.ue of more than
$4,000.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

VALE is picked to defeat Prince
i ton in their foot ball game
today.
Western Highs foot ball team
surprised by holding Central to a
tie yesterday. Welchel, Western
quarterback, was a star.
Metropolitan duckpinners took
two of three sets from the Centrals
In the Bankers League. Rolling
for the winners were Veirs, Etzler,
Smith, Manning and Eckloff. The
losers used Dooley, McKeever, GN
more. Rose and Parsley.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
DARK HORSE is VICTOR
Montreal Bears Out Rating With
Win Over st. Louis Stickers.

NEW YORK, November IA R).-
Even before the National Hockey
League season opened the word began
to make the rounds that the Mon
treal Maroons, reorganized under the
guidance of Eddie Gerard, might turn
out to be the dark horses of the 1884,
IS campaign. The opening game
seems to bear out this contention.
Moving into action at st. Louis
last night, after their exhibition tests
against the New York Rangers had
revealed surprising strength, the
Maroons came out with a 2-to-1
triumph to join the defeated Eagles
in second place in the international
division.
The defeat was the second In three
games for the leagues newest mem
Der, which completed its opd3ing
home stand.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
LISTS SCHMELING, LASKY
Madison Square Books Fight in
Heavy Elimination.

NEW YORK, November II @.-
The matching Of Art Lasky, Mime
apolis heavyweight, and Max Schmel-
ing, former titleholder. is the next
step on Madison Square Gardens
heavyweight elimination program.
Providing Lasky beats King Le-
whisky at Chicago November %, he
will be offered the match with
Schmeling, Promoter James ]. john
ston said. The match will take place
either here or at Miami.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
Friendly With Veterans.

"IF WE can strengthen the pitching
staff a little, we should be in
there fighting from the start next
season. In other departments Wash
ington is a powerful ball club. You
know, up to July this year I thought
it would win the pennant. 1t was
an unlucky club. though, and when
Kuhel pulled up with broken leg
1t was sunk"
Harris comes back to club retain
ing only two of the players that were
with it in his last year of management
(Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
HUEY TO MAKE TRIP.

JACKSON, Miss, November IA (P).
Louisiana State Universitys chief
rooter, Senator Huey P. Long, will
lead the Baton Rouge Tigers to Jack
son next Saturday for their annual
scrap with Ole Miss.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
SWIM MATCH CARDED.

George Washington University and
Central High swimming teams VIII
clash December at $50 pm. In the
Shoreham Pool