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Evening star., 1934-03-03
ONLY ONE FACTOR
IN GOLF DISTANCE.
Power Generated Solely as
CIubhead Strikes Ball,
Is Pros Theory.
BY W. r. McCALLUM.

IT MAY come from strong
wrists, powerful shoulders
and forearms, or a fast twist
of the hips, but achieve it
how you will, power in driving
golf ball is generated only by
speed of the clubhead at the
moment of impact.
The clubhead may move slow
ly through the greater part of
the swing-arc; it may virtually
stop an instant after the pill is
hit, but if it is moving at maxi
mum speed at the actual mo-
ment of impact. that speed will
regulate the distance you can
drive a golf ball.
Freddie Mcleod, the Columbia
mentor, who has seen em struck in
every conceivable fashion, by big hit
ters and short hitters, by the Willie
Smiths, the Harry Vardons and Ted
Rays of yesterday down to the
Joneses, Armcurs, Sarazens and Mac
Smiths of today. says all there is to
this business of hitting a golf ball
far is to have the club moving at
maximum speed at the moment it
collides with the ball.
As to direction, or accuracy, or
keeping in the fairway, or whatever
you may call it, that is quite another
matter. But If you would be a slug
ger Of = golf ball, get your club
head travelling at maximum speed
at the moment the pill rises up and
smacks it.
Evening star., 1934-03-03
"A HARYLAND'S boxing team was
NI handicapped for its match
with Penn State tonight. Ly-

HARYLAND'S boxing team was
V handicapped for its match
with Penn State tonight. Ly-
man McAboy, 155-pound ace, made
the trip and may fight. although the
cut he received over his left eye in
the Southern Conference tourney
seems sure to be reopened If he does.
However, he insists that Coach Har-
mony use him.
Jack Herbsleb, 175-pounder. q not
In trim for q hard bout. as he quit
training for nearly q week. He
worked out to get back In shape this
week. but is not ready for three rounds
Of hard milling.
All OF the other Of the half dozen
scrappers Harmony will use tonight
are ready. They are:
115-Joe Harris or Bill Waller: 125
Harry Carroll; 135-Dick Babcock;
145-Walter Webb: 175-Stewart Nc
Cav; heavyweight-Al Farrell.
"A MARYLAND and Virginia will
VI meet in boxing beginning next
year. The Old Liners will in
wade Charlottesville next February is,
while the Cavaliers will come to Col
lege Park in 1886.
Arrangements for these bouts were
made yesterday when Jimmy Driver.
Virginia's athletic director, and
"Curley" Byrd of Maryland had a
confab here.
Evening star., 1934-03-03
IN BERMUDA NET FINAL
Allison Trims Watt, Stoefen Is
Pressed by Grant.

Pressed by Grant.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 3 R.
Wilmer Allison, Davis Cup veteran
from Austin, Tex, and Lester Stoefen,
big Californian, are In the final round
of singles In the fifteenth annual Ber-
muda tennis championships.
Allison swept Laird Watt, young
Montreal star, from the courts. lo-s.
e3, 60, but Stoefen was hard
pressed before he could eliminate the
Atlanta bantam" Bryan (Bitsy)
Grant 3-A - -, ~, I"
Evening star., 1934-03-03
Summary
Team Standing.

Totals -. 8 925 Totals -. q II
Referees-Mr. Kali and Mr.. Desnan.
Evening star., 1934-03-03

While Sam Willaman was foot ball
coach at Ohio State he scheduled
game with Western Reserve as
breather for the Buckeyes. Now VILLA
man Is coach Of the Reserve eleven.
Evening star., 1934-03-03

In the second round of the five
man team tournament. sponsored by
the District Chess League, Agriculture
and Castled Rook played at the Capt.
tai City Chess Club rooms, with the
following results.
Evening star., 1934-03-03
LOyola (32l.

Totals .23 763 otals ..13 g 81
Referee-Mr Eberti. Umpire-Mr. En-
riRht
Evening star., 1934-03-03
In CHESS CIRCLES
BY FRANK B. WALKER

UGRIDGE won his game from
Bettinger in the sixth round
of the tournament for the
championship of the District,
Evening star., 1934-03-03

THE match between Federal Chess
Club and Model Basin was
played at the Colonial Club,
with the following scores:
Federal Chess Club Model Basin.
Neufeld ...... Peterson .....0
Rosedale' Wintenburg'
Graves ...... 0 Pulling .......
Rubin ........ "a Bowers ...... "a
Eskln ........ Hewlns ...ss.0 o
Totals. ..... ga Totals. ..... Ia
ITO be adjudicated.
Evening star., 1934-03-03

MAR PROJECTION At THE
APITAL GARAGE
~i32o New Yssk Avenue NV.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

Jesse H. Met Senator Hebert
calf, Republican. who is one Of
the political powers in Rhode
Island, has been extremely care
full about the amount of support
given Hebert. Some observers
think he has been almost mi
serly in extending political
credit to his colleague.
Metcalf has never been overly
fond of Hebert and consequently
the boys behind the scene don't
think that he has been overly
active in his colleagues behalf.
Regardless OF the outcome OF
the election. there is one man
who has become the countryS
most aStute political observer
by reason of his work in con-
nection NTH the campaign.
He is Charles S. Buck" Hay
den, the working man" Of the
Democratic congressional cam
Eaign committee.
Lacking a large staff to as
sist him in gathering material
on various congressional con
flicts. he resorted to the mails
and by letters and telephone
and telegraph he has cleaned
a stock of information that is
second to none.
He knoWS more of the Re-
publican campaigns than Re-
publican leaders knoW then1'
SelUeS.
He has learned more OF the
difficulties of Democrats than
the Democratic national COM
mittee ever k11eU.
He thinks that Postmaster
General James A. Farley and
Emil Hurja, of the national
committee, are too optimistic.
And, regardless of the out
come, he can be considered the
country's foremost political
analyst.
C.. Marshall FinnGn, super
intendent OF National CGp'tdII
Parks, be1ieveS that When hard
luck starts it comes all al
once. =,
Not so long ago when he had
attended a big conference all
day he rushed home. His two
boys, after reading that October
was knowing month"; had dis
mantled all the furniture on
the first floor and taken it out
in the yard. They had removed
the second floor furniture to
the first floor. He spent hours
getting it replaced.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Getting Money Is Popular
Tn This Country, at Least

Tho GREAT minds who want regiment the American people
, Russian lines can something to think about the
enthusiasm with which thousands Of buy sweepstakes ucK
ats in the hope of getting rich overnight
Gambling is foolish, but its popularity reveals tunoa
mental trait of human nature the ambition to profit
The same ambition wisely applied IS what turns
fce bows into bank presidents and factory hands into cap
tains of industry.
It NAV not be the highest type Of ambition but it is almost
universal one and the Marxes and Lenns will never eradl
cate it permanently
The theory over there that every ought to be as
moor as every man-and it theory that on the whole
fhe Russian Government has translated into fact.
No matter how able you may be- matter how hard you
NAV work. matter how lucky are under the dictator
shin of the proletariat you can't cash in.
That would be individuaism not Communism. Hence, it
is barred.
We suppose average Russian would be quite willing
as the average American to pick up $4,000 Wychwood
Abbott but hardly at the risk of facing firing squad next
morning And that it likely might be his fate unless
he turned the $150000 into the Soviet till.
Well poor ignorant, capltalenslaved Americans still
have idea that findings and earnings ought to be keepngs
Every of wishes could win make few millions
and spend them liked
Every of nearly every one-would rather take
chance in sweepstakes in fe in the hope of making
cleanup than be of getting ruble day. whatever
you draw in Russia, AND NO MORE.
We hope our Brain Trusters that some time.
They should buy few tickets the next sweep and learn
The facts of life therefrom.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

Well, if it's to be a fight,
let it be a good one. Let the
foes of the raiSin rally, for
this decadent grape must and
shall be relegated to a richly
deserved oblivion before snow
flies and they start making
fruit cakes for Christmas. This
is important. If We haven't
given it the coup de grace by
then we'll have the raisin on
our hands for at least another
year, because once a raisin gets
into a fruit cake there is no
dislodging it.
It has been simply because
of it's tactics in matters like
the fruit cake that the raisin
has won the disesteem of every
lover of fair play and square
deal. It's methods in this
respect have been definitely
underhanded. Realizing that
it could not worm itself into
the affections of a public in
different if not actively averse
to raisins by standing on its
own merits, the raisin has re-
sorted to subterfuges such as
using rice pudding and fruit
cake as an excuse to get
eaten.
No other fruit that I know
pulls this shabby trick. The
pear, for example, has a sturdy,
American, tai e-me-or-leave-me
independence, and whether you
eat a pear in the raw or after
it has been picked it at least
does not misrepresent itself.
You do not find pears lurking
inside of floating island pud-
ing. ready to spring into your
nav when you are looking for
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

He and his wife dressed so as
to return to the conference.
She suggested he start the fur
mace. After starting a roaring
fire he realized there was no
water in the boiler. He turned
on all valves he could reach.
Suddenly his wife, upstairs,
Shrieked. The plaster had fallen
on her. Marsh" had turned on
the wrong valve. He rushed
upstairs and in the excitement
let the dog out. 1t ran away.
Then some of the water from
the many valves Marsh had
turned leaked into the bottom
part of the furnace causing gas.
Fearing his young baby would
be asphyxiated by the fumes he
rushed upstairs. Just as he
reached the hall the plaster fell
on him.
Back he Went to the fur.
mace. On the fire he threw
bucket of lU1ter. 1t Went out.
The FinnanS, somewhat eI-
h1uSted, retired.
Before long Washington will
again become the mecca of
hundreds of members of Con-
greSs.
AS soon as elections are over
a horde will descend on the
Capital although the next SEES
sion does not begin until Janu-
airy 3.
The "udcdtion" at home has
been none too pleasant for most
OF the bovS and they are dn;T-
iouS as soon as the election is
ouer, to return to the COMPARE
tiUely quiet life Of Washington.
A program of legislation must
be mapped. Committees will
meet on various bills that are
to be considered.
Newly elected members will
head for Washington to prepare
hundred of bills. by which they
hope to arouse the nations in
terest and keep promises tn
voters, but which eventually, in
the vast majority of cases, will
be pigeOn-holed.
Many of the men will be in
tereSted in preparation for the
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

ordering the hind legs cut Oft all
the stronger, meaner monkey
men and grating 'em to the
weaker ones? Or by start
ing a Down-With-Squatters
Movement?
Be your age! Grandpa learned
to use his legs by using 'em. 1t
was an inside job, and God him
self couldn't make it otherwise.
First grandpa had to WANT to
use them. had to DECIDE,
PERSONALLY, that he'd rather
walk than Shamble.
Then he tried. Got up, fell
down, got up again. Sometimes
went on trying-sometlmes
didn't.
Millions of our grandpas
never did learn to walk upright.
Didn't want to and couldn't be
made to-and went to their
graves still protesting rear-axle
action.
How do humans get progress?
That's how. And you're just
kidding yourself-and wasting a.
lot of good nitroglycerin and
bum legislators-if you try any
other scheme.
EVOLUTION not REVOLT
TION-that's what does the
trick.
Revolutions noisy and spec
tacular. Works off a lot OF
grudges and seems to produce
results. But it doesn't.
You can kill off the rich man
and give the poor man the rich
ones house and land, his job
and bank account and even his
adventures and opportunities
but then what?
You just swap breadlines-
that's what.
And then who's going to give
the poor man the courage and
shrewdness and control to use
his new breaks wisely and profit
ably?
Who's going to keep him from
being just another Bigger, Bad
der Rich Man? Nobody but the
poor man himself. And history
proves that he usually makes a
mess of it.
Give people all the help pos
sible. Free education. Fair
breaks. And, above all, faith
and friendlineSs.
But don't kid yourself that
civilization ever was, ever can
be, an overnight job. Or that
you can push a man ahead any
faster than he'll work to push
himself.
(CoIyright, 1894. by King FsatursS
Syndicate, Inc.l
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

%, 1859, they had plugged down
50 feet, 6 inches. They were
nearly at the end of their resour-
ces. But on this day steady
stream of oil came pouring
through the pipe-40 barrels a
day. Mobs came swarming from
all the countryside, from the big
towns, farms, factories and
cities. There was a rabble Of
ragged adventures and there
were also shrewd bankers and
investors, eager to take a look
at this curious stuff, somehow
sensing it's Importance, without
any clear understanding Of its
worth.
Samuel M. Kier Of Pittsburgh
built a crude refinery. Ale
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

on the surface of pools, or in
the tricklings from salt mines.
But the "hunch" which hit
him had all the impact of Lou
Gehrig's bat. He had no money,
or powerful friends, but he did
know a shrewd Yankee who
could understand a bunch. He
looked up his old friend, E. l..
Drake, a conductor on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad. Drake always knew
how to cobble up something that
would work. They went to Titus
vile, Pa, and took in with them
Uncle Billy" Smith, another
Shrewd old-timer.
They made a crude caisson
and sunk a pipe. On August
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

ward to tasting floating island,
not pears.
People take a dislike to
raisins at various ages. I was
precocious and started hating
them when I was six. This
was because at home they
would stud the rice pudding
with raisins, and something
that was fine and clean within
me told me this was no way
to treat a self-respectng pud.
ding.
I used to try to extract the
raisins before eating the pud'
ding, but the family put a
stop to that on the ground
that it was messy and took too
long. What did care how
long it took to get the raisins
out of the pudding; it was a
labor of love with me. And
my tragedy was that by the
time I got old enough to be
messy at table if cared to,
without let or hindrance, it
dawned on me that I had
never liked rice pudding any
how.
Fruit cake is the real strong
hold of the raisin. Once a
-aisin gets itself we'll inside a
fruit cake it is there to stay.
You cannot take a complex
piece of machinery like a fruit
cake apart successfully. have
known men to go crazy in the
attempt. In rice pudding the
raisin is easily detected and
routed. The eviction may take
a little time, and in the process
of flicking the raisins out OF
the pudding with the knife, the
gowns or shirt fronts of a few
innocent bystanders at nearby
tables may suffer, but with pa
thence and diligence it can be
done.
It's no such clear-cut matter
with the fruit cake. The raisin
l-ere Is firmly lnbedded ana Cne
cake itself is raiSin-colored,
which enables the lurking raiSin
to take advantage Ct Natures
age-old principle of protective
coloration. A lot Of counter
irrants like citron are put in
fruit cake. too. so that if you
eat a piece the chances are you
don't know you are eating a
raiSin until too late. Experience
has taught me that when fruit
cake and wine are passed the
wisest course is to pass up the
cake and take two portions OF
the wine instead.
X
Well, if the raisin won't 60,
as now seems likely, apparently
we raisin haters will have to
give it the necessary putsch.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.I
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
A School for Sailors
One Needed, After the Moro Castle

One Congressman at least w srovch Of New York
to have taken the Moro Castle disaster seriously and given
thought to avertng future disasters Of the sort
Mr. Sirovich urges that Merchant Marine Academy
what similar to the Naval Academy be established by the Gov
eminent to train officers and of American ships.
suggestion that deserves the careful consideration of
Congress.
Some such action plainly essential commercial
sells to be operated efficiently in peace and in
their foreign competitors.
The Hearst newspapers have advocated naval training for
merchant Sailors and the incorporation of officers and
into the Naval Reserve.
Mr. sirovch plan thus far outlined appears to be step
in the right dreconone that would far to give this
try the type of merchant marine that needs but does not
have. r
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

though it landed me in the dog
house. Big words-but I mean
them. Then why am not join
ing some of these mobs and
movements that advocate these
very acts?
Because I don't believe that
those acts ever have really
helped people, or ever will.
I admit that we're in a mess.
In an awful mess. There are
shameful blots on our record
cruel injustices in our system.
Something ought to be done
about them-something vigor'
Gus, ruthless. 1 agree with all
that.
But our troubles don't come
from a certain system of govern
ment or a certain class of peo-
pie. They come from the Gus
sedness inherent in human ma
ture. ALL human nature. And
you'll nave 10 zeal WIN CIldG
cussedness under ANY form Of
government.
The only way to cure human
misery is to eliminate human
meanness. That can't be done
by dynamite nor dictators. Nor
laws. Nor elections.
It has to be done by EVOLU-
TION-learning TEAM WORK
as we learned how to walk.
It took the human animal mil
lions of years to learn to walk
on his hind legs. How was it
done? Was it done by passing
a law to deport anyone who
wasn't walking upright by 2::35
tomorrow afternoon? Or by
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill
By T. E. Powers

gheny county was bristling with
derrickS. Down from the noun
tains came be-Whiskered circuit
riding preachers, to harangue
the crowds and thunder against
this filching from the earth that
which God had put away from
the eyes of men.
Jeremy Twigg. strange old
white-bearded Isaiah - no one
knew whence he came or where
he went-called down gloom and
doom on all who touched oil.
He had seen a vision. In his
apocalyptic thunderS he visioned
war and rumors Of war;" all
the demons of Revelations
loosed in the wake of this slug
gish yellow flow.
Even in certain churches in
the great cities, clerics with
Oxonian accents intoned dis
aster for mankind unless he
foreswore this invasion of the
deeps under the earth. This
alarm on the part of religious
men has remained one of the
most puzzling phenomena OF
it's kind in history. There
seemed nothing rational about
it. No one knew then what
oil might be good for. None
could foresee its place in world
affairs. No Sumner or Frazier
ever has sought to explain this
strange reaction.
ENDLESS BATTLE
Clock swiftly seventy-five
years-just an instant in great
human trends. Here's that
snub-nosed train hurting
across the continent with a fuel
cost of just $50. That's the
Diesel engine, and they're
readying it for the air, too.
Modern technology has based
civilization on the command OF
energies. That train used the
energy equivalent of 1900 men
and it paid them a trifle over
one cent apiece.
Navy talk is oil talk and sur.
vival talk is, too. Diplomats
know this, and that is why
Washington has been on the
job the last few months, al
though behind the scenes. The
United States leads in the an
nual production Of oil, bring
ing up about one-tenth of the
world supply. No one can eStl-
mate the worlds potential oil
resources, but the future supply
seems to lie mainly in Ven
ezuela, colo bi a, Trinidad,
Peru, Argentina, Persia, 1raq
and Russia.
The United States controls
one hundred per cent of the
Colombian supply: 81 per cent
of the Persian; IS per cent OF
its own oil, the rest being
held by foreign capital; II per
cent of Mexico; So per cent OF
Canada, ana Az per CeAlV VI
Venezuela.
The Royal Dutch Shell
launched terrific battle
against the Standard Oil in
1928, angered by the latter's
purchase of Russian oil for sale
in India. Since the war, Eng
land, through it's Anglo-Persian
and other interests, has moved
in aggressively into the world
drive for oil and markets. The
battle goes on ceaselessly, with
new alignments and new fac
tors, S huttling bewilderingly
through the fabric Of world al"
fairs since the day when that
Dartmouth lad happened to
glance into drugstore win
dow.
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. lnc.I
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

or Republic
ans-as long
as it's run for
PEOPLE. Peo-
pie they're
t h e M o S t
Thing I'm in
terested n,
and I'd do
anything t o
help them.
Anyt h i ng
Yes, A N Y
T H I N G .
B m b rail-
roads. Loo t
banks. Lead
n.inkc 4 nan
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

staffs organized, as we'll as to
try and find jobs for political
friends.
And when that bunch of hun.
gry Job seekers descends on the
town it is going to be a rough
day for department heads and
bureau chiefs.
The Congressman have had a
chance to secure firSt-hand in
formation on the number OF
their constituents in the unem-
plOyed army.
Copyright 1884, This Washington
TjmeS)
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

A great deal of oil diplomacy
stays underground. Once in a
while it seeps up to the surface,
as now in the issue of Japan's
oil monopoly in Manchukuo.
Great Britain and the United
States team up in defense of
the "open door" policy, stem
ming from the days of John
Hay. The Netherlands join in.
America, Britain and Holland
are the great oil sovereignties of
the world.
We learn that this intensity
ing argument has been going on
off-stage for many months. 1t
is now out in the glare of the
footlights. Plot and characters
are the same. Again it is the
world struggle for raw materials
and markets-the central plot
of the World War, according to
many historians.
At a Kansas crossroads or
deep in the heart of an African
jungle are the rival insignia of
competing companies and, in
the political incidence Of all
world enterprise, of competing
nations. All the gold dust OF
CALIFORNIA; airing forty
miners, with it's lingering roman
tic epilogue, is as the widows
pence weighed against this flow
of liquid gold and it's back-wash
on human destiny.
"TIe who has oil has empire,
said the Sagacious French, even
before the rest of the world
knew just what to do with this
viscous stream which had been
lured from the earth, down in
Allegheny county, California.
That was just seventy-fve years
ago and here one recalls again
that recent remark of Henry
Ford's about some backyard in
ventor probably upsetting all
the artifice, all the desperate
devices of the politicians.
CURIOSITY
If Mr.. Ford had made this
remark in March, 1859, he
would have been talking about a
rather dreamy young man, who
let his thoughts Craze here and
there in the open range Of an
inquiring mind. His allusion
also would have touched on the
chance combination of furry
of rain in downtown New York,
and a certain drug store avn
ing being down. instead of up.
George H. BisSell was the
young man, not long out of
Dartmouth. There. Professor
Crosby had displayed bottles OF
wnish yellow liquid,
skinned from pools in Penn
sylvania, endowed by the In
dams with mystic properties.
Signalized in their tribal cere-
monies, as somehow potent in
the affairs of men.
The professor had carried on
certain experiments touching on
it's possibly curative properties.
Young Mr.. Bissell was i'm
pressed. He was endowed with
the priceless human attribute
curiosity, always bulking large
in the human side of the news.
That dash of rain in lower
Broadway caught him without
an umbrella or raincoat. He
stopped under the drug store
awning. There in the window
was a bottle of yellow liquid,
frantically ballyhooed as a cure
for all the ills of man or beast.
Taken from 400 feet under
ground" said the placard. Young
Bissell knew that this was un-
true. He knew the quacks who
we're peddling the stuff as a
cure-all soaked it up in blankets,
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Senator Felix Hebert, Repub-
fcan, of Rhode Island, is having
a difficult time in his State.
And if he comes through his
election today he won't be able
to give much credit to his
0frinndS