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Labor Stage.

Endorsed by half a million organized
workers, the formation of Labor Stage,
Inc, to present plays dealing with the
social and cultural ideals of the toilers
Of the world, has been announced.
William Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, gives the prof.
ect his blessing in a statement which
reads: II welcome heartily this UNDER
taking to serve the cultural needs of a
vast labor audience in terms of the
drama. There has long been a need for
Q movement in the theater which would
be the expression of labors social aspira-
tions and q channel Of self-expression
for the organized labor masses"
But perhaps the venture is not so novel
as it may seem. The use of the theater
for propaganda purposes traces back to
ancient Greece. Aristophanes, if not
Euripides and Aescylus, was critic Of
social injustice, and his works have been
revived in recent times for their "mes-
sage" of protest. In Rome, also, the
stage was a vehicle for the complaints
Of the masses against the masters. The
Middle Ages, likewise, witnessed the
same phenomenon-even at the doors Of
the great cathedrals Of France and Eng.
Land the guild players presented their
Evening star., 1935-10-17
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
BOyhood Renaissance.

Boyhood Reminiscence.
Oh, once there was q little boy who
thought it JOY intense
To drag plant piece of wood along a
picket fence.
He loved the rhythmic racket that the
mechanism made.
1t was his favorite tune from matin song
to seIenade.
But as he grew to mans estate, his brain
expanded wide,
OF course, he had to lay that simple joy
of youth aside.
And yet it always echoed through his
memory, more or less,
A subtle inspiration to higher useful
ness.
He is putting up building that is climb
ing toward the sky
And the rivets make a racket like the
tune in days gone by.
He hears the clatter with a sense Of &C.
stacy and pride,
That melody of stick and fence so vastly
magnified.
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criticism of vested interest and fortified

criticism Of vested interest and fortified
greed.
1t follows that Moliere had ample
precedent for the barbed gibes which
he delighted to launch at the idle rich"
and that Ibsen and Bernard Shaw.
Strindberg and Gerhardt Hauptmann.
Maxim Gorky and Upton Sinclair oper-
ated within an ancient tradition when
they attempted to hold the mirror up
to selflshness and corruption, intol-
erance and iniquity. Indeed, the social
note is to be found in practically
every dramatic composition which has
achieved popularity in thousand years
of theater history. Few, If any, Of the
celebrated playwrights have been reac-
tionaries; almost without exception all
have been radicals. For that reason,
then, Labor Stage has an advan-
tage which commercial producers may
lack-it may draw upon an accumulated
fund of genius unparalleled in the annals
Of art.
Though it may be granted that its
immediate appeal will be principally to
an audience already converted, the
enterprise which Mr.. Green has COM
mended almost surely will enlist the
interest, and possibly the active support,
of the whole public. 1t is an "experi-
ment noble in motive" and unorganized
workers as we'll as members of the fed
success.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

thing. The punishment is apt to be a
fiat refusal of help. Bernard Shaw and
Hilaire Belloc years ago decided that
applicants for aims, in England If not
in America, customarily are treated Is
criminals. They are suspect because Of
their condition. 1t is taken for granted
that sin of one kind or another is to
blame for their plight, and their pro-
test against such q judgment is regard
ed as proof of their wickedness. Social
workers rs q class are skepticsl.
And the pity Of it is that they have
ample excuse for their doubts. For
example, in the days before Community
Chests were organized to bring order
into philanthropic chaos it was not at
all uncommon for professional beggars
to be on the lists Of as many as half
a dozen agencies at one time. Mean
while, deserving families perforce were
Disseminated against. The science of
social service was designed to correct
the faults Of a system which was both
inefficient and unjust.
But, as Mr.. Smith has said, 1t is pos
sible that in some quarters at least
there is rather more Of the science than
there is Of the charity. If so, reform
can and should be initiated. The test
in the long run will be that of effec-
tiveness. The Federal Government and
the several States at present are carry
ing the burden. Should they do the
work well, there will be a sentiment for
their continuance with it. On the other
hand, the trend Of objection to which
the former Governor has given voice
is plainly discernible and may increase
in power. Many thoughtful but un-
prejudiced citizens are hostile to offi-
cial altruism. They say it is waste
full, handicapped by politics and alto
gether too impersonal in character.
Also, they are conscious of the fact
that it is conducted at the expense of
taxpayers who may have ideas of their
own about to whom, when and in what
manner they should give.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

Ho, hum, what to eat Tor breakfast?
While one is not unmindful Of the fact
that many persons have no choice, and
have very little then, there are millions
of persons who look upon the morning
meal with something akin to despair.
The sad truth is that they have no
appetite for it.
Hence they consume a roll and coffee,
or some other niggardly menu, and find
it satisfies them very well.
There are two extremes-the utter
ignoring of breakfast and the consump-
tion of a regular farm hand" meal by
a sedentary worker.
Neither of these is rare. The no
breakfast plan, as it is called, has wide
following. No doubt it satisfies a need,
for the taking of food is by no means
entirely physical, although basically that.
If one honestly does not care for it, at
any certain time Of day, there is little
need to cram edibles down, provided
enough food is taken at other times.
Most persons, even though they have
little morning appetite, solve this prob
lem by eating small breakfast.
They feel better Immediately and no
doubt are in a much better mood the rest
Of the morning.
Some of the early morning Crouch"
SO often encountered in large city Is
due to insufficient food
The expansive thawing of Crouch"
after good meal, or even during the
progress Of the same, is an illuminating
proof Of the intertWined character of
human alimentation. Eating is never
entirely physical. even when the con-
Sumer eats as If his manners were derived
from the trough. There is about even the
poorest meal a significance shown best
by the old-fashioned grace said before
meals. What a shame it is that this fine
old custom has tended to wear out. Yet
happily there are homes where grace is
said and where every one is the better
for 1t.
No doubt perfectly hardy person can
60 without breakfast without i'll effects,
but we have noticed that most of these
usually sneak of later in the morning
to enjoy combination breakfast lunch
con, call it what one will.
The great average person, about whom
we properly hear so much, is better of
for some sort of breakfast.
The question is: What kind?
The answer must depend largely on
three factors:
/. Ones state Of health.
2. Ones heritage as to habits.
3. Ones mind.
A breakfast. just an ordinary one, such
as most people eat, nevertheless combines
these factors, whether the person at
table realizes as much or not, and it is
Just as we'll to look into them. They
may help explain some Of the things we
see every day.
The tendency is, in speaking of eating.
to mentally hold ones self as the real
example and any deviations therefrom as
somewhat strange alterations, when the
evident truth is that every person must
be a law unto himself.
The state of health must determine,
in the last analysis, what one eats. That
many persons do not permit it to do so
is no argument against this first rule Of
good eating. There is no subject about
which there is more confusion than that
of diet. There is a new book on the
market, for instance, in which the popu-
Evening star., 1935-10-17
Public VS.. Private Charity.

.
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith of
New York, speaking at a recent meeting
of the National Conference of Catholic
Charities, expressed preference for pri-
vate as distinct from public charity.
The latter, he insisted, "is cold and is
administered in a perfunctory, business
like way. 1t is very costly" But an
opponent might argue that there is no
imperative necessity for the lack of
warmth and expense against which he
complains.
Yet the charge is frequently made, and
it is logical to suppose that it must
have some merit. People on relief do
object to the cross-examination to which
they are subjected. OF that there can
be little question. Poverty, it seems,
robs the citizen of even the shabbiest
rags of privacy. To obtain assistance
he must submit to the investigator the
innermost secrets Of his heart. 1t is .
fatal error to attempt to conceal any.
Evening star., 1935-10-17
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
We Sing Again


This is October! Wonderful weather.
Earth full of beauty where scarlet
leaves blow,
Air full Of ozone, step free Of tether,
Every town window and portal aglow.
This is October! Let's not remember,
Zest flowing back to the brain and the
heart,
Desolate dusks of lonely September
Loved ones divided and comrades
apart.
This is Octoberl Lamps lit at twilight.
After the partings renewed rhapsody.
Laughter and song once again In the
nrelight-
Love has come back from the hills
and the sea!
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Complications may be introduced into
the so-called New Deal which may COM
pei citizens attempting to discuss 1t to
admit that they do not know exactly
what 1t is.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

Ethiopia has always stood better in
poetry than in politics. The Queen of
Sheba was woman of historic splendor,
and in Elizabethan poetry "a rich jewel
in an Ethiope's ear" was truly some
thing to talk about.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

There is still an occasional sigh for
old-time comic opera which enabled the
public to take its ethnology good
naturedly entirely apart from thought
of military conquest.
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Mexico has not yet attained an
agrarian security which enables farmer
to decide off-hand on whether he had
better invest in a tractor or q machine
gun.
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Welcomed.

Welcomed.
I'LL have to arrest you," said the po-
liceman.
The man who was having trouble with
his wife threw both arms around the
officer and exclaimed:
"This isn't any arrest. This is q
rescue
One of the worlds leading optimists
is the man who makes post card pictures
of o Summer resort.
Secure.
How fair the gold of Autumn shines
Where wooded heights are cleaning;
No more the weary world repines
Or Summers sordid seeming.
The year has boarded day by day,
Till in az impulse tender
It turns and, generously gay,
Endows the world with splendor.
Here is one blessing fair and true
AS ever fancy painted.
We welcome Autumn's gold anew.
We know it isn't tainted.
"De man dat don't keep pushin' for
ward" said Uncle Eben, lis mighty liable
TO b. Q drawback" -.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

A housing plan is incomplete unless
it figures on taxes, schools, sanitation
and the rent collector.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

Communism is so persistently mis-
chlevous that it can even spoil the pleas
ure Of a sojourn at Atlantic City.
Evening star., 1935-10-17

Carrying war into Africa has always
been q simpler historic process than
keeping war out of Europe.
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The Endless DiSnufe.

Inc EndIeSS dispute.
Mans quest is still for fame or dross.
His zeal he ne'er relaxes
In arguing as to who is boss
And who shall pay the taxes.
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Frigidity.

"You are sometimes referred to as
cold, calculating man."
"Well," replied Senator Sorghum, "that
impression probably results from the fact
that successful statesman must be able
to keep his opinions in cold storage until
there Is q demand for them"
"It is sometimes necessary" said Jud
Tunkins, 'to wallop a mule. But the
man who breaks a rib or q leg doin' it
Is no good disciplinarian."
Evening star., 1935-10-17


Herbert Hoover is away to a good
start in his active campaign against the
New Deal. Probably Mr.. Hoover feels
that the aspirants for the Republican
presidential nomination should take a
similar course; get out on the stump and
give the New Deal rough ride. Some
Of these gentlemen are already doing
that. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the
Chicago Daily News, has been speaking
here and there. Senator Dickinson of
Iowa is attacking frequently, and so is
Representative Hamilton Fish of New
York. But there are others who have
been prominently mentioned for the
place who are withholding their punches.
In the opinion of Mr.. Hoover this is no
time to delay. The issues of the day
should be widely discussed so as to have
the people clearly understand what they
are facing in the event of the reelection
Of President Roosevelt.
Senator Borah is heard from now and
then, in an attack on the New Deal. For
the most part he has confined himself,
however, to the issue Of monopoly, which
he charges the New Deal is building up.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, who
many Republicans believe would make
both good candidate and good Presi-
dent, has been quiet enough since Con-
gress closed. This seems to be in line
with the political strategy of the Michi-
gan Senator He is, doing nothing to
advance himself as an aspirant for the
presidential nomination. If the conven-
ton next year turns to him as a COM
promise candidate no one expects Mr..
Vandenberg to say no. 1t may be that
he will become active as time goes on,
but it is doubtful. Gov. Landon of
Kansas of whom more and more talk Is
heard, is 30 far making no campaign
asainst the New Deal
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
TODAY'S FEATURES

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WMAL a err BraddOck
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pageant from Pavilion OF
Omar in front Of White
House, 1915 to 1O:45.
WJSV-Kate Smith hour,
! to 8 p. m. Warnings Penn
sylvanians, $3.50 to $3.50 p. m.
WOL-Marimba Orchestra,
9:15 to 9:45 p. m. Shepherd
Boy, 7:45 to 8 p. m.
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A contest sponsored by Henry
J. kaufman, advertiser. starts
June IS and lasts for 80 days, for
staff announcers, whose partlclpa-
ton in the radio program is con-
fined to the handling of the COM
mercial announcements them
selves.
There will be a prize award
CORDIALLY a cup) to the CONNER
cial announcer, who, in the opln-
ion of a group Of nonpartisan
Judge, is deemed the finest in
Washington.
The Max Baer-Jimmy Braddock
figth for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world will he
ehard tonight at 9 on WRC and
WMAE from Madison Square Gar
den bowl.
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The Washington times., 1935-11-14
CrOWding Buildings

In urging that future Government building in the Dis
trict be decentrazed far is possible the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association makes suggestion which
is highly important the long range planning of the
city.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL GOVERN
MENT BUILDINGS IN GREAT CLUMPS SUCH AS
THE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TRIANGLE, CAN
NOT BE JUSTIFIED ON GROUNDS EITHER OF
PRACTICALITY OR OF BEAUTY
It is obvious that the Government in future years will
need many and additional buildings properly to
house it's activities
When the time comes for that construction the ex-
ample of the triangle development should be observed
but not followed.
Concentration of thousands upon thousands Of Gov
ernment employees in relatively small area such as the
triangle creates an almost impossible traffic condition
IT IS AT PRESENT ALMOST AN IMP0SSIBIL1TY
TO GET THE EMPLOYEES INTO AND OUT OF THIS
AREA WITH ANY DEGREE OF SPEED, COMFORT
OR SAFETY.
To add further buildings the group UOud be merely
to accentuate the existing difficulties.
And further concentration of huge buildings abso
lutely unnecessary.
There many large open spaces IN the District
conveniently situated and appropriate for the additional
buildings which must be erected.
TO OVERLOOK THESE AVAILABLE AREAS
AND FURTHER CONCENTRATE GOVERNMENT
BUILDINGS IN AN AREA ALREADY CoNGEsTED
WILL MEAN THAT THE WELL-PLANNED CITY
OF WASHINGTON WILL BE THROWN STILL
MORE OUT OF BALANCE.
Large areas will be left with little no development
while some few areas will be over built and over
developed.
The of decentralzed sites for Government con-
Uoud also ObUate of the unpleasant aspects
of the present triangle budings-he almost total lack
of laWnS surrounding the buildings
It is that there large park near BY but
the buildings themselves built almost on the curb
line giving absolutely unnecessary effect of crowdng
WE HOPE THE MOUNT PLEASANT ASSoC1A-
TION PRESSES ITS CAMPAIGN AND ENLISTS
ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO MAKE AND KEEP
WASHINGTON CITY BEAUTIFUL.
The Washington times., 1935-11-14

'ern young women less ardently
loved and wooed than their grand
mothers were? Why do they have
to do so per cent Of the courting?
Are they handicapped by too
much beauty? And why do the
palmer women cop all the best
matrimonial prizes?
I'll tell you why. A plain girl
has no illusions about herself. She
strives to please" and works
unremittingly at that job. She
does not expect to be starred or
featured. She stars the man.
Too much beauty makes a girl
imperiouS, impatient and a little
too independent. All right in a
prima donna or even in a casual
summer infatuation.
But when a man marrieS, he
wants to insure himself peace of
mind. He wants to preserve his
self-esteem. He wants a mate
who will fill him with courage
and a superiority complex.
He likes to be told that he's
another Napoleon" even though
he knows he isn't. And the plain
girl who appreciates his love, can
convince him of almost any
thing, because she honestly be.
lieveS it.
Plain girls not only get the
best husbands, but they make
the best of the husbands they
get. They not only marry the
most successful men: but they
work hard to make a success of
the men they marry.
Beauty is a divine gift for
which every woman prays with
all her heart. But in the struggle
for happiness, it seems to be
more of a handicap than an
asset. Most of the prizes go to
the Plain James!
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-11-14
Three-Minute Journeys

, land of Jutland lies the lovely
island of Funen, few hours away
by train and ferry from the capi-
tai. Many make this journey as
a sentimental pilgrimage, for the
chief city of the island is OdenSe,
an old, old town famous as the
birthplace of Hans Christian
Andersen.
One invariably thinks Of Ander-
sens fairy tales when visiting
Funen. Over the countryside IS
an almost unearthly beauty. Low
half-timbered farmhouSes alter
nate with stately manor houses.
Villages appear on the horizon as
a cluster Of red roofs around a
white church. Groves ana WOODS
contrast With cleaning rivulets
and lakes.
OLD.WORLD TOWNS
svendborg and Faaborg are
idyllic Old-world towns with mar
row. winding streets and charm
all their own. From Funen one
goes to South Jutland, full of in
teresting and beautiful sights and
sites. The islands are lovely and
there are plenty of them when
one recollectS that Denmark con.
sists of the peninsula Of Jutland
and 500 islands. Nature has
given the Danish engineer the
task of linking island to island.
and islands to the mainland. It
is very interesting to make the
various trips. Each one Of the 500
islands has at least one bathing
beach, so the place is a summer
paradise.
Kronberg castle at Elsinore, aC
the entrance to the Sound, beaut1'
full in itself, has the added at
traction Of being the setting for
Hamlet" Built in 1874, it is one
Of the finest specimens Of RenaiS-
sance architecture in the north:
From Copenhagen there are all
sorts of other fascinating excur-
sions to be made, either afoot. or
by rail, boat or automobile. Few
countries offer so much that 10
beautiful and interesting, wtnln
so small a space.
The Washington times., 1935-11-14
GROWING OUTGO

December 2 has been set as the
day when the House Appropria-
tions Committee meets to make
its plans for dishing out the
dollars.
Chairman James P. Buchanan
has summoned the members in
order that they may draft the
formula by which the Government
will expend the faSt-falling re-
ceiptS taken from the taxpayer.
Although the clamor for cur
tailment in expenditures rings
through the political tumult and
the promises of parties, there is
little indication that the confer
ence on December 2 or future
appropriation bills will provide
dractic reductions.
The widely debated question of
relief has not provoked a definite
plan to end the spending that
will secure sufficient approval Of
both parties to put it into effect.
The President is talking Of
adding to the Navy and the
Army is expected to come in for
its share.
In the heyday of its existence,
the Department of Justice prob
ably will seek appropriations suf-
ficient to permit expansion of its
forces.
There are indications that the
Treasury'S Bureau of Internal
Revenue and the Alcohol Control
The Washington times., 1935-11-14
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROIULavud

Plain Girls Get Best Husbands
What has beauty to do with
q woman's happiness? Not half
so much as you think!
If we can believe the photo
graphs in the news, the happiest
and most successful marriages
are made these days, by the
least snowy and pulchritudinous
girls. and not by the beauty-prize
winners.
have always suspected that
the average wife was loved in
inverse ratio to her decorative
qualities, and have wondered
why. Wives were more tenderly
cherished in the days when they
wore long Sleeved cotton night
gowns and did their hair up in
curlpapers and pig-tails than
they are in these days, when
they have permanent waves,
beautiful negligees and look like
sleeping beauties.
When women wore no makeup
and went around with shiny
noses and unrouged lips. you al
most never heard of divorces,
blond affinitieS and highstep-
ping husbands.
And when the average wife
practically lived in a gingham
bungalow apron, instead of in
satin pajamaS, she got all her
husbands kisses, and no other
sweet young thing dreamed Of Of
fering to toss pennies for him.
Juliet Wilbor TompkinS once
said, Rouge is Gods greatest gift
to women" And it certainly has
made radiant beauties out of lots
of sallow, pasty-faced girls; while
permanent waves and beauty
shops have transformed many a
plain Jane into a Dream-of Fair
Women.
But, what has all this struggle
for beauty got US? Why are mod