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Evening star., 1936-10-12
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"HIS week local wooers of the
muse of the drama set out
to WOO the old girl with
Il minds set upon substantial
rewards. such as glory and cash
prizes for the winners. The pre-
liminaries in this seasons repetition
of the Capitals annual one-act play
contest, sponsored by the Community
Center Department. gets under way
tomorrow night at Roosevelt High
School auditorium, with cash prizes
donated by The Star. the Post and
the News offering added incentive to
get out and fight for dear old Siwash.
The best individual performance will
be especially rewarded, too, by the
Maud Howell Smith Medal.
The first preliminary at Roosevelt
tomorrow will offer opportunity for
the Players Club of Central Commu-
nifty Center to display its abilities
with "A Merry DEATH" the George
town Odeon Players, with ]. M.
Synge's Riders to the Sea-" and the
Wesley Heights Players with Thorn
ton Wilder's Queens of France"
Following preliminaries will present
the dramatic division of the Musical
and Theatrical Guild Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture (that name is
still startling when you come upon it
suddenly, the Langley Lambs Club
and the lexington Players this Thurs
day night, and Thespian Society, the
Troupers of East Washington Commu-
nifty Center and the Southeast Com
munity Players, Saturday night.
Next week the Theater Group of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
Buchanan Parent-Teacher Dramatic
Club, the Little Theater of Takoma
Park, the Jewish Community Center
Theater and the Capital Players will
have their innings. Finals will be
held at Roosevelt Saturday. Octo-
Der "a.
The secret of the sphinx is bother
ing the Washington Civic Theater no
no end these days. Not the secret
Of what's on the sphinx's mind be-
hind that expression, but the secret
constructed. So if you happen to
know how the Egyptians built the one
they stuck up out in the desert, you
might let the Civic Theaters techi-
cal director, William Girvan, in on
the know. He has to do a sphinx for
Evening star., 1936-10-12
END of Summer" Opens
at National Tonight
INA CLAIRE and Osgood Per-

INA CLAIRE and Osgood Per-
kins come to the National
Theater tonight for weeks en-
gagement of S. N. Behrman's
End of Summer" The play,
which ran all last season in New
York, is brought here as the sec
ond play of the American Thea
ter Society's subscription season.
The cast provided by the Thea
ter Guild includes Stiano Brag-
giotti, Susan Fox, Shepperd
Strudwick, Jean Adair, Nicholas
JOY. Van Heflin and Clifford
Brooke. Philip Moeller, respon-
sible for a number of other guild
hits. directed End of Summer"
Evening star., 1936-10-12

be followed by readings Of dozen
or more OF Shakespeare's Soliloquies
by Maurice Jsrvis, Ada Townsend, w.
E. Bryant. Esther Marshman and
Joseph Haltigan.
Evening star., 1936-10-12
ADJUSTMENTS.

A new golf census in Great Britain
reveals / 1000 900 players.
Evening star., 1936-10-12
Capitals Drama Groups
One-Act Play Contest Gets Under Way
Tomorrow Night at Roosevelt High.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

the groups production Of Caesar and
Cleopatra" at the Wardman Park
Theater October 81, %. % and "a.
but at latest reports he was getting
nowhere fast. He has planned big
ones and little ones, impressionistic
ones and realistic ones, but SO far
nothing happens in the sphinx depart
ment. Got q little sphinx around
the house you'd like to loan har-
rassed technical director?
Any aid in technical details of
Egyptian sphinx construction prob
ably will be appreciated. for Girvan
has other things on his mind-such
things as seven sets to build for the
play, including minor items like
Caesars ship and lighthouse.
The Costume Committee, under
Mary Woodward Davis. and the Prop
Committee, under Virginia Rand
Beers, are not exactly sitting back
on their heels laughing at Mr.. Girvan
and his Problem of the Sphinx, while
all this goes on. either. Such details
as robes for Cleopatra, armor for
Roman soldiers, "24 spears" red pop
pies. large gods. small gods and other
assorted necessities, manage to keep
them pretty busy.
Constance Haug, Robert Dillon and
Stephen Trodden will play the lead
ing roles in the Blackfriars Guilds
first play of the season, The Risen
Generation" written by the Black
friars' founder, Rev. Urban Mage.
O. p Others in the cast are Margaret
M. Myers. Gordon Potter, Edgar NJ
Ford. Mary Black. Jerry Gregg. Jud
Black, Jack Kelly, Leo Brady. Julian
Zier and Kathleen Crowley. The
play already is in rehearsal, under
Angela Keir's direction.
Shakespearean soliloques will oc-
cupy the Shakespeare Society Of
Washington when it opens its twen-
tieth season tonight at Perkins Hall
of the Universalist Church, Sixteenth
and S streets. Prof Marvin T. Herrick
of George Washington University will
discuss the use of soliloquies in Eliz-
abethan dramas, and his lecture will
Evening star., 1936-10-12
TATTOO TELLS FATE

Words on Burglars Neck Dedicate
Head to Hangman.
BERLIN, October IL R.-A bit OF
sardonic humor was revealed when
police captured q gang of burglars
after long chase.
The leader of the band had these
words tattooed around his neck: "This
head belongs to the hangman."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
DON'T PENALIZE THE OTHER FELLOW
FOR YOUR FAITH IN HIM

It's one of those after Christ
mas Grouches. She's mad because
the Joneses spent their $40 Christ
mas check for shoddy silk stock
ings, brass jewelry and tickets to
the fights. Buying trash like that
when they're practically starving!
Besides-that $40 represented
considerable sacrifice. AL told her
she was a fool to give it. But
they seemed 80 deserving
Well-she's had her lesson!
She'll never again be taken in by
people like that-NEVER! She's
learned at last that it doesn't pay
to believe in people or be kind
hearted and generous. They al
ways trick you-take advantage
Of YOU
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
You've made just such noble geS.
lures yourself and been sorry for
them after-haven't you? So've
we all. But we have no right to be.
HAZARDOUS
Faith is a beautiful gesture but
it is also hazardous. If we wish to
enjoy Its privilege and pleasure,
we must also accept its risk. And
we've no business to penalize the
other fellow or become Soured
against the human race if our OPP
timiSm proves expensive or mis-
placed.
Faith is hazardous because it
CANDLES on a strength and StabiL
ity which most Of us do not yet
possess. It presupposes that the
Other Fellow will prefer oatmeal
and winter flannels to brass
jewelry and fight tickets, and nine
times out Of ten he WON'T. Then
what? Why, then, if your Faith
has been based on his purchase
of oatmeal, you're certainly out of
luck.
But you've no right to base your
Faith on any such superstition.
Such an attitude ISM Faith" at
all. It's simply a desire to get
your own way-to run another
life according to your notions.
And you deserve all you get if
such purely selfish plans miScarry
as they nearly always do.
Real Faith doesn't depend
upon the Other Fellows behaving
as you think he should. Real
Faith never fails you. The other
bets on his innate decency and
fairness-regardless. And con.
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AAA must undergo is whether it
will create an organization of SUI
ficient size to care for the thou
sands of full and part-time work
ers of the AAA.
Any plan which would not pro
vide jobs for the AAA workers is
Immediately frowned on and
pushed aside as Objectionable.
Ordinarily, there would be pro-
tests from the Capitol, as mem
bers of Congress wauld demand
that substitute farm policy be
worked out and that the machin-
cry necessary for enactment Of
new legislation be put in motion.
Under the circumstances, how
ever, the voices on Capitol Hill are
Stilled.
Members Of Congress are not
anxious to have the horde OF AAA
employees chasing them again in
search for other jobs.
Regardless of what else may be
said of the AAA, there is no ques-
ton but that it provided splen-
did solution to the distressing
problem which confronted ma
tional legislators as to where they
might find jobs for unemployed
constituents.
Privately, however, many OF
them admit that if it was merely
a question of writing new farm
legislation they would be con-
fronted with a grave problem.
But when they add the diff
Guilty of taking care of the AAA
employees it becomes doubly Seri-
Gus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
It's Jackson This Time

Mr. Rooseves picture of himself 1886 model Of Andrew
Jackson however ingenious omitted two Of Old Hckos
features which admirers of the authentic Andrew will miss
Jackson, President, said
"T shall keep steadily in OieW the LIMITATIONS
weu the extent of the executive pOweT trusting
thereby discharge the functions of my office WITH
OUT TRANSFORMING its authority
"AdU0ntGge result from the observance of
STRICT AND FAITHFUL ECONOMY. This ! shall
aim at the anxiOusly both because it wN facilitate
the REIMBURSEMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEBT,
and because it H counterfeit that tendency to public
TURE OF MONEY BY THE GOVERNMENT is too apt
to engender."
Let hope that rbald Republican, dsgrunted Demo
will point that in these respects at least the copy Of the
portrait varies somewhat from the original The resemblance
still good enough for campaign purposes and that facsimile of
Thomas that 1882 obviously won't do NOW
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Until the American people elect
themselves a new Congress next
November they will not be able
to get at the whole truth about
the Administration now so OBJ
viously waning in public favor.
Ever since Mr.. Roosevelt en-
tered the White House the Con-
gress has been the subservient
creature of the executive branch
Of the Federal Government.
Both Houses have abdicated in
large part to the President and
his advisers not only their legis-
lative power but also their investi-
eating power. And this, in spite
of the fact that the latter, in the
opinion of Woodrow Wilson, ex-
ceeds in Importance, at times,
the former.
1t is impossible to get an honest
and fearless investigation today
of any Federal activity or agency
if the Administration is opposed
to it.
Most of the so-called investiga-
lions carried on by Congress un-
der the present Administration
have belied their name.
They have been either political
rackets or political whitewashes,
depending upon whether the OBJ
ject of the investigation was out
Of or in the favor of the Admin
istration.
SMOKE BARRAGE
At the present session the in
vestigating activities of the two
Houses Of Congress will doubtless
be speeded up in order to provide
political munitions of war-in-
GLIDING smoke barrageS-for the
coming campaign. But all this
will serve only to cloak the truth
about the record of the Admins
tration in many fields of Federal
endeavor.
One question to be considered
in the election of the next Con-
gress is whether the candidate
under consideration for the Sen
ate or House of Representatives
will sell his legislative and investi-
gative birthright for a mess of
presidential pottage, if elected to
Congress.
If his past record in public or
private life indicates that he is
weak enough to Stoop to such a
betrayal of the public interest,
then he ought to be left at home.
Congress is no place for such a
man. In Congress he would only
be a political fetch and carry for
the Man in the White House.
And when it comes to rejecting
members of the present Congress,
y is safe to say that majority of
the candidates for both Houses
ought not to be renominated much
less reelected.
The small minority that has
kept the faith-a few Democrats
and a few more .Republicans-may
render useful service in the new
Congress but not the majority,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
JUNGLE OF ISSUES

Nothing Is quite what it seems
in WaShington-not even winter.
There is wan January sunlight,
and the SycamoreS are leafless.
But just as you have made up
your mind that it is really winter
you come on a magnolia or tulip
tree with fat, green leaves and a
complacent summer look about it..
And when the congressman say
a thing is thus and so, the JUS
tees of the Supreme Court say
otherwise. There is confusion Of
tongues in this Tower of Babel
which almost, but not quite.
reaches the clouds.
Only the squirrels, friSking hap
PLY in the city's beautiful open
spots, seem to know what they
want and how to get it. They do
their own cleaning and processing
without benefit of government.
There are few here for whom you
could say the same.
In the trees on the hill there
are birds which have a way of
whistling deriSively. OF those Of
human semblance only the iron
generals and statesmen seem Who'll
ly undiSturbed. Many winds OF ma
tional passion, making smoke of
conflict, have swirled around these
impassive iron memorials.
One feels inclined to interview
one Of them, but their fondeurS
have wrought only too well. Per
haps it is just as well that they
can't even wink. And perhaps it is
also we'll that that symbolizes
something immutable in Ameri-
can tradition-cast-iron fixity in an
age of malleable detinies.
IBSEN DRAMA
AS in an IbSen drama, most Of
the drama seems antecedent and
off-stage. There are sharply &C
centuated and dramatic person
ages in the cast, but the climactic
voices are those Of vast, diverse,
fluxed chaning America, and 1t Is
their contention which intenSifies
and both confuseS and clarifies
this historic strife.
Institutional America Is in
trenched herein the beautiful
Graeco- Roman archives Of state
documents in the Capitol. in the
majestic new Supreme Court
building in the White House. in
the beautiful avenues Of L'Enfant
design-all mellowed with tradi-
ton and giving assurances of per-
manence.
Less clear and definite is the
human America of 10000, 900 per
sons which finds its reflex here
In its government. There are
homespun congressman, and there
are congressman who look like
New York bankers.
There are congressman ranging
In appearance from boy scouts to
elder statesmen. Some are reticent
and close-mouthed, delving night
and day in dry statistics and
rarely speaking on the floor.
Others wear their hearts on their
sleeves and give reSounding utter
ance to their most casual Senti-
ments with the slightest provoca-
ton.
Some are men of the "Little
America" which would choke mo-
nopolies, safeguard the crossroads
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tinues to believe in him through
all bewilderment.
Real Faith say: II don't under
stand this man. I don't like the
things he does. He diSappointS
and discourageS me constantly.
Yeti believe in him. ! believe
he's trying to make good In spite
of his failures. And even though
can't explain him or admire
him, or even trust him, I'm still
going to have faith in him and
bank on his coming through"
That's how real Faith thinks
and acts: And if you can believe
in that spirit, you'll find Faith
to be the finest gesture, the wild.
est adventure of all your life.
GENUINE
Faith is NEVER a bad bet.
Faith never fails you. The Other
Fellow may fail you-but never
Faith. Faith Is always a Smart
Move always pays big divi-
dends it is always FUN.
It's infinitely pleasanter to be-
leve in people than to fear and
suspect them, and wins far more
votes. And no matter how much
you give to the Other Fellow,
when you believe in him you al.
ways do much more for yourself.
Faith is our most civilized geS-
ture. the gesture which lifts us
fartheSt toward the stars, further
from the mud.
You may lose money and time
by believing in the Other Fellow,
but with each Act of Faith you
become a stronger, smarter, subj
Ter human being.
But Faith can only do these
things for you if it is genuine Be-
LELAND not a selfish desire to
Boss or Show Off. People are what
they are. They are also what
they aren't. And only God knows
which is the more helpful in our
search for Truth-our failures or
our successes.
Only God knowS-and He isn't
telling. He just goes on believ-
ing. And backing uS-regardlesS.
And when we too believe, we play
God. But If we take on Gods
job we must adopt a Gods philoS-
ophy. And not let the Other Eel
lows flops cramp our style.
All Of which are wonderful
ideas. What a swell gal you'd be,
Elsie r., if you could practice
even a tenth of what you preach!
L. r.
Copyright, 1885. King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
Political Whitewashes
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

who have served the Administra-
ton as political lackeys in ths
hope of patronage or in the fear
of punishment at the hands Of the
President.
When the new Congress Is
elected it will doubtless contain
many new members elected on the
issue involved in the abdication OF
Congress since 1888. And the new
members may well consider bet.
ter ordering of the investigative
powers Of Congress than has OBJ
tanned in recent years.
Properly the House and not the
Senate is the legislative body
which should conduct congress.
sional investigations of the Execu.
tive branch of the Government.
And this is so for the following
reasons:
1t is the House which impeaches
and the Senate which tries i'm.
parchment cases. Any investiga.
ton might give grounds for i'm.
parchment and the House is the
body to decide the question.
FALSE PRETENSE
1t is the House which is sup
posed to take the lead in raising
revenue and in budgetary matters.
Therefore, when it comes to scru.
tinizing the expenditure of pub.
lie money the House is under very
heavy responsibility to do the Job
thoroughly.
Investigating broad questions Of
policy might be left to the Senate
or shared with the Senate by the
House.
Investigating adm niStrative
matters, however, would seem to
be the logical function of the
House and the House should or.
ganize itself the better to perform
this duty.
Instead of entrusting investiga.
lions to the various committees,
or setting up special committees
for the purpose. the House has
been on more than one occasion
urged to appoint a standing COM
mittee to conduct investigations
ordered by the House.
Such a committee should be
made UP of members with a hign
sense of legislative responsibility,
members who would seek the
truth in the public interest, in.
stead Of the half truth for parti-
san advantage.
A standing committee Of this
type would command the conf.
dence of both Houses of Congress
and the respect of the country. 1t
would put an end to the political
racketeering in which certain
Senators and Representatives in
Congress now engage under the
false pretense that they are pro
tecting the public interest.
The public knows them to be
notoriety seekers and neither the
public nor the Congress has any
respect for their findings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14

>Che anClpnonaI cna1enge dCEoSS
the Alleghenies the agrarian
West against Wall Street.
Some are isolationists who
would cut America loose from the
muddle of world entanglements
and others would impound her in
such foreign alliances as the
League of Nations. Men Of the
soil, men of the city pavementS,
the ingenious and the artful. the
millenial and the realistic, the
diligent and the slothful, the
swift and the laggard-all human,
all fallible and all to gratifying
degree repreSentative-and there
is a word of accord with all the
vast Graeco-Roman artifice OF
stone and sculpture which symbol
ICES the Republic.
These men, CARRIED in every
thing from slack ready-made to
q morning coat, using Steel-rimmed
spectacles or gold pince-nez, are
representatives to a degree never
before attained by any other gov
eminent.
Back of each figure, diStin-
guished or undistinguished, are
the legions of factories and fields,
of those who command and those
who obey, of the have and the
have-nots; and the pressure Of the
time has made clear this truly
representative character Of the
government.
REINSURANCE
The prairies speak in the earn.
est accents Of tall, handsome
Senator Gerald P. Nye. of North
Dakota. Here is the American
which would nurture the spirit of
the pioneering days where every
man sought only land and indie
pendence.
Here is the small, valiant per-
son of 78-year-old Senator Glass
of Virginia, brilliant, scholarly,
a savage fighter when aroused,
making a lonely stand for the
Jeffersonian arc Of the covenant.
Here is Borah. nominally a Re
publican, but dwelling in a Shad-
owy No-Man's land of politics -
slow, leonine, Turing an adversary
with bland and easy discourse
and then flooring him with a
mule kick. The hefty. wavy-
haired Representative Patman of
Texas in mellifluouS thunders
booms the bonus and assails the
bankers. Slender, handsome, fas-
tidiously groomed Senator Key
Pittman of Nevada, of mining
camp background, doubles in
free silver and foreign affairs.
Governmental spending, ruin
Gus taxation, neutrality. the
right of collective bargaining, the
Constitution, relief, the farmers,
utilities regulation, the metes
and bounds of Government and
business, States rights, adapta-
ton of Government to economic
change, governmental price fix"
ing regional conflicts Of inter
estS, tariffs, the bonus payment,
international relations, the
budget, social Security-Such is
the jungle of issues through
which the congressman hack
their way.
Again, there is reinsurance in
the truly representative charac-
ter of this body.
Copyright, 1888. by King Feature
Syndicate)
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have one condi-
ton constantly
in mind. And
that is that Mr..
Wallace and Mr..
Davis are not
only interested
in the farmer,
but in keeping
the employees of
the unconStitu-
tional AAA at
work.
One of the
first tests any
de-
signed to take
thu nlocn of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
RESERVED

The Democrats may have taken
over almost everything considered
important around the Capitol, but
there is one spot where they are
taboo.
They do not attempt to take
over the Republican round tao1e
in the House restaurant. ~
For many years the Repuor
licans of the House have made IL d
custom to hold MONDAY confer.
ences around one particularly
large corner table.
It is placed near a phone SO
that they may have that con
venience. 1t is located close 10
the door so that they can enter
and leave without confusion.
All in all it is the best taoIe
in the place.
When the Democrats took
charge of the House it was eH'
pected that they might seek 10
take charge of the Republican
table and GUST their competitors.
But apparently they hadn't the
nerve or else thought the table
was so tainted with Republican
PHILOSOPHERS that good Democrats
would have severe attacks OF IN
digestion if they attempted to eat
from it's broad surface.
So it is that the Republicans
continue to reign supreme in that
spot at least.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

of their predecessors in other dry
groups.
A glance at the newspapers of
September 2, 1881, when James A.
Garfield was in the White House,
discloses the following item:
"The National Temperance So
ciety requests the President to
discourage all social drinking
privileges in dispensing official
hospitality at the white
House,"
The press of that day pro-
nounced the suggestion "a piece
of cool impudence."
When the arid organizations of
today make caustic suggestions
about President and Mrs. RooSe-
welt serving wine and beer at the
White House there is little said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14

Whom the gods destroy, they
first make mad.-Euripides.
The average man believes o
thing first, and then searches for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-14
ECHOES

When those organiza tions
throughout the land which are es-
tablished on the basis of their
arid theories protest against the
use of wines and beer at the White
House under the direction OF the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
their clamor is merely the echo