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Evening star., 1936-12-17
VIRGINIA DELEGATES
LAUD JOHN r. RYAN
Veteran Member and Speaker,
Who Died Recently, Il Accord
ed Praise in Resolution.

Who Died Recently, Is Accord
ed Praise in Resolution.
By staff Correspondent OF The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, December IT.
The House of Delegates yesterday
adopted a resolution honoring the
memory of John F. Ryan Of Pleasant
Valley, Loudoun County, who died
at the age Of SO at his home No
vember 80.
Ryan was born near Arcola, LOU
doun County, November, 184s, and
was elected to the House December
S, 1883. He served for 81 years both
as q member and several times
speaker He served as speaker dur
ing the sessions of 1895-1S96, 1897
1898, 1901-1902, and through the re-
naming sessions until March IS, 1884.
The resolution praised him as "a
man Of sterling qualities and high
ideals"
He also was described as having
"a remarkably analytical mind"
It was ordered that a copy of the
resolution, which was offered by Dele
gate H. G. Thompson Of Loudoun, be
sent to his family. Yesterdays ses-
sion adjourned in his honor.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
All-Brahnns
Program Is
Applauded
Gordon String Quar-
tet Brilliant Second
Event Tomorrow.
%HE GORDON STRING QUAR-
TET with Frank Sheridan,
pianist, gave the first of two

TINE GORDON STRING QUAR-
TET with Frank Sheridan
pianist, gave the first of two
programs of chamber music
last evening in the auditorium Of the
Library of Congress. Every seat was
occupied and the audience was en-
thusiastic in its applause. which was
well deserved by the players. The
three numbers, quartet, violin and
piano sonata and a quintet. which
formed the program, were all works
Of Brahms, beautiful music, beauti-
fully played. The instruments which
the Gordon String Quartet used were
all from the collection OF ancient in
struments which have been given to
the Library of Congress by Gertrude
Clarke Whittall.
The Gordon String Quartet, COM
posed of Jacques Gordon and David
Sackson, violins: William Lincer
viola, and Naoum Benditzky. cello
opened the program with the Quartet
in @ Minor, Opus 81, No. l." The
work was beautiful, the players show
ing their familiarity not only with the
score, but with each others playing,
that no trace of raggedness could be
found. And the tone of the irrstru-
ments, except the first violin, was rich
and beautiful The first violin was
shrill and thin in many places,
though Mr. Gordon showed none OF
1t in the Sonata in D Minor, Opus
108," which he played with Mr.. Sheri-
dan at the piano.
The sonata was the second number
and was beautiful throughout, Mr..
sheridan's playing being outstanding
IN tone and technique, as well as in
phrasing and Interpretation. In fact
his playing quite overshadowed that
Of Mr. Gordon. yet the Wolinist played
with beautiful tone and finish.
The closing number. the Quintet ii
r Minor. Opus 34," another COM
position rich in themes and har-
monies, was especially we'll done
though many felt surfeited with
beautiful music after the first half
of the program and gladly would have
left the quintet for another concert,
that it might be the better appre-
eiated.
The Gordon String Quintet. with
Frank Sheridan as pianist. will give
. second program tomorrow after
noon at $3.50 o'clock and have chosen
works of Beethoven, Brahms and
Schumann. X. B.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

named q committee to appear before
the Maryland Board Of Public Works
and present q plea for location of the
social security Office here.
A resolution was adopted urging
Senator Ridgely P. Melvin and the
Anne Arundel County delegation in
the Maryland Assembly to fight for a
State office building in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
ANNAPOLIS SEEKS
RITCHIE MEMORIAL
Council Also Votes for Annexa
ton Of Metropolitan Sewerage
District to City.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DisDatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, December 1.-THE
City Council last night voted in favor
Of annexing the entire Annapolis
metropolitan sewerage district to the
city.
It also decided to fight to have the
Ritchie Memorial located here in the
form Of . waterfront park. between
King George street and the Eastport
Bridge.
Mayor Louis N. Phipps and City
Counselor william J. McWilliams were
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Iocusts Delav Game.

While a cricket match was being
played at Bulawayo, Southern Rho
desia, a locust swarm 2 miles long
appeared, and the insects began to
settle on the grass. The game was
stopped and players and spectators
spent 20 minutes frightening away
the unwelcome visitors.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Gray Squirrels Too Smart.

Because gray squirrels were too
smart and would not be caught in the
traps set for them in parks and rec
reation grounds at Carshalton, Eng.
land. the city fathers have given hunt
ers permission to shoot them at SUM-
rise and for several hours thereafter.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
London's Masked Singer.

Going about the streets of Ken
sington. London, . woman dressed
in a Ku Klux Khan costume to hide
her identity Is singing to help her
two children and her husband, q
professional man, who does not know
Of her enterprise.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
CHRISTMAS BONUSES
ANNOUNCED BY BUS LINE
Sums Ranging From $5 to 800
Will Be Given by Washington,

Marlboro & Annapolis Co.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT. Md, December
17.-Christmas bonuses ranging from
IS to 500 will be given to the en-
ployes of the Washington, Marlboro g.
Annapolis Motor Lines, 1t was an
nounced today by L. L. Altman,
president and general manager.
The maximum bonuses of 500 will
be given to employees of IA years or
more of service. Every employe on
the pay roll on December 81 will re-
ceive cash gift on that date.
In announcing the action of the
company's officials in granting the
bonus Altman said 1t was given in
appreciation for the loyal service Of
employees"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

virtues, religion, health, money
and children!
Admirable and charming! But
I could not help wondering what
might have happened if either
of these standardized types had
married somebody else. If the
tidy, domestic, practical little
woman had married a dreamy, ir-
responsible poet or inventor, who
muSSed up the house, never got
to meals on time and did not al
ways have the money for the
rent. Or if the steady, reliable
ambitious young man had mar
ried a brilliant authoress or a
temperamental musician, W o
couldn't cook and never seWed his
buttons on.
Two ideal people do not neceS-
sarily make an Ideal married
couple" unless they have the
SAME ideals. Because the sue
cess of marriage depends on the
perfect congeniality and sympathy
of purpose which exist between
the husband and wife. And what
would be an ideal mate for me
might be just a terrible BORE to
YOU. Or vice versa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

But did those lives pay?.
Did those discriminating indi-
viduals profit so greatly by their
determination to stay safe and
snug? Did they, by avoiding mis-
cry and mesSiness. find greater
beauty and drama in life, achieve
greater power, finer popularity?
THEY DID NOT. And this COM
placent young lady may prove it
a dozen times a day if she will
honestly analyZe the lives about
her.
People who avoid the messineSS
and misery of life never discover
life'S real meningitis grandeur,
the noble sweep of its endless
plan.
KNOW LIFE
It is as If a man took a map
of America in his hand and said,
Il am determined to know this
land. but I shall arrive at that
knowledge intelligently and safely.
I shall not allow myself to be
burned by deserts, frozen by
glaciers, swamped by boys or
bored by prairies. I shall visit
only these parts of the country
which are pleasing. comfortable
and safe. which will involve me
in no discomfort or distress. In
this way, I will come to know
America as civilized man should
know it,"
But could anyone "know Amer
lea" by such a method? The
ideas absurd! The man who
wishes to KNOW a country must
visit it all-itS dangerous back
alleys, it's crowded highways, it's
clamorous tenementS, as we'll as
it's beautifully-tended parks.
And by the same token, if you
would REALLY KNOW LIFE, you
must accept life as a whole.
share its distress and disorder as
well as it's delight. its passion
and panic as we'll as it's peace
and pleasure. Otherwise you'll
die without ever guessing what
life is all about.
P. S-Yes, you may clip this.
And send it, with my earnest re-
CARDS, to all those Sniffers and
Scoffers who stand on the side
lines m refuse to play BECAUSE
THEY CAN'T TAKE 1T.
Copyright 1895. by King Features
syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
TOday's BOOndOggle

the recreation program Wescheser county, N " to be
expanded during the months and that already about
100 persons receiving free instruction in golf at the
pense of the Federal Treasury.
According the North Westchester Times in which this
reported he WPA also provides lessons
in tennis public court players who like others unable to
afford instruction sports requiring special technical SKILL
have yet reapd the greatest benefits from their athletic
activities"
Although the WPA has already embarked $15OOOO worth
recreaonal projects in Wescheer county, the recipients
benecence far from satisfied and loudly de-
handing additional golf instructors.
The theory of the New Dealers apparently is that the voters
of this Republican county will be worried about their stance
and their backswngs that they will forget all about gong to
polls November when the liquor emporums will all be
tightly closed the municipal golf wide
.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROlULdHld
STANDARDIZING MARRIAGE

} What is an ideal husband?
Your ideal may be business man
or a poet, gay or steady, a success
or a failure. But he is the one
who makes YOU happy, loves you,
understands you and never boreS
you. He may sometimes disagree
with you and often surprise or dis
appoint you: but he is YOUR
KIND, and you wouldn't trade him
for all the GRADE A model hus-
bands in the world. And the
same goes for an ideal wife.
What would become of all the
artists, authors, explorers, must
clans and inventors - all the
people who make the world more
livable and colorful and interest
ing-if every man had to measure
up or down to the steady, stand
ardized young house-huSband in
tbs formula? And what would be-
come of the cosmos, if everybody
in it were Ideal" and nobody
were original or different?
This world is filled with more
varieties of people than there are
of canned fruit; and there is an
ideal marriage for every type OF
human being. Some of the most
happily mated couples I have ever
known have been dreamerS, no
MAIDS or bohemianS, who lived
gypsy life and Subsisted largely on
poetry and bread and cheese and
spaghetti. But they were per-
fectly mated because they both
had the same ideals and could be
happy in the same way.
1t isn't what a man can give
you that counts, it's what you can
share with each other; whether
it's work or play or dreams or
home or wandering life in an
automobile trailer.
There cannot be any standard
lied married couple-because three
things which can never be stand
ardized are love, marriage and
happiness.
Copyright 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

He also cleaned E"Wh u Hill
up in the heaving and tossing
weight events. He was doubtless
the first of the many greatest
athletes of all time"
Ideals of craftsmanship were
Just as real and important to the
early Greeks as swing music and
hot dogs are to us. The Ellis pot
wrestler was garlanded and feted
up the gunwales, along with the
sleek, perfumed Athenian lads, and
there was no hint of any social
contretemps in his victory. When
it was all over, he went back to his
job, and nobody tried to turn him
into a hoofer or a politician.
The same thing happened later
on when GlaucuS Of CaryStlon, an
unpedigreed boxer, romped away
with all the important laurels. In
fact, in the opening stretch Of the
Olympics, from 776 B. c. to 349
A. D., when the Emperor Theo-
dosiuS condemned and forbade
them as pagan doingS, the COM
monerS seemed to have consider
ably the best Of the competition.
KING AMUSED
And, curiously enough, when
they revived the games in 1895, it
was Spiriden LouyS, a shepherd
boy, who broke the tape and the
headlines ahead of the rest Of
them. Which background adds
significance to the fact that Amer
ica's great Olympic winners have
been an Indian and a Negro-Jim
Thorpe and Jesse owens.
Of course, it doesn't prove that
the best athletes come from pre-
scribed races or classes, but it does
indicate that distinguished legs,
like distinguished brains, are apt
to occur just anywhere, anytime.
Genius, in the arts, in money-get-
ting, politics or anything, has a
disconcerting way of disregarding
all laws of heredity and environ
ment and gushing up where one
would least suspect it.
But, so far as the showing OF
the common man in Olympic his
tory is concerned, it should be
noted that masses far outnumber
classes. They have lot more to
pick from. Perhaps more impor-
tant was Der Fuehrer's embarraSS-
ment with the victories of Amer
ica's Negroes, contrasted with the
craftsmanship of the Olympic Of
ficialS when the Ellis cook stopped
the show Alta years ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

The world ideal Of democracy,
through that long parade of cen
turtles, doesn't seem to have Jared
as we'll as the showing of physical
proves. Our Olympiad of today
probably could lick that other
crowd. But a comparative show
ing in sportsmanlike amenities
might be something else again.
In the games of 1912, when Jim
Thorpe, the Carlisle Sac and Fox
Indian, made his amazing cleanup,
King Gustav V of Sweden, leaned
backward in extending to Jim
every possible courtesy and honor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
By Nelson Harding

, The newspaper tag, greatest
athlete of all time, probably fits
Jim Thorpe as we'll as anybody.
In the 1912 football game between
Carlisle and the Army, his per-
Sonal score of q to 6 against the
Army was unquestionably the
greatest one-man football out
break ever witnessed. He scored
in end runs, bucks through the
line, punting-in every possible
means of scoring. He could run
100 yards in 10 seconds flat in a
football suit, and with his huge
bulk he hit the line like an eX-
press train.
He was a crack baseball player,
too. In 1913 McGraw signed him
on a three-year contract with the
Giants. He was a marvellous
fielder, a top-cut player, but 1t
was bit of white mans duplicity
that wrecked him as ball player.
He could smack a straight ball
clear over in the next county,
but the guileless red man never
could solve a curved ball. That
licked him and retired him from
baseball.
One way or another, in coaching,
in professional football and base
ball, Jim Thorpe made about
100000 as a professional athlete.
When the Olympic games were
held in Los Angeles in 1882, Jim
was there, but he didn't see the
games. He didn't have the price
of a ticket. With wife and three
children, he had been getting by as
ditch digger, but he had no
money for luxurieS.
MARRIED BY FIGHT
He has since been doing better,
with a bit of coaching now and
then and an occasional $40 turn
as an extra in the movies. Even
his Olympic trophies are gone.
Two years after had won them,
somebody discovered that in the
dim past Jim had taken a few
dollars playing bush-league base
ball. So the A. A. U. Snatched
Jim's Statuettes and rushed them
back to King GuStavuS, with great
chagrin and abasement. The King
tossed them into a junk room in
the palace, and there they are.
Jim is quite complacent about
it all. He says he went in for
sports because he liked it and was
good at it, and making a living is
something else again. Just now,
sheaveS of pencils are being sharp
ened to tot up the showing of Jesse
Owens against Jim Thorpe as the
greatest athlete of history. That
isn't in this department. More
important seems a comparative ap-
praiSal in the pentathlon and de-
cathlon of decent official behavior.
On the whole, the athletes seem
to have lived up to the noble Olym-
pic tradition better than the ca
reerists, politicians and war-mon-
gers who manage to show. The
ideal is beautiful and impressive.
Unless we can serve it bit better
than we have, without the ructionS
and back-biting of recent years, it
might be just as well to call off the
whole business.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
syndicate 4qR.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

having a perfectly miserable exist
ence if she had listened to The
Family and permitted them to
run her. She'd be sharing that
dark back bedroom with Sister
Anne, wearing those impossible
clothes Mother bought, reporting
in at 10 p. m. to Dad, like a school
girl. dividing every cent she
earned with an endless list of un-
fortunate and shiftless relations.
But she insisted on Living Her
Own Life. So here she is at 26,
absolute mistress of her own az
fairs, possessed of a good job, a
delightful apartment and COM
pletely free from all those dis
gushing demands a n d alarms
which make life so impossible for
other people.
DID IT PAY?
This, she says triumphantly, is
Really Living. And why. she eX-
claims, can't other human beings
plan their lives as Sanely?
They can, my dear.
It's entirely possible for anyone
with a particle of sense or spunk
to plan a perfectly safe and snug
life. and many have done so.
History is filled with human be-
ings who, like you, have despised
the general hullabaloo. They. too,
insisted that they were not re-
sponSible for the Other Fellows
misery, and would not allow them
selves to become involved in the
general mess'n muddle. They, too,
led perfectly planned and precise
lives. lives insulated against dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18

local Grand Jury has smashed all precedents by calling
two former naval attaches of the Japanese embassy con
spiraors with former Lieutenant Commander John Farms
WORTH Annapolis graduate under indictment for selling
American naval secrets to Japan.
The jury Commander Yosiyu Iimiya and Lieuten
Commander Okra Yamag but does not indict them be-
they protected by diplomatic immunity.
California the Pacific Coast have charged for
that spies intensely active in America The East always
has toleraby laughed at "spymad California" but the
laughs have essened since official Government invega
ing body finds foreign officers conspng with American
ex-officer in spy work.
THE HEARST NEWSPAPERS FREQUENTLY HAVE
CALLED ATTENTION TO THE DANGER. TT SEEMS
NOW TO BE TIME TO ENACT ADEQUATE FEDERAL
LAWS UPON WHICH TO PROCEED AGAINST ALL
FOREIGN SPIES. THEY SHOULD BE DEALT WITH AS
SEVERELY AS EVERY NATION DEALS WITH THEM
EVERY NATION, WITH THE SOLE EXCEPTION OF
OUR OWN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
Fiscal Inquiry

The method of procedure for the investigation of
fiscal relations between the Federal and District gov
ernments which Budget Director Daniel w. Bell an
nounces will be outlined this week will be awaited
eagerly by all Washingtonians.
Much depends upon the method which the President
decides to in carrying out the instructions that
survey of the problem be made and that report and
recommendations be submitted when Congress
in January.
Various Investigations of this perplexng problem have
been made in the past most of them by the legislative
branch of the Government
The results of these earlier Investigations have pre-
vailed for few years and then the rise of person
ates or the development of conditions has caused
the findings to be cast aside.
Mr. Bell has announced that he is undetermined
whether he will recommend to the President that the
coming inquiry be conducted by committee or by an
Individual aided by experts.
The principal interest of Washngtonians in this phase
of the matter is that we should like it be conducted
by person or persons of such outstanding character
that not the slightest charge of bias be made against
him or them.
obviously the pending Investigation will accom-
plish little tODard permanent sOt"tIO" OF the proc,
lem if its findings can be attacked the ground
that it made by persons WtO IUere preJNdIced
in favor of the District of Columbia.
Similarly Westinghouse could not be expected
to accept the findings of the inquiry if it we're con-
Quoted by person or persons obviously prejudiced
against them.
In getting the inquiry under way this week within
very time Mr. Bell is said to be hopeful that the
results of the investigation will be ready for considera
ton in connection with the preparation of the local
budget for the coming fiscal year.
Tn that hone he will be Joined nv all narties TO the
affair.
1t is essential that the proposals of the investigating
body be available before the estimates for 1888 put
in final form.
UNLESS THAT IS THE CASE IT WILL BE VIR-
TUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN EVEN A REA-
SONABLY SCIENTIFIC DETERMINATION OF WISE
BUDGETING FOR THE DISTRICT FOR THAT YEAR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
Greatest Show on Earth
Ri Frank Miller Smith
By Frank Miller Smith

Government has the question Of
judicial usurpatiOn engaged the
attention of thoughtful and far
seeing statesmen so much as at
the present time. 1t is gener-
ally admitted that 1t would re-
quire .innumerable. cOnStitu-
tiOnaI amendments to correct
all of the evils resulting from
decisions Of the Supreme Court
handed. down since the Civil
War.
81 understand the Committee
on the Judiciary at the present
time has before it for consider.
alton over 80 proposed amend
ments to the Constitution.
"The judges of the Supreme
Court have to a very large ex-
tent become a legislative body
by imposing their views, by
construction and interpreta-
ton, upon Acts of Congress,
thus multiplying the high pur-
poses and aims of that body"
Senator Bennett Champ Clark,
Democrat Of Missouri, on judg-
ment:
81 have great respect for the
judgment of the Senator from
Pennsylvania, but 1 am not
willing to enact a law to mulct
the American taxpayer on the
basis of the judgment of the
Senator from Pennsylvania"
Tourist on a recent visit to the
Capitol on reaching the door Of
the Senate Press Gallery:
This must be sort Of .
lounge"
Representative Robert F. Rich,
Republican of Pennsylvania, on
the first meeting day Of the next
Congress:
at seems to me it is wise for the
House to take action in refer
ence to not meeting on Sunday
because it would not make any
difference to the President
whether we met on Sunday or
not; and you want to take into
consideration the fact that you
will have a new President next
year. Landon will be in the
White House"
Representative Theodore Chris
tianson, Republican of Minnesota,
on George Bernard Shaw:
"SOme of the statements made
by Mr.. George Bernard Shaw
during his last visit to this
country might have been con-
strued to be within the prohibi-
tiOnS of this bill.
Regardless of what you and
I may have thought of those
statements - personally 1 re-
garded them as juvenile twid-
dIe-we should have made our
selves the laughing stock Of the
world, if we had undertaken to
make them ground for depOrta-
ton"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

'Unhappily. Jim, a bit fuddled by
all the excitement, didn't recipro-
cate. He was aboard ship, at
Stockholm. when he was sum-
moned to a special audience with
the King in the evening. He said
to tell the King he was tired and
wanted to go to bed.
The King was amused and when
it came time to hand Jim a couple
of big statues for winning the
pentathlon and decathlon, he
couldn't have done it any more
handsomely had he been honoring
the Prince of Wales.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18


wv have
m a d e tn e
Virgin Islands
a pOOrhOuse.
w e b a v e
Ike d the
ipinOs in
to the Pa
Cific ocean.
We do not
have brains
e n o u gh to
know how to
take care OF
the ohtlying
eOple who
have c o m e