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Evening star., 1936-08-14
SHAKESPEARE PLAY
AT SYLVAN TUESDAY
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" on
Tenth Summer Festival Of
Season Program.
Season Program.

Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" will be presented by
the Washington Players and instru-
mentalists Of the Washington Civic
Orchestra at the Sylvan Theater in
the Monument Grounds Tuesday
night.
Rehearsals are being held every
night at Central High School. The
Washington Players are assisted by
the Washington Civic Orchestra, a
group of singers under direction OF
Miss Mary Apple. and a group of
dancers directed by Miss Alice Louise
Hunter, including dancers from the
Lisa Gardiner Studio. East Washing
ton Community Center and Miss
Hunters own group of dancers.
The fairy group in the play will in
clude Lansing Hall as Titania. Robert
Duke as Obron. Marjorie Beall as
Puck, Alice Louise Hunter as Pease-
blossom. Fills Speich as Cobweb. Mar
iorie McGann as Moth and Charlotte
Walton as Mustardseed. The other
fairies are Gloria Masgoret. Gertrude
Elmendorf, Catherine Shea, Carol
Shea, Barbar Worrell, Leila Gurley.
also Shirley Padgett, Merriam Plum
kett. Mary Devine. Ardis Kitchen.
Patricia Spence. Ellen Rhodes, Celeste
Payne. Claire Jean Zellers. Mae Sue
Campbell Mildred Campbell, Hernia
Behnke. Amelia Marschat. Josephine
Marschat. Anita Meyerhoefer. Mary
Burns. Louise Fortwengler. Jane Gra-
ham and Mary Ganey.
The Community Center Department
has placed tickets for chairs in the
reserved section on sale at the Hotel
Washington. the Hotel Willard. the
Dodge Hotel and the A. A. A. Ticket
Bureau.
Evening star., 1936-08-14

woods MARY of Scotland" premiere.
The R-K-O Office has arranged for
us to see that in company with Mrs.
Hardie Meakin. So we will tell you
what Mrs. Meakin thinks about it the
morning after. Mrs. Meakin asks us
to tell Mr.. Meakin that she is having
a fine time, but that she is on diet.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
Lone Sailor Completes Voyage.

PARIS, August IA CP. - Marin
Marie, French painter. yesterday COM
pleted a 20-day voyage across the
Atlantic from New York alone in a
small boat.
He left Chausey Island. off the
French coast. for lie Havre after
touching there Tuesday.
Evening star., 1936-08-14

~ EVERY ROAD you travel you
~ find many brands of Ethyl gasoline
...all priced the same. and all capable
of driving your car with the same famous
Ethyl knockless power.
But there is one Ethyl sasoline-Tydol
Ethyl-that' quite different. ltcontains
not | but 3 special ingredients. It's got
everything to step-up summer motor
performance. In addition to the Ethyl
fluid that driues your motor without ping
Evening star., 1936-08-14

Roger Parr. Cheshire, England. has
given $l50,000 to the Kings radium
fund.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
Sensational anti-knock quality

or pound. Tydol Ethyl contains pat
ented lubricant that oils upper-cylinders.
valves and rings. plus carbon-solvent
that cleans and cuts down hard carbon.
With these 3 jobs being done. you sit
behind a cooler. smoother motor...a
motor long on mileage and short on re.
pairs. Only in Tydol Ethyl do you get
this triple-preriun, service. That's why
Tydol Ethyl is different. different In
everything but price.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
CONSTANTINE brown

noted member of The Star staff, famed for
his predictions regarding international affairs,
and an intimate of statesmen in Washington
and abroad, will visit the centers of great de.
velopments. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, in
tour of Europe to give you an accurate, de-
tailed picture of what is happening overseas
behind the scenes and in the open.
Based on interviews with national leaders
and high officials, the man on the throne and
the man in the street. and upon his own per.
sonal observations this famous Star CORE.
spondent will bring you hrst.hand account of
the turbulent economic and political condi.
tons in Europe.
Evening star., 1936-08-14

Admittedly, forces are at work in European
countries which may lead to open outbreak
at any moment. Nations are arming.
Fear and apprehension grow. The eyes
Of the world are focused upon the trou.
BILE zones. What will be the outcome?
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

Bricks and milk cans were
scattered at Forty-fourth and Fes-
senden Streets Northwest yeSter-
day when two trucks collided and
overturned at the intersection, in
juring one man and throwing two
others to the street.
The injured man was James T.
Jones, of Kernsdale, Md, driver
of the milk truck. At George
town Hospital, where Jones was
taken, it was reported that he
had suffered a broken collarbone
and possible internal injuries.
Roy B. Byers, %, of Williams
port, Md, said by police to be the
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Banquet 10 Be Held
By Monarch Clubs

The annual two.day session of
representatives of Monarch Clubs
from eight States will be concluded
tomorrow at the Willard Hotel.
At the opening session yesterday,
the delegates heard an address by
Charles F. Phillips, of Philadel-
phia, and annual reports Of com.
mittees. Last night the club mem
bers celebrated Monarch night
with a program Of music and dane
ing. Today's session includes a
luncheon at p. M, and the an
nual banquet tonight.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
W |FE GRILLED
IN BROKERS'
Staying

CHICAGO, June 16 QN.SO.-
Though she vehemently insisted
last night that she neither killed
her husband nor handled the au-
tomato pistol with which he was
shot three times, there are "Sev-
eral questions" which Mrs. Mil
dred Bolton, As, must clear up
to our satisfaction" Assistant
States Attorney Morris G. Meyers
declared today.
Joseph w. Bolton, 40, an insur-
ance broker, was shot and killed
in his office yesterday during a
quarrel with his eStranged wife.
Meyers said:
1.-TWO of her husbands wounds
were in the back, yet she claims
she did not touch the pistol.
I'VE also have witnesses who
say she bought this gun several
days ago."
Meyers said he had learned Mrs.
Bolton was violently jealous over
her husbands friendships with
other women. He denied that the
argument concerned Bottoms war
bonus payment.
The prosecutor said he had
learned the henna-haired brunette
was a daily attendant at the trial
of Mrs. Betty Martin for the tav-
ern Staying of her philandering
husband and he quoted Mrs. Boil
ton as remarking on the blonde
Betty'S acquittal:
"They just don't convict wOn-
en- for killing their husbands in
Cook county. Betty Martin got
away with it, why shouldn't II"
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

Of M. VanZuyen, who reported
that attempts to raise other va
rieties of United States corn in
Holland had failed. The shipment
included two pounds each Of Vel
low Dent, White Dent, Flint and
Squaw Sorn.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
DRIVER IS HURT IN CRASH

driver of the brick truck, and
Leonard McCardell, 81, also of
Williamsport, who was riding with
Jones, were uninjured when
thrown clear of the wreckage.
Although no charges were
placed against him, Byers was
held at the Eighth Precinct pend
ing the outcome of Jones injuries.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

area under rice has this year been
extended to about $50 acres. Last
year 90 acres Of rice were sown
but the success Of the experiment
was considered to justify the in,
crease.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
German "FIying Flea"

BERLIN, G.N.S).-A German
Flying Flea" has made its ap-
pearance at the Hamburg air
port. This miniature monoplane,
which was built by Herr Book,
a flying instructor. has a length
of 33 feet and a span of 18 feet.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Test Oregon Corn

GERAIS, Ore, Q.N.S0.-Four
different kinds of Oregon corn
will be used for experimental pur
poses in Holland. The corn was
shipped from here on the order
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Bonus Breaks Up Concert

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 16.
The scheduled WPA band concert
in Davis Park in Buntyn county
was called off last night. Eleven
members of the banad are
war veterans and stayed home to
receive their bonus.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
More Rice for Russia

MOSCOW QN.S0.-A new area
for the growing of rice is being de.
veloped along certain sections Of
the Caspian Sea coast inundated
by the Volga River floods. The
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

road is lovely, full of mellow col
or. But in summer, the light beats
down upon it in quivering waves.
There is a tumult of light, like
changing steel. A racket of light,
but no color.
The flashing light fails the color
from the stone wall from the
graveled path, from the heavy,
wilted branches and the listlesS
air. Nothing moves, nothing
blooms, beneath that beating of
light. There is only a great and
brutal glare of brightness gashed
with shadow. dark as clotted
blood.
BINDING BRILLIANCE
Then, where the trail branches
into the garden, there comes an
outburst of color fierce as the
changing light. A binding bril-
lance of flowers, scarlet and
orange, purple, lemon and ma,
genta, laced with peacock green.
Color! Chaos of color! Brilliance
tangled furiously with brightness
screaming at you, clawing
at you, like some great macaw.
And, with the color, jungle fra
GRANGE. FleShy fragrance, steam
ing in a mist from the moist, dark
body Of ths earth . dripping
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
T0day's BOOndOggle

The blessings of the abundant life being extended
even to the horses in the State of Colorado.
There will STILL of course, be forgotten horses" The
ordinary garden variety of mustang will continue
the ranges nhab the simple but servceable stalls that have
long been his lot
But the equine aristocracy which foregahers
the Colorado State fair grounds will henceforh have
the best that WPA money can buy
benefit beboods Federal Government
plans spend nearly quarer-mon dollars group of
horse barns In the group will be units three of which
already under construction And each will the
Federal Treasury $23,597
Even the arstocratc of horses when uSred into such
barn. ought look the WPA in the mouth but the
which doubtless rises the minds many Coloradoans
How is the State to produce enough horses fill all these
barns unless there immediate return the horseand
buggy daysi
the NV xOhS u~s
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
A Different BlantOn

Representative Thomas L. Banton for years regarded by
sportsman in defeat than he when he
winning victory after victory the votee residents
National Capital
Mr. Banton after being defeated in primary
Texas defeat which sgnazes his retirement from political
life, writes to The Washington Times follows:
CAS- a Congressman, spent my entire energy in
behalf of the people represented. felt that their
interest required less Federal contribution the cDc
expenses of the District
"Your resultant opposition natural and under
stardable. You uin. lose haUe hard feelings"
This different Mr. Blanton than the autocra Congress
who dominated local legislation for so long.
different Mr. Banton than candidate who was
conducting losing fight in Texas and basing his campaign
assaults the character of the people of Washington
Maybe the key to the change found in the
Banton that he coming back Washington live and
tce law.
would certainly be pleasant change to find Mr. Banton
aborng with his ndefagabe energy in the interests of
people he fought for so long
The Washington times., 1936-08-26


you out for not paying your
rent"
It works both ways--on the side
of the angels as well as the de-
moniac powers. Bernard Baruch,
the financier, an aStute and in
formed observer, returns from Eu.
rope with the following obServa-
ton:
"The nations are more suspi-
ciOuS of one another, more
grimIy embittered and arming
more fiercely, than ever before"
He sees little hope of avoiding
another World War and an all
around world smaSh-up.
On the same day, appears the
following dispatch from London:
"The market reveals a gener-
ally firm and hopeful tone. Brit
ish induStrialS are higher than
in any week since 1882. The
fear of lOng-term commitments
seems to be passing. One is be-
ginning to sense in British fl
nance the traditional quiet as
surance, cOmplacency, in fact,
that marked the old days of as
Cendant empire"
Even in the more vulnerable and
troubled nations of the Continent,
the bourSe has failed to reflect the
agitation, one might almost say
panic, of the chancellery. In our
own country, the rise in stocks is
at odds with every actuality of
theoretical fin anc e-increaSing
governmental intrusion, an appal-
ling national debt, tragic unem-
ployment, polite al uncertainty
and bedevilment and a steadily
widening ''lunatic fringe"
AMAZINGLY ACCURATE
When the World War was i'm.
pending, the markets got a Whit
of it quite a few months ahead of
the rest of us. There was an al.
most panicky slump in stocks and
there was fear, "in solution" and
not precipitated, one might say
Curiously enough, after t h t
pistol shot at Sarajevo, in 1914
there was only one clear and articu-
late voice in America which ex-
planned what it meant. The late
Phil Francis. editorial writer for
the Hearst newspapers, writing a
few days after the shooting, re-
corded an amazingly accurate
prophecy Of the world holocaust.
He fumed and ragged because no
one could understand.
At the same time, a diStin-
| guiShed American banker. writer
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

sprawl, uIuIlk WIFI IOI1y. OC6au1y
fragrant darkness splitting in
purple pools across the blistering
stones. A riot of jungle color,
jungle fragra nee steaming
screaming, clawing at the senses.
Then abruptly, as the path dips
under tangle Of SunfloWerS, past
a tumbled mass of zinnias, one
comes up on the little white pool.
1t is not large. Only a cupful
of cool glimmer, set in shadow.
Back of it, as though some inviS.
ible arm held away their blazing
violence, the flowers stop, the
glare ceases. For some 10 feet,
there is only a circle of messy
lawn, with the dusk wing Of oak
leaves spreading above it. In the
center, sunk in dimneSS, lies the
pool.
PEACE AND HEALING
Two doves guard it-White stone
doves, breeding above the CLEAN.
ing oval where fall leaf lies, un,
moving-or a scrap of sky floats,
vaguely blue. And later-when
all the glare has gone-one fragile
star.
Two doves-a cup of GOODNESS
silence.
Yet, in all the garden, no place
holds such power of peace and
healing as this small pool.
Very gorgeous, that great gar
den savage and violent with its
sprawl of ruddy stone, its spray
and spike of bloom, it's drenching
fragrance. Vivid and exciting those
splattered paths, quivering with
heat, irideScent with falling petals
and tiny butterflies. Passing along.
one feels swollen with hot life.
drunken with wild beauty
Yet, with it all, the spirit goes
thirsty until one comes upon the
little pool-so quiet, so clear-cup-
ping q flower, a star.
So life goes thirsty, lacking.
somewhere, one still place of
peace.
(COpvright. 1888. By King FOSturSs
SyndicatA Tne.b
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

e"Where is prophecy bred-in the
heart or in the head?" In the
heart, in the case of the banker,
cited above. He didn't want war
and he INDUCED in "wiShful think
ing" In the head, in Phils case.
He didn't want a war any more
than the banker, but as a first
class newspaperman he had the
detachment peculiar to his craft.
Even as good a newSpaperman
as Phil Francis isn't apt to have
a Sizeable financial stake in war
or peace. He was clear and foot.
loose for some ground-and-lofty
thinking, an advantage which
those who have given larger host
ages to fortune aren't apt to have.
Perhaps more important was
the fact that Phil Francis was
really a profound student of his
tory. His foot on Stillman'S brass
rail completed a circuit and in
duced a flow of erudition, wisdom
and prophecy which I have never
seen equalled in any frock-coated
diplomatic huddle. And then he
would step across the street and
put it in the paper.
ACCURATE GUIDES
I have been searching, without
luck, for a pertinent observation
by Roger Bacon, that incredible
Franciscan monk of the Thirteenth
century, in which he notes, in eff
feet, that there is a latent fore
knowledge, or wisdom in masses
of people, which may not become
articulate, but which provides q
more accurate guide than the con-
illusions of philosophers and states
men. Elsewhere, he wrote:
"If 1 had my way, 1 should
burn all the books of Aristotle.
Cease to be ruled by dOgmas and
authorities; look at the world"
The interesting point is that, in
the historic box score, he outrankS
all the lay prophets. Take look
at his prophecy of the steamship,
automobile and the airplane:
Machines for navigating are
possible without rOwerS, so that
great ships suited to river or
ocean, guided by one man, may
be borne with greater speed than
if they were full of men. Like
wise, cars may be made so that,
without a draught animal, they
may be moved cum impetu in
aeStimabili, as we deem the
scythed chariOtS to have been
from antiquity fought. And fly
ing machines are possible, so
that a man may sit in the mid
die, turning some device by
which artificial wings may beat
the air in the manner of a fly
ing bird"
Are the world SPECTATORS, dis
counting the signs of world war,
responsive to this Substratum of
race wisdom which Roger Bacon
notes? Or are they Short-sighted.
faSt-Working men who haven't
time to inform themselves about
historic cause and effect and prob
ability? It's something to think
about. One might easily incline to
the latter point of view, but it hap.
pens that the wise men have been
wrong aboutaas often as the hit
and-run philosophers who are out
to get theirs
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
SyndboatA Ine.S
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
The American WAY

Governor Landon Puts the Issue Squarely Up
to the People
$50 here, at the place of my birth, have sought
to make clear UhGt believe to be the choice
before our country
"H is the choice betUeen the pig-in-the-pOke
policies of the present Administration and those
American institutions under Which lUe haze
jOyed more liberty and attained higher standard
of living than any other people in the World.
"Once that choice is clearly understood, I haze
no doubt of the outcome. pledge myself, so far
as it lies UOithin my pOWer, to protect for America
our heritage of freedom and opportunity.
1--WE 1Oant every boy and girl to haze a better
chance in life than Ue had.
eve IUGnt Government in Washington that
UiU safeguard for the younger generation the Op-
pOrtunity to deUeLOp, each in his DUN LU1u the
American qualities of SeLf-reLiGnce, of hOneSty
and of generosity.
1--WE must remain nation of free citizens, each
choosing for himself, each holding fast not OnLY
to opportunity, but to the truths he has Inherited
"This, an America of free and independent citi-
recognizing our mutual obligations, one to
the Other-iS the America lUe should strive to-
LeaUe for our children"
(From Governor Alfred NJ Landons speech at West
MiddIeser, Pa, August 22 1850
Judging from the perturbed-not to say panicky-
comments Of the Raw Deal press Governor Landon
West Mddlesex Speech there is nothing the Raw Deal
ers fear so much as a call to AMERICANISM.
The Governor minced words in telling the nation
that AMERICANISM was the ISSUE
He put that issue squarely up to the American people
He told them that they faced the choice between a
communist system, imported from Europe and the
American system under which this country had grown
to greatness
It is choice between the craven handout" philoso-
ply Of alien agtaors and the serespectng courageous
spirit that built America.
It is choice between the philosophy of towards
failures and weaklings and the philosophy of free
people who ask odds of fortune except the oppor
tunity to out their destinies.
This choice the American people must make on No.
vember 3, and anyone who KNOWS the American peo-
pie cannot doubt what their choice will be when the
issue put before them simply and clearly Alfred
M. Landon has put it.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
REFLECTIONS


The Capitol isn't the only place
that is being given the old once
over.
The Supreme Court Building is
also on the list. In the court room
proper it looks like a crossword
puzzle. The place is full of scat
folding. The beautiful columns are
draped in canvas and every pice
of valuable decoration has been
shrouded except the ceiling.
High up on these scaffolds, Mr..
Ezra Winter. an eminent New York
artist, is at work painting it over.
When the $40, 900 900 edifice was
completed in the name of Justice
to house nine men who came
nearer smacking the New Deal
flat than any other group of per.
sons in the United States, it was
found the lighting was not up to
snuff.
The Justices and the lawyers
couldn't see. AS a temporary
measure a false ceiling was put in
and painted over. 1t was diScov-
cred in the first instance that the
dark blues and browns absorbed
the light and kept it from reach
ing the bench.
Capitol Architect David Lynn
conducted a series Of experiments
with colors and different lights
until he reached the right tone.
The new specifications have been
completed and Mr.. Winter is re-
decorating in gold leaf, ivory and
light colors to reflect the light to
it's proper place.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
SLIGHT DELAY

Congress can have it's air condf
tioning before next summer even
if the bids turn out to be so high
the second time that Architect
Lynn will have to wait to get more
money during the next session.
All the work of cutting out the
walls and digging up the floors
will be over before Congress re-
turns. The work of installing the
new apparatus and connecting the
dehumidifers, fans, etc, to the
ducts, now being placed, can be
done while Congress is in session.
Another attempt will be made to
get lower bids, however, and Mr..
Lynn will readvertise for them in
the near future.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

finances, said: A. D. Drlscoh
after reading that letter to
The Washington Times it struck
me that If Blanton was going to
return to Washington to take
up his residence as a property
owner and enter the ranks of
our professional class 1t was up
to someone to see that he got
the proper start.
"The Mid City Citizens AsSO-
citation is located in downtown
Washington. 1t meets at the
Thompson School. Its member
ship is composed of property
owners, business men and pro-
fessiOnal men. 1t seems to me
that Mr.. BlantOn will fall into
one of those classes and If he
turns his energy toward being a
good citizen of the Nations
Capital we want him in our as
ISOLATION.
To-day I mailed him an ap-
pIicatiOn to join our association
and hope that he will receive
the suggestion in the spirit in
which it was sent; join our
group and fight for a better
Washington"
Mr.. Driscoll certainly has imagi
nation. Think of Tom Blanton ap
pearing before the Appropriation
Committees pleading for a bigge
lump sum contribution from tn
Federal Government and more i'm
E. 0vementS for our schools ant
health departments. Good hunt
ing, A. J.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

Behold, my Daughter, how
temperate is a man in all things,
save golf and politics. Yeah, his
nonchalance is MOST irritating.
But Woman is the Great Elk
tremist. And whatsoever she
starteth, she never stoppeth half
way. She knoweth no middle
course.
Go to. When she began short
enng her skirts, she was not con-
tent until they reached her knees.
Yet, when she turned back and
began to lengthen them again, she
did not stop until they swept the
floor and trailed two feet behind
her.
The bobbing of her hair began
timidly, but inch by inch, she con
tinued to cut it, until the "boyiSh
bob" made it shorter than a
mans. Yet, now that she hath
chosen to let it grow long once
more, she coverth her head with
curls and braidS, until she is more
frivolous and fluffy than French
doll.
When she chose to adopt mems
ways and to be independent"
and hoydenish, she cast off all
her femininity and all her gentle
manners and subtility. And her
life was one mad round Of
whoopie and petting parties But
now that she hath again gone
feminine, her manners are softer
than velvet and her lips k1 ow not
hard language. In her hands
there is always the knitting
needle. and she cr0cheteth all her