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Evening star., 1936-07-21
JUNIOR F|NAL|STS
UNDERESTIMATE
Bobby, II, Billy, Nearly 18,
Quietly Ambitious to
Make U. S. Amateur.

THOSE two kids who played in
the final round of the recent
junior golf championship Of
= Washington are whole lot bet
ter golfers than mostsfolks can be-
lieve.
Bobby Brownell. the tow-headed
Manor youngster who won the tourna-
ment and title from Billy Shea, within
couple of years is going to make a
lot of folk sit up and take notice Of
the pin-splitting accuracy of his play
with wood and iron. So is Billy Shea,
the lanky Congressional boy who has
been busting the ball around in par
figures over his home course for the
last fortnight.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
c. Mny Golfers Are Well Bro,1ne Shea Going Places
M>3
W. By WRMeCALl ~

ond, with scores of 70. Ohveri met L.
M. Smith in the first round today.
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n n ONRO. HUNTER, the big slug
M ger, may not be hitting the
wv ball as far as he used to wal
4 y Ian II rauan or EIGHT vaQrS

nu ger, may not be hitting the
wv ball as far as he used to wal
4 4 lap it seven or eight years
ago. but he still can poke tee shot for
any one in any company. Il don't feel
as II am getting the distance I
used to get" Monro confessed at
Columbia, where he played with Ches-
ley w. Jurney and Mike London,
"but maybe it's because I'm not hit
ting the ball rs hard"
Nevertheless, from the back tees
he walloped the apple within nib
lick distance of the first and third
green's, parked a mighty tee shot
within a spade shot Of the ninth
and eleventh and made that lengthy
course look short from those blue
tees in scoring . u. But the big
fellow has gone modern. Always an
advocate of wooden shafts over steel
and q devotee of the old idea in golf
club manufacture. Monro finally has
come around to the sand wedge. II
can't play the darned thing very
well, but 1t does get the ball out" he
said. And it does put stop on the
ball"
Evening star., 1936-07-21
THREE SEEM SURE
Of MAKING GRADE
Rippy and Burton, With 75s,
Four Strokes From Top.
Burrows Has II.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

-ARMINGDALE, N. Y, July 2l.-
The golfing butcher. baker,
undertaken, doctor and wine-
L faster took out after q truck
driver, stock clerk, employment man
ager and gasoline station attendant
as the annual scramble for medal
honors as the national public links
championship moved into Its second
and final 18-hole stretch today.
So closely punched in the race for
both team and medal rewards was
the record-breaking field Of 222 start
ers from all sections Of the Nation
that everything had the air Of a big
toss-up. Not one player OF the poor
mans golf show" was a favorite,
whereas the team championship was
so close that eight quartets were sep
arated by only 10 shots.
Dolan, Connally get lis.
ON THE basis of scoring class, the
" twin leaders of the race for the
medal were two youngsters from
Cleveland-Johnny Racey, a stock
clerk, and Jimmy Caspio. who drives
a truck as we'll as golf ball. Johnny
and Jimmy posted par 72s on the blue
course OF the ritzy Beth Page lay
out yesterday for perfect perform
ances.
Ahead of them by one shot were
Mike Dolan, gasoline station attend
ant from Philadelphia and Frank
Connolly, employment bureau man.
ager for the city of Detroit, but their
Ills were scored over the red course,
where par stands at :. Two courses
were used, the field playing Is holes
on each, because Of its unwieldy num-
bers.
Brooklyn, led by 20-year Frank
Strafaci, who is out to win the in
dividual crown for the second year in
a row, was ahead In the torrid four
man team fight, decided over the &c.
hole qualifying round.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
TWO-Cent Dollars

The speed with which the House District Committee
voted favorable report the resolution of Representa-
tive Isabella Greenway of Arizona providing for inst
tuting scrip system for the District is amazing
Here is an experimental proposal which would have
tremendous effect every individual and every bust
ness in the community.
It has been proposed somewhat similar form in other
areas and has never been outstanding success
Yet Mrs. Greenway introduces the bill and within a
week and without public hearings the House committee
rushes through favorable report
No opportunity is given to sound out public sentiment
the revolutionary proposal embodied in the
No chance given anyone to prove that such drastic
step is necessary to prove that it is unnecessary
APPARENTLY NO CONSIDERATION WAS GIVEN
BY THE COMMITTEE TO THE MERITS OR DE-
MERITS OF THE MEASURE
The favorable action on the biH therefore, can be
taken as tribute to the personal charm of Mrs.
GreenUGy rather than as an indication of keen and
alert consideration of the by the members
of the committee.
It is true that the resolution is purely permissve
character.
It would not require that the District Commissioners
put the scrip plan into effect but would simply permit
them to do
HAVING OBSERVED THE ACTIONS OF SOME OF
OUR BOARDS OF DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS
HOWEVER, THERE ARE PROBABLY FEW RESI-
DENTS OF THE CITY WHO NOW WANT THE
BOARD GIVEN AUTHORITY TO TINKER WITH
THE CURRENCY SYSTEM.
Before leaving the city open to the possibility of hav
ing form Of currency injected into its monetary
syste-two cent dollarsthe District committee might
at least have tried to ascertain the views of
with knowledge of financial economics.
It might have asked civic and trade associa
tions what they think of the proposal.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

IIO41IC-UOOy 4A1AA- ELu"Ih Os nHA
Iionaires, none the less wary,
watchful, and resentful, but com.
PEELED by circumstance to keep
plugging away at the old stand.
It is new, and hence more glitter
ing hordes, which are, looking for
a hideaway somewhere east or
west of Suez. Such money always
looks bigger and brighter than the
work-a-day gleaningS of the hard
working CroeSuS. So, like a squirrel
who has snatched a nut, they
scamper to their hidey-holes.
Tariff and currency adjust
mentS, gold and silver fluctua-
tions, sudden changes in raw ma
terial demands, and the swelling
undertow of munitions in the
flux of world commerce, are
preaching the line here and there
in the ramparts of finance, and
hawkeyed spectators dash in
and out with their booty.
TWILIGHT ZONE
In the Far East, particularly
there seems to be a twilight zone
of uncertainty where falls the
mama which assays 200 or 300
per cent on the quick turnover.
I happen to know a former Wall
Street promoter and Speculator,
whose name I am pledged not
to reveal, who sits on the deck
of his yacht in Shanghai and,
with the alliance of a syndicate
of Chinese bankers, plays the
comb, the six-eight and the line
up and down the green baize OF
Asia.
He wears cool dungarees, sips
a Tom Collins and has a Chinese
boy fan him as the dollars march
up the companionway into his
strong box. When the Plimsoll
mark indicates a full pay-load,
he will be on his way again, but
not to the u. S. A. Brash new
money like this is too vulnerable
here; Uncle Sans cut is too high
for comfort.
He will ease noiselessly, save for
the snoring of his keel as he raises
the Southern Cross, down to a Ger.
tain enchanted little orphan coun-
try where it is more or less Kings x
for runaway dollars; where the
sponsors and guardians of the
country are too suspicious of each
other to organize the customary
technique of mining and sluicing
visitors. If he will do a seemingly
amount of spending, that's all they
ask.
Such Is the internationalized
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Daily COnstitutiOnals
BIZ Max BernS

epenSity of all single and numerous
assemblies Qike the House of Rep
resentatives) to yield to the inn
pulse of sudden and violent pas
SionS, and to be seduced by fac
tiouS leaders into incorporate and
perniciouS resolutions. A body
(the Senate) which is to correct
this infirmity ought to be less
numerous (than the House, and
ought to hold its authority by a
tenure (term of office Of consld-
cradle duration"
To protect us from laws based
on the whims of the moment our
Constitution devideS Congress into
two brancheS-a House of Repre-
| sentatives with short (two-year)
terms of office, and a Senate with
long (six-year terms.
TOMORROW: "a CHECK ON
PASSION."l
copyright, 1895, by King Feature
Syndicate. Ine)
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
SpOtting COunterfeits

Human ingenuity is sleepess.
Now wise citizen has discovered fairly dependable
way to check possible counterfeit money.
You take the serial number of the bill and dUide by
six The number left OUer, after the division is
peted corresponds to the tiny check letter the upper
left hand corner of the bill as follouUs:
or G, /; or H. 2; or /, 3; or J, 4; E or K, S;
or L, o.
In other words if the serial number has been divided by
six and two left over the check letter in the upper left
hand corner should be If it isn't the bill probably
phoney.
Don't thank u.s.
Thank the unknown genius who thought it up
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
ISLE OF MAN

Islands off the mainland give
English tourists an easy chance to
be abroad in the British Isles.
There are the lovely Channel
islands, with much that is diff
ferent and beautiful, and, in
marked contrast, there is the Isle
of Man off the northwest coast.
The latter has steamer connections
from Liverpool, Belfast, Dublin
and Glasgow.
A powerful, romantic island, it
continues its hold on the people of
Great Britain, and it is beginning
to attract overseas visitors in con-
siderable numbers.
We have had many requests for
information about the Manxmen
and their island home and so, in
a few articles, we will endeavor
to skim the surface of this in
teresting place and its sturdy
people.
MAINLAND
Mainland has a character and
quality of it's own, for the Isle Of
Man is a separate nation; the
smallest nation in the world, in
fact, with language, history, tradi-
tions, customs and government Of
it's own. And it's scenic beauty is
as lovely and unique as any this
traveller ever has found.
1t always amuses us that while
the Isle of Man is the scene each
year of gruelling automobile tests
and races, horse cars still jog along
the fringe of Douglas Bay, undiS-
turbed by the towering stream
lined double decker buses. All
over the island are similar an
achroniSmS.
Douglas is the principal holiday
resort. Peel and Ramsey also draw
their admirers. A delightful place
is Snaefell, the roof of the island.
There one can look across at Eng
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other and without any difficulty.
MEET THE HELP
With good cause it is boasted
that the Capitol has the best edu'
Gated and most intelligent en-
ployees gathered together IN any
building in the world.
It's bound to be true when you
take into consideration that the
majority of the elevator boys and
policemen are either medical or
law students.
Every time you get in an eleva-
tor if you'll look at the little chair
for the operator you'll see either
a book on anatomy or pills.
On the other hand if you try
to park on the Capitol steps the
blue-clad youngster who tells you
to move on can usually back up
his order with a lecture OIL
precedent or constitutional In
terpretations.
FOR INSTANCE
For instance, there's Bill Weber.
assistant to the SergeantatcArms
of the House. He has just grad
uated from Georgetown and takes
the bar exam soon. He studied
while he worked.
There is Bill Cheatham en-
ployed in the office Of the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate. He's
editor of the George washington
Hatchet.
There is Merrill Horne, from
Utah. He just graduated from
George Washington University
this June. He will enter on his
interneship at Emergency Hospital
this summer.
Mr.. Horne worked for two years
running an elevator in the Sen
ate Office Building while he
studied. He worked and studied
under the patronage of Senator
William H. King. It seems to be
successful practice.
Two other internes, one at
Emergency and one at Gallinger
got there under the same circum'
stances.
The medical students fight for
the chance to get an elevator job
at night. They work from 5 to
II. They take about half-dozen
trips up and down a night. On
the ground floor at each elevator
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Greatest Show on Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith
els q small table

, is a small table with a reading
lamp. It's the only job where
they can study, have very few in.
teIruptions and make enough to
get by on.
The law students who work as
policemen in the daytime usually
go to late classes at school. OF
course, Congress quits and gives
the boys a good long vacation.
REMARKABLE MEMORY
But the students at work on jobs
such as these aren't the only ones
who know their way round. Take
Elmer A. card Index" Lewis,
known officially as Superintendent
of the House Document Room.
There is a legend about Mr..
Lewis that he has card-indexed in
his mind every bill that has come
up during the years he has been
working so that off hand he can
tell you it's number, author, COM
mittee action and whether or not
| it has passed.
Of course, the legend is slightly
optimistic but it is built on the
basis that Mr.. Lewis has such
remarkable memory that he can
give you more information about
measure in the current session
than anyone else in the building.
Day in and day out newspapermen,
members of Congress, secretaries
and clerks come to him and say:
something like this:
"There's a bill or resolution
introduced up here about max.
ing December rs holiday"
els it a Senate or a House
bill or reSOIution?" MIR. Lewis
will ask.
The answer almost invariably
is. IT don't know" And while
Mr.. Lewis is asking that simple
question, he's thinking. Then he
usually says:
"Oh, 1 know. It's a joint
resolution introduced in the
Senate. No. 241. Yes, and be.
lieve there was q similar one
1uGTOuuCCu HI b1AC AVuSC'
BY this time he has given all
the necessary information but he
leans back in his chair and draws
out real index from behind him.
Just to make sure. Nine times out
of ten he has been perfectly cor
rect. He looks at that index so
many times a day that before the
session is over it's reproduced be-
tween his. ears. Frequently he
doesn't have to look at it at all.
And, there are a lot of cards in
that index for this session so far
there were introduced in the
House 12,906 bills, 623 joint reso-
lutions, SAB simple resolutions and
SIS concurrent resolutions. In the
Senate there were 4,760 bills, 285
joint resolutions, 321 simple reso-
lutions and Al concurrent resolu-
tions.
AS a matter Of course, these
figures were reeled off by Mr..
Lewis while he was talking on the
telephone and waiting on two
other customers. Statistics are
| just routine with him.
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Footoose international Financiers Seek New
Tax-Free Havens

and neutralized city Of Tangier
tucked away in an obscure part
of northern Africa, ward of the
European nations, caught in an
international stalemate which
makes it unable to pursue the
great national paStime of soaking
the rich. The allied governing
powers dare not take their eyes
off each other long enough to get
taxation on an efficient basis.
Nesting spectators have discov-
cred it. Quite unoStentatiously
and inconspicuously, they estab-
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Three-Minute Journeys

land, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales. And within the island
every phase, every variety of seem
cry of the British Isles is dupli-
Gated, for nature has been very
generous to this little spot.
ROMANTIC APPEAL
Before we discuss the modern
ism of Douglas, as contrasted with
the more romantic appeal Of Ram
sey, Peel, Castletown, Port st.
Mary and Port Erin, we want to
touch on phase of the island
that, Intangible as it may be to
us, is a living thing to every Manx-
man.
It is a world that forms link
between the present and a remote
past. It involves a journey to the
little village of st. Johns, where
a curious mound of earth stands
for symbol, and where the Tyn-
wald, an unique parliamentary
body, assemblies and carries the
thouSand-year-old ceremony of
laws giving instituted by the Morse
man.
Not far away is the grave of
King Orry, the first Morse ruler
of Man. And if you will climb the
steep firclad hillside and descend
into the Plains of Heaven beyond,
you will find yourself in world
where old beliefs in fairies and a
strange folklore die hard. But
more :eal are the valleys and
glenS, the cleaning white farm
steads, waterfalls, luxuriant foil
age, the leafy forests. and the fas-
cinating beauty of the port and
inland towns.
The famous writer, the late Sir
Hall Caine, did much to popular
ize the Isle of Man. His books
make a delightful prelude to trip
to the island, especially "The
DeemSter" and "The Manxman," ,"
both of them fine novels.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
By Edwin C. Hill

Athe son of Atlas and stole his wife.
For ages, it has been the center OF
squabbles, back-biting, and wars
among the PhoenicianS, Carthage
mans, Romans, VandalS, VisigothS,
Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
The Sultan of Morocco is now the
nominal ruler, but that is mostly
make believe. It is the ward OF
the European governments.
In 1906, the sustained disorders
of Tangier became serious ag-
gravation to European diplomacy.
At the AlgeciraS Conference, Spe-
cial police control was organized
and the customs control was Eu-
ropeanized. In 1911, France, Ger
many, and Spain negotiated
treaties widening their joint con-
troll. The gateway to Morocco,
only two hours from Europe, near
Gibraltar, the city is a fulcrum of
military, political, and economic
forces.
In 1923, Britain replaced the
beaten Germany in the lineup, in
1928, Mussolini quite vociferously
declared himself in. Last Novem-
ber there were still further treaty
adjustments by which France
keeps the principal hold on Gus
toms and routine revenues, but
Spain has administrative control.
PREFERRED HIDE-OUTS
It is the gateway to the East,
as we'll as Morocco, and is far
more Eastern than Western in
character. OF the population of
$4,000, $4,000 are Moors, the rest
being French, Spanish and Italian.
The magic and color of Islam are
centered in the Grand Socco,"
with it's dark, mysterious cafes, it's
mosques and forests of minaretS
and it's labyrinthine, cobbled
streets.
There is little loot there for
predatory powers, but it is the
worlds narrowest bottle-neck of
international strategy, and there
the powers are too busy to fight
or really to get their minds on
taxation, believe it or not.
It is one of quite a few such
hide-outs for the harassed rich,
mostly in or around Europe
There are the island of Guernsey,
Alderny, Sark, Herm and Jethon,
of the Channel Islands Archipel-
ago; the little toy country Of
LichtenStein; a maverick strip of
land down on the border of
French Tndo- China, high, verdant,
tax free and idyllic and two or
three pretty fair little hide-outs
in the South Seas.
It was on the Island of Guern-
Sey that Victor Hugo wrote 'The
Man Who Laughs" And there
the fugitive CroeSus may loiter a
while and drink his wine in
laughter free" but governments
usually laugh last, when it comes
to taxation. It's probably all just
transient money, getting lodg-
ing for the night in these few re-
naming hostelries on the world
highway. Again. everywhere in
the world, governments, libertar-
ian or autocratic, close in on the
higher money plateaus.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Ino)
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

you had become a little child. So
you stand, still as a child, still as
a bean plant drawing your life
without consciousness from the
earth and the air. Sweating.
Sweat is a great thing. It is
as necessary for health as food
or sleep or breath. People who
never sweat are sick people
sicker even in their souls than
in their bodies. I suspect that is
what ails many of us-lack OF
sweat.
Caught in a pattern of life that
gives us no chance to hoe beans
and sweat. Trapped in cities
Locked away from the sky by
buildings-locked away from the
dirt by streets. Thrown back into
ourselveS-into a cankering, con
stant contemplation of ourselves
and our piffling peeves and de
sireS. No chance to sweat out
those peeveS and desires. Nc
chance, ever, to lose ourselves OF
root ourselves in something
greater.
HUMBLING COMMUNION
Trapped in cities, picking at
our souls. Sweat over bean rows
for a while and you'll forget to
have soul. But you'll discover
another soul which you've never
known. You'll discover the soul of
earth-that vast. beating pulse OF
creation from which You came
and to which you will some day
return, to rest and be born again
And the soul of man-you'll
discover that, too. Tasting your
own sweat, you'll taste the sweat
of all other toilers. And the salt
on your lips will become a myS
teriouS communion-a humbling
communion.
Standing there, sweating, with
your mind asleep and your heart
open, life will reach out from
you, reach out into the secret
places of other lives as the roots
of the bean plant reach out into
the secret places of the earth :. It.,
reach out through the mystery OF
pain and WEAKNESS and sweat
and tears until you come to the
hearts of other men {. until you
come to God.
copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

The New Deal objects production which makes
possible for millions to have and enjoy what otherwise would
be reserved for few.
Talk New Dealer about the production line in mod
ern automooe sctory the workers standng st the jon
would four five thousand by old methods produced
for few hundred doars-your New Dealer weeps.
He says "You ought hire and do all that by
hand forgetting that production and low prices produce
MASS BUYING and many jobs.
All production worries this New Deal except the kind
illustrated abovethe production of bills
This production machine costing this country billions
every year. promises to end in national bankruptcy unless
and votes in November interfere with it,
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'lish themselves in the square white
houses by the azure sea, with a
few silken 6ivans, a dozen or two
servants, some palm leaf fans and
a cocktail shaker, awaiting the
time for another foray out into
the world markets.
The international control had
given the perturbed country an
unwonted peace. From the dim
beginnings of it's history, it has
been wracked by violence, even in
the days when, says the ancient
fable, Hercules broke the bones Of
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web of sound.
Birds call and
W h i S tt e a n d
chirp. Squirrels
chattering like
f urry caSta-
nettes. And the
f r a G r ance of
breathing leaf
and grass and
soil beating in
W a v IS across
your 81 e e p y
face.
Great work,
hoeing beans at
sun up. Earth
nnnl nnI Hrinld-
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h a v in G t h e
prize secretary
on the House
side.
M RS. Robert
Bourke is h e
Oldest in point
of S ervice Of
a n y secretary.
She C m e t o
the Capitol to
work in 1906.
She has made
h er job h e r
career. AS fast
as one of her
bosses lie av e S
IL 4
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spoken tidings
of a new tax
free haven in
these days of
COVE rn m entail
o u t r e a C h
throughout the
W orld. Such
esoteric knoWl-
edge runs more
swiftly among
the an G i ng,
foot-looSe finan.
ciers, playing
their bets across
the seven seas.
than among the
hOme-body mil.
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SUDDEN PASSIONS CHECKED
Whims Of the Moment

WhimS Of the Moment
What advantage is there in
having a Senate as well as a
House Of Representatives?
"The necessity of a Senate, -
says The Federalist. famous Con.
stitutional authority, "is the pro
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SWEAT

SWEAT
I've been down hoeing beans.
Sun up when I began, round
four, with the light clinging like a
wet, gilt web to the rough, black
pines. Up in the branches another
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The Human Side of the News =

Just like the whispered address,
of a by7street speak" in the early
prohibition days are the soft