The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-10
NOW
HOW to Stop a
Speaker
A VACATION
By HELEN ESSARY


tOl.
This columnist is on her way
West.
For three weeks she will be miss.
ing from her chimney corner in
the paper and be off viewing this
br-road land of ours from car
windows, mountainous, canyon
creeks, the lots of Hollywood and
the shores of the Pacific.
Then suddenly she will pop
back into the paper again to talk
you to death about what she's
seen and done and imagined.
It's a price everybody has to
nay somebody else in vacation
time-this listening to stories OF
"Where I've BEEN
But before good lively news
takes the space given daily to
snow" here are a few more local
meanderings, a sort Of Washing
ton farewell.
First is news of the formation
of a club that ought to land pray
heaven it does) revolutionize all
public speakings in the United
States.
It's the give Minutes or Walk
out Association, District Commits
Sioner George Allen is it's promoter.
The Commissioners idea is that
no speech should last over five min
utes. No speech on any subject.
OF course, this has been said and
thought several million times be.
fore. But the versatile Mr.. Allen
has a plan to make the hope come
true.
He is going to educate public sen.
timent so Skillfully that it will not
seem bad manners for anybody or
everybody in an audience to leave
the premises at the end OF 800
second of oratory. Should the
orator continue talking when the
crowd shows it's first restlessness,
then anybody is entitled, in all
good breeding, to throw an aged
egg or tomato with past or even
O dash of tear gas at the speaker.
I'm not sure but think under.
stood Mr.. Allen to say he would
personally give a prize, or maybe
1t was the Key to the City, to the
man or woman who ran a speaker
off the stage with the least disturb
ance.
Still, he said, he wasn't fuSsy.
If there had to be noise and Ger
tain untidiness in this election, of
the Big Talker didn't take hint
when the crowd began to walk out
on him, then let some fellow with
q good pitching aim try his luck.
He, Mr.. Allen, and the rest of the
civilized world would reward him.
Mr.. Allen said that John L.
Lewis would be no help to him in
the organization Of this society.
Its purpose would be not the pur-
pose Of the C. I. o. "sit down and
wait" But quite the opposite
sect Up and Walk Out"
Senators and Representative
have had a busy week with the
Supreme Court compromise meas
ure debate and $4,000 prospective
voters (Boy Scouts to voteleSS
Washington visiting in town.
One Senator, whose name is a
secret, had a group of Scouts from
his home town as luncheon guests.
The following day messenger ap-
peared at the Senator's office with
two Senate restaurant spoons and
q note from the ScoutmaSter. The
note said: 1.-TWO of the boys mis-
guidedly thought Souvenior spoons
were part of the visit to the
Capital"
Congressman Norman r. Ham
ilton, of Virginia, was a two-day
visitor in Maine not long ago.
His doctor looked him sternly in
the eye and asked about his diet.
''Well, I confess I did eat "a lob
sters while was in Maine. But,
they were worth it," Which was
not a bad compliment from Vir.
ginia, from the sea-food section
of Portsmouth.
Congressman wster, of
Maine, never misses a chance to
boost his part of the country. In
fact, he goes out of the way to do
so. He recently compiled an elab-
crate brochure setting forth the
virtues of his State as a vacation
land. He mailed a brochure to
each of his colleagues in Congress
with a cordial invitation to spend
part of the summer seeing for
yourself"
Representative Better, Of New
York, replied, enthusiastically. He
hoped he would find time to view
all the magnificenceS and super.
latives set forth in Mr.. Brewster's
communication. The thought Of
such pleaSantnesSes made it
doubly hard to stick around Wash
ington tending to duty. He prayed
that Congress would permit him
to get to Maine.
He added a postscript: Have
you seen Niagara Falls?"
When I get to Hollywood I want
to meet the press agent who wrote
apropos of Actress Simon ST.
mone's departure to France: Isl
none to Hear Sea Moon!"