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Evening star., 1938-06-12
Radio Inquiry.

Friends as well as critics of the radio
industry will agree that Congress should
pass the Connery resolution for an
investigation Of the charges filed or
threatened againstthe broadcasting net
works. The public at large is interested,
the radio companies and their patrons
are definitely concerned. the Govern
ment is involved. For all of these
reasons a careful. just and equitable
inquiry should be authorized.
OF course. conditions could be i'm
proved. 1t follows that they ought to
be. The proposed investigation would
serve the purpose of bringing into CEN
tral focus the discussion, pro and con,
which has been raging for several years
and which cannot be stopped by any
other process. Members of the Federal
Communications Commission themselves
are at odds. The inquiry would afford
them an opportunity to. inform them
selves and then to adjust their opinions.
More important, however, than any,
thing else is the need for removing the
cloud under which the radio industry
at present lies Publicity should be, like
sunlight, helpful influence The in
vestigation would have the effect of a
thunderstorm on svltry summer after
noon. 1t would clear the air for the
benefit of everybody, not excluding the
humble listener-in who does not know
exactly what all the shootin' is about"
Evening star., 1938-06-12

The Ringing announcement that the
circus business is not paying dividends
as it once did leads Immediately to the
suggestion that this favorite amusement
be dispensed with. The idea of trying
to run circus with one ring instead of
three does not appear to have suggested
itself to the lingering representatives of
a glory which included such names as
Barnum. Bailey, Forepaugh. the Sells
brothers and others whose distinction
was in part only artificial yet cannot
be quite effaced from affectionate recol-
lections.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
MODERN HEROES
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D. D., L. D, D. c. L,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

The age Of heroism is not past, nor
is the age Of militant Christian faith
and zeal lost to our generation. To
those of us who live sequestered lives,
to whom trial and suffering are little
known, the opportunities for costly sac
riflce rarely come When the orderly
routine of life is rudely interrupted,
when grave misfortune and disaster
come to pass. it is then we make evi-
dent either our weakness or our strength.
Recently there came to hand authentic
American missionaries are doing in the
heart Of the war zone In China. AS q
story Of pure heroism we believe 1t ranks
with the finest ever recorded. 1t made
one think Of those early days of the
Christian Church when men were called
upon to give all that they had, even to
life itself, for the faith they professed
and practiced. It is reminiscent of an
age when to be follower of the Naza-
rene meant privation, suffering and fire.
quently martyrdom. We are having q
resurgence of this spirit today. 1t may
be that this new passion for service,
this later expression of heroic Christian
faith, will serve to stimulate our jaded
spirits here at home.
When the danger increased in the
war zones in China, the missionaries
were ordered by the American authori-
ties to withdraw to places of safety, but
they resolutely refused to go. To no
official order to evacuate did they re-
spond: on the contrary 1t but served Ia
stiffen them in their determination to
remain. Let me quote from the letter
of one of these courageous men: I'm
the present instance, those OF us who
remained in the interior came to realize
that our withdrawal was regarded by
the Chinese as an unfriendly act. They
wanted us to stand by them in the hour
of their crucifixion. We felt precisely
the same way. The more we thought
about it the more we realized that, by
leaving our flocks while the wolf at
tackled them, we were playing the role
of the hireling rather than that of the
shepherd, and that by staying and los
ing our lives with and for our friends,
If necessary, we would do more for the
spread of the Gospel Of our Lord than
by hundreds of evangelistic campaigns.
1t was clear case of making true the
Evening star., 1938-06-12
cooperative Investigation,

The Cash kidnapping case is an excel
lent example Of what may be accom-
plished by wholehearted cooperation
and coordination among law-enforce-
ment authorities. Instead of the mis-
understandings that have marked some
similar investigations. the G-men and
police worked shoulder to shoulder on
most difficult crime-and solved it within
two weeks Of its commission.
The investigation was conducted under
serious handicaps. The Federal Bureau
OF Investigation labored under the strain
OF money worries and consequent per-
sonnel shortage. It lacked technical
Jurisdiction because of absence of inter-
state angles to the kidnapping. It was in
strange territory, where aid Of local ON
cials was essential to successful search
of the junglelike fastenesses in which the
kidnaper could have hidden himself and
his victim. ..,..
With grave problems of this nature
confronting him. 1t Is to the credit OF J..
Edgar Hoover, I. 3. I. director, that he
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

"a recognized feature in the plans of
the future Washington" says The Star
of June S, 1888, sis the
1roposeu establishment of an extern
Zoo Park. sive park in the picturesque
Rock Creek Valley. There
is no reason. unless it be found in a con-
sideration of expense. why part OF the
land necessary for this purpose should
not be secured at once and be used for
the purposes of Geological Garden. as
proposed in the amendment to the SUM-
dry civil bill offered by Senator Morrill,.
The land for the park could have been
obtained at comparatively small expense
a few years ago. but it increases in value
with the approach of suburban settle
ment, which adapts better for use as a
park than for building sites or agricul-
tural operations. The stretch of rocky,
wooded and uneven valley land desired
could probably be obtained at low rate
today. Some persons might contribute
property for the purpose in view Of the
benefit to that which would remain to
them. The tendency of landowners to
aid such a project is indicated by the
donation of Is acres of the valley in 1886
for use as a geological garden. If 1t
shall appear that heavy expense will be
threatened, the taxpayers of the city in
view of the urgent current needs will
request a postponement of the matter
and with every month of postponement
the cost of the necessary land will in
crease. Property owners in the valley
should bear in mind the danger of an
entire failure of the plan from this delay
and act accordingly"
+ + 4 X
THE project of a National Geological
Park on Rock Creek, for the establish
Zoo Park 1ndorsed bill niih has 81 been l intro.
by Naturalists. duced {, in in the Sen. Sen.
of June 8, 1888, "commends itself as q
matter of national concern to all the
people of the Republic and is favorably
discussed by newspapers In widely sepa-
rated sections of the country. Forest
and Stream says: There is not the
slightest doubt that If national zoolog-
ical garden or park were to be estab-
lished at Washington it would receive
generous donations from all parts of the
country and would, before long, almost
without any cost besides that of the
TRANSPORTATION and care of the animals,
contain a large and thoroughly typical
collection of North American mammals,
birds and reptiles. The surplus animals
which would be constantly coming in
could be exchanged with foreign gardens
for such exotic species as might be
thought desirable The Importance of
preserving living North American man,
mails can hardly be overestimated. The
buffalo is practically extinct and the
range of the elk has become so contract
ed in the. last few years that it is appar-
ent that the same fate awaits the noble
species. There are others that will sur
vive longer, but the people at large know
nothing and never can know about them
unless they should be brought close to
their homes. All these animals should be
secured before it is too late and placed
on exhibition, where they can be studied
by the naturalists and be seen and ad-
mired by the people,"
Evening star., 1938-06-12

= 1t Is curious to observe the eccen-
tricities that assert themselves as public
courtesies are interchanged. A little
while ago the public was greatly con-
cerned about the health of Gen. Pershing.
Now the general is solicitous visitor at
the bedside of Brig. Gen. Charles G..
Dawes. Gen. Dawes is seventy two years
of age, but is still able to rely on his
ability to "get together and get some
where"
Evening star., 1938-06-12

1t is urged by Samuel insult of Chi
cago that charges that he fooled the
public ought to be expunged from the
record. 1t might after all be desirable
to forget examples of more or less artistic
phases of wealth and culture and proceed
on simple standards of straightforward
relationship.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

The circus business in the U. s. A.
presents question as to whether it
naturally grew up to enormous proper
tions or simply became afflicted with an
abnormal swelling.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

SwaStika.,
The Swastika I have discerned
In various human scenes.
It's lesson I have never learned.
Oh, tell me what 1t means.
Is it the symbol Of war
Which profit never CLEANS?
I fear it-sometimes I abhor-
But know not what 1t means.
Though gold or pride may set task
Which all our substance weans,
My simple question still I ask
Oh, tell me what it means.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

BY listening carefully to radio it will
be learned that the American public is
doing what 1t can to eliminate excess
in the wheat crop by eating it regularly
for breakfast.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

Mexico City may possibly have learned
to regard mere earthquake as a relief
compared with social and political occur
RANGES which are likely at any moment.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
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credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
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herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Tirnidity.

The 'possum seeks seclusion grim
And seldom cuts a dido.
Some lady fair might capture him
And maybe call him "Fido."
Evening star., 1938-06-12

my only objection to fountain pen, -
said Uncle Eben, "is that when I has it
workin' to perfection I feel so joyous
and excited .forgets what was goin'
70 write.s . .ssss 1
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Survival of the Fittest.

did Gwendolyn take any interest in
the young fellow who stood In the road
serenading her last night?"
NO" answered Miss Cayenne. "She's
out riding with the motorist who ran
over him."
Evening star., 1938-06-12

Same Feeling.
Every time boy gets scolded he is
likely to feel thankful for numerous
things his folks never found out"
THAT is true" answered Senator
Sorghum, land many man feels much
the same way after he is. through being
investigated by Congress"
Evening star., 1938-06-12

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Duplicity.

Duplicity.
The hard-luck story you relate
Gets sympathy polite
But oft your friends in private state
"It served the bone-head right"
"The contortionist in circus fills me
with surprise" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. 81 sometimes wonder
whether the human brain cannot be
trained to do similar tricks"
Evening star., 1938-06-12

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Evening star., 1938-06-12

|. stage should have been an early balance
in the budget and the start of an effort
to cut down debts incurred by the earlier
spending.
President Roosevelt listened to the
Keynes theory advisers and agreed to
do their bidding. But Congress, instead
of doing as they should have done to
fill the recovery prescription, dumped
two and one-half billion bonus dollars
into a purchasing power stream that
already was widening. This added
spending produced a premature boom in
the first months OF 1897. Then, when
it was too late, Congress got the budget
balancing idea.
About the time Congress made up its
collective mind to economic the plan
ners were predicting a new collapse and
they wanted to step up spending to ease
the shock. While these planners fretted
the country nose -diyed into a new de-
preston. Months were required to edu-
cate Congress out of its economy mood.
Instead of cushioning the shock of an
economic setback, the billions in SPEND
ing that Congress now has favored will
get in its full effect not much before
the spring of 1889. BY that time the
Nation will have dragged bottom for
several months, much to its discomfort,
and the Government outlays will tend
to push along what should be normal
recovery rather than to prevent de-
preston of the depth of the one now
experienced.
In other words, the simplest form Of
control operation-that involving the
start and stop Of large. e.scale expendi-
tures-is next TO impossible on . planned
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

HELEN GREBUs, IT, of 1716 R St. s. E.,
b in her junior year at Anacostia High
School, where they grow 'em pretty. She's
Q new entrant in the competition sponsored
by The Washington Times and The Wash
ington Herald for our loveliest coed.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
North and South Face
In AN-Star Battle
AT Montgomery
Little to Coach Yonks
And Thomas Rebels
In Charity Game
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Nov. IT,
Forces of the Blue and the GRAY
will clash again in Alabamas his
torlc capitalize cradle of the Con-
federacy-on January 2, but it
will be football teams from North
ern and Southern college and pro-
fessional teams.
Mayor w. A. Gunter said today
elevens selected from either side
OF the Potomac would play here,
with Coach Lou Little of Columbia
University directing the Northern
team and Coaches Frank Thomas
of Alabama and Jack Meagher of
Auburn in charge of the Gray
squad.
Professional football players or
seniors who have completed college
play will compose the teams.
Gunter said the game would be
an annual affair"
Each team will be allowed %
players, to be selected by the coaches
from their territory. The squads will
report at Montgomery by the morn
ing of December %.
Proceeds Of the contest, Gunter
said, after all expenses are paid.
will 60 to the unemployed and
other unfortunates."
The contest will be staged in
Cramton Bowl, Montgomery's mu-
nicipal stadium, which has a ca
pacity of between $4,000 and 10000.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Athletic Celebrities
To Attend Diamond
Arbiters' Feast

Local sports celebrities tonight will
converge on Schneider's Restaurant
for the 18th annual banquet of the
District of Columbia Baseball Um-
pires' Association. More than l25
members and guests are expected to
attend the feast, which will get
under way at 8 o'clock.
The association tonight will pay
tribute to James (Shorty) Hughes,
retiring president, and George B.
Watt, newly elected head.
Among those invited to attend are
Bucky Harris, Clark Griffith. Ossle
Bluege. Walter johnson, Chris Heu-
rich, jr: Bill MCGOWAN, Bill Rein
hart. Max harrington, Burton Ship
ley, J. Edgar Hoover, Sammy Baueh
and Ray Flaherty.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
George Brooke, Old Grid
Star, Su((umbs at 64

BY the Associated Press.
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 17.-George
Haydock Brooke, 81, Philadelphia
insurance broker and one-time all
America football back at Pennsyl-
vania, died yesterday at his home
here
Brooke once was racquet cham
pion of America. court title holder
of America in doubles, and doubles
lawn tennis ruler. He made Walter
Camps football teams in 1894 and
1895.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. II Pl-
George H. Brooke, who died at
Tucson, Ariz.. was head football
coach at Pennsylvania in 1913, 1914
and 1915.
In his undergraduate days at
Pennsylvania he won fame as "one
of the greatest punters of all time
In the 1895 Cornell game he booted
a 45-yard field goal.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
BX FELIX r. MCKNIGHT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


, AUSTIN, Tex, Nov. 17.-Schol-
arly Dana Xenophon Bible, a foot
ball master who has tutored some
of the Nations great teams over
the last IS years, ponders the situa-
ton OF his University of Texas club
losers of eight straight games this
year-and concludes there are no
alibis.
Frankly, the bald-pated veteran
believes ''for a losing football coach
there are no alibis.'
To millions of fans who followed
Bible through championship years
with Texas A. and M. and '7ebraska,
the bare-faced record this season
is stunning. Behind that record,
however, is a factual story Bible
has analyzed into nine major points
not alibis.
Talent Is Not at Hand.
. Most salient of all factors listed
was that I'VE finally just ran out
Of talent"
It's Bibles story from now on:
For the last four years we have
lost by graduation, eligibility, ETC.,
each year about twice as many
boys as have come up from the
freshman team. You always will
lose somewhere from II to Is boys
each year. Last year and the year
before we did not receive from the
freshman team over half dozen
boys-so it means We just finally
ran out.
Our squad is so small we do not
have a reserve team, which is a
considerable handicap.
You must have manpoWer in this
conference to meet the opposition
because Of the weather.
I'VE have had. 1 feel more than
our share of injuries. We have been
in the shape where We just couldn't
afford to lose a single boy. To tell
you the truth, we haven't been two
deep In one game we used a third
string guard at tackle position.
I'VE do not have speed in the line
or backfeld
The field general we have has
been manufactured. We haven't had
real leader. In fact. we haven't
had key men for key positions The
success of Baylor is Bill Patterson
He is fine quarterback, a fine
passer and kicker Texas Christian S
success can be attributed to Davey
OBrien and XII Aldrich-O Brien
conducting the offense, Aldrich the
defense.
I'VE have played five games in
Evening star., 1938-11-17
NC. State |sP|aying
|. Gidnt-KiI|er Role
Against Duke

RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 17.-North
Carolina State will assay the role
OF the giant killer in Durham on
Saturday when the Wolfpack stacks
up against Wallace Wade's steam
roller eleven from Duke University.
State will have three records at
which to shoot to mar the Blue
Devils perfect slate for the sea-
son-Duke is unbeaten, united and
unscored upon.
Coach Rex Enright reported op-
timistically that his South Carolina
eleven looked good in defensive
scrimmage against Fordham plays.
Preparations were speeded up in
other Southern Conference camps
for Thanksgiving Day engagements.
The holiday contests will pair Will
liam and Mary and Richmond,
North Carolina and Virginia, Vir-
ginia Tech and v. Ms l., Clemson
and Furman. Wake Forest and
Davidson, North Carolina State and
Carnegie Tech and Washington and
Lee and Maryland.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Vary Qualities Tennis Immortal Teaching
B;bIe> Seeing Brighter Future
At Texas, Says Losing Streak
Due to Lack of Talent

which the temperature was 80 de-
grees or above-very hard for a small
squad"
1--WE haven't had 'setup' on the
schedule. All of our games have
been against major opponents.
Sees Brighter Future.
''Our system is still somewhat new,
although I think we are better CO.
ordinated than we we're last year. l
can say frankly you will not find a
finer, keener spir: on any team
than right here at Texas.
1--WE will continue to work. and
when we can bring the PERSONAL Of
our squad up to those Of other Con-
ference schools. both in numbers and
ability, then I believe our week ends
will not be so gloomy.
Il do not have magic formula
it is going to take some time For
the first time in good while we will
get from the freshmen team more
boys than we will lose. The outlook
is very encouraging.
So, without alibis on any specific
game or break, there is the story of
Texas team that has shocked the
Southwest with 10 consecutive losses
eight of them this year.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Suspensions, Recalls
Add Pep 10 Lively
Hockey Program
Shore Given Top Pay
Of $1,000 to Sign
With Boston Club
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE most
turbulent hockey season of recent
years headed into its third week
tonight with 3-star program and
enough extra -curricular activity on
tap to satisfy the most rabid fan.
For, while the Detroit Red Wings
and The Canadiens prepared for bat
tie at Montreal, the New York
Rangers got in their last licks before
playing the Black Hawks at Chicago
and the Toronto Maple Leafs in
vaded New York to meet the Amer
leans, suspensions, recalls and the
signing of Eddie Shore kept the
hockey world busy.
Shore ended the longest holdout
siege of his National Hockey League
career yesterday by signing a con-
tract with the Boston Bruins that
called for the circuits maximum
salary of $1,000 He accepted terms
after a conference with League
President Frank Calder, Weston
Adams, the Bruins chief executive
and Manager Art Ross
Shore will be at right defense for
the Bruins Sunday night against the
Detroit Red Wings.
The jittery Detroit Red Wings,
having suspended and fined Goalie
Normie Smith for missing the train
to Montreal. found les Canadiens,
who like the Wings haven't won in
four starts. equally jittery. The
Canadiens have recalled Bill Sum-
merhill from New Haven, while the
Wings have picked up Harvey Teno
to replace Smith. and Sid Abel and
Pete Kelley from the Pittsburgh
Hornets.
The only spot free from office
fireworks was Chicago, where the
battle between the Hawks and
Rangers needs no ballyhoo. Out Of
tonights struggle between these two
undefeated squads is sure to come
the pacemaker for a good part of
the season.
Evening star., 1938-11-17

Coaching is Thoroughly en-
joyable," Packer said, but at
Kicks he's been treading the same
mill for % years-coaching foot
ball, basket ball baseball. track
and tennis with gymnasium
classes on the side.
Although his contract has run
on year-to-year basis. it's been
Immediately renewed each year
despite some thin seasons. =
Packers teams have done fairly
we'll in the Intermountain Junior
College Conference.
Basket ball is Packers forte.
In % years he's won approXi-
matelv 80 per cent of the games
his teams have played in Idaho:
IS per cent of those played out
side the State. While student
at the University of Utah in
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Will Quit Coaching to Broaden His Life
Fve-S Sport Tutor Finds Small College Circle Too Restricted

1916, he was member of the
team that won the national A. A.
U. basketball championship.
Despite his resolve to get out
of coaching" Packer was de-
jected when his team finished
the football season yesterday.
L feel kinda shaky about quit
ting coaching he said. But I'm
going to get out to widen my
horizon. And I've got a fine
1,3OO-acre dry farming ranch
near ReXburg where I'll raise
wheat. I'm no Creep hand on a
tractor, I've been farming on
the side for p years
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Rums Form New Plans
To Protect Mascot
Nv tho Associated Press

! BY tNe ASSOCIUlPd FItSS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-They are
trying to get Fordham's goat again.
Rameses TX, the newest goat to
wear maroon coat and prance JOY
ously with the Fordham band, has
been the subject of several raids.
The Rose Hill campus exudes mys-
terry and secrecy as Rameses' guard
ians form new plans to save the
mascot from the bad boys from
New York U.
Evening star., 1938-11-17
Colgate Grid Schedule
Contuins Eiqht Ti|ts

HAMILTON, N. Y, Nov. II [P.-
Colgates football schedule of eight
games for 1899 has been completed
as follows:
sertember 30. N. Y. o.. here.
eroSn October Dyke in Durham. Durham G. L.
Holy Cross in Worcester. Mass.
November 4. permanently open; II. Cor
nell. at Ithaca: Is Syracuse, in Syracuse;
25. Columbia. in New York.