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Evening star., 1939-01-16
Charles A. Hamilton Celebrates
57th Year in journalism
1888 Senate Press
Card Is Reminder
Of Long Service
By JOHN ], DAILY.

Charles A. Hamilton, treasurer of
the National Press Club and presi-
dent of the Old Timers, an organi-
zation of venerable Senators, Repre-
sentatives and Washington corre-
spondents who remember when,"
celebrated his 57th year in journal
ism today.
AS a reminder of his long service
in Washington newspaperdom, Mr..
Hamilton has the original card given
him on January 16, 1883, by the
chairman of the Senate Rules Com
mittee. The card reads:
47th Congress, I'd Session.
Reporters Gallery.
This Entities
Mr.. Charles A. Hamilton,
Correspondent for the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
Admittance to the gallery until
otherwise ordered by the Com
mittee on Rules.
CNo person interested in leg
islation is eligible to a seat)
(Signed) VIM. P. FRYE,
Chairman.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 16, 1883.
Paper Well Preserved.
Though he carries this card in
back pocket, in an old wallet, all
the writing is clear-and the paper
is well preserved. Charlie Hamilton,
as you might know, is dean of the
Washington correspondents. He has
seldom missed a days work in 81
years, though on March 13 of this
year he will enter his 83d year. On
Saturday night in the National Press
Club he was toastmaster at the an
nual banquet of the Old-Timers.
At that time Senator James Mead
Of Buffalo, where Charlie Hamilton
broke into the newspaper business,
was the guest of honor-and Sena-
tor Mead extolled the product of
Buffalo journalism.
Born in London, England, March
13, 1856, Charles Hamilton came to
America as 13-year-old. boy. That
was some four years after the War
Between the States.
AS a native Of the great English
capital, young Hamilton set his eyes
on Washington and determined to
come here as a correspondent. So
on January Is, 1883, he was ushered
into the presence of Senator Frye
from Maine and made full-fedged
Washington correspondent.
That proved big day in the life
OF Charlie Hamilton, who has since
seen some of the greatest news
events ever enacted on the face of
the earth-the beginning of the
World War, for one thing.
Gets Scoop on Story.
On the day Charlie Hamilton
became Washington correspondent
The Evening Star went to press with
its 9,276th paper. It had reached
its 61st volume George w. Adams
was president of The Star Co. and
Crosby S. Noyes was editor. After
ward they became great friends of
Washington oldest correspondent.
Right off the bat, the young cor
respondent got a scoop. He flashed
back to Buffalo-they were just
getting the telegraph going good in
those days-the story of a bill in
troduced that day in the House to
authorize the construction of a rail-
road bridge over the Niagara River.
On the day Mr.. Hamilton took up
his duties as a newspaper corre-
Evening star., 1939-01-16
Federal Bur to Resume
Wednesday Luncheons

Wednesday 1uncheons of the Fed
eral Bar Association will be re-
sumed this week at 1890 pm. at
the National Press Club. Hal Glib
son Of the antitrust division Of
the Department of Justice will
speak.
Future speakers will be Judge J..
Fred johnson, attorney for the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
on January Is; Mastin G. White,
solicitor for the Department Of
Agriculture, on February /; U. Bon
Geaslin, general counsel for the
Maritime Commission, on February
8, and Arthur D. Condor, attorney
for the income tax division of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, on
February IS.
Evening star., 1939-01-16
Four-Night Opera
Season Is Planned
Here in February
Met,' Chicago and
Overseas Sturs to
Take Part

A four-night season" Of grand
opera will be presented in Constitu-
ton Hall the week of February 13
by group of stars from the Metro
politan and Chicago Civic Opera
Cos. and from abroad, it was an
nounced today.
"The Bartered Bride" the spright-
1y Czecho-Slovakian folk opera by
Smetana, which has had 1,400 per-
formances in Prague and was heard
in New York last season, will be pre-
sented in English as the first per-
formance, on February 13.
Other operas to be heard during
the week are LA Boheme," Lohen-
grin" and "Manon."
Miss Cornelia M. Bowie is in
charge of arrangements for the
opera season" with headquarters
at l643 Connecticut avenue NV.
Scholarship Fund Sought.
The sponsoring organization hopes
to create from the proceeds a schol-
arship fund to provide musical train
ing for those among the youth Of
Washington who show special tai
ents. There will be additions for
those with operate aspirations, the
winners being promised additions
by the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Co. and others who show promise
being aided by the scholarship fund.
The sponsors also hope to create
an interest here sufficient to pro-
mote an annual season of grand
opera.
For the opening performance of
"The Bartered Bride" the cast will
include George Rasely, Metropolitan
Opera tenor; Josepha Chekova,
prima donna soprano of the Prague
National Opera: Francis Barnard,
a protege of Senator Borah, from
the Cincinnati Symphony and Sum-
mer Opera. and Ivan Velik, tenor,
from the Moscow Civic Opera.
Folk dances will be prepared by
Vecheslav Swoboda, former ballet
master of the Paris Grand Opera
and Chicago Civic Opera.
DIR. Swoboda to Conduct.
Ii. t1clliy SWOUOQd, lOl lllel COll-
ductor of the Prague Philharmonic
Orchestra, now guest conductor of
the Montreal Symphony, will con-
duct.
Chief characters in Boheme will
be Joseph Bentonelli, leading tenor
Of the Metropolitan; Margarita
Salvi, coloratura soprano, of the
Chicago City Opera, former star of
the Paris Grand Opera; Emma
Redell, soprano of the Chicago
Opera; Francis Row, baritone, from
Chicago, and Elizabeth Wysor, IA
vorite with the Boston Symphony.
Principal characters in "Manon"
will be sung by Mr.. Bentonelli and
Lucy Monroe, also of the Metropol-
itan.
Evening star., 1939-01-16

in charge OF the new 260th Band
Section Of the Service Battery.
Pvt. First Glass; Henry @. Steele,
Battery G, 260th, promoted to Sec
ond lieutenant and assigned to
Headquarters Detachment and Com
bat Train, 1st Battalion.
First 1t. Herbert F. Mitchell, jr.,
Headquarters, 1st Battalion, pro-
moted to captain Of the same bat
talon.
In another transfer announced by
the District Guard, Second 1t.
Stanley E. Travis, Quartermaster
Reserve, had been assigned to active
duty with the same rank in Head
quarters Company of the 104th
Quartermaster Regiment, District
National Guard.
Evening star., 1939-01-16
GEORGE Is Appointed

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 16 R.-
Maybe the S. P. c. S. c. P. G.. $50
ciety for the Prevention of Calling
Sleeping Car Porters George) should
do something about this:
Gov. Ralph L. Carr has ap-
pointed George L. Robinson, Sleep
ing car porter, as his Office mes
senger.
Evening star., 1939-01-16
jolly Polly
a Little Chat on English
BY JOS. J. FRISCH.

T. A. AIN strict usage, each
other" applies only to two persons or
things, and "one another" to more
than two persons or things, as: Mrs.
Often and Mrs. Eldom were taking
leave of each other. "All the ma
tions of the world should live in
amity with one another" Many good
writer's and speakers, however, dis
regard this rule and use the two
terms interchangeably.
Evening star., 1939-01-16
Motor Accidents Mount

With the rapid increase of motor
vehicles in Bihar, motor accidents
are mounting and the authorities
plan special safety measures, in
Guiding educating the road sense of
pedestrians.
Evening star., 1939-01-16

Catch-as-catch-ca wrestling has
just been made a sport in Russia.
Evening star., 1939-01-07

argued themselves into a rage.
Steenho@d WAS the more aggressive
Of the two; he was never happy un.
til he had reused Rud to returt. And
Rud, In spite Ut himself, was forced
to be partisan and counter offensive.
His Picture Expands.
"You English" said Steenhold.
"You Americans" said Rud.
"When you aren't as fresh as
paint" he said. you Americans are
as stale a. old cabbage leaves. I'm
amazed at your labor leaders, at the
sort Of things you can still take seri-
ously as presidential candidates.
These leonine reverberators tossing
their names back In order to keep
their eyes on the White House they
belong to the Pleistocene. We
dropped that sort Of head in Eng
land after John Bright. When the
revolution Is over and I retire, I
shall retire as Hitler did, to some
remote hunting lodge and we1l have
the heads Of great labor leaders and
presidential hopes stuck all around
the hall. Hippopotaini won't be In
It,"
Hud's picture Of the world, under
the stimulus Of this experience, ex-
panded and became factual with ter.
rific rapidity. He felt that his Anglo
American idea had been mere talk
before. even to himself; that hither-
to he had never believed in It's feasi-
bility. but now 1t was Immensely
credible. "T11e pivot Of our move
ment has to be In America. The
bulk of our party has to be on this
side and"-he paused and looked at
Steenhold-"I haven't to come to
America more often than once a
year. For one short week"
Il don't quite see," began steen-
hold.
public men In America are too
public. Too accessible. This sitting
on the stoop and being 'just folk
was all very well for local politics
and the simple farmer days Of a
hundreds years ago, but It's no GOOD
for world affairs. Opening flower
shows and being genial to babies
and all that is out OF date. These
parish politics methods have to 10,
The ultimate leader ought to be dis
tant, audible but far Oh.
New Thing for America.
SHOW yourself and then vanish
into = cloud. Marx would never
have counted one tenth of his weight
as Charlie Marx playing chess with
the boys, and Woodrow Wilson
threw away all his magic as far as
Europe was concerned when he
crossed the Atlantic. Before he
crossed he was 4 god-what q god
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Sermons Announced
By Rev. R. P. Seheurrer

The Rev. r. Paul schearrer will
preach 1t II am. tomorrow In the
TAkoma Park Presbyterian Church
on "Tf1e, Reasonableness Of Reli-
sion," and At 8 pm. on ''The Spirit
Of Scouting In the Life Of Patrick
yfenry." The Boy Scouts. Troop
S3, will attend the service in /
body. Two boys Of the troup, Ar
thur Harrison and Keith Warner,
viii be publicly awarded Eagle
Scout honors.
Frances Shepherd, Natalie TIT
fington, Gertrude Frey, Paul Hamm
and Miss Lois Judge will be in
charge Of the various young peo-
pies group meetings tomorrow eve
ming. The Brotherhood Bible Class
will meet tomorrow morning at the
home Of H. J. Carr, 1o1 Holly ave-
nue..
Mrs. Frank E. Edgington will adj
dress the 1nterdenorninational Mis-
sion Study Glass Monday morning
1T the Takorna Park Baptist Church.
The session will meet Monday eve
ming at the home Of Elder John
r. Bovard, 500 Takoma avenue. The
Board Of Trustees will meet Tues
day evening at the church ONCE.
Evening star., 1939-01-07

said Rud.
some Of the Tory press tried to
guy Rud. They said he had an
Oxford accent and conversely that
he rearransed his atpirates. They
telephoned to London for facts
against him, but they could get
hardly any facts Tor or against him.
They tried to ind out II he hsd Z
'love nfe." They could not find
10 much as Z blond hair upon him.
They said he was . political Mono
maniac. but that did not hurt him.
They picked the worst photographs
Of him and issued caricatures. But
though they made him grotesque,
that did not make him in the least
feeble or repAlsive. The more lib
erAl papers took him up from 4
different angle a. the new type
Briton. The press fought about
him and the radio people found
he had natural aptitude for
talks" always with something new
to say ana always In eject re-
iterating his self-Assertion.
''Our common people have beer
kept apart BY politicians ana bad
history long enough. We ought to
have scrapped old George the Third
when you did. That's kept us out OF
step ever since. Sorry to be 30 be-
hind you; but how about getting to-
gether l1ow7 Our common tongue
Our common freedom. Our common
future. While there Is stu time
Then we'll get these soldiers OF our
backs and start fair. That's what
I'm here for. That's what want to
learn about"
"Your party is the Popular Social
ist Party, isn't it, still?"
Were dropping that name out
Of respect to his lost lordship. we
fired him. We're calling ourselves
the Party of the Common Man."
Tn England?"
Throughout the world"
English Speaking Union.
That American campaign outran
SteenholdS widest hopes. Rud was
intensely excited and met his every
occasion with an inspired aptness.
He conferred. He addressed meet
ings. He talked on the air. He die
t&ted interviews. HIS energy seemed
inexhaustible. Always he seemed
to be saying something obvious. "You
disentangle things" said Steenhold
trying to give it a name.
In a dozen cities ambitious young
men were presently starting nuclei
for the Party Of the Common Man.
Rud surveyed America from
East to West and from North to
South from the air. His first i'm
preston was an amazing spacious
ness. Everywhere there was space
Too much desert there was, too
much wilderness: the empty unde-
Tended coasts Of the West fright
ened him, the vast unkempt rivers.
When later he few from London to
Moscow and thence by way Of Con-
stantinople and Rome home, Europe
In comparison, with its strips and
roads and disciplined waterways,
looked like one continuous land OF
gardens. But everywhere he de-
scended in America he found COM
munities living in fine. great cities,
speaking the same language, using
the same idiom of thought and pre-
pared to understand him completely.
And he took the utmost care that
his great idea was understood.
He kept his end up against Steen-
hold with dif11culty in a long and
tedious comparison Of these two Sec
tions Of the English-speaking world.
He and Steenhold had absolutely
the same ideas and the same vision
OF things, and yet so subtle is the
virus Of patriotism that these two
professional anti-patriots made in
ternAtional comparisons until they
Evening star., 1939-01-07

he was! After he arrived he was
Just 4 grinning guest. I'VE got to be
the common man, yes, but not COM
mon like that"
"1t's 4 new thing for America-
an invisible great man." said eteen-
hold, considering 1t, 'but I believe
you're right"
"I,m right" said Rud, and then
with 4 certain bitterness. look at
me. It would be money In my pocket
II were invisible Altogether"
Steenho1d considered his leaders
visage judicially. "No," he said.
You've got to be careful with It, Of
course, ana you don't want to make
1t tbo cheap. admit Z snapshot
might make 4 mess of you. But
you've got force about you. They
never laugh at you on the platform.
Not = litter. They cape until you
begin, wondering what that scowl's
about, ana then your voice gets
them. But you're dead right about
not OVERRIDING 1t with the cinema
and the mike. Aloof's the word. No
pomp- aloof."
(copyritht 1899. b. the North Amsticsn
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.)
Tomorrow: Bodisham Maps the
World.
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Metropolitan Memorial M. {.

"On Being A Christian" Will b
the theme Of the morning sermon
by the Rev. William Andrew Keese.
Robert r. Freund, director, Will sing
Light" by scott, ana lead the
choir In the "SAnctus" from the
"st. Cecilia Mass" by 0ounod.
At $50 the Epworth League will
se addressed BY Stafford Cassell of
the athletic department a the
American University on the subject
"The Greatest Coach"
Evening star., 1939-01-07
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Evening star., 1939-01-07
r EAL ESTATE.
Eastern Presbyteriun

DR.. Alfred E. Barrows will conduct
a week of special Bible recitals be-
ginning Sunday at II Am. and con-
tinuing each evening through FRI
day. The speaker will be H. II. Hal
ley of Chicago. The recitals will
center around the life and character
of Christ, and be a unique interpre-
tation Of the Bible.
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Georgetown Presbyterion

The Rev. DR.. John Bailey Kelly
will preach tomorrow at II am. on
The Conquest of Fear" The Junior
Young People will meet In Cissel
Chapel at $50 pm. and the Senior
Young People at z pm.
The Mems Club will meet Mon
day at 8 pm. in the manse. Charles
Bittinger will be the speaker.
The Session will meet Tuesday at
7:30 pm. in the manse.
On Wednesday at $50 pm. there
Will be a dinner meeting of the
teachers In the Sunday School in
Cissel Chapel. DR.. Kelly will speak.
On Thursday at 8 pm. prayer serv-
Ice will be held.
In 1895 France had 1928 farm
ers' cooperative societies.
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Fifth Buptist

DR.. John E. Briggs will preach at
IL g m. on ''rhe Peril of softness,"
and at 7:45 pm on From Empty
Nets to Full Boats" The B. r. u.
will meet at $50 pm.
The Junior Deacons will meet
Wednesday at 7.30 pm. at sthe'
church. On Thursday evening the
pastor will conduct the prayer serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1939-01-07

E~JS S~SoA SeAAAC " oWSuUW I'D
the stars.
rhe plane came down into IL
lower air. New York, that CITY a.
10000 bristling towers, fatine Ina
sunrise, stall with the sleeo ia ia
100000 once Window, was 4
memorable picture. As they droned
softly over the Hudson River the
reawakening clAngot pf that miehty
egsre1atio11 penetrated the ma.
denly subdued hum of the ensines
The press had come to the airuort
for them, easer for / flrst-hand
story Of the Purple HOUSE. steen-
hold had seen to that. They seemed
to be more excited than the British
press about Bohun. HES the sort
Of thing We have to clear away be-
TORE England and America can talk
together said Rud, concludinc
some pithy comments on his de-
feated adversary.
Comes To U. 3. 10 Learn.
What have you come to tell VA.
Mr.. Whitlow3" '
Huo-l1 you please-Rud Whit
low. I've come to learn
Anything In particulAr?"
I want to know who's fesponsible
Tor keeping the common man in
England and the common man in
America out Of STEP"
Most Of us would say tt.s vo,,r
government. Especially now"
I think 10, too. But there's more
IN 1t than that. That's what +
want to flnd out"
Are you going to talk on the
radio?" VA '"9
"A1k me. I'll talk"
DO you talk on the radio in
England7" A
Never. We've got q government
controlled radio over there now. and
they tighten 1t up and tighten it up.
Tor fear OF ideas getting loose. The
Anglican Empire has taken to sit
ting on the safety valve of free
speech; it's been heading back to
dreamland ever since the abdication
30 much the worse when the burst
comes. The bishops ana the court
people and the foreign oflce and the
old gentry and Bath and Chelten-
ham and Blimpland and all that are
more and more afraid of our COM
mon men getting ideas. New ideas.
Very afraid. They've done SO well
by the old set. You know they
censor all your American papers?
The more they're blacked out, the
more We like you. Backwardness Is
their pride and glory. The church,
men have stifled our schools and
universities for 4 century. The
House Of Lords is the sterilization
chamber for newspaper owners and
publishers. England's become the
great hush-hush land of the world.
Not a land Of cruel repression, but
q land Of hush, hush. Don't say a
word or else you'll wake the babies.
Politically the British common folk
are the most ignorant and back
ward people In the world. But maybe
now I am over here I'll talk 4 bit
TO England on the air"
Good Headline Start.
The great hush-hush land" made
Z good headline start for Hud.
Che idea Of an English common
man coming to America to speak his
mind to England was fresh enough
In itself to get him q press. we've
never heard Of this Enelish common
man Of yours BEFORE" said one re-.
porter.
YOU have. What else do YOU
think kept our nobility and gentry
from messing up your Civil War;"
That's true, I suppose" said tho
newSmAll.
And much thanks Ne common
Evening star., 1939-01-07
BY II. G. WELLS.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Prelude to America.

america" said Steef1hold. "Cer-
tainly Ainerica. Right away. Yot,
come with ME to America and we'll
run around q bit. We can manase
. fortnight there. Start Friday,
New York Saturday. Partly wen
bus about the country and partly
Wen get special planes. I've got It
all figured out. There's one or two
lads "a like you to see and a few
punches I'd like to hear you talk to,
There's things brewing there.
You can talk to the newshaVks.
wen give you q press Tell 'em
al how you did in Bohun; he's Just
the sort Of thing Americans de-
test.
II shall love to show you America.
"An you lousy Europeans under
rate America. It undertakes itself.
We've been shaping history for 4
century. 1ronclads We invented.
We opened up Japan, but you Brit
ish played US crooked on that.
You've always been crooked on
Japan and China with us. But never
mind that now. We started flying-
and We started the popular motor
car. And who invented the machine
gun? Who started big business and
mass production? What would have
happened to Soviet Russia If 1t
hadn't had American notions? II
1t hadn't had Americanixed Russians
to start it, Soviet Russia nearly rot
away with things, simply thanks to
America"
Trouble With Russia.
'"The British Museum readine
room had q hand In that" said Rud.
MARX read there, Lenin read there.
Litvinov."
THAT old gas reservoir! Trotsky
was American trained, and do you
know what was the matter with
Stain? He knew nothing real about
America. What's the trouble
with Russia now2 It's lost it,
American kick. It's ceasins to ven
ttlate. It's going back to Asia. Still,
I don't want to numiliate you Brit
ishers too much. There's 4 sort Of
tenderness-in every American. But
there they are, the Russians, de-.
Anericanized ana consequently
stuck.
what they want In Moscow" said
eteenhold, expanding his theme, lis
detision, healthy derision. At first
under Lenin, I'm told, there waS
sol11e."
Where there is no derision the
people perish" said Chiffan.
Now. who said that3" asked
Steenhold, always anxious to check
his quotations. 1T sounds familiar. -
Il said it," said Chinan. Get on
with your suggestions"
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Transatlantic Flixht.

Rud had never been in 4 plane
before. He felt q boyish excitement
In seeing the familiar map Of South
west England spread out below him
in the twilight; he watched the
lightships and lighthouses flashing
into being, and he SCARED up, up
past q few cloud whif1s, and up and
up into q softly throbbing starlight.
He glimpsed the retreating sunset
and then lost it again. The sun
has gone ahead, he thought, and
presently it will be around again and
overtaking us, but some day the
common man will beat the sun. In
which case somehow wouldn't he
always be picking up his yesterdays
That line Of thought was too
mathematical for Rudis rhetorical
mind, and he dropped 1t. He lay
back dreaming and presently 4 deep
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Zion Lutheran

Hold communion will be admins.
tered at II am. tomorrow. The Rev.
Edward @. Goetx will preach on
1.-TWO IFS" New members viii BE-
received.
The Sunday school teachers and
ofncers will meet wednesday night
at the home Of Mrs. Spencer zim-
norman, 1886 Arcadia place NV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-13

Frau Betty Reithner of Cologne, Qermany's oldest woman motorist, has obtained her driving license at "a and Is Q skilled mechanic able to make all repairs to her car.