Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1935, Page 30

B—12 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1933. RELIEF T0 STATES LIKENEDTO POKER Article in Grace Abbott’s Magazine Cites Inequality in Fund Grants. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 22.— €urrent methods of distributing Federal relief funds to the States were attacked as vesterday by Prof. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Uni- versity of Chicago social scientist writing in the Social Service Review. | The publication 1s edited by Grace | Abbott, former chief of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor. Pointing out that Kansas, with 15 per cent of her population on relief, received 67.8 per cent of her relief funds from the F. E. R. A. while| North Carolina, with 8 per cent on relief, received 986 per cent, Dr. Breckinridge wrote: “It would seem to outsiders as if the rclief administrator had been playing 5 game of poker with the a “poker game” Governors of the different States, and as if the Governors who were able to | go to Washington with the best poker faces came back with the largest per- | centage grants.” BECK BACKS 4-YEAR | Pennsylvanian Says Prestige Would Be Raised—Sees Senate Opposition. By the Associated Press To keep House members from being regarded as “fly-by-night statesmen.” former Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania believes their terms should be extended from two years to four. Beck testified yesterday before the House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress in behalf of a resolution by Representative Vin- son, Democrat, of Georgia to increase the term by a constitutional amend- ment. He spoke in favor of the proposed amendment on the ground it would give the members more time for con- sideration of legislation. “The two-year term has been a con- tributing cause of the lowering of the prestige of the House.” Beck asserted “It would be a contribution to restor- ing it if the people knew the members | were not fly-by-night statesmen who | come in ane year and are bowled out the next.” { Beck predicted opposition to the proposed amendment would come principally from the Senate, because “they're jealous of what they believe to be their rightful prestige.” Unhurt in Losing Legs. ] COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March | 22 (#)—E. R. Austin, Council Bluffs, Jost two legs, one arm and one hand | when his car burned near Pocahontas, | Towa, Wednesday night. but was back | in Council Bluffs today, uninjured. The limbs were artificial. Austin is a sales- | man for an orthopedic appliance | company. | It’s Marble Time Again! Favored Game of Childhood Is Older Than History of Man. NUCKLE down, fellers. Mar- ble time’s just around the cor- ner. And while you're digging up last year's bag of agates, maybe there's & thing or two you'd like to know about the old “chiney game.” Because it is old. Older than civilization’s grandfather. It even looks like “marbles” was & favorite pastime among the bearded cave dwellers’ kids, for scientists have discovered small spheres “too small for projectiles” among neolithic re- mains which they conclude were “used for sport.” That's twenty thousand years ago! And ages afterward Egyptian and Roman boys played marbles, as proved by the collection in the British Museum. Today the United States manufac- tures 75,000,000 marbles every year. And as the Nation boasts 25,000,000 boys, that's three marbles each. But if you live near a vacant lot or | |'a school yard, holler to the nearest boy, turn him upside down when he comes, and you'll learngsomething about the redistribution “of marble wealth. Season is Short. The reason is short. It lasts usu- ally from about April Fool's day to school-out day, somewhere in the middle of June. What inner spring is tripped to inform the boy just when he should dig into the closet for his bag of marbles and begin counting them has so far escaped the pryings of psychologists. But the minute the weather begins to warm up and the first robin appears on the lawn you know it won't be long before there's a marble game starting up some- where nearby. The game doesn’'t belong to any one nation or race. It's been played where and in all times from Africa to balmiest Britain The Zulus, for instance, dig six or more holes into the ground and each player bowls a marble in regular suc- cession into the holes. The warrior who finishes the game with the least number of bowls wins. In England, until a century ago. many fine taverns pointed with pride to their fine marble alleys. They con- sisted of a cement bed with a raised wooden rim to prevent the marbles from running off. Many a middle- | agester knocked off work early for | a game of taw in the tavern, en- couraged by a flanking cheering sec»‘ tion. Before the eighteenth century the | name “marbles” hadn't been applied | to the game, because the little spheres | | were made of clay. But when Nurem- burg in Bavaria and Derbyshire in| England began turning them out from | we Bery "LAIN' SPANS By fobem® N HUNCHNG. sy | chips of marble, that gave them the | name they have now. « You could get | from 40 to 100 of them for & penny— | but even the cheapest were painted by hand and painstakingly decorated | with concentric rings. This brings us to a point which | is most interesting to marble 1;m.~—“ the glossary of terms, the slang or| cant, of “ring-taw,” the game’s oldest | name. | A seventeenth century poem calls simply “taw. In “Pickwick Dickens refers to it as “alley | a corruption of the word “toe. One toed the mark from which the | marble was cast in the earliest game; thus, by extension, the marble be- came the “toe marble,” the “toe” and | finally the “taw.” | variations on the game itself. by | whatever name, are legion. Here | are a selection garnered from cast- g about the offices of business men | who were alike bright-cyed and eager to tell all they remembered: from an 84-year-old patriarch and from half a dozen school yards. How many of these games have you played? Spans and snops, droppers, poon, peg-top, three hol laggins, eggs in the bush, knucks, flats, pergy, pluckins, follins up, skins up, handers, set-up, pots and good old bull ring? The names of the various types of marbles themselves gee’'d in few in- | stances with those of the writer's knowledge. Actually, he felt a total stranger to a game in which he once— well, that was long ago. Did you count your marble wealth by the number of canicks you owned? Or perhaps vou called them canelians, or carnelians, or agates? And did you use a steely or a brassy for a taw? Did you own limeys it Paper Night Final Delivery The last edition of The Star known as the Night Final, and carrying a row of Red Stars down the tront page, 1s printed at 6 p.m. and delivered throughout the city at 55c per month or together with The Sunday Star. at 70c per month ‘This 1s a speclal service that many people desire for the very latest and complete news of the day Call National 5000 and say that you want the “Night Final” delivered regularly to your hume, and deluvery will start immediately. ordan’s, 13th & G Sts. A large display of Kelvinator Electric Refrigerators of 1935 The Newest Development of a Great Manufacturing Organization Jordan’s Large Kelvinator Display Perhaps at Jordan’s you can find the largest display of KELVINATORS in the We think so, anyway. of this large display you can select the city. model and size that you wanted. Our fou h floor is really b Sold for as little as 15CentsaDay On Jordan’s Budget Plan of Payments A Down Payment Is Not Necessary - Kelvinator Leads For the past three years KELVINATOR has gradually gained in public acceptance until it has taken the lead in the field of the discriminating buyers of electric re- frigeration. You have to see the new 1935 Kelvinator to really appreciate the many advantages it has over just the ordinary refrigerator. KELVINATOR LEADS THE WAY. Surely out have always i Come see for yourself. Not One Penny Down Payment As Little As (marbles mother made in a teakettle by letting the lime accumulate on a small pebble or marble), milkies, chineys, glassies, grays, combos (com- mies, kimmies, commoneys), lugs, plasters, clayeys, ducks, buckeyes, SEAT YE A SAmE D 4 matuith 8 emmies, crystals, pewees, dinkies, al- leys, stonies, potteries (potries, pot- ties), moonies? Did you call them, collectively, mibs, megs, migs, margles, mibbles, miggles, or lugs? And did you know the official rules (four printed pages of them), know the game indulged in by members of the National Marble Championship Tournament as ringers? No glossary would be complete with- out some of the “rules” slang of the | game. An attempt to get agreement | on definition of these terms left the | writer only dazed” Anyhow, here follow phrases which may have a modicum of meaning for a few read- ers: Dibs, dubs, dibbles; a whacl to whack; vent, ventrum, fain, fenn; fudge, hunch; fen dubs, fen h'istin fen sidin's; dribble; ev'ries, fain v'ries; ervins, roundies: roundsi rounders, rounds; fat, stickin’s, stick: on the line, out; lag; knucks, knucks down, knucks up, rolleys, screw- bon ht, cunny thumb, knee high, and kicks on. STUDENTS TO CONFER Treatment of Mexican Semina- rians to Be Discussed. Students of Catholic University will have a conference discussion at 9 a.m. tomorrow on the treatment of Mexi- can seminarians by Mexican offic! Rev. Francis A. Walsh will preside. Sunday at 4 p.m. the National Cath- olic Alumni Federation of the South Atlantic Region will conduct a panel discussion on Mexico at the univer- sity. Rev. Francis B. Steck will be the principal speaker. END IS FORESEEN FOR ROADS DEFICIT | Shirley Predicts $3,000,000 Will Be Paid Off by July 1, 1936. Py the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 22.—The State Highway Department’s current $3,000,000 deficit probably will be wiped out before July 1, 1936, but the | department expects to borrow $2.278,- 000 in the meantime, according to Commissioner Henry G. Shirley. REPUBLICANS TO MEET Montgomery Citizens to Form Thirteenth District Club. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 22— Republicans of the thirteenth election district of Montgomery County will meet tonight in the hearing room of | the new county building here at 8 o'clock for the purpose of organizing| a Republican Club. County Commissioner Paul Cough- lan will preside. TR | and the relief recipient. Fraternity to Give Dance. Eta Tau Alpha Fraternity of Hyatts- | ville and Riverdale, Md., is giving a | dance at the Roosevelt Hotel tomor- | He said he expected sufficient funds | row from 10 until 1 o'clock. Edward | before July 1 of this year to cut the Koch, Clarence Davidson and Charles | present deficit by half, and that pros- | Cary are in charge of arrangements. | | pects are ood for an equal reduction in the next fiscal year. But the high- | way chief said $2,278,000 would be borrowed to match Federal funds which will be available under this| condition on next July 1. He said he expected this new deficit would he paid | off by increased revenues in the 1635- 36 fiscal year. Motor Vehicle Director John Q Rhodes reported that gasoline tax col- lections nave been substantially higher each month this fiscal year than in the same months of the previous year, with the eption of one month. That | was Jannary, when snowstorms swept motorists from the roads for several | days. 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