Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1935, Page 7

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. ERRATUM. - LTHOUGH it is more than two vears since Rear Admiral Wil- liam A. Moffétt, late chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, perished in the disaster to the naval airship U. 6. 8. Akron off the New Jersey coast. | his name is still carried in the latest telephone book for the National Capi- tal. The tragedy occurred on April 4, 1933. * ok % % EARLY PRIZE CONTEST. ()FFERING prizes in radio and news- paper competitions had a notable forerunner in America in the action of the Continental Congress in offer- ing $500 or & medal of equal value to the person submitting the “most ap- proved plan” for a Capitol building to be erected in Washington. Even in the face of this induce- ment, however. no acceptable plan was found among 14 submitted by ar- chitects of the young Republic. Fi- nally. in 1792, a versatile physician of Tortola, West Indies—Dr. William Thornton by name—asked permission to submit a plan. The request was granted and his plan was accepted on April 5, 1793. In September of the same vear the cornerstone was laid with Masonic ceremonies. * ok ok % BOO HOO! A NEW telephone gag is going the rounds. The vietim usually is awakened some time between midnight and dawn. fumbles for the offending tele- phone and sleepily blurts, “Hello.” 1= Boo there?” a gentle voice in- quires. 2 “Boo who?" snarls the victim. “Well, don't cry about 1t.” says tke punster. “I must have the wrong number.” | ko DOWN—GOING UP! 'I‘HE installation of escalators in sev- eral of Washington's department tores has done a lot to relieve the congestion in crowded elevators be- rides saving customers a great deal of time. They move with precision and are timed to clear the exits in normal | walking time, so there is never any congestion For this reason a young lady shop- | per was startled to see quite @ crowd collected at the foot of one of the escalators recently and to her amaze- ment the crowd was not waiting to | descend. but was standing there watching the futile attempts of a | woman and a child to go up the “down" escalator! | There were suppressed giggles at | first, then murmurs of sympathy Yflr} the child. who was fast tiring. and. finally. after some little time had elapsed, a sight of relief when the pair reached the top. x % ox % BICYCLE MERCURY. ’T"HE uniformed boy who “scorched” | around a downtown corner on | his wheel the other afternoon might | have given a lesson in haste to Mer- | cury, the winged messenger. Two bystanders watched. one with amazement. The astonished one re- marked he had never seen a mes- | senger in such & hurry before and that he must be carrying a dispatch of grave urgency | “Aw,” said the cynic, “it’s quitting time * * * he just made it!” | * TAXI PHILOSOPHY. | ANSWEF.ING a query, a cab driver tells us that driving never bores him and never makes him nervous. Indeed, he likes his traffic thick and heavy. | The only sorrows in the day's work | come when he has to drive a car of | an early vintage. when fussy women in the back seat can see where they are going and make appropriate | suggestions. | Accordingly. he has named the 1935 model he likes to drive the “Mother- | in-law car.” | “It is built so low, they can't see what’s coming. And we all get along much better,” he murmured as we | glided between a trolley and a truck. o ox % TROUBLE SHOOTER. CONDUC’IOR 1773 on the Mount | Pleasant car downtown was fidg- ety. Every time a passenger tried to SMOKED-OUT THROAT? 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Give it to me.” Between opening the door at every | stop and trying to make change, hll{ efforts to keep one hand over the | pyramid-like top of the fare box got | him more and more frantic. | “Put your cap over the box,” sug- | '* gested one car rider. “Good idea,” he smiled, and off came his cap, and down over the box top. That helped some. At the intersection of Fourteenth and G he hailed one of those capped | traction dignitaries whose function, as they stand there surveying. passing street cars, has always puzzied us.| The conductor called him “ispector” as he climbed aboard. The box, it developed, was O. K. The counter wasn't working right. That was all. | The inspector fixed it and climbed off. “Just what is your job?" we asked. “Just to do things like this.” he said. “Conductors get sick sometimes. Motormen, too. Well. we stand on corners waiting for things to happen that we dont want to happen. Trouble shooters, thats' all.” Skiiers Use Fake Snow. In preparation for the coming Win- Japanese skilers will THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, STEWART ELATED AT DELAWARE VOTE| New Representative, in First Speech, Pokes Fun at Dem- ocrats for Loss. Celebrating his 45th birthday by making his maiden speech in the House yesterday, Representative John | G. Stewart poked some good-natured fun at the Democratic members over the Republican success in Saturday's election in his home city of Wilming- n. “With kindness in my heart toward my good Democratic friends,” sald Representative Stewart, “I appear be- fore you as a courler of good news, with a message from the small, but most important, State of Delaware. “Last Saturday in Wilmington, Del., delivery— The Star the first city of the first State, there ‘was held an election. The Democratic national party saw fit in its wisdom to recognize the importapee of this | election by sending a distinguished |and most honorable gentleman from | the great State of Oklahoma to make an address. It seems to me of equal importance to announce to Congress and the Nation the results of this election. In one of the most crushing defeats ever administered to a party in the history of Delaware politics the Democratic party in the city of | Wilmington was shorn of practically of its power. | indeed grateful and very appreciative | of the action of this most illustrious | son of Oklahoma in making possible | this splendid victory for them. | _“May the Republican State | Delaware live long and prosper.” - . Try to Interest Women. Foot ball managers of England are | trying to interest women in the game. of The last edition of The Star—the Night Final—is printed for the many people who desire the very latest and comgle'e news of the day. The Night Final is printed at 6 pm. and delivered to your home shortly there- after for 55 cents 2 month (or, together with The Sunday Star, 70 cents a month). 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