Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1935, Page 13

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TIMES DON'T CHANGE. DWIN P. HILL, publicity di- yector of the Chesapeake & | Potomac Telephone Co., who | has been traveling for years, | notes that the fastest conveyances | always start last. 1 Years ago he hired a horse and | buggy back to get to a railroad | tion in Richmond, Va. When | asked the driver if he couldn't hurry, | as he had to take a train, the man | with the reins answered: “You had better take the hack be- | hind me, he has a faster horse.” | ) This week, when Mr. Hill asked the starter at the Calvert street loop which of three new Connecticut ave- | nue busses was the express, he re- ceived the familiar answer “Take the one in the back.” * ok ok % NEW ROUTE BEWILDERS. “This is my frst trip on this Hne” said the Chevy Chase- Anacostia bus driver, as shouts of the passengers took him back on kis route. He had crossed with the east-bound trafiic at Thirteenth and I and headed for the old Ana- eostia line down Eleventh street He looped around the block back to Thirteenth street. ok o PIGEON MYSTERY. 'ALIXANDRIA police term their latest unusual case murder mystery.” Efforts to solve it have proved futile to date. It involves the mysterious death of A carrier pigeon, identified by its leg | band as MCCA 12394, which, like Poe's raven, fluttered through the open window of an apartment in the 300 block King street this week, croaked something similar to “Never- more” and expired at the feet of an | astonished woman occupant of the apartment. The bird, a brown and white crea- | ture, was first thought to have been | struck by an automobile, but exami- nation at police headquarters disclosed | Another theory | no sign of injury. advanced was that the pigeon might have been electrocuted by alighting an a live wire, and knocked off the | wire to flutter into the window. This theory, however, rested upon the un- usual occurrence of the bird coming in contact *ground” at the same time. A third solution was that the carried died of exhaustion. What do you think? * ok ox w WANT THE TIME? It your watch ever stops and you ere in dire need of the correct time, 1ous for and stunning glove-like fit A-S-BECK Nearby Steres: WILMINGTON sz BALTIMORE 99 Stores in New IT take a run over to the Washington Monument and there you will find, if the shadows are bright, a most reliable timepiece. The Monument in many instances has been used as a sun dial as its sides jace due west, east, morth and south and the dial around its base will indi- cate the time and the day of the vear. * ok x X BASE BALL NIFTY. N"HROUGH a long season, not very gay from a Washington viewpoint, some “smart cracks” have been tossed around Griffith Stadium where the Nationals play ball. It remained until the closing series THE more than seven-block trip, and paid a visit to Ireland in the mean= time. * ¥ ¥ X SINGLE MEN BARRED. SWAINS whose flames are to be | students at the Virginia State! | Teachers' College in Fredericksburg during the coming session may not avall themselves of the close proximity of their girl friends. They might, how- ever, send their fathers as proxies, | providing the fathers can qualify A young lady of this vicinity who is unusually popular, having a dif- ferent admirer for each day of the week, if she 30 desires, decided to attend the Virginia institution. Upon arrival of the catalogue from | the college, she scanned it thoroughly | and to her amazement, found that: | “Students may not receive unmar- ried visitors, but may receive or ac- | company respectable married men.” x ok ¥ % HAS GOAT'S TASTE ‘A TERRIER puppy owned by Mrs. | Truman Dodson, 2122 Decatur | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935. place, must have a little goat blood in it somewhere. Skipper, as the dog is called, prefers tin cans to bones for chewing purposes. I SCHOOL TO REQUIRE CONSTITUTION STUDY Fish Suffer From Heat. ! |G. U. Foreign Service Division Following the extreme heat in Paris | = thousands of fish appeared on the| Makes Subject Mandatory for Degree. surface of the Seine, and people caught them by the handful. Half suffocated by the lack of oxygen im| A thorough study of the Censtitu- tion of the United States will be re- quired of every student of the George- the water the finny swimmers came up for “breath.” Fearing the river's town University School of Foreign Service, it was announced today in stock of fish might be depleted, the police forbade fishing by hand. | connection with tomorrow's opening underlying the organic law and will of the academic year. examine in detail each clause of the Effective this year, it was announced, | Constitution in the light of its origin, | every student graduating from the Purpose and the circumstances of | school will be required, as one o(ildOPmm- | the conditions of a degree, to present | n view of recent demands for re- | & graduation thesis dealing with some | vision of the Constitution, Dr. Scott phase of the Constitution. also will discuss all proposed changes | t which have been urged from the view- tion was added to the school cur- | PoInt of their basic poiltical, economic riculum this year and will be given and social advantages or disad- by Dr. James Brown Scott, eminent | vantages. | internatiwnal lawyer and eduu!or.‘ The Georgetown Forelgn Service In this course Dr. Scott wili trace | School, it was said, is one of the| the historical traditions, the philo-|few in the country making a study | sophic structure and political theory | of the Constitution one of the requisite A special course on the Constitu- | A—-13 credits toward a degree. Dr. Scott's course on the Constituiion, it was said, will be given during the late afternoons at an hour convenient for many Goyernment employes who are registering for studies this term. JOE HiG 'OUR PLUMBER/ OE HIG -INCORPORATED; i “the pigeon | with the wire and a| York, Philadel| | with the Chicago White Sox, however, | before one of the neatest was given birth. The White Sox, it seems, have an outfielder named Washington, also called George. Coming to bat against | tne Griffs, “George™ ‘Washington took a firm toe-hold and then heard the following: | “Come on, Washington, let's see | you hit one down to Mount Vernon.” £ x % TAKING THE LONG WAY. A letter jrom the American In- stitute of Architects, Octagon House, Eighteenth and E streets, to the real estate editor of The Star, mailed recently, didn't exactly follow the proverbial way of a crow to its destination. 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