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Premier Henri Jaspar stood up, haggard and grave, before the Chamber last week. "You must help us!" he cried to the 78 Catholics, 78 Socialists and 23 Liberals whose nicely interbalanced votes have so often deadlocked the Chamber against itself...
...going to explain the true situation to the country," continued M. Jaspar above an uneasy rustling from his Catholic adherents. "I ask the Chamber at a time which is singularly reminiscent of the tragic days of 1914 to give us power to prevent those of our citizens who are without consciences from continuing their odious and absurd campaign against our national currency. They think they are saving their wealth by bartering Belgian francs for a mess of golden foreign pottage. In reality they are compromising the total assets of our country...
...Chamber, fired by M. Jaspar's eloquence, frightened by the catastrophic fall of the franc,* sunk its party differences and all but unanimously voted dictatorial powers upon a man indisputably above parties, "Le bon Roi Albert, pére des Beiges." The Senate unanimously confirmed the Chamber's action...
...Dedham team composed of Phillip Saltonstall, number one, W. Cameron Forbes, number two, J. Dudley Clark, number three, and Jaspar Bacon who was replaced in the last two chukkers by B. Nathan Hamlin at back, are all experienced players and gave their younger rivals a stiffer fight than was expected. Until the final three periods the score zigzagged back and forth with first one team and then the other taking the lead. Towards the close of the game, however, the veterans tired and the Crimson mallet men forged far ahead, counting their final goal just as the game ended...
...cast: Announcer Lendon Snedecker '25 Joseph G. H. Humphreys '25 Mary Miss Dorothy Leadbetter First Angel Miss Ruth Johnston Second Angel Miss Constance Templeton First Shepherd Whitney Cromwell '26 Second Shepherd O. L. Loring '26 Elyson Miss Mary Leonard Mahal Miss Frances Chase Jaspar H. S. Smith '25 Antechoir Murray Pease '26 Balthazar D. W. Keyes '26 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 Messenger Lendon Snedecker '25 First Courtier G. R. Russell '27 Second Courtier P. R. Hepburn '25 Clerks...