Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
Men in the Public Eye

usual discharge and again he said
with the thanks of the court"
II told you did not say that" again
said Judge Goff. somewhat warmly.
BY this time the clerk understood,
and the twelve jurors also compre-
hended the situation and glanced at
one another sheepishly. Then the clerk
said tersely. "You are discharged for
the rest of the term,' and the jurors
filed out.
How are you having your flying suit
cut? You will do well to have the
dressmaker lay the goods aside and
postpone work until you have had full
particulars of the new styles from Gra-
ham White, the plucky English aviator
and the acknowledged authority of
style in aviation togs. The latest
Matching in aviation suits is union
arrangement which makes it hard to
tell whether the wearer is going pearl
hunting or out for a torchlight parade.
1t is belted about the waist and is
said to be not at all thing of beauty
and joy eternal But 1t is the latest,
and If you are going Awaiting you do
not want to wear hoop skirts or cast
iron armor.
The Daniel in the baseball lions den
that's Garry Hermann, president of
the national baseball commission As
president of the commission, Garry
goes about with soothing syrup in one
hand and a mustard plaster in the
other, ready to check a roar or soothe
a bruise. With a big league humping
him from either side, and horde of
half portion leagues filling up the
cracks, trying to get at him with their
troubles, he is the greatest harmonizer
of the thermometers. What he has not
done to avert baseball pestilence'is is not
worth wasting typewriter ink about
Ban Johnson, who heads the Ameri-
can, often fights with Garry. That Is,
johnson fights. He likes to. Herr
mann kidds him along and renders his
decision on the merits of the case. No
one has ever accused Hermann of ever
being other than fair in his decisions.
This is Herrmanns busy season. Every
racket in every baseball league VIII
sooner or later get to him for settle
ment Between times he looks after
his property interests, of which he has
a number.
Hermann is short. stout. red-faced
and bullet headed. He wears clothes
that sound like the fourth alarm, and
he cannot overcome his liking for per-
fume. They do not have to ask If
Hermann Is in his office. All they nave
to do is to open the door. II ne Is
there a swet odor sweeps out like the
FUMES from DdSeulSnb p11hCAJ'
Does the president read the papers?
He does. He reads lot more news
papers since March 4, 1909, than he
ever read before: President Taft is a
great reader. He reads many books,
nolitical works and the lives of great
statemen. But he reads these after
office hours. The newspapers Presl-
dent Taft wades through every day III
the week. He starts in the morning
to read the daily news. He does IL
lust the same as any other busy nlg
business man. That is, he reads the
first two or three paragraphs or the
leading articles Of a dozen different
papers. ..
First come the washington papers,
the home papers. The New York pa
ners follow. He goes through the
world. Sun, Herald, Tribune, Times
press and American and Philadelphla
press. Then he goes after the Hart
ford Tines-C Courant. About the time
he goes to lunch the Richmond Tifnes-
DisDatch is delivered at the executive
offices and he glances over II.
In addition, Secretary Carpenter goes
through the western papers ana CLIPS
ANYTHING pertaining to the president
or To congressional matters and puts
them on the presidents desk for read
ing. a., os;da,+
reads the papers of the nearest large
oitv. He reads whenever ne gets lhe
onDorfunitV.