Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-10

| versatlons the police has sworn to hear.
| ing" Birsky retorted, and I wouldn't be
| willing to swear that II didn't take place
| neither"
For that matter. BlrsRy." zapp said, "it
would be interesting to listen to some con.
| versatlons which didn't take place, but not
| because the feller ringing up didn't try
| hard enough mean, Brsky, that II you
would be listening In to the washington
| Central Office you might hear every day
somebody saying:
Just ten him a friend would like to
"f1e an't got no friends the secretary
says, he's Judge Of the United States su.
preme Court
He never had none before he was
Judge of the Supreme Court neither says
the voice, talking through It's teeth"
Gould a voice got teeth2' Birsky in.
duired
",rhls voice could" Zapp replied I'm
fact, Brsky. not only has this voice got
teeth, but It's grinding EN-.
"'Who will 1 say rung him up7 the Sec
retary says.
"'Put him on the wire and I'll tell him,
the voice answers
1.-The Judge never let's nobody tell him
nothing which don't come up in it's regular
order ON the general calendar, the secre-
tary says
"'rhen ask him what his principles Is in
the way OF preparedness the voice says,
breaking two wisdom teeth and gold
crown
Ordinary men has got principles, the
secretary says, but judges has got only
preccdents'
"'Ain't he got no opinions neither? the
voice asks.
"1f you want his opinions on prepare.
fulness,' the secretary says, you must got
to submit atlldavits, cases, points, briefs
and memorandums of authorities and settle
the Od,ise GcSchichie on thirty days notice
in writing to William j. Bryan, Henry
Ford, the Germah hAmeriean Alliance and
the New York Evening Post
And that's all the satisfaction he got
out OF James j. Hughes" zapp concluded,
We'll, what could you expect?" Blrsky
commented. THE Supreme Court of the
United States amt took judicial notice of
the fact that telephones has been invented
yet If you want to talk to n Judge of the
United States Supreme Court over the long
distance telephone, Zapp, you would got to
go to Washington and pay n lawyer a
couple hundred dollars he should offer In
evidence n telephone instrument y'under.
stand, get 1t marked Exhibit A for the pur.
pose of Identification prove how 1t works
by six unnterested witnesses, submit briefs
and in January, 1920, they would hand
down a decision: Motion denied without
costs They are similarly up to the min
ute in the matter of Employers Liability,
Pure Food Laws. Minimum Wages, Refer
endum and Recall"
Just the same there Is Washington tele-
phone conversations which might be inter-
esting to listen to-" Zapp continued. For
instance, II you would be at the Brooklyn
end of the wire some day you would hear
a feller calling UP and say:
Suppose the carburetor Is flooding, she
must positively be ready to sail by 6
o'clock. We are already a month behind
schedule In our maneuvers.
"'Aber Mister Danielson,' the admiral
says, she Is missing something terrible
Half the time she only hits on two cylin-
ders She needs a new rudder new
fighting top, new felt washers on the rear
wheels, and two of her slXteen.inch guns
has shrunk so we couldn't get even size
15M shells into them
IAN right he says, III send you a
court marshal Tor trying to stuntfy my ad.
ministration.'
what are you talking nonsense-court
marshall the admiral says. 4 wrote you