The Washington times., 1917-10-28
HEARD AND SEEN
By EARL GOODWIN.

last day. ! was Just proud all over
This is not much Of . sl6ry a.
stories so. II would never take !
prize anywhere. But here Is the
point There are million caroi
Wilson's In this country, II nav be
there are ten million. There Are =
million and perhaps ten miIlioa Carl
Wilsons-plain straiehtaway every
day Americans, digging into Ihslr
jeans for money to lick the Kalsor.
and 30 proud Of It that even the
thrill Of Americanism reaches dos Z
into the hearts OF children ct school.
Here's luck to you Carol II you ,
will read American history you win
ind . place In It that tells where thst
British commander At Boston pre-
dicted an end Of British pcassssior
Of the eoloaies-becauss the Spirit o
Independence had permeatsd even
the boys In the streets.
zee that Secretary Baker has a
application from Ienacs Jan Pad
'srewsd to allow the famous pianist
to form an army Of Pples. wis
Paderewsh is here, let's get him 70
play -over There" with whatever
[impfovisations he desires.
Herbert J. Browne wants "a
know whether ! am joshing the toun
or not What do youfthfnk7
"A homesick Californian ssnas
me q San Francisco menu Offering !
6o-csnt lunch which sounds me =
Luculan feast:
III San Francisco can furnish such
q meal for so cents" he asks, -Why
cannot Washington provide ore
equally good for not more than 50
or 100 per cent incrsasef"
Captain Bob" Bartlett. who has
just returned from rescuing the
McMillen Arctic expedition, sat Il
lunch. and I was across the tsbfs
from him As q picture Of hsaita
and Whole-heartedness he was 4 PER-
feet specimen. An my prszisus
ideas about hardships n TIE far
north vanished when saw him. and
heard him tell how he had rainsd .
thirty-fve pounds on his arctic dIet
Of seal meat and blubber. From lso
pounds he went to 1ss. Talk about
your health farms ana your re- y
curesi
He gave q very hne description
the arctic regions. And not q woI
about sunburn and sunstfoks
back one hundred and hys dfRsra'
flowers. and that all summer long
ran around the Arctic Circle n
Indershirt- Had I stayed longer
the table he might have been tsllin
about sunhurn and sunstroke
the North Pole. but had to leave
I have q very nne childhood reeoIled
tion Of q school geography pictnf
Of the North Pole, all piled up viii
Ice and snow. was afraid If I had
stayed minute longer with Captain
Bartlett he would have told me some
thing about the strange tribe of
Eskimo Hottentots who live on
spiced fish somewhere In the shadow
of the pole.
There is q lot Of vegetation IN /
Grantiand." he said Just before ! LEFT
him.
From which i. gather Grantiand
Rice grew there.
John Anschutz. 1908 Park road,
believes that the street car eongss-
ton could be relieved If half the
Government employees arrived at
their offices at $50 and the other
half at 9 o'clock. The $3.50 employees
would stop work at 4 o'clock and the
9 o'clock employees would stop at
4:30. Let this continue for month
and change so that the $3.50 en-
ployes would arrive at 9 q. m. for .
and so on There IL q good
deal in what Mr.. Anschutz says.
George Edmunds, the noted ra-
,onteur, went to the Liberty loan
bonfire with Mr.. and Mrs. Carter
Field, and the wee lfttio Field child.
George was separated from most or
he Field family, but retained q firm
grip on the child Having no idea how
70 hold an infant, Mr.. Edmunds was
1t once spotted by forty detectives as
/ kidnaper. Goshi How wish I
could have seen George trying to
look at home under those eircum-
stances.
Edward C. Graham, elected presi-
lent Of the Chevy Chase Home and
School Association, is another IN !
stance Of the good men who would 90
n for a strong local governments un-
Ter the proper American plan Of
franchise in the District Of Columbia
The answer to the proposition that
1ur city government would fan into
he hands Of cheap politicians Is
found in looking over the character