Evening star., 1917-03-18
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.

| Art" Samuels of that town there is
an artist named Sykes who draws car
toons for one of the papers. When he
has drawn them he sends them to the
engravers. and leaves on his drawing
table a slip of paper on which is the
title Of the cartoon. and that slip goes
to the composing room, where printers
set the title in type.
One day Sykes drew a cartoon with
Boies Penrose and lot OF other poll
ticians in it, and sent It along to the en-
graverS. But he forgot the title. How
ever, he did not forget that a friend
he had to go out and be shaved and
shampooed. So he wrote for the bene-
fit Of the friend who was coming in, the
message: Back at Six"
Before the friend arrived the compos-
ing room boy wandered in and picked
up the paper with the Back at Six"
message upon it. and the composing
room put II into type. and slapped 1t on
the top of the cartoon.
Now the title and the cartoon didn't
have anything to do with the other at
all There wasn't anything about back
at six in the picture. 1t might as we'll
s4." 1t was cartoon depicting some
phase of the deep and dark mysteries
of Pennsylvania politics. and was q
clever one al that.
But Philadelphia woke up that morn
ing. read the caption and saw the pic
ture. And from that hour Sykes was
famous. even more so than before. All,
the subtlety. the cleverness. the depth
of vision and the art displayed in that
title. Goodness! Philadelphia really
never quite got over it.
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1t was a few days ago that had
the bad taste to say to my barber that
1 hoped he would not cut me up just
| and I am American. He didn't see
the bad taste, perhaps. but yet his an
swer was rebuke. He said with
pride (albeit he has still an accent) that
he. too. is an American. He has not
| taken out his second papers, as he has
not lived here long enough. but when
he comes to the time when he Is to take
, out the final documents. he says he will
know all about the Constitution.
| 1 won't attempt to reproduce his ac-
cent:
II read all the time" he said. 'fn Eng
lish- speaking papers. 1 never read my
own language any more. Only newspa-
pers and books of this country. Ad-
vertisements and everything / read I
want to get a book about the Constitu-
tion soon: then 1 can tell the judge
everything he asks me-
! Then l asked him how long he had
been here, and where he had lived in
| this country.
Three years. and all of that time
F, in Washington. ! had a friend hero
who wrote to me and told me WASH
lnS1On IS In6 place 10 come. NOW L All
| here, 1 won't ever go back. I would
not give up my citizenship here for
anything I know. I am an American.
My little boy-he was born since We
are here; he is an American citizen
| and his tongue takes more to English
| than to the old country language. I
| teach him English. and I have die
tionary-that's all I have had to learn
by"
And with that in mind 1 wondered.
as the coat. pirate brushed me on, why
| it is that politicians suffering with a sort
of political dyspepsia see in the so-cailed
| foreign vote" nightmare.
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| In a large liquor emporium in this
town is a sad commentary on the fate
of the alcoholics Of the nation. 1t con-
sists of an outline of the state OF Vir-
ginia-done in very dry sand.
Near at hand is a sign enticing one
to buy rum for their Virginia friends.
1t reads:
Remember the folks in the desert"