The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-09-07
DO|NGS HERE AND THERE THE COUNTRY OVER
Commissioner Stewart Of the West Virginia
Agricultural Department Preparing For
Big Conservation Drive Across the
Panhandle the People
BY r. w. White. nic,al pond mt.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., sept I'VE
slipped into old Washington some few
days ago enroute To the northern end o
the state and had an hour or so to spend
there. You know a fellow can live q
long time i'm w ashington in an hour. II
1t is fast, you can make it long time
II il is slow it is long time anyhow.
We found the Capitol city much the
same. Something like Dunbar said in
his last poem, tand by the way We were
sitting close To- him when he WAS writing
a part cf that poen.)
Same old cronies, same old folks,
Same old cider, same old jokes"
One sees soldiers everywhere. They
have ceased to he a curiosity here now
Congress Is in session but the fellow up
on Turkey Knob in Wyoming county
knows more about what is going on here
than the fellow right here m the shadow
of the Capitol. You might thirk that a
pun, but it Is tl.e gospel truth.
You see Washington is acurious place
III fellow comes here and remains mod
est, lac never gets anywhere. II he comes
here and attempts To be aggressive he
never gets anywhere for they won't let
him, SO what's the Use. It 10 the greatest
manufacturing center for inspiration, but
you can't use Il here You have got Ia
take it away from here before il ripehs,
A al ~
spoil OH your hands. Yet, We need
Washington. / say We, | mean the fel-
low out in the states. When he comes
here he gets new ideas. tie gets a sort
Of polish that he can't acquire out
there. Now lac can't live on that polish,
neither here nor out there. There 10
only one animal that We know that can
perform that feat and We refer them to
the higher forms of the animal kingdom,
NAN and do so with due reverence, and
that is the native Wsshingtonian. WASH
ington is called the city of magnificent
distances and apartment houses. That
10 a borrowed phrase. We will call il
the retired city. A man must have money
however, To live tins retired life here,
otherwise, he is-comes a mighty tired
man while living here. We saw pretty
much the same thing. The newsboy
hawking his wares, the Department
clerk taking his daily constitutional To
and from the oiiics, the credit man
chasing his debtor. the ten per cent man
politely visiting here and there to duly
IlfOrm the unfortunate victim that Lis
Litigation Was long past due and unless
Immediate settlement Was had something
would happen, the committees and a--
= mblages still meeting and resolving and
resolving and meeting. Yet With all q,
Washington is the only Washington i'm
tie world. One - made-Over man or
" ,man after le or she visits this city
\ ou are made over II you stay here, and
Jon are made over il you leave. II you
remain, you learn the fine art Of eating
pDlltely. but not too much, Of drese ing
'.sSIishly, but not gsudiIy, Of splitting a
a dlar ball into one hundred different
y srts and msking each part do something
fDr you- Most Of the individuals who
haze come To Washington and gone
gwsy eforc he became inocculate with
a. es-y life, has gone out In the world
- made striking record. because he
c'ugbt the inspiration ami acted npOn IL
bef IRE It got stale ON him. Those who
a.e remained, have either Joined the
pr .cession and either gone away up, or
80 y down. Don't understand NJ 10 be
d.precis,ing Washington for we are not
10 one of the iinest citigs i'm the Union
all has dout ties, ON the whole the
Lnest set Of colored people, intellectually
ad otherwise, Bostpn 10 the contrary
"a sitb-tznding, but What 49, are say
D., - that E%opie come here aud uy 90
D. tire life out of Washington and
arlington live the life ont Of them.
IN. - their fault. not the falt Of Wash
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