Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-06
HEARD AND SEEM.

some of the inland waterways or me
country. So he asked Representative j.
Hampton Moore of the City of Brother
~ Love for some maps showing the
canals and rivers to follow. and In
course of time DR.. Grifiiths found hims
self away down in the vicinity OF st.
Phillips, La.
There happens to be a government
establishment of some sort near st.
Phillips-an arsenal or camp perhaps-
and 1t is guarded very closely by a fine
lot of Louisiana home guards All this
was unknown to DIR. Gritfiths: and even
II he had known of the establishment
he probably would not have Quailed at
the thought.
Somewhere in St Phillips DR.. Grif-
flths unrolled the series of maps which
Representative Moore gave him and be-
gan to study them. All he wanted was
to find water I'm which to navigate his
boat, but the home guard arrested him
and informed him under the general
charge Of being a German spy. The
guard argued that no one but a Ger
man spy would have so many maps.
DR.. Griffiths protested. He said he WAS
| Philadelphia physician: that. like all
other Philadelphilns. his folks arrived
here with William Penn. and that he
resented this rude treatment.
None of whchs awaited him a thing.
They locked him up in a st. Phillips
calaboose and doubled the guard. Ac-
| cording to information reaching Rep
resentatfve Moore he was there for ten
days, during which time he sent tele-
grams to nearly every descendant Of
William Penn now alive Representa-
! tive Moore had to spend most Of his
time on the trail of the Attorney Gen.
eral and it was only after the most
strenuous efforts that he was able to in
duce st. Phillips to relinQuish their first
| war captive. However. DIR. Grifiths Is
| now out of the calaboose and a free
man-and rumor has IL he has turned
| his boat northward and doesn't care q
rap what happens to st. Phillips.
A great. big shambiing black hoy was
| filling Gus Karger's automobile tank
| with gasoline. and was doing the Job
well. when Gus brooks into the operation
with this query:
George. are you going to enlist IN
the army"
And George very promptly replied:
mo. Mista Kargah Germany amt
nevah done muffin to me: and if she has.
All forgives her."
When any one newspaper man gets
chance to interview any one who has
seen, heard or shifted family the Eu-
ropean war the inevitable question il
bound to happen:
when do you think the war will
end?"
! David Lloyd George. who has been
quite friendly with American news
| papermen. has a stock answer to that
inquiry. which was quoted. and used.
with proper credit, by Will Irwin. when
he visited a number of press clubs In
| this country.
| Whenever this question was asked the
premier, according to Mr.. Irwin. no
would reply, in a confidential tone:
See my butler over there? Well. his
guess is as good as yours. and both
your guesses are as good as mine"
The other day when about forty news
paper men got their first whack at In.
| terviewing a member of the British
| commission. the event was notable, be.
| cause of many things. the frank way In
! which the officer talked about the mis-
| takes his country had made. for ex-
| ample, but mostly for the fact that not
one of the forty interviewers put the
inevitable question.
| But one young man strove to save the
day. AS an afterthought he remarked:
| mo one has asked him how long the
| war will last" He turned back, but the
| officer had left the room.
! EARL GOODWIN.