The Washington herald., 1920-01-27
Folks and Things
Around Washington
Labert St. Clair.

One OF the chief delights Of Sec
retary Tumulty and Ray Baker. Di-
rector of the Mint. Is to call up
ator from Virginia. after Glass has
issued a hot statement on some
subject and ask him to say somethin;
specific" on the subject to which me
has just addressed himself. Twice re-
Gently they have pulled such a trick
When the report came out that
certain British agents were in this
country with the purpose of nego-
uating loan of SIS. .00O. 1900, Glass
promptly issued a warm statement
declaring the story an "idiotic fake"
or something like that. whereupon.
encouraged by the Tumulty- Baker
combination, a New York newspaper
man called the Secretary by teIe-
phone and asked him to say some
thing. definite on the story. Again,
when Glass engaged In a telegrap phic
controversy with Will Hays. the Re-
publican National chairman. and
completely exhausted his vocabulary
of adjectives in calling Hays down,
Baker called Glass by telephone from
Lenox. Mass, and asked him to say
something without mincinS words.
Nobody likes to say things direct
ly any better than Glass. and FIRE
n,nrlg aha
rival in the Senate.
Washington suffraCists have not
been very active lately. but they
will be in the rational campaign up
to their ears when the races get un-
der way. Some of them even have
taken jobs outside the suffrage
work for the present, but they will
be back in the harness in time.
One of these women, who has gone
to work for the government, re-
Gently was called upon to answer a
questionnaire in which there was
the query: Were You ever arrested? ?
For half an hour she was busily en-
gagged telephoning. Asked what
she was doing. she replied:
Il was arrested once for picketiny
the White House, and am consult
ing my attorney to determine how
to answer this question"
Justice Van Devanter. of the United
States Supreme Court. is a stickler
for form around the court. There
fore. when, a few days ago, a son
OF Justice Day introduced another
attorney into the court and while
SO doing stood with his hands in
his pockets. Justice Van Devanter did
not hesitate to call the young man
down. Incidentally. young Day is
about three times as large as his
father. but size or station mean
nothing TO any learned member of
the. court. They say what they
think and let it so at that.
New. that former Lieut.. Gov. Will
lam p. Thornc. of Eminence. Ky, has
made his annual visit to Washing
ton to look into political affairs. It
is generally conceded that the cam
paign may start. Folks hereahouts
await his arrival just as some other
folks wait for the robin to arrive
before taking of their fannels, and
the like.
InOrne Is famous not only as a poll
tician, but also as the owner of an
eight mile stretch of railroad down
in Kentucky. Every year, in the good
old days. he used to send out his
bunch of annual passes to the presi-
dents of various railroads and re-
ceive in return passes over their
lines. Thus he was enabled to travel
at small expense. On one occasion,
however. he stacked up against E. II.
Hartman with the result that he al
most failed to get a pass over the
Hartman lines.
L find" Mr.. Hartman wrote, that
your line Is only eight miles long
while my lines extend over thousands
of miles"
Correct" replied Thorne. but you
seem to overlook the fact that my
lines are just as wide as yours"
Thorne got the pass. He keeps the
Hartman letter as a souvenir.
George O'Connor. who has sung
coon songs" for as many Presidents
as any living man. perhaps, but who
is a staid Washington business man.
tells a yarn about d, negro lunch
counter man who shouted. Hot pies"
so vigorously that he sold a pie to
a colored passerby.
What do you mean hot pie the
purchaser said. as he bit into the
pastry and discovered 1t was as cold
as stone.
''Oh. dat's jist de name of de pie"
me lunch counter man explained.
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