The New York herald., 1921-11-28
BY EDWIN G. HILL.
syeeisl Despatch to THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Mashinst0n, ID. C., Nov. q.

cpect1I Despatch TO The NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. C., Nov. "a.
Assume that an orator in the pink
OF condition--the Bryan that was--could
speak unrcmittingly for thirty days
without pausing for food or sleep. That
would about represent the food OF words
that pours out OF Washington every day.
By telegraph and cable more than three
million words in half a dozen languages
90 hurry scurry, hciter sksiter to the
hungry wires. Pope, crippled and often
of a. biting wit, said:
Words are Ike leaves; and where they mos!
abound
Much fruit OF sense Is rarely fot:nd.
On the other hand Plutsrch, good
humored gossip, thought that words are
the shadows OF actions. In Proverbs
you may read, 'Jn the multitude OF
words there wanteth not SIN" Poets
like Scripture. can be manipulated to
many meanings All Of which concerns
the cable and telegraph companies
mighty little. The conference produces
SO many words that they grow weary
by taking in money. Daily the cables
absorb about twenty thousand. Daily
the land wires carry a little under three
million. The Japanese correspondent
sent Iiughes's opening speech IN full. II
cost them each about $4,000.
The Japanese and Chinese who report
the conference must wing their words
many thousands of miles. Conventional
coding, such as mere omission OF art!-
cles and telescoping, wont do in then
case. Therefore they send in a Curl
ously complicated code of their own, ar
ranged beforehand with their respective
papers, in which one word or syllable
stands for an entire sentence. Cabling
to Cathay is not cheap.
The principal delegates have so COM
pletely filed the eye that comparatively
little mention has been made of the
American Advisory Committee, which
has been doing important work. Amone
other duties il absorbs n vast CORE
spondence from earnest citizens who
want 70 tell Mr.. Hughes just what the
conference must achieve. 1t has re
manned so modestIy in the background o'
events that some persons have lookec
upon Il. incorrectly, as merely an hon
orary body. II is not, as a matter o
fact, to De compared with the institu
tion known in Vermont as "iay advisory
Judge OF one of these lay Judges I
Is related that he sat on the bench will
the active part or the COnlDlnaL1On IOr
year. and that the only question evel
put 70 him was: Gold as he'll, ain
it?"
Speaking Of words recalls once NOR,
the excellent Camerlynch. back again II
Washington after few days in New
York. HIS salary, $500 month, Is pai'
by the United States, since he is tn,
official interpreter of the conference. n,
IL one Of the best foreign investment.
Uncle Sam has made In many day'
They don't give him opportunities
enough. Plenary sessions are too few
and far between for the exhibition O.
his facile talent
Foreign visitors have an idea that tn,
Nobel peace prize for the current year il
likely to come to somebody In the Unite
States whose names begins with III
TO Theodore Roosevelt once was awarded
this prize, founded by the Scandinavia
who. happening TO cat his finger, dis
covered nitro-glycerin. The Japanese
will recall the reason Roosevelt got tn'
rfiys