Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-05
HumdniSnS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUy

W secretary of of the treasury he used to run
hastily across the street at noon and grab
himself mug Of milk and n sandwich a.
one of those left handed aud informal dairy
lunches.
He was Just turning into one Of th's'
places one day when he was accosted BY a.
associate.
Surely you are not going to cat here,
said the friend Such conduct is not CON
pstible with the dignity Of your position
And then, besides. you are an ambitious
man. You cant expect advancement unless
you inhabit the haunts Of the successful,
Listen" said Newton. The collectc"
Of customs of the port of New York is the
best job in the Gift Of tho Treasury Depart
ment. isn't it? Well | was appointed :"
that post this morning"
resentative F. w. Dallinger, who grew ur
in the same town with Harvard, who wears
whiskers. and who is author Of a long book
on Nominations" gives the following cI
ample Of the limited space into which II
is possible TO compress n tale.
The teacher had developed hypothetlce
situation in which man named Elijah, the
owner OF a covey Of bears, had found him
self the victim Of group of boys who 70
lowed that savage instinct OF youth to tea"
the animals. Finally, Elijah issued su ulti
matum. He said that it the boys did not
lay off he would turn the bears loose. The
pupils were asked to tell as briefly as pos.
sible the story from that point on 10 the
tragic denouement. Here is what one boT
wrote.
The boys didn't.
Elijah did.
SO did the bears
DO not waste that greatest Of all boons
the vote, on any ay by night third party.
Representative Simeon ID. Fess, OF Ohio
told the members Of he Womans party
when they met in final convention. vo,o
with one OF the old parties. preferably the
Republican. They govern the nation. No
third party ever amounted to anything.
" How about the Republican party in the
Ibcsinni!ng;' ,ptped up Mrs. Frederick Will
time as picket?
was quite disconcerting 1t called for
q LOT OF explaining that Mr.. Fess had MOI
inquired into his ten minutes at all. IT JUS
spoiled his speech These newly enfrsu
,hctic attitude toward the political spell.
binder
Theodore Roosevelt assistant secretary of
the navy, says that when he was campaign
ing IN Kentucky last fall, n big service
man rode night herd" on him. This man
assured him that he was voting for the
party that the service man was doing his
political duty
How old are you?" asked the colonel
Nineteen,' replied the service man.
Roosevelt saiG they We're elbowing their
way through dense crowd and observe
a square ShouIdcred fellow doing likewise
and tackng in the same general direction
Nangway, called this man Justify.
..N what ship Roosevelt called back
Inc assistant secretary fnid that he took
his cue as TO his position 10 the depsr'
m"nt with relation to the secretary from
reprlmand that he once heard the skipTPr
of fishing boat give to his mate. The skip
per said
An T. want from you is silence and
damn. little of that"
On" Of the mellow, thoughtful minds u
Congress from the southern states is "
tarawaN. of Arkansas, long in the Hous',
but member Of the Senate since March
bhe dav We sat and talked Of many thing
ranging from coon dogs to the opportunitr
OF the nited States TO hold high the torcn
OF idcalism for the whole world. Finally !
asked him this one
"What, senator. do you conceive as thp
situation IN the United States on the race
question 100 years from now?"
"a hundred years hence he replied.
me Negroes will be segregated. They vi.
either he colOnized in some such place as the
Philippines or Africa. or they will bs con.
hned to some area set aside for them IN
th" United states. The drift is in that dl
recton now. Nobody has ever suggested
any other solution. It is one If Tie hls
'hnSs that will be done within ocHu'j.