Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-22
.HunldnismS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUy

was discussing with Mrs Edouard Albion.
one Of the nations most active advocates
OF opera, American written. and American
sung, the possibility of providing an escape
for those thousands who pay fancy prices
for seats and pretend TO enjoy perform
apces the words of which they cannot
follow.
America" said the commissioner. will
never have grand opera until its citizens are
willing to listen to red headed Sally Jones
Of the U. s. A., sing and pronounce her
performance good--if it is"
Edwin DENLY. who says that he has at
tained the summit Of his hopes as secre.
tary of the navy and that he fears the job
because he loves it so, has rather n dis.
tressful record as a sailor.
Way back in 1885 he went to China
but the ship afterward sank. He took
trip up the Chinese coast in q native vessel
and it later went to the bottom. He cruised
on that ship OF the navy, the Trenton, which
was one Of three to go on the rocks in that
tragic hurricane at Apia, Samoa, in 1850.
AS he made these revelations an aid eyed
the huge bulk Of the man critically and re-
marked:
"a vessel with strained plates is never
seaworthy."
Where is East Highgate?" asked the
stranger
He was from Honolulu and sat at ban.
quet next to w. w. Husband, who was
then secretary of the immigration commits.
sion, but who has been recently appointed
commissioning of immigration by President
Harding. This was ten years ago
Before the question could be answered
some feature Of the program has INTERVIEWED
and the immigration expert got no further
chance to explain the location of the town
Of his birth.
Five years later the two men came to-
Gether in throng that was crowding into
one Of the gates that admitted visitors to
the San Francisco exposition. They rec.
ognized each other.
AS ] was saying" said the stranger,
where is East HighgateT But the surg
ing crowds separated them.
During the war Mr.. Husband represented
the Red Cross in Europe. He established
the depot in Switzerland through which
American prisoners in Germany were fed.
Toward the end he went around to Copen
hagen to cache an additional store of food
in case the inlet from the south was blocked.
In Copenhagen, in the lobby of a hotel.
he sat and read an American newspaper that
had just come to hand.
by the way" said a voice at his elbow,
where is East Highgate?'
He turned and there was his casual aC-
quaintance of two former meetings
East Highgate is away up in Vermont"
said Mr.. Husband. 1T had thirty-two
houses when | was born there, but sucn
have been the exigencies of fire and the in
huences of time that the number is now
reduced to thirty
When the children 60 to the White House
to roll eggs on Easter they are admitted
to the grounds with their parents. An
adult without children cannot get in. SO.
there are always certain wise youngsters
who hang around and hire themselves out
10 tourists who want to gain admission
They will he child to a tourist for
quarter.
The benevolent policeman at the White
| House gate is not exacting and may aHo"
| II newsboy whose stand he knows perfectly
| well to bring in half n dozen mothers and
fathers. 1t was going bit too far, how
ever, when on Faster Monday last. Lad o'
| ten presented himself with a sightseer who
could not have been more than seventeen
What relation is this man TO you, the
| policeman asked.
"Grandfather," said the boy confidently,
John F. Kramer, first prohibition enforce
ment officer for the federal government, has
the violators classified Here are some OF
! them:
First Those who do not grasp the fact
! that prohibition is a reality.
Second Those who instinctiyely seek, IKE
children, the thing that is prohibited.
Third, Those who dy in the face OF the
law out OF bravado,
Fourth. Those who. through past expert
ence. have developed false appetites.
Fifth. Those who have lived by the liquor
trade,
Sixth. Those to whom the, saloon has
! been political instrument.
The first three Of these will lose interest
when the novelty OF the situation has passed
| ,.stn s..al
| exist under the new conditions. The ms
tory OF prohibition In score OF states IN
the West has demonstrated these assertions