New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
MR.. LLOYD GEORGE,
10 Downing Street, London, England.


10 Downing Street, London, England.
My, Dear Sir: To say the least. I am
shocked and surprised in not hearing from you
ere this, as am not accu.tomed to Offering NV
hospitality to a comparative stranger and NOT
even receiving SO much as q postal card in
reply. If this is the way you treat people in
general / am not surprised that De Valera
went back dissatisfied, because it is enough to
turn your house upside down getting ready for
company that you don't know anything about
and especially how they will act in the bath
room, and then have them not even deign ia
reply-and especially the way food is up lately.
and only yesterday the man at the cash grocery
was telling me that he expected to see eggs
$12O before Christmas and while YOU were here
we would not think of giving you anything
but the best, cost what it may. You are stand.
ing on too narrow board to neglect offers
from people who otherwise would have backed
you to the last ditch.
If you do not care to accept my offer IT
hospitality it seems to me you could have at
least dictated q word to your stenographer to
that effect and let him prepay it on the cable,
1t would take only few seconds, and if any
body had made me the same generous offer
AAAoOt SC1
mention the eggs to show you that there are
TWO sides to an argument, and if you do not
consider the other fellow the time is surely
coming when he is not going to consider you.
You must remember that it was very clever
solon, indeed, who said "A word to the wise
is sufficient"
OF course, what am now about to broach
is a touchy subject, and do not know how
you stand on it, and hope you will receive
1t IN the way-sit is meant, but it has to do
with stlmulant for the inner man. Sometimes
after hard days work little of what wa
are talking about will do you good and you
will enjoy meeting some of the prominent peo.
pie you will find there You have probably
read in the public prints that America is dry,
but should judge that you were not man
to swallow all that he sees in the papers. Ap-
parently on the surface of things this country
is dry as a bone, but did you ever, when you
We're out walking with the wife, turn over
bone and notice how moist sometimes it is
under it? Well, that is the way it is over here.
All person has to do is to drop into the
proper place and give the right kind of look
and the waiter will come up with something
oblong wrapped in a napkin and you use your
coffee cup instead of a water glass and that
is all the experience it takes.
However, if you are sensitive about going
into restaurant or public place among dozens
Of others doing the same, you can make pri-
vate arrangements with what We term boot
leggers. You will find them among our busiest
people and constituting about the only large
industry that has no unemployment troubles.
Bootlegging is causing working conditions no
end of trouble, because if an employee does
not get raise that he thinks is due him he
stops and takes up bootlegging, and pretty
soon he is looking down on his old boss
plugging along eight hours a day under ad-
verse conditions and thankful when a half
holiday comes.
1t used to be that person who was known
to frequent saloons, to come into contact
with spurious liquor to excess, was Stunned
and people walked on the other side Of tho
street to keep from meeting him, and usually
his wife had to take in sewing for living,
but it is not SO to-day. He is now one of our
most popular and most sought after citizens.
It used to be that bootlegger was a person
skulking up dark alley with something under
his coat, but that was before it had risen to
the dignity of a profession. Bootleggers now
are our most prosperous citizens, take them as
whole. 1t is getting so that if a man is
known to keep two cars that he is looked upon
with suspicion, but if he rides in Ford and
complains about hard winter coming ON
everybody knows he is all right. Now, instead
Of bootlegger's wife taking in sewing and
sitting up till all hours of the night straining
her eyes under feeble light, she movcs - ex-
elusive circles and is showered with invitations,
and in the morning when she gets up to an
swer the telephone it is about all she can do to
drag herself to the receiver and jot down the
names with her gnla ~encil. Gone ere the
pin pricks that used to be on her thumb, and
now when she goes out she doesn't have
shawl over her shoulders, but goes dashing
down the street in her limousine. barely bowing
to some of the people who have fiattered her
vanity the night before.
It is a lamentable state Of affairs, and would
like to talk it over with you because know
you are man who is not afraid to tackle deep
questions and will reciprccate with you when
you arrive by giving you my views on the
problems Of the Pacific, or whatever you are