Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-02
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
A MASTER of ceremony, making an III
n troductory speech, can be helpful.

"A troductory speech, can be helpful.
This is seemingly unreasonable declara.
ton and there is much evidence 10 thc
contrary, but Everett Sanders. OF In
DIANA who has been a ChautauQua speaker
and who Is now member Of Congress, as
scrts that it is a fact.
Mr.. Sanders says that n man who intro
duccd him was once helpful to him. tic
relates an actual experience.
lie was campaigning out in Indiana anu
there was n non partisan barbecue and his
rival, Ralph w. Moss. long in Congress; Cs,s
was set down to address the assembled
throngs, beginning at ] o'clock. Mr. oahders,
who had then never been to Congress, was
to talk from = to .. A.,
But Mr.. Moss did not show up at the
appointcd time. So the master OF cere-
monies made IL speech in which he SAID that
the Congressman was not there as had been
expected.
''Mr. Sanders was to have spoken at 3
o'clock" he said. ''but since Mr. Moss Is
not here Mr.. Sanders will take his place;
Which Mr.. Sanders did following the
election.
Mr., John Marshall, OF West Virginia.
nossessed of a nnme associated with the
legal life Of the Nation since its beginning,
is now an Assistant Attorney General, help
ing Mr.. Daugherty act as Uncle sam
lawyer. ,,
1t has been eighteen years since he grad.
uatcd from Yale. but he is smallish Of
stature, yOungish of appearance and playful
of disposition.
Not long ago he was dining with party
of friends at one of the big hotels over in
New York when he was called out for
momcnt. As he passed bare headed through
the lobby lady accostcd him, gave him her
card, and asked him to page gentleman
whose name she gave. She had taken him
for the bcllboy.
Mr.. Marshall bowed and accepted the
mission. lie got plate from the desk,
vent about the lobby calling loudly the name
of the man wanted. lie entered the dining
room where his party was seated, strobe
among the tables paging Justify. Finally he
found his party, conducted him carefully to
the lady who had commissioned him, took
his tin, bowed deferentially and passed out
But somewhere about this fair land there
is a woman who, though she know it not ,
has had the distinction of getting her paging
done by an Assistant Attorney General.
The late Senator Knox got moro fun out
of single small incident that happened
when he was Attorney General under Roosc-
vclt his friends say than any other one
occurrence of his life.
Ills son was going abroad and Mr. Knox
asked him to Investigate certain situation.
get the facts, make sure of thcnl then cable
him the single word yes or "no."
Young Knox did as he was told. but it
was two months befosc he reported. His
message read:
eyes,
Tn the meantime the understanding he
had had with his son slipped the mind of
The Attorney General and he failed to grasp
the significance OF the message. So he
cabled back:
'Ycs, WHAT!
Presently the answer came.
''Yes, father
w Cameron Forbes. former Governor
General of the Philippines, and grandson of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Is a bald headed,
two. listed gent given to banking and engi.
neering when not serving the public.
He likes to talk Of the Philippines and
what we have done out there, the nucleus
Of American thought in the Orient, and ali
| that sort Of thing.
People are always kicking about, what we
have spent on the Philippines, he saws,
which isn't much since they pay for their
own administration. If they had cost Ms
hundreds of millions Of dollars, he says, il
| would have been well spent in the training
il gave US Tor the Great War. Did mot
! Pesuhins. Wood, Harbord. Fres--all the
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