Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-17
MEN AND MATTERS AT CAPITAL
eresting Sidelights on Capital Activities
Z: - {: =: = = =
BRIEF BITS OF WIT And WISDOM

as the greatest authority on postal
censorship in the world He was one
Of the two brtishers sent for by Pres
ident Wilson when the latter was visit
ing the king at buckingham palace to
be thanked for their invaluable assist
auce to the United States government.
The other was Admiral Sir Reginald
Hall head of the British naval intel
] lgence. and with all due respect, one
of the wlsest old birds who ever wore
uniform.
What ''Binker" Hall didn't know
about what was going on wasn't worth
knowing. ''Blinker" was great fav-
orite with all the American CORE
spondents who went t. war. Davs
spent with him al the admiralty over
tea and cigarettes were real delight.
Mr.. Northington. accompanied by
his wife; passed through Washington
on the last leg of a journey around
the world, He saw Secretary Hughes
while here and was entertained by
some OF the men attached TO the Amer
1can embassy in London during the
war. As a reward for his work in
the censorship, the British gave Mr.,
Worthlngton grant of 10000 acres
OF valuable land in Uganda. east At
rlca.
Women. tickle women. Only last
week 1t was pointed out in this column
that Mrs. Q. III. T. Belmont. in pre-
sentlng national headquarters for
women IN this city. stipulated that no
man should be employed about the
place except In menial capacity. Now
comes MISS Alice Paul. who went to
war mIiltant, and declares there is no
object paryb r.,
ihat is, she says there ought not to
be any calling too menial. In other
words. Miss Paul believes instead of
work there should be legislation making
ali trades safe and decent for women.
it was so IN Europe during the war,
ana to large extent in this country.
One forbids women. to shine shoes
operate taxicabs. Miss Paul avows
tins is all wrong. The National Wom-
ems party has 10 women lawyers
working in the library of the United
states supreme court making the first
comprehensive report on the legal DO
Sition OF women in the United States.
rms is no easy task 1t is compara-
lively easy 10 define womens legal
status under the federal laws, but each
state has its own particular idea as
to how women must be regarded in the
eyes of the law
What Miss Paul seems to resent is
the idea that laws should be passed
TO prevent women from working at
certain trades because mere man be-
lleves these trades to be sacred unto
himself. 1t is admitted that most of
these excluded trades may be regarded
as menial.
a real old sleuth in the department
OF justice gave some of his friends a
bst of advice IA day or two ago.
Never hold the transmitter of the
telephone to your chest with the idea
that you can prevent the person at the
other end of the line hearing what you
are saying to third party in the
room with you." he said MANY per-
sons think that simply by pressing the
telephone to their chest they are shut
ting off all possibility of being heard
over the line. That is not the case.
Every word you say vibrates the chest
and the words are carried over the
wire almost as plainly ms if you had
said them in the mouthpiece
Turn the transmitter in an opposite
direction or place the hand over it, but
never hold it to the chest"