Evening star., 1922-11-24
THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON
BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM.

time when Hanna was a national
power.
Can you keep your tongue?" asked
Hanna.
i can. sir" the young man replied.
All right. We'll see" said Hanna
and gave him d letter to a Wash
lnston official AS the young man
turned TO go Hanna reminded him
'Remember-don't talk"
The letter got the young man the
Job. The name of the young man
was kieley-John Kieley-and he is
in Washington yet.
Inc young man Needed Hanna's
adHlce. lie rose from the ranks. He
became private secretary to William
q. McAdoo when McAdoo WAS S.cr.-
tary of the Treasury. Carter Glass.
the next Secretary. kept Kelley on
the old job. Then Mellon came in
with the new administration.
Who is this man Kieiey?" hc
asked d hold-over ctdoial.
Ties p-en nere t,eenty-odd year..
but we don't know WAS the repI,.
He keeps things to himself"
Send him in," directed Mellon. Il
need him"
Kelley went in, stayed a short
tlme, came out and took his old d,.b
lie is sitting there still Several
million republican plurality failed 10
ruiie his placid brow. Washington
knows him as the nearest approach
10 Il sphinx that the human race ha-
ever produced. He is a prince ol
good fellows and Il loyu friend. L.L
he is affaLly inscrutablc. Maj.
Ii.inna's tip has become his busiu,=-
creed. He has eInuiatcd with wu,i
dcrfui success the fabled man t.l
Kentucky who made d fortune by "a
tending to his own business
We get past Kelley and into ih-
inner sanctum to see the Sccretary
of the Treasury. We find him retlr-
ing, bashful. When he first came /"
Washington he WAS 50 unused IL
newspaper men and their ways th5I
he shrank from them with timidli
that was awful.
They are sympathetic, those Wa.
instun newspaper men, and they &c..
genuinely sorry for the poor ScoT'
tary OF the grvasury-ar.d he ON ,.
the richest men in the milton
For Andy Mellon comes fru.,.
pittsbArgh, where, as every rH
knows, the curl from the smuk,
stacks forms dollar marks. He OWL
mines. oil, banks, railways-almn-
every thing. Nobody knows how mu,,
he is worth. He is far and away T..
richest man in the cabinet.
when President Harding l""h,
over at the Treasury and thought 90.
the billions which flow INTO div,
out uf-its vaults each year, he e,
cided that the only man who c"ip,.
boss the works WAS d man famIily4
with moneys middle name. So l.
picked Mellon and had 1t might.
hard time getting him to accept -U
post.
But Mr.. Mcllon's greatest wealth
is not his banks, his mines. his o.,
His priceless treasure is daiiiy
Young woman, his daughter, whu,
from the u:iict when the hour grows
late, and welcomed him whenever IA,
ran up of week ends to l'rld.s
CroSsiug-SomcW in New Eng
land--just TO see her. She is also
Washington champion bridesmaid,
and an outdoor girl who plays good
golf. loves fine dogs and sets off her
horse like a gem on ring. She IS uii-
spoiled, Young and one Of the most
popular figures in the capltdIS So
ciety. Her first name is -AIlsil.
Mr. Mellon is going to pay out
nearly d billion dollars in December
FOR victory notes Six of twelve
series are to be taken UP. When
the time came TO decide which sin
Mr.. Mellon called in his new friends,
the reporters lie passed around the
tobacco wrapper cigarettes he keeps
on his desk and asked FOR help.
Finally il was decided 10 draw lots.
Papers We're put in a hat Mr.. Mel
lon, being of retiring disposition,
didn't want to draw the lots. but
delegated the job to Chief Clerk
Platt.
Platt drew out the, jrst ser!es-A,
T.. {. ID. T.. and +. knd that is how
n ouc-billion- dollar decision WAS
reached.