The Washington times., 1922-05-28

one person I'm going to bring along
when I make my threatened visit to
the King OF England-and I'll bet
we're asked down for the week
end before we've left the royal
palace.
And it won't be my name that
will be responsible.
For now in my teatime talk ]
can look patroniZingly at my visa.
Wis and say casually, Yes, you see
Mr.. Harding was showing us the
new way he drives off, and he turn
e1 to me and said, You must have
q game OF golf with me before you
leave Washington, princess Bat, of
course, we were leaving, and be-
sides, loathe the game"
But the fact of the mater is,
II wasn't I at all who was the i'm.
portant parsonage in my party
when we called on the President,
and between you and me and with
view to impressing no one with
my friendship with Mr.. Harding,
1t was quite a breathless moment
when l said, after a wonderful hour
in the Executive Mansion:
This has been a great event in
my life. Mr.. President"
(Trying the while to dissuade
Laddie Boy from licking all the
powder off my face).
And 1t is great event in mine"
he said simply, as he pulled that
lively pup off my lap and took
him on his own.
And I turned my back on a long
line of Democratic ancestors and
became a violent Republican-for
this Administration. at least.
And I suppose this is as good
a point as any other in the story
TO introduce the reason why
perfectly strange young woman
with no noteworthy achievement
behind her should be hobnobbing
with Mr.. President and Laddie Boy
in their beautiful offices in Wash
ington.
And the reason is a freckle- faced
thirteen.year.od boy who can't
train a pompadour and likes pastry
and ice cream both for dessert. and
thinks heaven means Coney Island
with a lot of money in his jeans.
His name Is Horace Wade, and il
you get on the subject (Which he sin
cerely hopes you WON'T, he'll pro-
duce from some unexpected place a
copy of In the Shadow OF the Great
Peril" and present it to you with
the authors compliments.
He is the infant prodigy Of jour
nalism, and I'll confess l was a little
Jealous of him when he first came
on to write for the Hearst papers.
But you couldn't possibly harbor
any harsh thoughts against Horace
after you've known him a bit and
grown to love his grin and his en-
thusiasm and his contempt for peo-
ple who get all broken up over
themselves" as he calls conceited
folks.
But to get back to Washington
II got your autographed photo
graph" Horace said to the Presi-
dent, and we had ordered Laddie
Boy off the Presidents chair and
Horace sat in it, very unconcerned.
oh, yes" the kindly eyes smiled
down at him. Il was wondering
about that. 'Fraid you'd moved,
maybe, because l didn't hear from
you since. SO you got IT, did you!
How did you like it?''
"Oh, 1t was all right" my young
American said with a tolerant air.
"Ive seen better pictures of you,
though"
And the President Chucked him un'
der the chin and laughed.
And Horace went on and asked the
questions he had decided upon-and
wrote down the answers with ms
hrand-new gold pencil his mother had
given him to use.
Calling OH Judge Gary.
And II YOU think that Horace made
hit at the White House, you should
have been with us when we called
on Judge Elbert II. Gary in his mag
nificent offices of the United States
Steel Corporation.
He was in conference when we
arrived-and they're still telling
this-with the president OF the
United States Steel Corporation and
the president Of the United states
Steel Products. and when he heard
Horaccs high-pitched voice in the
outer office, the great steel man
came out.
Come in" he said, taking his
"roung visitor" by the hand.
.These gentlemen can walt"
And wait was exactly what
Messrs. President did while Judge
Gary talked over the possibilities
OF a career in the steal industry"
--as Horace called it-and gave his
interviewer a formula for success.
"Mrs. Gary Is reading your book
right now" he said. She stayed
awake reading It In bed last night.
Got interested, you know, and
couldn't put IL down. You must
come out and visit her. Shed like
10 see her favorite author"
And Horace accepted politely and
moved on to the next question which
had to do, believe. with the neCrs-
sity for higher education as an aid
70 wealth and prominence.
II Horace's style is Juvenile | free
" confess my stories are baby prat-
tie.
And the same ease with which
Horace handles presidents and mag
mates was in his manner when he
discussed the traction system OF New
York and Chicago.
Here again he scored by making
the Cuban ambassador and fifteen
aides wait outside and the police
band play The Stsr.Spansled Ban.
ner" twice while he and Mayor Hy-