The Washington herald., 1922-08-02


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COME people think ~ 10 pretty
~ tough 10 have 20 dodge street.
cars and automobiles. but dodgins
earthquakes and revelations 10 but
mere by-play for d. Jay collvsr.
who 10 back in this country for1a
few minutes He has been on the
go. you might say. for st least
forty-six years. and estimates he
has marathoned twenty-eiEht times
around the globe. When at homo
which 10 about two months In the
year. Mr.. coliver hangs his hat
at the Cleveland Trust Company.
for he manages their travel depart-
ment All a patron OF the cleve-
land Trust Company has 10 do when
he wants to go anywhere 10 TO SAP
30 and grab his hat-Coliver does
the rest. II you want to make .
party jaunt. collver can sit In on
ten minutes notice. Mrs. collver
has been co-traveling with her hus.
band all these years and can get
ready In ten minutes. too, which
they say. is some accomplishment
for a woman.
You have to talk fast II you want
to Interview Mr.. collver. for hs
has down pat the science OF beins
In hurry without any outward
sign Of It He has just returrte
from Japan and China where he
saw them put the Prince Of Wales
On a train and also saw them tear.
ing up railroad tracks In readiness
for the lighting you have been
reading about In China. OF COURSE
you understand. they did not have
to put the Prince on the train be-
cause OF the Princes inability 10
get on himself. But when royalty
golf champions and s5o.O0e-a-yeaI
ball players depart from one place
to 60 to another. they call Il en-
training in the newspapers.
The trafnc rules OF Japan perhaps
contain the best laugh Of anythit
MI. Collver brought back. The suts
mas gone Far and changed man,
things and 1 would have given q
big red apple TO have been abba &c
get inspector Headley. OF the traf.
nc squad. and Mr.. Collver together
for fve minutes. Here Is a transla.
ton Of the trafic rules:
At the rise Of the hand Of
policeman. stop rapidly. Do mot
pass him by or otherwise dis
respect him
"hen a passenger Of the foot
hove In sight, tootle- the horn
trumpet to him melodiousiy at
hrst. IL he still obstacles your
passage. tootle him with vigof
and express by word Of the
mouth the warning. hi. hi.-
Beware OF the wandering
horse that he shall not take u
fright as you pass him. Do not
explode the exhaust box at him.
Go soothingly by. or stop by the
roadside till he pass away
Give big space to the FESTIVE
dog that make sport in the
roadway. Avoid entanglements
OF oog with your wneelspokes
Go soothingly on the grease
mud, as there Turk the skid de-
mon Press the brake of the
FOOT as you roll around the cor
ners to save the collapse ana
tie-up.
Guess that will get a laugh ON
OF Dan Sullivan and Headley whc
they read 1T. Mr.. Collver ha, beer
tipped over by earthquakes ana
other minor disturbances, but al
ways manages to turn up in New
YORK sooner or later. Whenever n
does show up around the once h
Is good for a STORY" for he IA
been on the go since the Indian
ana the buffalo raced with tn
trains away back yonder.
Ralph Hayes. one-time secretsr
to the Secretary of War. the sam
being Mr.. Baker. 10 now helpiA
VIII Hays untangle the movie
from behind a desk In New Yori
City.
We note that @. M. Hitchcoc,
the editor. again has been rom
mated for the Senate out 4, Nehra,
ka. You would think a man h..
enough troubles running a ooupl
OF newspapers without going 20 tn
Senate for more.
BY the way. what has happeno
TO the man OF mystery who car
ried the lantern around during tn
conference on the limitation a
ornaments, looking for an hone,
man? Who remembers away-hacl
when that came off7 That was tn
gent who was going 20 get a sol
Tor the jobless or somethins
Maybe he got a job himself, phar
A cardinal with a red topkno
called me to breakfast yesterda
morning. He perched atop a tire
outside my drswing-room window
My drawing-room Is the one n
which draw on my clothes. Hoy
he did go II until he got me a.
Then he few across 70 another trs
TO work the other side OF the stree
Thanks. old fellow, come again.
Wayne B. Wheeler. who holds>S.ro
In the Bliss Building and directsS
Tight against politicians who are II
the wet side Of the fence, Just su><K<
when he reads OF the alfhi theyArJ
up when a candidate Il defeated AZ
cording 10 Wheeler. you can trso
defeat right back TO where the car
didate stood on what he terns tn
biggest question before the couutr1
wheeler got q diploma and a bless
Ing from Oberlin College away bad
about 81 and for thirty years sind
he has devoted his time 70 puttinl