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fort and in their hint of comfortable old
1'shloned hvlng--even the street signs of the
halrdressers (never in Boston "barbers') -alI
are London in the United States. But it is
the exception that proves the rule. After all,
New York is New York, Philadelphia is Phila-
delphla, Chicago IS Chicago and even Boston
IS Boston You cannot by merely so wishing
transform one town into another.
RETURN to Edinburgh. See it as I saw
it but the other day-from the roofs of
streetcars and through the windows of the
motor buses, democratic and inexpensive
way you will agree with me, of seeing anv
city Yet with a good map always at hand.
generally very thorough one, | first learned
London from the bus tops taking partly at
least by chance this one and then that-Kensal
Green and Hackney Wicl and Elephant and
Castle and all the rest Of then-and then re-
turning to my hotel room to pencil upon my
map the exact route which I had traversed.
Inat Is tie real way to learn any city; that
and aplenty Of hard tramping afoot.
SO did manage to learn Edinburgh. The
tram conductors are a friendly lot. Particu
larly so in Edinburgh which seems to be one
of the few places in Europe where thew still
really ike Americans; they still speak rap
turously of the coming of the Rotarians a
year ago and wish that they would all come
back soon. Once rode upon az, Edinburgh
motor bus as far the hugh Firth of Forth
bridge, nine miles distant from the heart of
the city. Thirty years old, this still is the
great new pride of the town. If you are brash
enough after seeing Holyrood and St. Giles
and the Castle and Princes Street to ask,
American like, what they have that is new in
the town that is worth seeing they will at once
pilot you down to the queer old fishing village
of Queensferry and let you gaze upon the
fabric of that mighty bridge one and half
miles in length and $50 feet in height Fifty
men spend all their time for three years in
repainting that giant fabric from end to end
and then have to go all the way back and
start at the beginning once again. The Firth
of Forth bridge forever is in need Of repair
and repainting.
Yet proud as she is of her bridge-her folk
60 down to see it on summer days on char-a-
bancs operated by the city corporation on
two-minute Observation-Disclosures has her
greatest pride in her own self, particularly in
what she is pleased to call her "old town."
The old town lies to the east of Frederick
Street, the new town. to the west of that
thoroughfare; its houses all builded Of that
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mean time they doing little business, vet
are in no worse a position at the moment than
are most of the shops and the restaurants all
the way from Penzance I'D to Berwick. Emo
land for the instant is indeed in the DIVINE
From her fatal economic experiment. Of the
doles she has proceeded rapidly to the dol
drums.
As ENGLAND goes so goes Scotland. In
the north of Great Britain Edinburph tvn;-
hes the old, Glasgow the new. Glasgow brags
fundamentally of her million or more of popu-
latlon, of her growth and her progress. and
quarrels with Manchester for the honor of ba-
ing considered the most American citv in Great
Britain. Edinburgh stands for the old Scot
land and is proud Of that Her "roval mile"
from Hollywood Palace to the Castle, up the
sloplng High Street; st. Giles Cathedral
tkeepng so many faiths in all these recent
centurles), her curious "wynds" and "closes'-
now she does succeed in reminding an Amer
can OF Quebec !-all beyond her most unusual
personality. ~u .
Nowhere does her similarity to Quebec be-
come more apparent than when Que ascends
TO the high point of the Castle and looks down
upon the town. 1t there was a mighty river
slipping past that great stone nose then one
might indeed pause and say Quebec" But
there is nothing of the sort-save as one sees
the Firth of Forth, some four or five miles
distant-nothing save rows upon rows Of cold
gray stone houses, relieved only by church
spires and the towers of public institutions
or the greenery Of an open park. This is not
Quebec. After all, it is an odd habit that we
sometimes have Of trying to see in one city
the sembance of another. have known a
friend of mine, painter of some repute, to
stand in the old days in Madison Square, New
York, catch the silhouette of cabby atop of
his hanson in composition with Diana upon
her tower, clasp his hands and whisper rev.
erently "Voila! Paris" I must confess that
the fine old red brick houses along the north
side Of Washington Square are family rem
lniscent of some Of the old London squares,
but there is only one town in the United States
that really looks like London. That town is
Boston. There, if you please, is real resem-
blance. The quantity twisting streets of our
beloved Boston town, the open spaces Of the
Common and the Public Gardens, the nice
Christopher Wren churches scattered here and
there and everywhere along them, even the
simple red brick houses dignifed in their com.
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to be gay dog. That is best left for the
Latin peoples And the blue laws of England,
OF London in particular, form a glass house
Tor those Britons who from time to time come
to the United States and throw stones at our
Vo!steadian tendencies. There are not quite
as many rules and regulations here as there
used to be IN Berlin, but London is coming on,
Against this tendency there has been very
dehnlte effort III the British capital in recent
mohths to make the city brighter and in every
way more attractive to tourists, particularly
American tourists. The hotel keepers Of Lon
doh Feaiize that IN the growing popularity of
Nherpourg as dlsembarking place for Euro
pean travellers they have rather serious
problem TO face. Twelve fifteen years ago
pfactlcally all the large trans Atlantic liners
ran dlrect to Liverpool, making no French
stops whatsoever. Then along came the Ger
mans with their big new boats and inaugurated
the 1ashlon Of making OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
is OF course, much nearer London than Liy-
erpool-and either Cherbourg or RouIogne
ports OF call en- route to Hamburg or Bremen.
10 meet the competition the larger British
llnes, the White Star and the Cunard in
augurated port of call at Fishguard, on the
welsh coast, and within comparatively easy
run OF London. More recently Fishguard has
been abandoned as transatlantic port of call
at any rate, and the practice has been estab-
Nshed of bringing the very largest American
and British liners direct to SOUTHAMPTON after
a call at Cherbourg.
SOUTHAMPTON is but 80 minutes distant
by fast train from London. Liverpool an
even tour hours), and travellers are immensely
pleased IN consequence. Yet the fact remains
that Cherbourg is also reached, and American
travellers to the Continent possessing all the
traditional dread of the Channel crossing ara
oeglnnng to ask themselves, "Why England?"
1t is the last question-and it's answer
that London breads. She was immensely
proud OF her post for so many years on one
OF the most popular direct routes from the
United States to continental Europe-I am re-
1errlng, of course to the Liverpool route-and
she Is properly jealous always of her prestige.
Therefore, she anSwers the question herself
IN but two words:
Brighter London
winch being Interpreted means that certain
progressive souls in the British city-sranklv.
chiefly theater and hotel and restaurant
men-have decided to make definite effort to
give London something that at least family
approxlmates standards Of Partisan livelness.
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tinually, which makes US appreciate our
shirts. The mere reading of bill to permit
the Whiteville Lumber Company to build a
bridge across the Waccamaw River at or near
Pireway Ferry costs from S18 to $20-that
is, for the privilege of hearing the sound
waves roll through the House we pay that
sum. And yet we kick at the price of opera
seats Most bills are read three times be-
tore the final passage, and there have been
to date over $4,000 measures introduced.
Mr.. Mann and Mr. Banton recently dis
cussed camel's nose at some length. They
reached that subject by natural stages during
an argument on legal holidays Mr. Blanton
had just rid himself of S4O0 worth of your
and my money on the holidays, and then he
went on:
"1n that very bill is contained an
amcndment appronriating
to make an initial survey for this desired
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BY EDWARD HUNGERFORD

AS nave just said, you cannot easilv impart
Aa0ih Joyousness to the Engishman. Yet he
49, alter all human, and being human likes
10 get some real JOY out Of his existence This
mas made him at least fairly receptive to the
nr1gh1er London" propaganda He is sick
Oh oelng in the doldrums, Of seeing long faces
around about him everywhere
"hen the propagandists set out to do actual
business they found their way beset bv roan,,
onlcoltles. In one of the large hotels which
caters especially ito Americans one proun of
them essayed to start midnight Frolic."
1t was regular '*girl show" count ,eno
thlrSy-slx Of them," and all the rest of f. T.
began, as its title indicated, after the c1osa
OF the regular theaters, and probably w.s M
better or no worse than the PREVAILING +uno
OF entertainment in our larger Ar,ar;oa,,
Cities va"
/ oNDON these days is governed bv an az.
ceedingly profound ,and solemn BODY tina
London County Council. The L. G.. c. 90 = 10
generally known, frowned officially and unof-
1lciahy upon the new state of things. And
when that particular hotel sought to renew ire
license Tor another year the Council granted
II grudg1ngly on condition that the "pirl show"
NO"il w UuI SIX girls at the
most and that there should be no "staoo
clothes' Which Immediately raised the ;n-
teresting question as to just what are "stage
clothes The hotel manager. maintained in
the publlcyprints-it really of itself was lovely
propaganda--thats *'<stage clothes"i were gen.
orally more modest than some of the evening
gowns that some of his women patrons we're
III tne habit of wearing in London restaurants
This last point has never been raised to tho
dignity OF real issue, however, and it is prob
able that by the time the first incoming tides
OF American tourists come rolling into London
TINS season-London dearly hopes that theywill
be real tides-the thirty-six count 'em" pir]s
Will be on the job for those who like that sort
OF thing as part of their European touring
AS these paragraphs are being written. how
ever, the advancing tides have not begun, and
1he british theatrical season is at the lowest
ebb IN its history. To-day one can 90 I'M to
the oox office of almost any London house
right up to the rise of the curtain and DOT ex-
eeilent seats in any part of it. Theater prices
are nigh in London. Elsewhere in ENGLAND
they are fairly reasonable, although the houses
themselves are making hard fight for the
removal of'the war tax on admissions. In tha
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Congress presents its little bill to the taxpayer

architecture was s193.5o, which is perhaps
reasonable for a point of order so we'll and
carefully constructed; but if you saw any
one Of those speeches in shop window, priced
at about $3.50, would you buy it? Well you
do buy it!
Senator Mccormick spoke the other day on
Foreign Causes of Domestic Depression"
BY truly strange coincidence he began by
talking about Senator Lodge; but it was
eulogy, of which this is the opal paragraph:
Il thank God for that stout old Amer
lcan, who loves his country! Governor Cox
we near, Is going to Massa chusetts to defeat
senator Lodge Israel Putnam. Nathan Hale
Samuel Adams. John Stark, come forth Nav
England patriots, all OF We, to hearken ia
James cox pour his imprecatons upon the
gray old head of Henry Cabot Lodge he
cause he loved the league too little and
America
Now that's good piece of work It's elo-
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One of the old gray houses
LONDON.

LONDON.
N%O SAY that England is disturbed at
/ the present time is to put a very large
matter into very slight phrasine in
deed. The labor situation, which
rather seems to go from bad to worse if that
is even possible; the vast slump in national
industry, the unrest in the colonies-it is now
pretty generally recognized here even by gov
ernmental officials that the visit of the Prince
of Wales to India was a mistake. .onlv tina
abundant personality and the tact of that
charming young man having saved it from
being real diplomatic disaster-any one of
these things taken alone would have been
quite bad enough; taken together they form
large dose of very bitter pills for nation
that feels that it has had its fill of bad medi-
cines during the past decade
The human reaction to gloom is gloom.
London would not be the very human CITY that
It really is If it had not, once the brisk after
nlath of the war was spent, the last of the
spendthrift colonial troops embarked and off
for home, slumped down into the doldruns
At the best it has not been a very merry town.
Merriment is not an essential part of British
temperament. Try he may, your English
man always makes rather bad work of irving
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Mr., Blanton Mr.. Chairman, I make the
point of order. (s4.oo)
Mr. Walsh: Mr.. Chairman make the point
OF order the paragraph (s55o)
Mr.. Blanton: reserve the point of order
parts OF the paragraph. G650)
Mr.. Walsh: I do not know how the gentle
man reserve the point of order when one
has been made. $4,000
Mr. Blanton: Mr.. Chairman. T desire to
make the point of order against parts of the
paragraph (s7.50)
MI Wood, Of Indiana: Mr.. Chairman. will
the gentleman reserve the points of order2
$500
MIR. Ranton: Mr.. Chairman. will the gen
teman permit me to state the point or order
that I wish 10 make? $50
The Chairman: The gentleman from Massa
chusetts has made the point of order. $50
Mr. Walsh: Mr.. Chairman, at the request
OF the gentleman from Indiana. the chair
man Of the subcommittee, reserve the
point of order. ts10.50)
The Chairman: The gentleman from Massa-
chusetts reserves tho point of order (s45o>
Mr. Blanton: Mr.. Chairman I desire to
make one. (s350)
The Chairman: The gentleman from, Texas
makes the point of order. (s4.50)
And so on, until at length Mr.. Blanto,
vas permitted to make the point the wav h
wanted it. The total cost of that bit O.
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limestone Of so wonderfully uniform gray
(they will show you out in the suburbs the
quarrles from which the new town was fabri
Gated. Remember all this while, if you will,
that Edinburgh is a city of gray stone houses
some of them fearfully old buildings, clinging
to the ciffsides; all of them softened in sort
OF perpetual blue gray mist. 1t rarely ever is
perfectly clear there. There are but three
months In the year when the rainfall is at
minimum. The rest of the year it either rains
or the city is (most of the time) cold dry
symphony in grays.
1!'T'HE handsomest city in the world" its resi-
dents call it, and then add their firm be-
lief that Princes Street is the "handsonest
street in all creation" That it is lovely, with
Its broad and busy esplanade, its neat stores
upon the one side and upon the other the
gardens--these last always in the deep
shadows Of the stern castle overhanging 80
lar above them-can hardly be denied. re.
that they make fairly for such superlatives o.
praise is open to discussion. / have quite
fancy myself for Fifth Avenue, New York;
Beacon Street, Boston, and Michigan Avenue
Chicago. But you must grant something %
Scottish pride.
Edinburgh has perhaps more pride and pow
erty combined than any other large city 10
the world. Some Of the cities of central Europa
Continued on page eight .. Nj
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~H HE truly scientific mind demands that
all things be classified, ourselves in
II GUIDED Let US therefore devote
few moments to filing away the TWEEN
tieth century in it's proper pigeonhole. There
has been the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the
Iron Age, this age and that. But where do
we belong?
This is the Gas, or Talk, Age, easily so
demonstrable Three pieces of evidence occur
quickly to mind: dinners. of which the last
course is devoted to the art Of speech-making;
business conferences" which are hopeless
when genuine and hopeless when alibis, and
this article We all talk too much. Those
of us who dsapprove of the amount of talk
ing the others do, talk just as much ourselves
in the effort to stop the others.
We have to state it fatty that we al. talk
too much before we get down to the crux of
the question, which is Congress. It's trife
unfortunate that Congress must again play
the role of crux, because the easiest thing
in the world is to make fun of Congress- AS
easy as it is cruel. The only alienation Of
the misdemeanor is the fact that Congress,
from much experience, must have developed
a skin as thick as brick wall. Furthermore,
it happens that Congress is unfortunate
enough to supply figures on the amount of
vocal work done by its members; which is
why our friend legislators rather than you
ND 7 ly0or oh
For the last years the well-known "Con-
gressonal Record" has reached the total of
$4,000 pages, which contain average of
1850 words each. By multiplication we dis
cover that Senators and Representatives spoke
in the last political year some 18,15O,0oo
words. We must be fair, above all things, so
let's reduce this to an even 10 100000 and set
it aside for moment.
There is a fat tome that wanders out OF
Washington occasionally called the "Book of
Estimates and Appropriations" 1t carries,
as the porcupine would say mean barb, for
it shows US that $9,025, 297 are required to
keep the legislative body legislating for a
year Continuing to be as fair as we have
agreed to be, let us generously call this an
even s9,ooo,oo0
Now do you see? Eighteen million words
c. o. D. at 100000 is 50 cents a word
Every time Senator or Congressman gets
on his feet and opens his mouth once so cents
fees into thin air. Or into thick air, in GER
tain individual cases If he repeats the
process of opening his mouth twenty times
in succession he volatilizes $40, the amount of
his income tax. You and I pay that $40,
brother; shouldn't we see what kind of
moneys worth we are getting?
It's surprising. Take this dialogue from,
the records:
Mr. Walsh Mr.. Chairman, I make the point
Of order. $4,000
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quent and except for the telephone book,
contains many famous names as you could
easily get into that space. But each name
costs something. Thus:
'"A .''' so
Putnam. Hale. Adams and Stark each. 100
From this state of affairs comes the ORIGIN
OF the expression, "silver-tongued orator." OF
course, some Congressmen's productions are
purer silver than others. Just ponder on what
the presence Of William Jennings in Congress
would mean, at the price of four bits word
1T would be costly, but would be pretty
sure to get few, if any, counterfeits.
When a Congressman says, as he often
does, "Will the gentleman yield?" it sets us,
the people, back the price of new shirt.
There are 531 Congressman saying that con-
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bridge that is to cost $1o.ooo,ooo OF tn. reo.
pies money. You let that
$4,000 camsYs get by you: that is going
to end in s1oooo,ooo spending Of the
p. m. ~
Mr.. Mann: Mr.. Chairman, will the gentle
yieldY
Mr.. Blanton: Yes
MI, Mann: Has not the came.s al
ready gotten by u.s. by past legislation =,
tho subject of the bridge?
Mr.. Banton: Well. 1t has gotten nv
US so far but what kick It out from
under the tent without doing ..Jury to N.
treasury.
Mr.. Mann Well, doubt If the camsrs
is in you get II out.
Mr.. Blanton: You get 1t out ~ ~
gentleman from Illinois would Just get hacs
of that oldtime vigor Of his tbs,
fights unnecessary appropriations" .
p. m.--Peope's Money Often spotsn =.
Finally, an average session Of the sena+.
alone produces from 1000 to 5000 words ~
poetry, used by way Of ammunition, and coat.
ing at bargain prices at least $1,000. ye.
they say we are not an art-loving country,
Next time you hear that asserted, lust 70.
member that we spend five times as much m
religion goes, the chaplain's prayer on
opening days session is worth about 500
which is two or three times as much 40 !.
costs to call the roll Of the Senate. The roll
of the House, of course, means around s2Oo
So far they have had one myriad Of roll calls
I once knew a mother who used to hush
her laxative daughter with the warning:
Now, remember, Bessie you have only ius
so many words to speak in your life, and
when they're all used up you'll die. You9
better save them"
Bessie always obeyed BuE you and know
that there is something wrong in that mothers
assertion. People don't die when they have
said all they ought TO- Only the good die
young and the rest of US go right on talk.
ing. Something must be done about it: here
is a suggestion:
Suppose every man in public life were all
lotted by law specified number of words
which he could speak. The number would
be determined by the needs of his position
The President would have, say, s10,ooo,Ooo
worth Of words, at rs cents word if
Democrat and rs cents word if Republ.
can, since the Republicans seem to have most
money. A Senator would be allotted S. 900 900
worth, at 40 cents word and city officials.
such as Mayor, 100000 at one-haf Of
per cent word.
Public accountants would keep tab, and the
minute any official reached the allotted span
of his speeches that official would become
legally dumb. No future word of his could
be printed, repeated or taken any cognizance
Of whatsoever. Wouldn't that have some
effect on making men set a watch upon the
unruly member?
1t might even come to pass some day that
the highest praise a man could be accorded
in his epitaph would be some such thing
as this:
Here Lies
JOHN PETER DOE,
Patriot and Statesman,
Who, although forty gears
United States Senator, died
NTH has allotted number OF
acords only
ONE-HALF USED Up
The Nome nugget., 1922-04-01
PLAN OF PRESIDENTIAL AIAASk!. TIsIP

Washington, March 27-Tle con- templated trip of President Harding will include side trips to the bOun- diary line over the White Psss and Yukon railroad, Taku Glacie'. Mills and Childs Glaciers over tie Cop ,er River railroad to K.nnecot where a cottage in the mountains will be prepared for the entertain ment of the party. Fort Lisclm will also be visited during the tnp.
 On the return trip over tle rail road the party will visit the Mata- nuska coal fields on the brarch line running to Chickaloon. Goa, Creek and Eska.
 The party will return by steamer from Seward to Seattle by the out side passage. It is planned to spend seven days on a railroad inspection trip to Fairbanks Agricultural EA- pertinent Station and the new ASri- cultural college. The School of Mines will also be visited if time permits and a trip will be made over the trail or highway by automobile to Birch Lake and RicharSon.
The Nome nugget., 1922-04-01
LATEST ITINERARY OF
 HARDING TRIP

Washington, March 2s-The lat. est tentative itinerary of Harding'a proposed trip to Alaska. submitted by Bone. contemplates departure from Seattle August 1st, the party to return to Seattle August 21st.
 The party will take tho inside passage to Ketchikan as the first stop. Principal places to bs visited are Ketchikan, Metlakatla, ,Vrangell Petersburg, Sitka and Juneal, where President Harding, Mrs. Harding. Fall and Mrs. Fall will be the guests of Bone at the executive mansfon . Party will proceed to Hainea skag- way, Cordova. Valdez, Seward, An chorage. Nenana and Fairhanks. A reception will be held at the Cover nor's mansion at Juneau.