The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-18
ostmaster General Will H. Hays "As Was" Bill Hays "As Is

And right on the dotted line" the clock struck "the witching hour of eleven. and there was I, new spring bonnet and all, sitting in the hand- somely appointed offices of the man of whom Edward c. Lowry said in This "Washington Close-ups." when MT. Hays was postmaster general of the United States of America;
 "Will Hays doesn't belong to tho post office department. He ought to be out at the bureau of standards In the case in the vault with the meter bar and the kilogram from which all our standards of weights and fneas- ures are derived. For MT. Hays is a standard of measure and of value himself. He is the one hundred per cent American we have all heard so much talk about. Submit him to any test and you get perfect reaction. He doesn't even stain the lttmus paper. Apply any native or domestic standard and he complies with it to a hair-line. He Is as indigenous as sassafras root. He Is one of us He is folks. A such I like him and as such I sing him.
 He Is a human flivvsr, the most characteristic native product; 6 two- cylinder single-seater. good for moro miles per gallon than any other make of man. He takes you there and brings you back, in the blessed phrase. thus satisfying a great na- tional ideal He Is as much a na- tional institution and as purely native as the practice of buying enlarged crayon portraits or talking machines on the installment plan. If some al- chemist in biology eff you know what I mean) could extract. the essential juices from Mir. Addison Sims and all the typical Rotarians. he might pro- duce sort of pale. synthetic Will Hays, but there still would be quali- ties missing. For he is an artfcuiate emotionalist if ever there was one; a politician to his finEertfps and a strong josher; real hAndshAker and elbow massager. He Is the English sparrow of the Harding administra- ton: chipper, confident unafraid. friendly. And he behaves as such.
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 And MT. Lowry Is right; the for mer Postmaster General of the United States Is '3ust folks:" he's e born politician: the ear marks arc there even as Bill Hays of the Movtes:- he's all ~taot" and diplomacy and kindness and affability and although small of stature very slight and very slender, there's big brain dynamo Working insice or hl5 cranium whlcn spells ability, and determination and democracy and efficiency.
 At his desk every morning at s o'clock is Bill Hays of the movies: not s:30, you understand, or 8. as some of the s25 ,o00-a-year general managers of things on Fifth avenue arrive at their offices or the $40. 0.000- a-year presidents of other things and $50, ,oo0-a-year chairmen and directors of enterprises arrive. but at o'clock. if you please. this boyish, energetic. mid-western politician, who was once an obscure lawyer in Sullivan. Ind, and after that leader of the repub- lican party of his state and later a member of President Harding's cabi- net, and now "Bill Hays of the Movies" arrives at the Guaranty Trust Company building at Fifth avenue and Forty fourth street and starts his busy day.
 "Just foIks,- as they say in the pnelodramas. "is Will H. Hays, master of the movies" and hero of this story and as far as I am concerned he could have any old office in the whole broad land, for when he gets through "joshing'' 8 fellow. why, you feel like giving him your new spring bonnet if he wants it. or the office of President of the United States or any