The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-29
Stories Of Washington
PALLADIum NEWS BuREAU

WASHINGTON, July % What
should a man do when one of his
carriers unfastens while he is walking
on a crowded street?
Charles Evans Hughes. secretary of
state, resorts to direct action when
confronted with such a situation. Re
Gently. while he was strolling along
Sixteenth street, Washington's fash
ionable thoroughfare, Mr.. Hughes dis
covered that one of his sock support
ers" was dragging along the sidewalk.
Without a moments hesitation, he
placed a foot against a shade tree,
hitched up the trouser leg high enough
to expose a w~ell6eveloped calf, and
snapped the garter into place, calmly
oblivious to the amused chances of the
passerby.
Mr.. Hughes handles a diplomatic
situation the same way that he han
died his unruly garter.
Senator James E. Watson of Indi-
ana, confesses that n of the i'm
portant reasons he is anxious to re-
turn to his native state to take part
in the fall campaign, is to get his fill
OF Indiana pie.
Two years ago. while campaigning
in the southern part of the state, the
senator relates, he entered a restau-
rant in a small town and was waited
upon by the proprietor.
John, what kind of pie have you
today?" the senator inquired.
only got three kinds today, jim
covered, cross-barred and open-faced,
replied John, with a slight twinkle in
his eyes.
The Soviet government of Russia
recently entered into a postal agree
ment to accept and distribute foreign
mails. including post packages of a
weight not exceeding II pounds.
Soon after this agreement was pro
mulgated, the post office department
has been notified by Representative
Elliott. of Indiana, a resident of Rich
mond, Ind, sent a package of under
wear, weighing exactly II pounds, &C
cording to the scales in the Richmond
postoffice, to a brother in Petrograd,
Recently the Richmond man received
a letter from his brother advising that
the Russian postal authorities refused
to deliver the package to him, claim
ing that its weight was a pound more
than the maximum limit, unless he
paid a customs duty of 10 million
rubles, which is the equivalent of
! about five American dollars. The
Richmond man believes the tempta-
ton of grating a few suits of warm
underwear was too much for certain
! Russian postal officials to pass up.
Congressional cloakroom stories re-
lating to campaign experiences are al
WAYS popular with national leg1sla'
tors. One of the best of these tales is
told by a congressman from n OF
the southern states.
There was a precinct in one of the
counties in his district which he was
never able to carry. In fact, he says,
he was never able to get o thar
five or six votes in that particular pre-
! cinct. During a recent campaign a
political worker in the hostile town
shin approached the congressman with
the suggestion that if the small sum
of 800 was advanced it might be SUI
ficient to obtain for the congressman
a substantial" vote, adding, however
that the century note would carry nc
guarantee that the congressman
would carry the precinct. h money
was produced and the incident was
forgotten by the candidate until aftei
the election when, reading the returns
he noticed that he had received only
one vote in the troublesome precinct
He was angered and called upon tho
partv worker who had relieved him o.
5, 500 for an explanation.
We'll Mr.. Congressman, 1t happen
ed thisaway." drawlcd the rural poll
tician. Jest before the election a 10
: of feIlers that was agin you got to cir
=. culatin' sech scurrilous stories reflect
&, in on your honesty and general mora
: character that burned if it didn't take
/, that hull hundred dollars to hold my
W vote for you"
General Sawyer, late practicin9
2 physician in Marion. Ohio, now person
D.. al physician to President Harding, ha:
j. become the subject of many stories
I. which make the rounds of the nation
/ al capital. Not long ago, one of thes'
tales has it, a coal truck drove up Il
the rear of the Army and Navy clul
! and the noise made by the first SHOW
a eIful as it clattered down a meta
tshute into the ba,Ement startled sew
eral officers lounging N a first foo
room.
What was that noise" exclaimed
j, a swivel-ehair major, who had neve
, heard the song of the firing line.
: That was General Sawyer mount
>, ing his charger out in the alley" re
!, piled a h~ard-boiled colonel of cavalry