Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-11-16
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

II "HdI lne Ola turkish Philosopher,
who reasoned the above proverb. says is
true, then the quality of the people of
these United States has been enhanced
100 per cent since the contending forces
in the recent conflict laid down their
shooters for, according to George w.
POUND, general counsel of the Music In
austries of America, as a result of the
disturbance, the land of the free and the
nome OF the brave is now the foremost
music country of the world.
The world war wasn't all one of
pain and sorrow" smiled the Buffalo,
the Hotel Washington, 'for by it our
people were awakened to the value of
music, and today the marvellous effect
of Its influence on the efficiency of
workers in the great Industrial centers
is incalculable
Leaders Of industry have long since
convinced themselves that the midnight
assassin doesn't come through the win
dow with a dagger in his hand singing
Annie Laurie, and in consequence are
gladly fostering any music movement
connected with their plants
Mr.. Pound attributes Americas leap
to the forefront Of the music world to
the returning doughboys. who came
pack from the war with song on
their lips. and says that never in the
history of the music industry has such
prosperity been enjoyed.
I'VE are making more musical in
struments over here than all Europe
combined" continued the New Yorker.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
pianos will be sold and delivered this
year, and as for monographs, why,
you can't count the orders. No longer
do our musicians need to go abroad
for their instruments. and the embryo
opera star who now trips off to Paris
or Rome for voice cultivation does it
for effect, as she can be better taught
at home"
Mr.. Pound reported general condi-
tions in Buffalo as excellent: declared
several new bridges were being erect
ed across the Niagara river; that
Grand Island. a large tract in the
river. would soon be dotted with steel
and other Industrial plants. and that
the republicans of his home town
were quite enthusiastic over Presi-
dent Coolidge. The democrats, ac-
cording to him, showever, are Just
saving wood"
Hardly had the Dixie doctors and
city managers vacated their rooms
at local hotels than a flock of auto
mobile men, here for the National Mo-
florists Association convention, and
about 200 visiting foreign hotel pro-
~prietorS and managers arrived in our
fair city. and for the next few days
what's what in transportation and
hotel life will be the chief subjects
of conversation.
The European bonifaces selected a
rather untimely hour-1:15 a.m.-to
enter the heart of the nation, for
since the country became arid all
aw-abiding communities like the city
of Washington are as dead as King
Tut at that hour in the morning.
Anyhow, the visiting hotel men
will be treated royalty while here, for
today they are being entertained by
Robert S. Downs at luncheon in the
Washington, and tonight Frank 3.
Hight of the New Willard will have
them for dinner.
Nor was the distribution of prizes
for those southern doctors who found
time from their multitudinous con-
vention duties to- enter the golf
tournament at Columbia Country Club
the least part of that organization S
program. Gathered around the beau
tifu1 gifts presented by local business
ence cheered the successful contest
ants az they received their trophies
in the New Willard Hotel.
They were: DR.. George Lyon, Hunt
ihgton. w. Va. first prize for low
Vile, n. c., runner up prize, and DR.. H.
Casparis, Baltimore. third prize.
The seven prize winners in the
Kickers Handicap were DR.. c. H.
Gocke. Asheyiile, \: e: Or. J. G.
Harris, Norfolk, Va: DR.. r. J. Estell.
Lexington, KY: DR.. S. R. Miller, Bal
simore; DR.. c. G. Ransom. Falls
church. Va, and DR.. l. r. DeBuys,
View Orleans. DIR. H. A. Fowler of the
local committee distributed the prizes.
1.-THE party who told you that Will
liam Gibbs McAdoo would have the
votes of Tennessee's delegates tucked
in his pocket at the coming Demo-
cratic national convention ought to
slip down to Nashville and sniff the
Underwood sentiment in that section
of the state" said Charles c. Gilbert
of that city, when told that informa-
ton had been obtained that the for
mer- Secretary Of th. Treasury had old
Tennessee Sewed UP.
THE old rock-bound. triple-N con-
sentative element in Tennessee Is for
the Alabama legislator to a man, and
it Is this element that usually con-
trolls the political situation" con-
tinued Mr. Gilbert. who is executive
secretary of the Nashville Mer-
chants and Manufacture Associa
ton. There are many who think
that the Senator is Stressing the sec
tionlism question to his own detri-
ment, but he has a wonderful sup
port throughout our state, as all con-
slider him to be man of broad vision,
capable statesman and the logical
choice for the democratic nomination.
Mr.. Gilbert Is district governor of
Kiwanis in Tennessee and Kentucky,
and reports conditions in both states
as exceedingly good. I'VE in Nash
Vile have curtailed q bit of late" he
said, as he started for the roof of
the Hotel Washington to attend
meeting of the local Kiwanis Club,
fbut the slowing up only means we
want to catch our breath and be pre-
pared for any emergency. You know
Tennessee folks never run away with
themselve," and off he scooted.
But come to think of it. if all
people In all sections agreed on all
subjects the game would soon tire
and the country go fiat. Here. one
man can see nothing but McAdoo,
his immediate neighbor, Underwood,
while the man across state will
gamble his breakfast that Henry
nation but will sweep the whole
country as 1t was never swept before
Nor is this difference of opinion
confined to members of any one party.
Two days ago a prominent New York
republican declared that If President
Coolidge held out against the bonus
he would carry forty-one of the forty
eight states. and the very next day
Representative-elect r. G. Simmons
of the sixth Nebraska district, died
in-the-wool G. o. p. man, emphatical-
ly stated in the lobby of the Hotel
La Fayette that If the Chief Execu-
tive failed to support the soldier
measure he would lose the entire west
by overwhelming majorities.
Mr.. Simmons comes from SCOTS
Bluff. in the western section of the
great commonwealth that gave to the
world the boy orator of the Platte,
and takes the seat long held by Moses
kinkaid, who died last year. He re-
ports the democratic forces in Ne
braska split wide open, and says
ing patiently to see what President
Coolidge is going TO do