Evening star., 1923-09-12
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

Togo over lecture circuit Travelled
twenty years ago and find a then
sparsely populated wilderness trans
formed into a network of thriving
little communities was the pleasant
experience of DR.. Thomas E. Green,
Chatauqua speaker and Red Cross
director of education. who has just
arrived at the Lee House, where he
will make his home this winter.
The well-known lecturer was
among those featured on the first
Redpath chatauqua program present
ed to the inhabitants Of Missouri,
Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa
back in 1904. and it was over this
same territory he Travelled for the
past ninety-eight consecutive times
IN ninety eight different towns and
cities.
Nothing could better demonstrate
the wonderful growth of America
than to see the vast changes that
have taken place along the route /
have just covered" said DR.. Green
to the writer. Beautiful crops. toot-
ing factory whistles and hustle and
hustle supplanting the dreary lonelt-
ness of twenty years back bring to
mind clearer than anything else the
tremendous development OF our coun-
try. Where in the old days few
hundred at the most would attend
the meetings. today thousands ap-
pear. We averaged more than 1900
people a lecture on the tour"
DR.. Green said further that every
where he went he found the people
pressed with the general sentiment of
all that President Coolidge should be
given every opportunity to prove his
capabilities.
'Of course, folks in the northwest
are anxious to see what Magnus John
son will do when he takes his seat
in the Senate, while those of Iowa
are equally interested in the career OF
Senator Brookhart but. on the whole
IT is freely predicted they Will soon
become acclimated to the august body
and conduct themselves accordingly"
added the lecturer.
Speaking of the Swedish accent SO
pronounced in the new Minnesota
legislator, DR.. Green told this one on
the Swedish American mayor of a
small town in the Gopher state. Gen.
Pershing had arrived at the place TO
revisit a small band of eX-serYice men.
mostly Italians, who had served at
general headquarters during the
great war. Holiday was declared,
hags smothered every building in
sight and the mayor was to deliver
the address of welcome. Mounting
the platform, the noted soldier was
greeted by the town official, who
straightway proceeded with the fol-
lowing:
Mister Pershing, We tank you for
honoring to our town. Our brave boys
for they will never forget the day
when. in their presence, you stood in
France and said. La Folette, We are
here""
Another interesting guest at the
Lee House is Philip Wirth of Mel
bourne, Australia. governing director
of Wirths Circus. which TO the
people OF the antipodes is whar
Barnum's greatest show on eartn
Mr.. Wirth has Just come up from
Hot Springs. Va, where he went for
rest. and is most eXtravagant IN
his praises of that place and America
"oh. America is wonderful coun-
try" said he, as he patted his young
daughter. who is with him on ms
visit; Your house is sin in oEaeTi Fssbior on
! have heard a lot about the United
States, but had not the slightest con
ception 1t was so vast: Australla -
most friendly towards q TINS geaa bs{ta
about $1,000, 900 Americans. such Tor
instance as Ben Chaffery, now min
| lister of agriculture for the common
wealth in our federal government TO
The Australian spoke in most Opt
nistic terms of conditions IN his
homeland, and said that business We
exceptionally good. crops nourls5n-
ton. "Ours is wonderful land. but
we need more people. Our naNuIai
resources are great, ana wniie az
velopment has been rapid a I'M. I'M
larger population could not posslbI3
| do harm" he Iaughingly remarked.
The visitor would Invariably harh
hack to the wonders of Hot Springs.
Il haye never seen sgSn Mnree q p5prf psprfnes -
in New South wales are somewna5t
like your Hot. but on a ;nn mp'n n
smaller scale. intend intend. sJarTiag nai5iafura
movement to erect tnerets M aIri''a afta~
7 return. which will be. shortly after
the Dempsey -Firpo fight, bout
surely will witness. u-,..,,,s
| Like "Barnums. OF olo' w "a %
circus is known to, every inhaoitahI
Of Australia. 1t winters in queens
land. where the climate is as warm
az is summer in the United Statts'
and when summer comes goes ~
Victoria, and then ships 70 IasIna!ih." Nc
and over to New Zealand. II is t1e
%iS faature each year at the Mel
bourne Cup. the greatest carnlVal ~
Australia, and at Easter holds Torth
at the big sydney carnival -,
Minister Chaffery, referred 10
Mr.. Wirth. is the American Wno
tied at Mildura on the Big Mnrra! ;.
river and developed veritable run
naradise on the far-away island one
of the show places of the region
Henry ]. Koehler of the well
known Olmsted Brothers OF bostol.'
landscape gardeners, is mak,mg insSect
mans for the work to be done at th+
WashInrton Cathedral. and is SueS'
AT the Hotel La Fayette. 10. AZ.
While unable to give speclhc uT
tails of the work to pc gone lid
49,, finished it would doubtless
snnai ANYTHING of it's kind in the
landscape gardening, according to
the Boston man, is somewhat spottS
good and bad, but not bad enoGsd aed
to permit one to enjoy an eNtenoeu
HF" F. L. olmsted, of the firm MI
voeh1ar renresents, will be remem-
hsrad for the great work he did at
the Capitol grounds.
That Turkey trusts America, has
the most friendly feelings toward
her. and will go to great length 70
cement amicable relations is the
oninion of Julian e. Gillespie, com
mercial attache from the unlted
SSnE at the Hotel La Fayette, pre-
pparstory prs to a trip of inspection Of
the district offices of the Department
turkey is bending every effort to
place her house in order, SAID 11 Inc
yoenff is smffering from the effects of inter
noi noIiciss. growing out of her al