Evening star., 1923-10-09
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

| 80 ueao ISSUE III america today, ana
the political party fostering such a
plank in the next campaign will go
down to defeat. was the emphatic
opinion given by Arthur F. Mullen,
lawyer, of Omaha and national COM
mitteeman for Nebraska at the last
democratic convention, who is stop
ping at the Shoreham Hotel while
attending to a case before the SUI
preme Court.
| Until my recent trip abroad / was
an ardent advocate of this country
entering some kind of internationl
agreement" said the westerner, but
from what | saw and learned over
| there am convinced that the farther
the United States keeps away from
any entangling alliances with Europe
the better off 1t will be. The whole
or Europe is like a snoldering vol
cano, ready to belch forth in war at
any moment. The facisti in Italy are
backed by a mighty army, France is
armed to the teeth, England is say
ing little but saving wood. and even
Ireland has 10000 Free State soldiers
under arms to keep peace. Keep out,
| / say, keep way out.
| Il still think" continued MIR. Null
len, that had this country entered
| the league, of nations at first much
of the present unrest in Europe would
have been averted. 1t is too late now,
| however, and the great mass of peo-
pie in this country know it"
| Asked ii he thought either poliu-
/ cal party would push the issue. the
|! omaha man replied: of course,
! don't know what the republicans Will
I do, but | will say that II President
| Coolidge advocates the entrance OF
| this country into a world court Hiram
Johnson will sweep the entire Tar
west, middle west and maybe por-
| tion of the east. Senator Johnson Is
strong in our state. South Dakota
and other parts of that section he
holds California in the palm of his
hand
What the democrats will do I
know not, but If they adhere to the
old league of nations program they
are doomed. McAdoo seems to be
popular in our state and in Cali
fornia, but it is rather early to pre-
dict the nominee"
Mr.. Mullen was most pessimistic
over conditions in his home state,
declaring that farmers were making
a cry over high freight rates, low
prices and poor crops. He said that
| Gov. Bryan had gained much poDu-
| larity by his efforts to reduce The
cost of coal and gasoline We in
! the west feel that domestic issues
| will predominate in the coming CAM
! paign."
/ Lovers of the Florida orange need
have no qualms over dearth of guam
| tity production of their favorite fruit
| this year, for according to t. L.
Roberts. bank advertiser of Lakeland,
I that state, never in the. history OF
| Polk county, the greatest citron pro-
: ducing area in Florida, have such.
| crops been forthcoming.
| FLORIDA is looking forward to a
| great year. said Mr.. Roberts, who Is
stopping at the Hotel Hamilton.
! Building in all sections has been of
! the record breaking order. farmers
are prosperous. the hotels are bank
ling on a wonderful season, and every.
| $4,000 population. which is just thirty
miles from Tampa, has had remark
able boom during the past two years"
| The Lakeland man said that while
| IL is rather early to think about such
| matters. there was strong liking in
! Florida for Henry Ford as the demo-
cratic presidential nominee. He and
Senator Underwood are the outstand-
ing favorites of Florida democrats at
present" he added.
To those unfamiliar with cotton
production and the terrible destruc-
tion caused by the boil weevil it
might be interesting to learn that H.
c. Sampson of the Empire Cotton
Growing Corporation of Nyassaland,
Central Africa. has journeyed all the
way from that far-off land to con-
Department on the best methods of
1 eliminating the pest.
''The inject is somewhat different
| in our section of the world than
over here" said the Engl 'shman. as
he rocked in his chair at the New
willard Hotel. but it is quite the
same pest. I have just Travelled the
| cotton belt of the south and have
| learned much about the industry to
| take back with ire to Nyassaland."
Mr.. Sampson was born in India and
| has been interested in cotton ssnce
| 1906. He went to Nyassaland, the
| British protectorate, which is located
| between what used to be German
and Portuguese East Africa about
! two years ago, and reports conditions
! in that part of the world as thriving:
! Cotton tobacco. tea, coffee anu
| sisal are our chief pToduets: ne .i, sad
| 1--WE do quito an export bu mess with
Europe Because of the presence OF
| the tsetse, a kind of horsefiy. we
are unable to keep cattle. and all
! labor is done by hand. There are
about 1900 white men in the country.
| mostly Englishmen. Every now and
| then an American tobacco buyer
shows up and brings us word from
your country. We never have frost,
| sowing is done in December labor is
Cheap and, all told, we manage to get
| Mr.. Sampson is quite impressed
| with the immensity of America and
| said words could not express ms
| in which he had been treated by
of1cials of the Agriculture Depart
ment. He will return to Africa next
| month.
| And, speaking of British rule. en-
/! trance had hardly been made to the
Hotel Raleigh when DR.. H c. Menkel.
an old resident of Takoma Park, was
seen rushing through the lobby to
catch a train for his home. where ne
will spend a portion of his furlough,
after sixteen years work as a meulcai
missionary in India.
! AS a medical superintendent of the
Seventh day Adventist sanitartum in
Sisla the summer capital of india, DE
; Menkel has had as patients people or
all classes, including government oin-
! cials, native princes and other dignt-
! taries He says the British have
adopted fundamentals much the same
as those in America. particularly IN
the development OF seit-gover9mIeIn'.. mem.
during the past ninety years, the
period during which British influence
! as a governing body has developed,
! said the physician, ''one is greatly inn
pressed with the evident s*,e increasing
| ficials that to them has been COM
mitted a great trust--first, for the
| many and varied peoples with vastly
conflicting interests living within the
country of India, and, secondly, trust
/ for the world at large.
| whatever may be ones bent of po-
| litical thinking, he cannot help but
acknowledge the great service Brit
ain has rendered in maintaining peace
) among the 320,000.o00 feudatory peo-
pies inhabiting India. BY the de-
velopment of a very efficient railway
| system protecting the peasant so as
! to make his crops safe and insure
! to him the fruits of his labor, by en-
forcing religious liberty to minorities.
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