Evening star., 1923-11-02
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS


| master General New! Postmaster
General Harry New! All, Mr.. Post
master General, so glad you're In the
| hali! Want you TO hear first hand
what Frederick w. Hume. executive
secretary OF the National Publishers
Association. has to say about you and
your administration of the Post Of
fee Department. All right. Mr.. Hume,
please repeat what you said In the
| lobby of the New Willard Hotel.
kindly speak loud. Mr.. Hume. as
; there is fearful noise hereaboutsl
The more 1 come in contact with
| the Post Office Department the moro
firmly convinced I am that Post
master General New is one OF the
most efficient heads the department
has ever had. He is a business man.
administers the business of his Office
in businessiike manner, and the
! result Is being felt all oven. the ~coun-
] try. He, with the aid OF Second As
slstant Postmaster General Paul Hem
oerson, has Investigated thoroughly
the matter of second-class mail,
i which affects so yitally the news
paper publishers, and all feel that the
innings OF the weighing count taken
october 20 viii result In the proper
4
/ Teached. 1t is pleasure to do busi-
ness with the department at present"
Mr' Hume, under whose eye the
| magazines OF the country pass. was
| most optimistic over the business
outlook for the coning year Ha
based his conclusions on the tre-
mendous increase in advertising to be
carried in January and February.
Il can see nothing at present to
retard the wave OF prosperity that
Is apparently sweeping the country"
| said the newspaper man. Tho
| States Steel Corporation buoyed
| things up wonderfully, as is evil
| denced by the Jump in stocks, and
| with a record breaking volume OF
advertising already contracted for
during the winter months, conditions
appear most hopeful for this country.
There Is slight overproduction In
| coal, but this will not affect condi-
| tions seriously. All told, II the coun-
| try can go on along for two or three
months without anything serious
happening / can sec no need of wor-
| rylng over economic conditions.
| The New Yorker said that from q
casual survey President Coolidge en-
joyed the confidence of the business
world. and that general sentiment
was that he would be nominated by
his party to succeed himself. While
a close personal friend and great
admirer of Gov. Al. Smith of New
York, Mr.. Hume refrained from ex-
pressing an opinion on the outcome
of the election in the Empire state
Tuesday.
This, however. was not the case
yer of New York city. who is spend
ing d few days at the Hotel Airing
ton.
| .sTammany Hall will win out with
the judiciary, probably seating all
| fourteen of the supreme court jus
| tices in the five boroughs. but the
| assembly will go to the republicans"
| said Mr.. Byrnes when pressed for an
opinion.
! You can't beat Tammany in Great
| er New York. and to tell the truth.
/ it is just as well that such IS the
case. I am a lifelong republican.
| but am free TO admit the city IS
better run under Tanmany rule. The
fight up state will be hotly contest
ed. as Gov. Smith is maktng whiri-
wind campaign, but, as popular at
Al is. ! hardly think the deRaocrats
| can put ii over"
| When quizzed on the national sftua-
tion, the jovial New Yorker laughed
heartily when he said: Really. It is
candidates Of both parties are hop
| ping on the water wagon. Pledge
f! card manufacturers must be doing
thriving business these days" Then
| teardrops. Judge ByrRes contfnAed:
| Prohibition enforcement as con-
Quoted today is farcical, for the
simple reason that the best in the
! land are violating the act. Now, why
don't one of the parties be fair and
! square and insert plank In its plat
form to read something like THIS,
!, vote for US and we promise TO do all
| in our power to enforce pronioition
| throughout the country for period
| OF two years, but II at the emo o.
| cable we win work equally as hard
! to modify the law and queli this un-
rest so damaging to American l truly
| believe such honesty would WIN.
Leaving the from Manhattan,
quick trip was made to- to the HoESt
Msshingtop' cSirsso Thsre FTea Finfernattonai
secretary of the Kiwanis Club, was
| encountered scurrying to the meeting
of the local organization on the Foot
A busy and much travelled man IL
/ Mr. Parker, for, in the course OF dutS
/ he has to visit ILL kiwanis CLUBS IN
all sections Of the country. ,ot besides aaessn az
tending many of the district conNsh
tions of the organization.
He too was most sanguine over tne
! future prosperity of the United states.
y am here there &c eveFyW1ers efsnsa1 sna 6arin as
! you know, Kiwanis Is composed en-,
tirely of business and professionat
men, I feel competent TO judge conan
| tions. and will say that from shs rec
.
j branch clubs of our organization. eco
nomfc conditions must be in healthy
! state. Today men are Laughing
heartier singing louder, digesting
| their food better and showing up at
| the meetings more regularly than has
| been the case for two or three years;
This is the best sign in the worId
! that prosperity is with US. forMone go
] back into their @lelis quicker than
those being pinched."
When asked to address the local
! body and finding there was out enc
minute before adjournment hour MT.
Parker stopped his talk abruptly by
| compa ring his speech with certain
parrots reckoning of time
IAN old lady owned parrot thec
/ swore terribly" said the Riwanian.
"She couldn't break the bird or the
habit. but did succeed in Keeping him
ouiet on Sundays by throwing sheet
| over the cage. -.
house early one Monday morning and
! fearful her pet would embarrass the
cIarpyman she took a chance on the
| sheet and prayed for the best
| '~Tbe goodly man had hardly passed
the covered cage when cnoice ine
| of inyectives nearly caused him TO
| faint the last of which were: And
tske II from me. this Is blanketE-
hla kety-blank-d--s short week. =
spying two former governors seat
ed peacefully and chatting most ear
nestIv on a divan in the Shoreham Ho-
tel lobby. the happy thought of killing
,wo birds with one stone was most
natural but on making the approach
Enna charles S. whitman of New York.
| Aaw away. leaving Henry B. Quimby,
/ who served the grand old common