Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-09-20
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

| With glow in his cheeks that au-
gurs well for the climate of his dis
tant islands, Rt. Hon. w. F. Massey,
for the past eleven years prime min
lister of New Zealand, sat in his
rooms at the New willard Hotel and
spoke with pride on matters concern
ing the British dominion which lies
down under"
Fresh from a visit TO Acting Sec
rotary of State William Phillips,
whittier he had gone to pay his re-
| spects, the robust New Zealander,
\ who Is on his way to attend the i'm
perial conference in London. where
he will act as doyen owing to his con-
tinuous service being longer than that
of any of his colleagues, rubbed his
i hands as he told of the wonderful
strides taken by New Zealand in
the last ten years.
Remember" said he, as he looked
over to his two travelling companions,
| +. d. Thomson, secretary, and II. L.
q. Drew, attache, New Zealand is
a pastoral country, with but little
more than 100000 population, but In
| Britain and Ireland. Even so the
| dominion's oversee trade is fSs
/ per head of population, which Is
the highest in the world. Vir-
| tually the whole of her exports
are primary products-chiefiy butter.
cheese, mutton and lamb, wool, hides
and tallow. The overseas trade OF
your country has been published as
Els per head of population.
| The imports of New Zealand
/ from Britain, with whom the bulk or
her trade is done (America coming
second), are more per capita than is
| the case of any other country In the
| world"
CHANGING over again for the assent
of his associates, Mr.. Massey contin-
| ued: ANOTHER record held by the DO
minion is that since the inception or
| the refrigerator, in 1880, she has sent
almost as much frozen mutton TO the
| United Kingdom as the rest or the
world put together, including her mann
moth competitors, Australia and Ar
gentine. Last year We exported TO the
United Kingdom more than f16,O00,OOO
worth of dairy products are as large as
minion's sheep focks are as large as
Great Britain'S, numbering last year
q, 1926, 900. The total exports of the
country for the year ending June 80,
1929, were f4s.o00,o0o, or more than
1920 200, 000."
After enumerating many other pro-
greSsive movements, which included
| the electrification OF all farmhouses,
| the building of more than 1000 miles
| of railroad. part of which runs
| through the Otira tunnel. the longest
| in the British domains, the genial off,
cial detailed the manner in which New
Zealand war veterans were cared for,
| a method which he said he would men
| ton to President Coolidge when he
calls to see him today.
Mr.. Massey is the only prime minis
ter of the United Kingdom who has
served continuously since the war be-
gan. His last fight was bitterly con-
| tested, but he won out by a substantial
| margin. He is native of Ulster, Ire
| land, having gone to the islands when
boy with his parents. He entered
parliament in 1894, and has sat con-
| tinually since. This makes his sixth
| attendance at imperial conferences,
| and he was also at the peace confer
ence in Paris. The party will sail Sat-
urday for England on the Majestic.
Leaving the three Britishers to tidy
| for dinner, the writer was about to
! take the elevator when w. Clark
| Noble, noted sculptor of New York
| and Boston, was encountered in the
1 hall.
What brings you to the city of ex-
! ceptional statuary, Mr.. Noble?" was
| the greeting extended as the con-
| structor of the largest interior me-
mortal in the country turned to shake
hands.
II have finally decided that Wash
| ington is to become the center OF
| art in America, and in order to be on
the ground floor have made up my
| MIND TO remove my studio here. i
| have been around all day in search of
| suitable quarters" And the artist
| mopped his brow.
Short, well-developed and display
| ing every evidence of possessing pro-
| nounced opinions on sculpture, the
| BostonNew York man was most
optimistic over strides taken by
! American artists, but said that not
| until sculpture was taken more seri-
| ously could the country hope to COM
| pete with the greatest in Europe.
| "Sculptors cannot be made over
night" said Mr.. Noble, simply be-
cause their friends have told them
their work is wonderful. 1t requires
| work, long years Of hard, unremitting
| toll. Nothing to my mind is worse
than bad sculpture, meaningless busts
and reliefs. There are no two