Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
TALKS and TALES
Wnh and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

David Edward Hahn of Philadelphia
in d short talk before members oi
the Washington Lions Club at the
New Willard Hotel yesterday.
DIR. Hahn, himself a member Of the
Lions Club of Trenton. n. J.. had just
arrived at the hotel when he found
his fellows in session and nothing
would satisfy President George Lewis
but that the visitor tell of his expo.
riences in the far east, where he has
spent the last eighteen years intro"
ducing modern dentistry to the peo-
pies Of China. Japan and Korea. cs'
pecially to those of the latter country.
The gravest mistake made by
hurry the orient" said the dentist
Never attempt to hurry the business
man OF Japan, China, Korea or India
they won't be hurried. Many COM
petent business representative from
the United Stataes lie seven feet un'
der the sod owing to a wrong concep-
tion of the characteristics of these
| peoples.
The Britisher and German have
| long since learned that the only way
To get business from the oriental ~
! by taking time. The Yankee thinks y
necessary 10 hurry, and in cons1-
! qUence runs bad last.
The London and Berlin salesman
I Will " DIT udJS lot pIle bIutI. hut-
| ing which time gallons Of tea are
/ consumed. but the American cn-
| deavors TO finish the job in one att
| ernoon over "a cup or two OF the Ha-
| tional beyerage-it can't be done"
| AS an illustration. the speaker re-
! called Bishop Potters explanation of
how he could tell whether ne was III
| the orient or occidcnt When l
| am in Japan or China once said the
noted clergyman. they how low and
| uGI mo I
rived in San Francisco they slap me
| on. the back and cry. 'He!.". BiSh
After playing a beautiful tribute
| to the wonderful work being done
in the Orient by American business
| men, missionaries and individual
| women workers, especially for the
women of those lands, the speaker
gave many interesting sidelights Da
! the customs of the different peoples.
! English, he said, is understood in
nearly all parts Of the Orient. Win
the exception of the extreme borders
it is safe for women to travel in
| China, Japan or Korea. Eggs are
sold by the yard in Korea, where the
| stars and stripes is revered equally
with the flag Of the country, and the
gates Of most cities are closed AZ
pm. remaining 50 until IN the
morning.
When in direct trouble the Korean
! and Japanes" viii laugh. The loss Of
! a wife Will cause peals of laughtcr'
but the emotion has different SIC
nificance for them than to those in
the occident There are varied peri
DDS of time for mourning lost on.
A wife viii be mourned from da|
to a week, IL mother year ana
father two years, which would sem
to indicate that father holds the
keno marble" in the orient.
| DR.. Hahn Will leave for India
shortly.
Judge Joseph w. Bailey. dressed IL
fiannels and looking the picture OF
health was hurrying across the lobby
to the dining room when one Shore
ham guest nudged his friend and
said: There goes former United
States senator from Texas.
| do tell" gasped the other. ev'-
| IDENTITY from north of the Mason and
Dixon line. IT'S common talk around
our parts that it's against the law %
be republican down In thdN to1"
q hardly think it's that bad,
SMILED the informer, but reeNo"
1t is risky business.
! But even at that the Lone star state
is not the only one where its people
are partisan in their political ANNA
/ tons AS a youth, the writer was IN
White River Junction, VI W XJnn
Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Aar-
| rison ran for the presidency, ana re-
members distinctly the sporting ira
ternity of the railroad town-ahd the, .
were a few high rollers around the ora
t"JunctiOn House in those dayS-oHeT-
ing odds OF three-anG-a -half 10 one on
the Indianan's chances, when the
: metropolitan dailies were quoting even
money.
ing in Pennsylvania "A visit was made
to the hustling town OF Somerset.
t Dropping in on the editor of the SOM
erset Herald for greetings, ard no
ticinr the walls of the office decorated
TO the last inch with portraits of Nc
kinley. Blaine, Logan, Roosevelt, TAFT
, and other great republicans, ii was re:
marked, Judging from your galaxy OF
celebrities | take 1t that TINS Is r''
publican stronghold"
We'll" replied the genial owner. IN
all seriousness Il don't know whether
YOU can call it that. There are 25,Oeo
2 voters in Somerset county, and last
: election 1874 voted for Harding.
There is nothing left for the an
thracite miners to do but strike" said
Ellis Searles of indianapolis, editor
! and publisher of the United Mine
: Workers Journal. as he rummageo
through many papers in his room a.
the Raleigh Hotel.
THE operators positively refuse (
4 grant one concession. The demand:
: of the miners are fair. and if the on
orators refuse to give in at all walk
, out is inevitable. There are $4,000
men employed in the anthracite regions
: and of this number approximately s.
per cent, or about l07 900, are receiv
!, ing $500 per day. 1t is not enough
The actual and contract miners are re
ceiving from 1920 to s5.42 per day. anc
neither is this fair, being less thar
that paid in the large bituminous fields
Asked whether it was so that NOR,