Evening star., 1923-08-18
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS


breathed his last at San Francisco,
group of ninety-one Latin Amer
leans assembled in the smoking room
of the American vessel Southern
Cross, bound from Buenos Aires to
New York. and discussed the best
way TO express their admiration nf
the new service Of the American n
merchant marine, the success az
which the late Executive had worI d
for so indefatigably
Carlos Neumanu Garnett scientist,
and one of the richest land owners
IN the Argentine metropolis, had just
suggested TO the gathering that a.
message Of congratulations be sent
10 President Harding. when a radio
announced his untimely death
Stunned by the shock Of the news.
the Voyagers Immediately turned
thelr meeting into one of prayer, and
later that night dispatched radio
gram TO Mrs. Harding expressing
'heir profound sympathy The mes
sage was signed by all of the ninety
one present. and before the ship had
docked a New York radio message
| from Secretary OF State Hughes had
! been Received aboard thanking MIR
Garnett and his associates for their
thOughtfulneSS
| thtIlIlIlSNliiB IpT a moment over 10
extraordinary occurrence, Carlos Seg-
| mann Garnet. who is at the New
! W illard Hotel for a few DAYS vim
| his wife and sister-tu-IaW, Mss
| Cepedd, preparatory to a tour Of the
! United States looked across thr rtb#,s
! to the writer ana enthusiastically
! exclaimed: The friendship between
your country and mine is growing
! stronger every day. Aud there iS MI
one factor doing more 70 hriag tins
| Very desirable state about than
| sports
! The South American himself II
| splendid specimen OF thr ira med afh
| letc, described tho wonderful he.d
! sports had taken upon his people. d.
! ClarinE that the argentine demon
/ Louis Angel Fjrpo, WAS doing more
| To cement amicabIe relations than
many years Of other serious worr
! Mr.. Garnett. personal friend "f
| Firpo says he is d Clean-cut. gent!.
manly fellow. and. in his opinion. Nil
| make Jack Dempsey see heliotrop-
crorodiles. Nor is this confidence due
! To patriotism, but formed more from
the technical viewpoint of the scien-
! tist, who thinks his countryman the
better man
The tourist told how English ass"-
citation foot ball was the most popI-
/ lar sport at present ia his land. and
that on certain DAYS from S0,ogh |"
100000 patrons would attend games
in Buenos Aires. Il city - uearlv
1000, 900 population.
He said that an amateur Tan
his home had beaten IN. hast r~a-
fessionals from Scotland. and har
England contemplated sending taeir
cracks this year. lie spoke Win
pride Of TirabosChi's feat % sw.ra-
ming the English channel in sixteen
hours. beating all records ard pT@-
dicted even greater things for other
ATHLETES
The South American scientist speaks
English perfectly. having served as
secretary to the American scientific
Congress twelve years ago, returning
to this country with Or l.. ; Rove.
director general of the Pan Amer an
Union. with whom he was associated
AT the University of PENNSYLVANIA for
i've years MIR. Garnett al" scr-ed
a private secretary to American Ei.'-
lister Hicks Al Santiago, chile. i lS
a native OF Chile.
Few men. if any, III The h.-'"rs q
the United States have held II" dis
tinction Of being sent 70 both bran. n@s
Of Congress from enc great sie''.
first to the lower house a rel...n-
lican representative. then as der1o-
cratic senator. and after mierat nE
to the greatest state in the Union I"
be returned three years later 10 r"p-
resent that commonwealth ~ y"
House Of Representative "n The
democratic side.
This is the unique record 81 "a lfS
Annette Towne OF New York r.i>,
who in 1894 was elected 70 the F-,iN-
fourth Congress by the Republicans
Of Minnesota; appointed by GOV. jnnh
Lind in 1900 10 fill the vacancy III ne
Senate caused by the death OF Scna .
Ilg,-
was sent to the lower house 10y tho
democrats of the fourteenth district
| OF New York city, declining a ren2m :
!ination TO take up the practice O.
| law.
In 1907 Mr.. Towne acted as counsel
[ 10 the last Emperor of Korea, and
! since that time has been general
counsel for the United States and
| China Steamship Company.
/ Asked to express an opInion on
I conditions in the much troubled cas-
ern republic. Mr.. Towne rocked IN his
easy chair al the New Ebbitt Hotel,
| thought for second. and said: Con
| ditions in China are chaotic now
! Chinas story viii be interesting read-
! ing for the net Two or. three cen
turtles"
Stopping short, this proponent "f
the United States entering the league
| of nations, or any international as
| socfation Of nations. added: My boE,
/ y
fundamental racial differences, aided
and abetted by countless centuries Of
! separate and distinct experience,
have raised barriers between III"
mental processes of the occIdent and
orient. enormously increasing diffl-
culties of mental understanding.
Warming up TO his subject. Mr..
Towne continued: The major premise
that should never be deViated from
! is that Japan intends to determin"
ha ,nl 10 r.
| and commercial situation in the far
east She did embrace the hegemony
! of the Pacific as fundamental con-
dition OF her program
! "The great achievement of the Ia
,nented Harling namely. the four.
| mower treaty, may, IL is to be hoped
! a1lav a great part of the anxiety af
! to the preservation of peace betW'e1
| ourselves and Japan. that was nah
! urally bred by this Japanese de-
! termination. But ! am clearly Of the
! opinion that unless some association
/, az the nations for the assurance Of
J peace becomes operative within .
! comparatively short time distinc1
! and tremendous peril to the main
| tenance of peace in the far east VIII
! ton that the Japanese policy VII
| give to the armament provisions OF
! the recent four-power treaty.
In speaking of President Coolidge,
Mr.. Towne said: He is a man OF
: clear. clean perceptions, careful
| mental processes. who never jumps
at conclusions. and who. while he
! feels eympathies and predictions,
! resists the temptation to act on them
| by impulse"
! With gasoline at IL cents per gal
| lon. and an exceptionally bright out
| look for this years cotton, corn and
oats output, it is presumable that thd
most popuIar song down Dallas and
| Fort Worth way is Gee, I'm Glau