Evening star., 1923-09-11
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

\ Looking IN the PINK or condition
and wearing the same old Sunny
| Jim smile that refuses to come of,
| Thomas Taggart, former United
! States senator from the mighty com
| monwealth of Indiana, and one Of
! Miss Democracy's most trusted con
| fidantes, slipped into town, registered
at the New willard Hotel, had L
brief chat with Bert New, secretary
! of the national democratic committee.
and then straightway hit out for
J Hyanisport, Cape Cod, to gather up
| his family and take them back To
( French Lick Springs.
Il am really on vacation" laughed
| the genial politician when greeted b.
| the writer and asked for a wCrG
There are eight grandchildren nov.
and to ship them safely from Massa-
chusetts to Indiana is regular
| mans job. Yes, l think President
| Coolidge the logical choice of the op-
| posing forces, and from the way
/ things look now he will be nominated
| to succeed himself. He is a fine man.
a capable Executive, and will be the
| medium of bringing together all the
discordant factors in his party, but
| he wants to keep his, skates well
| sharpened, for he is going to have
| race"
The sage OF French Lick made no
| hesitancy in saying that he did not
| believe that either Senator Samuel
MoHett Ralston or Henry Ford had
/ Tor the democratic nomination. Not d
meeting has been held In behalf of
Senator Ralston." laughed the old
national committeeman. and
honestly don't think he is giving the
matter thought. or course, Indiana
would back him to the last ditch If
he cared to enter the fight but the
uppermost thought in his mind at
present is TO come down here and
snow you folks how a United States
senator should conduct himself
| <As Tor Mr.. Ford. from what I can
gather, he feels the same way,
don't believe he is considering 1t.
VIII say, however, that If he is think
ing of throwing his hat in the ring
and viii give me carte blanche on his
S23S, 200, 900 bank account l will guar
antee him campaign that will never
be forgotten
THAT reduces the field To- but
before the question was finished the
little leader with the wonderful per
sonality passed the cigars and quick
| ly switched the subject. Never mind
about the field right now. my boy.
French Lick was going 1000 per cent
when l struck out for the east. The
DAY l left twenty-five Pullmans had
deposited more than 1900 bakers for
the annual convention of the Ma
tional Bakers Association and, M,
now hated TO leave" And so say
ing Thomas Taggart OF Indiana
sought the solace of sleep.
Two minutes later Senator AtIes
Pomerene Of Ohio was encountered en-
! tering the Hotel Washington, and when
asked about conditions out in the Buck
eye state smiled and said everything
! expected.
You know Ohio farmers are the
greatest in the country for diversifyinS
their crops the result of which is they
| suHer less when the pinch comes than
| lhose IN other communities who depend
entirely on one-crop methods" cheer
! iully continued the senator "Agricul-
| ture is good, prices are fair, industrial
pants have taken a wonderful squirt
| during the past two months, and an
! told; Ohio is happy and contented."
the senator who was a close PERSON
al friend OF President Harding, said
! Iurther that Ohio people had not yet
| recovered from the shock of the late
! Chief Executives death He was a
man with a wonderful personality
one couldn't help but love him l sat
WIN hlm IN the Senate and counted him
among my closest friends. Mrs. Pom
| creme and Mrs. Harding were also very
| much attached, and his death was a
! great bloW to us. America lost one of
"a ~ tinest cltiZenS' and. grabbing his
| prief case, he made for his rooms.
That the flow of oil in the recently
opened fields of southern iCalifornia
L
experts in the business is the firm
conviction of H: NJ. Storey, president
! OF the Standard Oil Company of CAL
tornia, who, with Oscar Sutro. gen
tTai counsel Tor the corporation. with
their wives, are stopping a few DAYS
at the New Willard Hotel before go
ing on to New York TO attend a con-.
ference OF the companys directors
!. Ihere is a vast amount of oil in
the southern part Of the state right
now" said Mr.. Storey. The flow
from fields at Signal Hill, Santa Fe
Beach, Rodondo and other wells in
marvellous. Everybody is talking oil,
Besides the big companies there are
nearly 500 individual producers, and
from all accounts everybody is reap
ling rewards"
Pressed for an opinion. on the po-
! httcal situation. the Standard OH
executive said he knew little about
| politics. President Coolidge is being
studied out on the coast and have
heard only good things about hin,
from those who have discussed his
succession to the presidency l know
nothing of Senator Johnson's program.
In tact. am entirely too busy to mix
Mr.. Storey said that from all he
could observe and from the condition
lof banks through the country a fair
amount of prosperity was being en-
Joyed by ali.
And now that California is back on
the screen, no better opportunity
than now could be offered 10 correct \
a. mistake in figures that crept into
this column several days ago.
After enumerating the wonders of
Los Angeles, as CLEANED from an IN
terview held with Seth Marshall.
prominent capitalist of the noted
southern California town, II was
stated that building improvements In
Los Angeles had totaled S1.OO0.00o
last year and would reach s1.5OG,00e
in 1928. These amounts should have
read 800 100000 for the year previous
and $l50,000,0oo in this ammo domint.
Running into the Los Angeles man
in the Lafayette Hotel. the writer
bowed low his apologies and said it
would be the greatest pleasure to
right the wrong and also add that
hotel registration in the home OF
film stars had increased more than
so per cent during August, as com
pared with the same period last year.
| Mr. Marshall showed statistics prov
ing that building permits issued for
exceeded by New York, Chicago and
Detroit, running behind the Califor-
MIA city for the first time.
Despite reported Ku Klux Khan ac-
tivities, political squabbles and the
like, old Louisiana has never enjoy
ed better prosperity than at present.
Or at least, so say Col. A. c. Good
year, president, and w. II. Sullivan,
vice president of the Great Southern
Lumber Company, and the BogaIusa
Paper Company of Bogaiusa, that
state, who are stopping at the Hotel
Washington for few days, while on
pleasure bent.
and boasts the proud record of being
the only municipal chief executive
the thriving little lumber community
has ever had. He was elected seven