Evening star., 1923-11-24
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

So then, any in the audlence VIM
contemplate attending the annuai
dance of the Washington Charter
Greeters of America, at the Waro-
man Park Hotel on the evening OF
Friday. December Z. Will kindly
signify in the usual manner! era
cious, judged by the appraised hands
there is going to be some attendance
And it is well that such is so, for
if there is a group of workers in any
calling who deserve an occasional
old fashioned get-together more
than the men and women of the city $
great hotel companies. then thes
have failed to register up to the time
that this goes to press.
You know, it's an easy matter 10
motor down to Union Station every
now and then, wait around for nVe
or ten minutes and when the train
comes in rush up and make TO 40
over some friend or loved one ana
show by your actions that you aI
delighted they've come put TO s'and ,d u
by the hour, day in and day out anu an
greet every conceivable type OF I'D
lure that poor flesh is heir 10; anu
still retain your senses, Is tash 10. :,
the exceptional for whom nothihs 10
too good. -. ,I.,xnre
announcement is made here that on
the aforementioned evening Iocai
,;reeters will stage an entertainments =
which. according to advance eaiu
will be a regular humdlhsea of
Russell Conn, assistant MANAGE o
the Hotel Shoreham, preslaeht "a
Washington Charter, NO 81, an. @
chairman of the dance commlttee' nc
been hard at it for more than III, nd
pr~ys.lr1 q
from a talk with him 1t was learhet
tbat aside from the dance ITSELF d.
witch refreshments will be serNeu
and fayors distributed, Spanisirl rs.nu soiu
dance number by Senor Mahuel w i4. 81
of Guatamala and MISS ~ ~. norothV
nohbins of the Doris Humphrey
Dancers and classic exhibitions uS
Helen Wesley of the famous .
Kane & Kantor company VIII pe erst
standing features; Sy. ibiMgtop 1T VIII m of Miss
appearance in Washington VI
Dobbins and Miss Wesley
The executive committee IN cnar Z {
of the dance is composed OF FTahk
= Hight, Robert G. Dove anu It
Over. managing directors or the New
Willard Shoreham and Wardman
park hotels, respectively. ilcke.s
NAV be procured at any OIL the ho'ei''
one in quest of information on
u
iect convention of the Oniteu
Dauphters of the Confederacy 1or
the latest about cattle out hahsaS ,
way, but it's queer olu wo! ~,
il was at the annual mee.liS
the Dixie daughters in the New Nli
Ia Hotel that a most comprehensive
renort was obtained about the Dig
ranches of the great SunnoWer $50 SO
for one of the delegates IS none otilei
than Mrs. Edward Dewey LorR nS Win, tba
Who with her husband, runs Ihe
mammoth Dewey ranch lie" iiiies
outside of junction City. ,,o
"Cattle raisers in our state nave
no cause for complaint" laughed TINS
charming western ranch "oi ,if .
whose every action denotes me
snant in the open. Our cattle people
have had an excellent year ana, iol
that matter, the Kansas farmer, WIN
few exceptions, has no rlght 70
arumble. The trouble with kansas
Folks ia that they have been so used
TO prosperity and have progressed SO
rapidly that the slightest setback
works terribly on their nerves. lou
know there are more automoplies per
state, and as for education why
that's our long suit
How do you happen here. Mrs
LOCKWOOD" was asked as her sturdy
young son hove in sight. s u.e
Texas born, Tennessee bred and
Kansas wed, and while l love the
great west dearly. my heart still goes
a-futter when 1 think of the south
land"
The Kansas rancher is much
travelled woman. having but recent
ly returned from trip abroad, but
before she could be brought to ex-
press an opinion on conditions over
there a cavalcade of associates had
spirited her away and the inquisitor
was left alone to revel in memories
of another day and the first thrill
experienced when between and away
TO the north and west as far as me me
eve could see a view was had of the
great cactus-strewn. sage-covered
prairies-here brown. here gray. here
green; there touched with a myriad
shifting. changing, opaline colors
now as level as the floor. now rolling
now dipping down to tiny. wander
ing .streams-the great plains OF
Wyoming and Montana-the great cat
tie country of the northwest! Ride 'enl,
cowboy!
Dazzled by the brilliance of the but
tons on the natty gray uniform of
Gen. Julian S. Carr of Durham. n. c..
commander of the United Confeder-
through Peacock alley" by his old
crony, Bennehan Cameron of Clan
Cameron-God save us-also of
North Carolina, a hurried come-to
was made in time to catch the pair
Just before they took the elevator for
the assembly hall, where Gen. Carr
was to deliver an address.
Both southerners said that condi-
tions were fine down North Carolina
way. but for further information they
would have to be seen later, as there
were ladies in town.
If the McAdoo. Underwood and Ford
campaign MANAGERS expect to make
headway up in Massachusetts they'd
better get Wiggle on, for according
to Frank p. Blair, Boston represent
ative of a large Detroit concern, who
is at the Hotel La Fayette for few
days, the only democratic names ever
heard around the Bay state these
Senator Lodge such scare in the 1872.
election, and Mayor Curley of Bean
town.
Really. there is absolutely no talk
whatever about democratic candidate.
in New England" said Mr.. Blair
The entire section is SO intent or
sending President Coolidge back t.
the white House in 1924, and timel
are SO prosperous and folks SO busy
that 1t is considered a waste of effor
TO be discussing an impossibility" tt
forestall inquiry let it be said tha
Mr.. Blair is a republican.
In the opinion of the automotiv,
man, the great industries for which
-NeW Ens lana mas always been nOtet
are fast leaving the section for othe
parts. and eventually will have gon,
entirely.
Take Maine, for instance" he said
There was a time when all woodel
and a great majority of steel ship
were built in the Pine Tree state-i
is no more. The ice industry also ha
disappeared, but in their stead Main
is importing tourists-more than
million visiting there last year-ant
with the change she is making NOR
money.
The shoe industry has emigrated t,
St. Louis. which today is the great