Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
Striking Interview With
Governor OF Maryland
Frederick L. Collins Writes For The Womans Home Com
panon. Interesting Article In Connection With Hill
Series Entitled "At Home With The Governors"

course. I'll be glad to hear you make
a speech some other time. And, by
the way, III have to notify the other
side, and give them a chance. Oh,
yes, I'll have to do that. Monday.
Nine o'clock. Good-by."
The Judge and the Governor agreed
on most of the bills; the latter an
ticipating, in many cases, his advis-
er's description of the proposed laws
and his verdict in regard to them.
81 don't know whether there is a
joker in this one or not" said the
Judge, as he handed over the last of
his blue documents, and moved to-
ward the door.
9" guess there isn't" Richie re-
Piled, shaking hands with his friend,
cor you'd know it. But I'll read it a
gain to make sure"
"Do you want Mr.. So-and-So in
here? ?" interrupted the Governors
secretary.
81 DON'T" replied the Governor,
"but if you can stand him, l cam"
On this invitation, a mustachioed
young pouter bowed himself into the
room.
81 haven't been able to make re-
port on that bill as yet" he began
pompously; II am not familiar with
the law which it is designed to a.
mend"
81 am" replied the Governor, ris-
ing with brisk motion and walking
straight to a calf-bound volume on
an upper shelf. He handed him the
book. Here's the law. What want
to know about is the amendment"
As the important young man tuck
ed the volume under his arm and
skunk back to his uncompleted task,
"could scarce forbear to cheer;"
l remembered my hosts own words,
eff you can stand him, I cam" and
contented myself with mumbling
something about Governors having
to know everything.
"Absolutely!" laughed Richie, pull
ing long hand-written letter out of
his correspondence basket, "here is a
fellow who begins II would like to
know briefiy"-you get that 'briefly!'
how l can relieve myself Of the in
+oIaroh Ir h,,,Jnv of <ovo%;op dorH
know why people pick on me to an
swer Observation-Disclosures they're
like thar dark cloud of Irwin
GIBBS 800 remember how, one
morning after a hard rainstorm in
southern Georgia, Cobb was walking
along the road and saw an old negro
named Henry sitting in an easy chair
by his kitchen door, fishing in a small
puddle of water that had formed
there during the night.
Henry, you old FOOL" said Cobb,
"what are you doing there?"
"Well, don't you know there are no
fish in there?" demanded Cobb.
"Yas, suh," said Henry, 81 knows
dat but dis yere place is so handy!"
"That's what 1 am" concluded the
Governor, showing the letter back in
the basket, "handy!"
"Do you answer letters like that 2
81 answer everything"
His secretary told me afterward
that this was literally true. Every
letter addressed to the Governor Of
Maryland, no matter if it is on the
most insignificant subject, goes on
Albert Ritchie's desk.
All this takes time. The Governor
is early on the job. He never eats
lunch. He works right thru until z.
He is back in his office five nights
a week. He sticks there until ten or
twelve. Then, he goes back to the
Executive Mansion and really works
The neighbors say they see lights in
his room until two or three. Those
who assist him in his most crowded
periods-like bill-signing and budget
making time-say that he is just as
alert at three in the morning, just as
thorough in running down details, as
most men are at ten or eleven in the
forenoon.
might is the only time you can
work around here" was the Govern
roer- ahnr'ew eJtle hsovt, Ge' datkato
or's own defense of his late hours.
The "around here" struck me as fun
ny; for there was mighty little going
on in that quiet town except the
things AL Richie himself stirred up!
Excuse me a moment" he said,
making for the door, give got to
give the Attorney-General something
to do"
In my hosts absence, I had a
chance to think over what had hap
pened in the few minutes since I had
entered the gubernatoria sanctum.