Evening star., 1924-02-29
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

folks who, in the past, have often
fretted and fumed because an i'm
portant letter failed to arrive when
expected. due to the absence of post
age, to learn that Legislation has
been recently proposed to remedy this
annoyance.
Bills have been introduced in both
the Senate and the Nouse by Senator
Moses and Representative La Guardia
specifying that the Postmaster Cen
eral may provide by regulation for
transmitting to destination unpaid
letters of the first class (sealed) on
which names and addresses of both
the sender and the addressee are in
dicated and which haze been de-
posted Inadvertently in the mails, the
postage thereon to be paid upon de-
livery.
Rather, gladstone tidings. what? Es-
pccially to those dear little Marys.
James and Priscillas who have spent
sleepless nights worrying why their
Charles Dicks and Johnnies failed to
write when they promised, only to
learn several weeks later that the
dear boys did. but owing to their ex-
citement they had failed to add post
age.
Now. listen to how the proposed
leg1slatlon has happened to receive
such an impetus of late. as related
by Herbert l.. Schamberg, vice presi-
dent of the Far Western Travellers
Association. who is spending a few
days at the Hotel Shoreham.
"A few years ago" said the official,
oil t,,.yr, fr,. -,,y-
hrm obtained large order from a
San Francisco house. Returning to
MS hotel, he inclosed details in five
y separate envelopes, but being bit
tired called be!lboy, gave him so
cents, asked him to stamp and mail
the letters and said he could keep
the change
Whether thoughtlessly or not, the
kid dropped the letters in the box
unstamped. Four or five days later
the San Francisco house decided it
didn't need the goods and wired New
York that if the order had not been
received to cancel same. The order.
of course, had not materialized and
The New York concern was out about
$4,000.
THE incident with many similar
ones got to the ears of the then
Postmaster General, Will Hays, and
he straightway issued an order au
thorizing safe passage to mail that
having once carried stamps, but it
was not long before the unprin oipled
began to manufacture this Semblance,
1T loss to the government. and as
a result these bills to Congress fol-
lowed.
Mr. Schamber2 said the pending
bills hau the unqualified Endorsement
of thousands of business men in all
sections of the country.
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Come TO think of it. though. we
haven't noticed any enthusiast hop
ping up in the meeting house to ad-
vocate Il "knolkless' day.
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The dining hall at the Lee l.~i. {
was only comfortably filled. as it was
intended to be, for the occasion was
Il testimonial dinner rendered Repre-
sentative John F. Carew by his
democratic colleagues in Congress
from the mighty state of New York.
Twenty-Five in all. and every one
a booster for the dean of the New
York democratic congressional dele
cation, to whom they said the repast
was slight token of appreciation
sin recognition of loyal service as a
statesman in behalf Of his party, his
Constitution, his state and his coun-
try"
The veteran legislator also was
showered with bouquets hurled at
New York; Representative Ffnis f.
Garrett. Tennessee. and Representa-
tive John A. Garner of Texas.
Mr.. Carew blushingly responded.
fusing to announce this is so un-
expected'-the dinner having been
postponed from an earliec date be-
cause of the illness of three of those
Considerable was said by the three
announced speakers, Copeland, Gar
rett and Garner. but most Of it had
TO do with democratic prospects, and
no reporters were present"
The twenty hosts were Representa-
tives Ioring B. Black, jr.; Sol Bloom
John J. Boylan. Emanuel Celler. Will
liam Cleary, Parker Corning. Thorn
thony j. Griffith. Meyer Jacobstein,
John j. Kindred. George W. Lindsay,
James NJ. Mead.s David ]. O'Connell
John J. O'Connor, Frank Oliver. An
ming S. Prall. John Quayle Charles
Stengle. Christopher ID. Sullivan and
Royal IT. Weller.
Resident Manager William +. Shan
;ihan, former chairman of finance for
Tammany Hall in the Bronx, also
was present.
Quite frequently the slightest rift
will cause the best to sever, but
through it all old Tamma-nee trips
gayly on forever.
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If there are any in this old town
feeling more chesty than Charlie
Benter, care-free leader of our in
comparable Navy Band. then they
haven't registered as yet.
The cause for Charles exuberance
was due to the fact that tomorrow
every blessed member of the band
Swill blossom forth in chief petty of
s.ers' uniforms. nifty fitting, N
Serything
Yhe genial leader was on his way
,%eeeonduct his classy musicians at
la luncheon held in the New Will
.:,,otel notel by the Society of Naval
",,t poiao'S of the United States, those
'u.n who have christened the
t touiii , mighty ships. and<he risked
pFihs iate to release the story about
Ihen UP. and spake a sailor who
had Saiied the Nreacherous sea "The
Old drlppans are leaking. ca, ,ra
want no oil on me.' Ndp' anu
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