Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-28
TALKS and TALES
With and 4bout
CAPITALS GUESTS

Europe, and through some effort on
your part he suddenly regained his
speech and began to laugh and talk
normally, wouldn't you feel great
on the level, wouldn't you be deee-
lirious with joy?
Well. this did happen 10 Sir Harry
Lauder. X. O. d. T.. OF Dunoon. on
the Firth of Clyde. Scotland. appear
ing this week at Polls Theater. and
that the doughty Scotsman does feel
quite as jubiIant over the experience
as any of us would was more than
evident from his manner when relat-
ing the story to the writer in his
rooms at the Hotel Washington.
You know. as does most Of the
world, that the popular little singer
lost his only laddie in the great con
flict- The boy was the idol of his
parents. but. like true Scots. when the
first shock of his death wore off, Sir
Harry and Lady Lauder, for they are
never separated. buried their great
sorrow and started afreSh to spread
cheer among the wounded allies of
the world.
During the past year Harry Lauder
has toured the globe. and at every
city. town. village and hamlet visited.
where disabled fighters of the great
war were round, special concerts We're
arranged or the convalescentS invited
to the thcater to enjoy the we'll
known numbers of the famous little
hootmon.
Arriving at San Francisco from
Australia, the first place visited by
Sir Harry was the hospital for
wounded veterans at Palo Alto, and
il was there that the she'll shocked
boy was brought back to his senses.
I'D sung 4 number of songs" said
a
kilties. land had noticed a young
Irish laddie sitting well up near the
front. He appeared utterly indirfer-
ent to my singing. His lips moved
automatically, but aside from that
he displayed no interest whatever.
They all liked 'Roamin' in the Gloam-
IN, and, after singing the old favor
lite until hoarse. l was about to make
afflicted lad arose. and, with out
stretched arms, cried, .Ah, give US
Just ono more, Harry-please"
Quick TO note the look of aston
comrades and catching his brogue, l
Immediately cut loose with Barney
From Killarney and never in my
lie have 1 seen such light as that
nerve-wracked laddie. Before leav-
ing the hospital the attendants told
me that the chances Were the kid
would probably be himself from then
Before the week closes Sir Harry
viii have entertained all wounded
veterans in this vicinity. He is a
great admirer of President Coolidge
ana says he hopes 1t will be possible
Tor him to be elected. He and Lady
Lauder were received at the White
House Tuesday.
And many 4 poor. misguided dog
In al
naught but sitting down just waiting
Tor his day.
Now that it Is freely predicted that
Senator Davis Elliins of West Vir-
ginia, Will not be candidate for re-
election this year, the race among
republicans of the Panhandle state for
his toga has narrowed down to for
mer Representative Ed. Cooper of
Bramwell, who served in the sixty
fourt and sixty-fifth Congresses and
former assistant Attorney General
Guy Golf of Clarksburg and Wash
ington.
Rushing through the Hotel Raleigh,
Mr. Cooper stopped long enough to
say that he had heard Senator Elkins
had dropped out of the race. This
will proba bly, leave the field to Goff
and me-" said the West Virginian. 81
Will use the continuous residence of
my opponent in your city as my first
line of attack. for 1t has been quite
Clarksburg with his presence"
"Hows President Coolidge regard
ed down your way, Mr.. COOPER"
Has the state sewed up" snapped
back the candidate. The people of
West Virginia have implicit faith in
his ability, and 1 hardly think there
IS a question of him securing the un-
delegation
There seems to be another ster-
Ing prospect in your bailiwick. Mr..
COOPER"
You mean John w. Davis. Well.
just let me say sterling is right. No
finer man ever lived. A true blue
considered by all West Virginians as
the strongest man in the democratic
party. I have known Judge Davis all
my life, graduated in the same class
with him from Washington and Lee
University and know him to be an
honorable man.
Mr.. Cooper reported conditions
generally as fairly good in his state
and said he looked for some exciting
times from now until November.
Not since its invention has the oil
eradicator been in such demand as
now. Rush orders are the cry of the
hour and factories are running dou-
BILE shifts, all of which proves that
It's an Ill wind. etc.
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A group of Cleveland business men
were discussing the coming republi-
can national convention, to be held
there next June, in the lobby of the
Willard. when z. l.. McLain of Can
ton. Ohio. approached the party.
wearing d most detected look
WELL" murmured McLain, who
spends much time here, and is an ar
dent Coolidge enthusiast, they've i'm
plicated the President in this oil
mess at last"
What" cried the Cleveland outfit
i'll unison.
yes" continued McLain. they say,
and please don't tumble they say
an oil lamp the night he administered
the oath to his son, up In the old
; home in Vermont
The crowd dispersed in a jiffy. but
Mr.. McLain fingered long enough to
say that everything republican out
in Ohio was for President Coolidge,
first, last and all the time" while
the democratic sentiment was fast
switching over to former Senator At
lee Pomerene.
"Ohio folks have warm spot in
their hearts for the man selected by
President Coolidge as special counsel
in the oil squabble, and many in the
middle west consider him the much
talked-of dark horse that is to run
off with the nomination"
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The oil conf1agration is one mystery
where the old cherchez-la femme dope
falls absolutely fiat. To date this has