Evening star., 1925-04-21


in international disarmament, eco
nomic and humanitarian conferences
pretive embroidery with which our
correspondents and deskmen are not
permitted to daily.
Old WomaTR is the curious name
of a hamlet consisting of "A road
house and a few cabins and is ap-
proximately the halfway point on the
Alaskan 90-mile mail trail from I'm
alaklik to Kaltag. This settlement
has figured in recent stories about
the diphtheria scourge at Nome. one
such story was brought from Anchor
age on January 81 by the Associated
pala and his dog team to deliver d
second supply of antitoxin.
1t contained the following sentence:
1.-The last report received placed
Seppala at Old Woman, near Norton
Sound, which is an arm of the Bering
Sea. with his dogs in full run
Methods Far Apart.
THE other news service also dis
tributed a story about Seppala and
his dog team some hours after we
carried the foregoing. Here is the way
it covered the same incident:
Last word of Seppala received
today by radio told of an aged Eski-
mo woman who had seen Seppala
on the trail near Una lakleet.
'It was Seppala the Finn, she
said. '"I knew him. But he did not
stop. He was going like wind"
Thus are our modern miracles per-
formed and the huts of an Alaskan
hamlet are transformed into an aged
though vocal testifier to the news en-
terprise of an esteemed competitor,
affording pleasant variance from the
gibbering madmen of another day.
And so easy steps l have
reached the time for the exercise of
a second cherished prerogative, and
that is the Offering of the only toast
in which 1t is our custom to indulge
on these annual occasions.
Proposes Toast to Coolidge.
Last year, you will remember. we
had the pleasure of drinking-and for
the benefit of those who hear, but do
not see, 1 add that our beverage is
entirely lawful-the health of the
President, who had come into his
office through a tragedy.
To-day / toast the same Office and
the same man, but today holding that
office in his own right, the choice by
an uneXampled vote of the American
people.
''On one point, the eager partisan
ship Of the individual members of the
Associated Press vanishes. We all
delight to honor this great office and
to evidence our respect and affection
for the great and typical American
who fills 1t.
II am sure that / express the heart
felt wishes Of all within the range of
my voice when / invite you to drink
the health of the President of the
United States, Calvin Coolidge, and of
the charming and gracious lady of the
White House.
II have already mentioned, today,
that portion of the creed of the Asso-
ciated Press that forbids on it's part
any partisanship, any bias, any tend
ency to be pro this or anti that as to
anything.
we report a pogrom, but express
no views as to the propriety or efficacy
of pogroms. We report q murder
trial. but do not ourselves find the
| accused either guilty or guiltless. We
report a seizure of the Ruhr without
in any way expressing an opinion as
to whether or not the facts justify the
seizure.
I'm all cases we aim to give the
facts, and the facts only.
why, Mr.. Vice President, it Is only
a few weeks ago that, at a dramatic
moment, we confined our report to a
simple statement as to the actual time
| reuired to go by taXicab from the New
| Willard, in Washington, to the Sen
ate wing of the Capitol, under the ex.
listing traffic rules without so much
as a hint of any view on our part that
these same traffic rules were archaic
to degree that seriously hampered
an earnest-minded man who had i'm
portant business at the other end"
I'VE are to have the pleasure oi
listening today to a man who has q
wonderful record of achievement.
When this country entered the
| World War he was a successful bust
| ness man. His work in France, as
the American purchasing agent and
in the coordination of the supply
| service of the allies and ourselves, was
| of extraordinary efficiency; his form
ulation of and putting into effect the
budget system in the period follow
| ing the war was a most notable
| achievement; he headed the fnterna-
tional commission which evolved the
plan for dealing with the German rep
arations which bears his name, an &C
| complishement that in itself would
| have been glory enough for one man
Says Dawes Task Great.
He has now cut out for himself q
| man sized job.
you will, most of you, remember
the story of the man who prayed fol
assistance in a fist fight upon which
| be was about to engage, but he said
IF you feel, o Lord, that you can't
take sides in this scrimmage I advise
you, If you have nothing particular tc
do, to stick around for a little while
and you will see the gol-darnedest
prettieSt scrap You ever laid ewes on
II have mentioned some of the con
spicuous achievements of our guest OF
honor, but may say to you that, with
| all his well earned glory, his chief at
TRACTION to me, and, / am sure, to
| many of you who personally know the
| man. is IN the radiant personality that
has so gripped to him those of us
who have been his friends for years.
II have the honor of introducing to
you the Vice President of the United
!. States. Gen. Charles G. Dawes"