Show NATIONAL MEN AND AFFAIRS Drinking By Americans When Away From Home Notables Visit Bermuda But Stay Sober T Rs R's T Tennis Partner UY Y RODERT T lal Correspondent of or The DIe Standard Copyright 1925 1 25 by The Consoli Con Consolidated oll- oll dated Press Pi-Mi Association Idea that touring Amer Amer- Americans Americans THE T 01 on once Ill I'll they land In a wet coun country ry Ipen spend all their Ime t I-t at too I oar ar Is wrong l ore AIr IS the highest authority for this statement It comes from men prominent In Industry and nd gov gov- government goV- goV goVernment government who solto recently have wo re- re returned re returned re- re returned turned from Bermuda and from the Havana the nearest ports port of or call for th the thirsty thinly from tho the great American Sahara And It seems that aboard steamers for for- foreign tor eign flag flags there thero li Is only a ft mild rush to the bar the first da day out After Ml r that all Is la calm and quiet aboard Even those among the tho be b and unenlightened who smack their lips the loudest at atthe the tho getting away aw y from the land of liberty so o that once more they can place pl ce their feet teet teeton on the th third rail rali are quick to tolof I lose tho th th novelty of unrestrained and drinking and lapse back to a II drink or t two 0 andI at atthe I the tho cocktail hour and to a bottle bollie or of wine win with dinner Perhaps they end up the tho day with a pony I or of brandy or a sweet liquor Recently liquor Recently the papers were ere with the tho non drinking pledges en- en entered entered en entered Into by Samuel head ot of of the tho great reat Baldwin loco loco loco- locomotive locomotive motive works and somo of ot his hi assistants They were not nott drink I on American Boll soli oil Mr Vauclain hied bled himself away to Bermuda The Inference was that while In the British Isle be beI I would not be a teetotaler It IL I transpired however that thai Mr had one gone con with hl hi hIS law daughter and five grand grand- rand children hardly children hardly the sort eort orl of or II A party parly tor for a real wet outing The American c captain of In- In Industry In attracted much attention at hamilton I-hamilton and when accosted by correspondents and asked about his pledge lie he merely begged that he b be reported clean and sober iu as ILI they rate the saIlors sailor In the tho navy The Tho secretary of the treasury Mr Ir Mellon is one on of or the re- re returned returned re returned turned travelers from tram Bermuda Mr Mellon does not desire desir that hat he should ever bo be known os as a dry dry But Dut he b took Look with him to Bermuda his young son and the latter's boy chum The former secretary of at stat state Mr Hughes Huches when ho quit pUblic office sailed saUd almost immedIately for Bermuda taking his family with him There have havo been many other distinguIshed Americans In Ber Ber- Bermuda Ber- Ber Bermuda muda the th past season All Alt report that It Is i a great rest to get away from prohibition the discussion of or tion On There i Is no flO prohibition In th r n nA r n nA e eany no one on on e pas pa's p a y any attention to It It Travelers returning from Ha- Ha Havana havana Havana vana report that there I Is only light drInking In the Cuban 11 Ital No Ko one on pestered them to have IL have a drink and then another But once one the they got rot back home home- home back to the dr dry shores of ot I Amer- Amer Amer America their lea ica their hospitable friends show show-erd ered liquor upon them morning noon and night All of which argues nothing pro or r con as a to the merits ot of but merely morely the perversIty of or human nature Every f child wants the th VH very thing It li Is I told not have to-have to have And today who admit to being grown crown n up When an effort was as made some som time ago aeo to call tall the tho roll of the Roosevelt tennis cabinet Lawrence 0 O Murray one time assistant secretary of ot commerce was reported among amone the tho mIss mIss- mIssIng missing miss Ing the Inference being belne that ho he had passed beyond But nut like Mark Twain Mr Murray Is Isable able to say that the tho th report of or his death la Is slightly exaggerated of Dr the th one time White Whit Whitehouse House tennis player gave cave credence to the report for tor he h had dropped completely out of or the tho life lire of or the capital and of the tho country As a II matter oC or fact tact however Mr Murray longI long lone a I stalwart ad- ad admirer ad admirer of or President Roosevelt Is leading the tho strenuous life I Today lIe he h ls Ii ls either In the wilds n tl HI nr k st stI I k big game and bring home horn to the th friends WhO prematurely had mourned him some very fine tine specimens of or tiger skins and other trophies or of the tho Jungle Mr Ir Murray lie has been living In Paris where he ho recently recently- com corn comI completed I a n course courso at the tho Institute of Higher International Law In planning his African hunt he had hoped at Dt first to follow the Hoose velt veil elt trails of or 1909 Hoa but before departing from the French cap cap- cap capital ital announced a change chance of or route which will carry him over coun coun- country country coun- coun country try equally hazardous to health and limb Lawrence Murray M irra was as one of those who always contended that T P H It played an excellent of tennIs This always alwa's was a- a a a dis disputed dis- dis point In point of bt however Mr Ir durray once said that T R U was not In It with Gifford Pinchot who more I than often was the presidents president's partner In doubles Gifford flung himself Into the tho game cam with bound bound- less hess vigor said Mr r Murray Murray 1 urray |