Show I LETTE nr Dr me TIlE AVAY WAl IN WASHINGTON Tho The Story Stor of the tho Cavalry Horse On Being Air d and Auto Auto- mobile Note on Cockroaches By Dy RODNEY DUTCHER NEA LA Sen Service Ice Writer WASHINGTON OTON Aug Au 27 The The war department tells one of the cavalry's favorite horse stories which in case you ou haven't heard it is about the rookie who was ned assigned to a horse as soon coon as he ic had reached camp The rookie hastily hasUly explained that he had never ridden a a. horse in his life all right the sergeant said The horse has hns never been ridden in i his life either Tho The two of you OU can I work lork it out together Just as the cavalry officers are minded horse so everyone engaged in aviation should be air minded to use a a. more or less new expression It is often hoped here that the American people will vm also become minded air to the glory and benefit of aero aero- The Th National Aeronautic association tion lion for instance Is as minded air as the ordinary dog is flea lea The N A. A A. A A first demonstrated its complete mindedness air when hen It be became be- be became became came a a. pioneer of the air mall mail ice There Is ie no elevator in Its three- three story building and time Ume was WM when the weary postman had to climb up two flights of stairs with N. N A A. A. A A mall mail But Dut that was a long time ago The association rigged up a 0 contraption by which it pulls up its mail mall box from the first floor loor empties It and sends it back down All the postman has to do is to ring a bell alongside the box The thing is operated o rated with pul pul- pulleys pulleys pulleys leys weights eights and ropes but who can cansay cansay cansay say it isn't air mall mail one discovers are auto auto- mobile Your correspondent cannot say offhand just what would happen to an nn ambassador who walked to another embassy to pay a B call but it probably would be something pretty horrible A diplomat on foot Is as rare as a II male member of the House of David In a beauty contest Suppose the Mexican ambassador Senor Dr Don Manuel desires to nay a personal or business call caU on Ambassador Martino in the Italian embassy directly across Sixteenth street Does he risk his diplomatic dignity waiting for a a. hole In the traffic to hoof his way across I Like heck he does He lie calls for his chaut- chaut chauffeur chauffeur sticks his tongue in his cheek and rides The Spanish embassy emb sy Is right next door to the Mexican and the i adjoin Do and Senor Dr Don Padilla the Spanish envoy walk alk the maximum 20 yards I which separate them No again And the same cause system goes poes for the closely adjoining Cuban Dutch French Lithuanian and Polish missions Another clus clu- ter is that of the Brazilian Argen Argen- Argentine Argentine tine and Guatemalan Guatemala's missions near DuPont Circle and the Sheridan Cir Cir- Circle Circle Cir Cir- cle dc group of the Rumanian Swedish and one or two others Several of ot the smaller legations are Bre in the Ward- Ward Wardman WArdman Wardman man Park hotel where the ministers cant can't use usa automobiles aut very verv well for their visits inside the hotel left a ireat eat deal undone last ast March but fortunately It pro pro- provided provIded vided sided for cockroach colder Most of the hc government buildings are not un un- unfit unfit un- un unfit fit to work in In but many of them are arc old and some are the ve to the roaches rOl ch Even the Inv me nc state war and navy building is not lot immune and visitors often otten observe the he white r in comers corners and along with the sight Ight of a roach with his heels turned up F. F Trubee Davison DaIson Assistant n. n s cre- cre lary tary of war for aeronautics tells a astorr astory story about Charles L. L Lawrence L the engineer who ho built the Wright motors used by silanes in in the recent trans transoceanic oceanic ocl flights Someone remarked to Lawrence that It was a darnel darned shame he wasn't get- get gettins' gettins Un tins tins' r roots more credit for the flights Hell I replied Lawr nc Who remembers the tho name of Paul Reveres Revere's horse |