Show National Men and Affairs More British Propaganda Found in Washington White House Dinners Over Earlier and Earlier Question Q for Business Men Urging Economy in in Government By WILLIAM HARD Copyright 1927 Consolidated dated Press Association MORE MonE MORE British propaganda Our British naval visitors in Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington from the officers' officers quarters of ot the Cairo and Calcutta are cutting wide swaths swath in the hearts of our young ladles ladies doubtless under orders as Big Bill Thompson of ot Chicago you know from the tho British foreign office Why are they so charming Why be be- because because because cause their government tells them to do it for the enslavement of their hosts Among them to be bo the best writer of navy service stories that ever evec lived Nobody cares about his actual name Ills His pen name nam is Bart Almost Almot anyone anone of his extraordinarily charming books about the British navy nav will mako almost anybody almost it More propaganda put But he lie has hs strange ideas about amusements The fh other oth r night late lata ina In in is a heavy beavy rains a fleet fleet- fleetIng fleetIng ing figure in running shorts was observed outdistancing police police- policemen policemen policemen men along the otherwise vacant Washington streets It was Bar taking exercise and enjoying shore leave A United States senator stood on the he steps of the White House at about a quarter Qua ter to nine in the evening He la had dined with the president So had numerous other persons who were standing with him on the steps The dinner had begun at about 7 It had hal been con con- concluded eluded at about 8 The president had smoked with the tho men guests for perhaps 20 minutes lie He and they had then rejoined the ladles ladies and had talked with them for about 20 O minutes more Then the president arose and tho the festive occasion was at an end ends All the guests found themselves on the steps outside with all the real ex ox- extent tent of a Washington W evening still before them and their great White house event all over o The senator looked into the empty empt dark and said Ever EYer since I began dining at the White House under this ad ad- administration administration ministration I have ordered my car earlier and earlier every time Ume and anti I hue hare never yet got It ordered early e ly enough once Mr r. Coolidge starts his working hard for the country by sleep sleep- ing log hard hanl for it A visitor lost Jost his eye ee glasses In Herbert Hoovers Hoover's house No 1 effort to recover them was availing Day after day clay servants re re- retrieved a pair of ot eye glasses in one spot and a pair Dalr of or eye glasses in another spot and showed them to the visitor Each one was wrong The problem seemed unsolvable Then it happened to be reported to the master mind that mind that is Is to Mr Ir Hoover himself Sol Sol- Solomon omon could not have been simpler or more majestic as a problem solver soher Bring Dring said Mr Sir Hoover er not the eye glasses that you ou think belong to this gentleman but go through the whole house from top to bottom and bring all the eye ere glasses that the house contains Presently a huge tray of eye eyo glasses was presented to the visitor and he be picked his own out and was solaced The magical adminis adminis- administrative of Mr Hoover Hoofer Is largely y simply thit God gave gaye him a positively ely undue share of just plain ordinary sense Isn't it time for our great business men to show as much sense about economy in government as they show about economy e onomy in their private businesses The Tho budget hearings and proceedings for de de- determIning de- de determining the sums of money to be requested for the operations of ot our state department are now going on In tho the state department there is an officer called a solicitor The state slate department deD sails our country through the international seas It sails us toward peace Dence or toward war A large part of its equipment in so doing is international law Jaw The solicitor of the tho state department is 19 in charge of the whole legal side of our international destiny He lie is' is what might be called general counsel for the business of the United States of America In iu the world What Is his Isis salary It is six thousand dollars a year Our I great business men applaud economy la in 1 government and demand every last possible cent of tax reduction Suppose that one of them was hiring a general counsel to provide the law w for the destiny of a private ato corporation of the first rank Would he ho fix fir the salary for that post at six thousand dollars a year And Aud if it ho he did would he call it economy Or would ho lie call it sheer unutterable able The United States chamber of commerce which wants so 60 much tax reduction would be well occupied it If it would look Jook through out government and make a report on the numerous spots in it where alleged economy econom and actual ultimate foolishness and are combined |