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Show AIT WASHINGTON, D C, Oct. 2 The hardest worked man in Washington is John Kramer, prohibition enforcement commissioner. His friends have observed ob-served that there are more lines In his lace than there were when he took bis present Job. lie has been working almost nigh; and da trying to put John Barlpy coin's shoulders to the mat since the Inception of prohibition. Then he has had upon him the grea' burden of constructing the Volstead act, in determining who could haw' permits to obtain rum for lawful pur-po pur-po i i1 it is telling upon bim The fellows he has to deal with are always worried, and he may have con traded his worries from them Still. Kramer has not lost his good disposition and he smiles through it all. Two newsboys staged a fighl in from of the White House on the sidewalk They put on a real bout. One of the White House coppers was just on the inside of the tall iron fence and couldn't get to them to part them. A tall, red faced Irishman, with rather rath-er a distinguished appearance, hap pened along and stopped to watch the scrap. "Separate them, ' the policeman j elled at the spectator. "Be jabbers let 'em go." replied the Irishman. 'Bejasses. every time I see two boys fighting. I feel a patriotic desire 10 hit somebody in the nose myself." my-self." When the boys decided nobod would separate thont. they became peeved al the crowd ihat was gathering gather-ing and shook hands. |