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Show EN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By R. T. S. Sght. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. 1 H1NGTON, July 8 By far th ry that has emanated from riny numerous European confer-f confer-f the last few years has juat town. In more than one ro-is ro-is what (ho English would call less story. The tale Is going tnds of the continent and Is I for by a traveler Just return-ms return-ms It waa the last day at Genoa leaders Of the British. French, l and Russian delegations ivinj supper together When d waiter brought the bills. Mr. leorge took a sovereign out of itcoat pocket and put It on th rhe waiter bowed respectfully. Brthou followed with a fifty ote. Tho waiter bowed, but c so rcspecifull gchobor the Austrian, took pockotbook, a strange docu-rvered docu-rvered ith signatures and rvWf tnat !1 r,irck " asked 'he waiter . Some h.i ul e in II glfo," replied Herr Schober, it is a SMfpf lading "A wagon full o( kro- is :;t tin- ."-.ation for you." Ot Ac waiter, In the regular order led to T hitr-herin the soviet leader or I non habini 1 v threw a little parcel the t:U-le. It gave a metallic k. ' Some church Jewels. I sup-I sup-I 1m," murmured the waiter. BNot c.w II;. ." ald Tchitcherin . lut a stvrotv pe plate for thousand notes. Print :s many a you pjnd, with a sublime sweep of the Dm the bolshevist left the table. JMr I Du Resident Harding's statement in his tch at Marion that the federal pro- iHon law miisl be enforced no mal- -...irbat ihf cuvt wa.s received in 01 pilngton r.-i'h a great deal of sat-ktlo sat-ktlo ' t government officials, ea-i ea-i AJali 11" connected with the law AHrccm'n branch 1, is realized that UKJmc aeui Si,.' i.i ii, ; t asslsl If prohlbl- ' jryia reall; i me effective and i-1 no "sore; im'fhod of arouslns F sentiment than through uttcr-S-of the chief executive Iff As of ivj rt .) 1 1 ai. this time to dis-Kbe dis-Kbe wisdom or lack of wisdom of I Jjflbrohlbition amendment and the ' itead act. 'I lu- fact remains that . ujarc the lav. of tn- u cl md when 1JJ lav- ii nermitteil to fall into fcjjcct. ab lawn go by the board. s" fis Is pariicularlv true of a federal ' I Time was In this country when Hneral law and federal officers iflflfje feared e' en as the avenging angel lCCHtared J. v.ar- ill ' ry well to take tok'.n lib. --ties w'.-.h the city or state a X but tmdltlon had It that once M1edci .1 machinery that would iefc out and gf. )ou no matter how "'"w years w. re r. quired In tho pro-Q pro-Q jof getting The federal court and ' federal grand jury were regarded tFi res(i -. i burd.-rlng on awe by even "fcost hardened criminal. Uftabllltv of the t.-deral government DCTSiforc- the prohibition law in all its has broken down a sreat deal e former respect for federal law jmvernment idfich.ls. all judges ffolt It President Harding agrees at he government nmnot fail It Viultc true that task of enforcing a "'Krhlch nnki s a nminal of a man gwir merely continues to follow the jits of a life-'lnie. a law h: h .'avs 'pan act may be entirely legal one '"fcnd wholly criminal tho next. Is ' host difficult ever fnced by any . Snment a toak which In the last Hgygls, requires pr Ing into nenrl ' ty man's home But the task I--' mB: Congress placed it on the fed-t fed-t i -government and it is now up to apresH to provide the government i5l the nccessan. means of enforcing pmcone has estimated that In order afore? the Volstead law to the last muIst would require nn arm of 500,-lwjfcrohlbltlon 500,-lwjfcrohlbltlon agents at an unnual jgjjof a bllloai d -l Iil . That may or 7r not ti ie hut if it Is true it 1? 5J to congress to provide the funds. Iwfceral Ikw should not bo allowed jecome a thing of ontempt Th'j .prohfbltion officials feel they are mak-Ink mak-Ink steady headway against the professional pro-fessional liquor traffickers with the mesns at their command, but private violations of the law nre going on a pace. Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont has been reported re-ported as having stipulated when sho donated the money for the new headquarters head-quarters of the national women s party par-ty up near the eapltol, known as the "watch tower on the hill" that no male should bo emploed about the place, "except In a menial capacity." Ouch! That is getting back at the sterner sex with a vengeance? But the question now has arisen as to what did the lady mean, menial? The big dictionaries sa that menial means servile, low. mean, sordid, degrading, de-grading, abject, cringing, fawning, obsequious and sycophantic Possibly there are ome other definitions but these seem quite enough. Then there Is the noun menial, meaning ' one em-ployed em-ployed In low or servile offices" Now then suppose the bathroom springs a leak In the "watch tower on tkA Kill II 1 AU.k. .J . U . I HiC lllll, lllll.-IL UH'3 III ' I 1 . i 1 . . ' III 111 J headquarters wait until they can locate lo-cate a lady plumber or mum they search until they can find a gentleman gentle-man plumber willing to sign an affidavit affi-davit that a plumber is menial. Suppose the roof needs repairing, whore, oh where can you find In all Washington a lady roofer. Likewise, where can you find a menial roofer Anyway, when one attains the roof h? ennnot be said to be occupying a "low I office " The only solution is that perhaps she regards all malea of the species u menlala and maybe Bhe's right. Who knows? At the British embassy here they arc I wondering Just what tort -of hash th average Englishman is going to mako 'of the new title of Lord French, at' one time commander-in-chief of the! British expeditionary forces In France Ixrd French has become the Earl of iVpres one of the few Englishmen to 'ehoose a foreign geographical location I for his earldom. Lord LJeatty became I Earl Beatty of the N'orth Sea and Irooksby because of his participation In the famous fight against the German Ger-man high seas fleot. Lord French waa jln command when the British made ! their gallant stand at Ypres, a salient in the line which was never given up To hold this bit of Belgium became a sentiment, symbolic with the British ! and while they lost henvily from the constant fire of the Germans who occupied oc-cupied high ground on three sides of the once beautiful little city. Ypres has never surrendered. But the pronunciation of Enri' French's title place is tho rub. Tho Belgian or French pronunciation is "Eop" 01 Eep-er ' or rather something In between the two. The British 'Tommies" couldn't stand for that sort of thing however so they called it "Wipers" and to a large share of the English male population pop-ulation "Wipers' it will always be. |