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Show MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By R. T. S. A. , , . i. I BY R. Ti S. (Copyright, 1922, by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) WASHINGTON, July 15 He has I been in Washington the past week 'the man who knows more of human foibles and frailties and troubles and Jov than any othor person under the sun. He is the man who opened all the mall in England during the war. 'He is old opened by tho censor" hlm-iself. hlm-iself. And a mighty fine man at that. If anyone had to open your letter to your wlfo, or your husband or your business associate or your sweetheart you would have voted unanimosly for Frank V. Worthington. Unquestionably there was no more difficult task in all the war to deal with than the postal censorship In England, but so well wag it handled by Mr. Worthington that when the Lnited States came into the war he was asked by ua to take over our censorship of all mail for continental Europe passing through England. That was the highest tribute which could be paid the British censor, for during the early years of the war there was much grumbling and discontent In this country over mail delays supposed to have been caused by the British OPEN BAG HERE AND THERE. Of course it is only in theory that Mr Worthington opened all the mall. And it was only in theory that an censor opened all the mall There wasn't time for that. It was necessary neces-sary most of the time to select a bag here and accept it as typical But take it from the writer, the British missed mighty few of them. The task of organizing the postal censorship was something enormous and It was here that the Worthington genius shone at its best. Oddly enough he j r ime all the way from South Africa' to London to do the Job. For years ho was one of tho native commissioners commis-sioners for northern Rhodesia. He soon headed for England when the wui broke out and became deputy chit f postal censor. Today he Is regarded re-garded as tho greatest authority on postal censorship in the world. He was one of the two Britishers sent for by President Wilson when tho latter was visiting the king at Buckingham palace pal-ace to be thanked for their invaluable invalu-able assistance to the I'nlted States government. GREAT FAVORITE. The other was Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, head of the British naval Intelligence In-telligence and, with all due respect, one of the wisest old birds who ever wore a uniform. What 'Blinker" Hall didn't know about what was go-nng go-nng on wasn't worth knowing. I ' Blinker was a great favorite with 'all the American correspondents who went to war. The uftemoons spent with I him at the admiralty over tea and I cigarcts were n real delight. Mr, Worthington accompanied by ' his wife passed through Washington Ion the last leg of a Journey around the world He saw Secretary Hughes while here and was entertained by some of the men attached to the Arnfirlcfin embassy In London during tho war As a reward for his worlcl In tho censorship the British gayo Mr. Wnrthinprton grant of 10,000 acres of valuable land in Uganda, E2ast Africa. Women, ficklo womon. Only la Jt neck It was pointed out in this Oolumn that Mrs O EL P, Belmont. In pro-j .opting s national headquarters for women In thin city stipulated thai no man should h? employed about the plaro except in a menial capacity. I Now' comes MJsa Alice Paul, always militant, and declares there is no occupation oc-cupation on the face of the earth too menial for womon. That is, she says there ousrht not be any calling too menial In othor words Miss Paul relieves re-lieves Instead of making laws forbidding forbid-ding women to partlcupate In certain classes of work there should be legislation legis-lation making all trades safe and decent de-cent flor women. It was so In Europe during the war, and to a largo extent in this country. One law forbids women to shine shoes, operate tazlcabs Miss Paul avows this Is all wrong. The National Women's party h.is ten womon lawyers working In the library of the United States supreme court making the first comprehensive report on the legal position of women in tho United S'.itea This Is no easy task. It is comparatively compara-tively easy to define woman's legal status under tho federal, la.vs, but each stole has its own particular ideas os to how women must bo regarded re-garded in the eyc of the law. What Miss Paul seems to resent is the idea thai laws should be pa 1 to prevent women from working i1 eorinin 'rides because mere man believes be-lieves these tradca to be sacred unto himself. It is admitted that most of these excludes trades may be regarded regard-ed as menial. A real 'old sleuth" In tho .L.o-t. ment of lustlce gave some of his friends ;i bit of advice a day or two ago Never hold the transmitter of the telephone fo your chest with the ideal that you can prevent the person at the other end of :ho line hearing what you are saying to a third party In the room with you." he said. "Many persons think that simply i.v pressing the phone to their chest they ;ire shutting off .nil possibility of her.K heard over tho line That Is not the case Fery word you say vibrates the chest and the words are carried over the Wire almost as plainly as If vou had Bald them In the mouthpiece Turn the transmitter In an opposite direction and whisper If you will or place the hand over It. but never hold It to the chest ' All those yearning for focrorv please ta k note I nn |
