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Show MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By R. T. S. (Copyright. 1922, by The. Standard-Examlner Standard-Examlner WASITTNGT n. Sept . 1 Vies President Coolldge's unpleasant experience exper-ience at tho Minnesota etatc fair the pMt week when he was compelled to stop speaking because of the unruly conduct of the vast crowd In the race track grandstand points anew the in-, COnslderateneu Of fair managers in bringing distinguished public men to occasions of thai sort The vice president's pres-ident's experience was not a new one. by nnv means, not even at the Mln-nesotn Mln-nesotn fair. th.-r public men havo Buffered the same fate. During the presidential campaign in 1 920 both Governor Cox and Senator Sena-tor Harding spoke at the Minnesota fair. Other public men have suffered the same fate. During the presidential campaign 01 1 920 both Governor I ox and Senator Hardlngepolce at the Minnesota state fair and both were interrupted many times by the hub-bub and restlessness of the great crowds. It Is particularly- unfortunate that the fair management manage-ment should put Its public speaker before the grandstand crowd just prl- Inr to l no siari m immiims " er track sports It Is foolish to suppose sup-pose that fair crowds go to the grounds to hear Speeches. They go to st-o all the sights They like to see me ma public men, much as they like to see the prise bull But having seen the celebrity, they do not care to listen tc long Speeches. This has bee n demonstrated dem-onstrated time and time and again. At the Minnesota fair grounds all I ports of amusements are provided for I the crowd in th grandstand, While I the speakers arc endeavoring to make I themselves heard tho performers are I gathering on the track Clowns ap- I ipear. tight ropes are stretched acro- I batic apparatus is adjusted and there I lb all the ferment and excitement of I the coming circus. In such clrcum- I stances it is only reasonable that I crowd of men. women and children I phould grow restless and trj to change the set program so that the real fun v.111 begin. Governor Cox got awsfi with hi experience ex-perience at the fair in 1920 by hopping hop-ping from the speaker's stand into a sulky on tho fair giounds and spinning spin-ning n mile around the track In the best gentleman driver fashion The. crowd cheered that stunt to the echo. Senator Harding appeared at the fair two or three days later in none I too amiable a frame of mind, it may br stated, for his experience of an invitation in-vitation to speak had been conditioned on the agreement that the Democratic candidate would not also be invited. M'ter this acceptance through some oversight. Governor Cox was Invited and appeared Hrsl Only the strongest strong-est appeals Induced Mr. Harding to ,koep tho engagement Washington Is very much interested an the word -which comes from Japan that that country is not taking up military mil-itary or anv other sort of aviation vlth what might be called gusto Virtually Vir-tually all of the British officers sent out to Japan to instruct mllitar aviators avi-ators havo now departed for home, itaklng with them the conviction that ,Japan never will be a flying nation. ;Thls Is an Important piece of news, for with the limitation of naval nrma-irnent nrma-irnent and the reduction of standing! armies It has been recognized byi (most of the powers that the next war Jin the world will be. large! a eom-bat eom-bat between aerial forces with the inevitable in-evitable bomblnc of cities with dead-. ly explosive and poison gas. Tho reason given for the Japanese backwardness in aviation Is simply rthat the natives of the flowery kingdom king-dom preferred the ground to the air. They hove no taste for flying. Death ihiy no terror for the ordinurih fatalistic fatal-istic Japanese and suicide is a favor-dte favor-dte form of departure from life Into tthe hereafter Hut the Japanese likes to he deliberate In his death. He doesn t care to drop out of a cloud. It all reminds one of the story of old BUI Hurley, now of the state department, de-partment, used to tell during the war of a "cullud" soldier In his native south This particular colored gentleman gentle-man did not care much for the artillery, ar-tillery, or In the infantry, so someone suggested aviation to him. "No suh boss." ho opined with a H shake of tho head. 'How come, no suh boss," he was. asked. "Well." he ruminated, "you all done heard of a ex-presldent and a cx-sena- tor and a ex-governor, but who In thoi name of Gawd ever heard of a ex-avlator?" ex-avlator?" Former state Senator "Bob" O'Brien of Cincinnati, who arrived from Eu- i rope Thursday brought back with him an interesting story of how prohibition ( hit Iceland. Of course Senator Bob didn't know that prohibition had hit Ireland or he might have changed the ' curve of his northern Itinerary. An inveterate traveller, tho senator decld- 1 ed this year that he would visit tho 1 land of midnight sun, and then "do" Iceland ay a novelty. . , Fortunately he struck Iceland the, , day that the prohibition ban Was plied . ioose just a little It seems thm Ice- ' land adopted prohibition without thinking of the Immediate economic effect. The authorities had overlook-led overlook-led the fact that Spain won taking B very large perccntngo of the Icelandic fish pack each year, and In return was shipping largo quantities of port, sherry and other wines of tho country I Into the region of the far north So, when Iceland banned wine, Spain prompth banned fish. Spain felt she Ihad a little the better of this argument argu-ment for while wine Is something of a habit, salt fish la something else again There was a temporary Impasse but Senate. r O'Brien brings word that the ban has been lifted to the extent that so manv gallons of wine may be imported im-ported for so many tons of fiah exported. ex-ported. "All the thirsty Tceland boys havo gone fishing to beat the band," concluded con-cluded the senator The seriousness with which England Eng-land regards the situation at Constantinople Constan-tinople is evidenced by tho fact that she has dispatched Field Marshal Lord lslumer to take command of the defenses de-fenses of the city. Marshal Plumer once more will have as hla chief of Staff General Harrington, who served In that capacity during the long years ot the war when Plumer wa.sl n command com-mand of the British second army on the western front. Tho two men m ike m rare combination, and the Becloud Bec-loud army, under them, had a proud I record Generals Palmer and Harrington Har-rington conducted the famous British offensive against Mesalnes ridge in 1917 when 19 colossal mines, each containing contain-ing tons of explosives were set off at dawn directly ,nnder the German positions po-sitions The mining operations had gone on undetected for more than a ear Everywhere the Mesalnes offensive of-fensive was known as tho "most beau-'tlful beau-'tlful show of the war.' Goneral Plumer Plu-mer watched tho operations from ' Mount Kemmel. Xow be is going to I Constantinople to stop Mustapha Rental Re-ntal The general who is getting well r.long in cars now. must think It Is a great life If you don't weaken. |