Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 36

8 ’ President’s tinued From First Page.) diligence in finding the good in men was less known but, among his friends, regerded as much more “like Lar I used to notice that he was always getting jobs for certain not altogeiher prepossessing persons. I wondered why, and at length T drifted into finding out. These persons were persons whom Larry, as a United States Sccret Service agent, had put into the penitentiary, and he felt, upon their exit from it, that he had a special duty to try to siart them out toward a living, and a clean living. Some people react, out of dealings with crime, into cynicism. Larry seemed to react into a sort of firm moral buoyance. He would dive into the haunts of erime and then emerge as zerenely confident of the goodness of a kood world as if he had been engaged in some sweet and sanguine occupation, such as growing geraniums. Entered Secret Service. He had married a young lady of dis- tinguished artistic interesis and activ- ities, fond especially of singing, 2nd also capable of it: and he had already be- ccme one of our most industrious de- votees of domesticity. He had also got for himself a place in the Wisoonsin woods where his passion for fishing and tor hunting and for just being out- doors could be not only his passion but his increasing mode ot Jife. 1 then, s> many years ago, his tales of th Sccret. Service scemed to come from a very remote pasf He had entered the Secret Serviee throush the acquaintance of his father with William J. Burns. The Riche had lived in Harrisburg. Pa. Lawrence +as horn there. The family then soon had moved to Philadelphia. There, Then Lawrence v Burns noticed him. As head of th> United gtates Se cret’ Service, he puzzled by a case in Lancaster., Pa. The case involved the counterfeiting of United States tobacco revenue stamps. It also involved a to- bacco warchouse. This warehouse, in Lancaster, had a little window in it Somebody should enter it, at night, through the window. The window was too small for a man. A boy might get through it. Would Larry be the boy? He enthusiastically would. He was taken to Lancaster. There, to divert suspicion, he sold newspapers at the railway station. He also played ball along the side of the warehouse. also threw a ball through a pane in the little window. At length, after in deep darkness, he ap- nightfall, proached the window, thrust his hand [them the bill's true motives and true | through the broken pane, slipped the catch inside the window, opened the window and dropped himself into the | Hoover. in the food administration and | which is to result from the opening of | senting the possibilities of the Great Stiff deeper darkness within. He hap- pily encountered nothing within more darkness. Groping his through THE SUNDAY Mystery Man unlocked it to admit Mr. Burns and his associates, without noise and without notice. “Operator” at Age of 16. He did these things so adroitly and 50 coolly that in 1901. at the age of 186, | he was appointed a full-fledged Secret Service “operator.” Th violent ws of manhunt, of counter- feiters pursued, of counterfeiters cor- | ne of guns drawn, of \handcuffs snapped on the wrists of prisoner and captor. Along with them, from 1905 to 11908, came four Summers of instructive | President Theodore Rooseveli at Oyster Bay. In the next Summer—the Summer of 1908—at the e of 24—knowing rather more about me phases of the operation of the law an if he had been graduated from the arvard Law School—Mr. Richey re- signad from the Secret Service and went into business for himself. | He was prepared for a wide range of rofessional inquiries. While still in the Secret Service he had investigated. on bohalf of the Department of Justice the commercial details. for instance, of the activities of the “Beef Trust” and the financial details of the activities of large Chicago bankers. He was able even then, to deal not merely with crime, but with the manipulation and management of business. In the food administration with Mr Hoover he learned still more about busi- ness. In the Department of Commerce, when Mr. Hoofer assumed charge of it. he learncd again still more. He bore tho title simply of “Assistant to Mr. Hoover.” His reticence on things of moment, i ogreeable loguacity on things of indif- ference, enveloped his duties with ap- parent ‘mystery. The mystery. in de- tail exist. In broad generality it Mr. Richey was Mr. Hoover's uble man.” attendance upon ystem. Had a practice grown up in the steamboat inspection service of the De- partment of Commerce whereby inspec- tors took private personal fees for the dischage of their public functions? Mr. Richey was to explore it and correct. it Did the lighthouses of the Depart ment of Commerce along our coasts seem to be buying oil in disadvantage- ous containers and at excessive costs? Mr. Richey was to analyze the oppor- tunity for enocomy and to achieve it. Was a_committee of Congress seem- Explores Fee S He | ingly hostile to a Department of Com- | Sane Larry Richey! | merce bill? Mr. Richey was to make | the acquaintance of the members of the | committee to endeavor to explain to | consequences. | Eleven years of such efforts under Mr. in the Department of Commerce, gave he found the front door and 'cal people which, combined with his' canal. came for him a few juvenile, | former acquaintance among counter- feiters, minstrels, explorers, bankers. beef packers, grain traders, magazine muckrakers, newspaper editors, fisher- men, hunters, police captains, yeggmen. advertising agents, manafacturers, vachtsmen and repetitive voters at Chi- cago polling places, made him quite one of the best acquainted men in the roumry Richey Remained Normal. During the presidential campaign of 1928 Mr. Hoover kept him solidly sgated in the midst of the Republican national | committee. during hte presidential campaign con- sists of animated human pinwheels | throwing off flames of insanity at tem- | peramental and tempestuous tangents. | Mr. Richey came through that ordeal with the reputation, among all ob- servers, of having remained at all times | in full possession of his facuities. In & he stayed normal. More could hardly be said Thi: being in his senses. That is really the ultimate quality that weight every day now in the affairs of | Wa: ngton. He presides now, in the | executive wing of the White House, over | all of Mr. Hoover's general correspond- ence. He presides over all of Mr. Hoo- ver's executive wing business require- ments. He will doubtless also continue | to be Mr. Hoover's “trouble man” for | a multitude of difficult and delicate inquiries and negotiations. He cannot | but be successful, He is fortified now not only by the town's friendship, but by its profound mental and moral re- | spect. | A wholesome and sane body, a whole- some and sane heart, a wholesome and | sane mind, and, accorcingly, judgment, | udgment, judgment, every time sane nd sweet and sound: that is why Her- bert Hoover trusts Lawrence Richey. The fidelity between the two men is more than a fidelity. It is a mutual confidence in the search for what is | sensible and what is right. | One thing that seemed right to both of them was that Mr. Richey should buv, as he has bought. some 1500 acres of Maryland woodland. inclosing a good fishing stream. Some Rossips have thought that this was an indirect in- |trade routes traverse the heart of the ‘There are competent authorities who It was not. stream are | vestment by Mr. Hoover. The woodland and the wholly Mr. Richey's. There he can | sometimes reflect upon the little boy who dropped through the window in | the night_into the warehouse at Lan- | caster so long ago. There he can also | reflect, as he whips the stream. upon | | the vanity of his political advancement | | in Washington, whatever it may be. E | | | | Preparing for Lake Cargoes. Rochester is about to make an effort to secure some port improvements in | | order _to get its share of the business | | the Welland Canal improvement. The but | Mr. Richey, by, 1928, an acquaintance Canadians already are taking advan- way | among governmestal people and politi- | tage of possibilities afforded by the | “is a co-ordinating part of this whole | NN A Your choice of either Elgin or Waltham —Come early the supply is limited. One- 1 ORT NN Yoo We have succeeded in getting a limited supply of these extraor- dinary values for Monday. GET YOURS FOR $1.00 DOWN STST S T/ a E A WE ARVEY | velopment of power. Every national committee | velopment of the inland waterways have been repeaiedly expressed when | retary of Commerce he appeared before | of New York is chairman, and in a| national commitice, in & cRMPAIEN Year, | Lrovionaly n & speech. man has a genius fOF great consolidated transportation sys- | gives him a larger and 1arger he geclared. | nite program | of ‘most vital tion.” jweciall | N WATCHES s gs STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, MAY 1929—PART o Great Development of Waterways Expected to Initiate New Era in U. S. (Continued From First Page.) movement for the conversion of Amer- | ican rivers from a series of idle streams, | flowing unvexed by commerce to the sea, to a vast system of inland naviga- | tion routes, is flood control and the de- Views of President Hoover on the de- | s Sec- the House rivers and harbors commit- tee, of which Representative Dempsey hearing January 30, 1926, went into the subject in detail. At this hearing Mr. Hoover renewed suggestion which he had made “We should visualize our inland waterways as| ms rather than as disconnected in- te dividual river and canal improvements,” | He held that in view of the new eco- | nomic setting of the country, “this con- | ception would open and enlarge a defi- | o vaterway development mportance to the na- Stressed Mississippi System. Mr. Hoover emphasized especially the Mississippi and the Great Lakes sys- | tems. He pictured the Mississippi svs- | tem. between the Alleghenies and the Rocky Mountains. as one ‘“consolidated barge sysiem” with about 3,000 miles of main line in addition to thousand of miles of laterals. “That would comprise.” he said, “an east-west trunk line from Pittsburgh through Cairo to Kansas City, a dis- tance of 1,600 miles. and it would com- |prise a morth-south bound waterway |jantic, from St. Louis to Chicago, connecting at that point with the great L.lkesv] Both these main lines should some day | be deepened to nine feet. Most of this distance, except parts of the St. Louis- depth within five years. Both of these | nation.” | He described how improvement the laterals could reach to St. Pi and Minneapolis, to Omaha and to South Dakota points on the Missouri, | to the Tennessee and the Cumberland | as far as Chattanooga and Nashville, to the Arkansas as far as Little Rock, Galveston and Houston, he said, could be brought in by improvement of the intracoastal canal and so with other possible laterals. Thus a great con- solidated system of transportation by water would be provided. Cites Great Lakes System. He was quite as emphatic in pre- of aul Lakes. “The Great Lakes system,” he said, problem. The Lakes today are the 4 K /. = | in_the world.” | greatest inland transportation system | He held it was feasible to “make every lake port an ocean port, at least | by a 20-foot waterway.” He declared for the deepening of the connecting | link between the Great Lakes and the | sea so that ocean-going vessels can penetrate into the Lakes. | Mr. Hoover declared that by com- | pleting the waterways the cost of trans- portation on them would be still further relluced. | “Our partial experience amply dem- onstrates,” he said, “that economy can be made in water-borne trapsportation over these completed systems, compared to that of the railways, for certain types of bulk goods. And if we can| work it as a system with large equip- | ment equal to seasonal emergency and | diversify traffic, which only a consoli- | dated system can afford, these costs | can be further reduced.” He emphasized the fact that for cer- tain types of goods large savings could be effected by water transportation. He said calculations show that wheat ca be transported to seaboard from points on these systems at actual sav- ings of 5 to 9 cents a bushel. Favors St. Lawrence Route. President Hoover has many times cited the importance of an outlet to the sea from the Great Lakes. He is friendly to the St. Lawrence route, and it may be expected that in the next few years, if it is possible to effect satis- factory negotiations with the Canadian government, that Fro)ect will be under way. Secretary of War Good recently declared that the Nation was pro- foundly interested in the utilization of the St. Lawrence as a connecting link between the Great Lakes and the At- He was speaking with the au- thority of Mr. Hoover, Beyond doubt, the American people before many years will have an outlet from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. If they cannot get it by way of the St. | Kansas Ciiv section, can be given this |7awrence, they will have it by the all- | American route through New York. hold that the day is not far distant when both routes will be developed. ‘The Mississippi Valley Association, one of the strongest organizations in the country for promotion of water- ways, with Willlam R. Dawes of Chi- cago president and Lachlan Macleay of St. Louis secretary, illustrates by its American Ideas in India (Continued From Third Page) | that it is nobody's busmness what cus toms, religious or otherwise, exist in India and that he is perfectly willing to leave our customs alone, so why should we not let India's be? Other members of the Legislature have coased to be obstructionists since “Mother India” was published. I was told that after reading that book the | educated Indians were perfectly dum- founded, not because the bool: told | them any especial fact they did not know, but because it made them realize | for the first time that a large and im- portant section of the world's popula- tion thought they were not quite hu- man. British officials naturally are grateful to Miss Mayo for it; they say all her facts are true, and contend that it has done more good and will do more good than any single book written on India in recent years. As an American it was also interest- ing to discover what bearing, if any. the Philippines had on India. The Indian politicians follow closely the American treatment of the Philippines Since we have been repairing some of | that the old plecemeal system be o | | Primarily_concerned in the Mississippi | system, the association is urging a broad national program for the full utilization of the country's water re- Isources. and along with this the en- | couragement of the American merchant | marine. | | Shipment by Barge Tows. | As much as 30,000 tons of coal are | now carried down the Ohio River in| single tows. This is 24 train loads, or more than twice as much as the largest | Great Lakes freighters carry. Twenty thousand tons of merchandise, cotton, tobacco and other commodities have | | gone down the Mississippi River in one tow. and from 10,000 to 15,000 tons of | steel from Pittsburgh southward is no | unusual sight. Barge tows can handle larger shipments of freight under favor- able conditions than any other carriers in this country or elsewhere. ‘The transformation of the business of river and canal trafic from the packet service of the old days to serv- ice of the barge fleets, with their almost | limitless capacity, is a clear index to the potentialities of the country’s in- land waterways system, to the perfec- tion of which the Government is com- attitude the disposition with respect to waterway improvement. It is urging mitted. Furnish Your Bedroom So That It Invites Relaxation By Day as Well as Night BEDROOMS OF TODAY serve more of a purpose than a mere place to sleep at night. Smart folks, nowadays, include with their Bedroom Plenishings a Writing Desk to carry on personal correspondence, a luxurious Boudoir Chair for comfort in reading on those eve don’t care about dre and a delightfully upholstered Chaise Lounge for daytime relaxation. Let us serve you with artistic LIFETIME FURNITURE! The Services of our Decorators are Available to- You MAYER & CO. Seventh Street U There are many youngsr men here holding responsible” business positions and discharging their duties efficient- Iy under conditions far different from those at home. The consular repre- sontatives of the United States here are active and zealous in the safe- guarding of American interests and are on excellent terms with the British business element. If any one doubts if the British rule in India is to our advantage, a word with these Americans will soon dismiss such doubts. Indeed, the appearance of the people and the small parts of | that huge country which one traveler can see leaves one with no alternat:ve thought but that the British are dc.>g their very best with an enormously dip= ficult undertaking, and that, wheth®® the natives iike it or not, they ara, thanks to the British, healthier, richer and_ better fed than they otherwise would be. Without the British American enter- prise could not exist. Without the British a conflagration of such unbe- The American colony in India are |licvable magnitude would result as to worthy ~ representatives of America’s | dislocate the whole elaborate structure energy and her intelligent materialism. | of Western civilization. the damage done Filipinos, we have been unpopular with the native poli- tician in India. If we were ever to turn the Philip- pines loose, there might be an embar- rassing situation for the British. In- dian politicians would contend that the Filipinos were far inferior to them in intelligence, in strength and in size, and that yet they had been released, while they, the Indians, were not yel| masters of their own destinies. There would certainly be truth in their con- tention as far as the first part of it was concerned. There are races in In- dia having many qualities which we prize. There are few examinations | which white students can pass which | these Indians cannot pass with equal distinction. ‘ B | 1 FREDERICK % BALTIMORE In Any Direction Out of Washington —you will find beautiful scenery and attractive places where a good meal may be ob- tained as a feature of your trip. For a suggestion refer to “Where to Motor and Dine” column in today’s Automobile Section. FREDERICKSBURS S =T - nings when you just ssing for downstairs BetweenA D and E “. NIl URE