Show 1 I WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD I L CHIEF EVENTS OF THE WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD I J Guesswork Disaster Disaster Dawes Guesswork By Dy RLES P STEWART RT ART lo 2 EA BA Service n W r riter The ator story of o such tuch a storm ns as s siept ept the middle west last week eek hae ha ha e monopolized newspaper newspaper newspaper per space apace for tor days a dozen bears cars ago But this one outside the actual storm torm belt and its Ita Immediate vi 1 vicinity I was waa wa rather subordinated to accounts of ot the Palm Beach Deach fire was as as news nests the same samo da day Pictures ot of the fire appeared on page one of ot most eastern papers pictures of ot storm ruin Inside inide The only way of ot explaining this Is that the war took much of ot the horror out of ot flew news relating to lo loss s sot ot of life Even on a large scale It seems trifling compared with Ith what ev- ev everYbody ev everybody but the youngest can remember re remember member Tho The Palm Beach fire tiro was pic- pic picturesque pic plc picturesque and got the play ply e S QUEER Politicians keep whispering that there was as as something queer about the senates senate's rejection of or CharlesB Charles D 13 Warren arren as attorney general It will bo be b recalled that Warren arren would have been confirmed If It Vice President Dawes had been on hand to break the tho first tie vote Why wasn't he on hand He takIng a nap at his hotel Yes Yea but why was as he taking a nap at so critical a Il time It seems seem a as It if It was as as careless of him It also seems as It if It R as of the Republican senate managers Usually they have all their forces when a close ote ote Is ahead The patty Ill I'll I ty pretty W t h made ft It slip Just then S S S JU JUST T A GUISS GUI S SS Only a guess Is possible but there s some circumstantial e eI ei- ei eil I dence to base Lue that guess on Pres President ident Coolidge though a conserva- conserva conserva th Use e Is not much in a aith Ith the tho time old stand pat Republican lican leaders and has taken a good deal or of o their party authority aa aw from them As his senatorial trusties he haq ha haa a little group of ot new men not yet well ell trained In the parliamentary game Isn t It possible that the old old- timers old timers disgruntled at being sup sup- supplanted supplanted sup supplanted planted simply sat at back and let tIle the mismanage for the president Possibly ll it Its It's also significant that Charlea B Warren arren cast the only Michigan sole iota ote against Da Dawes Daes os for tor for Ice president at the Cleveland cons com V TE HIM 1 Further after aCter going throuGh Warren s a record with a fine tooth comb to find reasons for tor turning him down the tho senate ed John C Sargent for gen gen- general gen general eral Iral with lIh no Investigation at all Not that there was anything to bo be b foun found l out to his antage but he was as aa a cor- cor corporation corporation cor corporation law lawer er which was all an- an an- an body ani-body body ever evor charged against War War- Warren Warren ren renSo So the politicians Impression try ery generally is that the tho old old line old line Republicans were trying to teach the president how to take a Joke IROnI President Coolidge admit admits that prohibition cant can't be bo made e In communities which prefer to be bet t et That I Is to say he be said federal agents cat ca t liquor re- re re retailing tailing tailing-It tailing It must be he I loft left rt to state and city officials to doHe doHe do doHe He argues argul'S that the federal ag- ag ag agents ente Job Is to prevent smuggling and Illegal withdrawals from gov gov- government gov- gov government warehouses but that there cant can't possibly bo be enough ot of them to stop small quantity sale sales that's that's a task for tor sheriffs and policemen And ever body knows kovs s they won wont won't attend to It if It the people they ll among don tant t want ant them to |