Show Written for Wile Beyond the tho shadow shado of a doubt Americas America's woman unique is Mrs frs William Villiam P. P MacCracken en Jr JI wife of the assistant secretary of ot commerce commerce com corn merce for aeronautics She de declined declined de- de dined numerous invitations imitations to fl fly with Lindbergh Mrs MacCracken MacCracken Mac Mac- Cracken capitulated on December 10 and soared aloft in her husbands husband's husbands husband's hus bus bands band's official bus with Slim at atthe atthe atthe the controls but after she had persistently persistently persistently per per- refused since last June innumerable bids from the worlds world's most famous pilot Now she shek k knows lOWS all her qualms about flying flying flying fly fly- ing were so to speak trifles light as as air When Mrs MacCracken a fair daughter of Texas the former Sallie Lucile Luclle Lewis of Waco Vaco went up with Lindbergh her fellow passengers passengers passengers pas pas- were her mother her 4 year old son and Secretary MacCracken's MacCracken's MacCracken's Mac- Mac Cracken's father The youngster boohooed valiantly when the flight was over so Slim took him up again this time with the secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary and Speaker er Longworth i Progressive Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- The Democratic Republican Democratic alliance that barred Smith and Vare Yare from the senate put over overa a n. bit of strategy which the country country country coun coun- try at large hasn't generally grasped e It has wiped out in indefinitely indefinitely in- in definitely the Republican majority majorIty major major- It ity in the upper house The roll- roll call now Is Democrats 47 Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans 46 Labor Farmer 1 If the senate ha had finally rejected Smith Smiths and Vare the governors of Illinois and Pennsylvania could and would have appointed their re respective respective re- re successors But successors to Smith and Vare cant can't be appointed ap up- pointed because the latter haven't been kicked out out they're they're only standing aside pending tion Until their C cases are disposed disposed disposed dis dis- dis- dis posed of no Republican majority in the senate is possible except with the aid airl of Farmer- Farmer Labor and the vice presidents president's vote ote That state of affairs will endure until Jim Reeds Reed's committee committee com corn reports on Smith and Vare In in the sweet b bye e and b bye e S S Enter the season of weird po political political po- po prognostications The very velT newest thin thing under the sun in guessing and gassing circles Is IsI I that the G. G O. O P. P ticket in 1928 I will be Hoover and Hughes If a aI I westerner is nominated for president president I dent an easterner of ot course willbe will willbe be bc named at Kansas City as his running mate For sundry and divers reasons a spirited contest to be tied up with the Hoover boom Is already in lively undercover undercover undercover under under- cover progress Moses of New Hampshire Tilson of ot Connecticut Edge of New Jersey Blair lot of North Carolina and Wild Bill Donovan of New York Attorney General Sargents Sargent's right hand man are being honorably mentioned as possible on a Hoover ticket I Joseph W. W Tolbert Republican I national committeeman from South Carolina came to Washington for forthe forthe forthe the G. G O. O P. P powwow in his unfailing unfailing un un- un- un fallin failing garb garb I. I. I c. c without a n. neck neck- tie He lIe assures this observer a necktie Is a useless piece of ot property property property prop prop- erty and adds why h Ive I've never nc worn one Tolbert has left elt orders to be bo buried as he has lived lived Ho lie went to the White House dl diplomatic reception sh shy a cravat and in ordinary budness business bud busi ness clothes long clothes tailed long cutaway suit of ot grayish brown and nineteenth nineteenth nineteenth nine nine- century vintage The rhe only makes maltes sartorial concession Joe in ill the area is a stiff turndown white collar conal He lIe lives on a vast tract of ot ancestral cotton acres outside of Greensboro Greensboro Greensboro Greens Greens- boro S. S C. C where ts have dwelt since days and like all aU his progenitors he lie Is Isa isa isa a planter Once ho restored a revolutionary fort that stood on the family property As national committeeman from a n. Dixie Democrat Democrat Dem Dern- bossed state Tolbert is Republican Re Re- publican patronage czar of the palmetto pal pal- metto countr country P 5 C You just cant can't keep In Indiana lana down downIn In Washington ton Not satisfied with 4 the postmaster generalship the sec seC- to the president the to the vice president the of ot the senate the chairmanship of major committees in both houses and the presidency of the National Press club to mention mention mention men men- tion only a handful of Hoosier honors hon hoji- ors no comes an Indianan and gobbles up the chairmanship of the press galleries of or congress That blue ribbon of ot Washington journalism journalism journalism jour jour- has just been awarded b by his confreres to Mark Thistle Thistle- waite walte of the Indianapolis News 1 left for fora a while to be Tom Marshalls Marshall's private secretary Later he ed edited edited edited ed- ed Marshalls Marshall's brilliant memoirs A fair Hoosier in high place at the capitol is Mrs Martha R. R Gold astute as astute astute as- as tute secretary to Senator Moses president pro tern of the senate C S SAre Are Arc you rou busy this session an an associate justice of the supreme court was asked the other da day Were Vere a always s 's bus busy the tho jurist smilingly replied and explained Not many know that eve every ever case argued before fore us is studied and decided b by each member of the bench just as If the decision of ot the court depended upon his individual individual indi indi- vidual verdict Not ot until the bench h meets in conference is it determined who shall write the majority or or If it an any the dissent dissenting dissenting ing opinion No school child in inthe inthe inthe the land has an anything thing on on the su supreme supreme su- su preme court in the wa way of home homework homework homework work About 1 50 0 per cent of ot the judges' judges labor is performed in the supposed privacy of their dwelling places Some of the slower Working working work work- ing judges plod all summer to keep abreast breast of ot the docket Cop Copyright rIght 1927 A |