Show I Coolidge Offered Backing If lie Ic Will Enter Presidential Picture V WASHINGTON By Paul Paull laUon Mallon Mr Coolidge has received an offer of ot unlimited financial backing i if he will get into the presidential picture It was made within the past seven days New York sources were behind behind behind be be- hind it The understanding here is that it will vill shortly be declined with thanks That answer has been given to several sev cral eral similar offers made weeks ago 0 9 The New Englanders Englander's lieutenant William M. M Bulter has the Republican can national chairmanship under consideration He has been quietly sounded out on the subject by someone someone some one with authority to speak for the administration His answer Is ex cx- peeled shortly The indications arc he will refuse reluctantly His textile business needs the ability he has built into its management He probably could no not nol t spare six months away from horn it o 0 0 Old line Une politicians claim it is story book politics to try to line up the Coolidge wing through Butler They point out that Butler was defeated his hi first time out in a Massachusetts senatorial contest Also that his reputation as national chairman was built up when he had bad in the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House probably the ablest politician who ever sat there 0 II The Thc chairmanship may go begging unless Walter WaIter Brown is again persuaded per persuaded to accept He has be been en in and out of It Jt twice in the last three months Both he and his family like Uke his present post post- If he accepts again it will be with the understanding that he can return to the cabinet after aHer the campaign c- c 00 0 The nonpartisan detached eye o of f Sir William Lewis Washington correspondent correspondent cor respondent of the London Times summed up our political situation in ina a dispatch to his paper stating It n looks like the Democrats are arc certain to win vin unless they demonstrate demonstrate demon strate again their marked ability to snatch certain defeat from the very jaws of victory Washington quivered when it heard the Pulitzer play prize went to Of O f Thee I Sing It is a schoolboy bur lesque of statesmen The hero is a chorus boy character lampooning th the e vico president in a way that could h b be done only by Alley llcy Th The b big g scene is the supreme court in robes and md whiskers three feet teet long doing a tap dance and running through football sl signals aIs The award jur jury called it an accurate satire on Wash Wash- ington They should come down here and see something really funny i 5 0 c Nitrate Imports were tons tonsa a month in the peak of prosperity They were less than tons the last two months Our synthetic industry Is taking care of oC domestic needs Chile suffers Nearly all Republicans will no now privately tell you there is certain t to be a plank in the plat plat- form No one will hazard a guess uess on how it will be worded am and that will wUl mean everything Imagine the embarrassment of Mi Mr r Hoovers Hoover's driest secretary Walter Walte Newton He is a delegate a at largo large from Minnesota urged by hi his state convention to vote for a r resubmission resubmIssion b- b mission plank He thinks It wilnot will wil not bind him |