| Show COL 1 ROOSEVElT WAS EXEMPLARY RY 1 JS IS CHURCHMAN Rarely Missed Morning j j r Service ervice While le Resident r r r- r of the White House I WAS DEVOTED TO rt OLD TRADITIONS t 11 c S F. F W W. Wile Discusses Men r and Affairs Prominently Prominent Prominent- r g t i ly Iy in n Eye of Public j I iI r By FREDERICK Ri i W. W WILE r W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 29 There 29 There 5 lt S h s never been a moro morn f fervent rv nt corn com com com- of Theodore Roosevelt's then the one held October 27 7 by Grace Reformed church r where he worshiped In Washing Washing- 1 on He lIP rarely ml missed sed a a. morning service lIe there president If for Ifor any reason he could not come b. b Tedd Teddy would send a note to his 1 pastor Dr John 1 M M. Schick and exI ex- ex I 1 plaIn the reason He lie came with I such promptness that folks re remarked remarked remarked re- re I marked they could set their watches by It SL Things would often occur to Roos Roosevelt velt in the midst of a a. servIce service service ser ser- vice an and he would whip out notebook notebook note note- I book and pencil and make record of ot It iL A fine tine portrait of the colonel colonel colo colo- nel painted at the close of the I New York governorship and Just lust before he became vice president was as presented by him to the congregation congregation con con- con I of Grace church and hangs In the social room Men Ien do donot donot donot not commonly associate a deep re religious religious religious re- re strain with ith T Rs strenuous strenuous strenuous ous character It was his custom to attend worship somewhere every Sunda Sunday If a Reformed congregation tion was within reach he would I join loin It Once he fie said I take a aI I sentimental satisfaction in worshipping worshipping wor wor- shipping in the church of ot my fa fathers fa- fa vor-I vor Three Other Young Senators Since Youn Young Bob La Toilettes Toilette's election it has been commonly re reported reported reported re- re ported that he Is the youngest man ever elected to the United States senate since Kentucky sent Henry HenryClay HenryClay CIa Clay In 1806 Clay at lit that time was 29 years 7 months and 7 days das Old But subsequently three s senators took their scats seats Who ho were younger than Clay at the time of entering the senate Armistead Thomson Mason of Virginia entered in 1816 aged 28 8 years rears 5 n months and 30 days Ellas Kent Kane of Illinois came to the senate In 1825 aged 28 years ears 8 months and 28 days Stephen Wallace Vallace Dorsey of ot Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas entered In 1873 aged 29 years and 7 days danl How Mason Kane and Dorsey managed to be seated before having attained the constitutional age ate of 30 nobody now extant on Capitol hill hili is able abe to explain In the case of ot Clay who was five months below 30 when he took the oath the legality of ot his act was challenged When asked from the floor to state his age Clay in what was to be his lIs maiden maHlen utterance in the senate replied I respectfully refer the senator to tomy tomy tomy my constituents It is s supposed that Mason Kane and and Dorsey Dorsey were seated without question because the need of ot the hour was for the best men regardless of age Mac MacVeagh V Prepares For New Duties Charles MacVeagh newly appoInted appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed American ambassador to Japan is completing his course of ot diplomatic sprouts at the state de department department de- de prior to sailing for Tokio on November 14 The course consists consists consists con con- of ot a thoroughgoing Inspection of ot the correspondence that has passed between the United States and a given countr country Mrs MacVeagh MacVeagh Mac Mac- will not cross the Pacific with her husband following following- him a fortnight later She had not In Intended Intended intended In- In tended to reach Japan until some sometime sometime sometime time early in 1926 but the court festivities and functions of ot the New Year in Japan are of unusual Importance and Mrs MacVeagh hastened her traveling plans ac cordingly The ambassador and his wife will wll be guests of ot honor at the dinner and reception to be given for tor Prince and Princess Asaka by bythe bythe bythe the Japan society in New York during the first days das of ot November Mr MacVeagh has never been In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Far East b but t is certain he wll will like it He goes to Japan with no I preconceptions formed from th the impressions of others being intent upon s seeing eing things with his' his own eyes hearing them with his own eat ears ear's 9 and reaching his own alons Dwight F. F Davis Famed for Tennis While Dwight F F. Davis President President President dent Coolidge's new secretary of war is famed in the world of tennis few pe people plo know v that he Is Isa isa a squash and squash racquet player of high rank Ever since he ho came cameto to Washington Davis has kept himself In trim on the squash courts Two winters ago he was frequently tre in action there as a competitor competitor com com- peUtor of Col Theodore Roosevelt former assistant secret secretary ry of ot tIre navy y Davis also represented his Washington club in inter-city inter team matches Recently Rece press of official offid d cial al duties has caused Secretary Da Davis vis to taper off on squash and othEr sports to which he is addict addict- ed He remarked at the time he determined to slow up Im Fm afraid athletes may get Into the ha habit halit of considering me a politician and politicians begin to look Jook upon me meas meas meas as an athlete Monitor Editor Visits Capital Willis J. J Abbott editor of the Christian Science Monitor was a visitor to Washington last week Among his other claims to distinction distinction tion is his resemblance mainly be because because be- be cause of his goatee to the allegorical cal likeness of ot Uncle Sam He lIe hadan hadan had hadan an appointment at his hotel to re receive receive re- re a call from a man whom Abbott Abbott Abbott Ab Ab- Ab- Ab bott lead had never seen before The mutual friend wh who J sent the stranger strang strang- er to the editor said that if the caller would stroll up to the firstman first firstman man In In- Inthe the lobby who looked like Uncle Sam Sun it t would be Abbott The appointment was duly kept Abbot Is not nearly so lanky or cadaverous ca cadaverous cadaverous ca- ca a person as as' as the the typical figure of Uncle Sam and his friends think he is immensely handsomer He is a Connecticut yankee but was educated and brought up Journalistically in n the west Sen Bruce Takes Side for Gov Smith Senator William Cabell Bruce D Democrat of ot Maryland has taken up the cudgels against the of Governor Al AI Smith for the presidency because of ot Smiths Smith's religion religion reli reli- gion Bruce Druce points out that the next highest office to that of presIdent president president dent Is the chief of ot the United States and recalls that two Catholics have filled that exalted position Roger position Roger B. B Taney and Edward Ed- Ed Ed Edward ward D. D White te Senator Bruce also records that the chief judgeship ot the Maryland l court of appeals has been held twice by able lawyers who were Cath Catholics Catholics Catholics-Alvey Alvey Alvey and McSherry Going the whole limit for Al AI Bruce says sas If theres there's no better reason for denying to Governor Smith the presidency than the fact that he is a a. Catholic he should be elected unanimously Smith May Not Run For I Governor Smiths Smith's coyness with regard to his immediate political future lends lends interest interest to the story reaching this observer from an authentic quarter It is Isto to the ef effect effect effect ef- ef that Smith has determined notto notto not notto to enter the race for the United States senators against the Republican Re Republican Republican Re- Re publican incumbent James W W. Wadsworth Jr in New York next year because of his deep friendship for Wadsworth They are Jim and Al AI to each other and have been ever ice sl they ther served to together together together to- to gether In the New York state legislature leg leg-j many ye years ago Wadsworth's Wadsworth's Wads- Wads worth's friends concede that Smith SmithIs Is the only Democrat who could seriously endanger the senator in 1926 |
