Show VI WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS OBSERVATIONS'S By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE S 'S yBy By y- y FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE VILE Whether or not the president is playing politics and spiking Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic guns with his new tax rebate talk its it's the kind of ot language that mainly has built up the Coolidge myth the country over ovel People sometimes damn Mr 11 Coolidge with faint praise They deplore his un- un emotionalism They wish he were more like Teddy Roosevelt They rhey call him uninspiring But they end up by acclaiming CoolIdge's Coolidge's Cool- Cool Idge's safety and sanity and they always stress economy my and the tax reduction which It permits as the presidents president's chief claim to public favor or or So In the vernacular of the era he Is doing his stuff when he harps on the favorite chord in the Coolidge repertoire The nation nation- at large is Js not Interested in politics What does make male it sit up tip and take notice is anything that massages the pocket nerve In the right light direction direction tion That's what proposals of tax rebates rebate and tax refunds do Hence the front page and the limelight fOrthe for forthe forthe the president whenever he ne addresses him himself elf to those thoRe soothing subjects Henr Henry Cabot Lodge Jr grandson of at the late scholar in politics has r resumed his newspaper work worl in inV V Washington after his maiden venture yen ven ture In the field that gave his family fain fain- ily reno renown Lodge Jr organized for tOl the late senatorial campaign in Massachusetts the Republican Associates Associates As As- composed for the most I part of new voters and other young oung men with G. G O. O P. P leanings A few few- nights before election he tie made his first public speech sPeech before before the Middlesex Mid Mid- club in Boston Doston It was a clarion call to arms for the impendIng impending impend impend- ing lag fray tray The talk tall was modest and Incisive But It had an even more admirable quality it was as only five minutes in length If It br brevity Is the soul of success in politics Henry I IC C Cabot bot Lodge Jr should go far tar At present Journalism abs absorbs his en enthusiasms enthusiasms enthusiasms en- en alth although ugh there have ve been stories that he Is slated Elated f fOran for foran r ran an attractive e post in the foreign service with duty in the state dep department de de- p Senator George H. H Moses lo es Republican lican Hcan of ot New Hampshire referring to the fates that overtook Butler In Massachusetts and Wadsworth In New York calls himself the only spared monument on the Atlantic coast coart Moses doesn't think the United d States senate during the next year and a half will do much else than try to elect Itself Jointly and severally president in 1928 New Hampshire's Invincible favorite ta son reckons that there are no fewer I Ithan than ninety Republicans I and Democrats willing to do service as national standard bearers two years ears hence Frederick W. W Peabody of Ashburnham Ashburnham Ash- Ash burnham Mass who petitioned the president in July of this year to cancel cancel can can- cel the war debts Europe owes owe us I is now engaged in an effort to or organize organize or- or the country in favor oj of cars can To thousands of private addresses Mr 11 Is mailing a It pamphlet containing containing- ins Ills lett l' l to Mr lr Coolidge and some somo ot the the- fa ta fa comments It evoked e It Is iC 1 1 S V earnestly hoped says sars Mr Ir Peabody that those who s sympathize with the purpose of ot this pamphlet and who agree with me that nationwide organization for nationwide action is Imperative if substantial results are to be achieved will wilt send their names for tentative enrollment The 1111 he plan contemplates no fees or or dues and calls ca only for tor voluntary local cooperation Later a committee of ot otone one hundred or one thousand as nay may be deemed advisable will be formed There is little o of New England conservatism in the lurid rid titles which adorn the cover of Mr 11 Peabodys Peabody's preachment America Awake Awake it shrieks and then You are being sold be betrayed betrayed betrayed be- be dishonored Your great dead demand your vindication Your unborn mus must not be shamed Winter Inter dinner tables in Washington Washing Washing- ton the whispering gallery of the nation are aie bound to buzz when people people peo peo- pie begin talking about Revelry the latest novel purporting to deal with life lite at the capital Its author Samuel Hopkins Adams deals with men Women and events e familiar to to- to most persons who now live in Washington ashington for they purport to have to do with the years 1921 1922 and 1923 The publishers confidently confident confident- ly proclaim that readers will ivill have no difficulty in recognizing the real identities of oJ characters who Include a president of the United States cabinet officers and others who can be identified In the federal picture of oJ two or three tragic years ago Mr Ir Adams a romanticist romanticist romanticist roman roman- of ot renown has drawn liberally liberally liber lIber- ally upon his gifted imagination and not shrunk from makin making gossip serve freely and vividly vJ the purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses of ot fiction Louis D. D BrandeIs associate Justice justice justice Jus jus- tice of ot the supreme court enters the septuagenarian class on ono November No No- o oember ember vember 13 though in looks bearing and mental vigor no one ever takes him for a day more than SO CO O years ears of as age Mr Brandeis is now the second oldest man on the supreme court bench only Mr Holmes being his senior Chief Justice Taft Is u u. year ear younger oun er than Brandeis The year 1926 marks the tenth anniversary anniversary sary o of the tile latter's appointment to I the nations nation's tribunal of last r resort sort President Wilson named him an associate Justice on January Januar 28 8 1916 and then ensued the famous contest over o his confirmation which lasted Until the tile succeeding June Taft now BrandeIs' BrandeIs chief was in tn inthe inthe the forefront of the fight against him but five live years of intimate as association association association as- as have entirely obliterated the animosities of that acrimonious da day BrandeIs' BrandeIs appointment was widely hailed as that of an utra- utra radical Toda Today the tho lawyers of the country acclaim him as one of ot the keenest analytical minds that ever adorned the the- court One of the earliest rumors of the congressional season which sets In with the assembling of ot the senate In special s session is that a distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- member of the dge cabinet may shortly va vacate ate his port port- folio tollo He halls from tile the West Vest and andIs Is Is concerned mainly with W Western problems pr A Midwestern senator u i i I 1 1 t V t who fell by the wayside In the 1926 1928 primaries is Is' Is heralded as the successor suc sue cessor of the executive chief said to tu be hankerIng hankerIng- for private te life lite When Queen Marie of Rumania returns to Washington at the end of November vember capital society Is likely to have a n. chance to lo view and meet her het en masse if present plans I prove feasible her trotting globe majesty will grace a receiving line at a notable evening function in th the Pan American Union with the Ru Ih L lan minister as host I r |