Show WASHINGTON MASHINGTON O OJ Written 5 for IA dOF q 1 I l a tL fly j William The presidents president's New ew York address at the United l Press association dinner dinner dinner din din- ner fulfilled the predictions that Mr l would wouL be be apt to to seize the occasion to restate restate his his policies in with Mexico Nicaragua a and China He He Indulged in no platitudes His Ills words were specific and pointed He lie Insists that Mexico Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico keep its promise to respect American property rights Marines farmes are in to perform a 1 po policeman's 10 o- o duty in protecting American American American Amer Amer- ican lives and property and for no other purpose The marines are are in China on a a- a similar a-similar mission The president voiced emphatic disavow disavowal disavowal dis dis- avow avowal l of ot any policy of aggression against China offered He-offered offered a tion of the pleas of Borah and other senators for resort to arbitration with Mexico This Coolidge Coo speech marks a high spot In his administration administration administration adminis adminis- to date It It is significant nt also In it again reveals the president as his own spokesman in matters of foreign policy Often in times p past st American secretaries of ot sta state te ba have ve framed foreign policies and the world has looked to them r rather ther than to the president for light on them Not so with Woodrow Woodrow Wood Wood- row Wilson Tilson and n not t so with Mr fr Coolidge Since the departure from the cabinet of of- Secretary Hughes the president has taken the reins Into his own hands It is no secret that he is keenly engrossed in to American foreign problems and has never relished the criticism that he had neither knowledge nor Interest in affairs beyond our our own borders Secretary Kellogg has been matte mall I clearly to understand that it Is Coolidge policies and not Kellogg policies which h the country is in interested interested interested in- in In hearing about and that the president will do do- dohe the he talking I I when any talk talking is is to be done There are are- plenty of women postmistresses postmistresses postmistresses post post- mistresses but only one woman regularly enrolled as letter carrier in the employ of Uncle Sam at pr pres pres- s- s ent She is Miss Jessie TessIe McCaa of Franklinville N. N Y X a holdover from the World war when she was madean made madean an emergency carrier durler She did her work so sp well that the post office department was prevailed upon to tomake tomake tomake make a special ruling in her hel cal ca case and she was appointed a permanent i carrier at a salary of 1700 Now she Is drawing the maximum carriers carrier's carriers carrier's carriers carrier's car car- rier's pay of 2100 The post office department has has- been repeatedly urged to to quality qualify as carriers far has kept the bars up oj Political Washington has been heen greatly diverted but the conservative conserva- conserva tive live drys much disturbed over ovel the amazing charge b by Dr Dl Clarence Clarenc True Wilson Vilson that Frank W W. Stearns the the original Coolidge champion isa is isa a minister influence behind the president l hostile to prohibition Dr Wilson is iR secretary of the Methodist board of temperance and made his allusions to Mr 1 Stearns in in the course of a speech in Boston last week Wayne B. B Wheeler and other notable dry chieftains branded brand brand- ed Dr Wilsons Wilson's charge as wholly unwarranted This incident has served to again emphasize how strongly in the they public mind is the notion that because Mr 11 Stearns enjoys an exceptional per- per friendship with the president and because he figured so prominently prominently prominently In the chain of circumstances circumstances circum circum- i stances which projected Mr Coolidge Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- idge into national prominence and place the Boston merchant is a person of large influence at the White House Nothing could be further from the the truth The fact is that Mr Stearns rarely talks and Cool Cool- never asks a favor of Mt 11 idge He is neither confidant nor adviser Just a family friend beloved beloved beloved be be- loved b by the president because he minds his own business which is is neither politics nor government t. t Cabinet officers come and cabinet cabInet cabinet cab cab- inet officers go b but t E ward Edward Augustine Augustine Augustine Au Au- gustine Savoy the 72 year old earold colored messenger to the secretary of state goes on forever At least he pc has been on the Job at the state department for Cor fifty eight ift years with no of sIgn retiring now For three decades he has been a familiar fa familiar fa- fa r figure at his post post post Eddle Eddie to two dozen se secretaries of state He lIe has been the subject of countless anecdotes He is in the news once more because again a special order has been Issued extending for an another another another an- an other two years his exemption from the age retirement rule 4 Tucked awa away Inconspicuously cJ in inthe inthe the an announcement co concerning neW V hearings before the interstate commerce commerce commerce com com- merce commission on the new v new application application ap application ap ap- of the Va Yan i Interests In- In embodying a revised plan plan for a rail ran merger merger wa was the interesting interest interest- Int interesting resting rest rest- ing Information that Charles Charles Charles' C McChord former chairman of the commission will be the chief counsel counsel coun coun- sel for the Van Mr McChord after sixteen years' years ser ser-r servIce service ser ser- vice on the commission ion resigned a a. a year ago to enter private law practice practice practice tice It was was said aid then that his services services ser ser- er- er vices would be in great demand a as asa asa a counselor to ran railroads oads in matters affecting their relations with the commission especially prospective rail consolidations which must obtain obtain ob ob- tain tarn the commissions commission's approval The Van were turned down on their previous merger ap ap- ap- ap Their new chief f counsel w wits ws s then sitting as a Judge of their case though he resigned from the commission before the adverse de decision decision de- de cislon was handed do down down- lt It t is a tradition of the law that no Judge may participate in the decision ofa ot of ota ota a case In hi Which h he had a hand be- be for his appointment to the bench But there is no rule against the converse converse of the proposition which is S exemplified in the present in instance instance instance in- in stance that a judge may resign and then appear before his own own court as counsel for one of the lI litigants gants The capital capita Is this w week ek h having an opportunity to see a demonstration tion of the new models mode of television the the invention which p permits persons persons persons per per- sons who are telephoning the image of their faraway vis a The annual meeting of the National Academy of Science is the occasion of the Washington television demonstration demonstration demonstration dem dem- which was staged by Dr Frank Prank B B. Jewett and Dr Herbert E E. Ives of the Bell Telephone laboratorIes laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories in New York Twenty-one Twenty advancements advancements' and developments in inthe inthe the scientific world during the past year ear were reported to the meeting including transmission of pictures by telephone on a commercial scale and transoceanic telephony a The daily dally conference of the newspaper men Senator Borah at the senators senator's office at 3 p. p m m. m is something unique In the poll political history of Washington The senator senator senator sen sen- ator sits at his desk and his his' his callers ers pop questions on any subject under the sun Borah has always been beena a good news source and Washington Washing Washing- ton correspondents are ever re resorting resorting resorting re- re sorting to him for Information It took so much time to talk to them separately that he adopted the White e House p plan pan an of ol talking to them collectively and at an appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed hour His Ills conferences are not so well attended as the ones at atI atthe atthe the White House but are three times Umes as frequent I 1927 Copyright |