| Show ii for 7 riu Fx Wile Uncle Sam has just annexed forty acres of Nicaragua Its peaceful conquest was accomplished pushed through deed of at purchase by Representative Stephen G. G Porter Porter Por- Por ter of Pennsylvania chairman ot of the foreign aff irs committee of the house Mr Porter spent several sev- sev eral weeks during the summer In America in his capa capacity ity as chairman ot of the joint cabinet cabinet- congressional commission on buildings His purpose was to look Into the housing needs ot of American diplomatic and consular officers in Guatemala Honduras S t F. F Costa Rica Panama NicaragUa Nicaragua Nic- Nic aragUa and 1 Mexico Except in Salvador Salvador Sal Sal- vador and Mexico the United States owns no official property in Central America CongreSS has appropriated funds for the purchase purchase pur- pur chase ot of land and ot of buildings At Managua capital of Representative Porter picked out a picturesque knoll selected selected se- se because of its ftp altitude and corresponding freed freedom m from mosquitoes mos mos- and other pests Indigenous s sto to the region Upon it soon will rise the finest building in Nicaragua Nicara- Nicara gua S Mrs Coolidge brought back to Washington a new piece of slang she picked up at Rapid City the theother theother other day The first lady was guest of honor at a big tea party given by the of the Black Hills metropolis One of the women apologizing for being late explained ex- ex to Mrs Coolidge that her car had been stuck in the gumbo just outside of at town I never heard mud called gumbo before the mistress of the White House said In the east gumbo is what we put in soup The South Dakota lady rejoined Well gumbo is what puts us w western automobilists in the soup when it rains S Wayne Vayne B. B Wheeler stories are likely to be told for many a day Friends of the fallen prohibition generalissimo in Washington recall how Mark Hanna once in the late lato nineties tried to discourage Wheeler from froni thinking America could over ever be put on the water water- wagon Young man the Ohio G. G O. O P. P boss said your jour kind of people peo- peo pie are are all right at a a. prayer meetIng meeting meet meet- ing but they're no good at a cau- cau cus Wheeler W V ll sir w ll see A few few weeks later the H nna candidate for the Ohio state states s senate nate was defeated through the efforts of the league e. e Har Harking ln back back to the the episode many years Yeara later Wheeler said From that tim time on we never had hacI any trouble with Senator Hanna Tr Transfer of the of the Third army corps from Balti more more to Philadelphia delphia is u under der con con- at al the war var department nt No decision has been reached but the r removal moval may be ordered before before be- be fore many months are past The army Js is camping out ul upon on rent rented d premises premise Baltimore and economy econ econ- omy r reasons hav suggested a a. a Philadelphia headquarters for tor the Third area because the war department department de- de ha has spare spare space in its on n the Delaware If the corps corps' offices s are pitch pitched d in PhiladelPhia therell there'll go with them one of the city's f famous society beauties Mrs Douglas MacArthur I wife of the brilliant young major general who the T Third are area Sh is the former Washington Washing Washing- ton hostess and belle belie Mrs Cromwell Cromwell Crom- Crom well Brooks daughter of Mr Mrs E. E T. T Stotesbury S Four prominent gov government of- of F. F Davis secretary of war Admiral E. E W. W Eberle chief of naval operations P. P Butler Wright minister to Hungary and Nelson A. A Crawford of information information in- in formation at the department of ag- ag are associate aUthors among others of An Outline of Careers Edited by Edward L. L Bernays well known authority rity on L' L p relations the book I J a practical guide to achieve achieve- I ment for young men and women perturbed over ot of a career Davis Eberle Wright and Crawford paint graphic pictures ot of the opportunities respectively or of the army navy foreign service and farming John Hays Hammond eulogizes eu eu- engineering which he has hasso so long adorned Mary Roberts Rinehart boosts literature Dr Vernon B. B Kellogg acclaims science and research Roy VT V Howard speaks up for journalism and George H H. Doran portrays publishing publish publish- ing CI C I S S Just befi before re going to Chicago for forthe the Vare- Vare Vare Pennsylvania senatorial sea sen- atonal contest hearing on September Septem ber 7 7 Senator Jim Reed opened his campaign for foi forthe the Democratic presidential nomi- nomi nation He chose historic ground for the purpose purpose-Osawatomie Kan It was in that town that John JohnBrown JohnBrown Brown abandoned his crusading activities activities ac- ac on the eve of the Civil war In Osawatomie too Theodore Roosevelt in September 1911 launched his first thunderbolts against the old guard followed a year later by the Bull Moose revolt Reed fired the enthusiasm of men and women at the annual picnic pie pie- nic of the Kansas Farmers Farmers' union He paid his respects to his ancient foe Herbert Hoover with some familiar fa- fa references to the latter's treatment of the farmers during the war but the Missourian forgot himself long enough to bestow praise upon Woodrow Wilson Reed acClaimed the war presidents president's services ser ser- vices In connection with the federal fed fed- oral eral reserve act S S S Another bring out the vote movement has been launched Its It's sponsored b by the National Association tion of Manufacturers The president president dent of the organization John E. E Edgerton Edgert n estimates that 60 men and women wm will b be qualified to vote for president in 1928 It Is the ambition of at the association to induce at least 60 p per i c cent nt ot of that number to go goto to the polls next year It If they dO of them the total will b be more than voted in the 1924 presidential elec- elec tion when only of the I qualified electorate of preferred their suffrage u duty to golf golt bridge and fishing A portrait or of the late lateA A. A A. A Adee veteran state d nt official now has a place of at h nor in In the diplomatic room there alongside paintings of the tho nations nation's distinguished distinguished distin- distin s secretaries of state Adee was second assistant secretary of state from 1886 to but lie he was wae secretary of state ad int interim in 1898 and thus qualifies for the eminent emi emi- nent gallery In which h his hia canvas canvas now hangs hang Copyright 1927 I |
