Show y n 1 k r 71 for th Fred One of the most important innovations info inno- for coordinating army and navy activities ever eyer proposed has just been launched by Admiral William V. V Pratt U. U S. S N. N who Is about to assume command of the battle fleet Admiral Pratt has formally suggested to Secretary Wilbur that the navy department Invite the war department to assign to the battle fleet for regular service service ser ser- vice an army officer who shall be bet t n. member of the fleets fleet's staff The purpose of the project is is' is that the thenay nay should have at its constant disposal at sea a member of the them m military establishment to advise on such questions as disembarkation of troops and other matters upon which the army and navy in an emergency would have to cooper cooper- ate The Japanese for some time time have bave had such a system Admiral Pratt who Is one of the thinkers of the navy has just relinquished the presidency of the naval war college college col- col lege at Newport Like General Hanson E E. Ely commander of the army war college In Washington Pratt is a devout believer in the closest possible liaison between th the sister services I S Former Senator Sanator Atlee Pomerene reported affiliation with the presidential d fortunes of Al Smith may have a more important aspect than meets the eye Smiths Smith's friends give giveout put out that when the Ohio Democrat returns from Europe next week Pomerene will declare for the Ne New NewYork York governor Although Pomerene Is a alame lame duck senator and therefore therefore there there- fore Is i by that odium of defeat which is elimInate dim elim- mate a man in many Democrats Democrats Dem- Dem continue e to regard him as f first class timber The between the lines significance of the Pomerene Smith alliance may maybe maybe be that Governor Al Is Is' prepared to throw throw his his vast convention strength to the Ohioan if the Ne NeW Yorker cannot br break ak a on his own behalf In other words Pomerene may be the Smith peoples people's second choice He Is a Protestant and wet His successful activities as associate counsel in the federal oil cases have enhanced Pomerene's I reputation throughout the country He now now- law at the head of his own big f in In Cleveland S S I Theres There's a Greek letter fraternity r Delta which Chi has acquired an n abiding interest in in inthe the J affairs of the Di of Columbia The cause Is that the man who has been Its national secretary for nearly f tv V ar W. W Tride-re- Tride or became corporation counsel of Uncle Sams Sam's municipal bailiwick Despite his engrossing practice as asan asan an International lawyer Bride has never never failed to attend Delta Chi and actively promote Its interests among the thousands of lawyers all over the United States who also belong to It On twelve different occasions Corporation Counsel Bride has represented his fraternity at confer confer- DurIng the days of Amerlean Amer Amer- lean Jean neu neutrality In the World war Bride was one of the first lawyers from the United States to deal with the British foreign It Is of record in London that he talked turkey In plain Amerl an English to i ithe the nabobs then in control ot of the British blockade and pointed out the perils of too rigorous treatment ot of our legitimate commerce on the high seas S S SIs Is reverence for tor traditions ceasing to be an American virtue A day or two ago the famous home in which President James Monroe lived in New ew York was put up at auction and knocked down for 10 to buyers who are expected to convert the property into business uses A scheme to purchase and preserve the house as a patriotic shrIne fell through At this moment Monroes Monroe's birthplace is for sale in Westmoreland coulty The man who rho owned it for many years passed away recently and the property turns out to be heavily mortgaged Theres There's some talk of divIding it-a it Into farm town lots for development develop development ment purposes S. S Laurence Gouverneur Gouverneur neur Hoes of Washington a great great- grandson of the author of the Monroe Monroe Mon Mon- roe doctrine has acquired Monroes Monroe's old ol la law N office in fn Fredericksburg He HeIs Hes Is s p putting tUng It in repair and will soon the historic little build build- ing S S 5 1 U U. U SS S. Mayflower the presIdentIal yacht like the White House underwent a general genera overhaul during during dur- dur I I ing the absence of President and Mrs Coolidge The work was done I at the Boston navy yard ard occupied most of the summer and was com com- in time to permit the Mayflower MayI May May- flower to dock at its regular berth berthin I in Wa Washington hington navy yard a few days before the presIdents presIdent's return I I from froni the west Captain Wilson Brown the skipper of the executive yacht lived aboard her while she was being scrubbed polished and keyed up So did Lieutenant Commander Commander Com Com- mander Joel T. T Boone one ne of the presidents president's physicians and a memI member mem- mem I ber of the officers officers' staff of the theMa Ma Mayflower flower S S S Justice Louis D. D Brandeis ott the United States supreme court has just acquired a new secretary in tho person of a brilliant young Harvard Haryard law school graduate Henry J. J Friendly Mr Friendly who received his LL B. B summa cum laude last June achieved a general average of of 86 for his three years at the law school school-a rating I second only In Harvard Haryard annale annal tn fr that of Justice Brandeis wh when tl the I latter left the school fifty years ago this summer While a junior at Harvard Friendly captured second honors In the Bowdoin contest with witha a pa paler er called The Fall of Naples a ar Episode in the th Risorgimento the past r-ast year he took first prize with a. a paper on Church and State In England Under William the Conqueror While still at Harvard Friendly prepared several of the evidence points for the federal federal fed fed- eral government In the DaugHerty- DaugHerty Miller r trial in connection with alien property affairs S S S The Federal Reserve bank at may not think the s stell under which it operates is perfect but Japan does Chuzo minister of finance in the Tokio government has just gone on record record rec- rec ord as saying that Nippon must copy our federal reserve system if It desires to Install permanent ways and m ns of avoiding panics Mr Mi l declares AmerIca centered Its attention on the Improvement improvement Im- Im provement of its monetary organization organization organ organ- following the great panic of i 1907 and thus produced the federal reserve system making possible the present solid economic foundation of that country America must be our example in this regard Copyright 1927 |