Show WASHINGTON 14 H LETTER Q I BY nY THE WAY Y IN IX WASHINGTON BY RODNEY X 1 Service Writer WASHINGTON W Jan 13 A 13 A scandal has been brewing bre In the war department Secretary of War Dwight F Davis has laid himself open to suspicion and he ho has only himself to blame for being brine so naive about It it Walt Wait alt till tho the senate hears tears about this Tn The secretary was entrusted with an Important mission to the in army's commander in chief in-chief chief President Coolidge A nursery In Missouri sent him hima hima a large lario box of picked hand-picked oIls Mis Mis- Mis Missouri Missouri apples Not for himself mind you OU but for tor delivery to the president It wa was one on of the late Christmas gifts to arrive at t the White House The rho box reached Mr Coolidge all right but but and and this is the ques question qu ques- ques s- s lion tion a senatorial investigating com cont- committee may have to were decide decide Its contents Intact Ever since Secretary Davis has been blen telling his subordinates what wh mighty fine fino apples they raise In his home tate state of Missouri with special reference to that box which he had hod in his care And those same subordinates are among themselves They declare d clare moro more or less rat ti-rat Davis couldn't know as much about those particular apples apple by merely gazing satins on the exterior of the package And rumor whIch has caused great treat damage damace to reputations reputations reputations J around here hero in Its 10 time Im- Im Implies Im Implies plies that tho the Missouri cabinet member converted and ate not t I Ionly only one but perhaps two or three His defense probably will be that he was testing them to Ills lIe liege c lord against iR poisons liko like the servant ser of o ap oriental potentate Congressman Gilbert N Haugen of Iowa would have bave given up a ahue huge privilege of oC publicity It if atthe nt at atthe the last minute he had not de decided de- de decided decided again arain to team up with Sen Senator ator McNary In their famous farm relief legislative duet The famous McNary Haugen bill b was for tor a 11 lime time just tho McNary bill when Senator McNary of Ore Ore- Orgon Oregon eon Ori-eon gon modified and reintroduced his measure and It appeared that Haugen might let someone elsa cis carry the hod and hod-and and reap the hon bon honors ors ors ors-In In the house If It Haugen had not come corn to bat again his name in the th public eye would have been that of just an- an another another an another other congressman To ro realize the fame attaching to the author of a successful and widely discussed law consider the act lct which made a a Min Min- representative world world famous for s II long lone time to come Someday Some Somo Someday day congress Is likely to pass the McNary act which will w revolutionize farming like the act revolutionized drink drink- drinking drink Ine ing On behalf of the southern southern cotton farmers and agriculture in ht oral ecu gen gen- general oral eral Congressman Hampton p Fulmer of South Carolina leaped into the th breach when it appeared his Haugen Hauen en wasn't going coins to do stuff sturt His bill was somewhat different but sufficiently similar to be tem ten temporarily temporarily hailed as likely to become the McNary Palmer bill Fulmer Is a cotton raiser ralser ralser a merchant a banker and a farmer Ip fact As president of the Farm Farm- Farmers Farmers Farmers ers Warehouse company and nd the Farmers National Bank of Nor Nor- Norway Norway Norway way S C he h Is 19 In a II position to totor store tor and finance his Ills own crop crops but ho ie e realizes that the wolf Is 16 chasing many of his bis agricultural brethren around their farm houses every day With Haugen back In Fulmer Is rather out of the th picture again but ho he deserves much credit which no one ever eyer stopped to give civo him Introducing his bill he had the gimp to tell his southern Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic colleagues that when they Insisted on reducing th the tariff as the first farm relief step they Were vero acting like liko plowmen Insisting Ion on fighting fl a few windmills ls before hitching up their horses for lor the furrows Everybody else els knew that they to put over a tariff cut ut on the Republican majority he said and it was wua a a matter maller of ot sur- sur surprise surprise ur prise that th the southern Democratic senators and representatives didn't know it themselves Whether bel her Fulmer's r word did any allY good or not not the tho fact tact remains that water always runs down hill hili that the sun shines by day and th moon by night nit and nd that t the th e Re- Re Republicans 11 publicans have a firm grip trip on th the house Unless they are willing to rl le making the presidency a family affair the Democratic leaders should weight carefully Senator Caraways Caraway's suggestion of Senator Thomas Jo F I Bayard of Delaware as 1115 their 1928 12 nominee Thomas F I le lethe litho the tho sixth Bayard from Delaware to tolt sit lt It In the senate His father grandfather ther great grandfather and great grandfather preceded and him and a n great uncle This new n w presidential ity Is 68 ES years ears old Ills His family Is of the Delaware aristocracy and his profession Is law Once ho he was assistant corporation counsel of New f York City For ten years he be served ItS iia chairman n of Delaware's s 's Democratic stab stat committee and for wo or three years city solicitor He lie Is wet but believes In law la enforcement and thus might he be beable able to make mako an acceptable straddle He lie married Into the Du- Du Dupont Dupont pont Du-pont pont family Ono One of the most prominent of the tho Delaware Duponts of course ls is the other senator ennor from Delaware Thus far Caraways Caraway's other sug- sug us Senator Senator Jim Reed need of Mis Missouri Rio- Rio Is Is receiving more consideration consideration consideration tion than Senator Bayard |