The Washington herald., 1920-10-07
Notes BY a Washington Observer
Cox Men Make Finish Fight-W A. Hartman
Follows Fathers Steps-Treaty Survey
lssued-Autograp Hunters Return
to Washington.
Copyright 1870 by The Press Publishing Com
psny The New York Woridl

Administration influence on behalf
of Cox and Roosevelt will be ex-
erted in full measure henceforward.
BY the middle of the month all the
big guns will be in action. Before
another fortnight is past. Colby.
Daniels. Baker, Palmer, Meredith,
Alexander, MCAdOO and other Will
sonites will be in the thick Of the
Oratorical fray. The strategy calls
for deafening storm of speechmak
ing at the finish. Homer s. Cum
mings. late national chairman, opens
the grand ball at Cincinnati tonight.
He will tour the country westward.
winding up in Arizona on the night
before election.
California Democrat Hopeful.
Isadore b. Dockweiler. the Napo-
lconic-lOoking Democratic national
committeeman for California. has just
arrived in Washington after accom-
panying Gov. Cox throughout his
Pacific coast expedition. "CaIifornia
is doubtful state" is DOckweiler's
optimistic assurance to Democratic
chieftains at the capital. Il was
with Cox from the moment he en-
tered the State until he left it, His
'ONi vas d II luilpll
Hartman Reveals Genius.
William Averell Hartman. the
young tinancier who has linked up
500. 100000 Of American shipping
capital with the Hamburg American
Line, is only 20. He was graduated
from Yale in 1913. During the war
he superintended a government ship
yard on the Delaware. The able son
of an able father, he Is bent on
achieving in tranSoceanic marine
shipping such things as enshrined
his fathers name in railroading and
thinks glibly in terms of oceans and
continents. Young Hartman is vice
president of the Union Pacific rail-
road, and a director of the Illinois
Central, Arden Farms Dairy Co,
baltimore & Ohio, Hartman National
Bank. Railroad Securities Co, Wells
Fargo Co, and the Guaranty Trust
Co. lie is a B. A, and Skull and
Bones man of Yale and married Miss
ketty Lanier Lawrence in 1915. His
friends know him as wv. A"
League Summary Complied.
George A. Finch, secretary of the
board of editors of the American
journal of International Law and
a member of the District of Co.
lumbia bar. has performed a useful
service by compiling concise di-
gest entitled The Treaty of Peace
in the United States Senate" ItI
is published by tie American As
sociation for International Concilia-
tion. The digest begins with Pres
ident Wilson's submission of the
covenant of the league to the For
eign Affairs committees of Congress
on February 26. 1919. Then fol-
lows. in terse. chronological fash
ion, the history of the treatys tor
tuOus career up to and including
its second rejection by the Senate
on March 19, 1920. There Is an
informative tabulation of all the
Senate votes on reservations and
Highway Menaces Removed.
Washington. like other American
cities, is gradually becoming choked
up with automobiles. The Amer
lean Automobile Association, in con-
nection with a District of Column
bia drive for members, boasts of
the following achievements:
Dead Mans Curve. once a veri- |
table Cape Hatteras on the Wash
ngton-Baltimore boulevard, is no |
more. Chopawamsic Swamp, one |
time terror of the Washington
Richmond highway. has passed into !
the limbo of things that were. Prof !
Iteering repair men have been |
,urbed."
Ex-Nets Seek Autographs.
Government dignitaries prominent |
n the conduct OF the war are being |
pestered by brand-new kind of |
souvenir fend. Former oficers of |
ne army and navy. usually reserv-
SITS. are sending In their certif- |
,ates Of discharge to be autograph !