Evening star., 1923-10-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

How the Anti-Saloon League of
America put Uncle Sam on the water
wagon Is about to be cleared up by
the man who did the hofsting-wayne
b. Wheeler. The generalissimo of the
drys has been commandeered by Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler to deliver a
lecture in the Columbia University
extension course on the subject Of
Pressure Groups" Wheeler's paper
will be part of the course in 'Practi-
cal Politics" 1t will deal in detail
with the ways and means whereby
groups exercise pressure" upon ma
tional and state legislatures. II the
Anti-Saloon League leader tells all he
knows, he will contribute effectualIy
to the nations knowledge Of political
methods. Gov. "AI' Smith will open
the Columbia course with a treatise
on "The Work Of the Governor"
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Mrs. Coolidge is calmly but steadily
building up a reputation for sound
common sense. Within a week it has
become known that she has refused
tD to join league of penwomen, be-
cause she isn't a, writer; (2) to au-
thorize the christening of Coolidge
brown" because she hasn't any ia
xorite color; go to permit her sons to
be press-agented, because she wants
them to. be treated just like other
boys of their age; and (4) to dabble
in politics, because she conceiveS her
duties to be exclusively those of
wife. mother and hostess. There's a
sermon for anybody who cares to
preach it on the policies the First
Lady of the Land has laid down for
| ,.erself
/ Gen. Pershing's new aide. Lieut..
Col. George c., Marshall. jr., is a re-
nowned horseman, but he nearly met
his Waterloo in the victory parade"
at London after the afmistice. In
that pageant a regiment of American
troops marched, headed by Pershing
and half a dozen other generals. Col
Marshall was one of the Junior off,
GERS in line. The British Army pro-
! yided mounts for the Americans, but
Marshall drew one of the left-overs,
which none Of the generals wanted.
1t was as untamedpas broncho. The
colonel needed every ounce Of horse
manship he ever learned to keep In
the saddle. AS the American con-
tingent was passing the king and
nueen at Buckingham Palace, Mar
shaIl's steed SHE'D and reared, leaving
the officer "skied" in the attitude of
trick rider. An Army photogra-
pher caught a snapshot of the ma
neuyer, showing the intrepid Amer
lean cavalryman nonchalantiy saiut-
ing. .......-.---....- 80.
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Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi
is telling brother politicians how he
was informally inducted into the Ku
Klux Khan in Indiana last summer.
Harrison was riding q, chautauqua
circuit in the Hoosier pie belt. Just
before the time for his turn in ,sthe
tent. the chairman inquired il the
senator, by any chance. owing to his
Christian name. might be q Roman
Catholic. The Big Noise OF the Ya5oo
smilingly explained that Pat In his
case doesn't mean Patrick. but 10
merely an abbreviation of an ances-
| trail Patton, and that all the Missis-
| sippi Harrisons since time immemo-
| rial have been Methodists. Whereupon
/ the chautauqua dignitary. with great
/ relief. introduced the speaker OF the
| evening as "a 100 per cent American"
| to the accompaniment of thunderous
cheerg. When the evening was ended,
Q leading citizen waited Tor Harrison
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