Evening star., 1923-09-17

President Coolidge is going through
what politicians call the honeymoon
stage of a new chief executives
career. Customarily. it is roses,
roses, all the way during these
maiden weeks anu months at the
white House. The atmosphere fairly
reeks good will. Statesmen of high
and low degree come away from
initial audiences with new Presi-
dent singing his praises In major
key, prophesying an administration
Of unalloyed success and generally
Irhapsodizing over his personality.
peerless intentions and unclouded
prospects Few Presidents have had
TO wait long before the diapason
melted into an anvil chorus. II
Calvin Coolidge continues to tread
the path of concord, he will indeed
deserve the reputation Of being the
Quickest man who ever achieved the
presidency.
Three of the council of ambas-
sadors at Paris. in whose hands the
settlement of the Greco-Italian squab-
i BILE rests, once were on duty at Wash
lington. They are the venerable
Jules Cambon of France, who pre-
sides over the council; Viscount
Ishii of Japan. and Baron Ayezanns
of Italy. Mr.. Herrick, the Ameri-
can ambassador, Is entitled to "s!t
in" at council proceedings as an un-
official observer, but he is holidaying
| in the United States during the pres
ent unpleaSantness.
Mrs. Coolidge, being an uncommon
| ly sensible mother, has decreed that
her two boys, who are returning to
Mercersburg Academy. Pennsylvania,
| for school in a few days, shall not be
spoiled by undue publicity. AS the
"frst boys of the land" John and
Calvin Coolidge. jr, have achieved
| news-column and Photographic fame
along with their parents There is
| sudden curiosity to learn all about
| their fads and foibles, their school
icustoms and predictions, their Prov
| ess or otherwise at athletics and
host of other things. AS far as pos
are to be kept out of the limelight-
| A level headed headmaster, DR.. Will
liam Mann Irvine, conducts MERGERS
burg, and he may be relied upon to
lisee that the wishes Of President and
Mrs. Coolidge are carried out.
| BY q curious coincidence-and per-
haps not--three celebrated but de-
posed European prime ministers will
have been in the United States within
a year. The procession of dIstin-
guished "exes" was led last Decem-
ber by Georges Ciemenceau of France.
There is now with US Herr DR.. Will
helm Cuno. late chancellor of Ger.
many. Presently there will land on
/ these shores David Lloyd George,
premier of Britain from 1916 to 1922.
!, Clemenceau thus far Is the only one
| to admit freely and frankly that he
| headed for America on a propaganda
m,Ssi0n sninr; Guno ,ss mas ns come; ne says: to
/ ners, the Hartman group. What is
/ the burden of "the little Welshmans''
| song we shall not learn until IL. G."
| is on the scene. It will be an elo-
key attuned.
| This week at Chicago there1l be a
| national convention far more Inn
/ portant to human life than either of
the quadrenntal powwows OF the
| political parties. It is a meeting OF
the National Association OF Taxicab
Companies. and how 70 promote SAFE
| ty In the streets OF 1Is cities rep.
| resented Is the main item on the
program. John Hertz Of Chicago.
4 rnulti-miilionaire inventor and chief
proprietor of the yellow cab system,
4 has invited trafilc supertntendents of
every police department In the coun-
1 try to attend the convention as his