Evening star., 1923-08-26

give chuckle at the discontinue or
the senior senator from the Golden
Gate.y -.
Senator Johnson's letter is a reyela-
ton, for in 1t ne bitterly bewaiIs tie
lot OF man who aspires TO the
presidency.
My strength while was governor.
ne says. was in never yielding for
standing always the same. Ny veal
ness today Is that l have yielded and
given power position and political
strength to the very men ] so often
formally denounced. The past is past
and have only referred TO II as in
structive for the future. am under
no illusions now about California
Really L doubt IL could carry II
against Harding, Hoover or am
other candidate. The old crew are in
the saddle. For the first time since
1910 they have the state, all It's
officers and an active militant organ.
fzation. both in publicity and other
wise"
The protest Of the Cabots and the
Lodges and the Lowelis of Massachu-
setts against permitting the kabot-
schink family TO change its name 70
Cabot has unotticially reached the at
tention OF officers of the Department
or Labor here and has started a dis
cussion as TO whether or not there
SHAH be new restrictions upon i'm
migration. Shall there be new
regulation written into the examira-
ton OF every newly arrived citizen
to-be the question az to whether he
intends to change his name and II
so to what? In other words, shall
the sacred family trees of America
be left subject to free-hand grating
OF all sorts of foreign twigs upon
them, Or shall II be a condition OF
entry that the immigrant pledges
himself to assault no citadel Of the
elect IN his search for new cogno-
men? Or shall the Smiths and the
Browns and the Joneses continue TO
bear the brunt OF sharing their names
with the immigrants who reaiize
after entering America the handicap
or names that seemed SO simple III
their own, their native tongue?
Admittedly this is new problem
| IN government. Admittedly also the
| elect of Massachusetts have a warm
| friend just now in the White Hous"
Meantime the phiiogical bugs" arr
| trying to discover If there possibly
| could De any connection. even in the
paleoZoic days, between the Kabot-
schniks and the Cabots. One write
| on the subject says: =.
| / am not partial to that unfor-
tunate German habit Of claiming for
the Teutonic race everything that is
| desira BILE, Yet it is difficult to escape
certain conclusions. Two. German
! words there are from which a choic..
! may be made-kapot and Caput
| The one means n mantle with cane"
| an dthe other broke" Now: may
| not the ,progenitor of the race az
Cabots have come from Prussia Via
| Holland, piled the needle In ear!
| colonial days a the honest industr,.
! of making kapots and. by reason of
| overproduct!on. have gone broke
thus going Caput from hapot?7
And yet one shall not say that th-
| name Smith is not without power n.
the land. Charley Dunkley, known
| in sporting circles the country over
as the kalamazoo Bear" has founG
Il SO.
] Whenever Charley gets into one q
those Offices where the lady outside
! wants to know your name and an
| about you before YOU can enter the
inner sancturl. be says he finds II
| works much better never TO give
your own name.
! Tell him Mr.. Smith wants 10 SEE
him" says Charley TO the oaic..
guardian.
Which Mr.. Smith, please?"
! The Mr.. Smith" concludes Char.
ley. and he never fails to get in.