The Washington times., 1924-11-06
PROP HECY IS
FAVORITE
SPORT
Society Devotes Itself to
Foretelling the
Future
By JEAN ELIOT.

G14AA just sWAA0L NO0A 80 AV9ANASAAS
Coolidge will pursue in. the nsxt
four years.
The making Of political prophnsies
+ Il always reasonably safe, for, IL
dlsproved, they have usually bean
forgotten, and If proved they can
! be dug up by an author who wishes
to point with pride"
Just now, Of course, many men
are foretelling many things, but
most Of the wiseacres seem to agree
on one thingthe fact that Presi.
dent Coolidge, elected by the people
will be a different man to deal with
than President Coolidge, trustee for
the late Warren 81. Harding. Men
who are close to Republican leaders
make no bones of stating that the
President will undoubtedly draw
the lines tighter In the control Of
his own party; and, with the Sem
ate and the House safely Republi-
can-and apparently 'regular"-the
Chief Executive will be given his
chance to see just what he can do
unhampered by baking Congress.
Changes Is the personnel Of the
Cabinet are, of course, freely pre-.
dicted. tits known that some Of the
members Of the Presidents official
family have long been anxious to
De relieved Of their posts to resume
their business occupations and have
only been restrained by the feel.
ing that 1t was up to them to help
president Coolidge carry out the
policies of the late President Hard
ing who appointed them. I'm.
doubleday too, under the new dis
pensation Mr.. Coolidge win want
to gather advisers of his own choos-
ing about him-and it is said that
the Attorney General, Harlan F.
Stone, is the only actual Coolidge
appointee in the Cabinet, Secretary
Wilbur having been more or less
inherited" although named by Mr..
Coolidge.
Butler Said To Have Senatorial
Aspirations; Slemp Wants To Retire.
1t has been generally supposed
that the chairman of the Republi.
can National Committee, William
M. Butler, would have a Cabinet
appointments successful cam
paign manager usually. steps into
the post Of Postmaster General
but 1t is said now that Mr.. Butler
rather has leanings toward the
Senate. If death brings Senator
Lodges long career to close, as
seems unhappily probable from the
news today, it is not unlikely that
he will try for the seat of the Massa-
chusetts Senator. c. Bascom Slemp,
secretary to the President, has also
been frequently mentioned as Cabi-
net timber, but the supposition now
seems to be that, having completed
his Job" he wants to- retire from
politics, his private interests de-
manding his attention.
Secretary Hughes, ''they say"
has the desire of returning ulti-
mately to the Supreme Bench. 1t
IL known that Secretary Mellon
wants to retire from public life
when he can be spared, and friends
Of Secretary Weeks state that he,
too, has, had enough. Certainly
Mrs. Weeks would be delighted IL
her husband should resign. She
never favored his accepting Cab
met position, has found the duties
of a Cabinet hostess rather irk-
some and has continually resented
the fact that a Cabinet officer
really has no more privacy than
the proverbial gold fish.
COOIidges and Dawes Once Fellow
Residents Of Same Hosiery.
Whatever their politics, there is
one feature Of President Coolidge's
reelection which gives satisfaction
to all residents of Washington-the
fact that Mrs. Coolidge will continue
in the role Of Mistress Of the
White House which she has filled
so gracefully. She has endeared
herself to high and low and there
is something very winning in the
spontaneous enjoyment and enthu-
siasm which she brings to her part.
Although she made her home in
Washington while her husband was
Director Of the Budget-and years
before when he was Assistant Sacre-
tary of the Treasury--Mrs. Charles
Gates Dawes, wife Of the Vice Prcsi-
dent-elect, is more or less Of an
unknown quantity. She is not very
fond of society, her activities here
were confined to association with a
little circle of close friends, and
one wonders whether a woman Of
her naturally retiring disposition is
not rather appalled, at the prospect
of assuming the heavy social duties
which devolve upon the Vice Presi.
dents wife. &
During their period of residence
here General and Mrs. Dawes made
their home at the Willard-the
hosiery in which President and
Mrs. Coolidge lived when he was
Vice President and which was
previously the home of Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Thomas Riley
Marshall. The friendship which
sprang up between the Coolidges
and the Dawes when both were
living at the Willard should go far
toward maintaining cordial relations
between the President and his
only Vice"--to. quote a bon mot
Of Mr.. Marshall's.
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MRS. COOLIDGE TO
ATTEND RECITAL.