Evening star., 1924-09-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Gen. Pershing retires as chief of
staff but remains General Of the
Armies. There is no other full Cen
eral in the United States Army.
Pershing leaves the active list with
out curtailnent of the pay he last
drew. In the emergency of war. the
general could be. as undoubtedly he
would be. Immediately called up for
| active service. Thereupon he would
automatically resume his rank as
General of the Armies. The beautiful
office Pershing occupied in the State.
War and Navy Building. directly
across from the White House. will be
his headquarters whenever he is in
Washington. One of the generals last
official communications was an of
! fetal denial" which he charged this
observer to circulate. 1t concerns the
school plans of his son. Warren. The
lad is not entering an English school.
| He will attend a school at Role,
Switzerland, on the shores of Lake
Geneva. conducted by a Swiss head
| master. who has an American wife.
Young Pershing has been sent abroad
to ground him in foreign languages
Whether, later, he will go to West
Point or an American university. Gen.
Pershing has not yet determined
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secretary Mellon announces thdt
France is going to invest in "a slice of
loan. What Mr.. Mellon has not stated
in that connection is equally i'm
portant, if reports from Paris can be
trusted. These are to the effect that
France is going to take at least $10,-
100000 of the German loan at his ur-
gent instigation. Mr. Mellon, it ap-
pears, told Premier Herriot and FL
mi or C1ppoanfpI pa vic 1 in
August that the German loan can
hardly arouse enthusiasm in the
United States. because of the anti
Germanism still extant. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury explained that
the surest means of overcoming that
state of affairs would be for France
to participate in the loan. NO matter
Row small her share. The French
seem to have taken the hint.
Many politicians have been expect
ing that Mr.. Coolidge would embrace
the occasion of the forthcoming Holy
Name Society convention in Washing
| ton to make a ku Klux Klan pro-
nouncement. White House inquirers
who succeed in engaging the Presi-
dent on that ticklish subject, gain the
distinct impression that mum will
continue to be his word. Mr.. Cool
idge contends that the country at
large understands my position" and
is content with it. Results of the
Maine election are not designed to
prod the President into loquacity on
the Klan issue. But there are we'll
grounded rumors that John W. Davis
intends doing SO, with considerably
more vigor than in his Seagirt speech,
as the campaign tapers to finish.
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Col will H. Hays, chief of the
Army Mail Service, Organized Re-
serve Corps. was one of the many
civilian dignitAries who reported az
the War Department on Defense day.
The former Postmaster General cuts
an extremely natty appearance in
regimentals. Having turned up N
Washington on strictly military duty.
the organizer of victory in 1870
could not be induced to talk politics.
He consented to answer one leading
uuestion-as to what he considers
the outstanding factor in the presi-
Dental campaign at this juncture.
1.-THE country's confidence in Calvin
Coolidge" was the alliterative and
/ lunhesitating reply. Hays has just