Evening star., 1924-12-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

proceeds of the loan cannot be used
for feeding the refugees. Hence DIR.
Nansen, refugee commissioner of the
league, is appealing to the charitably
/ inclined in America and throughout
the world for funds to feed the refu-
gees for at least another year.
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A group Of legitiriately curious
Washingtonians who heard this OBJ
server speak of jingoes and jingoism
on the radio asks to know" where
the idiom comes from. An anthenti-
Gated explanation is that it dates
from the late. '70s, when Great Brit
ain and Russia were on the verge of
one OF their periodical wars over
Afghanistan and India Loud-mouth-
ed patriots in England were breath
ing fire and birthstone with reference
to all things Russian. The epidemic
spread to the London music halls.
where popular comedian of the day
gave currency 70 a ditty whose re-
frain rang:
We don't want TO fight.
But, by lingo. If We do
We've got the men,
We've got the ships.
We've got the money. too.
One of the years grand army of
call on the President a day or two
| before Christmas and handed him.
with appropriate compliments,
copy of the Life" the scribe pro
duced a few months ago. Mr. Cool
idge, who can be exceedingly gra-
cious on occasion, despite his reputa-
ton for reserve, accepted the volume
thankfully, and then said, in his
characteristic drawl: 'Wa-al, after
-
write you book review on it.'
Gen. Pershing is to be the star per-
former in an all-star theatrical per-
formance at the New York Hippodrome
| next May. The occasion will be a
national testimonial from the American
Legion. The general promised to grace
1t with his presence just before he
sailed for South America last month.
James A Drain, national commander
Of the legion, and other legion officers
from all parts Of the country will
attend. In addition to star turns by
host Of stage celebrities, the feature
Of the testimonial will be the presenta-
ton to Gen. Pershing of q bronze bust
Of himself, executed by Julio KiIenyi
Of New York. The idea of the affair
originated with National Vaudeville
Artists Post $50, composed exclusively
of vaudeville players who were in the
service.
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Representative Daniel r. Anthony. jr..
of Kansas. who went home for the
holidays, has found himself under
heavy bombardment at Leavenworth
from the alumni OF a certain Middle
Western university, whose foot ball
team won great renown this year. An
thony is the proprietor and editor Of
the Leavenworth Times. A few days
ago that paper published an article
dealing with a person described as
Virgil H. Evans" The article stated
Virgil H. Evans, a well known foot
ball star, released from the Kansas
State Reformatory on June Is, 1924.
and paroled to the faculty of
University, to play the 1924 season on
the college team, has been returned TO
the Kansas State Penitentiary to COM
plete his sentence. Because of his sur
render the Kansas parole board listened
to the plea of the faculty for his parole
in order that he might play on the
foot ball team and become enrolled as
a student" Mr.. Anthony has been in
formed that the allegation. as far as
the university in question is concerned
lis a succession sof lies"
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