Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-09-04
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
By PETER KEEGAN
Special Correspondent of

THE COMMUNISTS beat all ether
parties to it by breaking into Wash
ington with the first stump speaker
was Ben Gitlow, who is running for
Vice-P President on the ticket with
William z. Foster. Gitlow was run
out of the Knights of Pythias hall
just as he was starting to speak, but
accumulated an audience in a dark
musty hall on Seventh Street, where
he proceeded to tear into the other
parties and denounced Senator LaFol-
lette as "reactionary."
GITLOW'S SPEECH Embossed a
flood of political oratory in the CAPT
toll with the result that both Presi-
dent Coolidge and Senator LaFollette
have now jumped actively into the
campaign via the radio. The Presi-
dent makes his speeches to various
national organizations meeting in the
capitol while LaFollette spoke direct
ly for the radio, his first speech hav-
ing been delivered on Labor Day.
SENATOR WHEELER has been
selected to do most of the cross coun-
try stumping for the Progressives,
Just as General Dawes will do it for
the Republicans. Wheeler is now in
New England and after he winds up
there he will strike westward. A
mong the other things he has to wor-
ry about is a demand for his appear
ance in Butte, Mont, to answer to a
federal charge for accepting money
before federal department after he
was elected to the Senate.
RETURNING FROM a ten-day va
cation in Vermont, President Coolidge
will remain in Washington for some
weeks, although he plans to make at
least one speech in the Middle West
before November, probably at Kan
sas City or Chicago. For the next
week or so he will be engaged in or
ganizing the federal commission
which will investigate the farming
industry.
ALTHOUGH THE Democratic ma
tional campaign is being directed
from headquarters here, Nominee
Davis has not put in his appearance
here this far. He is expected to stop
off in Washington during his cam
paigning, but. finds this city out of
the beaten path in his trips East to
West
EDWARD, PRINCE of Wales, has
come and gone, his brief visit serv-
ing to forge another link in the chain
binding the two great English-speak-
ing nation. Aside from having lunch
cons with the President and a few
officials at the Executive Mansion,
the Prince had no other engagements
here leaving for Long Island to wit
ness the International polo matches.
Capitol debutantes, who had expect
ed to have an opportunity to meet
the Prince at some social affair, were
therefore greatly disappointed.
THE DAUGHTERS OF the Ameri-
can Revolution are taking a promin-
ent part in the plans for the national
defense mobilization on September
IL. Mrs. Anothony Wayne Cook,
president of the Daughters, was NAM
ed by Secretary Weeks as Chairman
of the Civilian Committee to cooper
ate with the War Department in per-
fecting the Defense Day plans. She
has turned over Memorial Continent
tai Hall here for the use of the COM
mittee and all the organizations en-
ergies are being directed toward MAX
ing the defense test a success.
THE STATEMENT that many
Government employees have to go
hungry because of the small salaries
they receive is made by the Fedora
ton of Federal Employees, which
will urge the next Congress to grant
pay increases in some departments.
Pointing out that the guards in the
Library Of Congress receive only
slightly more than thousand dollars
a year and have to buy their own
brass-buttoned uniforms, the Fedora
ton declares that their motto is to be
"less mural decorations and more
corn beat and cabbage"