Evening star., 1925-03-30

! 1t is in these days when no congress
/ sional oratory reverberates through
! the national heavens that the busi-
| ness of the Federal Government doth
| most prosper. Congress consumes an
/ inordinate amount of the average
| executive departments time when it
, is in session. Cabinet officers devote
! no inconsiderable part of their work
| ing hours to visits from or visits with
the leaders of House and Senate, and
not always with their leaders. The
| smaller fry of statesmen have the ear
| of the Messrs. Secretaries. too, and
! claim it with regularity and per-
sistence. The whole executive branch
! of the Government, from the White
House down, breathes more easily
when Capitol Hill is gathered to
| its constituents. Three departments
| which are undergoing virtual reorga-
! nization are especially grateful for
/ the relief which the recess brings
| the Departments of State, Justice and
Agriculture. In their personnel there
will be sweeping changes by the time
Congress reconvenes in December
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DR.. Jacob g. Schurman, Ambassa-
dor designate to Germany, was born
| a British subjeet-on Prince Edward
Island, Canada-like several men who
| have achieved high rank in modern
American public life. The late Frank
lin X. Lane came from the same re-
gion. Admiral william S. Sims, Sena-
| tor James Couzens of Michigan. and
| Associate Justice George Sutherland
| of the United States Supreme Court,
| were all British born, the admiral and
! the Senator in Canada, and the justice
| in Buckinghamshire, England In a
| few instances Uncle Sam has retail
| ated by sending some of his sons to
British soil. Sir Henry w. Thornton.
| general manager of the Canadian Ma
| tiona1 Railways, is a native of Lo-
| gansport. Ind.
There's an Alabama newspaper cor
respondent In Washington who de-
voutiy hopes and prays that the ap-
l po1ntment of the Muscle Shoals COM
mission viii finally put an end to that
ancient project. He is Hugh w. Rob-
erts, representative of the Birming-
ham Age-Herald and Mobile Register r.
When Muscle Shoals first became a
public ISSUE" says Roberts, "my ed
| itors told me / was too young and
| inexperienced to write about it, Well,
I've been writing about hardly any
thing else ever since, and now they
tell me they guess I'm too old to
write about it any more
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, John W. H. Grim, who has been as
sociat.d with the Department of Jus
] tice off and on for the past 19 years,
has now resigned his sistant attor-
| ney generalship of the United States
and resumed private law practice in
New York. He leaves public life
laurel crowned, his last work having
| been the successful prosecution of
1 Forbes in the Veterans Bureau case
| at Chicago. Grim is Virginia Re-
, publican. which. is something of q
/ novelty in itself. and loyal son of
William and Mary College, at Will
| liamsburg. Apart from his surname,
which may have pre- determined him
| for the practice of criminal law,
Grim looks the part. Big, burly and
deep voiced, he cuts the figure of a
| stage lawyer when he clears for ac-
tion before a judge or a jury. His
| friends predict that Grim will speed
| lily forge to the front rank of his pro-
| fession, with a wealth of back ground
few of his confreres possess. He is
! still a youngsuer, celebrating his 18th
birthday this week. -
4 One of the last SURVEYS compiled