Evening star., 1925-09-02

Bert T.. Haney, who has defed Pres
ident Coolidge to Gust him from the
United States Shipping Board, is a
native Oregonian. AS politicians CO.
he is still a youngster. having just
turned 46 He has the build and jaw
of a scrapper. Haneys fighting blood
probably springs from his intimacy
with former Senator George H.
Chamberlain, whom he calls his po-
liticai mentor. Chamberlain con
troversy with another President of the
United States-Woodrow Wilson'S
part of the history of the World war.
Hanev succeeded Chamberlain as the
Northwest coast representative on the
Shipping Board A lawyer by pro
fession, Haney had just concluded
term as United States district attor-
ney in Oregon, to which he was ap-
pointed by President Wilson, when
President Harding sent him to the
Shipping Board. The commissioner
has long been active in Northwestern
politics. Between 1910 and 1915, he
was chairman of the Oregon State
Democratic committee. Portland,
Haney's home town, has been hard hit
by Admiral Palmer's retrenchment
policy. 1t is primarily on that acs
count that Haney has been at war
with the head of the Fleet Corpora
ton.
Charles Beecher Warren's friends
consider that he achieved something
like a. comeback through his proml-
nence at this weeks annual meeting
of the American Bar Association In
Detroit. The man whom the Senate
rejected for the Attorney Generalshlp
of the United States last March was
designated by the bar of Michigan to
welcome the association to the state.
and also to act as host to the chief
foreign guest, Lord Buckmaster,
former lord chancellor of England.
Mr.. Warren was also host at his mag
nificent suburban villa on Lake 81.
Clair to Secretary Kellogg and the
Bar Associations other distinguished
guests, including Charles Evans
Hughes. In Michigan reports are still
current that President Coolidge has
high honors in store for Warren, de-
spite recent tragic events. The De-
troiter, according to these yarns, is
future cabinet probability, either as
Secretary of War or as Secretary of
State They also speak of him as
possible Ambassador some day-at the
court of st. James. or another emil
nent diplomatic outpost.
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Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews. prohibi-
ton geeralissimno, has left Washing
totn for a brief vacation visit with
his family at Grand Isle, We, 1t is
i'll the nature of a rest after his
recent trials and tribulations in the
reorganization of the enforcement
system and by way of a bracer for the
rigors that await him. Gen. Andrews
and Maj. Haynes, whose principal
functions the new prohibition chief
now exercises, remain the best OF COM
rades. This observer encountered
them at luncheon the other day fra
ternizing cordially over iced tea.
Homecoming steamers on both the
Atlantic and the Pacific are bringing
back Washington statesmen of high
and low degree, who spent the Sum-
mer overseas. Some of them went
far af1eld and remote from the beaten
tourist path. Senator Robert Beecher
Howell of Nebraska and Mrs.
Howell penetrated Darkest Africa and
travelled the immense territory that
lies between the Cape and Cairo.
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and
Mrs. Pittman were among the rather
numerous denizens of Capitol Hill
who explored the Far East, including
Japan, China, the Philippines and
India.
Idaho, where William E. Borah is
not a prophet without honor, has just
tried-and failed-to hold a Lincoln
| Douglas debate on the subject of the
World Court. Two modern Western