Evening star., 1925-07-12
BY MARGARET Il. DOWNING.


the Chief Magistrate and taking the
world into their confidence about
nim. 1t is not news to the residents
of the Capital that the President.
though possessing the universal repu-
tation of being reserved and difficult
to approach, has in reality proven
more accessible to all classes of
people than any Executive since
Grant. Theodore Roosevelt had the
reputation for meeting every one,
from prince to pauper, but in reality
he gave too much time to sports
and to his personal friends to permit
any such general reception of citi-
Zens in groups or individually as
does President Coolidge. For one
thing, President Coolidge, according
TO those who know him best, decided
in his earliest years that intimate
friendships took toll of too much pre-
cious time and he never cultivated any.
He had close, true friends, but none
was of the eXacting kind. 1t cannot be
doubted that the deepest affection is
felt by the President for Frank
Stearns, yet Swampscott takes notice
that the two men can meet each other
several times a day with no more re-
suit than smile or nod. The North
Shore has gradually discovered that,
while the President and Mrs. Coolidge
are determined to pass their vacation
quietly in the social sense, all those
who wish to drop in after a proper
formality will be received by both.
Count Alexander Skrzynsk, pre-
rnier of Poland and its minister of for
eign affairs. has sailed for this coun-
try and will arrive Tuesday, prepara-
tory to attending the Institute of Poll
sics. which will begin it's courses in
~illiamStown, Mass, July %. The
Pn1iSh Trpn1iar has doClara6 in
nf his public addresses and in his
Wate papers that the moral debt un-
der which his country rests to the
United States has induced him to take
this trip and to make a profound
study of the underlying philosophy in
the American scheme of government.
He intends to send hereafter a few of
the young men studying diplomacy
and statescraft in Warsaw to the in
stitute, for he deems a thorough COM
prehension of American affairs i'm
perative for the successful diploma
tiSt Coming to Washington shortly
after arrival the Polish statesman will
be the guest of Polish consuls and per
SOnal friends in Boston, Providence
and New York City. He probably will
return to Washington early in Sep
tember and by that time the Polish
Minister, DR.. Ueladyslaw Wrobleski.
who is spending the Summer in his
home in CraCow, will nave returned
with his family and will entertain the
statesman. The premier will be ac-
corded all the honors bestowed on such
distinguished visitors and will be for
mally received at court and perhaps
later at the White House here II 1t is
in readiness then and the President
has returned, but in any case he will
be received by the Secretary of State.
DIR. Skrzynski proposes to be in the
domain of the United States for the
best part of three months.
The Secretary of Agriculture, DR..
Jardine, has been covering much dis
tance since he took over his onerous
duties, and is becoming we'll acquainted
in the various communities. He has
twice been the guest of the horticul-
tural clubs of New York, and recently
attended the annual exhibition of the
National Plant, Flower and Fruit
Guild held in the grand terminal of
New York city. This organization was
founded by the members of the horti-
cultural society of the State, who real
iZed that the greatest pleasure or a
garden is to raise sufficient plants,
flowers or fruits to share such riches
with those who have them not. They
established booths where flowers, seeds,
cuttings and roots could be bestowed
gratis, where surplus fruits also were
given away, and where ornamental
plants could be procured just for the
trouble of digging them. What this
guild has accomplished for gardeners
in humble circumstances and what 1t
has saved the State in the matter of
health and in an added food supply, 1t
is impossible to conjecture, though
New York is about to issue statistics
on the subject.
The Secretary of Agriculture could
add tremendously to the gardens of
Washington by following a similar pro-
gram, in regard to flower seed at
least. Take those glorious pansy beds
which so delighted the eye few weeks
ago in the grounds of the Agricultural
Department. Some Is or 20 plants of
each variety can furnish seed enough
TO make a home garden charming.
The hollyhocks on Hains Point have
reached their maximum of beauty and
are beginning to seed. Some of the
double ones in deep red are almost i'm
possible to buy from florists, and tens
of thousands of seed must go to waste.
A guild to furnish seed to bona fide
gardeners could be conducted by DR..
Jardine, Col. Sheriff. and a few of
their aides to the joy and health of
thousands of the citizens of the
Capital.
Lord Barnard has, at the solicitation
of the English-Speaking Union of
America, just presented to the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, through
its present executive, Gov. Alvin T.
Fuller, "a splendid oil pa 3 ing of Sir
Richard Vane, who was royal gov
ernor of the colony from 1886 to 1889,
and who left a splendid record in the
New World. Vane was quite celeb
rity in his later years, and was
speaker of the Commons in the Long
Parliament. Vane was beheaded in
the Tower when Cromwell rose to
power. but on the restoration of the
Stuarts his son, Sir Christopher Vane.
was given possession of the estates.
The son of the same noblem2a was,
under William III, made -he first Lord
Barnard, grandfather, Iar removed, of
the present beer The portrait of the
gallant Governor of Massachusetts has
hung in Raby Castle, the seat of the
Barnards for the past three centuries.
The gift will complete the set of
colonial governors which has been
collected by the Massachusetts, His
torical Society. Gov. Fuller intends
to have a gala time when the gift ar
riveS, and has invited President and
Mrs. Coolidge to attend the ceremony
of placing the painting in the Massa-
Chusetts Capitol.
The Minister-designate from Egypt,
NJ. Mahmoud Samy Pasha, set all the
tongues a-wagging on the question of
precedent when he displayed the pale
green flag on which a white crescent
moon floats, the national emblem of
the land of the Nile, on a festival
which is purely religious in character
and without any political significance
whatever. For the moment the courtly
envoy from Egypt holds no official