Evening star., 1925-05-08

Vice President Dawes is not going
to have it all his own way in taking
the cause of Senate reform to the
people. The case for the defense will
be opened at Syracuse, \. Y, tonight
by Senator George II. Moses, Repub-
lican. OF New Hampshire. Addressing
the national convention of his Dart
mouth fraternity, Psi Upsilon, Moses
intends going for the new Dawes plan
hammer and tongs. Himself the third
ranking ma jority member of the COM
mittee on rules, Moses holds they are
adequate rules, and he violently and
vehemently opposes any tampering
with a masterpiece. Senator Moses is
in heavy demand for political speeches
throughout the country. He will ac-
cept those for which he has time. In
nearly all of them he will take occa-
sion to aSsail Dawes scheme to curb
senatorial verbosity. On June 2 Moses
will deliver the commencement ad-
dress at the Washington College of
Law. when he is expected to train
some more big guns in the Vice Presi-
dents direction. The New Hampshire
Senator was in conference with Presi-
dent Coolidge this week. and he left
the White House wreathed in smiles
of contentment.
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John Joy Edison. who is sometimes
called the first citizen of Washington,
began life here 81 years ago as mes
senger in the Treasury Department
when Salmon p. Chase was Secretary
of the Trea sury under Lincoln in 1851.
Mr. Edison ever since has evinced the
liveliest interest in the welfare of Gov
ernment clerks, and is active in the
movement just launched to put fresh
life into the activities of the National
Civil Service Reform League. When
Mr.. Edison was Treasury messenger
there were no woman employees of the
Government in Washington. Today
about one-half of the $4,000 or 10000
Federal employees in the Capital are
women and girls. The leader of the
District of Columbia bar, Frank j.
Hogan, also worked for Uncle Sam in
his early days. He was a clerk in
the War Department. and studied law
at night.
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Mr.. Coolidge has one little sar-
toriaI eccentricity. He will not let
his tailor put cuffs on the presiden-
tial trousers, and possesses no neither
garments thus equipped. Investiga-
ton in competent quarters disposes
of the theory that cuff1ess pants are
the result of the Coolidge economy
program, because cuffs neither add
to nor subtract from the cost of
trousers. Anyhow. Mr.. Coolidges
trousers have always hung without
folds at their terminals. Double
breasted coats, cut rather short, are
another of the Presidents preferences
in clothes. He has a full wardrobe
of such suits, mostly in blue and
gray. -.-
DR. Nicholas Murray Butler. who
has just become president of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace, is busily. planting In
ternational Mind Alcoves" through
out the libraries of the United States
and the World. Books which form
an international mind alcove deal
with the daily life, customs and his
tory of the various countries of the
world. Those chosen are. popular in
character and such as will interest
the general reader These books are
sent to libraries in small communi-
ties. after assurance has been given
that the several librarians will en-
courage, through the local press, per-
sonal recommendation and other
means the reading of the books by
as large number of persons as
possible. Three or four new books
are sent every three months to be
added to the alcove shelves, thus
keeping the interest alive and stead
lily building UP the collections. Each
book bears a plate with the imprint
of the Carnegie Endowment. There
are now 103 "1nterna tiona1 Mind AL
coves," including 81 in the United
States distributed among libraries