Evening star., 1925-11-11

Precautions have just been taken
to insure that nobody in future sits
In the wrong place at White House
dinners. A ceremonial officer IS
now on duty there. His name is Jay
Pierrepont Moffatt, one OF the
Younger officers of the foreign serV-
ice. who recently was detached from
service as secretary of embassy at
Constantinople. Mr.. Moffatt VIII act
as a liaison officer between the w mite
House. the State Department and
the diplomatic corps. He spends part
of each day at the social Office OIL
the Executive Mansion. When q
foreign ambassador or minister or
some other distinguished alien Is due
,t the White House for ceremonlal
call upon the President or Mrs. Cool
idge or TO partake of formal hospl-
taIitv. Mr.. Moffatt makes all the ad-
vance arrangements. His principal
function-men's hair has prematurely
turned white in similar positions
is to see that nobody concerned makes
a faux pas. Precedence is an aIl-im-
portant subject. Never again.g While
he is on the job, will the wife OF an
ambassador find occa sion to object to
sitting at dinner alongside the envoy
of another country with which her
own has not yet buried the hatchet.
Mr. Moffatt is q bachelor, still on
the sunny side of 80, and a promising
young career" diplomat.
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Congress has never had many
preacher members, though its critics
think they would be useful on Capltol
Hill. The Sixty ninth Congress, which
soon will be with us, Will contain d
distinguished clergyman, Rev. Dr.
Charles Aubrey Eaton of New Jersey.
DIR. Eaton used to be John ID. Rookie
feller's pastor at the Euclid Avenue
RaDtist Church, in Cleveland. He
comes to the House of Representatives
from his present home town OF Plain
field. n. j. DIR. Eaton calls himself d
pubIiciSt nowadays and in later years
has been active as a professional Jour
nalist. He is a specialist in lndustrlal
relations. A pronounced dry, he rele-
gated to private life at the 1924 cleo
tions a well known Jersey wet, Dr
Charles Browne, former mayor Oh
Princeton.
President Coolidge will be in Chicago
SNAA
Monday, December 7. But 1t is not Gus
tomary for presidential messages to be
sent to a Joint session on the first day
the two houses are called together. On
the forthcoming occasion the PreS1-
Ient's message will probably not be
delivered until Wednesday, December
g. on which day he will return from
the West. 1t is not yet certain
whether Mr.. Coolidge, in accordance
with his practice hitherto, will read
his message in person, or whether he
will have it sent to the Hill to be read
This is an unusually busy literary
month for Mr.. Coolidge. He has no
fewer than three speeches in the hop
per-his New York Chamber of Com
merce address, on November 10: the
message to Congress and the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation speech
at Chicago, on December Z.
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There's been an advance, though
entirely unofficial, intimation received
in Washington from the League of
Nations regarding the World Court.
1t is to the effect that Geneva will not
consider any drastic changes in the
constitution of the Permanent Court
as now established. AT the sixth
assembly of the league in September
Ifu udS SuSSCobCb n s'tuuS VI 1iiO
statute by which the court was Great
ed. in order to make American ad
hesion easier. Denmark proposed the
addition of a Cancellation chamber"
to the tribunal. Neither proposition
encountered any support, on the
ground that the court as now or
ganized is working to the satisfaction
of all concerned. No change in it
can be effected without the unanimous