Evening star., 1925-09-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Vice President Dawes friends are
compa ring him to the Plumed Knight
James G. Blaine-as result of
the generals recent expedition
through the West They assert that
1t was triumphal tour and marked
by scenes of universal favor" such
as the man from Maine encountered
on a celebrated swing around the
circle 40 years ago. The Chicago
Journal of Commerce. an admirer and
supporter of the Vice President, thus
rhapsodizes over his. conquests:
AT Butte, Spokane. Seattle,
Portland and Los Angeles he was
greeted with great audiences that
listened closely to his 5ominute
address and broke frequently into
tumultuous applause. Indeed, SEN
timent runs so strongly for his
reform proposition that no expert
enced politician, or Senator, for
that matter, can doubt that he
has the people overwhelmingly
with him. There was noticeable
an insistent tide Of approval of
the Vice Presidents general pur-
pose in visiting the coast at this
time Next to that approval in
all the cities visited was the dem
onstration of the hold he has on
men and women alike, and in both
political parties"
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Former Gov. Frank o. Lowden OF
Illinois fitted through Washington
this week. though incommunicado on
politics or the 1928 presidential am
bitions said to be surging in him.
Lowden is general chairman of the
American Forest Week committee
which held it's annual meeting here.
From Washington the man who put
the vice presidency from him In 1924
proceeded to Atlantic City to address
the American Bankers Association
on What the Banker Can Do for
the Farmer" Gov. Lowden is not
perturbed by recent attacks In farm
newspapers, which have been alleging
that interests favorable to his presi-
dental hopes wrecked" the Grain
Marketing Co., which collapsed In
Chicago last Summer. They charged
that Lowden saw a menace" to MS
aspirations to be the farmers cham
pion in the threatened success Of the
company's cooperative marketing
venture, whereupon Lowdenites set
about to smash it. Mr.. Lowden con-
tends no finger of his was ever hfted
in that direction.
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There is known to this observer Q
Washingtonian of quality and OF
standing in the community who has
lust installed q modern equipment to
safeguard the precious contents OF his
LIQUOR store. 1t consists Of an ap-
paratus for squirting tear gas In the
face Of an intruder, either a revenue
agent or a thief; According to the
taker of these noxious precautions,
they are the latest form Of safety de-
vice adopted by banks to protect the
treasure in their vaults. 1t Is guar
anteed that persons who illicitly turn
on the gas will be blinded and render
ed virtually unconscious for 20 min
utes or half an hour.
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Setsuzo Sawada, counselor OF the
Japanese embassy, Is the author OF q
book which is shortly to make Its
appearance in EnSlish at San Fran
cisco. It deals With the Japanese
Crown Princes trip through Europe
a year ago In which Mr.. Sawada par
ticipaAed % the oMcial representative
of the TOXIC foreign Office. The vol
nme has already been published In
Japan and had an enormous ciiouia-
ton there, largely owing to the popu-
larity of the young Prince Regent
Hirohito who Is In His 25th year. Mr..
Sawada is much Ia depa nd for pub