Evening star., 1925-01-28

Tsuneo Matsudaira- the new Japa-
NJ sc Ambassador TO the United States,
will sail from Yokohama on February
5 and reach San Francisco about
February 20 Preparations are under
way to give him hearty welcome in
California. They are in charge of
Francis b Loomis, president of the
Japan Society of America and former
Minister to Venezuela and Portugal.
For brief period in 1905 MIR. Loomis
was Secretary of State ad interim
After Mr.. Matsudsira has been enter
tanned in San Francisco. he will hurry
across the continent in time to pre-
sent his credentials to President
Coolidge before March 4. A great ban
ouet in San Francisco will be the
climax OF the festivities in the new
envoy's honor. The attendance of
scores of Pacific coast editors will be
one of it's features. Mr.. Aatsudaira
is expected, soon after arrival. to
make an important pronouncement of
Japan's american policy" In light
OF exclusion legislation. which still
rankIes in Nippen's bosom
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Representative William r. Green of
Iowa, chairman of the ways and
means committee of the House, will
spend the Spring in Europe, gather
ing data on revenue laws, for use
at the next session of Congress. He
expects to pass most of his time In
Great Britain. which Mr.. Green
thinks is about the only country on
the other side that has anything val
liable to teach US in the realm of tax
alton. When Premier Stanley Baldwin
was negotiating the British debt set
tIement in Washington two years
ago ne stressed In pridefuI accents
that Britain from the beginning of
the war was the heaviest taxed ma
tion In the world" adding: We
financed our military operations to
a greater degree than any other ma
ton by making the present genera
ton pay. 1t Is our way TO pay as we
GO so far az we can. The total an
nuaI per capita taxation in Great
Britain amounts to more than S109.
Incidentally. Representative Green
hopes to find our British cousins bet
ter posted on American geography
than they were the last time he was
in England. "a London lady," he
says. once asked me where ! was
from. l said, Iowa She rejoined:
| How extraordinary; I've always pro-
nounced it Ohio
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Close students of the political psychol
ogy Of Calvin Coolidge say he invariably
carries out his precepts by example. The
Presidents economy program Is case
In point. When he Was asked this week
whether there is any definite plan for
cutting down the Governments pay roll
By So. 200. .0e0 Mr.. Coolidge expla lined
that what he had in mind was ex-
emplified by recent action at the White
House. It had been found possible to
dispense with the services OF two MEM
bers of the clerical staff. That's what
the careful Vermonter expects subor-
dinate. executive chiefs to do-to lop off
superf1uous employees wherever possible.
Washington received a shock when it
heard of the Presidents plan for dect-
mating the civil service. But the $4,000
or 40 900 odd persons who eventually
may be released are employed all over
the country. and the Capital will only be
relatively affected.
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Senators Pepper and Reed of Penn
syIvania, we are toid.' are on, the war
path for more Republican patronage for
keystone State faithful. They feel that
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