Evening star., 1925-04-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Japan for the first time in history
Is represented in Washington by a
diplomat who is a Christian. He is
Setsuzo Sawada, who recently became
counselor of the Japanese embassy
under Ambassador Matsudaira. Mr..
Sawada is a Quaker, having been con-
verted to the Friends creed by an
American Quaker teacher Il Japan
many years ago. Mrs. Sawada is also
a Christian, she having embraced the
Roman Catholic faith. Her husband
is one of the remarkable young men
Of Nippon. He is particularly close to
Crown Prince Hirohito. who, as re-
gent. is today practically the ruler of
Japan. Mr.. Sawada accompanied the
Crown Prince on the latter's Euro
pean trip two or three years ago.
The new Japanese counselor at Wash
ington commands the English Ian
guage with unusual fiuency. He is
destined to be one of Japan's fore
most diplomatists. On May Is Mr..
Sawada is going to Philadelphia to
address a meeting of the Society of
Friends, specially organized in his
honor.
Josephus Daniels wart time public
ity adjutant. John Wilbur Jenkins,
now sits at the right hand of Mayor
Hylan of New York, as the big city's
official director of public infOrma-
ton" Mr.. Jenkins, who is a North
Carolinian journalist, well known in
Washington, is credited with the au-
thorship of Mayor Hylan's book,
Seven Years of Progress" which
"hizZoner's' foes on Manhattan Island
are subjecting to a broadside of criti-
cism and irony. In the capacity of A
special assistant to the Secretary of
the Navy, Jenkins organized the eX-
listing press division of the Navy and
rendered valiant service to Daniels,
especially in the days when grape
juice, democratized discipline aboard
ship. the Sims episode and other ex-
plosions were making life strenuous
for Josephus in Washington and the
country at large.
DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, who re-
Gently was President Coolidge's guest
at the White House, is a rock-ribbed
stalwart Republican if there ever was
one. People on the other side of the
Hudson don't seem to realize that.
The other day DR.. Butler received a
letter from a Woman's Democratic
Club in New Jersey, requesting a
signed photograph to be hung in its
surprised at our request" the fair
secretary wrote, las you are of an
other political faith. But we believe
that you are the greatest liberal in
American public life today. We be
lieTe that you, more than any other
man, CO n liberalize American politics"
DR.. Buffers friends say the Jersey
Democratic women's request is an
absolutely new kind of compliment.
Mt SaIn 90 orI1o
will be the next to ask for one of
his autographed portraits.
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There's been an amusing aftermath
to the late and futile revolution
among the Washington correspond
ents, fomented with a view to Undue
ing the white House spokesman" to
shed his anonymity. The leader of
the lost cause was Robert Choate of
the Boston Herald, descendant OF
Rufus Choate. Young Choate sailed
for a European vacation this week.
After he was on the high seas, a
group of journalistic colleagues in
Washington sent him radio message
reading: Bon voage, Rumors of your
deportation are spreading
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The Illinois Merchants Trust Co. al
Chicago has just moved into what II
claims to be the third largest office
building in the world, exceeded only
by the Equitable Trust skycraper In
New York and the Union Trust Build
| ing in Cleveland. The distinguishing
| feature of the Chicago bank struc
ture is that it is the first one in the
world to follow the general architec
tural treatment of the United States
Treasury Department at Washington
J The four Or ays lower stories. with