Evening star., 1925-06-24

Senator Ladd has left a monument
in North Dakota. 1t IS a wooden
fence. 1t stands on the campus of the
State Agricultural College, at Fargo,
of which Ladd was president for five
years preceding his election to the
United States Senate. The fence was
put up in connection with his fight
against the white lead interests. To
prove that the farmers of the West
were buying inferior paint at high
prices, Ladd had the North Dakota
Legislature build him a tall fence sew
eral hundred yards long. Then, as
chief chemist of the North Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station, he
conducted a series of systematic tests
with various grades of paint. In that
field he was a specialist. American
farmers today give Ladd the principal
credit both for the better quality and
the lower prices of paint.
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Although he was labeled radical in
politics and was typically Western in
his point of view, Edwin Fremont
Ladd was born and bred a New Eng
lander, like Calvin Coolidge himself.
He originated in small town in
Maine, and his early professional life
as a chemist was spent in the service
of New York State.
In 1890 he emigrated to North
Dakota, with which he was forever
after prominently identified. Senator
Burton X. Wheeler of Montana is an
other western" radical who halls
from New England. He was born in
Hudson, Mass, just outside of Boston,
but has lived in Montana since 1906
On a private occasion in Washington
shortly after he became President, Mr..
Coolidge expressed establishment to
learn that his own ancestral soil was
the breeding ground Of so many West
ern irregulars.
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In President Coolidge's budget
speech, on the eve of his departure
from Washington, he spoke of the
service Gen. Lord is giving to the
country "at a very great personal
sacrifice" The director of the budget
receives a salary of $4,000 a year
for saving Uncle Same tens of mil
lions. He probably could advertise
that his services were on the market
and sell them within "a hours at ten
times their present remuneration. II
corporations that could afford to EN-
ploy Lord on such terms as chief OF
their money-saving department.
Everett Sanders, assistant to the
President, who will be in charge of the
branch office of the Summer White
House at Lynn, Mass, has always
hankered to spend a vacation near
Stoughton, Wis. When asked why
Sanders says that he used to pay his
way through college by selling maps
in Wisconsin in Summer time. The
Stoughton area had an Unsuitable ap
petite for maps, and Sanders work
ed it" triumphantly. His record, OF
which he still boasts, was % cash
customers among 80 prospects. Some
times he regrets he didn't go in
for salesmanship instead of politics
Stephan Panaretoff, late Bulgarian
Minister to the United States, is to
become an American citizen. In taking
out his papers, Mr.. Panaretoff, Bull
garia's first envoy at Washington
has a celebrated precedent. Edmund
Charles Genet, the first French Min
lister sent to the United States, adopt
ed American citizenship. Genet was
recalled for trying to embroil this
country in war. Panaretoff was kept
at Washington for accomplishing the
exact opposite-namely, restraining
America from going to war with his
country. Mr.. Panaretoff, who Is now
75, came to Washington in 1914. He
had previously spent A years as pro
fessor Of history and languages al