Evening star., 1925-05-01

Many of his friends are convinced
that James Montgomery Beck retires
from the solicitor generalship a dis
appointed man. Most of them think
he has right to his disappointment
Beck has long had the ambition, as
he also has the talent, for higher of
flcial honors than ever came to him
The ambassadorship to the Court OF
| st. James is probably the post he
most coveted. There have been three
ENJOYS to Great Britain since 1921
Harvey, Kellogg and Houghton
Whenever there was vacancy
Beck's hopes were quickened, always
to be damped. His admirers believe
he would have made an admirable
Attorney General, too. Yet Beck was
doomed to see three other chiefs
come and go at the Department OF
Justice during his solicitorship there
He has strong claims on G.. o. p.
favor. One of the Nations master
orators, the party has used him freely
in campaigns. Beck is a rich man
and will not need to practice law for
a living. If he does, it will be on
rare occasions and in causes that
especially appeal to him, like great
Constitutional questions.
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One day during the war this oh.
server was interviewing Winston
Churchill in London. The young
British statesman was exhibiting his
library and some of the trophies that
adorn it. On the wall hung framed
sheet of writing paper, filled with
scribbled words and figures. That s
the rough draft of his first budget
before my late father, Lord Randolph
Churchill, introduced it into the House
of Commons as chancellor of the ex
chequer," said Winston" in accents
of pride. Now the son fills the great
post occupied a generation ago by the
parent. The son is destined, by all
the signs of the political zodiac, to
mount the heights the father longed
but failed, to scale, namely, the
premiership of Britain. AS certain
as anything can be in public life
Winston Churchill is headed for that
goal of all sons of Britannia. He is
Youthful, as statesmen go, having
Just turned so. Englishmen ascrfbe
his dash and daring to his half
American ancestry.
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The man who would have been
Secretary of the Treasury If Robert
Marion La Toilette had been elected
President has just been visiting this
part of the country. He is solomon
Levitan, State treasurer OF Wlscon-
sin, who was elected for the third
time in November, 1924. Mr.. Levitan
native of Germany, came to this
country in 1880 and began life as
farmland near Baltimore. For the
past 20 years he has been a banker
at Madison, the Capital of the Bad
ger State and citadel of La Toilette
ism. An active Progressive Repub-
lican" for the past 80 years, Mr.
Levitan burns sincere incense at the
shrine of Battling Bob" who looks
upon him as one of the financ1a
geniuses of the country.
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Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt il
about to have medal hung upon hel
not by the bootleggers syndicate
which loves her not at all, but bJ
the. national committee on prisons
and prison labor. Mrs. Willebrandt's
recognition for distinguished service
concerns the reorganization of the
Federal prison system under her dl-
rection as Assistant Attorney Gen
eraE' She has particularly interested
herself in the establishment of the
new Federal prison for women ir
West Virginia. Others to receive
medals on the same occasion in New
York on May % are Maj. Leroy
Hodges, managing director of the
Virginia Chamber of Commerce;
Burdette C. Lewis, State examiner OF
| institutions and agencies of New Jer-
sey, and the Texas Medical Associa-
| ton.
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American Policy and InternationaI
Security" is the title of highly i'm
portant discussion which win fea'