Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-15

Safely may it be predicted that
President Coolidge has stirred up a
hornets nest with his dictum that
fishing is a boys sport and not a
pastime for grown-ups. The Presi-
dent flies in the face of centuries of
history and tradition in assuming that
position. IF underground radio is per-
fected. as recent reports would indi-
cate. it is certain that the late Sir
Izaak Walton has been impelied to
turn in his grave by the piscatorial
bulletin from the White House. Sir
Izaak, of course, devoted THE Com
pleat Angler" from cover TO cover,
to disputing the theory just enunci-
sted by Mr.. Coolidge. Perhaps there
is no more pertinent passage in the
whole book than this:
Angling deserves commenda-.
lions. 1t is an art worthy the
knowledge and practice of a wise
man.
Herbert Hoover and John Garibaldi
Sargent, both members of the Coolidge
cabinet. probably are Americas most
celebrated anglers. European states
men long have fished-in trout
streams as well as in troubled political
waters. Early Grey of Fallodon for
merly Sir Edward Grey is Great Brit
aims most passionate angler. His
book on Fly Fishing" published in
1893, is still classic. NJ. Aristide
BRAND. who nearly became premier
of France again this week, goes fish
ing as his favorite recreation A
French newspaper correspondent who
heard the Presidents fishing views It
the White House observed, " hope
nobody will cable them to Paris.
BRAND has just become premier"
Herbert Hoover made a speech a year
or two ago in which he eXtolled fish
ing as an aid to clear thinking. He
intimated that the contemplation in
duced by waiting for bites was the re-
Elective mood of which there is too
little in public life.
For some inexplfcabIe reason the
chair occupied by Warren G. Harding
at cabinet meetings still stands in a
neglected corner of the cabinet room
in the White House executive offices.
1t bears the usual brass tablet-''The
President, March 4, 1921" But no.
body ever claimed it, following the
late Presidents sudden death. Pre-
sumably the chair some day will be
turned over to the Harding Memorial
Association. but at the moment it
awaits a claimant.
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Britain has never sent to Washing
ton a more democratic .Ambassa dor
than Sir Esme Howard, King George s
present envoy. This week Sir. Esme
lined up with a throng of a thousand
American Easter vacationists, to
await his turn for a handshake with
President Coolidge at the White
House offices. The Ambassador was
| chaperoning DR.. Hughes, a distin-
guished Canadian educationalist, who
came to Washington with 800 school
teachers from the Dominion. Ambas-
sailors, by tradition have the right
of way straight to the presidential
presence, but on this occasion Sir
Esme insisted on taking pot luck with
the schoolmarms and the other Yam.
kee patriots and taxpayers. Near by
was Representative Hamilton Fish,
jr., at the head of big delegation
| of bobbed-hair constituents from the
twenty-sixth district of New York.
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Girl clerks who remain in the Gov.
eminent service at Washington after
they get married are among the per-
sonnet evils with which the Coolidge
economy brigade is wrestling. This
observer has Just heard merry duip
about them. An F street sheik is said
Ito have sighed: All the girls with