Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-30

Holiday time is handshakinG time at
the White House like Easter and the
height of the Washington tourist seq
son. College boys and girls and school
children on vacation make up the end
less queues of persons who line up
inside and outside the executive Of
fees between 1870 and | pm. for
presentation to the President. Daily
Mr. Coolidge era Sps the hands of from
500 to $50 patriots and taxpayers az
this midday receiving hour. Early In
his career the President was bored by
these homespun visits from his we'll
mea ming countrymen and country
women Now he has come to like
them and even to look forward TO
them. Mr.. Coolidge does not unduly
drag out the MONDAY functions. The
handshakers are Speeded along at
about the gait Travelled by the moving
sidewalk from which parts are slapped
and dashed onto Mr.. Ford's automo-
biIes at Detroit. But the President
takes time to smile, give "a real grip
and say Glad to see you. to every
mothers son and daughter whom his
vigilant secretaries and Secret Service
shepherds pilot past him.
DR.. Samuel A. Eliot. eloquent BoS
ton clergyman who was Wilson birth
day orator in Washington, is coming
to look n lot like his distinguished
father. the president emeritus of Har-
ward. DIR. Charles w. Eliot. although
the SON a giant, looms head and
shoulders over the parent. In his VIII
son address DR.. Eliot achieved the I'M
usual feat Of reading from manu-
script and creating the impression
that he was delivering an Grafton.
Only few public speakers are mas
ters of that art. There were some
Passages in Eliot's address that might
have fallen from the lips of Woodrow
Wilson himself. This one. for in
s,ance-"Peace is not the absence of
conflict. 1t is the presence of brother
hood.
Newton D. Baker of Cleveland rose.
as he always does, to eminent heights
in his eXtempore eulogy of the World
War President. 1t has been said that
if Baker were inches taller he
would be Americas master orator. AS
il is. he never fails to arouse his au'
diences to pitches of great emotion.
At the Wilson birthday anniversary
banquet in Washington, the former
Secretary Of War painted glowing
picture of the enduring effective
ness of Wilson ideals. I'm 1916
for President because he kept us out
of war 1t was not many months be-
fore he was no longer able to keep us
out of war. But today, in consequence
of the League of Nations, which Will.
son more than any man created, he
has literally kept tens of millions out
of war-Italians, Greeks, Poles, Bull
garians. Serbs-who are alive and at
peace becau use of what he wrought
Yale University. from which he was
graduated in 1906, is about to honor
the memory of Maj. Robert Whitney
Imbrie, the American foreign service
officer murdered in Persia a couple of
years ago. 1t is planned to place his
unique collection of war trophies and
records in the new Peabody Museum
of the university as a permanent me-
mortal. The installation will be ar
| ranged by the Book and Gavel So
ciety. Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, Of
which Maj. Imbrie was a member, will
pass resolutions at it's forthcoming
| convention in st. Louis providing for
a permanent memorial in the new
chapter house at Yale. The Persian
government paid Maj. Imbrie's widow
now a resident of Washington, an in
demnity of 100000 a year ago. Rep
reSentatlVe Br1tten of Illinois recently
! introduced a bill in the House pro-
| viding for Treasury grant of an ad-
ditional $4,000 to her. The United
States exacted from Persia the sum
of $4,000. representing the cost of
| sending the cruiser Trenton to Per-
sian waters for transport of Maj.
| Imbries remains to this country. The
State Department is asking Congress
to set aside that amount as a fund