Evening star., 1925-04-06

II Vice President Dawes Is caug nj
afternoon mapping hereabouts, the
siesta henceforward will be under his
own roof and not in a hotel room.
INQUIRIES are being made on the
generals behalf for a rentable resi-
dence in Washington, which the vice
presidential family would like to
occupy before the convening of the
Sixty-ninth Congress. Mr.. Dawes
has expressed some preference for the
fashionable new Massachusetts, ave-
nue. extension" region, which one
day will be adorned by the magnif1-
cent new embassy of Great Britain.
If he pitches his tent there he Will
have his fellow-Chicagoan, Repre-
sentative Martin B. Madden, for a
nearby neighbor.
Chief Justice William Howard Taft
has launched an interesting crusade
against the word drive" as applied
to campaigns for fund raising on be-
half of worthy causes. The other
day, when opening the drive" for
the Hampton -Tusk egee fund at the
John Hays Hammond home, Mr.. Taft
expressed undisguised dislike of the
term. Drive he pointed out, too
much suggests being driven" to be
palatable to those who are asked to
give money. 1t was the World War
that put drive" on the American
lansuage map. Liberty loans, the
Red Cross, the "Y" organizations and
the Salvation Army were its joint
progenitors. "Camouf1a ge'' having
been pretty effectually relegated with
the passage of the years, the Chief
Justice seems to think IL is time 10
embalm drive"
The Coolidge administration, new
style. has been in office barely
month, but such is the news famine
in Washington that 1928 presidential
demonstrations are already rife
Long distance prophets, immune from
official, denials at this early stage of
their dreamings, put forth these line
UPS as likely nomination contestants:
Republicans-Coo Dawes, Borah,
Stone, Hoover, Pinchot, Wadsworth
Willis, Bingham and Kenyon. Demo
crats-Smith, McAdoo, Robinson
Ritchie, owen D. Young, Huston
Thompson, Franklin Roosevelt, Baker
and Silzer. Mr. Bryan will be only
| 68 in 1925.
Radio. all-conquering, has scored its
first victory in the realm Of political
plums. Representative William E
| Hull, Republican, of Illinois, who has
| just been appointed by President
| Coolidge to represent the United
States at the Pan-American High
| ways Congress in Argentina, was in
| charge of radio activities for the Re
publican national committee during
| the 1924 campaign. All of the all
that was given to Coolidge, Dawes
| Hughes, Hoover and other G.. o. P
| stumpers was allotted and arranged fol-
by Mr.. Hull who was on duty at Chi
cago headquarters. The President
thought highly of the work Hull ac-
! complished in that particular field
Mr.. Hull, who once was a distiller, i:
/ a pioneer good-roads man, and helped
turn Illinois from a swamp into ar
automobile paradise.
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| John V. A. MacMurray, the
new American Minister-designate tc
| China, edited the work that was tn,
"bible" of the Washington armament
| conference. 1t is called Treaties ant
| China, 1894-1919," and consists o.
| two fat volumes crammed with dip
| lomatic facts about that distracted
| country. To "MacMurray, on China,
| the Far Eastern section OF the con
4 ference turned as If to the last wore
on that subject, as, indeed, 1t Il
| everywhere regarded. The yeunf
| American diplomatist, who will re
| turn to the Orient where his caree
began. in Siam, IS years ago, 10