Evening star., 1925-11-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Vice President Dawes expects to
| reach Washington on Thursday, De-
cember 8, and be on duty in the vice
presidential chamber for four days
before he calls the Senate to order on
December Z. The mansion on the
heights of Sixteenth street, which Mr..
and Mrs. Dawes have leased as their
Washington home, is ready for their
occupancy. 1t will be the first time
in more than II years that the Vice
President of the United States has
lived at the National Capital in a
| home of his own. Both the Marshalls
and the Coolidges lived in hotels-a
circumstance necessitated by the fact
that neither Mr.. Marshall nor Mr..
Coolidge was a man of sufficient pri-
vate means to maintain an establish
ment in keeping with the social dig
nifty Of the high office to which he was
elected. Vice President Dawes Is a
| rich man. He Is reputed to be once or
twice a millionaire. Mrs. Dawes is
an accomplished hostess and her home
probably will be the scene of repre-
sentative hospitality. Music is sure
| ing there, because Of the Vice Presi-
! dents melodious predictions.
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Edward NJ. Houses book of mem
oirs, his friends understand, is to
| be entitled THE Intimate Papers Of
| Col. House." The memoirs, for the
! present at least, will lift the veil on
| the activities of President Wilson's
| confidential man only up to the time
| of our going to war, in 1917. Col.
| Houses collaboration in the prepara-
ton of his book is Charles Seymour,
professor Of history at Yale Univer-
sity. DIR. Seymour was chief of the
Austro- Hungarian division of the
American peace mission at Paris and
| the United States delegate on the
| Rumanian, Jugoslavian and Czecho-
| slovakian territorial commissions.
| House and Seymour were joint edi-
| tors of a peace conference publication
| called What Really Happened at
| Paris"
Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant Secretary
! of State, is back from his native Ohio
after an experience that threatened
diplomatic complications between the
State Department and the Buckeye
State. Carr went rabbit shooting the
other day with a brother of his, who
| is a farmer near HillSboro, where the
Anti-Saloon League was born. The
Carrs had just bagged their single
| bunny when a burly chap, also garbed
| in huntsman's togs, drove up and, ad-
dressing the dignified Assistant Secre-
| tary of State, asked him to produce
| his hunters license. Carr said he had
none. Whereupon the stranger yanked
back his Sheepskin coat and displayed
| a star revealing that he was the coun-
| ty game warden. Things looked seri-
Gus for a moment until Carr disclosed
his identity and his brother explained
| that they were poaching on his own
farm. That, in the language in which
Secretary Kellogg's adjutants are ac-
customed to speak, closed the Incl
dent.
His friends in Washington rejoice in
| the assurance that M. Emile Daesch-
| ner, the Ambassador of France, is
! not. to be retired. Unauthorized re-
potts few weeks ago alleged that NJ.
Daeschner was soon to make way for
| Senator Berenger, a member Of the
| recent Caillaux debt mission to Wash
ington. Just how the tale originated
| the Ambassador is at loss to explain
and refuses to guess. When the Call
laux party was here, there was a sug-
getion that Berenger, who is a great
power in the French Parliament on
financial Questions-a sort OF Gallo
edition OF Reed Smoot-aspired to
| come back in the capacity Of French
Ambassador and settle the debt ques-
| ton. Whether his ambitions in that
direction are at the bottom Of the
Daeschner retirement rumor can only
be surmised. French diplomats, like
our own, are subject to the caprices of