Evening star., 1925-02-27

John w. Davis Is a better sport
than John Adams was. The late
Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency is going to be in Washington
on March 4, the day Calvin Coolidge
is inaugurated. John Adams was so
enraged over his defeat for re-elec-
tion in 1900 that he declined to at
tend the Inauguration Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, who beat him. on March 4,
1901. Mr.. Davis is not coming to
the Capital to see his conQueror in
Quoted into Office It's law business
that will bring him here. He is
counsel for the Cement Manufac-
turers' Protective Association IN an
appeal case before the Supreme Court
to oppose dissolution demanded by
the Government under the Sherman
antitrust act. Mr. Davis is expected
in Washington on March 2. The
duration of his visit depends on the
date the cement case is called up
for argument. He will be the guest
of former Secretary Of State Robert
Lansing while here. The Woman's
National Democratic Club wants Mr..
Davis to preside over its get-togethe er
dinner in Washington on the night
Of March z, when Gov. Nellie Ross OF
Wyoming will be the guest of honor.
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No finer funeral eulogies have been
uttered in a long time than the ones
which Senator Reed OF Missouri and
Pepper of Pennsylvania pronounced
over Medill McCormick's bier. 1t was
an unfamiliar performance for the
Missouri Democrat, whose autobiog-
raphy proudly attests that as a public
prosecutor in Kansas City he secured
2S5 convictions out of 2S7 cases.
There was nothing of Reeds police
court manner" as Lodge once called
1t, in his panegyric on Mccormick.
Reed could play a Roman senator in
Julius Caesar without a makeup
looking every inch the part, and his
eloquence at the Mccormick obsequies
was in full keeping with such a role
Peppers oratory lacks the sonorous
polish of Reeds, but the Pennsyl-
vanian, too, struck an extraordinarily
high note. His quotation of Nc
Cormick's favorite passage from the
Bible, faultlessly delivered, made a
deep impression on an audience in
ured to forensic fireworks.
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George william, Cardinal Munde-
lein of Chicago, who is now in Rome,
told Washingtonians recently that he
narrowly missed becoming a sailor
instead of priest. Brought up on
the oceanside in New York, he had an
early longing to go to Annapolis and
follow the career of naval officer
Until the hour Of his final decision to
enter the church, Mundelein veered
almost irresistibly toward the sea as
a calling. Not many know that 1t was
only three of four years ago that the
cardinal, then Archbishop OF Chicago,
was so broken in health that he faced
the possibility of retirement. Some
one told him the Panama Canal Zone
was the climate he needed for restora-
tive purposes. There he spent nearly
two months, and came away, giant
refreshed. Cardinal Mundelein's new
college for priests, at Chicago, will
introduce an innovation in theo.
logical seminaries. West Point
physical requirements Will be imposed
upon all candidates for admission.
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Secretary Hughes will say goodbye
to the Latin American diplomatic
corps in Washington at a farewell
luncheon in his honor II the Pan
American Palace on Monday, March 2
Our Central and South American
friends part official company from
Mr.. Hughes with particularly keen
regret. No Secretary of State in CO.
temporary times has done more to
cement genuinely cordial relations