Evening star., 1925-11-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Vice President Dawes faces the i'm
pending session of the Senate in first
class fighting form on the subject of
reform in the rules. This observer
eyewitnessed the generals latest on
| slaught on senatorial g-Windedness
at New York Saturday night. Dawes
determination to force the Senate to
install terminal facilities is apparent
ly more dogged than ever. In 15
States since last March the Vice
President has now preached his gospel.
He served notice on the Senate. with
two of its memberS-Copeland, Demo
crat, Of New York and Ernst, Re-
publican. Of Kentucky-there to hear
him do it, that Dawes will wade next
year into every solitary State that
is electing a Senator and urge its
people to demand that candidates
pledge themselves to reform the rules.
The Vice Presidents New York BIZ
partisan audience Of men Of affairs
from all parts of the country cheered
him to the echo. The harder he ham,
mered senatorial loquacity the more
fervent they chorused approval.
Dawes friends understand that he
has up his sleeve, for use at some
PSYCHOLOGICAL moment, even dead
lier ammunition than anything he
has yet exploded. 1t is designed,
they hear. TO blow the opposition into
smithereens.
One of Americas distinguished World
War admirals, Joseph Strauss, having
been born on November 16, 1861,
reaches the retirement age and leaves
the United States Navy this week. If
he were a British instead Of a Yankee
tar. Strauss could now call himself
"Sir Joseph" like the admiral In Pima
FORE for King George V. knighted him
for his war services. Admiral Strauss
won his first fame 80 years ago as the
inventor of the superimposed turret
system of mounting guns on battle
ships, which is now in vogue In all
first-class navies. During the war. as
commander of the mine force of the
Atlantic fleet, Strauss laid the great
mine barrage that stretched across the
North Sea from Norway to Scotland.
A total of Sc, 600 American mines was
planted under his direction-an inn
penetrable barrier to the German fleet
if it had ever essayed a sortie from
its hiding place. Admiral Strauss
plans a trip to Europe shortly, to re-
new acquaintance with the scenes of
his wartime activities. He was an
honor man in the Annapolis class Of
1885.
Kent Cooper, the new young general
manager of the Associated Press, Is,
like a myriad of his fellow newspaper
men, an Indianian. He told In WASH
ington the other day how he recently
accomplished a miracle at Boston,
with Albert jeremiah Beveridge as the
goat at used to be my fate as cub
reporter" says Cooper. ito have to re-
port Beveridge's speeches. At the COM
yn1f ,tp,s irn n
O'Brien. editor Of the Boston Herald,
Beveridge had to sit through a speech
Of mine, without being invited to make
one himself The Hoosier strain is
running at full tide through the Coop
er blood. Not long ago Jane Cooper,
the "a. P" generalissimo's 16-year-old
daughter, had the opportunity of
choosing where she wanted to go to
college. She had her pick Of Vassar,
Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke and the rest of 'em. She Sc
lected the University of Indiana. Said
Jane: Dad, your own father and
mother went to Indiana, were gradual
ed there, and became your parents in
consequence. Indiana's good enough
for me- Cooper's mother was In
diana's first coed. He Is himself an
alumnus of the Bloomington institu-
ton.
Senator Lawrence D. Tyson. Demo
crat, of Tennessee, one of the new
corners to the Sixty-ninth Congress,
will be heard from forcefully on ques-
tions of national defense. Tyson has
always taken a deep interest in Ten
nessee military affairs and is a con-
sistent believer in preparedness. AL.
though away past military ASe when