Evening star., 1925-01-12

In the lightning fashion in which he
is plugging holes in his administra-
tion, Cautious Car is upsettihs an
other Coolidge legend. Never In
White House history was there less
slowness OF decision than the past
week has recorded. McKenna quits
the Supreme Court, and Stone is
named for the vacated place the same
day. waTen's appointment as Stones
successor would probably have been
announced simultaneously except for
the temporary opposition Of the Mich
igan delegation. Hughes shocks and
stuns the Nation by resigning from
the Secretaryship of State The
White House bulletin that contains
those tidings also proclaims that
Kellogg comes home from the London
embassy to head the State Depart
ment. OF course, none of these things
happened, or even happens, with the
suddenness that appears on the sur
face. Nevertheless. President Cool
idge Is revealed as a man or swift
action. 1t is an attribute not popu-
larly associated, with him, even
though experts like Frank Stearns say
it is constitutional and characteristic
No. farewell token bestowed upon
Ambassador Jusserand has AFFORDED
him greater pleasure than silver
loving cup given him by the members
of the celebrated Roosevelt tennis
cabinet" 1t reached the retiring
French envoy at Christmas time and
is inscribed: "a token of lasting
friendship" Then follow the names
Of the ten men who constituted "T.R.' s
unofficial household. Some of them
like Col. Roosevelt himself. have
passed on; others are. still prominent
in American public life. The list In
cludes Theodore Roosevelt, Jules j
Jusserand, Robert Bacon. Assistant
Secretary of State. 1868; James r
Garfield, Secretary of the Interior
1s07-s; Herbert Knox Smith. deputy
commissioner of corporations, Depart.
ment of Commerce and Labor; George
Won Lengerke Meyer, Postmaster Gen.
eral, 1907-9 Lawrence 0. Murray, AS
sistant Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor, and Controller of the Cur.
rency; Philip Lee Phillips, CHIEF
director Of maps, Library of Congress
clifford Pinchot, chief forester. and
tary of the Treasury, 1so7-s.
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One of the significant signs of the
new international times Is the party
which the George washington Sui
grave Institution is giving in New
York on January 90 in honor. ot
| Timothy A. Smiddy, Irish Minister Il
| the United States: It wasn't so long
ago that 1t would have been almost
! reasonable for an Anglo-Americar
! friendship organization to lioniZe. ar
exponent of Ireland Libre. A specia
| committee, consisting of a hundred o1
| the most distinguished men in -t1t
| United States, is In charge of the
reception and dinner to be rendered
| Prof Smiddy. Among them i.
| Admiral Sims. who has rubbed Erir
| the wrong way on more than one ex
! plosive occasion. Charles M. ySchw. alb
Rabbi Wise, Vincent Astor, Otto H
Kahn and Dwight w. Morrow-Presi
/ dent Coolidges chum at Amherst-ar,
among the prime movers in the fune
| ton.
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| Charles Beocher Warren of Mich
| igan, President Coelidge's new Attor
ney General, probably earned hi
spurs with the administration at TIN
| Cleveland national convention las
| June Warren was chosen by tn,
Butler high command to be chairman
| of the resolutions committee. Th
Michigan delegation. in which th'
| State organization was paramount
| protested Warren's choice, but he ha,
| the backing of the White House
| which was monarch or all 1t sur
veyed Warren came straight to tn
! convention from a conference witt
President Coolidge and remained Il
unbroken teiephonic connection witt
| the Executive Mansion until the plat
Storm was fait accompli. Insider