Evening star., 1925-03-23

When the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg were young
people in Rochester. Mimi, 30 years
ago, they lived through many cy-
clone and tornado such as those when
lust devastated southern Hiinols-
R,,zzards and other violent freaks OF
wind and weather were as regular as
the seasons in those days IN our
Northwestern country. The hellosss
can REM ember cyclone that not only
demolished towns. but swept men anu
women off their feet and carried tnen
hundreds of yards away. ripping of
their clothing in the process anu
rending them limb from limb No
body in Minnesota in the roaring
COS was ever sure that he'd come
home at the end OF the day and ma
his house standing where IL was
moored when he left 1T. When Frank
Kellogg came out Of the East TO carve
fame and fortune out of the North
west he found a certain pretty girl
named Clara NJ Cook, the belle or
Rochester, where he had arrived, a
lad of 9. She is now the wife of the
American Secretary of state and chlef
hostess of the Washington diplomatic
corps.
Forthcoming proceedings in the
Supreme Court, involving the right OIL
the President to remove Federal
official without consent of the SEN
ate-the Portland. Greg, postmaster
case-will present some amusing per-
sonal angles Counsel for the Gov
ernment is Solicitor General James
r-il
'o~ality OF action TIL ken hv President
Wilson, of whom the Solicitor Cen
eral was an uncompromising and bit
ter foe The right of Congress. and
particularly of the Senate, to prevent
presidential removal of Senate
confirmed offcial will be defended by
Senator George Wharton Pepper OF
Pennsylvania. Within the fortnight
Mr. Pepper has been valiant advo-
cate OF presidential prerogative as
against senatorial pretension-of the
theory that the Executive is entitled
to una ssailab1e precedence over Con-
gress in the matter of choosing his
advisers. still another personal
equation in a legal battle involving
White House rights is that it will be
fought under the supervision OF a
former President-WiIliam Howard
Taft-now Chief Justice of the United
States.
The Oldest name on the American
diplomatic register is that Of Edward
Augustine Savoy. a negro, who on May
., having reached the age of 10. will be
retired under the statute. Savoy has
been the doorkeeper of every Secretary
OF State since Hamilton Fish filled that
Office in 1863. and functioned in the
same capacity for IS succeeding Secre-
taries, including the present incumbent,
Mr.. Kellogg. Eddie as two genera
tions OF State Department inmates and
visitors have known hinss hosds. a. his
chief c,aiyg3 to fame the "a OF that !Secre-
tary Sherman sent him to senior Polo de
Barnabe, the Spanish Ministers with The
envoy's passports and our ultimatum
when We went to war with Spain in
1898 The same year Secretary Day
took Eddie" to Paris for the peace
conference and let him affiX the great
seal Of the United States to the treaty
there signed. Savoy is a spry septu-
agena rian. and hopxs to be retained for
the extra two years permitted under the
civil service rules Ito one who has
reached the retirement age.
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President Coolidge's Congregational
pastor. the Rev. DR., Jason Noble Pierce
tAmherst '02). was chaplain in the
I'd Division all through the Chateau
Thierry- Beueau Wood-Argonne cam
paign in France. Thsre.s nothing about
DIR. Pierce that remotely suggests the
pacifist He's fightin parson. though
q Sace advocate DR. Pierce told p Ed
Division reunion the olheS night that
the role of the United States Army,
Navy and air force might we'll be that
OF trafffc cops throughout the world.
Our job he said, should be the regu-