Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21

sci, Frank ]. Hogan, during a House
hearing, hardly a line of the long and
bitter controversy that ragged around
the Commissioners head was pub
lished in the newspapers of the coun.
try. Now that President Coolidge will
have to deal with District affairs from
White Pine Camp, on which the Ma
tons gaze these days is concentrated,
WaShington'S municipal joys and
woes may get some of the limelight
they deserve. There's an astonishing
ignorance among the American peo-
pie, by and large, about the govern
ance of the Capital City. It's voteless
plight is far from generally known.
How the Federal metropolis is admin
istered is as Greek to millions of citi-
Zens. Usually Washington's political
disabilities only have to be called to
an enlightened Americans attention
to evoke expressions of protest and
sympathy.
Andrew w. Mellon, though ac-
knowledged to be one of the world s
financial geniuses, Is addicted to an
old-fashioned and completely out-of-
date business habit. He still has his
letters copied by the ancient copy
book method, and they reach destina-
ton with the familiar evidence of hav-
ing been run through wringer. In
law an actual copy of a letter is prob
l.ably prima facie proof, while the car
bon copy with which the business
world of today is better acquainted
might be no evidence at all. Cartoons
seldom bear the writer's signature, for
xOne thing. For another thing, a man
often edits a phrase or a sentence into
the letter he signs without troubling
to have a secretary change the car
bon. Uncle Andy" is a careful man
and his partially for copying a let
ter 'as Isl shows it.
F. Trubee Dawson, the new Assist
ant Secretary of War for aviation, is
going to keep weather eye on one
project not directly connected with his
Army duties. That is the completion
Of magnificent ocean drive along the
south shore of Long Island from New
York to Montauk Point. One of Mr..
Davison's last speeches in the New
York Assembly was plea for the ma
terialization of such a project. He
pointed out that it offers no Difficult
| ties from an engineering standpoint,
| if there are causeways, bridges and
occasional deviations from a straight
| line. Until the ocean drive is laid out,
one has to travel along the south
shore Of Long Island for nearly 20
miles without glimpse of the Attain
tic.
X II X
Young Teddy" Roosevelt. former
i Assistant Secretary Of War, is putting
in the last two weeks Of July as
rookie at Plattsburg Citizens Military
| Training Camp. He was there in the
same capacity as younger man IN
1911. Addressing this months contin-
gent Of lads at Plattsburg, after a box
| ing bout one day this week, the
colonel recalled his, distinguished ia
! theirs visit to the camp Is years ago,
and "T. RS speech, in which young
| America was adjured: Don't finch,
don't foul, and hit the line hard!'
| There's music in the air at the
Venezuelan legation In Washington,
for the new minister from that coun-
| try, Senior DIR. Don Carlos Grisanti,
not only is an accomplished pianist
but heads family Of daughters, all
of whom are musicians. The girls play
| the violin, harp, guitar and some in
stuments native to the Latin coun-
| tries. One of the treats the Grisantis
are fond of providing for their guests
at the legation Is an informal family
concert. The minister is a professor of
llaw and author of standard text books
on Jurisprudence.
(Copyright 1920