Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

American is about to be visited-or.
rather, crossed--by another scion of
royalty. He is Prince Chichibu, old
est brother Of Crown Prince Hirohito.
the regent of Japan, who will become
Emperor in the event Of the passing
of the present ruler now reported at
deaths door. It is this tragedy in
the imperial family that calls Prince
Chichibu suddenly home from Oxford
University, where he has been stu
| dent in Magdalen College-the Prince
of Wales alma mater-for the past
year and a half. The Ntpponese
prince, a man of "a, will reach New
York about December %. Though he
| Is Immediately proceeding across the
country, en- route to his steamer on
| the Pacific Coast, Chichibu will be
welcomed at New York in the name
| of the United States Government by
J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary
| of State. Mr.. Wright Is Uncle Sam 8
| official glad-hander when distinguished
| strangers are in our arid midst.
Whether Prince Chichibu will pass
| through Washington, to pay respects
| to President Coolidge, has not yet
| been decided. The Japanese royalty,
| known as the sports prince" because
| of his passion for mountaineering,
boating and tennis, is accompanied by
| Baron Hayashi, distinguished mem
Der of his country's diplomatic service
| and former ambassador in London
| and Rome.
Plans are being perfected for a pic
] fotn
home to the 10 United States Army
Air Service pilots who have just
| hoped off for a four-month flying
tour of Latin America. Maj. II. A.
| Dargue's gallant squadron of five
amphibian planes, due back at Boiling
Field, Washington, around about the
end Of April, hopes so to time It's ar
rival that the planes will land here on
! the day of the opening Of the Pan
American Commercial Congress. This
will be convened during the first days
of May. Two hundred of the leading
Chamber of Commerce officials OF
| Central and South America will come
| together at the annual meeting or
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. Never before have the bust
ness men of all the Americas clasped
hands in joint assembly.
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! One of the unrecorded episodes or
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cats recent
peace conference in Washington re-
wolves around an aborttve attempt TO
bring Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and MRS.
| William E. Borah together over the
tea cups. There is, of course, not the
slightest enmity between the nrst
lady of the League and the wire OF
| the Senate chairman on foreign rela-
tions. Nor was there ever any per-
sonal hostility between Wilson ana
| Borah. But a Washington society
matron, with a fair for the higher
politics, thought 1t would be In keep
ing with the spirit of Mrs. Gait
Icause-and-cure-of-w pow-woW TO
have Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Borah
"get together" cozily at pm. In
vitations were sent to them both. But,
so this observer is veraciously IN
formed, neither Of them showed up.
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The late Associate Justice Nc
Kenna of the United States Supreme
Court began life as a shorthand law
reporter, like many a man who has
achieved distinction, and never for
sock the art of taking notes in HER
oglyphics. For years Justice McKenna
kept tab on arguments in the Su
preme Court by means of shorthand
and 1t was even his custom to write out
his opinions by that means. He was
fortunate in having a secretary who
could decipher McKenna's notes with
almost unerring accuracy. The be-
loved old jurist left behind him a mass
of shorthand papers which. when de-
coded, ought to make interesting
memoirs of McI<enna's 81 years on
honrh
n " X X
l. Elihu Root was recently in Wash,
ington. and. like the retired sailor who