Evening star., 1926-11-10

Queen Marie, according to the latest
ARRANGEMENTS, will spend only three
days in WashinEton-Nov "a,
rs and 26. One of them-Thursday.
November 25-is Thanksgiving day.
Her maiesty's plans here include a
gala dinner and diplomatic reception
to be rendered by the Italian Am
bassador and Signora de Marti1o at
the beautiful new embassy on SIX
teenth street. One of the Queens
other Washington days has been as
signed to the Rumanian legation
which will hold a brilliant reception
in her honor. One day. Marie has
decreed, shall be entirely her own,
untrammeled by engagements of any
kind, in order that she may "do"
our Capital magnificent in her own
queenly and vivacious way.
X X X X
Whether or not the President Is
playing politics and spiking Demo
cratic guns with his new taxrebate
talk, it's the kind Of language that
mainly has built up the Coolidge
myth the country over. People
sometimes damn Mr.. Coolidge with a
faint praise. They deplore his un-
emotionalism. They wish he were
more like Teddy Roosevelt. They call
him uninspiring. But they usually
end up by acclaiming Coolidge s
safety and sanity, and they always
stress economy and the tax reduc'
ton which it permits as the Presi-
dents chief claim to public favor.
SO. in the vernacular Of f>the era, he
is doing his stuff" when he harps on
the favorite chord in the Coolidge
repertoire The Nation at large is not
interested in politics. What does
make it sit up and take notice is any
thing that messages the pocket nerve
in the right direction. That's what
proposals of tax rebates and tax
refunds do. Hence. the front page
and the limelight for the President
those soothing subjects.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.. grandson
of the late "scholaI' in politics. has
resumed his newspaper work in
Washington after his maiden venture
in the field that gave his family re-
nown. Lodge, jr, organized for the
late senatorial campaign in Massachu.
setts the Republican Associates,
composed for the most part OF new
voters and other young men with q.
O. p. leanings. A few nights before
election he made his first public
speech-before the Middlesex Club, In
Roston. 1t was a clarion call to arms
for the impending fray. The talk
was modest and incisive. But 1t had
an even more admirable quality-i1
was only five minutes in length. If
brevitv is the soul of success in poll.
tics, Henry Cabot Lodge, jr, should
go far. At present, journalism alb
serbs his enthusiasm. although there
have been stories that he is slated for
an attractive post in the foreign serV'
ice. with duty in the State Depart
ment.
Senator George H. Moses. Republi
can, of New Hampshire, referring to
the fates that overlook Butler in Mas
sachusetts and Wadsworth in New
York. calls himself the only spared
monument on the Atlantic Coast.
Moses doesn't think the United States
Senate during the next year and
half will do much else than try 10
elect itself, Jointly and severally, Pres
ident in 1928. New Hampshlre's in
vincible favorite son asserts there are
no fewer than 80 Barkises, Republi
cans and Democrats, ''perking up
and willing to do service as national
standard bearers two years hence.
X X \ *
Frederick w. Peabody Of Ashburn
ham. Mass. who petitioned the Presi
dent in July of this year to cancel the
| war debts Europe owes US. Is now en-
gagged In an effort to organize ths
country In favor Of cancellation. TIC
thousands Of private addresses MI