Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

service there as a tactical officer ami
as commandant of cadets.
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Albert jeremiah Beveridge is wind
ing up the Summer at Beverly, Mass.
putting the finishing touches to his
new life of Abraham Lincoln. \
Washingtonian who recently visited
BE Tcridge's literary workshop tells
this observer that one of the Hoosier
statesman's failings is a somewhat
inactive sense OF humor. Not long
ago, according to the authority just
mentioned, a caller, affecting a mien
Of entire seriousness, said to Bev-
eridge, Senator, your admirers have
always thought it was extremely
sportsmanlike of you to devote two
magnificent volumes to Marshall. see
ing that you and he were political
enemies out in Indiana so many
years. Beveridge steadied himself
and calculated, MY God, man! Sure
ly you know 1 wrote the life Of John,
not Tom, Marshall, don't you?"
II X Il
The international Lyceum and
Chautauqua Association is holding it's
annual convention at Philadelphia
this week. One of the pioneer Chau-
tauqua men of the country. DR.. Paul
NJ. Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa.
seizes upon the occasion to correct n
long-standing misrepresentation about
William Jennings Bryans Chautauqua
activities. Most professional speak.
ers who seek fame and fortune as
talent" beneath the big brown Chau-
tauqua tents ask. and customarily
receive, q cash guarantee for their
services. no matter whether they turn
out to be drawing cards or not Tick.
cts for Chautauqua," Pearson eX.
plains, are usually sold for the en-
tire week of it's stay in q town--that
is. patrons buy, at special rates. tick
cts which entitle them to attend all
the performances of the week. Bryan
never received any part of this money
He always agreed to come for one
half of the extra admissions leash
money! attracted 20 the tent by his
presence. 1t brought him a good sum.
put there are mighty few Chautauuua.
lecturers or entertainers who would
De willing to take that chance. BRYAN
mad confidence in his drawing power"
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When the Washington diplomatic
season reopens, following the return
or the President and vacation making
Ambassadors and Ministers, there will
He is Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
who inherits that coveted flank fol.
lowing the retirement of Senior Don
Juan Riano, the Spanish Ambassador.
Baron de Cartier is now in his
eleventh successive year as Irieian
envoy in the United States. He held
the rank of Minister at the time of
his arrival In 1916, becoming Ambas-
sador in 1919 at the time of King AL.
bert's visit to America. The Baroness
de Cartier. like the preceding doyenne
OF the corps, Mime. Jusserand, is an
American, formerly Miss Marie Dow
of Boston. The Belgian Ambassador.
through long residence in this cOun-
try. enjoys a wide acquaintance both
with American public men and with
American politics. At home, In his
own country, de Cartier ranks high
as n statesman. He has spent the
Summer in Belgium. familiarizing
himself with present-hour European
conditions.
A Washington colored man almost
as famous as Maj. Arthur Brooks,
colored custodian of the White House.
who has just passed away. is John
Sims, head barber of the United States
Senate. Once upon a time a BARRIERS
side line was surgery. Sims outside
speciality is soul-saving. lie is pastor
of the Universal Holiness Church. a
prominent negro congregation. Sims
before the Civil War was a slave In
the South. After emancipation he set
tied down In Iowa as a barber. 1t
was through the ministrations of the
late Senators James F. Wilson and
William b. Allison of the Hawkeye
State that he came to Washington
and eventually was made boss of the
Senate tonsorial establishment States.
men galore, including many Vice
Presidents. have intrusted their chins
to Sims care and also gone TO hear
him preach on Sundays. What is it
folks like about your sermons" Sims
was asked the other day. Salvation.
he said. II preach salvation--the old.
fashioned gospel" IIe is in his eighty.
third year and still vigorous
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