Evening star., 1926-04-11
SHADES OF COL LONIALISTS CHIDE
OFFICIALS AT GRIDIRON DINNER

The Governor cut the deck and turned
up a joker
How Hughes Resigned.
Talked a long while to the Gov
ernor today He said nothing. but
carried away the impression that
Hughes will stay in the cabinet until
the end Of the administration. Butler
felt the same way"
Next day--Hughes resigned. His
letter to the Governor was dated
week ago"
Next day - Another long tall,
with the Governor He said nothing
but I am sure he will not appoint a
new Secretary of State for at least a
month. Butler felt the same way"
Next day--Frank b. Kellogg ap
pointed Secretary Of State"
! StearnS to Butler:
Did you recommend Kellogg"
Butler to Stearns:
mo Did you?"
Stearns to Butler:
! NO"
When the bidding started one mys.
terious stranger seemed willing to go
to any amount in order to get the
diary. Inquiry developed that he
wanted to suppress II. he admitted
finally that he was ''the White House
spokesman"
The Prohibition Issue.
Efforts of Senator Butler Of Massa-
chusetts and Senator Smoot of Utah.
! Republicans. to effect a permanent
| political merger with Senators Sim
mons Of North Carolina and Swanson
of Virginia, Democrats, were shatter-
ed when Senators Edge of New Jersey
| and McKellar Of Tennessee. respec.
| lively wet" and dry" introduced
the prohibition debate.
| III this issue is coming into the
| campaign our merger might as we'll
dissolve" Butler declared.
alcohol is the great solvent that
dissolves every other ISSUE" Edge
/ agreed, as McKellar predicted:
You won't hear anything else in
this campaign
But won't we Republicans get a
chance to talk about the tax bill?''
Smoot pleaded.
Mo- Edge and McKellar shouted.
| Wont we Democrats get a chance
to talk about the World Court?"
Swanson asked.
| mo-.
| Wont I get chance to talk about
rules reform?" Dawes demanded.
"No"'
Want Ad. GlOrified.
The clubs annual musical revue
/ was given over to glorification of the
American want ad. The singers, ar
rayed in type-bespattered smocks rep
resenting the classified ad. sections Of
| leading newspapers. dwelt tunefully
| upon the wants and woes of many Of
those in the audience and others emf
| nent in national affairs.
q
Labor Davis offered ito exchange a
back seat in the Coolidge cabinet for
a governors chair in Pennsylvania, >"
but got no result because it was
brought out that two States claimed
him. Illinois said that he was a
PennSylvanian and PENNSYLVANIA in
sisted he belonged 10 illinois, Another
| job hunter the want ads. disclosed.
| was William Gibbs McAdoo. still seek
Ing Calvin COolidge's pay and allow
| ances.
Discovery was made of large block
OF help wanted ads inserted by Re
publican Senators seeking White
House help in their campaigns for re
election They were called the new
| bloc in the Senate-the 'SOS bloc
and Senator Mckinley of Illinois
was picked to describe their plight in
| lyrical address to the President. He
did so to the refrain of Remember. 4"
Remember the time-the time-you
said IT need you"
Remember?
| Remember we stood in the House
and Senate for you.
Remember?
Remember. we said we'd all catch he'll.
But we voted straight when you rang
| the bell.
! We figured that you'd remember well,
Will you forget to remember?
On the Aluminium Trust.
The quest of Senator Walsh of
Montana for an inquiry into the At
torney Generals dealing with the
| aluminium trust was parodied in
skit in which appeared Mr.. Sargent.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and
Senator Walsh. This called for song.
| in which the Attorney General intro
duced the lines:
IF the Federal Trade Commission
| asks that l exert authority.
II tell them they had better go to
hell or Harry Daugherty.'
Then came chorus:
| When Walsh gets mad and asks me
if / know what's meant by diligent,
| 'I'll say I'm not quite sure | do, but
Donovan will know what's meant.
| SO if you truly want to learn how my
departments run or ran,
"Ill have to answer every time, Re
ferred to Col. Donovan"
MELODY i'm A" for Hysteria.
A Gridiron member asked if the
Marine Orchestra could play Vice
| President Dawes composition. Mel
ody in A" saying he had been told
that music was a cure for hySteria
and that he wanted to suggest that
the orchestra play it in the Senate.
Uric Bell. Washington correspond
ent of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. and Theodore II. Tiller, Wash
ington correspondent of the Atlanta
Journal. were initiated as new mem
bers of the Gridiron Club in a skit
satirizing the newfound prosperity
Of the South and it's demand for more
representation in the club.
Among the speakers were the vice
president, Walter Williams of Mis-
souri, chairman of the Pan-American
Congress of Journalists: Senator
Ashurst Of Arizona and Senator
Reed of Pennsylvania. President
Coolidge was obliged to withdraw his
acceptance to attend the dinner fol.
lowing the death of his father.
The members and their guests pres
ent were:
The Vice President of the United
States, the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives. the Ambassador o1
Brazil the Ambassador of Germany
the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of the Treasury, the Secretary OF
War, the Attorney General, the Post
master General, the Secretary of the
Navy, the Secretary of the Interior,
the Secretary Of Agriculture. the
secretary Of Commerce, the Secretary
of Labor. .t<.
Walter E. Adams, Boston; Paul Y
Anderson, the st. Louis Post~Dis
patch: Rufus, Andros, Washington
Eugene II. Angert, st. Louis; DAME
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