Evening star., 1926-01-18

Vice President Dawes is expected
to tear loose on the Senate rules for
the first time this session in his Nc
Kinley birthday speech at Washing
ton. The Ohio Society of the District
of Columbia will commemorate the
| martyred Presidents natal day on
January %, and Mr.. Dawes will be
the orator of the occasion. Chief JUS
tice Taft, who presides over his fell
| low Buckeyes, will be on hand to sup
ply whatever may be lacking in parlia-
mentary dignity and decorum. Dawes
has been content to let time and
events justify his case for turning the
palace Of palaver on Capitol Hill into
truly legislative body. The Senate's
pending performance in connection
with the World Court has unquestion-
ably aroused new interest in the Vice
Presidents demand for abolition of
minority rule. Dawes and William
Mckinley were bosom friends. II was
the young Illinoisan who organized
the Mckinley movement" in his
State and brought its delegation into
Mark Hanna's line at the 1896 con-
vention. Appointment of Dawes as
controller of the currency was one of
the first acts of the Mckinley admin
istration. The Vice President, though
hailing politically from Illinois, and at
one time from Nebraska, is a native
son Of Ohio.
Henry Ford has engaged Senator
James A. Reed, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, to defend him in the $1,O00.000
libel action instituted against the
motor king by Aaron Sapiro, CO.
operative marketing expert. To the
raucous raven Of the Kaw, therefore,
will fall the task of proving Fords 8
contention that Sapiro heads a jew
ish conspiracy" to enslave the Amer
lean farmer. A titanic duel of legal
wits is in sight. Reed Is one of the
most resourceful, and, as his foes con-
tend, most ruthless, lawyers that
ever faced court or jury. His forte,
as he himself records 1t in his who's
Who" autobiography, is rather that
of q prosecutor. There he proudly
sets forth that during the two years
he was prosecuting attorney in Kan
sas City he secured 285 convictions
out of 2S7 cases tried. Sapiro may
conduct his own case against Ford.
He is a match for Reed in cunning
at the bar.
Behind the scenes at the War and
Navy Departments a battle royal is
being waged over the scene of the
1925 Army Navy foot ball game. Chi
cago Is the bone of contention. The
Windy City has made a bid for the
contest that carries an almost ire
sistible appeal to both West Point
and Annapolis. Through Representa-
tive Fred A. Britten of Illinois his
big home town has offered to treat
the cadets and the midshipmen as it's
guests from the hour they leave
their headquarters until the game Is
over and they are home again. AS
1t cost our future generals and ad-
mirals about $20,0 out Of their own
jeans to attend, respectively, the 1924
and 1925 contests IN Baltimore and
New York, ChicaEo's open-hearted
proposition is seductive In the ex-
treme. Mr.. Britten wants the Army
Navy game to be part of the pro-
gram of dedication of the magnificent
new Soldiers Field on the Chicago
lake front during the last week of
November. He has hopes that Pres
ident Coolidge may be prevs lied upon
to speak at the "unveiling" of what
Chicago, with characteristic modesty,
claims to be the finest and most costly
memorial erected anywhere on earth
In honor of the soldiers of the World
War.
Representative Emanuel Celler.
Democrat, Of Brooklyn, who is evi.
IDENTIFY q wet, was plunged into verse
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