Evening star., 1926-02-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC UILLIAH EILE

Lots of people are hoping that
President Coolidge in his Washing
tons birthday address before the su-
perintendenCe department of the Ma
tional Education Association will take
an unmiStakab!e crack at Rupert
Hughes. one Of the things that
Hughes said about Washington, which
attracted less attention than his al
lusions to the first Presidents per
Sonal predictions. was that the
Father of His Country did not really
night for independence. How Hughes
reconCiled that assertion before the
Sons of the Revolution with a certain
historic document dated July 4, 177G,
was not explained. If Mr.. Coolidge
finds it appropriate to blow up that
particular slander of Washington s
fame with some chapter-andve verse
evidence in refutation, the President
will confer a favor upon many who
thought it. on the whole. the most
derogatory of Hughes contentious.
X !:
His experience with Charles Beecher
Warren a year ago this very week has
evidently not stified Calvin Coolidge S
Zest for battle with the United States
Senate. For a long time no more bel
ligerent statement has ema mated from
spokeSman'S terSe announcement that
Mr.. Coolidge does mot intend to with
draw the nomination of Judge Nc.
Camant" That means another war
to the knife with the senatorial ele-
ments that are holding up the oregon
jurist's confirmation as a judge OF the
United States Federal circuit Tor the
Pacific slope. 1t means war, IN par
ticular. on Senator Hiram w. John-
I nf l.
McCamant vendetta. When Judge
McCamant left Washington a fort
night ago, after his unhappy bout
with the Senate judiciary committee
| the farewell honor accorded him was
an invitation to lunch at the w mite
| House. What transpired on that SO
| cial occasion was never maze known
until the White House oracle let the
cat out of the bag on February 10
1.-The President has no intention OF
withdrawing Judge McCamant nom
| nation" That spells hght.
Representative William X. Green OF
| Iowa. chairman Of the House com
! mittee on ways and means, derives
| comfort in these stern hours or taS
| bill uncertainties from the loyalty oil
an old colored doorkeeper in the Cap
| itol. His name is Harry Parker. He
| has guarded the portal of the ways
| and means committee since Mchln
| levs Craftsmanship and during that OF
all of the latter's successors, lnciualhe
| Dingley. Payne, Underwood ana Ford
nev. During Claude kitch1n'S regime
| Parker was a particularly oeEoteo
supporter of the chairman. While
| the North Carolina Democrat hoVere'
| between life and death In his home
| at Washington, old Parker 1nslstec
upon keeping a nlght-and-oay Vigl
on the porch outside the bedroom ir
| which Kitchin lay stricken. Parker
| is a devoutly religious negro and was
| immersed in prayer most OF the time
| for Kitchin's recovery. lie mas learn
ed to be 100 per cent non-partisan or
| tariff questions.
| Great Britain's leading public health
| authority, Sir George Buchanan, is II
| WASHINGTON on a fraternal visit tt
DR.. Hugh s. Cumming, Surgeon Gen
eral of the Public Health Service. Sil
| George is senior medical o1ncer O.
| the British ministry of health ant
! sits, with Gen. Cumming, on the ex
| ecutive board Of the internat1ona
| health committee, which Will hol'
one of it's periodical meetings at Pari:
| in May. Britain and the United State
| have two or three matters OF mutua
sanitary interest, like quarantine reg
| ulations, to straighten out. One O
| the particular questions Sir George
| Buchanan is looking into at Wash
ington concerns the export of Ameri
can apples to the British Isles. Fo
some time our apple growers hav'
| been spraying their trees with poi
SonouS substance designed to immun