Evening star., 1926-04-07

Americas delegation to the pre-
liminary armament conference at
Geneva will sail from New York
aboa rd the United States steamship
Leviarhsn on April 80. ! II will dis
embark at Cherbours, spend a couple
Of days in Paris and then proceed
to the League Of Nations hesdouar-
ter. in Switzerland. AS at present
constituted, the delegation, including
its chairman, Hugh s. Gibson, our
Minister to Switzerland. and its Sec
retary, Alan F. Winslow OF the 1egs-
ton, at Bern. numbers 10. Dorsey
Richardson, assistant chief OF the
western European division or the
state Department. and Allen w.
Dulles, chief of the Near Eastern
division, will be Minister Gibsons
diploma tic coadjutors from this side.
Nola and Harry A. Smith and MAJ.
George Strong are going. From the
Navy there viii be Rear Admirals
Hilary A.. Jones and Andrew T.
Long and Capt. Adolphus Andrews.
whether any American military or
naval attaches stationed in Europe
viii he drafted for conference service
depends on developments at Geneva.
The delegations plans are being per
fected from day TO day at meetings In
the State Department.
Representative Meyer Jacobstein OF
Rochester, y. p, author OF the prAn'
cipal coal legislation now under con-
sidera tlon in the A1Ouse, is the man
most talked about for the Democratic
nomins ton for the United states Sen
ate in the Empire state. Gov. "Af'
Smith likes Jacobstein. When Char.
lev" Murphy passed away on the eve
Of the 1924 Democratic national con.
vention, Jacobsteiin was named n
New York State delegate at large at
Smiths instigation. IL the young
economist. statesman is pitted against
Senator James ", Wadsworth, Jr..
the Republican incumbent, who as
pires to reelection, there'n be q bat
t,e royal in central New York. whence
both originate. The Wadsworth name
is one to conjure with in the Genese0
Valley, but Jacobstein carried the
Rochester congressional district il
1924 by a majority that ran many
thousa nds Of votes ahead of his more
famous llow-vict0rs-Calvin Cool
idge. for President, and "Af' Smith,
for governor.
Senator william Cabell Bruce.
Democratic wet Of Maryla nd. chief
protagonist Of the anti-Volsteadftes
In the Senate hearings. has inherited
the late Henry Cabot Lodges title as
the scholar In politics. Like Lodge,
Bruce In a historian and man Of let.
ters. He has ''lives" OF BENJAMIN
Franklin and John Randolph OF Roa-
noke to his credit, in addition to q
picturesque. volume Of Virginian lore
entitled Below the James" One Of
Senator Bruces pfoudest claims 10
fame 10 that he once defeated Wood
they were fellow. students at the Uni.
versity Of Virginia. The medals for
the best debating and the best essay
both went to Bruce. Like Wilson was,
Bruce is q Virginian. and talks with
the unmistakable accent Of ithe Old
Dominion. .E
Julian Goldman, Boston lawyer, who
is general counsel for the vets In the
senate hea rings, is q scion Of one OF
the New England families that look
only upon Cabots, L0wells, Lodges
ct al. as their cultural and ancestral
peers. For generations without mum.
ber the Codmans have been associated
with the foremost intellectual, com
mercial and financial traditions Of
Massachusetts. Any cause to which
one Of them lends his name Ia looked
upon in the Back Ray district, and
all points north, south, east and west
- intrinslcslly sound. 1t is the con-
stituticnal illegitimacy Of prohibition,
as vets view 1t, that induces a Cod
man on the present occasion to ensct
| the rele ef 4 crusader. One OF the
interests he is espousing before the
! eenate eornnsittes Is that ef tAs Con-