Evening star., 1926-02-01

private life know this. and do NOT
seek his distinguished presence at din
ner parties. But the Chief Justices
secretary. nevertheless. is kept busy
explaining to importunate would be
hosts that Mr.. Taft is conserving his
energies and spending every evening
he can III his own home. Having sue
cessfully practiced girth control. the
former president is not quite so in
tenslVe a walker as he used to be. AL
together he is in splendid trim. No
body doubts that who sees the incom-
parable Taft smile or hears the char
acteristic Taft chuckle in action.
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one OF the best stories OF the season
IN washington concerns the debt-fund-
ng settlement recently made bv one
or our European debtors. Her neeo-
tiators had insisted upon writing into
the 1undlng agreement the phrase
Wlthln her capacity to pay" so often
that II runs through the document like
the Ielt-motif of a grand opera. Some
ol the American negotiators thought
II was rubbed III just a little too often.
Inc night before the foreign delega-
tlon III question left Washington its
embassy gave a dinner party. Con
VerSation was varied. The question
up. Just how many wives NAV a
Mormon hare?' one Of the European
dlgnltarles piped up. From across
the table came the response-from an
American, Within his capacity to
pay"
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Judge Wallace McCamanr ,f ore-
Gon. who is in Washington conductin.
ms own light for confirmation to the
Federal circuit bench, is a PennsvI.
Vanlan by birth and an alumnus of
Lafayette College. But he emigrated
to Portland. Greg. his home ever since
a day or two after being admitted to
the bar at Lancaster. Pa, in 1890. Nc
Camant has been a justice of the Su-
prelne Court of Oregon. Next to the
law, his hobbies are the Sons of the
American Revolution, of which he is
past president general. and the
Loyal Legion. Judge McCamant is
also high ranking member of the
Masonic fraternity. Because he was
once consulted in a legal capacity in
connection with the famous Oregon
school law, some of NcCamant's de-
tractors tried to ia stem Ku KIuX Khan
affiliations upon him. But his friends
say such suggestions have no founda-
ton in fact. THE man who made
cOolluSe freSlQenI is the nickname
McCamant goes by on the coast-a re-
minder that it was he who sprang up
and placed the Governor of Massa-
chusetts in nomination for the vice
presidency at Chicago in June, 1920.
when the cards were set in Irvine l..
Lenroot's favor.
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Senator Gerald 2. Nye of North Da
kota, now firmly settled in his con.
tested seat, has three young children.
The eldest, Marjorie, aged 8, was
much concerned over the Senate's re.
luctance to give her young daddy his
place. II hope they'll let him sit down
soon and take his seatv' was Marjorie's q
comment when her mother told her
that the Senator's fate still hung in
the balance.
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Some of the most effective kind of
advance organization, both of the
open and of the gumshoe varieties, is
being perfected in Massachusetts on
William M. Buffers behalf A few
months ago the average Massachu-
setts politician would have said that
the Presidents political lieutenant was
slated for certain defeat this year by
former Senator Dave" ( Walsh. Now