Evening star., 1926-10-06

Senator Borah arrived in Washing
ton this week after a tWo-month aD-
sence. His loudly trumpeted country
wide speaking tour, which at the ao-
iournment of Congress he eXpllcltiS
promised for the Summer and Autumn,
has vanished into thin air. The ex-
PLANTATION is as yet largely conjecture.
1t can hardly be that publc interest
in the Senator's prospective speeches
failed to materialiZe. He is always
sure of wide hearing. The most oo-
vious answer would seem to be that
Borah himself lost his enthusiasm for
the undertakings Before leaving
Washington in July he sketched out
speech king itinerary which was to
take him through the Middle West.
along the Atlantic seaboard and into
New England Hundreds of invita-
tions to appear and speak were on his
desk He was to tour without any
particular reference to Republican
campaign plans and wholly independ-
| emf Of the party's "Speakers' Bureau y
! He was to take the World Court and
prohibition as the topics of his talks
and make them the issues of the
| hour. Those to whom the Senator
! outlined his plans had visions of
| Borah's name on the front pages
publican leaders We're far from happy
at the prospect. one speech in
! Georgia and various appearances in
Idaho and adjacent territory. which
attracted slight notice in the Eastern
press, is all that has materialiZed to
date. His present business in Wash
! ington has to do with the prelimi-
| naries of the prospective investiga ton
of the alien property custodian's Of
| fee by the special Senate committee
which Rorah heads. He may UT is
still indefinite-mak a few appear
ances on the stump. If so. they will
! be under regular Republican cam.
paign auspices Altogether it looks
like another lucky break for Mr..
Coolidge.
Americans resident abroad and
American travellers whose passports
expire while they are far from home
are no longer under the necessity of
carrying on a long g-distance and slow
correspondence with the State De-
| partment here in order to secure new
passport papers. Delay and red tape
have been eliminated. Effective Oc-
tober /, American consulates in the
principal European cities have the au-
! thority to issue and renew passports
without reference to Washing ton.
| Congress a the last session amend
ed the law and Secretary Kellogg has
just issued the requisite orders.
| Secretary Mellon on his recent trip
abroad had lot of fun and managed
a fine holiday for himself which the
cable dispatches entirely failed to re
port. He spent several delightful
weeks at F.vian.les- Bains, France. a
little town near the Swiss border.
He went fishing almost every day.
| There were no secret service men
to bother about no waiting newspa per
| correspondents to report his catches.
He rowed his boat alone across the
/ lake from Evian to Lausanne, a
long miles. He hiked 10 miles a.
midday in a hot August sun when his
automobile broke down. in order TO
keep a luncheon engagement at his
hotel with Sir Robert Horne, eX-
chancellor Of the British exchequer.
He covered the 10 miles in 3 hours.
Not a bad record for A man nearing 70
! who rarely plays golf.
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| Conversion of the famous old
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which
extends from Washington to Cumber-
land. Md, into A broad macadam
/ boulevard has been recently pro-
iected The canal follows the course
| OF the Potomac and winds it's way
along for nearly $50 miles. A road
| way in it's stead would have many
easy curves. but no hills. II would
serve as an important link IN the