Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-07

Jim" Watson's senatorial primary
victory in Indiana means. his friends
saw. that hen run for President In
1925 Not even the specter OF a Cool
idge ca ndtdacv, apparently, will terrlfy
the sage of RushVile out OF anot her
attempt to crafty the ambition OF
political lifetime. watson VIII be oA
bv the time the next national cam
paien rolls around, but claims tina
recent events have made him boN
again Few know the Watson'Cool-
idge episode at the Republican ma
tional convention of 1920. Jim was
chairman of the India ma delegation
Harry New. now Postmaster genera
vice chairman. Soon AFTER the ron
cali for the vice preside nomina.
ton set in one OF Murray cranes
floor men went 10 Watson and asked
for few Indiana votes for the Coy
ernor Of Massachusetts. Hell no."
was "Jim's" rejoinder. "Massa Gnu
sets already got the leadership or
the Senate and the speakership or the
House" While the collOquN was In
progress Indiana 8 name was caileu
Up stood Harry New and shouted
Forty votes for Calvin Coolidge
Representative MARY r. MI wi
Democrat. of New Jersey. recently
had a. visit from her husband. Robert
F. Norton, Jersey City business
man, who came to town to celebrate
their nineteenth wedding anniversary.
The eentlewonan from Jersey ask
ed her consort II he'd run across
recent newspaper article published
back home in which she was referred
10 as q widow. Well" rejoined the
Coneresswoman's proud husband. lit
wasn't so far off. I've been buried
ever since You got into politics
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Vice President Dawes. who would
like to shut off unnecessary talk in
the United states Senate, doesn
stand for II in his own home. II ap.
pears. Not long ago the Seneral anu
Mrs. Dawes were entertaining al ON.
ner nd later in the evening PROVIDED
for their guests a program OF music
hv a small orchestra of visiting Euro
pean artists. The Vice President Is
All attention when there's music In
the sir, and evidently expects MS
guests to preoccupy themselves with
II. too. Well, on the occasion In ques-
ton. some of them didn't. They tound
the selections a little too high'bfoWed
for their taste, and preferred CONVEX
50 ton. Dawes quietly stepped over to
them. tapped them on the shoulder
and applied cloture.
France is one of the suffrage fields
which woma nkind has still TO conquer.
The delegation from the National
Woman's Party, which is going to the
Internal ional Suffrage Alliance con
vention in Paris this month, expects
that it's personnel will make q deep
immersion on the French politicians
who withhold the ballot from the bob
bed haired sex. The American deiega'
ton will include Miss jessie Deii'
United States civil service commls'
sioner. She is not only the occupant
Of one Of the highest offices IN the
American Government 10 be held ny
woman. but is cha irman of the Wom'
ans Partv Government Workers
council" That is a body that sounds
more Sovietish than it is. Its purpose
is to euualize the status of women In
Government service with that OF men
all along the line.
This observer is the survivor OF
recent week end at Atlantic CITY.
Though IL is the ambition of Jersey
men like Senators Edge and EDWARDS
TO make the Mosquito State an wet
as the abutting ocean. Alta city.
externally at least, is 100 per cent
prohibitionist. THE Shore was
packed with the usual Saturday-Sun-
day throng of visitors, eXcursion1sts
and conventionites. But neither on
the boardwalk nor in any of the de
luxe hotels was there the sign OF
flask, the suggestion of hootcb or the
slightest indication of drunkenness.
Despite its reputation for conviviality.
Atlantic City. in other words. exhibits
enforcement in fun working order. Six
out Of Jerseys 10 members In the
House Of Representatives are dry, but
the two wet Senators make the dele