Evening star., 1926-11-17

paign and persists in hanging on. One
Of his legs is affected, and the doctors
require the junior Senator from Wis
consin to undergo a rigid rest cure in
bed as the surest means of Fastening
recovery. Young Bob" is the poorest
kind Of q patient imaginable when in
structions call for inactivity, but the
Mayos hope to have him in shape for
resumption of his duties at Washing
ton next month. The Senator's mother,
Mrs. Robert Marion La Toilette, sr.,
has arrived in Washington to put the
family home in order, in confident ex-
pectation that Bob" will be here to
occupy it by December 6.
Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, of
Virginia, Is about to take the firing
line in a 50,000.word book in answer to
Col. Houses narrative of the latter's
relations with Woodrow Wilson and
the two Wilson administrations. Rep
resenting the Wilsonian old guard,
Glass plans "a scathing refutation" Of
the claims made by House in the "In.
innate Papers" published earlier this
year. Like the colonels publication,
the Senator's will be syndicated to
newspapers before appearance in book
form. The Virginia editor-statesman
wields a wicked fountain pen when in
attack, and the political heavens are
bound to reverberate the moment
Glass swings into action.
More and more Americans of lei
sure, victims of the lure of WASH
ington, but desirous of citizenship
beyond the Districts borders, are
pitching their vines and fig trees
across the Potomac in the Old Do
minion. The Typographical beauty
Of that history-hallowed common
wealth is the subject of an illustrated
lecture which has just had its maiden
delivery in Washington. It is called
1.-THE Glories Of Old Virginia" and
the lecturer is Clarence A. Phillips.
His pictures are new and original,
including Shenandoah National Park,
Monticello, the University of Vir-
ginia, the Natural Bridge and Cav
erns, Richmond and the old colonial
mansions along the James (West-
over, Shirley, etc.), Williamsburg and
the College of William and Mary, the
Cape Henry district, Dismal Swamp,
Yorktown and environs, Fredericks-
burg and adjacent battlef1elds, Ken
more and many other historic points.
Washingtonians who saw Mr.. Phil
lips slides at the Cosmos Club pre-
miere saw no one can view them and
not sigh to become Virginia resi-
dent.
Washington is steadily filling up
with foreign newspaper correspond
britain Franco Ger
many, Italy and Japan are the coun-
tries chiefly represented. Our mount
ing importance as world power,
despite unpopularity in foreign parts,
REQUIRES great newspapers overseas
to keep a weather eye on the United
States. In the course of week
thousands Of words are sent by cable
or radio to London, Paris. Berlin.
Rome. Toxic and other international
centers.. The foreign corresponding
had a. shock this week when notified
of the new international cable regu-
lations requiring press messages to
be written in the usual "orthogra-
phy" of the language used. Combl-
nations of words, for toll-saving pur-
noses. are no longer permissible
Hitherto Sir Maurice Low, dean OF
the foreign scribes in washington
or Wilmott Harsant Lewis Of the
London Times could cable stun like
this: Coolidge unwent congress de-
liver message Fridayeve unlonger
plans adhere custom (which hitherto
chung Twouldnt displease country
if president continue old practice be-
cause believes personal appearance
impresses, congress moren transmit
ted message" The unrecognizable
words, long time favorttes OF cable
men," are taboo henceforward.
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