Evening star., 1926-01-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidses foes on Capitol
Hill should now beware. He has ac-
quired a tomahawk-a real, honest
to-goodness scalping utensil. 1t ar
rived this week in the White House
mails from an admirer whose identity
has not been disclosed. The Presi-
dent learned of the tomahawk's S pres
ence in the executive mail bag quite
by accident. He is accustomed early
in the forenoon. before the days busi-
ness has begun, TO wander into the
mailroom of the White House ofiices
and give things the casual once-over.
Now and then the clerks call his at
tention to something they think might
be of particular interest to Mr.. Cool
idee When the business end of a
workmanlike tOmahawk fell out OF
the wrapping paper 1t was handed
over to the President with glee. He
grinned from ear to ear fondled it as
IL he were musing over its utility.
and. carrying 1t out of the nlailroom
into his own office. remarked to a
White House attache, This looks TO
me like pretty fine specimen"
Y s*
publican, of Pennsylva mia mea ms whe n
he clamors for a bigger hunk of the
patronage pie than the administrat tion
has given to the keystone G. o. p. is
that things were different in Boss
PenroSe's day.
When Penn States representatives
in the Senate were Penrose and Knox,
deserving Republicans all the way
from the Delaware to the Alleghenies
shook down Federal plums with regu.
larity. Pennsylvania's patronage for
tunes began to sag with the advent
of the Harding. Coolidge administration
in 1921. The expla nation, known te
insiders. never obtained general cur.
rency. 1t was that Harding never
forgave Pennsylvania Republicans. es
pecially the more plutocratic class
for disgorging campaign funds SC
srudgingIy. In the 1920 campaign
Mr.. Harding once told his observ.
ers, the banner G. O. p. State
failed utterly to put up the share
of the party sinews that, in his judg.
ment, was Forthcoming. One Of the
reasons President Harding stubbornly
refused Invitations to speak in Phila
delphia was his disappointment or
that score. Present.hour patronage
woes in Penn may spring from the
same root cause.
Senator Dill. Democrat. of Washing
ton. who has been lambasting the new
District of Columbia traffic rules
especially those In force near the
Capitol, may be irked by one regula
ton in particular. 1t may be dis
agreeable reminder Of earlier days. Or
the stretch of pavement reaching from
the Sspafe wing Of the ('apito1 TO the
park fronting the Senate Office Build
ing, the police have chalked the
injunction. Walk within the lines. y
Now. walking within the political
lines is something In which Sen
ator Dill has never specialized. He
declined, while a member of the House
in 1917. to walk within the lines laid
down by President Wilson on war
legislation. earning membership ir
consequence in that little group OF
| willfui men," At present. Senator Dill
objects to walking within his party s
lines on the World Court proposition
n X ~
Mrs. Henry w. Q'rancis Parkinson
keyes, wife of the junior Senator from
New Hampshire, who has spent the
East, sightseeing and writing. recently
had an exhilarating experience in
China. She is travelling with her son
who Is Harvard man. Graduates OF
Cambridge have in consequence feted
the keyes party on every possible oc
easion. and the Orient seems to be
literally sprinkled with them. They
are usually sons, and not daughters
of Harvard. but at a reunion in Shang
hal not long ago winsome Chinese
'sirl Joined in the celebration. She