Evening star., 1926-06-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidge will sing his ia
vorite ballad Economy. l Love You"
before his favorite audience. the an
nual meeting Of the business orsaniza-
ton of the Government. Monday eve
ming, June 81. Executive chiefs aud
subordinate departmental official Is
await these recurring budget parties
with mixed emotions. The President
embraces the occasion to tell Federal
money spenders just exactly how
much cheeseparing he expects from
them during the ensuing fiscal year.
Although the budget is now lustE
youngster of 5 years, 1t does not
enjoy universal popularity in the na
tionsl household. 1T can be described
as Il respected. but not beloved.
child Some OF its victims secretly
cherish the hope that some day Con
the budget law It surrendered Its
traditional and constitutional hold on
the Federal purse strings and will
move to resrasp them.
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At the semi annual budget meeting
la January Gen. Herbert NJ. Lord. di-
rector of the budget, called upon GOV
ernment of1cials to join the One Per
Cent Club-f.e., to exert themselves TO
save / per cent of their estimated ex-
penditure. In previous years there's
been a Two Per Cent Club. On June
81 tho country will learn how success
fully or otherwise the One Per Cent
Club has operated in response to Gen.
Lords appeal. The master Of the bud
get is q poetical soul and runs to verse
now and then to bring pressure to
bear on reluctant Government Officials
Whenever one Of them pleads that 1t
cant be DONE" Lord recites at them
this rhvme. labeled Author un-
known:
There are thousa nds to tell you 1t
cannot be done:
There are thousan nds to prophesy
failure;
There are thousands to point out
one by one
The troubles that wait to assail
YOU.
But just buckle In with a bit OF a
grin;
Just take off your coat and go to 1t.
Just start in to sing as you tackle
the thing -,
That cannot be done, and you'll
do it.
Mobile Giacomo de Martino. the
Italian Ambassador to the Unlteo
States, Is an ardent mOtorist. One
day last week he started out for an
incosnito spin through Virginia IN his
roadster, unaccompanied and a com
plete stranger to tho OLD dominion
countryside. In order to 90 III Rome
as the Romans do, the AmDassaoor
stripped his car OF its diplomatic
license tag and prepared Tor the wofs.
In a day Signor de Martlno mace
stanton and, eschewing the services
Of a guide. made a thOrouehgoine ana
enjoyable inspection OF the regions as
sociated with Jeffersonian. HeVoh-
tiouary and Civil War and Wash,ns
tonian traditions. Mussoiinis envoy
ut Washington thinks the Shenandoah n
Valley az magnificent a strip OF nat
ural beauty as there is In the whoie
world.
d. l.. Chambers, head OF the bobbs-
Merrill Co. at Indianapolis, and SON
in-Iaw Of Tom Taggart, Hoosier
Democratic big chief, brings to wash
ington a glowing account OF Evans
Woollen, Democratic candidate against
Senator Arthur r. Robinson Tor the
junior senatorial seat from lnoiana.
Cha ambers, who has reversed all IN
diana traditions by being born else
where and moving to Indiana. SAYS
that the State will have a scholar IN
the Senate II IT elects Wooilen. A
Yale man. banker and lawyer pS pro
fession, WooIlen came under the eye
of Woodrow Wilson during the World
War and was considered by the fresi
dent one Of the up-and-coming Demo
Gratis Of the country. Woollen's rather
was a we'll known India nian. with the
alIiterative name Of ". w. Wooilen
They still tell in Indiana polls the stor!
Of his attempt to give his name over
the telephone one day Spell II.