Evening star., 1926-04-19

! DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler. presi-
dent of Columbia University, who was
White House guest last week. Is
the recipient from Great Britain OF as
unique a speaking invitation as ever
| came to an American citizen. He has
been asked TO deliver an address in
London on the l50th anniversary of
the Declaration of independence next
Fourth of July. American COLONIES"
in British territory have been accus-
toned from time immemorial 10 cele-
brate Independence day. But there
is no case on record of a Yankee being
| sked by the desce ndants of George
III, Lord North and the Earl OF Corn
| wallis to glorify George Washington
historic achievement in throwing a
British sovereign across the Atlantic.
DIR. Butler. who is one Of the country s
| master orators. has taken the invita-
ton under advisement. He considers
| II far and away the most distinguished
speaking honor ever proffered him.
Battling his prohibition critics
means little in the life of Gen. Lincoln
lC. Andrews, enforcement generals
simo. his friends say. for he got his
training as a scrapper while fighting
Moros in the Philippines 27 years
ago. As young major of infantry,
| Andrews was on duty in the Islands
during the four turbulent years be-
tween 1899 and 1903, and led his
troops against the bolomen through
out the insurrectionary campaign
Later he became the first governor
of the Island of Leyte. Mrs. An
drews and Mrs. Coolidge were born
and brought up in the same town
Burlington, VT. The general Is ma.
tive of Minnesota. He was at Cofnell
University for two years before grad
! uation from West Point in 1898 His
son and heir. Charles. is a junior at
! Yale. He's known as Gen. Andrews
on the campus and has to endure any
amount of ragging on account OF ms
distinguished dads present dry occu
patton in life.
! Gen. Dawes. having survived year
Of submergence in the vice presidency
comedies he is now tha nkful for small
| favors in the way of public recog
| milton. Until he opened the Washing
! ton base ball season the other day,
! Dawes never realized how fierceiy the
light of publicity beats upon the vice
presidential throne. He has come de1
| initeIy to the conclusion that the only
| way for the Senate to make the front
mage or the picture section nowadays
| is for some member to make either 9
wild throw or a wild speech.
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G. Howland Shaw, just appointed
chief of the Near Eastern division OF
| the State Department, has been nrst
secretary of the American Embassy
! Ia f1v,
years. He has, in fact, functioned as
| our envoy to the Ottoman govern
ment. Admiral Bristol, the United
states special representative In Tur
kew. is stationed at Constantinople. but
the capital Is at Angora. and Shaw
was Bristol's emissary at the primitive
| and provincial seat of Mustafa kemal S
mower. Like his late chief, Shaw ad
vocates the earliest possible ratlflca
ton of our treaty with Turkey. Wher
| the Senate comes to grips with the
subject. Senator Borah will have the
advantage of the young diplomattst' s
| first hand knowledge of Near Eastern
| conditions. The chairman of the for.
eign relations committee has departed
| from his traditions on the Turkish
treaty. He is supporting the State
| Department..
| 1t probably will come as blow tc
the Vermont maple sugar industry
to hear that President Coolidge's re
cent gastric arrangement was caused
by overindulgence in his native State S
| proudest product. Yet that is vera
ciously alleged to be the painful truth
Like most Green Mountain boys, Cal
grew up on maple sugar. 1t is seldom
missing from the White House larder
and when in season SlIDplV OF ii
Is usually kept on hand in the execu
tive offices.
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Walter Johnson, veteran Washing
iton pitcher. may become the son.in