Evening star., 1927-10-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

kansans in Washington are electri-
fed by Charlie" Curtis readiness to
run for President in 1928. They say
the Senator offers the Republican
who carries more of the towpath and
log cabin appeal than any standard.
bearer in a generation. Personally
and politically. the G. o. P. leader in
the Senate Is classed first-grade White
House timber. Curtis was CT years
old in January-almost the same age
as Senator Norris and Jim" Reed.
Lowden Is also a 67-year-older, and
Senator "Tom" Walsh is 68. Curtis
boosters insist his candidacy is 100 per
cent genuine, with no stalking-horse
or favorite son complimentary vote"
business about it. That keen observer
Of political conditions, former Repre-
sentative Phil Campbell Of Kansas.
describes Curtis as about the most
ideal nominee conceivable, from the
standpoint of the plain American
people" The country boy, part Kaw
mothers. who started life as county
fair jockey and became the leader of
the worlds greatest deliberative as
sembly. would make a President like
Mckinley" in Campbell's opinion.
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Rear Admiral Magruder, who has
steered his ship into hot water. made
for the wrong harbor when he ap-
pealed to Calvin Coolidge over the
head Of the Secretary of the Navy.
The President, during his four years
in the White House, has established
iofn al A..
ing by the members of his cabinet.
Secretary Wilbur, in particular, has
repeatedly been under heavy fire from
the outside, but Mr.. Coolidge resOlute.
ly and unfailingly sustained him.
Those who are familiar with Cool
idge's mental processes on these oc-
casions freely predict that the Presi-
dent, having full confidence in the
judgment of Wilbur, will refrain from
interfering with such administrative
measures as the Navy Department
may take in Admiral Magruder's case.
One Of the recent utterances." which
were the immediate cause OF Ma.
gruder's detachment from the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard command, Is re-
puted to have been: "My father was
a Magruder. my mother was a Kill
patrick, and / have red hair"
Although public boxing exhibitions
are barred within the District OF Co.
lumbia, the two-fisted new president
of George Washington University, Dr:
Cloyd Heck Marvin, has introduced
boxing contests into the athletic cur
riculum. where they've never been be-
fore. DR.. Marvin believes that the
gloved art, besides building Drawn and
moral courage, is designed to lure both
campus sheiks and fair co.eds into
the gymnasium, as spectators, OFT
times when they might be lar less
usefully engrossed. Marvin, though
an Ohioan by birth. Is far-western by
upbringing and education. He at
tended Herbert Hoover's alma mater
Stanford-in 1909, 1910 and l91l, ana
paid his way through college by paper
hanging. Marvin has something IN
common with another member or the
Coolidge cabinet, Secretary Jardlne'
Like Jardine, the George washington
executive has a clasp Of iron when ne
shakes hands.
Prince de Ligne-pronounced Leen-
yeh-the new Belgian Ambassador
who has Just presented his credentials
to President Coolidge. is scion OF
one of Belgium's most ancient ana
aristocratic houses. He is a career
diplomat, having previously represent
ed his country in the Netherlands, put
just prior to assignment to the United
States the prince was a gentleman
farmer in Africa, where he possesses
vast plantation in the Belgian Con-
go. With the departure Of Baron de
Cartier from the Belgian ambassador
ship in Washington the rank OF dean
Of the diplomatic corps passes. for the
first time in many years, to Briton.
Sir Esme Howard, King Georges am
bassador, mounts to that eminence.
although he has been accredited to our
court only three years and a half.
| That's a very significant gesture
which Japan made the other day at
the International Radiotelegraph Con-
ference in Washington. The chief of
her delegation, the accomplished coun'
selor of the Mikado's embassy here
Setsuzo Sawada, who happens to be
a convert to Quakerism-calied upon
.tha conferepce to assign Japan world
lpoyr md tsradIo power status on
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