Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

Before the end Of July two dis.
tinguished Englishmen-the Prince OF
Wales and Premier Stanley Baldwin
will be on North American soil. Wash
ington is curious to know whether
there's any likelihood of their cross.
ing the border from Canada-their
destination-and visiting the United
States. At the Canadian legation ig-
norance is expressed on this score,
coupled with grave doubt. The prince
is headed for his big ranch in Alberta,
near British Columbia, which isn't far
from the American line, but it's inn.
probable he'll come our way. Mr..
Baldwin is making his first visit to
Canada and does not expect to travel
farther west than Toronto. Probably
Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambas-
sador at Washington, will go to Otta-
wa to meet the prime minister. AS
Uncle Sam now has a Minister and
a legation in the Dominion capital,
Secretary kellogg will have direct &C.
cess to the chief of the British govern
ment, If desired. Unless the naval en-
gagement at Geneva has been ter
minated in the meantime, Kellogg
Baldwin powwow may have its ad.
vantages.
Political history Of the first magni-
tude may be made in the Black Hills
during the next few days. Coolidge
and Hoover will be in conference at
the Summer White House. 1t is a
fact that more and more people are
beginning to think the President Is
not going to be candidate to succeed
himself. Politicians and lesser authori.
ties who hold that unorthodoX view
are almost a unit in believing that
in so far as Calvin Coolidge could
emulate Theodore Roosevelt and
crown his successor, the President
would incline in Herbert Hoover's di-
rection. This belief persists, despite
the mysterious White House episode
in April, when Coolidge went out of
his way to inform the country that,
no matter who succeeded Kellogg as
Secretary of State, his name would
not be Herbert Hoover. Since then
the President has given the Secretary
of Commerce the finest chance any
man has had since the war for dis
tinguished national service-super-
vision of affairs in the Mississippi
flood area. Hoover rose to the oppor'
tunity in a way that has made him
the idol Of even the Democratic South.
west.
To this observer comes a political
titbit that would seem to explode
the theory that Mr.. Coolidge will re-
nounce the throne at the end of his
present reign. 1t Is alleged, to wit,
that if and when Everett Sanders
quits the White House, his successor
as secretary to the President will be
none other than c. Bascom Slemp-
the man Sanders himself succeeded.
The significance of the Slemp APP
pointment would be unmistakable.
The Virginia Republican went in as
Mr.. Coolidge's right-hand man in
September, 1928, on the threshold OF
those critical nine months when dele
gates for the impending Republican
national convention were being
brought into the administration fold.
AS a rounder-up Of delegates. espe-
,iallv in his own Southland, the suave
and subtle Slemp has few peers, and
no superiors. The world at large will
not be long in jumping to certain
conclusions if the forgetting Bascom
returns to the scene of his former
| labors.
| This week marks the ninth ami
yersary Of what military historians
are likely to describe as the turning
point in the World War. 1t was to-
ward the end of July. 1918, that allied
forces of France, Great Britain and
the United States launched their inn
mortal offensive against the German
positions around scissors. Lieut.. Col.
Thomas J. Dickson, chaplain general
of the Military Order of the World
| War, and who was "sky-pilot" of the
list Division along that decisive 400
mile battle front. thinks the hour ap-
propriate for arraigning the criminal
| inaccuracies" with which World War
| American school history books are
packed. Col. Dickson purposes de-
voting the rest of his life to eradicat-
ing that bunk" He cleared for ac-
ton before the House committee on
military affairs last Winter, and says
he has only begun to fight. "Many of
these histories" Col. Dickson declares
"vaunt the prowess of the Americans
omit the credit due allied forces
equally in action, and belittle the
courage of the Germans. Patriotism
is too precious to be inculcated with
the aid of lies"
II
Representative Stephen q. Porter
Republican, Of Pennsylvania, chair