Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-06

Lindbergh week in Washington.
Serious business Of Federal Govern
ment practically at standstill.
Thought and talk of the air king uni
versal. Mississippi flood forgotten.
Crisis in China ignored. President S
impending departure for Black Hills
back.page stuff. Bureau of the Bud
get in despair. Its annual economy
orgy, presided over by Mr.. Coolidge,
already set a day ahead, with fair
prospect of being lost in the Lindbergh
shuttle when it is staged. Dignitaries,
fiappers, sheiks, plain people, all i'm
mersed in week end plans pivoted on
Lindbergh day. Captain was school
boy in Washington while dad was in
Congress. Local chapter Of KNEW
Him-When Club numbers tens Of thou
sands. Saturday, juno IL, destined to
put in shade any ovation ever given
to national idol in a hero-worship-
ing community. Monument grounds
already surveyed by canny citizens
scouting for places Of vantage which
they'll occupy with the lark and the
sunrise. Capital traffic police await
mighty lam. Advance palpitations' in
dictate ecstatic state Of affairs in heart
of Nation when U. S. S. Memphis lands
Indy"
Haywood Broun, New York col
umnist, finds it "a pity that Lind
bergh's first greeting in America
should not come from some large
and representative American city"
Broun adds: washington is the Ma
TONS Capital only in technical
to include in the list of welcomers
as many famous Americans as posi-
BILE, and, of course, Washington is
almost the last city in the country
in which one may expect to find
notables." Now, there are people
who think New York is not only not
"a representative American city"
but Is also merely a technical part
of the United States, being situate,
as the realtors would say, on an
island off the Jersey coast.
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AS for notables, Washington, of
course, has only nonentities like
Calvin and Grace Coolidge, Charles
G. Dawes, William Howard Taft,
Herbert Hoover, John j. Pershing,
William f. Borah, James "A. Reed,
Hiram w. Johnson, Andrew w. Mel
lon, John Hays Hammond. Bishop
Freeman and Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, to stack up against Gotham's
glories. Space forbids the tabula-
ton of more than bakers dozen
of these. such as Babe Ruth, Al
Jolson, Flo Ziegfeld, Rogers Hornsby,
Jimmy Walker, Peggy Joyce, Paul
Whiteman, Benny Leonard, Peaches"
Browning, Tex Richard. Frieda
Hempel, Roxy Rothafel and Gene
Tunney.
Military and naval men-especially
the commanding generals of the
ARMY now in council at Washington
are enthusiastic over President
Coolidge's Memorial day address.
They call it the sanest and soundest
announcement on national defense
the Commander in Chief has yet
made. Some authorities believe the
President meant his strong support
IF preparedness to have significance
for the world at large, rather than
for the United States. It's pointed
out that Mr.. Coolidge voiced Amer
ica's determination to keep her
powder dry at the very moment of
new crisis In China, of ruction be-
tween Great Britain and red Russia,
and of the assembling Of the three
power naval conference at Geneva.
AS our soldiers and sailors read the
Arlington message, President Cool
idge notified all concerned that the
United States will not be caught I'M
prepared for any emergency.
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Recent honors bestowed by King
George v include the comforting of
knighthood upon John Joyce Brod-
erick, commercial counselor of the
British embassy at Washington.
He's "Sir John" frem new on and