Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01

All over the country this week stall
wart young Americans are piling into
citizens military training camps for
periods of 80 days education in the
art of national defense. Dwight F.
Davis. Secretary Of War, is enthusi-
astic over the success Of the c. M. I.
C. system, as demonstrated by this
years applications for admission. For
the first time, he says, the camps have
been "oversubscribed." That ls 10
saw. there were many times the num-
Der of men seeking entry tnan tnere
,wax room for. Altogether there are
* camps, scattered geographlcaily
throughout the United States. Iney
have accommodations for about 3e,Ooo
ROCKIES" and every pup tent at the
Armv's disposal for c. NJ. 7. c. pur.
noses will be filed during July ana
August. Perhaps the most gratily-
ing feature of ALL" said Secretary
Davis to this observer. us the nigtl
character of the lads who are going 10
camp this Summer. An equally salis-
factory revelation Is that thousands
~ fellows who were in camp In pre-
vious years are back there again.
X X \
CIV "Dan" Moody of Texas, who IS
IN Washington today at the head OF
daIegation OF Lone Star boosters, oe-
MES the soft impeachment that the
expeditions purpose Is to boom the
how governor for second place on an
Al Smith presidential ticket. 10
visualize Texas of today to the Nortn
ard East is said to be the sole ana
single object Of the caravan. Moodys
immediate political ambltlon is
thought to be the next United States
senatorship from Texas. 1t VIII De
filled in 1928, when Senator Earle %.
Mayfield comes up for re-electloh'
Moody and Mayfield are on opposite
sides of the Ku Klax Khan fence. me
governor made his big reputation
when he conducted, In the capacity OIL
Texas attorney generals a vigorous
drive against the Knights or the IN
visible Empire. Moody tells eastern
interviewers that the Khan IS oeaoer
than a door-nail in Texas. What the
Lone Star missionaries are trying TO
accomplish Is to make the Eastern
United States understand that Texas
is no longer a community OF steers
and cowboys, but a great and growing
Industrial, agricultural and CONNER
cial commonwealth.
X r. X y
In the light Of recurring events in
the skies above the Atlantic and the
Pacific, here's an up-to-date American
version of Jingle that was popular IN
Great Britain exactly so years ago:
We don't want to fight.
But, by lingo, If we do,
We've got the men,
We've got the ships,
And we've got the motors, TOO
James Haley, Adonis-like young
United States secret service man,
who has just been transferred from
duty as Mrs. Coolidge's personal
bodyguard, has had nearly seven
years activity on the White House
squad. A Missourian by birth, Haley
is one Of the most tactful and eff1cient
men who ever achieved the blue r1b'
bon assignment to "the Presidents
own" Movie fans are almost as
familiar with his looks as they are
with the smiling pesence of the First
Lady of the Land, for few OF Mrs.
Coolidge's public appearances were
screened that did not include Haley's
picture. The job would have given
less modest man constant oppor-
tunity for the calcium light. But
Jim was always discretion itself
the hallmark of the service he has
adorned for the past II or IL years.
X X n n
One Of the big national weeklies re-
Gently set forth that the newspapers
have been scooped on a big piece OF
news about AL Smith,. 1t asserted
that the State papers of the popular
New York governor are in regular
use in English classes at Harvard as
models of style in public documents.
An inquiry on the subject was re-
Gently addressed to the chairman OF
the English department at Cambridge.
To the correspondents Washing.
tonian-that Harvard official, John S.
P. TatIock. sent the following some.
what crushing reply: THE English
department of Harvard University
| knows nothing whatever about the
alleged tribute to Gov. Smiths
speeches and messages. 1t IN possible
that some individual Instructor In
freshman composition may have com.