Evening star., 1927-10-12

AS to Coolidge economy, ''age can
not wither her nor custom stale her
infinite variety" The President still
harps upon Federal money-saving as
the favorite theme in his repertoire
He omits no opportunity to thrunl
upon 1t for the edification of White
House callers, especially those whose
business 1t is to know what's on the
executive mind. Mr.. Coolidge re
mains welded to the theory that re,
duction of the national debt Is the
paramount issue. He believes In cut.
ting down the tax rates. and is per.
| suaded that eventually the debt and
taxes can both be slashed. But no
doubt Is left, when the Presidents
views are sought, that he prefers to
bring down the debt first and then
devote revenue surplus to relief OF
| the taxpayer. Meantime patriots with
appropriation axes to grind need not
apply at No. 1900 Pennsylvania ave.
nue.. Texation is bound to be one of
the foot balls of politics during the
| next IL months. With a presidential
and congressional campaign in the
ofing, neither party Is likely to over.
look SO good piece of bait as tax
reduction, which blesseth him that
gives and him that takes.
/ Still another aspirant to the presi
uency OF Nicaragua will shortly de,
scend upon Washington. He is Gen
j. M. Moncada, the leader of the Lib
eral armed forces recently in the field
against President Diaz. 1t was Mon
cada's men who laid down their arms
In the interest Of peace, at the behest
| OF Henry L. Stimson, President Cool
idge's special commissioner to Mica
ragua. Like Gen. Chamorro. the
| Conservative candidate for the presi
dency, now on our soil, Gen. Moncada
seeks the approval of the United
states Government before formally
throwing his hat into the ring. Fif
teen or sixteen years ago Moncada
an able writer, set down in a book
Ihat nicaragua cannot deny America
tne right OF intervening in the for
| special interests there. At Panah.s
the other day, while en- route to Wash
lngton, Gen. Moncada asserted thai
as long as the United States confines
ltsen 10 preservation of law and or
ger ana TO the guaranteeing OF free
elections American intervention cey
only be beneficial.
| Il ~ Il
Atop the leakproof new white
House roof there now In mounted 8
orand'new fiagpoIe, and from II fut
ters an equally new and cleaning edi
tlon or the Stars and Stripes. The
nag suppMnts a patched banner which
mapped there year ago. to the amaze
ment or patriots who failed to under
stand why the richest country on
earth couldn't afford to fly a perfectly
good nag over the Presidents home
This observer has Just fathomed the
mystery. It seems that the Office OF
public buildings and parks thought a
patched nag might help to draw the
attention OF Congress to the decrepit
condition OF the upper works of the
Wnite House, systematically neglected
Tor more than SO years. So now that
the mansion has a new roof, II also
has fresh flag.
Some more Col House and Walter
Hines Page memoirs are scheduled for
early appearance. The colonel's first
two volumes of Intimate Papers
took breathless public only UP to
April, 1917, and Americas entry into
the World War. House will now deal
with our midwar diplomacy and his
gumshoe activities therein-the clan
destine fittings to Europe and back
(which brought down upon the colonel
the George Harvey nickname OF
President Wilson's U-boat.' The
forthcoming volumes will embrace the
peace conference and. presumably, the
historic clash between Wilson and
House in June, 1919, which brought
their Damon and Pythias Relationship
to an abrupt and inglorious end. The