Evening star., 1927-04-13

The exodus of prominent political
personages from Washington TO the
West is now in fun swing. Lowden
captains and Coolidge captains are
hurrying to the battlefield. In the
space Of AZ hours George \. Peek
chairman Of the famous COMMITTEE
of Twenty-Five" the head and front of
the McNary-H Haugen bill drive, left
for Chicago by train TO confer with
Mr.. Lowden and others; Representa-
tive l.. j. Dickinson Of Iowa started
home by automobile with a stop en-
route at Chicago in prospect, and VIII
liam NJ. Butter. chairman of the Re
publican national committee, set out
on his coast-to-coast tour with Chi
cago his first objective. Presidential
politics is the real business of all Of
these gentlemen incidentally many
Capital political observers fail TO sub
scribe TO the Interpretation given to
the outcome of the Chicago mayoralty
fght-that Big Bill Thompson $
victory will prove a setback for Low
den and a feather in Mr.. Coolidge's s
cap. big Bill evidenced no liking for
the President when he visited Wash
ington last Winter. The Chicago
mayor is not likely to have any
| qualms about joining the Lowden
camp if it is to his interest to do so.
and on the face Of things as they now
stand many politicians expect that
very thing to come about.
The Democratic womenfolk don t
intend to allow their Republican
sisters to monopolize the limelight in
matters of prohibition enforcement.
Mrs Jesse W. Nicholson of Chevy
Chase. Md. has called q conference
Of Democratic women in Washington
for May 6 and : to get behind the
movement for a Flaw and order plat
form. These dry Democratic women
have opened headquarters at the
Capital and viii be assisted by Mrs.
| William r. Pattangall Of Maine, Mrs.
]. II. Middlebrook of Burlington, Vt"
and others Mrs. Pattangall is the
wife of a prominent leader of DemOc-
racy in the State of Maine. She voted
| against her husband at Madison
Square Garden on the question of con-
denning the ku KluX l<lan. Mrs.
| Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the
late William Jennings Bryan; former
Gov. Nellie r. Ross Of Wyoming and
Mrs Annette Il. Ehler, mayor Of Hen
| messy, Okla. are listed among the
signers of the call for the conference.
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The most popular presidential mill
tary aide Washington ever knew. Mai.
Archie Butt. who served Roosevelt
and Taft and who met his death
bravely in the sinking of the Titanic,
hailed from the State of Georgia.
Now once again a Georgian is to oc-
cupy this post in the person of Cot.
| Blanton Winship. selected by Mr..
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his senior military aide.
The children's egg-roling party on
! the White House lawns on Easter
Monday. a time honored custom. will
be held as usual despite the derricks
| and the piles of timber incident to the
| White House repairs, which litter the
I landscape and which it was first
! thought would make it inadvisabe to
| open the grounds to the youngsters
! The working area will be roped off
| and the children will have the run of
the rest Of Mr.. Coolidge's private park
| and Mrs. Coolidge will be on hand to
! act as hostess.
The carpenters not only drove the
President out Of his home. but out of
| his church as well. for the First Con
! eregational Church. where the Presl-
| dent worships. is likewise in process
! Of being rebuilt and church services
| have been held in a downtown movie
/ theater, crowded TO listen 10 a sermon
! on Sunday morning and crowded to
| see the latest film release feature in
the afternoon and evening. On Easter
| Sunday, however, the parishioners of
| the Presidents church, along with
! hosts OF visitors in the Capital, will
meet in the Washington Auditorium.