Evening star., 1927-05-09

When Mr.. Coolidge has politicians
to breakfast at the White House ia
BILE. he always refers to the functions
as merely social affairs" The Presi
dents most recent fiapjack and sau.
sage feast, when William M. Butler
Republican national chairman. was
the star guest. was carefully described
in executive quarters as not differing
in character from numerous prede-
cessors With two distinguished Bark
ises-'Bill Borah and Nick" Long
worth-among those present, it's dol
lars to doughnuts that Mr.. Coolidge s
1928 plans received silent and lnferen'
tial treatment, rather than categorical
consideration. The President is one
of the most categorical statesmen who
ever achieved the White House. But
he Is also addicted to becoming spe-
cific only when he's made up his mind
that the proper moment has come.
Chairman Butler brings rosy Coolidge
tidings from the somewhat incalcula'
BILE West. These will influence the
Presidents decisions to a material de-
gree. But the man or woman does
not live who is authorized at this
writing to say that Calvin Coolidge
will or will not be a candidate to sue
ceed himself in 1928.
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Eugene Meyer, ir., just appointed
to be head of the reorganized Federal
Farm Loan Bureau. is one of the ac-
knowledged financial geniuses of the
administration and the country He
is completing 10 consecutive years III
Government service, having retired
from important corporation connec-
tions in 1917, to devote himself ex-
clusively TO Federal duty. Meyer has
functioned under three Presidents,
having been placed upon the War
Finance Corporation directorate by
President Wilson. He has been man
aging director of that body since 1921
under successive reappointments by
Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Both at the White House and by Sec
cretary Mellon, Mr.. Meyers talents
are highly esteemed and regularly
drafted for both counsel and action.
After the war Meyers duties were
largely associated with emergency
financial relief for agriculture. He
has toured the whole farming coun-
try, from coast to coast, dozen times.
Probably no Government official ap-
proximates his wide acquaintance In
the agricultural world, including both
farm leaders and country bankers.
Mr.. Never, California born and Yale
educated, studied banking and inter-
national finance in Europe for two
wears before entering business at New
York.
Baron de Cartier, dean Of the Wash
ington diplomatic corps. and who viii
complete seven successive years mere
as Belgian Ambassador on May II,
claims a distinction unique among his
international colleague He says he
"Son-in-law of the American Revo-
lution," due to the fact that his wife,
the American born Baroness de Car
tier, one was secretary of a New
York State chapter of the ID. A. R.
The Belgian envoy boasts proudly OF
still another rank not enjoyed by any
member of the diplomatic fraternity
at Washington The baron two or
three years ago was made an honorary
captain in the 106th Regiment of the
New York National Guard.
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A reader demonstrates with The
Evening Star for referring editorially
to Gov. Al Smith," asserting that
the abbreviation of the New York
Democrats given name is disrespect-
full. "AP' himself would probably be
the last man in the world to think so.
Like every other shrewd politician de-
pendent upon public favor, Smith real
ICES the incompatible value of pop
ular nickname. Teddy" Roosevelt
used to say that he owed much of
his great hold on the peoples affec-
tions to the familiar name by which
millions knew him. President Cool.
idge has an asset of priceless worth
in the Cal that many dub him. es-
pecially when they talk of "Silent
Cal'' Woodrow Wilson's friends some.
times lamented that no genial sobriquet
was ever wished upon him. Woody
had a little. but not wide. vogue. As
te Smith, If anybody ever called him