Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

Gen. Leonard Woods friends are
wondering whether the University of
Pennsylvania is going to re-tender
him it's presidency. When he went to
the Philippines, the post was offered
him largely in the belief that II he
took it. Woods name would be some
thing to conjure with In connection
with the university's drive FOR a
$40 ,O00,0 900 endowment fund. The
plan was to split the executive leader
ship of the university in two parts
Gen. Wood, as president, was to have
charge of business administration, and
DR.. Josiah H. Penniman, then provost,
was to remain as such, at the head
Of academic activities. The preSi'
der,cy was held open for Wood a year,
as 1t was supposed at the time that ne
wouldn't stay at Manila longer than
that, But when the year was up. the
general asked the university trustees
to release him from any Obligations 70
them. This was done, the two posi-
tons of president and provost were
combined, and DR.. Penniman has held
them ever since. The endowment drive
meantime has met with fair success,
and in Philadelphia there appears to
be no further discussion OF associat-
ing Gen. Wood with the university.
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For a country that avoids official
intercourse with the League OF Ma
tons and all its works, these little OLD
United States of ours are doing pretty
we'll in the direction of sending repre-
sentatives to Geneva ever and anon
So far this year. we've had spokesman
on the Quay Woodrow Wilson at tax
alton. economic, naval and counter
feiting conferences. Now the superin-
tendent of the Nurse Corps OF the
United States Army, Maj. Julia Z.
Stimson, is headed for Geneva. she
will attend the International Council
of Nurses to be held there July 27-31,
and deliver an address on The
Nurses Uniform, It's History ana
Aim" During the meeting a demon
stration of nursing methods Will De
given by graduate nurses from many
countries. Our own Army School of
Nursing will be represented by Miss
Margaret I. Fraser OF washington.
Whether by coincidence or design,
Comdr. Byrd's transatlantic expedi.
tion svnchronizes with a presidential
boom for his brother, the boy Gov
ernor Of Virginia-Harry +. BYRD.
Gov. Byrd, winchester newspaper
editor by profession. is regarded as an
up.and-coming Democrat in many
sections of Dixie beyond the borders
of the Old Dominion. A Protestant
and a dry, he is held to qualify In all
those respects which the South Is get
ting ready to insist upon, when the
time comes, a year hence, to choose
another national Democratic standard
bearer. Gov. Byrd has fine World
War service record, In addition to his
other points of eligibility, and, OF
course, an F. F. V. lineage or rare
vintage. He would measure up to
Wayne B. Wheeler's presidential plans
and specifications.
John D. Rhodes, official reporter Of
debates in the United States Senate,
is shortly leaving for Europe to study
the systems in vogue at important
CAPITALS for taking down. verbatim
proceedings of parliamentary bodies.
Rhodes is one of the swiftest short
hand writer's in the world. Not even
the most inveterate wind TANNER on
Capitol Hill can stump Rhodes. no
matter on how many cylinders the
spouter is hitting. The Senate steno.
graphic scrivener expects to establish
contact with the official reporters OF
the House of Commons In London,
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris,
Mussolini's private legislature in Rome
and the Reichstag in Berlin.
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Visitors to the Offices Of Charles 8.
Dewey, Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury, always admire the American
antique" furniture with which they
are equipped. The collection includes
tall bookcase, nahogany-backed So
fas. a f1at.topped desk Of generous pro-
portions and a quantity shaped pendu.
ium wall clock, which 10 perhaps the
choicest bit Of them all. Dewey res
directed the whole outfit while rum
maging through the junk shops Of the
Treasury and the Bureau Of Engrav.
ing and Printing. With an eye for
ancient beauty OF the sort, the Chica"
go financier had the various pieces
revamped by Treasury carpenters ana
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