Evening star., 1927-11-09

Charles Gates Dawes will be pres
ident before 1928 Is over, no matter
what the Republican national conven-
ton next June does to or for him. The
Vice President has just been nomi-
mated for the presidency Of the Society
Of American Military Engineers, a
body organized after the World War.
1t consists of between $500 and 5000
members, recruited from among en-
gineers of the Regular Army, the Re-
serve, the National Guard and the
civil professions. Maj. Gen Edgar Jad-
win, chief OF the Army Engineers. is
now president Of the society. His
predecessor was Brig. Gen. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, III. Vice President Dawes
expects to reach his office in the Cap
itol on December ], four days before
the Seventeen Congress convenes. The
man who received popular credit for
putting Dawes on the Coolidge ticket
In 1924 at Cleveland-Col. Edward Cliff
ford of Illinois. former Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury-insists the gen.
eral Is in no respect whatever can
didate for the presidency in 1923. But
on cross-examination Clifford depOses
he's without authority to say Dawes
wouldn't choose to accept the nomi-
nation IL offered it.
The National Council of State Leg
islatures, just formally organized in
Washington, has elected as it's first
president John Henry Kirby of Hous.
ton, Tex. noble Roman in appear.
ance, who could play a Senator in
Julius Caesar" without makeup.
Kirby is sometimes called the lumber
king of America" He is a past presi'
dent of the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association and heads a
$40 O.0O0,000 timber company, which
owns 10000, 900 900 feet of standing
pine and manufactures about $4,000.
900 feet of lumber annually. Kirby
has the natural eloQuence OF the
typical Southerner. Upon taking Office
as president OF the National Council
of State Legislatures. he delivered a
panegyric on the Constitution, which
Borah himself might have envied. In
cidentally Kirby revealed himself az
so fervent an admirer OF America q
Magma Charta that for 30 years he
has carried in his pocket copy OF the
Bill Of Rights, and for the past 10
years a copy Of the entire Constttu-
ton.
This is the annual season when any
body with a pull in Washington-ac
tual or assumed--has life made bur
den for him Tor her) by persons in
eleventh.hour quest of Army.Navy
foot ball tickets. These priceless paste.
boards have just been distributed by
the respective athletic associations at
West Point and Annapolis. They were
allotted aeons ago. With the Navy
tickets the following notice was sent
out: lowing to the excessive demand
for 1927 Army.Navy game tickets by
members of the Athletic Association
who requested and paid for them by 10
p.m., October Is, 1t was necessary to
make the maximum allotments as fol
lows: Glasses 1859 to 1928. tickets
per member; classes 1924 to 1927, 2
tickets per member" The Polo
Grounds in New York Will hold ap
proximately $4,000 persons. About
$50, 900 applied for seats for the Army
Navy classic on November 26.
4 + 4 y
Henry Mason Day, Sinclair oil man
at liberty under sci. 900 bond in the
| iIry.tampering scandal in the Fall
| Sinclair case, is known In Wall Street
as O. "supersalesman" In the field OF
foreign oil concessions. Day has just
been described in these Who's Who
] terms: "Forty.one years old, 6 feet
| inches tall. weighing 100 pounds
swarthy and energetic, he belongs tc
| the almost fabulous group of post
war international concession-hunters
| who trail their game-which involves
hundreds of millions of dollars of al
least potential wealth-across CONT
nents the way a stalker trails q
moose over hill. internationally
minded, multilinguistic. their fame II
ba sed less upon their practical expert
ence az oil men than upon their super
salesma nship and the glow Of mystery
and power that surrounds them" Day
conducted the negotiations with tht
goviet government ut Moscow, where
by tho einclairs hoped to obtain vas
nAtroloaana concessions In Russia. =