Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ranks as a Liberal and Constitution
alist. He has just turned IS, but
neither looks nor acts it.
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President Coolidges medical coun-
sellers have ordered him to walk more.
They've detected a renewed tendency
to corpulence on the part of the ordi-
narily wiry Chief Executive. The
pedestrian diet prescribed for him has
temporarily taken Mr.. Coolidge off of
F street, hitherto his favorite prone
made after the shopping rush is over,
and sent him to the Ellipse. that mag.
nificent eXpanse of sward stretching
between the White House grounds and
the Washington Monument. 1t is
about five-eighths of a mile once
around the Ellipse. The President is
accustomed to tear off at least three
laps before he calls it walk. so that
he has nearly two miles to his credit
at the finish. Shutdown is the favorite
hour for the Coolidge constitutionals.
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Texas and Oklahoma, which will
hardly object to being described as
among the more belligerent States of
the Union. are strengthening out a
little boundary tangle through the
amicable offices of the United States
Supreme Court. A commission ap-
pointed by the court has reported
upon the boundary line between the
two States. The court formerly had
decided that the true boundary was
the southern bank of the Red River,
as it existed in tire year 1921, when
the boundary was established be-
tween the United States and Spain.
Since then the Red River has ma
terially changed it's course from time
to time, obliterating bends in the river
at some places and establishing bends
at other places. The result was to
leave in Texas certain tracts of land
which were originally in Oklahoma
and place certain other tracts of orig
inal Texas territory within the pres
ent boundary Of Oklahoma. The De
partment of Justice has been asked
by the Supreme Court to ascertain
whether any exceptions are to be
taken on behalf of the Federal Gov
eminent to the report of the Supreme
Court commission determining the new
boundary line.
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Emile Ber1iner, maker of the micro
phone, has evolved still another scien-
tific marvel in his Washington work
shop When he celebrated his sew
enty-fifth birthday anniversary last
year he promised that before another
twelvemonth he would demonstrate the
practioability of his newest invention,
acoustic walls" For that purpose
Berliner has just utilized a classroom
in a Washington public school. He
proved that his acoustic tiles" fitted
into the walls of an assembly room
in which hearing facilities normally
are bad, make 1t possible for CONVEX
sational tones to be heard plainly and
easily 80 or 100 feet away. Children
with tender voices served as demon.
stration objects. Architects and build
ers pronounced the test an unqualified
success They share Berliner's view
that he has hit upon an idea destined
to revolutionize interior construction
Of theaters, concert halls, auditoriums
and churches.
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Alice Paul, the Joan of Arc of the
National Woman's Party, denies that
she has stacked arms and that her
militant organization is receding into
inactivity. Miss Paul explains her
own quiescence by announcing that
she has given herself an indetermi.
nate sentence to the Library Of Con-
gress, where she Is gathering ma
terial for a powerful volume dealing
with the legal disabilities of women.
Her opus Is destined to become the
Magma Charta Of the equal rights
campaign.
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