Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Lindbergh remains the most careful
and cautious Of flyers. but he turned
down. with amused contempt. the sug-
gestion that he be personally con-
Quoted" on his flight to Mexico. It's
like this: Some of "Lindy's" closest
friends suggested that he ought to let
them, in the name Of safety, pave the
aerial way across the border for the
Spirit of st. Louis. They offered to
establish a series of flares, emergency
fuel stations, repair depots and other
appurtenances all along the chosen air.
way from Washington to Mexico City
and urged Lindbergh to assent.
"Pshawm he demurred, and added
that under such circumstances the trip
wouldn't be any fun at ALL" So the
scheme was promptly abandoned and
"Slim"-that's what the newest holder
of the Congressional Medal Is still
called by his closest associates-will
wing his way over the Rio Grande as
unguided and uncharted as he flew the
Atlantic seven immortal months ago.
Beyond the shadow of doubt. Amer
ica's woman unique Is Mrs. William +.
MacCracken, jr., wife Of the Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aeronau'
tics. She declined numerous invita-
lions to fly with Lindbergh. Mrs. Mac
Cracker capitulated on Saturday and
scared over Washington in her hus-
bands official bus, with ''Slim" at the
controls, but after she had persistently
refused, since last June, innumerable
bids from the worlds most famous
pilot. Now she knows all her qualms
about flying were, so to speak, trif1es
light as air. When Mrs. MacCracken,
a fair daughter of Texas, the former
Sallie Lucille Lewis of Waco, went up
with Lindbergh, her fellow passengers
were her mother. her 4-year-old son
and Secretary MacCracken's father.
The youngster boo-hooed valiantly
when the flight was over, so slim"
took him out again, this time with the
Secretary and Speaker Longworth.
X X X X
The Democratic-R epublican-Progres-
sive alliance that barred Smith and
Ware from the Senate put over bit
of strategy which the country at large
hasn't generally grasped. 1t has wiped
out Indefinitely the Republican major
| ity in the upper house. The roll call
now is: Democrats, Al; Republicans.
| 46; Farmer-Labor, /. If the Senate had
finally rejected Smith and Ware, the
governors Of Illinois and Pennsylvania
could and would have appointed their
respective successors. But successors
| to Smith and Ware can't be appointed
| because the latter haven't been kicked
out; they're only standing aside. !"
pending investigation. Until their
cases are disposed Of. no Republican
ma jority" in the Senate is possible
except with the aid Of Shipstead,
Farmer. Labor. and the Vice Presl-
dents vote. That state OF AFFAIRS WIN
endure until "Jim" Reeds committee
REPORTS on Smith and Vare-in the
sweet bye.and-bye.
Enter the season Of weird political
demonstrations. The very newest
thing under the sun, in guessing ana
casing circles, Is that the q. y. r:
| ticket in 1923 will be Hoover ana
| Hughes. II Westerner Is nominated
| for President, an Fastener, OF course,
will he named at Kansas CITY as MS
running mate. For sundry and divers
rea sons. q spirited contest to be tied
IN with the Hoover boom is already In
| liyely undercover progress. Moses OF
New Hampshire, Tilson of Connecticut,
Edge of New Jersey, Blair OF Nortn
Carolina and "Wild Bill Donovan OF
New York-Attorney General Sar-
gents right hand man-are being non
orably mentioned as possible tall-end-
ers on a Hoover ticket.
X
washington's eminence as worlo
capital IL to be officially signalized on
December IA, when the city's newest
organization-the Foreign Press Asso'
ciation-will make its debut. Consist
ling of the growing group OF newspaper
correspondents from abroad now sta
Itioned here, the association Will enter
tain at dinner in honor Of Frank Is
Kellogg, Secretary of State. Prime
movers in the foreign news-writers' SO
ciety are Willmott Lewis OF the Londor
Times, DIR. Max Jordan Of the Berlinei
Taeeblatt, Robert Remy OF the Agence
Havas and Sir A. Maurice Low OF the
London Morning Post. Influential AZ
sociations Of foreign correspondents
have flourished In the principal Euro
Ipean capitals for years and American
~ eyeryWheEs prominent n them.