Evening star., 1927-04-25

Vermont will commemorate with
elaborate exercises the 150th ami
versary of the battle of Bennington,
which falls on August l6 OF this year.
The Vermonters entertain high nope
that the President will attend ana
deliver the principal address. Mr..
Coolidge's annual pilgrimage to MS
old home at Plymouth and to the little
hillside cemetery where both his
father and his son are buried has
come to be regarded as settled Gus
tom. The home State folks want the
President to time his Vermont visit
this wear to coincide with the Bennlng-
ton celebration, and from present m
dications this is apt to happen. IL lt
does. then the further inference is
drawn that Mr.. Coolidge is unlikely
to return afterward to the summer
White House somewhere in the west,
but instead will spend 10 days or
weeks at the Plymouth farm over
seeing the crops and helping get III
the hay. and come back to Washlng-
Tor direct from Vermont not later than
September 1.
Washington, where notable foreign
visitors arrive in a never-ending pro-
cession. seldom has entertained al
most simultaneously three celebrltles
of such diverse character and Dack-
ground as have been at the Capitai
within the past few days-Ramsay
Macdonald, former labor premier Oh
England. q Briton of extraordinary
attainments, but quite unlike ms slln
hated compatriots who usually can
at the White House: cannon de valera
the fiery, poetic, magnetic lrlsnLiiail'
who led the losing struggle Ior an
pr0QtnAnT
chado. of Cuba, rich, suaVe, pump
and the glass Of fashion.
orestes Fl. Caldwell. of New York,
member of the new Federal RADIO
Commission. started his radio career
as a boy of IA, back home In lnolaIa.
Caldwelps chum was the now famous
Capt. Richard Ranger, the man WHO
first transmitted photographs across
the seas by radio. The two youngsters
were fascinated by a static machine
In the Office of CaldwelPs dad, who
was an indianapolis physician. Iney
experimented with the machine ana
fabricated a. primitive detector, Wnicn
consisted Of a needle placed across
two pieces of aluminium. They sue
ceeded in flashing impulses with Dr'
Caldwelps old static machine neariy
the distance of a city block. ms
triumph, 25 years ago, they say
shaped their destiny.
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The plan advocated by Prof. William
n. Ripley of Harvard, to require al
business corporations to ME WIN 'iio
Government periodical reports open 70
public inspection embracing tne IA
innate details of their operations ana
ia GhnlVnd
time being by reason of the decision
of the Supreme Court in the Clare
furnace Co. case. The essence OF
the Ripley idea is predicated on the
legal yalidiay of section OF tne
Federal trade act, which purports TO
authorize the commission TO coHpei
corporations to divulge such in1orHa
tion. Prof. Ripley himself points out
that his plan is contingent upon the
Trade Commission having this power
The corporations deny the power eA.
lists and the Claire case was expected
to decide the dispute. lnsteau the
Supreme Court lodged the real issue
and ruled only on technical point
Of judicial procedure. This leaves
both sides in the same quandary as
before. and 1t probably will be severai
years longer at least before there is
an adjudication.
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The coat of arms of the Coolidge
family and that of j. p. Morgan have
a peculiar similarity of blaZonry,"
according to Marc j. Rowe, New York
heraldic expert, who gave the dele
gates at the d. A. r. convention
pointers on family insignias. The
similarity is the griffin" which ap-
pears on each and which Mr.. Rowe
said was symbolic of 'watchfulness.
The colors of the Coolidge and the
| Morgan coats of arms are unlike, how
eyers The Coolidge arms display q