Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS


were real ones on the backs Of Indian
ponies when buffalo herds roamed the
plains Of the West. Western life Is
grand. even though the East has to
supply it."
Henry Goddard Leach. editor of the
Forum, lectured in a Virginia town
across the Potomac the other night
and achieved the distinction of tell
ing new Woodrow Wilson story.
Himself son of Nassau, Leach re-
counted that the war President used
to like to say that he spent Is years
at Princeton and 3 years at Prince
ton Junction"
Col. William D. Mitchell, solicitor
general of the United States, is now
acting Attorney General in the alb
sence of Mr.. Sargent, who is at the
bedside of his wife in Vermont. Mrs.
Sargent has been seriously ailing for
some time. Mitchell has an uncom-
monty distinguished legal background.
His father was a justice Of the Min
nesota Supreme Court for 20 years.
The solicitor general himself was the
head of the big st. Paul law firm, to
which President Harding went when
he appointed Pierce Butler a justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
At one time four lawyers, now in
eminent posts at Washington-Frank
y. kellogg. Secretary of State; Justice
Butler, Robert E. Odds, Assistant Sec
rotary of State. and Col. Mitchell
were all in private practice in the
same st. Paul office building.
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Federal financial and educational
authorities are watching with lively
interest an innovation by the under
graduate students of the University Of
Washington State. They have just
launched $45O.0O0 public bond issue
for which subscriptions are being
sought all over the country The
proceeds will be devoted to an athletic
gymnasium and pavilion for men
students on the lakeside Seattle
campus. AS security for the bonds, the
student body pledges the gate receipts
from foot ball gaines and all other
contests In which the university has
a share. Washington is one of the
thriving State universities of the
West. 1t is coed. has a student total
of 1900. was founded in 1861 and
boasts "a faculty of nearly 800 men,
bers. The university's athletic spe-
cialty is rowing. It's crews for the
past few years have habitually struck
| terror to the hearts of the big Eastern
Fights. but Columbia humbled the
brawny oarsmen from Washington on
the Hudson last week.
Persuasive argument IN favor of
private operation OF Muscle Shoals
with Government cooperation" Is
now being heard on the ChautauQua
platform from Elon II. Hooker cele-
! trated hydraulic engineer and chemical
manufacturer Of Niagara Falls. n. Y.
This week Mr.. Hooker Is speaking in
Virginia and Maryland towns adjacent
to Washington. A Rooseveltian by po-
litical tradition. Hooker was deputy
superintendent of public works in the
Empire State under "Teddy's" strenu-
GUS governorship. Having given
scientific attention to the Muscle
Shoals problem both as an engineer
and an industrialist. Hooker's views
have frequently been brought to the
attention Of Congress and commanded
respectful consideration on Capitol
Hill. During the next session, when
Uncle Sans white elephant will re-
turn to the limelight, Hooker's coun-
sci on the wisest solution of the Mus
Gle Shoals question is bound again to
be sought. He Is Cornell man, with
| postgraduate work in the Universities
of Zurich and Paris to his credit.
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Few of Washington's large corps Of
Central and South American diplomats
| leave the Potomac's shore for tho
Summer. They find the Capitals eli
mate. even on days when eggs can be
fried on Pennsylvania avenue pave
| ments, salubrious compared to what
| they're used to on either side OF the
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