Evening star., 1928-01-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS


Washingtonians. as well as Ameri-
cans who can vote, are we'll represent
| ed in the British Who's Who" for 1923.
the e.ghtieth annual volume OF the
worlds first compendium OF the great
and near-great. A copy has come into
this obstaver's hands. Coolidge, Dawes,
| Hoover, Mellon. Al Smith. Borah, Persh-
| ing. Sims. Hughes. Houghton. Kellogg.
Herrick. Schwab. Morgan. TAFT. Gerard
| Harvey. Ochs. Ford and Sinclair Lewis
are among the Yankee no.aoles sand
| wiched among Britannia's luminarles,
Among the absentees are Lndbcreh.
Gertrude Edcrle. Jimmy" Walker and
Big Bill" Thompson. Mary Pickford Is
| there~-perhaps because shes put down
as having been born at Toronto IS
whole years ago. Vice President Dawes
appears to have an English title--"C.B B,
appearing after his name. In the
glossary attached 10 the booA, &C. f.
| Is defined as Companion OF the Bnth
or Confined to Barracks" President
Coolidge lists among the Offices he held
during the pas 80 years the presidency
of the Nonatucs Savings Bank a; North
ampton Mass. George Bernard shaw
winds up his Who's Who autooi-
ography thus; Diet. vegetarian. Recre-
alton. anything except sport.
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DIR. James Brown Scott OF the Car
neg!e Endowment for International
Peace will establish recorc when he
accompanies Mr. Coolidns 10 Havana
l.thls week II will b. the second occa-
SOL, on which he has gone abroad with
a President OF the United States. The
oth.r was when Dr. Scott was attached
to President Wilson'S peace mission To
Paris No other American, according to
the records. has been member OF our
two executive encourages whose ways
have been wended beyond the national
| borders DR. Scott has recently been
| weighted down with couple oi addl-
tl0nal academic honors. The University
OF Paris made him doctor Of the Sor-
| bonnie and a few days later he crossed
! into Spain To receive All honorary doc
toratc from the ancient University OF
| Salamanca.
Poies perrose. who was United States
Senator from Pennsylvania continuously
| from 1897 TO 1921. Is soon 10 be honored
| b. having a bronze statue ol nimself
| erected at Harrisburg the State Legis-
| iature has lust voted $4,000 for the
u1rDosr The statue will stand In Capt.
| tol Park. in the midst OF which Penn
States gorgeous Capitol dominates the
| iandscape-~~the granite and marble pile
| that once made the welkin ring win
charges OF wholesale graft. Penrosc's
| figure according to the instructions the
legislature has given the sculptor. Is 10
| be o feet In height~~a dimension which
| every good Pennsylvania Republican
feels Is none too towering Tor the man
| who bosaed the commonwealth with an
iron hand for nearly generation.
magnetic attraction for Republican poll
,iclan4 It's long been the seat OF the
| magnificent farm estates occupied by
! Frank o I.owden and Mrs Ruth Hanna
| Mccormick candidate for Congress
| woman at large from the Prairie State.
Now comes Henry r. Rathbone. Con-
gressman at large from Illinois. and
announces that he's just purchased
| tract ON the Rock River and adjacent
| 10 the f3ackhawk Trail. IN Ogle County.
| Iowden will be Rathbones neighbor III
| Oregon. Ill, only mile. away Mrs
! Mccormick place II about II miles
| from Rathbones newly acquired prop
erty. Distance, In the latter case, is not
| without its enehanttnent The daughter
| of MARX Hanna II primary opponent
| ot both itathb1ne and Congressman At
| Large Yates III Illinois this Spring Out
| of the tnfee"cornered race only Two
nominees can emerge Victors Rath"
bones Washington friends suggeat he
| MAJ be casting an anchor Ia windwafd
| In arranging betlmes 10 build new
home far, far away from Capitol Hlii'
y 4
TO the conductor ot this column late
iy have come several inquiries, aa To why
the Constitution hapnened to hit upon
| II years AZ the period of residence
| man haa 10 have 10 his credit to be
eligible for The presidency. The In
auifiea, af course, relate 10 the charge
| That Herbert Hoover is thus "dsauali"
fied" which constitutional authorities
| like "Blii'' Bafah. by the way deny
| The Constitution WAS not ratified untli
II years after The Revolution began
The outbreak oi the War Ut indenenda
enGs brought IN the colonies a host ot
splnlefs Of fortune from all parts nf the
world Ernest Mccullough. we'll known
New fafk engineer IL authority fat the
explanation That In afder tn assure
full rights 10 foreign born men active