Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood is the sub
Ject OF monumental biography now
being compiled in Washington. The
author Is Herman Hagedorn, biographer
OF Theodore Roosevelt and executive
director Of the Roosevelt Memorial AS
ISOLATION. Nine years ago, at the out
set Of Woods ill-starred bid for the
Republican presidential nomination,
Hagedorn produced a story Of the SOL
dier-stateSman'S life entitled THAT
Human Being Leonard Wood" The
work now under way win be much
more comprehensive thing and occupy
its creator the better part Of the next
two years. he estimates. It is under
stood that Gen. Woods family induced
Mr.. Hagedorn to undertake the task.
He has settled down In Washington for
la protracted period and is spending
most Of his time at the Library of Con-
gress. The biography will embrace the
whole of Gen. Woods romantic career,
including his early life as a surgeon.
the story of Roosevelt and the Rough
Riders, the generals sanitation Job in
Cuba and his service as governor gen.
eral OF the Philippines. Hagedorn's
book Is expected to clear up some un-
prived or the opportunity to hold high
command In France in 1917-18 and also
as to his connection with pre-conven-
ton events In 1920.
Evidently the Germans expect Owen
D. Young to be the man who will
cut the Gordian knot of PREPARATIONS
at the forthcoming meeting OF experts
In Paris. At least. In Germany Under
the Dawes Plan" volume just pub
lished In Europe by Prof Max Sering
OF the department of political science
In the University Of Berlin, Mr.. Young
receives chief credit for finding the
possible. 1T was Owen D. Young"
writes Prof. Sering, "who brushed aside
all the difficulties in the legal situa-
ton and In the computation of the
payments already made by Germany.
During the voyage of the American
experts to Europe, as well as afterwards
at Paris, he successfully argued the
thesis that Gas the experts report puts
IT'D the German scheme of taxation
must be fully as heavy proportionately
| as that Of any Of the powers repre-
sented on the commission It was
this theory, eventually carried into
practice. Prof. Sering asserts. which UNI
raveled what might otherwise have been
hopeless tangle.
Washington newspaper men freely
concede that the wittiest man In their
midst is-of all others In the world
an Englishman. His mots are numerous
and famous. The other day, when 1t
| was announced that Mark Sullivan had
become the guest Of President-elect
Hoover In Miami, a Yankee col
4 tfS IA Trt* Nlre
as II Sullivan might be Secretary of
State" Quoth the London scribe
| AHA! the elevation of the Mark and
the def1ation OF the Frank!"
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Notre Dame men In Washington will
entertain at luncheon tomorrow In
honor of their famous graduate foot
ball coach. Knute Rockne, and to meet
him will bring together a distinguished
group Of official notableS. The Fighting
| try which has both the Army and the
Navy on its annual schedules. Now
adays West Point, Annapolis and Notre
Dame constitute gridiron Big Three
OF no insignificant magnitude In the
foot ball realm. Among those who will
attend the Rockne party are Curtis d
Wilbur, Secretary Of the Navy; Col
Charles B. Robbins, acting Secretary
Of War; Representative Hamilton Fish
jr., of New York, and Huston Thomp-
son, former chairman of the Federal
Trade Commission. Wilbur starred In
foot ball as midshipman at Annapolis
Ham" Fish was famous captain and
lall-American at Harvard. "Shy" Thomp-
son was Princeton player.
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| Alfred p. Dennis, vice chairman oil
the United States Tariff Commission
has just been pouring oil on the trou-
bled Franco american tariff waters. Ht
spoke at the recent annual dinner Of
the French Chamber of Commerce OF
New York, aboard the French liner Ilt
de France, functioning as pinch-hittel
for William r, Whiting, Secretary ol
Commerce. Dennis pointed out tina
commercially the United States ane