Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

army Nv occupation that is comm to
WaShin ton firm all points " the United
States. Russian, BELGIUM Palo Alto ano
the mines of South Africa
Now that it's nearly over. I'll bet
he feels IS free as burd The two
happiest times iv a mans life are the
day befure he enters public office and
the day after he leaves it.. Gin'ral
Dawes has had lots Of good times in
Wsshin'ton. but many's the day he's
been as lonesome as a lib'ry in an Eiks
Club.
Soon he'll be on his way to Chicago
and he'll find a welcome relief in the
change from baking powder to gun
powder AS soon rs he sees Lake Mich
igan he'll know he's out ~ reach of
the Italian Ambassador and the Swiss
Minister and the naval attache firm
Ecuador and the like, who FIR four years
have been tryin' to send him to an early
grave with their dinin' and winin' and
Perceptions and teas. More men are
killed in Washint ton be attn foreign
food than be drinkin' domestic liquor
In few days more the ginral will
be free nan. not like a lad on parole
that has t ray-pCrt livery tin days to
the preclnt captain, but a free man
with all the rights and privileges and
debts iv private citizen. He can go
whore he wants. and whin he wants
and Go as he pleases. He'll be able to
speak his own mind without havin' any
body think he's voicin' the views of
the administration. ~ the administra-
ton has any views. " he wants to
say to hell with maria, or to hell with
the Sinate or to hell with the Gridiron
Club he can do it without hayin' the
w. c. T. U. askin' fG his resignation
or the American Leg<n inyitin' him to
make a speech.
'Whin night comes and he grabs a
slap on the 6:l5 North Western Flyer
f'r Evanston, he'll know that he's goin'
homo. Dam few min want to go home.
but it's a consolation to knw that We
have home to go to. An whin he
gets home he won't be met be batthry
iv photographers. He can jump into
his overalls and ole shoes an go down
in the basemint for quiet hour cum
munin' with nature until the ham and
eggs are ready in the kitchen.
Chance for Rest.
I'll be able to read the avnin' papers
in his bathrobe and slippers without
the fear of some reporters calm on
the telephone to ask HIM what he thinks
OF the robberies in Oak Park or the
pawn scandals in Waukegan. An
whin he goes to bed he'll know that
the sargint at arms won't be poundin'
at his dure at 5 am, ord'rin him to
hustle up on account iv a call of the
Sanite. FIR the first time in many
years he'll be able to injoy life. Public
Office may be public trust. But for
solid comfort in yer old age a private
trust company has it bate four ways
TO the ace.
L suppose he'll write his rem
nances; that's one " the penalties iv
folly. Maybe he's done it already. He
had plenty of time in all the long years
he sat silent in the Senite listenin' to
Tom Heflin. I'll bet he's heard more
mean things said about the pope that
any man since Martin Luther. He's
had that eXparience-he could direct an
interlude on oil Investigations or COM
pose sonata on the world court. He's
The only livin' man who's heard all iv
the Congressional Record. If he turned
his hand to book on light Summer
readin' he'd have a volume of yokes
older than Joe Miller. The feller who
said What shall We do with our ex-
Vice Prisidints' was ignorant of the
possibilities iv litherachoor and the adj
vantages Nv the twentieth century.
Two great things stand out in the
career of Gin'ral Dawes. Whin he
came to Washinton he wanted to make
Coolidge start talkin' and the Sinate
stop talkin'. Thank be, he didn't sue
coed in dom ayther wan " he
stopped Sinators from talkin' nobody
would git onto thin, and iv he evir
started Coolidge talkin'. well. as the
Teller says, I don't choose to discuss
that subject. Anyhow whin Calvin is
travellin east Gin'rwal Dawes will be
travellin' west and 'niver the twain
shall meet as the poet says. tn take
Calvin life time to catalogue the
presints he received in the White
House. and it will take the Gin'ral more
than q year to git back to hard work.
I have no fear about his safety in Chi
csgo. A man whose had four silinet
years in the Sinate can snap his fingers
at amy gas batthery boot-legger
could invent"
do We think he'll evir agin run for
President?" said Mr.. Finnegan
II dinnaw." said Mr. Flanagan
Dawes is strong for farm relief and
that's bound to be the leadin' issue In
the campaign iv 1882"