Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-30

When Calvin Coolidge first publicly
addressed the Nation-in his opening
message to Congress in December, 1928
economy in Government expenditure
was his keynote, and it remains the bur-
den of his song until the last. The
Presidents farewell remarks at this
weeks semi-annual meeting Of the Fed
eral business organization did not vary
except in facts and figures, from the
gospel he has been preaching day in and
day out for more than five years. The
Vermonter is apparently determined
that the Coolidge era shall go down in
history of the economy era. The Presi-
dent is telling White House visitors
that he was surprised and gratified by
the sort Of turnout his budget swan
song produced. He sang it to standing
room-only audience. Mr.. Coolidge also
addressed by far the biggest radio audi
ence ever hooked up for presidential
budget talk. There were no fewer than
40 sations on the Blue, Red and Orange
Co, which resulted in taking the speech
all the way across the country.
This seems to be the year for Quaker
Presidents, especially California Quakers.
A week or two before the national
electorate was choosing Herbert Hoover
for President of the United States, the
American Bar Association elected Cur
ney e. Newlin Of Los Angeles its chief
executive. Mr.. Newlin has Just paid
fraternal visit to the District of Co.
lumbia bar. He Is the youngest lawyer
ever honored with the presidency of the
association, having just turned 48. Like
so many good Southern Californians
NeWlin was born in the Middle West
IN the Kansas State University town of
Lawrence. After attending the Quaker
College of Haverford, Pa, he went to
the University of California and later
TOOK his law degree at Harvard. One of
his hobbies Is music. He had Red Cross
service IN France in 1918.
X X X X
Edward G. Lowry, who has been
hobnobbing with Hoover at Miami, was
known from August, 1914, to November,
1916, as the German Ambassador to
Great Britain" Those were the days
of our World War neutrality, and the
United States was intrusted with the
representation of the KaiSer'S tangled
affairs in enemy countries. Lowry lived
In state in the big German embassy in
Carlton House Terrace, London, mon
arch of all he surveyed. 1t was in
those stirring times that he came to
know Hoover intimately-the years in
which the President-elect was feeding
Belgium After the United States en-
tered the war Lowry was appointed
assistant military attache at London
and later served with the I'd Corps
of Pershing's army on the British
front in Flanders. He. is a profess
sional newspaper man and Georgian
by birth. Long a Washington cor
respondent, Lowry wound up his active
journalistic career as managing editor
of the New York Evening Post.
" X X X
Sam Pickard, who is resigning from
the Federal Radio Commission to be-
come vice president of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, Inc. is one of
Secretary Jardine'S discoveries. A ma
tive of Wyoming, Pickard-Who deposes
and says his name is Sam and not
Samuel-was completing his course at
the University of Kansas when war
broke out in 1917. He enlisted in
the Army Air Service and was shot
down in aerial combat under thrilling
circumstances during the closing weeks
of the campaign in France. In 1922,
while DR.. Jardine was acting as preSl-
dent of the Kansas State Agricultural
College at Manhattan, Pickard estab--
lished the first college of radio at that
institution. 1t wasn't many months
afterward before DR.. Jardine became
Secretary of Agriculture, and one OF
his innovations was the utilization OF
radio for distributing Federal agricul-
tural news to the farmers OF the
country. Jardine put Pickard in charge
of the service, which he developed
into one of tremendous popularity.
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The National Woman's Party, which,
like the Marines, is ready for frolic
or a fight, has just picked on James
j. Davis. Secretary of Labor. The
Pauline sisters don't like his recent
statement on the report of his Womens
Bureau concerning effects of labor
legislation upon employment opportuni-
ties for women. The Woman's Party
criticized .sas -PRssaR i ~ f;;aaasss and