Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 6

g6 ® DIRECT PRIMARIE S WORRY PARTY MEN Restlessness Seen Over Manner in Which Laws Are Working Out. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. There is growing restlessness among yolitical leaders in many sections of the country over the manner in which the direct primary laws are working out. Within the next year or so efforts are likely to be made in several States to bring about repeals. Colo- rado led the way this year with a repealer passed by both branches of the legislature, but vetoed by the governor. The fight there i not ended. Jt will be renewed when conditions are more favorable. Change in Senate Foreseen. The announced retirement of Sena- tor Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, at the end of his present term, March 4, 1927, has once more called attention to the fact that the primary laws and the election of Senators by the peaple, brought about by the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, has charged, and is likely still further to change the character of the Senate. It is generally believed here in Wash. ington that Senator Underwood did not care to £o through the strife and turmoil of a primary battle. Of course in Alabama the primary is the only fight necessary—the eiection belng merely a formality to ratify the Demo- cratic selection. The "drys” had prom- ised to make things as disagreebale as they could for the Senator and the growing radical wing of the party was not at all satisfled with the Senator's conservative leanings. Rather than to be forced to defend views which he has no intention whatever of chang- ing, Senator Underwood steps aside after a notable career in public life. Law Hits Underwood. Under the old system of electing Senators by the legislature Senator Underwood might have remained in the upper chamber indefinitely. Ala- bama never did ratify the direct elec- tion amendment. That amendment was declared in effect, however, May 31, 1913, and only 14 Senators who were in the Senate prior to 1913 are there today. There are only four mem- bers of the Senate with 20 or more years of service to their credit. They are Senators Warren of Wy- oming, Stmmons and Overman of North Carolina, and Smoot of Utah. Senator Borah of ldaho, who took his seat as late as 1907. is now fifth on the list of Senators in service. 0Oddly enough, the direct election amendment did not serfously affect the so-called political ‘‘bosses” who were serving in the Senate. Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania, for instance, had just as easy a time getting elect- ed under the new system as he did under the old. Only death terminated his service. Senators Warren and Smoot may be said to be of the old political leader school, while Senators Overman and Simmons are just natu- ral fixtures in the Senate. Twelve States Fall to Ratify. Altogether 12 States fafled to ratify the direct election clause to the Con- stitution. In addition to Alabama they were Delaware, Florida, Georgia, XKentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mis: sissippi, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. Although it has been felt that the amendment robbed the Senate of some of its best minds— men who would not go out and fight for the office at the polls—there is no serfous talk heard of an attempt ever to go back to the old order. But there has been an outcry against the direct primary system, which also has taken its toll of bril- liant men. who lacked the means of meeting the heavy primary expenses and who would not permit their friends to “put up” for them. Efforts have been made from time to time by State and national legisiation to limit primary and election expenses, but it has been found almost impossible to do so. Prominent Senator’s View. One former Senator from a big Northern State confided to the writer that his unsuccessful fight at the last primary in which he participated cost him $75,000. Even with the recent increase the salary of & Senator for a term of six years totals only $60,000. At the time the former Senator spent the $75,800 the salary total amounted only to $45.000 No one ever has known just what the total expenditures amounted in the famous Newberry senatorial cam- paign in Michigan. Tt was sufficient, however, to cause g public scandal. The $75,000 expendit®es appear to go unnoticed. AMERICAN BANKERS FIND PARIS PRICES MODERATE Chamber of Commerce Delegates, Held Billionaires in Belgium, Paid Peak Rates There. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 4—High prices in the restaurants and hotels of Paris seemed quite moderate to the trainload of American bankers and business men who arrived here last week from Brussels, where they attended the sessions of the congress of the Inter- ¥ nattonal Chamber of Commerce, They arrived in time for the grand prix, when prices are at their peak, = but ‘they did not mind for they had been heralded in Belgium, after traveling from America on the liner » George Washington as a boatload of billionaires. They found Belgium on a gold basis so far as they were con- cerned Shaves cost the equivalent of 40 cents, hair-cuts were $1.25 and meals from $2 up. The Americans found the explanation in the popular Eu- ropean supposition that people from ¥ the United States have all the gold in the world and do not know what to * do_with it. w _When the party from Brussels reached Paris and got lost in the ® crowd of all nationalities where none called them bhillionalres they were ® able to drop back to normal world prices Encalyptus Tree Culture. B ¥rom the Nature Magazine. The cultuge of eucalyptus trees may be largely extended in this country if W experiments now being conducted by the United States forest service prove suceessful. A forest service scout re- @ cently found a species of the eucalyp- tus known as the “snow gum” grow- # ing in Australla under conditions that are fatal to the usual varieties of the ® tree. The “snow gum” i3 said to be able * to withstand freezing temperature as % low as 16 degrees below zero. The tree Is now being raised at the forest service station at Asheville, N. C., a 4 if it survives Winter conditions, other trees of the same species will be used 1o plant arid slopes in the Souwthwest where natlve trees have difficulty in becoming established. SRR T Probably the only exclusively moit raflroad line in the world was the Mid- lothian and Blue Island Raflroad, built in 1000 for the accommodation of members of the Midlothian Golf Club of Chicago. The line had & length of a mile and a half, and the rolling stock consisted of one locomotive and two passenger coaches. ™ ’ |affair, by | suburb of Lynn and who has never | when he moved into the White House nd | cabinet when the time comes. There Jefferson’s Note For $900 Discovered | Among Old Papers FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 4—While going through some old papers of his grandmother recent- ly, Dr. C. Mason Smith came upon @ note made by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas J. Randoiph. Both Jeffersor. and Randolph were an- cestors of Dr. Smith. The note says: “On or before the first day of August, 1821, we promise to pay to John Nelson, of the county of Albermarle, the sum of $900 with legal interest thereon from the date hereof, for the true payment of which ‘we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators. Wit- ness our hand and seal this sixth day of June, 1820." On the reverse side the follow- ing notation is made under the date of March 7, 1828. “Received from ‘Thomas Randolph $200 on account of the within bond.” signed “John Nelson.” COOLIDGE SPENDS BIRTHDAY QUIETLY; DINES ON MAYFLOWER (Continued from First Page.) stood, were from Mrs. Coolidge, who had picked them herself. Standing up ageinst this vase was a small, neat envelope, in which was contained a few words of congratula- tion and “wishes for many more" from the first Jady. Among other reminders of his birth- day were the large cake baked by the White House cook, a very elaborate the way, and a cake from AMrs. Harriet McAdoo, who lves in a met efther the President or his wife. Real Homemade Article. Mrs. McAdoo #s sald to have some little reputation In her community for cake making, and being & member of the so-called strong Coolidge family, she baked this one speclally for the President. It weighed 5 pounds and was covered with an inviting, smooth white icing. While it was not quite as picturesque as the one from the White Court kitchen, it had all the outward earmarks of being out of the ordinary. A cake baked by the pastry cook at one of the local hotels who formerly baked pastry for the King of Beigium was received. Mr. Coolidge did not take his cus- tomary 2-mile walk this morning. He walked about the grounds and through the flower garden and went for a few minutes to the rocks on the cliff to look out to sea. On his return to the | house he stopped for a while to watch a horseshoe-throwing contest down be- hind the garage between two secret service men and two of the chauffeurs. The President looked on without mak- ing any comment. Among the birthday presents re. celved today was a set of plated horseshoes. The President s known to have thrown a mean shoe during his early life at Plymouth Notch. During the quiet moments he spent today on the broad veranda of White Court with Mrs. Coolidge, President Coolidge’s mind must have rambled over his span of life and wandered back to the little white farmhouse at Ply- mouth Notch in which he was born, July 4, 1872. His has been an event- ful life, full of great events, but the bitter has been mixed with the sweet, and, like most of his fellow Amer- icans, Calvin Coolidge has had his sorrows and disappointments. Is Sad Anniversary. A yvear ago today his youngest son Calvin was taken sick and dfed of septic poisoning three days later. It was the first break in his family, but the President of the United States cannot carry his private woes into public affairs, and the Coolidges have had to appear happy when oftentimes their hearts were sad for the loss of their bright and sromising boy. For a man so citurn, Calvin Cool- idge is full of sentiment, but he does not carry his heart on his sleeve, and | only those who know him intimately and are privileged to come into close contact with him have ever seen him grieve, but grieve he does in his quiet, unostentatious way. The deep love and | veneration for his mother, who died when he was of tender age, is pretty generaily known among his intimates. He has carried with him these many vears a little old-fashioned daguerreo- type of his mother. When he was Governor of Massachusetts 1t stood on his desk in the executive chamber. He carried ft with him to Washington when he became Vice President, and he placed ft on the dresser of his chamber. In some of his state papers and in several of his public speeches he has referred to a mother’s love. His only sister died when she was 15, while he was going to_ Black River Academy at Ludlow. His schoolmates recall his sorrow over this great loss. His Boyheod Typical. The life of Calvin Coolidge was similar to that of other Plymouth boys. He worked early and late help- ing his father about the little farm and ftting himself at the district school not far away from his home. | ‘When his mother died he spent much 1 of his time with his grandmother and | grandfather on the ancestral farm not | far from the place of his birth. He showed early inclinations for higher education, and while his father had hoped that he would succeed him on the farm and the village store, he readily assented to his son's plan of going to college and becoming a lawyer. Thirty-four years ago today Calvin Coolidge made his first public speech. He wrote out his oration and read it from the manuscript. ‘His father carefully preserved the document, fil- ing it away In the old-fashioned sec- retary which his son had made some ars before and which is still pre- served. There it remained until the young orator became President of the United States, when Col. Coolidge took it out and displayed it with par- donable pride as Calvin’s first attempt at_public speaking. The oration was of the schoolboy type, but it showed that the embry- onic statesman had the stuff in him that makes Presidents. What a con- trast with his speeches today, tem- pered by experience and mellowed by age and reading. Davis Tried for Week’s Post. The story has been revived that John W. Weeks has formally resigned as Secretary of War. Mr. Weeks is now on the Neorth shore recovering from an operation performed on him some weeks ago. It 18 known that he never will return to his duties. Presi- dent Coolidge knows the wishes of the War Secretary to retire and has requested him to nominally remain as Secretary of War until a successor has been selected. The feeling exists that Dwight L. Davis, Assistant Sec- retary of War, who has been acting in the absence of Mr. Weeks, 15 being tried out and may be elevated to the is a strong drive on by the American Legion members to influence the Pres- ident to select one of thelr own num- ber as Secretary Weeks' successor. Support for Past National Commander Alvin Owsley exists and it is probable that If Mr. Davis is promoted Ows- ley or another le% man will be named as Assistant tary of War. Information at the Executive office to- day was to the effect that there had been no change in the situation re. specting Secretaty Weeks' resigna- tion. He is expected to resign belore the mext Cengress convenes. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON PalLL LEVYS ’ JULY 5, 192 QT I At 735 7th St. N.W. 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