New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1923, Page 5

VEILED INMYSTERY What Goes on in Washington Home of Gonn, Senator? BY GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Bureau of New Britain Herald), Washington, D, C.,, Aug. 13.~Un- wonted activity about the town house NEW BRITAIN DAI Bergdoll several days ago returned to Eberbach from Switzerland to meet his mother who had arrivid from the United . States, He again took up his residence in a local hotel where he had been living during the past three years untll he went to Switzerland. The local authorities assert that Bergdoll had been watched closely for several days by strangers living in his hotel. They expressed the be- llef that a plot to kidnap the man who is wanted by the United States government had been carefully planned and financed. Rope ladders, One of the most frequent visitors at the Brandegee house since it was opened at the beginning of this week has been Secretary of the terior Hubert Work, one of the staUnchest supporters of the Harding adminis- tration and for years a leader in the republican party in Colorado. ‘What appears to be the most logical con- clusion tb be drawn’from the close- ness of the intercourse between Sec- retary Work and Senator Brandegee sijs that they are giving most thorough conslderation to ways.and means for grooming the G. O. P. candidate for presidential honors in 1924—who, un- less all signs fail, will be none other than Calvin Coolidge. i are said to have been found in the possession of the men under arrest, The automoblle in which it is believed black jacks and a supply of opiates| | landiora, N ¥ Times, “Two poems each dealing with a and prohibition,"” dramatie crists.” Literary Digest. 985 Lo CONFRONTING YOUNG MEN WITH THE LIVING CHRIST by John | Ralelgh Mott. | “Addresses delivéred during a con- " e |OXFORD POETRY 1921-1922, “Two slender volumes containing {the best poetry produced by under- | graduates in the colleges of Oxford tinent-wide tour among the Young |during the last two years,” Literary | Men's Christlan Associations of the |Digest. United States and Canada.” Literary L | Digest. | POLITICS AND PROGRESS by John ¢ Yl Tl | Ramsay Bryce Mulr, | MAKING OF THE WESTERN MIND | “Alms to give a coherent view of | by F. Mellan Stowell and F. 8. |the political and social aims of Liber- Marvin, allsm, to analyze the reasons for the | “Broad outline of the leading ele- | Liberal's dissatistaction with the exist- | ments of Buropean culture from the |Ing order of things, and to show what | days of classical Greece to the pres- |the movement is designed to accom- | | ent time. Not so much a summu’y beloved Amerfcan story-writer and former ambaesador to Rome.” Liter- ary Digest. . . UNEMPLOYMENT AND OUR REV- ENUE PROBLEM by John Codman " ‘Unemployment and our revenue problem,’ {s a skillfully written tract in support of the single tax theory.” Y. Times, " oee WHERE THERE 18 NO PEACE by the author of “Pomp of Power.” ‘“Trenchent and {lluminating studies of political and economic conditions in Zurope, notebly in BSpain, France, England and Germany,” Literary Di- gest. e s » Not that the néw president is a | plisn.” Literary Digest. of events as an estimate of the main e Y | Fiction “Mrs. Diver's new novel of life in India deals with a diffioult marriage . and with the clash and counter-clash of incompatible temperaments.” Lite erary Digest, man t9 make of himself an instru- Bergdoll was to have been taken off of Senator Frank Brandegee during 5 | ame =4 ment for the expression of anyone|is described as a former American |factors in our common culture,” Lit- | SELECTED POEMS by John Mase- | ALASKAN by James Oliver Curwood field, the past week has given rise to a riot of speculation. among political ob- setvers as to what is going on in the invisible realms of party affairs. For almost the first time since Sen- ator Brandegee purchased the impos- ing residence at Seventeenth and I streets last fall, the building has shown signs of human occupancy. Shutters which have been tightly closed for months have opened wide; the heavy storm doors which barred the entrance have been put aside; for the greater convenience of venerable statesmen who call on the Connecticut senator wooden railings have been placed on the stone steps of the front porch. At almost any hour, from early morning until far into the night, im- pressive -limousines and broughams tended by liveried chauffeurs may be observed standing at ‘the. curb. Through partly opened windows gray and white and shiny hedds can be seen close together, while a fine blue haze of cigar smoke hangs con- stantly in the lofty library of the Brandegee mansion, Mgystery Surrounds House. The air of mystery which has al- ways enveloped Senator Brandegee makes anything more than surmise as to what is going on within his doors impossible. Since the adjourn- ment of congress in March, his very whereabouts have been unknown, even to his secretary. It has been supposed that he retired to his coun- try estate near Rockville, Md., where he lives 'alone—as he does every- where, having no relatives with him —but’'that has been by no means cer- tain. .Now, his whereabouts are no long- er a secret, but his activities remain as unfathomable as ever. He has never been addicted to golf, or tennis, or riding, or any other form of diver- sion except, it is reported, poker. And no one has even thought of suggest- ing that the recent conferences at his home have been of that nature. The reputed intimacy of the senator with Calvin Coolidge—if either the presi- dent or Senator Brandegee can be ac- cused of intimacy with anyone— makes it generally accepted that whatever transpires within the walls of the senatorial establishment has a very-close connection with the affairs of the new administration. It is not the first time that the faded red brick house now owned by the Connecticut senator has furnished an outlet for the powerful undercur- rents " of political influence which shape the destinies of the nation. In by-gone days this home, then the rés- idence of Senator Geane, was a focal point for the leaders of the Roosevelt administration. There President Roosevelt is supposed to have re- ceived secretly’ those whom he was unable, for reasons of policy., to meet publicly at the White House: or to have held consultations which he did not care to have aired. One of Old Guard. As-one of the few remaining mem- bers'of the original “Old Guard,” Sen- ator’' Brandegee is a fitting successor to the occupancy of the I street house. As the potential Mark Hanna of the Coolidge regime, his residency there adds a certain air of the glamor of old" tradition to the speculation which:inevitably attaches itself to his| name in connection with the sudden change * of administration brought about by the death of President Hard- ing. else's will—far from it. But almost|army car. the first act of the new executive on his arrival at the capital was to call Senator Brandegee into conference, which lasted more than two hours— more time than President Coolidge has given any other man in Washing- ton, with the possible exception of Secretary Hughes, whose official po-| sition makes close communication be- | tween the two men ezzential at this| time. This extraordinary sign of the con- fidence of the president in the Con. necticut senator’s counsel speaks vol- umes (which is more than .the presi- dent or the senator is ever likely to do) for the importance of the cnn<i ferences at the Brandegee residence | on the future course of the adminis-| CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND THE tration. The very air of mystery with| NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN which Senator Brandegee has sur-| CHINA by James B. Webster. rounded himself, and the renowned| .p.gnee the , fdeals snd prac- *hina, especially as aring upon !‘I‘P:i:fs d’:ytl';: 1l;‘t:;ett::u;e l(t‘:;{ Chlnl‘;lmlatlon';l with western peo- White House?) which appeals to the| "% Literary Digest imagination. TORETURNTO U. 5. S0 Says Dralt Evader Who Shot Would-Be Kidnappers e New Books at the Institute “An attempt to show how it was that to the Greeks, music was the music of words, and not the music of instruments; how their painting de- pended on the beauty of line, not of color.” Literary Digest. (i Yol CONDEMNED AND THE MERCY OF GOD by Hugh I’Anson Fausset. By The Assoclated. Press. 5 * Eberbach, Germany, Aug. 13.— Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Amer- ican draft evader, said last night that he had expected to return to the United States with his mother on Sep- tember 27, but that last Saturday's offort to kidnap him made him hesi- tate about doing s0. Mrs. Bergdoll was not in the hotel when the attempt was made to seize her son. Bergdoll has not been ar- rested but had made a formal state- ment to the police. The four men held in connection ! with the attempted kidnapping were | removed last night to another place in Baden, the name of which was not made public. They are: Griffith, a former American leu- tenant; Faust Gagarin, a Russian prince; Roger Sperber, a French de- | tective, and a citizen of France; and | John Nielson, an American chauffeur. The German police say that Sper- ber, who was wounded twice during | the clash in the hotel, has informed | them that Griffith engaged him in Paris two months ago to arrange the kidnapping, telling him that a well known American organization was financing the affair. Karl Schmidt was shot .three times | by Bergdoll within ten minutes and | died without making a statement. He was a Swiss citizen and a resident of Lausanne, The shooting occurred in a dark room. Bergdoll fired six shots, three of which hit Schmidt while two struck Sperber and one went wild. Sperber will be charged with attempt- ed murder, while the charge against the other prisoners will be.complicity | in a murder conspiracy. ARTS IN GREECE by F. A. Wright. | - i————— 1 | erary Digest. | . “John Masefleld includes in his work several of the great character- istics of English poetry. We may find the influence of Chaucer there, a | | sweet clarity, a pastoral magic. 8o | too do we find the superabundant revelation of the sea in all its tre- MODERN TRAVELER by Hilaire Belloc. “Another of Mr. Belloc's nonsense- verse-books for children, being the adventures of three modern muske- |teers in the heart of the Kongo." | Literary Digest. {mendous fluctuations and changes.” | IR o IN. Y. Times. | MOTION PICTURES IN EDUCATION e by Don Carios EHNis and Laura|SOUL OF WOMAN by Gina Lombroso Thornborough. “Dr. Gina Lombroso, daughter of | “An authoritative treatment of the |ltaly's famous psychologist, has made educational side of ‘motion pictures, |in this book an analysis of woman's | with lists of materials available for nature and psychology. The work is | schools and film companies, and other aimed especially at the injurious e{-‘ valuable data.” Literary Digest. | fects of the steady drift of women oo |trom home-making to competition OVER THE FOOTLIGHTS by Ste- |with men in business.” Literary Di- phen Leacock. gest. L4 “‘Over the Footlights,' is as del!-‘ g an e clous a bit of intelligent nonsense as | THINKER AND OTHER ROEMS by has yet delighted those who love to| Stanton A. Coblentz. ilnugh. The theater is the latest field “Poems, many of which originally of action for Leacock's wealth of |appeared in leading newspapers and thoughtful wit and humor. 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