WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT

...Therefore many of us gasped when we read that Secretary of State Slimson, when he landed in London to attend the International naval conference, was accompanied by "a chauffeur, three valets and four maids"—no Jess than eight servants...

...has been appointed "White House cere-menials officer...

...For one thing, the general very likely would have been defeated...

...Silence and stand fast.' Onward came the cavalcade, illuminated by 200 thick waxen torches, in the hands Of as many horsemen, which cast a light like that of broad day all around the procession, but especially on the principal group, of which the queen herself, arrayed in the most splendid manner, and blazing with jewels, formed the central figure...

...The Hoover organs are so nervous over a little Washington gossip to the effect that Sen...

...Well, another raid on the family sugar bowl has been ^repelled...

...Borah may be a candidate for president in \'.m that they jump to the declaration (hat it would bp dangerous to the nation to put him in the White House...

...w * * * I Once in a while a ray of light penetrates even the sanctum f of a Conservative newspaper...

...What a retinue for an official of a republic 1 .v • • • It brings to mind Sir Walter Scott's description of Queen Elizabeth entering the royal chase at Kenilworth: 'The whole music of the castle sounded at once, and a round of artillery, with a salvo of small arms, was discharged from the battlements...

...Charley can content, himself with the satisfaction of knowing that he is the darling of the great captains of industry, having performed their chores dutifully for something like a third •of a century, • • * Hark...

...Whlie House Ceremonials Officer Robblns, under the most careful guidance of the great state department, will arrange the precedence list for the elaborate and oft-times regal dinners and dances at the White House...

...But it must have been a long time ago...

...Krhe Wisconsin StaU...

...The word was passed along the line...

...The blood pressure of every Standpat editor in the land has increased tremendously since the Progressives won their gallant fight to place Sen...

...Hoover interpose, Robbins' word will be law when it comes to a question of just where a guest at the White House is to put his or her feet...

...The Eau Claire twis...

...The fact that Mr...

...HibetJNgpo laugh...

...Keut there is considerable room for improvement, BBjpake and rehearse!/ ¦m / * * * ^^^¦>cn the Con-serwitlves howl about regularity it makei ^HLn, for we can Remember way back, when they wen ^^Hwn as "Stal-watts," when they openly worked for th< •Wction of Georke W. Peck as governor on the straight B^mocratictick...

...Then they are Progressives without ¦notes...

...And let us not overlook the royal status of Charley Curtis, the Big Indian Chief who became famous by telling a west-ant farmer that he was "too damn dumb" to understand a potentate like himself...

...4 Triumphant democracy...

...The New York World Almanac says that one "Howard M. Gore" is governor of Wisconsin...

...House let us "halt in our stride and carefully examine our social halo, 'and make sure that it is sitting pretty...

...Journal's political crystal gazer al-HWys surrounds the word Progressive with quotation marks, ¦ but seldom quotes a human being, sly, little mystic that m lis...

...But what we cannot understand is this: .' How did Washington, the two Adamses, Jefferson, Madi-son, Monroe, Jackson...

...For a diplomat is now the social arbiter in that historic structure that was "burned by the blooming Britons and narrowly escaped ' going up in smoke again the other day...

...Brayton must notify his composing room at Knee...

...As we approach the sacrosanct White...

...but the noise of drums and trumpets, even of the cannon themselves was but faintly heard amidst the roaring and reiterated welcomes of the multitude...

...McKinley, Rdosevelt...

...While this is a grievous yearning, never to be satisfied in this vale of woe...

...The Queen...

...Johnson, oSnt, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland...

...Even If farm relief fails, and the attempt to obtain federal regulation of the power trust ,f aheold he jettisoned, we red-blooded, opstanding 150 V P*r cent Americans are not going to run short of cere-' menials down at the seat of government...

...This onght to quiet any fears that Dolly Gann and Alice Roosevelt Longworth may get to verbal pulling of hair again over the tremendous question of precedence...

...E^ta • * * ^Bf the farmers were getting decent prices for their pro-^Bts you wouldn't hear so much clatter about their not ^Bing butter...

...i * • « The distressed farmers of the com belt will be cheered by the news that expanding social activities during the Hoover administration are responsible for the assignment of a full . time official to the White House...

...Behind camp a long crowd of knights and gentlemen, whose rank and birth, however distinguished, were thrown into shade, as their persons into the rear of a procession whose front was of august majesty...

...He still believes he is the man who ought, to be president...

...The cities pro-Htide capital for public utilities, thon they turn them over Boprtvate monopolies, who gouge the people right and left.' H IThe old G. O. P. elephant presents a more hopeful ap-Heifrance to the people now that he is carrying a Pro-^pefssive senate, a Con-servatlve president and a Con-serva-BVA house of representatives...

...Heretofore this super-important task has been looked upon—it is really shameful to nave to admit it—as merely a part time job for one of the hri|ht young men with well-slicked hair in the office of the secretary of state...

...Van Buren, the two Harrisons, Tyler, PC*, Taylor, Fillmore...

...Taft, Wilson, Harding—yes, and Coolidge, how chi all these presidents manage to pull through their adLgbiistrations without the aid of a Robbins...

...H * * * B A subscriber of the Philadelphia Record insist* that ^Pennsylvania Is one of the real backward states, saying: H "Witness the public service commission...

...Robbins is immensely wealthy, and maintains houses in Tuxedo, N. Y„ and Washing-I ton, ooght to surround him with the dignity that is [. fitting in the high post to whieh he has been called...

...The Queen...

...Unless President and Mrs...

...I^B • * HV'That they are making some progress cannot be doubted," ^Hmits the ponderous and venerable Wisconsin State Jour-^Kl in referring to the Progressives...

...Pershing's refusal to run against Sen...

...That settles It...

...Telegram hails Gen...

...It was so thoroughly refrigerated by Chilly Calvin that we don't believe it can burn...

...Since his elevation to the dizzying (Mights of the vice presidency Charley has esconced himself in a throne room at the capito...

...Didn't we hear someone toy something like thai...

...La Follette on the Finance committee...

...But the sugar barons will try again at the first (opportunity that is presented to them, so the people must ^L)t desert their watch towers...

...Pierce...

...Buchanan...

...Norris as an act of wisdom, adding: "We are glad...

...Tea, Warren Delano Bobbins, identified as "minister ' to Salvador and a foreign career officer of wide experience...

...The train, male and female, who attended immediately npon the queen's person were, of course," of the bravest and the fairest—the highest born nobles and the wisest counsellors...

...Here Is a case where the Con-servatives and the Progressives will be in accord la demanding an immediate ouster...

...And in the face of such statements some observers Insist that American homor fa declining...

...Lincoln...

...We must exhibit the proper amount of deference—yes, ¦ even awe—in the presence of White House Ceremonials Officer Bobbins, because it has been impressed upon us that this appointment by President Hoover "marks the first 'time that a diplomat of so high a grade has been selected as a social arbiter by the president...