The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-14
this I enjoyed Secretary Hughes i

this I enjoyed Secretary Hughes inn
 mensely.
 "Mais resiste t. on a la Vertu;
 Les gems qu N'eurent point de faih lesses sont terribles" observed Sylvester Bonnard of the redoubtable Therese, quotes the author of "The | Mirrors of Washington in the first
 lines of his chapter devoted to the
 be whiskered" Secretary of State.
 The fearsomeness of the good' is
 an old old story as We all know, hav- ing come down from stories related
 as far back as Horace and a preya-
 lence of virtue and a similar romantic quality the author of "The Mirrors Of 1 Washington" ascribes to Secretary
 Hughes declaring that his goodness"
 and his ''coolness" have been the
 traits of character which have led
 him over the toughest and seeming ly the most insurmountable of obsta- cles during his political career. The author says of Secretary Hughes
 He is the most democratic secre-
 tary of State this country has even had and this includes Bryan to whose school Hughes belongs
 secretary Hughes is unqualifiedly declared by the author of "The Mir
 TOTS as possessing the "best mind
 Tn the cabinet" yet withaI so demo- | cratic that the mental attitude" of
 the present administration is that | of
 Call me Jim
 This story emanated it seems from the fact that the Secretary of La
 DOT is said to have admonished his chief clerk, Samuel Gompers, Jr.. who 1 addressed him before visitors as 'Mr. | Secretary" thusly
 1 Please don't call me, Mir. Secretary Sam; call be Jimr'
 1 So Call Me Jim has come to ha the mental attitude" of the adminis- tration" appealing to the "Sceretary Of State as we'll as to the "Secre- tary of Labor"
 The author draws a severe contrast between the Hughes of former days and the Hughes of today-even his 'oeard' on the days when Mir. Hughes was handing the government back 10 the people was different from what It IS now In New York 1t was preachers beard" declares the author you might, have encoun- tered It among the circuit riders any where; now it is the Foreign Secre- tarys beard' and you might encoun- ter It Tn any European capital,'' q world statesman beard" something has dropped from him besides the ends of his whiskersr says the author. An icy veil like frozen mist which used to envelop nm whep/ he was about to run for rresident in 1916 has fallen and he has gradually emereed.p "I should say that secretarv Hughes is Bryan plus the advantages which MT. Bryan never enjoyed. of A correct republican upbringing> and a mind"
 Secretary Hughes grows better republican every day and the repub- iicans in the Senate are not recon ciled; they feel like the man who saw the hippopotamus;
 III he should stay to tea, I though, mere won't be much for ua."
 
 simply love the chapter on Col onel House especially now that the gossip IS current to the effect that ex-President Wilson and his man Nlormer man l should say) "Frida Y" are about to Kiss and make up.S To me. Colonel House is the moat amazing sort of person: and as unione character according to the author of
 Ihe Mirrors of Washington. as you'd find in a, life time. Absolutely content to be A s.o,.- looker'-when in his youth Through his friendship at Cornell vita young Morton, son of the democratic Gov lernor of Indiana, he had a peep in at the political situation. and later, as the trusted friend of MT. Wilson, he saw and heard probably more than any other one person during the late war. revealing as he does, a lack of conceit and lack of self-assurance that is almost pathetic in its sim plicity-content to be hanger on'' as It were--a parasite.
 "Colonel House seems to have been possessed all his life with the almost passionate instinct which makes boys run to fires, says the author of "Ths Mirrors of Washington" Whether fastening in his youth on young Morton, or on Mir. Wilson, is his ma turity. his has been the desire to see, for. the pure love of seeing-rno riches. or power of influence being desired."s
 And he's so good-humored in hisl playing of second fiddle" always
 He is elad his heart is full he wishes to give in return; he is tl.e kindest hearted man who has ever had empires al his disposal; he wants to give, give. give; he wants to make happy; he was the fairy god-methef