The Washington herald., 1922-11-05
The CabinetIs Wandering
Until After Election
By EVELYN C. Hunt.

ana Lazy AountDatten, Wno
return this week for a longer visit.
the Washington Opera ball. house
hunting and house cleaning and
new clothes-they seem to be the
things foremost in society's mind
right now. OF course. election day
Is of great interest to us all here,
not only to those running for ONCE
again. but to us VINO go about bit
socially and wonder which candi-
dates are going to swell society's
ranks here next year and which
will be missing.
Then, too, not untn election day
is over can we hope to get the Cab
met and their families settled down
here and not until after that date.
November z. will the members of
both Houses of Congress come
drifting back into town. I think
most Of them will come shortly
after next Tuesday to get their
houses in order. or to find houses,
before the regular session of Con-
gress opens early next month. Be-
cause of the elections the Cabinet
is scattered far and wide. I think
they are all conspicuous by their
absence except Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry C. Wallace. who re-
turned Thursday after a campaign
tour. OF course. secretary of the
Treasury A. w. Mellon has not done
any of the campaign speaking: 1
think it was understood from the
start he wouldn't. He has closed
the place he leased for the summer
at Prides Crossing, Mass. for his
son. Paul. and his daughter. Ailsa.
where he Joined them week-ends
Miss Mellon left last week for
visit to Cuba with w. p. G. Harding
and Margaret Harding. Miss Mel
Ion never stays in Washington very
long at a time; is always going on
some place or other.
1t was thought that the Secretary
Of State. Charles Evans Hughes. was
going to escape campaigning. but the
elections seem to be so hot" in so
many places that the party in power
has had to call on practically all of
\ its leaders to work for them and OF
he went too. He made his first speech
rin Jersey City early in the week and
thereby hangs a cute little story.
That night a light burned brightly
in one of the windows Of the parson-
age OF the Summit Avenue Baptist
Church, the same window in which
the Secretary's mother used to hang
a light every night to guide her son
and his companions to their homes
after they had completed their studies
at Cooper Union.
Mr. HUGHES father was pastor
lfI of the Summit Avenue Church.
which is in the Hudson City section
in the parsonage nearby. Both struc-
lures stand unchanged except by
time. Young Hughes taught a Sun
day school class in his fathers church
when he was only fifteen years old.
and Mrs. Harriet Taylor. a widow.
who now lives at 19 Belmont avenue.
Jersey City, was one OF his pupils.
Her good memory and the co-opera-
tion of the Frelinghuysen Good
Women's Committee made it possible
for the Secretary Of State to see the
familiar light again the other night.
Young Hughes worked during the
day. Mrs Taylor recalled, and every
weekday night he and several other
boys of the same neighborhood went
to New York by the old Hoboken
ferry and studied at Cooper Union
The section in which they lived had
no street lights. so Mrs. Hughes
placed the lantern at a prominent
window of the parsonage.
Secretary Hughes spoke in Bos-
ton and made an address at Cooper
Union before he returned here.
The Coolidges, Vice President and
Mrs Coolidge. we won't see until
after the elections. I know. They
went away in the middle of the
summer for a visit to Boston and
then to California and then back I'd
Massachusetts, and now Mr.. Coo
lidge is working tooth and nail' for
his party. 1t will be good to have
them among US once more. The
Secretary of War, John W. Weeks,
who is speaking in New England.
joining Mrs. Weeks at their home
in West Newton, Mass, whenever
possible for a weekend, doesn't
plan to come back until after Tues
day. I know, and Secretary of Labor,
James Davis. with Mrs. Davis, will
remain away until the first OF the
month at least. He has been
stumping in the Middle West for
some time and after Tuesday will
so to California for a rest. They
will spend a few weeks on Catalina
Island as the guest of William
wrigley. jr., of Chicago, owner of
the island
Secretary of Commerce, Herbert
Hoover. has just gone off to the
Southwest, and expects to be away
a month or six weeks. Secretary