Evening star., 1925-01-30

Canada is SO interested In the
Coolidge economy program that it
has invited the director of the
budget to cross the border and tell
the Dominion all about it. Gen.
Lord will be the guest of honor at
distinguished luncheon meeting of
Canadian business men in Montreal
on February 25, The Montreal Board
of Trade and the Canadian Club will
jointly be his hosts. The budget
chiefs visit to the province of Que
bee will occur in the midst of
speaking tour which will presently
take Gen Lord into Wisconsin,
Michigan and Ohio, and include
several engagements in New Eng
land and other Eastern States. on
February IS he will address Yale
University. The budget is Lords
invariable theme. He IS witty
talker, interlards his dry subject
with lively anecdotes, and winds up
on note that usually sets his audi;
ences cheering for penny-saving. The
directors desk is inundated with let
ters of felicitation from all parts of
the country on the budget speeches
the President and Gen. Lord broad
cast on January &c.
A jest of the vintage of 1924 is
rampant as inauguration day ap
proacbes. You'll be told in a stage
whisper that every bank in the
United States will close it's doors
four months after Calvin Coolidge
takes the oath of office" When
you've recovered from the shock and
innocently and eagerly ask why ?''
you are told. Because banks always
close on the Fourth of July"
Japan has a Liberal statesman
named Yukio Ozaki, who sometimes
is called the Borah Of Nippon. On
one great International issue, Ozaki
and Borah see eye to eye. They both
are ardent advocates of disarmament,
and favor the assembling of the
nations at as early a, date as possible
to bring it about. Ozaki immensely
admires America He has just given
token of his regard for us and our
institutions by sending his daughter
to this country TO be educated Ac-
companied by Nine. OZaki, the young
Japanese lady recently passed
through Washington, and is now
hard at work at a finishing school
for girls outside of New York City.
Inc 1SlSnI fltN. JdHltS
Bishop of Washington, thinks spir-
ituality is on the increase at the Ma
tional Capital, despite recent Mid
western divorce court revelations.
The bishop has been lecturing in Chi
Gago He expressed the view that the
United States is on the verge of
great religious revival. Dr.. Free
mans confidence on that score is
partially based on the uncommonly
frequent references to religion in re-
cent utterances of public men. The,
bishop discerns a decided spiritual
trend" in the speech and political de-.
pertinent Of the men who are con-
Quoting the Nations affairs. 80, .-
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Secretary Hughes will relinquish
the Secretaryship of State almost 20
years to the day from the time be en-
tered public life. 1t was in March,
1905, that the Legislature of New
York induced Hughes, then at the
outset of a promising, though not inn
mediately lucrative law practice, to
become counsel for the Stevens Gas
Commission. He achieved such
whirlwind success on the gas investi-
CATION that the Legislature later in
the same year hired him to conduct
the Armstrong Insurance inYestiga-
tion. From that episode onward the
young lawyers rise was steadily me-
teoric. Hughes friends insist he has
always looked forward to the COM