Evening star., 1925-02-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Is Charles Evans Hughes to be
permitted to leave Washington and
public Office on March unheralded
unsung and unhonored? In Europe or
| Asia a statesman with his record OF
| accomplishment would be the recipi-
! ent of the richest distinctions within
the gift of the state. Great Britain
| would ennoble such a man-perhaps
| make him an earl. France would
thrust upon him the highest rank OF
| the Legion Of Honor or membership
| in the Academy of Immortals. Mr..
| Hughes calendar OF open dates is
probably very~small at this hour. His
| inclinations are almost sure to be
| against anything savoring Of for
NAL or effusive farewell at the hands
| of his admirers. But this observer
| ventures to suggest that, time and
the Secretary Of States predictions
! to the contrary notwithstanding,
| Charles Evans Hughes should not be
| allowed to stink back into private
life unnoticed. It will be blot on
the escutcheon of American national
| gratitude If such a fate overtakes
| him.
Secretary Hughes bade informal
goodbye to the personnel of the
State Department one night this
week at joyous party of the
Departmental Club. 1t was an eve
ming of high jinks into which Mr..
Hughes entered with unfeigned Zest.
| The fun was SO fast and furious
that nobody had time to be saddened
| by thoughts of parting from one OF
| the most beloved chiefs who have ever
presided over our ministry of foreign
affairs. Entertainment was provided
exclusively by State Department men
and women and as the fro1ic pro-
| ceeded unsuspected talent galore
| was revealed. The Undersecretary
| of State, Joseph c. Grew. blossomed
out as an accomplished pianist. He
reeled off Chopin and\ Rachmaninoff
as gracefully as If he were dealing
| with diplomatic, instead of musical,
notes Leland Harrison, First As
sistant Secretary of State. sang as
| acceptably as John Mccormack could
have done. J. Butler Wright, Second
Assistant Secretary of State, proved
himself a comedian whom AL Jolson
might envy. His skit of a typical
day in the State Department made
Mr.. Hughes shrek with glee. Allen
w. Dulles, chief of the Near Eastern
division of the State Department
glittered as an Arabian shfek and
played the violin entrancingly. Evan
E. Young, who heads Eastern Euro
pean affairs, officiated capably as a
piano accompanist.
X Y
The Rev Edmund A. Walsh, S. j..
Phi. D., regent of the School of For
eign Service at Georgetown Uniyer-
sity, has inaugurated spacious
course in modern International
politics called Russia IN Revolu-
ton" The course begins with the
Crimean War and will wind up with
discussion of the question of recog-
milton Of Soviet Russia by the United
States. Twelve lectures in all, to
finish May Is, are on DR.. Walsh's
program He recently returned to
Georgetown University after an ab-
sence of nearly three years in Europe.
Twenty-one months of the time were
spent in Soviet territory. That period
was pa assed, not in Moscow and Petro-
grad alone, but far off the beaten
track-in the Crimea, in the Don
Cossack country, in the Kuban and
Black. Sea districts, along the Volga,
and in the Ukraine. For part Of his
sojourn in Russia Dr.. Walsh was in
J the service Of the American Relief