Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-17

Charles Evans Hughes will make
his first temperance in Washington
since his retirement from Office at
the April %, "a and 25 annual meet
ing of the American Society of Inter
national Law, of which he is presi-
dent. He will speak on Qualification
at the opening session and preside as
POSTMASTER at the society's dinner on
the evening of April 25. On that
occasion it will be the former Secre-
tary of States duty to introduce a
brilliant galaxy of st-prandial ora
tors. They include Frank B. Kellogg,
Secretary of State; the British Am
bassador, Sir Esme Howard; the
Netherlands Minister, Jonkheer de
Graeff, and James NJ. Beck, solicitor
general of the United States. An out
standing feature of the International
Law Society meeting will be an adj
dress by James Brown Scott on the
significance Of the proposed codiflca-
ton of Pan-American law.
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Men of Nationwide and worldwide
celebrity are gathered in Washington
for the annual session of the board of
trustees of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Among them
are Nicholas Murray Butler, John w.
Davis, Robert Lansing. David Jayne
Hill, Alfred Holman, Charles S. Ham
lin, Austin G.. Fox, Associate Justice
George Sutherland. Robert A. Franks,
Henry S. Pritchett and Andrew J.
Montague. Absentee members of the
board include Elihu Root, who is in
California; Edgar A. Bancroft, Amer
lean Ambassador at Toxic, and James
r. Sheffield, American Ambassador at
Mexico City. The Carnegie Endow-
ment, which these best international
minds of ours administer, is 100000
900. and it has per cent interest, or
$500,00 to invest annually in the
works of international amity. The
bulk of the sum is spent on publica-
tons.
Something like a scream of triumph
energies from the quarters irrever-
emily known as "the interests" in a
bulletin just issued by the New York
Trust Co. and widely distributed in
Washington. The bulletin records the
steady growth in work councils" in
the United States. These councils
consist of wage earners not affiliated
with trades unions. The number of
councils increased from IL in 1917 to
225 in 1919, 725 in 1922 and S14 at
the present time. The number of
workers affected increased from 391,-
400 in 1919 to 100000 in 1922 and
1,177,000 at this date. The number
of wage earners affected by the work
councils" is now approximately rs
per cent of the total trades union
membership, which is roundly 4,000,-
600. The conclusion that 'the inter-
ests" come to, according to the bulle-
tin above mentioned, is that "recog-
milton of the mutual interests of en-
ployers and employees has to a great
extent removed the necessity for
unionism."
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A Massachusetts, man who has just
been appointed to Federal Office in
Washington claims knowledge of a
store owned by a firm, just outside of
| Boston, $50 years ago. 1t was a gen.
eral merchandise concern. Over the
door hung a sign reading:
DAWES & COOLIDGE.
The concern wasn't perpetuated at
Washington in exactly that rotation,
but almost Supposedly the general
merchants of 1775 were ancestors of
the firm now doing business at this
stand.
Huston Thompson Of the Federal
Trade Commission, and lately it's
chairman, is regular contributor to
Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent.
| In a recent issue Thompson discloses
| that Woodrow Wilson In moments of
fatigue and Encouragement over po-
litical attacks found solace in Rud-
yard Kipling's "If." Thompson was