Evening star., 1925-03-04

insurance investigation won for him
reputation a. one of the most able
American jurists of shis generation.
With a foundation such as this.
President Harding appointed Mr..
Hughes, close personal friend. Sec
retary of State. Mr.. Hughes taking
ONCE on March 4, 1871
Called Dissrm an ent Conference.
Following closely the campaign
pledges OF the, Republican party.
President Harding and his premier.
Mr.. Hughes, called. In 1921, the world
conference on limitation OF arms-
ment, which resulted in an interna-
ttonaf agreement for restrictions on
the construction of .battleships, use
OF gas In warfare and other funda-
mentais aimed at tightening the bur-
defs of taxation of the world and at
the same time lessening the chance
Of war, which for years previously
had kept the nations Of the world in
arm ed conflict
IN the forefront Of national Affairs
as represented al fhe armament limi-
tation conference, Mr.. Hughes re-
sponded to the urgency of a call for
closer relations with the nations on
the continent south of the United
states and took the lead in measures
designed TO promote Latin American
this country He leaves his post to-
day with a record of achievement in
international affairs which assures
MIN q place along with some OF his
equally notable predecessors in once.
twenty years ago when Charles
Evans Hughes took up the work of
investigating trust in New York he
was little more than a local figure.
Today not an American lives who
does not know OF the distinguished
lawyer who took up the portfolio of
the Secretary of State 10 carry on
the work so ably. promoted by Root
and Knox. In those 20 years Mr..
Hughes has been twice Governor Of
New York State, an associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States for six years a nominee of the
Republican party for the presidency
and finally Secretary OF State in the
Harding and Coolidge administra-
tions.
Once Sought Him.
Through the varied career which
has carried him to. the threshold Of
the highest once this Nation can
offer. the ONCE has consistently
sought Mr.. Hughes never Mr..
Hughes the ONCE. He had given the
people of New York cheaper gas and
fnsuranc rates and they made him
sovsrnor. Just before, that an effort
was made TO make him MAYOR OF New
York City, but he declined to run. In
1910 President Taft appointed him an
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, taking
him from the ONCE of the governor at
Albany. When the presidential nomi-
nation came TO him in 1915, many OF
his close friends Insisted that he pre-
ferred to remain on sthe Supreme
Court bench. He accepted only be-
cause he thought II his duty. And in
votes of becoming & the twenty seventh
President
MIR. Hughes was born April II, 1852.
at Gaens Falls, n. Y, the son of a
Baptist minister. The family moved
to Newark, n. J., while Mr.. Hughes
was still youth and he received his
public school education In that city.
MT. Hughes entered Colgate Univer-
sity at the age OF Il years, re-
naming there two years and then
went 10 Brown. University, gradual
ing in 1881 when he was 1s years cid
He dtsa ppointed his parents when he
turned from thsrministry to the przc-.
tice of law, and was admitted to the
New York bar In 1854, beginning his
legal activities in New York the same
year. In 1883 he married Antoinette
Carter, daughter of w S. Carter,
senior member Of the law firm with
which he was associated and later
became q member of the firm under
THE. name of Carter, Hughes q
Dwight.