Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-14

Mexico is full of what the State De-
partment would call unofficial observ-
ers from this country, most of whom
seem to be out of tune with the Cool
idge- Kellogg policy toward President
Plutarco Gales. One of these diplo.
mats without portfolio Is Paul Hutch
inson, managing editor of the Chris
tan Century, who has just reported
that Mexico is free from bolshevist
rule. Information to that effect was
telegraphed from Mexico City by Mr..
Hutchinson almost at the hour Secre-
tary Kellogg was telling Senator
Borah's committee all about the red
designs that Moscow Is promoting on
the other side of the Rio Grande.
The religious editor quotes President
Gales as scouting the American
theory that bolshevistic principles
permeate the government of Mexico.
Mr.. Hutchinson finds, on the con-
trary, he says, evidence that relations
between Mexico and Russia are today
not nearly so strong as they were sew
eral years ago. He asserts that the
Mexican Federation of Labor which
put the present Gales government in
power, is totally opposed" to the
Third Internationale and the existing
regime at Moscow.
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William w. Russell, who has been
American Minister to Siam since 1925,
| is about to become the first diplo-
matte chief of mission to be retired on
a pension under the new foreign
| service act. Mr.. Russell, native of
| the District of Columbia, was 81 years
old in December, thus becoming
eligible for 'the lean and slippered
| years" on a permanent allowance of
three-fifths of his ministerial salary,
which will give him $4,000 year for
| the rest of his life. He entered the
| foreign service in 1895 and has been
on duty since then in Venezuela, Pan
anna, Colombia, the Dominican Re
public, Ecuador and Siam. Russell
| was a high school boy at Rockville,
Md, on the outskirts Of Washington
and later attended the Naval Acad-
| envy at Annapolis.
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One of the diverting political NOR
sells being served at Capital dinner
tables during these hectic mid-session
days concerns the future of Albert B.
Fall. Vindication in the recent
Doheny trial has filled Falls old-time
New Mexican constituents, it's said,
with a. desire to send him back to the
United States Senate, where he sat
| from 1912 until 1925. 1t is to. the
seat now occupied by Andrieus A.
Jones, Democrat, who will come up
| for reelection in 1928, that Fall in
that event would aspire. Those who
are telling the story say it all depends
on whether Fall energies victorious
from the forthcoming Teapot Dome
criminal trial, in which he Is a co
defendant with Harry F. Sinclair.
Much hangs. of course, too, on the
state of Falls health New Mexico
has signally honored him in the past.
He was a member of it's Legislature,
a Justice of it's Supreme Court. twice
it's attorney general, and member OF
| it's constitutional convention before
going to the United States Senate and
later into the Harding cabinet.
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Over in one of the big executive de-
partments they're laughing merrily at
the expense of a popular junior Of
fetal who was recently caught in a
| terrible jam at Washington, and in
J his own home, at that. His wife, a
well known Washington hostess, had
( invited a prima donna, who appeared
| in opera here the other night, to be
| the house guest of herself and hus-
! band. The songstress duly arrived,
bag and baggage. on the day of the
performance. But that very noon her
| hostess was called to the South to
attend a parent taken suddenly ill.
That left friend husband in a fix.
Being a young man of resourceful-
ness, he lost no time in meeting the
situation. He decided to have himself
chaperoned and beguiled a fellow Of
! fetal of his department into lodging
with him as long as the soprano her.
self was on the scene.
| Chief Justice Taft long has been an
apostle of the theory that judges of