Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30

Unrecognized though it be, Soviet
Russia happens to be the only foreign
government which has so far deposited
its formal document of adherence to
the Kellogg anti-war treaty in Wash
ington. It has been at the State De-
partment for several weeks. The Mos
cow authorities acted with almost rec
ord-breaking promptness. On August
81 the representatives OF IA otner ma
lions joined with Secretary Kellogg In
aff1xing their signatures to the general
pact for remuneration OF war. Forty
eight hours later Soviet Russia, through
the French Ambassador in MOSCOW, pro-
claimed its readiness to join IN the
treaty, and day or two afterWaro the
necessary diplomatic parchment was In
paris. for transmission to the United
States. In due course it reached the
State Department through M. Claudel,
the French Ambassador in washington.
Russias adherence to the multi
lateral pact may have far-reaching
consequences as far as the Soviets rela-
tions with the United States are con-
cerned. Senator Borah holds that THIS
country. in accepting RusSia'S partner
ship in the treaty, accords the Moscow
government de facto recognition. Mr.
Kellogg does not see matters IN tnat
light. He thinks the treaty ana our
diplomatic boycott of Russia are wholly
unrelated questions. At one time there
was suggestion that Borah would ngnC
ratification of the anti-war pact unless
Russian recognition were automatically
brought about by the. same token.
President-elect Hoover is thought to
stand pat on the on-recognition issue
like his three predecessors in the White
House-Wilson, Harding and Coolidge,
though rumor now and then reports
that Borah and the incoming Chief
Executive have fixed things up so that
Moscow and Washington will soon snake
official hands.
X X X y
A certain Southern Senator who re-
Gently arrived on Capitol Hill for the
lame-duck session Is the recipient OF
his friends sympathy In connectlon
with a disastrous reversal OF his private
fortunes. A couple of years ago the
solon in question protited handsomely
from the meteoric rise in Dixie real
estate. For the first time in his lie
he felt able to indulge in an INFORM
passion for travel and few other lux
uries. He was supposed to have cleaned
IN to the tune of a cool $250,000. Not
long ago the bottom fell out OF MS lano
investments, and he says he's back at
financial scratch, dependent again on
his $4,000 congressional pay check.
X X X y
William Green promises to rival the
longevity presidential record OF MS
predecessor, Samuel Gompers, as head
of the American Federation OF Labor,
to which influential post he's just been
elected for a third term. In the Gays
when the late John Mitchell and Jonn
L. Lewis we're molding the United Mine
Workers of America into formidable
shane, Green-a miner by trade-was
one of their trusted young l1eutenantS
in Ohio and the Middle West. Green
is a Democrat, Baptist, an Elk, an
Odd FELLOW, an author of a book on
Workmen's compensation, and has just
turned SIS. Yielding to none In his ad-
yocacy of labor's cardinal principles, ne
vet ranks as a conservative who Will
keep the organized workers movement
in the same constructive channelS
through which it flowed under Gompers
shrewd leadership.
X X Xxx
Meet gossip's latest candidate for the
Secretaryship of State-Silas H. StraWn
Chicago corporation lawyer and Presl-
dent Coolidge's special commissioner to
China in 1927. He is said to be on the
Hoover slate of eligibles. Strawn comes
from a law firm which has already fur
nished high administration officials al
washington. Judge John Barton Payne
former Secretary of the Interior, was
the longtime member of it, and from
the same chambers in 1923 Garrard B
Winston was called to become Under