Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

The Secretary of the Navy, who i
q member of the delegation appointed
by President Hoover to attend the
Five-Power Naval Conference in Lon
don, is a keen student of the annals OF
his family. But he does not, however
feel that the spirit of the early AdamSeS
most distinctly at emmity with every
sort Of disarmament, will affect his
Judgment. The Secretary recently re-
ceived some excerpts of an ancient vol
ume unearthed in the Chateau de
Blerancourt by the curator, NJ. GirodW,
who has been established there by a
Franco-American fund. This book has
been placed on exhibition and from its
pages it may be cleaned that in the
thirteenth century, the Adams family
was most pugnacious and hostile toward
enemies or any sort OF compromises. In
this venerable tome it is stated that in
the year 1900 the first recorded Adams of
Northhamptonshire received from the
King a handsome patrimony in land
Il n heroic service on the bloodiest field
of battle" and that the second John
Adams, his son, was knighted 'for Slay-
ing 80 of the Kings enemies on single
field" This chronicle of the Adams
clan stretches through the centuries
and d1ScloSeS that John Adams, the i'm
migrant was stanch henchman of
Capt. Miles Standish and was a rigid
Puritan. Mr.. Charles Francis Adams,
the Naval Secretary, uses the same
shield which adorns the initial page of
the genealogy displayed in Chateau de
Blerancourt-a lion rampant splitting
fire, adorned with black four-leaved
clovers, which brought luck in battle,
and above the motto IN French, Il
Fight"
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When Andre Ta-dieu now Premier of
the French Republic, was high commits
Sioner he spent many hours in the
Senate and House galleries, noting the
proceedings and following results close
~ in the Congressional Record and in
the press. He has proved that he
learned something about a vote on the
budget. now the most pressing legisla-
ton before the French chambers from
the premier's viewpoint, but not so re-
garded by the deputies. The members
OF the French legislative bodies are
VIGOROUSLY late. M Raymond Poincare
in 1926, in his titanic struggle to re-
store the franc, appealed so eloquently
that the members became more pune
tual. sat longer into the evening, and,
after the way of the House Of Repre-
sentativeS, got into the habit of trans
acting much business every day. M
Tardleu does not wish this good custom
to decline, so he cajoled, harangued and
brow beat the deputies into promising
to hold three sessions daily, for discus
sion Of the budget only, and that until
every member has argued his point and
the question is ready for a vote M
Tardteu is called the most American"
prime minister who has ever served the
French Republic, and he rejoices in the
designation and fully intends to live up
to 1t. He finally put his measure before
the Legislature and asked for a vote of
confidence and he received it $50 TO 1872
Miss Bette Northrup Powell, daugh-
ter of Col. and Mrs. z. Alexander
Powell Of Lands End, Chevy Chase, will,
her friends think. eventually turn her
attention to the foreign. service. Very
few votarieS of Vanity Fair can claim.
as Miss Powell does. a degree from the
School Of Political Science in Paris. but
she won 1t after taking the usual course
and has since continued her studies
along the same lines and in the domain
OF trade and commerce. She has lee
tured before learned societies in many
cities and has accompanied her father
on various scientific expeditions. Wom-
en- have not arrived to any eminence in
the foreign service of this republic,
although there are several brilliant
young trade commissioners and a vice
consul or two. One or two brilliantly
endowed women have been appointed
on legation stats, Miss Lucille Atchi-
son of Ohio is one of these and served
in Switzerland as third secretary for a
time. But there are few who are pre-
pared for the work more carefully than
is Miss Powell, for the School of Politi-
cal Science in Paris is one of the step
ping stones into preferment in the per-
1t ~ kaAA E2TRf
in this detail of indifference to femi-
nine candidates the foreign service of
the United States does not differ great
~ from that OF any other country.
Great Britain has practically no women
on its rolls except in clerical capacity
or in some technical branch. like code
experts or students of international GUS
toms in the social sense.
Mr.. william Richards Castle, jr., the
Ambassador designate to Toxic, is one
of the Capitals leading authors as well
as one of its accomplished diplomatists.
Born in romantic Honolulu. he has
written a delightful study of Hawaii.
past and present. some fiction and
some excellent volumes on miScellane-
Gus subjects. Long time the editor OF
the Harvard graduate magazine, Mr.
Castle knows all the alumni of that
seat of learning and ranks high in their
esteem. His marriage to Miss Margaret
Farlow of Boston was college attach
ment. dating from his senior days and
continuing in his maturer years. He
came to Washington first in 1917 and
has been a resident ever since, first
With the Red Cross and after 1919 in
the foreign service. The hospitable
home Of this diplomat is on r street
near Eighteenth, and there their
daughter. Miss Rosalie Castle, made
her debut. She married Mr.. Allan
Winslow. then a member of her fathers
profession and who was for some time
resident in Geneva Mr. Winslow re-
tired from the foreign service to enter
private business and with his family
now lives in Chicago. Mrs. Castle
since her husband become UnderSecre-
tary of State has been the able aid of