Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20

Chief Justice Hughes tarried in Wash
ington long enough this week to
familiarize himself with the extensive
plans for next weeks local reception OF
visiting British and French bar digni-
taries and then left for Chicago TO
address the annual meeting Of the
American Bar Association. The Chief
Justice has special interest in the
European visitors because Of their
boundless hospitality to our judges and
lawyers who made the Old World pill
grilnage under Hughes leadership In
1924 Six weeks in Europe this Sum-
mer did not bring Mr.. Hughes quite the
kind of fun he sought, because, as he
remarked In Washington, they got all
the rain over there that we should have
had over here" The Chief Justice
never seemed more vigorous than he
does today. His long morning walks,
his unfailing pastme, are negotiated
with spry relish. Close observers testify
that the famous Hughes whiskers
appear TO be worn bobbed these days.
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With India in seething turmoil, none
of the visiting British bar dignitaries
will excite greater interest than the
Right Hon. Sir John Simon. Many
contemporaries in Britain look upon him
as the most distinguished lawyer in the
realm. Tall, white-haired and typically
English in manner and mien, Simon
has had an uncommonly eminent
career both in the law and in politics,
though he Is still in the middle sos.
Sir Johns name is now on all British
lips because Of the Simon commissions
report on India. It urges increased
self government for the land which
Gandhi has plunged into revolt, but
not on so wide a scale as to imperil
Britain's stranglehold on the crown
| jewel of the empire" Simon, a Lloyd
George Liberal M. p, has been solicitor
general, attorney general and home
secretary in successive London cabinets.
In France he was a major of the Royal
Air Force in 1918. American jurists
| have met him frequently across the
| international arbitration table in con-
nection with Newfoundland and Alaskan
boundary disputes.
Ranking Sir John Simon officially in
the visiting British delegation, II not
| in stature as a lawyer, is Sir William
Jowitt, X. O., attorney general in the
| Macdonald Labor government. The
birds Of passage which have arrived
| ahead Of the British barristers whisper
that there's no love lost between Simon
torney general is accused of shedding
his Liberal party colors and adopting
the Macdonald label. Soon after that
| transformation occurred, Jowitt was
elevated to a knighthood and the blue
| ribbon legal post in the Labor cabinet
! Sir william is one of Britain's younger
statesmen, aged As.
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Word comes to Washington that
Representative TON" l.. Blanton, DEM
ocrat, of Texas, swept the boards in
record fashion at the recent congress
siOnal primary in the seventeenth West
Texas district. His final lead over "
Earl carp. his rival for the nomination,
| was % ,466 out of q certified total vote
Of 1905. Blanton carried 10 out Of
the 19 counties in the district. What
| ever Capitol Hill may think Of the
| Great Director from the Lone Star
bailiwick, Blanton's home folks seem to
be nearly 100 per cent devoted to him.
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| Apropos the rigid economies ordained
! for the Navy, they're spinning a salty
yarn over at Skipper Adams depart
ment about a certain dignitary who was
on duty at the London Naval Confer
ence. Before leaving Washington he
was warned to leave his uniforms at
home because he was going to peace
conference. But officers were directed
to tote along full kit of civilian clothes,
especially for formal occasions. The
sailorman hadn't any morning coat and
the striped trousers that go with 1t, but
he has a brother-in-law built Just like
him. Being famed in the feet for his
financial conservatism-he's New Eng
land Yankee-and finding that his rela-
tive had the necessary outfit, the thrifty
tar proceeded to borrow 1t. Now the
brother-in-law's clothes are back where
they belong. with a record of having
done duty at Buckingham Palace and
other royal points east, west and north
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Slogans being the political order of
the day, the Republicans have decided
to work the RaSkob end of the Demo-
cratic opposition for all it's worth.
Several Of the opening guns fred from
the Fess-Lucas trenches have barked
about the "Raskob- Shouse" propaganda
bureau, and other words to that effect.