Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Chief Justice and Mrs Charles Evans
Hughes are sailing for Europe next
week on their annual vacation. For the
turist-statesnnan it will be a combina-
ton of business and pleasure. One of
the duties Mr.. Hughes has to absolve
"over there" Is to take formal leave Of
the World Court, from which he re-
signed when he went to the Supreme
Court. The Chief Justice for many
years has included the Old World in
his Summer holiday plans: The Eng
lish countryside and the Alps are his
favorite haunts. He has a considerable
mountain climbing record to his credit.
Mr.. Hughes plans to return to the
United States in August, in time for
the annual meeting Of the American
Bar Association at Chicago which he
will address. He hopes to travel home
with the distinguished delegation Of
British judges and lawyers who will be
the associations guests of honor. The
Chief Justice visited England in 1924
at the head Of the bar association.
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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp" is
the line from Byron incorporated in the
citation read at Columbia this week
when Charles Sumner Hamlin, vice
governor of the Federal Reserve Board,
gree of doctor of laws. IAN honored
son of Harvard" the citation narrates,
who at all times and in many ways
has served the people of his city, his
State and the United States profoundly
interested in all that concerns the bet
terment Of international relations and
the firm establishment of international
peace; whose work as member of the
Federal Reserve Board from the time Of
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well the application to the American
people Of Byron's historic aphorism."
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Senator Clarence c. Dill, Democrat,
of Washington, leaves home every morn
ing for the Capitol nowadays by a
Grandfather Dill's clock. Mrs. Dill was
recently motoring through that section
of Pennsylvania whence the Senator S
progenitors trekked into the Middle
West, and, in the old town of Dillsburg,
ran across a grandfathers clock, vintage
1880, or Whereabouts, which once told
the time in the farm home of Dill
ancestor. The young statesman from
Spokane, who is the Senate'S foremost
authority on radio, has his whole apart
ment in the Capital filled with receiving
sets. When the census taker turned up
/ there last month, the Senator answered
the question about radios by confessing
that his household contains seven
practically one for every room.
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Everybody on Capitol Hill is waiting
to see what Senator Brookhart of Iowa
will have to say when Col. Hanford
| MacNider's name Is sent up for con-
| frmation as American Minister to Can
ada. The two Hawkeye Republicans are
about as fond of each other as the devil
is of holy water. Sometimes senatorial
courtesy--when one member OF the
chamber has personal objection TO a
nominee-has kept the latter out OF
ONCE Brookhart himself, during his
famous feud with the late Senator
Cummins of Iowa, whom the rif1eman-
politician displaced, prevented the con-
| flrmation In his own home town OF
Washington, Iowa, of a postmaster APP
pointed at Cummins instigation. Ola
senatorial hands are OF opinion that the
courtesy" tradition doesn't extend TO
a presidential nominee for foreign
post.
Word reaches the War Department
that all France Is eagerly awaiting the
publication Of Gen. Pershing's war mem
oirs. The commander in-chief OF the
A. e. r. Is expected to settle the bitter
squabble between the partisans OF
Clemenceau and Foch which grew out
Of the recent appearance of the rival
recollection" Of the principal two
French wartime leaders. Controversy
in France-about which Pershing should
be able to divulge the unvarnished
| truth-ranges around the question Of
the employment of the American Army
| in 1918. Clemenceau criticized Foch
scathingly for failing to make earlier
use Of Pershing's forces, which were
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The American general. as all the world
knows, was intent upon building COM
l pact, self-contained American Army be-
fore wasting Its substance on French
hattlenelds. Foch's supporters contend
that he had no right to order" Per-