Kellogg on Crest

As they must to all men of strong, successful growth, completion and fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige-- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this week is an appropriate time to stroll into the large, nondescript, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, on 19th Street Washington, D. C. If a joyous, woolly dog comes bounding down the stair, call, "Bodger! Here Bodger!" After Secretary Kellogg had signed the pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother in St. Paul--but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will serve tea in the library, on the ground floor, or dinner in the second floor dining room. There is one maid and a cook. The furnace man was born black. Always the master dines frugally and sips sparingly, but he is no total teetotaler. Purring from the garage comes either Mr. Kellogg's own Pierce Arrow or the Secretary of State's Packard. The small man who steps briskly in always carries a cane, and always wears a dark suit or morning clothes--but without a valet the clothes are seldom newly pressed. Speeding to the State Department, the master is perhaps a little sad to find that his right hand man--R. E./-Olds--is gone. As Under Secretary of State (1927-28), Mr. Olds was well-nigh indispensable to Mr. Kellogg. Today there is really no "favorite" among the four men on whom, the secretary chiefly leans:1) Under Secretary J. Reuben Clark Jr., and Assistant Secretaries 2) William R. Castle Jr. (Europe); 3) Nelson T. Johnson (Far East); 4) Francis White (Latin America). Among veteran Washington correspondents the consensus is: 1) The President and the Secretary of State are "close friends," but not quite "intimate friends"; 2) Relations are close and cordial between Mr. Kellogg and Messrs. Morrow, Houghton, Hughes; 3) Senator Borah probably prefers Mr. Kellogg to Mr. Hughes, since the Senator called seldom at the State Department in the days of Secretary Hughes, calls often now.