The Washington times., 1920-04-09

floor. The story around town today
is that some OF the wealthy Republi-
can interested in the Hoover National
Republican Club. which Is the name
by which the headquarters 60. be-
came disturbed over the outcry about
the Wood expenditures. thought their
turn might be next. and decided to
reduce the area Be that as II may.
when one enters the Vanderbilt and
inquiries for the Hoovcr hcadq uarters,
one Is directed to 30 to the first
floor. which. In New York hotels. is
always some hundreds Of feet above
ground.
Arrived there, one steps out Of the
| elevator and Immediately loses ones
assurance. All around are light
bronxe-colored hangings. with bam-
boo poles. like big fishing rods,
swinging against them. At flrst
glance the provincial mind thinks
that the hotel must be making al
terations and has put up false can
vas wells, but q second glance shows
that IL is regular stun. II queer, and
= second thought suggssts to the
provincial mind that II II queer only
because seen for the first time.
Bvidenee Of Lsx1ry.
Running on In various directions
are little passages. with the light
bronse-colored stun and tho fishing
rods making gently swaying walls.
Vistas Of luxury appear. After bit
one sees that here and there on the
walls. with the fishing rods are pea
cock tails and things that look like
pieces Of old-fAshioned silk crazy
quilts. but. Of course. are not any such
thing. and one decides that the art
IN Il In ChfnAay
something like that.
womaa Meets visitors.
Down at the end of'one OF the little
passages one sees a stoutish young
woman at q desk. She must be the
floor clerk. And remembering the
hauteur of ordinary floor clerks one
asks himself Just how badly a floor
clerk on such a floor could freeze one.
Nevertheless the terrifying one is ap-
preached with a very polite bow and
is asked on what part of the floor will
Mr.. Hoover's headquarters be found.
for one does not know then that the
whole floor 10 headquarters. But one
Is SO informed and Is given a most
cheerful smile at the same time where.
upon one realizes that this stoutish
young woman is no floor clerk at all
but is a part of the Hoover campaign
ana DeHaNlnB as SuCn.
The Information that one gets about
the progress of things Hooverish in
Republican circles is given in q square
space, in which are wondrous deep
chairs, beautiful lamps, small pieces
of statuary that must be good be-
cause they are there, and other things
accordingly. The conversation natur-
ally is carried on in subdued and dig
nified tones. However. the converse
| tion does not mean as much to one
as 1t should. for one constantly Is
thinking how in Sam Hill could a
Maryland politician ever attend to
practictl business in a headquarters
practical business in a headquarters
that thirty men could creep UP with
out making the least noise; in which
there were all kinds OF cuddy holes,
where suspicious persons could hide,
and in which. for all one knew, there
| might be a listener behind the hang
ings and the fishing poles at ones
very back.
Publicity Costly.
But all OF the money does not 20
into hustle at the Wood headquarters
or into art at the Hoover place. A
mountainous pile must be going into
publicity, not to mention other things.
SCllpsts al OlneTS IN
the amount of stuff that is being sent
to mold the public mind. Scores, prob
ably hundreds, of high-priced news
paper and magazine men, being paid
bigger salaries than most Of them ever
got before, are employed. SO are ar
lists. A perfectly serious report was
heard today OF an effort being made
by the Republican national committee
to get a list OF all those employed by
the several headquarters. Exactly
what was to be done could not be as
certained. but the information given
indicated that they were to be gath
cred in a sort of convention in At
lantic City, possibly to exchange
ideas and to be organized for the
general election campaign.
The Hoover people have been send
ing out reams OF stun to newspapers
all over the country. This publicity
work is the substance of the fight
that Hoover's Republican friends are