The New York herald., 1921-08-07
ASHINGTON LEADERS HOBBIES VARIED AND NOVEL
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thority on Far East
ern History, While
Secretary ID av / S
Loves Baseball and
Is a Movie Fan

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Government service for so many years that
he has forgotten the number He started Al
the bottom Of the ladder but at the very
beginning he had a penchaut for codes.
Awake and IN his dreams he worked out
codes. He figured rules for solving all Of the
ordinary types OF codes and then tackled the
more complicated ones Pretty soon naval
officers began to hear of him. Then the time
came when the Navy Department began
picking up messages In all sorts Of weird
codes by means Of the Arlington naval wire
less station. Every undecipherahe message
that was received was turned over to Mr..
Cuthbert. He solved them all; and in no
time he became the naval authority on this
subject.
Then came the world war. Cuthbert, code
expert given many queer cablegrams
and wireless messages to work out. He
solved them after another IN an easy
fashion. and II is no longer secret that he
aided his country in discovering many Ger
man tricks through the solving Of codes and
ciphers that had baffled the experts Of Great
Britain and France.
Mr.. Cuthbert is sandy haired and quiet Of
manner. If he has any other hobby or
amusements besides solving ciphers and
codes, none of his associates know of IT. His
splendid work for his country won him his
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as measured by the salary paid for similar
service outside the Government, and the in
valuable work he has done for the nation.
THERE Is a member of tho House Of
Representatives who has a unique.
avocation. 1t is Fritz G. Lanham OF
Texas. He is a great student Of ancient
classical literature, and he Is never so happy
when rendering the classical stories into
strictly up-to-date Engsh-in the American,
style. He translates In verse, and his works,
follow closely the meter of the ancienti
Greek and Latin verses. They are extremely
accurate but are written in style that no,
person could fail to understand even If he.
had never heard of Homer's Iliad.
He likes to tell the stories Of the marital
troubles Of the old Greek heroes in a way
that is vividly suggestive of modern divorce
courts When in college Mr.. Lanham was a
thorough student of Greek and Latin He
spent eight years In Texas colleges and uni
versities.
= ENATOR POMERENE of Ohio Is prob
ably the most enthusiastic amateur
gardener in Congress- Just now he is
suffering from a great disappointment be-
cause he cannot get out to his home In Cam
ton and attend to his vegetable garden. He
spends as much time reading seed catalogues
and agricultural magazines as he does bills
and resolutions Half the time when he Is
sitting In the Senate Chamber apparently
listening to a dreary speech by one of his
tiresome colleagues, his mind Is far away
in his sweet corn patch.
He says OF himself that he Is SO eager to
grow sweet corn that his early planting Is
always injured by the late winter frosts, and
his late planting Is caught by the drought
and nlpped by the first frosts OF autumn. He
loses a lot of corn. but he gets lot of It TO
eat just the same.
r TERBERT HOOVER, Secretary OF
II Commerce, is one of the hardest
working members Of the Cabinet
He is known as one Of the wheelhorses OF
that group. BY the time Mr. Hoover winds
up days work there are but few moments
left for play. He enjoys an evening at the
opera. Both Mr.. and Mrs Hoover. during
the season, are usually 70 be found In one
Of the boxes at grand opera.
Mr.. Hoover likes Shakespearian plays.
also. He Is fond of reading Shakespeare
and has a magnificent set OF Shakespearian
works in his library which IS one Of the
finest libraries I'm Washington His den"
contains an interesting collection of curios
and antiques gathered IN all parts OF the
world. including many gifts from foreign
potentates.
Unlike many other members Of the
Cabinet Secretary Hoover does not go in
enthusiastically for sports like golf He Is
a devotee Of some OF the so-called indoor
sports. and when his time permits he enjoys
a game OF pool and Is worthy contender in
a contest with the cue.
TANIEs J. DAVIS, Secretary or Labor,
Is great home man" He shares
- with his wife the 10Y Of two little fem
mine cherubs Secretary Davis. making out
his daily schedule. alots a liberal portion OF
his time spent away from his department 70
play with his two girl youngsters. on the
lawn Of his Washington home early summer
evenings MIR Davis romps with the children
and he says the romping keeps him young
When Mr. Davis Is not settling some labor
dispute or playing with the children he Is
devising some way 70 help out somebody less
fortunate than himself In this worlds goods
lie Is noted for his charities lie directs some
that are nationwide IL scope. Notably. he Il
the directing spirit ia the benevolent plans
OF the order Of Moose and 4 number Of other
fraternal societies.
Mr. Davis l. also ono Of the greatest base
ball fans in the United States He fire.
quently can he seen in ono Of the boxes AZ
the park with party ~ his cronies roofing
for tho home team. And a. a rooter Mr.
Davis Is no slouch.
lie Is one Of the few members or the Cahi-
net that GO IN strong for the movies. With
Mrs. Davis he often attends theatre not
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