Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Nothing but Tunney-Dempsey prize
fights or the world series have ever com.
peted for Washington's radio favor like
Gov. Smiths speeches in the West
They are the top-liner broadcasting at
traction Of the Fall season. Everybody
is tuning in on them Republicans anc
Democrats alike keep their ears glued tc
the loud speaker when "Al's'' on the air
Opinions about him are the Capitals
favorite conversation at the moment
They differ widely. Many listeners think
his radio style" is forceful and per-
suasive beyond any political talks ever
broadcast. Others think the governors
unconventional mannerisms are cheap
and undignified. Smith is probably a
better judge of political psychology than
either his admirers or his critics. He is
using in the West the selfsame home
spun methods which have swept him tt
victory so often in New York. Doubt
less he thinks the proof of the pudding
is the eating.
Probably no man who ran for Presi-
dent ever commanded the enthusiastic
service of so many voluntary workers as
Herbert Hoover. Nearly all of them
trace back to Belgian relief and food
administration days, with a few old
timers from the mining camp and en-
cheering eras. A devoted Hooverite
whose name doesn't often seep out 81
the avalanche of G.. o. P. news, is an
other Herbert-Herbert L. GutterSon
New York lawyer, executive secretary al
Republican national committee head
quarters. He was one of the nominee s
right-hapd men in wartime Washing
ton. Guttersons particular job is to su-
perintend the circulation of the tens II
thousands of publications of all sorts
with which the country is being propa-
gandized, by the printed word, to vote
for Hoover and Curtis.
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Women in politics are the poorer fol
the passing of Agnes Wilson of Penn
sylvania. AS the long-t time chief lieu
tenant of her distinguished father, Will
liam B. Wilson. Secretary of Labor dur
ing both Woodrow Wilson admiuistra
tons, Miss Wilson became an adept ir
the political game. and played it like q
man. She was the eyes and ears Of
Uncle Billy" at every stage of his pend.
ing contest against William S. Ware fol
the disputed senatorial seat from Penn.
sylvania, revealing on his behalf yea
and devotion seldom encountered ir
public life. Miss Wilson herself hac
just entered the public arena as a can.
didate for office, having been recently
nominated for Congress from her homo
district in the keystone State. Al
Washington, where all of her later years
were spent, she was familiar figure ir
the Government departments, on Capt.
toll Hill and in Democratic party circles
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Sprightly sidelights on Washington
| and Washingtonians illuminate the
pages of MY Studio Window" the new
book of Marietta Minnigerode Andrews
which is just off the press. Mrs. An
drcws Virginian, painter, poetess
dramatist and raconteur-trips acros;
the Capital scene, which she herself has
so brilliantly adorned with the same
gay abandon displayed in her Memoir;
of Poor Relation" In her latest vol
ume of calculated indiscretions, Mrs
Andrews tells a new story about Mrs
Coolidge Calling on the First Lady
| (then Madame Vice President) one day
the authoress discovered large doll or
the sofa in the drawing groom. II didn't
know YOU had little daughter" ex.
claimed Mrs. Andrews. 81 haven't,
Mrs. Coolidge rejoined, when her atten.
ton was drawn to the doll. "She be.
longs to me. I've never outgrown my
love for dolls!"
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AS they say in typewriting schools
now is the time for all good men (anc
women) to come to the aid of Their
party. What they're particularly ex.
pected to do is to cough up" The
most literal example of that sort is JUS
reported from the Democratic campaign
committee at Philadelphia. A boz