Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03

DR.. Hubert Works job in the Hoover
administration, according to the latest
political dope, is already decided upon.
Without cabinet portfolio, he is to
concern himself-in due course-with
ways and means for bringing about the
denomination and reelection of Herbert
Hoover in 1882. Former intimates of
the Republican national chairman in
the Interior Department, evidently in
spired by suggestions from DR.. Work
himself, are cited as authority for this
horoscope of the Coloradan's future
How well the suggestion will sit upon
the chests of other leaders and Hoover
ties generally is another question.
Works path at party headquarters dur
ing the late campaign was not alto
gether strewn with the roses of sweet
harmony The commonest charge
against him was that he was master
of what James Whistler called "the
gentle art of making enemies" Yet
political pudding is the eating, and that
the man who rolled up November 6th's
record breaking electoral college ma
jority Is leader worthy of retention.
At any rate, there's not the slightest
linking to date that Herbert and Hubert
are thinking of parting company.
No cabinet talk persists more strong
~ than the expectation Of Republican
Southern representation in the Hoover
official household. In that connection,
no name is being oftener mentioned
than that of c. Bascom Slemp of Vir-
ginia, nabber- extraordinary of conven-
ton delegates when they're needed and
indicated prophet of the millennium
the arrival of the Old Dominion in the
Republican electoral column. If Dixie
is to be recognized practically for the
first time in the cabinet of Republican
President, Slemp's claims are second to
none. Since time immemorial he has
been almost the lone G.. o. P. star gilt
tering in an almost exclusively Demo-
cratic armament below Mason and
Dixon's line Everywhere he is looked
upon as Southerner of SouthernerS.
His political shreWdness sometimes ap-
proaches the uncanny. No single mans
support was more welcomed In the
Hoover camp in pre-convention days
than that of Calvin Coolidge'S first sec
rotary at the White House. The post
master generalship is the portfolio most
commonly associated with Slemp's
name.
Setsuzo Sawada, counselor of the
Japanese embassy, has an 11-year-old
son, Nobuo, who attends ST. Pauls
Academy in Washington Nobuo Is the
patentee Of a suggestion worthy OF con-
sideration If Uncle Sam and John Bull
ever think of AngliciZing certain diplo-
matte idioms. Not long ago, while Mr..
| Sawada was functioning as Japanese
charge d'affaires, pending the arrival OF
| the new Ambassador, some old friends
called at the SaWada home and were
received by the young hopeful OF the
| household. whats your fathers rank
nowadays?" the boy was asked. Half
Ambassador" was the contentious re-
ply.
Now that it can be told, it appears
that Calvin Coolidge had to the last a
good deal more faith in Massachu-
sets than most Bay State Republicans
retained. Here, at least. is piece OF
unchronicled history on that score. Ten
days or a fortnight before election,
, small delegation of Bostonians fastened
to the White House, to tell the Presi-
dent that Hoover's fortunes in Massa-
| chusetts were far from favorable. Mr..
Coolidge was assured that practically
nothing but a couple of speeches by
him, respectively in the eastern and
| western ends of the State, could keep
| it from going Democratic on November
6. The President listened patiently to
| the delegations plea. Then, In one OF
the staccato utterances with which he
| is accustomed to .drawl an interview to
| sudden finish, he is quoted as saying:
Il know Massachusetts,. 1t Will go
Republican"
| X X X
| Sugar cane from Cuba-or syn
thetic extract therefronl--may some day
supply the Juice to keep American au-
| tomobiles running. That's the very
+. latest under the sun at Havana, where
a bill is shortly to be introduced into
the Cuban Congress providing for in