Evening star., 1928-11-14

rock-ribbed Republican State of them
Observation-Disclosures gave Hoover
ana Curtis their banner majority last
week.
Who's going to be the Col. House
or the Frank w. Stearns of the in
coming administration? Hco er has a
host OF Houses and Stearnsas among
his intimateS. DR.. Vernon L. Kellogg
permanent secretary of the National
Research Council at Washington, is
certainly as close to the President-elect
as any man, and vastly closer than
almost anybody else. Being zoologiSt
by profession. Kellogg might be lust the
man to hold watch and ward over
the political animal kingdom as un-
Official observer for a presidential
friend. He was official Hoover biogra-
pher In the nl-starred preconvention
campaign of 1920. Two other Hoover
cronies who might be drafted for gum
shoe service are Will Irwin, the Presi-
dent-electS Stanford roommate and
1928 biographer, and George Barr Ba-
Ser writer and right-hand man In
Hoover's postwar relief work. Prob
ably the Californian's closest Demo-
vice chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission. Dennis was a
crony OF Calvin Coolidge in Northamp-
ton, Mass, before he became an eco
ncnic scout for Secretary Hoover in
Europe after the war.
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From constituent of this column
comes a request for "a word or two
about Mr.. Hoover's habits and pas
times" Well. here's a tabloid reply:
he smokes pipes and cigars, but not
cigarettes. He wears almost exclusively
olus serge suits, usually double-breast-
ed, and white stiff collars, even when
flshing. He can drive his own car. He
doesn't play golf or cards His family
and friends have trouble inducing him
to play anything. When they were
boys, Hoover was fond Of taking his
two sons into the woods and spend
the day at building. The PreSi-
dent-elect has a chuckle like Chief Jus
tice Taft's. He Is fond of keeping his
right hand in his trousers pocket. When
Hoover has callers at his desk he
scribbled geometrical designs. He
always let's the other fellow do most
of the talking.
Three World War veterans-an Eng
lishn1an, a Frenchman and an Ameri-
can-who we're officers in their re-
spective armies and who now all live
in Washington have Just held their
tenth successive private little Armistice
day celebration. They formed a COM
pact to get together every November
IL. climb into their uniforms and fes-
lively commemorate the end of the war.
They call themselves The Three Mus
keteers."
The newest wise crack in the Navy
Hoover carried Maryland, and now
Maryland Is going to carry Hoover
One of Washingtons acknowledged
authorities on the foamy subject of
what is and what is not beer--a foreign
diplomat-visited a famous American
brewery in the Middle West He was
asked to sample its near beer product
1t was like asking a Frenchman to sing
the "Marseillaise" on a glass of ginger
ale, but the diplomat consented. As a
test. there were put before him TWO
glasses OF per cent beer and two
beer. After he had drunk them all. he
confessed his inability to tell the real
from the near.
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Uncle and nephew will sit together in
the House of Representatives of the
Seventy-first Congress for what Is be-
lieved to be the first time on record.
The unique combination consists Of
Representative Charles A. Eaton. Re-
publican. of New Jersey. and his nephew,
William r. Eaton, Republican. who has
lust been elected from Denver. Colo,
district. The New Jersey Eaton is a
Baptist clergyman. native of Nova Scotia,
who was once John D. Rockefeller's
pastor in Cleveland. Ohio. The Colorado
Eaton is a brilliant young lawyer,
former State Senator. author of many
Of Colorado's model labor laws, and
one-tirne district attorney In Denver.