Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-19

Herbert Hoover's first real campaign
speech-at Newark on September IL
dealt with exactly the kind OF politics
he likes best. When he talks economics
business, labor, wages, waste, standard
ization. export trade, immigration. tariff
and such like. Hoover speaks his own
language. Even his political foes admit
that the Californian is uncommoniy
persuasive when he harps on those
chords They are essentially the Re-
publican nominees own stuff" and, In
the lingo of the dar. he struts" 1t
effectively. Hoover Is practically re-
citing his own record at Washington
during the past seven and a half years
when he narrates the accomplishments
of the Harding and Coolidge admins
trations in the economic field. There's
hardly pie in that realm IN which
the Secretary of Commerce did not
have a finger. AS the engineer-econ-
omist of the cabinet 1t was natural
for the White House to turn to Hoover
on recurring occasions. He was the
head of the Governments trouble de-
partment. In cataloguing at Newark
g. o. P. achievements since 1920. the
candidate. at the risk OF immodeSty
might easily have substituted the nrSt
personal pronoun for the party 10 Wnicn
he assigned the elephants share OF the
credit.
Newton D. Bakers belated acceptance
of the Distinguished Service Medal. III
wears after the armistice, calls asten-
ton to the fact that there's still an
other Distinguished Service Meoa!
which has been awaiting a claimant at
Washington. It's the decoration awarded
by the Navy to Rear Admiral WI liam
q, Sims. wartime commander Inch Ell
of American forces In European waters
Admiral Sims declined the honor on the
ground that he did not care to wear q
trophy that was also being bestowed
upon naval officers for "gallantry' IN
losing their ships In action with the
enemy. No medal was actually struck
off and engraved with Sims name, 50
II hasn't been necessary to lay 1t away
In cold storage pending acceptance. The
famous old sea dog was simply put on
list OF officers designated for the ID.
q NJ. As soon as he heard about IT.
Sims wigwaggcd determined mo,
thank YOU" to the Danielsian powers
that-were.
Washington whispering campalSners
are putting a brand-new Al Smith story
In circulation. IT'S to the effect that
the Pope Is already In the District OF
Columbia, and secretly established IN a
we'll known monastery on the outskirts
OF the Capital. His Holiness Ia not to
emerge from hiding until Smith is IN
the White House. The yarn sounds as
II 1t might have drifted up from Ala
bama.
Almost every day brings news Of an
other split in the political Affiliations
of the big corporations and their mag
mates. The latest separation Is in the
film industry The brothers Schenck-
Joseph and Nicholas--the financial
heads Of the Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
movie combination. have just taken op-
posite sides for the 1928 campaign
Nicholas, who succeeded Marcus Loew
as head of the vast picture organiza-
ton bearing its late presidents name
is a elf-styled Tammany man, and sig
nalized his leanings the other day by
turning in $4,000 contribution to the
Smith cause. Joseph Schenck a little
while before invested a similar amount
In the Republican campaign, identifying
himself as "a Hoover Republican" Per-
haps the gentlemen of the movies are
playing both ends against the middle.
When Mayor Jimmie" Walker was In
Hollywood last Spring and ran into
Hoover sentiment all through the pic.
ture colony. ne publicly warned the in
dustry that 1t might some day rue Its
folly In becoming too palpably partisan.