White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-04-19
TOTS AGAIN PLAY
IN WHITE HOUSE
Hoover Grandchildren to
Visit There Often.

Washington.-The Hoover admins
tration will bring children into the
White House family circle again for
the first time since the Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
The two little children who know
the new President as grandpa" rath-
er than as Chief Executive of the
United States, will not live at the
White House, but they will be about
often on visits and on every vacation.
The Hoovers observe vacations in an
old-fashioned way by family gather
ings.
The two children are "Peggy," aged
three, and Herbert Hoover, III, one
and-half years old, daughter and son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Son Lives in Los Angeles.
Herbert Hoover, Jr., the Presidents
elder son, and his family will live in
Los Angeles. His wife recently went
West to select home for them there.
The younger son, Allan, who is TWEEN
ty-one, will graduate from Stanford
university this June, and is expected
to go into business on the West coast,
probably in San Francisco. He is
considering such q proposition, but
has not accepted position definitely
as yet.
The whole family was reunited here
for the Inauguration.
Herbert, Jr., who is twenty-five, will
leave here in few days to take up
a new position with the Western Air.
ways express. He is an expert in ra-
dio and his work will be in connec-
ton with development of telephone
communication between the lines air.
planes and ground stations in the pro-
jected extension of its route to Kan
sas City. The line now operates be-
tween Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and Salt Lake City.
Distance never has meant anything
to Herbert Hoover or his family. They
take trip from the West to the East
coast as a matter of fact, they have
made it so often. Therefore they are
making plans to spend their vacations
at the White House.
The new President is busy man,
hard at work almost constantly, but
he will lay even the most important
task aside with happy smile when
Peggy pushes open the door to his
executive office and rushes in eagerly
for a romp, her little brother toddling
along behind her on tiny legs still a
bit wabbly.
Adore Grandpa.
The two children adore their grand
father, but not more than he does
them. They are expected to be favor.
ties among White House employees.
In the hearts of some of the old at
taches they will fill a place in the af
fections once held by Quentin Roose-
welt, whose famous escapades as a
youngster in taking his pony up on
the White House elevator and riding
it on the shiny east room floor and
shooting out the lights about the
driveway with his air rifle still bring
fond smiles of memory.
The romance of Herbert Hoover,
Jr., and his wife, was repetition Of
that of his father and mother They
were classmates at Stanford univer
sity, graduated together, and married
within week, after commencement
now over four years ago. Mrs. Her.
bert Hoover. Jr., a California girl. is
beautiful and has very charming
personality. ~
Both of the new Presidents sons
possess the timidity of their father
upon first acquaintance. Both are de-
lightful to know. Allan made many
friends on the good will tour to South
America on which he accompanied his
father and mother.