Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14

the first white man to enter a certain
tomb with DR.. George Andrew Reisner
HSJvard's great Egyptologist.
During all this time he had never
met Herbert Hoover. He had, of course
/heard much about him and admired
him-so much, in fact, that he had
| prepared to take his son out of Prince
ton II it could be arranged for him to
work under Hoover in Belgian relief
| 1t could not be arranged SO the boy
! went over little later with an ambu-
lance section. ~
In 1927 came the great Mississippi
| food. The United States Chamber OF
Commerce appointed committee OF
men highly distinguished In engineer
ing. law. and business, residents of New
York, st. Louis, Chicago. Washington
and cities along the devastated regions.
made chairman of that committee, with
Mr.. Lamont as vice chairman. That
committee was to make business.
engineering and financial survey and
report for q referendum to the men,
berShip.
Carried on DeIano's Work.
Mr.. Delano was called away, so that
much of the work was carried on BY
Mr.. Lamont. The report was affirmed
on referendum to the membership by
about four or five to one and became
handbook for Congress afterward.
1t was in the course of this work
that Mr.. Lamont had his first and only
interview with Mr. Hoover. His only
interview, that is, until shortly before
the Inauguration, when he received a
telegram and slipped away to Florida
so quietly that no one knew about 1t.
A terrible howl went up from Chi
cago-a howl of rage combined with a
snort of pride-when it was learned
that Lamont was resigning from those
directorships For Chicago had started
on its plans for Its next worlds fair to
be built on yet unmade islands in the
lake. to be show Of modern science.
to be viewed from new kind OF moving
railway on padded wheels, from a new
kind of hanging gardens and to be, ID
short, kind Of worlds fair never seen
before In this history of worlds or fairs.
Lamont had had a hand in the en-
giueering work of the fair of 1893, and
here he was one of Chicago's kingpins
in. the engineering industrial financial
world Of the Chicago of today. How
were they to get on without him?
Chicago Is Not So Far.
The answer is, of course they will
not have to do so entirely. Washington
looks very far away from Chicago, but
Chicago is not nearly so far away from
Washington. The Lannon'S are leaving
their beautiful Lake Forest house quite
intact. It Is filled with fine antique
English furniture picked up by Mrs.
Lamont in the course of her various
xFiH al nd that anrf nf ffIrT1ffI1Fn
does not love packing and shipping,
The etchings may come to Washington,
but the furniture will have to stay in
Lake Forest. 1t may help to make it
easier for Mr.. Lamont to go home and
get consulted now and then.
Stepping into a department of the
Government SO thoroughly organized
and functioning so smoothly as that
which Mr.. Hoover left behind, he will
not find before him any great admins
trative changes to be made. He will
find in most instances an exceptional
staff. His will be the difficult task
of preventing it from flying apart and
of welding its loyalty to its new chief
into the same cohesiyeness as that it
held to the old
Within the cabinet and in his asso-
citation with his fellow members of that
UOAAA va EAGCubkVCc Va tk1c BKCht UuSA-
ness of Government he must establish
totally new personality if he is not to
be liked and admired as he has been in
so many directorates in the past
Great experience, high ideals of public
service, q complete absence of self -ad-
vertising and q knowledge of what can
reasonably be expected of others will
combine in Mr.. Lamont to carry on the
work initiated by Herbert Hoover.