Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-27
The Once Over
PRESIDENT HOOVER, EFFICIENCY FISHERMAN
BY H. I. PHILLIPS

PRESIDENT HOOVER. EFFICIENCY FISHERMAN
Carrying out the policy Of the previous admins
tration, President Hoover is to be a fishing executive.
More system and efficiency, however, mark his prep
arations. He will leave as little as possible to chance.
Mr.. Coolidge used to hold himself open to invitations
and suggestions, and never knew where he would
angle from one season to another, but Mr.. Hoover, a
big business man and an engineer, goes about it In a
business-like way.
Herbert has been In office less than a month, but
already he had has picked his streams, mapped out
his fishing country, had b%lueprints made of the deep
holes and had the habits of all fish in that section
c~atalogued by card index.
Essentially an engineer, he will probably lay out
each and every detail of his fishing expedition as
infinitely as he would lay out plans for a summers
work on a new suspension bridge. He probably has
it all figured out how many fish he will need during
the second quarter. where they will be at a specific
date, and how much time 1t will take to catch them.
Probably Mr.. Hoover has a fish secretary whose
duty it is to prepare and keep the fish files. Sup
pose on a warm May day he wants to catch a
speckled trout weighing exactly two pounds and a
quarter.
miss Finch" he says. give me a report on two
and a quarter pound trout"
Miss Finch goes promptly to the steel cabinet,
looks under "Ta1 to Tuv' and finds:
Trout (speckled: 2A lbs): Brook No. Tx. Section
E-43: available MAY 4th to June 26th; walk IS wards,
3 feet, 9 inches from spot marked by white oak No.
657. north to bushes No. As, Series nix and cast %
feet 8 inches.
He presses a button and Immediately a subordi-
nate appears with his rod and reel. Another button
turns on certain lights in 2 department presided over
by the clerk of bats and lures. If the pink lights
go on it means that Mr.. Hoover desires dry flies. If
the green lights flash it means wet flies. Red lights
mean worms.
Arriving at the stream. all is efficiency and sys-
tenn. Mr.. Hoover will take no fooling from the trout.
They must take the bait nuickly or look for a big
shakeup in every branch Of the stream.
Out goes any trout that refuses to, work in har-
mony with the administrations purposes.
And the fish might as we'll realize one thing now
as later: When Mr.. Hoover desires to see them he
will take no message that they are in conference.
wHERE NEIGHBORs GET A BREAK
President Hoover has received a gold harmonica
from children Of Lake Worth. with the request that
he learn to play America" on it. Perhaps it is Just
as well for the neighbors that he has picked out a
retreat in the deep woods this summer.
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STUDY
Comfortably fried. he sat at a table, drinking with
one hand and making copious notes on a bale Of pa
per with the other. From time to time he would talk
to himself and smile triumphantly. Then he would
order another drink
who's the big pen and red ink man." asked a
customer.
Don't mind him" said the barboy. He comes in
here every day to work on a how-to-enforce prohi-
bition plan in a $4,000 prize contest"
HEIGH-HO!
Except among q certain element drinking has
practically stopped in this country. The younger
generation is forgetting all about It. Oh, 7 hear
about drinking, but I never see any of it."-Senator
Wesley L. Jones.
It must be parsnips or broccoli that makes the
house parties that way.