Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-18

Instead Of California, Here I Come
being the official White House anthem,
as was once feared might be the case,
Minnesota, Here We Are" has become
far the more appropriate. With two out
of ten cabinet portfolios Estate and
Justice) at present In the hands OF st.
Paul and two out of three Hoover Sec
retaryships (Akerson and Newton) as
signed to Minneapolis, the Gopher State
has California effectually backed off the
map. 1t will not have escaped the at
tention of the Twin Cities, whose mil
tual affection Is proverbial, that the
Chief Engineer, true to the tenets OF
his profession has preserved nice bal
ance between st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Each now has two representatives In
the official family. The proportion will
be upset when Secretary Kellogg Is re-
lieved by Secretary Stimson. But prob
ably St. Paul considers the attorney
generalship (plus a Supreme Court
justiceship) fair set-of against two
Minneapolitans in the immediate en-
tourage of the President.
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Mr.. Hoover has promptly pursued at
least one Coolidge policy--he has chosen
a Congressman for a White House Sec
rotary Like G. BaScom Slemp and
Everett Sanders before him, Walter H.
Newton transfers directly from the
House Of Representatives to the White
House. 1t was President Coolidge who
first saw the wisdom, and initiated the
practice, of having at his right hand a
man with contacts on Capitol Hill. Mr..
Newton also happens to mount into the
presidential encourage, as Sanders did
four years ago, from the Craftsmanship
OF the Western speakers bureau of the
Republican national committee. That's
evidently a stepping stone job and will
doubtless be coveted in future presi-
Dental campaigns. Secretary Newton
adds one more lawyer to the legal
paladins with whom President Hoover
Is so extensively surrounding himself
Newton's youngest son bears a name
distinguished in the law-John Marshall.
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Now that he's no longer in the cabi-
net, there becomes printable tale
that's been kicking around in Wash
ington for about year. When the late
Oscar S. Straus, former Secretary of
Commerce and Ambassador to Turkey,
passed away, New York newspaper
sent around to members of the Coolidge
cabinet for tributes to his memory
This Is what Secretary - said: II
never had the pleasure of Mr. Straus'
acquaintance, but always thought that
his composition of the Blue Danube
Waltz was one of the finest pieces of
music ever written" Secretary -- got
his dates mixed. He was thinking OF
Johann Strauss, the Viennese waltz
king, whose Tooth birthday anniversary
has just been nationally commemorated
in Austria.
A Canadian colleague in Washington
writes to this observer:
ApropoS your account Of Chief
Justice Taft's bestowal of a cast-off
suit on a North Dakota farmer, per-
haps you would care TO know about
the suit he once gave his French
fishing guide at Murray Bay, Cam
ada. The following Summer Mr..
Taft banteringly asked Pierre If he
had been able to make use of the
clothes, which, like the North Da-
kota farmers gift, were Of early and
capacious vintage. "Oh, yes" said
Pierre. Out of one leg my wife she
make suit for our small son. Out
of other leg she make suit for big
ger boy. Out Of seat OF pants my
sell make sail Ior my poat.
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Senators Edge and Kean, Republi-
cans, of New Jersey, are bringing pres
sure to bear at the White House for
| the appointment of Chalncey G. Parker
| of their State as solicitor general. Mr.
Parker has been in Government serv-
| Ice since 1918, first as special legal ex-
| pert of the War Risk Insurance Blu
| reau and later in charge of litigation
for the United States Shipping Board
Since 1922 he has been general counsel
for the Shipping Board and Merchant
Fleet Corporation. Parker is of emil
nent legal ancestry. is Harvard Col
lege and Columbia Law School grad
uate and for many years has been q
| leader of the New Jersey bar. He is
| a younger brother of Justice Charles
| w. Parker of the New Jersey Supreme
Court and of the late r. Wayne Parker
former member Of the House of Rep
resentatives from New Jersey.
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There was an epidemic Of Hooverf
ut the White House the other day, when