New Britain herald., 1929-08-26
ST|MS0N AMIABLE
 AND NEVER FUSED
Secretary Of State, However, Is
 AStute and Able

Washington, Aug. 26.-One of the most interesting things your COZ respondent finds to do here this summer is to watch that amianle, astute and altogether able gentle man, MT. Henry Lewis Stimson, the secretary of state.
 Perhaps a reason why this rath- CT cagey gentleman is so please mt to contemplate in action is that he presents such contrast to his immediate predecessor. MT. Kel- logg used to get all fused and mixed up and he was irritable rather than amiable. Nothing ever fusses MT. Stimson. When MT. Stimson tells a fib in the interests of our foreign policies he can be expected to stick to it instead Of concocting four or five more just to bolster it up.
 Anyone who frequently visits both the White House and State Department feels an altogeth CT new atmosphere in the administra ton of our foreign affairs. For there's MT. Hoover in one place. isn't afraid to order it done, ana there's MT. Stimson in the other place, who knows how to do things and do them well.
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 MT. Stimson is some 61 years old ten years or so younger than Kellogg. His slightly graying hair is parted on the side and he lets the big end of it flutter am = lessly down on his forehead. Or dinarily he wears a polka dot bow tie of blue, with white dots about the size of. carefully sifted peas. Rimless spectacles he wears with gold temples, and a medium-sjzcd mustache. Generally he appears. in such weather as this, in gray mohair suit, which has no vest. Every so often the suit appears recently to have been pressed. He looks and talks much like som.. bodys old Uncle Robert
 Stimson often rides horseback In Washington he rides every d2y when he doesn't tennis or golf m stead. Also, on occasion, he shoots, fishes or climbs moun- tains. In tennis he nearly always ,N1D LN young as he was, despite his ex. cellent health. The other doubles players usually include Dr. Joel T. Boone, the White House pnysi- elan, and Dr. Leo s. Rowe of the Pan-American Union, and they play on the White House courts. While governor general of the Philippines, Stimson enjoyed deep-sea fishing; recently he spent a trout-fishing weekend in the Adirondacks
 Reads "Heavy Stuff"
 He reads biographies and "hcavy stuff" with which it is good for a secretary of state to be familiar. Lately he has been read ing also the R. NJ. Irish hunting stories by Mrs. Moss. One of his favorite books is "The Old Soak's History of the World" by Don Marquis.
 But he works hard. He has been trying to read everything that goes on in his department That's impossible, but he makes a good job of it. It's a rare day when anyone brings up a subject at a Stimson press conference on which the secretary isn't informed. The way he handles himself at these conferences is one of the best exhibitions of it's kind ever given in Washington - he Is extraordinarily urbane. No one is likely ever to put anything over on him. one fears. He is seldom at loss for a snappy comeback.
 Often he takes his work home at night to the Wardman Park hotel He also takes it with him on his trips to his Long Island home every two or three weeks and is to be seen studying it on the train going and coming.
 He Works Hard
 Stimson has always worked hard When he has had new job thrust on him for which he wasn't prepar- ed he has boned up rapidly He nas