Evening star., 1929-11-18

Herbert Hoover coming to the reliet
| of Wall Street Is spectacle for tht
gods. Throughout his latter-day Ca
| reer in the United States and up Il
| the time of his election to the presi-
dency, Mr.. Hoover did not rank as 9
friend Of high finance" There wa
time, in preconvention days, when
the Califsrnian's boosters were more
than willing to have 1t understood, es.
pecially in the farming West, thai
their candidate was favored with the
enthusiastic hostility Of lower Man.
| haitian Island. When the presidential
campaign funds inquiry was under way
early in 1928 young Lewis Strauss
Hoover's wartime private secretary
and now q partner In Kuhn, Loeb b
Co.-testifled fiat-footedly that the
present incumbent of the White House
was persona non grata all along the
New York gold coast. STRAUSS made
it plain that wherever else Hoover
campaign funds were being derived
wall street" was abolE the last place
they'd come from. Times change. The
presidential candidate whom the money
kings two years ago considered least
desirable from their standpoint Is now
their sheet-anchor.
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If Owen d. Young is to be the cap
tain of the Hoover economic life-SaV-
ing crew. or is assigned q conspicuous
place In it, the country will be graphi-
cally reminded of the Democrat talked
about more and more as his party
white hope for 1882. That will In
creasingly become the case II business
reconstruction should continue to be
the paramount issue during the next
two years. Young will do well to
change his metropolitan addresses IL he
seriously cherishes national political
ambitions. The Democrats might not
think it strategic to nominate for Presi-
dent an upstate New York farmer
whose offices are at 100 Broadway and
residence on Park avenue. Youngs
Vanhornesville, N. y, where he was
born SIS years ago and where he now
works q model farm on ancestral acres.
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High--very lligh-in the Hoover ad-
miniStration, so this observer Is vera
ciously informed, Is a statesman who
boasts of having q n1anservant with
psychic powers. The dignitary in Ques-
ton dimes out almost nightly. His man
knows not only where he. is to go each
evening (Which the statesman confesses
he himself isn't always sure abouD, but
knows whether particular dinner Is to
be dry or wet II 1t is arid, MIR. -
invariably finds awaiting him on his
Vestibule table, Just before he dons hat
and coat, two luscious cocktails, breWed
and provided by the thoughtful fellow,
who knows his masters thirst. No
questions are ever asked or explanations
volunteered. If the cocktails aren't
there, the statesman automatically
understands that he is headed for a
festivity where there will be some.
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The year 1880 viii not be very old
before Mexico will enjoy the distinction
OF ne wing her accomplished AmhssSS-
cor, Senor Don Manuel G.. TelleZ, be-
come dean of the diplomatic corps. ] ne
present dean. Sir Esme Howard, the Brit
ish Ambassador. Is retiring about March
1, after completing six years In the United
States. He viii be succeeded as dean
by DR.. Herman Velarde, Ambassador OF
Peru, who was accredited just three
weeks after Sir Esme. in March, 1924
But DR.. Velarde himself contemplates
early retirement, whereupon Senor Tel
lez, who became Mexican Ambassador
here in February, 1925. will inherit the
deans rank. 1t goes by seniority, like
committee plums in Congress. SenoI
Tellez's experience in Washington di-
plomacy Is older than his ambassador
ship, because he was attached to the
Mexican embassy for long time be-
fore. He has seen Mexican-American
relations grow from bad to worse and
then to best, where they are today.
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Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, who won
the recent night in the Board of Edu-
cation against the so-called "dirty-
neck" ruling against diplomas for
"characterless" graduates, was once a
New England schoolmar'm, like Grace
Goodhue Coolidge. A native Of MaSsa-
chusetts, she was graduated with dis
tinction from Radcliffe College in 1914
having majored in Romance languages
Appropriately enough, that speciality
ended In q romance for her, because