Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17

For a new President with temper
amental Congress on his hands, Her.
| Der Hoover's batting average to date
is an uncommonly high one. He has
suffered but one defeat, and that a
minor one-the Senate's rejection of
his plea for repeal of the national
origins clause of the immigration act.
AS against the Presidents victory on
farm relief and on the census and re-
apportionment bill, his rebuff on ma
| tional origins is insignificant. The out
come of the tariff contest is the next
trial of strength which Hoover faces.
An exact indication of what he wants
is anXiously awaited by friend and foe
alike on Capitol Hill. He called for
limited" revision in his special session
j.! message, but limited" is a flexible
term.
President Hoover's successes in Con-
greSS during his maiden months in the
White House conspicuously include the
circumstance that not a single one of
his appointments has so far failed of
confirmation. They have ranged
through every field of the executive
branch, but been found in every case.
so faultlesS that none of the Hoover
appointees has been rejected Calvin
Coolidge must envy that particular
record which his successor is making,
though, of course, there's no telling
what the future betides. The Presi-
dents good luck with combinations is
all the more striking in face of the
open secret that the Republican regu-
lars are sorer than the proverbial wet
hens over many Hoover appointments
from the cabinet down. State organi-
cations and leaders have "assented" to
nominees for various Federal jobs, but
in relatively few cases has recognition
been accorded to the boys" whom the
party bosses preferred. The politicians
hope to get used to the Hoover patron
age methods in time, but feel that bitter
pills as a steady diet have their limit.
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Still another of Uncle Sans expert
enced experts has succumbed to the lure
of bigger pay and wider prospects in
business life. He is DR.. Carl w. Larson,
since 1924 chief of the Bureau of Dairy
ing at the Department of Agriculture.
DR.. Larson is leaving the Government
service, to which he has been attached
since 1917 to become associated with
Arthur S. Kleeman az Co. and Fred
erick II. Hatch IL Co. New York in
veStment bankers, in enterprises COM
pretending the dairy industry. An
Iowan by birth and professor OF hus-
bandry and agricultural economics in
earlier life, DR.. Larson ranks as one
of the worlds foremost authorities in
the dairying field. He was teaching at
Columbia University when drafted into
the Governments war service. In 1918
Larson was sent to France to improve
the milk supply in allied hospitals. For
several years he has been president of
the National Dairy Council, the body
that is supreme in the field which, in
States like Wisconsin and Minnesota,
has become the foremost of agricultural
industries.
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Male members of Congress and other
distinguished Neutrality-suspicious. have no
reputation as woman haterS,, but it's a
significant fact that the one and only
golf club i'll the District of Columbia
region that doesn't allow woman play
ers is becoming increasingly popular.
President Hoover recently told a friend
that he likes fishing because it's about
the only thing man can do nowadays,
in addition to praying, and not be dis
turbed. Evidently there are players in
Washington who feel that way about
golf.
Some of our foremost Far Eastern
authorities think w. Cameron Forbes of
Massachusetts is the ideal man for
American Ambassador to Japan. His
nine or ten years at Manila-flrst as a
member of the Philippine Commission,
then as vice governor of the islands.
and finally as governor general from
1909 to 1913 - are thought to equip
Forbes in high degree for another
career on the other side of the globe.
His last service in the Philippines was
as a member of President Harding's
Wood Forbes commission in 1921. Mr..
Forbes has frequently visited Japan and
China and has important contacts in
both countries. He is honorary presi-
dent of the China Society of America.
Among his other claims to distinction
| is that he is a grandson, on his
mothers side, of Ralph Waldo Enner-
son, Forbes Is bachelor. Harvard