Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-25

Little birds in Washington can be
heard whispering that President Hoover
Is welding too vigorous broom at the
White House. Innovations are acknowl-
edged 70 be all very we'll in their way,
the critics say. but they shouldn't be
let down on the country in one fell
swoop. Abolition of daily handshaking
bees, humiliation of oil leases, side
tracking of professional job hunters,
reversal of Mellon policies and now the
laying up of the Mayfiower-all this
land more) in three brief, GREATNESS
weeks seems to be too much OF good
thing for conservative souls who think
haste In the White House, like every
where else, should be made slowly. A
Washington dowager of social power
and long experience in the Capital Ia
ments that there are traditions at
No. 1900 Pennsylvania avenue which
even the Chief Engineer ought to re-
spect. She thinks Hoover cannot con-
tinuously go on hitting on all SKIES.
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Lieut.. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, newly
appointed White House military aide.
adds one more to the formidable list of
official bachelors in Washington-and
an uncommonly good-looking one. let
fond mammas take note. The selection
OF Hodges as first gentleman OF the
gold braid is another Hoover gesture
to Dixie, for the colonel Is son of
Louisiana. He Is also the duly elected
president of the University of Louisiana.
although the War Department has
never released him for duty at Baton
Rouge The place, meantime, Is kept
open for him, though it's now more
improbable than ever that Hodges will
ever assume the Office. The colonel
made a notable record as American
military attache in Spain. King Alfonso
was immensely fond of him. admiring
In particular the Americans skill as g
forseman.
One of the reasons the President
issued the immigration quota proclanla-
ton with wry face is his belief that
national origins" are very uncertain
quantities. Once upon time they puz-
zled a famous New York after-dinner
wit, Patrick Francis Murphy, when he
was Intercepted about his own ma
tional origin" on arriving in England
THAT sure is a poser" he said, "for
I'm American by birth, English by
language, Irish by extraction and
Scotch-and -soda by choice!'
THE International Society of Daugh-
tiers of the BaronS of Runnemede" Is
holding its annual festivities at Wash
ington In mid-April. The founder and
present president is Mrs. Robert G.
Hogan of Gainesville Md. The objects
of the society, which was instituted in
washington in 1921, is to perpetuate
the memory of the barons who extorted
the Magma Charta from King John in
June, 1915, and to observe the ami
versary of that momentous event lin
the meadow which is called Runne-
mede." The official badge of the
Daughters of Runnemede is seal of
red and gold, the colors Of the Army of
has to establish lineal descent from
one or more of the Is barons who
signed the Magma Charta or of those
barons who helped to secure 1t.
A demon Democrat who thinks that
with the exception of Attorney General
| Mitchell, Hoover has failed to surround
| himself with strong cabinet, calls it
"a billion-dollar cabinet-one figure and
nine ciphers."
| It isn't quite clear whether Senator
| Wesley L. Jones of Washington wants
to sidestep exclusive responsibility for
| the 'five-andten" prohibition enforce
ment law, or would generously share its
glory with Representative Gale II.
Stalker of New York. its co-author. At
any rate, Jones modestly says it isn't
entirely his baby being entitled to the
double barrcled name of the Jones'
Stalker law. The Volstead act, which
was passed by Congress in October.
| 1919, came over from the House. and
was duly enacted by the Senate, but no
Senator sought Immortality by intro
ducing a concurring measure. That
frequently happens in the case of
ouse-to-Senate bills, and vice versa.
Many measures become law under a
double title, but tariff bills are about
the only ones that invariably do. The
| Forthcoming new tariff law will be the
Hawley-Smoot act. The first law de-
signed to strengthen the Yolstead act