Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hoover's impending swing
into the Middle West, while not quite
around the circle" is going to give
him occasion for important speeches at
an uncommonly witching hour It. is
altogether improbable that he will con-
fine himself in Detroit, Cincinnati and
Louisville to glorification of Thomas A.
Edison and Ohio River affairs-the i'm
mediate purpose of his trip and his
talks: With the Senate defying Hoover
on the tariff, with the whole United
States eager for the "low-down" on the
Macdonald negotiations and with a vast
array of. other domestic and foreign
problems engrossing national attention.
the President is not likely to miss the
chance for public discussion of them.
Mr.. Hoover also will have opportunity
of seeing and hearing just how high his
stock is with the folks back home. "
Crowds and their demeanor, when a
President goes travelling. are always a
yardstick Of his popularity. Barring
Hoover's speech before the Associated
Press in New York last April and his
fishing sermon on the Rapidan during
the Summer. he has not addressed a
visible audience anywhere in the coun-
try since he took office in March.
If the President finds he has a large
balance in the Bank Of Midwestern Pop
INDEPENDENTLY II he talks tariff
and 1t evokes an unmistakable re-
sponse-the guess on Capitol Hill is
that he will take another hand in the
Hewley-smoot imbroglio and that 1t
will be bold hand. His reception in
the heart of the Neutrality-suspicious.
belt which lies between the Alleghenies
and Lake Michigan will be a fair ba-
rometer of how that typical cross-sec-
ton of the country feels. The admin
istration's supporters are confident that
Hoover is far stronger out there than
the Senate and that If he does any
thing designed to elicit the facts he will
discover that he can risk fight to the
finish. Whether the President bankers
for a moral victory on the tariff,
while suffering an actual defeat, Is
something else again. The Midwestern
welkin may ring in unalloyed acclaim,
but the Democratic Republican Pro-
gressive bloc will still be there.
Americans don't ordinarily look to
New Mexico for cultural leadership, yet
Senator Bronson M. Cutting, Repub-
lican. of that State. who has just In
duced the Senate to lift the ancient
embargo on obscene foreign literature,
@lalifies as one of the pundits of Con-
Sress. Some of Cuttings colleagues say
Cabot Lodge as the scholar in politics.
Senator Cutting is only New Mexican by
adoption. He's a New Yorker by birth,
Harvard by education (Phi Beta Kap-
pa), editor by profession and arch
eologist and anthropologist by choice
Also hes youngster-just turned
al. Cutting has spent 20 years in
New Mexico. During the World
War he was an assistant American
-, ~fa d. -
of the Cutting amendment to the tariff
law would be to permit entry of any
literature from abroad and determine
it's fitness afterward. For years the
law has empowered customs officials,
who are not all Harvard men, to ban
bad books at the waters edge.
Evangeline Booth, in command of
the Salvation Army in the United States
since 1904, is about to embark upon an
extensive expedition to the Far East.
1t will be her first campaign on the
other side of the globe, Japan and
China are Miss Booths principal OBJ
iectives. She is an accomplished ora
the daughter of General Booth has
worn the Distinguished Service Medal
of the United States for her work on
behalf of the American Expeditionary
Force In France. Pershings doughboys
and the Salvation Army's doughnuts
made an irresistible combination lover
there"
y 4 X
President Hoover. who Is an homo
rary citizen of Belgium, is on record in
connection with the now famous in
scription proposed for the balustrade
Of the restored LOuvain University IL
brary. Architect whitney Warren of
gan courts to inscrihe the text he
coined Destroyed BY German fury;