Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19

Undoubtedly It's the Weather Man
who induced the Senate to quit for two
months and thus assure Summer
vacation for both houses. The mid
June hot spell caused all concerned to
agree that they need a rest. Congress
has earned q recess. President Hoover
deserves 1t. The country says hearty
amen. The special session has been
about as hectic a so days as Capitol
Hill has known in moons. Despite the
roaring, the wrangling and the rolling
Of logs, the Seventy first Congress dur
ing its maiden weeks has given a con-
structiye account of itself If nothing
but the Agricultural Marketing act (of-
fetal name Of the farm relief baby had
been enacted, that alone would entitle
the session to renown. 1t accomplished
within two months a piece of legislation
over which two preceding adminiStfa-
tons and four different Congresses
stewed to no purpose. The House passed
new tariff bill. Both branches adopted
the 1880 census and reapportionment
law The Hoover administration was set
going without any semblance of con-
firmAtion fight. The White House lost
out on but a single isSue-repeal Of the
national origins clause in the immisra-
ton law.
There will be opportunity during the
recess to hnd out whether Herbert
Hoover is as strong with the country as
he was when he took once three and
half months ago The FIRST impress
sions which new President makes
usually take deep root. There is some
difference of opinion about Mr.. Hoo
ver's status at the end of his first quar-
ter in the White House. Thick-and-
thin administrationists insist he energies
frOt laa s1ot in1 until
HANGED prestige. A record embracing
farm relief, the oil conservation pro-
gram, appointment Of the National Law
Enforcement Commission, practical
steps toward naval limitation and ros-
ter OF unchAllenged appointments is one
of which any Presideft-say the Hoo
verites-rnight we'll be proud.
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That's the administration view. The
other view Is exuded by certain Repub-
lican leaders, or those who rank, pose
or strut as such. The burden of their
song is pitched in a decidedly minor
key. They are disgruntled with Hoover.
They f1nd him forgetful of the niceties
Some of them go the harsh length
of calling the President an migrate.
They resent his systematic disinclina-
ton to ask for their advice. They even
deplore his uTlwillingness to give advice.
The farm relief muddle, they claim,
was exclusively of Hoover's making, be-
cause he declined to damn debenture
in advance. A year ago yesterday the
Republican party, at Kansas City,
Anointed the Californian its oficiAl
leader and then proceeded to elect him
President. But where, It's n1ournfully
asked are the pampered paladins of
yesteryear? Where are the Works, the
DonoVans the Slemps, the Willie
brandts, the. Blairs and all the other
satellites who organized victory? They
are on the cold outside, the G. 0. P.
anvil chorus retorts. Hence the tears
and the lamentations. The malcontents
be carried to the country by hor1necon1-
ing members OF Congress and tarnish
Herbert's escutcheo1i with the people.
Capt. Bill" Calvin, secretary of the
Navy League Of the United States. ie
back in Washington from the annual
directors meeting in New York with a
brand-riew Dewey story. 1t was narrated
there by a retired ofiicer who served
| way back In 1887. The victor of Ma
Mia was taking his ship to China
through the Suez. En- route he was
seized with the liver complaint, which
came near deprivins America of an
other nAtionar hero. The Juniata put in
at Malta, where Capt Dewey was treat
ed at the British naval hospital. A couple
of his officers, including q commander
named Belden, called on the skipper in
the hospital, finding him In apparently
desperate shape. Dewey's eyes were
closed and he seemed unable to recog-
nize his visitors. In the corner of the
patients room stood a treasured walk
| ing stick, which Dewey had carried for
years As the young Officers tiptoed
cane as q memento of his captain.
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