Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25

It will not be surprising If President
Hoover's dash into the Middle West
this week turns out to be his last ex-
tenSive trip away from Washington for
the next six or eight months. His pub
lie addresses in the meantime are more
than likely to be confined to the radio.
He may even determine in future to
eschew platform appearances and do
his talking from his study In the White
House. Mr.. Hoover, in the vernacular
Of the day, Is thoroughly sold" on the
advantages Of radio. No possible audi
ence that could be provided for Presi-
dent of the United States-even II 1t
were Of modern foot ball game proper
tions--would be anything but flea
bite compared to the listening nyriads
served by the coast-to-coast radio net
works. The prospect, at any rate, for
the indefinite future is-barring Presi..
dent Hoover's appearance IN person
at the ArmiStice day celebration IN
Washington-that when he has mes
sage for the Nation, he'll broadcast IT,
Louisville appears to be Herbert Hoo.
veY's weather hoodoo. When ne spoke
there during the 1928 presidential cam
nairn it rained cats and dogs. Ken
tuckians were so wrought up over the
election, however, that the Louisville
armory was packed to suffocation for
the Republican nominees speech
Things were different last wednesday
night. Rain had fallen in sheets all
day long and was still coming down
when It came time for Hoover TO speak
in the evening The result was the un.
precedented spectacle Of President OF
the United States talking in an i'm
mense hall hardly two-thlrds full. A
lipao ri
were responsible. The main reason was
that the arrangement to hold the meet
ing indoors instead Of at the riverside
was made so suddenly that LouisvillianS
as a whole knew nothing about 1t. The
strangest absentees from the makeshift
affair were the Presidents own hosts
TOO members of the Board OF Trade
who'd Just entertained him at dinner.
Hoover's speech was timed to begin SO
promptly that the diners couldn't reach
the auditorium beforehand. Twenty
rows of seats reserved for them stared
blank and empty in HooVer's face.
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During the ride OF the old-fashioned
Grand Trunk train, vintage OF 1879
aboard which Henry Ford transported
President Hoover, Thomas A. Edison
and his other guests last Monday at
Dearborn, Mich, Edison re-enacted his
youthful role of news butcher
Charles M. Schwab bought an apple OF
him. Later In the day the steel mag
nate told Ford he'd like to preserve the
apple. IN tell you how to do it," said
rord. Gut the apple IN two. Take out
seeds, and you'll preserve the apple"
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Joseph r. Grundy of Philadelphia
49, 81 H. A@s11ry vHin Ia rNNf
facturers' Association top-liner Of the
senatorial lobby investigation this week
has now and then harbored anbi-
tons to be In the Senate himself. or
several Of the occasions during the past
10 years, when deaths gave Pennsyl-
| Vania governors opportunities to fill va
cancies, 0rundy has figured among the
eligibles. He has the senatorial look
and manner. Thirty-three years OF in.
have failed TO wither Grundy's energy
II appearances count for anything, he'll
be on the job in Washington when the
successor to the Hawley-Smoot bill Is
| in the making, Somebody once defined
the Capitol lobby as body of men who
know exactly what they want and how
to get 1t. Grundy's testimony before
preston that he exactly personihes that
description Of congressional log rollers
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Things are beginning to look as II
you Just couldn't keep a Stanford man
down. Now come the organizers Of the
Bank Of International Settlements, the
creation Of the Young plan, and select
Jackson =. Reynolds, president of the
First National Bank of New York, as
| the head Of the new institution. Rey-
nolds was in college with Herbert Hoo
yer, but did not take his A. B. at STAN
ford until 1896, the year following the
Presidents graduation. Like owen D
Young, Reynolds II o Democrat. Hes
native of Illinois and In his nifty
seventh year. Once he taught at Co
| lumbia University under Harlan F
Stone, then dean of the law school and
now an Associate Justice Of the United
States Supreme Court.