Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Gen. Herbert NJ Lord, whose res
ignation as director of the budget takes
effect today. has received the following
letter from President Hoover:
MY Dear Gen. Lord:
I regret intensely to accept your
resignation as director of the budget.
I realize, of course, that it is not
possible for men to continue in Gov
eminent service at the remuneration
the Government affords, and that
have no right to call on you for fur
ther sacrifice in the face of the OPP
portunity that has come to you to
provide some savings against old age.
I do wish to take this occasion to
voice the debt owed to you by the
country for your devoted and able
service and the high appreciation
you have won throughout the Gov
eminent in the conduct Of your Office.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER.
Gen. Lord will enter the service of
Arthur S. Kleeman & Co, New York
investment bankers. as chairman of the
board of one of their new subsidiary
organizations. Perhaps they'll call him
DIR. Lord in Wall Street, for Tufts
College is about to confer its honorary
LII. D. upon him in token OF his merl-
Uncle Sam.
President Hoover and the Republican
organization of the votelesS District OF
Columbia have made peace. The White
House henceforth will recognize the
local G. o. p. central committees right
to recommend appointeeS for Federal
offices in washington. Throughout the
Coolidge administration and to date in
the Hoover regime Republicans resi-
dent on the Potomac have found no
place at the patronage pie counter.
One of the things they laid before Mr.
Hoover this week was the fact that, dis
franchised though they may be, Dis
trict Republicans come handsomely to
bat with the sinews of war in preSi-
Dental campaigns. In 1916 they put
up some $25 900 to help elect Hughes
and their contributions in subsequent
campaigns ran to as much as $4,000
or 5000. In 1928 District of Column
bia Republicans maintained at their
own expense headquarters that cost
$4,000, exclusive of the money handed
over to the partys national war chest.
More than $4,000 men and women
visited the headquarters and 10000 were
supplied gratis with registration blanks
and notarial service enabling them to
vote in home States by mail.
X X X
Distinguished European journalists
in Washington this week as guests of
the Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace were much interested in
the crusade of Washington newspaper
men to abolish secrecy in Congress.
Such things as executive sessions Of
European parliamentS, the visitors de-
clare, are unknown III the old world,
and would not, they are confident, be
tolerated. In France, once or twice
during the war, the French Chamber
and Senate met behind closed doors,
but in piping times Of peace the legis-
lative affairs of European countries are
transacted. without exception, amid
pitiless publicity.
X X X
Well, bedtime stories and church bells
are going to be cheaper under the
HaWley-Smoot tariff act, anyhow.
Among the few revisions of the Ford
ney- McCumber law downward are low
er rates on childrens books and CARL
Ions. Fairy tales for the Riddles are to
come in at Is instead of IS per
cent duty, while chimes will pass the
customs house at 20 instead of 40 per
cent One of the most vociferous kicks
likely to be put up over the skyrocket-
ing effects of the HaWley bill concerns
the increase from 45 to 70 per cent on
surgical Instruments. This inevitably
means dearer operations for Appendix
citis and tonsilitls. About the time the