Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Probably Herbert Hoover Is ready ia
admit that Jim" Good had about as
much to do with the actual landing Of
the Californian in the White House as
any other one man had. In the Winter
Of 1929, when the Hoover presidential
boom got officially going, it was recog-
nized that some practical Republican
hands were required If the Hoover
movement" YVES ever to crystalline from
a mere ambition into a political reality.
DR.. Hubert Work was on the Job, and
so were Shrewd mechanics like Bascom
Slemp, George Lockwood and John T.
Adams, to say nothing of George Moses
Suddenly Good was brought into the
picture. He was charged with the job
Of making the West safe for Hoover
The Iowan received carte blanche to
that end. The result was an irresistible
trend toward the Secretary Of Commerce
in the very heart of the country sup
posed to be mortgaged to Lowden. At
the Kansas City convention, Jim" Good
was here. there and everywhere. The
history of that lovefeast will give him
major credit for Hoover's firSt-ballot
victory, assured, as it was, long before
the end of the roll call was reached AS
quiet, but as effective, worker as mod
EN- politics has ever known passes from
the embattled scene in the late Secre-
tary Of War.
Visiting in Washington more or less
incognito, Lady Lindsay, wife of the
new British Ambassador designate to
the United States. happened to be on
her native American heath last week
when news came that her distinguished
husband, Sir Ronald Lindsay, had been
appointed to succeed Sir Esme How
ard. 1t is not known whether Lady
Lindsay will return to Great Britain
between now and the date of Sir
Ronald's accession to the embassy in
March, 1890. or await him here. Pos
Sibly, as the chatela'ne-to-be of his
Britannia majeSty's capacious and mag
nif1cent new embassy on Massachusetts
avenue, Lady Lindsay may be intrusted
with the mission of experimenting the
furnishing of the home over which she
soon will preside in so eminent a ca
pac.ty. The accomplished daughter of
Colgate Hoyt of New York, Lady Lind
say will be the first-if not the only
American wife of a British Ambassa-
dor ever stationed in Washington. She
became Sir Ronalds second wife in
1924.
Senator "Jim" Watson of Indiana
was motoring back to Washington not
long ago from a nearby place in
Maryland with a political crony. Some
IS or 80 miles out of the Capital, Jim, -
who was plotting his own car, saw a
party of fellow motorists in apparent
distress. which turned out to be moth
ing but uncertainty as to their di-
reccion (which way TO Washington"
the driver inquired. Just follow me- -
calculated the Senator as he stepped
on his own gas. Two or three minutes
! later Jim" turned to his companion
and asked, Are those fellows coming
along?" Quoth the other, Yes, Jim,
for once your leadership is recognlzed!
Carl williams of Oklahoma, who
'. speaks for both cotton and wheat on
| the Federal Farm Board, is having a
, hard time sccustoming himself to being
cliff dweller in one of Washington
most mammoth apartment houses. rive
been used all my life" he says, ito nv-
| ing in a place with grass and trees and
| flowers and vegetable patches all around
| it. where I could go out and NOW the
| lawn or pick sweet peas or eat an onion
any time / pleased. 1t isn't so easy to
get used to a fiat. / never before real
| izeI how heSver-sent are the wide open
spaces" Williams is proud of his pio-
neering stock, which began trekking
West from Indiana and covered Kan
sas and Texas before it pitched its tent
J in Oklahoma He declares that the
Farm Board Job appeals to him because
! it's pioneer stuff" and calls every day
| for something that hasn't ever been
tried before.
| II II 4 y
Nowhere in the broad expanse Of the
| Republic breathes there an American
citizen prouder of his National Capital
than j. c. Nichols of Kansas City, Mo
He has Just concluded one of his fire.
duent visits to Washington as a mem
Der Of the National Capital Park and