Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hoover never fishes on Sun
day. That's news, because it's I'M
usual. Probably more fish have been
caught on the Sabbath than on all
other days put together, for it's the
only time in the week the average man
has for fishing. Because Mr.. Hoover
wendS his way so often to his Rapidan
trout camp over week ends. a wide
spread impression exists that he puts In
a couple Of days with rod and reel.
But he never casts a fly after sun
down on Saturday. Men who have re-
Gently been on the Rapidan with the
President are enthusiastic over his
fisherman's skill. They say they've
never seen more expert casting for
trout or more aptitude in landing that
peSky breed that Hoover displays. Long
ago the chief engineer won one of the
priced buttons of Florida fishing club
for his proweSs in landing a 67-pound
amberjack. When his admiring compa-
triots hear that Hoover has gone fish
ing, let nobody run away with the idea
that the President is wasting time. He
Is on record as saying that fishing and
praying are the only things a man can
do and be assured he'll be left alone
with his thoughts. Probably many q
Hoover commission has been born amid
trout angling in the Rapidan.
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Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho,
was asked what he would do II the Re-
publicans of his State, In convention
assembled, were to declare against pro-
hibition and Idaho in a referendum
we're to follow suit. I'D vote accord
ing to my conscience, and not accord
ing to the referendum" he said. Borah
is up for reelection this year. Per-
Antl hnN - EaA
he does, he'll face 1t bone dry, Morrows,
Joneses and straw votes to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Borah considers Pin
chot's recent victory in Pennsylvania
outstanding and conclusive proof of how
the political wind Is blowing, even in
the moist and thirsty East.
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Wade H. Ellis, former attorney gen.
eral Of Ohio and now member Of the
District of Columbia bar, owns one of
the historic colonial homes of Virginia
-Rippon Lodge, on the banks of the
Potomac below Mount Vernon. At a
garden party the other day one of Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis visitors, surveying the
trim, white bungalowlike mansion that
adorns the estate, asked the lord of
the manor II he'd built 1t. After re-
covering consciousness, Mr.. Ellis i'm
parted that the house was constructed
seven years before George Washington
was born, viz, in 1725. Ellis is Ken
tuckian of Blackburn ancestry on his
mothers side. and got his law at Wash
ington and Lee University.
Senator Reed Shoots people, en-
bracing three generations, have trekked
across the country by all the means of
communication yet devised by man.
The tariff chairman's father, Abraham.
went west to Utah in a covered wagon
drawn by oxen. Reed himself has
Senator's oldest son, Harold, now a
Washington business man, is accus-
toned to make the journey to ancestral
heath by automobile, and recently
Shoots second son, Harlow Eldredge,
began cruising to Utah and return In
his own airplane.
On one of the recent hot days In
Washington q White House newspaper
man remarked to the President how
cool 1t was in the Chief Executives
breeze-swept ONCE. compared to the
hot air outside. Hoover, according to
the veracious reporter, retorted that
there Is q surplus OF hot air outside.
and that far too much of it gets on the
telegraph wires.
All friendship appears to have ceased
in the New Jersey Republican sena-
torial inbroglio. Morrow boosters hit
upon the idea Of lacking up pictures Of
theiy favorite on trees throughout the
State. The posters had no sooner made
their appearance than officers of the
Shade Tree Commission" ruthlessiy