Evening star., 1930-05-21

During these recurring days of May
time national conventions in Washing
ton-of business and professional men
of all ranks--President Hoover Is enjoy
ing unique opportunities for hearing
from the country. Key men" who
gain access to his desk are usually in
vited to speak out their hearts about
the state of the Union, and do so in
most cases. Making due allowance for
the apple sauce the average person
ladies out on such occasions, fair con-
sensus of opinion is finding expression
in Mr.. Hoover'S Office. 1t is to the effect
that he Is immeaSurably more popular
with the people than Congress, and es-
pecially the Senate, is. Many of the
Presidents callers urge him to capital
ige that fact and go to the mat with
his congressional carpers and critics.
Some of them have the hardihood to
urge III: H." to be a ST. r." and go
out for his foes on Capitol Hill ham
mer-and- -tongs. They tell him that the
country likes a scrapper, that he has
strong case, and that all the psychology
of the situation justifies him In battling
for it tooth and nail. How deep this
friendly counsel has sunk il--well,
that's another story.
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Stories persist that Ambassador
Dawes is coming home from London to
resign, perhaps not right away, but
sooner or later. The reports are so cir
cumstantial that the rumor-mongers
have already picked his successor-viz,
former Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher
of Pennsylvania. One OF the yarns spun
to lend yerisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative is that
Gen. Dawes wants to take charge OF the
1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, for which
he is credited with having raised $5,000,-
900 by his own powers OF persuasion.
Yet another explanation of his desire
to quit diplomacy Is the soft impeach-
ment that he has his eye on the Re
publican presidential nomination IN
1882.
Former Gen. "Billy" Mitchell Of the
air divides his time nowadays between
orse-breeding in nearby Virginia and
book-writing. He has new volume IN
hand, entitled "Skyways." which Will
deal with aviation from its earliest In
ception and conception. Organizers OF
washington spelling bees are invited by
this observer to concern themselves
with a word which figures in the open
ing chapter of "Skyways." It's ptero-
dactyle, the flying reptile, which was one
of the animals that lived before man.
Mitchell says that the pterodactyle was
the first and most perfect glider ever
known and that no gliding machine ever
invented has succeeded in duplicating
its precision and grace.
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Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
Republican, of Massachusetts, Is a
sportsman of sportsmen. She has paid
a bet that she won. The wager
was made In October, 1928, the day
Mr., Hoover spoke in Boston on the
eve of the presidential election. Repre-
sentative Treadway, Republican, of
Massachusetts, offered to risk din
ner for the whole Bay State dele
CATION that Hoover would carry the
State. The gentleman from Stock
bridge might have been influenced by
the statement he'd just heard Gov.
Fuller make at the luncheon table that
Massachusetts was safe for Hoover and
Curtis by 100000. Mrs. Rogers took
Treadway on. Treadway gave his dinner
in Washington last Summer. Mrs.
Rogers, the only woman present, had
such a good time at her first stag party
that she volunteered to throw a win
ner's dinner on some later occasion.
It's just taken place in Washington.
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President Hoover's Western travelling
plans are still In the incubator. Only
one decision has been made. His trip
will not provide for any visit to his
home at Palo Alto. The expedition, Is
now planned, viii take the presidential
PARTY exclusively into the national
parks. The trip will be short and
snappy, too, and not last more than an
exact nionth--from August l to Sep
tember i. Fishing for ashland not
3 swing k-around-tae- for speech-
making remains to date the sole pilr-
pose of The sortie into the open spaces.