Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

News dispatches from the Presidents
camp on the Rapidan disclose that jig
saw puzzles are Mr.. Hoover's favorite
diversion at his week end retreat in
the Virginia hills. Over them he and
his guests are accustomed to plod for
hours at time, until they succeed in
piecing together a picturesque mosaic
which covers a whole table top. Com
pleting a perfect mosaic is not only one
of Herbert Hoover's camp hobbies, but
part and parcel Of his political concept.
To convert the United States Tariff
Commission and Federal Power Com
mission-his present-hour tribulations-
into mosaics which will typify and en-
brace every sectional, political and
economic equation involved is the goal
at which the President is aiming. Early
in his White House days, famous Re-
publican politician who failed to
make" the cabinet demonstrated with
Hoover about the oversight. The Chief"
said he hoped some day to utilize his
disgruntled visitors services, but that
1t hadn't been found possible to At him
into the cabinet mosaic" the Presi-
dent was intent upon piecing together.
Hoover apparently envisages the whole
Federal patronage structure as glori-
ned jigsaw puzzle, and means to keep
his hand in while resting on the
Rapidan.
Col Amos W. Woodcock's school for
prohibition agents, from which the
new enforcement director hopes to
graduate successive classes of men who
will use their brains instead of their
Drawn" says he really Is a schoolmaster
himself by origin and prediction. He
started out as a tutor at St. Johns
College. Annapolis, and intended to fol-
low the pedagogic career. Then the
law diverted him, but he confesses that
teaching is his forte and hobby. Mabel
| Walker Willebrandt once said that the
| average American expects the Federal
director of prohibition, whoever he may
| be. to be a combination OF Sherlock
| Holmes, Carrie Nation and Bishop Can
non. Col. Woodcock Is scholar.
| lawyer, a yachtsman, a soldier and
bookworm. Collecting first editions OF
modern English dramatists Is one OF
| his foibleS,
II the Socialists of the seventeenth
Manhattan district, New York, San nave
| their way, the Congress Of the United
States a year hence will contain Its hrst
newspaper columnist. Haywood Broun
has been asked to make the race IN that
| fashionable division of the metropolis
against the incumbent Republican
Congresswoman. Mrs. Ruth Pratt.
Broun has formally accepted the SO,
cialist nomination and says he VIII
wage serious campaign Tor election.
The seventeenth Is blue-stocklng
district, I'm told" said Broun. but
there's plenty Of rayon still in it." The
Brooklynite who drawls over the radio
like a Southerner has designated un-
employment as the paramount plank In
his platform. He purposes pillorylng
Hoover and Jimmie" Walker as the
| two men mainly responsible for JooieSs-
ness.
| Z Robert Peet Skinner, American min
| lister to Greece, rises TO correct world
wide misrepresentation with reference
to golf. Most people" he says, i'm
| agine that golf came to us from Scot
| land AS a matter of fact the Scots
got it from Holland-probably for noth-
ing. But innumerable centuries before
| that. the ancient Greeks apparently
were playing something of the same
SORT Of a game in Athens itself. In
Athenian Museum stands pedestal.
| which dates, ! think, from q thousand
| wears before Christ, revealing Two
PLAYERS with clubs very like golf sticks,
leaning over small ball, with two
spectators looking on. We have rep
! iica OF that picture. In plaster over the
martel in our own golf club OF Athens,
hetween the Aegean Sea and Mount
| Hymettus." Perhaps the new American
Institute of Archaeology in Greece may
discover who the Bobby Jones OF
Plato's era was.
| Il X X X
Senator Robert F. Wagner. Democrat,
of New York, is the latest congressional
pilgrim to sail for Europe. He will re-
visit his native German land. whence
he emigrated to the United States as
n child and also dash into Russia
for q closeup of the Soviet In action.
Wagner is one Of the feW--the very