Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Overwhelmingly the most fascinating
end-of-session speculation in Washing
ton is whether Herbert Hoover has put
| on his fighting clothes for keeps, or
only for the duration of the present un-
! pleaSantneSs on Capitol Hill. If the
White House ar-to-the-ground secre-
| tary, French Strother, is reporting what
he hears, especially from the country's
press, he's telling the Chief" that
Hoover's teeth-showing tactics on vet
Grams legislation, law enforcement in
! quiry funds, ETC., have made a hit.
Democratic praise of presidential bel
| lgerency is especially strong. Many Of
Mr.. Hoover's Republican supporters
want him to swing around the Western
| circle this Summer or Autumn in battle
array. They discount his colorlessness
| as visible platform speaker, but point
out that he unfailingly gets across over
| the radio. A national hook-up for half
a-dozen addresses, loaded with the kind
of ammunition the President has re-
Gently fired in White House statements,
would 1t is felt, serve to boost Hoover
stock enormously C. o. P. leaders argue
that their congressional candidates this
year have to defend the adminstra-
! ton and consider that the official leader
of the party ought to take off his own
| coat in the same cause.
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| Although the American delegation at
the impending session of the Inter-
| Parliamentary Union in London has no
/ official mandate from Congress, the
second deficiency bill, just passed, allo-
Gated $1,000 for the union. Half the
sum is a contribution to the Central
| Bureau at Geneva. and the rest is for
the delegations expenses to, at and
| from London. Representative A. j,
Montague, Democrat. of Virginia, Is
chairman of the American group which
will presently be assembled in England.
Representative Morton D. Hull, Repub-
| lican, of Illinois, will be the groups star
| performer. with his report favoring In
| ternational action on the freedom OF
the seas" issue.
Farmer-statesmen soon succumb to
| the social proprieties at Washington.
! One of them takes dancing lessons.
Another has had his portrait done in
| oil by a noted painter. Several have
| become golf addictS. Nearly all OF them
have learned how to wear evening dress.
| The other day Senator - OF rural
State invited a colleague from neigh
boring open spaces to dine at the for
mer's home On the way out OF the
Senate Office building that aftsrnoon-lt
/ happened TO De the IlOJLCot day "a VA
year-.the invited Solon stuck his head
| through Senator IS door and asked,
tuxedo tonight?" Quoth the host OF
the evening: Hell, no! B. v. D.'s!"
Washingtonians who lunch or dine at
| the Chinese legation are always treated
| to one or two Celestial delicacies. DR..
WI. the war-racked republics cultured
! Minister, was asked by recent guest
| II these titbits were prepared by Chi
/ nese cook. Then he divulged that al
/ most the oldest attache of the legation
| is a Negro cook of the nanny type
who. having survived both the imperial
| and republican regimes in China, Long
since acquired the art of connecting
| dishes fit for a mandarin. The SWarthy
| queen of DR.. Wu's kitchen can ever sea-
son her talk with Chinese garnishments'
| x y x X
Edward It. Clark, President Calvin
| Coolidge's longtime personal secretary
has become permanent resident Of
Washington. He recently bought a
house which, to his astoniShment, was
| equipped with the same telephone num-
Der (4706) as the residences street ad-
dress. Then Ted" discovered that by
curious numerical quip the digitS in
4706 mount up TO II, which is the name
of the street he lives on. Clark began
to wonder whatll happen next, when
the license authorities of the District OF
Columbia recently handed him a dog
tag numbered 4706.
william r. Castle jr., Assistant Sec
rotary of State, is back at his old desk
in the State Department after his sue
eesSful mission rs special Ambassador