Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
HOOVER IS FACING
KNOTTY PROBLEMS
Swarm of "TouChy Issues"
Confront Him at Middle of
Presidential Term.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

Just at the political halfway mark
of his four-year term, President Hoover
finds his fortunes ringed about these
June days with numerous and per-
rssistent swarm of touchy public issues.
& AS if by prearrangement, the wnole
brood-tariff, farm relief, prohibition,
foreign relations, internal party troubles
has come buZzing about the head OF
the man who. by virtue of being Presi-
dent, is also the leader of the Repuo-
lcan party.
Two years ago tonight, amid the gay
bunting and triumphant band music at
Kansas City, he was elevated to that
leadership by a single, one-sided roll
call.
. Two years hence-unless history
' breaks her well-established habit-an-
other national convention will see his
followers rallying to conSummate his
denomination.
1882 Campaign Discussed.
Already the straws are bending to the
passing breeze and Washington is full
of talk of 1882 What Mr.. Hoover him
self may be thinking-and what first
term President ever has failed to think
of that subject-no one is undertaking
to say. His friends, however, are getting
ready, and so are his enemies within
the party
Those who lock to another term for
him rely heavily on the appeal they
claim for him among the rank and file
of voters They declare this hold is
stronger, rather than weaker, by virtue
of such defeats as he has suffered in
Congress and such open breaks as he
has arrived at with party politicians
They see in the great number of major
projects he has planted in the national
fabric promise of bountiful fruition in
the two years to come.
Third Party Gossip Persists.
Those within the party who have at
tackled hin-for instance, Senator
Borah, Senator Norris and the whole
senatorial fraternity of discomfort with
his policies-are not talking for publ
cation on the subject of 1882. They
are talking among themselves, however,
and the third party gossip. which has
been part of every Republican pre-
convention campaign for a generation,
persists. 1t persists, but no one is will
ing to sign his name to prediction.
Two years is a moderately long time
in presidential politics. Many a politi-
{cai wind will blow before June, 1882,
and no man knows what sails will be
filled or what high ventures will break
on the rocks. Yet both friend and foe
of the Presidents fortunes understand
that a great deal of real import may be
found later to have had its source in
this very cave of the winds which en-
velops Mr. Hoover in the month of June,
1880.
Almost Immediately he must decide,
for better or for worse, whether to sign
or veto a tariff bill, which has divided
opinion in his party and kept political
weathervanes whirling.
Farm Relief Arouses Contention.
The whole Hoover farm relief pro-
gram, with its multitude Of intra-party
complications, has become suddenly ex-
posed to another Senate debate-than
which there is none deadlier-through
denomination of the head of the farm
board.
If it can be said with no derogation
OF the presidential dignity, his coattails
are being pulled this way and that by
advisers who think they know what he
should do and what he should refrain
from doing about unemployment and
the situation in the stock market.
A group of Senators, led by Repub-
licans who show an increasing willing
ness to talk back to the White House,
has steered the Hoover naval treaty into
the doldrumS and heroic relief measures
may be required.
Quarrel RACES Over Prohibition.
AS the off-year elections approach,
the President finds not only Republicans,
but Hoover Republicans, quarreling all
about him over prohibition.
Finally, his own Republican national
organization is debating whether to drop
its pilot, tE1der attack, and select a new
national party chairman, and if so,
whom. and also, how
All of which are but a few of the
things that silver the hair and furrow
the faces Of Presidents and often spell
IL - ST zs--s- IL
fer whether the first two years are the
hardest.