Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-29
HOOVER PLANNING
VACATION FOR 1881
Rest and Politics Expected
to Be Combined IN Trip
Probably to West.
BIZ FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILLIE
President Hoover intends in 1881 to
indulge in the novel experience Of va
cation. It will take the form OF some
kind of swing around the circle. The
likelihood at this time is that 1t VIII be
a trip to the National Parks OF the
West, which was planned last year, but
abandoned on account of the drought
situation and the state of national
business at Washington. The time OF
the proiected journey has not been
fixed Spring is a strong possibility.
Everything, as to the date, depends on
whether there is a special session OF
Congress or not. If one Is convened,
1t would not be called to order for a
lapse of several weeks after March 4.
The President may select the inter-
vening period for his excursion away
from Washington. If naf. hoover does
not have to take the extra session con-
tingency into consideration, he prob
ably would defer his departure until
the Summer. cross the country, take
In the National Parks and wind up
with a sojourn at his home in Palo
Alto. All of these matters, for the mo-
ment, are on the lap of the gods. But
one thing is certain. A vacation launt
far from the madding Potomac Is In
the cards.
Speeches Held Likely.
President Hoover has had nothing
savoring of a vacation since he entered
the White House, now nearly two years
ago. His family and his friends are
constantly DINING into his ears that he
needs one. To date they have been
voices crying in the wilderness. Mr..
Hoover'S usual retort Is that when he
feels that he needs rest and relaxation
he can motor to the Rapidan and get
both at the end of a three hour trip
and no more waste" of time than
week end.
While vacation will be the actual and
official reason for the proposed preSi-
Dental expedition this year, 1t is bound,
Of course, to take on deep political sig
nificance. Speech making will be al
most unacceptable, much as the Chief
Engineer dislikes it. After all, he Is
ON the threshold of 1892 and what Is
universally assumed to be his choice to
run for a, second term. Political asso-
ciates of the President realize that he
cannot go out into the wide open
spaces, near to or remote from Wash
fAgton, without taking the people into
public confidence on host of national
affairs. Prohibition, power, business
conditions, world relations dozen
other issues more or less momentous-
afford Mr.. Hoover q practically I'M
limited range of topics either for rear
platform discussion or on more formal
occasions. Hoover will use the radio on
the tour. He is completely convinced
of the carrying power of broadcasting
when the President of the United States
is holding forth on the state Of the
Union.
Has Made Three Trips.
Mr.. Hoover has been away from the
White House, barring periodical short
sojourns at his Rapidan camp, only
three times since he became President.
In October, 1929, he visited Detroit for
the Edison Light Jubilee festivities at
Henry Ford's place, and then went to
Cincinnati and Louisville for the Ohio
River development celebrations. In
1880 the President attended the Amer1-
can Legion convention in Boston, the
American Bankers Association meeting
in Cleveland and the Kings Mountain
festivities in the Carolinas. In Febru-
airy, 1880, Mr.. Hoover and q party of
friends stole away for a bare weeks
fishing expedition in Florida. These
travels represent about all the "vaca-
tioning" the President has INDUCED
himself.
The plan to go to the national parks
last year was not carried out because
MIR. Hoover felt 1t wouldn't be quite be-
coming for the Chief Magistrate to be
hiking across the continent in de luxe
special train with 81 States of the
Union blighted by drought. The long
prolonged session Of Congress and the
special naval treaty session which fol-
lowed also played their parts in in
ducing the President to revise his travel
desires. This year he hopes nothing
untoward will manifest itself to neces-
state an eleventh-hour abandonment.
OF his program, once it is decided upon.
Mr.. Hoover is pronounced At as a
fiddle By his medical advisers He looks
better mad registers visibly better spirits
than he did three or four months ago,
when the economic depression was at
its blacklist. Some of his friends think
the President is deserving both physical
and spiritual Joy from his bouts with
the Senate over power and other con-
troversies, and revealing it in unusually
animated demeanor. But he has ac-
knowledged to those around him that a
genuine vacation will do him good.
DOWNRIGHT. 1871