Evening star., 1932-11-16

President Hoover returns to the White
House in an atmosphere we'll designed
to make him forget his troubles. The
suddenness with which the war debts
have pranced onto the front page, alb
sorbing Washington's interest to the
exclusion of all other topics, renders 1t
easy for the President to plunge into
his workaday activities free from those
emotions of chagrin and remorse which
might otherwise Cypress him. man
can always get his mind of his worries
when he's busy, and Herbert Hoover,
in the debts affair, faces some OF the
busiest weeks of his whole executive
career. Curiosity is at the boiling point,
especially in that cross-sect1on OF Con-
gress already In town, as to how far,
II any distance, the President VIII go
in recommending leniency to Europe.
Some insiders say that his personal
predileetion is to give the cause OF re-
vision strong, courageous lead, mind
less of the consequences to himself.
Others say that whatever Mr.. Hoover's
own debt inclinations may be, he will
hesitate to commit himself to any policy
for which the Republican party later
on might have to pay the damages.
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Now it's the psychoanalysts who've
tackled the Job of trying to X-ray
Republican defeat last week. In the
course of their unscrewing OF the in
scrutable they've dug up couple OF
terms familiar to all who are stepped
in psychology, but are Greek to most
mortals. The psychoanalysts say Hoover
lost because he is an "introVert" and
that Roosevelt won because he is an
"extrovert" Very broadly defined, an
introvert is q person who lives self
centeredly unto himself in an atmos-
phere of intel ectllal self -suficiency,
stunning couRccl as general rule and
deciding nearly all things for himself.
An extrovert is a person more inclined
to consider things, including his own
interests, from the standpoint OF the
outside world and to court advice
before coming to conclusions. Repub-
lican politicians have always considered
Herbert Hoover an introvert, although
not all of them were on speaking
terms with the word The Presi-
dents antipathy to mere politicians is
proverbial Many of his friends, look
| ing back on the recent past, say it was
| his downfall.
Roosevelt cabinet makers are ad-
vised TO keep their eye on Nebraskas
| favorite Democratic son, Arthur +.
Mullen, Omaha lawyer and national
committeeman from Nebraska. Mr.
Mullen was the Roosevelt floor man.
ager at Chicago last Summer. He is
| the man given principal credit for ef-
| fecting the McAdoo Garner California
Texas convention deal, whereby Gov.
Roosevelt was nominated on the fourth
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more alarmed than they ever admitted
that protracted bslloting might doom
| the Governor Mullen was for ending
the agony with the least possible delay
and was the go-between with Texas
Delegation Leader Sam Rayburn in the
offering of the vice presidential nom-
ination to Speaker Garner. Upon as
surance that Garner would take second
place. the deal ensued, and Roosevelt
was put over on the next ballot. Mr.
Mullen stands high in the law anc
ranks in the cabinet gossip as RooSe-
welt choice for Attorney General. He
has been attorney general OF Nebraska
and won national renown at the bal
nine years ago with his successful ar
gument before the United States SUI
preme Court in Meyer VS.. Nebraska
1t was one of the cases In which ths
right of a citizen to educate his chill.
dren in private schools of his own de.
nominational choice was Vindicated BY
the Supreme Court. The case was or
a par with the Oregon litigation Il
which the Ku Klux Klan was worstec
in the Supreme Court.
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What Reed Smoot is going to do\aftel
Utah gives him a ticket of leave il
March is a matter Of lively speculation
at washington, where he has lived anC
worked for 80 years Senator Smoot il
the ranking apostle of the Mormon
, Church. Many think that the church
now that he is freed from political duty
will call on him to do some apostle
ing. The leadership Of the European
mission of the Latter Day Saints is on
of the piums Of Mormonisrn, rankinl