Evening star., 1932-12-16

| Some 1900 Washingtonians had their
first closeup of President Hoover al
the White House last night since his
defeat for reelection. Surprise was
general at his buoyancy, good humor,
fine spirits and apparently rugged
physical condition. 1t is, OF course. a
different-looking Hoover than the Pres
ident who held his first diplomatic re-
ception in December. 1929. Age and
| anxiety have taken their tell-tale TOLL
but that the Californian has his chm
mn despite the experience from Wnlcn
| he emerged on November Is oeyoiiu
ali question Mr. Hoover conveys upon
most his visitors the definite impression
that he contemplates release from ex.
ecutiye responsibilities with unquallhed
relief There's no occasion for him 10
| express himself upon such point. yet
| few who have conferred with the Pres
ident In recent weeks believe it Is even
vaguely in his mind to re-enter politics
and aspire to, "vindication" at another
election. one thing is certain-Herbert
Hoover will never go cunning Tor the
presidency on traditional politlcal hnes,
with an organization and all the rest
| of it. II Cincinnatus ever leaves the
engineering plow, it will have to be IN
response to an unmistakably spon-
taneous call. No man. not even prop
| ably Mr.. Hoover himself, closes the ooor
to such a possibility. remote as IL now
seems.
When M. Paul Claudel, poet-play-.
wright philosopher Ambassaaor oo o.
yer early in November to dine at the
French embassy on December IA
neither he nor his exalted guests faint
lv imagined 1t would be the very day
on which france would default on her
| debt payment, due "a hours later.
Naturally. the dinner took place &C
cording to schedule. But whether II
was quite as jolly a party as might
| otherwise have been the case Is morse
of another color. Bismarck used TO say
he did more diplomatic business at his
dinner table than in the chancellery
of the German Empire. Perhaps the
Hoover -Claudell embassy conversations
paved the way for those negotiations
which sooner or later, all washington
| feels, will bring order out OF exlstins
debt chaos. The French Ambassador,
| functioning for the first time as dean
Of the diplomatic corps, presented ms
colleagues to the President at the
White House reception. The Ambassa-
dors of Belgium and Poland, who
| Joined France in default: the Minister
Of Hungary and the consul general OF
| Esthonia, whose respective countries
also failed To "come across likewise
curtsied before M. Hoover and the
First Lady.
They're telling a story of the recent
Demo cratic sen3 torial contest in Mary
land. Of which "Jo:" Tumulty, Woodrow
Wilson's right-hand man. and Millard
E. Tydings, the Free States trium-
phantly reelected bachelor so,on, are
the heroes. Tumulty went into the
Maryland provinces to make a speech
for Tydings and the Senator himself
sought the privilege of introducing him.
Tydings spoke for 10, then is. and well
into 20 minutes, when Tumulty decided
the time had come to curb the Senators s
flow. He tugged Tydings by the coat
tail and whispered, Hey, Mluard,
you're supposed to be giving an intro
duction, not conducting filibuster."
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Miss Kathryn O'Loughlin, TALL corn
fed Democratic daughter of Kansas,
who's being put through course OF
congressional sprouts by Representa-
tive Ruth Bryan Owen. Is the first
woman lawyer ever elected to either
house. She comes from a big district
in Northwestern Kansas, of which Sa-
lima is the principal town. Six mere
men were bowled over by her in the
nomination primary, and then she de-