Evening star., 1932-08-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hoover's medical advisers
are authority for the statement that he
enters upon his fifty-ninth year today
in better shape than when he came to
the White House in March, 1929. His
| weight is down from 2l0 pounds to
around l80 pounds. His tendency to
a double chin has vanished. He has
developed what the doctors call an
amazing physical reooil," or resilieney.
What they mean is that the President
never succumbs for very long to either
bodily exertion or mental anxiety, but
Is able to tackle one nerve-wracking
situation after another with all his
capacities intact. II any man ever
needed an equipment of that sort,
Herbert Hoover has required 1t during
the past three years OF stress anu
storm. He himself attributes ms nj
ness to his steady training, Whlcn Is
practically confined to his SIX morn,
ings a week of strenuous medicine pan
play. Nothing is allowed to keep MN
| from that regimen. The President ire
o,ientlv confides to friends that by no
other system could he or any man sur.
mount the rigors and exactions Oh
White House life.
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Persons who see the Hoover OF today
and compare him with the Hoover Oh
pre- presidential days observe, OF course,
a considerable change in his looks
There are lines in the face that didn't
use to be there. There is white halr
around the temples. A bald spot has
crept onto the top Of the head. But
there is a new Hoover physiognomy tnat
| betokens inner CAIN, confidence and de-
| termination and altogether a certain
grimness which manifests itself in un-
| ISmiliar fashion every time the Presl-
| dent. in conversation, comes to grips
with questions on which he holds strong
and inf1exible convictions. The other
day Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, who
was President Wilson's physician. called
ON MIR. Hoover at the White House Of
fees. He expressed amazement at the
| Californians condition at the end OF
| three years which have been more wear
| ing and tearing than anything the
World War President ever had to
| endure.
James Francis Burke will be sadly
missed In Republican party councils.
| As a politician worthy of the name,
| he was admittedly the noblest Roman
| Of them all. The debonair and dapper
| Pittsburgher was the last surviving link
between the @. O. p politics Of today and
| the old school In which he was brought
| up and IN which men like Matt Quay,
Boies Penrose, Joe Cannon and Phi
lander Knox were the masters. No man
possessed the confidence of President
, Hoover to q greater degree than Burke.
In 1928 he sat at the nominees right
hand throughout the campaign, and
no major move was made that did not
have the approval of the general
counsel Of the Republican National
Committee. The office and title Burke
held never had any real existence, In
fact. They pass out of the picture with
him. At Chicago in June. though the
Hoover forces always had the situation
thoroughly under control, Jimmie"
Burke was here, there and everywhere
with whispered word of sage counsel
at psychological moments.
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Father Coughlin Of Detroit, whose
booming radio voice from the Shrine
Of the Little Flower" has won him a
Nation wide audience of devout listen
ers, was q visitor to Washington this
week. He was interested in the after
math OF the bonus march. While the
b. Z. F. occupied the Capital, Father
Coughlin contributed $1,000 for its food
and shelter. conditioned on the under
standing that no sustenance should bs