Evening star., 1933-04-07

Z 4IlS AdItdIu duIIlullolI dtAOu "a Oulo,
If this observer is correctly informed,
is about to adorn itself with one Of the
legendary names associated with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's alma mater. He Is said
to have selected Charles w. Eliot, I'd,
namesake and grandson of the late
famous president of Harvard, to be As
sistant Secretary of the Interior. A
number of considerations would prob
ably enter into the choice. Mr.. Eliot,
who Is still in his early thirties, Is a
landscape architect by profession and
now associated with the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission at
Washington. The chairman Of the COM
mission is Col. Frederic A. Delano, Pres
ident Roosevelt,s uncle. Mr.. Eliot's
father, Samuel A. Eliot Of Cambridge,
Mass. is chairman of the Board OF In
dian Commissioners, which has its head
quarters at the Interior Department.
Young Mr.. Eliot, slated by report for
the little cabinet post under Secre-
tary Ickes, Is deep student Of the
problems related to land and natural re-
sources. Those who have heard OF
President Roosevelts reputed intentions
ment would have much in its favor. Mr.
Eliot is a SON law of Clarence Phelps
Dodge of Washington, D. c., and Hay
stack Gulch, Colo, who Is widely inter-
ested in the problems of the West. The
Eliots are old-line Democrats.
Charles Nicholson, publicity director
OF the Democratic National Committee,
Is now directing the press relations OF
Secretary Woodin and the Treasury
Department. The wise old journalistic
hand, who had more to do than any
other man in the country with paving
the way for the New Deal, aspires to
"humanize" the financial branch Of the
United States Government. Certainly
the Treasury nowadays comes nearer to
the American people, with its Omnipo-
tent control of the banking situation,
than any executive department except
the White House. 1t is evidently
Michelson's purpose to divest the Treas
ury "cult" of its stereotyped drabness
and dullness and invest its public ut
terances with human interest. If any
body can do that, the former talented
Washington correspondent OF the New
York World is the man for the job
Another Democratic National Commit
tee publicity man. Robert M. Gates, who
was one OF Michelson's coadjutors in
the 1892 campaign. has just been ap-
pointed chief of press relations at the
Department Of Justice.
Josephus Daniels of North Carolina
who is about to become United States
cratic luncheon group in Washington
this week that Franklin D. Roosevelt
who was Assistant Secretary of the
Navy under Daniels for eight years
still calls the North Carolinian Chief
All of the Presidents letters to him
since election began MY Dear Chief, u
and every time ]. D. has visited the
White House since March F. d. R.
has hailed him with the same greeting
Daniels told the President the other
day that the tables are turned, by man.
date of the American people, and that
he, Roosevelt, is Chief" now.
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Speaking Of presidential greetings, q
guest turned up for dinner Unexpectedly
at the White House one evening not
long since, having been suddenly IN,
| vited by Mrs. Roosevelt. The narrator
Of the incident, an ear witness. says
that the guest, still tingling with the
pleasant Cnrlll, SdlQ 10 Cne FIcclucut
II never thought I should be dining
here" Laughing one of his hearty
laughs, Mr.. Roosevelt said: "You have
nothing on me-"
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Whist vell-dressed gentlemen from
Idaho will wear this Spring has just
been revealed by its noblest exponent
In Washington, Senator William z
| Roroh Addfrfad ovreyf for fen
weeks In Summertime, to somber ef-
fects In dark blue or black suits. the
biggest potato Idaho ever grew turned
up on Capitol Hill this week In q crea.
ton Of fairly light tan. with q brown
lfour-tn-hand tie to mAtch-the latter
denoting . radical departure from thu
black bow tie Borah habitually sports
Senate colleagues told Zig HilP tina,
0oing brown rejuyenates him 10 yeaxI