Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-29
About Well-KnOwn Folk
:. In Books, Art, Politics
"Charlie' Taft Makes Hit at White House
Human Needs Meeting -Kennedy's De-
parture Deplored- Tydings and Cupid.
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.


"@ There was an Autumnal loneliness
. that pervaded the scene on the South
grounds of the White House on Mon
- day. last when the members of the
: Conference of Mobilization for Human
Needs assembled to hear President
Roosevelts address of welcome.
= The gread beds of red and yellow
= cannas never Haunted themselves more
proudly; the fountains never Sparkled
I, more brilliantly in the sunlight as
: the historic old trees nodded gentle
= approval of the meeting. The Presi-
|, dent looked as fit as race horse. and
. his voice rang out clear and distinct.
1t must do him lot Of good to re-
turn to Hyde Park and play the coun-
try squire for awhile, shake hands
with his old neighbors and talk crops.
Later in the Fall he is expected to
go to what he calls his second
-Georgia-where he will look
over his small experimental farm
down there. and wave to the people
: along the road who watch for him
to go by.
It's a great day in the ''mawnin' ="
], when the President visits Warm
Springs, where he is known to hun
dreds of the people of that part OF
the State It's a red letter day to
Uncle Nose and Aunt Liza and young
jeff. and they clean up bit and go
forth to see Mr.. Roosevelt; off comes
Uncle Moses and young Jeff's hats
and Liza makes her best bow.
A young man who created a good
deal OF favorable comment at the
meetings for the mobilization OF
human needs was Mr. Charles P. Taft
I'd. of Cincinnati. youngest son of the
late President and the late Chief JUS
tice, William Howard Taft, who led
the meeting on campaign plans for
the next year
Charlie" Taft, as he is known here.
+. where he attended the Force Public
School during his fathers residence
in the White House. has covered him.
self with glory in affairs municipal
- out in his home town. He is a men,
Der of the law firm of Taft, Stettinius
& HOLSTER. and is the recognized
spokesman for his party in local
. matters. He's a Stanch party man
and has been heard to say that there
might be a Republican tariff policy
=. and a Democratic tariff policy. but
no Republican way of cleaning streets
as contrasted with a Democratic way
of cleaning streets He knows all
about the process, as he did much to
clean up Cincinnati. both hygienically
and morally. He is vitality interested
in capable and efficient city manage
ment. regardless of politics, but likes
best the way the Republicans do it.
His book on City Management
The Cincinnati Experiment" has come
to be used as text book on city gov
eminent. His elder brother Robert
is also a partner in the Taft firm, and
while perhaps less clubbabe than the
jolly Charley. is among the younger
leaders OF the Republican party in
Ohio.
The New Dealers like leaves Of the
Autumn are f1uttering down and like
birds are migrating to other chimes
seeking the old haunts. The call OF
the busy mart is strong and the de-
sire to renew old business aSsocia-
= lions keen to the men who have spent
their lives in the touch and go to the
world Of business. Many of them
came to help Uncle Sam out a bit
and give their invaluable practical
experience and their o. K to new
oicci
, under legislation enacted to lift the
D. country out Of the slough of despond
. into which it had fallen
; Mr.. Joseph P. Kennedy, former
chairman OF the Federal Securities
and Exchange Commission. tapped his
wings a few days ago, flew to New
York. stopped just long enough to see
the Louis-Baer scrap, and then sailed
. away aboard the Normandie for
. Europe, to look about bit, rest and
stretch his legs. which for the past
IA months have been under a Govern
ment desk. Some people think that
somewhere, somehow, sometime he
will return to Washington. He was
an original Roosevelt man.
AS chairman of the S. E. c., one
Of Mr.. Kennedys duties was to in
vestigate accusations of bad practices
in the stock market He knows the
stock market like book: it was al
most like investigating things in ones
social club-might be embarrassing,
but he went about the business with
an open mind born of long expert
ence in the financial world.
Mr.. Kennedy, when he took up his
job on that hot day in July, 1884,
announced that he would not ask the
Senate to confirm him as chairman
OF the commission unless he had
come through" by January Well,