Red Cross Crisis

Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, John William Davis, Owen D. Young, William Green, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Samuel Insull, Frank Billings Kellogg, Thomas William Lament--these and 48 other potent names were the weapons picked up last week by President Hoover to beat back the Senate's newest advance upon the U. S. Treasury.

Led by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Senate was marching again to the aid of the victims of last summer's Drought. The President himself had proclaimed that "an acute emergency" existed for which the Red Cross must have $10,000,000 at once, in contributions from citizens. The Senators, balked twice before by President Hoover in their desire to send Federal money to feed and clothe Drought sufferers, now proposed that to the $10,000,000 which citizens were going to give the Red Cross, $25,000,000 be added instanter from the Treasury. This proposal had the immediate effect of all but killing the Red Cross drive among citizens. In all the land, only $600,000 was raised the first week.

To spur the land to action, to preserve all the people's moneys by getting some of the people to meet the emergency through their accustomed emergency organization, the President asked the Messrs. Coolidge, Smith, Davis, Young et al. to compose a Red Cross drive committee. All the 57 eminent citizens accepted. Mr. Coolidge was named the committee's head.

(P: Guests close to the piano at a White House musicale fortnight ago kept hearing Pianist Vladimir Horowitz muttering: "I am honored! I am delighted" After the performance when Pianist Horowitz, who speaks little English, was presented to President Hoover, he said grandly: "I am honored." When presented to Mrs. Hoover he said: "I am delightful."

(P: It is no treat to President Hoover to see himself in newsreels periodically shown at the White House. But he may well be startled to behold himself and Mrs. Hoover performing on the East Room screen if Universal Up for Murder, now in production, is given a White House run. To play the part of "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover," Patrolman Tom Jensen received special leave of absence from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington apparently during the Harding era, wise Washingtonians may recognize a certain amount of historical realism: A publisher installs his mistress as the society editor of his newspaper.

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