The Hoover Week

Last week the President of the U. S. closed his Drought Relief controversy with Congress by signing the Interior Department Appropriation Bill carrying $20,000,000 for "food loans" (see col. 3). Of eleven supply measures which must be passed by Congress and signed by the President if an extra session is to be avoided, this was only the second.

P: Signed last week by the President with "great pleasure" was "an admirable measure" for advance planning of public works as an unemployment preventive. Its congressional sponsor was Democratic Senator Robert Wagner of New York. Said the President: "It is not a cure for business depression but will afford better organization for relief in future depressions."

P: "Infinite patience . . . indomitable will . . . undying idealism . . . inflexible resolve." With such words President Hoover last week praised Abraham Lincoln in a nation-wide radio speech, which came somewhat anticlimactically after the Pope's world-salute (see p. 40). The 31st President of the U. S. reveres the 16th above all others. The Hoover eulogy was broadcast from the Lincoln study in the White House, amid Lincoln chairs, pictures, tables, plaques. A Lincoln clock, six minutes late, chimed from the mantel.

P: To the Red Cross Drought Drive President Hoover gave a check for $7,500 on his 32nd wedding anniversary.

P: The President asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for U. S. participation in a second Polar year in 1932. During a Polar year meteorologists of many countries are sent into the Arctic to gather and compare atmospheric data, draw new conclusions about the weather. The last was held in 1882.

P: Accepted by the President was the resignation of Walter E. Hope of Manhattan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Fiscal Offices.

P: In behalf of Ernest Michel, his candidate for a Federal judgeship, Minnesota's blind Senator Schall last week carried to the White House his fight against Attorney General Mitchell, chief Michel critic. He told President Hoover: "Taft wrecked his Administration by trusting Ballinger, Harding wrecked his by trusting Daugherty and Fall. Are you going to wreck yours by further trusting your Attorney General?"

P: It was understood that President Hoover will be asked to accept the resignation of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, effective Oct. i, twelve years before he reaches the retirement age of 61. Thereafter General Butler will perform on the lecture platform.

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