Joslin For Akerson

President Hoover last week reached into the corps of Washington correspondents and plucked out a trusted friend as his new No. i private secretary to succeed George Akerson. He was Theodore Gold- smith ("Ted") Joslin who for 15 years has covered the capital for the arch-Re-publican Boston Evening Transcript.

No Washington newsman is a sturdier Republican than Correspondent Joslin. Yet his appointment was one of utility, not politics. President Hoover has known him as a hardworking, level-headed writer since the pre-Coolidge days when Joslin used to come periodically to the Department of Commerce to get anonymous "background" on current problems from "The Chief." As a White House contact-man, Secretary Joslin knows how to handle news and people.

Born in Massachusetts 41 years ago, Mr. Joslin has a round, solemn face, a friendly manner, a figure as plump as Mr. Akerson's. His outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties.

*Four or five correspondents take connecting offices in a Washington building, exchange information, "black sheets" (carbon copies of news stories), work cooperatively. These news combinations are jestingly referred to as "brain trusts."

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