Vacations

By custom a Cabinet must stick by its President through the hottest Washington summer. Last year the Drought kept President Hoover and therefore most of his Cabinet in and around the Capital. This year, however, it is generally assumed that the President will go holidaying somewhere, sometime. On the strength of this assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain. In August he will go to Scotland to shoot some grouse. The fact that he will meet Europeans en route and discuss current diplomatic questions with them exalted his trip in press speculation almost to a mission.

Other Cabinet vacations so far arranged or considered:

Secretary of the Treasury Mellon sails this week, as is his wont, for Europe.

Secretary of War Hurley fancies Ireland.

Attorney General Mitchell, if nothing better turns up, will go to his usual resort on Minnesota's White Bear Lake.

Secretary of the Navy Adams will spend Friday-to-Tuesday weekends yachting at Marblehead.

Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will swing through the national parks for a holiday at his Sierra Nevada Mountain camp.

Secretary of Agriculture Hyde will go to California to meet Mrs. Hyde on her return from the Orient.

Secretary of Commerce Lament will rusticate on his son's ranch at Larkspur, Col.

Secretary of Labor Doak, because he is the newest member of the Cabinet without a full year's service behind him, will probably spend an all-Washington summer.

About the country is junketing many a Senator and Representative on the $200,000 the last Congress voted for investigational trips during adjournment.

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