The Hoover Week

President Hoover last week made his list of Big Names bigger. To his Organization for Unemployment relief under Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford, he added 19 important persons, brought the total to 84. Among those appointed last week were: James Rudolph Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President; Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland economist; Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker; Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific president; Stuart Cramer, North Carolina textile tycoon; W. H. Maytag, Iowa washing machine maker, and John Walter Drake, Detroit motormaker.

P: California, Michigan, Illinois. Connecticut, New York and Delaware notified the President that they were prepared to finance their own relief this winter. To 2,500 local committees Generalissimo Gifford sent out as "model plans" the relief programs adopted by Rochester, Chicago, Wilmington, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The President announced that 39,000 men were now employed on Federal building (7/10 of 1% of all jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). P: In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies, therefore favors a low petroleum tariff. Last week Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey wrote to a member of the National Republican Club: "The President has not one dime of investment of any kind outside the borders of the U. S., whether in oil or otherwise."

P: "A real rest" was what President Hoover sought last weekend at his Rapidan camp. He read newspapers, napped, strolled about, gazed at mountain trout, got his mind completely off business.

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