The Hoover Week

Over the Shipping Board, most independent of all independent Federal boards & bureaus, the President of the U. S. has no authority or control. Last week President Hoover declared for the Shipping Board's abolition. As a first step in that direction he announced he would let a vacancy on the board go unfilled. Complaining that the board did not "function cohesively'' in administrative matters, the President purposed, with the legislative consent of Congress, to transfer its activities to the Department of Commerce over which he exercises supreme power. The shift, he contended, would save money, promote efficiency, help the Merchant Marine.

P:In a special message President Hoover called on Congress to set up a joint commission with the executive branch of the Government to devise a "complete national program of economy." His principal point was that laws now obligating the Government to fixed expenditures had to be amended or repealed to reduce Federal functions, effect savings and balance the Budget. His statement that the House had so far made "positive savings" of only $35,000.000 roiled Democrats in that body. Democratic Senators pooh-poohed the Hoover proposal as "just another commission" to postpone definite action. P: To Packard Motor Car Co. President Hoover presented the Collier Trophy for its development of a Diesel airplane engine.

P: Owen D. Young took his youngest son Richard, 12, to the White House to say "How do you do?" to President Hoover. On his way from Miami to New York Commentator Arthur Brisbane dropped in to chat with the President. Don Juan Francisco de Cardenas, Spanish Ambassador, escorted Adelardo Fernandez Arias, New York correspondent of Madrid's illustrated daily A. B. C., into the Hoover office for introductions. Other visitors: the Lancaster, Pa. High School Class of 1891 (to shake hands), Matthew Elting Hanna. U. S. Minister to Nicaragua (to say good-by), Andrew William Mellon, Ambassador to Britain (to say good-by), Lawyer James Naumburg Rosenberg of New York (to introduce his son Robert), Counsel James Francis Burke of the G. O. P. National Committee (to talk politics). P:From the U. S. fish hatchery at Nashua, N. H. 320 adult trout were shipped to Virginia where they will be put into the Rapidan River for President Hoover & friends to catch. P: President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley.

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