Greeter

Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America and delegates to the Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer; 10) 30 radio performers seeking publicity. President Hoover dropped work to go out behind the White House offices to be photographed with: 1) U. S. Civil Service Commissioners and staff; 2) newspaper association managers; 3) "Danish-Americans" en route to Denmark; 4) Pauline Lodge, Lakewood, Ohio, high-school girl, winner of the $500 Gorgas Memorial Essay Contest; 5) Bandmaster John Philip Sousa playing his new "Royal Welch Fusiliers" march.*

P: President Hoover carried 13 guests out to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. After catching his quota of fish, the President talked shop with Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney General Mitchell, Republican Senators and Congressmen.

P: Journeying to Newport News, Va., by a special overnight train, President Hoover boarded the cruiser Salt Lake City to review the U. S. fleet, for the first time in his Administration.

P: "President Hoover is absolutely responsible . . . for the muddled condition of the Tariff Bill. . . . The President has stood by in silence, without the vision, leadership or courage to direct the Republicans in Congress to do what he advised them to do." So declared Tennessee's blatantly partisan Senator McKellar on the eve of the Senate's tariff vote.

* Last week's receptions of U. S. citizens abroad: 1) 234 gold star mothers in France to visit their sons' graves, by U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge, General John Joseph Pershing and Gaston Bacquet, chief clerk of the French High Commission on touring; 2) 17 women at the British Court at Buckingham Palace; 3) 190 Catholic pilgrims returning from the Eucharistic Congress by Pope Pius.

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