Third Year's End

President Hoover last week ended his third year in office by working through his usual daily routine. Democrats at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue celebrated the occasion in the Senate by excoriating the Administration. Jouett Shouse of the National Democratic Committee added his voice to the carping chorus by broadcasting a speech in which he declared that at Valley Forge and on Feb. 12 the Presidential addresses had eulogized Herbert Hoover almost to the exclusion of Washington and Lincoln. Concluded Mr. Shouse: "Is it any wonder that an Ohio newspaper recently said he had better be watched at Easter time?"

Less partisan observers found public sentiment more favorable to President Hoover than it was a year ago, attributed it to popular approval of recent Hoover-sponsored measures against Depression, popular disapproval of malicious attacks on the President by political enemies. Physically the President appeared a little greyer, a little more serious of mien than he was at the two-year mark but in excellent health.

P:To succeed Joseph Clark Grew, newly appointed Ambassador to Japan, President Hoover selected Charles Hitchcock Sherrill of New York to be Ambassador to Turkey. In 1911, when he was Minister to Argentina, Mr. Sherrill was offered the post in Tokyo. He declined and retired from the diplomatic service because of ill health. His achievements while in Argentina included helping double the volume of U. S. trade with that country and the sale of two U. S.-built battleships to the Argentine Navy. In Paris Mr. & Mrs. Sherrill, who are childless, maintain a home. Both speak French fluently, the language of diplomacy at Angora.* He is a member of the Olympic Games committee, once (1887) was U. S. 100-yd. dash champion, originated the series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894, five years after he left New Haven. Mr. Sherrill is a trustee of New York University where he founded the fine arts school, is the author of Stained Glass Tours in France (1908), In England (1909), In Italy (1913), In Spain & Flanders (1924), In Germany (1927). P:Mrs. Mary Mooney, 84, mother of California Convict Tom Mooney, called at the White House. Told that the President was too busy to hear her plea for her son's release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. P: President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross will have the grain milled and should it all be used for human consumption it would make 2,480,000,000 loaves of bread. P:The President signed a resolution making $10,000,000 available for the formation of agricultural credit corporations through the Secretary of Agriculture.

*The last six Ambassadors to Turkey: John G. Leishman (1906), Oscar Solomon Straus (1909), William Woodville Rockhill (1911), Henry Morgenthau (1913), Abram I. Elkus (1916), Joseph Clark Grew (1927).

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