The Hoover Week

With the campaign pressing him from all sides President Hoover last week found it hard to keep his mind on public business. He went over some Budget figures with Director James Clawson Roop. He discussed labor conditions in the bituminous coal fields with callers. He answered a stack of belated mail. But most of his time was taken up by G. O. Partisans who wanted to tell him how good they thought his Des Moines speech was (see below) and urge him to go into their territory and make another like it. Exclaimed blind Senator Schall of Minnesota: "Mr. President, you just knocked 'em over with your address. Everywhere I go I can see the fine results."

The President picked Cleveland for his next major campaign effort, Oct. 15. P:The nine Justices of the Supreme Court filed into the Blue Room to pay their traditional courtesy call on the President at the opening of their session. Afterwards eight of them lined up on the South Grounds to be photographed. Mr. Justice McReynolds who daily declines to eat tray luncheons with his colleagues in their Capitol chambers stalked off impatiently from the cameras. None of the Justices wore spats; four of them carried canes. P: Women helped mightily to elect Herbert Hoover in 1928. Last week he appealed again to them for group support in a nationwide radio broadcast from the White House arranged for "Hoover Day." In a speech packed with Home. Faith, Idealism, Child Welfare, Spirituality, Moral Leadership, he pointed with pride to his administration, viewed Democratic policies with alarm.

P:A White House visitor last week was Mrs. Raymond Robins whose husband mysteriously disappeared early last month while on his way to keep a luncheon appointment with the President. Mrs. Robins clung to her belief that her husband had been kidnapped by 'leggers incensed by his Dry crusading.

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