The Hoover Week

On his way west to Des Moines to open his campaign last October, President Hoover stopped briefly at West Liberty, Iowa. There he invited aboard his private car Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, the first schoolma'am of whom he has any recollection. As the train rolled on, Mrs. Carran settled down to tell her onetime pupil her troubles. These mostly concerned her son Charlie. Charlie was "going on 45." Charlie had no job. Charlie had six children to feed. Charlie was getting desperate and even threatening to vote the Democratic ticket. His mother just did not know what on earth could be done about Charlie. Last week President Hoover did something about Charlie--issued an executive order appointing Charles Carran a rural mail carrier out of West Branch at $2,070 per year.

P: To Republicans at the Capitol, President Hoover sent word as follows: The U. S. is being flooded with cheap goods from foreign countries with depreciated currencies; unless these currencies can be stabilized. U. S. tariffs must be upped in self-protection. House Republicans responded by holding tariff hearings before the Ways & Means Committee.

P: Briskly up to the White House, with the orchids on her sealskin coat bobbing in the morning breeze, walked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to inspect her home after March 4. Mrs. Hoover received her in the Green Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some of the early American reproductions made in her furniture shop at Hyde Park. Mrs. Hoover told her that she had had government photographers taking pictures of every room in the house. Likewise all White House furniture has been card-indexed, with a notation as to the history of each piece. The inspection over within an hour, Mrs. Roosevelt walked out, took a 20-c- taxicab ride back to her hotel.

P: President Hoover planned to deliver his valedictory to the nation at the National Republican Club in Manhattan the day after Lincoln's birthday.

P: "With great regret" President Hoover vetoed the first appropriation bill to reach him from Congress. In the first deficiency measure he found a clause giving Congress the power to pass on all Treasury tax refunds over $20,000. Armed with precedents running back to George Washington, the President declared the bill was an unconstitutional invasion by Congress of executive prerogatives. The House sustained his veto.

P: On the President called an old friend whom he had known as Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919--Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian.

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