Going Away

Farewells filled President Hoover's final week in the White House. The last State dinner was for Speaker John Nance Garner, uncomfortable in evening clothes. There was a tea party for the White House secretariat. Army & Navy officers rubbed shoulders with employes from the Treasury and Labor Departments at the final State reception. The sub-Cabinet gave the President a good-by dinner at the Mayflower Hotel; he was presented with a desk chair. The Cabinet lingered long over an informal Sunday supper at the White House. A steady stream of G. O. Partisans passed through the executive offices to wring Herbert Hoover's hand a last time. The President took leave of the Republican National Committee in a letter.

P: Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives."

P: Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General.

P: "With great satisfaction" President Hoover signed a bill authorizing the Supreme Court to prescribe rules of practice and procedure for inferior U. S. courts in criminal cases after verdicts.

P: For the New York Times French Strother, literary secretary at the White House, wrote a four-page eulogy of President Hoover and his administration which left the impression that the U. S. electorate had made a grave error when it rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock.

P: President Hoover laid the cornerstone of the new Department of Justice building. Week before he did the same for the new Archives building.

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