The Hoover Week

When the Virginia trout season opened last week, President Hoover dropped all official business at the White House, went hurrying away to his Rapidan Camp for his first weekend outing since last October. His guests were Secretaries Lament and Wilbur, Attorney General Mitchell. Mrs. Hoover was away in Philadelphia. The Rapidan party was stag.

Though it was almost dusk when he arrived at his camp. President Hoover impatiently broke out his tackle, began casting with a "Royal Coachman" and a "Grizzly King." Next day he used the same flies, plus a "Silver Doctor." Into his creel went 20 trout, the legal limit. No Sunday fisherman, he visited the school he had built near his camp, questioned Miss Christine Vest on the progress of her 18 pupils.

P: Declared President Hoover of the yet untabulated 1929 income tax collections: "The result is most gratifying. The unfavorable developments of last fall did not affect individual incomes to the extent feared. . . . Tax reduction was fully justified. . . . We should be able to close the year with a very moderate surplus. . . . The situation clearly calls for the most rigid economy."

P: Before a telephone in his office President Hoover last week sat talking to the Presidents of Chile and Uruguay. The President of Argentina was not on the line as the new South American service was ceremoniously inaugurated.

P: President Hoover met a census enumerator at the back steps of the White House, answered his questions.

P: Last week the Chicago Tribune published a loud advertisement: "Come on, Business, let's go. . . . America needs leadership. The public looks to Business for it. The politicians in Washington are only a crowd of ranting actors. They cannot do the country any real harm." In Washington Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein predicted an eleven-billion-dollar construction program for 1930, hailed "the dawn of a new day." President Hoover signed a Bill for the U. S. to spend $375,000,000 on new roads in the next three years, to give 100,000 men jobs.

P: Promoted in the foreign service by President Hoover last week for "courageous and energetic action . . . and exceptionally meritorious service" were John Moore Cabot, U. S. legation secretary at Santo Domingo, and William A. Bickers, consul at Puerto Plata, D. R. Because of their pacification of the last Dominican revolution, their pay will now be $3,500 per year instead of $2,750.

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