"Moderation and Calm Vision"

Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President.

In nine minutes President Hoover finished reading his address. Its theme: Peace. Its inspirational character: Lincoln. Excerpts:

"Nearly 70 years have passed since Lincoln spoke [here]. Ours is a new day and ours new problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln. . . .

"The weaving of freedom is a struggle of law against lawlessness, of individual liberty against domination, of unity against sectionalism, of truth and honesty against demagoguery. . . . The abuse of politics often muddies the stream of constructive thought and dams back the flow of well-considered action."

P:Over the weekend President Hoover went to the mountain camp of Jay Cooke III, Philadelphia banker, near Williamsport, Pa. He fished with indifferent success in the cold waters of Larry's Creek. On his way home to Washington he stopped unexpectedly for Sunday service at a little rural Methodist church at Liverpool, Pa., drew a great crowd, dropped a tightly folded $5 hill into the collection plate.

P:President Hoover ordered identical laurel wreaths placed on the tombs of three of his predecessors: Lincoln's at Springfield, Ill., Roosevelt's at Oyster Bay, N. Y., Wilson's in Washington.

P:Last week President Hoover selected William Cameron Forbes, 60, Boston merchant, polo enthusiast, bachelor grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be Ambassador to Japan. Before the appointment was officially announced Tokyo was asked if Mr. Forbes was persona grata. Two months ago Mr. Forbes led a Hoover investigation commission back from Haiti with recommendations which the President accepted as the basis for a new U. S. policy toward that black republic (TIME, April 7). Familiar enough is Mr. Forbes with the Pacific and its problems. President Roosevelt first sent him to the Philippines in 1904 as a member of an investigating commission. President Taft made him Governor General of the Islands (1909-13). As Ambassador to Japan--a post most men refuse to take because of its personal expense--Mr. Forbes will have in his hands delicate naval negotiations growing out of the London conference.

P: The President used his veto to kill, as ''unmerited and unnecessary," a bill upping Spanish War pensions $11,000,000. Senate and House promptly overrode this veto, President Hoover's first "important" one. He signed measures: 1) upping Civil Service pensions $13,000,000; 2) transferring Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice; 3) authorizing construction of two new Federal prisons and otherwise carrying out his plan to improve the U. S. penal system.

P:Capt. Charles Russell Train, U. S. S. who commanded the U. S. S. Utah when it ferried President-elect Hoover back from South America was chosen as White House naval aide, succeeding Capt. Allen Buchanan, transferred to the War College at Newport.

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