The Hoover Week

Into the East Room of the White House was wheeled a plain oak table. Potted palms were set in place. Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, bustled in, put a blotter and inkstand on the table, masked some talkie microphones behind piled volumes of The Historians History of the World. President Hoover, followed by Vice President Curtis. Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senators Watson. Reed, Borah, Robinson, Swanson, marched in, sat down, signed the London Naval Treaty.

P: Talking over the long-distance telephone with President Ibanez of Chile, President Hoover said he would gladly exchange Washington's heat for Santiago's cold.

P: A White House rule: never meddle in party primaries. Last week at Johnson City, Tenn., Republican Representative Carroll Reece, candidate for renomination, published a letter from President Hoover in which the President upheld the House's Muscle Shoals plan, commended Congressman Reece for rejecting the Senate plan. Sam W. Price, opposing Representative Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great toe. . . ."

P: To his Rapidan camp for a Friday-to-Monday week-end went the President and 17 guests. Discussed: municipal problems of Washington. It was hot. The President climbed a lookout tower to watch forest fires along the tindery blue ridge.

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