The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 10

f By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, March 23.—Major H. ©. H. Segrave's speed record on the Florida sands has only been sur- passed by the record set ty the hearse bearing the “Coolidge policies” as it headed for the graveyard. If a Republican campaign speak- er had suggested last fall that any of those precious policies would be discarded by Herbert Hoover he would have been promptly gagged, repudi- ated and kicked in the pants. Mr. Hoover himself referred to them as something really holy and sacred, as a sort of brilliant constellation which would guide his faltering footsteps for four years. But it was apparent cnough to anyone that the “Coolidge policies” were as dead as a diplodocus as soon as Hoover was nominated and who- ever was goose enough to suppose that they would be preserved any- where except in a backstairs closet must lately have been painfully awakened by the alacrity with which the new president has dumped them into the furnace. The plain fact is that not one single Coolidge policy is apparent to- day in the vicinity of the White House. On matters large and small, from prohibition, farm relief, oi] and international relations down to handshaking, diplomatic at-homes and mode of procedure at press con- ferences, there is a new “Hoover pol- fey.” * ee * The general, pervading Coolidge policy was one of inertia. When he acted at all, Coolidge generally acted negatively, vetoing a bill or refusing to permit new expense. Whether for better or for worse, Hoover has dem- onstrated most convincingly that he is not going to be like that. Prohibition is the issue today which interests the most people. Conditions were pretty awful under and he let it ride. Con- ditions may not improve immensely under Hoover, but he is going to do something about them. First he will appoint a commission and, in the meantime it is bed will try to make Washington a town. Whatever farm relief legislation is passed by Congress will undoubtedly prove to be something that Coolidge ‘would have been willing to sign. But it’s Hoover who has called the special session for it and Hoover who has in- _ sisted, if only because of campaign promises, that something must be done. ** * Mr. Hoover kept in his cabinet two Harding appointees, but the several Coolidge appointees went out with a Tush. One does not recall that there was ever the barest rumor that he would retain Kellogg or Sargent or Wilbur or Dwight Davis or West or Whiting. He kept two of the three original Harding members and made a clean sweep of the Coolidge mem- bers! Oii was a word utterly foreign to Calvin's lips. His own oil conserva- tion board long ago recommended “the more intelligent handling of government-controlled oil sources on Public and Indian lands.” But it re- mained for Hoover to announce a strong federal policy of conservation. Administration of Indian affairs was a scandal all through the Coolidge administration, as it had been many years previously. The Coolidge policy ; Was to let it ride. But already it has | been intimated that Hoover will have a new administrative personnel for the Indian bureau, and the bureau itself seems to be making frantic ef- forts to improve appearances. Even the pet Coolidge policy of “economy” no longer remains. Hoover must go slow because government fi- nances seem in a delicate condition, but he has let it be understood that he is no cheese-paring president and that his policy will be o~e of intelli- gent expenditure without waste. Hin unofficial press agents have explained that the Coolidge period demanded one kind of policy and that the Hoo- ver period calls for another. * * The Hoover policy toward federal patronage is not yet well defined, but there have been numerous threats of a change. Right off the bat Hoover killed the “White House spokesman’—or, at least, dreadfully maimed him. And at press conferences now has some- thing to say which correspondents can put in quotation marks. The difference between the first diplomatic “at home" under the Hoovers and the Coolidge parties was sufficient to inspire large news stor- jes. There was more food and less dignity. Coolidge shook hands each day with whoever bothered to get a note from his congressman conferring the privi- lege. Hoover now shakes hands twice. @ week and has let it be known that he hopes congressmen will be more discriminatory, though they probably won't. One could continue to cite ex- amples. But enough is enough and it may be pointed out that all these obliterations of “Coolidge policies” had been made within a week after Hoover's inauguration. Perhaps in 1936 Hoover will be listening to some new Republican candidate solemnly assuring the world with tongue in cheek, that he will, if elected, “follow the Hoover policies.” “Am I in love with anyone? No,” Crystal confessed frankly, “The truth . 4s, Tony darling, that I've never been really in love, and now I'm not in any hurry to be. I've got to do a lot of ‘work on myself before I'm fit to be a “Not a bit of it!” Tony denied em- Phatically. “I admire any girl who dares to be serious in this riotous age we live in. Wish I dared. , the luncheon bell, honey. if Nils ap Cherry have as ‘y le it up?” Nils, he behaved ex- there was nothing at all Cherry was delighted that,” Crystal laughed. like @ blizzard. She n Sse. he steel 2 out of trouble so fast give her the crush- richly deserves. ... widen page pea i z i bl it | Nils?” {| toward a pivotal | avenue—and comes to a halt. Company. She's to leave Monday a week, and Nils says I can go with her—because I'm a good girl,” she added with a wicked grin at her hus- band. During the flurry of comment and congratulations, Nils and Rhoda re- mained serene and unflustered. Cherry was almost beside herself with excitement and happiness. She could not keep her ecstatic little fingers from Nils’ hand, coat sleeve, and hair. Tony's question was fully answered. Cherry and Nils had un- doubtedly “made it up,” and Cherry was in seventh heaven. “Of course we've got to celebrate in a big way,” Cherry bubbled. “What would you like most in the world to do, Rhoda darling? Oh, I'm so proud of you! Imagine being sister-in-law to a Metropolitan prima donna.” “You'd better wait till we know how they like my voice,” Rhoda answered Placidly. “Will you pass me the rolls, “Look at her!” Cherry cried with laughing despair. “You'd think she never had a thought in the world above food! ... Oh, there's the phone! Til answer it.” When she returned to the table, ten being | minutes later, her little body was vi- brating like a humming bird's with excitement. “It was Dick Talbot! He found out somehow that you were here, Tony, so I invited him down for the week-end, and then I called up George Pruitt and Harry Blaine. Saturday—tomorrow—is Harry's day off, dea at both come. Be here tonight, we make whoopee? Lawks, dearies! Don't ask.” NEXT—A strange, desperate Tony. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ing mist, this parade moves steadily Point on Sixth And when the pampered ladies of Park Avenue turn luxuriously over in their beds and reach for the flowers which have just arrived by messenger, the vast flower mart of New York has all but ended its day's rush. From the greenhouses of New Jer- my toe have oon ron Connecti- cut a Long Island. 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