Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1932, Page 6

HOOVER SETS AR 1S STAVATHONE Known Penchant for Travel Little in Evidence Dur- ing Term. By the Associated Press President Hover has been a “stay- at-home” occupant of the White House, as compared with those Presi- dents of recent times. His known inclination for travel, as demonstrated before he became Chief | Executive, has not been much in evi- dence during almost three years of his administration. He has been away from Washington only 14 times since taking office, traveling a total of 14,610 miles. This is exclusive of motor trips to his Summer camp on the Rapidan near Orange, Va. Eight of the trips were to keep speaking engagaments. The other six were for non-speaking purposes. The President’s fondness for radio as a means of appealing to the people partly explains why his public appear- ances outside Washington have been so few. Then, too, the cares of the Presidency have been so exacting dur- ing his administration that he almost has been compelled to stick to his desk. Taft Took Many Trips. President Taft found time to run up a mileage record of 114,559 during his four years in office. He made twd Pacific Coast trips, each of which amounted almost to as much in mile- age as Hoover in three years. President Wilson traveled a total of 87.400 miles during his eight years in office, including his trip to Europe for the Peace Conference. President Harding in three years covered a total of 32,228 miles and would have gone much farther had not his death cut short his trip to the Pa- cific Coast and Alaska in 1923. President Coolidge with his penchant for “going places and seeing things” traveled a total of 32,798 miles while he was in the White House. Actually Cool- idge’s mileage is larger than this. He was fond of taking long cruises on the former presidential yacht Mayflower, of which there is no available mileage record. May Forego Vacation. In all probability President Hoover's traveling will not materially increase in the remaining year of his administra- tion. At present there is little likeli- hood of much traveling this Summer. Machinery set in motion to relieve the economic ills of the country require his presence in Washington more than ever. He may even have to forego a vaca- tion this coming Summer as he did last. The possibilities of setting up a Summer White House this year such as Coolidge's famed rendezvous in the Black Hills of South Daxota is remote. ‘The President is not to attend the Republican convention in Chicago this year. If nominated his campaign may | of necessity be curtailed. Pressing na- tional and international affairs in all prebability will demand that his speak- ing engagements be limited to those points which are highly strategic. | It 1s entirely possible that the greater | pari of his campaign will be conducted n—?rm his study in the White House it- | self. . | BESIEGED FOR STAMPS | Georgia Town Claims to Be First Named for Washington. | WASHINGTON, Ga., February 22 (#). —This little town in Northeast Georgia, | which claims to have been the first in | the Nation to bear the name of the continental general, has been besieged | with requests for stamp ecancellations dated on George Washington's 200th | birthday. | Hundreds of letters from 37 States | have acked cancellation of Washington | stamps. Postmaster Poche says 28 American cities which also bear Wash- | ington's name have made requisition for memorial stamps from the post | office here. GROSNER'S . . that traveled by President i ROMANCE OF By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 22.—The last chapter of a classic East-West ro- mance was written last week when Set- suko Koizumi, widow of Lafcadio Hearn, the writer, died in Tokio at the age of 69. Hearn, an itinerant newspaperman who flaunted conventions to pursue his | dreams of happiness in many parts of | the world, producing gems of literature as he went, learned in the end that what he really wanted was a home and domesticity. These he found with Setsuko Koi- zumi, & young Samurai girl to whom he was married in 1891 when he was 41 years old, and who bore him three sons and a daughter. Buried as Buddist. After 13 years of happy married life in 8 cherry-blossom garden, Hearn died at Nishi Okubo, Japan, in 1904, and the world wanderer who had successively been a Roman Catholic, & Pantheist and a student of voodoo in New Orleans was buried with the highest Buddist tites. He had long since foresworn the ‘Western World and his American citi- zenship to become a Japanese in every- thing but blood. New Orleans claims Hearn as its own, because his 10-year residence here from 1877 to 1887 was his longest in any one | = PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Assets Over $27,000,000 Surplus $1,250,000 Cor. 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY. President EOWARD C. BALTZ. Secretary PINEOLEUM AT ALL DRUG STORES . 1325 F STREET Half Price— A special which cffers you an oppor- tunity to save as much as you spend. A Special Group of Kuppenheimer & Grosner SUITS NOW Were $4().00 Were $5(000. ... PRICE ..Now $2().00 .Now $25.00 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON LAST CHAPTER IN JAPANESE HEARN WRITTEN | Widow of American Newspaper Man Who Settled in Island Empire Dies at Tokio at Age of 69. place until he settled in the Far East. He was born in 1850 in the Ionian Is- lands, off the coast of Greece, of an Anglo-Hibernian father and a mother who was either Maltese or Greclan. Reporter in Cincinnati, A rich aunt, a devout Catholic, sent him to church schools in England, Ire- land and Wales, asserting an intention of making him her heir, but Hearn innati E with a restless foot, he drifted to Mem- and later New Orleans, arriving ere just in time to contract a bad case of “dengue” during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. He worked on the New Orleans Item and the old Times-Democrat, producing editorials and criticisms then considered “too literary” but which today are pre- served as masterpleces. Making $30 & week, he managed to live on $2 a week until he had saved up several hundred dollars which he promptly dropped in a restaurant venture. Known as “Queer Genius.” He was known here as “a queer genius,” small, swarthy and timid, moving in a narrow circle of friends, always dreaming of being happy doing something else. He published his first book here, a translation of Theophile Gautier's “One of Cleopatra's Nights,” and wrote his first successful novel in his shabby rooms in the French quarter D. O, MONDAY. —“Chita,” & of the marsh peoples of Grand C.h':get on the Louisiana Coest. Here, too, he uced “Stray Leaves From Stran; teratures.” The scrapbook of his local writings and an incomplete and as yet unpub- lished novel in fine script dealing with North Africa are in the private library of E. A , local attorney, and president of the Louisiana cal Societ y. Even after literary success had been reached, Hearn continued restless and moved on to the West Indies, then to Japan, where he met the Samurai girl Setsuko. 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