The Hoover Week

President Hoover's mind was full of meat last week. The National Live Stock & Meat Board invited him to review a "steaks-hams-chops-on-the-hoof" parade in Chicago the day after he dedicates the new Lincoln Memorial at Springfield. The parade was to advertise the "critical situation" in low livestock prices. As it always does at this season, the Public Health Service advised the country to eat less meat during the summer. Immediately President Hoover was bombarded with protests from meat producers. The Kansas Livestock Association wired: "Such propaganda evidently prompted by food faddists and cannot be substantiated by facts or sound national policy." The Institute of Meat Packers pointed out that Eskimos eat meat all summer long. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde called the Public Health's statement "regrettable." But Government doctors stuck by their assertion that meat makes you hot.

P: President Hoover last week held Economy Conference No. 5 at his Rapidan Camp. Thither from Washington flew Secretary of the Navy Adams in an autogyro, piloted by Assistant Secretary Ingalls. For hours he, the President and a school of admirals pored over departmental figures trying to find ways to save a dollar here and there. After the conference it was announced that the Navy would spend $10,000,000 less than its $380,000,000 this year, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 less than its $360,000,000 next year. Economies had been effected by decommissioning older naval craft, holding the enlisted personnel 4.700 below the authorized maximum of 84,000. As of no further strategic value. Guam was stricken from the Navy's list of Pacific bases, plans prepared to demilitarize it.

P: President Hoover earlier in the week whittled $11,000,000 out of the Department of Agriculture's expenditures this year, hoped to shave away another $20,000,000 next year. The amount of reductions continued to seem small compared to the size of the deficit. Last week the President announced that the June 30 deficit would be "from about $900,000,000 to $950,000,000."

P: Last week President Hoover received and turned over to the Press another report from his National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, which has sunk into anticlimactic obscurity since it dealt with Prohibition. Its findings dealt with prosecutions. As all the world knows it discovered an evil link between criminal organizations and local politics. Declared the report: "In some cases campaign funds are derived from what amounts to licensed violations of the law." It found that the grand jury had ceased to be an agency for real criminal investigation, advised that it be done away with as a source of indictments. Its recommendations included: 1) elimination of politics in appointing U. S. attorneys; 2) better selection of States' attorneys; 3) centralized control of prosecutions in each State under a Director of Public Prosecution.

P: Retired: William Strauss, after 43 years domestic service in and about the White House. Cleveland was President when he began as an assistant gardener at $1.50 per day.

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