The Hoover Week

Intensive budget-pruning again occupied most of President Hoover's week.. To the Press he proudly exhibited a handful of new cuttings he had snipped off the Government's colossal expenditure bush. He had reduced the cash requests of all departments by $350,000,000. "Every item has been cut," said he. This meant, he explained, that the 1933 Budget would go to Congress next month with a total of $280,000,000 more or less, below current expenditures of $3,960,000,000. Where this $280,000,000 saving would occur President Hoover did not specify but it became known elsewhere that the Navy would take a $61,000,000 cut, the Army $44,000,000. But between the President's economy ($280,000,000) and the estimated deficit ($1,500,000,000) there still yawned an enormous fiscal abyss which only tax-upping seemed likely to fill.

P:Last week the National Symphony Orchestra opened its Washington season with a concert at Constitution Hall. Conducting was jolly Hans Kindler, famed

'cellist. Mrs. Hoover attended, applauded vigorously, sent Herr Dr. Kindler a big bunch of yellow chrysanthemums. When Conductor Kindler had learned that Pres ident Hoover would not attend, he had sighed a great sigh of regret. "Ah, me." said he. "The President can always find time to attend the opening of a World Series and throw out the first ball. Tell His Excellency that if he will come to our opening, I will give him a fiddle to throw out."

P: Leland Stanford University had a great football team in 1894. It was Western champion that year. Paul Downing (now vice president and general manager of Pacific Gas & Electric) captained it at right tackle. He never lost a minute with time out all season. Jule B. Frankenheimer (now a San Francisco physician) at left half did a shift that delighted Coach Walter Camp. Jackson Eli Reynolds (now president of First National Bank of the City of New York) played the other half while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching in Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week the same "Bert" Hoover invited his old teammates to hold their annual reunion in the Lincoln Study of the White House. Judge Abraham Lewis (substitute) was coming all the way from Honolulu and Martin Herbert Kennedy (full back) from' his post as commercial attache at the U. S. Embassy in London. An absentee: Steuart Walker Cotton, left end, former engineer in the Philippines, now dead.

P: Last week President Hoover issued his Thanksgiving Day proclamation. In hard times he found these "causes for gratitude": "Abundant harvest... [no] pestilence and calamities . . . knowledge has multiplied . . . education has advanced . . . peace."

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