Elephant's Job

Public affairs gave way to political affairs at the White House last week as President Hoover pressed to a climax his campaign for reelection. For long hours he withdrew from the bustle of his regular office for the quiet of the Lincoln Study where he worked over his Indianapolis and New York stump speeches. One Cabinet meeting instead of two was held during the week and then with only half of the members present and all the discussion on campaign strategy. Most White House callers were G. O. Partisans with words of advice, good cheer or hope. Eva and Danny, two elephants borrowed from a Washington theatre, lumbered on to the White House lawn bearing a sign: "This is an elephant's job--No time for donkey business."

P: To sift charges of Negro peonage on Federal levee construction on the lower Mississippi President Hoover last week appointed a board of inquiry. Three members were Negroes: Tuskegee's Robert Russa Moton, Washington's Judge James A. Cobb and the Urban League's Eugene Kinckle Jones. The fourth member was Lieut.-Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant III.

P:Threats of another march on Washington were made by a delegation of jobless seamen who called at the White House to ask for a $1 per day dole.

P: With his eye cocked impatiently on the League of Nations' dormant Disarmament Conference President Hoover last week told the country: "Our people have ever been lovers of peace. . . . This Administration has spared no effort to bring about a reduction in arms. . . . These efforts are making progress. If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled to build our Navy to the full strength, equal to that of the most powerful in the world."

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