Show t t I iA A Washington Daybook I IBy IBy By RODNEY BUTCHER DUTCHER WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April For I For 1 For eight elgh months now until congress convenes President Hoover has the center o othe of the stage which he lie has hu shar shared alm almost almos t continuously with members member of th the senate and house A very definite attempt is being made to popularize or humanize him through h the channels of publicity pub pub- and the success ol ot that and o of Hoovers Hooters own use of the propaganda opportunities now available to th the White House may have much to d do with the way people feel about th the president when he runs for reelection Republican leaders privately admit admit ad ad- mit that Hoover isn't the easiest roan man manIn In Lu the world to sell ell on his surface personality It is difficult they concede concede concede con con- cede to make people realize reaUze how warm his heart really is and hard tomake to tomake tomake make the president himself cooperate when anyone wants to present hi his human side HOOVER IS CHANGING Nor has the country any conception conception concep concep- tion lion they add of oC the terrific labors labor of a a. bitterly assailed president in hi hJ his efforts to cope with the t trying period of the last year ear and a a. half Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- they agree that something certainly ought to be done about 1 It and they have presented the case care to Hoover Hoo himself There is some mc in indication indication in- in that Hoover has realized the force of or the argument Anyway with congress gone the president roon Into the news nev with his Porto Ponto Rico trip and he be wilbe will wil willbe I be speaking extensively over th the country later on Although the visit to Porto Ponto Rico and the Virgin islands I was his has first real approach to a va vacation vacation va- va cation correspondents were told that tha he hoped to relieve conditions among the islanders by I his brief visit and that ho he felt he get a better picture pic plc- tare ture of at the sit situation t atlon by personal in inspection in- in than through ugh long reams of reports f fIt It has otte ofte been claimed that 1 Hoover didn know how to publicIze pub- pub himself but the fact is that sometimes he s very Sery good at it and ande sometimes q qu que e poor His appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of or a nev ne paper man as his secretary secretary sec see has bep 1 taken as an indication indication indication indica indica- tion that he ha s giving considerable thought to t th tl matter Some of his friends thou t he should name a smart mart n Just as Coolidge picked out C. C Slemp about a year before ie e convention con which nominated h h. h i. i AKERSON GOOD BETS George A son although considered considered consid consid- er ered d as a so glorified l e press a agent I missed plent i bets if that was what he aimed to The correspondents now wonder ow low active Ted Joslin will be In ding g them tidbits of more or Ie be les personal news which might tend t raise Hoover in popular lar bar affection nd id d esteem Meanwhile the veteran press agents and f tore ture writers who wondered wondered won won- dered why t tl Hoover grandchildren weren't aHo more in the limelight a 3 a quite Ie method of pro- pro Hoover arent aren't arent wondering any more Both oth they and Mrs Hoover hIn a month become far more f figures to tG newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper ever before No n is made that an anyone anyone any any- one seeks the presidential family It t it has often been ex ex- ex that the president strenuously objected to personal publicity for himself and his hl family and It now appears that some rome of his obJections tiara ha have hae e been overcome At et any rate newspaper men lately I have been en able abbe to get details of th tho 1 life Ute the Hoover kids lead in the White Whito i House as well as little mUe anecdotes con con- 1 taming some of their bright sayings and doings Mrs Hoover speaks over the radio and it becomes known that J sho has made several sweaters for i drouth sufferers PUBLICIZE MRS HOOVER TOO And suddenly the women's women division of the Hoover emergency ment merit committee breaks out with a 11 long mimeographed statement describing de cie de scribing Mrs Hoovers Hoover's girlhood her love for cl children her outdoor habits and how she learned a ride a bicycle The head of oC the division is 4 tr Lil Lii han lian Gilbreth a a. warm admirer of ot the president nt Of course coure the Democrats and Prow Pro Pro- w are pretty sore because the White House Home now has the loud speaker virtually to H 1 cl What with those boys bos goaded on to bigger and hotter words of abuse the lican national committee mimeo o. o graph oiled and whirring again all ail the Hoover friends doing their b best t to make maize everybody love the pre 1 C dent and even c the socialists at last lout opening up a propaganda bureau here the country is 15 in for a B record 1 year of ANNIVERSARY 4 On April I 1 1815 Karl Otto Eduard Eduard Ed Ed- Leopold von van Schon Bismarck I hansen lausen German statesman and the creator of German unity was born bom at i After university training framing and army experience Bismarck began his dip dip dip- career in 1851 when he wa was appointed appoint d Prussian member of the Germanic diet at Frankfort There he showed the zeal al for the Interests interests Inter inter- ests eats of Prussia that guided bum him there there- after atter He was the guiding spirit in the I reorganization of Germany under the leadership of ot Prussia and he logically became chancellor in 1867 During the Prussian Franco-Prussian war l which he helped bring on by falsifying falsi- falsi 1 j a telegram Bismarck was j spokesman for Germany He lie die die- I toted terms of peace to France A j which Included the c cession sion of ot Alsace Al- Al 1 sace and Lorraine to Germany J The sole aim of Bismarck's p policy llcy licy domestic and foreign was to consol consol- date the empire by stabilizing ng I Its Institutions and by making it Secure secure seure se- se 1 cure ure through alliances and political political cal al combinations from attack by other nations 1 |