Show W washington ashington ly letter NATIONAL PRESS SERVICE presidential SITUATION washington D 0 august 9 the republican pub lIcen presidential situation is tar far irom from clearing the sincerity ot of president Coolid declaration Is not being questioned but there Is a growing feeling that it was based on a personal situation and that the party and the nation deserves consideration the doubt as to what Is going to happen in increasing rather than diminishing and Is ealden ced in a number ol of ways the democrats who on his first announcement issued a hallelujah of 0 joy oy and at once claimed a victory in 1928 have put a silencer on their press activities and are watching and waiting again while it is s appreciated th that dawes hoover lowden and longworth are at least tentative possibilities they are really reflecting the general feeling of indecision by their refusal to make any formal entry as yet thus the curious situation exists today in the republican party the president la Is out but no other man has yet et formally oty 1161 ally and actually thrown his hia list into the ring the nearest to a formal lowden entry continues to be in iowa where certain of the agricultural loaders leaders have set up a semi rut organization in chicago there was recent discussion over the formation of a nonpartisan lowden league but apart from a preliminary press notice nothing now new has been heard about it the lowden group in new york city which originated before the presidents declaration has apparently taken to cover my mr hoover has now returned to the east cost his absence in california his has n naturally a held matters in check and ward smith loriner former secretary to former governor nathan L miller of new NeWl york has announced that a request will bean be made a do bof of hoover to permit a formal launch launching ing of his boom hoover sentiment is being reported from the various sections of the country and the new york times in a special story out of north dakota says if coolidge Is really out and the nonpartisan league opposes lowden that hoover has a chance to get the delegates governor brewster of maine and governor spalding of new hampshire on the assumption tb that atthe the president Is d definitely defini tely out have declared tor for mr hoover vice president dawes meanwhile is sitting quietly and cannot even be charged with sawing wood A number of is stories have been printed to the effect that the friendship between dawes and lowden Is of such a character that dawes would never consider contesting the illinois delegation it it were inclined to lowden but the newspaper arl writers wes seem to be in agreement that if at the convention lowden Is unable to win ane e nomination that the surrender or of his delegates to dawes would be the logical and gracious thing to do there Is a growing feeling that dawes Is in a more receptive mood the powers that tie be in new york apparently patently ly are favoring hughes as their second string and it has been reported in the newspapers that a special emissary went to interview hughes abroad arid and persuade him to allow the use ol of hla his name he Is formally on record as having he put the crown aside with the statement that his 65 years made him too old to be a candidate this however was a statement made before detore the president ha had d withdrawn the newspapers within the past t ten days have shown a greater kindliness and an increasing inclination to discuss speaker longworth senator fess and senator willis have also been brought into the picture senator watson Is being discussed in indiana but it remains to be seen whether this Is a native son candidacy created for the purpose ot of controlling the delegation or a genuine national movement it cannot be ignored that through all ot of this there Is a disposition to call on the president to at least restate his position or else to draft him without waiting for any additional word former governor stokes of new jersey has already organized organised sed it a drafting coolidge club the aim or of which is to vote the new jersey delegation tor for him whether he will or no mark sullivan an authoritative newspaper writer of washington says the leaders are reluctant to accept his decree 1 I do not choose and that the party clings to coolidge as aa a big asset the philadelphia public ledger says conditions in the party demand a further statement stat emerit from the president about 1928 the new york times from its political expert tn in missouri says in a special dispatch that st louis still holds the belief that the president will yet be nominated I 1 meanwhile the president at rapid I 1 I 1 city is kept on the move so BO steadily that the opportunities to cross examine him have been few and far between he Is I 1 I 1 leaving shortly for a tour of the yellow stone and apparently will not reach washington until the middle of september it is generally figured that not until he Is back in washington can real rea clearing of the situation be expected 1 0 W l INCREASE OF STORED FOOD an exceedingly extraordinary increase in the total of 0 food products being held in cold storage as against the totals ol of I 1 last year Is properly attracting the attention e n tion of those engaged in the production 0 n and ma marketing meting of these commodities the total holdings ol of frozen poultry t ry Is stated at forty two millions three hundred and two thousand pounds as against thirty five million in 1926 and a five ve year average of thirty eight million there has been an increase in beef pork lamb and mutton of neary nearly I 1 two hundred million pounds over last year holdings of creamery butter have increased over fourteen million pounds and there has been an increase of one million cases of eggs american cheese supplies alone are smaller which unhappily may be explained by reason of import por tation tion ot of foreign cheeses and the natural disinclination to tie up a surplus any interpretation of this situation cannot I 1 but cause distress to the agriculturist BILLIONS GO ABROAD the sentimental propagandists who are continually weeping over our in difference to europe and its plight and iwho who believe that as a preliminary we i should at once proclaim free trade so that european products can come into this country would do well to app apprent ate that while we are anxious to be sympathetic if any hordes of unemployed are to walk the streets we have a first firsthand hand feeling self selfish ish perhaps but human that we would prefer to see european rather than american workmen put to such straits 1 I Is about time that professors and others who in the safe security of monthly or yearly pay checks and far removed from business activities and distresses should take another view of the facts last year we bought 0 over ve r a billion and a quarter do dollars il ars worth of goods irom europe and paid ship owners 0 of f europe one hundred and ten million dollars for freight american tourists spent pent three quarters of a billion of which amount one thild was left left in prance france immigrant workmen lix in america to their relatives abroad sent three hundred and fifty millions of dollars and during one y year ear as a people we purchased over a halt half billion dollars worth of securities so much for the wh phiners whiners iners |