Show washington snapshots taken tor for the park record president hoover made an automobile tour of the city recently to inspect progress on the great building program in a ride that took him from the river to the capitol covering future building sites for monumental structures yet to be placed on paper gaping excavations where foundations tor for new buildings are soon to be laid the steel skeletons of i some buildings the polished stone shells of others the rattle and bang of razing operations and the broad vistas made b by removal of old debris the president witnessed at first hand the gigantic operation by which americas Amerl cas capitol Is having 1 her face lifted with him rode secretary of the interior wllbur wilbur assistant secretary of the treasury heath in charge of the public building program and walter newton one of the presidents secretaries ab the trip gave the president an opportunity to study the visual signs of progress in the capital program inspect the sites tor for future buildings and discuss the program tor for the country at large a program that has called tor for and Is producing from the busy supervising arch architect of the treasury one building plan a day 10 4 happy in the anticipation of the vacation ahead of him president hoover fol Is today comfortably settled aboard the battleship arizona one of the largest and most formidable of the american fighting ships headed for the caribbean where brief visits will be made to porto rico and the virgin islands As mr hoover stood by the rail on the forecastle deck I 1 as the huge ship headed out to sea from il II ampton lampton roads he seemed interested in seeing the shorelines gradually disappear t until it finally vanished this was the last of the mainland of the united states be will see until his return back to hampton roads monday morning march 30 0 A the voyage of the president to porto forto rico and the virgin islands will as nothing ing else could make the people there feel that they are alter after all within the borders 0 men of the united states it Is not necessary that mr hoover should make a visit in person to these islands in order d er to determine a general policy of ad ministration or to propose measures for improvement of their economic and social conditions but his bis journey to their coasts will be welcome he will virtually be carrying the continent out to sea since the thoughts of the entire population will be fixed upon him and lal bis presence will tor for the time being make the inhabitants cease to feel insular 40 0 W 1 0 I no one will deny that president hoover Is richly entitled to a few days of rest and change or of scene the acute problems of the last year have weighed heavily upon him and the recent session of congress must have made far reaching demands on his patience one of mr hoo vera most characteristic traits in his conscientious ious ze zeal alFor for a man so constituted the troubles of the last year have been particularly wearing 4 01 all washington from the president to the humblest government clerk has developed an intense interest in the trea burys finances everywhere one went the constant inquiry was how much h has the income tax fallen off in the midst as of his preparations to leave tor for a twelve day caribbean cruise president hoover showed an interest in the answer to that question secretary of the treasury mellon and his a aides ide a have become nervous trying to figure out the total result from the first handful of income returns 0 0 42 despite the evident pleasure with which democrats are willing to welcome the progressive republican group into the democratic fold some of the republican progressives Progress ives are still hanging back it Is true that senator norris morris of nebraska who Is regarded as a leader of the senate progressives Progress ives has declared the need of another roosevelt in the white house and that many democrats are interpreting interpret in g this to mean the need Is for franklin D roosevelt governor of new york but irrespective of what senator norris thinks of gov roosevelt other lother progressive republican leaders want to be show shown they want to be shown first whether it is impossible to get a progressive republican into the presidential race barring that they want to be shown that the democrats will nominate in gov roosevelt and also that gov roosevelt Is progressive enough to suit them although called to formulate a legislative program tor for the next congress the conference of self styled progressives Progress ives in washington showed from the outset that its avowed purpose was misleading or at least inadequate such a heterogeneous group composed of representatives of both the republican and democratic lett left wing and others who scorn either party label could not be expected to submit proposals that be bundled together and offered as tile the program of f any faction united in thought and purpose the conference served 81 ep a clearing house for a mass of theories criticisms and complaints which have only one thing definitely in common the fact that they are all minority views A 4 41 1 d the violence with which dry senators a attacked chairman john J kaskons Kas Ras kobs proposal for restoring states rights over the control of liquor was fortunate for the wets for it revealed the weakness of the drys in the democratic national committee As originally planned mr raskob was to hava for a resolution recommending the raskob amendment to the federal constitution to the democratic national convention or at least his supporters were to have done it for him that Is the way the matter stoop up till the night before the meeting of the national committee was held 45 0 o the increasing rapidity of the receipt of applications tor for veterans adjusted service loans loan a will require additional borrowing by the treasury of about by april 11 and from to more by the end of the fiscal year june 30 according to the opinion expressed by treasury experts this estimate resulted from a letter received from brig gen frank T hines administrator of veterans affairs that an additional would be required to finance loans prior to april 11 since applications had already been received from veterans |