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What might well have kept President Hoover from having a guilty conscience about taking a holiday at this time was the presence in Florida of many another famed vacationist. Citizen Calvin Coolidge was gently relaxing from his literary labors at Mount Dora where he and Mrs. Coolidge were the guests of Capt. Archie Hurlburt. Mr. Coolidge had gone fishing only once in a month, had made no use of Capt. Hurlburt's outdoor swimming pool.
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob.
¶ To discover how soon he can withdraw U. S. Marines from Haiti, what he can do for Haiti in the meantime, President Hoover with congressional authority last week appointed two commissions, one formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education.
¶ President Hoover last week appointed Herman Bernstein, famed Jewish publicist, U. S. Minister to Albania. Born (1876) on the Russo-German border, Mr. Bernstein came to the U. S. at 17. Espousing Hebraism, he gave sharp battle to Jew-baiting Henry Ford. Last week he gave Mr. Ford, now his friend, credit for the appointment.