Excerpt from Weekly Articles Volume 4 The Hoover Years, 1929-1931:

CONCERNING COURT, MORROW, AND TEXAS

Well all I know is just what I read in the papers. I just been reading in the news about the presentation of some of our Americans at the Court of St James. I remember Ambassador Dawes telling me about what a time he was having picking out the ones that were to be presented. He wanted to turn it over to the Senate to decide which ones to present. Well they had it and as usual wealth won out.

You have often seen the add "Campbells Soup." Well that add has netted dividends, for offspring Charllote bent the knee to the King and Queen. It just shows you what advertising will do for you. The thermos bottle people have got into the Social heat by producing an client to courtesy to their Majestys. Everybody that has ever taken a bottle on a picnic contributed to her social success. The Radio people entered a Daughter, Elizabeth. While the World has been listening in they have themselves had their ear to the Society ground, and when the time come they tuned in with Lizzie.

But while all these National advertised ingredients were "going Social" don't think the Cigarette was idle. No Sir, Old Gold had a test and sent their fair daughter. Doris Duke "walked a mile" through Buckingham Palace to get a peek at George and Mary. Campbells soup had nothing on Campbells Cigarettes. Old Chesterfield was there in all its debutante finery. The Stotesburys entered a fair maid for the test in the person of Miss Francis Hutchison.

Atlanta come through and it wasent Coca Cola either. It was some of the Hoke Smith troop. So it looks like the whole thing run pretty near to form. I kinder thought Dawes would pick out a bunch of Girls in our land who had accomplished something. You know last year America got a lot of favorable publicity by Helen Wills crashing into what up to then had been "Who's Who in Debutantville." Helen made it on backline drive. She could stand in Buckingham Palace and place one in Windsor Castle. So it was thought well maby they will start to introduce Girls who have swum a Channel, speeled all the words right, stuck to the phone during a fire, or done some noteworthy thing. But, no it was the same old racket. The bank book got you in. Achievement couldent hurdle a flock of Credit slips.

The whole thing is the prize "Hooey" thing of all time. They don't get to say a word. The Queen don't say a word to them. They just come by, do a little bum courtesy and then they are through for the day.

It compares in importance about like voting the Democratic Ticket at a Presidential Election. You vote but it don't mean anything. Dawes added the only Democratic touch to the whole thing by having on breeches of a decent length. The Ambassador from Russia, "Comrade" somebody or other, he wore knee breeches but he had a Sweater on. So that squared him with the Proletariot.

Old New Jersey is all excited over the coming election. Mr. Morrow was practically all set, as he should have been, to go in the United States Senate. He is not only the class of the race but of all their races for some time. It takes a Statician to name any of New Jersey's Senators in the past years. So this little fellow would have given them a dignity and importance that they have been sadly lacking in. Plus an ability that is unusual in anyone running for the Senate. Because he announced himself on the Prohibition question, and give the best straight forward explanation of his stand, why up jumps a Dry. He has the same chance being elected as I have to supplant Charley Chaplin as the World's greatest Comedian. But this old Boy just saw a chance to get back into print, so he announced that he would run, not by popular demand, but by personal inclination. So that splits the thing all up. Now he could be in the Senate ten years and nobody would ever know what State he was from, while Morrow would be a power in there. His ability would stand out like a Traffic light in that body.

Been interested in the scheme of my old friend Jack Garner of Texas. Jack wants to divide up the great State of Texas into five states. Why he wants to stop at five nobody knows. If he is going to split the old open range up, why why not make job of it.

The papers state that Texas would make 220 States the size of Rhode Island, and 54 the size of Connecticut, and six time bigger than the whole of New England. Jack wants more Senators to offset that mess from the east. Well let's make some Rhode Islands out of it, and that will give us (220 times as big). That's 440 Senators. Now that ought to satisfy anybody, even if you are fond of Senators, 440 ought to get us about what Pennsylvania has been getting with their two.

Our old friend Mussolini broke a silence last week. When all the rest of the World was talking on disarmament he remarked as per such, "Though words are beautiful things, Ships and Aeroplanes, are much more beautiful." That old Lad spoke a palate full. He knows the Nations that are great are the ones that have something in the way of side arms. He knows that without an Army and Navy they will never be able to find room for his growing population.

That fellow has kept Italy on the up-grade for all these years, and all the time everybody says, "Oh, he can't last." I have said ever since I met him in 26, that he was by far the greatest Guy I had ever

met, and there has never been a day since then that I have changed. He has done more for his Country than any man ever did for one in a like time. You don't see 'em shooting at him any more do you. He is a Whiz, that baby is. I have never yet seen him propose a fool thing.