FLEETS AND FUNNY PAPERS

"Hoover reviews Greatest Naval Pageant in History of Nation" headlines the Metropolitan Press. For more than three hours, according to the news dispatch which adds color to the banner across the front page, the massed naval strength of the United States "played games of mimic warfare" with Commander-in-Chief Herbert Hoover as an interested spectator.

The staunch supporters of Will Rogers who desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships for a little boy-god named Mars.