Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1928, Page 41

DEVOTION T0 DUTY NOLDEDH L Electorate’s Reward Seen as Reiteration of America’s Equality of Opporiunity. BY REX COLLIER. ‘The election of Herbert Clark Hoover as the thirtieth President of the United States is the climax of a career founded on the theory that success is the result not of heritage, or of chance, or of favor, but of devotion to duty and to one’s fellow man, qualities which, in the case of Mr. Hoover, were found in the son of a village blacksmith and & Quaker woman preacher. Half a century ago the muscled arm of Jesse Hoover rose and fell method- ically and powerfully in pursuance of his humble vocation as molder of iron and steel in a little shop at West Branch, Towa. Come the Sabbath day, and the smith's' wife, Hulda, betook herself and her family to the Friends’ Meeting House as an exhorter of a simple faith, the principal tenet of Which was avoidance of sham and “worldliness.” Herbert Hoover was deprived of the personal counsel and inspiration and companionship of such sturdy parents before he reached the age of 8. His father died when Herbert was 4 years old, and his mother passed on three ye_t;_rhs lntgr‘ 4 e quiet-mannered, good-natured Quaker orphan was alone 5“ the world. But in his veins flowed the blood of one Wwho had learned the true worth of hlonest ’s:re clear vision, and of another who ha g\eosgl.sed shallowness, deceit and ustmzari Works His Way to Fame, Just as the orderly hammering of the Iowa blacksmith bent steel to the pur- poses of its master, Herbert Hoover, modestly but determinedly, has been hammering himself a niche in the hall of fame. In the clamor of the crowd the telling blows at times passed almost unnoticed. But the blows were taking effect. Hoover has put his theory of hard work and organization to a supreme test in the presidential campaign just ended. He had tried it out successfully as a young mining engineer, as a world-re- spected humanitarian and as a states- man. None gainsaid the practicability of such a theory as applied to engineering, ;el:‘ef work or governmental administra- on. Apply such homel; hilosoph; politics? v i The multitude smiled and shook its head. The politicians gasped, and said it could not be done. Politics, it was argued, is a peculiar science, ofttimes demanding of its followers a sacrifice of personal difidence, conflicting stand- :fli of character and distaste of make- ve. Hoover Not a Politician. Hoover, not being & politician in any #ense of the word, could not get the politician's viewpoint. He didn’t care much for politicians and their ways, anyhow. He had a pet theory of his own about getting ahead in this world, gmlu to the contrary notwithstanding. e had proved that theory to be work- able hundreds of tites in the past. He had hammered his way into college and to his degree through. hard -work. He had hammered his way to the pinnacle of engineering affluence without sacri- ficing one iota of his reputation. His constant, compelling pounding away at this problem or the other had opened to him world-wide fields of opportunity and hitherto unfathomed spheres of public service. He determined to try out his proven theory in the field of politics. It was with some feeling of reluctance, however, that the then Secretary of Commerce decided to acquiesce to the swelling tide of Eopuhr demand that he present himself as a candidate for the highest office in the power of his country to bestow. He weighed the question in his mind for months before he acceded to the pleas of his friends. Perhaps he felt that his pet ideas about equality of opportunity—his somewhat old-{uflloned theories about American individualism—were being challenged. ‘Wiseacres Discount Boom. Political wiseacres winked when the Hoover boom was launched, prior to the Kansas City convention Presidential candidates, they con- fended, were made, not born. It might be all right to talk of the “unbounded hope” with which free citizens of the United States may look forward to the White House and way points, but poli- ticians know that candidates are select- ed at those mysterious 3 am. huddles in a hotel room just before the roll call of the morrow. “He doesn't stand a chance. The politicians are against him.” Those were the statements going the rounds at Kansas City last Spring. But Hoover's friends, trained in the Hoover methods of getting things done, were beating an inexorable, distracting tattoo on the craniums of Republican leaders. Adopting Hoover plans of or- ganization, the thought was hamiered into their brains that “It must be Hoover.” There was little ballyhoo to the Hoover pre-convention boom, but lots of systematic, forceful, constructive campaigning, nevertheless. Candidate Declines to Talk. Hoover himself maintained a char- acteristic silence. He explained he was in the hands of his friends. Since he possessed the widest circle of loyal friends, perhaps, of any man in Amer- ica, it may be seen this was a well considered statement. Organization again had gained him this valuable asset of friendship. Any one who had ever worked with Hoover in any of his far-flung national and international relief enterprises—from the Boxer up- wising, through the World War and to the Mississippi flood emergency—be- came a Hoover booster. The Hoover enthusiasm and loyalty were con- tagious. Insidiously the hard-boiled politicians found themselves, to their own amaze- ment, repeating the crescendo chorus— “Who But Hoover?” It was just beyond comprehension, somehow, but what can one do in the face of such overwhelm- ing odds? Hoover, as all the world knows, re- ceived the nomination unanimously on the first ballot, something almost un- heard of in modern political history. ‘The first step in what had been regarded in “informed” circles as an impossible undertaking had been nego- tiated safely and decisively. There were some who had regarded that step as the greatest potential stumbling block of the program. The remainder of the journey toward the big goal would be easy, they held. Unceasing Work His Motto, Hoover, however, is not given to over- confidence. His formula for achieving an objective is to work unstintingly until the end is attained. Keep your mouth closed, set your jaw and keep plugging away—that is his motto for success. He set an example for his supporters to follow. He announced his campaign would be waged solely on constructive, defensive lines. He warned against mud-slinging in any form. He fixed a limit on the number of campaign speeches he would make. He began the formation of an organization. Don’t let any one tell you that Her- ’ pert Hoover did not run his own cam- El‘n. Ask the politicians—they know. began by choosing as geperalissigo ity discussed. Only a brief time before, kitchen and HARRIS & EWING of his campaign organization Dr. Hu- bert Work of Colorado, an original Hoover booster, an organizer in his own right and a believer in the Hoover methods of “less talk and more work.” Here was going to be presented a most®unusual presidential ‘campaign, if there ever was one. Imagine a political crusade devoid of all fanfaronade! But the politiclans charily refrained from making another explosion. They were beginning to sit back and learn things they had never heard of before in poli- ties. Organizes Far-Reaching Campaign. Around the skeleton of a completely reorganized Repthlican national com- mittee Hoover built a far-reaching cam- paign structure imbued with Hoover ideas of campaigning. In accordance with his belief in individualism, au- thority was decentralized, strong State organizations were formed, city groups were approved, precinct committees were set up. ‘The genius for organization which had saved a nation from starving, averted post-war chaos and saved hun- dreds of lives of his own fellow-citizens during America’s greatest flood catas- trophe soon became manifest. ‘The Hoover campaign spread into the States like a fungus. Hoover clubs sprang up everywhere. Women's com- mittees appeared from nowhere. Vet- erans’ units espoused the cause. En- gineers and lawyers and educators and financiers and working men formed a shoulder-to-shoulder army under the Hoover banner. The radio was brought into play, as it never before has been used in a ences. Literally tons of “constructive” literature flooded the mails. House-to- house canvasses of the voters were ef- fected. Everywhere the Hoover mes- sage was hammered home with con- vincing force. It was a promise of prosperity, of support of the Constitu- tion, of wise, progressive government. Manifests Faith in His Program. Hoover had the utmost confidence in his organization from the moment of its completion. None of his organiza- tions of his engineering days or of his relief services had failed him, and he had no fear that his campaign set-up would fall short of his appraisal. That is why he saw no necessity for taking the stump himself more than a few times. He never departed from, his original plan of delivering only sufficient formal speeches to make clear his stand on the major issues. In his speech of acceptance at the outset of the cam- paign he made a general exposition of his views on all questions deemed by him of national importance. At West Branch he specialized on the needs of the farmer, at Elizabethton on water- power, at Boston on the tariff, at New York on foreign trade, at St. Louis on inland waterways. As the campaign progressed he be- came more accustomed to his new role in politics. He began to feel thoroughly at home amid cheering throngs. At first he had shrunk from personal ae- claim, but his friends convinced him that his modesty might give offense to his well meaning admirers. He ap- peared on train platforms more fre- quently, and, to his own surprise, found delegations and greeting individual call- ers. He even overcame, to a marked extent, his known aversion to the camera. Takes Lead at Critical Juncture. Hoover did not sit back in comfort and view the battle from the sidelines. He threw himself into the thick of it, when necessary—to reinforce a waver- ing sector here or bolster the esprit de «corps of a division there. There were times when he found himself forced to step into the front rank and take com- mand of a threatening situation, as, for example, when the sniping of whisper- ers from the opposition or the activi- ties of intolerant individuals within als own purview called for drastic ac- lon. At no time during the entire cam- paign did the Republican nominee men- tion the name of his Democratic oppo- nent. He insisted that personalities be kept out of the fight. He refused to be drawn into petty scraps. His code was one of strict adherence to what he con- himself enjoying the experience. Back political campaign. “Minute men” ad- dressed countless seen and unseen audi- BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. When Mrs. Hoover steps into the | White House as its mistress on March 4, | she will not be in strange territory, for she has been a frequent and welcome | the portfolio of Secretary of Commerce |in 1921. No woman of the cabinet has been more intimate or popuiar as a vis {itor there, and, lilke Mrs. William How- ard Taft, whose husband succeeded to | the exalted place after being Secretary {of War, Mrs. Hoover also is well ac- | quainted with the duties awaiting her. From an educational standpoint no former mistress of the White House has surpassed hner, while in travel and worldly knowledge her experiences even exceed those of Mrs. Taft. She speaks | several languages, has the grasp of a larger hospitality sueh as the First Lady {of the Land must exercise during her | husband's administration and 1s gifted in the way of putting every one about her at ease. Almost the cnly thing that either Mr. | or Mrs. Hoover dread in assuming their | new positions is the public glare that opens for public discussion of all of their private affairs. Discussion of | their clothes, their habits, their man- | ners and, in fact, a constant intrusion on their soclal and domestic life, Favorite With Newspaper Women. Mrs. Hoover is a favorite with news- | paper women, and while she has never given out an interview in her whole life. | she yet mingles with woman writers and gives them every opportunity to use their own wits and judgment. Shs has nothing to conceal, but it greatly dis- pleases her to have her little philan- throples and acts of kindness and char. | | | | visitor there since her husband assum>d | at his “G. H. Q.,, on Massachusetts avenue he put in a full day receiving the Kansas City convention she carried out her promise to become the guest of the Women’s National Press Club and while enjoying their hospitality in an almost girlish manner che invited them | to be her guests.al a garden tea. On this occasicn she answered their dozens | of questions, but refused. as she lau~h- | ingly said, “to be quoted.” | "It has been written, and truly, that the price of residence in the White | House is the loss of liberty and free- dom of speech and action, or if not | of liberty, at least of privacy, Life |in the house of Presidents is almost like living in a glass house where ones | every action is questioned and com- | mented upon. Social Traditions Held Sacred. White House soclal traditions are sacred to the great American public and must be observed to a great extent not more by the President than by his wife. In fact, they are as sacred as the Bible upon which he takes his oath of office. Mrs. Coolidge, who will soon place her mantle of national hos- | pitality about the shoulders of her | friend, leaves a wealth of tradition of | perfect though simple hospitality. Her | richest endowment has been her cor- | diality and her smile. Few changes in the White House management are necessary, each mis- tress of the mansion since the advent | there of Mrs. Abigail Adams introduc- ing not more than two or three which threw the country into social con- vulsions, and to quote Mrs. Taft, who made quite as many as did any of her predecessors, “as a matter of fact no President’s wife ever needs to make changes unless she so desires, because { the White House is a government in stitution thoroughly equipped and ways in running order, Each new mi tress of the house has absolute author ity, of courss, and can do exactly as | she pleases, just sa she would do in any | other hom Mrs. Filmore's Innovation. It was Mrs, Filmore who introduced a cooking range into the White House ‘hgreby salsed & rebel- | ville West refused to leave, and Marquis | de Chambrun was called in to settle | social | American public is caring about in Mrs, sidered the paramount issues, He would succeed or fail under that policy. He held that to dignify with official lion among the dismayed domestics, who were accustomed to fireplace and crane and Dutch ovens. There was genuine glee among the below stairs residents of the mansion when after the fire was built the stove refused to draw and the President himself had | to go to the Patent Office and look over the model before he could master the draughts, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, when mis- tress of the mansion, undertook to economize by dlsmmmi the French cook, but she got into hot water, for the chef, who had served Lord Shack- the difficulty. But it was not a First Lady of the Land who brought down public wrath by turning the green and | the red parlors of the state suite into dressing rooms, but President Arthur, who chafed more over the limitations of the White House in those days; than had any of his predecessors. In High Official Circle. After all it is not so much the! qualifications that the great | Hoover, for in fact only the official clement of Washington will meet her in a critical way—high officials and diplomats, with a few society folk from | other cities. It is more to the point | with the man and woman voters of th2 country to know what is the nature of the new President-elect’s consort. How does she size up in the bigger way— in an understanding of the world as it exists today. One of her associates in the cnbLflet’ has sald that if you visit the home of | Mr. and Mrs. Hoover you are likely!l to find her on one of the porches or| in her rugged garden at the back o her house. Her recreation is in sitting In an casy chair on the wide porch overlooking the garden, knitting a baby sacque of soft yarn—something for her little granddaughter or her baby grand- son—while she studies the trees and birds or watches some little flower she hes just planted in a pot of earth, or takes stock of the squirrels that are so -exalied position, recognition the flying charges and coun- ter-charges of a singularly slanderous “whispering campaign” was to direct the attention of the voters away from the tame that they roam over the porch as well as through the garden at will, One can vision the south front lawn of the White House a rendezcous for Girl Scouts, the organization in which she is so vitally interested. Mrs. Hoover was president of this organiza- tion and later became executive chair- man of the national board. If tradi- tion carries out, one of the first garden parties held in the President’s grounds will be an open air {)arty for the offi- cers and members of the Girl Scouts. Mrs. Hoover never misses an oppor- tunity to wear her uniform, and when a year or two ago the Girl Scout con- vention was held in Washington she was never absent from a session, and she generously entertained the dele- galcs and members while they were ere. It is said by officials in the Girl Scout movement in Washington that Mrs. Hoover knows hundreds of the girls by name and she is not averse to teaching them in the arts of garden- ning, using the hoe and rake with which to demonstrate her work when- ever necessary. Organizer of Kitchen Gardens. It was she who started the kitchen- garden movement during the World ‘War and made a small patch of ground a goodly part of the family income | during the days of food shortage and cconomy. /She instigated the gardens in Potomac Park and watched the imovement grow into great magnitude and become so popular that it is only in the last year or two that garden- ing is not carried on there and in other big parks of the Capital. Annually Mrs. Hoover presents the Eagle Scout badges, the highest honor t|in the gift of the organization, to the girls who win them, It is quite well known that Mrs, Hoover will not attempt to make a great Impression on the residents of the United States as a social light. She is not a society woman, and very few of her predecessors have been. She, like most of those who have held the ), cares fax more for AR real issues, and fo attach to intolerance an importance it did not deserve. He broke this policy of silence only on iso- lated occasions, once to repudiate, ve- humanity at large than in the mere tea-drinking and social-calling atmos- phere. She likes women and men who do_things worth while in life. However, in her social life she is faultless, being a generous hostess and presenting a charming hospitality that has never been exceeded in the cabinet circle in Washington. When cabinet Wednesday came around hundreds of visitors were wel- comed beside the great open fireplaces and at a tea table lald generously with dainties. California, her adopted State, always was represented—just as it will be in the White House—by the rarest fruits and flowers and other products of that State. Where tall, view-ob- structing baskets of flowers generally stand in the center of a banquet board, be it for dinner, tea or luncheon, on her table there always is a low, grace- fully shaped basket filled with luscious grapes, oranges, lemons, apples, plums and, in fact, all that the orchard pro- duces, and from the kitchen garden or farm lands golden color squashes and other bright hued products. It is probable that even the splendid Monroe gold mirror, used on the White House table for banquets of State, will reflect Just such a beautiful picture as this. Has Wealth of Beautiful Things. Mrs. Hoover will have a far greater wealth of beautiful and interesting things with which to adorn the pri- vate part of the White House than has any woman before her, unless perhaps Mrs. Taft. In her travels over the earth with Mr. Hoover she has ac- quired many lovely things, some of which she has purchased, while others have been presented to her by some grateful friend. That is what has made the Hoover home interesting to visitors all through their cabinet days here. In Mr. Hoover’s study is a splendid por- trait of the King of Belgium, suitably inscribed, and another object is a richly carved box of dark wood, serving as a safe place in which to keep the wor derfully embellished exprwfim of itude to Mr. Hoover of the Bel Degple, The Wording on the parchment UNDEAWOODo PHOTO iiemently, an appeal to religious pre}u- dice sent out over the signature of a Virginia national committeewoman and again, during the closing days of the campaign, to authorize a denial of a charge by the Governor of Mississippl intended to create race prejudice. Hoover Keeps Nerves Steady. Hoover learned to keep his temper, maintain steady nerves and stick to the duties before him by dint of long experience in the school of hard knocks. Orphaned at the age of seven, he was thrown on his own resources, in the care of Quaker relatives. He moved with them to the great Northwest be- fore he was in his 'teens and began to earn his own living at the age of 13. He worked in truck gardens near Portland, Oreg.; got a job as office boy at Salem, Oreg., and graduated to a clerkship in Portland. Young Hoover had become a thor- ough believer in the Quaker ideas about education. He aspired to attain a college degree. So he began attend- ing night school at Newburg, Oreg., and another night school at Salem, when he moved there to work. He had heard much of a new uni- versity being founded at Palo Alto by & man named Stanford. Opportunities were to be provided there for students to work .their way through the halls of learning. He made up his mind to go _to Stanford University. ‘When the university opened its doors, in yet uncompleted shape, in 1891, Herbert Hoover was enrolled as the first resident student in the boys' dormitory. ‘To pay his way through the engineer- ing course he established himself as the campus laundry man. He first demonstrated his capacities as a lead- er of men during his college days, becoming an outstanding figure of the student body. ‘Winner of Many Honorary Degrees. Four years from the date of his ma- triculation he received his first degree, B. A, in mining engineering. Today he is sald to be the possessor of more honorary college degrees than an other person in the world. Scan part of the contributors to the list: Brown, Penn- sylvania, Harvard, Yale, Columblia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, George Wash- ington, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Alabama, Mrs. Hoover One of the Capital’s Most Charming Hostesses is in Flemish, and rests on a richly embroidered pillow within the box—the needlework being that of Belgian chil- dren—the back of the pillow or cushion showing a flour sack with the big let- ters advertising the Oregon source of the product plainly visible whenever the pillow is reversed. From all around the world Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have brought such treasures, and while there is no needless bric-a-brac in their home, it is gay with reminders of their prow- ess in travel. “Tut” to Succeed “Rob Roy.” Accompanying them to the White | House will be the great German police dog Tut, who understands and takes care of his master just as the late Rob Roy loved and took care of Presi- Coolidge. There will be other dogs there, too, and cats and birds, of which there are always a number in the Hoo- ver home. Children in the White House have furnished many pages of interesting history, and from ‘the time Thomas Jefferson entertained his grandchildren there up to the present time many Httle ones have romped through the White House, and now the little granddaugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Peggy Ann, an Herbert 3d, their grandson, are to become the Nation's pets. They are the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Herber Clark Hoover, jr.—the former always called Pete by his father— and are with their parents in Cam- bridge, where at Harvard the young father is completing a course in busi- ness administration. It is for these babies that Mrs. Hoover is always knit- ting or embroidering something. Allen Hoover, the younger of the two sons of former Secretary and Mrs. Hoover, is 21, also of Stanford University, of which his parents and his brother grad- uated. Peggy Ann has achleved the age of 3 years, while her baby brother, the king of the nursery, is 9 months old. They are pretty and wholesome. f jHe organized ai PRESIDENT-ELECT FOLGHTHSWAY U Eight-Year-0ld Orphan Won Renown in Many Fields. Oberlin, Liege, Brussels, Warsaw, Cra- cow, Oxford, Manchester. He has some of them framed and hung along the | wall of the grand staircase at his home at 2300 S stzcet. His son, Allan, points out that one ascends the steps by de- | grees. Four years after graduation from Stanford University he returned from one of his early mining expeditions to the far corners of the world and married his college chum, Lou Henry, of Monterey. She has been his constant companion and helpmate ever since. Upon leaving college Hoover worked as a mine laborer in Grass Valley, Cali- fornia. He later landed a clerkship in the office of Louis Janin, leading min- ing engineer of the West He took that job not to learn clerking, but to learn the Janin methods of engineering. Janin was attracted to the diligent young college-bred clerk, and he final- iy made him an assistant to survey mining properties in New Mexico, Cali- fornia and Colorado. Able to Solve Big Problems. His demonstrated knack of grasping big problems and of devising means and organizations to solve them won him a bigger assignment. He went fo | West Australia to examine and manage mining properties there. It was upon his return to California from this suc- cessful mission that he took Lou Henry to the altar. She left with him for China, where he had been engaged os chief engineer of the Chinese bureau of mines. Hoover’s initial venture into the field of emergency relief came during his sojourn in China. The Boxer uprising caught him and Mrs. Hoover in Tientsin, ‘The foreign settlement was besieged with hostile troops. The settlement was raked with gunfire, beset on all sides by incendiarism. Hundreds fell around the Hoovers. Chief Engineer Hoover be- came the natural leader of the defense forces. In this capacity he established his first food-relief organization. The upheaval caused a cessation of all min- ing activities, and Hoover finally re- turned to California. He went back to China in 1901 and re-established vast | mining operations. From 1902 to 1907 he was a junior partner in an international engineering firm, with offices in London, New York, San Francisco and other parts of the world. Later he hung up his own shingle, and at the outbreak of the World War was the executive of con- cerns employing upward of 175,000 men. Record in World War Relief Work. The war found him in Europe, en- gaged in the task of arousing interest of foreign officlals in the Panama- Pacific Exposition to be held in San Francisco the following year. It also caught thousands of American citizens stranded without funds, because of the al in banking and the trans- upheav: portation crisis. ‘The vast tangle needed a cool head to unravel it. American officials in London turned unhesitatingly toward one man as being equal to the task. Herbert Hoover at once became head of the American relief committee, a creature of his faculty for organization. The story of his subsequent activities in war-torn Europe is familiar to every school child Suffice it to say that his Commission for Relief in Belgium was the first in- stitution- to control the feeding of an entire nation; that it administered aid to more than 5,000,000 destitute people; that in the five years of its existence it expended a billion and a half dol- lars without the loss of a dollar and with an average overhead expense of less than one-half of one per cent. ‘That commission has been perpetuated in the Commission for Relief in Bel- gium Education Foundation, of which Hoover is the chairman, and which has turned over $15,000,000 in surplus funds to the cause of Belgian education. Called Home by President. With the entry of America into the gzlt conflict, Hoover was called back ome by President Wilson to become United States - food adminiustrator. Again, it is unnecessary to detail his work in this capacity, for every man, woman and child came into contact with it during the war. He next created the United States Grain Corporation, to reg- ulate the supply of foodstuffs here and at the front. He organized the Sugar Equalization Board and purchased the entire sugar crop of Cuba to protect the American people from speculation. The scope of his operations in food re- H;!,;,rg-:trnged tlh:dpm’chm and sale of uffs valued at mo: o 000,000,000. S With the close of the war his ore ganizing abilities were even more in de- mand. At President Wilson's request he returned to Europe to survey the shambles. Millions of children were starving—and America had a surplus of food, left over from war preparations. He was made executive officer of the Supreme Economic Council, a joint al- lied committee. He established the American Relief Administration for the alleviation of destitution and suffering in Europe. More than 6,000,000 chil- dren were given assistance. Later this work was greatly extended to avert a faminé over the Winter of 1920-21. The work was expanded to include Rus- sia, where a million tons of food and medical supplies were provided. Appointed to Harding Cabinet. Hoover was appointed Secreta Commerce by President Harding in mfif He began ‘organizing and reorganiz- ing things there. Through a broad groirnm of co-operation with industry e helped to expand the Nation's for- elgn trade, launched a campaign for ;l:ggx&_x;lflon‘ ol' w;ame and furthered a m of standardizaf o racctured Lo ndardization of manu ‘ame the Mississippi flood and appointment by Presid_at (:ocmrd1 eh: head of a presldlen!l:l relief expedition. imost overnigh - ficlent relief army, uxingmfi.gez'::ux:é- work of te American Red Cross as a jnucleus. No lives were lost after this relief and rescue organization an functioning, and three-quarters b:’ a million people were fed and sheltered in v Was during the flood emerges that his name began to be mennorn'ndnqin connection with the presidency. Many of the refugees insisted on him “President Hoover,” under the_sincere conviction that he was the Nation's Chief Executive. Enthuslastic su) t- ers in the flood country sought v-lgfi‘y”m fete him as “the country’s next great leader.” To all of this Hoover turned a deaf ear. He was not on a political trip, but on a serious mission of relief. He let it be known that such overtures were exceedingly distasteful to him. Summoned to Higher Post. The ene whish ma- e e ich he had been ham- mering for himself, all unconsciously, was nearly ready. He foresaw the in- evitable, finally, ‘and not without some degree of satisfaction, either. But there was yet a missin, 10" reach: e tog. Camin Goal 0 reac! e 3 ‘alvin Cool jé sup- plied it wheno%e made his curt“ :g- rung in e & move nouncement that he did not choose to The courtship of the young Hoovers, | run, like that of his parents, started at Stan- ford, from which university they both tivel oradusted. Bist The rest of the way was compara- easy. Herbert Hoover had proved