Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 4

* HURDLING POLITICS | - HOOVER'SBIGTEST Clash Between His Desire to| Get Results and Conflict- ing Interests Seen. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | What kind of an administration will Herbert Hoover give the country? This question is being asked with the idea that his experience as head of the | Department of Commerce Will furnish | some answer to the query. | First of all, evervbody here recognizes | that politics will be Mr. Hoover’s most | difficult. hurdle; that if 1t were not for political considerations he would re- | organize the governmental machine: make & start on many needed revision: of old-fashioned practice and generally | attempt to advance the economic far- tunes of the country by greater co- operation between the Government and | business. Politics Deep Seated. But politics is ingrained in Congress | and in the very system which g Mr. Hoover his enormous popular vote Politics _has become as much the responsibility and w in his dealings with Congress as any- thing else the Chief Executive has to do. Mr. Harding knew politics, because he came to the White House after hav- | ing been elected to office and gone through local campaigns. Calvin Cool- | idge knew politics from the ground up. having dealt with political psychology all his life in Massachusetts. But this is the first elective office Mr. Hoover has ever held—the first time in his! career that he finds himself beholden to | an organization of political managers, Unfortunately for him, and perhaps for the strictly political elements, the pre-convention campaign deveioped some sores. Mr. Hoover was fought by some of the regular organizations. Com= peting with them were Hoover organ- izations, containing again some poli- ticians who had been fighting the local Tegulars. ‘Which, then, should Mr. Hoover rec- ognize now? Would it be the Hilles faction in New York or the group in which Ogden Mills was conspicuous. Should it be the Goodrich group in In- diana, who were for Hoover originally, or the Watson element, which fought him? While it is true that all regu- lars got back of the Hoover campaign whole-heartedly once he was nominated, the question which deserves recogni- tion is usually brought up just the same 3 wheu:l it comes time to make appoint- ments. ‘Wilson Task Recalled. Woodrow Wilson had a task some- | what analogous. He had been fought by the regular Democratic State or- ganizations who favored Champ Clark in the preconvention campaign of 1912 and the original Wilson men in several States later reminded bim of this. At first Mr. Wilson stuck with the latter group, but found that the regular State organizations comprised = members of Congress whose support was essential to his program. Later he began to lean lol; t‘l'!l‘eel':gluklll% w&llene: 'nréglnl'cd much of itude” leveled at ‘Wilson in_politics. T s If Mr. Hoover could organize a divi- sion of politics and put some practical : '!‘mnd‘lb work in it and could say, i “Here’s just another problem, work it out for the best interests of all con- cerned and give me your recommenda- tion,” he would Mfi a load from his mind, but might ... escape the conse- quences which are after all personal in their effect on the party leader. Mr. Hoover's forte is co-operation. His mind doesn’t run toward the politi- llustration of this was given during the campaign. He was restive under the implications of the religious issue, He ¢ thought it had no business in a cam- 4 paign. His instinct was to get rid of it. Desired to Co-Operate. “Now. if T could co-operate with Gov. Smith on that,” he began in a conver- sation with the writer and then he stopped. For he realized that co-oper- ation with the opposing side in a cam- Ppaign isn’t possible. Yet it illustrates to a certain extent that the Hoover mind isn't consciously partisan. Were it not a difficult thing to explain to party leaders he would mr;y rgxi‘a D‘en‘;locnt in his cabinet. ye! recognition of th Wl;l ey glving him their elec- roadly speaking, the futu administration will be an emr:hfl?:':x: $ amnm problems and his success will 3 ’:nmmd bymfl;e ‘l;l:d of co-opera- own litical {riends give him. The men wh:o helped { to elect him can make his job harder by demanding the impossible. Public opinion” helped Wilson in his early struggles with Congress. It helped Roosevelt. It’s the only thing that will help Hoover meet the demands of prac- tical politics, as expressed in Congress. (Copyright. 1928.) . FIRM FORFEITS $100. 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Harris, 210 Indiana he Peace Monument to the Treasury to —Star Staff Photo. PREQ"]EN]- HEARS |BREAKS CORTEGE; FINED.| (%) :Autoist Tel;guurt He Failed to| LEGION'S PROGRAM McNutt, Here, Specially Urges | War Emergency Draft Legislation. . By the Associated Press. Paul V. McNutt, national commander | of the American Legion, called upon President Coolidge at the White House today to discuss the Legion’s national legislative program. McNutt vigorously urged the advisa- bility of taking steps to assure universal | draft lcgislation for war emergency. Asks Cruiser Bill Approval. Other recommendations in the pro- gram submitted to Mr. Coolidge were the indorsement of the pending scout of 2,750 new hospital beds costing $10,- 000,000, maintenance of the full naval ratio under the Washington treaty, es- tablishment of a separate Bureau of Aeronautics and of a single Depart- ment ‘of National Defense, indorse- ment of the principles expressed in the multilateral anti-war treaty, but emphasizing that the Legion does not consider such a covenant as a full guarantee of peace; approval of the re- strictive features of the present immi- gration act, and recommending that veterans and their immediate relatives be allowed a non-quota status. In addition the program indorsed 20 amendments to existing disabled veterans legislation and reaffirmed the Legion’s approval of the national de- fense act for the Army, besides urging the creation of a Senate veterans com- mittee. Thinks Executive Sympathetic. dr. McNutt, after his conference viih Mr. Coolidge, said that the Chief Executive appeared sympathetically in- clined on the whole toward the Legion’s program. Regarding the pro- posal for universal draft legislation, which'Mr. McNutt said would be made the chief object of Legion activities during his tenure of office, Mr. Coolfige still maintains his previous position of keeping an open mind on the subject, A PLANNING TO HONOR WORLD WAR WOMEN A memorial column to commemorate the appreciation by the Regular Army of the services and sacrifices made by the women of the United States during the World War is to be installed in the Memorial Building, now under con- struction on_E street between Seven-| teenth and Eighteenth streets os anan- | nex to the building on Seventeenth | street between D and E streets, dedi-| cated to the memory of the Heroic| ‘Women of the Civil War and used as headquarters of the American Red| | Cross. A board of Army officers was ap- | pointed by the Secretary of War today to investigate and recommend the se- lection of the memorial column and also determine upon a suitable inscrip- tion to be cut on the column. The board consists of Maj. Joseph C. Me- hafly, Corps of Engineers; Maj. Eugene W. Fales, General Staff Corps, and Maj. Livingston Watrous, Adjutant General’s Department. Maj. Mehaffy is assist- ing Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant in the con- struction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, and the two other officers are on duty in the War Department. The board has been instructed to confer and co-operate with Miss Mabel T. Boardman of this city, secretary of the memorial fund committe¢ of the Ameri- can Red Cross, in the execution of their orders relating to the proposed memo- rial column. 4250 he Big Clock See Funeral Procession. Although released on $5 collateral for running through a funeral procession yesterday, Freeman H. 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