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P RERLEGTS " FOUR DRECTOR iFrank B. Noyes Again Is | Named President of News | Organization. | By the Associated Press. NEW_YORK, April 23.—The Asso- ! ciated Press has re-elected four of its | | directors whose terms have expired and | chosen Frederick E.t‘b;‘llllrglr)ly of the | Minneapolis Tribune to e Vacancy on the g‘;recfarnle created by the death of H. V. Jones of the Minneapolis | Journal. The results of the election, held at the annual meeting of the news gather- ' ing organization at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, were announced today. | The directors re-elected were Frank ! B. Noyes, Washington Star; Adolph S.! Ochs, New York Times; B. H. Anthony, New Bedford (Mass.) Standard, and! Robert McLean, Philadelphia Bulletin. Officers Are Elected. 1 The board of directors elected the | following officers: President, Mr. Noves; | first vice president, Col. Robert Ewing, | New Orleans States; second vice presi- | dent, John Cowles, Des Moines Reg- ister; secretary, Kent Cooper; assistant secretary, Jackson S. Elliott; treasurer, J. R. Youatt. The following were elected members of the executive committee: Messrs. Noyes, Ochs, McLean and Anthony; Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution; E. H. Baker, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and E. Lansing Ray, St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat. Radio Question Discussed. ‘The Associated Press yesterday au- thorized its board of directors to make | a study of the problem of broadcasting | news dispatches of the organization and | Teport its findings at the 1930 meeting. | The question has aroused wide dic- cussion among the newspapers cc: prizing the association. Victor F. Ridder, speaking for the St. Paul Dis- | patch, recommended that the board of directors, in authorjzing chain broad- casting, be requested to eliminate sta- tions in cities where any member of ! the Associated Press objected. After a general discussion. Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer offered a substitute motion, calling for the board to study the ques- tion, and his resolution was adopted. The following were named members of the nominating committee for the | election yesterday: Chairman, W. Y.} Morgan, Hutchinson (Kan.) News-Her- ald; secretary, Henry Walzer, Hazleton Pa) Standard-Sentinel; Samuel E. Hudson, Woonsocket (R. 1) Call and Reporter: Frank H. Hitchcock, Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen; O. S. Warden, Great | Falls (Mont.) Tribune; John S. Cohen, Atlanta (Ga.) Journal; Curtis B. John- son, Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, and | Paul A. Martin, Lansing Journal. Auditing Committee Named. New members of the auditing commit- | tee were named as follows: Chairman, S. A. Perkins, Olympia (Wash.) Olym-‘ ian; secreta R. T. Bayne, Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune; Allison swne,‘ Providence (R. 1.) Bulletin, and Eman- uel Levi, Louisville (Ky.)Courier-Journal | and Times. President Hoover, who addressed the | members of the A clated Press at the luncheon yesterday, paid a tribute to Melville E. Stone before he began read- | ing his prepared address on law ob- servance and enforcement. Mr. Hoover | said: “Tt would be impossible for me to be | present with this association without | some word as to my great friend, Mel- | ville Stone. He was a great American. | “He has, in a large measure, con- tributed to the building of this institu- | tion, and through it he gave to our| country a great force of enlightenment | and of progress, and not the least of his | services was the establishment of this | institution and the foundations which | guarantee its continuance.’ PITCHED 29 STRIKERS IN TOILS Clash With Police, Breaking Up; Parade, Brings Situation at ! BATTLE PUTS; | | | Gastonia to Climax. the Associated Press. GASTONIA, N. C., April 23 —Twen- ty-nine strikers were under charges | today and a number were nursing in- Juries as a result of a pitched battle with policemen, which brought the textile mill strike here to a climax | yesterday. Special deputy sheriffs swung pistol butts and blackjacks vigorously to halt | an unlicensed parade organized in vio- lation of a recently passed city ord- inance prohibiting ~street demonstra- | tions without a permit. The 29, in- cluding 9 women, were arrested on charges ranging from blocking the side- | si walks to drunkenness. None was in- jured seriously, as the policemen broke up the parade, but Legette Blythe, a reporter for the Charlotte Observer, was knocked unconscious by | a deputy sheriff as he entered the strike Zone. Coincidently with the near-riot Gov. Max Gardner telegraphed State So- '‘licitor Carpenter to use every effort to discover and prosecute those responsi- ble for the destruction of labor union headquarters here last week. Gov. Gardner had just returned to the State and received an official report on the attack, which was conducted by a band of masked men. Meanwhile nearly 5,000 textile mill workers in six other communities of | North and South Carolina were-idle. | ‘Threat of an additional strike at the Calvin Mill of the Chadwick Hoskins chain had failed to materialize, although the employes voted Sunday night to demand the reinstatement of three members of the National Textile Workers’ Union who had been dis- charged. The Dacotah Mill, at Lexing- ton, N. C., had orders to reopen today, but in four South Carolina textile cen- ters the impasse between operatives and owners continued. ———— HOLY CROSS ALUMN HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET John M. Fox, 8. J; Charles Bowman Sirome Guests of Club. Rev. John M. Fox, S. J., president of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., and Charles Bowman Strome, executive Yecretary of the alumni association, were guests of the South Atlantic Holy Cross Club at its ahnual banquet in the Mayflower Hotel last night. These ex- ecutives from the college brought en- couraging news of the advancement of the collége along all lines and described in detail the development program which calls for a new dining hall dur- ing the coming year. The Washington alumni pledged themselves to raise its quota for the new building. Timothy F. Daly, attorney in the Vet- Rev. and | means either of enforcing it or amend- | the counsels of the powerful, when, in- | famous ‘second inafigural address has . Press Applauds Editorials View President as Law Enforcement, Citing THE EVENING STAR, v Hoover’s Speech Striking on Fundamentals of General Logic and Broad Appeal of Address Before A. P. Leaders. of the Ration before ess in Editorial comment fro:n some leading. daily newspapers of the on President Hoover's address the members of the Associated Pr New York City follows: THE NEW YORK TIMES. In saying yesterday that the enforce- ment oty'.h'e {lw is “the dominant lssue before the American people” President Hoover used a word not in its strict or ordinary political meaning. Law en- forcement is not an issue that divides parties. All parties, all sections of the country, write it in their platforms and emblazon it on their banners. Yet the President was accurate and justified in maintaining that the prevalence of crime in this country is a national dis- grace and a cause for deep l:uuonnl concern. Happily, Mr. Hoover's sense of proportion and balance prevented him from making the enforcement of the prohibition law the touchstone of Integrity. He saw the problem of Amer- jcan criminality steadily and saw it whole. Crimes connected with prohibi- tion are but a minor part of the total. He asserted his determination to ap- point with care and delibergtion a crime commission of the very“highest competence and caliber. It is a long and arduous task which he is to lay, | in the first place, upon his crime com- | mission. But the country will feel all | the time tm(x!he“m,sldenl is headed | in the right direction. Most l‘t‘lmelv and reassuring is hu{ statement that he will not permit Fed- eral agents to violate one law in order to secure possible convictions for viola- tion of another. NEW YORK WORLD. In his address at the Associated Press nncheon yesterday Mr. Hoover discussed the problem of crime and lawlessness | in the United States and the derellctloqe. of those “otherwise responsible citizens’ who disobey the Volstead act. It is the; duty of a President to insist that all | Jaws have the same standing and that all must be obeyed, except, perhaps, those laws which have become complete- ly dead letters, like the fourteenth and | fifteenth amendments. But we doubt | whether the “otherwise responsible citi- zens” who break the Volstead act feel | themselves any less responsible on this | unt. fl(‘fi) has been our own belief that if Mr. Hoover wished to deal with that specific part of the problem of increasing crime and lawlessness which is relatively new and which has followed in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to enforce pro- hibition, he couid best achieve his pur- pose not by bracketing prohibition under | a broad inquiry imto crime and lawless- | ness in general, but by instituting a| separate and special investigation into | the breakdown of the law and the best ing it. This opinion we still hold. NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE. Mr. Hoover performed a public serv- | ice in stressing the war against crime in his important address to the Asso- ciated Press. Judges, bar associations, State commissions have been active in dvocating measures of reform calcu- | lated to make the punishment of crime | swifter and surer. A Nation-wide cam- | paign has been under way for a num- | ber of years, If results have been mea- ger the effort has been great and the vigorous support of Mr. Hoover comes | as a welcome aid. His speech will go far to hearten every agency that h'.ls‘ been laboring toward & reform of our | judicial system in respect to the pun- ishment of crime. The general logic and the broad ap- peal of the speech are unassailable. Mr. Hoover used strong language in declaring that “a national necessity of the first degree” was involved and that the country was suffering not “from an ephemeral crime wave, but from a subsidence of our foundations.” the post-war years have unquestionably | accentuated old American tendencies | toward lawlessness, The time has plain- | ly come for plain speaking and vig-| orous action. In any long view of American law- lessness the passage of the eighteenth amendment must be taken as marking an abrupt turn for the worse. It is true that lawlessness is no new story in America. Rather does it date from pioneer days and the confusions of & comparatively new ecountry. The structure of our Federal system | has made for a maximum of legislation ‘ and & minimum of obedience to law. The mills of 48 State Legislatures and | of Congress have ground out a mass of laws beyond any citizen’s understand- | ing. let alone following. The American | citizen discriminates between laws be- cause he has to. ALBANY KNICKERBOCKER PRESS. The President’s statement of the case should arrest the attention of the coun- try. The time and the occasion for his plain talk to the citizenship of the Na- tion were such as to make his words the more impressive. It must be clear to thoughtful people everywhere that there was need for a restatement of fundamentals, particularly in view of the fact that, to & considerable extent, Jaw enforcement is being winked at in | . it is not encouraged. In such a Y s need for the voice of high_authority, the call of stern com- mand which will scatter illusions en- gendered by indolent self-indulgence, and make the citizen see and recognize his duty in its true and exact propor- tions. sty BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS. What Mr. Hoover did not discuss was the American habit of curing a thing by passing a law against it and assum- ing that thereby the thing has been cured, and, secondly, Mr. Hoover did not bring into his discussion the very important fact that no law is ever stronger than the strength of public opinion and support behind it. These two things, taken together, will account for much of the condition to which Me: Hoover turned his attention. So long as that doubt exists the present confu- sion will continue. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. The President dispels oné illusion, altogether too commonly held, that the term law enforcement applies mainly to prohibition. It is evident that in this address the President is laving the groundwork for practical action. He will soon appoint his commission to investigate existing agencies of en- forcement and to reorganize the Federal system in such a manner as to elimi- nate its weaknesses. There will be noth sensational about the move- ment for reform. If will be carried out week by week, month by month and year by year until the day comes when the criminal will no longer be ac- corded more sympathy than the family of the man he has robbed or murdered. But everybody will ‘agree with Mr. Hoover that we gre no wactually con- fronted by a national pecessity of the first degree—that of stamping out law- lessness in this country. X BOSTON HERALD. A quotation from Lincon on “Rever- ence for the Laws’ was the natural climax and conclusion of Mr. Hoover's speech yesterday, for not since the the President spoken to the people on a problem of domestic policy more pas- sionately. No orthodox Quaker was speaking and no hard-boiled engineer. A spirit moved the Quaker and he be- erans’ Bureau, was re-elected president; George Hughes vice president, John Sheehan secretary-treasurer and Harry Kane, Will P.. Kennedy and John A. Cummings executive committee. Kane, a Washington attorney, was toastmaster, and speeches were made by Daly, Robert Gallery, Kennedy. George Hughes, William E. Leahy and Mariin -J. McNamara. ‘Thomas * /Q'Conmell of Richmond dent e the club, presided wj the plano g of the collegs' sopgs. came a C! r. There is no possible | misunderstanding of his mood and his | intention. RICHMOND WA.‘lles- DISPATC] President Hoover in his address yes- texday before the annual luncheon of ¢h» Associated Press-aligned himself His excellency has made it plein that his survey of prohibition will have to do only with the mechanics of prohibi- tion. His investigators will not search for possible weaknesses in the law. This, in the opinion of the Times-Dis- patch, is a short-sighted policy. If we are to cope with crime problem we must discover the sources of erime and dam those sources, if possible, GALVESTON (TEX.) NEWS, For the most part, President Hoover's address is simply & conventional ser- mon on respect for law. It is saved from utter futility, however, by his evident recognition that the machinery of law enforcement needs overhauling, and by his equally evident determina- tion to do all in his power to see that it is overhauled. His 'description of conditions is pitilessly frank, but it is doubtful if he is at all clear in his own mind as to the contributing causes. He is obviously anxious to avold over- emphasizing prohibition, CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER. As long as attention of the American people shall be concentrated” on viola- tlons of laws fabricated to strait- Jjacket their habits, it will be turned rom murder and other acts repugnant to the conscifces of normal men. The President forgets that the people are allowed to think of but little except the eighteenth amendment and other prlo}lnlbl;ed oatnr:luct deriving criminality solely from the voting of a majority. The President’s crusade will sf:ccee‘:i when attacks shall be confined to those whom all good citizens look on as criminals. In his appeal to the press the President joins in the confession of prohibitionists that what they have attempted by coercion can be effected only through persuasion. Meanwhile, | as good citizens as the President him- | self are rebels against coercion. BALTIMORE SUN. Mr. Hoover will find dissent in no quarter to the general tenor of his ap- peal. - He will find, however, grave doubt as to whether a militant public senti-, ment for law observance can be aroused when almost the whole attention of the | Government s concentrated on efforts to make one particular law effective, and ‘when he tries, to ignore the fact that this law runs counter to the habits; morals and sentiment of so large a pro- g;mun of the American people. The esident has opportunity to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos by having his proposed survey of law en- forcement directed to the question whether the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act are devised to pro- mote the cause of temperance, whether they have imposed any impossible task | upon the Government and whether the | conditions for which they are respon- | sible do not justify resort to some other meihod of approach to the ends they seek, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. President Hoover in his address be- fore the annual luncheon of the Asso- ciated Press at New York gave such ex- pression as to law enforcement as should | invite to him the increasing respect and confidence of this people. He very clearly called not for the enforcement of a single law, but for the legitimate enforcement of all laws. He properly holds that law should b» observed and must be enforced until it is repealed by the proper processes of our democracy. There can be no gain- saying the President’s contentions; they are fundamental, ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. Mr. Hoover stated the proposition with great force. His plan for a national | commission to inquire into every phase | of law violation and its origins and | sources must be taken more seriously | than heretofore. Conducted as he ap- parently would like to have it conducted, it might revolutionize the popular atti- | tude of sufferance as well as bring to light promising new expedients in crime prevention. PORTLAND OREGONIAN. ‘The President's summary of the car- dinal need is faultless. it is again a reminder, however, of the legal axiom that they who seek equity must do equity. The bootlegger does not expect protection of law from the hijacker. It is & curious paradox, though, that the citizen who patronizes the bootlegger and so doing makes the latter's exist-' ence possible counts on forces of law to guard him against highwaymen, bur- glars, embezzlers and thieves. The President is at pains to point out that penalties directly traceable to the eighteenth amendment, while they have | increased the apparent sum total of of- | fenses, constitute the bone segments of the problem. P CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER. No stronger appeal for respect for law has come from high public office in years than that embodied in Mr. Hoo- ver's address yesterday at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in New York. The President does not exagger- ate the need for a new consecration to law obedience; a fresh realization of the peril that besets any people which looks lightly on this pyime obligation of citizenship. We welcome the Hoover leadership in this, as we welcome the President’s assurance that under his ' administration the Government will not follow a method this newspaper has sometimes found occasion to condemn— that of “violating the law itself through misuse of the law in its enforcement.” INDIANAPOLIS STAR. The situation undoubfedly is as bad as the President has painted. If the crime record of this Nation compared with that in other countries is a dis- grace to us it is a reflection' on our ability to cope with the criminal ele- ment that violates our laws. It is a reflection on the intelligence of those who make our laws, for undoubtedly much of the lack of regard for law on the part of otherwise conscientious citi- zens is due to realization that too much on our statute books hds little inherent claim to respect except as law. We not only should have greater efficiency in the courts—more law enforcement, but fewer laws that require enforcement and more that will command observ- ance. The need is for action that will avpeal to the average respectable citi- zen, CUBAN OPIUM SMUGGLING INVOLVES HIGH NAMES Customs "Official at Havana and Two Army Officers Accused in $60,000 Plot. By the Associated Press, HAVANA, April 23—A $60,000 opium smuggling plot involving the names of two, Cuban army officers, a customs of- ficial and eight other promin per- sons was revealed yesterday by Lieut. Miguel Calvo of the Havana secret po- lice. Acting on Calvo's charges, Judge Saladrigas the arrest of Paul Godoy, customs employe; Lieut. Herres and Larrubia of the national army and their alleged accomplices. Lieut. Calvo's statement said an opium shipment weighing 500 ds, purchased in Paris several months ago, :uuod through the customs house y loy. Friction i the muhu-e-s ring de- veloped and Calvo charge the two army officers had intervened in the dis. pute to tleir own advantage. ‘e J The national ba¥ of Peru. and 4s one of the on the side ¢f those Americans who do ot believe that the eighteenth amend- | oldest the underlying cause of in- ment is creased crime ih the United States. Bolivia is chicha, whicl _prob- fermented’ the mead o our Saxon and ancestorty IEDITORS ARE URGED T BAN PUBLICITY Bureau of Advertising Raps Practice of “Giving Away” Space in Papers. The willingness of newspaper editors to give away space for free publicity Was censured by the committee in charge of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, which held its annual meeting yesterday and published its six- teenth annual report, in which the sig- nificance of this practice as an obstacle to the sale of pald newspaper adver- tising was stressed. “Newspaper editors,” the committee’s report reads, “have unconsciously set up a competition with newspaper adver- tising solicitors. This is particularly acute in the cases of certain assocla- tional advertisers whose advisers make up a program of ‘special articles’ for newspapers and pald space for other less generous mediums. Situation Up to Publishers. “Your committee feels the solution of the free publicity problem is in the hands of the newspapers themselves. As long as space is free, there will be persons eager to take it. As long as editors give away their columns to ad- vertisements that are dressed up to look like news, the free publicity flood will continue to flow to our-offices. “We have only one suggestion as to how free publicily can be stopped. Let editors refuse to print it.” ‘The two outstanding achievements of the bureau's research department, ac- cording to the reporting committee headed by Fleming Newbold of The Washington Star, were the creation and distribution of the standard market survey form, offering to newspapers a brief and simple plan for the presenta- tion of market data most commonly wanled by advertisers, and a survey en- titled “A Study of the Market Possi- bilities of Those Counties in Which Daily Newspapers Are Published,” demon- | strating the significance of the bureau’s contention that “where there is a daily newspaper there is a market.” Avallable for All Papers. “The standard market survey form,” says the report, “was made available for all newspapers, whether members of the Bureau of Advertising or the American Newspaper Publishers’ Asso- ciation or not. As this report is writ- ten more than 300 newspapers have agreed to make the survey and the bu- reau has on hand about 60 completed surveys from as many markets, “'Advertisers and advertising agencles have welocmed the standard form with | an unusual degree of enthusiasm. The | bureau recelves many inquiries asking | for the names of newspapers making the surveys.” “Since it promises to mean much to | the future development of newspaper | advertising, the standard survey form | Is recommended to the thoughtful con- | sideration of all newspapers.” ! Referring to the bureau’s county sur- | vey. which revealed that the areas ab- sorbing the bulk of newspaper circula- | tions represented most of the “buying | power” of the county, the report ex- Pplains that “first it shows that the daily newspaper alone is a market index, and second, it shows how the daily newspa- per actually covers each desirable mar- ket and is not merely represented in that market by circulation figures that bear a similarity to the number of in- | come taxpayers, telephone users, auto- | moblle owners and the like.” Invites Careful Study. “In other words, this county survey which is {llustrated with maps of all the States, proves conclusively that every market supporting s daily news- | paper invites the careful study of most national advertisers.” ‘The commliftee reported that the vol- ume of national advertising in 1928 had been well maintained, bureau estimates | showing a slight increase in revenue | over 1927, and pointing to the probabil- ity of a new high record in 1929, Classifications covered by thie bureau estimates that showed an increase in newspaper advertising expenditures in | 1928 over 1927 were manufacturers of automobiles, foods, radios and phono- graphs, gasoline and motor olls, tires, building materials. pluinbing and heat- ing supplies, paints and hardware, toi- let goods, soaps and cleansers, electrical apoliances, furniture and furnishings, railroads and steamships and wearing apparel. Five Show Decrease. Losses were indicated in the follow- ing lines: Cigarettes, automotive ac- cessorles, druggists’ sundries, financial and soft drinks. The committee appointed at the close of the 1928 convention follows: Flem- ing Newbold of The Washington Star, | chairman; Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, vice chairman; Howard Davis of the New York Herald Tribune, treasurer; Charles D. Atkinson of the Atlanta Journal, Frank H. Burgess of the La Crosse Tribune, William J, Hof- man of the Portland Oregonian, F. I. Ker of the Hamilton Spectator, Col. | Frank Knox of the Hearst newspapers, | John S. McCarrens of the Cleveland | Plain Dealer, W. E. Macfarlane of the | Chicago Tribune, David B. Plum of the ‘Troy Record, William F. Rogers of the Boston Transcript, Walter E. Strong of the Chicago Dally News, S. E. Thomp- son of the Tampa Tribune and Louis ,Wiley of the New York Timesg, S TS ARMY AVIATOR AWARDED HONOR FOR ACT OF VALOR| War Secretary Delivers to Lieut. Ent $500 Cash, Bronze Plaque and Mgkit Certificate. Formal presentation to Lieut. Uzall G. Ent, Army Air Corps, of the Cheney award for the outstanding act of valor and self-sacrifice on the part of an Air Corps officer in 1928 was made by Secretary of War Good yesterday afternoon. The award consists of $500 in cash, a bronze plaque and a certificate of award. The award was made as & result of Lieut. Ent's effort to rescue the pilot of an Army balloon entered in the national elimination balloon race, which started from Pittsburgh last ay. MT);le balloon in which Lieut. Ent was observer was struck by lightning, and the pilot, Lieut. Paul Evert, was in- stantly killed. Not knowing that his wmpanion was dead, Lieut. Ent, although temporarily paralyzed, strug- gled to bring the balloon to the ground when he might have escaped by jump- ing with his parachite. . C, TUESDAY, APRIT 2 WHEN THE PRESIDENT EXPRESSED HIS VIEWS ON CRIME President Hoover shown before the microphones as he delivered his first public address since inauguration at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York, yesterday. Upper: Associated Press executives Cooper, general manager; W. J. Pape of Frank B. Noyes of Washington, D. C., at the luncheon. Left to right: Kent ‘Waterbury, Conn., first vice president; president; Col. Robert Ewing of New Orleans, second vice president, and Jackson S. Elliott, assistant general manager. —Associated Press Photos. HODVER'S APPEAL COVERS ALL LAWS Fresident Sweeps Local and Statg Enactments Into Enforcement Drive. By the Associated Press. President Hoover has reached out and swept State and local as well as Fed- | cral enactments into the already broad | compass of his law enforcement cam- | paign. | In doing so, he has stated that the | enforcement of those laws concern the | President of the United States both as a citizen and as one upon whom rests | the primary responsibility of leadersmp‘ for the establishment of standards ly, law enforcement in the Nation. | In employing the language in his address yesterday at the annual lunch- eon of the Associated Press in New York | City, Mr. Hoover makes it clear that one of his purposes is to give assistance to crime commissions in the several | States which long have been studying | methods of reducing crime through im- | provement of both the judicial and en- | forcement systems. Went Further Than in Inaugural. To this extent, at least, he went fur- ther than he did in his inaugural ad- | dress, the keynote of which was law enforcement. His belief is that the States themselves can assist materiall in the general movement for suppression of the crime wave which i¢ giving him | more concern than any other problem | before the country. | His own appeal to the conscience of America for law observance has been accompanied by a statement of the pur- | pose of the administration to strengihen | its law enforcement agencies by steady | pressure exerted day by day with a constant if undramatic persistence. There were two things in this state- | meht which has attracted more than passing interest in political Washing- | ton. One was the declaration for the weeding out of all incapable and neg- ligent officers no matter what their status. This process already has been started in the case of district attor- neys and there is conjecture as to the extent of changes that may be made over the country. Attitude to Be Checked. ‘The other was the promise of the most rigid scrutiny not only of the rec- ords of all persons suggested for of ficial appointment in the entire law enforcement machinery, but also a check of their attitude toward the en- forcement of all law, which, of course, includes the eighteenth amendment. It is evident that Mr. Hoover has set | l For eorrect time tune in on Station WMAL at 7:30 P.M. each evening. During the day telephons Franklin 869 JEWELERS DIAMONDS ¥ Other Precious Stones Members of Amsterdam Diamond Exchange 3 @FO ‘ahn Thirty-st3 | ism of the National Government. 7935 F Street himself the task of conducting a cam- paign to awaken the moral sense of the people on the whole subject of law | | enforcement so as to enlist public un- | derstanding and public support for the work which his*national commission is to undertake. The President has been giving study to the-personnel of this commission for weeks, but it probably will be some time before he finally settles upon the men | who are to undertake such a gigantic | task as that looking to reorganization of the whole law enforcement mechan- | | Borah Echoes Plea. | © The plea of President Hoover for law énforcement was echoed in Washington by Senator Borah of Idaho. H “The President states in_plain, posi- tive terms.” said Senator Borah, “cer- tain vital principles of a government by | law. Few will disagree with the prin- ciples stated. Nevertheless, the situa- | tion is such that it becomes necessary | to organize the Nation for their preser- | vation and enforcement. Nothing could | better fllustrate the importance of the ! work to be done. It is that kind of a | task that ough, and I believe will, en- | gage the interests of all good citizens. “We must. if we are to continue a | government of law, realize that the way to get rid of laws we do not like is to | repeal them. That, every citizen has a right to advocate. While the law is there we must respect it and en{orce; Sy | A new metal employed in automobile | motors is lighter than iron and tougher, | so that cylinders of it would not have to be rebored so often. — Concrete Delivered —in our TRANSIT MIXER TRUCKS—speeds up your work and saves you all your mixer troubles. A Better Conerete for Less Money Maloney Paving Co., Inc. 3117 K St. N.w. e N 8l ——[al—xsa[o[e——a|o—xa]a|——a|nl——i=l5] \\_Phone West 1330 New Sheet Meta! WRNTORS 7 3 BRANCHES () 6°C Sts SW 574 Fla e NE ROKBTTOM PRIEES ) 5921 Ga AveNW PLATINUMSMITHS h;.& at . | SPEECH RESPONSE PLEASES HOOVER Flood of Congratulatory Mes- | sages Pours Into White House From Nation. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. | President Hoover today was highly | pleased at the early response to the | | speech he made yesterday at the As-| sociated Press luncheon in New York, in | which he so strongly and feelingly ap- | pealed to the Nation for the enforce- ment of and obedience to the laws of this country. Although it was too soon to measure definitely the far-reaching impression | of the speech, the first public address | he has made since becoming President, | the quantity of telegrams and other messages of congratulation received at | | the White House last night and today | | were sufficient to indicate that Mr. | Hoover had struck a responsive chord | | 2nd that his words had been well re- | | ceived generally throughout the land. All Sections Send Praise. | These congratulatory messages were | | not confined to any one section of the | | country or to any ‘class of individuals. | They came from strangers as well as |friends. While the President referred {to the enforcement of the prohibition | |laws as being only incidental to the | | whole subject of law enforcement, mes- | | sages of commendation were received by | {him from dry leaders and from some | | classed as wets because of their advo- | |cacy of a liberalization of the liquor | | enforcement laws. | { These evidences of approval continued v when the President entered upon | schedule of engagements. The | | {on the same subject. and those about him at the White House considered his elation over met:gech of his speech as being war- ranf 3 The impression was gained those who accompanied the Preslden‘:’an his speech-1aaking trip yesterday that he Was more eager to see the reaction to it than he was to his inaugural ad- dress or the letter last Sunday to Sen- ator McNary, chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, in which he de- nounced the export debenture plan of agricultural relief as being economically unsound. ; Just a Beginning of Drive. ‘The impression was gained on the trip also that the President’s appeal yester- day for enforcement is just the start of a definite policy he is to follow persistently throughout his administra- tion. He has left no doubt in the minds of many that he has entered a crusade and that he proposes to see it through, regardless of any political consequences that might develop. The President gave the impression to the newspaper correspondents that this speech on lawlessness and the need for better enforcement is to be followed Wwith other addresses from time to time In other words, the President looks upon law erforce- ment as the dominant issue before the American people and as his own most vital task as President, and that he is going to take advantage of every real opportunity to train his guns. Commission Held Important. Moreover, President Hoover's first gun in his campaign for enforcement has indicated that he attaches the greatest importance to the law enforcement com- mission he is to appoint shortly to in- vestigate the entire system of Federal jurisprudence, and that when the com- mission finally is appointed it will be composed only of persons who are com- {)j;:nt to make this investigation for The President is known to have re- ferred yesterday's speech to a number of his intimates and others for whose opin- ions he has a high regard before he sent. it to the printer. He also is known to have conferred with such men as Chief Justice Taft as to the law en- forcement problem in its entity. The President delivered yesterday's speech probably with more ease and self-confidence than any he has made. He spoke slowly and clearly. He ap- peared touched at the occasional bursts of handclapping during his address. and at the end, when he was cheered for several minutes, Trip Is Without Incident. The President’s special train made the trip to and from New York without incident. He permitted the train offi- clals to speed a little ahead of the schedule. Mrs. Hoover and her uncle, William Henry, who accompanied him to New York, remained over in New York for | several hours after the President's de- parture. It was nearly midnight when Mrs. Hoover and Mr. Henry, who is 82 years old, arrived at the White House. On the journey to New York yester- day the President occupied his time principally by talking with Mrs. Hoover and Senator Allen of Kansas and by dictating letters to Miss Anne Shankey, his personal stenographer. On the re- turn trip to Washington he was alone most of the time and interested him- self by reading newspapers, magazines and a book. The President made few engagements today, 1t being the day for his bi-wee! cabinet meeting. 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