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i g e e Hoover’s Name Placed in Lists By His Old Friend, John L. McNab Californian Makes Enthusiastic Speech of Commenda- tion in Presenting Commerce Secretary for Nomination. Kansas City, June 15 (AP)—Appealing to the republican convention to choose “America’s greatest administrator in hu- man welfare” as nominee, John L. McNah, a California friend, last night placed the name of Herbert Hoover hefore the assembled delegates. He spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman, ladirs and gentle- | lican j than turn to o men of the convention: [ ople ar ou California’s delegation, elocted Ly 1aiths. GUKO0Y voters in an unconte 1 carry for B primary, presents to vou for the|cics of a great presidency of the United States | Party of Achievement Amserica’s greatest administrator | This historic party of achieye- human welfare—Herbert Hoove | ment never has been able 1o suiy The united Pacific coust str mit to the Amer ple a great- into this convention to declare lim €I rec it nan ac- its choice. And from the great fa {tion than the linin ration of Cal- ing states of the Mississippi valley |y the construc- | they come—these voices of the bal lot, ehosen in preferential primari —to announce him the overwhelm ing choice of the nation’s clectorat From the state of rugged old New England; from almost unbroken tration crhert Hoover 15 4 vital and intimate pant History will not everlook the f that the execution of the gre Y measures of rom its inc t min- Atlantic seaboar, north and |istration have been con by south alike they > thr the President to his scoretary of | this convention h hcar commeres mandate of the p. . It is to the| o has been to lis chief people themselves we must fer a loyal icvoted aide, a give ear this day. Their voice is the powerful 1 understands nd, dominant voice of America. 1 never fa z porter in 3 his < The End of the War | constructive actions. The end of the great war has re- | story of his life is an epic of leaged forces no man can measure, | n achi ment. Descended 014 political faiths have been shak- | fron: seven sene rations of American en to their foundations. Millions of | ancestry hi career is a living ex young men grown to manhood since |ample of the heights to which pure | the signing of the armistice. They | Americanism, by sustained effort are independent, thinking men. ' devotion, h They live in the present. Their de. At 1} death took mand is for a greater and finer | his father from heside the forge fn state of low ensateéd in the America—an America of widened | th opportunities and greater hope for | cou That loss was hich fol- the common man. {lowed for he was in the They are on the march today, sweet and tolerant tmosphere of and the political party that fails to |an American Quaker hom heed their voices is headed for dis-| The spirit of forbearance and pa- aster. Beside thern march the mil- : hich has marked his careetr lions who make up the womanhood | through life was bred in him of America. Let no politician fail | those w ded the steps of his to heed the tremendous power of | infancy. that spiritual force upon the affairs | His Public Life of today. Thdt Womanhood, too, is| He emereed into public life in in the march beside its sons who | the first class of engineers to leave have grown to manhood’s state. Stanford University. With pick in Their falth and prayers are fixed |hand he worked as a common la- on him. And shall we dash their |borer in the drifts of the old May-. hopes- and ignore their appeals? tlower mine in California, Ther Better, is it not, that this .mighty |were laid the foundations of that force for human betterment should | enduring sympatly he always has find its abiding home in the Repub- 'shown for the laboring man. But he The Newest Dymamie Speaker Giving Marvelous Tone. 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Hore indeed was cause | products. To him is due the early | had telegraph lines that called for all the spirituality | opening of the blockade on Ger- {and vision of mun, | many. Had it not been for his pres- He heard the old cry that for over | tige and his genius of persuasion istrator with a spirit of prophecy to saw its richest possessions go un- foresce the impending tragedy could der the deluge. To whom should the president turn in such an hour of crisis? To whom but to the man whose All the world knows his public service, but only the few under- stand his graciousness and kindli- ness as a human being. He is no supcr-man in private life. He loves his friends. He likes to laugh and play. And now we dedicate this man to he [a greater public serviee. strung, food-| Iis nomination will kindle a tuffs moving, and the noble and |brighter faith in the breasts of all splendid leaders of the south, most | who love America and wish to keep of whom were of a political faith | her a living symbol of the world's his native land. |a hundred years has rung out over | the doors of Europe would have [not his own, from New Orleans, to|best hope. . {the waters of an angry sea—‘wo- | been locked to the product of our Memphis, organized for instant ser- Three quarters of a century ago men and children first.” He heard |fields and American agriculture i\xco, the Republican party emerged from would have crashed beyond all hope chil. | of recovery. gratitude of unnumbered Americans r friend nor foe. | Herbert Hoover believes that|yhose stalwart faith has led them 'd innocence knew | the natiom owes a special responsi- | through the retreating waters to AMillions knocked at | bility to agriculture as one of the jbuild their homes once more beside great basic industries upon which | (ne great lagoons. our happiness and prosperity re If the American people a quarter "hr— cry and answered. In the pres. This work has won for him the jence of gaunt and tottering dren he knew neit | To him. hunger jno nationality. {hunger’s gate, To organize relief; to secure the haze of history. Its leader was John C. Fremont, the pathfinder of Caliternia, who planted the flag on our remotest western shore. Today, California offers to ration another pathfinder in nation’s onward march the e toward a the funds; to buy foodstuffs; to .ship | He believes that national measures | o¢ a century ago had set ubogt the |better and brighter day for our be- them across seus that swarmed with | must be taken to the end that the k of preparing a man for the [loved country. submarines; to negotiate with gov. farm producers shall be placed on |y iogidency, how could they hav T name him who rose from pover- rnments, to get food to the starv. |an equality with the industrial pro- | | ng and the starving to the food— | ducer. here was a task such as never be-| This great economist has solved | o experiences which have made | I nominate him because he ha fore confronted man. The feeding of | cVery other economic problem that ! up the romance of this man's life? | labored with his hands and kno those hungry children is the great- | has come wilhin his reach in a| “To insure every American child | the problem of the toiler, lone better to equip him for those |ty to feed more hun people than [vast responsibilities than through any man in the history of the world. st practical romance in history !fl-lm‘ of wuuh!s‘; and J"G}:w "l"loquul opportunity in training. and| 1 name him as a great engineer s bt Call From Homeland | Whe has masterad every ether prob- | ciucation; 1o vemove the dmidgery | who understands the problems of “ f { > call came over from his lem can be trusted by the American !cl the American housewife; o[ our inland waterways and the vast in millions o cloved homeland. The United States | farm producer to propose 'h‘f;m:mv-u the toil of the workshop; | resources of river and lake and soil. |iad cast her lot in the great strug- | Measures that will bring lasting re- | to find rational, not artificial, means| I nume him great human- {gle he was named food admin- | l1ef to the agriculture of the L"""";'u relicve the distress of the pro- | tariun, who in the midst of a woe fironsor | States. . .| ducer: 1o stimulate healthy busin of war gave lis best that human TRISCUIT -a crisp I"ull well he understood that the | Summoned by a Republican presi- | metnods; 1o advise, to encourage, to | beings might live and live abund- Made by The Shredded {proper exccution of the task prob. | dent, Herbert Hoover commenced | jroteot—these make the patten he |antly g 4 |ably would mean the graveyard of (the greatest romance of modern in- as becn weaving for the last seven I uominate him because as ad- |all political hope. From the day he | dustrial life. He became the head |yeirs of the domestic America of | ministrator of great projects he has S appointed, Le insisted that the | 0f the Department of Commerce. | ine future, never failed to leave a record of ntial group in America that | Always a Republican, always 2 he- | " gince the great war the United | surpassing uscfulnmss, ¥e protostien wes the Amep- | liever that there san bo B0 Sallefar- | 5iosos hag besome the center of tie] T tnme him - 5o sttesmon and wmer. To quicken production; | tory advance without the rival poli- | cconomic and industrial world. Vast | executive vhose unfal ering cour- 10 stimulate industry: to feed armies | Cies of a two-party system, he ! (ooc fraught with evil if uncon-|age, inflexible Americanism, and un- jat a pr that governments could | found in the Republican eabinet a|yo110q. freighted with blessings if | derstanding of nations and peoples to resist the mercan- | 11¢ld of expanding usefulness. understood, are in motion. have given him « grasp on national profiteer, and to see that the| What a beneficence he has made | No one is o fitted by years of | anad international affairs that com- farmer reccived the just return for | that department to the business and training and experience; mo one is|mands respect throughout the | is product was a task that called | industrial world! so adapted by temperament and | world | for both statesmanship and courage. | Into the Department of Commerce sympathy to direct these forces to| I nominate him for his lifty char- | His m res trebled the surplus | has been called the best talent that | the betterment of his country as|acter as a man and citizen; for his {food in the United States, When me;rht nation could secure. this wholesome son of the sturdy |broad and kindly human sympa- armistice came he saw with the | He has quickened the industrial ac- | (orepears of the Middle West. thies; for his wholesome heart that | Prophetic vision of a seer the peril | tivities of the nation. He has proved |that awaited the farmer and pro- | that government business and mor- | ducer. Already food supplies were | als go hand in hand. on hand for another year of gi- It was his initlative that pre- gantic combat. With the supplies | vented the spread of unemployment . 0f the southern hemisphere freed to | which had brought stagnation and | European markets he saw American despair to the rest of the world. He | agriculture faced with the greatest fought to a triumphant conclusion peril of its history a world wide monoply which threat- Eurepe repudiated its contracts to | ened the rubber purchasers of buy the hogs and wheat of Ameri- | America. |can farmers. Damming back that| In the midst of crowding duties jflood on the narkets of the United | there camé a call that stirred his States meant ruin from which our | soul. Human suffering once more | @griculturists would not have recov- | was at the gate. [#red in a quarter of a century. The Mississippi had broken over The Farmers' Debt | the richest lands of the south. It would require the gratitude of | For the first time in history, tor- @ generation of farm producers to | rential rains fell in thirty states at r Herbert Hoover for his ef- | the same time. Six hundred thou. forts to save the whole industry |sand were homeless; citles were from collapse. Only by an admin- | flooded; the great and noble south | iican tile —~ In Radios— The Very Best In Radio For Street Wear For Sports Wear And of course on our Easy Payment Plan. For Seashore For Business See Majestic Hear Majestic For a Party Women’s and Misses’ Sizes Then You'll Be Convinced. ratively short time Less Tubes $99.50 with his system! Honeycombed molasses —rich peanut butter— thick chocolate coating. A big bar for only 5¢ That’s worth broadcasting! 151 MAIN ST. 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