The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-08
Belgium Relief Worker Has A. Cen
timeter Energy Is TireIess in
Efforts - Lies History
Shows Remarkable Rise
DOING The IMPOSSI-
BE IS HIS SPECIALITY
Began Career as Miner Austria
Lured Him Ia Boxer REBEL
ion Now Has Gigantic
Relief Organization
By United Press.

BY United Press.
London, May 25.-By mail to New
York.)-Herbert G. Hoover, the Amer
lean, who with the help Of Americans,
is feeding 100000 hungry mouths in
Belgium, has AZ centimeter energy.
and short, fast life history behind
him that shows where such an energy
takes man.
"A man who went over Niagara Falls
in barrel safely, said to the reporters
afterwards:
I've lived beside the falls all my
life and they've always said to me.
You can't conquer us. You can't con-
quer u.s. And now have succeeded,
They taunted me-"
Hoover has always taken the dares
of the various Niagara Falls that he
has encountered in his life. In view
OF the fact that life has never been
any fun to him unless he was facing
some sort of dare, 1t has been .neces-
sary for him to hunt around for new
Niagaras from time to time. Some-
thing that dared him; something that
taunted him! something that couldn't
be done. They were the things that
Hoover has always wanted Show him
something that looks fooIishly irnpossi-
Die and you're initiating the toreador
who waves red flag at bull. He
was born in Iowa, became an orphan.
moved to Oregan and found himseir
at 16 in need Of an education, with no
money to spend for it. Just because
1t looked as If it was impossible for
him to go to Leland Stanford univers-
ity, he went there, working his way
through, he learned lessons which
looked as if they couldn't be learned,
ne learned them extra well. He isn't
professors pet; he was a star stu
dent. Geology was his favorite study.
Bucking mountains appealed to him.
Distant mountains looked better than
the near ones Of California, SO he went
to Australia, as a fourth assistant en-
gineer in a mine There he found q
certain area of earth that was rich
in ore but sthe ore couldn't be tugged
out: at least the old fashioned methods
Of getting ore from the earth were not
succeeding in that spot.
Cant work that mine successfully
said Hoover, bristling. ''Well see
about that" He talked Australians
into lending him money. Then he
tackled the mine that wouldn't pro-
duce. 1t produced. And, by the time
he was twenty-seyen years old, he was
rich and famous in mining circles in
Australia. About this time China be-
gan to taunt him; the great untouched
mountains of that distant unmined
land appealed to him. and dared him.
So he took his money and went to
China, got caught in the Boxer revolu-
tion Just after he had sunk his money
in Chinese lands, and turned up, broke.
The American newspaper CORE
spondents who were locked up five
weeks in the bombardment of Tien
Tsin went to tea daily during the dark
days OF the siege at the little home OF
young American and his wife. The
wife used to go ont into the yard and
get sugar out of sacks which had been
piled UP as barricade against Chinese
bullets. But the bullets never new
thickly enough to interfere with the
tea hour The young couple were Her
bert G. Hoover and his wife, who had
met each other at Leland Stanford
| university, and who had been rich in
Australia and were now poor in China.
One day, in the siege, Hoover was
drafted to operate machine gun. He
did the job well, all day, but he came
back and said it was too ghastly job
for him.
After the revolution was over Hoov.
er found crowd Of German railroad
men whose railroad had been destroy
ed, They couldn't find anybody to r,x