Evening journal., 1917-09-25
"Nho is Hoover's Righi-Hand Man?"
Why Bless Your Stars, It's Mrs. Hoover
stan specIal.

stan Special.
WASHINGTON. Sept 24.-who is
Herbert Hoover's rlght-hand man2 The
food boss is carrying ten mems work.
And he has ten men. and more, helping
him-some Of them volunteers able to
make $4,000 in private life but serving
Uncle Sam for "a a year.
However and nevertheless-Her
Hoover's right-hand man IS MRS. HER
BERT HOOVER. She has no real rival
for this distinction
Prove it? As follows.
As you may remember, a big war
broke out in Europe IN Aug, 1914.
Thousands and thousands OF Americans
frantic TO get home beseged u. s. AM
bassador Page at London.
Page had a brilliant idea. "Telephone
for Hooverf" he ordered his secretary.
Hoover showed up
Hoover, get these Americans home.
III put you in fun charge. Take money
from anybody that's got any press into
service anybody who can serve-and
hon right along 90 n "
"All right" said Hoover. Then Hoover
had a brilliant idea.
oTelephone for Mrs. Hoover" he
yelled.
He was accustomed TO "teIephoning"
for Mrs. Hoover whenever he needed
mustard plaster on his chest, or a hot
footbath, or a new mining organization
plan-or any little thing like that.
Mrs. Hoover showed up.
''What do you mean2" said Herbert,
"playing around that old manor with
the two kiddles and wasting your time
that way It's not like you, bit. Cant
you see we need e woman's auxiliary
10 this relief committee, to get all these
Americans homer"
"All right" said Mrs. Hoover. And
before Herbert and HIS right-hand man
quit work every American In Europe
who wanted TO go home was on MS
way
Herbert Hoover's right-hand man Is
iust about so tall-medium, you know
kind Of soft and glrllsh in outlines,
craving brown hair, straight nose,
motherly mouth, laughing blue eyes
and-more ideas and energy In a minute
than the average big business man has
between breakfast and luncheon.
Member the time the Hoovers par
ticipated in the defense Of Tlentsin dur
ing the Boxer rebellion back In f9OOY
We'll. Herb manned a machine gun when
he was needed, IN those days, and-his
rieht-hand man served tea every after
noon 10 the beleaguered Americans De-
hind their barricade Of sugar and rice
bags. The Chinese tried to kill her IRE
ouently, thought they had put It over
several times and even printed her
obituary once-but she wouldn't let II
stick.
Herbert and Mrs. Hoover, or rather
Mrs. Hoover and Herbert, won gold
medal lust before the war began by
translatIng from the Latin the most
monumental work on metals and mining
mn 10 the day Of modern science-the
one Re Metallica" OF George Bauer, who
signed himself "Agricola." The task
took two things-a knowledge OF me
dieval Latch and a knowledge OF metal
Ihrgy. Like her husband, Mrs. Hoover
had both. She was the leading geologis
= OF her class at Stanford in '96.
Herbert Hoover has had his ups an'
downs, He started work In a California
mine az 50 a day. Who put him wher
E he isg Echo answers-hls right-han
3 man. It's the old story OF how to sue
8 coed by marrying the right KIND OF
J. wife
= p. s.-The Hoovers' pet diversion
n an auto lunch by the side OF the roat
And they do say that, in addition I
}. caring for her two sons and being Her
bert's right-hand man, Mrs. Hoover doe
make the best stuffed eggs.