The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-11
WHO is HERBERT c. HOOVER?


Who is this man Herbert Hoover, Senators
Reed, Gore and others have been so viciously at,
lacking in the senate day after day, the first NAM
ed insinuating that he was an agent of the Brit
ish government endeavoring to turn commerce
Britalnward?
A look through some data pigeonholed a year
or so ago, gives an inkling of who Hoover is, says
the Meridian Star.
Read it and after reading determine for your
self if Mr.. Hoover is as big a man as the Missouri
senator who before going to the upper house of
congress was known as the political boss of wes-
tern Missouri, who, together with "Gumshoe Bill"
Stone and Champ Clark, control Missouri demo-
cratic politics in the interest, it is said, of the big
breweries.
Before the European war Hoover was a min
ing engineer who had made some reputation as
an organizer. He, with several hundred thousand
people were in Europe when the war broke out and
the rush to get home became all but a panic.
Hoover volunteered his service to perfect an or
ganization that would make home getting posi-
BILE within reasonable time and at reasonable pri-
ces and later accepted.
Within two months he had most of the Ameri-
cans on their way home. He then was selected
to tackle the problem of feeding seven and a half
million Belgians and a third as many French
men, women and children, many of them then at
the very verge of starvation. What he accom-
plished in this difficult task the world knows. No
man was more trusted than Hoover-trusted alike
by Germans, French, English, Belgians, Scandin-
avians, Dutch and Americans, trusted so complete
ly that he came and went almost as he pleased in
all war zones.
This is the man selected by the president to
handle the food problem which may become as
stupendous in the United States as it has become
in other Belligerent countries, because Of the in
difference of a vast number of people to their own
future welfare.
Here's an opinion of Mr.. Hoover by John A.
Gade who has been closely associated with him
in his work for the Belgians and the people of
northern France: ,
NH. Hoover is an excessively modest man. He
is too modest, for he underestimates himself and
his genius, constantly. Why, the day after he
arrived in Antwerp 5000 cards had been left at
his door bearing little messages of gratitude, You
have saved our lives. 4 pray for you every day.
God bless the Americans and the like. He
couldn't appear on the streets without being
mobbed-with affection.
1T was one morning in one of these hundreds
of soup kitchens somewhere in Belgium" began
Mr.. Gade, as he related the story. M Hoover
was standing there when a Belgian mother came
in, wildly shrieking. 1t seems that the little girl,
who had been used to coming there every day for
soup, had died of commissions. The woman was in
great distress and involuntarily she had come
back to the soup kitchen, where she regarded the
people as friends, for consolation.
M Hoover turned away to the window. For
some minutes he stood with his back to me and
when he spoke his voice shook and his eyes and
even his cheeks were wet. That is what the soup
kitchen means to Belgium" he said with emo
ton. 1T is the hope of the nation"
Senator Reeds record is that of a ~prosecut-
ing attorney in the county of which Kansas City,
Mo-, is the county seat, mayor of Kansas City and
United States senator, a political boss, or rather
sub boss, for the Missouri breweries do the politi-
cal bossing in that state.
Which do you believe to be the better man to
take hold of food control of the nation, Hoover.
who knows the job from a to z, or a commission
of 2 or 3 selected by and with the advice and
consent Of the senate, of which Reed is a member?
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WHY AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE SENT TO ,
EUROPE? l.
The Washington Post Of August 7th gives a