The sun., 1919-09-17
1900 APPLAUD
H00VER'S NAME
FOR PRESIDENT
TOastmaster Kicks Hat of
Food Boss in Ring and
Diners Sing.
GUEST SITS IN SILENCE
Later He Declares Socialism
Has Been Killed by Chaos
1t Created.
U. s. SAVED CIVILIZATION
Former Controller Tells Engi-
nnapc DooI Nj q xxTI1
GUEST SITS IN SILENCE
U. S. SAVED CIVILIZATION
Former Controller Tells Engi-
neers Real Need of World
Now Is Peace.

Henry l.. Sanders. toastmaster at
the dinner of the American Society OF
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers at
the Waldorf last night, raised his pa
tent leather shod foot and kicked
Herbert Hoover's hat into the ring
when, in his opening remarks, he re-
ferred to the former Food Admins
traitor as 'fit to guide the ship of
State"
Each one of the 1900 diners imme-
diately joined in a spontaneous DEM
onsration over the obvious sugges-
ton. Within half a minute they were
chanting in unison: "One, two, three,
four. Who are we for? Hoo Hoo
Hooveri"
But Mr.. Hoover gave no sign that
the buzzing of the Presidential bee
aroused his interest. No one seemed
certain as to Mr.. Hoover's politics. but
he is credited generally with being a
Republican.
Mr.. Hoover said in his speech that
he had returned from Europe with
the conviction that socialism was dead
having been killed by the chaos 1t had
wrought.
THE United States has grown far
ahead of Europe" he ssid, permitting
US neither to admit European Ills into
this country nor to abandon Europe to
them"
He referred to the organization of the
American Relief Administration as
Wilson's second intervention In Eau
rope" and sei5 1t had saved civilization
as Americas first Intervention had He
declared that Europe was recovering
from the effects of the war and that ali
II needed was peace.
u s. No Place to Experiment..
My first conviction Is that this Vbo,a
phllosophy of Socialism is bankrupting
iSeii from startling quarter in the
extraordinary lowering OF productivity
OF industrial commodities to a point
that. until the recent realization of This
bankruptcy, was below the necessity for
continued existence of their millions of
people.
My second conviction is older, but has
been greatly hardened, and that is a
greater appreciation of the enormous dis
lance that We of America have grown
away from Europe in the century and a
half OF our national existence, in our
OUTLOOK on life, our relations toward
our neighbors and our social and no.
litical ideals. The supreme Importance
of this Americanism neither permits MS
to allow the use of this community for
experiment in social diseases, nor does II
permit US to abandon the moral leader
ship we have undertaken of restoring
order in the world.
The enemy collapsed not only from
military and naval defeat, but from total
economic exhaustion. In this race TO
economic chaos the European allies were
not far behind. BY this exhaustion the
whole OF Europe stood facing a famine.
the Ike OF which has not been seen since
the Thirty Years War, when a third of
the population died of starvation. In
the midst of all this was the struggle
of score of new democracies to es-
tablish themselves. with friction along
every frontier, and with the destruction
of governmental institutions, without
financial resources to buy supplies with
the miseries of their people Offering
fertile soil for every economic patent
medicine and for all the forces of dis
order Bolshevism and anarchy, and,
nverhanging all, there could be no hope
of restoring normal economic life until the
completion of peace.
I'm all this situation. with it's despera-
ton. greed. century old animosities, its
idealistic and proper aspirations, there
was only one hope That hope. expressed
by every city and State, was that the
American people, being the one disin-
terested and uncrippled economic and po-
litical force still existing in the world,
should again intervene. 1t was in re-
sponse to this call that the President,
the real heart OF the
American people. intervened in Europe
a second time and took those steps
which resulted in a practical economic
organization of Europe, pending the
of peace and the arrival
of the forthcoming harvest.
Hinge TaaL Carried Ont.