Evening star., 1920-02-29
by G. COULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
TINE way to a mans heart is
through his stomach, II we
may believe the sages.
What chance, then, will
other candidates have with Her
bert Clark Hoover for the presi-
Dental nomination-provid Of
course, Mr.. Hoover becomes a can
didate?
Hoover's name and Food-spelled
with big Fare indissolubly
linked. First. as head of the Bel
gian relief commission during the
first three years of the war; then
as food administrator of the
United States after this. country
entered the war. and since the
armistice as director general of
the supreme economic council of
the allies, feeding millions Of suf-
fering persons in central Europe
particularly the children.
4ACy ooy wi. I1ooNeI IL So-
ing to be a leading candidate
for the presidential nomination.
''They" are not 50 certain. how
ever. which party will select him
for it's standard bearer. The men
who are putting his name forward
belong to both of the old parties.
His republican friends are urging
him for the republican nomina-
ton, and his democratic friends
are seeking to have him nominal
ed in San Francisco next June. 1t
is reported that years ago Mr..
Hoover voted the republican ticket
in California. 1t is on record that
when President Wilson made his
famous call upon the country in
1918 to elect him a democratic
Congress Mr.. Hoover gave out a
statement backing. up his chief.
of the administ ration at that time.
Although Mr.. Hoover is back
in the United States after his trip
abroad to relieve the sufferings
of the millions in central Europe
who were threatened with starva-
tion after the close of the war.
he is still holding down the job
of feeding some 2.500.000 children
in those parts. Each day the chill
dren are provided with supple
mental meal"
Mr.. Hoover's latest appointment
was to the Presidents second in
dustrial commission, which for
weeks has been working in Wash
ington to arrive at some sat1sfac-
tory principles for league Of
peace between capital and labor
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Since the outbreak Of the war
the name of Herbert Hoover has
been heard throughout the world.
No other American, except per-
haps President Wilson. has been
so widely known as Hoover. the
food man. His record as food ad-
ministrator is known to millions:
But his life before he sprang full
grown into the public eye is
probably less generally known
than that Of any other man who
has attained such prominence.
1t is a surprise, for instance, to
learn that Mr.. Hoover is descended
from a long line of Quakers; that
both his father and mother were
Quakers, and that he was brought
Oy NudhcT Tcldl :" hSil hO " go
left an orphan at the age of ten.
If Attorney General Palmer thinks
he has a clear field for the Quaker
vote. he has another guess with
Mr.. Hoover in the running. Also
let none Of the candidates think
he has a monopoly of the "black-
smith vote" for Mr.. Hoover was
born in a blacksmith's shop. and
his father was the blacksmith who
owned the shop.
Right here it may be we'll to say
that Mr.. Hoover is forty-five years
old, and that he was born in a
small Quaker community in Iowa
August 10, 1874. His father was
Jesse Clark Hoover, who died in
1873, and his mother. Hulda Min
thorne Hoover, who died in 1884.
The father had been educated at a
small Quaker college, and was at
the time Of Mr.. Hoover's birth the
village blacksmith.
There were two other children.
Theodore Hoover, about three
years older than Herbert, and Mary,
much younger. Theodore Hoover.
like Herbert, became mining en-