Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-12
HOOVER CLUB IN
SUNSHINE STATE
MAKES PROGRESS
Many New Recruits Joining
Organization; Clark Re-
grets That He Must Re-
main AIoof From Politics.
Especial Correspondence to The Journal.


Especial Correspondence to The JournaiA
Santa Fe, May 1.-THE New
Mexico Hoover club met tonight
With President Carl H. Gilbert in
the chair. Among the new recruits
reported were several prominent
citizens not only in Santa t'e but
also at Albuquerque, Dexter and
other places. Mrs. Paul A. +. Wal
ter is vice president and Major
Norman L. King, who served in
France during the war, is secretary,
Much interest was aroused by the
following letter of DR.. John d.
Clark, dean of the post graduate
school of the University of New
Mexico and one of the leading
chemists and scholars in the south
west:
your letter of the 6th in which
you suggest that | undertake to or
ganize a Hoover club, is at hand. |
do not think that you realize how
much | could injure myself and the
Institution with which | am con-
nected, should | proceed as you
suggest, and yet what you suggest
tS tAtCliN NllfiN tNtt anu 49,
who has had the benefit of good
education, should do, namely, to
get into politics Possibly the par
ticipation in politics by educators
may be more frowned upon in this
state than it is in others. That
cannot say. That an educator can
not be active in politics is, how
ever, fact. With the conviction
| which | have that Hoover would
make an excellent president, ! dc
regret that | cannot feel myself
| free to undertake organization oi
| work to convince others of his abil-
jity. Years ago when | was student
at Stanford, | worked in the de-
pertinent in which Hoover did his
work. The esteem in which stan
ford men held him even then, Sc
| Impressed me that 7 have watched
| his public career with unusual IN
terest. / feel that he has demon
strated abundantly his capacity tc
act as great leader. More shar
any other man mentioned as
presidential possibility I think thai
| Hoover has a better sense OF VIVA
| public questions are economic II
nature and what are political, anC
II feel that the political problems
which we. face are very small II
comparison with those which are
economic For the reasons glveI
above, / have already declined tC
take part in public, movement o
Stanford graduates to MAKE
Hoover President though ! am, a.
an individual voter, anxious to SCI
/ him elected"
I -rne tetter caused suniv discus
sion. regret being expressed tina
conditions are such that the vote
must look elsewhere than to tn
universities and other educationa
institutions for political leadership
The Hoover club movement is no
antagonistic to New Mexicos stant
for General Wood, but mercy
serves to articulate just such sub
! merged and suppressed voices a
are threatened with reprisals i
they take any active leadership II
crystallizing public opinion, and Il
make it apparent, should for an!
reason General Wood fail of beint
nominated, that there are men ant
women in New Mexico who are fol
Hoover, If not as first then as sec
ond choice. All such persons arr
asked to send in their names to tn
New Mexico Hoover club incurrint
no Obligations thereby.