Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-13
HERBERT HOOVER, THE
SAVIOUR OFCIV|LRAT|ON
DR.. Joseph H. Odcll Tells What a
Wonderful Work He
is Doing. Es

DR.. Joseph II. Odell contributes the
following TO today's issue OF the Morning
News:
would rather be Herbert Hoover
than any man living. There are still
kings with crowns and courts and tinselled d
pomp with whom | would not exchange z
bootblack's Job. There are multimil-
lionaires whose wealth has robbed them
of honor, comfort and JOY. There are
eminent statesmen who sleep in beds OF
porcupine uuills There are society lead
ers whose open hands are licked by dogs
and the people who do the licking Know
that they are nothing but dogs :,
But when the world gets into trouble
and millions of hearts are breaking and
civilization is falling down with terrible
crash and the universe seems VOID even OF
God-then the world turns to Herbert
Hoover Nothing like it has ever oc-
CURED before in human history. Sen
nacherib. CYRUS. Alexander, Caesar, Ma
poleon. have all beaten humanity TO It's
knees in n paralysis of fear; but Herbert
Hoover. n plain American citizen, hits
humanity to it's feet and lights its features
with hope and courage.
Personally, know little about Hoover;
have met him, talked with him and heard
his friends talk about him. | do not
know whether he \ Catholic or Protes-
tant, | am not quite sure whether ne IS a
Republican or Democrat. | haven I
the least idea whether his forbears hailed
from the north or the south, or whether
they came into this country with the inter,
mediate Dutch or Scandinnvians. And
what is more. don't dare flip about any
Of these things. But I do know this. That
Hoover has saved more human lives, dif-
fused more happiness and made greater
contribution 10 the race than any living
man.
When the poor Belgians were prostrate
and bleeding. il WAS Hoover who stood
between them and utter extinction. When
the war spread and famine and disease
e,riDDed the yitals of hundreds Of millions
IL innocent victims IL was Hoover who
checked the devastation OF death When
the war closed and the scanty resources 81
broken economic system had 70 be
gathered ard distributed Hoover was
the only one on earth who could do IT,
He is the only man IN the world who mas
the absolute confidence of all the mutually
nntaronistic clements OF human society.
If | should make rough guess wonld
say that there are fifty million people IN
Furope and Asia today who would be cold
and dead in their graves but for Herbert
Hoover
No more bitter cry has ever pierced
our ears and stabbed our hearts than tins
/ wall Of diving children which comes across
/ the Atlantic now Four million children
4 will die before next summer Is over un'
/ less some ono feeds them. At present
/ they arc little more than skln-coVerec
1 skeletons painting for bread and gasplne
/ for breath Without moments heslta
/ tion everyone everywhere has turned e
/ Hoover as the only available Saviour. 1 n
4 Red Cross the Y NJ G. A., the y W. Z
4 A. the X Of c., the Friends Rehet Board
I the Jewish Committee, and score of othe
I organizations have al agreed TO serve VIII
/ and under Hoover to salvage the young M
Of Europe. All hope Of saving the oide
peoDle has had to be given up; but th'
/ children, the generation which = m
only hope Of the new and better world tina
IS coming into being. must be rescued
YES / would rather be Hoover thar
any king. or Potentate. or Statesman, o
/ Nabob. He can bring light back into mil
lions Of dimmed eyes. and make lsughte
/ known again over half the world and mi
happiness as an ingredient into the futur
/ of civilization Hoover now has abou
four million babies whose food must com
from his hand But il VIII be an empt
hand unless we put the food into II WI
Delaware feed fifteen thousand chlldrel
until the time Of the next harvest? WI
/ Delaware say to Hoover Go on an
save some Of Gods children and We Wi
back YOU to the iimit?' How many pee
ple in Delaware viii give Hoover ten dc
iars to save s. young life and restart tn
world toward new civilization? Ho'
many Of us who cannot do more will giv
lust one dollar and feed baby for omonth