Americus times-recorder., 1920-03-04
HOOVER POINTS
TO MENACE IN
LE CUE DELAY
Sees In 1t An Organiza-
ton of Moral
Force
By H. P. BURTON.
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.

IN. Z. "A. OLaH Correspondents
NEW YORK, March An the
final interview summing up his views
on national issues, Herbert Hoover
expressed himself ,unequivocally in
favor of the League of Nations,
pointing out the menace of further
delay in adopting this "organiza-
tion or moral force" with reserva-
tions.
AS a Californian, Hoover is espe-
cially concerned with the problem of
Asiatic immigration and frankly de-
mands that the influx of yellow races
into the United States be stopped.
Misery Accumulating.
GAS to the League of Nations |
do not believe that the adherence
of the American people to it require
any demonstration" Hoover said.
81 believe the majority of them
are convinced of the necessity of
reservations with the league. While
all the debating over it is going on
the world is held in suspense. In
finite misery goes on accommodating.
Already the distrust and undermin-
ing of confidence and credit in the
world has crippled our export mar
ket. Certainly, we cannot await a
presidential election to dispose of the
question of the league, for such a
thing means that we shall contine
this accumulation of danger for an
other year. If the league be put at
once into being and if it proves its
living value in the world, no one
can doubt that any necessary changes
will be granted to it by common
consent as years go on.
The league is not a principle; it
is an organization. Its greatest
function is to organize moral forces.
Its major authority will be more
moral force. If the moral force of
the world is not behind it, 80 per cent
of its power has left. 1t might have
an army and a navy of it's own, but
it could not endure if the moral pres
sure of the world were not behind
It,"
Asked to give his stand on the
Japanese question as it agitates the
Pacific coast from time to time, Her
bert Hoover said:
Would Bar Oriental.
"Right from the shoulder l don't
believe in the Japanese or any Orien-
tails being admitted to our country.
The mixture of the whites and the
Orientals produces a degenerate race,
and if a race cannot be absorbed,
it ought not be persuaded to mix
with another race"
Discussing the major political par
ties in the United States, Hoover
said that he believes thoroughly in
parties, but not in the dead and
bygone party issues, paraded every
four years.
81 do not think we have much to
fear from either the conservatives
or the radicals while we have mass
of citizens with common sense" he
said. "We believe in fair play in
this country for anyone who will
make his protest through the ballot
box in a peaceful and law-abiding
method; for the radicals who believe
in force, we always have to police to
cope with them. They certainly do
not concern us as political issue"
Referring to the cost of livinp in
the United States, Hoover vouchsaf-
ed the opinion that he believes it is
Just about ready to drop.
''This foreign exchange situation
is bound to curtail our exports and
the added supplies available for home
consumption will help satiate the do
mestic demand and thus give some
hope of ameliorating prices,' he said.
"There is a good deal of psychology
about this high cost of living, and
as soon as the reverse starts in, 7
believe the decrease in prices will be
rapid"