Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-16
HOOVER WOULD MAKE US FREE
FOREVER FROM HARD TIMES
for Ills That Politicians Can
Only Mourn over
"\NHo." shouted the politicians in uni
w son u;a Ioornr9"

w son, "is Hoover"
Even the cynics did not realize until then
how little politician sometimes knows about
real life
Hoover. who talks in this city today about
ono Of the greatest plans ever formulated
for the improvement OF life in the United
States, n plan that he himself devised, is one
Of the few great geniuscs of his generation.
Politicians generally believe that civilized
order and progress and collective thinking
in country like ours depend on tho rCpeti-
tion of political truisms inherited from
earlier and simpler times, on speeches in
Congress. on allegiance to party doctrine.
Hoover believes that life has become a
matter of labor and that economic practice.
rather than political theory exclusively. gov
orns existence and controls feeling and in
the end makes for the success or failure of
great industrial nations
Statesmen hope for n world without wars.
Hoover is laboring for country without
hard times. without privations. without the
friction that leads to strikes. or the selfish
OppOrtunism that often is a preliminary
to war. What is more he is able to show
you how his aim may be achieved with means
and methods already available. His view OF
the business and industrial life Of this coun-
try. of railroads and highways, great plants
aud mines and the multitudes that operate
them has the sweep Of poetic vision.
Give a man scientific training and he will
accomplish marvels. Give him, In addition,
the quality Of imagination and he will as
tonish his times.
II is because he is imaginative. because
he is sensitive TO every manifestation Of
human needs md at bottom generous, that
Hoover views industry in America as
series Of diSsociatcd and conflicting forces
rather than as n unified scheme of effort
hkCly g. hriu tho n brnoGt ho
happiness TO all people concerned.
He insists that the country at large gets
only sixty or seventy cents for the effort
that ought TO bring II full dollar for dis
tributon among the men who own indus.
tries and the people who labor in them.
Faulty organization. friction between op-
posing groups in industry, the use of coal
where water power now undeveopcd might
be used. duplication Of effort. unsccntifc
operation of basic industries bring about this
general waste. And SO Hoover is response
Bile for the new Federation of Engineer
Societies. which. endeavorng now to make
science more general in industrial organiza-
tion and management. is in reality making
for the solution of the most trying social
problems of the times
To a man of Hoovpr's temperament the
industrial mechanism Of the United States.
viewed as n whole. seems out of adjustment.
1t has many cashing units and other units
that do not function and still others that
arc worn out and ready TO be discarded. It
rattles and bangs. II wastes immcasurab,e
power and burns out bearings.
Mines and railways and rivers and high
ways are not so organized or utilized as to
work toward any common end. to help each
other and in that way to help the country
and its people. Most Of them have been
permitted to grow out of the accidents Of