Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-12-01
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ments could easily be made that would enable them to be absorbed in the quarters of their friends. But that poor, confused soul, admitting the il- legality of his action as we'll as its inethical nature from the standpoint of professional etiquette, referred the devoted seven to the Boston-bred Stet- son, who was strangely absent and evanescent. So the seven consulted with Commissi oner Mcclure, who ad- vised them, after deep and portentous consideration, that they might pos sibly find quarters in the three and a half miles dangerously distant Santa Fe. Whereupon the seven proceeded to their erstwhile rooms and found that they had already been what the maid politely termed "moved", which left them nothing to do but to gather their evicted chattels together and to journey forth to Santa Fe. Three, who were obliged to remain, found domicile at a place which in Santa Fe is classified as a hotel. The other four, after looking at the place, took a chance on upper berths, and at. a quarter after four, tomorrow morn ing, will be on their way to the more congenial and more hospitable en- vironment of Southern California.
 Although, in a sense, this incident is a puerile exhibition of poor judg- ment, it rather markedly illustrates what always has ailed and now ails this commission. No one for a mo- ment believes that either Secretary Hoover or his polite echo, Clarence c. Stetson, deliberately permitted them selves to be used to affront one fac tion at the behest of another. Un- doubtedly, Hoover's irritation over the prolonged and amorphous recalci- trance of the commission was further exacerbated by the four days delay, occasioned by the tardiness of Com missioner Mcclure of California; and when murmurs arose among commits sioners over the congestion in the hotel his characteristically sullen inn patience instinctively found a vent in peremptorily ordering the affairs of human beings with the same arbi- trary impersonality that he would ex- ercise in handling the disposition of a cargo of machinery.
 Though I believe he means to be eminently fair, MT. Hoover is, by na- ture and training, an ultra-conserva- tive and possesse an Americanized version of the autocratic instincts that are personified in the popular con- ception of the kaiser. During the war his remarkable scientifically-refined executive abilities found perfect ex- pression in administering the relief of the Belgians in circumstances that naturally concentrated absolute con- trol in his hands. Although the Bel gian relief was one of the most stu pendous humanitarian works ever un- dertaken by man it did not, in broad sense, involve the adjustments of those delicate factors which essential ly occur in composing the conflicts be- tween human motives. Lacking this intuitive, sympathetic comprehension of human impulses, MT. Hoover is ut terly bereft of political sense in its highest meaning.
 This, condition has put him out of tune with his associates on the com missions as we'll as with the leading elements of the southwest naturally vitally concerned in solving the Colo rado river problem Being what is called practical" man, Hoover is insistent upon action, immediate and peremptory, with the curious result that the man we popularly regard as one of the broadest-visioned and pro- foundest business men in the country does not take a long-range statesman like attitude toward the Colorado river problems, but, apparently, ignores the necessity for deliberate and deeply comprehensive study of all the. many