Evening star., 1925-11-19
COOLIDGE TO SPEAK
ONHOOVER'S WORK
TO HELP BUSINESS
President on Way to New
York to Address Chamber
of Commerce.
SECRETARY is POWER
IN CABINET COUNCILS
Executive Leaves Early Today on
Trip to Gotham-Advised of
Fathers Condition.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

NEW YORK, November 19.-Presa-
dent Coolidge is coming to the Me-
tropolis today to interpret the busl-
ness side of the Government to the
worlds financial and business center.
The President has not been In New
York in a long time, and while he
has been overwhelmed with invita-
tons, he selected the one rendered by
the Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York as the most fitting
occasion for an address that he has
had in his mind for some time
namely, the strides that the Govern
ment Is making to stimulate and aid
pusineSs.
What the public generally perhaps
does not appreciate is that when Ar.
Coolidge talks about what the Gov
ernment IS doing for private business
he really means what Herbert Hoover
Is doing.
Hoover Big Factor.
These things are not always appar-
ent to the casual observer, but the TACT
is that the Secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce has become in the
very nature of things the most power
full factor in Washington in relation
TO the Nations business. Little by
little bureaus and divisions which
have been located in other depart
ments have been brought into the De
partment of Commerce. Also Mr..
Hoover, through his modesty and
earnest search for the most efficient
way to do things, has convinced his
cabinet colleagues that he is not try
ing to steal their thunder.
So he gets cooperation. And, since
NMr. Hoover has so many important
-;s,i1 Ea hoe,
To make many decisions right along
which, of course, are subject to Mr..
Coolidge'S approval, so that he really
Wields a tremendous power. For In
nine cases out of ten the matters are
of a technical nature and the Presi-
dent cannot take time to look into
them personally, 50 he takes the word
, of his Cabinet secretary.
Works on Big Scale.
It's because Mr.. Hoover has his
fingers on so many things that some
writers have called him the economic
president of the United States" as
distinguished from Mr.. Coolidge as
political President, by which one
doesn't mean partisan politics but ad-
ministration policies. Mr.. Coolidge
shapes the general policy based on
suggestions from his cabinet, but
basically he allows them to mango the
affairs with which they are most ia
Iniliar.
Mr.. Hoover is a phenomenon so far
as public men of the present genera
zion go. Trained in the hard school
of war excitement, when everything
was done on big scale, he still does
things with the same breadth of view
point. Besides his activities in the De-
partment of Commerce, he has unoffi-
cially guided many business move
ments so that they could bring them
selves into harmony with the desires
of the Government.
Adviser of First Rank.
Mr.. Hoover has been the principal
authority in the Government on super
power, on radio, on coal and, to a large
extent, he has been interested in for
eign debts and shipping policy. In
short, wherever the problem touches
economies, he has had a good deal to
say.
Most Of it has not been printed, but
in the inner councils he is regarded
a. an adviser of first rank. Secretary
Mellon wields an equal influence on
purely fiscal questions, but Mr..
Hoover's province has been even
wider. for he has taken the whole field
of economics.
Being an engineer by profession, he
has tackled the tasks IN a systematic
way, earning the admiration of Presi-
dent Coolidge, who has grown more
and more to lean on him. So when
the President tells what the Govern
ment is doing. for business, he is toll
ing what Herbert Hoover has outlined
in his capacity as Secretary of Com
merce and what he-the President
has seen fit to approve, for be it said
to Mr.. Coolidge's credit, he has not
hesitated to accept the advice of cabi-
net members who have shown them
selves thorough masters of a given
problem.