The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-17
Hoover and Foreign Policy

In his Boston speech Monday night, Herbert
Hoover sketched foreign policy for the United
States which, for sheer simplicity and sense,
should commend itself highly to the people of this
country.
Steering clear of the attractvey coored clouds Of
unreates, he outlined a program of national and
international action calculated to promote not only
world peace but that which makes the average man
more secure in his job and happier in his home
as we'll
Boiled down, the Hoover formula is this: The test
of craftsmanship is to make ones country and ones
world better place to live in Every nation loses
by the poverty of another. Every nation gains by
the prosperity of another.
And as prosperity thrives only in peace, as
practical proposition it behooves US to keep on the
best possible terms with the other peoples of the
world and to help them keep on good terms with
themselves.
Primarily, Hoover was not talking foreign policy
to Boston He was discussing our economic problems
upon the solution of which, as he put it, depend
prosperity, standards of living and the OPP
portunities for a fuller life to every home"
But SO interviewer are the fortunes of the various
peoples Of this sphere which we live that his talk
naturally revolved around hook-up with the rest
of the word-notably foreign trade, the merchant
marine and the tariff.
On farm and in factory, he observed we are pro-
ducing than we can consume. This surplus
must be sold abroad if ito insure continuous
employment and maintain our wages" here at home
The ideal situation in business he said is to have
regularity of production and regularity of employ
ment and the way to attain ideal is to have the
greatest possible number of customers for what we
produce, The foreign countries we spread our
. trade among, the more stable our production will
reflects itself in the home of every worker and every
farmer in our country"
If had to suppress the or 10 per cent of our
total production which is sold abroad" he said
I'VE might survive a nation but our whole stand
ard of living would be paralyzed"
Shall we then wage commercial war against the
other countries? No, says Hoover Trade is really
not commercial war between nations. To the con-
trary, it is vital, mutual service" We buv from
foreigners the things we need but do not produce
and they buy from the things which we produce
procedure which reacts to the profit of the whole
international community whose Increased prosperity
all share.
AS part OF the vast prosperity machine which
Hoover visions, he sees the merchant marine as in
dispensabe, American owned and American operated
Without such shipping facilities of our own he warns
American industrial and agricultural producers may
see themselves cut off from their vital foreign mar
kets or Disseminated against to freight rates to
such extent as to kill off our foreign trade
The farmer in Kansas can't make a living for
himself shipping is lacking to get his crops to his
market. The worker will be thrown out of job If
the concern he works for has way of getting the
{ thing he makes to its foreign purchaser.
The old local issues mostly dead Hoover con-
cluded. The peoples of the world are too bound up
with the fortunes Of one another, World issues are