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100000. Within a week they had given
10, and IL, and IL and IL millions.
Up to this point Herbert Hoover had
been accepted as the great humanitarian
of MS time. The Pope of Rome had SO
expressed his opinion of him to Judge
Victor j. bowling at the time of the
flood. Kings and princes and presi-
dents, people of all ranks and nations
had done honor to this man. But sud-
denly there arose in the consciousness
of forward-looking professional poll
ticians a realization that man Who
could do for his country what Herbert
Hoover had done and was doing might
become a political menace. And SO the
opposition to him began to crystalline.
II expressed itself in various ways, in
various places. The professional politi-
clan was suddenly confronted with the
fact that women who had never both
cred him much in his own game had
become a new entity in the political
machine. They said little, but they had
a certain determined look when the
discussion of Herbert Hoover came
about. Family men reported to other
men what their woman folk thought
about him.
How He Cracked One Nut.
Some Of this began while the food
tides were still rising. At one ponit
along the banks of the Mississippi a
small group of determined Solid South
Democrats got together and prepared
what they called hard NUT for this
Hoover to crack. Boarding his train at
one of the relief stations, one of these
men said:
Il hear that in the Natchez camp
there are 5000 white people, 10000
darkies. They have only 1000 cots.
Who are you going to give the cots to?"
Mi Hoover didn't even know it was
a nut" With that fine sense of JUS
ttce which has always carried him
through he answered without hesita-
ton: Give the cots to the old and the
ILL.,"
Nobody. be his color or his race what
1t may. could quarrel with that decision
That was one of the incidents of the
food the women like to tell about.
Women. especially the homebody type
OF women, have passionate love for
abstract justice. She wants justice in
little things, and kindness and under
standing, And in the man who is the
man of her house, the mayor of her
town. the governor of her State, and
especially the President of her country.
and wisdom, and great dignity.
Women in Many Groups.
Women have divided themselves into
many groups, but two are outstanding,
First there is that enormous number of
organized women who either hold jobs,
run business or are actively identified
with club and civic work. The other
group is composed of women who belong
to nothing but their churches and their
homes, and perhaps some cultural
society.
Early in this years campaign it be-
came evident that great numbers Of
club women-members of the patriotic
societies, the parent-teacher associa-
tons, the federation of clubs, the bust
ness and professional women, the Army
nurses and many others-were organiz-
Ing spontaneously and independently
In the interests of Mr.. Hoover
In contrast to the necessarily nom
partisan attitude of the acting office
holders in the larger groups of or
ganized women, the former presidents
OF those associations, returned to their
indepndent membership status, were
out in the field fighting for the Re-
publican candidate. In the General
Federation. Mrs. Thomas G Winter
and Mrs. John D. Sherman, both for
mer presidents of that large body of
100000 club women. entered the cam
paign for Mr.. Hoover. That most con-
sentative and non-partiSan of all
woman leaders in this country. Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, who because she
has long been the recognized head Of
the suffrage movement, has made it her
practice to remain scrupulously nom
partisan, finally felt an obligation as a
leader OF women to come out openly for
him.
Then came the religious groups.
women in charitable organizations, in
ph1lanthropic movements all over the
country, regardless of family party af-
nl1ations, enliSting under Mrs. F. Louis
SHADES banner to form the national
woman's committee for Hoover.
Things That They Liked.
In its final analysis the nature Of
woman changes very little, regardless of
occupations. Earning her living does
not take romance nor idealism nor hope
for better world out of her heart. To
O woman who has home, and even
more to the woman who has been de-
MED one, Hoover stands for the preser-
walton Of the individual altar. His very
shynesS, his inexperience in campaign
ing, the difficulty he finds in bringing
himself to a public appeal for funds,
the criticism that he is not a good fell
low. that he lacks the personality that
makes his opponent toss derby into
crowd as Souvenir-the fact that he
takes with dignity and without malice
the unfair opposition which has been
heaped upon him-theSe are the things
which made him an acceptable leader
10 the successful woman in the bust
ness world. To the club women, who
has learned the value of efficient or
ganization, he carries a special appeal
because of his executive genius and his
ability to weld many diverse elements
into smoothly working whole.
No one who has ever worked with
Herbert Hoover fails to be impressed
profoundly by the simplicity and the
sincerity OF this man. Granting reli-
giouS liberty to all Others he Is truly
and deeply religious himself He be-
ieves in the goodness of human beings,
and he believes the world is moving 10
higher standards and cleaner souls. He
takes literally the biblical injunction
that the right hand should not know
what the left hand does. His acts of
kindness have neither motive nor pre-
meditation.
Dislikes Picture Taking.
Early in this years campaign politi-
cal managers began to fear the So
called human interest" appeal of Gov
Smith He is such human being"
women were told, and they we're shown
pictures of the zoo in Albany, pictures
OF the governor in Boy Scouts camps.
and others with his genial smile, hold
ing baby or careSsing some child be-
fore the camera.
Mr.. Hoover looked at these pictures
and charitably said, II have no doubt
they express the governors kind ma
ture." But he would not pose; photo
graphers, campaign managers. personal
friends, appealed in vain. Occasionally
Mr.. Hoover or the whole family had to
sit for official pictures. He went
through it like q MARTYR.