Evening star., 1928-06-15

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Nation owes a special responsibility To
agriculture as one of the great basic
industries upon which our happiness
and prosperity rest. He believes that
rational measures must be taken 10 the
end that tfiE farm producer shall be
placed on an equality with the indus
trial producer.
This great economist has solved
every other economic problem that has
come within his reach in a spirit OF
equality and justice. He who has mas
tered every other problem can be trust
ed by the American farm producer TO
propose the measures that win bring
lasting relief to the agriculture Of the
United States.
Heads Commerce Department.
Summoned by Republican Presi-
dent, Herbert Hoover commenced the
greatest romance of modern industrial
life He became the head Of the De-
partment of Commerce. Always a Re-
publican, always a believer that there
can be no satisfactory advance without
the rival policies of two-party system,
he found in the Republican cabinet a
field for expanding usefulness.
what benehcence he has made
that department to the business and
industrial world.
!. Into the Department OF Commerce
has been called the best talent that the
Nation could secure.
1T would be an endless task TO here
review his widely diversified efforts
while head Of the Department of Com
nerce. He has quickened the indus
trial activities Of the Nation. He has
proved that government business and
morals go hand in hand. His every act
has been touched by an impulse for
better things
1T was his initiative that prevented
the spread Of unemployment which had
brought Stagnation and despair TO the
rest Of the world. He fought TO a trf-
umphant conclusion a worldwide mo-
| nopoly which threatened the rubber
purchasers Of America.
He has made the Department of
| Commerce the most useful instrument
for the advancement OF the new eco
/ norS1ic world
I'm the midst Of crowdlng duties
there came q call that stirred his soul.
Human suffering once more was at the
gate.
THE Mississippi--that mighty stream
Of which Richard Golden said IT flows
bears upon its bosom the commerce OF
mighty continent broken over
the richest lands OF the South.
For the first time In history t0rren-
tiai rains fell In 30 States at the same
time. Six hundred thousand were
homeless; cities were flooded; the great
and noble South saw its richest posses
glons 90 under the deiuge.
TO whom should the President turn
| In such an hour of crisis?
40 whom but the administrator
whose public life had been a series OF
/ crowning triumphs in meeting human
emergencies.
ITO whom but To the man whose
name we present 10 you this day.
Foodstnffs Are Sent.
/ Within week, In conjunction With
/ the American Red Gross, the Secretaries
/ Of the Army and Navy. he had tele-
| graph lines strung. foodstufIg moving
and the noble and splendid leaders NJ
I the South. most of whom were Of po-
liticai faith not his own, from New
Orleans TO Memphis, organized for In
( slant service
/ "Ali the varied talents of trained
/ organizer and administrator were In
/ fun play. No more wonderful tribute
/ uttered by Hoover In the City of Mem
/ pi1is when the food was at ite crest OF
/ the gallant leaders Of the Eouth who
/ watched with him beside the raging
+ waters
This work has won for him the
/ gratitude of pnnumbered Americans
| Wll09E etalWart faith has led them
through the FetTeating waters IN build
/ their homes once more beside the great
/ lag0ons. They build because they have
! faith that the engineer whose name we
/ snail here consider viii supervise the
. means 10 hold back the floods Of ti1f
future and make their hoBesteads safe
for their children.
III the American people quarter
u century ago had vet about the
task ~ preparing man for the pfeei.
degicy, how could they have done more
~ equip him for those vast resp0nei
bllitiss than through the experiences
which have made up the romance o
this mans life7
He Hlay be called ths creature %
kIiE age. In many respects his age vii
be The reflection ~ himself.
II there n one quality which dOrni
nat6E tlis ihe@-wOfle 0yef1nagteftng de
sire that anin1atee his every act, II i
the passion ~ serve his country With
In his soul there Ki0Ws thai strong, Fo
bust, militant ABlerteantsniv Amer
icalsisD that WITH NOT be satisfied unit
II achieves his ultimate sim. the I'D
faDeemeflt " the welfare Of the peopi
: 0f the United states.
ITO insure ~ every American eaii
equal opportunity III lfaIigtisg ana edu
estien: 70 remove the dlu4Kery of ta
! American housewife; W Brighten IN
toll fgf the workshop. 10 find Tatt0la
j mt aFtifieisi means 10 Felleye the IFS
! | tFese ~ the producer, L0 gtimulst
; healthy business methods, ~ sdytss
] ~ encourage W pr0tkCt~ihege max
J the pattern he hsk been weaving N
/ fiIf last seven years for the d9fnegta
3 America 0f the future.
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