The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-11-07
istration policies to the burden O their grievance against him.
 Scandals of 1924

pot dome and the other charges
 against his fel,cw cabinet mem
 Ders, Fall and Daugherty. broke,
 Secretary Hoover and his asso-
 clates in administration stood back
 awhile. There was little else to do, except to fend off the attempts Ito muddy up their own records, un-
 til President Coolidge, triumphant fly elected, demonstrated that the
 country considered guilt in the
 matter personal to individuals and
 not general to the Republican party. The next three years gave
 Hoover opportunity for appearing
 at his best, as disasters in the
 Mississippi valley and in Vermont brought him cut to organize sue
 cor. Between while he had been
 tentatively putting together the clements of a policy that an elect cd Presiden. might carry along.
 He drafted and presented a plan for making waterways a real asset to the country's commerce, open
 ing the Mlssissippi-O -Ohio- Missouri channels and adopting the scheme for a ship canal into tho Great Lakes. Like everything elso in politics, that carried and carries opposition as well as support. He early sought to bring about con tact between the seven states h. terested in the Colorado river for use of it's waters and greIat scale development. One of them. Arizona, bucked the alignment and with a failure on local agreement nat.on- al dissensions quickly developed.
 He joined, to the hufit amaze ment of some of his old European associates, wholeheartedly in the demand of the Coolidge adminigsra- ton for collection Of the var le5ts from Allied nations to fae full cepachy of taeir payment.
 u Heep q BOpl AuQ Asl lul Ng.u1i- merce Department when Ihe.c was not committee session or two for the secretary to attend, and a bad week when new campaign was not initiated. All of it was ac- companied by effective publicity work.
 In the midst of the activity he inspired and led, he dwelt the seven years and remained always the same person, outwardly inn passive, unmoyed, generally silent. Yet he is highly sensitive and al- most uniquely aware of criticism. Application of attention to duties before him is continual rather than intense. Running organizations is almost a habit with him, and every Hoover machine had some thing of the same characteristics. Somebody at the top would be re- sponsible to him for it's Junction. ing, and then in it there would be a parallel machine, Of func- almost casually report- ing to him personally on the quail ties of the ostensible leaders. A9- proachable by anybody, there is considerable doubt that anybody got awfully close to Herbert Hoo yer The most intimate associa- tes speak of the Chief" and have a little awe in the mention. Mostly every man who got an honor or q job from Herbert Hoover had the clear notion that he had to make good or get out. 1t is an odd at mosphere in politics, but it has always clung to the associations Hoover built.
 As said besoae, the dinners rep resented the consolidating element n the long campaign. The Hoo 1ers never dined alone, and fre luently they dined with many, in ! vogue somewhat removed from he formal. It was heterogen- |, 'us company that passed through he dining hall, and many of them Hoover, with the able aid of Mrs. | Hoover, won. Nearly everybody |, n congress and diplomacy. and wen in journalism toward the nd of the seasons-passed through he invitation lists. The two hildren of the family, grown and way, left the secretary and his Vife free to the whole hearted en- engagement of the army of people 'yentuaily enlisted to make him resident. In the limited groups hat a dinner table can accommo- late, Hoover's real likeability, his rasp and his fitness were easily rought out.
 But the work never ceased. From inc to six each day the man was t his office or meeting elsewhere eople to whom he told things or Gho told him. Regularly he kept nree private secretaries busy and n occasion supplemented the orce. The pace would get him nee in while, and then he would ie off to d trout stream of the cast waters to catch a fish. Even :
 Presidential campaign may ap- ear in sort a vacation to a man nose preparation for 1t was so llIch aQanoiafad ...i4i. x.1z