The Washington times., 1928-04-21
Hooyer--+A National Asset

l. 4aon mains Ia analyze the lives of notable men, has
been struck by that many Of them have made
their greatest achievements in fields remote from those IN
which they began fe Further study usually reveals the
fact that their development and their training for the great
tasks thrust upon them in later life trace back to genius
for finishing what they start To such men circumstances
offer and different job the current one has
been completed rate always has and strange prob
lem in store for Biography affords countless exam
pies Of men with Unborn ability who built themselves up
into greatness By doing the thing at hand and doing
II SO wen that harder and familiar tasks naturally grav
their work viii lead them No distant goal diverts their
thoughts from the work in hand They do not even surme
the great particular achievement for which they in
rannr they do not chart out their in advance
but swept by the tide Of life into the jobs that need
them most.
Herbert Hoover conspicuous example Of such school
ing In his early professional life e mining engineer ne
lands he examined mineral properties and made recon-
mendaons American capitalists spent millions upon his
sayso American mining machinery traed him round the
globe His work and that of like him opened UP the
markets of the world to America just surely the work Of
early pioneers opened up this continent to the hordes OF
settlers who followed them,
During these years when he learning to know men and
metal ana now % gs me PEST out o. Mnsn .
ing organizations and forging himself into executive
Of order who can suppose be suspected that ths clouds
Of World War thckening and that he holding him
self into the sort Of who could at moments notice
Jump into the job Of sending the Atlantic Of
fellow counymen stranded In begerent countries and do
It as if he had never done anything else?
Or who can believe that in early life he dreamed his
activities would school him that he could head the vast
operations Of the American Relief Work with signal sue
cess feed starving European nations achieve by diplomacy
what could be wrought by force and length become
cabinet minister with genius for furthering commerce
and industry?
The main pattern of such mems lives is hard discern;
but after time it becomes plain as the present lights up
the past and reveals the nage between training and per-
forance AS time goes on the stages Of development
which at first seemed matters Of chance take on an
air Of plausible sequence length logical even
were strange schooling for future food administrator but
equipment for his achievement directing Red Gross activities
in behalf Of the homeless flood sufferers Of the Mississippi
Basin.
II view Of the expansion Of our foreign trade
exampIed loans other commercial invasion
81 lands across the sea- we need as we
high executives who know the markets and bourses and
chanceleries Of the whole world men who familiar
with conditions that they foster and protect
sound American business investment and development n
whatever part the globe they may have gained fcohod
qualifications the extent that Mr. Hoover possesses them
American business and industry are rich in great admins
traitors but all too few are in the service Of Government
and of these how have had intensive oversee alnng
Circumstances have favored Mr. Hoover in that they have
given him great opportunities for displaying ostanding
abilities They have not yet exhausted his repertoire OF
capacities Had he been put at the head of the State
ment his encyclopedia knowledge Of foreign peoples ther
reactions prejudice and psychologists would have
him through with distinguished credit Had he been made
Secretary Of Agriculture he would have done for the farmers
than he has done for manufacturers and business
Friends Of the farmer openly lament that they could
No other in America could much put
American farming sound basis of deserved and permanent
prosperity
With men of the Hoover stamp the incredible is forever
happening When Fate finds youngster who falls
down job intrusted to him. matter how hard or
strange no matter what obstacles beset him. she cannot let
him alone AS long lives and has his health she thruss
challenge after challenge job after job upon him. first in the
hope of seeing him trip atter1y that she may admire skill
and effectiveness Of his attack
Mr. Hoover is such His personality and his record
appeal to those who are used doing great things and hard
things and know their kind It is wonder that the big
broad gagged of the country those who pro-
ducers and who contributing its development
his saunchest supporters Nor is without significance that
those who have worked for and with Mr. Hoover his most
loyal adherents
They know his metal and they what has gone into
forging of it. They apprase at their value his knowledge
Of conditions the greater of the civilized his
unusual gift for working with other and commanding
their loyalty his intimacy with his land from to
coast his intensive schooling in official life and his sound views
business commercial and economic matters