New Britain herald., 1928-08-22
HOOVER GOES TO
 CEDAR RAPIDS NOW
Says Goodbye to Boyhood Scenes
 Starts Campaigning

West Branch. Iowa. Aug. 2e w. Bidding goodbye to his old home town. Herbert Hoover renewed to- day the grind of the campaign as republican presidential candidate after a day and a night amid the environments of his boyhood.
 Cedar Rapids. 30 miles to the northwestward, was his next objec- tive. Awaiting him there were party and farm leaders. as well as news paper editors with whom he had enga gements for general discus sion of agricultural relief, Two in- tensive days had been arranged for the nominee at that city and as a consequence the hour of his depar- ture Thursday has been set forward, delaying his arrival at Washington until late Friday night.
 While at Cedar Rapids. the nomi- nee will stay at the estate of George B. Douglas. on the edge of the town. but will have his headquarters at the Roosevelt hotel. where his con- ferences will be held. Mrs. Hoover will remain with him until early afternoon when she will go to her own birthplace at Waterloo. nearby. | for her own homecoming celebra- l ton.
 En route to Cedar Rapids, Hoov- CT was to stop over at Iowa City to view the old state capitol and to talk farm relief with Walter A. Jessup, president of the State uni | versity of Iowa. On his arrival at Cedar Rapids he was to go to the Douglas estate, Brucemore, and there review a parade of the boys and girls of the town. The remain der of the days schedule called for luncheon and conferences.
 With the passing of Hoover te other fields and the disbanding ol the crowd of more than 15,o0o who swamped this little town for his homecoming, the great day in the villages history passed into the realm of memories which most o' the 700 odd natives doubtless ofter will recall. They will think of Hoov. CT as he passed again into the mod est little cottage of his birth fol breakfast with Mrs. Jennie Scel lers; as he went to pay his homa g at the graves of his mother anc father atop the hill to the eastward and as he set out 10 find the ''olc swimming hole" which proved tt be so elusive that two trips wer, necessary to locate 1t.
 And finally. perhaps. will come. tn, most impressive recollection of all that of the distinguished native sol as he slowly descended the tempor ary stairway leading down into tn
 bowl behind the brick high schoo to receive the acclaim of the thron overfiowing the tents. It was il that place and in that setting, tha
 the republican standard bearer gay his second message to the countr. one dealing first with boyhood mem
 orles ard secondly with farm relic
 AS he called up recollections c
 his childhood and the passing of hi
 father and mother. the nomine
 showed a surge of emotion. but as h
 passed to the childish pranks of tn long ago he had his audience laugh
 irg and then applauding as he gay
 l pledge that if elected his admins
 tration would seek sound solutio
 for the ills of agriculture. Th
 crowd manifest its approval of hi promise to call in the leading farm
 CTS of the country. among them fol ' mer Governor Frank o. Lowden. ( Illinois. one of the strongest of h opponents in the race for the pres dcntial nomination. in an effort
 find "a common ground upon whic , we can find d common solution" Hoover seemed to be more | home in facing an audience of h ] fellow Iowans than he has been
 any other meeting of the Campaig He was given an ovation as he al I pcared and another as the mcetir . broke up after the singing of "Tl . Star Spangled Banner" in which MI
 Hoover and her sons. Herbert. J, ). and Allan. joined with a. will. IT . movement of the nominees lips i, IS dicated that Hoover too was repea }. ing the words, although his voice w
 lost in the sound of the more Jus