The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16
MOWERS LIFE STORY
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zing industry and later in meeting the huge emergencies of famine and pestilence. his contacts with strangers always exhibited him as impassive, indrawn, individual, in- capable of demonstrativeness and devoid of impressiveness.
 Mir. Hoover's passion for order and organization. extending even to the minor matters of personal outfitting, served to release his time and energy for application in an extraordinarily wide field. Ear ly in life he found the selecting of clothes nuisance, and conse- quently standardized his attire to set of dark blue suits and hard hats. samples which he kept park ed in a half dozen strategic points around the globe, ready to don when the habiliments currently serving gave way to wear and weather. On assuming office he put clipping bureau method | ically at the work of assembling all the adverse editorial criticism of his conduct fc~ his attention: blandishnent and praise wss left unread. Always student a, heart he had daily bundle of papers, articles. and discussions of scien- life economic. or political sub 1 ieets set aside for his home read ing at the late hour just preceding sleep.
 His own grasp of the theory and practice of getting thinss done. linked with the executive talent for finding and inspiring helpers. put him above the pressure of rou- tine in merely running govern ment department. and six months after he entered the cabinet he em- erged from a preliminary expand ing and renovating of the bureaus particularly assigned to him, free for additional duty.
 He was always thereafter snuff ] ing the breeze for scent of new things to do. and occasioning some heartburnings among cabinet as sociates by reason of the showing that Hoover was always ready to s'op over into anything anywhere"
 Through the door of his office in the commerce department there was dug when he assumed the post tiny opening. inconspicun"s- ly placed and covered by slide. that discreet secretary might observe the status of affairs w'th- in. A glance through it alwavs disclosed Mir. Hoover. in the rare moments when he was unoccupied at his desk. striding unhnrriedlv but with persistence to and fro ac- ross the room. There was much ab- out him to give the impression of controlled restlessness, as of a man conscious that emergency would give him delightful use of faculties otherwise nearly latent.
 The war was the occasion of the introduction of Mir Hoover to the general public, hut his career and accomplishment had been much be- yond ordinary long before. Born in West Branch, Iowa. August 10. 1874. the son of a black smith and Quaker mother. he had been orphaned by death of both parents before he was seven years old. Relatives with whom he then made his home moved to Oregon. and at 13 years he was faced with the task of earning his own living as boy worker in truck gardens. and later in city offices.
 Bent upon obtaining an educa- .ion. MT. Hoover worked his way into tand through the then newly founded Stanford University in Call ifornia, emerging in 1895 with a degree in mining engineering and geology. In the succeeding 20 vars, first as mine labOrer, then as mine manager and operator, in all the deserted places of the wor- Id where mineral wealth Is found, he made for himself a unique re- putation and a large fortune. To admitted technical uroficioncv as an