Evening star., 1928-10-27
ROUGHTON LAUDS
HOOVER WAR WORK
Former Envoy to Germany
Cites Relief of ouakerS Un-
der G. O. P. Nominee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, October 27.-A deScrip-
ton of American relief work in Ger
many, following upon the World War,
was drawn last night by Alanson B.
Houghton, former Ambassador to Ber-
lin. now Republican candidate for
United States Senator from New York
in an address to the Engineers Club.
Prefacing his remarks with the state
ment that he wanted to disprove
charges that Herbert Hoover was
careless or Indifferent to the welfare
of German children" MT Houghton
recounted his own experience with the
aid and supervision given the relief
work by Mr.. Hoover
He told of women waiting in line
for hours to get single potato to feed
their children: of young boys and girls
dying of lack of nouriShment and of
the fight to help them waged by Mr.
Hoover; of the distribution of bundles
of food by the Quaker relief organiZa-
ton on Christmas eve, 1929; of Mr..
Hoover helping in this work while he
at the same time was carrying on the
gigantic task of distributing food to
the needy families of Belgium, France
and other parts of Europe.
Il wish you could have gone with
me when 1 went to inspect the child
feeding conducted by the Quakers," Mr..
Houghton said. These children were
not Ill. They were badly under
nourished. And owing to the scarcity
of supplies, only those children could
be given that one meal who produced
first a doctors certificate.
Work of Quakers.
'The Quakers came and they brought
with them love. They knew nothing
and cared nothing about religious or
political divisions. They came to bind
up the wounds and to break down the
hatred
II wish I had words to tell you some
without oStentation or the blare of
trumpets. They came hurnbly to do
their Masters work. and as used to
see them, men and women, carrying on
day after day, always calm, sympathetic
and understanding and the Quaker
Herbert Hoover, stood behind and
directed this work.
Ambassador Houghton then described
the Christmas season of 1922 in
Germany. There was little food and
little COAL" he began. Berlin was bare
OF the green Christmas trees which
always had lined the streets.
Il wish you could have seen the
Christmas eve performance that year
in the opera house. 1t was given over
entirely to children. There were no
gifts for them. But the best of the
German opera singers volunteered and
sang for them. The opera house was
unheated. 1t was only half lighted But
1t was filled to the roof with children.
Feat of Hoover.
People were not giving much in
those days to Germany. They did not
know, or it would have been different.
But whenever I think of that evening.
I see the figure of the one man who
more than any one others, despite the
passions of those after-war years,
represented American helpfulness and
Americas desire to aid-Herbert
Hoover.
What would have happened without
him and his courage and his resource,
do not care to think. This is not poll
tics. We have right to differ POLITICAL
ly. We have not only the right, but the
duty to vote for the candidate and the
party. which we believe will best serve
the country. But there are some things
we must not do And I think that the
memories of those days, if recalled, win
make further misunderstanding inpos-
slble" Is
Mr. HOughton also dealt at consider
able length with the prosperity of the
United States which he ascribed to the
higher efficiency of American workmen,
higher wages, the use of machinery and
Q protective tariff