Evening star., 1928-06-15
WON WORLD FAME
WHEN WAR OPENED
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Carried Burden of Relief for
Americans Stranded in
Europe.
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

went very hard with him. With many
nlisgivings. he looked forward to being
passed around between various uncleS
and aunts, but he faced the future
bravelv.
Everybody in the village said he was
good boy. ana never caused any
trouble but it was too bad he did not
care more for his studies.
Eight years later in Oregon he be-
came so bored at a Quaker academy
conducted by one of his avuncular
guardians that he quit and plunged into
husiness-as an office boy in that rela-
tive's real estate Office in Portland.
Won Many College Degrees.
Forty years later this boy, now grown
10 vigorous and mature manhood, had
so many college degrees that he could
not remember them all. If one might
judge from this almost unprecedented
list OF honorS conferred by famous in
stitutions of learning in many coun-
tries. he might be considered the most
learned man, at least among those of
his own profession. in the world.
Today, with splendid record Of per-
aonai achievement and OF service TO his
own country and mankind in general
already to his credit, this one-time or
phRn boy is the nominee OF the Repub-
lican party for President of the United
States. His name is Herbert Clark
Hoover.
Although Hoover's name was we'll
known In the business world, and espe-
cially in mining circles. in nearly every
country on the globe prior to 1914, it
was not until that year that the gen.
eral public in this country and Europe
began TO know that there was such a.
man as Herbert Hoover. In the tense
days of August, 1914, the swift German
rush across Belgium into France brought
home the fatal significance of war TO
legions OF Anericans-pleaSure seekers,
tourists and students-who annually
scatter across the European continent
These unfortunate Americans during
the first clash Of arms in the World
War found money almost worthless and
bank credit wholly SO. Cities were
dark. trains no longer ran, countrySides
were denuded OF shelter and subSiSt-
ence. and the alien and the stranger
could no longer look for tolerance nor
assistance In escaping from his nnfor-
tunate plight.
The news Of the predicanent of these
hapieSs vlsftants began TO come over TO
the United States in cabled dispatches
TO the newspapers, and Ii was then that
the American people learned that an
American relief committee had been
hastily organized In London, and that a
man named Hoover had become the
head OF it and assumed the big respon-
sibllity Of getting these stranded tray
elers out Of the war zone.
It appeared that the task was being
performed with almost incredible swift
ness and remarkable efficiency.
This was the beginning of q decade
Of high-pTessure work and ever-widen-
ing responsibility for Hoover The
height Of the var found him chief 6i-
rector Of the effort Of the allied coun-
tries and the United States to subsist
their populations and their armies. Nor
did the cessation of the World War end
his activities He had bounded into a
position In American political life that
kept him constantly In the public eye.
He continued TO undertake major duties
fn connection with supplying provisions
for the exhausted peoples Of Europe and
Asia. and eventually was made men,
Der Of the cabinet as Secretary Of Com
n1erce by President Harding, q position
which he retained under President
Coolidge.
Ability as Organizer.
with personality curiously gifted and
cllr3olsiv constrained, 1t is doubtful
whether anything but a social upheayal
sstch s& war could have brought Hoover
10 the front rank Of American political
life He Is not an orator. he has not
the magnetic" personality that won 80
many frsen1s for Theodore Roosevelt
and William j. Bryan. He had never
sought publicity. but was always con-
tent 10 pursue his way quietly In his
ox'n chosen field Of engineering and
mining.
Fxxe4 ~sa @tnm &k~na "a z.mx - S~A..&4f.,a
grasp OF group psychology. II taught
him f0w 10 organize industry On large
scale. and was largely responsible for
his remarkable and worldwide success
tn the business world. It helped him 10
meet the huge emergencies Of famine
and peStzlence brought on by the war.
BIT In his contact with strangers up
70 that time he was innpassiye, indrawn,
apparently incapable Of dernonstFative-
ness and deVoid Of irnpEessiyeness.
Those who listened TO him In those
early days when he occasionally read
sitkl do2ged pegslStence most naeaty
b1s very tedious speech say that he
fff%eY eNccesce6 In aT01sir1g any thrills
IN hi stadseTce, except perhaps among
a sRegg small number ~ his hearers
Hut those VINO wfEe OH hand during
tkea many crises In his career after the
WlTao War began were fairy beWtiAeTed
D# fg1A GonDsefe transformation in his
manner that came about when be was
uadeE high pressure His making DE-
yaeanor fell from him In the clash of
conference cE under the k3ammering oi
iN9EEase eTGss~ezana3nztt0n before q ma
sgr public tribunal. Then he would 20
into aetioa 2S a man, cool and cuEtIy
iHctgive ~ ~ speech, commanding ap-
D2feggag unsurpassed knowledge Of men
affairs and ScAefce. and brilliantly az.
1feSssyf TN the display of viii IN
dominate ard NJ capacity ~ carry for.
NAHd his plans gttn Success
With ii 1fIakeFigI1 soIemnity. dktgkt.
les inherited from his long line oi
1g1akeg sneestofs. Hoover n3izAs an Vn-
@zpectEc sefaSe " banaof. His father
fFae Slgi&ge blacksmith tn his native
tgwn, ~as a ''gGod Gizer" and deagjs
t5Fe1 q Segf on himself GT others His
distinguished s,Jrl hes the tame char.
ectegi8t1E
kHSgys EenysTAallen
III soEae ~ igis mast grave writings
one frequently fE6a hidden nugget oi
gsafe lqasgDgF most naturally II ifaGIyfl.
ertgg9siy adjusted ~ the solemn fsfta
ss,ogt Wfalcb he IL writing. Al6o much
~ his N1ltteu matter is shot through
with pgEgfsTt phrases anc grlglnEi cpl
RgzBgE Hi3leiI Set fGf4n h5S views viii
aeAaG fkasyle csezFIEss.
BE e9 50ya congerAa tim end hts init
males have always valued znd slti
sslae, heyo1aa price ffae odd halt hour
xsaen, speaking in b nllaa9A0ge oyer /
aEsglGegiag cigar. b1e gtyee away in
reminiscent nasS96 ~ an impulse ~ re
count marvellous tales NJ struggles witt
Geg.s a04saoFe IN China, romantic hunt
for underground mineral treasure ans
thrilling experiences with reyoliIttg8tat
ag3d bandits sa many lands.
E0ogeg GgFaeE from Colonial St5ek
His first sneeeteg IN THE country. No fs
81 authenticated records 30, yss Andre
gsG0geF, who Ws& Df0eaDlg ~ iA1f0t