Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
SANDY SPRING SEEN
AS HOOVER SHRINE
Old Maryland Town Was
Near Home of Ancestors
of Chief Executive.

In seemingly romantic turn history
has cut back to the Staid little COM
munity of Sandy Spring, Md, only 20
miles north of the White House. 1t has
been ascertained that the Hoover fam
lily IN America originated there.
When PreSident-elect, Herbert Hoover
1ntored to Sandy Spring one Sunday
morning to attend service in quaint
Quaker meeting house. The community,
picturesque and historic, vet one of the
least known settlements In the Middle
Atlantic States, gave him cordial vel.
come, but his visit was not publicly
linked with the impulse that probably
actuated the journey. He was, in fact,
paying visit to the shrine of his FORE
fathers.
Biographers Of the President record
that he Is q descendant of one Andrew
Hoover, Colonial pioneer who held
farms in the uplaneis of Maryland"
meaning In the vicinity of Sandy
Spring. Andrew Hoover was a member
of the Society of Friends, and he threw
in his lot with the Friends who settled
in Maryland. His son moved into North
Carolina, his grandson pushed on to the
wilderness that Is now Ohio, later
descendants migrated to Iowa. Herbert
Hoover went even farther West, choos-
ing California as his home.
Registers Swing Across Continent.
Thus it is that in arriving at the
White House as the Nations President,
Herbert Hoover has prescribed a swing
across the continent that reaches for
has traverSed all sections In his own
experience. His journey at last links
his antecedents in a long line that
touches on many phases of American
life and leads from simple, dignified OBJ
security to the highest Office to which
his countrymen may aspire.
Down through the years which run
three decades back of the Revolution
the community of Sandy Spring has
maintained its entity, its traditions and
its isolation. It has been called a
Capital of Quakerisn1." It's residents
from generation to generation have
preserved an individualism character
istic Of their faith and have been corSp
tent to live their lives "far from the
madding strife
But because theirs is the rock from
which Hoovers were hewn their place
takes on new significance.
Sandy Spring has had a potent in
duence on American history. It eman-
cipated its slaves in ITO. it organized
. woMans club 10 years before the
Civil War. One OF its citiSeps invented
the refrigerator: another became presi-
dent Of the first railroad company (the
Baltimore & Ohio, and still another
designed the seal Of the State of Mary
land. Rotation of crops and fertiliza-
ton of farms first were practiced widely
In the community, its men and women
having the foresight and good. sense. to
turn from cultivation Of tobacco rather
than impowerish the soil ..
Ignore National Affairs.
But the world of society, politics and
fashion, the great realm of al. that has
come to be striking evidence Of what
this genera ton knows. as civilization, is
unattractive to the 200-odd residents,
who stand aloof. Their own historian
proclaims, "Our affairs are of a local,
not a national, character"
Where Is Sandy Spring?
Drive north from the White House
as the crow would ny, out fashionable
Sixteenth street. where embassies and
legations break the flags OF q dozen ma
tions, across the heights where Abraham
Lincoln made his friends uneasy on one