The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-02-22
AN IOWA VIEW OF HOOVER

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President" the Sioux City (Iowa
Journal says:
In a little more than a fortnigh
the next president of the Unite
States will be inaugurated, ant
Herbert Hoover will begin hi.
administration. This has beer
known for some months. There
are some observers who would bt
quite willing to assert that they
knew it long before election day
so certain they knew it that the
republican party would remain il
power.
Yes as the date of the inaugur
alton draws nearer, Herbert Hoov
er looms more important in the
public eye. The American people.
already intensely interested in
him as the president-eIect, soon
will have the opportunity to see
him as the chief executive, head
of the federal government, popu-
larly described as the biggest
business that exists or ever has
existed. Naturally the interest is
heightened because of the know
ledge that Mr.. Hoover as president
will be altogether different than he
was as the republican candidate
for the presidency and than he is
as president-elect.
Someone has just called atten-
titon to the fact that for the first
time in American history a man
has been elected president of the
United States who owned none Of
the traditional qualifications OF the
high office, a man not a lawyer,
not a politician and not a soldier,
a man on horseback. Yet there is
an abiding faith, so far as the
great bulk of the American people
is concerned, in Herbert Hoover
as possessing qualifications suth-
cient, despite the fact that he is
not a politician, not a lawyer and
not a soldier. If, indeed, Uncle
Sans business is the biggest bust
ness in the world, the prime re
ouisite for the head of that
enterprise well might be described
as thoroughgoing efficiency. And
therein Mr.. Hoover qualities, bet
ter. perhaps than any of his pre-
%decessors.
A development in government
that has come in recent times has
been the city manager plan. 1t
has worked to advantage for every
municipality, so far as The Jour-
nal knows. In most cases, II not
in all, the services of an engineer
demanded. This, because Oh
the discovery that engineering ef-
fciency could be applied to gov
eminent. The efficiency OF the
engineer was depended upon for
the results that were desired
economy in the spending OF public
funds, improvement in the service
and administrative operation ac-
cording to approved methods.
Since the qualifications of the
engineer, the man trained to get
the most out of an undertaking
the requirements of the job
as city manager, one might believe
that this type of man was admir-
ably suited to run Uncle Sans
enormous business. Mr.. Hoover
is an engineer. He is not an en-
schooled and trained specIh-
cally for the work he will find in
the White House as chief execu-
tive of the United States, yet he
qualifications developed {
the years of his career as
engineer that car be applied
to his task. He is technical, not
only as an engineer but as an ad-
ministrative executive. He was |
technical as administrator of Bel {
gian relief, as American food '
administrator, as secretary Of the
commerce department, as standard g
bearer of the republican party in t
the campaign last summer and t
fall. He has an understanding of
economics probably as powerful as v
hat of any man living, He is a t
ogical thinker, who, because of C
lis technical engineering skill and 1
lis knowledge of economics, can I
.eason things out and reach a de-
conclusion. Herbert Hoover
S an analyst who starts at the be- v
inning Of a problem and goes on
Trough with it till he gets the t
olution. 5
That is the kind of man who will S
e president of the United States v
! a little more than two weeks. +
If. Hoover is fortunate in that ne i
i'll begin his administration I'M il
or favorable auspices. National fl
'osperity, international amity o