Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-02-28

organization of lis administration,
while he will have due regard for
the obligations of party affilation and
support, President Hoover will have
only the high Est possible efficiency
in mind. He realizes that if his ad-
ministration is success public senti-
ment will support him; any yielding
to pressure or expediency which may
impair the efficiency of his admins
tration will weaken public confidence
and make his task more difficult.
There will be no petty intriguing, no
playing to the galleries, no compro-
missing of principles, with a view to
the effect on another national cleo
ton.
1t is probable, indeed, that the
small variety of politics which is so
much on view in Washington, will
cease, in the light of President Hoo
ver's example, to be as popular as it
has been in the past. Perhaps the
leadership of President Hoover will
serve to impregnate many others with
the thought that the national govern
ment is too important an institution
to be made the football of personal
and partisan ambitions.
What of the Hoover era in nation
al affairs? Will it realize the expec-
tations of those who hope for so
much from new type of leadership
which is a symbol of the great
change that has made the functions
of our national government primarily
economic rather than political?
i That is not all up to Mr.. Hoover.
/ Much will depend ON the support CIV
en- him by those who elected him, and
by those millions who opposed him
for election to the Presidency but
who as loyal Americans have ac-
cepted the result and have the same
interest as their erstwhile adversar-
les in advancing the welfare Of the
American people. Much will depend
on the attitude Of legislative leaders
Of both the Republican party and Of
the opposition party as we'll.
There is reason to believe that we
are only on. the threshold of nation
al progress; at the beginning Of an
era of invention, organization and CO.
operation which will bring about that
abolition of poverty which Mr.. Hoo
yer has declared to be realizable
dream.
1.-THE American system of social
and economic service, as Mr.. Hoover
pointed out in more than one of his
notable campaign addresses, means
the widest possible diffusion Of pros
perity and opportunity. 1t means the
unloosing, rather than the claiming
of the sirit Of individualism which
has been responsible for our almost
miraculous national progress.
Americas service to the world de-
ponds upon the maintenance of our
own national heritage and ideals, moi
in accepting the outworn European
conceptions of the master state anc
the subject citizen, whether mon.
archical or socialistic. 1t depends up
on the maintenance of our nation
al economic as we'll as political indie
pendence. 1t depends upon the main
tenance of both moral and military
defense against the elements, from
within and without, which canno
comprehend the unique value of oul
national heritage and would destroy
it. 1t depends upon the greater earn
ing and wider diffusion Of wealth
the broader opening Of opportunit,
for the millions; upon better ant
happier homes, whose hearthstone!
Lshall become affairs of American pa
triotism. And thus may we assume
leadership in the world: by the pow
er of example and the influence of ou'
worthwhile achievements. We ma.
we'll hope to see our country trave
far on the way toward this goal un
der President Hoover.