Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-01
The Presidents Speeches.

Not even excepting his speech of
acceptance in 1928 or his inaugural
address in 1929, have any utterances
by Herbert Hoover been awaited with
such expectancy as those he is about
to deliver in Ohio Massachusetts, and
North Carolina. The President is off
today on this partial swing around the
circle, by way of the opening world
series clash at Philadelphia. Tomor-
row night at Cleveland Mr.. Hoover will
speak before the American Bankers
Association. Next week he will appear
before the American Legion and the
American Federation of Labor in Bos-
ton. The day following the President
will be heard in Dixie on the anniver-
sary of the Battle of Kings Mountain.
The variety of the occasions and the
differing nature of his respective audi
ences will offer the Chief Executive
ample opportunity to discuss the state
Of the Nation in the multifarious phases
of 1t now engrossing the peoples atten-
ton. Naturally, his banking forum at
Cleveland provides atmosphere in which
it will be appropriate for Mr.. Hoover
TO deal with the overshadowing ques-
ton of business depression. In its off,
cial organ the Bankers Association
ventures to sound the keynote for to-
norrow's address before that body.
Fundamental changes in the finan-
cial and industrial outlook have oc-
CURED since the President made his
Ia Ef liz l..,-s
conditions" it says in discussing this
weeks conclave of high finance on
the shore of Lake Erie. The new
tariff mas begun to work itself out,
appointments have been made to
the Tariff Commission, commodity
prices have continued downward, the
drought has given the farmer an
other burden, the census has given
the country figures instead of guess
work concerning unemployment, new
problems of production, distribution
and transportation have arisen, the
Federal Reserve Board has changed
heads and the whole system and theory
Of banking in the United States is in
course of being investigated by three
different governmental bodies.
Not only the Nations bankers, but
the whole country awaits, with burning
interest Mr.. Hoover's news and views
on all these subjects. The President is
not blind to the fact that he is
personally blamed for the out-of- joint
ness of the times. The administration
political opposition, with its clamor
about the Hoover prosperity" has ele-
waited that accusation to the level Of the
paramount issue during the pending
congressional campaign.
II so far as the Republicans have
deigned to notice the charge, they are
pointing out with complete pertinence
that the President lost no time in
throwing the full weight of the Govern
ment into the sterilization scales at
moment when panic seemed just over
the horizon. No amount of sheer par
tisan attack can rob Herbert Hoover of
credit for that INSTRUMENTATION
which is destined to appear in its full
magnitude in less controversial and
economically happier times.
The President announces that his
Impending speeches will not be "politi-
car in character. In the sense that he
viii in no way intrude into the election
campaigns raging in the several States
he Is to visit, his declared purpose of
eschewing politics" will, of course, be
achieved. But in the realm of that
higher politics, which has to do with
the affairs of all the people-which is
the supreme province of government
Mr. Hoover has the floor. He is not
likely 10 miss his opportunity for plain,
helpful and informative speaking.
incidentally, his trip through Penn
sylvania and Ohio and into New Eng
land and the South should supply a
fair test of the Presidents status, amid
the prevailing unpleasantness, in widely
separated and typical parts of the re-
public. In all respects, the Hoover
travels in October are of outstanding
significance.