Evening star., 1930-10-26
HOOVER'S RECENT
SPEECHES PRAISED
Editor White in New G. O. P.
Weekly Tells Ideals Look
ing to Greater Era.

In the second number of Washington,
the weekly publication recently begun
by Republican leaders, which came out
yesterday, william Allen White, in an
editorial, declares that four recent
speeches by President Hoover ''embody
ideals of American Government" and
gives these speeches high praise.
Mr. White refers to the speeches at
Cleveland, Boston and Kings Mountain
as -four major speeches One was
directed toward the American bankers,
one was for the Legion at Boston, the
third was directed to organized labor,
In convention at Boston, and the fourth
at Kings Mountain pictured the Amer
lean ideal.
Mr.. white declares the speeches were
not casually conceived and were parts OF
one message, "a lofty appeal to the
American people for a major polltical
program"
"The program" Mr. White says, "was
not necessarily a legislative program.
Government Welfare Tool.
'It would necessitate the extra legal
cooperation: First, Of organized capl-
tai through the banks and the leaders
of finance; second, through organized
labor: third, through the men OF the
younger generation; and fourth, the
program challenged the attention. the
homen1aker. Briefly stated, the Presi-
dent was saying to the country: Gov
ernment is only one of the many tools
to be used In promoting human vel.
fare. Cooperation between labor and
capital outside of Government Is
definite workable tool in our days OF
depression through organized credit ana
the patriotic wisdom of our leaders OF
finance We have gone through a
fvaI
fest in strikes. The restraint, the
moral courage, and the wisdom dis
played during this year of stagnation
and unemployment have developed an
attitude of mind, noble courage and
Judgment which, If it can continue and
set itself into the habits Of the people,
will be institutionaliZed outside of poll
tics and a tremendous engine for the
promotion of national welfare and in
ternal peace.
Then he said to the men of the
Legion: Your high place in the pat
tern of the new scheme is to make SEN
timent for peace, to restrain those OF
your fellows who would 60 too lar and
too quickly in these heavy days. For
unless we can have peace through In
ternational good will, the cost Of peace
through building ships and armaments
will make recovery impossible in a
war-burdened word.
Promise to Labor.
ITO labor he held forth a promise
that America would 60 further toward
abolishing poverty, toward making a
standard of living so high that every
man who would work might find work
at wage high enough to provide for
a self-reSpecting home in which might
be found all of the common luxuries
produced by our sophisticated clyiliza-.
ton. And the climax Of this ideal found
its statement most eloQuently pro-
claimed in the Kings Mountain speech.
In this speech, the President set forth
his notion of the American ideal, of its
physical statement in. a. minimum
standard of living which should be the
common heritage of all Americans, and
Of his conception of the spiritual ideal
TO which Americans must hold If they
do abolish poverty intellectually as well
as in It's economic phases. 1t was a
noble speech Millions of his country
men were thrilled by it. That speech
deserves a high place in American ora
tory Yet it wasn't political speech
It was the calm, qualified declaration
of a realizable hope for better things
on this continent. II was more than an
essay, that Kings Mountain speech. 1t
foreshadowed many things. One who
reaOS JIlaJ CdIl see IIlat t1eIDcIL 11OONCi
is deeply dissatisfied with things as they
are that he is a Progressive; that he is
ready now to submit blueprints and
specifications for the world in its i'm
mediate next stage. There was speech
of a seer looking beyond horizons into
another and better day"
Articles on Government.
Numerous articles on governmental
matters feature the publication. In an
interview with Gen. Frank T. Hines,
director of the Veterans Bureau, 1t Is
set forth that the goal sought by Gen.
Hines is veteran relief on permanent,
rational basis
One page is devoted to the many i'm
portant positions In the Government
which are filled by women. Much at
tention Is given to the unemployment
relief program Of President Hoover.