The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-09-25
HOOVER ACCOM-
PLISHED MUCH
IN HIS TERM
By Otis Cover

Nopeeldl 10 lit NEWS. w doH-
! ington. Sept. 22.-Apparently it
is just as easy to go through a
feverish political campaign with
out having to listen to malignity
and abuse as it is to wade across
the Atlantic without getting your
feet wet. Well knowing what is
to be expected, the wise ones put
on ear-muffs or a bathing suit.
as the case may be, and are pre-
pared for the worst.
If to err is human, and if no
mortal is infallible, the ablest and
best intentioned leader must some
times make mistakes. A task may
be undertaken with assurance of
successful completion and fail for
an error of judgement. Caution not
| to make the same mistake twice
may be unnecessary but it is not
therefore out of place. The sim
cerely ambitious worker invites
eriticism-even so called "destruc-
tive" criticism-for a worthwhile
subject of criticism will discover
for himself the remedy. You may
drive the old car after having been
dependably advised of its danger
Gus defects and after a decision
to discard it, but it does not follow
that your advisors will agree upon
the make and type of car with
which you ought to replace it.
However, it is one thing to
frankly criticize a man for an
obvious mistake even if made with
the best of intentions, quite an
other thing to berate him for what
you consider mistake when 9TH
ers disagree with you, and still
another thing to lay at his door
step responsibility for an afflic-
ton or a coincidence of afflictions
beyond human control.
How any man with brains and
a disposition to use them, who IS
neither candidate for office nor
a paid press-agent for the candi-
dacy of someone else, can be IN
accord with the now disclosed pol
icy of the Democratic campaign
managers is inconceivable. Tn
doubtedly the first half of the Ho-
over administration was not per.
feet and in al human probabilities
the last half will not be, but nc
more so was that of any president
in our history-not even excepting
the revered Lincoln-nor will be
that of any future president. lie
magnify inconsequential errors is
bad enough, even if most of us are
old enough to recognize an attempt
to make mountain out of a mole.
hill; but to traduce a Chief Exc.
cutive, whose powers are consti
tutionally restricted, who is bese'
on all sides by everything from
ill-motivated sycophants and hun
CRY lob hunters to openly and VIC.
lently hostile legislators, is az
outrage which seems to be coun
tenanced only in the dregs of part
isan avidity and fanaticism.
No president in our history, II
the time of peace, has been con
fronted with SO many and such
complex problems as Herbert Ho
over has been called upon to sol
ve-and remember that a presi
dent alone is powerless to make
practical use Of his solutions. A
general may promise to win bat.
ties, and he is justified in basine
that promise upon his confidence
in the loyalty of his troops. He Is
not necessarily stultified if thert
is mutiny, or if trusted but dis
Loyal skirmishers cut off his sour
ce of supplies; still less should h'
be blamed for acts of God whlct
destry the bridges in front of hin
or spread a virulent epidemic thu
oughtout his camps.
So far as is within the power Of
any man less than superhumal
President Hoover has kept his pre-
election promises. He did not turn
over the United States Treasury
to the afflicted farmers, but h'
launched a relief ship which, while
it could not reach its destination
overnight, will arrive in time anc
on time in spite of the machlna
tions of wreckers and pirates. liz
did not put the entire Department
of War at the disposal of the Anti
Saloon League, but he did employ
| all Of the powers delegated to ms
high office to bring to light th'
cause of law enforcement and com
pei law observance. He did not pu'
the government into competitor
with private business enterprise
in order to provide work for those
unwillingly idle, but he did dos'
the aforesaid business enterprises
) with a tonic-to take effect as ra
pidly as is safe for the patients
which has led to employment-cre
ating activities, and he did star
the wheels of government mach
inery requiring thousands of OPP
eratives long before they woulf
| normally have been set in motion
: He declined to permit a runaway