Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-09-18
Westinghouse Hoover Parallel ChaI-
legged By Nellie Ross.

Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross. former Governor
OF Wyoming and vice-chairman Of the
Democratic National Committee. has started
on q speaking tour which will take her into
thirty cities in the West and on the Pacific
Coast.
She said she would emphasize in every
speech a warning to Democratic women
who are members of non-partisan organi-
cations mot to permit themselves to be-
come parties 10 the dissemination Of Repub-
lican propaganda disguised as handbooks
or literature of their own organizations, ="
such as the recent George Washington
Herbert Hoover pamphlet Of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
This pamphlet, sponsored by Mrs. John
F. Slppel. of Baltimore. president Of the
federation. was designed for use in connec-
ton with the George Washington bicenten-
NAL celebration next year. II proposed
program to be used by wOmen's clubs in
celebrating the admission to citizenship Of
new citizens either by naturalization or
coming Of age.
The pamphlet used glowing terms in
drawing a parallel between Washington
and Hoover, attributing to the latter many
of the qualifications and abilities of the
first President.
Mrs. Ross asserted that the pamphlet
reads more like a partisan campaign
document issued by the Republican Ma
tional Committee in the interest Of the
candidacy of President Hoover for re-elec-
ton than like tribute from the members
of non-partizan organization Of women
to the memory OF the first President.
at is inconceivable." she added. that
the chairman and members Of the bicen-
tennial committee Of the federation were
unaware OF the fact that 1882 will be a
Presidential election year; that President
Hoover is already planning to participate
in that election as a candidate. and that
the parallel which is attempted to be drawn
between the careers of George Washington
and President Hoover will be certain to
lend itself to the political Interpretation.
'0n the other hand. il is difficult to
understand how these representatives Of
the federation can disregard the convic-
tons OF thousands of women. members of
the General Federation. who do not believe
that Mr.. Hoover merits the fUlsome CON-
parison with the first President which is
bestowed upon him in this pamphlet and
who are now doing everything in their
power TO limit Mr.. Hoover's services in the
White House to one term.
Washington was a great man and
successfully met the problems Of his day,
but unless seriously misfead the signs Of
the times large proportion Of our people
including thousands of Republicans, feel
that Hoover las utterly and completely
failed to cope with the problems that have
been presented to him.
THE pamphlet which is being circulated
under the name of the federation is written
upon the assumption that no one can
properly criticize the policies Of this Ad-
ministration. yet those responsible for il
cannot be oblivious TO the widespread
conviction that many Of the ills from which
our people are now suffering might have
been altogether prevented and could now
be greatly amelioraIed II the President
had displayed even the fraction Of those
qualities of leadership and decision with
which George Washington was endowed"
Mrs. Ross said that. as a member Of a
club affiliated with the federation and as
Democrat. Il am impelled to offer my pro-
test against the pamphlet issued in the
name Of the federation and to express my
conviction that il should be Withdrawn"
In conclusion she attacked the accuracy
Of some Of the contentious in the pamphlet.
Referring to the perorstion. which asserts
that "as Washington planned communica-
ton between the seaboard and frontier. so
Hoover has planned from coast to coast
marking trails through the air" Mrs. Ross
asserted that an air-mal line passed
through her home town OF Cheyenne under
the administration of Woodrow Wilson
'lone before Mr.. Hoover had decided to
which party he would give his allegiance