Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-06
NJ ADOO CR|T|C|zES
HOOVER WAR FAME
Says President Got DiStinc-
tion distributing Free
Food" but Spread Alarms.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 6-Herbert
Hoover Is criticized for having greatly
alarmed" the country during the war
by dire prophecies" of a food shortage
in an autobiography of William @. Nc
Adoo, Democratic Secretary of the
Treasury from 1913 to 1918.
The son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson,
in a book being published tomorrow
which he calls Crowded Years" also
says Of Mr.. Hoover: His chief diStinc-
ton had been acquired in distributing
free food to the Belgian people in 1915
and 19l6-a celebrity easily won, l
fancy, as I judge from long observation
that the job of giving away things re-
quireS very little wear and tear on ones
ability.
After this accomplishment, Hoover
was appointed Federal focd admins
traitor by the President and that
started him on his road to the White
House" 20
British Shortage Kept Secret. 2
In another reference to. Mr.. Hoover,
Mr.. McAdoo tells how the adniinistra-
ton, during 1918, was keeping from the
public, FOR fear of its effect upon the
morale of the allies" the fact that there
was only o two-week supply OF food left
In England and that rations had been
reduced all over Europe.
In It Mr.. McAdoo says Mr.. Hoover
declared the shortage was extremely
serious and blamed the railroads
"At that time" the book continues,
"the railroad administration (of which
McAdoo was the head had the matter
well in hand, and the problem was
being solved rapidly. Hoover must
have known Of this, as he had every
~ ~ int
After declaring the interview alarmed
the country, Mr.. McAdoo says:
mo doubt his (Hooyer's) statement
was promptly communicated to Ger
many, through the secret news service
of our enemies. and gave comfort to
their waning hopes"
Then he relates that after an I'M
satisfactory exchange OF communica-
tions Mr.. Hoover appeared at his office
with Ibis legal adviser, Mr.. Glasgow, OF
Philadelphia"
Hoover Sat Silent.
Glasgow did all the talking" Mr.
McAdoo writes. Hoover sat with down
cast eyes, like a difident schoolboy.
Beyond the greeting when he came in
| and his good-by l do not recall that
he had anything to say. Glasgow told
me, on Hoover's behalf. that MI.
| hoover TSBTcLOcQ otdbCHlClb
McAdoo says he told the attorney
| Mr.. Hoover should make his complaints
to the proper authorities and not to
the public.
Mr.. Glasgow said, while Mr.. Hoover
made a minute examination OF the
| floor, that Mr. Hoover would do that
! in the future. Mr. Glasgow finished
! his say, Mr.. Hoover completed his in
spection of the floor, and they too;
| their departure
The book describes the late Warren
c. Harding's Senate speeches as AN
army of pomDoCS phrases moving over
the landscape in search of an idea"
Opposes Debt Cancellation.
Mr. McAdoo takes a firm stand
against cancellation of the debts.
Amplifying an idea advanced by
Lord Rothmere III 1919. he suggests
England and France turn over to the
United States neil possessions in the
| West Indies and French Guiana. That
would pay about half their debt, h.
says.
The balance he would have liquidatcd
by having the Two countries buy, with
government BONDS, stock in their own
steamship, telephone and telegraph
lines, railroads anG manufacturing in
duStries and tu.n them over to this
country.
To pre-, ent a crippling now Of gold
he would have the United States agree
not to accept any dividends fer 10 Oh
20 years, the .esurn instead to be re-
invested in the Industries.