Milford chronicle., 1932-10-07
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He only is rich who understands
and helps.-Robert Collyer.
OF course it is to be expected tina
a lot of silly chatter and foolish en-
dictments must creep into ever,
national political campaign. The sill
liest thing that the Democrats hav,
pulled in this campaign is the effor
to brand Herbert Hoover as disqual
flied for the job because he is a ricI
man. If Herbert Hoover is not gooC
presidential timber because of his
personal wealth, then Franklin
Roosevelt is positive menace. He
is rich.
Hoover was born in pinching pov.
erty in the little town of West
Branch, Iowa, where every home is
humble. No less than Lincoln, Hoo
yer came from the common people
a people Franklin Roosevelt never
knew. His mother never knew what
it was to lend a cup of sugar to a
needy neighbor. Hoover's mother
did.
Franklin Roosevelt was born with
a gold spoon in his mouth and he
has never had that gold spoon out
of his mouth. Unlike his distinguish
ed kinsman Theodore Roosevelt,
who was likewise born affluent and
of the once catalogued -four hun
dred," Franklin Roosevelt never
went west to know the plainsmen.
To him the man with hoe is a pic
ture in the art museum.
To Franklin Roosevelt the village
blacksmith is a nursery poem. But
Hoover knew him. He was a bread
box filler. Hoover knows the music
of the anvil, the wheeze of the bel
lows. He can now measure the white
irons yield to the hammers fall.
And Franklin Roosevelt knows
nothing of these things.
Franklin Roosevelt was a very
nice rich mans boy. Sure he was,
and that was all right. He was very
we'll dressed in his pinafores and
Lord Fauntleroy velvet suits with
broad starched collars, neatly iron
ruffled edges. But even u rich boy
may become great President If. he
learns how to play fair and demand
a square deal.
1t is all fine and proper and
DraiseH olthy for a Harvard trained
youth of great wealth to seek to
serve the people. But such a youth |
becomes a cheap little Lord Faunt- !
eroy when, without ais rebuke, his
condemn his opponent |
or having what the ricn boy him
,elf has in excess.
AS a child Herbert Hoover enter
aimed himself with sticks and tacks,
strings, wires and nails and the as
iortment OF things the village !.
mithy leaves scattered in the shade
# the spreading chestnut tree.
franklin Roosevelt played with i'm
Dorted toys under the tuteIage and
OF a governess, or nurse,
whichever is the nicer term. Poor
race to point the finger of scorn at
Ioover and call him ''rich."
Herbert Hoover went to the
ountry school. They say he was a
ather shy, difident child, for even
here he sensed that most of his
laymates, all from humble homes,
vere protected by fathers, who were
fluent compared 10 the kindly un-
lie who guarded the orphan.
Franklin Roosevelt went where I
ich boys go, to Groton, the most
Xclusive preparatory school in Am {
RIGA. Then he went 20 another rich
lan's school, Harvard. With his
nall savings Hoover got in Stan ;
)rd. By laundry work and other {
Use he got every nickel that took {
i'm through. He g aduated with the
Ioneer class. s
Herbert Hoover came from the {
ain people and he has always low {
them as Lincoln did. Hoover's {
;ceptance speech last August 12 ]
i'll go down into history as one of i
e greatest spiritual pronounce
ents of any American PresidenT. /
was full of human tenderness. 1t E
as not erich mans" utterance. 1t
as character. y
Herbert Hoover has assumed t
eat responsibilities. He has been +
great humanitarian and as Presi- d
mt of the United States he has C
Id fast to his firm faith that the V
nerican people are sufficient unto n
emselves and will triumph over "
y world catastrophe. +
While others, like barking ter H
,rs, have been yipping and snap t;
1g with criticism but without the o.
adow of a creative idea, Hoover H