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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928.

MR. H. HOOVER

STORY OF HIS GRADUAL HISE TO FAME

MAN OF MANY PARTS

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His extraordinary broadminded-panion helper, and wife, was now ness was fostered from early child- the mother of his two children, hood. He was born on a farm in Hoover was in charge of mining Iowa, and a few years later he interests in Tientsin, when In moved to the Far West of the 1900 the Boxers raised their This upgrowing in banners, against all "foreign United States. a wide healthy expanse of country, devils." In this crisis, Hoover:

With a cool On the occasion of Mr. Hoover's with its varied scones, problems, proved his mettle. appointment as Secretary of Com and interests, taught young courage and a deop faith, hai merce, the following facts were Hoover to see, things in a big way. managed to guard the interests of published in various format-

His resolute hard work on the his own company successfully as the well as protect fanocent Chinese Probably there is no one in the farms provided him with world to-day who is more able to physical strength he so needed and from bloodthirsty soldiers.

By this time, Hoover had made | nevemplish big and useful things in used to advantage during his later as officient and honest a manner fe.

his reputation as a mining than Mr. Herbert Clark Hoover, of In 1801 he was ready for college.gineer, and also his fortune. From :the United States. He worked his "I don't want to go to a Quaker

way through college, he opened and school, or a college founded by genius was needed to pitch against manured mines, he fed millions, any other special sect," he said. grim nature, to wrestle from her Land now he is serving the United "I want to go where I will have a States Government in the capacity chance to seu and judge every- of Serretary of Commerce, (This thing fairly, without prejudice for post be recently resigned.) A or against any one line of thought" prominent member of the British What a broad outlook oven at this Parliament once said: "If England young age! could have availed herself

of

As A Student

such talent for organisation as Upon this conviction he entered Mr. Herbert C. Hoover has dis- Leland Stanford Junior University, played in feeding the Belgians, we in the state of California as the

MR. CHARLES CURTIS of Kansas, the Republican nominee for Vice-President of the United States of America.

should be a good deal nearer the end of the war than we are to-day.. Such men never fail to inspire us,

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now on Hoover went wherever

bosom precious metals.

The Great War, · When the Great War broke out in

August, 1914, we find the "Citizen of the World" in London as con- sulting engineer, directing vast mining interests, Thousands of American tourists were caught in the panic of fear, and all tried to cramble out of Europe, as fright ened and helpless children try to escape from. 3 sinking ship Hoover at once came to the fore, and all was confidence. He saw that something must be done, and it Was done affectively. "It took generalship," wrote one of the tourists, "to handle that stampede -to get people from the Continent Into England, to arrange for the advancement of funds to meet their needs, and to provide means of getting them back to America, They say he is a wonderful engineer," but I don't think he ever carried. through any more remarkable en- gineering feat than that was."

Feeding Belglum

Then came the news that poor- war-stricken Belgium was starving Relief work must be undertaken immediately and efficiently. Mr. Walter H. Page, then American

Ambassador in London, set Hoover

on the job, with this unqualified

indorsement, "If anybody can save

Belgium, he can." The resuli fully justified this confidence; and so when France, Russin, and other countries of Europe were starving. and the United States must be put on rations after she entered the

fray, again, "If anybody can save

them, he can.” And he did. "He

easily became the most construc tive man in American public life," proclaimed the New Republic.

During all this time, he never forgot the profession to which he belonged. As president of the

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axious to learn. As we gaze college; and with his characteristic States. A writer in the "Engineer- Shanghai. They escaped from the such thoughts not often occur to and managed the college laundry so "Under Mr. Hoover, the engineer them in Korea to complete their upon the careers of these men, do initiative and energy he started ing and Mining Journal" declared, Soviet in this boat with another family, named Mullkoff, who left 15: Why are they successful? successfully that he became is becoming an enormous factor for What is there in them that enables manager of many college activities constructive and disinterested journey by land them to tackle and succeed in big as well. "The way Hoover did service." things heredity, education. things" soon became one of the environment, personality, wealth? most firmly established traditiona

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Integrity,

Presidential Aspirations Before this work was anywhere

election of 1920 took place,

At

With a view to preventing pds. sible trouble and even suicides,

A

certain

Success smiles only upon those who of Leland Stanford Junior Univer- near completion, the presidential the Municipality of Greater Shang

self-denial, aity.

hat has issued an order forbidding sincerity, industry, sobriety, self- In 1895, Hoover graduated from testing his popularity, Hoover was culture, cheerfulness, self-reliance, college and forthwith served his unofficially chosen candidate for amount will be fixed and persons

usurjous interest. courage, регвечеталсе, loyalty, apprenticeship at the practical either the Republican or Demo will be punished. ambition. foresight, health-in work of mining engineering incratic nomination by thousands of other words, mental, spiritual and California. physical stamina.

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He is as much at home

From here he crosselectors of both parties in every

In China

found demanding more than this

ed the Atlantic to far-off Aus-State: The "Literary Digest" In connection with the forthcom- A Citizen of the World

tralia to work in the dreary waste pre-election poll revealed him to being National Products Exhibition, We shall now study how Hoover of the Broken Hill Mines. attained success. First of all, Hoover was well on his way to be a citizen first choice for the Cabinet posi-acroplanes will be used to distri- He both Democratic and Republican the Chinese press understands that is in a very true sense a eftizen of the world as well as a master tion he now holds. of the world. His field of activities of men and mines.

bute literature urging the people Hoover became Secretary knows na bounds, it comprises

of to use home producta' in preference humanity.

Chino became his next held of sident Harding's Cabinet: and, as

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The managing director of the as he is with business men, politic- Henry of California, who, before or more quickly have won

Miss Lou said. "He could not more surely Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghal- jans, and kings.

for Hangchow-Ningpo Railways has Ther departure, became his com-that administration, the confidence issued orders strictly forbidding of the outside world, for there is the dissemination of printed liter- no living American” in whom ature on the trains. Europe raposes a larger trust.***

He has been reorganizing the Department, and notable results] have already been accomplished."

Hoover is yet a comparatively young man, and we may well hope that greater and more useful things will be accomplished through the constructive genius of this "Citizen of the World," this master of men and mines, and this lover of humanity.":

According to the "Eastern Times the Wuhan Civil Aviation Company, has been formed with a capital of $500,000, of which Mar- shal Li Chung-jen has subscribed $50,000. An aerial college is to be formed immediately and, as soon as sufficient aviators are trained, nero- planes will be purchased and the services will begin.

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