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HERBERT HOOVER. POLICE CHIEFS ON

THE MAN AND HIS WORK.

MRS. HOOVER AND HAPPY HOMES.

Though he has been a Cabinet Minister in Washington for nearly eight years, Mr. Hoover's advance to be the successful Presidential candidate of the Republican Party has been along quite unprecedented. lines. National Convention, seldom confer, their favours on politicians from Washington; they turn their attention rather to raca who have made their mark in the States, and a man who has been a Governor has a status and glamour in the eyes of politician that no Federal office can give, and a greater at- tractiveness for the electorate with whom lies the choice of the Presi- dent,

Most politicians of standing in the States have also had at one time or other some experience of Federal polities. Mr. Hoover's po- litical career, however, has been entirely in the Federal arena, which he entered not, as in the usual manner, after distinguished service in the city or State where he lived but after a remarkable period of usefulness in foreign lands. He is, therefore, quite different from the ordinary politician of the United States, whose career is almost fixed by use and want, starting, in some small local post and rising gradual ly step by step to positions of greater prominence to which he has been raised by the ever-increasing influence of his growing band of

supporters. Mr. Hoover came into polities with a name and career al ready assured.. He had no record of minor political successes behind him, po band of followers, and no "machine."

As Secretary at Commerce in Washington since 1821, when Mr. Harding came into office na Pre- sident, Mr. Hoover presided over one of the less important depart- ments of the Federal Administra. tion. His work there did not bring great prominees, and be hat never been one who sought to be in the limelight. He has always taken-bis duties quietly, but he has perform ed them with such skill and care that he has gradually won the esteem and confidence of American manufacturers and traders Hia aim has always been to give his country a high place in the trade and commerce of the world, and to edure that none of héz rights "are anywhere, encroached upon or with held. He has been a quiet, steady worker, with a reputation for silence almost equal to that of the proverbial silence of President Coolidge himself.

Mississippi Relief Work. Only once during these years of office has Mr. Hoover emerged into a prominence at all like that in which he lived during the War, That was just over a year ago, when he was sent by the President into the areas which had been de- vastated by the Mississippi "floods to undertake the work of relief. It was like old times for Mr. Hoover. So much of his life had been given to that kind of work that a French writer bas named him

ce spécialiste dans les calamités publiques" The work of relief, as might be expected, was admirably performed by Mr. Hoover, and though the work of food control still tarries, that was beyond his province, otherwise it might have been well on the way towards completion.

To the world at large the name of Hoover is as well known as it is in his own country, in some lands probably better. His work Gas carried him into many of the most remote parts of the earth, azd he has travelled round the world ng often, perhaps, as any man living. He was born on a small farm in Iowa, little over

50 years ago. It was a humble home on the prairies. The early death of his parents left the small family in dire, straits, and Herbert was adopted by an uncle in a Western State of Washington. He became a student in the department of engineering at Leland Stanford University, then recently opened in California. On completing his caurae he spent a few years among "some Western American mines, and then with a full mastery of his pro- fession he sought a wider field," The years between. 1898 and 1914 took him far and wide, Western Australia, China, Burma, and Russia were all visited; some more than once, in the course of his work for various mining companies. He was seldom at his home in San Francisco, and then only for short intervals.

War Services..

The outbreak of the War found

POLICEWOMEN.

SIR L. DUNNING WANTS MORE.

is likely to be available No I cannot. One thing that is hölding it up is the question of the road Acts Road trafo is taking up an unreasonable amount of the time of the police at present...

A Policeman's Powera. Lord Lee asked Sir Leonard whe ther he thought the fact that a "MODERN LIFE" CRIMES..policeman had no right to question

INCREASING BY LEAFS AND

44 BOUNDS.

Sir Leonard Dunning, one of H.. inspectors of constabulary, who was examined before the Poyal Commission on police powers, gare evidence on policewomen dit. fering from that given the previous day by Sir William Horwood, Chief Comm ssioner of Metropolitan

Police.

Sir William Horwood said that the present number of policewomen in London-30-was enough, but Sir Leonard Dunning said he was in favour of women police being employed in more places than they were to-day. A na nang

Sir Leonard Dunning aid that be had served 19 year in the Royal Irish Constabulary, seven years as assistant, head constable of Liver- pool, and nine years as head con- stable of that city. Since 1919 he had been an inspector of constabu- lady.

He said that he had always tried to inculeate into policemen a sense of individual responsibility and discretion. Bed tape was a very good thing up to a point, but one must have £1 certain amount of elastic let into it here and there.

Lord Lee, Chairman of the Com- the simile of a mixture of red tape mission I am not sure that I like

and elastic,

Sir Leonard: It is how red tape has appealed to me for a good many years.

Fuller Co-operation, Lord Lee: You have told us that while the Home Office does not theoretically exercise direct control over the provincial police forces, practically through your instruc

ions and the issue of circulars, memoranda, and so forth the Home Olice does control the work.

Sir. Leonard: I prefer to pat it in this way. The position has changed very much since 1009, "when I drew the attention of the police authority under whom I served to the meagreness of direction from the Home Office and the consequent diversity of practice among the 100 different police forces. Since then there has been what I should pre- fer to describe not go much as closer control but as far fuller co.. operation between the Home Office

and the provincial police forces and far greater use of the experience

of the latter,

A person was generally understood, particularly by the poorer classes. Sir Leonard should say not. The policeman appears to them as the embodiment of the law, and they are apt to invest him with far he really greater powers than possesses Yes; and that is all the more reason for instructing the police that they should not try to presume upon that ignorance.

Sir Leonard said he knew that allegations were made concerning third degree methods, but he did not think there was anything in them..

Assuming questioning does take place, would you be in favour of a I do not know time limit 1-No. how you could measure a time limit. Some people might enjoy being cross-examined for hours, but some people might after half au hour be in a state of collapse. I am all against laying down regula tions governing third degree ex- amigations,, because I would not allow them whether under regula tion or not. It is possible some guilty man might get off through not using this method, but I am content to let him get off.

Further questioned on this point, Sir Leonard replied: I must own that I look with great suspicion 'on the nicely coherent statements which are sometimes produced, but this

Sometimes a statement strikes me suspicion rests principally upon what I see in the newspapers.

as being an answer to a question.

He said he was in favour of women police being employed in "more places than they were to-day.

feel," he added, "that there are things which I have had to put as a policeman which could be bet ter done by a woman."

Lord Lee: What sort of things 1-- I remember when I was a young man having to take a statement from a girl, and I felt embarrassed at having to ask questions which I think could be sore suitably done by a womanı.

"Perhaps there was more embar- rassment in those days than there would be now -Oh, the embarrass ment was all on my side.

Some women, said Sir Leonard, objected to being examined by women. They regarded all women, to use a vulgar expression, "as nosey Parkers who would want to know things they need not know.

[Sir William Horwood said on

Monday that there had been only one or two cases in which police tion, or prevention of crime. He women had been of use in the detec

He thought it would be helpful if there were some general instruc- tian hook prepared, with the up-did not think a woman could be proval of the Home Office, which sufficiently well trained to under- through adeption by a police take really responsible police work. authority or chief constable, would He would never leave the entire be binding upon a police force.

charge of "case to a woman con- Lord Lee: It is a fact, is it not.

stable, because he did not think that you are commissioned to pre-

policewomen were capable of carry- general pare 1 book "for

ing a case right through from A to throughout the country 1-Yes.

7. Originally the women police in Can you tell us which that book London numbered 110, and the pre-

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seat number was 50. He was in favour of the reduction. There was act enough work for the 110. and he was perfectly satisfied with" the present strength.]

Bee

Mr. Hoover is a man of fine physique, tall and well built." He has all the appearance and vigour. of an athlete, and he is fond of en open-air life,

The Next "First Lady In The Land."

When Mr. Hoover is formally elected President, the White House will have dual contro!, because, Mr. Hoover refuses to start any day without his wife.

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The breakfast of Mr. Hoover al- ways and invariably consists of fresh strawberries with powdered sugar-and Mrs. Hoover. His day starts all wrong without The Madame.' As he calls Mrs. Hoover. The picture of Mrs. Heover, the "highbrow," has been much more painted than that of Mrs. Hoover, the sweet-faced, greyhaired woman in the fifties," who knits whenever she sits down for & moment and who has

a dozen knitting-bags Battered over her lovely red brick house

A smiling black boy throws the white door wide open the minute car stops at the door; the visitor is ushered into the living room be fore any inquirice are made,

"Very Little Corruption." Asked whether there was any ground for the suggestion that police authorities were inclined, to hush up cases where charges were made against the police, Sir Leon- ard said: The old idea was that best thing was to get rid of him if a policeman did something the

and not prosecute. I have always been very much of the opposite pinion. Wash your dirty linen in public if it has to be washed. Make policeman is not a privileged per- it understood by the public that the

sen who can do things others are now allowed to do.""

there is no scrsening of the police? I cannot say that there is or that there, is not. All I can say is that

hope not

Sir Howard Frank: Do you think.

On the question of the participa tion of plain-clothes, policemen in offences, Sir Leonard said: "IF I sent a policeman,to a public-house where there is betting he would be doing what I wanted if he had his drink and saw there was betting, but I certainly would not let him make a bet himself."

As an interviewer sat in the Green Room waiting for Mrs. Hoover, a smiling coloured ser- There was very little corruption vant with a blue and white check-in the police force, although he had edgingham apron tied under his been very much distressed by the thin hummed happily as he laid recent ente at Liverpool. There lace luncheon set. the mabogany table with an ecru had evidently been widespread cor- The smell of raption, and he, personally, was asparagus soup was wafted from sorry the judge did not send all the the kitchen.

offenders to gaol.

Modern Life "' Grimes. Lord Lee: Are you in favour of clubs being open to entry, by police in uniform in the same way as public-houses-I think it would be

Don't that smell good," the smiling boy asked, inviting me to come and, inspect his table. "Do him in London, and there he under-

you like this bouquet or that one took the self-imposed task of or. best he asked, trying yellow ganizing the work of repatriating poppies and pink snap-dragons. stranded Americans. That' work

The Hoover home is a combina-impossible. After all, in theory a completed, he found another ready tion of home and palace-a com I do not want an invasion of the club is a man's private house, and to hand in organizing relief for the fortable rich man's house. The

Sir Leonard said that undoubt-

people of invaded Belgium. As a Green Boom with looped-back private house by anybody. neutral he was able to continue that green taffeta curtains, pink freesiaa edly the number of men now en- work until America entered the In a blue bowl, white panelled War. He was then recalled to the walls, was a haven for books gaged in trafic control had made service of his country, his name hundreds of them-first editions in the police force insufficient for and fame having by then spread to time-seasoned morocco. Poetry, other duties. It was true that they all parts of the world, and he pro- fction, history, everything

had been helped by a diminution ceeded under "President Wilson to There is no home without a of drunkenness, but on the offick organize American supplies and garden," according to Mr. hand crime was increasing. food control. The end of the War Hoover, who believes that homes-.

He did not mean crimes against brought further relief' work in happy ones are the most im- the person, but there was an in- Europe, and in 1921 be entered the portant things in the world. crease of crimes of dishonesty, Bod Republican Cabinet as Minister of She takes a nap every afternoon what he might call crimes of civil Commerce.

and makes her husband go to bedisation and modern life were in- carly.

creasing hy leaps and bounds.

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