"BUSINESS AS USUAL."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19462, 8 November 1928, Page 11

"BUSINESS AS USUAL."

MR HOOVER'S CAREER,

EXECUTIVE ABILITY.

Herbert Clark Hoover, born oil August 10th, 1874, at West Branch, lowa, left home soon after the death of his father, the village blacksmith, and of his mother, who was the Quaker minister of the community. The orphaned boy made his way to California, where iiia desire to secure a scientific education led him to work his way through Stanford University, from which he was graduated in 1895. When he was 24 he was sent as an engineer to take charge of gold mines in Australia. The following year he was appointed direc-tor-general of mines in China. It was during his stay in China that the Boxer rebelliofa occurred in 1900, and young Mr Hoover assisted in the defence of the international authorities. From country to country he was sent to develop mining enterprises for his company until at last in 1914, just before the outbreak of the war. he set up an independent engineering business of his own. . Mr Hoover's services to Belgium and Central Europe during the war are histoty. His work as United States Food Administrator from 1917 to 1919 is retailed by every American housewife. The term "hooverise" signifies even now the conservation which he inspired during those years of privation. In the years following the war M* Hoover Organised aria managed the American Relief Council, which gave food and shelter to 6,000,000 warimpoverished children ih Europe ( and he Conducted, the coldsSa] post-war relief work in Russia, Poland, Geirmanjr, and other European countries. But it is the work of Mr Hoover as Secretary of Commerce since 1921 which gave BM leadership in economic reconstruction. . ; , Then he went to. Washington at the call of President Harding. The task confronting him was .Gargantuan. Business was at low ebb as a result of postwar unemployment was reacting neW heights; .American,industry was riot iheetitijj the demands of a lowered European standard of living, arid production coSts were exorbitant. Mr Hoover attacked these , problems with the directness born of lifelong experience in meetiti|j "Business as usual" was his motto, and, applying the principles of engineering ttt the problems of government, he recbtistriicted a firm foundation fctf* G6verniiierit business, eliminated waStS in Government bureaus aM in industry, instigated systems for reports. on Aitief ifiari commodities arid business trends, and called a National Conference on Unemployment which supplied emergency measured and, brought permanent relief. Last .year, he, .efficiently organised the relief frtr the. Mississippi flood sufferers. Victilhs Of .til# flood Were carea for skilfully ana capably tind.er his pefsoMl itipervisiori. "Business, as usual" is the rule by Which Mr Hoover's life is ordered. In his Washington office ori Juiifc 14wi—the day on which he fii nominated to the presidency—he went about his routine duties. A radio .J 1 ®* 11, by Bfblight him frequent messJkgfes of the excitfeiiieiit lit Kansas City, But his work as Secretary of Commerce ctoe first; Even in his home that evening With his Wife and one of their two sibttS, is «S A Kw clb&e mends, he received wor3 of his ribtnin&tioii as choice of the entire Party,with the calm of the well-poised business administrator. . Mr Hoover was married to Miar.lau Heni-y, a fellow-student fit Stanford, in 1899, and has two sons, Herbert, iun., wHo was with his father when iieWa i>t His nttmlriatlbii ifHvid, and Allan Henfy, who. fepreseiited the family At the boflveiitidri; . ' MF Hoofer is the first nominee for the Presidency of any Party since the fatWdattori Of the GBvetttment Whq has fIS PMiSB ftilittoM. 6r niilitsit? training. HEAVY POIiMN€L LITTLE EARLY DISORDER. NEW TORE, November 6. Searing out the Safliei 1 i>r6ciictiei& tH& first 61ecti6to. Tejortt indiftkte unnSuaiiy heavjr polling in all parts of the United States, with kk eiceiitlorialty lai-ge fefaalb vbte. •Ufiii Srit ktifiiaiion $ disord&r, ciffie fr&Ht WeSt Virginia, Witete tHO Governor ordered the State troops to the ari& to fOtc&tall pos&ibM taob vioiehfce. howevet, d§|i»itfc its ISjOdO special guards, remained calmfor the first tttie# hours, which almost constitutes a record, Mile N6# Ydrk's 9000 guards were also Hot called upon to quell any disturbance; Ail atfltisliig incident Occurred Ift One New fork Village, indicating the inienifl intermit that the campaign hats aroUSed, When the authorities Ibunded the fire, alarm at short intervals aftfer daybreak in. order to tnake Sure . that tfoterd should tike advantage of the iii±. O'clock opening of the^pijilS. Chicago perhdpß presented the ihdst picturesque many kinds of apparatus bfciiig utilised fbr paiade purjdddeS, including & mitilatitrfi locomotive drawing a steam organ. Ifa the meantime, Mr Cdblldgd, having ciiit his vote at Northampton, spent the remainder or the day, supervising the unloading Of the flfst cOnSignrtient of hi| furniture and. petponil effects from .White tibUie, preparatory to his removal later. New York City had polled 60 per cent, of its registrations at noon.—Australian Press Associaiton, United Service. CLAIMS JUStttIED. i!R SMlT#§ CONGELATIONS. YOBgj November 7. Me "N£w York Times" editorially (jays: "intangible forces of Various kinds were too powerful for Mr Smith, the larger enrolment of voters mearii a lurch of the country to the Republican side. Mr Hoover's election fully justified the claiirifc that were made for him —that he Was the strongest man whom the Republicans cbtlld put tip. No other cbtild haVe the formidable attack upon his Party, and especially could no other have snatched New York State away from Mr Smith. Mr Hoover scored an electoral victory commensurate with his previous great reputa- • The "Chicago Tribune'' Claims that Mr Hoover has beeit elected on the basii of- incompleted returns by 340^21ectoral College ai#S to 114 for Mr Smith, 77 seats are doubtful. At 10 o'clock last night Mr Smith conceded that Mr Hoover had wpn the election and telegraphed him at hii hoihe, Palolto, California: "I congratulate you zhost sincerely 6n yoUr victory, and extent to you my good wishei f o f {ittr health arid happiness and for Of jrofcr A^lttiiiiSttatiotu , '