INSPIRATION OF FISHING
MR HOOVER AN ANGLER. President Hoover, after forty-five years’ experience, fi,nds that fishing, next to prayer, is the most personal relationship of man. His confession was made at a gathering of Virginian folk who lately went to welcome him at the foot of Blue Ridge Mountains, below his fishing camp at the headwaters of the Rapidan River. “I have discovered the reaso. why presidents take to fishing—a silent sport,” Mr Hoover said. “Apparently the only opportunity fer refreshment of one’s soul and the clarification of one s thoughts by solitude lies through fishing. Prayer is the most personal of all human relationships, and next to prayer fishing. Everybody concedes that fish will not bite in the presence of the public or the Press. “ Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty—for all men are ‘'qual before fish. It is desirable that the of the United States should be p' v r : odicallv reminded of the fnndam°utal fact that the forces of mature for no man.” .
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Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 12
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176INSPIRATION OF FISHING Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 12
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