NEW PRESIDENT OF U.S.A TAKES OATH OF OFFICE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6852, 6 March 1929, Page 7

NEW PRESIDENT OF U.S.A TAKES OATH OF OFFICE

Vociferous Acclaim

THOUSANDS THRONG ROUTE TO CAPITOL

AUSTRALIAN FLAG PROMINENT. (Tailed Press Association —By ElectrU i Telegraph —Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 4 Pacing thousands of his fellow citizens who came to do him honour, Mr. Herbert Hoover was sworn in as President of. the United States by Chief Justice Taft, who until that moment was himself'the only living ex-Presi-dent. President Hoover swore to uphold the Constitution, while standing under the shadow of the Capitol dome and, although rain commenced falling about an hour before he took the oath, the ovation he received from thousands of . massed citizens more than compensated for Nature’s sullen welcome. The city presented the scene of a gigantic national carnival, such as the capital probably never saw before. There were cowboys and Indians, Confederate veterans hobbling along on canes, large numbers of business men, delegations of women’s clubs, college bands, farmers, and State Governors with gay escorts, to a number estimated beyond 200,000. Thousands thronged the Toute from the White House to the Capitol, and vociferously cheered ex-President Cooliclge, President Hoover, and their wives. The assemblage in the inauguaTl stands included the retiring President and his Cabinet, and nearly all the members of the new Hoover Cabinet; the old Congress, which expired at noon, and the new Congress, which will soon be called. Members of the Diplomatic Corps and others in the gathering marched to the special, stand from the Senate chambers, where Senator Curtis had previously -received the Vice-Presi-dential oath of office. The Australian boys, carrying the British, Australian, and American flags and eight presentation flags- from American States already visited, were given a vantage point on an improvised platform on the parapets of the Capitol building within a few feet of the Presidential dais. The blue Australian ensign was lashed to a point of the Capitol building second only in prominence to that of the Sttmts and Stripes on the dome.

Speed! Well Received BRITAIN’S SUPPORT ALREADY PLEDGED. Times Cable. Received Tuesday, 8 p.m. LONDON, March 5. The Times, in a leader, on President Hoover’s speech, states: "As is befitting, the opening chapter is wisely and welcomely free from deafening dialectic. The new government stands clear on ground well trampled around and begins by inviting construction, not controversy and offers to collaborate towards peace within limits now well understood. Maybe the adjustments whereby the United States and Europe endeavoured to repair the political fracture of 1920 have been mutually instructive and have led to understanding, resulting in tho chastening of credulity and the Tebuking of suspicion. "Nobody who hopes to see America unhesitatingly backing the movement against war will either lie impatient dr complacent. It would he easy to increase or make light the difficulties but the adoption of President Hoover’s cordial ana generous tone will enable negotiations to be half way through the business at the beginning. Insofar as the British Empire’s help is needful to fulfil President Hoover’s ambition to’ advance the cause of peace, it may be taken as a pledge alreadygiven. ’’ ’ '