HOOVER’S REIGN

Northern Advocate, 5 March 1929, Page 5

HOOVER’S REIGN

SWEARING-IN CEREMONIAL CHANT NATIONAL CARNIVAL. MASSED OVATION. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 4. Facing thousands of his fellow citizens who came to do him honour, Herbert Clark Hoover was sworn in as President of the United States by Chief Justice Taft, who until that moment was himself the only living ex-President. Mr 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 frftm the many thousands of massed citizens more than compensated fon Nature ’s sullen welcome.

The city presented a giant national carnival, such as the capital has probably never , before seen. There were cowiboys, 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 route from White House to the Capitol and voeifeously cheered Mu Coolidge, Mr Hoover and Mesdames Coolidge and Hoover. The assemblage in the inaugural stands included the retiring President and) his Cabinet, nearly all the members of the new Hoover Cabinet and the old Congress which expired at noon; members of the new. Congress which will soon be called, members of the Diplomatic Corps and others. The gathering marched to a. special stand from the .- Senate Chambers, where Mr Charles Curtis hadApreviously taken the Vice-Presidential oath of office.

The Australian. party of boys, carrying British, Australian and American flags and eight presentation flags from American states they have, 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. INAUGURAL ORATION. ■CAUSES FOR CONCERN. LAWS OPENLY FLOUTED. (United Service.) (Received 8.24 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 4.

In * his address on the occasion of his inauguration as President of the United States, Mr Hoover said: “If we survey the situation of our nation both at home and abroad, we find many satisfactions. We find some causes for concern. The most malign of ail dangers is disregard and disobedience of the laws.

“Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing. It is only in part due to additional burdens imposed upon our judicial system by the Eighteenth “Amendment. Many influences had increasingly complicated and weakened our laws and enforcement organisation long before adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment.

“Our whole system of self-govern-ment will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce, or citizens elect what laws they will support. The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

“I intend to appoint a National Commission for searching investigation into the whole structure of the Federal system of jurisprudence, to include methods of enforcements of the Eighteenth Amendment and the causes of abuse under it.“ KELLOGG TREATY.

Mr Hoover, referring to the Kellogg Treaty, stated: “The recent Treaty for Renunciation of War, as an instrument of national policy, sets an advanced standard in our conception of the relations of nations. Its acceptance should pave .the way to greater limitation of armament. * * WORLD TRIBUNAL. s

Referring to the World Court Mr Hoover stfkl: £< Th c reservations placed upon our adherence should not pc misinterpreted. The United 'States seeeks 'by these reservations no special privilege or advantage, but only to clarify our relation to advisory- opinions and other matters whch are subsidiary to 'the major purpose of the Court. A -way should, and I believe will, be found by which we may take our proper place in a movement so fundamental to the progess of peace.” LOWER TARIFF. Mr Hoover declared that further agricultural relief and a limited charge in-tariff ‘‘cannot, in justice to farmers, 'labour and manufacturers, bo postponed,” adding that he would request a special session of Congress to consider these questions. CABINET COMPLETED. THE PERSONNEL.

(Australian Pres* Association.) (Received 3.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 3. With the appointment of the Secretaries of Commerce and Industry, the Hoover Administration comprises the following personnel.— President. —Herbert Clark Hoover, born at West Branch, lowa, August 10, 3874.

Vice-President. —'Charles Curtis, born at N. Topeka,- Kansas, January 25, 3860. Secretary of State.—Henry L. Dunson. ■ Treasury.-—-Andrew W. Melon. War. —James W. Hood. Attorney-General.—William D. Mitchell. Postmaster-General. Walter F. Brown. Navy.—Charles Francis Adams. Interior.—Ray Liman Wilbur. Agriculture.-—Arthur M. Hyde. Commerce.—Robert P. Lament. Labour. —James J.. Davis. RADIO RELAY. .-. UTTERANCES INDISTINCT. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 4, The British Broadcasting Corporation’s attempt to relay the United States ceremony was tolerably clear. Atmospherics marred Mr Hoover’s speech, -only a few words here and there being heard.