PRESIDENT HOOVER

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 7

PRESIDENT HOOVER

UNITED STATES HAS A LEADEIt'.

At the last interview given i.o newspaper representatives before lie relinquished office, one of the journalists asked President Cool id ge whether, he had anything to say about prohibition before he retired. ‘ ‘Nothing,” antfy.pred President Goolidge, “except that it is a very difficult proposition. 'I thing I’ll leave it to the Boy Wonder.” This incident is related in an article on ..“Air Hoover at the White House” in the Round Table Tor June. Tlie “Boy Wonder,” as the new/president is called, has assumed office, ngd already, according to the article, .the citizens of the United States 4],aye found that they have a leader instead of the “spokesmen” who have resided at White House fdrs the lost •..nine years. Millions pf voters <who wanted Hoover and his works, and added ,a cubit to' their stature bv ‘ voting s for him, , find the. rarefied atmosphere ‘ a little too'thin, and'they have shrunk think I’ll leave it to the Boy Won cider” will stumble oYer something and land, humiliated, upon the level ’ of their own mediocrity.

According to custom Air Hoover took .the oath of office as President of the United ' States' on Alarch 4. At the time the article wals written he had been at White House vor two months, “too ..short a time, of course, on which to base judgements or to venture predictions,” ‘.says, the writer. President Hoover is under cut’jous observation. So far as observation\g° e9 as yet, it is noticed, firstly, that ivo one calls.hint “Herb.” “To his great-, er glory or his lesser, they call . him Hoover; they call him Mr Hoover.” Yet if a certain dignity lies belaUen him. the man himself has acted very simply. He has sent back to stables the seven- horses which, liad grown, fat from want of exercise, under his predecessor; he has given up the Mayflower, “the Presidential yacht- which would, if it could, repeat much revealing t-alli from the Harding regime.” wears a soft grey bat instead of a hard black liat ; and his wife not only drives her own- car through the streets of Washington, but also has asked the secret service men to let her go her way alone. He has gone off fishing once; andMiobody knew when lie went or exactly where he went, and nobody took any photographs of him to sell to the papers. “The man is not only a •President; he is a great relief,” says the Round Table.