MRS. HOOVER BLAMED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 33

MRS. HOOVER BLAMED

ENTERTAINED NEGRO’S WIFE TEXAS CONDEMNS HER Although opposed to the mingling of races on a basis of social equality, Governor Dan Moody, of Texas, has declined to join the Texas Legislature in its criticism by resolution of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the President, for entertaining the wife of a negro member of Congress at a White House tea, says the New York “Times.” The resolution condemning Mrs. Hoover for her action was adopted by the Legislature several weeks ago. “Any part' of this resolution which may be reasonably construed as a personal criticism of the wife of the President of tire United States of America does not have my personal approval, and I decline to have any i part in it,” the Governor said in a \ statement filed with the document in ; the Secretary of State's office. Referring to a section of the resolui tion which reminded Democrats who voted for Mr. Hoover that they had been cautioned that just sufch inci- ; dents as the one condemned might happen, the Governor said:— "Recognising the right of every citi- ■ zen to vote his convictions, I do not | assert the right officially to upbraid j any because they exercise the liberty I to hold and vote views different from mine, nor do I approve any attempt at j official criticism of any citizen’s vote.” The resolution had the Governor’s “hearthy approval” in so far as “it condemns customs that bring the two races into contact upon the same social plane,” he stated. "Any mingling of the races on a basis of social equality is intolerable and no precedent can justify it,” he declared. “The ill-effects of acts tending toward equal social recognition between the races are thoroughly 1 demonstrated by the recent contemp- | tible public utterances made before i mixed audiences by the negro whose ; wife was the recipient of the invitai tion mentioned in the resolution.”