Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-28 | Page 11 | Hoover Points out Grave Problem Now Confronting U. S.

HOOVER POINTS OUT GRAVE PROBLEM NOW CONFRONTING U. S. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. "We have seen in the last few days the failure of an attempt at-tempt to solve one of the greatest problems prob-lems in front of the world the problem of industrialism. Perhaps that failure Hps reallv from summoning a few men in the aspect that social diseases can be cured by negotiation, on the assumption that w'e can stimulate class consciousness in a country -where there should be no classes, and then find a solution to its untoward results bv creating some sort of automatic machlnerv for armistice between class battles. We have got to go deeper than this if we are not to be dominoed by the imported social diseases of fchirope." This was part of the address made tonight to-night by Herbert Hoover, former food administrator ad-ministrator of the Vnited States, at the Roosevelt memorial dinner of the Rocky Mountain club. Mr. Hoover declared we pre living through a period of hysteria, onpressed bv phrase makers who would solve national problems by phrases. "Vc must dkignose to the roots the causes of this infection." Mr. Hoover continued. con-tinued. "We must impose a constructive social hygiene of our own: or, if need be, we must perform a surgical operation. We naerl to concentrate on a. constructive American social Ideal in answer to these disintegrating importations from Europe. That social ideal already lies deep in our hearts and institutions. To my mind, we need not go abroad for it it is the same old theme of equality of opportunity that this nation was founded to protect."