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Show I? Hoover Looks Westward The great slogan of the Coolidge administration was: "Do nothing." The watchword of the Hoover administration, if we are to judge by its leaders' declaration, is : ''Do something." i On the surface, that doesn't appear highly important. But it is of intense interest to the west, because it is here that things are crying to be done. Ours is the still-undeveloped part of the country. Here ure miles awaiting irrigation; cities waiting' population; mountains that must be tunneled; barriers that must be surmounted; sur-mounted; natural resources that aren't worth a dollar to us unless they are used. All these are, in the main, engineering problems. Mr. Coolidge, with his training as a small-town lawyer and downcast down-cast viewpoint, never understood the west, never earned west, never imagined the west's problems and ambitions. Now we have a man who is an engineer, a man of the west whose eyes are trained westward. And we have, above all, a man who believes in finding something to do, and doing it. And to that sort of a leader the west will give all the support and enthusiasm it can muster which is considerable. |