Show c 9 I Two American Boys I IBy 9 By DR FRANK CRANE Curtis CUIUS Doth Both began at the bottom One of them came caine from a lIttle commonplace home in Iowa lowa he he struggled along and worked his way say through school and became eminent as an engineer The other boy Is partly Indian his grandmother I w ts s a cull blooded Kaw On his fathers father's side he is pure AmerIcan This is about as good ancestor and andas andas as aristocratic as an American wants As far as I 1 know w Hoover Is the first professional engineer that ever ran for the presidency An engineer Is n. n a man who does things A president is also a aman aman man who Is supposed to do things not talk talle And I 1 wIll not deny what that same might Imply All AJI over ovel this country there are thousands ot of poor boys bos with the world before them It is refreshing to know that they have better prospects than remainIng remain remain- lag Ing forever l. l fixed in the trade profession or class their fathers were vere Neither Mr 11 Hoover nor Mr 11 Curtis owes owes his lea leadership lead lead- 1 to anybody's pull although the element of luck ent r rs Into It as it does lit In th case of all of us Neither of these men was anybody's son in particular lar although neither of them hat has to apologize for his parents Neither of them had n a Ich uncle that paid for his Neither l' of t them was en endowed owed Whatever money they have hae they earned b by hard work ork Vl Whatever fame they have they got themselves Mr 1 Hoover has n a house In Palo Alto Ca Cal which he calls his permanent home 11 Ir Curtis comes from the plains or of So they are both from out west where men are arc men and nobody much reads IL H. L. L or rates Sinclair Lewis ace ace- high Both are arc sensible enough to recognize that amendment is a part or of the Constitution that the people put it there and that as long as It is the tho supreme law bw of the lan land it ought to be enforced It If It is a bad law we should remember the saying ot of General Grant The best wa way to get rid ot of a bad law is to enforce It Copyright 1929 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |