Show a Hoover Hears Call r- r To Help Feed Hungry f. f 1 I Cites Great Need for Food Grains Overseas Asks Ask Americans to Pull in Belts Invite Invisible Guests Guests' to Their Tables By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator Service 1616 Eye street NW Washington D D. D C. C WASHINGTON D. D C. C The speed with which the American people have run away from the war Is in In- incredible credible Like the lazy workman who drops his hammer and leaps for tor the dinner pall at the first toot of ot noon we began a stampede for the dinIng dinIng dinIng din- din Ing table on V-J V Day Stampedes always make trouble for someone Many hundreds of ot people people peo pea plc will starve as a result and heaven only knows how the cause of ot democracy throughout the world may suffer We could not foretell but we could have made allowance for possible crop failures They were catastrophIc catastrophic catastrophic cata cata- strophic in many countries We could have pursued pursued-a different food policy at home We shook with fear lest there would be surpluses we tried to get the people to eat up their stored supplies and counselled restrictions on food production to prevent a glutted market especially especial especial- ly In eggs and poultry And how we atel atel That Is why a few days ago we hailed back Herbert Hoover Into service He said he had promised his family for years to go fishing with them and he had only got started started started start start- ed when he heard that tha t ominous phrase on the telephone White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House calling He may have been reluctant to leave the enticing fish- fish filled Florida waters but there is no doubt that It was a keen satisfaction satisfaction tion to him to get back into harness harness harness har har- ness again especially since he was called upon to do a job he knew he could do well Whatever the public public pub pub- lic lie that snowed him under In the 1932 elections may have said and felt at that time however ever glad the Republicans were to edge him out of f politics there were few who I would deny that he was a success at feeding the hungry during and after afterWorld afterWorld I World War I. I President Ex-President P Ex-P resident Inspires Press It was really inspiring to hear him Not that Mr Hoover could ever pull you out of your seat with frenetic oratory or raise your emotions to a fever heat with his personality It was indeed the matter fact al almost almost almost al- al most prosaic way In which he made his appeal that gave It weight We were gathered In a small hotel parlor parlor par lor br It was crowded We overflowed the chairs and sat on tables and Inthe in inthe inthe the window niches Many of us couldn't see him Most of the time I could catch only a glimpse of ot one fold told In his generous pink neck He had the facts and the figures all right nine million tons of grain alone were needed to prevent star star- At present there was only enough good grain In sight to makeup make makeup up 60 per cent of the need etc But he gave us more more than facts as he explained what America must do doand doand doand and what he was sure Americans would do He lIe gave us faith He tossed the Idea of ot rationing with cards out of ot the window without without without with with- out even a gesture He said the American people would ration themselves themselves themselves them them- selves said they would have done It In the war that way too And when reporters asked questions questions ques ques- lions with political implications he refused even to discuss that phase of ol the subject He was talkIng talkIng- talking about about human beings he said about sav say Then near the close of ot ing lives the interview be he said In the same of matter tone There is one message I would like to give to the households of America There wa was wasa a long pause Finally he spoke spoke- Is his habit- habit looking at nobody as I would like to have them entertain entertain enter enter- tain tairi at ot their tables an invisible guest And so the old engineer so otter often I accused of ot having a heart of ot wood the man of slide-rule slide and logarithms painted a deeply moving picture In ir Inthe the simplest of words and in the ther simplest of ways I left the r feeling sure that however America Amer Amer- lea ica had been stuffing Itself since the end of ot the fighting we have run u up the biggest food bill in history we WC would be willing to conserve enough I so that Mr Hoovers Hoover's Invisible guests wouldn't leave our tables table hungry S Semantics Semantics Aid Aid to Strike Settlements When President Truman at a are re recent cent White House press and radio radic conference talked about the hun bun hundreds hundreds of labor disputes which were settled by conciliation without L er E c 1 A Mr Hoover left addresses press conference on food situation strikes and which never made the headlines I couldn't help thinking of ofa a conversation I had bad with MaJ Charles Estes one of the labor departments department's departments department's departments department's de de- de- de anonymous heroes of ot these bloodless and successful encounters en en- counters Estes has what it takes to be a conciliator and in his case It includes includes in in- eludes along with a keen sensitivity ty to the human side of all relationships relationships relationships relation relation- ships among workers and employers employ employ- ers a keen for sense the nice use of ot words v Indeed semantics the science of meanings as contrasted contrast contrast- ed with phonetics the science of ot sounds Is his hobby The ultimate goal of the conch concill- atlon service of the labor denart denart- I ment is not merely the settlement of disputes but the prevention of disputes said Major Estes the other day And then he went on to expand on his thesis that the crux of labor management relations Is human adjustment the adjustment of one person to another The main trouble he says is is' poor communication which Is poor for three reasons 1 I poor reception or imperfect listening and perception 2 poor digestion or inaccurate in in- ann and assimilation of what is read or heard and 3 poor transmission or inadequate use of speech and language Estes can go on for hours on that subject and will at the drop of a hat In fact once when interested though I was I had to tear my my- self sell away for a pressing engagement engage engage- ment I could only do I so after atter convincing convincing con con- him that I was not anti- anti semantic I wish I had space to develop his Ideas for tor they represent a practical system which he and his colleagues have demon demonstrated In hundreds of ot successes as the President put It It Like most successful systems the conciliation services service's methods are based on a solid foundation hard of ot long lone preparation and represent the concentrated ounce of ot prophylactic procedure that is worth a pound of ot exhausting arbitration adminis after the patient is already 11 fIl 1 |