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Show VOTERS fiALLY TO HOOVER STANDARD Presidential Poll Shows a Preference for Man Who Can be Trusted. Feel That Country Will be Wisely Represented by One Who Knows the Feelings, Hopes, Aspirations and Problems of Common People. In the tlret week's returns of the presidential poll being conducted by the l.lterury Digest 3WW voters expressed ex-pressed a preference for Herbert Hoover as chief e-xe'cullve of the nation. With hut one exception this was the largest vote cast for any one of &7 prestdeutbil lxiRsltillltle. In the South Atlantic, and l'mlrtc groups nt tntes the Hooyerltes had a eleqr plurality. Tlits spontaneous endorsement of n manw)th no polltlcul career buck of him, no political nmclilne to work for him, no special Interest to spend money for him, Is slglflcatit of a uew era lu American politics. It means t'lint the people, groaning under ihe weight of tremendous llv Ing.coxts, lire. turning awny from the. empty foruis of politics snddemandlug a new deal one that wilt give them relief from an Intolerable, condition. ' It'means tliiit Ibey wrint'ecoiioinrcs rather than eloquence ;' science rather .than sentiment ; efficiency rather than "nhrases. ) ft aiians' that they are no longer willing te entrust the. selection of candidates can-didates to' the 'professional polltlclana "whose falriprojolsea haVaraved aa deceptive, de-ceptive, but, propose ta aiake the voices from the farm, the workshop and the wine heard in,party;eounclle. They call for Hoover because, they know from what he has done what 'he ran 'do and what, he will da If the. opportunity op-portunity Is .given him. They know that a tnsn who could make, a mountain of abandoned mill tailings In Australia, , deserted mine I In Hurm's, unsuccessful 'mines lu other r part Of the world, .sources of spleu- 0 did Income for his employers would not be a president who woilld tolerate waste, Insffldanry and red tape. In the : administration of, a government. They know 'that the man who could , be truated y eonservstlye Kngllsh . eampanles to regain the inlldeuce of the nubile (a mlsmausgnd ntetprlaes Id .Colorado., MexIco.aivJ Africa s, the kind of man who conld be trusted ta run aa greatest tmattaas lnstltuUaa In .tha, world the, llnltad mates govern 1 meat', far' the Interest t Its bumhlast as wall1' lis Its larger 'slu.'kholdr. Thay .knew that arwan, who could administer Jia.O0n.(Mr to sao.OM),OOU a saoatU to survlng Balgtaaa. In theivur-texof theivur-texof war atjin lyarhoad cost uf .7. fane per cent could' work out ineth-. oda 'srf taxation and distribution In.tlinu; iaf peacerwhlrh, would he the-hiund-leae resoiiries -nf the 'United Stsies r available for the. snstetimice of the overcharged poor In.lilS own laud. $ They feePlnetliict'.vely that a man 1 who prevented the overloading of the tables of the 'ell-tu:di la.order that a all might have, enough, 'when 'acting g as food admlnlstrutor, would use hi 1 power as presldeut to stop the mn orgies Of extravagance at the lop to muke sure uf wholesome conditions at 2 the bottom. What many, even amour his support- g ers, do not know, Is that Herbert S Hoover learned the lesons of American- tsm lu the nonmil American way- -us J v an .offlve boy In n renl estate office i In Oregon, as agent for a laundry, aa ' a xelf-supportlng siudent In Slnnford j university, as a miner, as an employe, j of the United .State Ueologlcal Sur-. vey and us assistant .to a great Amerl- I ciin mlnitiK engineer. ! Hoover knows I'lie feelings, hopea, I aspirations and problemH of the com. I mon people and he Is high in a pro- j fesalon whose rolsulon Is to bring to- I tether with hie least posxlhle wunle HUd friction labor aud capital for the, purpose of supplying the imiterlal I needs of Immunity. " Those who have read his book on j uihilng practice aud his articles on eco- J noiulcs know that Hoover approaches the problems of luduntry differently j from the lawyer, the hunker, the mer- ! clinnt or the professor. He deals with I furls rather than theories. 111k Is tlio j in I ml of the builder, not or the middleman. middle-man. ' I Iteconstructlnn culls for the construe; tlve Intellect. Tle iintloti culls for' production to relli've the Ills of Hs- jnc prices mid unsatisfied wnuts. I'ro- i ductlou l pre-eminently the work of the engineer, llclugiin engllieer. Hoover, does not promise nil tilings to nil men with the cheerful disregard o'f . possibility which Is the liiibH or tlio ' politician. To reconcile ccuitlii'tlni; iv tercsts for the common good Is the pur-") poe which domlmitpx IiIh writings, Ii's-liollclcs Ii's-liollclcs unci ids nctlons. ' When he deiils with the economic problems of the fnrmer h goes nt the job ns he would go at the minl.vsls of n mining enterprise for a client: He gathers the essential dntn, he Interprets In-terprets It according to economic prln-, clpies, he lays, down tho specific remedies reme-dies and he summurlos them as fol-r lo)vs : "The fnrmcr'a position enn he remedied reme-died by better .distribution of the tax load, by Improvement In our transportation transpor-tation system, by getting our lunrkcts free of impediments to freo flow of competition and by constructive Improvement Im-provement In our whole distribution system." The problem of the. craftsman was approached by Hoover In the same constructive spirit when he Fstd In mi 909 In his book on mining: trer "U'ven a union with leaders who . ran oontrol the members, and who are aa disposed to approach differences In a oi business spirit, there are few aowsder his posJUsns for the employer, for agree- sow menu baaarably carried Ml dto sales IttA AsliKdUdiBtt kakJAslSesldBMisljBf latABBBBBBAslk ' If, Baiw ' aVnSSSHsalVwVfW S; aMHSafMV AlaUkaM 'BftdMa BBBBBstalaftsV dSBBs4i ' M . BsMaBB . aFafw ttffnw iSWsx ,WSt , VJBVaVISHpff .Ir f trades Insthls conntry-and they art entitle-! to, greater recognition. Tin time when the employer could rids roughshod over his labor is dlsnppcsr-Ing dlsnppcsr-Ing with the doctrine of 'laltscs fnlre' on which It was founded. The sooner the fact Is recognized the better for the employer." Hoover's ability to apply the abstract ab-stract truths of engineering science to statecraft lirts been denioustrnted on numerous occasions during mid since the wnr. It was by comblnlug the sentiment sen-timent of still wart Americanism with ,the principles of engineering tlmt he prevented the restoration of the llapv burgs In Hungary nnil halted the d instructive in-structive forces of aiiurrliy In Kurope. Destiny has presented him with a practical Insight into the mechanism of' world politics, lie hss seen the wheels go round. It would seem that Providence, after equipping him with the skill and experience to deal with our domestic problems had presented Jilm with n poM-graduate course In International In-ternational affairs that he might' be the more splendidly equipped to serve the American people by the favor ( God. Who Is there In any. useful calling hut can appreciate the ndvantsge ol retaining the shiest counsel to be had In the, Industrial world? What Olnsi but would rest secure lu the knowledge knowl-edge that its interests were safe-gunrd ed by n master craftsman instead ol Juggled by theorists, dreamers ol spoilsmen? - The services of this niiiii will not h hnnded to us by ally group or coterie. If he Is to be called, to the presided .tltil chulr he .cull. must cnine.from ,ths ranks; the scattered voice of the millions mil-lions must unite In n runt1 'which' will drown the .well-trained , chorus, ol standpatters ; you and I "and the folks next door and the people across' ths street must awaken to the responsibilities responsibili-ties of citizenship and SPEAK VI' FOR HOOVBKI |