Show It Was A Great Day For Hoover From American Falls Idaho Power Co Col Press Probably no other man has had or will have the experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex that Herbert Hoover has Wednesday of this week he i e celebrated his birthday at his ho home e in California Hoover th the son of a blacksmith orphaned when just dust a child born and raised in West Bench Iowa arose on his own power to be President of the United States of America Like many other great Americans Hoover did not receive his education in the traditional American way vay At Atthe Atthe Atthe the age of six years his father died His mother died when he was nine He went to live with an uncle and acted as office boy in the daytime He received his college preparatory preparatory preparatory tory education by going to night school He was vas one of the outstanding students in but one of the more timid ones After graduation he did not at once get the job his education prepared him for that of an engineer but a job as asa asa asa a laborer a at a mine in California From that time on he as a laborer engineer and advisor in mines in most all of the western states Then came his big chan chance e. e He was recommended for fora a real job at the top of his profession in China He made good at everything he went in for The one outstanding failure failure fail fail- ure was at being a politician He was no politician He was elected President of the United States in 1928 at a time when we had passed th through ough World War I a period of f war post-war inflation and ready for the low swing of the economic pendulum The people had gone stock market crazy Every Everyone one on Main Street was loaded down with Wall Street stocks Many of the companies had to continue to sell stock to pay interest and dividends on stock already out The crash came so soon after Hoover took office that he scarcely got his White House chair warm While Hoover was no more to blame for the depression than was a child in the cradle he got the blame for it because because because be be- cause he was President F. F D. D Roosevelt was the leading contender for the high office among the Democrats Democrats' The man in the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House and the condition were made to order for him and his followers Roosevelt was a politician and that is all He was ruthless in his attacks on Hoovers Hoover's character He did not stop at issues He turned all of his hounds loose with Charley Michelson as their lead dog to tear down the character character character char char- acter of Herbert Hoover It is difficult to believe that one man could hate another as Roosevelt hated Hoover They even sent a man to China to get material for a book to smear Hoover He wrote the book which was about the worst ever published Later he testified he was paid and expenses to go to China after the material He said he only told truths half-truths in the book that he could find nothing in all his hi's travels throughout Asia that would reflect on the of Hoover Never was a man so vilified as was Hoover When Hoover went out of office in March 1933 he was a tired man and looked it He had been wrestling with the d depression de depression de- de for over three years Records show he had the depression licked in the American way and that the change for the upward trend took place in ip June 1932 However it was not prevalent enough to stop the wave of hate Hoover the wolves had built up One of Roosevelt's first acts after entering the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House was to have the name narIe pf Hoover dam changed to Boulder Dam Such a small act should have made people rise up in arms arms but it didn't they seemed to love Roosevelt the more for his smallness At that time Hoover as stated staled previously was a tired man Roosevelt was young vigorous and looking good-looking with a radio voice He had experts write the words and he sang the people to sleep over the radio But what a difference a few years make Roosevelt died die an old man four years ago It is not necessary to dwell on his record and the results future history will record that even though it takes takes- years It keeps getting darker all the time Today five or six states set Wednesday of this week to pay tribute to a man the people now know will go down downin I in history as one of the country's most honored Presidents a public servant statesman and a gentleman His picture in inthe inthe inthe the papers the past few days reflects the likeness of a smiling Quaker Christian gentleman History does not tell of any other man with such a record It only proves that a majority of the people are not always right but that a majority can get right In the sunset of his life is Herbert Hoover and no other man in American history has enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people as Herbert Hoover does today |