THE MIRROR Is Hoover Human? Charming to intimates and children, with a shyness appealing to women, the nominee's much discussed personality is interpreted by a Washington journalist who has been much in the Hoover entourage. Rarely in American history, per- haps, writes Ray T. Tucker in the North American Review, has there been such such an undecipherable figure as Herbert Hoover, and not in Many years has the popular judg- ment of an individual contained so much of the paradoxical, Here is a man whose last four- teen years have been dedicated to public service. For four of them he served without financial remun- eration, and his personal outlay for the more efficient discharge of his Cabinet duties has exceeded his of- ficial salary. From feeding Bel- gium and piling up food on _ the wharves for our warriors overseas, he turned to the task of saving Cen- tral Europe from post-war starva- tion. Subsequently, as a member of the Cabinet, he became America's jack- of-all-trades; two Presidents called on him for aid and advice more than on all the other members of their oficial households combined. His jobs ranged from mopping up after Mississippi and Vermont floods to protecting owners of mort- gaged flivvers from British rubber monopolists. -In the pre/normalcy period he sat by the bedside of every ailing industry; he mid-wived many others born of changing con- ditions. In his spare moments he has acted as President of the Am- erican Child Hygiene Association, and supervised a study designed to make America's streets safe for pe- destrians. In short, his labors these many years, including the official and unofficial, the paid-for and those credited to hig account with Angel Gabriel, have touched such sacred things as---stomachs, street traffic and trade. Only the weather re- ports have appeared on front pages oftener than accounts of his achievements. The Hoover dynas- ty, beside enduring for six years longer than the _ traditional.two terms of our Presidents, has shed its benign influence among groups which know not the name of the Chief Executive except when they memorize it so that they or their kinder may pass the naturalization examination, These are only a few of the things which may be listed under the heading of "Lest We Forget." Such have been some of his ac- complishments for the greater glory and good of the greatest number; and yet he stands accused of being mechanical and materialistic, of be- ing indifferent to the human consid- erations that loom so large in the normal man's existence. He has been belittled as the arch-represen- tative of a standardized society and the apostle of cold-blooded efficien- cy. His enemies have assailed him as one who_would reduce life and government to the ruthless routine of a factory shop wherein each worker pirouettes on a dime and exercises God-given faculties in fab- ricating or polishing a minute piece of machinery. Some profess alarm at the thought of an engineer con- trolling the destinies of this demo- eracy. And though these fears and characterizations find inspiration only in his philosophy as reflected in his public career, the man him- self is held by many to be cold, am- bitious, self-centered and_ self-will- ed. Why this mystery or misunder- word during the war standing about a man who has been constantly in the public eye and whose name became a_ household because so many of his activities were directed kitchenward? Why does Hoover -himself remain a rather legendary figure? The -answer, perhaps, is that the public, having heard and read so much of his genius for or- ganization, his reputation as an en- gineer, his amazing and unbeliev- able rise from obscurity to world fame, his part in reorganizing in- dustry and trade, his preachments on specialization and standardiza- tion, has quite naturally associated him with other manifestations of the mad but mechanical age which has followed the* war period. Right- ly or wrongly, it has chosen to re- gard him as the champion of an in- dustrialized and commercial era in which government no longer belongs so much to the governed as to the governors. Hoover, the engineer, is a reality; Hoover, the man, is a fig- ure as misty as Olympian gods to which troubled tribes of ancient days offered up prayers and incense taxes. Unfortunately for himself, Hoover has done nothing to dispel this be- lief. If he stands in the mists and shadows, it is because he has chos- en to take his place"™ there; the mists and shadows are of his own making. He has deliberately avoid- ed the spotlight; in fact, he may be said to have smashed the spotlight whenever its beneficient beams fell upon him. The lack of human in- terest stories about his personality, the scarcity of revelatory biograph- ies, is significant; so are his ex- periences- with biographies and bio- graphers. Years ago he is said to have bought -and. destroyed ~§ the plates of a certain book because he thought it portrayed him in too ro- mantic a role. He _ co-operated in the préparation of a campaign life, but he is understood to have barred all attempts to picture him in an appealing light. Though a more re- cent work by William Hard, per- sonal friend and sympathetic Bos- well, struck off Hoover quite felicit- ously and recreated the atmosphere and spirit in which he has built his amazing career, Hoover accepted with enthusiasm the author's dedi- cation of the biography to him as "its victim" rather than "hero." His hatred of heroics is innate. It is, perhaps, compounded of his Quaker origin, his natural shyness and an environment which for years kept him in the silent and shunned places ofthe earth. Though a "hound for publicity," as irreveren- tial Washington correspondents call him, the tons of stories emanating from his offices since he entered public life have been concerned with his work rather than himself. In the campaign there hag been al- most no effort to dramatize him for the voters; his political speeches and publicity have been confined to an elucidation of his views on pub- lic questions. 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MYERS 51 Downie St. - Cipitate another World War, but it THE MIRROR "IS HOOVER HUMAN ? (Continued from page 6) it. "There are times when a man has a right to privacy," he respond- ed humorously, "and one is when he is smoking his favorite pipe." To requests that he kiss an attractive baby lifted up to his train platform, he replied: "I will kiss no babies for publication." The only photo- graph aproximating conventional Shots of office-seekers was of him and the engine crew that piloted his train over the Wyoming plateau. He had sent for them to question them about the operation of the train, the details of the. slackening in speed from 75 miles on ithe plain to 25 on the slope, and he failed to protest when asked to line up before the camera withhis engineer- ing colleagues. He also stood for a Picture of himself holding an ear of Jowa corn at his birthplace, but he 8rasped the ear too awkwardly for one seeking to catch farm votes, and too gingerly for one contem- plating a bite ofthe succulent vege- table that has brought fame to the State and trouble to the Republican party. All through the campaign he has been the most elusive figure veteran press men and photograph- ers have ever pursued. Of close contacts between candi- date and chroniclers there were Only a few, and yet these were suf- ficient to increase their wonder at hig disinclination to mingle more frequentiy with folks, Liking hu- manity in little lumps rather than wholesale lots, Hoover can be a de: lightful companion in a small group. His usually stolid countenance mir- rors his transitory thoughts, whether grave or gay, and though his shy smile yanishes from his lips almost. before it touches them, its very character of evanescence gives it an engaging quality. As it is true of most great men, his eyes are his most expressive fea- ture, and for that very reason, per- haps, he rarely permits a glimpse into them; those windows from which, one guesses, he looks out on life with some cynicism and amuse- ment, he keeps clouded or averted. Even those who do not like him mosphere. His talk turns to homely and simple things, or shifts with startling suddenness to stirring events and illustrious personalities of a decade or more ago. This mau who has spent most of his days in- the midst of international affairs since the Boer War can, if he cares, become a loquacious and enchanting encyclopaedia of latter-day romance. All his life, even during the tur- seems to have passed from adven- ture to adventure with an eye for the oddities of places, persons and policies. 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