Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1932 — Page 15

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HOOVER MYTH IS THEME OF AUTHORS' WAR Defenders Fail to Prove President Is Qualified as Statesman. Herbert Hoover peculiarly fitted for J? Utle * the Pteildencv by hi* p**t bu*ine* and profeMlonal career Dr. H *J rv ® mer Barnes famed educator and editor, give* his opinion on the subject the ‘bird and last of a aeries of articles. BY HARRY ELMER BARNES During many months, the attacks on Herbert Hoover's professional past were greeted with silence on the part of the President and his friends. But Hamill’s book became a "best seller” and Liggett’s volume attracted the attention of dignified and serious readers. So in time the eulogists of Mr. Hoover took up their pens in his defense. The first strode in behalf of Mr. Hoover was contained in an article by the New York lawyer and publicist. Arthur Train. It was published in Colliers’ for February, 1932. Train sailed into Hamill, treating him about as roughly as the latter had Mr. Hoover. He revealed certain important errors of fact and judgment in Hamill's book, but he did not in anyway upset the general picture of Mr. Hoover’s interests and activities as presented in the book. He could not rehabilitate the legend of the great engineer. He made no effort to meet the arguments of other authors. His article later appeared in book form. Next came Will Irvin, who wrote an amiable article for Liberty. He was far better natured than Train and tried to offset the assaults made on his friend by laughing them out of court. Shown as Good-Natured He represented Mr. Hoover as a sort of second Taft, not too thinskinned and given to reading absurd attacks upon himself with amused contempt. But the fact that Robert Allen lost his post with the Christian Science Monitor as a result of his mild chapter on Hoover in the “Washington Merry-Go-Round” made it rather difficult to sustain the thesis that Hoover enjoyed criticism. • Thereupon, Herbert Corey, a Washington newspaper man, prepared a quasi-offleial rejoinder to the anti-Hoover literature. This even more than Train’s book, was a case of the kettle and the pot. He attacked the critical authors on all sorts of personal and irrelevant matters. They emerged from his pages as Yellow Journalist and Big Navy Dockery; Lizard Hamill—a “firstrate lizard,” “a distasteful creature,” who also is a “liar” and careless of his linen; “Constitution” O’Brien a shady and illiterate political hack; Red Liggett, who wished to feed starving Russians, whatever their economic views, and “Shadow” Wood, who rewrote Hanfill's book to save the publisher from possible loss if the earlier volume was barred from sale. Corey Goes Too Far Further, Corey overreached himself by contending that he could not find ore true charge in the whole 381 pages of Hamid's book, which is more absurd than the publisher’s claim that it is 100 per cent accurate. Such a book was not likely to carry any more conviction than the most violent of the attacks upon the President. Now Colonel Edwin Emerson comes to Hoover’s defense in his “Hoover and His Times.” It is called in sub-title “An Impartial History of Our Generation.” If it is such, then Hoover not only deserves to be President of the United States a second time, but dictator of the world. Our generation appears as the Hoover age par excellence. Colonel Emerson does not devote much space to refutation of abuse of Hoover, but creates out of Hoover a figure to rival Sargon, Alexander, Augustus, Charlemange, Genghis Khan, St. Francis of Assisi. Leo the Isaurian, Napoleon and Florence Nightingale. He also repeats the absurd charge made fc.- Corey that Liggett was in the pay of Russia when organizing Russian relief. Colonel Emerson reproduces unabashed the “engineer in politics” legend and contends that nothing less than the White House could have been an appropriate goal for a man of such qualities and qualifications. Not Great Statesman Upshot of the whole controversy, then, is that the historical studies recently made of Mr. Hoover before 1920 show that he possessed none of the major qualifications conventionally put forward in support of his candidacy for nomination and election to the presidency. He was not an engineer, a social engineer, an “engineer in politics,” or a sentimental humanitarian who “bled for the world.” He had not in any sense proved himself a statesman before 1928. Hoover brought to the presidency the ideals and experiences of a very successful business man of a rather specialized type. How well they fitted him for his high office must be judged primarily by the fruits of his administration. This is the major import of the whole biographical episode for the present campaign. If it is true that Hoover has not yet been disgraced decisively by the critical biographies, it is equally true that they have proved he has no legitimate claim to ride into a second term on the momentum of the Hoover myth of 1915-1928. THE END.

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