Another Hoover

Hoover is a name in high standing at the Capital--vide the Secretary of Commerce, vide the chief doorkeeper at the White House. But there is a younger Hoover than either of these--a man only 30, gifted with an unusually accurate and comprehensive memory, who is also winning prominence. Attorney General Stone picked him out and promoted him, last week. Now the chair that was Flynn's and the chair that was Burns' is the chair of Hoover --the chair of the Director of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice.

John Edgar Hoover, born in the District of Columbia, was graduated from George Washington Law School; a member of the District bar, he was called upon seven years ago, when only 23, to be a special assistant to the Attorney General. That was in the day of a Democratic Administration. Working under Attorney General Palmer, young Hoover handled the legal arrangements of the cases by which the Government secured the deportation of Emma Goldman, of Alexander Berkman, of Ludwig Martens (the "Ambassador" of Soviet Russia).

Later, he was transferred to the Bureau of Investigation where his remarkable memory was a great asset. When William J. Burns resigned as Director of the Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Hoover was made Acting Director. Attorney General Stone, casting about for a new Director, decided that he preferred a man trained in the Government service rather than one of the great private sleuths who have usually been given the place. So, last week, John Edgar Hoover was sworn in, given the job.