Cradle Rocked

For the first time since the Cradle of Liberty first rocked, a woman spoke in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Independence Day. She was U. S. Representative (Mrs.) Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, and during her address the cradle rocked again. As became a good Republican, she praised Herbert Clark Hoover. Then, to the surprise of some Bostonians and the delight of others, she said: "I am going to speak of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. He, too, came of the people. . . . America gave him his chance and he grasped it. He has made good use of that chance for the benefit of his State and perhaps he will use it for the benefit of the United States" (stormy applause).

Interviewed two days later, Mrs. Rogers said she felt sure Hoover would be elected, called him "greatest American distributer."