"Give!"

President Hoover started a six week nationwide campaign to raise millions of dollars locally for local relief. A non-Government enterprise actively headed by Newton Diehl Baker. This cash drive constitutes the backbone of the President's program for getting the country through the winter and figures conspicuously in the political record on which he seeks reelection. Having promised in his stump speech at Cleveland that no "deserving" citizen shall starve, President Hoover sat down at his Cabinet table and appealed by radio to "the great heart of the American people." He spoke of "a wealth of human sympathy" and "the precious warmth of a friendly hand." He concluded:

"Let me say no richer blessing can fill your own hearts than the consciousness on some bleak winter's evening that your generosity has lighted a fire upon some family's hearth that otherwise would be black and cold and has spread some family table with food where otherwise children would be wanting. I wish my last word to you to be the word GIVE!"

P: In an address to the American Bar Association, President Hoover, naming no names, warned against a betrayal "by false prophets of a millennium promised through seductive but unworkable and disastrous theories of government." urged all good lawyers to "defend our system of government against reckless assaults by designing persons".

Next day the President laid the cornerstone of the Supreme Court's new home and in the evening held a White House reception for the Judiciary. At this levee 2,000 Bar Association members were added to 3.000 regular guests making it the largest in recent White House history. For an hour and 40 minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House Physician Joel Boone ordered him to cut short the ordeal, retire upstairs. Behind were left several thousand unhandshaken guests. Next day the President appeared with a bandage around his fingers.

P: To President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery --all arguments the President has repeatedly denied.

P: "Gentlemen. I am glad to see you.'' declared President Hoover as ten khaki clad men and two women filed into his office. They represented the Bonus Expeditionary Force's recent convention at Uniontown, Pa. Beside the President stood Veterans' Administrator Hines. In his hand Hoke Smith, B. E. F. leader, carried a sealed envelope. In the envelope was a petition for clothing, cots, a 15-c- per day food ration and full Bonus payments. Also in the envelope was a B. E. F. resolution addressed to the President: "We do hereby censure you and those of your Administration who took part in the forceful eviction of the B. E. F. from Washington." Smith laid his envelope on the President's desk. President Hoover observed that its contents were a gross insult to the dignity of his office and therefore he would not receive it. Hoke Smith picked it up. handed it to General Hines who put it in his pocket. In silence the B. E. F. delegates listened to a goodnatured lecture in which President Hoover told them he disagreed with some of their objectives but was glad they had determined not to repeat "the scenes that occurred in Washington last summer." The delegates marched out, all smiles.

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