POLITICAL NOTE: Boat Rockers

To Boston went Ray Lyman Wilbur. To Ray Lyman Wilbur went newshawks. To newshawks went these words of the Secretary of the Interior about his old friend and fellow Californian, Herbert Hoover:

"People now realize that the President has been the most stable force in U. S. business. He has stood pat. . . . The tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression....

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