anaheim-gazette 1932-09-15

Hoover’s Cousin County Resident (Continued from page 1) ed incidents of childhood. Here Miss Hoover for the first time knew the man who became president of the United States. She's never seen him since; only once before had she met him. That was during the one-year interim between service on the island, when she attended an Indianapolis war-relief dinner at which Food Administrator Hoover was principal speaker. Pressure of official business and duties as honored guest prevented Engineer Hoover and Missionary Hoover from enjoying much more than an introduction. Finding nothing that demanded her full time in the Mid West on her latest trip to LeGrand, Miss Hoover came to California to visit her only sister, Mrs. C. N. Jones. While here she was employed by the David and Margaret home at Pomona. Since then Rev. Jones became pastor of the Community church at Imperial City, so ranch life just now demands the full attention and energies of the missionary. Once each month routine is altered slightly when Rev. and Mrs. Jones motor over between Sabbaths, so that he can take care of manual labor in the orchard during week-days. Home Life Studied Miss Hoover's consuming ambition is to return to the British West Indies to devote the best years of her life in changing the home surroundings of the "black people" and East Indians. She wants to get at the root of the trouble which causes 65 per cent of the children on the island of Jamaica to be illigitimate. The negroes, who prefer to call themselves "black people," and the East Indians are herded together in ordinary barracks on the big estates. This indiscriminate grouping of two races and leaves much to be desired in the way of moral influence. Miss Hoover views the problem thusly: "My experiences in teaching at missionary schools has taught me the necessity of taking the children away is the third child William Hoover, who President Hoover's Branch, Iowa, primarily a farmer till the pulpit in the occasions, and always part in church work she was seven. Mr. Penn College, later several years before for missionary service. She went to Janie she served at Ann years, going to All eight years, and five years of service at managed domestic the girls' home. He broken by a one-year end of the sixth year ed the College ofapolis, and also made for the first time. Soon after arrive 1914. Miss Hoover c if any native India the island which "Haymaca." signify tains." but literal watered." The land West Indies islands between Florida are part of South America of races is ships ports of 1921, giving colored, 157,223; b Indian, 18,610; and Columbus Disc Christopher Colle the island May 3 voyage to America Iago, but the native more popular. One habited Jamaica w itured it in 1655 for a position to criticise the hawk that eats rabbits and in time, a few thousand years perhaps, men may get over the urge to kill other men because they dress differently, or speak a different language, or get the better of them in trade. AL ... the new editor I hereby extend the hand of fellowship to Al Smith, editor. I have not always agreed with the Hon. Alfred E. Smith, politician, but when he began to write for the papers a couple of years back I thought I saw the makings of a newspaper man in him. Now that he is out of politics—so far as the present campaign is concerned, at any rate—and is a full-fledged editor with a magazine of his own, Al and I ought to get along fine. I'll say this for Al, he puts a punch into whatever he writes. He has ideas. In the New Outlook, of which he is to be the responsible editor, he will doubtless say a lot of things, with which I won't agree, and probably will say a great many things with which I will be in perfect harmony. Anyway, like a lot of other Americans, I'm going to watch for that first issue under his direction. 'CELLO ... the masterpiece The greatest maker of violoncellos was Nicolas Amati, who died two hundred years ago in Cremona, Italy. The greatest maker of bows for violins and 'cellos was Alphonse Tourte of Paris, who died many years ago. The greatest 'cellist, until his death, was Alfredo Piatti of London, who owned Amati's finest 'cello and played it with Tourte's finest bow. Probably the greatest living 'cellist is Willem Willeke; born in Austria of a Dutch father and an English-Hungarian mother and now an American citizen. He has owned piatti's Amati 'cello for a long time. At a dinner given by music lovers in Willeke's honor the other night in New York, the Tourte bow which Piatti used was given to the 'cellist reuniting two famous instruments. Nobody ever heard such music as Willem Willeke produced when he drew that bow across the strings of that 'cello. IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK CARL H. GETZ There is a shoe repair shop in New York which will give you an ice cream soda free while you wait to have your shoes fixed. There are women in New York There is a shoe repair shop in New York which will give you an ice cream soda free while you wait to have your shoes fixed. There are women in New York wearing gloves of scarlet, to match lipsticks. The idea comes from Paris. Penthouses and high apartment houses have given an impetus to the sale of binoculars. At one store there is a demand for them by people who use them to get the right time from some distant clock. Fifty pounds of chewing gum are scraped from the floors of the Pennsylvania Station here every day. There are automatic vending machines in New York which contain a phonograph record which says, "Thank you, come again," after each coin is dropped into the slot. The other day a New York motion picture theatre displayed what is said to be the largest photograph of any person constructed. The head was 40 feet high. The picture was that of Constance Bennett. There is a woman in New York who makes a good living running a canary hospital. Stopped on Lexington Avenue the other day to watch a man do what I thought were amazing card tricks. He had a half a dozen different ways of producing the three of hearts. Directions and a deck for twenty cents. I fell. I bought. When I opened the deck at home found all the cards were three of hearts. Over in Brooklyn Justice Dike refused a certificate of incorporation to the Jiggs Nut Club, Inc., because the name was undignified. ANAHEIM GAZETTE is the third child of Mr. and Mrs. William Hoover, who were married at President Hoover's birthplace, West Branch, Iowa. Her father, while primarily a farmer by occupation, did fill the pulpit in the Friends church on occasions, and always took an active part in church work. He died when she was seven. Miss Hoover attended Penn College, later teaching school for several years before hearing the "call" for missionary service. She went to Jamaica in 1914 where she served at Annotto Bay for three years, going to Albany for a total of eight years, and finally winding up 12 years of service at Highgate, where she managed domestic science teaching at the girls' home. Her island service was broken by a one-year interval at the end of the sixth year, when she attended the College of Missions at Indianapolis, and also met President Hoover for the first time. Soon after arriving in Jamaica in 1914, Miss Hoover discovered that little if any native Indian blood remains on the island which the natives called "Haymaca," signifying "island of fountains," but literally meaning "well watered." The largest of the British West Indies islands is located half way between Florida and the northernmost part of South America. Its odd mixture of races is shown by census reports of 1921, giving: Quecasion, 14,476; colored, 157,227; black., 669,429; East Indian, 18,610; and Chinese, 3,696. Columbus Discovered Island Christopher Columbus, discovering the island May 3, 1494, on his third voyage to America, named it St. Iago, but the native "Haymaca" proved more popular. Only 3,000 people inhabited Jamaica when Cromwell captured it in 1655 for the British, and half of these few natives were driven to Cuba, the other half retreating to the high Blue Mountain range. The British used old Port Royal as a reshipment point for negro slaves, landing 610,000 by the end of the eighteenth century. During the rush of agricultural development shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the landed gentry, needing more than the half-million laborers, arranged to ship East Indians to the island under a ten-year indentured service plan. The first five on the ranch to which originally brought, then five anywhere on the island. About five years ago the East Indian government's objections to the indentured service became so strong the plan was discontinued, but only after many thousands of East Indians had been pressed into the agricultural service to raise oranges, coffee, cacao, ginger, limes, tamarinds, nutmegs, dyewoods, bananas, cocoanuts and pimento. Miss Hoover's interest centers in elevating the standard of living for the black people and East Indians, believing that in this way they will become more susceptible to Christian religion. Morals Stressed "In my dozen years on the island, there was only one estate owner of my acquaintance who had enough compassion for the moral welfare of the people he hired to refuse to employ an unmarried girl. He thus kept from throwing her to live indiscriminately with men and boys, women and children, with no chance to remain respectable." "We have notable success in educating the Jamaican. Our Missionary board maintains one secondary school, Happy Grove at Seaside, from which many of the senior students not only pass the Junior Cambridge examinations, but the senior as well. This enables them to enter with case colleges and universities in the United States, and many do. The Cambridge examinations are sent out from England, which maintains no institutions of higher learning on the island. "In recent years the missionary board's attention is directed toward encouraging missionary schools, parishes and churches to be independent enough to become self-supporting. There are two reasons for this. One is decreasing amount of funds from home; the other is that such efforts are the part of good business and simple wisdom, because the more missionaries and churches do for themselves, the more will be accomplished." Miss Hoover devoted most of her time to school work, particularly that part which took the girls from their homes, or orphan girls, and put them in girls' homes over which teachers from the schools ruled. While with Miss Sada F. Stanley of Ohio in a school at Albany, Miss Hoover took ten girls into their home to live. The experiment was so successful that the British government became interested to the extent of providing funds to care for more girls in a like manner. The number of girls in her private home grew until a way was found to purchase a large estate home at Highgate, which accommodated 25. It soon had to be enlarged to care for twice as many. 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The hurricane became so severe it raised the level of the ocean water several feet, with the waves splashing against our house. "The weather is temperate, getting neither as hot nor as cold as it does in Southern California. It never freezes. Rainfall averages about 44 inches at Kingston and 60 inches in the mountains, but despite all this rain our greatest physical problem is to get water during the dry season. In this way the island is mis-named, because during the several months of dry weather very similar to your Southern California dry period, the island is anything but 'well watered.' Black people often are called upon to carry culinary water for miles. At the schools we tried to catch enough water from the eaves of the houses to fill storage tanks from which we would get all our water for the entire summer. No wells are dug successfully, partly because of the heavy rock formations, and partly because Jamaica is 50 to 100 years behind this country in material development." 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