Ask the average man in the street to tell you ten things of Herbert Hoover, and when he has thought for a while he may tell you this, or a part of it:

1. Hoover took care of the Belgians in the war.

2. He is the father of efficiency.

3. He invented the slogan, "Food will win the war."

4. He is Secretary of something now in Washington--Industry? Finance? Commerce? Business?--that keeps the country prosperous.

5. His face is square--it has been printed in the rotogravure sections every alternate Sunday for ten years--and he wears square, double-breasted suits to keep it company. Rarely has he been pictured otherwise.

6. He wasn't sure, the year that Harding was nominated, whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. Neither were the Republicans.

7. He eliminated waste in industry and organized relief for the Mississippi flood.

8. The farmers have some sort of grudge against him, over wheat.

9. He made millions of dollars in some mysterious process as a mining engineer in Siberia or South Africa or some other vague place.

10. Part of his present job is to reduce the price of automobile tires and decide which stations shall broadcast ukulele music between eight and eleven-thirty every evening.

It is a casual list, made up of odds and ends of half-remembered information; but it touches the high spots in the story.

After Herbert Hoover graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1895, he worked for two years with a mining engineering firm in the West. Then at twenty-three, he began his famous roving.

Followed Mining Around World

Mines, mining, and matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa.