The reelection of Herbert Hoover was declared to be a matter of vital importance to college undergraduates by Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and overseer of the University, in an exclusive CRIMSON interview last night.

Unless a Republican administration is returned to power, Saltonstall intimated that business and financial conditions throughout the country would be precipitated into confusion by the uncertain and faulty economic policies of the Democratic Party, and that opportunities for economic advancement would be seriously threatened. He lauded President Hoover's opening speech in his campaign for reelection as a penetrating analysis of the economic ills that have faced the United States during the last four years, and as a striking justification of the Republican struggle to alleviate and terminate the effects of the depression.

"President Hoover's speech on Tuesday showed perhaps for the first time the difficulties and the size of the problems that the Administration has had to face in the last few years, and what it has done to solve them," Saltonstall said. "It has also brought out the President's deep interest in the well being of all our citizens, and in the preservation of their homes. The speech is indeed an inspiration to those interested in and working for the Republican cause.

"The Republican Administration should be continued at Washington so that there will be no cessation of the improvements in conditions. Naturally, we all hope that this will lead to increased employment and improved business. This subject is one of vital interest to men and women graduating from our universities next spring."