Beale Points Out Wisdom in Retaining Hoover Because of Ruinous Effects Any Change of Administrations Would Bring

The following interview with Professor Beale is the third in a series of political statements concerning the coming election by members of the Harvard Faculty.

"Business is just poking its nead up. Hoover is largely responsible for this upturn, and I shall vote for him," declared J. H. Beale, Royall professor of Law, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "True, business is very shaky, but a change in administrations at this time would spread economic fear over the breadth of the land. Uncertainty with regard to tariff, the currency, expenditures, and trade proposals that a change would necessarily bring to the country would turn us back into the extreme emergency from which we are now slowly emerging.

"My friends in industry tell me that everything points to the gradual upturn that has been brought about by a constructive confidence built up by President Hoover. Students in the University repeat this new confidence that is felt over the country. To disrupt this feeling by an administrative change would be bound to freeze the entire financial system of the nation. Since the time of John Quincy Adams, there has been no president so tactless and as unattractive as Hoover. However, he has the ability to lay great plans and to accomplish important measures for the good of the country.

"Thomas is a gentleman, an attractive fellow, but his showing of immature thinking would be liable to be unattractive to the unprejudiced voter. Roosevelt is an able man, a very amiable person who makes friends easily.

"The country needs a man who is industrially clever, a man who has a keen business mind, who can handle problems of the financial world with facility. Herbert Hoover has definitely planned the expenditure of the national income so that it will be of the greatest use to the greatest number of people. He has fought for a balanced budget in order to stabilize the financial standard of the nation. He is the man who has started the nation on the road to economic recovery. Let him finish his job."