Separate Account

While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that Herbert Hoover had kept not one cent of the salary he received as a public official: $300,000 for his four years as President, nearly $100,000 for over seven years as Secretary of Commerce. According to Kansan Scott, lowan Hoover said:

"I ... kept the money that came to me as salary in a separate account from my personal funds and distributed it where I thought it would do the most good. Part of it went to supplement salaries of men who were working under me and whom the Government paid less than I thought they were worth. Part of it went to charities. The latter practice has been a source of a great deal of embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year for $10,000 from my salary. . . . But the folks in San Francisco got in the habit of thinking that was my regular contribution, and have asked me for it every year since."

Herbert Hoover's California friends were surprised chiefly that Publisher Scott considered his revelation newsworthy, added that even today regular Hoover checks go to the families of more than 100 of his needy friends.

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