"Heart of the Nation"

Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from-a-piece-of-paper than any of the others.

Two days later total subscriptions reached $2,204,000..

Weary but affable in the Cabinet room, President Hoover sat for his portrait to Douglas Chandor, scion of Hungarian nobility, private soldier for England throughout the War, poet,* linguist, painter-extraordinary for TIME./- In the Green Room, Mrs. Hoover sat for Artist Gleb Ilyin, Russian emigre, now popular in California.

*Example:

The people of Spain think Cervantes

Is worth about half-a-dozen Dantes--

An opinion resented most bitterly

By the people of Italy.

/-The Chandor Hoover will be reproduced in color in TIME, March 2.

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