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580 MOTION PICTURES I922-I945
Some personal ties seem more precious as the activities in which they were formed fade into the distance. One such is my memory of the late Bill Hart— the two-gun William S. Hart of the "silent." His last letter to me was full of nostalgia as he wrote:
Dear Pardner Bill Hays:
You write of the times we had together— being always fresh in your mind. It is the same here, Bill Hays. It is a vivid remembrance to me, too! A one hundred per cent exemplification of real men's enjoyment. Not forgetting it was just about tops in personnel too! Cecil deMille, Jesse Lasky, Bill Hays and Bill Hart. The rustic cabin and the mountain streams . . .
Yes! I gave my old home to Los Angeles.
When I kick off I intend this my present home shall travel the same trail. The public will get it— one of the finest homes in California. I love every foot of its acres, and my dumb animals that roam over these hills.
When you drift this way— don't forget me.
I have never wavered in my liking for you, although at times the trail has been full of rough stones and sharp daggers.
Almost at the same moment, but from the other side of the country, came similar friendly words from a stalwart in the academic world who was perhaps almost as fond of the political arena. After I had congratulated Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler on his retirement after forty-four years in office as head of Columbia and sixty-seven years' association with it, I received an immediate reply with words pleasant to hear. In particular he spoke of a week of campaigning he had given us in Indiana in 1916, saying: "I well recall the fact that owing to your foresight and method of organization we carried the State of Indiana in splendid fashion. All this is now a happy memory and I shall never forget it."
One of the strongest ties that has held through the years is that with Herbert Hoover, from the days when he helped to guide our Council of Defense in Indiana, and our year together in President Harding's Cabinet, to our recent years as neighbors in the Waldorf Towers in New York. And surely nothing in these later years has given me deeper satisfaction than to feel our citizens' growing appreciation of this great man's services to America, now spanning four decades— national and international services of the highest value. Where can we find his like! In his 1949 book, 27 Masters of Politics, Ravmond Moley included Hoover among five "party choices," but with the poetic title "A Stone Rejected." He was referring particularly to the fact that the following administration declined his offered co-operation. But in these late years, in connection with two great Hoover commissions dealing with the complex problems of governmental administration, that "stone" has been given its due place in our national arch. Jim Farley and I were included in the book as "Party Managers." Again on the closer personal side, as