| Show National Men and Affairs Eugene Meyer Mey r Jr No Wall Street Gorgon Wayne Wheeler Busy Washingtonian Herbert Hoover However Takes Cake for Jobs By WILLIAM HARP HARD Copyright ht 1927 97 Consolidated ed Press resa Association i WASHINGTON I July 16 Among mong Among the t e fanciful fictions of 01 politics B a VT place must be accorded to the Idea that hat Eugene gene Meyer feyer Jr was put by President Coolidge into IntI t the he e federal farm arm Joan Joal board In Jn order 94 r to gobble Jt t for Wall WaH street It is true rue t pat at Mr Meyer Is Js extremely ly rich rJ h and it is s true that he once had an office on Wall Wallstreet street str t but his s fir national p tam fame fame was as carped by DY r his ls successful eu ce p. p re r Jve the e federal war ar finance corporation against the he open powerful opposition of 01 Wall street tr et MId and tile UlC ho jQ With Wills Without out that fight by b y Mr Meyer against the he conservatism pf f New York city Jt t is Ia jf Jt the war Yr finance corporation of pf f which he was wu g ever er haye have keen been e n permitted p d o 9 Tal raise agricultural T tural prices p J to pew new better beter bett r levels through tough its immense loans Joans ot o hll dred ot of millions of lf dollars i In II our pur agricultural regions Mr Meyer Me er to tell the sober drudging truth is now engaged 4 In Jo causing the federal farm loan board hoard p q pick Dl up a Jot o of pt stitches which under its former rp pt it I laxly It Two To joint stock private land Janti loan banks bank supposed lu to o be he El by the he federal farm far loan board oard are arl in the hands hand of the receivers A A. third hird may follow Some of ot the transactions tran of pf some of 91 o the th publicly p Jr owned ow ed Jan Jand loan b 1 S directly controlled by br the t be federal J farm farra loan loal board have e beep en under tinder the evere v rEl scrutiny pf Of ocl critics J President Coolidge ge has as empy the Ute most experienced d financier in Wash Wash- Washington Washington WashIngton ington to clean up ip a complicated and perilous financial lal situation That T at is Js al all lJ it t has as nothing In n the t 1 wide wide wod to 4 49 40 Wal V W tl I street treet Another r busy sr Was is itt Mr B B. Wheeler He Js Ss com corn commonly of pt ns S the he representative of the Anil CabOt Anti saloon league Je gue This r ls does Joes less Icu than justice justl tC to Mr l-Ir Wheelers Wheeler's W I activities l s. s It II Itis l lIs is true that he lie is is- the saloon AntI leagues league's general gen gel rab r counsel and also its legislative superintendent and aso also Iso 11 a member me er of fir P lIe its com committee 1111 tee on pp manag and also a member me r of oJ Its committee e i pa relations ns But he lie j if e additionally ally a a. member of the thEl per per- p perI rr nan n committee of the he e executive e committee and of ol I the he general co counsel of the World Worl League Lea Against Alcoholism He 1 Js ii I further a a. director dl of the tle Intercollegiate Int Tc Prohibition association lie iiI e also finds time hem Jp direct the work s of th the he Temperance T mr ran e When W en not no thus u occupied o he lie l fun functions as S L member mem er of the H committee pf l the th Temperance council This leade Je him bra naturally into Jp o many fresh labors as a a. member of the tle National Prohibition Legislative conference conf ren e The wets w should reflect rene that It if they her kill off the Anti league e Mr- Mr tr- tr Wheeler W ler pas a at least ea t eight other th r 1 lives hies 11 es Just the same saple the he busiest bu lest Washingtonian of ot all lJ is still Mr NT Herbert Her ert Hoover Hooyer r There seems to be e no po limit at all to the variety and intensity IntensIty ity fly of o his lila interests ests ts efforts In addition addit on to making ma the t e depart depart- department department ment of pt p commerce hum with work V lc would Ji seem eem e m ill I tEl ti pt to occupy oc the directing ir energy ener r of pf f any ny one man Mr Hoover r gives Vs diligent attention a t tg 9 n duties as s Chairman h of pt the Great Gre Lakes Takes St Lawrence Waterways association Chairman of the National Na lo aJ Street and Highway Safety conference Chairman of the Ule Mississippi N Valley Flood Relief administration Chairman pf the lIsa American Relief R H association a Chairman of the National Research h Endowment which w l h is raising HO for the t fundamental tal purpose e ot of f research arch work II n absolutely pure science President of or the American Child Health association President of ot tre movement called B Better Better Homes in Ip America American delegate to the radio telegraphic radio telegraphic gr ph international I em conference r l e etl to tl be held ld in Washington next October 9 tob r The remarkable thing g is i 1 that hat nobody working with wIt Mr d- Hoover r In Jn any p ot pf these endeavors ever ev r finds his participation to be merely p formal and nominal l. l There T re in fact perhaps p one can find the tl final definition g of pf I his bis strong s character He lie is our highly imaginative and creative doer of colossal chores chor s which by his lIs touch Q he h changes hang s from chores into flights of adventure |
