Show political wheels special to the park record mccord washington NOTON D C march slid thi the prospect that there will be ery cry radical C changes ban 9 es la in the personnel of the federal farm board within the next tew few months does lot mean that there will be a eor corresponding responding change in policies members of the board here say privately the probability that james C stone of lexing lexington ton ky will succeed to the chairmanship which alexander legge of cid j cago is 1 vacating is in more inore a shift in geography than anything else stone Is in closer to legge than any other member bembe r of the board his actions as vice chairman an have harmonized completely complete with those th use ol of legge as chairman and when the board wag waa under criticism from rom various sources he not only did not waver i in his allegiance to the chairman but tools took to the stump in active support of his chiefs policy As for the personality of the incoming chairman his traits are very different from those of legge As big physically as legge he la is slower moving and less talkative he Is if a more phlegmatic type than legge but Is likely to get excellent results this la Is the more true because he Is especially well liked by all i members of the board i As tor for his career stone has been in the tobacco business for practically all my life he says 1 I was born and raised ori on a farm and when I 1 got through college I 1 went in the tobacco business in the warehouse business he added from 1897 until 1914 he was in tobacco warehousing activities in n the latter year he be began combining large scale tanning farming with the warehousing work this continued to occupy him exclusively until 1921 when the burley tobacco growers operative cooperative co was formed and he was chosen as its first president he was also its only president until last ast year when he accepted his place on the hc farm board to look at his record the casual reader would think his experience peri ence had been too closely restricted I 1 to one commodity to make him available for the chairmanship this Is tar far from the rase case however as all newspapermen and other close observers here will testify stone has spoken throughout the country on the general work of the board and on individual products other than tobacco he has conducted almost as many press conferences as legge and has shown himself thoroughly fa familiar millar with the financing as well as the practical part of the boards program with the selection of stone tor for the chairmanship held to be a certainty two and possibly three vacancies remaining in the personnel of the board must be filled filed by president hoover in addition to the place emptied by stones elevation the wheat membership m rail on the board now occupied b by ab sin samuel a acl R mckelvie of nebraska must he have a new incumbent finally the te terms r of william F schilling of minnesota M and G c C teague of california dairy and fruit members respectively also expire in june at the same time as does docs me mc zelvies Eel Kel vies although schilling has riot not made known his intention of retiring his friends would not be surprised to see him return to private life especially since legge will no longer be connected with the board mckelvie McKe Ivle has publicly said he will resign while it is pretty definitely understood that teague will do the same this will leave the middle west proper the northwest and the far west memberships on the board depleted the remaining members are stone of kentucky carl williams of oklahoma charles wilson of new york and C B denman of missouri Miss ourt thus virtually all of the new appointees are expected to come from the states west of the mississippi so tar far as geographical considerations are involved in the mater of commodity representation the presence of stone as both tobacco representative and as chairman would leave room for representation of another commo commodity city in the membership those remaining represent livestock cotton and fruits and vegetables it has been seriously suggested here that president hoover choose some representative of the general farmer regardless of what part of the country he represents in order to begin work on some board program which will assist the average grower at present the boards membership and attention are both concentrated on the great staple crops while the owner of the medium sized non specialized farm gets little or no consideration |