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Show NEW CHIEF OF WEATHER BUREAU Everybody will want to know something some-thing about Prof. Charles L. Marvin, whom President Wilson has appointed chief of the weather bureau to succeed suc-ceed Willis L. Moore and who will tell the country daily what kind of weather weath-er it is going to have. Professor Marvin has been in the weather bureau service since he was graduated from the Ohio State university univer-sity at Columbus. He has devoted himself especially to devising and perfecting per-fecting apparatus for observing weather weath-er conditions with a view to making accurate predictions. He is not a politician. poli-tician. On the few occasions when he went back to his Ohio home to vote he supported the Republicans. He did not vote in the election in which Woodrow Wilson was chosen president. presi-dent. Early in the administration it was announced that in choosing men for scientific positions President Wilson's policy would be to consider their effi ciency and to pay small attention to their political affiliations, inis policy has been emphasized in a number of appointments, notably that of Hugh M. Smith, a Republican, to be fish commissioner. The president and Secretary-Houston Secretary-Houston went about choosing a weather bureau chief in a very leisurely fashion, fash-ion, but with this policy in mind. |