Show THE persuasive am AIR HOOVER objecting senators have decided not to interfere with Secre secretary twy hoovers efforts to hold bold the coal profiteers in check mr hoover has made it plain that thai he has no power of law to control the prices of coal nevertheless he has called the men who sell coal into conferences and he has persuaded them to abide by a basis of price fixing that will be fair to them and to the public just hv how he has succeeded in getting the coal people to agree to his proposal has not been disclosed possibly there was ready assent that would not be unlikely since the coal men know that when mr hoover was food administrator that the different groups who were called to their place on his carpet found it to their advantage to agree to reasonable suggestions for the protection of the public hoover dealu deals gently but so often this gentleness has been supplemented by a firmness that was unmistakable that it is not likely that the coal men will attempt to break the arrangement that has been made with them it can hardly be said that mr hoover has ever resorted to drastic proceedings in dealing with any industry which he be has sought to regulate but several times during the war ho he was known to have issued ultimatums ultima tums in such a way as to convince the that they would do well not to risk the wrath of mr hoover the secretary of commerce is a persuasive gentleman and it Is IB his persuasiveness with which he has ass always seemed to win |