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Show BENS0I1 LAUDED in POST STORY Elder Ezra Taft Benson, secretary secre-tary of agriculture, is the subject of a feature in the March 28 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The article is accompanied by several photographs of Benson, his family and his staff. The Post article said Benson's first act after accepting the appointment ap-pointment was a telephone call he made to J. Edgar Hoover. He told the chief of the FBI he wanted his whole career investigated from the beginning and he wanted the same check made on all persons he might appoint. The article states: "During the heyday of the New Deal, when it appeared that the government was seeking to convert the ruggedly individualistic and sometimes hungry farmer to a stall-fed complacency, com-placency, he went about preaching a message of independence to farm groups all over the country. "Benson was still preaching these austere, old-fashioned doctrines last November when Eisenhower called him to New York to offer him the job as secretary of agriculture." ag-riculture." Benson said: "Ike made it clear he was embarking upon a great moral and spiritual crusade to restore re-store to the people their faith and confidence in the rigid integrity and honesty of their government." |