Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22
YANKEE ENGINEERS TACKLE PROBLEM OF
 FEEDING BELGIUM
American Commission Over comes Obstacle Caused By Refusal of England to Remove Embargo on Food.


 LONDON. Nov. 21.-(C Correspond. ence of The Associated Press) the exception Of its treasurer, Clar- ence Graff, who is a banker, every active member of the American Com mission for the Relief of Belgians is an engineer. The work of these men is pointed to as tribute to the thor oughness of the American engineer ing colleges.
 II. c. Hoover, who heads both the American Relief Committee and the Belgian commission is a mining en- gineer who directs the labors Of 250,- 900 miner and shelter operators in various parts of the world Hoover is a graduate of Leland Stanford, Jr.. University of which institution he is now Q trustee having succeeded to the position on the board vacated by the death of Whitelaw Reid
 London is the Mecca of successful American engineers, and Hoover has gathered about him a group of men well equipped for the work in hand, and with considerable leisure to de vote to it, because the war has sus. pended SO many of the enterprises in which they are interested.
 The Vice Chairman is Daniel Heine- men. who is electrical engineer and head of one of the largest internation- al electrical manufacturing groups. The other members are William Hulse. also an electrical engineer and head of a number Of engineering companies; John Beaver White, an electrical engineer and partner in one of the largest contracting firms in Europe. Willard Hunsiker, an electrical engineer for many years one of the executives of the United States and Europe; J. W. Dickson civil engineer; Hart O. Berg, mechan ical engineer; Edward Ricksrd, min ing engineer; and Willard Shaier a mechanical engineer living in Brus sells.
 1 For three weeks American, Spanish and Belgian diplomatic representa- tives struggled with the question O. supplying Belgium with food without ] making much progress beyond secur - ing the promises Of cooperation iron - the various governments concerned When the need became acute and l - was necessary to get food under wa, Q at once the American Ambassado here called upon Hoover to form th l- needed working organization, and tn d result when Hoover called for vol
 unteers was the existing commission . with its predominant engineering pei
 sonnel.
 The first and most serious Obstacl
 encountered by the commission wa
 the refusal of the English govern
 ment to remove It's embargo on tn
 export of food, even for such ne' 5 essary work as the succor of th
 starving Belgians Early fin the dil
 Iomauc negotiations the British Go'
 ernment not only promised to ailo'
 the export of food supplies to Be
 gium. but promised the Belgian mil
 ister a large cash contribution eac
 month. Evidently becoming alarme
 over the condition of the domesti
 food supply the cabinet reconsidere
 its action and declined to do moI
 than make lump sum contributio
 of quarter of a million dollars
 be used to purchase food for q
 Belgians in Holland AS one of tt
 members of the commission expresse
 it this was equivalent to asking u
 Belgian minister to buy food for h starving fellow countrymen at tf
 North Pole. for Holland has not on
 forbidden the export of foodstufi
 but is actually suffering from shor @ age itself
 O The Commission then determine n upon the bold step Of buying the ne essary foodstuffs for temporary ! Y lief and counting on diplomatic
 forts and pressure Of pubic opmi'