The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
HOOVER, SAVIOUR OF STARVING
 BELGIUM, LOST FORTUNE DURING
 BOXER UPRISING; MADE ANOTHER
He Worked His Way Through College and Has Been Working at Big Things Ever since-At 2s Years of Age He Was Millionaire and Was Imprisoned in China With Other Americans During Rebellion.


 hestitated to give to President Will son the autocratic powers he has de- .manded foE the war, such as fixing thereof. The demand by the Chief Executive has produced flood of words in the upper branch of the Congress.
 More than one veteran member of the United States Senate has asked who the deuce this man Herbert c. Hoover is, whom the President de- siresa to turn over the food problem to-alEeady a. serious question. even in lthissi siand of plenty
 Mr. Hoover has consented to take { the job, with the understanding that neither he nor his assistants are to receive compensation for their ser vices. M
 Some of the wise men whom the public have been educated to believe are the last word in food problems, are doubting the advisability of handing over this. important problem to MT. Hoover on the ground that recog- nized food expert, not a mining en- gineer, should be named for that of flee. 'e
 Dr. Wiley, whose fame as a pure food expert is world wide, arises to remark that an onslaught is about to be made on the pure food laws and | that he is convinced that MT. Hoover is to take advice from. food scientists, who are on the wrong track.
 Dr. Wiley takes a pessimistic view i of the food outlook, going so far as to claim that the world is facing a famine
 Even if Dr. Wiley is right, it will not do to join the army of croalzers and start a crop of gloomsi in the front yard. Better grow spuds or the despised turnip.
 Undoubtedly pr. Wiley knows a lot about the deleterious effect of food conservatives and the comparative values of cereals and animals as hu- man food, but when it comes to food dfstributfonVands preventing the gaunt specter of Famine from casting it's hid60hS shadow over the land, MT. Hoover has it all over the portly Hoosier, M. D.
 Mir Hoover first attracted interna- tionai attention at the outbreak of the European war, because of his wonderful executive ability in gath ering together immense food supplies for the starving Blgians, shipping them across the English channel and Z, distributing them among the helpless ff people WnOmi EnG OnCOIlIuG uOTQ0 or Germans had trampled under foot in their mad rush toward Paris.
 The frequent mention of Hoover's name in the cables from the other side, telling of the great work that 4 he was doing and the successful man ner in which he managed Belgian re- lief, aroused the curiosity of Aneri- cans
 For A tfnis they Knew only that he \ was d rich American living in Lon don, but after a while they learned that he was more than that. The story of Hoover came out piecemeal, and the more his own countrymen Hound out about him the higher he went in their estimation.
 They learned that he was native ithe little town of West Branch, Ia., drdfted to the YFdEific NoaaJAt, and that Shel had been graduated from Leland Stanford University, California, in 1895, as mining engineer.
 He had to work his way through scollege by doing everything and any, thing he could earn an honest dollar at- His vacations were not idly spent t1de always managed to get a job to pay his next years tuition.
 He was a quiet, grave, hardwork-
  mates say, and some of the observing kind predicted that some day he would be heard from.
 When he received his degree he wasted no time, but found a job ir a mine where he got the practfca end of his profession. It was only $s "a day, but he was getting that exper- fence and knowledge which all sue ceasful mining men prize so highly
 He was a mans man. A great low. ger of nature, Hoover managed to take { sA trip through the wonderful Yosem lite region His funds were low, ant while some of his associates consid erred 50 cents a meal a moderate chaxge, he could not afford it, anf Fhrowsed around for cheaper feed
 While on this trip,- he received word of his appointment to as mai t10b i'm the United States Geo1ogfca FGurvey. in the Sierra Nevada Noun lfa1na
 tperience In his profession It was no Hong before he was manager of a min Hing company in New Mexico and la Fter of another big mine in California
 All the time he was forging ahea4 land his reputation as a mining engf fneer was spreading. You can't kee1 Ia good player down. At "A he wen kf0 Australia. as the head of the min Hing staff of a big English concern at b@a1ary of 815,O00 a year.
 He made aue1a success in Aus ttxa1fA hAt Anofher big English syndi Ecate 14Aered him $25.oo0 year to g Eto China for them He went to Chfns tby way of Frisco and London
 There was reason for taking thi, route When he was a poor sudden lin the engineering school at Stamford there was a young woman at tn, same college studying geology, Mis- Lou Henry of Monterey, California Iae t1yt peug4 for her company ann she 1nnGsd Tor tha day when sh could call him husoand, but the tim has not yet come. He must first spen, n year i'm China in his chosen profes @6on.
 Another reason for going to Frisc mt that time was that he desired t see old friends and relatives He en &ertained them fin royal style at tn most expensive and fashionable ho Ete1s that San Francisco could boas Icf. He was the talk Of the town an everybody who knew Bert IIoove kook a personal pride in his prosper Hty.
 Prosperity, however, didn't tur nnd newer has turned his head. It