Evening star., 1917-09-16
BY JAMES B. MORROW.

IN ETWEEN the man who grows
~ the wheat and the man who
l)) eats the loaf there has been.
- during the war. an undue
measure of that intangible something
called water" 1t was not included
in the delivery when the grower hauled
his wheat to market. nor could the
consumer of the loaf see il when he
made his purchase.
Neither sold in the first place nor
eaten nor. drunk in the last place. it
was An economic wrong that required
correction. At some point in the mech
anfsm of movement from origin to
ultimate the water or profit. as the
language of trade politely calls it.
was injected.
Therefore. and having law for it.
President Wilson created a committee
on wheat prices. He went no further
point a chairman. Harry Augustus
Garfield. IL D., was the man selected.
Arrived in Washington from Will
1iams College. OF which he is presi-
dent, DR.. Garfield he gan a survey of
the continent. With maps. names and
vocations on the table in front of him.
and other sources of information ready
and convenient. he entered on the work
of building. Ralarcng corn with
wheat. labor with capital, the east with
the west and the north with the south.
he constituted committee of eleven
expert assistants. Whereupon the
twelve, by telephone and telegraph.
letters and documents, calls and com
mAnds. obtained the facts pertaining
- ~ yhao q rnD
and bread baking industries.
Such was the manner of DIR. Gar
neld's entrance into the war with the
Prussians. Wheat. until he was SUM
from the White House, was an un-
familiar subject to this lawyer, pub
1icist and educator. Today he is
master in that technical branch OF
knowledge.
There is favor of romance in the
story of how Woodrow Wilson and
Harry Garfield became acquainted, and
then associated together as teachers
Of theoretical and practical politics
Princeton. letter opens the nara
tive. 1t was received at the moment
when the Cleveland lawye?. having clos
ed a large and profit D. business opera
fion. was on the edge Of the beginning
pf another. "I have 'sught the young
men at Princeton speculative politics.
wrote Woodrow WDr-'< mead of the
university. quoting the substance OF
his message, if not his words accurate
Jy. will you not come. he asked.
"and instruct them as to the way poll
tics Is really practical"
The letter was carried home in the
evening. Counseled by his wife, and
yielding to his own propensity, weary
with syndicates, underwritinss, rail
roads, banks and mineral lands, Harry
Garfield as he is still known III CleVe-
land. accepted the summons.
No sketch of DR.. Garfield can be writ
ten without the bringing OF James
Rudolph, his brothe-- ;~'-- the fore
ground. Boys together-Harry the
eder by two years and six days-they
we're educated together at Williams
College, and, as lawyers, wer partners
fn their fathers home they heard from
Infancy great public matters illu-
When Gen Garfield stumped the
country during national campaigns one
Of his sons, usually. was his COM
banion- He told them why he repeated
bis arguments and facts over and over
again before the same audience Mer-
chants were present, he explained, and
mechanfcs and farmers, well. He
bought to make each class understand
what he said. and he plowed and plow
I'd again. up the field and then across
II. until he had turned and mellowed
ku of the soil into seed bed.
Comrades the sons became of an elo
tuent and cultured father. And coun-
belors. even. When Harry was fifteen
bnd James two years younger at school
b. company, they rsce'ved a letter
from their father. th~~ re republican
leader in the House of Representatives
tt Washington. He wa thinking, he
wrote. Of being a es~,tsate for the
Senate. What. he ASKED, was their
htinion regarding the project?
After their graduation at Williams
Oollege. where James A. Garfield him
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