The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-11
HINES PLANS
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aside from his obvious qualifica-
| tions, Mr.. Hines is in full sympathy
with the policies which have guided
! the railroad administration and with
| the views of the president on the rail-
road question. / am sure that Mr..
Hines will have the hearty support OF
the fine army of railroad officers and
| employees, and I can ask nothing bet
| ter for him than that they shall give
| him and the country the same loyal
and effective services they rendered
during my time as director general
|, Officials Expected 1t.
Washington, Jan. 11.-Appointmen
of Walker D. Hines to the director
generalship of railroads occasioned no
J surprise in official circles here.
! Backs McAdoo's Plan.
! Mr.. Hines, who was recommended
/ by Mr.. McAdoo, is an advocate of the
latter's plan for five years continue
| ton of government control to provide
| a test period and has supported most
of the policies of the retiring director
general with whom he has been asso-
| ciated turnout the last year of gov
eminent management. He is accredi-
| ted with having originated many poll
| cieS of the railroad administration. If
congress does not\ enact new railroad
legislation at an early date, Mr.. Hines
| favors returning the roads at once to
| private management and this is ex-
pected to develop into strongly con-
| tested issue within the next month or
two.
| Announcement of the appointment
| which does not need to be confirmed
| by the senate, was made today by Mr..
! McAdoo in the west on vacation trip
! to Los Angeles. The news reached
the White House from the president
, by cable last night and was tele-
graphed to McAdoo at Winslow, Ariz.
| Hines was the first man called to
Washington by McAdoo when the rail-
roads were taken over, December 27,
| 1917. His first job here was assistant
to the director general. After sixty
! days, he was made assistant director
general and as such has been in active
| participation of the railroads manage.
ment.
Regarded as Radical.
! Among railroad administration Of
ficials, Hines is regarded as LIBERAL
minded. Some even believe him radi-
cal 1t is pointed out that Hines was
one of the stauncheSt advocates of in
creased pay for the employees. His
record in staff meetings of the railroad
administration reveals that in nearly
every case he has been against, rather
than for, the railroad corporation pro-
gram.
Illness salary as assistant director
general WAS $4,000 a year. AS direc-
tor general. he has power to fix his
own pay but it was understood he
Officials here believed that Hines
soon will fill the positions of director
of operations. from which Carl r.
Gray resigned January 1, and that of
director of the division of capital ex-
penditures which was made vacant by
the resignation of Judge Robert S.
Lovett. 1t was believed that there will
be no immediate assignment as as
sistant director general.
i Walker D. Hines, railroad man. fl
nancial expert, lawyer and clubman.
is product of the west. Born near
Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1870.
the son of James NJ. and Mary Walker
Hines, he was graduated from Ogden
college, Bowling Green, in 1888, and
the next year went west to Colorado
where he began his career as a court
Stenographer at Trinidad.
During the two years which he
spent in Colorado Hines absorbed the
aggreSsiveneSS and atmosphere of the
west, which he has used to SO good
an advantage in his career since
From Colorado he went to Louisville,
Kentucky. where he became secretary
to the assistant chief attorney of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad in
the latter part of 1890. Two years
later he entered the law school of the
University of Virginia, taking a one
year course He then returned to the
Louisville and Nashville railroad as
an assistant attorney. He continued
with the road until 1904, at which
time he was vice president with su-
pervision over the law department and
assistant to the president in SUPER
vision of traffic. From 1904 to 1906
he engaged in private law practice as
a member of the firm of Humphrey.
Hines and Humphrey at Louisville.
Went to Santa Fc.
In May, 1906, he became general
counsel for the Santa Fee railway with
ut % IL
chairman o. the board of directors
, of the road October %. 1916, which
position he held, in connection with
a general law practice, until he was
made assistant to the director general
of railroads, under the government
! administration in February, 1913.
, Since becoming connected with the
railroad administration. Hines has
placed in effect many of the policies
of railroading that has made the Santa
States. He was influential in pool
ing equipment as a war measure, a
thing which the Santa Fe, thru its
president, E. P. Ripley has urged
> for years. He inaugurated many other
: reforms that served to bring the trans
I portation problem out of its pre-waI
, schamble.
In the last few years Hines has bees
the author of many articles and pam
I phlets dealing on governmental and
railway problems. Mostly they had
= to do with the government ownership
: of railroads. He is a keen financia
expert and did much toward placins
the Santa Fe on its present financia
| foundation.
n In New York Hines is also known
as a clubman. He is member OF
the Metropolitan, University. Century
y Riding, Midday. Down Town, Pipinl
Il Rock and Automobile of America
: clubs
Has Visited Toy,cka
i Altho living in New York while con
: nected with the Santa Fee and engaged
e in many other interests. the "Atchi
son." as Wall Street is pleased to cal
v the road, was always his pet hobby
: and he probably devoted more time t,