Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-15
SECRETARY Meredith HAS AN
ABLE ASSISTANT IN ELMER
q. BALL, APPOINTED.
SCIENTIST AS WELL
As PRACTICAL FARMER
Brought Up on Iowa Farm and Edu-
Gated at Iowa State ColIege-Has
Been Instructor In Agricultural
Schools Since His Graduation-Ball
SO Years Oid-eegin Duties at Onoe
[By Il. G. Dougherty.l


Washington. June lin tho APP
pointment OF Elmer d. Ball. a gradu-
ate OF tho Iowa State College, Ames,
as his chief assistant, Secretary of
Agriculture Edwin Il. Meredith has
added another Hawkeye official of
attachments to the federal depart
ment of agriculture. Mr.. Ball
will enter upon his new duties at
once, his first important function be-
ing to be acting secretary or agri-
culture during the period that Mr..
Meredith will spend at the democratic
national convention in San Francisco
as head of the Iowa delegation.
The new assistant secretary COM
bines the qualities OF an agricultural
scientist and a practical farmer, pat
tering after Mr.. Meredith in that re-
spect. He ia native of Athens, VT,
where he WAS born fifty years ago.
He went with his parents to Iowa
when he was a small boy. however.
and was brought up on IA farm there.
He now owns and operates a farm In
Utah.
Since his graduation from the Iowa
Agricultural College, Mr.. Ball has
been teacher in agricultural col
leges and an investigator of scientific
and agricultural problems. For three
years after graduation he was re-
search assistant at the Iowa Expert
ment station. In 1898 he became as
sociate professor at the Colorado
Agricultural College and remained
there for four years. From 1902 to
1907 he was member OF the faculty
OF the Utah Agricultural College. At
the end OF that period he took leave
OF absence and went east to the Unit
versity of Ohio for graduate work,
then returned to the Utah Agricul-
tural College to accept the position
OF dean OF the college and director of
the experiment station. He remained
In that position until 1916 when he
became state entomoiogist OF Wiscon-
sin. Two years later he returned to
his Alma Mater as member OF the
faculty and Of the experiment station
staff. from which position he was
sistant secretary of agriculture.
Mr.. Ball is a fellow OF the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
OF Science, and Of the chronological
Society OF America. He Is an ex-
president OF the American Associu-
ton OF Economic Entomologists, and
10 member Of; the American Cenetic
Association and various other Scien-
tiffc societies..
The department Of agriculture and
the Agricultural interests generally
are particularly fortunate" Secretary
Meredith told me today. an securing
the services OF man who has such
a wide knowledge OF the agriculture
of the country and who Is so init
mateiy familiar with the problems
that the farmers have TO solve"
Aonerins Soldier Dead.
Arranging to facilitate in every
way possible the re-burlal of Iowa
boys who were killed In the war, and
to make the ceremonies as complete
ly military AZ possible, the war de-
partment 10 endeavoring to shape
things UP 80 that proper respect will
be shown to all these boys whose
bodies are returned to Iowa for final
interment.
Secretary Baker has just author
lied the payment by the government
of the railroad fare Of friend or
relative Of each deceased soldier from
the port OF New York to the burial
grounds OF the deceased In order that
these interested parties may procure
early control of the bodies and be-
stow upon them that sympathetic
care which they 80 naturally desire
to give. While the war department
is not permitted to pay the transpor-
tation Of relatives from their homes
to New York to receive the bodies,
permission will be granted at the port
30 that every relative may have early
opportunity OF receiving the body,
and eccorting 1t to it's final resting
place.
The war department also has been
advised that the American Legion
posts thruout the country will give
every assistance In the funeral cere-
monies Of their comrades, and a re-
quest has been sent to all state ad-
jutants general to have the national
guard troops assist In giving the mil
ttary honors to all soldiers who are
re-burisd in this country.
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