The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-05-04
MUCH EXPECTED
From Mr.. HOOVER.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
!. PLANS TO ENLARGE FIELD
or THAT DEPARTMENT.
he HAS IDEAS AND ENERGY
Former Food Administrator says ne
i Desires to Make His influences and
] Work Give Full Returns "a the
American People. .~- .s.4..
Nv EDWARD 3. CLARK.

by K - ~~Ss'~S
Observation-Disclosures Hoover, the
new secretary Of commerce, virtually
has served notice on the new PreSl-
dent that it is his intention, II pessl-
BILE under the law, to enlarge the neld
of the work OF the department which
he is to enter and which never before
has stood saliently prominent BEFORE
the eyes Of the people.
No one knows what lines Of enlarge
ment Of his department Mr.. Hoover IN
tends to follow and no one will know
until his plan of extending the, WORK
has been outlined definitely, given 10
the President and then to the PUBLIC
but it can be taken for granted that
the new secretary has some substan'
tial thoughts in his mind and that he
will endeavOr to put into his work the
energy which carried him through the
Belgian relief campaign, and the more
taxing labor Of administering the food
supplies Of the United States.
In the summer Of 1917, when Her.
bert Hoover began his work Of direct
ing Alright the appetites of the Ameri'
can people, it was said that Herbert
Hoover must await the American
judgment day before his task, as big
a one as individual man has under
taken, is stamped with apprOvars or
disapprovars seal" -:-s.
1t is possible that this word may
stand today, for the food man now IS
about to enter into new field of en-
deavor. and his desire, he says. Is to
make his influence and his work give
full returns to the American people.
Not Moved by Criticism.
Much has been written about Her.
bert Hoover. ! saw at close range the
results of some Of his work when he
was commissioner for the relief OF
Belgium in the year 1915, and later his
labOrs as food administrator i'll the
United States. Interest in this man
seemingly has not +waned. and the oc-
casional marked criticism has kept
company with praise, most OF 1t, how
ever. seemingly coming from some OF
the members Of congress, who ut
times were rather sharp in their words
when Hoover did something which did
not please them personally. Hoover
has always been rather. Indifferent to
criticism, provided he was satisfied In
his own mind that what he intended to
do was right. ~.
If personal sketch Of the new sec
rotary Of commerce is wanted, prOba-
bly, ! can do nothing better than re-
peat what I wrote about him at the
time he entered into the great field OF
war work in this country, so here 1t
goes: ~ :-&zrs- -.
II have had an opportunity to study
Herbert Hoover at close range. 1t Is
my feeling that he will put his food
work through along the lines drawn by
the nature Of wars necessity, and he
will not turn aside from the path as
he sees it clearly marked. -.
''Some Of the business interests will
get after. Hoover; some members OF
congress probably will continue to get
after him, and other things and other
persons may get after him, but SO long
rs he thinks that he is right and seems
to nave the approval of the consumers
Of the country, he will so straight on
Direct In Speech and Work.
"What sort Of person IS Herbert
Hoover? He is a direct man in speech
and in work. do not think that hs
wiE be offended in the least when say
thai he would make an ideal shirt
sleeyed foreman for gang Of work.
1uer. The men under him would not
work one secOud over eight hours, but
they would wGrk every second Of the
eight hours and they would do their
work we'll. -. 49,.
u can conceive Of Herbert Hoover
With a short, black pipe in his mouth,
startling ready, sblrt-sieeved, overlook
ing the work OF his gang, and seeing
to it that every man did his share aud
that 1t was done according to the wage
contract.
s'Herbert Hoover has an idea that
man should do the amount of work
that he is raid TO 10 and that there is
no Farm done II he voluntarily does
a little more, if'he was foreman of
a gsng, as hs IS eminently qualified
to bs, just as he Is qualified to direct
the operations OK the mcn whose mon.
ey pays for the work OF a thousand
gangs, he would see to it that no sick
workman went uuaided that no work,
mans family suffered. and that no op.
preston from employers should be toll.
Grated any more than organized op.
preston from employees"
The Department Of Commerce prob.
ably will be recognized under Hoover
He will do all that it is legal to do or
his own account in the way Of reor.
gahization. Then he will ask the
Presidents permission to go TO con.
gress for authority to do more. IL
either will make his department tell
In the public service or lie will get out
but 1T can be taken for granted that u
he cannot make it tell it probably will
be because OF the restrictions and lin
itations put upon his efforts by the
Lawmakers Of the land. La
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