Evening star., 1921-12-25
Business Experts Make Sacrifices
To Help Put the Hoover Plan Across

experts had to do-job specifications
and then went after men to fit these
specifications.
Right here it must be stated that in
drafting his army OF business experts
the Secretary of Commerce has not
ignored the Civil Service Commission
nor has he at any time overlooked
the specially qualified man already
within the department who could fit
into these new positions. The trouble
was that the civil service commission
did not have the right type of men on
it's lists because it had previously
had no call for that sort of men.
Hoover wanted men out of business,
who had made a success in business,
men with managerial and executive
experience in certain specific lines.
He was looking for more than the
average man. The commission has
been providing men who are tech
nical.
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The general procedure was to get
in touch with trade associations or
technical organizations. with which
the Department of Commerce was
consulting through contact commit
tee, lay before those trade associa-
tions the job specifications and ask
them 10 recommend men qualified in
every way for the jobs. Mr.. Feiker
also drew on his own personal knoWl-
edge and acquaintanceship and that
of Secretary Hoover and Assistant
Secretary Claudius II. Huston to find
possible candidates. He laid out the
divisions and then listed up under
them the names of the men recon-
mended making a card catalogue or
all the Best men in the country who
were available for these jobs.
The men who finally came to the
department We're chosen from large
groups of possibilities and selected
for their special fitness for the work.
Some of the best men in the Hoover
organization were picked after con-
sidering the remarkable work they
had done with such bodies as the
War Trade Board. the War Industries
Board. etc. The chiefs of several of
these commodity divisions have sew
eral assistants, similarly selected.
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Here are two conspicuous examples
of the high-class type of special talent
that Secretary Hoover has induced to
come to work for and with Uncle
Sam through patriotic motives-re-
gardless of the salaries paid:
There is Judge w. f. Lamb. from
one of the most important law firms
in Chicago. who gave up an income oi
$4,000 to $4,000 a year to hell
Hoover. He accepted the position OF
solicitor for the department at 5000
Again. there is ID. B. Carson. former.
" general manager of the Nashville
Chattanooga and st. Louis railway
who came here as chief of the bureau
of navigation at $4,000. where he had
been getting three times as much in
outside business. Mr.. Carson came
| because of his confidence in the posi-
bilities of the department under Sec
retary Hoover's direction.
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A brief individual notice about some
of these men will show the high grade
| of >expcrts who have Joined the
| Hoover Helpers" as they cali them
| selves:
| Agricultural implements - George
! r. Bell: He has made trade investl-
cations in Europe, the West Indies
| and Mexico. He was formerly direc-
| tor of foreign sales for Bateman
| Co., Inc, and before that was man
ager of the New York and eastern
] export offices of Avery & Sons. Inc.