Evening star., 1922-12-31
PRESIDENT AND CABINET
REACHED TOP BY WORK
Herbert Hoover's Book Brings Out
Fact That Only Two Had Eco
nOmic Inheritances.

at the age of sixteen. He secured
! an appointment to Annapolis the fol-
lowing year, graduating in 1881. His
naval career was short. Three years
after his graduation he was mustered
out of the service because of lack of
! ships. He went to Florida, worked
as civil engineer. and during the
! Spanish war served his
| country as an officer in a volunteer
naval brigade.
He entered politics and business-as
| banker-at about the same time. and
f! in 1895 was elected a representative
! in the Fifty-ninth Congress. His
service in Congress. as representative
and as senator. terminated shortly
before his appointment as Secretary
Of War. Mr.. Weeks Is the frs,
graduate of the Naval Academy to
| direct the destinies of the Army, bnt
even his most severe critics-and
Army officers are always the most
| severe critics of the Secretary OF
War-admit his efficiency. There is
] no more popular cabinet member with
| the men on the hill'' than Mr.. Weeks
Daugherty Always a scrnpper.
! Harry NJ Daugherty. who likes
, scrap and smokes d pipe at,the Grid
| iron dinners. is another farmer boy.
! He has been used to hard work-and
| fghts-all his life. II has been writ
/ ten of him: Count that day lost
whose low descending sun and even
| ing newspaper does not bear testi
mony to Mr.. Daugherty being in the
J public prints about something, some
how. for things done or not done, or
said or not said about him. He is the
biggest individual power in the
Washington regime. and the object,
| OF more bitter criticism and vitupera-
tive attack than any one figure i'll
/ Washington. from democrats. from
/ labor. even from some republicans,
but who thrives on it
| Harry Daugherty was left an
orphan by his fathers death when he
was four years old. He had nothing
| to start on. He got his schooling by
working as a farmland in summer
and a grocery clerk at night during
winter and going to school when he
could. He saved enough money to
send himself through law school al
the University of Michigan. moving
to Columbus, Ohio, soon after his
graduation. where he became leader
in state politics and a lawyer of dis
tinction.
| Albert B. Fall. Secretary of the In
terror, comes from northern New
! Mexico. His home is there-a ranch.
which he won as a pioneer in days
| when what you got was yours-so
| long as you could keep It," The son
of a Confederate soldier. Secretary
Fall worked his way through school
! in Kentucky and saved enough money
to pay his way to the Mexican border.
Cowboy, farmer. miner, prospector.
| school teacher and finally rancher. he
| studied law in between times, taking
! q prominent part in the development
| of his state. He has not always been
| a republican, and one Of the first
public Offices he held was through an
appointment from President Cleve-
land as associate justice of the New
| Mexico supreme court. He has been
| one of the Presidents closest friends
during the time deserved in the Sen
! ate and as a member Of his cabinet.
Read Himself Through school.
| Herbert Clark Hoover. whose name
| means more abroad than George
Washington or perhaps any other
American, was the son OF village
| blacksmith and mechanic. a man OF
education, who conducted a small re-
, pair shop in West Branch. Iowa His
mother has been described as "a
woman of rare capacity. shy and re-
served. but with personal color and
| attractiveness, a recognized preacher
at Quaker meetings." He lost both
parents at an early age. and. after
being cared for by kind relatives.
undertook at the age Of fourteen to
| support and educate himself He got
a job in Portland, and in a numbered
storeroom, by the light of lamp or
| the floor, read himself through a high
| school course, which gave him the
| necessary preparation to enter Leland
| Stanford in the pioneer class Of that
now famous university.
He specialized in engineering and
/ during the summer worked on geo
t logical surveys in California. One Of
/ his companions once spoke OF
/ "Hoovers luck"
I What do YOU mean?" asked the
| boss. by talking about Hoover's
| luck? It's not luck; it's reward. II
you would work half as hard and
| half as intelligently as he does you
would have half his luck. II / tell
one of you others to do something
! 1 have to come around in an hour
to see If you have followed my in
structions. but when | set Hoover at
| anything l know it will be well done
And he doesn't ask me how, either
| If i directed hi.n tomorrow to go to
kanchatka for q walrus tooth, I'd
| never hear of him until he got back
| with the trophy. Then I'd ask him
how he did it,
Mr.. Hoover's work as an engineer
has taken him to nearly every part
of the civilized world. In mining and
railroad engineering he has been in
Mexico, Australia. China, Italy, India.
South Africa and Russia He. was a
, noted engineer when the war broke.
and his work as food administrator
[ has made his name known throughout
| the world.
Worked Hard for Education.
Henry C. Wallace. Secretary of Agri-
| culture. started life as a farmer boy
and has been identified with farm
ing ever since. He was born in Rock
Island, ILL.,, and worked hard for his
education through preparatory school
and college. A short tifhe after en-
tering the Iowa State Agricultural