The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-06
HOOVER. SPEEDS
RELIEF To
JAPAN
His World Organization OF Ex-
perts Join Red Cross in
Rushing Supplies.
By WILLIAM HARD.
ice more the word is Hoover.

| OnCe more tue worn Is 11OOVSA'
Relief for Japan today got new
momentum from the experts Dor
rowed out of Mr.. Hoover's Ameri-
can Relief Administration.
These EXPERTS took hold of the
central administrative direction of
all buying and shipping of supplies
for Japan.
The raising of funds will be By
the Red Cross. The handling Of
supplies will be by Hoover veterans.
Once more Mr.. Hoover is Wash
ington's general emergency utility
man.
His friends have joked him about
being Secretary Of Commerce and
Assistant Secretary of Everything
Else
Today he is virtually assistant
chairman of the Red Cross.
| AS a director cf the Red Cross.
and in the absence Of its chairman,
he has been in chief command of
all Japanese relief preparations.
financial as well as administrative.
Now, in order that the admins
trative side of the matter may 60
forward with the greatest possible
rapidity, the Red Cross organization
has had inserted into it the whole
trained troupe of Hoover buyers
and Hoover shippers out OF Mr..
Hoover's innumerable European re-
lief expeditions.
Have World Training.
These gentlemen, having bought
| and shipped on behalf of almost
every country in the world except
Japan, will now do it on behalf of
Japan, and again under Mr.. HooV-
er's leadership.
Mr.. Hoover, while Secretary of
Commerce, has now done also the
following things:
Taken a large part in the diplo-
matte problem OF the recognition Of
Russia.
Wound up the feeding Of children
| in central Europe.
Started and finished the feeding
of famine sufferers in Russia.
Called the National Conference on
| Unemployment.
Developed numerous bodies out OF
that conference for studying and
| controlling business cycles Of de-
preston"
| Handled the coal supply emerg-
ency during the last coal strike.
Started the movement toward the
| making of the United Staes Coal
| Commission
Shouldered responsibility for push
! ing the present new rural credits
4 legislation.
Organized the first steps of the
| Japanese earthquake relief effort.
Also other, things.
Compliment to japanese.
He plans to leave one thing now
entirely to the Japanese.
In his European expeditions he
has always tried to make full use
of local talents in the distribution
of relief. He has always tried to
put as much duty as possible and
as much responsibility as possible
on local European experts.
| He nevertheless in Europe has
used many American experts.
In Japan, if his advice Is fol-
lowed. the whole local problem of
the distribution of American sup
plies will be left to the japanese
| themselves.
A higher compliment to their
capacity could hardly be extended
to them.
When asked today IL he really
believed that the Japanese could
manage this matter without Ameri-
can help, Mr.. Hoover said:
"They can. The Japanese Red
Cross is extremely strong and ef-
fective, and the Japanese army is
itself abundantly able to handle a
problem Of this sort.
at is a problem of dealing with
persons and with materials in large
masses.
Military men as a class are well
trained for such work; and the
Japanese army is excellently or
ganiZed and broadly experienced in
It.
IF we get the materials from
here to there, the Japanese can do
the rest
Condition of Affairs.
The sum of the matter, therefore,
today is as follows:
The raising of funds for Japan is
going forward at faster pace
every hour under the auspices of
the Aq1erican Red Cross organiza-
ton, which has raised more money
for the relief of human distress
than any other similar organization
in the world.
The technique of the physical get
ting and handling of the supplies
nantly managed by Hoover buyers
and shippers, who through their
European efforts are today undoubt-
edly the most experienced relief
technicians in the worlds whole
history.
The handling of the supplies when
they reach japan will be done domi-
nantly by the Japanese army,
which, on the fields of Manchurla
in the war against Russia. amazed
the world-and, in fact, frightened
the worldly its display of per-
fected efficiency.
To that army. which a year ago
was thought to be perhaps a men,
ace to America, America now en-
trusts with confidence the manage
ment of the offerings of American
philanthropy.
The prospect is that relief for
Japan will bring forth, botn in
America and in Japan, a good will
based not only on generosity and on
gratitude, but on mutual respect
for good organization and Zine eff
fectiveness on both sides.
Copyright, 1929. Washington Press
| SerVice.)