Evening star., 1925-08-02
Gary and Rockefeller. Jr.,
Aid Andrews in Obtaining
New Type Official.
THIRD OF 22 DISTRICT
POSTS VIRTUALLY FILLED
Dry Chief, However, Will Not
Announce Appointees-Few
Will Be Promoted.
By the Associated Press.


Assistant Secretary Andrews OF the
Treasury, in his efforts to rebuild the
prohibition enforcement organization.
has mapped out a plan to draw into
his new corps n dozen or more big
business executives, and indications
last night We're that the plan would
be successful.
Mr.. Andrews has for several weeks
been comforting with leaders of the
citizens committee of 1000, which in
cludes Ebert II. Gary of the United
States Steel Corporation. John u.
Rockefeller, jr., and other leaders OF
industry and finance, and this group
has agreed to aid him in obtaining
men of sufficient ability to give him
hope for drying up the country's wet
spots.
1t developed several days ago thai
Mr.. Andrews had definitely decided
on seven or eight appointments for
the new posts of prohibition admins
traitor, of which there will be % in
the United States and one each in
Porto Rico and Hawaii. 1t is to these
pivotal jobs that he desires to name
men who have been successful in di-
recting their own affairs and can rem
der a public service far beyond the
compensation which the Government
is able to pay.
Salary Limit $500.
Mr.. Andrews has hopes of obtain
ing the services OF these men with lit
tie or no compensation, but he has
declined to indicate whether that part
of his program is working out to his
satisfaction. The maximum salary at
tached to a post of administrator Is
$500 a year. and that amount the
assistant secretary has said, can be
considered as nothing when meas
ured against the earning capacity OF
the men whom he desires TO place in
some of the posts at least.
The prohibition chief IS not expect
ed to fill all of the - administrative
offices from this class of men. leaving
the indication that some of the pres
ent State directors will be chosen for
promotion. He has high regard for
some Of these directors, but there are
many others who are likely to find
themselves off of the Government pay
roll not later than October IS.
Much of the delay experienced by
Mr.. Andrews in the selection of the
prohibition administrators has been
attributed to the fact that many lead
ers in the committee of 200 are either
in Europe or in distant sections of
the United States, making it impossi-
BILE thus far for him to confer with
them to get consensus of their views
in advance of announcement of the
names chosen from big business ranks
for the enforcement service.
Studies Posts Carefully.
While he is known TO have arrived
at decision in his own mind with
respect TO about one-third of the
number required he has refused TO
fix an assignment for any one of them
until he can feel certain that each
appointment represents the best pos
sible balance between the man and
the job.
Conferences have been held several
times recently both here and in New
York between Mr. Andrews and
some of the active members of the
committee. Names of men whom he
had known in his business career
were said to have been taken up at
these conferences and their records
studied from every angle, giving him
an unusual opportunity to appraise
their capacity for the new work
The plan developed by Mr.. Andrews
is something entirely new In the Gov
ernment's prohibition enforcement ef-
fort and promises, in view of the
Treasury officials, to reconstruct. or at
least to provide methods for recon
STRUGGLING, the work along the lines
pursued by private business in push
ing forward under the guidance of
capable executives. He has made no
secret of his intention to build busi-
ness organization for enforcement, if
such a thing is possible, and from the
outset has directed his efforts to that
end.