Evening star., 1928-12-30
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


"EW Presidents OF the United States
l. have taken Office confronted by
as many purely personal ties and
i friendships requiring considera-
ton as those which beset Her
bert Hoover. 1t is a circumstance more
than likely to lead to early and serious
clashes before the Hoover administra-
ton is fashioned. 1t will crop UP in
the building of the new cabinet.
Hardly ever while. Hoover is in the
White House will it not come to the
surface in some form or other. The
regulars" of the Republican organiza-
ton are already intrenching against
what they believe to be an inevitable
contest for preference in President
Hoovers favor. They have promptly
evolved a name for the competition
They say it will be a struggle between
the boys" by which is meant the party
stalwarts and organization leaders, and
the hoy scouts by which is meant the
on-political men and women who sur
round Hoover. The name of the latter
is legion They have been grooming
and boosting the Californian for Presi-
dent for eight years. The goal now
reached, most of them feel, was at
tanned primarily with their aid.
bGSet Dy TIV6 OEOuPSs
In addition to Republican profess
sionals-the practical mechanics. ma
tional committeeman, State leaders and
others who organized victory for Hoo
yer at Kansas City and on November
6-there are five distinct and so-called
Hoover groups" In chronological or
der they are: The wartime flood ad-
ministration) group, the postwar Gu
ropean relief group, Hoover's group OF
California friends and associates, main
ly with a Stanford University back
ground; the group that has grown up
around him at Washington in the con-
duct of the Department of Commerce
and the group of American engineers
who look upon Hoover as one OF their
particular own and with whom he has
intimately worked for years.
AS it was the foundation of his fame,
the PreSident-elect's closest associates
are probably to be discovered among the
| men identified with him during his
food administration, first as the rel1ever
of Belgium and later as United States
| food administrator. The names OF some
| of these co-workers need to be remem-
bered in any pre-inaugural speculations
about Hoover'S plans. They include Ed
gar Rickard, mining engineer, formerly
of California, now of New York, who
was Hoovers right-hand man in Bel
gian relief at London from 1914 to 1915
and his assistant in the food admiriis-
tration at Washington from 1917 to
| 1919: Dr. Vernon l.. Kellogg, Hoover's
chief representative in Belgium in 1915
and 1916 and an assistant at Washing
ton during the succeeding three years;
Thomas T. G. Gregory Of California,
one of Hoover's original and principal
coadjutors in postwar relief In Central
Europe; julius H. Barnes Of Minnesota,
who was president of the United States
Food Administration Grain Corporation
under Hoover; Millard Shaler, an
American resident of Brussels, who for
some years has been the adviser of the
Belgian government in dvelopment of
the Belgian Kongo, and Herbert L. Gut
| terson of the New York bar, who was a
co-ordinator of food administrator ac-
| tivities and during the recent campaign
was executive secretary at Republican
natinal headquarters. Another Hooverite
| of wartime days, who is certain to be
in the administrations high favor IS
| Lewis L. Strauss, formerly of Virginia,
and now a young New York banker.
| Strauss was Hoover's private secretary
at Washington from 1917 to 1919.
George Barr Baker Mentioned.
After the war, and when Hoover was
assigned the unofficial task of relieving
| distress in various parts of Europe,
| there came into the picture a man of
whom something is likely to be heard
at Washington henceforward. He is
George Barr Baker. writer by profession
and once journalistic secretary to the
late Joseph Pulitzer. He became di-
| rector of the American Relief Admins
tration under Hoover in 1919. after
| having been a member of the Belgian
Relief Commission and a naval cable
censor during the war. At the peace
conference Comdr. Baker saw a good
! deal of Hoover in the latter's capacity
| of director general of relief Under the