Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-26
DENIES Hoover SET
: PRICE OF WHEAT
G. o. P. Pamphlet Defends
! Record as Wartime Food
Administrator.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A vigorous denial that Herbert Hoover
as wartime food administrator, fixed
maximum prices for farm products was
contained In a pamphlet issued today
by the Republican national committee
Such charges were declared to have
been "willfully or ignorantly" made.
Further. it was asserted that Hoovers
record reveals a consistent friendship
for the farmer" and that he did his
utmost to protect and secure fair and
generous dealing to the wheat growers,
hog producers and other farmers of the
country for their wartime efforts"
How Price Was Set.
The committee declared that with the
allied governments preparing to use
their concentrated buying power to fix
wheat prices at $1.50 tn 1.80 per bushel
and the Government price for the 1913
crop already set ct 50 per bushel by
Congress. President Wilson appointed a
committee to look further into the sit
uation and that this body. at a meeting
which Hoover did not attend. arrived
at $220 per bushel as a fair return to
the farmer.
To substantiate this President Wilson
vas quoted as saying in a statement is
sued August 80. 1917:
THE price recommended by that COM
mittee, 1920 per bushel at Chicago for
the basic grade. will be rigidly adhered
to by the food administration. Mr..
Hoover, at his expressed wish. has
taken no part in the decorations of
the committee on whose recommended
ton determined the Governments fair
price, nor has he in any way intimated
an opinion regarding that pr. c."
Hoover's record, 1t was declared, re-
reals him as a CLOSE student of agri-
culture end a true friend of the farm
ers of the Nation" through the fol-
lowing activities:
Through personal efforts during
1919 and 1920 to develop measures of
enlightened reconstruction to help tho
farmers to maintain their economic
position.
Friend Of Farmer"
Through creation in the Depart
fnent of Commerce of a special division
In the Bureau Of Foreign and Domes-
tic Commerce with larger staff in
foreign countries to promote the sale
Of our agricultural products abroad.
Through taking leading share in
the Summer of 1921 in reviving the
War Finance Corporation at a critical
moment, which was instrumental in
hating the decline in prices of farm
products.
Through obtaining in December,
1921. congressional appropriation for
purchase OF corn for Russian famine
relief. bolstering up that market at a
dark hour.
Through his leadership in the move
rlent for a seaway to connect the
Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean,
and for completion of the Mississippi
waterway system to cheaper transpor-
tati@n costs for farm products.
Through helping to solve the prob
lens of prompt and adequate rail trans
portation for farm products.
Through his great program for elm
nation of waste which was undertaken
by the Department of Commerce and
by means Of which costs of -manufac-
turcd commodities are being lowered
Tor the farmers as we'll as other con-
Stunning groups
Through hundreds of minor serv-
Ices rendered by the Department of
Commerce to the agricultural commu-
nifty and through his concern for the
needs OF the farmers as revealed
through his addresses and reports
Through his struggle to break the
grip of foreign rnonopolies and control
OF prices Of commodities which Ameri-
can farmers must have in their opera
items"