The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-15

earning his own living, as a boy worker in truck gardens, and : ter in city offices.
 Obtains Education
 Bent upon obtaining an eduea- ton, Mir. Hoover worked his way into and through the then newly founded Stanford University in California, emerging in 1895 with degree in mining engineering and geology. In the succeeding 20 years, first as mine laborer then as mine manager and opera tor, in all the deserted places of the world where mineral wealth is found, he made for himself q unique reputation and a large fortune. To admitted technical proficiency as an englncer-his books and monographs are stand. ard textbooks in colleges today MT. Hoover combined proven abil ity in organizing and financing. and became identified with 6 group of offices in London and New York who engaged in mining and metallurgical enterprises in most of the quarters of the world.
 From West Australia he had gone to China. and was engaged in the development of coal and iron deposits when the Boxer re- bellion cooped him up with other foreigners in Peking, where he underwent the siege of 1900. Be fore the Allied troops relieved the legation prisoners, he had organ, ized his first food relief, for Chi nese and other refugees. He built port there later, for the own. CTS of the mining properties, and thereafter in Burma, Russia, Alas ka and Mexico, initiated or direct. ed enterprises which were for the most part successful. In 1913, il was estimated that 175,000 men , were employed by the corpora tions for which he was acting as executive engineer. He maintain ed his connections with scholastic and research activities as well and found time during the period to translate, with the collabora tion of his wife, De Res Metal lica." a Latin work which is the earliest known treatise on mining He was married in 1899 Miss Lou Henry, a Stanford schoolmate, and has two sons, Allan and Herbert Aids Belgium
 From the work of the Ameri
 can relief committee that extri- cated the American tourists ol ], 1914, MT. Hoover was drafted i'm. mediately to far greater task the effort to feed and supply the
 Belgian population. He helpeo
 organize the Commission for Re. lief in Belgium, and took It's lead
 ership. It was not suspected at
 the time how far that task would develop; when the work wound
 up at the end of the war there
 had been expended, mostly under
 MT Hoover's direction, S1,500,000,.
 900 advanced by loans from allied governments or given by charity
 It was operating a fleet of 200
 steamships. and the peoples of
 northern France and Belgium had
 existed during four and half
 years only by its functioning.
 | Food Administrator
 I When the United States went
 into tho war. President Wilson
 promptly appointed Mir. Hoover food administrator for the United
 States, though the latter remained
 in charge of the Belgian commits
 sion. In taking the post. which
 war time experience in other
 countries had proved one of the most difficult to hold, MT. Hoover
 told friends he expected to die
 on the first barbed wire entangle
 ments." His success, however soon was conceded universally On the war boards which super yised the nations task of muni tioning the vast army and navy created for the struggle, he be came a dominant figure, and al ], the moment of the armistice, hi. organizations functioned to sup [ ply and feed the exhausted c.ty