Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

HTeSlOenJ HOOVER PCAoOlioA
spokesman on the Federal Farm Board
apart from Secretary Hyde-it is
likely to be Charles C. league, Pacific
Coast and fruit-industry representative
on the new agricultural body. league
is Californian and has long been
identified with Mr.. Hoover's political
fortunes and ambitions. That Is
circumstance which lends high signifi-
canoe to leagues definition OF the
true functions of the Farm Board. He
warns agriculture not to look upon the
board as a cure-all for the farmers
ills, but merely as temporary help
lover the rough spots" That Is well
known to be Herbert Hoover's concep-
ton Of farm relief. Once upon time
it was understood that league was
slated to be Secretary of Agriculture
in the present administration. The
President is a considerable fruit ranch
er himself, farming probably several
thousand acres in California, SO league
personifies the special branch of agricul-
ture with which Mr.. Hoover is person.
ally most familiar. He is an outstand-
ing exponent of the cooperative mar
keting idea which the President looks
upon as the farmers best bet.
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William r. Schilling Of Minnesota.
the sixth man named for the Federal
Farm Board, is about the first Roman
Catholic to be appointed to high office
by President Hoover. He was on the
stump and on the radio for the Repub-
lican ticket day and night during the
1928 campaign from one end of the
Gopher State to the other. Schiling is
broad-shouldered dairy farmer, of
German extraction, who operates his
own 400-acre establishment outside OF
Mortified, MINI. Dairying has for years
been Minnesota's leading agricultural
industry, and few men are so well
known to it as Bill" Schilling. -Four or
five years ago he was candidate for
the Republican gubernatorial nomina-
ton. Like nearly all the other Farm
Board appointees, Schilling is one OF the
veterans Of the cooperative movement.
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President Hoover cuts the figure Of
being about the coolest man in Wash
ington. Unlike some OF his cabinet Of
flcers and other high dignitarieS of state,
he scorns to work in shirt sleeves, and
thus far has not even descended to
palm beach, linen or flannel suits. AS
proof positive that hot weather is power
less to disconcert him, the President
even sticks to stiff, laundered white
turn-down collars-the same brand he
wears 365 days year. The White
House office staff confesses, somewhat
sadly, that no slowing down whatever in
Hoover'S working pace is noticeable amid
the encircling humidity. He remains as
dynamic, imperturbable and industrious
as when the thermometer registers re-
spectacle temperatures.
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Speaking of the weather---as nearly
everybody in Washington is, though
rVuo n
does anything about 1.-THE pastor of
a church, not far from the Capitol,
peeled of his coat at the opening of
service one night during the current
tropical season and asked all the men
in his congregation to do likewise If
they thought they'd feel more COM
Portable; Most of them accepted the
invitation. Later the clergyman eX-
planned that he was simply practicing
'.shirt-sleeve Christianity"
Col. Guy v. Henry, commanding the
Sd Cavalry, U. S. A., at Fort Myer,
advising $50 c. M. T. C. trainees on
duty there this month not to fail to
visit the National Museum any time
| they're in Washington. The particular
exhibit Col Henry wants the youthful
| citizen cavalrymen to look at is Win
| chester" Gen. Phil Sheridan's famous
| horse, which Is mounted and installed
at the Museum as one Of its most
| treasured trophies. 1t is q splendid
! specimen of the taxidermist's art. The
accouterments and saddlery are not the
originals which figured in 'Sheridan's
Ride" but they are of Civil War vim
| tage. Formerly the stuffed "Winches-
| teri was in the Military Service Insti-
| tuition at Governors Island. N. Y. but
when the institution was abolished the
horse was handed over to the National
Museum.
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Though Congress Is not In session,
| Senator Borah is. In other words, he
| maintains his custom of being at home
daily to the washington correspondents.
They assemble en- masse at his quarters