Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-16
HOOVER DELAYED
IN FILLING BOARD
Selection of Wheat Member
of Farm Commission Held
Up by Differences.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The selection of a representative OF
the wheat growing industry for the
Federal Farm Board may require from
two to three weeks more study Of
available appointees by President
Hoover.
The President is being delayed in the
selection Of this member by difference
of opinion among the cooperative grain
associations, but is hopeful that he will
finally find a man acceptable to all.
Meanwhile with several members who
have had experience in gyain market
ing, President Hoover feels that the
board is capable of going ahead. with
its preliminary program.
Interests at Variance.
The disagreement among the wheat
men lies between those who are inter
ested in organized wheat pools. one
important form Of cooperative farm
ing, and a second group. itself divided
into two or three categories, which are
allied with farmer owned and con-
trolled elevators.
Realizing the Importance of the Sc
lection of a wheat spokesman and the
importance Of the wheat crop with re-
lation to the entire farm problem, Mr..
Hoover Is preceding cautiously in Sc
lecting an appointee. He is anxious
that the wheat factions compose their
differences and settle upon a man &C
ceptable to all.
Burdened by only one promise from
its firm -jawed, cautious-tongued chair
man, Alexander H. Legge Of Chicago.
the Federal Farm Board was already
engaged today at the task Of fulfilling
his pledge ito work long and hard"
Confronted with a number Of requests
for aid from representatives of various
commodities besides wheat out Of the
Sl50,000,000 now available and the
$3.50 100000 additional authorized by
Congress-, the seven men who have
given up their private connections in
business and agriculture to attack the
multitude Of agricultural problems"
lost no time In beginning, with Secre-
tary Hyde as ex-off1cio colleague, the
"long and hard" work before them.
They "hope," as Legge cautiously
phrased it. to get something done which
will be of benefit to the producers Of
this years crops.
Within a few hours after they were
formally organized yesterday in the
White House, and before their second
meeting with President Hoover at din
ner last night, they were established in
temporary quarters in the Mayfower
Hotel. Today they had at their disposal
q corps of clerks and StenographerS and,
as the secretary to the board, Chris L.
Christensen, chief of the cooperative
marketing division Of the Agriculture
Department.
3. Wilf Study Authority.
Much Of the boards work is to be di-
rected toward the strengthening and
building up of cooperative and other
agricultural organizations already in
existence. One of the first major tasks
looking to that end will be the selection
of advisory councils for different COM
modities These agencies are to preside
over stabiliZation corporations to be set
up by producers through their co-opera-
tive marketing organizations and
financed out of the boards $500, 1000 900
revolving fund.
Another big task which the members
confronted within the first "a hours of
the boards existence was the beginning
of a study to acquaint themselves with
the full extent Of their authority under
the farm relief law. Described by Presi-
dent Hoover as "the representatives of
organized agriculture ITSELF" they were
invested by him with responsibility,
authority and resources such as have
never before been conferred by our Gov
eminent in assistance to any industry"
and they saw in the very breadth Of that
grant of power a requirement to study
It's extent and limitations.